US Politics Thread

[blueinsa]

Yeah but 2 things against him..

1. Money buys justice but he's broke and a con artist

2. He's the type of guy who'll look to piss everyone off so they come for him instead of quietly sneaking away from the claws of justice.

Cue the "Bad Boys Bad Boys, What you gonna do? What you gonna do when they come for you?"

He isn’t ever seeing the inside of a cell.

Rejoice he is finished politically.

 

[domalino]

TSSCI, SAP [CODEWORD], NOFORN - About as bad as it gets...

TSSCI is the stuff that’s never, ever, supposed to be taken out of a secure, surveillance proof room.

 

[TinFoilHat]

Trump: It's a politically motivated witch hunt.

Also Trump: Do you want see a classified Map I'm not supposed to show you?

 

[domalino]

He isn’t ever seeing the inside of a cell.

Rejoice he is finished politically.

The thing is…These aren’t crimes that you can plea down to non-jail time misdemeanours.

There’s enough evidence in the indictment to send a normal person to prison for centuries.

And they knew that before they charged him.


Which IMO means the people who matter have already decided that holding him accountable is more important than how bad it is for the USA to send a former president to prison.

He’s too stupid to plead guilty, and federal crimes have legally defined sentences, and maximum amounts of wiggle room.

So if a jury finds him guilty, he’s going to prison or he’s being pardoned.

And no democrat is going to pardon him.

So will it be a 5* golf resort prison camp? Probably. Maybe even the kind of insane home detention that Epstein managed to get.


But as far as I can see, there’s no scenario where he’s found guilty and only gets a slap on the wrist.

I think he’ll end up in prison for a few years until the Republicans win an election and pardon him.

 

[Blue_Lightsaber]

Rejoice he is finished politically.

You may be right but I doubt it. Really doubt it.

Don't underestimate the stupid people in America.. they tend to outnumber the smart ones.

And Trump's motto is.. If you can’t dazzle them with brilliance, baffle them with bullshit.

 

[blueinsa]

The thing is…These aren’t crimes that you can plea down to non-jail time misdemeanours.

There’s enough evidence in the indictment to send a normal person to prison for centuries.

And they knew that before they charged him.


Which IMO means the people who matter have already decided that holding him accountable is more important than how bad it is for the USA to send a former president to prison.

He’s too stupid to plead guilty, and federal crimes have legally defined sentences, and maximum amounts of wiggle room.

So if a jury finds him guilty, he’s going to prison or he’s being pardoned.

And no democrat is going to pardon him.

So will it be a 5* golf resort prison camp? Probably. Maybe even the kind of insane home detention that Epstein managed to get.


But as far as I can see, there’s no scenario where he’s found guilty and only gets a slap on the wrist.

I think he’ll end up in prison for a few years until the Republicans win an election and pardon him.

Understood and agree.

He isn’t a normal person. He is someone the American society has to get rid of quietly and prison isn’t quiet for the American society.

 

[The Future’s Blue!]

No he’s absolutely fucked.

The evidence is almost comically overwhelming. Papers themselves, paper trails about the papers, recorded conversations of him admitting to doing it, emails and testimony from his own lawyers that flipped on him.


The Georgia case is just as ironclad.

He’s going to be in prison by election night.

I‘m a Brit and cannot stand the fucker, only commentating on US stuff without any real say on the outcomes, but find it hard to see how you could imprison an ex-President. Do they lock him up in a granny flat in Mar-a-lago?

 

[TinFoilHat]

I‘m a Brit and cannot stand the fucker, only commentating on US stuff without any real say on the outcomes, but find it hard to see how you could imprison an ex-President. Do they lock him up in a granny flat in Mar-a-lago?

Vladimir might offer him asylum in Sochi yet...

 

[Trevor Morley's Tache]

Vladimir might offer him asylum in Sochi yet...

Surprised if Trump hasn't already been forced to surrender his passport.

 

[TinFoilHat]

Surprised if Trump hasn't already been forced to surrender his passport.

I don't think his jet could fly there without refuelling if he tried anyway. He'd be met with open guns at Prestwick.