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Trump’s New York case will begin in March

A New York judge ruled Thursday that Donald Trump will stand trial in March on charges related to the Stormy Daniels coverup. Assuming the case goes forward as scheduled, Trump will be the first former president ever to be criminally tried. It will also be the first criminal case to slot in place among the complicated judicial calendar Trump is facing in this election year, and it means Trump will almost certainly face a jury before Election Day. In three other jurisdictions—Georgia state court and federal courts in Florida, and Washington, D.C.—Trump has been indicted on charges related to the 2020 elections and his retention of classified documents, but the timetable for those cases remains unclear.

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[-] [email protected] 100 points 5 months ago

This guy has so many 'firsts', too bad they are all horrible firsts that no one should have ever done.

[-] [email protected] 48 points 5 months ago

I hope his next”first” is “ex president sent to prison.”

And his last is “first ex president to die in prison”

[-] [email protected] 14 points 5 months ago

I'm still holding out for first presidential candidate to croak weeks from election day

[-] [email protected] 7 points 5 months ago

If we set up a go fund me to buy him hamberders… we could maybe get that done

[-] [email protected] 7 points 5 months ago

I hope he has a stroke from his gluttonous lifestyle and gets locked in syndrome for at least 5 years.

Being physically unable able to communicate would be the worst punishment imaginable for him.

[-] [email protected] 71 points 5 months ago

Is there any chance on earth that he actually goes to jail for even a day?

[-] [email protected] 44 points 5 months ago

I think it's way more likely that he gets sentenced to house arrest, which he could serve at Mar a Lago. The other option is to have Secret Service agents following him around inside a prison trying to protect him from the other inmates (and possibly the guards), and I don't think either the prisons or the Secret Service want to deal with that.

[-] [email protected] 34 points 5 months ago

Actually they could throw him in a maximum security prison and condem him to solitary confinement (for his own protection you know) and that would negate the need for the Secret Service

[-] [email protected] 22 points 5 months ago

The Secret Service would still need to be around to protect him from the guards & the ghost of Epstein.

[-] [email protected] 19 points 5 months ago

Maybe a disgraced ex president shouldn't receive an honor guard?

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[-] [email protected] 16 points 5 months ago

"Yeah, he's a convicted felon, but we can't put him in jail because that would inconvenience the Secret Service."

Nope. Sorry it's a burden for them, but they can figure it out. Make a prison out of the brig on an abandoned military base in the middle of nowhere with him as the only prisoner. It worked for Rudolph Hess.

[-] [email protected] 6 points 5 months ago

It's really not even that big of a burden. They already have wings for people like former cops and child molesters, so he'll fit in nicely. They'll just need a chair for the SS detail.

[-] [email protected] 7 points 5 months ago

Prison is for poor people, not presidents. I think most people understand that not everyone is equal under the law at this point in time.

[-] [email protected] 10 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

Ulysses S. Grant set the precedent that a sitting president can be prosecuted in 1872 while he was president, and got pulled over, for the third time, for "speeding on a horse inside the city limits of Washington DC." He told the officer that attempted to let him go, that Congress had literally passed article 1983 the previous year, and that even The POTUS doesn't have immunity. Sure it was a speeding ticket, but that's still precedent, with a statute to back it up.

The statute in question needs to be reviewed by The SCOTUS, as they were provided incorrectly edited wording of that statute, ommiting 16 crucial words of the law, in the case of Harlow vs. Fitzgerald in 1982, and illegally set up the Qualified Immunity Doctrine.

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[-] [email protected] 28 points 5 months ago

For this? No. For the Georgia case? It's a real possibility if he doesn't get elected.

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[-] [email protected] 16 points 5 months ago

None at all. As a last resort they'll (successfully) make a incompetency plea, which is true. The man isn't competent enough to tie his shoes without adult supervision.

[-] [email protected] 32 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

In a sane world, an incompetency plea would bar someone from office

[-] [email protected] 21 points 5 months ago

That would mean:

Too incompetent to be found guilty of a crime, but still somehow competent enough to hold arguably the most important position in the world.

Please make it make sense.

[-] [email protected] 4 points 5 months ago

That's not how incompetency pleas work.

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[-] [email protected] 10 points 5 months ago

The most likely situation is barred from running for President while he continues to spew lies and vitriol from the sidelines. We also can’t ignore the possibility of his progeny running for office thanks to the dynastic view these scumbag wealthy types tend to take of their money and power.

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[-] [email protected] 10 points 5 months ago

Yes, but not in this case. Some of the other cases will get him there and it will be glorious.

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[-] [email protected] 6 points 5 months ago

No. Best we can hope for is to bog him down in appeals and lawsuits, till his heart pops from a big Mac

[-] [email protected] 25 points 5 months ago

Particularly enjoyable is no more of this jet-setting on campaign bullshit in lieu of sitting in a series of dreary courtrooms for the rest of his days

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[-] [email protected] 18 points 5 months ago

Repercussions make us all better people. Hope you enrich your life soon Trump [hopefully, in jail].

[-] [email protected] 13 points 5 months ago

Well somebody had to be first and I'm pretty sure he has a Ricky Bobby mindset.

[-] [email protected] 13 points 5 months ago

Good for him! I always knew he could do it

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