In familiar predicament for famously challenging client, multiple Florida lawyers decline to take Trump’s case, people familiar with the matter say.
It’s almost as if stiffing his previous lawyers has made people wary. Strange.
Well, that, and contradicting them and incriminating himself publicly like 5 minutes after the lawyers make a statement doesn’t help either.
I disagree with the trump trials. They are politically charged and set a precedent of arresting your political opponents. I’m not saying he’s innocent or guilty but we should consider the bias
Dude he stole highly, highly classified material, didn’t give it back when asked, lost some it, and had it stored in a bathroom.
That’s far beyond politically charged. Read the indictment. Not all charges brought to politicians are theater. This is absolutely one of those times
Oh god I wish there is a downvote button here.
Some instances have the downvotes enables some don’t.
I got one over here at iusearchlinux.fyi! In fact it’s one of the reasons I chose this instance.
The other being haha funny true meme instance name.
EDIT:
Here is a list of instances and what capabilities they each have enabled
yeah that’s one major downside to lemmy. Forced to see these sort of braindead takes lol
It’s up to the instance admins to choose if they want to present the downvote button. Use another instance.
Honestly, I kind of like if. Stops it from becoming an echo chamber. Refreshing to hear pure, unhinged lunacy, too.
lol. I mean yeah I get what you are saying, but I know these people exist already because our own politicians are saying the same thing… Completely ignoring the indictment and that this is just an attack blah blah… Yet they wont comment on the actual charges. Sad really. Good chance for everyone to talk about how justice will prevail one way or the other through our justice system and that no one is above the law. Instead they are literally saying that the ex president is literally above the law. Need a RL downvote button
1)Read the indictment. There is a tape where he breaks the law and then acknowledges that’s it’s illegal and proceeds to break the law more. That single law has a sentencing guideline of 10 years.
https://d3i6fh83elv35t.cloudfront.net/static/2023/06/trump-indictment.pdf
2)special council is insulated from AG and WH
3)the judge is a trump appointee
4)It doesn’t set a precedent for shit. He broke the law. He will have his day in court.
I think it would set an extremely bad precedent if we made it that you can never arrest or try former presidents. Being able to try and hold the president to justice brings us closer to the national ideal of the president being a servant of the people, allowing them to act with legal impunity would bring us closer to the president being a dictator or a king.
I’m not saying that presidents should have a get out if jail free card. However the trials feel a lot like left vs right to me.
If it’s left vs right to you that implies to me you see it as
the left - justice and accountability
the right - grift, fascism, “fuck you i got mine”
Wanna know a secret? you wont be a millionaire.
Then it’s clear you’ve either not paid any attention to the goings on the last 7 or 8 years, or you’re being disingenuous.
What would unbiased accountability look like to you? If the roles were reversed, Trump would be shouting “Lock him up!” in front of crowds every day. No one is doing this to him now (except in jest), because it’s expected that his trial be fair.
Read the full indictment. It’s clear he understood what he was doing was illegal and he didn’t care, and it’s clear he was aware it was not in the country’s best interest. He was given many chances to make it right and failed to do so. He’s been treated more fairly than he’d have done to his political opponents.
He needs to be held accountable. He put himself above the country, and it can’t happen like this again. If a federal trial in front of a red state jury isn’t fair, I don’t know what would satisfy you.
If not a trial, then what should be done if he is suspected of a crime? Just ignore it?
I’m sorry, but do you believe that Joe Biden personally had trump arrested? lmao
Dark brandon is coming for all of your nuclear secrets. Especially those that you forgot in a bathroom.
Do we even really have freedom if I can’t store nuclear secrets in my shower?
Laws don’t care about biases. He didn’t break the law because he was Republican, he broke the law because he’s a moron. And then he said it on tape. And also on that tape, he said he was breaking the law, and explained how he was doing it.
The simple solution for not getting arrested by political opponents is…don’t break the law. I do it every day and I’m yet to be arrested.
So what your saying is presidents should be able to do whatever they want just because they’re politicians.
Well no but I am concerned that is will become a pattern. Trump has already stated that he will prosecute biden if he is reelected. I doubt he is going to be reelected but its possible a republican controlled Congress should decide to take biden to court.
I obviously don’t support policially charged trials but some conservatives do
Idk, from my point of view this looks like a result of the DOJ noticing they were missing classified documents and, after attempting to get them back via the usual means aking official requests, they had no choice but to initiate legal action in order to get them back.
Honestly, I doubt the current government had much involvement of at all in this case. Every previous president after receiving official requests for documents in their possession has returned said documents, trump is the first to not do so, and to actively (according to evidence) obstruct the DOJ from regaining said documents.
More likely the politically charged situation, and the current widening political divide has actually made it harder to prosecute this case - One wrong or hasty move at the wrong time and you’ve got the potential for a even worse repeat of Jan 6th on your hands.
Trying to prosecute a case where the defendant has built a cult of personality around himself is incredibly difficult and infuriatingly so, as the people that make up that cult believes everything said defendant says, and refuses to look at the facts even if they’re right in front of them with blaring sirens and flashing lights, doing an Irish jig.
Thanks for gifting the WaPo article. Interesting stuff. Will he choose the scorched earth defense or the “flip one jurist” strategy. My guess is the former. He can’t help himself.
Coordinated delay tactic. His goal is to delay until he is President again and pardon himself.
That’s completely wild to me that a president can pardon himself. Wtf?
I don’t think the President can, but that won’t stop the orange one.
I can imagine. Enough of his lawyers have been fucked over I’d want no part of that for all of King Midas’ silver.
