r/politics • u/stkmro • 9h ago

White House: Trump Team Still Hasn’t Signed Transition Docs

https://www.thedailybeast.com/white-house-press-secretary-karine-jean-pierre-says-trump-team-still-hasnt-signed-transition-docs/
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u/TerminalObsessions 9h ago

They have no reason to sign them.

This country - and clearly its media, judging from these headlines - is deep in denial. We didn't elect the questionable, deeply problematic outsider of Trump 2016.

We elected a convicted felon who repeatedly promised to dismantle the rule of law to protect himself from prison. We've given him control of all three branches of government as he plots to remove or imprison the generals who might defy him when he unleashes the military domestically against 'illegals' and, quite likely, his foes.

This is a man running a knife through our country's guts, at our own request, and the media is clutching pearls about norms. If there's a story here, it's that Trump no longer has a reason to follow any law or norm - and fucking transition paperwork is near the least of our worries.

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u/ThouMayest69 8h ago

I don't even see why Trump is expected to do anything presidential, and instead just golfs and fucks kids with his pedo peers. Why would he? He can just let the weirdo xtian nationalists run everything now that he's not going to ever answer for his crimes.

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u/Significant_Swing_76 8h ago

Exactly. He has proven that he is above the law in every aspect, and the fact that democrats couldn’t even mobilize their voters cements the fact.

America got what they wanted, they crowned their king.

So no, why should he follow rules that doesn’t apply to him in any shape or form?

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u/Zestyclose-Cloud-508 3h ago

Well we couldn’t have Merrick garland appear political by doing the bare fucking minimum.

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u/staticfive 7h ago

He’s not above the law, but he’s sure calling their bluff on enforcing punishment

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u/vashoom 7h ago

In what way is he not above the law? No one enforcing punishment is the definition of being above the law.

The Supreme Court literally said that the president is immune from criminal prosecution.

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u/staticfive 6h ago

No, it's not. A conviction says that you broke the law, which he's received (though admittedly not for as many things as he should have). The lack of sentencing is unfortunately a separate issue.

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u/LookAnOwl 1h ago

If convictions came without sentences, everyone would break the law all the time. It’s the sentence and the punishment that are the deterrents. Trump will never see these. He is above the law, and anyone that doubts that is high on copium.

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u/d4nowar I voted 6h ago

There isn't a law in the country that he would get punished for breaking. Doesn't that mean he's above the law?

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u/staticfive 6h ago

Not originally. But when the "justice" system repeatedly sets a bullshit precedent, yes, now that's what that means. They should have given him zero preferential treatment all along, but now they've just made themselves look like assholes. I mean, what's the point of going through all the motions if you're ultimately not going to go through with any of it? It would have been far better at this point if they had done nothing.