What does the future hold for Donald Trump? - threadbans in OP

I see another rereg on the horizon.

It is interesting that the given MAGA defence for Trump in all this isn't: "Trump and his excellent legal team will prove him innocent! Wait & see!"

But no. "It's a stitch-up" "It's a conspiracy" "It's a deflection from Biden's kid (who Biden didn't blockheadedly install into the While House staff btw...)"

Feels like a combination of "How DARE you apply the law to our chosen guy?!" and "Don't apply the law to our chosen guy....he's guilty as sin". That laws are for those *other people*, and Trump should get away with things that we know he did....because he is our chosen guy...and should be allowed to do what he wants.

It's like playing a boardgame with a 5-year old. They don't want to play by the rules, and when they are about to lose they'll invent a new rule to ensure that they win. It's that level of maturity at play.

Yeah, he's already tried that one previously in the thread.

It's all part of the 'Hey, I was never a fan' defense.

Once it's clear that doesn't work, just pull the name change emergency cord, give it a few days and you're back in the game.

If it were some benign political figure then they would have conceded the election when they lost instead of claiming the entire democratic system has been rigged against him.

Do you honestly think if say Obama lost and then spend the next few months completely refusing to concede, claiming that there was evidence that the election had been stolen to a point where his supporters stormed the capital, the justice system would have said “nothing to see here?”

Oh is Vivek your breath of fresh air of the month?

WHAT? NOOOOOO…. Would they?! /s

But they're claiming the charges are politically motivated - not that they shouldn't be applied. The only possible explanations are either, 1 - no crime was committed, i.e. it's prefectly legal to keep those documents and it's perfectly legal to put pressure on election administrators to find more votes; or 2 - he didn't commit the crimes, i.e. - he was framed (in which case, who's voice is it in the phonecall? How did the boxes wind up in his bathroom?)

Perhaps @[Deleted User] or @MisterAnarchy could explain - am i right here, or is Quin?

100%. When they bang on about "law and order", they don't mean it should be applied fairly across the board. They mean laws should be used to stop people who they don't like doing things that they don't like. It shouldn't apply to them. They're morally correct/god's chosen ones/insert your preferred delusion here.

Threats of violence, essentially. If you arrest him then his supporters won’t take it lying down, so pardoning him would be placating his base.

Which of course is a terrible excuse to pardon anyone let alone Trump. A country that feels the need to pardon someone out of fear of a small portion of their citizens is in pretty awful shape.

And of course, pardoning him means more damage long term. He’ll be straight onto social media lying through his teeth about how the prosecution begged him for a conviction and promised a pardon because he was a perfect president and a perfect person or some other nonsense.

It's only when it's Law & Order for their benefit. You'll see quite quickly the indignation and histrionics when they're feeling the business end of it. It's all a great big conspiracy, then, and completely unjustified, of course.

They wet themselves that time, for sure. Of course, when it came time for MAGA to have a go, why these people were just peaceful protestors. They were just tourists taking souvenirs and photos in Pelosi's office.