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Donald Trump will be the first former president to face a criminal trial, judge rules
(www.motherjones.com)
This guy has so many 'firsts', too bad they are all horrible firsts that no one should have ever done.
I hope his next”first” is “ex president sent to prison.”
And his last is “first ex president to die in prison”
I'm still holding out for first presidential candidate to croak weeks from election day
If we set up a go fund me to buy him hamberders… we could maybe get that done
I hope he has a stroke from his gluttonous lifestyle and gets locked in syndrome for at least 5 years.
Being physically unable able to communicate would be the worst punishment imaginable for him.
Is there any chance on earth that he actually goes to jail for even a day?
I think it's way more likely that he gets sentenced to house arrest, which he could serve at Mar a Lago. The other option is to have Secret Service agents following him around inside a prison trying to protect him from the other inmates (and possibly the guards), and I don't think either the prisons or the Secret Service want to deal with that.
Actually they could throw him in a maximum security prison and condem him to solitary confinement (for his own protection you know) and that would negate the need for the Secret Service
The Secret Service would still need to be around to protect him from the guards & the ghost of Epstein.
Maybe a disgraced ex president shouldn't receive an honor guard?
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"Yeah, he's a convicted felon, but we can't put him in jail because that would inconvenience the Secret Service."
Nope. Sorry it's a burden for them, but they can figure it out. Make a prison out of the brig on an abandoned military base in the middle of nowhere with him as the only prisoner. It worked for Rudolph Hess.
It's really not even that big of a burden. They already have wings for people like former cops and child molesters, so he'll fit in nicely. They'll just need a chair for the SS detail.
Prison is for poor people, not presidents. I think most people understand that not everyone is equal under the law at this point in time.
Ulysses S. Grant set the precedent that a sitting president can be prosecuted in 1872 while he was president, and got pulled over, for the third time, for "speeding on a horse inside the city limits of Washington DC." He told the officer that attempted to let him go, that Congress had literally passed article 1983 the previous year, and that even The POTUS doesn't have immunity. Sure it was a speeding ticket, but that's still precedent, with a statute to back it up.
The statute in question needs to be reviewed by The SCOTUS, as they were provided incorrectly edited wording of that statute, ommiting 16 crucial words of the law, in the case of Harlow vs. Fitzgerald in 1982, and illegally set up the Qualified Immunity Doctrine.
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For this? No. For the Georgia case? It's a real possibility if he doesn't get elected.
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None at all. As a last resort they'll (successfully) make a incompetency plea, which is true. The man isn't competent enough to tie his shoes without adult supervision.
In a sane world, an incompetency plea would bar someone from office
That would mean:
Too incompetent to be found guilty of a crime, but still somehow competent enough to hold arguably the most important position in the world.
Please make it make sense.
Yes, but not in this case. Some of the other cases will get him there and it will be glorious.
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The most likely situation is barred from running for President while he continues to spew lies and vitriol from the sidelines. We also can’t ignore the possibility of his progeny running for office thanks to the dynastic view these scumbag wealthy types tend to take of their money and power.
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No. Best we can hope for is to bog him down in appeals and lawsuits, till his heart pops from a big Mac
Particularly enjoyable is no more of this jet-setting on campaign bullshit in lieu of sitting in a series of dreary courtrooms for the rest of his days
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Repercussions make us all better people. Hope you enrich your life soon Trump [hopefully, in jail].
Well somebody had to be first and I'm pretty sure he has a Ricky Bobby mindset.
Good for him! I always knew he could do it
Really shouldnt of been the first though, considering all the prior presidents who had some hand in war crimes while in office.
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