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Fulton county prosecutors prepare racketeering charges in Trump inquiry (www.theguardian.com)

submitted 1 year ago by YoBuckStopsHere to c/politics

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[–] flossdaily 34 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Obviously it's great that Trump is starting to face legal consequences for the crimes we saw him commit in broad daylight... But it's tragic that all these productions took so long to get started.

There's a very real possibility that Trump will be reelected before any jury even has a chance to convict him of crimes which would disqualify him from holding any office.

It's alarming that these indictments weren't happening the day he left office after his unsuccessful coup attempt.

The biggest ball that was dropped is that Merrick Garland didn't appoint an independent prosecutor to go after Trump for the Obstruction of Justice that was fully fleshed out in the Mueller report. This was arguably the most serious case of Obstruction of Justice in US history. It was the president firing the director of the FBI (among other egregious actions) TO COVER UP HIS TIES TO RUSSIA regarding their SUCCESSFUL ATTEMPT TO INTERFERE IN OUR ELECTION.

It is utter insanity and gross dereliction of duty that Garland didn't appoint someone to prosecute this on day one. To say nothing of the fact that Barr and Mueller should have been pursuing this while Trump was in officer.

This isn't talked about enough.

[–] AttackBunny 16 points 1 year ago (1 children)

More importantly, they dropped the ball when they didn’t convict him in either impeachment. That would have barred him from office.

[–] flossdaily 23 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

I think "dropped the ball" is too gentle a phrase here. It implies that an attempt was made, but was fumbled.

I'm truth, the Democrats trying to impeach and convict Trump did everything humanly possible to do it. They even got 6 Republicans to cross the aisle and join them.

The reason conviction didn't happen is because it was blocked by Republicans who knew full well that Trump was guilty. It wasn't a fumble by the Democrats, it was deliberate thwarting of Justice by Republicans.

[–] AttackBunny 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Fair. I’m in total agreement. I was mostly pointing out had they convicted him he wouldn’t even be eligible to run. They fucked themselves in the long term, and everyone else in the process.

[–] kryptonicus 2 points 1 year ago

You keep saying that, but there is no prohibition against a felon running for president. There is literally no crime he could be convicted of that would preclude him from campaigning and being elected to the presidency. Obviously, it's doubtful he'd find a majority to vote for him, but it isn't legally disallowed.