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Shouldn't being a convicted felon affect one's candidacy?
Should the US government also pay candidates to have aesthetic surgeries? Being ugly might affect their candidacy!
And when he's elected, he'll change the law in his favour. I know, he can't do everything he wishes, but he could probably make it better for himself. VOTE!
He wasn't wrong when he said it was rigged.
Aren't we showing bias by giving criminals extra time because they decided to run a bullshit political campaign to subvert the law
"My name is Stabby McKiller! Yes, I clearly stabbed four people in that home, and yes, I was convicted! BUT, I am also running for president! For total fairness, I demand my sentencing be delayed, so my sentence does not sway voter opinion!"
What fucking bullshit. THIS is bias.
Seems like a fuck ton of bias to me. What a joke.
Showing bias by claiming its an effort to not show bias is fucking insanity.
Wait till after election. -If Harris wins they claim she's locking up her opponent so he can't investigate the votes being wrong -If Trump wins they riot if Trump gets sentenced on anything claiming they are trying to lock him up because he won.
His election has and should have nothing to do with it.
They are begging for riots it seems
In an effort to not serve justice, in other words.
How dumb is the judge to just now figure out that, oh, there's a presidential election in 2 months ... This has been an issue since the conviction.
Yeah sorry, you cant send me to prison for anything cause it effects my chance at my job. Please wait till my job interview is over, thanks.
Narrator: This showed bias.
In an effort to not show bias, we are giving incredible bias to Trump that no one else would get.
That is showing bias.
"Justice delayed is justice denied"
Nope, it’s smart. Leaving sentencing until after the election also keeps the Supreme Court out of it before the election. You can bet your boots they would have fast-tracked any appeal and nullified the sentence somehow before the election.
Your comment makes me a little less angry
If trump gets elected he’ll just pardon himself or whatever machinations transpire where he won’t be sentenced at all.
He can’t do that. These are state crimes.
He has no authority to pardon non-federal crimes.
Buddy. Pal. He tried a violent overthrow of the US government. If he wins, that's GG. He just will until/unless the military coup him.
He can’t pardon them, but he can probably just ignore whatever punishment is given and he’ll say he has presidential immunity (regardless of whether it fits, that’s the idea he’ll have). Then, if he becomes a sitting president, nobody will actually do anything to enforce the judgement against him and it’ll just be ignored, making presidential immunity to even state crimes a practical reality, even if it’s not a legal reality.
True. But that is based in logic and the assumption that laws follow strict "rules" and well...
If he was sentenced before the election the Supreme Court nullifies it and you have the same result. Do all that you can to make sure he doesn’t get elected.
Acceptance of a pardon also means an admission of guilt. Trump has never guilty to anything, so he’ll be in a tight spot.
He will just say how can I be guilty of sth I got pardoned for? Some true Trump logic at work.
Not at all. He's been charged and found guilty before and it has made no difference because there's never been real consequences.
That’s bullshit. Sentence the asshole now. He’ll flee the country otherwise
Eh, Putin can have his dog back. Just make sure he doesn't come back.
If he wants to flee the country I'll buy him a 1-way ticket right now.
As long as he's gone...