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The main reason is destroying evidence. This is a guy that would literally eat memos and flush paperwork down the toilet while in the white house.
You forgot that they (Trump's people, maybe Trump himself) repeatedly burnt government documents in the White House fireplaces.
One of my favorite West Wing episodes
I love that episode
That's one I haven't heard before. It's also something I'd believe.
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I and at least literally 'ones' of others figured he'd be off to Russia or more likely Saudi Arabia as soon as he left office because he was scared shitless of being thrown in jail.
Now, naturally I'm a bit pissed he hasn't been held, at least on the Jan 6th charges, if not the damn espionage act indictment. "Two-tiered" justice, indeed.
I had always hoped that Trump would try to escape to Russia. It would've been the icing on the shit cake.
Hanging out with Steven Seagal, riding around shirtless with Putin 😂
Barf.
I always picture him flying off on a propeller helicopter gadget thing, laughing.
“Eat memos *covered in Big Mac™️ sauce”
I’ve been convinced for a while now that if Trump felt he was actually headed to jail his last desperate act would be to try to flee to North Korea to hide behind his crazy bestie Kim (who would absolutely love the drama of having an ex-POTUS as his puppet to parade around and try to shame the US with).
Nah, he'd go for Russia. Not enough diet Coke or well done-steaks with ketchup for Donnie in NK.
Maybe Saudi Arabia. Russia's too cold.
I don’t doubt that Trump would want to go to Russia but Putin would never agree to that when he could have all the same benefits if Donnie was in NK and none of the negatives of having him in Russia. Kim is crazy enough that he wouldn’t care and would enjoy all the extra scrutiny and attention.
Kim isn't crazy. He was raised from birth believing he is the divine ruler of a people and received a modern education. He is acting in the best interests of the state he leads. It just happens that most of us on this platform likely live in a part of the world where those interests don't make sense or are hard to see or just don't seem important. But that's an "us" problem.
His public persona in the West is a combination of propaganda from multiple angles, much like we see around Russia and China, too.
I'm not saying that he is a good leader or has the health of North Koreans in mind, but be aware that not everything you hear about living in North Korea is necessarily accurate (and not necessarily due to outside actors, either).
Anyone believing they are a divine ruler has delusions, and can't operate in anyones best interest as he believes he has no peers
You've convinced me North Korea is a secret paradise. Booking a flight now.
Where did I say that?
How long would Trump actually survive if he lived in North Korea? Do they have McDonalds and Diet Coke?
You do know that just because a country is poor doesn't mean the upper crust can't scrounge enough money to buy a cheese burger right?
Just look at Kim, does he look like a man who goes wanting?
I wonder why the prosecution team thought that was a "mistake", or if it was intentionally included and then retracted? Maybe it's standard language?
Not a lawyer but lawyers write draft arguments and then choose the ones they think are the best. It's possible they put the flight risk argument in a draft but ultimately decided to remove it, but then sent it out before actually removing it.
The "standard language" thing sounds right to me. A lot of court filings templates and attorneys just plug in the facts for their particular submission.
Which unfortunately reminds me of Mad Libs, and now this is all getting pretty absurd in my head
I think being under constant secret service protection would make it hard to flee the country. They'd have to go along with it.
Is that mandatory? Pretty sure it's a service offered to former Presidents, but Trump could probably just say no.
He hasn't (and probably won't) do that because he likes feeling important, and because he ain't paying for their services.
They can refuse it. Trump would be too scared to.