I don’t usually post screen grabs from the hellsite, but this was too long to simply quote.
Via Lawrence Tribe.
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#USpol #Defense #NATO #TFG #Elections2024
Retired constitutional lawyer teaches would-be dictator a lesson about law:
"#Trump said “one of the presidents of a big country” at one point asked him whether the #US would still defend the country if they were invaded by #Russia
even if they “don’t pay.”
“No, I would not protect you,”
Trump recalled telling that president. “In fact,...
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https://edition.cnn.com/2024/02/10/politics/trump-russia-nato/index.html
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...I would encourage them [#RUSSIA] to do whatever the hell they want.
You got to pay. You got to pay your bills.”*
#LaurenceTribe: quotes Albert T. #Goins:
“Perhaps, Mr. #Trump forgot (if he ever knew) that our internat obligations & treaties—such as those we undertook as members of #NATO—are themselves supreme law of the land as recog at Article VI of our Constit.
As so-called supremacy clause states in relevant part...
#Trump’s statements in S Carolina...
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...may not themselves rise to the level of an insurrection, but they clearly reveal the fact that if he regains office #Trump is poised to unravel the binding obligations which the Constitution has imposed upon every president
from Washington to Biden.”
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