I am asking here because all the political subs don’t allow a question, and US politics used to seemed so simple until to understand this man came along.
There are multiple reasons, but one thing I’ve read is that part of the strategy of taking down someone big is to take down the people who work for him first. The process results in more evidence being gathered, plea deals that result in yet more evidence, etc.
When you’re a billionaire, you can do whatever the hell you want in Murica.
Part of it is because there are still looming constitutional questions about whether a president, current or former, can be indicted for his actions during his presidency. I think we’ve mostly resolved those, though. A substantial and powerful cadre of political thugs is still going to try to sue to throw every conceivable barrier in the way of a reasonable interpretation of the law, but that just takes time to wade through the bullshit.
Another big problem is that Trump captured a huge amount of the judiciary, at all federal levels, by putting cronies into high ranking judicial seats. It’s the main thing Republicans have been doing for, like, 50 years. Putting a case in front of any one of those is a landmine, and that minefield has to be carefully navigated, and that also takes time. We’re basically done with that part, now.
The much bigger problem, in my perspective, is that any criminal trial requires a jury.
Almost 50% of the voting public voted for this motherfucker. His approval has dipped sharply since then, but still, a huge portion of the US public is willing to do just about anything to make sure “their guy” wins. They have proven nearly invulnerable to rational argument, emotional argument and any appeal to empathy or compassion. They will lie to get on that jury, and then they will vote for his acquittal if they don’t get caught. Voir dire–the process of choosing that jury–is going to be one of the most harrowing things any prosecutor ever has to do. And it has to be done correctly because it’s extremely important that once the wheels of justice start turning, that they reach the correct verdict.
Any thinking person knows what that verdict has to be. But there’s no guarantee that we’ll get it.
And if we don’t get it, we see the rule of law start to collapse at all levels. Remember the 1992 riots after the cops that beat Rodney King got acquitted? Imagine a whole country of that. The prosecutors in these cases are thinking about that. And that’s why they’re being extremely meticulous about every detail of these proceedings, because their errors could cost us a lot more than Trump getting away.
It feels like, while in theory it might be possible to convict a former president, in practice it’ll be literally impossible to find a jury who aren’t biased in one way or another, because everyone has a strong opinion about the man. I’d bet my life savings that for virtually every potential juror, how they voted in 2020 has a bigger impact on their verdict than any evidence either side could possibly provide.
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Do you have anything to say, or are you going to leave it at nothing?
What, in your opinion, is the reason why we’re at where we are with regards to Trump?
Nice, a three sentence callout without any refutation or detail.
If you are so confident in their confident incorrectness, put at least a minimum of effort into furthering the discussion.
US politics used to seemed so simple until to understand this man came along.
The more you learn about US politics, the less sense it makes.
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If you come for the King, you best not miss.
This is what it boils down to. All this time, I kept seeing all the shit he did and kept wondering the same question. But the flurry of indictments over the past little while has answered it: they were biding their time, making sure all their ducks were in a row, so they could all collectively take one giant, perfect, swing for the fences. We can only hope they don’t miss.
If they arrest him, there is a major concern of right-wing terrorism.
Police departments don’t want that to happen because they’ll have to arrest their own.
Government departments will also start to point fingers at one another, as loyal maga fucks deep inside places may refuse to act or do their job.
The legal way is the most non-violent way to handle this, even if it does drag on and on.
I know this may be pedantic, but he was “arrested” the same day he was arraigned for the first three indictments (he will surrender later this week for the fourth one in Georgia). He just wasn’t handcuffed and isn’t being detained while he awaits trial. He was also booked at the courthouse instead of the police station.
Trump has avoided legal trouble so far because there hasn’t been enough evidence to guarantee charges would stick. With the latest few indictments, he either basically admitted to the charges or other new evidence came to light. It’s taken so long because the prosecutors are making sure they built absolutely bulletproof cases, and because the nature of the trials (first time a former president has been charged), and because trump’s lawyers are trying to delay as much as possible. It’s basically a huge mess, but the general sentiment is that trump is screwed… Eventually.
He’s committed many crimes with enough evidence against him. He announced on TV he was obstructing justice. The justice department refused to charge him cause he was president, hinting he could be impeached.
I mean, I would never talk directly to them. And you would never talk directly to them. But neither one of us would go on the record on video saying we could stand in the middle of 5th avenue and shoot somebody.
There have been plenty of cases where he’s done some incredibly stupid things that he could easily have gotten away with simply by playing along. Hell look at the documents, he could have literally just made photocopies of them said my bad and It would never have even hit the press.
I think the legal system is just moving as slowly and carefully as possible to make sure he can’t lawyer his way out of these things.
Donald Trump is a fucking moron. But you didn’t answer the question asked, did you? Perhaps you and Donny T have a bit more in common than you’d like to admit?
Did you read the last part of the comment?
Money and power. He has (or claims to have) alot of money and alot of people on the Right still seem to follow him, but I think that’s more just based on momentum, there’s really nobody else on the Right that they have that’s as “charismatic” as Trump. The closest they have is DeSantis, and he’s just some wannabe fanboy with no personality. I personally think Trump is pretty much done and washed up, the GOP just doesn’t know what else to do at this point (certainly he still has a shot at the presidency, but I doubt it’ll work out). The Right had one really good shot at a violent coup on January 6, and the only reason they really managed to pull anything off was because Trump himself was in charge at the time and he was able to subdue the Federal response to it.
I think one of the main reasons he’s being treated with kid gloves is out too much caution of it appearing political. I think the DOJ is afraid of appearing partisan if the Democrat’s #1 political opponent were to be locked up (regardless of how slam dunk the evidence is). In any other country, we’d assume that it was a dictator trying to tighten their control of the political system by locking up their opponents, and that’s exactly what Biden/DOJ/Democrats are being accused of. Personally I think there’s going to be some amount of protest or violence if/when he gets locked up/sentenced/found guilty/whatever, they may as well just do it now to get it out of the way. The longer we wait and the closer we get to the election, the worse it’s going to get. It honestly won’t matter how much evidence is trotted out during the multiple trials, or how many judges/juries find him guilty, Republicans are still going to bitch and whine about it. He’s obviously guilty though, there’s more than enough evidence.
Because the oligarchy will never charge one of their own. No matter how loud they scream it and deny, he is one of them
It’s as simple as this: -Politician does something illegal -Politician is caught -Politician tells their party members they didn’t do -Party members believe politician because they’re of the same party -Politician now has millions of supporters vouching for them not to get convicted -Politician doesn’t get convicted
It’s happened before, it’s happening now, it’ll happen again.
This is one of the worst answers you can find in this post.
great way to gloss over all the detail
Maybe because he hasn’t been convicted of anything yet?
He’s a Honeypot /s
What is the difference between jail and prison?
jail: you are being detained awaiting trial
prison: you have been sentenced to detainment following a trial
afaik, anyway.
You can be sentenced to time in jail, it’s usually for sentences shorter than a year.
afaik, anyway
there’s very little likelihood that he goes to jail. he has lifetime secret service protection. do the secret service go to jail with him? it’s more likely that they will make some sort of weird agreement that has nothing to do with jail. he’s immune to criminal law basically
