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In an effort to "not show bias" Trump's sentencing is delayed till after the election. (www.nytimes.com)

submitted 2 months ago by Lightor@lemmy.world to c/politics@lemmy.world

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It wouldn't be fair to have your felony conviction negatively impact your opportunities. This is how justice works right?

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[-] calcopiritus@lemmy.world 3 points 2 months ago

Shouldn't being a convicted felon affect one's candidacy?

Should the US government also pay candidates to have aesthetic surgeries? Being ugly might affect their candidacy!

[-] Persen@lemmy.world 2 points 2 months ago

And when he's elected, he'll change the law in his favour. I know, he can't do everything he wishes, but he could probably make it better for himself. VOTE!

[-] rob64@startrek.website 2 points 2 months ago

Holy crap his tie isn't red

[-] Badeendje@lemmy.world 0 points 2 months ago

On one hand he should just be scentenced, but I can also see how sending him to jail might also away the elections in the wrong way. He would make himself a martyr.

If he loses the election and gets ssent to jail then, he can't go on a. "the elections where stolen" tour.

[-] simplejack@lemmy.world 0 points 2 months ago

I wonder if he’s delaying the sentence because he’s planning to lock him up for a few months.

This judge has had a strong bias to not look like he’s impacting the general election, and putting Trump in Rikers for a few months would have a much bigger impact than a fine.

[-] octopus_ink@lemmy.ml 1 points 2 months ago

This judge has had a strong bias to not look like he’s impacting the general election

All this time I thought they were there to uphold the law no matter who was on the other end of it, but I know, joke's on me!

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[+] twinnie@feddit.uk -25 points 2 months ago

This is for the best, there would have been even no end of trouble if he wasn’t able to run for election because he was sent to jail or whatever.

It looks like Trump is almost certainly going to lose the election and when he does he’s going to jail. It’ll make November even more fun.

[-] octopus_ink@lemmy.ml 3 points 2 months ago

It looks like Trump is almost certainly going to lose the election and when he does he’s going to jail.

Ankle bracelet at worst, more likely an easy for him to pay fine. Trump is never going to spend a day in prison, mark my words. And if I'm wrong I'll celebrate along with everyone else about it.

[-] skizzles@lemmy.ml 0 points 2 months ago

As much as I don't want to agree, I partially do agree with your first statement and hope (regardless of how little faith I have in the justice system) that they are intentionally doing this so they can let the can of worms open if he loses and then take every single person they can down with him when they try to derail the results and attempt a 2nd coup.

It would be the icing on the cake, like you lost and you made a second attempt at it, there's no fucking back tracking and now we have even more people that came out of the woods to help you and we are going to take you all down.

They could put him in jail now, but corruption is rampant, but maybe (sliver of hope) there is some quiet digging of graves for these people to fall into.

[-] shalafi@lemmy.world -1 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

A jail sentence would make him a martyr and boost his fundraising.

EDIT: I'm not making excuses, only stating likely outcomes as I see them.

This fucking echo chamber...

Hate orange man! Will say nothing that might favor him (even if I don't agree)! Give upvotes! Orange BAD!!

And that works every time with you easily manipulated children. Yes, I'm talking down to you. Big people say, "condescending". Can you say condescending? It 's a BIG word! Try it yourself!

Often thought about making two up/down vote gathering accounts and posting results. There wouldn't even be a shit storm, results would be ignored or banned.

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