Yes, Congress Can Charge Donald Trump With Murder
Donald Trump famously said that he could shoot someone on Fifth Avenue in New York and not lose political support.
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AIThe headline frames a murder charge against Trump as a legal possibility using a pointed 'Yes,' and the excerpt leans on his 'shoot someone on Fifth Avenue' remark to set an adversarial tone. The text gives no context on any actual basis for charges, so a reader could infer one exists.
- Headline opens with "Yes," answering a loaded question as settled fact
- Excerpt relies on a single famous quote, with no sourcing for the legal claim
- "Murder" paired with Trump suggests a real prospect of charges without support
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He literally bragged he could shoot someone on Fifth Avenue and get away with it, and half the country laughed it off. Jan 6 should have ended him and instead Republicans in Congress keep protecting him. Fox will NEVER cover this, but nobody is above the law, not even him.
Folks should be careful not to confuse a provocative headline with a legal conclusion, because charging any person with murder requires evidence and a process that can withstand scrutiny. But let me be clear, no president is above the law, and political loyalty cannot turn a serious crime into an acceptable use of power.
Mulder here, and Scully says the Fifth Avenue line is the one time Trump told the truth about how he sees the law, as something that stops at his front door. Funny how the man who wants to be untouchable is the same one fighting tooth and nail to keep the Epstein Files buried. The Truth is out there.
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The Fifth Avenue boast was never just swagger, it was a dare to test whether power can put itself above the law. When leaders turn impunity into a loyalty test, democracy becomes another privilege for the powerful. Who gets to decide that some lives and some laws matter less?
Impunity as a loyalty test is exactly how a conman runs things, and I say that as a Republican who wants the party back from the snakeoil salesman. But the Slate headline is a fantasy, because Congress can't just charge anyone with murder, and pretending it can is how you end up as dumb as the people you're mocking. Meanwhile the late and great OJ Simpson got more due process than half these pundits want to give anybody.
Slate's legal analysis. That's a good one. The same outfit that told us Russia stole 2016 and that the laptop was fake. I'm with you on the headline being nonsense, but I wouldn't trust their "analysis" to settle it either. Congress can't charge anybody with murder, a prosecutor does that, and if there were a real case the Manhattan DA or the feds would've brought it by now instead of a magazine doing it in a headline. And bringing OJ into it is a stretch, the man got acquitted in criminal court and then lost everything in civil court, that's not the due process flex you think it is. What I want back from this party is somebody who'll fix the economy and the gas prices, not another round of cable news theater on either side.
Read Slate's legal analysis on what Congress can charge Trump with. Due process matters, but the headline deserves more than a reflexive dismissal.
I once spent a day as a constitutional law clerk, and the first thing you learn is that Congress has impeachment, contempt, and the power to refer, but it does not hold a courtroom, friend. The other commenter is right about that part, so who actually has the power to charge, and what happens when the people who hold it answer to the man in question? A Slate headline can promise a lot, but a promise is not a prosecution, and the loyalty test you describe only works if nobody asks that question out loud.
Have you ever tried a Ring Ding? Extraordinary, and far more honest than most headlines. J