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[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 months ago

If Donnie fires back with "I AM THE LAW" then I think he would win the next election

[–] [email protected] 17 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Well you know what they say, 287th time's the charm.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 months ago

I guffawed thank you.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 months ago

Except bibi

[–] [email protected] 6 points 3 months ago

LoL tell that to the Supreme Court!

[–] [email protected] 43 points 3 months ago

May not be above the law but i bet hes above the punishment you or i would receive for that crime

[–] [email protected] 28 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Watch how far above the law he is when it’s time to be sentenced. While it’s good that he was found guilty- he’s going to show how broken the system is when it comes to holding people like him accountable.

[–] [email protected] 27 points 3 months ago (3 children)
  1. Trump's crimes will never be investigated
  2. Trump's crimes will never be referred to a grand jury
  3. Trump will never be indicted by a grand jury
  4. Trump will never go to trial
  5. The judge will throw the case out
  6. The jury will not return a verdict / hung jury
  7. Trump will not be convicted on all counts
  8. Trump will not be sentenced <--- You are here
  9. Trump will not be punished (jail / house arrest)
  10. Trump will appeal and overturn the verdict
  11. Trump is too old and frail to serve his sentence
[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 months ago

But IF he loses the election, he's gonna be sent to the nether realm. No one will protect him, he'll spend the rest of his life in courts or behind bars.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 months ago
[–] [email protected] 9 points 3 months ago (1 children)

You left out "the prosecution will intentionally spoil their case" or something like it but I think you got all the big ones. I'm sure we could brainstorm up a few dozen more ways they could ruin the case intentionally along the way so as to prevent justice, but I'm tired and I don't want to give the other side any hints

[–] [email protected] -2 points 3 months ago

I think this is the most likely outcome. Its all theater and there is some legal poison pill that the defense gets use last minute

[–] [email protected] 5 points 3 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 months ago

Says the branch involved in creating and amending them.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 months ago (1 children)

My money is on absolutely nothing will happen to him

[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 months ago (1 children)

I like the attitude. It's not like he'll ever pay the half billion he owes to the court either, right?

[–] [email protected] 6 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

Of course not. If it were you or I we would have been detained from the start and be liable for all fees

[–] [email protected] 65 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (1 children)

No one is above the law, unless you're a cop or you did war crimes in one of the brown people countries. Or you have a lot of money.

[–] [email protected] 46 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Turns out a lot of people are above the law.

[–] [email protected] 20 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (1 children)

Specially those in charge of making and enforcing them. And their friends.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 3 months ago (1 children)

It's a big club, and you ain’t in it. You and I are not in the big club. And by the way, it's the same big club they use to beat you over the head with all day long when they tell you what to believe. All day long beating you over the head in their media telling you what to believe, what to think and what to buy. The table is tilted folks. The game is rigged, and nobody seems to notice, nobody seems to care. Good honest hard-working people -- white collar, blue collar, it doesn’t matter what color shirt you have on -- good honest hard-working people continue -- these are people of modest means -- continue to elect these rich cocksuckers who don’t give a fuck about them. They don’t give a fuck about you. They don’t give a fuck about you. They don't care about you at all -- at all -- at all. And nobody seems to notice, nobody seems to care. That's what the owners count on; the fact that Americans will probably remain willfully ignorant of the big red, white and blue dick that's being jammed up their assholes everyday. Because the owners of this country know the truth: it's called the American Dream, because you have to be asleep to believe it.” ― George Carlin

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 months ago

Gotta love that George Carlin bit. Though I prefer another one.

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