While it’s true that Trump may never see the inside of a prison cell, can we just for once be relieved that a judge threatened actual imprisonment? Everyone keeps complaining that no judge goes there, but when one finally does, I see nothing but neg comments in replies.
There are reasons Trump isn’t in prison now, some unreasonable, some understandable.
Judges don’t want to be reversed on appeal. Trump’s a pres candidate. That’s life, folks.
@GottaLaff At the risk of asking a stupid question: could the judge sentence him to community service? Or having to stand in front of the courthouse with a sandwich board?
@salgernon LOL! Yes, I believe a judge can do whatever he/she wants, within reason. But if you’re being serious, they wouldn’t do that for fear of being overturned on appeal.
People thinking they are going to let a career criminal go without jailing him are being ignorant.
Trump has made it impossible for them to allow him to be free by exhibiting behavior's that make him a threat to the USA.
They cant let him go. He is dangerous. They will find a way to put him into captivity. And by the time all the facts come out, the GOP will turn on him or also look like traitors.
Trump has made himself a toxic danger to society around the world, not just here in the USA
@GottaLaff I do get a tiny bit of solace in the fact that this is probably the only time in his life (well, except for some of his foundational years as a child - likely why he's a psychopath) that he's had to experience distress. You can see it in his recent speeches. He's coming apart at the seams.
@GottaLaff I don't know what kind of latitude this judge has, but fining Trump, say, $1 million for each day the post was up would probably get his attention.
Agreed that at least the judge said the word 'prison'. However, talk is cheap. Like the talk that no one is above the law, that Trump is like any other defendant. No, he isn't, as you just pointed out. Why do they keep saying it when the evidence shows otherwise? None of us are willing to take any of this on faith given the long history of failures to bring him to justice or even rein him in.
In this case, skepticism is the rational response.
@JaneDoeTheFirst If a judge throws him in prison, it could really mess up the case against him. Prison isn’t always the answer for him. I wish it were, but we have a legal system to contend with. And an election.
It’s way more complicated than other cases. As frustrating as that is.
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The way I see it, the problem with that is that TFG knows it all too well.
He will ignore the order, by going just over the line. Just enough for his opponents to say lock him up! and for his followers to say he did nothing wrong.
Free campaign publicity for him right there.
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