He should have resigned in the last year of his presidency. Had Pence pardon him. Then attended functions for the rest of his life as a “dignified former president”
But nah. He bought his own hype. Now he has to win or he dies in prison. And it’s every bit his own damn fault. Fully self inflicted.
The problem is he didn’t trust pence to follow through. And self pardons were a very big legal grey area. And it didn’t help that people were realizing Biden could kick his ass which brought back trump’s PTSD over Obama’s… existence?
But also? He will never see a day of prison (might get some jail stays though). Democrats care too much about “decorum” to throw the book at him and his handlers have enough money that he will appeal everything until the day he dies… which might be accelerated depending upon how much he pisses off those handlers.
But it wouldn’t have been a self-pardon if he resigned and had Pence take over. There’s already precedent with Ford’s pardon of Nixon.
Trump’s PTSD over Obama’s… existence
Watch American history unfold, and that’s not hyperbole. History changed that night.
This fucker is driven by nothing but his psychotic narcissism. The very idea of no longer being center of attention is probably his biggest nightmare.
It’s kind of like Vizzini in that regard. He uses it, but it doesn’t mean what he thinks it means.
I don’t know why I didn’t draw the Vizzini parallel myself before now; it’s not perfect, but does fit a surprisingly large portion of not just who Trump is, but also how he sees himself.
But he really wants to be seen as Prince Humperdink AND the six fingered man. And Vance is his Igor.
A pardon wouldn’t help him. His 34 felonies were at the state level. Pardons are only for federal crimes.
This is in a hypothetical situation where he didn’t run in 2020, so he wouldn’t have done the election manipulation in Georgia.
Plenty of suggestions as long as we’re second-guessing his actions. Many of his crimes were related to the 2020 election, and if he hadn’t ran, he wouldn’t have issues in Georgia. We could also just say he could have not taken a bunch of classified documents, but it’s pretty easy to say “just don’t commit crimes”. The main one that he couldn’t avoid at that point was the Stormy Daniels hush money case.
The main one that he couldn’t avoid at that point was the Stormy Daniels hush money case.
If Trump had exited without a fight, my guess is that most of the momentum for that would have died out. Yes it was a crime, but I think most would have just wanted to put Trump in the rear view mirror and forget about him and focus on the future for better or worse.
Possibly. That would be basically agreeing with his claim that it was politically motivated prosecution, though. Seems to me like he really pissed off some people in New York and they may have done it anyway.
Isn’t “just don’t commit crimes” a common justification for police murder and deflection when prison reform is brought up?
I guess. Not stealing a bunch of classified documents and refusing to give them back is a great way to not be prosecuted for stealing classified documents though.
Anyway what I meant by “pretty easy to say” is that it’s not really a satisfying or useful suggestion.
hadn’t ran
It’s “hadn’t run” in English.
Sorry about your highway shooting, glad if no one’s been killed.
I hope so. Biden is old, but his problems with mental acuity were dramatically exaggerated by the media and conservatives. When people asked him questions, he would actually answer them. Meanwhile republicans were “omg he doesn’t even know what room he’s in bro” and that was sort of ridiculous. But then, you have Trump seems not just loopy but insane and deranged, and unlike Biden, he’s always been an idiot. However Trump he gets a pass from these same people. The press has never paid nearly enough attention to how incoherent he is. It gets frustrating because it has to be on purpose.
Of course it’s on purpose. Most of the media are owned by oligarchs that support Trump because all they care about is their next tax cut.
Right. The “liberal media” BS has been of the Republican’s most successful tactics. Corporate media is not left-wing - it’s absurd, but that’s what conservatives push and many people fully believe it. Almost all media outlets in the US support conservatives in subtle ways, but people have been trained to think that right/centrist corporate media is rabidly biased towards the left.
Yes, but many of the journalists are normal peopke on the left and write. If they are constantly being stifled, they should still be reporting on that or quitting. There is meant to be done integrity in the profession.
Its been gone for many years. Now its just content farms.
A lot of Biden was also focused around a brainfart he had during the debate… I just spent days at an expo, and I had plenty where I lost my chain of thought due to being tired.
And a photo where it looks like he’s speaking to nobody… But they cropped the parachuter out.
Whereas, Trump constantly makes major mistakes for things he should know. And it is in general incoherent rambling. I’m a total introvert and even I don’t fuck up the way Trump does (ie, completely mixing up people and names constantly).
Because he’s always been an idiot he set the right expectations, let that be a lesson for any of you getting into politics
Imagine giving Trump $180,000,000 and he calls you “Leon”. LMAO at these clowns.
Did he actually do that? He said he was going to, but Leon Musk is famously a big fucking liar.
I saw he said he was writing a $45 million check a month for 4 months. Dunno if he followed through.
Relevant quote:
“Boeing had a little hard time, so they are going to save — Leon’s going to send up a rocket,” Trump said. “He looks forward to it. That’s all he thinks about is things like that.”.
Not remembering names and making shit up. As usual.
