I love MARTA. I also know it has its problems. As a neighbor from a nearby small city, I don't even have a business stop within 5 miles of my house. I love being able to take MARTA all over place in Atlanta with a day pass.
It really does. As in... we know you're not going to be able to resist threatening jurors and will have to forfeit this bond so we'll give you a nice low bond.
Yeah I’d be curious to see what happens if he skips, because he has Secret Service protection for the rest of his life.
The Secret Service has an obligation to protect him, but they’re also federal officers. Would they protect him from the bounty hunters? Would they rat him out? Would they act as the bounty hunters and drag him back to the courthouse against his will?
It also raises questions about a potential conviction. If he gets convicted, will the Secret Service simply post extra guards specifically for his (isolated) prison cell? They’d probably want to try and outsource it to the prison directly, but then you run into the issue of having a person who still has Top Secret clearance and has proven to be irresponsible with it being guarded by people who don’t have that clearance. The Secret Service would probably need to clear several of their members and post them there as guards, simply to prevent Don from blabbing national secrets to anyone who will listen. Basically, limit his contact to only people who also have clearance.
Regardless, I’d pay good money to get a livestream of the bounty hunters taking Don down.
That's like fucking nothing to the mega rich like Trump.
The fact that we have a two-tiered justice system couldn't be more obvious than a rich white politician getting slapped on the wrist despite leading an insurrection against American democracy while poor black men are killed in the street by militant cops for literally no reason. Gross on so many levels.
That's only if you get a bondsman to pay the rest of it. Knowing trump, anyone in their right mind wouldn't put 180k of their own money down thinkimg the fat idiot won't run his mouth and violate the terms of his bond.
But then again, if they were in their right minds, they wouldn't support him.
This is somewhat misleading. If you have the money for bond you typically just pay it yourself because a bail bondsman keeps some of the money when it's returned.
If you use a surety bondsman, you pay 10-15%, you don't get that back in any case. If you have the cash to pay the bond and don't plan on violating the terms, you'd put it up yourself.
That said, like most insurances, you have to find someone that's willing to accept the risk, and if the terms really include "don't attack people on social media" you'd have to be the dumbest person in the world to put that up for him.
I mean, he probably just paid it in cash lol. I don’t think he needed a bondsman. Worst case scenario, send out a fundraising email and he’d have the money in an hour or less
"can", but "won't".
The shitstorm of logistics to make that happen is so far beyond what anyone would actually be willing to do.
Laws just don't apply to the wealthy, as much as they ought to.
Laws really don't apply to wealthy ex-US presidents, as much as we want them to.
The judge has every right to revoke bail and lock him up if he breaks those terms. I'm not betting any money on that actually happening, but if the law were applied equally he'd be denied bail and in prison until trial already.
I've been watching some news reporting on it and apparently the main concern is "where the line is" when it comes to his commentary. As a presidential candidate, he's still allowed to attack his political opponents, but what happens if he attacks Mike Pence, who is both a contending GOP candidate and a witness in his case? Most commentators I've seen are saying the comment would have to be an egregious violation of the order for him to be sent to jail without enormous political upheaval (I mean, a certain portion of his base will go apeshit no matter what, but you get the idea). I suspect Trump will do what he always does and try to test that line. I really hope he miscalculates.
I wonder how long it will take Trump to break parole. It is not a question of if, just a question of when. And then the reaction of the court will most likely show the inequality of the American justice system. Some are handled more equal than others.
The question I have is what if he violates any of the terms? It's not like they're going to throw him in jail with some secret service people guarding him. So it feels more like a show than anything with real force behind it.
My question isn't what the law says they can do but what they're actually willing to do.
While Georgia has said that Trump is going to get a mugshot, his three other arrests have decided not to do the mugshot, not to do the perp walk, not to this, not to that. He's getting special treatment, and we don't realistically know where that's going to end. And with current law, former presidents get lifetime protection of the secret service, so there is a practicality question for if Trump is locked up.
I'm hoping that the trials bring out the truth, right now I believe the truth to be that he's guilty, and I hope that if he keeps violating the terms of the courts, which he seems deadset on doing, that he's put in jail for that while the trials are ongoing. But I don't necessarily think they will do that even if, on paper, they can.