MIGIRLINVADec 27, 2022
emptywheel
Proposed: Congress would do far more to guarantee Trump does not become President again by mandating audits as President than by attempting to exclude him w/Insurrection referral.
Dec 21, 2022 at 11:23amWeb
Show threadchaboardDec 21, 2022

@emptywheel True. And they could include SCotUs, too.

But with GOP taking House it's an idle dream.

Show threadPooterhead PharmsDec 21, 2022
@emptywheel I'm more worried about deterring the next Trump. This one seems to be spiraling downward already to incompetence.
Show threadAlex Thornton (she/her) 🇺🇸🇺🇦💙Dec 22, 2022
@pooterheadpharm @emptywheel Entirely this! Make no mistake, the GOP may want to be done with Trump - putting aside whether they can successfully do that without courting ruin - but they have NO DESIRE to be done with Trumpism/authoritarian control.
Show threadRight Off The NogginDec 21, 2022
@emptywheel He can never be president again for all the reasons. He really left no stone unturned on that front.
Show thread2xfoDec 21, 2022
@rotn @emptywheel
I won't be surprised if he gets the nomination while sitting in a prison cell for trying to steal the last election. It's still possible. But I think the cashists are looking for a more stable face to give the masses and Desantis is probably it.
Show threadRight Off The NogginDec 21, 2022
@RnDanger @emptywheel
Looking back it seems the big early favorite, on either side, is usually a distant memory by the time nominations roll around. They will commit some grave faux pas and be shamed out of the race (Trump somehow managed to avoid this _ I think he may have been the first).
Show threadRight Off The NogginDec 21, 2022
@RnDanger @emptywheel
I think we don't know yet who the Republican nominee will be. Hopefully the upcoming proceedings will leave a bad enough taste in their mouths that they'll want to distance themselves officially from the assholery that they've normalized.
#Trump
Show threadJakeDec 22, 2022
@rotn @RnDanger @emptywheel I am personally hoping for a DeSantis Republican ticket and a pissed off, petty Donald Trump independent ticket to spite DeSantis.
Show threadGoldenGirlsRuDec 21, 2022
@emptywheel thank you.👏👏
Show threadDamnKimberleeDec 21, 2022
@emptywheel if congress wants to stop Trump and those that support him—we should require complete transparency for the ones running for office and those funding the folks running for office.
Show thread✡️ MG ✡️ #VoteBlueDec 21, 2022
@damnkimberlee @emptywheel and WH senior staff + Cabinet secretaries + Congress.
Show threadlisawbordenDec 21, 2022
@emptywheel But weren’t they mandated? If he is the executive, he simply appoints an IRS commissioner who is his crony and the audits don’t happen.
Show threadThomasDec 21, 2022
@emptywheel Release his tax records. Then let the other GOPs beat him up as they climb over him to take power and the 2024 nomination for president.
Show threadAmyDec 21, 2022
@emptywheel They ARE mandated. The mandate was disregarded. No sense to have laws if they are only selectively enforced. One law for me, another for the rich thee.
Show threadMister ShadeDec 21, 2022
@emptywheel Doing both would be good, too.
Show threadLizzieShoreDec 21, 2022
@emptywheel another requirement that would chase bad actors off would be passing a standard security clearance background check BEFORE declaring a candidacy.
Show threadNDCDec 21, 2022
@emptywheel
I hope they do both!!!
Show threadhmille07Dec 21, 2022
@emptywheel ¿porque no los dos?
Show threadBeeksDec 21, 2022
@emptywheel Congress excluding Trump from running for office is bad IMO. Let him split the GOP and keep democracy alive, if only for a few more years.
Show threadTonyRennerDec 21, 2022
@emptywheel It's like Maggie Haberman wrote this tweet.
Show threadcmyankoDec 21, 2022
@emptywheel
They're out now and being audited so how would that stop him from becoming president again?
Show thread∞ Monkeys on a MastodonDec 21, 2022
@emptywheel It bothers me that we are only now learning that the IRS didn't do the audits
Show threadCarrieJLDec 21, 2022
@emptywheel Great point.
Show threadBathsheba BlueDec 21, 2022

@emptywheel
Agreed. When you get down to it, his main offense is financial crimes: the ones he’s already committed and the ones he wants to commit.

His willingness to commit crimes and sedition and treason are all motivated by this fixation imo.

Show threadBunRab Is Old And TiredDec 21, 2022
@emptywheel Why not both?
Show threadFlaming CheetoDec 21, 2022
@emptywheel audited by.... Someone the president can't fire?
Show thread@Lee_in_IowaDec 21, 2022
@emptywheel Ahhh, but let’s do both!
Show threadMIGIRLINVADec 21, 2022
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Show threadAly_Ayl_Dec 21, 2022
@emptywheel I thought audits were already mandated??
Show threadWilliam ConnerDec 21, 2022
@emptywheel Is there any real barrier to doing both?
Show threadSweynForkbeardDec 21, 2022
@emptywheel As a matter of policy, I agree. But this presumes the law would be followed and the audits done. In fact, the IRS is supposed to mandate the returns of Presidents, but did not do so for Trump until 2019, when Congress began nosing around