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Former President Donald Trump on Sunday called for recusal of the judge presiding over the federal case that alleges he illegally conspired to overturn his election loss to President Joe Biden in 2020.

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[–] penguinsAreRapists 44 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Can you imagine any other citizen having 78 felony charges?

[–] TokenBoomer 45 points 1 year ago (3 children)

We’ve executed people for similar crimes. He’s lucky he has prominence.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 year ago (2 children)

@TokenBoomer

@MicroWave @penguinsAreRapists

I assume you know that Trump’s mentor, Roy Cohn, was the prosecutor in the case against the Rosenbergs. He’s named in the Wikipedia article.

[–] TokenBoomer 4 points 1 year ago

I did not. It’s like an ouroboros of corruption.

[–] grue 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Now tell us about the lawyers who worked for Bush in Bush v. Gore and the makeup of the current Supreme Court.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

That should bringer harsher penalties.

[–] TokenBoomer 2 points 1 year ago
[–] eran_morad 4 points 1 year ago

I think it would be far more fitting a punishment for him to face his remaining few years in absolute misery. None of that “hair”, makeup, luxury, hamberders, women. Left to rot by his children and his whore. No crowds, no adulation, nothing. A pathetic, broken man, never able to escape the confines of his miserable, deeply flawed self. Left only with public humiliation, self pity, and, when the thought is able to penetrate his ironclad narcissism, the knowledge that he will be vilified by history.