He could never set a single foot on the campaign trail and still win the nomination by a ridiculous amount, sadly. And he knows it.
GOP voters are ridiculous.
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Not only that, it'll benefit him. The other candidates can fight it out among each other, but the attention of the media is going to be entirely on Trump the entire time.
All publicity is good publicity, and especially so for Trump.
I really wish the media would find something else to focus on and maybe put the country above ratings garnered by Trump's nonsense.
if he didn't say that he would only have bad publicity ¯\(ツ)/¯
That photo is even less flattering than the real mugshot. What a strange choice for a “fan”.
Never join a cult of personality, it always ends pathetically like this
Josip Broz Trump
FTA:
"he’ll be required to be in court for his four criminal trials across four jurisdictions, and those could last for weeks at a time while voting is underway."
By point of comparison, Fani Willis' last big RICO trial was for a Georgia school cheating scandal, 12 defendants, and it took EIGHT MONTHS.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atlanta_Public_Schools_cheating_scandal
For a bunch of teachers, test coordinators, and administrators.
Trying a former President and his lawyers could easily take a year or more.
Why she pushing for an October trail date. And why Trump wants to delay it for years so he can become president and escape his crimes.
She has her ducks in a row, she's ready to go.
Two defendants have invoked Georgia's "speedy trial" law which means their trials HAVE to be held before 11/3 or the charges will be dropped.
Because the RICO charge hits ALL of them, Willis is like "Game on, you want early trials? EVERYONE gets early trials..."
They probably invoke them because they thought she can't meet the deadline or the courts will delay it.
What the chances of the courts holding ths up? You look at New York and the other indictments and trails for those not set until long into next year.
Hard to say, Chesebro has already been granted 10/23 as his date, which is what Willis wanted, in fact she went "Fine, 10/23 for EVERYONE." I doubt there will be any delay on the court side.
How is he still eligible to be voted into office?
Because he's legally innocent until proven otherwise and therefore has not forfeit his eligibility yet.
There is a legal process, and it should be followed.
Just because many people think he is guilty doesn't mean that the normal juristical procesd can be skipped.
He will lose eligibility early enough (i hope)
Good point. To be fair, if the bullshit he's openly admitted to doing, and been seen doing, isn't enough to stop him I don't see why a couple of accusations would.
I'm not sure getting convicted technically removes his eligibility either. From what I've read, he could theoretically run from prison, win, and pardon himself at least at the federal level. That won't help with state charges, but it's a super fun constitutional crisis to consider!
And there's technically nothing legally preventing a state-convicted felon from getting elected while serving his sentence in state prison.
It's ridiculous that we're even this close to finding out if it could happen