He is indicted and going to trial! Of course, I am interested in if he is found guilty.Mothra said:So he's guilty in your mind already, but if he's found innocent you will reconsider your premature guilty verdict? LOL.FLBear5630 said:whiterock said:Petty is ok?FLBear5630 said:Oldbear83 said:My thinking is it comes down to political optics.FLBear5630 said:Harrison Bergeron said:Let me start with a basic lesson about the different political parties.FLBear5630 said:Jumping in here. Can't find that post.Harrison Bergeron said:Try again?TWD 1974 said:Conspiracy to defraud the United States,Harrison Bergeron said:It is when we use political prosecutions to undermine democracy and interfere in elections.TWD 1974 said:You go ahead and tell us all about it.Harrison Bergeron said:
Anyone like living in a Banana Republic?
I will take your silence as you cannot name anything Trump has done in the indictments not done by myriad Democrats? Facts continue to be the Kryptonite of Klanocrats.
Hillary Clinton
Obstruct an Official proceeding of the United States
Al Gore Jr.
violation of the RICO act in Georgia
Stacy Abrams
... no, I can't think of any Democrat that rises to the level of criminal activity of Trump. To be fair, I can't think of a Republican either. Nixon was just a pretender compared to T
Why didn't the GOP investigate and charge all three of them? Under Bush 2 they had amble opportunity for Gore.
Trump had 2 years of both House and Senate, yet nothing...
We can't keep *****ing about this when the GOP when in power does nothing. Either they didn't find enough evidence to support a trial or they didn't have the political will. In either case we sound like idiots saying there is a double standard when the GOP does nothing when they have the opportunity. Like it or not, Trump is part of that equation. In the election he said lock her up and did NOTHING... All talk.
The GOP is generally what one would call "conservative." A "conservative" generally is a person or institution that prefers "to conserve." So as not to confuse you, I'll avoid the complexities and just get to the point that conservatives (that means the GOP for you mouthbreathers) prefer the status quo. The status quo means generally "the current state." So conservatives like to do things they way they have always been done.
Thus, even thought Clinton, Biden, Abrams, etc., committed felonies, conservatives generally default to the status quo, which is it did not use partisan political prosecutions to undermine democracy and interfere in elections. To conservatives, the principle is more important than power. Regressives don't have principles only a unquenchable lust for total authoritarian control. That's why they don't mind filing banana republic charges and upending the status quo to preserve authoritarian control.
So the status quo is good, even if felonies were committed. You really are a clown. Any more ways to call negligence and dereliction if duty (means they didn't do their job) noble? You actually write this as if it is a good thing.
You are full of ****, if the GOP had anything they could prosecute they would. They didn't think twice over impeaching Clinton over extramarital affair. If they could they would. But you keep playing their incompetence off as some sort of noble act of maintaining the stays quo. What a joke...
The Clinton impeachment had a lot of blowback. He finished more popular than he was in '92 or '96, but what really hurt the GOP was that independents started to like Gore more than they had before.
The apparent lesson was that you don't go after someone unless you first make sure it sells with the public.
So Bush Jr didn't go after Gore, because he wanted the kinder, gentler look for the GOP that his dad had tried to sell. And Trump's advisors told him that Hillary was done after losing in 2016, there was nothing to gain by going after her, since her career was over anyway, while prosecuting her could hurt Trump's image with women, which had always been a sore spot.
But even before he was elected, Trump was targeted for every kind of attack by Democrats. They don't care whether he did or didn't do what they claim, they only cared about going after him with literally everything they could imagine. the Democrats also knew they could rely on career politicians in the GOP to support them in that vendetta.
Both impeachments were absurdly false on the facts, and 90% of the legal indictments are garbage, with the remaining 10% largely arguable.
The two things I am sure of in this matter, is that a lot of bad decisions were made, and this is going to get really, really ugly by next summer.
Fair points. I agree with Bush and Gore.
I do disagree about the criminal charges on Trump, they may be petty but they got him on the law and they know it. He will be convicted on the facts, most of which he brought up on himself. Dems would not indict unless they knew they had him dead to rights.
It's ok for Hunter to walk but Dems to contrive petty charges against their political opponents? (and petty is an understatement. Words like novel, unprecedented, unprofessional, contrived, illegal....would be more appropriate.
You are hardly alone in cheering on the double standard. And I suspect you will never admit it until it bites you or yours.
I got a speeding ticket for 3 miles over speed limit once. Took it to judge, lost. I was still over speed limit. Every cop, lawyer said same thing, you were still over speed limit. Petty, yes. But I still broke the law and I lost.
Does that make better sense about where I am coming. He still broke the law, petty or not. He will lose. Breaking the law a little is not a winning defense.
You keep throwing others in. Hunter is irrelevant to whether or not Trump broke law. Sure indict Hunter, does not affect Trumps case.
I am not cheering along double standard. I don't see how whether or not Hunter is indicted shows Trump didn't do what accused. I believe Trump was disgusting after loss and caused more real damage to US than anyone. I watched it unfold. Now, if found innocent I will re- consider.
One can recognize the double standard and damage to the Republic that political prosecutions cause while at the same time acknowledging that Trump is in some real danger on the documents charges and RICO charges. But the others are complete and utter horse *****
Do I believe he tried to find a way to overthrow the election to keep power. Based on his personality, track record and actions after the 2020 election (many on TV and tweets)- Yes. I think he found something he likes more than money, power. If I am wrong, I will reconsider. I see NOTHING in his life history, Presidential actions, and post-2020 election actions to show any indication otherwise.