He’s already lost, this trial is only to determine how much it will cost him. I think it’s more that he’s realized how bad his attorneys are, and that he’s going to lose everything.
And to think, all he had to do was not run for president of the United States (among many other things) and this probably never would have happened to him.
I mean, I’ve never run for president of the United States, it’s a very easy thing to not do.
Seriously. Had he not ran, or dropped out early, he could have probably started his own fringe news channel and lived a relatively unchanged, trouble free life and probably made some money doing it.
I personally think he expected to lose and wasn’t expecting the Russians to barely tip the scales to eek out an electoral college victory.
Same here. There’s a photo of him on election night as his win was being declared. Everyone around him looks happy, but he looks like he was just told he has 2 weeks to live.
Had Trump lost to Hillary, he would have done the whole “they stole the election from me” shtick. He’d have launched Trump Tirade Hour where he’d rant about the latest political topics - criticizing the people in charge and declaring that he’d solve everything so easily.
Of course, like his health care plan, Trump would never give details on HOW he’d fix everything. It would just be “A is doing B to fix complex problem C. That’s the wrong thing to do. If I was in charge, I’d fix the complex problem easily by… whoops, looks like it’s time for a commercial break!” It would really have been the best job for him. It would have fit his skills of being an armchair critic that understands nothing and yet claims to know more than anyone else.
Sadly, he won and did the whole “I know better than anyone else despite not understanding anything” from the most powerful seat on the planet.
I can imagine a world where Trumps publicity presidential run starts spinning out and Jared/Ivanka start pulling strings to make it happen. Jared walked away with untold billions and just walks away unscathed. It’s disgusting, especially when you think of how the GOP will stop at nothing to bury Hunter.
Respectfully, I hope you are wrong.
If not running was all it took not to be prosecuted then, to me, that says this is indeed a political prosecution and not about the rule of law.
I think they meant not run the first time? As in: he doesn’t run, and therefore doesn’t get elected, so he stays away from the spotlight and can, relatively, quietly live his life with his foot in his mouth at every turn, but nobody cares because he’s a D list celebrity.
And of course, not being the president, he has no access to half of the shit he’s dealing with federally. I feel like the state stuff in NY was a pretty long time coming, but the federal stuff could’ve been avoided had he lost or not ran in 2016.
I don’t even know what a world like that would look like, but I’m sure it would’ve been better than the four years we had of him.
Edit: Mobile, misspelled some things due to autocorrect.
Oh no, I agree with you. I was just making a joke. From what I understand he never really wanted to run for president in the first place, and was surprised he won. Honestly his business might have continued as it was, fraud and everything, if he had never done that plus all the other crazy stuff he did.
I’ve very glad he’s getting what’s coming to him. I mean he brought this on himself.
Oh no, I agree with you. I was just making a joke. From what I understand he never really wanted to run for president in the first place, and was surprised he won. Honestly his business might have continued as it was, fraud and everything, if he had never done that plus all the other crazy stuff he did.
I’ve very glad he’s getting what’s coming to him. I mean he brought this on himself.
He might have maybe still been persecuted but the feds and everyone involved would have taken their sweet time investigating potentially a few more years since he’s still an ex president. Officially convicting him makes the office look bad and could potentially turn ugly with the MAGA supporters. Nobody wants jan6 2.0 and they very well might have been happy to let him fade into obscurity if that was deemed the best strategy to avoid civil unrest as a whole. Him putting himself in the spotlight again lit a fire under everyones ass and accelerated things drastically.
He’s almost certainly going to appeal whatever verdict he gets, claiming that he had ineffective legal council and that the judge was biased against him. Because the only effective reason you can appeal is if you don’t believe your trial was fair. So he’s basically stacking the “this trial was unfair” deck in his favor.
I hate to be that guy, but you can’t appeal on ineffective assistance of counsel in a civil proceeding.
Since when has something being legal or not ever stopped Trump from trying it?
Your honor, I object!
And why is that?
Because it’s devastating to my case!
This oversight was first reported over two weeks ago, yet he hasn’t mentioned it or taken action in any way. Wonder if that would have an effect on such an appeal.
I don’t think it would because it is unlikely this case would have been granted a jury trial anyway due to New York law. There are specific requirements for requesting a civil jury trial in New York, and all the legal analysis I have seen has suggested they would not have met that bar.
Jury Trials are onerous on the public and the judicial system, but are fundamentally necessary as well as guaranteed in criminal proceedings. However, for civil matters that is the exception rather than the rule.
he’s going to lose everything.
He’s going to send out a new round of “save our country” money-raising emails and every one of his cult members are basically going to bail his ass out of this again.
Yeah but surely there must be diminishing returns, or at least there’s a somewhat finite pool to draw from. Like as case after case goes bad why would anyone keep giving him money?
I will never get tired of all this losing.
He really is the best at losing, no one loses like he does, they say they do but they don’t he is the best loser.
Trump knows he can’t win in a court of law, so he wants to win in the court of public opinion, where a con-man like him actually has some leverage over the gullible.
Even if he loses, he will suffer no significant consequences, nor will the lawless movement that supports him.
He could lose all of these cases tomorrow, and it still wouldn’t mean a thing. He could stand in the middle of Fifth Avenue and shoot someone, and there still would be no significant consequences.
The GOP are a lawless terrorist movement, but everyone else wants to “take the high road.”
Convicted Sex Offender Treason Trump has already suffered huge consequences of losing his business license in NY and having his business go into receivership. In addition to the expected $250 million fine.
True. This is literally the corporate death penalty. His corporate assets may have to be sold to pay the debts. They will not get much, as the brand name will have to be changed. It’s the worst thing that could happen to a business owner.
He will not be poor, but may end up with his name on worse buildings. Houston TX vs. Manhattan. And you know he doesn’t want to leave NYC.
That still remains to be seen.
He’s losing in a big way with these NY cases. There’s a strong chance that he’ll never be able to do business in NY again, which means a lot of work restructuring his businesses. It’s a pretty big hit and will take a lot of time and money to resolve.
The election cases will be held next year, and will determine whether or not he sees jail time. I still have high hopes that we’ll see him behind bars in the next couple of years. These cases just take time because of the ramifications if the DOJ gets them wrong.
If the Democrats/Progressives take the low road to beat the Republicans at their own game, isn’t that just one team winning over another team? Whereas if you’re fighting for ideals then you’re going to end up taking the high road a lot
The ideal I’m fighting for is not being labelled a child sex offender and executed by the government because of my rainbow lapel pin. I’m open to higher ideals but when one side says we need to be “eliminated” I’m probably gonna tolerate a lot from the people who are trying to stop them.
“Take the high road” in this case means “treat treasonous criminals with kid gloves because they’re supported by the GOP.” If everything had been done by the book, Trump would have been in prison a long time ago.
I was operating on a different interpretation of “taking the high road”. In the way you are describing it, I agree with you completely.
The terrorists on the right need to be met - unfailingly - with unwavering resistance. And when they get violent, we have to stop them. That doesn’t mean making a press release saying “we condemn in the strongest possible terms blah blah…” That means rounding up the violent actors and locking them away from civilized society.
Conservatives used to say that “tough on crime” should mean “tough on criminals.” Well when the GOP are criminals, the law needs to get touch on them.
Currently they aren’t scared of anything, because most of the other violent people sympathize with them. If they are going to wreck our Capitol and dismantle our freedoms, it’s time for another Sherman’s March, and finish the work that we started in Reconstruction.
They speak openly of killing the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs. And anyone else they don’t like. They need to be scared of doing that, and we have to beat them to a pulp in order to make that happen - because that’s the only language that thugs understand.
Let’s everyone take a moment and collectively laugh at the sad little coward that’s downvoting all the comments for making fun of their beloved hero.
No rebuttals. No arguments in defense- just butt-hurt worthless downvotes.
