We Have to Beat Donald Trump. Clearly, the Broken Legal System Won’t.

by thenewrepublic

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  1. If Trump is able to push all these cases back past November, or at least three of them, and then if he wins the White House and pardons himself, that will constitute the biggest failure of the rule of law in the history of this country.

  2. This is the same system that Trump and company keep claiming is a two tiered system

    Well clearly they are right because any normal citizen would be jailed by now

  3. The legal system has undeniably been treating Trump with kid gloves. That said, it wouldn’t be as much of an issue if the prospect of him going to prison seems to have little effect on his base.

  4. Yup. Once again we’ll have to beat him the old fashioned way. There are too many sympathetic people in high places that are bailing him out whenever they can. We can only rely on the vote to keep him out of power. 

  5. Ah, yes, let us do this…in the midst of the clearly broken Electoral College system.

  6. If any of us had incited a riot we’d have been arrested that same day. Trump wasn’t even called in for questioning. The punishment in DC is 10 years btw, if the riot causes death.

    All the bullshit excuses I’ve heard remain bullshit. “You come at the king you best not miss.” “These things take time.” Bullshit. The only consequence he’s ever suffered was getting kicked off Twitter.

  7. The Department of Justice is mostly a Republican cover-up agency.

  8. I guess the silver lining here is how Trump has shown in great detail how fucked up our system of justice is.

    Hopefully we start to correct that.

  9. Merrick Garland is a fucking disgrace, he single handedly allowed Trump to escape accountability with his slow moving unenthused conduct and managed to damage Bidens reputation with him appointing the classified documents trial to a literal trump appointee. Exactly what is he thinking, is this is bid to seem ‘nuetral’ by being favorable to the trump campaign. He is so responsible if Trump gets re-elected.

  10. To think that at some point I actually believed he would see jail time. Smh

  11. I was accidentally watching Wolf Blitzer the other day, and they were legitimately arguing that the “appearance” of a conflict of interest would make people distrust the justice system. Rather than, you know, the failure of the justice system to uphold the laws.

  12. It’s working as intended. No consequence for rich folks.

  13. Donald Trump has proven that money can buy you time.

  14. Broken ? no, it’s more like HE RIGGED it by appointing and inserting his butt kissers in higher up positions that they do not belong in!

  15. >Based on our initial review of yesterday’s production, those records appear to contain materials related to the subject matter of this case, including materials that the People requested from the USAO more than a year ago and that the USAO previously declined to provide.”

    DOJ is a serious problem for our country right now, and hopefully if we get the House and Senate and keep the White House there should some serious reforms by Congress.

    It feels like it’s own branch of government working by itself and seeing any outside criticism as interference. Only Congress can seriously deal with it.

  16. Our legal system is so complicated to a degree that nobody can explain what is going on. Or is it just not describable because it’s broken? Help me 🙏🏼

  17. Very true. He MUST be defeated in November, or it’s all over for America.

  18. I keep saying this. Stop waiting for a savior. Show up and vote

  19. If we allow Trump to be in the election, 10000% chance he would again claim election fraud and then his bootlicker in the Congress would refuse to certify it

  20. Watching from Europe here. I’ve always had the impression that trump calling that state official (was it Georgia?) to find him a couple of thousand votes was such a clear violation of the law that he could have been convicted for some time now. I can understand the slow legal procedures for the other indictments, but not for that one. I thought the phone call was recorded? So, the US not only has a problem with its political institutions but also with the legal ones. Maybe I’m too pessimistic. Sorry if this looks a bit condescending. I truly want the us to flourish. You problems become our problems too, eventually.

  21. This is the tipping point? The legal system has been broken the fact that this is what it takes to wake people is so depressing

  22. Broken is lightly putting it, Trump shared nuclear information with another rich guy, stole and probably sold a bunch of classified documents and a bunch of other treasonous things meanwhile a soldier shared classified information (likely got it from MTG) and was arrested and jailed no time wasted. It’s ridiculous how the rich is being proven that they’re above the law despite everyone saying they’re not.

    Damn right that Trump and his cronies are going to try and steal this election one way or another.

  23. What a joke. Anyone that did anything close to what this motherfucker did would’ve already been locked up and been sentenced to decades in prison.

  24. I keep thinking that it’s got to be absolutely infuriating to be someone who is currently going through any sort of criminal trial right now. The system is quite obviously biased towards the wealthy and well-connected.

  25. We have to defeat this orange criminal in 24 and don’t be surprised if he does try to run in 28 even from jail. He’s addicted to the spotlight.

  26. Democrats need to stay out front to get people to vote. Trump is not as popular. He is REPEATING the same crap he said in the last election. Shutting down the border and locking up Crooked Democrats.
    Trump is constantly putting our country down. He has zero plans to make American lives better.
    He openly says he’s willing to sell our country out to if putin attacked allies.

  27. The problem is, he’s exposed the ineffective legal system. Next fascist will lie to get elected and tear down any remaining obstacles.

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