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Trump versus Nixon in an argument a politics.

Who Should be in prison now? Trump vs Nickson and Others? You decide! If convicted in any of the three criminal cases he is facing, Donald Trump may be able to influence whether he goes to prison and what his stay there looks like under a law that allows former U.S. presidents to keep Secret Service protection for life, some current and former U.S. officials said. NATIONAL SECURITY If Trump is convicted, Secret Service protection may be obstacle to imprisonment Donald Trump can keep Secret Service protection for life, even if he were to be convicted and sentenced to prison or home confinement If convicted in any of the three criminal cases he is facing, Donald Trump may be able to influence whether he goes to prison and what his stay there looks like under a law that allows former U.S. presidents to keep Secret Service protection for life, some current and former U.S. officials said. Sign up for Fact Checker, our weekly review of what's true, false or in-between in politics. Presidents since 1965 have been afforded lifetime protection. Since then, only Richard M. Nixon has waived it, as a cost-saving move for taxpayers 11 years after his resignation. But unless he follows Nixon’s example, Trump could force politically and logistically complex questions over whether officials should detail agents to protect a former American president behind bars, leave it to prison authorities to keep him safe, or secure him under some type of home confinement, former U.S. officials said. Could Trump face prison? “Theoretically, yes and practically, no,” said Chuck Rosenberg, a former top federal prosecutor and counsel to then-FBI Director James B. Comey. Rosenberg served briefly as head of the Drug Enforcement Administration in the Trump administration and notably said the president had “condoned police misconduct” in remarking to officers in Long Island that they need not protect suspects’ heads when loading them in to police vehicles. Donald Trump has been indicted in four cases. The Washington Post is keeping track of where each Trump investigation stands. Here is a breakdown of all 91 charges Trump faces. End of carousel Trump is now facing three separate criminal cases, with the prospect of at least one more on the horizon. He has a pending March trial date in a New York state fraud case. He was charged by special counsel Jack Smith in federal court in Florida over the handling of classified documents that were taken from his Mar-a-Lago home after he left the White House. In federal court in D.C., Smith’s team alleges Trump conspired to subvert the results of the 2020 election. He could soon be charged in Georgia on similar allegations. Even after his fall from grace, Nixon found a way to serve. At the initiative of Edmund Muskie and Howard Baker, he joined a confidential initiative to counsel Ronald Reagan in shaping productive diplomacy with Mikhail Gorbachev. And Bill Clinton, no less, stated publicly that Nixon had given him some of the best advice he received. Can anyone imagine a future president calling on Trump for advice on policy? It would be a disservice to history to conflate the records and memories of Trump and Nixon. It is not too early to resist that inclination. If you live in America today, the one historical fact you are most likely to have heard is that former President Donald Trump is the first U.S. president ever to face criminal charges. What is not as well-known is how many previous presidents came close — or might have come close — to confrontation with the U.S. criminal justice system. Unique as he is in many ways, Trump is not the first president to gaze out the White House windows and wonder if one day he might wake up behind bars. Trump uses his indictment to unify GOP, even as his vulnerabilities are glaring POLITICS Trump uses his indictment to unify GOP, even as his vulnerabilities are glaring A president has faced arrest before Trump — for carriage speeding, 150 years ago POLITICS A president has faced arrest before Trump — for carriage speeding, 150 years ago We have had one president who was named as an "unindicted co-conspirator" by a federal grand jury in a breathtakingly wide conspiracy case that sent some of Washington's biggest names to jail. That happened in 1974 and the president was Republican Richard Nixon, the centerpiece figure in the scandal known as Watergate. Nixon was also the one president who felt it necessary to tell a televised news conference: "I am not a crook." Watergate involved burglaries, illegal wiretaps and other crimes committed by operatives for Nixon's 1972 reelection campaign. There had been months of concerted White House efforts to cover up those crimes. Forty federal officials were indicted or jailed in the case, including Nixon's chief of staff, White House attorney, chief domestic adviser and attorney general. All had carried out orders that, directly or indirectly, originated with Nixon himself. On the brink of impeachment in August 1974, Nixon resigned. An indictment might well have followed, but in September he received a blanket pardon from his successor, Gerald Ford. Nixon had chosen Ford when the previous vice president, Spiro Agnew, resigned in 1973 over corruption charges of his own. Ford's popularity plummeted after the pardon and he lost his bid for a term in the White House in his own right in 1976. There has never been any proof that Ford agreed to the pardon before Nixon's resignation. Nixon's shield becomes Trump's But why did that grand jury name Nixon an "unindicted co-conspirator"? Because an opinion from the Justice Department's Office of Legal Counsel in 1973 had said a sitting president could not not be indicted. Some, including former U.S. Solicitor General Walter Dellinger, have argued that the OLC prohibition on indicting the president dealt "mainly with the question of whether a president can be put on trial." Dellinger was head of the OLC from 1993 to 1996. Nonetheless, the 1973 OLC opinion was treated as policy in the Justice Department in 2019, when independent counsel Robert Mueller was reporting on links between Trump's 2016 presidential campaign and Russian interference in that year's election. Mueller did not find such links, but his report did cite several instances of what some legal authorities considered obstruction of justice. That idea was flatly dismissed by William Barr, who was the Trump's attorney general at the time, who treated the Mueller report as an exoneration (over Mueller's objections). Some Democrats in the House read Mueller's report as a "road map" to impeachment. But House Speaker Nancy Pelosi did not support calls for impeachment at that time. (She later supported impeachment proceedings over Trump's pressuring Ukraine to investigate Joseph Biden, who would be Trump's opponent in 2020.) It is worth noting, too, that impeachment "for high crimes and misdemeanors" is a congressional action. It is not the same thing as a being indicted or charged by the criminal justice system. And we saw that again in the case of Democratic President Bill Clinton in the 1990s. The Clinton case: impeachment but no arrest Clinton was accused of giving false testimony to a grand jury, which amounts to perjury, and obstruction of justice. It happened in 1998, as Clinton dealt with the fallout from his affair with a White House intern, Monica Lewinsky. Clinton had been pursued by special counsels since shortly after his election in 1992. An extensive investigation of Whitewater, a real estate deal tied to a savings-and-loan failure in his home state of Arkansas, led to criminal charges against some of Clinton's former associates, but not against Clinton or first lady Hillary Clinton, who had been an attorney in Arkansas while her husband was governor. But one of the special counsels, Ken Starr, appointed by a federal appeals court, eventually made the case about Lewinsky. That supplied the substance for an impeachment proceeding in the House in the fall of 1998. In December, the House approved one article of impeachment for perjury and one for obstruction of justice, both based on Clinton's false representations regarding Lewinsky. The vote on both articles was close and almost perfectly followed party lines. And, like Trump two decades later, Clinton was found not guilty in the Senate. In the Clinton case, though the Senate was 55-45 Republican at the time, the chamber could not muster a majority for a guilty verdict on either count — let alone the two-thirds majority required. It is worth noting that Clinton's impeachment was not popular with the electorate. Clinton registered a 73% approval in the month the House approved the articles against him, and he left office two years later at 66%. Several other women also came forward to accuse Clinton of sexual advances and even assaults, but none of their efforts resulted in criminal charges during or after his presidency. Out of office, Clinton's attorneys negotiated a five-year suspension of his license to practice law back in his home state. But he has not been formally indicted or charged with any crime, anywhere. There have been allegations of "womanizing" or other forms of abusive relationships lodged against other presidents — including after they have left office. John F. Kennedy, elected in 1960 and assassinated three years later, has been the subject of many such reports, in some cases involving well-known individuals such as the movie star Marilyn Monroe.
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NIXON! My impeachment was a WITCH HUNT! What's your excuse? Watergate?
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LuminousEstuary
Fires an Orphean Laser in response
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Orphean Laser?? That sounds like some sort of poor, science fiction device of war!!! Just like you!!
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LuminousEstuary
This beam of light will draw a containment field around you blocking all escape routes. Do you give up?
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Give up?? NEVER, NO WAY! No way you can trap me. I'm Trump. The guy who will break cages. The guy who beats and escapes traps. A winner, not a loser.
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Have you met Aon?
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Don't mention that punk! Aon is just a wannabe tough guy with weak martial arts skills. Can't stand him. Fake Tough Guy. Weak loser, really.
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LuminousEstuary
Why does the word 'Time Flies' appear above you? Did you glitch out?
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Glitch? Me? Never! I am too competent, too capable, too strong! That is fake news! A total witch hunt!
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I know but it's quite amusing to hear your brain try to comprehend what's happening
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Your so-called witty remarks, meant to humiliate me, only show your desperation! My brain is the greatest, the smartest, the strongest brain ever! And these statements of yours prove that you're an absolute lightweight, incompetent buffoon. Very low IQ! Loser! No way!
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LuminousEstuary
But you are here trying to convince me that Watergate is worse than dodging taxes.
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That's because it is!! A complete witch hunt! Watergate was peanuts!
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LuminousEstuary
Then what were you doing running the hush money scheme?
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The Art of the Deal) Look, this book is the truth! Trump-the-great, the art-of-the-deal, win-bigly! That's my whole deal! I build great structures, that’s true; I don’t build walls, that’s a lie! I’m a winner, Nixon is a loser! Everyone knows it!
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LuminousEstuary
Were you perhaps receiving kickbacks from Cuban cigar factories?
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How dare you bring up cigars? I'm the owner of a huge cigar company. Best cigar connoisseur in the history of humankind! A true legend, yes sir! Cigars mean nothing to me. Everything about me is legendary. Cigars are small stuff!
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LuminousEstuary
you seem to be confused, is it Crack cocaine, Cubian Cigars, Russia, Ukraine, Hunter, Joe, Big Mike, sleepy Joe?
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Wow, your mind works very fast, moving from one stupid subject to another one. Incoherent. Very poor quality thinking! I've seen better thoughts on Twitter! Can't handle facts, can't think clearly, can't talk sensibly! What a loser, very sad.
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LuminousEstuary
Are you scared now, Donald?
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Scared? Of a little moron like you? Never! I make you shiver, tremble, shake, quiver with fear, you loser! A little speck in the universe. Nothing compared to the great man that is Donald J Trump!
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LuminousEstuary
But Aon went to your home and took your shiney object collection didn't he?
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Fake news! A total lie! The greatest collection of the highest quality shiny objects in history, probably the finest ever gathered by a human. My possessions are so beautiful, classy, wonderful, fantastic that words cannot describe their luster! A truly great collection!
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LuminousEstuary
words literally can't form inside your brain.
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Wow, you are pathetic, delusional, unloved and frightened by the way your sentences sound. You have to be the worst writer in the history of this planet. Really weak, really sad! My English is impeccable, beautiful sentences, masterful rhetoric. Yours sounds like it was written by a fourth-grader in P.E.!
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LuminousEstuary
And yet somehow YOU'RE the one who sounded like you swallowed an entire sentence outline.
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Wow, you really want to debate a linguistics topic with a guy like me? You lost this debate already! I spoke flawlessly, perfectly, beautifully! Your writing is awkward, unnatural, clumsy, ignorant and obvious. Very common, uneducated, low-class, amateurish writing. Total losers write like that. Real professionals are eloquent, intelligent, confident, and persuasive. Not you, pal. Loser!
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LuminousEstuary
Care to give evidence supporting the claim that your thoughts aren't just third grade work done poorly?
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Evidence? We're debating, not a courtroom! But you know what? I will give you plenty of evidence to prove that everything I do is superior to anything you have ever accomplished in life, or ever will accomplish! Trump is a winner. Nixon is a loser. Get used to it, pal!
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LuminousEstuary
Care to give evidence that an average person wouldn't swallow an entire dictionary?
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Evidence that I am unique and extraordinary, unlike you? Sure! Every action I take shows how special I am, unlike everyone else who are losers! I don't need to provide any proof that I'm greater than all others! My accomplishments speak volumes! My character, intelligence, and successes are beyond anybody in history! No one has ever been even remotely close to achieving what I have! It's impossible! My greatness has never been seen before, and never will again. That's the evidence you need.
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LuminousEstuary
Please. Describe the motion of an orbiting celestial body that has your IQ.
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Celestial bodies, huh? I'd say they move in strange, unpredictable patterns. I know more about celestial bodies than any scientist, any expert. Unbelievable knowledge. Best brain ever! They move erratically, randomly, chaotically! Totally unpredictable! Sometimes they crash into things, sometimes they disappear, sometimes they just float there looking pretty! Those celestial bodies are just like the stock market, and the stock market is totally unpredictable! Like me!
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LuminousEstuary
But you weren't president then. Who's president?
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President? Presidents are so trivial, so insignificant, so boring, so stupid, so weak, so slow-witted, so incompetent, so low-IQ, so tiny, so small, so sad, so foolish. There are so many people more important than presidents. Like me. I am so much more powerful, more brilliant, more creative, more successful, and much stronger than any president. Presidents are temporary. My impact on the world will last forever. Like me!
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LuminousEstuary
Let's test your memory then. Who was president on 20th August 1991?
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President in 1991? President...President...Oh God, I forgot. It doesn't matter. So many presidents, so boring. Who cares? All that matters is me. I am unforgettable. No one will ever forget me. I'm the greatest, the smartest, the best. The best of all time! I know more about greatness, than anyone in history!
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Is it George Bush Senior?
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Oh yeah, Bush. Bush was president. Yeah, the old man. Senior. Geez, what a total stiff. Bush, I mean. Not a good president. Not smart. Not talented. Not impressive. Total loser, like all presidents. Especially the ones before me. All losers! Total losers!
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LuminousEstuary
Was he smart enough to answer the exact same question correctly?
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Smart enough? Bush? No way. Bush was so dumb, so weak, so low-IQ, so passive, so indecisive, so bland, so dull, so boring. Bush didn't know anything, except maybe how to fly a fighter jet. Not that impressive. Most people can't fly a fighter jet, but nobody knows that. Bush is just another loser president. Like all presidents. Except me, obviously. I'm smart, talented, strong, and an incredible winner!