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Wasn't he impeached him twice but the Senate didn't convict? How else should prosecution have been done?
I'm a non-USian, so I'm genuinely curious what the actions you feel should have been taken instead.
He should have been cuffed and arrested as he stepped out of the Whitehouse when his first term ended. Instead Biden called him a legitimate threat to democracy while doing absolutely jack shit to protect his citizens from said threat. And guess what? HE TURNED OUT TO BE A LEGITIMATE THREAT TO OUR MOTHERFUCKING DEMOCRACY. WHO COULD HAVE GUESSED.
Merrick Garland's DOJ had four full years to build a case and prosecute it. Instead, he let Alvin Bragg do all the heavy lifting from the NYC DA's office, in a case that couldn't even wrap up before the election was over.
There are people in Guantanamo Bay who have been imprisoned for over twenty years without a trial. People who have been cooling their heels through five different Presidential Administrations. If Joe Biden had seriously wanted to flex the muscles of the police state, if he truly believed Donald Trump was an existential threat operating on behalf of a foreign power on par with Muhammad Rahim or Khalid Sheikh Mohammed or Ali Hamza Ahmad Suliman al-Bahlul, he'd have been tried in a military court for treasonous acts in cooperation with a hostile military power.
I got over eight fucking years of people saying he was in league with everyone from the FSB to the Italian Mafia and they all had a Steele Dossier full of evidence to prove it. That's before you even get on the Epstein stuff (and Epstein's ties to Mossad, which we all know Biden wasn't going to touch).
The least you could do was nail him the way we did Martha fucking Stewart and lock him up on insider trading while in office.
The sky was the fucking limit with this guy. He stunk to high heaven with the sheer volume of crimes. High Treason, Espionage Act, any number of white collar crimes, take your fucking pick. The FEC took Sam Bankman-Fried from free man to locked up inside nine months. Don't tell me that same agency couldn't have had Trump as quickly.
By the criminal justice system. For his actual crimes. Congress need not be involved. Alternatively, Biden could have "Whatever the president does is legal as long as it's an official act"ed him.