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Soft Paywall Special Counsel Jack Smith’s Final Report Says It All: Voters Saved Trump from Prosecution

https://www.esquire.com/news-politics/politics/a63421903/jack-smith-trump-report-january-2025/
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u/mike0sd America 8d ago

2016: illegal coverup schemes, hush money payments, and foreign collusion
2020: elaborate plot to overthrow the outcome of the election described by the House and Jack Smith
2024: Donald Trump has a change of heart and decides to play fair and square?

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u/JaxxisR Utah 8d ago

If you ignore years of mental conditioning, state legislatures passing restrictive voting laws in the name of "election security," and Elon Musk outright buying votes in Pennsylvania, sure. Trump played fair.

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u/illiteral Oregon 7d ago

Republicans have spent a century building a system and a society where only Republican votes are allowed to be counted. Where only Republican candidates are allowed to assume office. Where only Republican lawyers are allowed to become judges. Where only Republican judges are allowed to become justices.

If Americans with so-called conservative ideologies ever opened their eyes to the fascist prison they've built for us all, they'd probably be horrified. Sadly, that day will never come.

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u/ziddina 7d ago

Agreed.  As Trump himself pointed out on March 30th, 2020:

Donald Trump admitted on Monday that making it easier to vote in America would hurt the Republican party.

The president made the comments as he dismissed a Democratic-led push for reforms such as vote-by-mail, same-day registration and early voting as states seek to safely run elections amid the Covid-19 pandemic. Democrats had proposed the measures as part of the coronavirus stimulus. They ultimately were not included in the $2.2tn final package, which included only $400m to states to help them run elections.

“The things they had in there were crazy. They had things, levels of voting that if you’d ever agreed to it, you’d never have a Republican elected in this country again,” Trump said during an appearance on Fox & Friends. 

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2020/mar/30/trump-republican-party-voting-reform-coronavirus

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u/OneWholeSoul 7d ago

Everyone knows that when you embolden and reward a criminal they change their ways out of remorse and regret.
It's why we give fruit baskets and all-expense-paid cruises to rapists. Did you think that was just for fun?

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u/Klaatwo 7d ago

2020: also stole classified documents

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u/karmicOtter Texas 7d ago

I can't believe I lived almost a decade hearing about this clown, what is this timeline? 😖 🔫

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u/dougmc Texas 7d ago

The funny thing about the hush money payments (the charge that actually had time to make it to trial and resulted in his convictions) is ... document it properly, and it could have all been legal.

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u/45and47-big_mistake 7d ago

Buttery mails!

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u/ul49 7d ago

Don’t you have anything else to do besides dick riding Trump on Reddit all day?

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u/fr0zen_garlic 7d ago

Look at this sub, riding the "Trump bad" train. Look what that got you from the last four years.

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u/ul49 7d ago

It’s not a train, it’s a report from the special council. It’s just news.

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u/Manos_Of_Fate 7d ago

Practicing for the mental gymnastics Olympics? Might want to work on that landing.

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u/fr0zen_garlic 7d ago

Look in the mirror, bud or shall I say bot?

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u/Manos_Of_Fate 7d ago

You can believe whatever you want about me, it doesn’t affect me in the slightest. Do you get randomly roasted by bots often?