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Trump indicted in Georgia (thehill.com)

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[–] Changetheview 7 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Very true, but there’s already some celebration-worthy convictions flowing. And shit is really stacking up with 91 felonies, now including a RICO charge. Trump’s legal schedule sounds like an absolute fucking nightmare. I wouldn’t be able to sleep a minute.

From a NYT piece:

At this point, Mr. Trump is about to become a professional defendant. He has already been found liable for sexual abuse by a jury that ordered $5 million in damages in a civil trial this year, and his family-run business has been convicted of 17 counts of tax fraud and other financial crimes in a separate criminal trial.

Mr. Trump has five more trials scheduled between now and May — the hush money case, the classified documents case, a New York State civil fraud trial and two federal civil trials. A sixth trial will be scheduled in Mr. Smith’s election conspiracy case and now a seventh on the Georgia counts. Altogether, that would mean nine trials for Mr. Trump since leaving the White House, not counting the Senate impeachment trial just after his term expired.

But these four criminal trials matter the most. The table has now been set, the issues laid out by four grand juries in four locations. All told, they have charged him with 91 felonies, any one of which could send him to prison for years.

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/08/14/us/politics/trump-indictments-georgia-criminal-charges.html

[–] Potatos_are_not_friends 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I wish I can share your optimism.

This is like telling me this future birthday party has a bouncy castle, a petting zoo and four kinds cakes, but now we also have the judges from the Great British Bakeoff who will make pastries.

Wake me up when it's my birthday.

[–] Changetheview 3 points 1 year ago

I get it. The result of the Mueller investigation was really a mask-off situation and enough to destroy public trust for a long time. No one knows what’ll happen with these, regardless of how solid the cases are.

I’m just glad there’s something happening. It’s already historical. How much justice is served is yet to be determined.