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[-] LWD@lemm.ee 36 points 8 months ago

Corrupt politicians can simply ignore the law. If they didn't ignore it, they wouldn't be very corrupt.

[-] jol@discuss.tchncs.de 18 points 8 months ago

Yes, but now there's an explicit law over which they can be prosecuted

[-] LWD@lemm.ee 1 points 8 months ago

Good point. My statement was a bit reductive, I just worry when it comes to creating the kind of blanket ban on stuff that people can work around if they're powerful enough.

[-] Akisamb@programming.dev 3 points 8 months ago

This is not true in France. Politicians that have proven fraud are arrested and charged. In France we have Sarkozy, Cahuzac, Fillon that were all charged with crimes.

They were president, minister and presidential candidate respectively. I'd be surprised if it was different in the USA. I'm seeing that trump is also being charged, the system seems to be working.

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