In fairness, most politicians who pay off their prostitutes with campaign hush money don’t get prosecuted.
IF only that was the crime. Then ya, sure. It’s the fact that he did it to influence an election. That’s the crime.
It wasn’t prostitution though, that would have been standard. This guy tells Stormy that it’s a job interview like he’s Harvey Weinstein
Woooooooooosh
What’s hard to believe is none of the previous presidents committed any single crime, while this one committed at least 64 and ‘nobody knew’. US intelligence agencies lose huge credibility.
I personnally think the trend is to dismiss crimes until someone is finally convicted. Then the dismiss abrubtly ends and prosecution succees fully. Either 0% guilty or 100%.
I personnally think the trend is to dismiss crimes until someone is finally convicted. Then the dismiss abrubtly ends and prosecution succees fully. Either 0% guilty or 100%.
That is how “innocent until proven guilty” is supposed to work.
What’s hard to believe is none of the previous presidents committed any single crime, while this one committed at least 64 and ‘nobody knew’.
Previous presidents have committed crimes (Clinton committed perjury, Grant was arrested three times, Nixon was part of a criminal conspiracy) but none were convicted of a felony before now. And everybody knew about Trump’s crimes, his accomplice was already convicted and served his sentence.
Grant was ticketed for speeding three times, two of which were during The Civil War. Not arrested. The last one was in 1872 during his presidency, and he cited section 1983 of the federal code that had just been passed in 1871, that even a sitting president is not above the law.
I stand corrected. Thank you for the added details.
No worries, I just happen to know about that because it came to my attention last year that section 1983, as Congress passed the law, but not as was “copied” into the Federal Register, explicitly outlaws Qualified Immunity.
Here’s the entrance to that rabbit hole:
https://www.nytimes.com/2023/05/15/us/politics/qualified-immunity-supreme-court.html
What’s hard to believe is none of the previous presidents committed any single crime, while this one committed at least 64 and ‘nobody knew’. US intelligence agencies lose huge credibility.
No one has made that claim except you.
Eh, I’ve seen a bunch of “Trump is our first criminal president” memes. Which really requires you to blind yourself to everyone from Nixon and his wiretapping to Obama and his extrajudicial drone-striking.
But he’s not the first President to pay out hush money. He’s not the first President to abuse his campaign war chest. He’s certainly not the first President to cheat on his wife. Trump is simply the first person who has won the presidency and been so poorly politically connected that he’s endured a full federal prosecution. That says much more about the role of the criminal justice system than the conduct of any given president.
In a sane and just world, I’m hard pressed to name a President who shouldn’t have been thrown behind bars at some point.
he’s endured a full federal prosecution
If you’re going simp for the tangerine Mussolini, at least get your facts straight: this was a STATE prosecution.
Excuse me, felony prosecution.
And when you consider how many federal indictments have staled out or been dismissed, you begin to see the scope of the problem. The Biden DOJ is toothless in the face of a mafia kingpin. You need the state courts to step in precisely because the federal courts are so stacked in favor of protecting political elites.
It’s so unfair! If history didn’t comvict all previous criminal leaders, we can’t start now!
We can and we should.
Hell, Jimmy Carter is still alive. We can put him on trial for Operation Cyclone.
Eh, I’ve seen a bunch of “Trump is our first criminal president” memes. Which really requires you to blind yourself to everyone from Nixon and his wiretapping to Obama and his extrajudicial drone-striking.
No it doesn’t because Donald is the first proven convicted felon in a court of law. That’s just a fact. The rest is basically a Two-Wrongs-Make-a-Right / Tu Quoque / Whataboutism argument that suggests a race-to-the-bottom mindset while people speculate over allegations of former Presidents without actually testing those theories in a court of law and in front of a Jury. We should be gleeful that Lady Justice has grabbed Don by the balls and even the President is no longer above the law — regardless of past actions of Presidents; clearly a new standard has been made now which is a great thing for our country.
Donald is the first proven convicted felon
Only because none of the other assholes got prosecuted.
That’s a flaw in the Good Ole Boy Network of ex-Presidents, where Obama and Bush Jr can have a beer over illegal drone strikes and wiretaps together. It has nothing to do with which Presidents actually committed crimes.
We should be gleeful that Lady Justice has grabbed Don by the balls
Let me know if he serves any prison time. We already learned how Trump skates around financial judgement against him.
Past that, it should be revealing how easy it is to convict these assholes. All 34 counts stuck. Maybe more Presidents should be put on trial, rather than making this particular screwball fascist an exception to the rule.
What’s hard to believe here, chud? Donald Trump was a criminal long before his political career. If a country is dumb enough to elect a criminal as president, what are the odds that criminal will continue doing crime in office? You understand Donald Trump isn’t a normal guy, right? He’s the head of a crime family. Now back to /pol with you.
This set of felonies was done during the campaign tho. This was a portion of the election fraud he did in 2016.
I’m guessing their defense/diversion from all this will be to claiming it was a rigged trial for political purposes and/or talking about other people committing crimes, so why is Trump suddenly getting punished for committing a fake crime?
That’s cool n shit but did you see hunter biden’s schlong?
Only the massive censor bars.
I heard MTG has it as her desktop background
She just wishes hers was bigger.
“I know MTG is bad or whatever, but can we please not shame her for her looks because that’ll hurt all other masculine women, too?”
😂😂😴
Who said that, Voltaire?
The brother of Wattaire?
It’s my lockscreen
😂 This made me chuckle out loud
Damn, White Jesus is an asshole.
That’s Supply Side Jesus
Well Korean Jesus is busy. With Korean shit.
Jesus Was a Black Dude, after all.
He certainly wasn’t Dutch Irish. But there were plenty of Caucasians in the Levant some 2000 years ago. He could have just as easily been Ptolemaic as Ethiopian.
Whatever his skin tone, I think its safe to say he was very tan. But, as a charismatic religious demagogue, there’s ample reason to suspect he was good looking by the standards of the era - presumably tall, handsome, smooth spoken, and fairly well-groomed.
It’s just a fun song. Click through.
The funny thing is Jesus was, in fact, guilty of treason against the state
That requires you to assume the goals of a Christian nation are out of line with the goals of a Roman Empire. And Emperor Constantine certainly didn’t seem to think so.
Uhh wait, which MCU phase is this from?
— right wing chuds
John Constantine is DC universe, duh.
Dude, I absolutely don’t care about Trump. I am not an American citizen and I think Biden is better than Trump because he is a systemic politician. But why are you all so afraid of the redheaded old man?
Putting an old asshole in jail just because he gave two tons of bucks to some whore 20 years ago? You call that “democracy”? Holy shit.
The democracy part was when we voted him out 3 years ago and now that he is out of office he is being punished for his crimes. How is that not democratic?
Who among us hasn’t cheated on their pregnant wife with a porn star, then paid her off to keep quiet, and then lied about it?
I’m sure you’d totally waive it off, if Biden had done the same thing and you wouldn’t be foaming at your mouth like a lunatic, right…? Right?
You don’t have to speak for everyone…this case came to light under your presidential election because Democrats want to democratically rule forever. America is moving towards a one-party dictatorship like the USSR. All these movements, migrants, the hysterical fight for the rights of blacks and sex minorities, finally this lawsuit, are necessary to ensure the Democrats win the election. But…The Republican Party’s online donation platform is overwhelmed after Trump’s guilty verdict (he only faces a fine). After raising 50 million, the site went down. But Trump also has his own donation site. The Democrats have done a good job of publicizing his campaign. There’s nothing to say… Bravo.
20 years ago
Lmao two questions…
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What year do you think it is right now?
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What year do you think Trump arranged to pay off Stormy Daniels?
I give absolutely no fuck who fucked an aging pornstar and in what year. You know the exact dates, it’s very good, but what difference does it make to you?
You do know it’s about the fact that it was to prevent the story from coming out in an effort to help his election campaign right? And then it wasn’t properly documented. It’s not that he fucked and paid her afterwards to never talk about it.
He was found guilty of unlawfully influencing the election by means of falsifying documents. It’s usually the cover up that gets you in legal trouble. The banging of a porn star is only up to voters and his wife to hold against him. Which the law didn’t care about.
You don’t give a fuck, yet you’re here blabbing about it in this thread. Ok, pal.
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I enjoy the schadenfreude as much as the next guy, but there is a frame in which this kind of confusion does actually make sense.
It’s the frame in which you acknowledge that our system of justice isn’t about holding everyone equally accountable to the law, it’s instead been an institution to keep the poor and marginal in their places- that is, it’s about enforcing an unspoken social, class, gender, and racial hierarchy that a lot of the MAGA folks take for granted and really want to defend and uphold.
That is the order they’re talking about when they say ‘Law and Order’. The order is a social, racial, gender, and class hierarchy, and the law is the means by which the hoi polloi are kept in whatever the powerful in it regard to be their ‘rightful places’.
For these people, the idea that the law might actually apply to everyone is an attack on the basis of order as they understand it. Of course they’re mad.
CNN Senior Legal Analyst Describes How The Trump Conviction Was A Political Hit Job
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“The judge donated money… in plain violation of a rule prohibiting New York judges from making political donations—to a pro-Biden, anti-Trump political operation.”
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Alvin Bragg boasted on the campaign trail in an overwhelmingly Democrat county, “It is a fact that I have sued Trump over 100 times.”
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“Most importantly, the DA’s charges against Trump push the outer boundaries of the law and due process.”
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“The charges against Trump are obscure, and nearly entirely unprecedented. In fact, no state prosecutor — in New York, or Wyoming, or anywhere — has ever charged federal election laws as a direct or predicate state crime, against anyone, for anything. None. Ever.”
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The DA inflated misdemeanors past the statute of limitations and “electroshocked them back to life” by alleging the falsification of business records was committed ‘with intent to commit another crime.’
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“Inexcusably, the DA refused to specify what those unlawful means actually were — and the judge declined to force them to pony up — until right before closing arguments. So much for the constitutional obligation to provide notice to the defendant of the accusations against him in advance of trial.”
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“In these key respects, the charges against Trump aren’t just unusual. They’re bespoke, seemingly crafted individually for the former president and nobody else.”
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“The Manhattan DA’s employees reportedly have called this the “Zombie Case” because of various legal infirmities, including its bizarre charging mechanism. But it’s better characterized as the Frankenstein Case, cobbled together with ill-fitting parts into an ugly, awkward, but more-or-less functioning contraption that just might ultimately turn on its creator.”
The DA inflated misdemeanors past the statute of limitations and “electroshocked them back to life” by alleging the falsification of business records was committed ‘with intent to commit another crime.’
Well, what was he falsifying the business records for, then?
Fucking LOL. You cultists are as dumb as fish eating bait off a hook. You will suck anything down. It doesn’t even need to make any sense whatsoever.
TL/DR: A list of made up bullshit.
Source?
I googled it. They copy/pasted this from a tweet by some right wing chud on Twitter.
Figures, point 1 was originally about the Judge’s daughter making a political contribution but it’s interesting how it got changed in this retelling.
Everyone notice how not a single thing is cited. This is by design, because they want to make it hard to challenge each and every point. There is obviously zero intent at an honest debate here. It’s just something for the people struggling with the cognitive dissonance of believing they are “the party of law an order” while also supporting the only POTUS to ever be tried and convicted of a crime.
“In these key respects, the charges against Trump aren’t just unusual. They’re bespoke, seemingly crafted individually for the former president and nobody else.”
Yeah, the charges of falsifying business documents are so rare in New York. NY has only brought charges 9,800 times since 2015.
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As usual it’s the pot calling the kettle black. The most blatant US example of a political prosecution in my lifetime is when Trump got John Durham to prosecute two people for reporting him to the FBI. Both of these people merely did exactly what we tell people they’re supposed to do: reported suspicious activity to the FBI. Both were accused of telling immaterial lies that were documented exactly nowhere and clearly lacked the kind of evidence that would be needed to justify any other prosecution. In fact, two prosecutors in the DOJ argued that charges shouldn’t be brought and one resigned in protest over the prosecutions. Both defendants were acquitted after short deliberations, but only after their lives were overturned and they were savagely attacked in the conservative media.
But no one talks about them because unlike Trump, they don’t have the biggest microphone on the planet. Then there’s also Trump’s blatant pardons of his political allies, which is just as bad of an interference in the judicial process.
tHe SyStEm iS RiGGeD aGaiNsT mY fAvORiTe PoRnStAr-FuCkiNg ChRiSTiAn MiLLiOnAiRe!!!
They won’t reject him for the crimes he’s convicted of, they’ll reject they legal system that convicted him of those crimes.
They only reject the legal system when it’s Republican politicians getting prosecuted. They’re just fine with it when it’s immigrants and other minorities getting murdered by police or deported or thrown in prison.
Right. To us, the phrase “law and order” means a peaceful society that results from everybody obeying the rules. To the MAGA/authoritarian crowd, it means exercising the power of the state (law) to maintain the correct social hierarchy (order). And guess who’s on top of that hierarchy?
Yes. That’s Conservativism. First decide who is good (cishet white Christian males) and who is bad (basically everyone else). Then subjugate the latter group(s) to the benefit of the former. The court system doing something other than that gives the Conservative a visceral level of discomfort.
If you could reason with trump supporters, there would be no trump supporters.
Lmao
L-meow
B-b-but her emails!
Her emails. His laptop. My milkshake.
I wonder what comes next.
All the boys to the yard?
Damn right.
buttery males