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Offline segnosaur

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Re: The Donald Trump Thread
« Reply #7200 on: June 29, 2021, 10:16:03 pm »
I hope I'm wrong on this but I don't think anything will happen to him.  He got away with so much, I will believe it when I see it.
There are certainly reasons to be pessimistic... there is not a good track record of dealing with white collar crimes, and Trump has managed to openly flout many norms with no repercussions.

But, there is at least some reasons for hope... sometimes white collar crimes DO get prosecuted (for example, Manfort went to prison, and Stone was convicted). And many of the protections Trump had in the past (rules against indicting a sitting president, a friendly DOJ and senate preventing legal challenges, and before he was elected a lack of scrutiny) no longer apply.  And Trump has lost legal cases in the recent past (e.g. Trump university), so he's not invulnerable.

The main roadblocks in seeing Trump face actual justice are 1) the chance he might die from a cheezeburger-induced heart attack before going to trial, and 2) a desire by politicians (even democrats) to "protect" him because they wrongly think a conviction of a past president would harm the reputation of the office.