• Orbituary@lemmy.world
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    11 months ago

    I’ll believe it when I see it. We will never see him behind bars. Two tiered justice system.

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      Absolute best case is house arrest imo, and I’m sure his lawyers will make sure it includes the entirety of his resort, so basically nothing will change

      I’d love to be won’t, but I don’t think I will

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      11 months ago

      More likely he’d go to an insanely high security place, he can’t be trusted around other people.

      ADX Florence is built for exactly that kind of prisoner: spies, terrorists, etc.

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    11 months ago

    “They really don’t like me, they’re mean… they’re trying to send me to prison. They’d have done it too, though.”

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      11 months ago

      because media stalwarts like Meet The Press are doing so great at holding Trump to account huh?

      jfc man, dunno if you noticed the hellscape that is modern media but RS is doing pretty good these days.

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      It’s not like a Rolling Stone journalist went and asked. Journalists have these things called “sources”:

      While Trump publicly professes confidence, privately, three sources familiar with his comments say, he’s been asking lawyers and other people close to him what a prison sentence would look like for a former American president.

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    Apparently he just “ordered” congressional GOP members to shut down the government so they can’t fund the DOJ lmaooo someone is getting desperate.

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      It’s beautiful. Republican leadership knows they’ll get the blame if there’s a shutdown and they’re trying to avoid it, and Trump tries to muck that up.

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      A large portion of the Republican Reps don’t like Trump any more than the Democrats. I’m sure they are following his “orders”

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        But for 6 years they’ve propped him up, and now they’re stuck with him. They could have let him hang himself and gotten President Pence (who the GOP would have loved) in the first year of Trump’s term, but they didn’t.

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      There’s a scene near the end of the Better Call Saul series where Saul Goodman is negotiating with the feds for better prison terms.

      I feel like I heard somewhere that a meeting like this is not uncommon with high value/high risk criminals. In part to reduce everybody’s legal fees and in part to get criminals to cooperate on other matters, such as getting the crazies in their orbit to chill out.

      I could imagine that as the feds close in on Trump, such a meeting may become more attractive to him. And at long last he’ll finally retire to a golden club fed with an escalator.

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    11 months ago

    If someone tells you they cannot let something enter their mind, that means they are thinking about it constantly.

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    I’m waiting for a Hallmark Channel redemption arc for him. He goes to prison, slowly befriends his fellow cell mates and empathizes with them, and emerges a changed man who gives up his fortune in order to fight the injustices against the common man.

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        It’s hallmark fiction, so yeah. Also, he gets back with Melllania who dumped him, and they raise happy, perfect kids together.

        Also this all happens at Christmas time because they ran into each other in line for a street vendor selling pumpkin spice lattes

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            how could I forget the roasted chestnut cart. also the ice skating rink in the background. The script practically writes itself.

            (mostly because hallmark scripts are copy pasta…)

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      Reads the constitution. After a thousand times, he starts to get it.
      “Oh, I should be in prison.”

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      He goes on to form a golf team with some of the inmates at his prison, and in a partnership with Vince McMahon they start up a prison golf league where the various prison teams play each other in an annual tournament. The winners get extra Little Debbie snacks from the prison commissary. Eventually they make a movie, and Donald Trump is played by Rosie O’Donnell.

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    You know what I never worry about? Going to prison. I’m able to not worry about that because I don’t go around breaking laws.

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      I do worry about going to jail because you can be convicted of crimes you haven’t committed. Unlikely to be Trump’s fate, but it could be mine.

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    11 months ago

    He’ll likely be playing tennis at minimum security Club Fed if it’s federal, but Georgia doesn’t seem to do special treatment. If he goes in on Georgia state charges, he could end up in a for real penitentiary.

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        Any sort of prison time would risk his neo Nazi army attempting monthly jailbreak attempts.

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      Look at the fucking state of him. I reckon a game of tennis would probably kill him!

      Man hasn’t done exercise since Stormy Daniels.

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      I don’t see him going to a state prison. If anything he’ll have to serve time in federal. Being an ex president, the federal government will want to keep him under their watch.

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        Don’t worry you will lose it. My bet

        Some legislative 11th hour shenanigans removes the DA and the people who report to her. Until they find the one person who will drop all charges, in such a way that he can’t go to trial again. And then when the case they were holding in reserve proceeds the new DA will sit on it. Night of long knives repeated.

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      Idc. If he’s away for 30 years at club fed at least he’s not destroying the country

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        Also, even a Club Fed prison would be a huge culture shock to him. Trump’s used to doing whatever he wants whenever he wants. If he wants to go golfing, he does. If he wants to eat McDonald’s for lunch and a burned steak with chocolate cake for dinner, he does. If he wants to fly somewhere, he goes. Sure, he might need to wait for mundane things like “filing a fight plan” or “food preparation,” but he has people take care of it for him. To Trump it’s just “I want X” followed by “Yes, sir. We’ll get that to you ASAP.”

        The second Trump walks into a Club Fed, this freedom goes away. Yes, he’ll have more freedom than if he went to a normal prison, but it’s still vastly less freedom than he’d have in Mar-A-Lago. If he wants steak but the prison cafeteria is serving lasagna tonight, he can’t have special food made for him because he’s Donald Trump. If he wants to travel to his NJ golf course, he’s not going to be allowed to.

        Even a Club Fed prison would be a huge hit to Trump’s ego since he won’t be the Person in Charge anymore.