40 Federal felonies in Florida.
This weeks indictment brought to you by the letter “F”.
The 2024 election will be a referendum on the rule of law.
Does it matter?
Does it matter that Trump is accused of butchering it? Does it matter that Alabama is ignoring a SCOTUS ruling it doesn’t like?
Are we for laws or not? Big moment for America, as you don’t come back from being not for laws right away.
Biden is almost as bad. He’s just more respectable on the surface.
“Both sides”. Gtfo
I think you got lost here, this is normally a place that deals with reality and facts. No, Biden isn’t anywhere remotely close to the traitorous scum that literally attempted a coup.
Biden is just as corrupt as Trump was and is. But you don’t fuck with power, and Trump fucked with the establishment, infuriated them for four years, and now they want his blood.
You are a useful idiot. Much like the idiots who broke into the Capitol were useful idiots for Trump.
Punishable with a fine though right?
Don’t be silly. Rich people don’t pay fines.
Yes they do but to them it’s just a petty cost for the lifestyle. Chump change for them, ruinous for the rest of us.
What you mean is rich people don’t pay fines that hurt.
Rich people don’t pay fines, they have LLCs to pay fines for them.
popcorn eating intensifies
Save it for the 2024 election!
It’s going to be a balls-out, no-holds-barred, utter shit fest of propaganda, lies, and disregard for any laws and/or ethics to get him re-elected.
Delay, delay and then steal the election to stay out of jail.
Listened to a podcast which said he can still run for the presidency though. WTF ?
In a functioning democracy, a person like Trump would never stand a chance after his first term, never mind the evidence of his criminality.
Our democracy is broken from too many uneducated people who need someone else to tell them what to think about a topic. The cult of personality relies on emotional appeals instead of fact base reason.
Shit’s fucked, yo.
I think it’s so you can’t get your political rivals arrested to prevent them from running against you. Kinda like Lula in Brazil. I think it makes sense, even if it feels shitty right now. Congress could still do something about it, but good luck getting more than a handful of Republicans to hit their party’s self destruct button.
This is the correct answer.
Lawyers of Lemmy, let’s say he gets stuck with a fine or some trivial amount of jail time or something as a result of these charges. Is there anything about these crimes or punishments that would prevent his presidential candidacy?
Not a lawyer, but related to multiple and helped one study for the bar, so I know basically jack shit, but Section 3 of the 14th amendment:
No person shall be a Senator or Representative in Congress, or elector of President and Vice President, or hold any office, civil or military, under the United States, or under any state, who, having previously taken an oath, as a member of Congress, or as an officer of the United States, or as a member of any state legislature, or as an executive or judicial officer of any state, to support the Constitution of the United States, shall have engaged in insurrection or rebellion against the same, or given aid or comfort to the enemies thereof. But Congress may by a vote of two-thirds of each House, remove such disability.
In short, no.
We need the Jan 6th indictment and a conviction under the insurrection act US code 2383
Also those indictments for Jan 6th in the DC federal jurisdiction are expected any second now.
Some of those charges are violations of the Espionage Act. Maybe disqualifying, maybe not. The inevitable lawsuit will decide.
Perhaps too late, perhaps not.
Are you not at least entertained?
Yeah, the reason I still say ‘no’ is that the espionage act charges don’t necessarily involve aiding enemies, because it can (and has) been violated purely by possessing and disseminating NDI documents to people not authorized, which we actually do have evidence for.
If there was compelling evidence of classified+ info being given to Putin, for example, then I’d forget bothering with the trials and go polish up the guillotine.
Definitely entertained by the online meltdowns by the idiot in chief either way.
OK. Now let’s see how many Obama and Clinton have.