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Is This A Game? (lemmy.world)

submitted 7 months ago by homesweethomeMrL to c/politicalmemes

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 7 months ago (1 children)

And why are these bureaucrats obsessed with a perception of fairness for Donald Trump when they were so cavalier with the treatment of a guy like Steven Donziger or Aaron Swartz or Brandon Mayfield or Leonard Peltier?

Because those other people don't have the MAGA cult behind them. We dot every I and cross every T with Trump, give him the beenfit of every doubt and be as transparent as possible so to avoid the appearance of it being a political attack via the courts as much as possible. To limit the protests (which will of course likely fall into the "fiery but mostly peaceful" category in terms of damage done and lives lost, but will definitely be reported on in a less forgiving way except on FOX, OAN and RT).

They’re running out the clock until election day, so they can throw out the case.

Of course they are - the best and likely only good defense Trump has is getting elected.

[–] UnderpantsWeevil 0 points 7 months ago (1 children)

We dot every I and cross every T with Trump, give him the beenfit of every doubt and be as transparent as possible so to avoid the appearance of it being a political attack

And it still hasn't worked. No more than the Ken Star "Independent Investigation" washed Republicans' hands clean of the Clinton Impeachment.

Of course they are - the best and likely only good defense Trump has is getting elected.

So then why is the court facilitating his defense in this matter?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 7 months ago

And it still hasn’t worked. No more than the Ken Star “Independent Investigation” washed Republicans’ hands clean of the Clinton Impeachment.

The point isn't to wash their hands of it, but to limit the scope of the inevitable protests. If the case is fucking airtight, and Trump has been fully allowed to engage in every possible defensive argument he and his lawyers can think of, and a jury that definitely isn't just a bunch of Democrats who already hate Trump unanimously agree that the evidence proves he did it and all of this is thoroughly transparent and public then the resulting pool protests will draw from will just be the really fervent members of his cult. The more it has the appearances of just being a political attack, the larger the scale of the protests will be, and the bigger the protests are the more destructive and larger scale any violence from them is likely to be.