I mean he was literally the president. I’m not a fan either but surely we’re not expecting him to have his door kicked in and for him to get dragged off in cuffs. Secret service following him around in jail?
I understand what you’re saying but I think there are a few points I can gather as to what is truly being said and why it resonates with so many.
One that you brought up about getting his door kicked in and dragged out in handcuffs as a hypothetical is that people shouldn’t have their doors kicked in and dragged out in handcuffs unless it’s actually necessary which in many cases it is not but occurs anyway and way too often.
Another one is that you shouldn’t have to sit in jail for an unnecessary length of time waiting to get out. The implication being that you’ve been arrested are waiting to see a judge which should be a maximum of 48 hours and any longer is unconstitutional.
I guess the overall point is that the former president is saying he’s not being treated fairly but in fact he is actually being treated very fairly which is how everyone should be treated. The fairness should not extend only to a former president but also to every citizen in the U.S. because they have rights.
However, because the reality is that so many rights are violated on a daily and consistent basis for the average low income person and also for people of color (which both actually might be approaching the majority at this point) it makes Trump’s treatment unfair by comparison.
And to have someone who formerly held one of the most powerful positions in the world state his treatment as unfair shows just how far removed from the average citizen he is and in many ways ignores the hardships of the very people he was supposed to lead and support.
By just simply complaining he told so much.
This is just how I see it though. I could be way off but that’s what I got.
He should be treated as terribly as he treats others. He’s a massive POS.
Good clickbait title
This article came out around the time of his NY arraignment and did a really good job making this point
The arrest and arraignment of former President Donald J. Trump may have been an unprecedented moment in American history, with seismic implications for the political process. But as a legal process, it was more routine: On Tuesday, he became just another one of the roughly 31,000 people arraigned for felonies in dreary courtrooms across New York State each year.
Constitutionally, those people are entitled to equal treatment — but practically, we all know that’s not true. Usually there are handcuffs and mug shots, two indignities Trump himself avoided. (Law enforcement officials told the New York Times he wasn’t considered a flight risk.) But he couldn’t get around the fingerprinting.
There’s also no evidence that Trump spent time in an overcrowded holding cell, an experience that seems to cut through the haze of memory for many defendants, who described moldy sandwiches or pee-filled plastic cups.
By contrast, Trump was allowed to self-surrender and arrived in a multi-car motorcade, escorted by the Secret Service officers routinely assigned to a former president.
We asked people what the experience is like when you’re not a high-profile White defendant, arrested for a white collar crime, with access to top-flight lawyers, campaign donors, crowds of well-wishers and supporters. Some were indicted before their arrest, some after. The picture they give — as mostly defendants of color, mostly arrested for violent crimes — is of disorientation and hopelessness.
And usually the world is not paying attention.
I’ve been arrested twice… both times misdemeanors with no jail time.
The most memorable part for me was being instructed to strip naked, then squat and spread my cheeks so they could see my asshole and make sure I didn’t have a plastic baggy of cocaine or shiv turtle-heading.
I seriously doubt Trump had to suffer the same indignity, despite being charged with felonies.
Title definitely got me 😂. But this is so true.
Shouldn’t everything be equitable here. Why does he get a pass when someone else who did the same thing would be sitting in Jail.
