If he loses the election (and there isn't a more competent cheat/coup to put him in) it won't matter. He'll be ditched by GOP supporters as fast as they swiveled onto him from Jeb, Cruz and the others in 2016. He'll spend his last years completely irrelevant. All the righties will say how they "never really liked that guy."
He's no spring chicken. This is the last rodeo for him. I wonder if lingering on free for years with no spotlight on him might not be the worst punishment he can imagine.
Barring heart disease or cancer, life spans in the U.S. are very long for the upper middle class and above. His dad Fred Trump lived to a ripe old age, so who knows how much time he's got left on the clock.I think it's more likely he dies before all the legal proceedings/appeals wrap up.
Either would be acceptable.
Alito went as far as to suggest that denying ex-presidents immunity would discourage peaceful transfers of power, because outgoing presidents who lost hotly contested elections would not want to depart peacefully if they were concerned they’d be prosecuted by their political rival.
That was an amazing statement. If presidents aren’t legally immune for attempting a coup they might…attempt a coup.Barring heart disease or cancer, life spans in the U.S. are very long for the upper middle class and above. His dad Fred Trump lived to a ripe old age, so who knows how much time he's got left on the clock.
Samuel Alito is so full of shit the courtroom must smell like a sewer.
Yes, let's give the outgoing president full immunity to fuck shit up and even execute a coup; because otherwise, he would be inclined to fuck shit up for fear of retribution.
Just a few? You are way too tolerant to evilThere are a few people I could watch be eaten alive by carnivorous ants while I kick back and suck down a Mai Tai and Alito in the top three for sure. Truly an irredeemable miserable rat bastard who only lives to torture the country.
Trump’s lawyer said it was fine. President Biden are you listening?Trump's attorney basically saying a President assassinating his political rival would be an immune official act perfectly put the cap on where we are as a country.
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No links yet, and maybe there is another more appropriate thread to put this in, but Jack Smith has just released all of the redacted information submitted as evidence in the Jan. 6th investigation. Explicitly, defining unofficial acts by Trump!
Lots of stuff on air.
Is this enough of an October surprise to help move the needle, I hope so
While 70% of Republicans are beyond reach, all strongly believing the big lie Trump keeps repeating of a stolen election - based solely on the massive, irrefutable proof that it wasn't - reaching a fraction of the not quite as insane 30% that "aren't sure" could make the difference. But this evidence would have to somehow reach across to their entirely closed ecosystem of solely listening to MAGA fake news sources.Well a bunch of people talking about 1/6 before the election is probably not what I would call helpful to Trump. Timely after the VP debate where this and certification came up and Vance's answers were much less than reassuring to voters.
JD would be smart to read this
SCOTUS is going to state that only the chief executive can explain what official duties are.Jack Smith giving the orange monkey the middle finger
And also to SCOTUS. Here’s how all of this isn’t covered under presidential immunity
Not true. SCOTUS will retain the power to decide what crimes the president can commit.SCOTUS is going to state that only the chief executive can explain what official duties are.