It is, but unfortunately the prescribed punishment for the proscribed behavior remains ambiguous (at best).
Trump-proofing the USA is going to require a huge number of new laws.
Not only will we need to add actual consequences for doing things like destroying records and profiting from your businesses (e.g. charging the Secret Service for staying at your hotel while protecting you) and using your office to promote candidates (the Hatch Act), we also need to put in writing that a Vice President doesn’t have the prerogative of overturning the votes of the entire nation and declaring as winner whomever he or she prefers.
No one could have predicted this even a mere thirty years ago. No one could have predicted the confluence of right-wing media, the existence of an all-pervasive means of personal communication (the Internet), and a culture that valued ‘being entertaining’ far above old-fashioned traits like being a minimally-decent human being.
eta: 30 instead of 20 as in 2002 we pretty much knew the Internet would be huge
I don’t know if it will take a lot of new laws – a non-insane Congress could pass one that codified pretty much everything. But that would require both parties to have a sense of shame and propriety, and only one of them does.
The last I checked he’s still breathing.
As I was posting, I had a niggling thought that I should check if it was against the rules. Apologies.
It’s been revealed that the National Archives has obtained several boxes of presidential records that were being stored at Mar-a-Lago improperly.
This may, of course violate the Presidential Records Act.
Probably love letters from Kim Jong-un.
For which the penalty, apparently, is Fuck you I was the president.
Those would be stored properly.
In a shoe box decorated in glitter paper and covered with Valentine’s Day stickers. He keeps it under his bed and pulls it out to read some on days when the liberal media are extra mean to him.
I can imagine the staffers talking to themselves. “Donnie’s cranky and won’t take his nap”. “Just give him some papers to tear up until he wears himself out.”
That’s actually true, those were among the items recovered. Some of them were probably gunky, I hope the archivist wears gloves.
I don’t want to know what Obama’s letter was covered with.
Melania’s love juices, probably.
Ewwww! Ew ew ew.
Judging by her perpetually sour face, not likely.
Gotta wonder how many times Donald’s hands got slapped away that we didn’t see.
I bet if she was married to Obama she’d be smiling…… just sayin’.
Nah. Their Michelle’s, but Melania is taking the credit.
Ben Shapiro says that’s not a thing that can happen.