This is a summary of what some people want to do to Trump if the Dems get some power again. Do you think they have the courage to do any of this?
--Kim
"You got to win the midterms, because if we don't, I'll get impeached." Trump said that. He's right. And the consequences won't stop there.
He said it in January to a room full of House Republicans at the Kennedy Center, which he illegally renamed after himself before shutting it down.
He wasn't joking. He wasn't riffing. He was telling them the truth about what's coming. And a devastating new piece in The New Republic by Matt Ford lays out the full scope of what accountability looks like when this is over.
It's not just impeachment. It's everything. All at once. From every direction.
Civil lawsuits against federal agents who violated people's rights. Disbarment of every lawyer who carried out Trump's orders.
Congressional bans on hiring former ICE agents at any law enforcement agency in the country. Stripping participants in the deportation machinery of access to Social Security and Medicare, modeled on a 2014 law Congress actually passed called the
No Social Security for Nazis Act. That is a real law. And Democrats want to use it.
And then there's The Hague.
The International Criminal Court has already issued arrest warrants for sitting heads of state.
The New Republic piece explains how Trump and his officials could face prosecution for the extrajudicial killings of at least 150 people on alleged drug boats in the Caribbean, strikes where survivors clinging to wreckage were hit a second time on Hegseth's orders. International law scholars say these targeted killings of civilians may amount to crimes against humanity.
Even if the ICC can't physically arrest Trump, the warrants follow him everywhere. No golf trips to Scotland. No visits to his Ireland resort. No casual vacations to any country that's party to the Rome Statute. For the rest of his life.
Congressman Jamie Raskin is already building the framework.
"We should never be afraid of impeachment," he told The New Republic.
"Impeachment should not be any kind of taboo." Cabinet members are fair game. Noem's articles of impeachment drew 187 co-sponsors before she was even fired. Hegseth, Lutnick, Homan, all of them are on the list.
Marc Elias, one of the top Democratic lawyers in the country, went further. He wants consequences for every DOJ attorney still doing Trump's bidding. "No one is putting a gun to these people's heads to earn a living by throwing children in prison," he said.
Trump knows. He said it himself. The midterms are eight months away. If Democrats take the House, investigations start immediately.
If they take the Senate, conviction is on the table. And overseas, the clock on international law never stops running.
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