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Why are people around this dude are falling like flies, except him? What kind of wizardry is he doing to avoid prison? Or is our system just that fucked?
It's not wizardry, it's that our political/legal system has been avoiding the question of "Can you indict a President (current or former)?" ever since Nixon.
We avoided it when it came to Bush & Cheney's actually verified war crimes, and we're ignoring it for Trump, because the government desperately does not want to set precedent where people might actually be, you know, held accountable for being giant grifting pieces of shit.
This has been going on a long time and they only started prosecuting Trump because he wasn't willing to do the whole "handshake and give the classified documents back" deal. They literally started the classified documents case because he was being so belligerently criminal. Former Presidents "played the game" so to speak and gave back documents with a "slap on the wrist" outcome, because "but they gave them back!" They tried to give Trump the opportunity to do the same but he just can't help being a criminal scumfuck.
They're slow walking every single case because they still don't want this question answered, period. They want it to hang as a question eternally, so Presidents can essentially have immunity while hiding behind "Well we don't know if they do or not because there is no legal case as a basis."
It's literally just that he's a former President. He's stolen plenty of money from other rich people, which is usually the fast way to end up in prison, stealing from other rich people.
I believe we answered this question back in the 1770's when we sent our king a letter telling him to fuck off, then beat his army and sent them packing. Then we re-answered this question in 1812 when we fought off the Brits again and Canada, who burnt down our original white house, but ultimately told the king to fuck off again ans sent his army and allies packing again. Then we told Jefferson Davis and his supporters fuck off when he tried to take over as the unelected "President", aka King/Tyrant/Despot/Dictator, although with all of the Confederate "heritage", flags, statues, and terrorist groups (KKK) that still exist it doesn't seem like we told the Confederates to fuck off hard enough, we probably should have let Sherman tell each and every one of them "fuck off" in person.
Anyway, my point is that we've already had this discussion three times and the answer to every King and wannabe King has been "fuck off" followed by a lot of killing, I'm not so sure we should be going for a forth time, especially not for an orange diaper wearing nepo baby traitor.
It has been answered endlessly. Power doesn't care, it just wants power. The fact that the entire political establishment including both parties has been taking this path for literally fifty fucking years (Nixon stepped down in '74) really speaks to the idea that they want to play a game and pretend this question hasn't been answered before.
Obligatory "Thanks, Obama."
Lord Acton (1887)
The full quote is pretty poignant as well:
Lord Acton had some pretty good bangers on this topic:
And:
Also:
Lastly:
The tree of liberty and all...
We have no memory.