Yes the system is broken but the optics here look REALLY bad.
Iād say this is far worse:
Ofc, but thatās more evidence of Trump doing whatever - whereas now they have something to point to in order to claim ābOtH siDeSā, which even if only 5% true / 95% false, can nonetheless work on a centrist who isnāt paying attention. And since the popular vote means nothing and those people control the entire outcome of every election, that could end up being highly impactful, e.g. in an upcoming House or Senate race where it might flip a seat towards Republicans that would otherwise have gone to Democrats.
So Biden shouldāve let his son get dragged through the mud? What for? Principles? Americans have shown they donāt value any principles by voting for a rapist, fascist, con man. The least Biden could do was to keep his family safe.
Oh I thought you were asking what I meant. āThe new Presidency will absolutely spin and use this event.ā and then āYes the system is broken but the optics here look REALLY bad.ā
The reasoning doesnāt even matter anymore, bc itās already done. I was talking about the fall-out. Centrists who arenāt paying attention wonāt care about reasons anyway.
But if you want to get into it, it sounds like it would be a cost-to-benefit trade-off, e.g. if 16 months in minimum security prison, maybe able to just do a house arrest situation (didnāt they do that for Roger Stone?), then thatās one thing. As people are saying here elsewhere in the comments, āhunter filled out a form wrongā - which sounds like the penalty for that would be super low? But perhaps Iām missing something.
And some people consider principles to be quite important. Arguably it was the lack of enticement to vote Democrat that led to Trump winning the Presidency even?
Though anyway, Iām not trying to āboth sidesā this - I consider the matter already settled and done, and again was talking purely about the fall-out i.e. what happens next?
