It wouldn’t be fair to have your felony conviction negatively impact your opportunities. This is how justice works right?

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If trump gets elected he’ll just pardon himself or whatever machinations transpire where he won’t be sentenced at all.

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He can’t do that. These are state crimes.

He has no authority to pardon non-federal crimes.

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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.

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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.

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True. But that is based in logic and the assumption that laws follow strict “rules” and well…

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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.

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Acceptance of a pardon also means an admission of guilt. Trump has never guilty to anything, so he’ll be in a tight spot.

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He will just say how can I be guilty of sth I got pardoned for? Some true Trump logic at work.

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Not at all. He’s been charged and found guilty before and it has made no difference because there’s never been real consequences.

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