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Trump expects to be arrested next week

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  1. Reeko

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    This man got indicted on a whopping 34 counts. Stormy Daniels is probably the tip of the iceberg in this case
     
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    Soros backed DA that picks and chooses when to apply the law towards certain individuals- uneven application of the law ... someone that has downgraded over half of the felony cases in front of him and now we are suppose to accept his relentless and full pursuit of trump is NOT politically charged when we know what Soros deep pockets interests are with regard to a certain political party - the fact that Soros does not back anyone who is does not have a vested interest with the Democratic Party- this has political weaponization written all over it and it's not even close to be in question
     
  3. Amiga

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    read the tweet
     
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    link?
     
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    Soros backed DA that picks and chooses when to apply the law towards certain individuals- uneven application of the law ... someone that has downgraded over half of the felony cases in front of him and now we are suppose to accept his relentless and full pursuit of trump is NOT politically charged when we know what Soros deep pockets interests are with regard to a certain political party - the fact that Soros does not back anyone who is does not have a vested interest with the Democratic Party- this has political weaponization written all over it and it's not even close to be in question
     
  6. Reeko

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    go scour Twitter
     
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    What Donald Trump’s Indictment Reveals - The Atlantic

    An American Tragedy
    Donald Trump is about to be charged with crimes in New York. I do not know if he is guilty of any of these charges—we don’t even know the exact accusations yet—and neither do you. That’s for a jury to decide, and both Trump and the state of New York will have their day in court. In that sense, this is a good day for America, because it shows, in the most direct way possible, that no one in this country is above the law.

    But this whole mess, no matter how it turns out, and no matter what other charges may come at Trump from elsewhere, is also an American tragedy. Trump’s status as a former president has not shielded him from answering for his alleged crimes. The indictment itself is shot through with tension, because Trump is, in fact, a former president and a current leading presidential candidate—which underscores the ghastly reality that no matter how much we learn about this crass sociopath, millions of people voted for him twice and are still hoping that he will return to power in the White House.

    Trump’s defenders will argue that the New York case is just a local political vendetta, and that the potential crimes involved are relatively minor. As my colleague David Graham has noted, “Falsifying records is a crime, and crime is bad,” but this is like trying to get Al Capone on tax evasion, especially because “the Manhattan case seems like perhaps both the least significant and the legally weakest case.” David also notes that even some Trump critics wish Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg had waited for Trump to be indicted on more important potential charges.

    I’m not so sure. Trump has kept his supporters in a state of high tension over the past few weeks, first claiming that he’d be arrested on Tuesday, March 21, and then, in an appalling cultlike rally in Waco, bellowing that 2024 would be “the final battle” after previously warning that to indict him would be to court violence and civil unrest. Perhaps the New York charges have popped that bubble of tension; Trump can now go and whine about that while others prepare the case arguing that he has committed crimes against American democracy.

    But to focus on which indictment should come when is to ignore that Trump has already admitted to his awful behavior in the events around the case. Trump (who sometimes refers to Stormy Daniels as "Horse Face") denies that he had an affair with the p*rn actor, but no one contests that he authorized paying her off, nor does his legal team deny that he lied about that money while standing in Air Force One—part of their risible argument that she was being paid hush money to keep quiet about an affair that never happened. They’re simply saying that technically, he didn’t violate any namby-pamby laws about ledger entries and campaign funding.

    To our shame, we have too often let those kinds of arguments define the Trump legal saga. If Trump is brought to trial on the far more serious charge of attempting to strong-arm Georgia election officials, his defenders will claim that that indictment, too, is just local huckstering. They will find other excuses in the event that he somehow must answer for his role in trying to overturn our constitutional processes. And once again, even after looking at Trump’s own behavior, including his phone call to the Georgia secretary of state and the exhortation to the mob on January 6, too many Americans will focus on whether he committed an actual crime instead of coming to their senses and realizing that in any functional and healthy democracy, someone like Trump would have been shamed and forced into political and social exile years ago.

    Trump, like the Republican opportunists who cling to him like remoras under a shark, doesn’t care about shame—he cares about getting away with it. Indeed, rather than leaving the public arena, Trump has reveled in it all, rolling around in the garbage of his own life and grunting happily about how the rules don’t apply to the real elites like him. Forget about Richard Nixon, who publicly resigned; Trump isn’t even Spiro Agnew, a man who seethed with rage at the felony corruption charges against him but had the sense not to brag about them. (Agnew insisted on his innocence for two months and then took a plea of “no contest” to a single tax-evasion charge, after which he mostly vanished from public view.)

    No such luck this time. Win or lose in court, Trump is determined to bring us all into a summer-heat dumpster with him for as long as he can. And that leads to the last and most shocking thing about today’s news: Late this afternoon, New York local media reported that security was tightening up in certain areas of the city. That’s how we knew something was coming: The former president had already told us that he fully intended to trigger violence if the institutions of the law tried to touch him.

    Tomorrow, all NYPD officers have reportedly been ordered to be in full uniform and ready to deploy. And again, somehow, we’ve just accepted this as the new normal. We no longer even blink when New York, a city scarred by multiple terror attacks against its innocent citizens, has to go on alert just to charge Trump with a crime. That one fact, more than any other, tells you how far down the long slide into vice and venality—and violence—Trump has dragged this country.

    Every defendant, including Donald Trump, deserves the presumption of innocence. But when it comes to our civic and political innocence, Americans long ago lost whatever is left of ours.
     
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    Has the indictment been unsealed? I am not holding my breath that Donald Trump will ever see the consequences of his lifetime of lawbreaking. If he was not a politician, I think society would continue to overlook his crimes too.
     
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    The great thing about the political weaponization of the justice system is that it certainly can go both ways- and now that we have precedent- this will certainly be a back-and-forth thing going forward
     
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    The great thing about the political weaponization of the justice system is that it certainly can go both ways- and now that we have precedent- this will certainly be a back-and-forth thing going forward
     
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    I think politicians and the wealthy should be held to the same standards as everyday people. I find it disheartening that all are not equal in the eyes of the law.
     
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    You do realize that you sound like gullible idiot when you answer that question by repeating the same claims in more words but without any additional detail? Do better.
     
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    Well, you can call me names I don't really care if you can drop dead for all I care, but the fact remains. I agree with what he said, and it makes sense so there's no doing better. That's the fact.
     
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    The great thing about the political weaponization of the justice system is that it certainly can go both ways- and now that we have precedent- this will certainly be a back-and-forth thing going forward
     
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    I'm not calling you names; I'm telling you what it sounds like. I asked you directly why you believe him and, specifically, what details have been provided to support that argument. You came back with nothing and repeated the same political attack line. If and when you have details, come back.
     
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    And folks look down on p*rn stars.
    Stormy Daniels is about to take down the 45th president, what a patriot.
     
  18. Amiga

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    still sealed
     
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    don't fk around, literally
     
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  20. ROXRAN

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    How does it not make sense? Every aspect of what is involved smells like political charged weaponization of the justice system

    If it didn't make sense, I would question it further, but everything DeSantis said makes sense...you can easily look into the DA - see who George Soros is and what he is about and the fact that he's backing this DA- the fact that that DA has basically allowed criminals to walk while going full charged on Trump -

    really and truly, I don't have to find any more details when the details that are available indicates that DeSantis has a point- you sound like an idiot for ignoring those details to be quite honest
     
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