“No… secretary of defense has ever been impeached for carrying out lawful military operations,” said Hegseth, who is facing impeachment for allegedly carrying out unlawful military operations.
Narcissists struggle to admit fault and they’re the ones hovering around trump.
He will do it again. This is why we need to convict, remove, imprison, and execute before he can be pardoned.
I know Trump has his pardon just waiting for a signature, but considering he violated international and Pentagon law by killing defenseless survivors, this is pretty bold to just admit mens rea for criminal conviction purposes.
Pretty useful for sentencing too.
A pardon can’t protect Hegseth from being impeached by Congress and removed from office. It does protect him from going to jail.
What if another country came in, kidnapped him, and delivered him to the Hague and stand trial. Trump and Hegseth made that OK to do.
So we get around the pardon. Finish the process, sign the Rome Statute like we should have back under Clinton and Bush, and let the ICC handle the war crimes Nuremberg 2.0: Mar-A-Lago edition.
Can’t pardon impeachment
Impeachment is pardon proof via the constitution. The actual limits have never been tested, but someone with gumption could argue that the crimes one has been impeached over, cannot be pardoned at all.
These guys are all such comical level evil. I keep imagining them going home finally being able to dress up like the sith lords they are.
Nazi’s stuck to their guns until the noose was pulled at Nuremberg.
This coward won’t. He’ll cry and say screech he’s sorry and piss himself once there are actual consequences for the deaths he’s caused all the way up until the end.
And it happened before too! Ernst Kaltenbrunner!
American psychiatrist Douglas Kelley, who spent months interviewing and evaluating the prisoners, described him as “a crybaby …the hardness of character which marked him as an executioner had been replaced with this soft, sobbing personality”, who crumbled into fits of depression, and was deeply frightened by the prospects of the trial.
So he’s back to calling himself the Secretary of Defense?
Turns out you can’t legally change some things by writing a kingly decree.
so we have malice now, cool
“Alleged”
Wonderful statements that could never be used against him
Blowing up randos and school children with missiles has been a past time for far longer than Kegsbreath has been at the helm. Let’s not act like Oh’Bomba wasn’t striking school buses. Its not enough to impeach this guy. We need societal change to not be a terrorist nation to the world.
I think you’d be better off stating it starts with impeaching this guy…
We do need societal change but honestly I’m happy if we start with Hegseth.
I think we’d be better off admitting we are the world terrorists and our entire ruling class needs to go. But no, everyone got their blue wave treat, the world is magically better even though nothing has actually changed. Step up, claim your praise, dont be bashful. The blues have won and said we dont need to look back so dont.
Jesus, you’re blaming the newly elected Democrats for not doing their jobs…when they can’t even legally do their jobs until January. For fucks sake, stop being a doomer before they’re even in office. If they still do this shit after January, then you have a right to complain. Right now though, you’re blaming the side that won control but hasn’t taken over yet.
I’m pissed half of them immediately said they’d work with Trump and not prosecute. Thats the truth. Those dudes should be hung from their ankles.
I’m sorry, do you just want to rant?
No, I want every democrat who is afraid of accountability to literally be eaten alive by the people as a appetizer before we get to republicans.
That’s a yes.
The zeitgeist of Lemmy never engages in good faith when its something they don’t want to hear. Like you can’t just blatantly trust democrats to fix everything. They were here for every step of the fuck up. This is just more smugposting.
I have not disagreed with you a single time. Your thoughts are the zeitgeist of Lemmy…
You seem to be arguing with yourself.
What a weird fucking take. Let’s not impeach a war criminal because the trump administration hasn’t admitted to the world that the United States is a terrorist nation.
You see, actually, both sides are bad EQUALLY and do you even remember Barack HUSSEIN Obama?
Everyone is ready for their treats already and the dems are already acting like they ain’t doing accountability because that comes back on them too. The US has always been fascists, those inside the empire just can’t see it. Keep fighting if you want a fair world, but if you just wanted brunch and treats back go ahead and pat yourself on the back while the last of the Palestinians in Gaza die.
Again, blaming the party that isn’t in control. Screaming at people who haven’t even been sworn in yet.
Yeah they were already in power when it started and we’ll see how all this talk of not holding anyone accountable ends.
Obama was head of the DoD?
Most libbed up response right here. Ignore the fact that the US is a dead foreign children factory.
