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America is a global superpower. Trump is not bound by laws, anymore than Bush 1 and 2 were restricted in Iraq, LBJ in Vietnam, FDR in everything, and on and on. It really doesn’t matter. Some loophole will be found. It’s meaningless

Elect a new president who decides they care again about restrictions on American trade. Your only hope

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Okay monero. Just because our country has slipped towards an over powerful executive does not mean it was always so, not will remain so.

America wasn't always a global superpower either and maybe it won't remain one. But it's still useful to operate within the context of the reality we live in, which is what monero was describing.

> Trump is not bound by laws

That’s what Nixon thought too.

Nixon resigned. Was he ever even charged with a crime?

> Nixon resigned

Because the Senate had the votes to convict and remove him from office. Presidents don’t resign absent the rule of law, largely because that constitutes a death sentence.

Which president was executed?

Like common, American top level politicians are protected against the law like no one else. They can commit any crimes, literally, and norms are to look away and celebrate them anyway.

Lincoln and Kennedy, extra judicially of course.

> Which president was executed?

...why is the measure of the rule of law?

Nixon was pardoned by Gerald Ford in 1974 before the grand jury and prosecutors could decide whether to charge him.

https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/STATUTE-88/pdf/STATUTE-8...

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