Since when are crimes illegal?
It's only illegal if you get caught. It's airtight MAGAt logic.
Since you've been poor?
Is he though? Seems like the latest "oh my god he's going down" only for him to be out campaigning like a week later.
There is a disconnect between his legal situation and his behaviour because he's too way stupid to realise he's screwed.
He did a terrible job of hiding the evidence of his crimes in many cases he straight up boasted about them on Twitter. He's misbehaved towards various judges on a number of occasions and threatened the jury. So not only is he absolutely screwed, he's making the situation worse.
The reason he is still campaigning is because he's really really really really thick. As are his supporters who think he has even a snowball's chance in hell of getting away with this.
It's old really because if he believed it's his own rhetoric, then there's some kind of evil vendetta against him bey the evil left, in which case he should know he's not going to get away. Extreme cognitive dissonance.
The wheels of justice turn very slowly in the USA. His legal team's strategy to keep him or if prison is to slow then down even more. Iirc his first criminal trial starts either this Monday or the following Monday.
Unless you're a poor person, obviously.
He will be found guilty. He committed multiple crimes in plain view of the public, those crimes were recorded on cameras, he's made multiple statements admitting that he committed the crimes.
The real question is, will he be found guilty before he dies? He has enough money to put up bullshit delay tactics for the next 10 years.
He could also become president again, that's his plan. He's trying to run out the clock on all his legal troubles. Once he's a presidential candidate I'll bet you every one of those Republicans that turned on him after Jan. 6 will suddenly start saying it's unconstitutional to charge/prosecute a presidential candidate.
Well that's more to the point. If he's able to keep out of jail for another year and a couple of months (easy enough for these kinds of cases) he can easily be within a shot of the whitehouse. Not ideal.
Hmm, I understand the concept, but this should be adjusted:
"Why Donald Trump is Being Prosecuted"
"Because he is accused of committing crimes."
Remember, folks, innocent until proven guilty.
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Yep, and surprising absolutely no one.
In my view, innocent until proven guilty is a concept that only applies to legal proceedings. It’s a vital concept to apply to the state to prevent tyranny. But the colloquial standard of proof is much lower, We know he did those things, he’s even admitted it, and those things are crimes. He committed crimes.
And, we can safely say it, and it will have no effect on the legal proceedings, because we’re not part of them. Let’s not muddy the waters, and let’s save “allegedly” in the colloquial context for things for which we have no proof. Otherwise, how do we talk about cases like OJ Simpson? Everybody knows he did it, but the state didn’t meet its burden of proof in court. In the legal sense, he’s not guilty, and in the colloquial sense, he’s guilty, and both of those things can be true at once.
From a legal perspective? Sure.
From the litany of publicly available evidence? He's definitely guilty, and I'm comfy saying as much and treating him as such.
Of course, and I'm not disagreeing with you. :)
Yeah, jury already found him guilty and the judge twice said we're allowed to call the rapist Trump a rapist. In his business fraud case, he is also already found guilty. So he is already a rapist fraudster. I think the meme stands as it is.
We've all seen the evidence. We've seen the pictures of classified documents sitting in Mara Lago. We've heard the recording of Trump openly admitting that he didn't declassify them and shouldn't have them. It's farcical to pretend he's not guilty.
I never said he wasn't guilty. I merely pointed out that an accusation is what precedes legal prosecution, regardless of whether or not the accused actually committed a crime. Despite irrefutable evidence of Trump's crimes existing, it remains important to remember the way the system actually works.
We're not on the jury. We can say what's obvious.
Fuck off with that nonsense. There's been incontrovertible proof and unwitting confessions from himself publicly available for years and he's been found guilty in civil courts several times. It's only a matter of time before he's found guilty in criminal court too. Unless the "justice" system is as broken as it sometimes seems to be.
Bottom line, there's more proof of him being guilty than of owls existing.
He has admitted to crimes himself on video countless times.
They do red though...
Ok, I laughed a bit, nice put
Why so downvoted.. I thought it was a good effort 5/7
No idea. It sounded funny in my head. I guess I missed the mark somehow.
Acting as a martyr he is gaining even more consensus. This can backfire... like what happened with, say, Berlusconi who got re-elected multiple times despite being prosecuted.
No it won't backfire. He'll act like a martyr no matter what happens or doesn't happen.
The only difference is whether he's held accountable for his crimes and pretends to be a martyr or not held accountable and still pretends to be a martyr.
As for the cult believing him, same deal. Following the leader blindly is what cults do.
This guy acted like a martyr while simultaneously bragging about a "small loan of a million dollars"
Maybe so, but it would backfire even more if they completely refrained from holding him accountable for his countless crimes.
He has all the support he's ever going to get. His supporters are probably going to go ballistic when he's convicted but they go ballistic most of the time anyway. He's not swaying on the fence voters.
He's actually repelling voters while at the same time splitting the Republican vote. He is actually the left secret weapon against the right, let Trump do as much damage as possible to the Republicans, and then come on in the campaign time, point out but he is basically trying to start a dictatorship.
He has all the support he's ever going to get, but he will also have them forever, no matter what.
Unless democrats muster really really good turnout it could be an ugly surprise again.
Bold of you to assume they can.
You mean all those letters actually mean something?
Like a mashed-potatoes sculpture.
Well well well, if it isn't the consequences of my own actions...
Hesh doesn't know how to read!
...underneath the water... 🎶
