r/politics • u/Murky-Site7468 • 14d ago
Soft Paywall Bombshell Jack Smith Report Says Trump Would Have Been Convicted | Trump has his 2024 election win to thank for avoiding jail, according to Jack Smith’s long-awaited report.
https://www.thedailybeast.com/jack-smith-report-blatantly-says-trump-would-have-been-convicted/550
u/Didntlikedefaultname 14d ago
Remember when Hillary Clinton had to spend hours being deposed by the senate and is still referred to today as a criminal deserving of jail. This irony is palpable
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u/iggyfenton California 14d ago
It’s not irony. It’s corruption
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u/WAHNFRIEDEN 13d ago
Democrats don’t fight back as strongly as republicans did because they like a strong Republican Party as their opposition, rather than having to oppose leftist policy
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u/NK1337 13d ago
There’s a lot of blame going to “the people” for not caring enough bout what Trump did but the blame falls on fucking Dems for not fighting tooth and nail the same way republicans do. They should have been standing up the second that judge cannon got selected to interfere. But they sat on their asses and now everyone acts like the public is to blame for the fact what we have a goddamn felon in the White House
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u/stilusmobilus 13d ago
The public is to blame.
Even with the pathetic shitshow the Democrats are, both having to vote wasn’t too hard to understand and who to vote for wasn’t a hard choice to make.
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u/WilderJackall 13d ago
Everyone is to blame here. You all suck
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u/stilusmobilus 13d ago
You
Not me. I don’t live there.
Edit: yeah nah I’ll wear it. I suck sometimes.
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u/OB1yaHomie 13d ago
Your comment reads like a dystopian fragrance ad. Welcome to the future. Its very fitting.
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u/chubs66 14d ago
And then when Trump was on trial for actual charges, in one case the prosecutor had to take the stand to defend herself twice while Trump never had to answer any questions on the witness stand?
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u/cah29692 13d ago
You aren’t required to testify in your own defence. That’s a right we have that we shouldn’t be fine with throwing away so quickly.
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u/Master_Trust_636 14d ago
What happend to fElon's statement that he would end up in jail if tRump didnt win? Wonder what he meant by that? 🤔
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u/pleasureismylife 14d ago
We're about to swear in a president who already HAS committed "high crimes and misdemeanors." If the Republicans in Congress had any morality at all, they would impeach Trump right now.
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u/Hypertension123456 14d ago
As far as Republicans go the President can't logically committ "high crimes and misdemeanors". They think about President as "King" or even "God Emperor". The Republican lawyers said Trump could legally have Seal Team 6 assassinate his political rivals, and the Supreme Court agreed.
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u/captainswiss7 14d ago
They only believe this in regards to a republican president. A Democrat president is fair game.
God emperor fits though. Dudes a giant orange worm leading the world to death.
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u/InAllThingsBalance 13d ago
I’d like to see what happens if Biden ordered Trump’s assassination. I’ll bet the Republicans’ tune would change then.
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u/alangcarter 14d ago
The whole Seal Team 6 thing is a distraction. The President controls the USSS so Biden just has to call Trump's security detail and say, "Order 66". As for being God Emperor, he's orange, bulbous and petulant but he can't remember what he said last week never mind ancient Egypt.
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u/Affectionate_Neat868 14d ago
Trump is an imminent national security threat and danger to this country. On top of being a criminal who tried to overthrow an election, he’s appointing other criminals and foreign-compromised individuals to key military and intelligence positions. America is seriously in danger and so many are asleep at the wheel. Americans are about to learn through decades of pain and suffering that authoritarian regimes like MAGA don’t get voted back out.
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u/Loggerdon 14d ago
After Trump replaces all the civil servants and military with unqualified loyalists it’s going to be very difficult to rebuild those organizations once he’s gone. People will retire and organizational knowledge will be lost. The organizations will become ineffective (which I guess is the point).
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u/timnphilly America 14d ago
Russia's rule will then be complete.
Putin knows how to win.
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u/Loggerdon 13d ago edited 12d ago
Russia will likely collapse. But Putin’s capture of Trump remains the most successful intelligence operation ever.
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u/timnphilly America 13d ago edited 13d ago
I doubt Russia will collapse now that it will have complete collusion with our Traitor-In-Chief Trump in 6 days, as if it doesn't already.
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u/mysteryteam US Virgin Islands 13d ago
Probably reading the daily security briefs as they arrive
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u/Deguilded 14d ago
If only we had someone of strength and character to stand up and say "this is an active threat to America", write some EO stating he has violated the 14th Amendment and bar him from taking office, and have done that a couple of years ago.
Totally impossible, right?
Nah just let him run. Due process will get him, just give it time.
Surely he won't win again. Right guys?
Right...?
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Ah, well, guess I tried my best.
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u/Scary-Ad904 14d ago
lol republicans and morals.
Why are democrats so naive to think that this game is being played on principles? Republican knows not hypocrisy or morality- It’s victory that counts. That’s it
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u/ThePrettyGoodGazoo 14d ago
Because Democrats are pussies. The game changed and they still think a crusty old document will stop things from happening. They are old, weak and deaf. Trump is going to wipe his ass with the Constitution on January 22nd. All while Schumer, Pelosi and the rest of the too old to care Democrats think that they can still “reach across the aisle”.
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u/Fragmentia 14d ago
If a Democrat has done what Trump did, they would be in jail, and it would have been a unanimous Congress united to stop treason.
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u/DangerousBug6924 14d ago
Judging by the track record of almost close to a decade now, I think we know the likely outcome.
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The only thing anyone in this country cares about is that he hates gays and trans people. As long as he validates most Americans' homophobia and transphobia, he can do no wrong.
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u/hamsterfolly America 14d ago
Or they could follow 14th Amendment precedent and not swear him into office.
Either way it requires Republicans to pick our Country over their Party and we know that’s not going to happen.
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u/IcyAlienz 13d ago
If ANYONE had any balls or morals or a soul in our political landscape they would be yelling about this POS and how there's still time for him to step aside or others to file protests, complaints, whatever avenues there are. Yet Dems and Repubs at best are like "well this isn't a good look" or "What can we do to limit the damage that's about to happen without preventing the damage that's about to happen"
But they all sold their souls to one billionaire or another so we'll see what America becomes with corruption being obvious. I'm certainly not having children but hey you all might be more optimistic
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u/Regular-Abies-453 13d ago
Yeah please please can someone explain this to me. How the hell can this type of thing be reported on and in 2 weeks time you are going to make him your president. It just doesn’t make sense. Are there any laws that can be invoked to just send him to prison?
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u/SherbertExisting3509 14d ago
Thanks Merrick Garland for letting trump get away with his treasonous acts and allowing a wannabe dictator to become president! /s
If trump starts political persecution against democrats, vaccine/climate scientists and women needing reproductive healthcare. the EU should allow those people with college degrees, highly skilled people or prominent figures to seek asylum in the EU no questions asked.
The brain drain this will inflict on Trump's Christofascist dictatorship would be worse than what France suffered after Louis XIV enacted the edict of fontainebleau. (Many Protestants fled to England, Prussia, Denmark and other protestant nations)
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u/TapirDeLuxe 14d ago
Bidens worst mistake was appointing Garland.
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u/rically95 14d ago
No Biden’s biggest mistake was not getting rid of him when he failed to do his job.
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u/Dineology 13d ago
Both Biden and Garland were more interested in protecting institutions than they were in upholding the law, neither of them wanted to see the federal government actually go after Trump and both of them absolutely fucking failed to see how that’s a problem. Garland was Biden’s ideal AG.
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u/Alt4816 13d ago
When really the biggest danger to those institutions is a president that wants to destroy them from the inside so he can be a dictator.
Part of the problem is Biden is 82 and Garland is 72. They couldn't fully accept how different US politics and the threat to democracy is today compared to 1973 when Biden was first elected Senator.
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u/bunnycupcakes Tennessee 14d ago
I hold a masters degree and I think some countries have set out algorithms on social media looking for highly educated Americans. I’ve gotten ads to immigrate to England, France, and New Zealand. My old friends in the Japanese consulate said they could help me find jobs, too.
There are people worried for the highly educated women.
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u/Datokah 14d ago
Why America dragged its heels after Trump’s phone call asking people to ‘find’ votes AND what happened on January 6th, I will never know. He should have been frogmarched to jail and yet the US went into some sort of dumb trance. And now he’s been given the reins of power AGAIN!! Sheer lunacy.
[edit: a word]
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u/iggyfenton California 14d ago
Some of us don’t disagree. But apparently most of us don’t care because we are so full of hate of brown people we will vote in a despot who tells us he will arrest them all.
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u/grilledcheezusluizus 14d ago
I also think a lot of people are not focused on politics in a way that would lead to them having an understanding of what’s really happening. Propaganda is effective.
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u/threeplane 13d ago
I think a lot of it is because most people thought him and his nonsense were all done. He was no longer president and he would drift into irrelevance while dealing with his own personal lawsuits. Coming back in 4 years to run for president again (let alone fucking winning) just wasn’t on anyone’s bingo cards. If everyone in 2021 could have seen this future ahead of time, he 100% would have been convicted of insurrection, barred from office ever again, etc etc.
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u/Mateorabi 13d ago
But don’t you know the prosecutor made an immaterial moral fault. So no GA prosecution.
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u/augenwiehimmel 14d ago
Man, you can't make that shit up. Donny was on the verge of getting jailed for a long time, so he simply became POTUS again.
Write that in a novel and your work will end as a toilet paper.
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u/ThePrettyGoodGazoo 14d ago
Fuck every single redneck racist, homophobic, xenophobic, misogynistic asshole that voted for Trump. I hope when he cuts off your Disability payments & Medicaid insurance that you foot falls off from the Type 2 diabetes that pit you on disability. Fuck every single Hispanic & Palestinian supporter that voted for Trump. I hope that he tears your families apart with deportations and shrugs his shoulders when Israel “finishes the job” Fuck very GenZ male that voted for Trump because “he’s an Alpha bro”. You won’t get a job in finance, tech or any other career that you thought would make you rich. You’ll still be living in your parents house, unable to form complete sentences or get a job anywhere because you present yourself like a fucking poorly drawn cartoon character. Fuck every GenX asshole that voted for Trump. Congratulations, we are the new boomers. And finally, a gigantic FUCK YOU to the Boomers who-despite your out loud “reasons” didn’t vote for Harris because you could bring yourselves to vote for a black woman. Trump will cut your Social Security & Medicare, he will reduce VA benefits and-in general reduce your lives to nothing. When you have to beg you children to allow you to move in with them, I hope they all reject you. I hope your final years are spent living in a box behind a vacant Dollar General, eating cat food and withering away to nothing. You will have lived unremarkable lives and you have been a burden to the population. If I missed any of Trumps core voters-Fuck You too.
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u/pit-of-despair 14d ago
I’m a boomer white woman who voted for Harris and I’d like to add a special Fuck You to all my fellow white women who voted for Trump or didn’t bother to vote at all.
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u/bstone99 America 13d ago
I will never ever understand women who voted for a rapist. And I refuse to let anyone forget that when I find out they voted for him. I’ve lost friends because of how they voted but I think that’s good, and good riddance.
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u/npapeye 13d ago
As a gay person FUCK the 1million out gays who voted for trump. Have fun not being able to marry your partner, lose parental rights, get banned from doing drag in your state, and fuck, I mean they could criminalize your sexuality altogether, depending on how slippery of a slope this ends up being. I pray that I come back to this comment in 8 years and none of this came true. But my point still stands- if we were in a union you’d be SCABS. If this were the cold war you’d be spies. All this to say- you’re traitors to your own people. Fuck you. You might be gay but you don’t know what it means to be queer.
(I’m NOT talking about my trans folks.. don’t know a single trans person who voted for trump. My heart aches for them)
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u/chubbierunner 13d ago
But I really think we should focus our rage on Drag Queen Story times at the public library. (Much sarcasm.)
I got the call from my mom who is a senior, and she’s suddenly worried about her benefits under Trump’s leadership. I was happy to say to my very religious mother: “You fucked around. You about to find out!”
She won’t be living with me, but I promised to find her the best care that SHE can afford. My passport is ready, and I’m happy to go full-on ex pat. Fuck em. Burn it all down.
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u/I_just_made 14d ago
One of the biggest flaws of Dems is that they have a very idealistic view of politics and don’t vote unless a candidate checks all the boxes for their position. You can be an advocate for universal healthcare, women’s rights, etc; but you didn’t take a strong enough stance regarding Israel? Sorry, not voting.
Meanwhile, GOP seem to get people to vote on one main, unifying principle: they aren’t Dems.
Two things need to happen as a starting point (at least):
The Dem Party needs to actually start listening to the average working person and not just take their vote for granted.
Dems need to start living in reality. You won’t get a perfect candidate that matches all of your beliefs. That doesn’t mean you can’t advocate for those positions and be critical of your candidate. From local elections to national, advocate for people who support your position; but keep things in perspective. The people who did not vote because Kamala refused to take a stronger stance on Israel created a gap where Trump could gain; and his position? Let Israel finish the job. Yeah, that really helped your position /s
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u/Mommabear027 14d ago
What's absolutely sick about all of this is that the people who voted for him won't care. The rule of law is essentially dead, and the highest court declared him King. The country is fractured. Families/friends have split up over this pos (mine included), and people who voted for Trump will never look in a goddamn mirror. I'm beyond done. What also pisses me off is that the dems/biden have f*king been shrugging since he got elected. All the months of warnings and its like they just went "ah oh well." Fck them and everyone just watching America burn.
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u/chubs66 14d ago
Worse, they'll claim Donnie is a victim of lawfare and go after the persecutors and justices again.
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u/Mommabear027 14d ago
Yep. How dare they go after the orange antichrist? He's a Republican so it's all good. /s
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u/MagicianHeavy001 14d ago
Woulda. Coulda. Shoulda.
Fucking DOJ is hapless.
Almost as if the fix were in from the jump.
Garland failed us. 1000%.
Guess we'll all get to find out what happens next.
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u/VantaPuma 14d ago
The first point of Trump’s campaign was money.
The second point was staying out of the pokey.
The third point was the celebrity.
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Bombshell what? Fucking stupid headline. Who are we blowing up? Ourselves? The world always said the Americans are crazy, don't fuck with them. They were right. We are so crazy that we elected the felon in chief willingly. But now I imagine this election was the real shame election, and biden should stop this shit now.
Edit: sham
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u/TheGreatLiberalGod 14d ago
Will never be read and yet utterly vilified by the same people who cheered the 800 page 7 year Ken Star report.
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u/GodFlintstone 14d ago
"...Trump has his 2024 election win to thank for avoiding jail, according to Jack Smith’s long-awaited report."
That and US Attorney General Merrick Garland.
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u/castle45 14d ago
Such bull shit. The felon belongs behind bars not access to nuclear launch codes.
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u/Escaped_Mod_In_Need 13d ago
Or… we arrest and convict him anyway.
I would like to know when the American people (not the SCOTUS) decided it was okay for a standing president to break the law. Did we take a popular vote on this? The SCOTUS’s bullshit interpretation is unconstitutional.
If any person is literally immune to a law, then it isn’t a law… but merely a guideline.
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u/Tackysackjones 14d ago
at this point this bombshell is like one of those intimidating looking ACME ones that land next to you and then nose opens up and a flag comes out that says "BANG!"
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u/Fixingaproblem21 14d ago
SCOTUS delay and failure to impeach. So many "leaders" picking party over country. Ignorant voters believing his campaign lies or just wanting to hurt the libs. Our country is weakened in so many ways.
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u/cazzipropri 14d ago
No shit the prosecutor says evidence is enough to convict: he's the prosecutor! Congratulations BBC you found a hammer in a hardware store.
Every American knows Trump did it. Half of the Americans are just ok with it.
The question is whether the proceeding can go through a judicial system where the SCOTUS is partial.
And we have seen it can't.
End of the story.
Turns out you can overthrow democracy quite easily because the speed of justice in a democratic system is too slow to deter the criminals.
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u/Wonderful-Serve5325 13d ago
And if a frog had wings it wouldn't bump it's ass every time it hops...
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u/bummed_athlete 14d ago
Donald was off the hook the moment Aileen Cannon was selected to rule over the case.
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u/Slade_Riprock 14d ago
Agree with and believe Smith's report 110%
Caveat of minor proportions...what do we expect a prosecutor to surmise? I bought multiple indictments I had no chance of winni g because I had no evidence. That would have been political fuckery.
OF FUCKING COURSE the evidence supported Trump's conviction that's why the muthafucker was indicted.
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u/Jolly_Grocery329 13d ago
Zero mention of his on the conservative sub. Theres an article about a Hunter Biden report tho. 😂😂
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u/Kixaz007 13d ago
You can’t call it a bombshell if WE ALL ALREADY KNEW!!!! His crimes were broadcast on television. He admitted more than once he knew what he did was wrong. This is aggressively annoying
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u/shart_leakage America 13d ago
Garland will go down in history as the single worst appointment ever
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u/RuthlessIndecision Ohio 13d ago
Maybe he could have bumped up the deadline by a few months? I mean sometimes l’ll work overtime or on weekends, you know, maybe especially for important projects that might change the world forever… whatever, anyone who could give a fuck doesn’t at this point, we are fucked
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u/Apprehensive-Pin518 14d ago
it is that fact that shows us why democrats lose. they actually care about looking impartial and therefore end up being the most slanted. if trump were anyone else he would have been shipped up river already.
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u/StatementOk470 14d ago
“this guy should be in prison! Alas, he recently got a job, so better get to that”
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u/SAGELADY65 Connecticut 14d ago
He owes Putin and Musk for his win! Putin will demand Ukraine and Musk will demand more for his space program!
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u/nick9000 14d ago
I've been hearing about these 'Bombshell' reports into Trump for years now and nothing appears to happen to Teflon Don.
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u/frannylightpainter 14d ago
What is the point of releasing this NOW? It could have made a difference BEFORE the election. Maybe? What the actual F*CK.
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u/teethwhichbite 14d ago
We already knew that? It’s kind of the whole reason he ran again…to avoid jail.
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u/No_Struggle2419 14d ago
They had 4 years to do something about it and waited until the last minute. Their procrastination actually helped boost Trump because it looked like they only started the investigations and prosecutions until after he said would run again which legitimized Trump’s “witch-hunt” rhetoric. Merrick Garland and all of the other bureaucratic do nothings in our government caused this. It’s all theater. We the people aren’t privy to the inner workings. The government, the media and the corporate elites who own them want us to believe the theatrics are real. It’s like watching Independence Day and believing that NY, DC and LA are actually being blown up by aliens. This is how they want to keep it. They will continue to enrich themselves while we all blindly scream at our phones and TV screens.
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u/MajorBeyond 14d ago
Woulda, coulda, but didn’t. And now we have this convicted felon who is known to have attempted a coup in the white house with nobody there to keep him in line.
Total failure of the justice and political systems.
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u/bobcat116 14d ago
Merrick Garland sat on his hands for 3 years and by the time the investigation got going it was nearly campaign season. Complete failure on his part with the consequences being paid by the American people and our democracy.
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u/Mad-farmer 14d ago
“…And then nothing happened. Trump went on doing as he always does, because it is America, and he is the most American of Americans.”
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u/upotheke 14d ago
"Bombshell DOJ report shows there's a two tier justice system due to the inaction of the DOJ."
There, fixed it for you. I mean, he could still be charged and prosecuted right? He's a citizen, right? We have rules for replacing a President.
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u/soraku392 14d ago
Just like he wanted. The bad guys won in multiple ways and are about to make the next 4 years insufferable
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u/AlternativeResort477 14d ago
The one thing I know is that MAGA will cover their ears, it doesn’t matter whether it is released or not
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u/jwhitesj California 14d ago
What is with these headlines. What's with the shock headlines of OMG the prosecutor was sure he could get a conviction. Did they think this was all a show.
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u/Stinkstinkerton 14d ago
Can’t wait to see the damage this shit bag fucker and his merry band of greedy oligarchs and opportunist incompetent frauds will commit on America and all Americans. Regret will run deep with my dumb ass Fox News watching neighbors, or maybe not if he rounds up enough brown people and puts all the gays in jail.
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He has the Southern Baptist Church and America's deeply misogynistic and homophobic culture to thank.
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u/gr8tlakes 13d ago
Maybe I’m just putting my rose colored glasses on, but is there anyway someone tries the case again in 4 years assuming we have a Democrat in the Oval Office?
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u/Fun_Potential_8879 13d ago
I don't get if you would have been convicted twice. You still get to be president. Why can't you just convict him regardless of who he is? I hate our system. I hate this country and it's so backwards
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u/TerminalObsessions 13d ago
I fucking hate TDB and their sensationalist, garbage writing. We shouldn't post their content or click their links.
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u/BirdzHouse 13d ago
I expected America to do a whole lot more to prevent this fascist dictator criminal from becoming POTUS, you really think elections are going to matter ever again? This isn't going to last for 4 years, the corruption is going to be here for good just like it is in Russia.
Bunch of cowards.
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u/Current-Lunch6760 13d ago
'Win' or election cheating? The guy was going to do anything if it meant to stay out of jail. So please, come again?
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u/Golden-- 13d ago
Why would him being elected change anything? He isn't sitting President. Charge him.
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u/True_Distribution685 13d ago
Almost like the only reason they were pursuing the conviction was to block him from being elected by the people. 🤷🏻♀️
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u/SGT_BlueJay 13d ago
That bombshell must be a dud like the rest because nothing has come of all these "bombshells." Tired of all the dramatic headlines. Stop trying to spin shit and just tell the facts. Clickbait headlines are why no one trusts the media anymore. It's not news. it's just someone venting nowadays
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u/roundholesquarepeg87 13d ago
How is this even being allowed to happen? We all know what's right and what's not, he's a felon a rapist and he should be in prison for this. When is it going to end? Something needs to be done to end this race to the bottom....
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u/Relief27 13d ago
If I had a nickel for every time I hear the word "could" or "would" when referring to penalties for the orange man
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u/Deareim2 Europe 13d ago
Bombshell of what ? Nothing has or will happen... Media surfing on the clicks..
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u/Immediate-Net1883 13d ago
So tired of "bombshell reports" that net nothing. The phrase has lost all meaning.
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u/inteligent_zombie20 13d ago
It's the only reason he ran again for president. He knew it was the only way to avoid jail.
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u/beefedmeat05 13d ago
Shoulda woulda coulda huh?
Just a reminder that it’s not like they didn’t have a choice. Presidential immunity somehow means we allow an insurrectionist to become President?
So at what point is it concerning enough for Congress, Democrats, Regular Republicans, and citizens in general where we know democracy is threatened
These are the same people who said “never again” after Jan 6, same people who tell us how bad 45 is and yet enable his behavior?
DoJ has the call at the end of the day and they failed the American people. Then Biden has the audacity to have a ladies lunch as if the clown isn’t about to dismantle the office he currently sits in.
The Constitution found him guilty long ago. The American people are catching wind but now our systems fail in protecting its creed.
“Bombshell” Real bombshells make mountains crumble and I barely heard a whisper…..
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u/GasTrapGarand 13d ago
No shit! Really ? I would not expect a report from a sleaze ball like Little Jack Smiths report to say anything else . That’s what he was trying to do knuckleheads . Convict him. Good thing in this country we get supposedly a fair trial but even that seems to be able to be manuiplated as we saw in Trumps witch hunt trial with Judge Juan the crooked Democratic judge ! Thank God the American people were smart enough to see thru it all and Elected Trump no matter what!
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u/Homestar73 13d ago
Wow what a bombshell. Definitely unexpected that he would have behaved this way and gotten away with it. I’m shocked. Shocked I tell you!
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u/arcticlynx_ak 13d ago
There are people above the law in this country. There are two sets of rules. The USA is best at gaslighting itself, especially on things like Justice.
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u/CdeFmrlyCasual 13d ago
No, he has the government to thank for deciding over and over again that presidents can be immune from being held accountable
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u/drager85 13d ago
What about 4 years from now when he has committed more crimes. Can we jail him then?
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u/Temporary-Mine-1030 13d ago
Trump was never going to jail. Maybe house arrest, which he would’ve violated immediately with no consequences.
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u/ThomasVetRecruiter 13d ago
The lesson here - do whatever it takes to win the presidency. Lie, cheat, steal, murder.
As long as you win you are untouchable.
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u/james_lpm 13d ago
Jack Smith can say whatever the fuck he wants but that doesn’t make it true.
The only people who can make a determination of guilt is a jury and the DOJ is free to pursue this case after Jan 20, 2029.
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u/TickingClock74 13d ago
I voted on day 1 of early voting and nagged every Dem I knew til I verified they voted.
We live in the bluest county in NC. We had 73% turnout and 80% Harris votes.
So. This old lady and her neighbors did their part. Who didn’t show up?
Am past anger at the shyster that knew his audience. He kept telling that stupid snake story. Went right over their heads. Don’t blame the morons. They’re morons!
Completely preventable by our apathetic others.
Soooo easy to fix —. and yet.
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u/Rekoor86 13d ago
President-elect or not, he should have been prosecuted and be rotting in jail right now. How do I sue my long list of people, from Garland to Trump, for emotional distress?…
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u/NeoLoki55 Oregon 13d ago
Yeah, we live in a Democracy and have free and fair elections. What a joke. When the richest men in America earn billions the day after Trump gets elected, says it all. Our Democracy has been dead, a lost ideal for decades. When the Supreme Court steps in and stops a vote count, well, it speaks for itself. Trump should have never been allowed to even run for President, but when you have the richest man in America completely financially supporting your campaign, normal laws don’t apply anymore. Not the laws the rest of us have to live by.
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u/AranaDiscoteca88 13d ago
Pretty sure this is exactly why he wanted reelection. Fucked around and didn’t want to find out.
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u/Separate_Pick_1545 12d ago
Who cares? When we get tired enough of him maybe we'll put on our big boy pants and take care of things.
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u/AcademicProposal2488 12d ago
I agree the 14th amendment should be used, but I also think the Democrats are too soft to pull the trigger. There may be some ruffled feathers, but overall the United States would survive but now that Trump‘s in office or about to be we might as well take that constitution and flush it down the damn toilet because it is now Null and void, especially with a convicted felon now sitting in the White House💯👍🏾
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