Worried2Death
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Terrible person, pretty good songwriter.
Politics 🤡 Donald Trump
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Aren't those next cases scheduled for after the election? What are the chances of him going to court if he's elected?
none I think
Doesn't he just pardon himself if he gets elected?
Are you referencing literature written by a democratic socialist about the dangers of capitalist and conservative beliefs system without seeing the irony?
Have you even read the book? The CliffsNotes at least?
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no as this case was tried in state court not federal court, he would have no jurisdiction.
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He can't pardon himself from State crimes.
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Can he stack the SC to have them dismiss State charges
Brother I know you lean right and may be sympathetic to Trump from your posts but just to give you context, 12 jurors found him guilty on all counts. All they needed was 1 juror to vote not guilty for 1 out of 34 charges to get a not guilty on any of them.
This was the case that legal experts apparently said was going to be hardest to convict out of his 4 upcoming court cases.
Another so called expert said on cnn he's reviewed thousands of similar cases and they all ended up in jail time.
Do I think trump will see the inside of a cell. Keeping low expectations I don't think so, it will be a logistical nightmare. Would any other person in the public eye get away with talking shit about the judge and calling them corrupt after a conviction? Hell no, and they would get the book thrown at them when it comes to sentencing.
I say all that to say it's not out of the realm of possiblity he gets locked up just to send a message but I'm 99.9% sure the worst he'll get is a fine or probation or something similar.
Ps. Research everything I said cause I'm wasted and don't take any responsibility for anything I said
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It's about as offensive as invoking the Nuremberg trials for Adern and Bloomfield during covid, calling them Nazis for public health measures. Or quoting Martin Niemöller "First they came for the journalists..." while cheering on the demise of journalism. Most of them know exactly what they're doing though, ie. always accuse your enemy of what you're doing.
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It depends on whether the cases are state or federal and when the cases were to be heard.
If it’s a federal case (such as the documents in the Florida home) that was still on going, the new US attorney general (appointed by Trump) could have the cases abandoned. If the trials had already concluded and he had been found guilty, he would, as President, pardon himself.
His problem is with the Georgia case where he is accused of asking the official to find extra votes. Like the NYC case, the charges have been laid by the State of Georgia and aren’t Federal charges. That case appears to come down to Trump’s motive. Was he asking Georgian officials to simply recount the votes and find enough missed votes to win him the State (as his defense will argue) or was he telling an official to change the result illegally by deciding some votes that were cast for him were deemed to be wrong on election night were instead right, or the some cast for Biden that were deemed on election night to be correct were instead found to be wrong….. yet, none of these votes should change. Or “finding” a box of “lost” ballots…. Which has enough votes for Trump to win the election. It a case of motive…. did Trump only ask that the vote was done correctly or did he ask a Georgian official to fabricate an election result in his favour?
Maybe a fallacy in me but I'm trying to figure you out from your posts. By that i don't mean a physical person. Or anything "American Beauty" lanes of thought ways (so don't get scared, please lol). IMHO you're a very wise person and also hilarious as fk in an educated way plus the knowledge you possess which makes me think you're a little bit older but still very in touch with the youth. It's a rear trate to have. If I'm wrong,(which I know I'm not)apologies but you're a good poster.
Edit: Completely forgot my original point. If you ever in Auckland at a nearby bar brother, would love to shout you a beer!
I get all that. I get he’s guilty of these charges, I lean right but don’t want a bar of trump.Brother I know you lean right and may be sympathetic to Trump from your posts but just to give you context, 12 jurors found him guilty on all counts. All they needed was 1 juror to vote not guilty for 1 out of 34 charges to get a not guilty on any of them.
This was the case that legal experts apparently said was going to be hardest to convict out of his 4 upcoming court cases.
Another so called expert said on cnn he's reviewed thousands of similar cases and they all ended up in jail time.
Do I think trump will see the inside of a cell. Keeping low expectations I don't think so, it will be a logistical nightmare. Would any other person in the public eye get away with talking shit about the judge and calling them corrupt after a conviction? Hell no, and they would get the book thrown at them when it comes to sentencing.
I say all that to say it's not out of the realm of possiblity he gets locked up just to send a message but I'm 99.9% sure the worst he'll get is a fine or probation or something similar.
Ps. Research everything I said cause I'm wasted and don't take any responsibility for anything I said
But what did he really do wrong? An accounting error? Is it in the public interest to go after book keeping errors of insignificant amounts in the scheme of things?
As a not really interested observer the rape case was much more damaging than this irrelevant accounting issue.
Declaration. I sometimes charge private petrol to my company by ‘accident’. Like every other small business owner!
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Before i forget, in regards to your declaration. I do that all the time, on purpose and much more. My accountant has me believe it's our God given right, or grey area lol, and I don't feel bad about it at all as I know businesses making 10-100x as much as me do the same.
In regards to Trump, he's a crook and always been 1. The evidence the jury would've seen would've been damning. It may seem like a witch hunt but these cases happen all the time. It's rare a former president is involved in it and brought up but if any other president had similar dealings they would've been done the same if not worse. This is not some Democrat concocted up plan. The cunt is a dodgy fuk and is finally facing the music if any!
This is precisely why fake news, conspiracy theories, misinformation and deliberate disinformation are so insidious. And most of this originates on the far right, which Trump, completely self serving is absolutely aware of.
Free speech? Sure, but you are also accountable to what you say, and the consequences as well.
Promoting conspiracy theories, and engaging with them is also corrosive, and ends up allowing the originator to spread more disinformation, which I'm sure the original poster is well aware of.
Here are some real consequences - the rise of fascism and authoritiarianism. Those on the right tend to go quiet about the actions of those they defend.
Biden says Trump’s claim of rigged trial is ‘dangerous’ and ‘reckless’ in White House speech – live
The president said ‘Donald Trump was given every opportunity to defend himself’ and ‘no one is above the law’
www.theguardian.com
A Fox News anchor, John Roberts, posted on X that the judge had informed the jury that it didn’t need a unanimous verdict to convict Trump and that only four of them needed to find him guilty to convict him on an individual charge. Firstly, that goes totally against US law and secondly the judge told them any verdict needed to be unanimous but it’s been viewed nearly 6 million times andthere will be thousands of Trump supporters who believe it.
Trump and his allies push false account of what the judge told jurors
New York Times: Incorrect information about a non-unanimous verdict was spread.
www.nzherald.co.nz
Appalling eh. I don't know what the answer is to this apart from shining sunlight and this lot getting held to account somehow.A Fox News anchor, John Roberts, posted on X that the judge had informed the jury that it didn’t need a unanimous verdict to convict Trump and that only four of them needed to find him guilty to convict him on an individual charge. Firstly, that goes totally against US law and secondly the judge told them any verdict needed to be unanimous but it’s been viewed nearly 6 million times andthere will be thousands of Trump supporters who believe it.
Trump and his allies push false account of what the judge told jurors
New York Times: Incorrect information about a non-unanimous verdict was spread.
We have similar, not quite as extreme (although sometimes they are) outlets of disinformation here - nzme in the form of the zb network (the herald too sometimes), the disinformation reality check radio, Sean Plunket and the Platform - all backed by the right and far right, and with deep pockets.
There are commonalities.
I have an ex-brother in law who is an associate professor in Statistics at an Ivy League University in the States. He was one of the heads in the COVID modeling for NYC and NY, NJ and some of the other New England states.
One time when he was in NZ, it was approaching a US presidential election and I asked him who he would be voting for as he’d always voted National in NZ. I was surprised when he said the Democrats as I thought he would have voted for the Republicans. His response was interesting…. American politics is so close to the right of the political spectrum that the Democrats were closer to National.
My wife’s closest friend is an African American lady who was her boss for three years when their company sent her to NZ to be the GM here. Through her role, she met John Key a few times and, when she’d worked in Chicago, went to the same church as the Obama’s and was a volunteer in his first Presidential campaign. She said it didn’t surprise her at all that Barack and Key got on so well… as they were politically very similar.
No wonder the place is so screwed up when there’s not a main stream “left leaning party”.
I believe we're both on similar sides of the fence so this could be a little bias but do you think this misinformation stuff became worse since Trump came around?
