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He's calling the court's bluff. I'm afraid it'll work. They should hold him in contempt and put in in jail, pending trial. I don't believe they will.
As I understand it, knowing that throwing him in jail in contempt of court would likely set off riots, her threat to him for interfering in the process was to speed up the trial. Considering his only real defense is pushing conviction until after the election, I think Trump will soon learn the meaning of “the right to a speedy trial.”
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Then let there be riots. The man needs his due.
That’s why there’s an Insurrection Act.
Right? This whole "we can't punish criminals because other criminals might engage in criminal behavior" attitude is mystifying to me. What ever happened with not negotiating with terrorists as a national policy?
It is very odd, someone was claiming we should have let him win the other day because this would have been less dangerous. That is so fucked up. Appeasement is almost never a viable long-term solution is politics and geo-politics. The best time to deal with an abusive force is yesterday, not pulling the Band-Aid early is just making things worse. They will riots anyway, unless he turns America into autocracy, only at this point we won't have to worry about riots.
Anyone saying that is either a shill or a coward, and neither are people we should listen to. Our grandparents and great grandparents didn't sacrifice everything in WWII just for us to allow fucking Nazis to waltz into power uncontested.
The very scenario that quote came from was one of... Extensive, and disastrous, negotiation with terrorists. So, not much has changed.