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Donald Trump would have been convicted over 2020 election, special counsel report says (www.theguardian.com)

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Donald Trump would have been convicted of crimes over his failed attempt to cling to power in 2020 if he had not won the presidential election in 2024, according to the special counsel who investigated him.

Jack Smith’s report (***the report is 174 pages long) detailing his team’s findings about Trump’s efforts to subvert democracy was released by the justice department early on Tuesday.

Following the insurrection on 6 January, 2021, Smith was appointed as special counsel to investigate Trump’s efforts to overturn the 2020 election. His investigation culminated in a detailed report, submitted to the attorney general, Merrick Garland.

Volume one of the report meticulously outlines Trump’s actions, including his efforts to pressure state officials, assemble alternate electors and encourage supporters to protest against the election results.

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[–] Allonzee 90 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (10 children)

Voted for Harris out of usual attempted harm reduction because this place is irreparably destroyed since Reagan, but let's not kid ourselves, Donald Trump represents the United States as it is perfectly.

Proudly ignorant, proudly greedy, proudly gluttonous, obese, egotistical, explicitly judges others on net worth, perpetually drunk on cruelty and schaudenfreude, obsessed with image and his own ego score, demands loyalty and servitude while providing none aka a devout capitalist, obsessed with economic metastasis at literally any human and societal cost, proudly racist while still insisting he's not, the embodiment of what Americans disgustingly praise: a hyperindividualist who revels in blaming people not born to wealth for their suffering and insists this is a meritocracy after a lifetime of spending daddy's money.

Donald Trump is like the zeitgeist of the modern United States somehow took tangible human form. You can try to argue we don't deserve him, or that we have the potential to be a better society than one that would elect him, but you can't argue he represents who and what a loathsome society we are. A monument of all our sins.

He's more American as apple pie or baseball ever was, and he's at least as American as our current national pastimes of mass shootings and of course disgusting hyper-consumption.

That's why he illicits such a strong response in both directions. Whether you are repulsed or see your own necrotic heart in him, He is an accurate mirror of the practiced culture of The United States of America.

[–] erlend_sh 1 points 2 weeks ago

I need this on a t-shirt.

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