35 points

Hoping to see him face actual consequences for once in his life. What he did cannot be normalized by either side of the house.

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What’s really terrifying is that his followers can’t possibly fathom that a guy with a 50 year history of doing shady stuff, is in fact, still continuing to do shady stuff.

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9 points

Agreed, justice should be apolitical.

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2 points

It’s not even the same for the rich vs poor. Let alone politics.

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8 points

It’s gonna be an uphill battle with him getting the same judge who already had to be chastised for her meddling in the investigation.

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7 points

I too want some long overdue schadenfreude but I am just going to hold my breath for the next 24 hours. At this point, it mostly the most rabid followers who still back him - The type who are most likely to start something.

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3 points

I want to see him declared a flight risk and denied bail, even if it gets reversed next week.

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3 points

The problem is - they’ll file tons of motions and injunctions to try to delay this as long as possible.

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Amen 📿

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I have little hope that he will. They call him teflon Don for a reason.

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14 points

I hope tomorrow doesn’t go from protest to riot. I feel like the far-right groups are so full of feds after Jan 6th that anything too coordinated will be difficult.

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I’m going to have the news on all day tomorrow. I was watching on J6 and I’ll watch tomorrow.

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I’m not going to be able to watch, just check my phone occasionally. Hopefully someone will post live updates on the fediverse. Breaking news from people on the scene was one of the things I liked searching reddit for.

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Luckily nothing major happened. Just a thousand morons chanting “We love Trump” and a MAGAt and an anti-Trump protestor almost getting into a fight (they were separated).

Hopefully the violent idiots have toned it down since their J6 buddies continue to get their shit rocked by the Justice Department.

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11 points

Lock him up!

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4 points

For the rest of his life hopefully

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9 points

Are they going to perp walk him up the courthouse steps?

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I am doubtful. They are being highly coordinated in the way they are approaching this case not to give him free campaign material.

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interesting perspective, I hadn’t thought about the campaign angle… I agree though, they won’t perp walk him.

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But will we get mug shots this time?

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Yep he said at the last court case he wanted to be led in in handcuffs in front of the media.

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I read he’ll enter from an underground garage so we won’t see much of anything.

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Most likely. That’s what happened last time when he was indicted in NY, and that’s what will happen next time when he gets indicted in Georgia.

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In New York they snuck him in through a back door. There was no perp walk up the courthouse steps.

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You’re right, English is not my first language, so I thought “perp walk” was when the media reported on every step of the orange man. Once I translated and understood the meaning, I had to delete my comment out of embarrassment

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I dunno., call me naive but I think NY is a different animal than the fed gov - I think he feds will be a little more professional/ respectful. But hey, I could be wrong!

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why do they have this stupid thing where you can’t have phones / cameras / etc in the courtroom? it’s 2023, give us streams. it’s public record isn’t it?

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Well I can think of at least one case in the past few years where courtroom recordings turned the whole trial into a media fiasco and a witch hunt. Maybe it’s justified in some cases, but on the whole I personally think it’s unhealthy for justice.

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For many reasons, some are already obsolete. For more details, I recommend this article from mtsu.

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I feel like this is a rule that is going to be done away with at some point in our lifetimes.

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Keep in mind any and all of that he would just use to get donations and campaign ads. I think that’s the main reason he hasn’t gotten the perp walk with handcuffs, he wants it!

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