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Originally Posted by Martina
One? One? Google for God's sake. Seriously???? And this post got thanked by sane people???
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You clearly know next to nothing about US politics.
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Well, umm.... I don't equate lack of
knowledge (information) about a candidate and sanity. They have nothing to do with each other.
Now, thank you for providing all this knowledge about Hillary, which I confess, I really didn't know much about. As I have said more than once, I was so busy prior to retirement, I was not prepared to understand how Trump won (how Hillary lost). It's all been a learning curve of information and subsequent understanding. So again, thank you.
Insofar as winners go, I remember seeing on TV a woman who had voted for Trump say that she had held her nose at the thought of voting for Trump, but did it anyways. Yeah, I think there are Republicans who "know" that Trump was/is an a**hole. Personally, I think most politicians are corrupt, even evil. Ya know, as Lord Acton, expressed in an opinion in a letter to Bishop Mandell Creighton in 1887: "Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely.
Great men are almost always bad men."
So, one is usually faced with a dilemma when placing anyone in a powerful position. Insofar as the States are concerned, I have understood one thing, that this powerful person is also in charge of appointing judges, besides legislation.
Since Trump has been in power, he has appointed the following:
As of March 7, 2019, the United States Senate has confirmed
89 Article III judges nominated by President Trump, including
2 Associate Justices of the Supreme Court of the United States,
34 judges for the United States Courts of Appeals,
53 judges for the United States District Courts, and 0 judges for the United States Court of International Trade - for a total of 178 judges appointed by a Republican government. Personally, I don't believe at all as the Chief Justice made a statement to the effect that they are impartial - rubbish!
There are currently 60 nominations to Article III courts awaiting Senate action, including 8 for the Courts of Appeals, 50 for the District Courts, and 2 for the Court of International Trade.
So, that is where the power lies.
As you are all aware, Manafort got a lesser sentence than even his defense attorney suggested, and this by a Reagan-appointed judge.
So even if Hillary smelt, the point of the election for those who did not support Trump, was to ensure that the Dems won.