A federal judge had rejected former President Donald Trump’s claim of immunity from prosecution in the election interference case.

  • @whatthecaptcha
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    It’s absurd to me that he has yet to actually go to jail for literally any of the crimes he’s committed. Dude incited a mob, kept top secret documents and invited Saudi Arabia to his golf course where they were kept, and generally commits treason any chance he gets yet somehow is allowed to run for fucking president again and isn’t in prison or executed.

    This country has no spine.

    • @stolid_agnostic@lemmy.ml
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      7 months ago

      This country has no spine.

      Yet you don’t want to just lock up any old person without all the proof and due process in the world. That’s what’s going on here–he has that right, just the same as you. The difference is that he has a lot of money, which can allow him to grad this out longer than the average person can get away with. He won’t get away from it forever–even Jeffery Epstein went down.

    • @Telorand@reddthat.com
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      “The gears of justice grind slowly but finely.”

      He’s attempting to outrun those gears by stalling with lengthy appeals and getting back to the presidency before they catch him. The appeals process ostensibly exists (in theory) to prevent cavalier judges and vigilantism; at the same time, Trump is a career veteran of stalling the courts, and the rich have the luxury of being able to afford doing so.

      I agree that he’s an obvious criminal and has gotten the lightest treatment possible so far, but it’s also worth recognizing that he’s functionally a mob boss with tens of millions of followers, all with a tenuous grasp of reality and an undying love for their demigod.

      Even if the judges aren’t afraid (and some assuredly are), they have to perform this delicate balancing act so his followers don’t cause a mistrial through their sheer stupidity.

    • @Shdwdrgn@mander.xyz
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      Don’t forget about all the idiots who think he is literally their Savior and are praying to deliver him from the “evil” of being held accountable for his actions. People wonder why the country is going to shit and can’t admit it’s their own actions of voting in scam artists who work against them that are the real cause.