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[–] riodoro1@lemmy.world 14 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

have a rich daddy

get away with everything

Thats the whole law guys

[–] 2pt_perversion@lemmy.world 26 points 2 days ago

Honestly I don't want to give him more incentive to go full dictator by dangling a prison sentence over his head the moment he stops being president. They botched all these cases by waiting too long.

[–] technocrit@lemmy.dbzer0.com 7 points 1 day ago

Nobody is above the law! lmao.

[–] Ioughttamow@fedia.io 22 points 2 days ago (3 children)

I support this. If he somehow survives another 4 years, throw him in jail after where he belongs

[–] Kecessa@sh.itjust.works 32 points 2 days ago (4 children)

Why? Put him in jail before January so he spends 4 years as a jailed president

[–] technocrit@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 1 day ago

This is how the resistance fights!!! \s

[–] pennomi@lemmy.world 3 points 2 days ago

Practicality beats purity, sadly.

[–] BrianTheeBiscuiteer@lemmy.world 2 points 2 days ago (1 children)

I mean why not? Throw him in jail, invoke the 25th, 2nd term cancelled!

[–] affiliate@lemmy.world 1 points 2 days ago (1 children)

this is how we end up with a jd vance presidency. i’m honestly not sure if that’s worse

[–] AngryRobot@lemmy.world 4 points 2 days ago (1 children)

That'll happen regardless. They'll martyr Trump before midterms and use that as a reason to declare martial law and cancel elections.

[–] affiliate@lemmy.world 2 points 2 days ago (1 children)

i really hope you’re wrong about that second part. keep in mind this is probably like 50% cope on my end, so take it with a grain of salt. but i do hope that jd vance’s sheer unpopularity will make that hard. it seemed like everybody hated him going into the election, and they were voting only for trump. so if trump gets martyred, i could see the party fracturing, with many people unwilling to blindly follow vance in the same way they followed trump.

I'm not so sure. I think their allegiance to the party trumps (lol) their sanity in voting for a non-republicab. I mean, look how we got 45 as 47.

[–] corsicanguppy@lemmy.ca 0 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

Bush was bad enough with his drink-driving conviction. Trump's sentencing would confirm his conviction and actually mean he can't enter many countries, including even Canada.

.... which I would love to see, to be clear.

[–] Kecessa@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

Trump will be able to enter Canada just like Bush was. There's paperwork to fill, the process is available to anyone from the USA with a criminal record and that wants to visit Canada, the paperwork was filed every time Bush visited, the border service agency just needs to approve the visit (which they'll do for Trump).

[–] bamboo@lemmy.blahaj.zone 9 points 2 days ago

It sucks but this is the realistically the only way he'll ever see justice, assuming there's courts in 4 years.

[–] SomeKindaName@lemmy.world 8 points 2 days ago (2 children)

Seriously? Do you really think this country will ever apply the law to a rich R? I've got some bridges to sell you pal.

[–] ccunning@lemmy.world 8 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Yeah - we should just let them preemptively get away with it since they’re probably going to get away with it anyway…

[–] SomeKindaName@lemmy.world 5 points 2 days ago

If only we'd had 4 years in which to act.

[–] Ioughttamow@fedia.io 4 points 2 days ago

I said I support it, don’t you? I believe it is unlikely, but fuck Trump. Roll over and die if you want