‘The Consequences of This Are So Significant’: Hemingway on Trump’s Conviction

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BAIER: “What about this premise, Mollie, of opening the pandora’s box? Takes us back to 2016, after the election, Trump wins, our late colleague Charles Krauthammer had some comments, conservative commentator at the time, this is in the hill, Charles Krauthammer says president-elect Donald Trump suggestion he would not prosecute Hillary Clinton over her use of an email server is akin to issuing a pardon. President-elect told the “New York Times” during a meeting Tuesday that he did not want to hurt the clintons, suggesting he would not push prosecution. Here he is on the show November 22nd, 2016.”
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KRAUTHAMMER: “I think that’s right to do it. You put that behind us, yes, there are probably offenses which are prosecutable, maybe she would be convicted, but that’s not what we want to do. We do not want to see national political opponents putting each other in jail.”
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BAIER: “It’s not apples to apples, Mollie but it’s interesting to look back at that.”
HEMINGWAY: “Yeah and it’s interesting that that happened in November of 2016, which is before Democrats and people in the media ran the Russia collusion hoax throughout the entire Trump Administration. And then of course when he lost in 2020 began rounding up Republicans and running show trials. We have crossed a rubicon here that is one that most Americans never wanted to cross. America has for hundreds of years had moral authority. When we go and tell tyrants and authoritarians, no, you can’t cancel elections, no, you can’t put your political opponents in jail. No, you can’t run show trials just because you don’t like who you are running against, that meant something. And now, can you imagine America going and telling people these things? After what happened? I get that Democrats are extremely excited and people in New York and D.C. maybe are very excited about what happened in New York yesterday, but the consequences of this are so significant, not just in terms of how it breaks down what has held the country together in terms of a general shared respect for rule of law, but also because of what it does to impact our national security and lose our moral voice worldwide.”