63 points

Excellent. May his orange jumpsuit soon follow.

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39 points

I’m just sad that federal mugshots aren’t made public.

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11 points

No mugshot “because the president is recognizable.” I guess that’s a thing, though I’ve never heard of it being used before.

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13 points

The president certainly is recognizable … thing is, he’s a dead ringer for Joe Biden.

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6 points

No worries! I’d just like to keep the referring to Trump as “the president” to his spin team. They never call him “the former president” for a host of reasons, but that doesn’t mean reasonable people should follow suit.

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Also they aren’t gonna handcuff him because they don’t want him to look guilty.

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5 points

His skin is already orange, don’t you think his wardrobe should match it?

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2 points

It’s active camo. Just implemented incorrectly.

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53 points

he pleaded not guilty. and his lawyer said this is “an attack on america”.

'cause he had boxes of papers he wasn’t supposed to have, that this is an attack on america? yeah, okay 🙄

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16 points

The whataboutism will be endless as well

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7 points

Isn’t it already?

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3 points

*insert always has been meme here*

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14 points

This is gonna be wild… the feds hardly ever lose.

With that, I’m very curious to see the fallout should he be convicted.

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11 points

i’m a little worried some of his cultists may find their way onto the jury and block a conviction

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Oh man they’re probably all having wet dreams over being “the hero that saves America” or something right now.

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All it takes is one. They’ll refuse to consider anything other than not guilty.

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7 points

they have him on tape showing people documents that he says are classified and that he also knows that he could have declassified them while in office but that he hasn’t.

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4 points

Yeah he’s so fucked. Caught red handed worse than Nixon.

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2 points

i am not excited to see the fallout, especially right before i am about to move out of a red state 🙃

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Yeah! I chose my words carefully. I’m curious, not necessarily excited!

I’m unfortunately stuck in a red state, so I feel you there.

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10 points

I work with many people who are so upset over this, calling it injustice and how horrible that we choose to prosecute Trump when we should instead be jailing Hillary, Harris, and Biden.

I bite my tongue and don’t say anything but it’s so frustrating.

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11 points

As far as Hillary goes I am not sure why Trump’s DoJ didn’t hand down an indictment if it had evidence that she ultimately committed a crime? I guess the same is true for Hunter.

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To my knowledge and I am prefacing this with I could be wrong. In order to charge Hillary for the email incident they would have had to prove either Intent or Gross negligence and when it came down to Hillary I dont think the Doj had anything along the lines of these two factors, whereas trump and they even qoute him, hes talking about how the information is still classified but yada yada this happened, that fills the intent part and then for the gross negligence part they talk about how they found the boxes of files just strewn about everywhere in the club.

Feel free to correct me, this is just my understanding.

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oh yeah! thank you for saying that :) trump had the doj under his control and still didn’t have enough evidence to indict her. i would think that would shut up the “jail hillary and joe” crowd, but i guess they have super short term memory

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same here. i’m all for treating everyone as equal, but i’m pretty sure nothing hillary was already investigated and iirc biden was slapped on the wrist for not returning some documents. but hey, you know, one box is the same as rooms full of boxes, apparently

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The difference seems to me, as far as I know (please correct me if I have missed something) is that Biden and related parties cooperated with getting the documents returned while Trump hid and tried to erase evidence that he had them. And I believe that some have yet to be found, potentially sold off.

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9 points

He’s just a walking blizzard of dishonesty.

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3 points

his lawyer said this is “an attack on america”.

I’m wondering if the lawyers who quit did so because they were too embarrassed to say shit like that in court, despite a certain client’s demands.

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4 points

the lawyers that quit are lawyers who don’t want to perjure themselves, probably 🙃

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38 points

the Justice Department recommended the defendants be released with no financial or special conditions as they aren’t a “flight risk.”

Being “arrested” is not the way I remember it

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2 points

Have you tried being rich?

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2 points

I’m trying every day

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1 point

Headline in five days:

“We were wrong” says justice department when asked about Trump fleeing to Russia for diplomatic protection.

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36 points

This title is a little misleading. No, Trump has not been arrested but he did appear in court. He is not in any form of jail (yet).

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28 points

We need one of those mod appliable (or vote-appliable?) “Misleading title” or “headline altered” tags maybe

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5 points

The headline was not altered.

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1 point

That does make me wonder if there’s an option in Lemmy to add tags to posts.

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34 points

Biden returned the documents before they even know they were gone and he was the one who told them he had them. Trump refused to return the documents when they were requested back and he is caught on tape admitting to knowing he wasn’t supposed to have them. Also he asked his lawyers to destroy evidence.

Huge difference between a crime with someone cooperating and someone who tries to destroy evidence. Also the content of trump’s documents seem like they’re higher level and more highly classified.

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