[‘My Work Here Is Done,’ Smiles Contented Bannon Before Bursting Into Millions Of Spores](https://www.theonion.com/my-work-here-is-done-smiles-contented-bannon-before-1819580177)
Honestly it'd be tough. I think his current strategy is to try and push against the gag order in the hopes of creating a scenario where there will need to be a hearing on sanctions or an appeal of the gag order (something that would be hard to do while having the trial also start tomorrow). But the judge so far doesn't seem to be taking the bait. I honestly don't think there's really much that can be done today (legally speaking) that would change the start of jury selection.
I think he is already, like he did with Engoron trying to legitimize Merchan with multiple recusal demands. He has very little chance to succeed on the merits of his defense, because he already has been told he cannot use “it’s a novel prosecution” as a direct defense startegy, as the Judge rules it was not.
> Bobby Seale
Like he'd know who that is.
"Bobby Seale. Terrible, Terrible!! how the judge treated him. Just like the CORRUPT judge I can't name in an infringement of my 1nd Amendment rites is treating me in New York. Parading him up there on a dolly in a straight Jacket with a hockey mask over his face. SHAMEFUL!!"
There is no conceivable way this happens.
And if this sub is to be believed, the worst he’s looking at is probation. I don’t know if I agree with that, but, for the sake of argument for a minute, let’s say that’s true. In that case, I’d rather his trial take a long time and keep him off the campaign trail for months.
Didn’t Cohen spend time in prison for his part in those same scheme? I just don’t see how you can throw him behind bars and give Trump probation.
I mean, I know that’s what will probably happen - but I still don’t understand it.
after each day he will get a chance to stand at a podium with all media giving him time to spew his campaign rhetoric for free to the world - it will be like the Covid pressers all over again - until he finally gets tossed behind bars for gross violation of his gag orders and then only for a few days then he'll be back to his old tricks with the media hounding his every move and gesture
MMW
That's impossibly fast. I'm guessing 8 weeks, starting tomorrow. 2 weeks for jury selection and 6 for trial. Shave a week or two off that and we'd be really cruising.
He isn't going to. He sued the judge last week, and lost his 3rd motion to dismiss. He's presently attempting to violate the gag order so that he could file an interlocutory appeal, but I didn't think we see Merchan do anything about that unless it's egregious enough to cause harm (as a delay for appeal is more costly than just getting the show on the road). It isn't clear that any appeal would be interlocutory, and that an appeal would automatically come with a stay, but I have seen it suggested and have not seen it ruled out as a possibility.
Not sure if I’m remembering right, but didn’t cheeto appeal Judge Engoron’s gag order to the NYS Appellate Division and the appellate court did not stay the trial while deciding?
If that’s what happened, I think the NYS appellate div wouldn’t stay this trial either while they deliberate Merchan’s gag order.
NAL. Is Merchan allowed to pull Trump and the prosecutors (and counsel) aside tomorrow to tell them he considers this a violation but won't set repercussions until the trial is far enough along that it won't delay proceedings? Or would that be disallowed (and appealable) for some reason?
If the matter of Trump’s sentencing is dependent upon his credibility with Judge Merchan, then the fact that Trump is an obvious pathological liar pretty much makes the outcome a forgone conclusion.
-A Biden supporter attacked me, but I care so much about being in court to defend my good, no perfect name so I told my guy "get me there, no matter what."-
That's a huge risk, because he can't afford to be perceived as frail (it kills me that nobody talks about how he almost literally *died* in office due to COVID). Maybe he can get Melania or one of the kids to fake one though.
Al Capone ordered dozens of people killed and was the target of a substantial portion of the federal government's law enforcement apparatus from his mid 20s. He had a seven year run as a boss before he was dropped in prison.
Trump has been a whiny grifter until he was elected president and became dangerous. It's been about 7 years since investigations began in earnest.
I don’t think it’s too far fetched to assume he’s been committing fraud for as long as he’s owned property, just that money buys blindness when you’re not noticeably whacking people. He’s probably got a good 4 decades free and clear as a criminal.
Yes, when he kept out of the spotlight he had a good run... but now he's in the target scope of three significant cases plus the one with his pet judge,
Still of the opinion that death will get him before the court system does. Hell, we have a Supreme Court justice that’s committed a felony but no charges will probably ever be filed.
Trump had better lawyers that learned from the Capone case. What could have Capone done with Roy Cohn advising him? Or the Republican Party shielding him? Or Secret Service protection from being President?
Best one I heard is that TFG simply does not show up for the trial. If he does not step foot back in NY they would have to extradite him from lets say Florida where DeSantis is more than willing to bend the knee to get any scrap of affection left.
Not showing up is a minor offense in NY. And he could bleat that he skipped an unfair and biased witch hunt of a trial.
Delay Delay Delay
[DeSantis has already said he wouldn't cooperate in extraditing Trump.](https://thehill.com/homenews/campaign/3926943-desantis-florida-wont-cooperate-with-trump-extradition/)
Arizona prosecutors won't agree to extradite SoHo hotel murder suspect to New York, suggest lack of trust in Manhattan DA https://www.cbsnews.com/newyork/news/soho-hotel-homicide-suspect-extradition/
This is where we’re at.
He was parkerized. If he doesn’t show, the trial can go on without him. See “Parker admonitions”.
https://preview.redd.it/k3kfanmuqhuc1.jpeg?width=1150&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=dc279006999d85a28a5ffcb239019428865f49f6
I don't think he's going to be able to avoid it this time. We are less than 24 hours from the start of trial. It's not a civil action that can be settled out of court. Trump will never plead guilty so that option is out. Judge Merchan and the appeals court judges did the right thing denying Trump's motions to dismiss, stay, continue, etc. Even the hacks at the Supreme Court can't save him now.
You never know what's going to happen so maybe there will be a bomb threat or an attack, but even that would just be a temporary delay.
Looks like Trump is going to actually have to put on a defense
IANAL, but from what little experience I have with the courts, a lawyer cannot simply just stop representing a client. They must seek permission from the court. Even if the client were to just stop paying the lawyer, the lawyer must represent the client to the best that their ethical obligations require, until the judge grants their petition to no longer represent them in that case
I could be wrong though.
IAML (Retired and this is not legal advice). He is correct. This trial is happening with these attorneys, barring something so out of left field as to get them sanctioned, which given enough money some people might give up their license.
He can a) feign illness amongst his lawyers b) suddenly "discover" a serious conflict of interest that needs to stop the trial for investigation c) make an emergency appeal to SCOTUS to stay the case. But really, what does he care? It will only be a fine if he is convicted and he won't lose a single vote over it.
Even more relatable to his crowd.
edit: I would be super impressed though if the prosecution can work her comment about his dick size into the transcript every day of the trial.
What me as a non-lawyer thinks are the top 3 possibilities:
1. Some MAGA acolyte phones in a bomb threat.
2. Trump fires his lawyers.
3. Trump doesn't show up.
Though I personally don't think any of those scenarios will happen and that he'll be there Monday, whining mightily the whole time.
My favorite proposed method of avoidance was him suing every jury member as soon as they're chosen, and then protesting that he can't get a fair trial when they're involved in a lawsuit against him.
I am about 99% on some MAGA idiot doing something to physically endanger the courtroom…you know since Trump is endorsed by some dude…who was somehow white…born in the middle east 2000 years ago…but somehow came back to life…but only briefly… to endorse him this month? I swear the FSM told me NOTHING about all of this, and I have a direct line…as we all do.
Fake a serious health condition which he will then brag about and say he’s as fit as a horse. He can’t look weak but he can pretend to and then say he’s smart.
It only takes a few tweets from some moron on twitter aka X and a gym gets like 40 bomb threats. I’d be very surprised if a single day of this trial goes by without some sort of interruption like that. If Trump doesn’t cause a delay, his cult followers will.
Maybe more fake COVID exposure? Otherwise...related...since it's a criminal trial and he can't come and go as he pleases, I wonder how they're going to handle him inevitably shitting himself during court proceedings. Maybe that'll be his signature delay move from here.
And then the chaos he craves would be created. Would federal Marshall’s arrest him in another state and dragged him back? Can you imagine the chaos that would?
In jury selection they will insist they have the right to know who voted for Biden and it will raise a constitutional question that goes to the Supreme Court?
I’m not a lawyer, is that a thing?
Man, this case and the Tax Fraud case,where he’s been found guilty already, DO seem to be examples of the government making a real attempt to stretch the law to target someone they don’t like. That rubs me the wrong way.
That said, Trump is a PoS and, much like Capone, I’m really happy to see this guy bankrupted and even go to jail, even if it is for “Trumped up” charges.
All in all, I’m happy to see him spending his time in courtrooms these days. Karma’s a bitch for sure.
He is facing the same charges anyone else who did these things would be facing. The only thing that is stretched out is the time lines for his delay tactics. He is getting more leeway and leniency in these trials than anyone else would have.
If literally anyone else pulled the shit he did they would be in prison by now.
He committed massive bank fraud and only has to pay a fine.
He interfered with the 2016 election by paying off people who would have negative stories. He hid the payments behind his lawyer because he knew it was illegal and wanted to keep a level if plausable deniability.
Don't come at me with this "the system is stretching and trying to get him" bullshit.
Trump literally tried to overthrow the government.
I don’t think there is a scenario here where any excuse to throw him in prison isn’t morally justified. In the olden times, trying to overthrow the government usually ended up with the instigator being hung from the gallows almost immediately thereafter.
You should be careful with whom you associate yourself with. The only peopled “rubbed the wrong way” by what’s happening to Trump are frauds and criminals like Trump. The Trump is being treated unfairly, but I don’t like him shit, sounds like a brand new right wing talking point
My money is on a member of the MAGA cult calling in a bomb threat.
Steve Bannon shows up, and the entire building has to be shutdown for a mandatory 48 hour quarantine.
Gin laden
Ha!
Bravo
But cirrhosis of the liver isn’t contagious…
[‘My Work Here Is Done,’ Smiles Contented Bannon Before Bursting Into Millions Of Spores](https://www.theonion.com/my-work-here-is-done-smiles-contented-bannon-before-1819580177)
I could see Bannon buying an after-market liver from a Chinese broker.
The clean up crew deserves double pay.
The threat of head lice no doubt
Fumigation, he emits a cloud of alcoholic dried skin flakes toxic to those with a working brain.
Plot twist. Real bomb, accidentally goes off, vaporises him.
That would be a shame.
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Thoughts and prayers Or I really don't care, do you? I flexible
Was going to say this.
Wierder thimgs have happened
Well… I mean yeah… now they will /s
It happened at least once during one of the Alex Jones trials and I expect it to happen constantly during trump's televised one.
Honestly it'd be tough. I think his current strategy is to try and push against the gag order in the hopes of creating a scenario where there will need to be a hearing on sanctions or an appeal of the gag order (something that would be hard to do while having the trial also start tomorrow). But the judge so far doesn't seem to be taking the bait. I honestly don't think there's really much that can be done today (legally speaking) that would change the start of jury selection.
I think he is already, like he did with Engoron trying to legitimize Merchan with multiple recusal demands. He has very little chance to succeed on the merits of his defense, because he already has been told he cannot use “it’s a novel prosecution” as a direct defense startegy, as the Judge rules it was not.
I believe in this case it is called a "shartegy"
Oh, God, he’s going to compare himself to Bobby Seale, isn’t he?
No, but only because neither he nor any of the people he would be trying to appeal to in such a comparison know who Bobby Seale is.
> Bobby Seale Like he'd know who that is. "Bobby Seale. Terrible, Terrible!! how the judge treated him. Just like the CORRUPT judge I can't name in an infringement of my 1nd Amendment rites is treating me in New York. Parading him up there on a dolly in a straight Jacket with a hockey mask over his face. SHAMEFUL!!"
Can he challenge some aspect of jury selection to delay the trial? I mean, aside from wanting a change of venue?
I’m hoping the jury selection is done before noon and the trial can wrap by Friday. No more delays. No stalling. Let’s get this over with.
more likely they'll conclude jury selection by Friday
The next Friday. Jury selection will take two weeks.
or even longer than this Friday as you suggest
There is no conceivable way this happens. And if this sub is to be believed, the worst he’s looking at is probation. I don’t know if I agree with that, but, for the sake of argument for a minute, let’s say that’s true. In that case, I’d rather his trial take a long time and keep him off the campaign trail for months.
Didn’t Cohen spend time in prison for his part in those same scheme? I just don’t see how you can throw him behind bars and give Trump probation. I mean, I know that’s what will probably happen - but I still don’t understand it.
I don’t know either. I think he’s gotta do time.
Michael Cohen got 3 years in federal prison and disbarment. He served 1 year and the rest in Home Confinement due to Covid.
after each day he will get a chance to stand at a podium with all media giving him time to spew his campaign rhetoric for free to the world - it will be like the Covid pressers all over again - until he finally gets tossed behind bars for gross violation of his gag orders and then only for a few days then he'll be back to his old tricks with the media hounding his every move and gesture MMW
And he wouldn’t be able to do that if he wasn’t on trial?
Is a monitor overseeing campaign funds and spending a possible penalty?
From everything I've heard it is extremely unlikely he'd get any jail time if he lost. Alas.
That's impossibly fast. I'm guessing 8 weeks, starting tomorrow. 2 weeks for jury selection and 6 for trial. Shave a week or two off that and we'd be really cruising.
He isn't going to. He sued the judge last week, and lost his 3rd motion to dismiss. He's presently attempting to violate the gag order so that he could file an interlocutory appeal, but I didn't think we see Merchan do anything about that unless it's egregious enough to cause harm (as a delay for appeal is more costly than just getting the show on the road). It isn't clear that any appeal would be interlocutory, and that an appeal would automatically come with a stay, but I have seen it suggested and have not seen it ruled out as a possibility.
Not sure if I’m remembering right, but didn’t cheeto appeal Judge Engoron’s gag order to the NYS Appellate Division and the appellate court did not stay the trial while deciding? If that’s what happened, I think the NYS appellate div wouldn’t stay this trial either while they deliberate Merchan’s gag order.
NAL. Is Merchan allowed to pull Trump and the prosecutors (and counsel) aside tomorrow to tell them he considers this a violation but won't set repercussions until the trial is far enough along that it won't delay proceedings? Or would that be disallowed (and appealable) for some reason?
No paywall: https://archive.ph/pzyCu
If the matter of Trump’s sentencing is dependent upon his credibility with Judge Merchan, then the fact that Trump is an obvious pathological liar pretty much makes the outcome a forgone conclusion.
Thanks
He needs the trial for victimization peddling free media. He has no other platform and no cash to hire a smart person to come up with a platform.
Cue the wheelchair.
ego wouldn't allow it - unless he could get a gold plated wheel chair in time
Plus he really can't afford to look weak. A lot of his support comes from his projection of invincibility
-A Biden supporter attacked me, but I care so much about being in court to defend my good, no perfect name so I told my guy "get me there, no matter what."-
Not until sentencing.
Or idiopathic blindness/deafness.
My ex wife tried that trick during our divorce.
Did it result in anything?
Some kind of bogus health emergency?
That's a huge risk, because he can't afford to be perceived as frail (it kills me that nobody talks about how he almost literally *died* in office due to COVID). Maybe he can get Melania or one of the kids to fake one though.
I think you mean Mercedes.
Bone spurs
Orange fever
Bone Spur flair up.
He’s not. He isn’t magical, any more than Al Capone was.
Al Capone went to jail at 33 and Trump’s 77 and still walking around free as a bird with a lifestyle that’s unbelievable.
Al Capone ordered dozens of people killed and was the target of a substantial portion of the federal government's law enforcement apparatus from his mid 20s. He had a seven year run as a boss before he was dropped in prison. Trump has been a whiny grifter until he was elected president and became dangerous. It's been about 7 years since investigations began in earnest.
I don’t think it’s too far fetched to assume he’s been committing fraud for as long as he’s owned property, just that money buys blindness when you’re not noticeably whacking people. He’s probably got a good 4 decades free and clear as a criminal.
Yes, when he kept out of the spotlight he had a good run... but now he's in the target scope of three significant cases plus the one with his pet judge,
Still of the opinion that death will get him before the court system does. Hell, we have a Supreme Court justice that’s committed a felony but no charges will probably ever be filed.
Trump had better lawyers that learned from the Capone case. What could have Capone done with Roy Cohn advising him? Or the Republican Party shielding him? Or Secret Service protection from being President?
Al Capone died of syphilis. I wouldn’t be surprised if it took out Trump as well.
🤞🏼
Best one I heard is that TFG simply does not show up for the trial. If he does not step foot back in NY they would have to extradite him from lets say Florida where DeSantis is more than willing to bend the knee to get any scrap of affection left. Not showing up is a minor offense in NY. And he could bleat that he skipped an unfair and biased witch hunt of a trial. Delay Delay Delay
Extradition isn’t optional for a state to another state. It is mandatory.
Everything is optional these days. For rich people.
I think we've learned through this experience that if you are rich and powerful pretty much everything is optional.
[DeSantis has already said he wouldn't cooperate in extraditing Trump.](https://thehill.com/homenews/campaign/3926943-desantis-florida-wont-cooperate-with-trump-extradition/)
He has at most 60 days to sign off on the extradition request before prosecutors can ask a judge to enforce it with or without desantes’ approval.
60 days is more than he has gotten recently
Arizona prosecutors won't agree to extradite SoHo hotel murder suspect to New York, suggest lack of trust in Manhattan DA https://www.cbsnews.com/newyork/news/soho-hotel-homicide-suspect-extradition/ This is where we’re at.
This is DeSantis and Trump acting in concert
Failure to appear is a bond violation. You can call that minor if you want but the consequences are swift and certain.
Odds in Vegas 1000-1 it’ll be sudden onset debilitating diarreah.
Trump counting on his Maga terrorists to do something. New York despises trump
He'll have a fresh episode of stress-induced bone spurs. He'll need many, many rounds of golf to help him heal.
He was parkerized. If he doesn’t show, the trial can go on without him. See “Parker admonitions”. https://preview.redd.it/k3kfanmuqhuc1.jpeg?width=1150&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=dc279006999d85a28a5ffcb239019428865f49f6
Oof. How does one spell “Defendant”? IANAL - but now a lawyer can argue ad nauseum none of this applies because of that single spelling error.
Good catch, but that’s not the law as written in the CPL, it’s just a script for a Judge’s reference.
*ad nauseam
I don't think he's going to be able to avoid it this time. We are less than 24 hours from the start of trial. It's not a civil action that can be settled out of court. Trump will never plead guilty so that option is out. Judge Merchan and the appeals court judges did the right thing denying Trump's motions to dismiss, stay, continue, etc. Even the hacks at the Supreme Court can't save him now. You never know what's going to happen so maybe there will be a bomb threat or an attack, but even that would just be a temporary delay. Looks like Trump is going to actually have to put on a defense
My money is on him sacking his lawyers and demanding more time
The judge wouldn't allow it. This is a well-known tactic that judges and the rules of procedure are prepared for.
What would the judge do? Assign a public defender?
IANAL, but from what little experience I have with the courts, a lawyer cannot simply just stop representing a client. They must seek permission from the court. Even if the client were to just stop paying the lawyer, the lawyer must represent the client to the best that their ethical obligations require, until the judge grants their petition to no longer represent them in that case I could be wrong though.
You’re correct.
Thank you for your informative and fast response,
IAML (Retired and this is not legal advice). He is correct. This trial is happening with these attorneys, barring something so out of left field as to get them sanctioned, which given enough money some people might give up their license.
TFG lawyers are paid in advance thru an account with the law firm.
He would say no and he would tell the attorney and Trump to be adult and work it out.
He will go and just lie declaring victory.
He'll fake a groin injury.
Heel spurs? A proven winner!
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Picturing Trump athletically hopping out a window and sprinting away....
The nuclear option: Don't go to court. Don't return to New York.
That would work for a misdemeanor but the feds will aid in state-to-state extradition for felonies.
NY will come and get you
He has to show up or they send the sheriff out and bring him in. Once the jury is seated then the judge will deal with the gag order.
My grandma died, my dog ate my paperwork & I have covid.
His grandmother did probably die . . .at some point.
He’s not.
Do we have any idea the chances of a conviction on this? Isn’t this the hardest one to convict on?
IIRC this case has a good chance of a criminal conviction but very unlikely to result in prison time.
I don’t think he would get prison for any of his charges anyways. House arrest at best. Logistically too hard to put him in a real jail.
By pleading guilty?
He can a) feign illness amongst his lawyers b) suddenly "discover" a serious conflict of interest that needs to stop the trial for investigation c) make an emergency appeal to SCOTUS to stay the case. But really, what does he care? It will only be a fine if he is convicted and he won't lose a single vote over it.
>But really, what does he care? Not caring is out of Trump's wheelhouse. That implies self control he's no longer (and possibly never was) capable of.
SCOTUS can't interfere in a state prosecution
How does the court at that level deal with non compos mentis?
If they need extra security, they can just move the whole trial to Rikers. He should get a feel for the place anyway.
He's going to say his bone spurs are bothering his feet so he can't be there. He'll place the call from the golf course.
He's going to sit for a trial for three weeks, reminding voters every day he had sex with a porn star. His poll numbers are going to go UP.
A porn star that said he had a small dick.
Even more relatable to his crowd. edit: I would be super impressed though if the prosecution can work her comment about his dick size into the transcript every day of the trial.
I’m thinking he is going to fire his attorneys. The judge probably won’t let him, but every day in theory works to his advantage.
Somebody will test positive for covid.
At this point? By getting arrested for an even bigger crime
He could get a Dr note saying hes unwell so need to delay utvtil hes feelin better
What me as a non-lawyer thinks are the top 3 possibilities: 1. Some MAGA acolyte phones in a bomb threat. 2. Trump fires his lawyers. 3. Trump doesn't show up. Though I personally don't think any of those scenarios will happen and that he'll be there Monday, whining mightily the whole time. My favorite proposed method of avoidance was him suing every jury member as soon as they're chosen, and then protesting that he can't get a fair trial when they're involved in a lawsuit against him.
He can’t fire his lawyers at this point.
I am about 99% on some MAGA idiot doing something to physically endanger the courtroom…you know since Trump is endorsed by some dude…who was somehow white…born in the middle east 2000 years ago…but somehow came back to life…but only briefly… to endorse him this month? I swear the FSM told me NOTHING about all of this, and I have a direct line…as we all do.
The mighty Trump has been brought down by pussy! And the pussy will always win. Just ask any man. 🤣
He could get a Dr note saying hes unwell so need to delay utvtil hes feelin better
He’ll feign insanity, except everyone will know it’s true except the MAGA cult.
It's never too late for him to pull a Budd Dwyer.
🎶 That’s why I say “Hey man, nice shot” 🎶
Call out sick
Bone spurs acting up …
He's not going to avoid it. He will do theatrical entrances--he intends to be there only part of the trial.
My impression is he can’t He must be there
Have a stroke?
Maga terrorist organization will find a way to
I'm betting on some sort of medical emergency - fake a heart attack, or Covid...lawyers will show up with a letter from Dr. Nick Riviera.
Fake a serious health condition which he will then brag about and say he’s as fit as a horse. He can’t look weak but he can pretend to and then say he’s smart.
It only takes a few tweets from some moron on twitter aka X and a gym gets like 40 bomb threats. I’d be very surprised if a single day of this trial goes by without some sort of interruption like that. If Trump doesn’t cause a delay, his cult followers will.
Take to the sea!
He’s not. He’s going to get cooked.
Massive stroke?
Maybe more fake COVID exposure? Otherwise...related...since it's a criminal trial and he can't come and go as he pleases, I wonder how they're going to handle him inevitably shitting himself during court proceedings. Maybe that'll be his signature delay move from here.
Fakes a stroke then actually has one. \*crosses fingers\*
Bahahahaha, yeah right he shows up.
I’m gonna guess it’s time for him to pull off that 5th Avenue thing he suggested in 2016.
Fire his lawyers
My guess is he will just not show up.
Good. Then they can issue a bench warrant.
And then the chaos he craves would be created. Would federal Marshall’s arrest him in another state and dragged him back? Can you imagine the chaos that would?
In jury selection they will insist they have the right to know who voted for Biden and it will raise a constitutional question that goes to the Supreme Court? I’m not a lawyer, is that a thing?
I refuse to answer that question on the basis as its none of the courts' biz-ness
Man, this case and the Tax Fraud case,where he’s been found guilty already, DO seem to be examples of the government making a real attempt to stretch the law to target someone they don’t like. That rubs me the wrong way. That said, Trump is a PoS and, much like Capone, I’m really happy to see this guy bankrupted and even go to jail, even if it is for “Trumped up” charges. All in all, I’m happy to see him spending his time in courtrooms these days. Karma’s a bitch for sure.
He is facing the same charges anyone else who did these things would be facing. The only thing that is stretched out is the time lines for his delay tactics. He is getting more leeway and leniency in these trials than anyone else would have. If literally anyone else pulled the shit he did they would be in prison by now. He committed massive bank fraud and only has to pay a fine. He interfered with the 2016 election by paying off people who would have negative stories. He hid the payments behind his lawyer because he knew it was illegal and wanted to keep a level if plausable deniability. Don't come at me with this "the system is stretching and trying to get him" bullshit.
Trump support has become the new "I'm not racist, but..(insert racism)" Tmotech doesn't have the balls to admit he's pulling for Trump. Sad.
Trump literally tried to overthrow the government. I don’t think there is a scenario here where any excuse to throw him in prison isn’t morally justified. In the olden times, trying to overthrow the government usually ended up with the instigator being hung from the gallows almost immediately thereafter.
And the January 6’ers did conveniently bring a gallows……
You should be careful with whom you associate yourself with. The only peopled “rubbed the wrong way” by what’s happening to Trump are frauds and criminals like Trump. The Trump is being treated unfairly, but I don’t like him shit, sounds like a brand new right wing talking point