Obviously, Trump’s premise that he is being prosecuted by Joe Biden because he is running against him is false. Trump is being prosecuted because he is a career criminal, and there is no evidence any of the prosecutors taking him to court have communicated with President Biden.

But beneath this first lie, there’s a second lie: Trump only intends to prosecute his political enemies because they did it to him first. In fact, Trump has been planning to lock up his political opponents since he first ran for office, well before any of the current prosecutions began.

  • @Nastybutler@lemmy.world
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    108 months ago

    I wonder how different we’d find all this if Ford hadn’t pardoned Nixon and there were actual legal consequences for a President committing crimes in office