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Trump will be barred from running, handing the election to another Republican, who will pardon Trump on day one. There, spoiled the next year and a half of American politics for you.
He can't be pardoned of state crimes.
The only state crimes are the original indictments for perjury, which if you read the article, you will see those are the least compelling charges. The last two sets of indictments are from the DoJ and are considered very sound.
No. The crimes of fake electors go to specific states. There's federal and state crimes here.
Georgia is about to enter the chat.
I'm not sure which other Republican candidates could really step up. Aside from Trump there's DeSantis, who seems to be imploding and I think hates Trump anyway, Chris Christie (who called him a 'One Man Crime Wave' lol) and most of the others I haven't even heard of before.
But there is also Mike Pence who is truly a wild card - there's a reasonable chance Trump literally tried to have him killed and yet he still defends him for some reason - so if anyone is bonkers enough to make it to the White House and then set Trump loose, it'd probably be him.
I find Christie refreshingly straight forward compared to most GOP turd buckets.
I just want Christie to take second place because he and Trump hate each other. Trump almost got Christie killed by inviting him to the White House even though Trump knew he had COVID and Christie ended up almost dying in the hospital because of it. And, of course, Trump hates Christie because all feelings are reciprocal when you're Trump.
They would destroy each other and I would make popcorn.
None of these charges carry with them the barring of running for office. Sedition isn't in the indictment.
He can't be barred from running. In fact even if convicted he could still be President because he's been charged with obstruction not sedition. Not a lawyer etc, but I think it's pretty clear.
The Republican Party could refuse to let him be the nominee but they know what would just cause him to run independent and split the right-wing vote so they'll support him because they want power more than anything else.
@visak @dunning_cougar
You're right.
And that sucks, because now the invisible line has been crossed not one of the parties will create laws against it happening again.
'Murica - land of the fraud, home of the deceived
None of this bars him from running.