• onionbaggage@lemmynsfw.com
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    1 year ago

    Do people think that having 4 criminal cases pending against you is meaningless? Like… This is accurate and prosecutions are moving forward. The fuck do you want? That’s how it works.

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      I assume it’s just the pace, but overall there’s plenty of reasons to be frustrated.

      There’s already talk about how some of these cases might not be resolved until after the election, at which point, depending on how it goes, could be extremely problematic.

      It feels frustrating because it’s mid-2023, and we may “run out of time” by end of 2024. People ask what the fuck was happening for 2.5 years? The reality of course is justice is not always, nor necessarily should be swift, and getting these investigations even started takes time to say nothing of collecting evidence and putting together a case. But also, 20 years ago even a single criminal indictment probably would have spelled the end of a Presidential campaign, and instead, Trump is successfully fundraising off of these charges and leading the polls.

      It’s all just bonkers.

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      1 year ago

      Yep. Its a slow process.

      They are collecting evidence. Witness statements and such.

      They are NOT rushing this. It would be a shitshow.

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        He stole from charities and comitted a plethora of other crimes, if the DOJ was doing their job, he should never have been in a position to campaign for president in the first place.

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      1 year ago

      There are a lot of people in this thread who became legal experts by passing the Reddit bar exam, or something of equally imaginary significance.

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        Yeah obviously.

        But the day before he got convicted? 2 days after that, or hell, years ago, no complicated feelings at all.

        I would feel like he somehow died to get out of being convicted lmao

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          Even if he gets convicted, I wouldn’t put it past a centrist Democrat to pardon him for unity or some bullshit.

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              I don’t think the left would be very surprised, we’d just keep focusing on direct action. Centrist Democrats already DGAF if we’re mad.

              Liberals would call it “unacceptable” for a few months, maybe do a couple protests, and then continue to vote for the people who got him pardoned.

              Nothing would change.

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                Isn’t anyone disturbed by that? Without extreme action from the left and no legal pushback from the Democrats, that would mean the right could do whatever the hell it wants without consequence, including genocide.

                Why aren’t we overthrowing them?

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        Same here. Still a better president than Sleepy Joe, though.

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    They’ve been saying shit since he got elected. Like honestly, shit or get off the pot.

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      Criminal investigations take time under the best of circumstances. These are not the best of circumstances.

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      Murder investigations can take years to get the person responsible on for trial even when in hindsight the evidence makes it seem obvious who did it.

      This isn’t a murder obviously but it is multiple messy messy cases with lots of moving delicate parts that as people who have never done a criminal investigation can’t even imagine. I wouldn’t want to rush into a case and end up bungling it because I didn’t take my time.

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      Well, you can’t arrest a sitting president, and Senate was majority Republican and they tow the party line so yeah most Democrats could do was impeach and let the Republicans bail him out

      But now he’s not president, and has to face the courts as a citizen. The investigators aren’t going to rush a case like this, but you also can’t risk it going over to the election before getting a conviction. Honestly the timing on all this seems pretty on point

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    Look, this isn’t half-life 3 we’re talking about here. It’s going to happen, just keep your pants on.

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    It will soon get to the point to where he’ll spend life in prison, if it isn’t already at that point.

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      Do you dream of one day conviction? Interlinked.

      Within cells interlinked?

      Why don’t you say that three times: Within cells interlinked.

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      It’s Dr. Manhattan from The Watchmen I believe. I could be wrong though since it’s been decades since I last read it.

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        it’s been decades since I last read it. Yep, that´s why I -after looking at it for a second- took it for another untypical superhero comic, that I also read decades ago and that looks a little similar :)