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Until I see a picture of Trump behind bars I will continue to assume he will continue to get away with everything forever.
The only truthful thing he has ever said was "I could shoot someone on 5th Ave and not lose supporters."
Implied is that he also wouldn't get arrested for it.
Tie his bullshit with the recent articles about the pathetic FBI being afraid to go after Republican domestic terrorists and it's just beyond absurd. "Home of the brave" my ass.
Worth pointing out how much this is also a republican thing. Nixon did it. Reagan pretty much did the same to sour Carter.
H.W. Bush agreed.(?) The world shrugged…
People said he wouldn't be prosecuted, and he was.
People said he wouldn't get indicted, and he was.
People said he wouldn't get convicted, and he was.
Now we're waiting on sentencing and carrying out that sentence, and people say that won't happen, either.
The justice system is slow, especially at the federal level. Some of that is due to deliberation, some of that is due to federal judges having too high of a case load, and some of that is due to the fact that Trump is a former President, and prosecutors and judges have to handle that very carefully. If acquitted, that's it, prosecutors rarely have grounds for appeal. They need to walk into the court room with an airtight case.
If you follow other federal cases, this kind of timeline is completely expected.
Except for Judge Cannon. She's just blatantly pulling things in Trump's favor. The rest are doing their job. Edit: oh, and the Supreme Court, of course. They just fucked a lot of things.
So what I'm hearing is... he's getting away with everything forever?
Look on a more serious note, I do think if he fails to become president again his luck probably has run out. The bad news is, between winning legitimately and stealing the election through House vote, Trump still is probably odds even to become president again - if not better.
I know there is a chance sentencing and carrying out of it happens before the election, but I'll believe it when I see it.
Dude he's always going to get away with it, he eats like shit and he'll be dead soon anyway. The important thing is to implicate his conspirators that will be around for decades longer doing more fucked up shit in the background.
I believed for a couple of months that the us justice system wasn't completely compromised, but I was stupid to do so.
Yeah convicted, sentance, and in prison are very different states of things.
Nah, that could be AI generated. I won't know it's real until his first instinct is to immediately say that it should have been Hillary behind bars in a video clip, then I'll know it's really him
I'm wondering what we'll see first. Him passing of old age or him facing any consequence for his illegal actions.
When you're an asshole, the Democrats and Republicans let you get away with it.