6mo ago

Special Counsel Report Says Trump Would Have Been Convicted in Election Case

www.nytimes.com

“But for Mr. Trump’s election and imminent return to the presidency, the office assessed that the admissible evidence was sufficient to obtain and sustain a conviction at trial,” the report said.

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You had 4 FUCKING YEARS to do this! This doesn’t even qualify for too little too late. You did nothing for 4 years but stuck your head up your collective asses and now you make claims that he should have been convicted and sentenced? Complicit traitors.
- You're mixing special counsel with the AG. Jack Smith did his job, it was Garland who waited 2 years before starting the case and eventually assigning him.
  
  The AG is not an all powerful entity. He was appointed by Biden himself. Similarly the Democrats could have pressured Biden to fire Garland. And Biden could have done it himself.
  Everyone was very happy to wait for years to "make sure the trial was well prepared".
  
  Jack Smith could have chosen to bring charges in a district where there wasn't a 50/50 chance it would end up in Canon's courtroom, but he was high on his own farts & wanted the big win.
  Let's not whitewash the dude's errors.
  
  And Qannon was certainly amenable to Trump's request to push back basically every date involved in the case.
- And we have had almost 250 years to make sure we have laws that prevent criminals like trump from becoming president, but that didn't happen either.
  
  If by "we", you mean the best politicians and judges that money can buy.
  The so-called guardrails against undue interference are all from a time where everyone expected politicians to always act and argue in good faith and where corporations as we know them today didn't exist.
  It's not for fun that every single other constitution still in effect is newer. Other countries have continued to renew their laws to better suit changing circumstances like the Founders intended for the US to do.
- Who do you mean by who, you fuckin` fruit cake? Did you fookin charge him in U.S. court? Eh, silverbuttons?
They were really going to do it too! Until they did nothing instead
- Those meddling boomers... Darn them!!1!1!
At which point do we call a spade a spade and declare the DOJ and the prosecutors to be accomplices for their roles in protecting an obviously guilty grifter at the expense of justice and the common good?
- We can call them whatever we want, but nothing is going to happen to any of them.
  
  Sure, but just being honest about it in stead of making up a ton of bullshit excuses would still be preferable to the pretzel logic of the media and the Blue No Matter Who apparatchiks.
Such a shame they waited so long to start the trial and gave Trump every opportunity to delay. But surely Trump would have gone to prison if Harris won. Despite all the other things Democrats did not do to get him in jail, that would have been the thing. You know, four years is just such a short period of time for a trial. Everyone know you need exactly 4.5 years.
Isn’t it super cool how that STILL WOULDNT HAVE MATTERED
What will happen now after Trump term? Can't they take up the case again?
- I don't think there will be an 'after Trump term' unless he passes while in office. Dictators don't usually leave office.
  
  He said he shouldn't have left in 2020. He figured if he had stay they couldn't have physically remove him. He is going try it this time.
  
  I think there will be, but it will be a putin-medvedev where trump steps down and becomes voice president but maintains control without breaking the rules. He will organise a succession for his favoured candidate as well
- Yes, if trump ever leaves office alive or doesn’t get an instant pardon from the next guy.
  Those are two very big ifs
  
  He also decided he could pardon himself last time, so there's that.
“Oh yeah, he definitely would’ve been convicted.” “Then why wasn’t he?” “We’ll see, what had happened was…”
Clown country
Are the Yankees still mad at the Cowboys?
Trump was kind of pardoned by the manipulated population.
admissible evidence was sufficient to obtain and sustain a conviction at trial never meant shit

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