Reminder: This is the criminal trial for the exact same crime for which Trump's co-conspirator Michael Cohen has already served a 3 year sentence.
Ready to watch our Two-Tiered legal system do it's thing again?
this post was submitted on 25 Mar 2024
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Let the fascism slowly unfold
“Boil that frog! Boil that frog! Boil that frog!”
You can't be sure of that, if we're lucky we'll see his cult pay a $200,000 fine (before appeals)
He will walk free. I guarantee it.
Look how courts magically reduced his $450M bond to $175M, even after he bragged that he has money. He will appeal again to reduce $175M to less than a million and won’t even pay that much
I never had faith that he'd get jail time. I once had faith that, the amount and bond being announced, he would pay, simply because the inertia of the legal system is often quite massive.
Not as massive as the vast wave of conservative corruption in this country, it would seem.
The criminal trial isn't even worth getting worked up over in comparison. If he's not going to be forced to pay a fine, he sure as fuck isn't going to jail.
Look at that dangling carrot. I'm definitely gonna get that carrot this time. And after that, I'm gonna catch that rabbit on the track. And after that, I'm gonna kick that football. It's all gonna happen. Everything's coming up Milhouse!
How do I block "Trump" from my Lemmy Timeline? I can not do this anymore. Everytime the hopes are high and then this fucking clown gets away. Let me please just block everything related to that asshole.
I mean, he's the Republican Nominee and is running for President of the US this year. If you're not expecting to see news about him, then you should probably block [email protected] and all political subs...
Here are some topic from politics that are not trump related that I would have missed:
- Biden cancels nearly $6 billion in student debt for 78K public service workers
- Republicans reject motion to impeach Joe Biden
- House Republicans Want to Ban Universal Free School Lunches
- Nature article suggests that we cannot afford the rich
- Biden Targets Private Jets in Hunt for Tax Revenue
- Lev Parnas, ex-Giuliani associate, testifies allegations against Bidens are false and ‘spread by the Kremlin'
Lemmy, please let me block "Trump" as a Keyword and let me stay in the loop for the rest.
With Sync you can filter in various ways. E.g. you can filter posts by a keyword such as "Trump". I assume something similar can be done in another client. I know not all support filtering, though do not recall which do aside from Sync.
Time loop time loop time loop
If this past week is an indicator, nothing will happen as a result. The dude is almost untouchable.
For a minute I thought it said he was kicking off Criminal Month and I was impressed they got such a good brand tie in.
finally its infrastructure week
This is the best summary I could come up with:
Judge Juan Merchan ruled on Monday that the former president’s criminal hush-money trial will kick off next month.
Merchan rejected Trump’s latest push to delay the trial even further, while excoriating his team for making bogus allegations of misconduct against Bragg.
“You are literally accusing the Manhattan DA’s office and the people assigned to this case of prosecutorial misconduct and trying to make me complicit in it,” the judge said.
The ruling is all but final, although Merchan is allowing Trump to file a motion arguing that the trial should be delayed on the grounds of pretrial publicity.
Trump would be criminally indicted three more times in the ensuring months — twice by the Justice Department and once in Georgia by Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis — but it’s looking like the case in Manhattan is the only one that will go to trial before the 2024 election.
Trump has repeatedly decried his legal troubles as a Democratic conspiracy to prevent him from retaking the White House.
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