• oo1@kbin.social
      link
      fedilink
      arrow-up
      1
      ·
      2 years ago

      Be careful what you wish for.
      Some other extreme right-wing nutjob was imprisoned after a failed ‘coup’ about 100 years ago.

      That gave him a whole load of martyr rhetoric to play off.

        • yata@sh.itjust.works
          link
          fedilink
          arrow-up
          0
          ·
          edit-2
          2 years ago

          He didn’t write shit, he dictated it to Hess. And it is a rambling mess.

          If Trump decided to dictate a book to Guilani in jail it would probably have a lot in common with Mein Kampf.

          • macrocephalic@lemmy.world
            link
            fedilink
            arrow-up
            1
            ·
            2 years ago

            You got me, I’ve never read it or even recall any excerpts from it, I just assume that he must have been more intelligent than Trump.

        • LillyPip@lemmy.ca
          link
          fedilink
          arrow-up
          0
          ·
          2 years ago

          Trump has never written a book. He paid other people to write books and slap his name on the cover. I doubt he’s even read the books he claims to have written.

      • ImFresh3x@sh.itjust.works
        link
        fedilink
        arrow-up
        3
        ·
        2 years ago

        If he isn’t pardoned I think he will spend the rest of his life on house arrest or in prison. These charges are serious, there’s undeniable evidence, and there’s about to be multiple venues so he can’t rely on a judge helping him in every case. Without a pardon his best outcome is being in a mar a lago prison until he dies.

        But he’s likely to get a pardon before then.

        • agitatedpotato@lemmy.world
          link
          fedilink
          arrow-up
          1
          ·
          2 years ago

          Hes gonna get a sweetheart plee deal where hes inelligeble to run for office, payd a big fine, and never sees prison. The US already has displayed is had no idea how to punish people like him. They straight up dropped the chages on Matt Gaetz for diddling children, I have no hope for anything real happening to Trump.

        • Scotty_Trees@lemmy.world
          link
          fedilink
          arrow-up
          1
          ·
          edit-2
          2 years ago

          Federal pardons issued by the president apply only to federal offenses; they do not apply to state or local offenses or private civil offenses. Federal pardons also do not apply to cases of impeachment. Pardons for state crimes are handled by governors or a state pardon board.

          • ImFresh3x@sh.itjust.works
            link
            fedilink
            arrow-up
            1
            ·
            edit-2
            2 years ago

            State charges don’t and will never affect presidents while they are in office. Alabama can’t just issue an arrest warrant for Biden. They would if they could. NY and/or GA state will have to wait until after he’s out of office to continue its judicial outcomes, if he wins.

            And no senate is going to impeach trump as long as there is a Republican Party.

    • Alien Nathan Edward@lemm.ee
      link
      fedilink
      arrow-up
      1
      ·
      2 years ago

      how long I can believe that my fellow humans are capable of believing this.

      stop assuming they’re stupid and start realizing that they see in his corruption a chance to do a little bit of corruption of their own, maybe some political violence, all the absolute worst urges in them. they see in him the real liberty they’ve been seeking: the freedom to harm others and enrich themselves. they claim to believe, but really they’re just relying on the fact that you can’t actually go into their brains and prove that they don’t.

  • Psythik@lemm.ee
    link
    fedilink
    arrow-up
    1
    ·
    2 years ago

    Megathread

    16 comments

    Come on, redditors, join us already. This is sad.

  • Doug Holland@lemmy.world
    link
    fedilink
    arrow-up
    1
    ·
    2 years ago

    I’ll say the obligatory “Trump’s a criminal and needs to be in prison,” and I mean it, but mostly I just think it’s cool that our page is big enough here to have a megathread.

  • mr_tyler_durden@lemmy.world
    link
    fedilink
    arrow-up
    0
    ·
    2 years ago

    “Vorpious de liporius octo”, the coverup is worse than the crime.

    Let’s hope if the crime isn’t enough that his attempts to cover it up are what takes him down.