Democrats decry ‘sham for justice’ after prosecutors drop Trump charges

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024/nov/25/trump-criminal-case-dismissed-democrats-react

46 comments

  1. Is the assumption that otherwise he would pardon himself? I don’t understand the legal logic in not suspending a sentence or a sentencing – a pardon is just an admission of guilt, and it’s not clear anyone respects a self pardon, and this only applies to federal convictions.

  2. There is a two-tier justice system. It’s just not the one this fucking idiot babbles about.

  3. America stated loudly to the world that our leader is above the law and can never face justice or the legal system.

    That’s no the kind of thing that boosts our reputation.

  4. We have a king now. Or more accurately, an Orange Julius (Caesar).

  5. I mean, we already knew he was above the law. SCOTUS gave him total immunity no matter what he does. He could drink the blood of puppies on live tv while SA’ing toddlers and nothing would happen.

    Lawless king of one of the greatest military powers on planet earth. What could go wrong?

    We’re gonna be lucky if he doesn’t start global thermonuclear war and wipe out the human species.

    Hope it was worth it, media hacks who facilitated this.

  6. Now they will do anything they want and get away with it

    It’s a sad day in America we all know where the ass hole belongs

  10. Dems could force Biden to do some official acts. Considering the alternative, it seems the most moral and ethical choice for the country and the planet

  11. I hope Trump prosecutes Merrick Garland. That would be poetic justice.

  13. Too many people talking about “without prejudice” and “he would have pardoned himself”

    That’s not the point. Garland, Smith, Mueller all sat on their hands.

    Our legal system has failed on the world stage. You can try to spin it all you want. There are people that exist in America who are above the law. There is no denying the two tier justice system anymore.

  14. Democrats warning about fire after the house has burned down.

  15. If I see one more article about democrats being upsetty spaghetti over an obvious fascist that they accurately called a fascist before the election acting like a fascist I’m going to throw myself from a bridge.

  17. Does anyone else see this as a compelling indictment of the failure of our legal system? Judges suckered into his delay game as if the consequences of the trial are not important to society.

  18. Im so sick of these headlines “Democrats decry” “Democrats denounce” “Democrats strongly appose.” Like when are they gonna get off their asses and actually do something about it?? I’m so tired of the Do Nothing Democrats.

  19. ‘Americans reminded that being an ultra-rich white man in American means anything is possible’, there, fixed the title for you

  20. Trump really did grab em by the pussy didn’t he?

  23. If only the dems didn’t take 4 years to try and get something done you know.

  25. I cried sham in 2021 when Biden didn’t shove the DOJ to fast track the court cases of a former president.

    Go ahead, tell me going after a political opponent is a dangerous precedent to set. How about using the seat to dodge court cases? How about goading supporters to raid the capital? How about asking governors to find 11000 more votes? Are those all okay?

    A president has never had *ANY* legal cases against them. Asking the DOJ to complete all his cases before the next election isn’t dangerous, it’s doing their job. No one is saying they make shit up, I’m saying they finish. If he’s not guilty, then so be it. At this point, we’ll never know.

    Oh, wait, he’s already a felon. New precedence set!

  26. Merrick Garland gonna get a Supreme Court appointment for running interference for Trumps DOJ investigation.

  27. Can someone please help me find the part of the Constitution that says the Department of Justice cannot prosecute a sitting president?

  28. History repeats itself
    “national demoralization.”

    “The America First Committee started up in 1940 as a pressure group to try to stop the United States from getting involved in the Second World War.

    America First. That tight little patriotic sounding populist slogan was both a don’t get involved in the war rallying cry and a good profile boosting vehicle for members of Congress who for whatever reason were opposed to Franklin Delano Roosevelt, who was just an electoral juggernaut at the time.”

    The Justice Department had failed to convict the members of the Christian Front who tried to overthrow the government.

    They had failed to act on advance warning of explosions at American munitions plants, planned as sabotage.

    Private activist groups operating outside law enforcement were tracing stolen U.S. military weapons and complex, violent plots involving homegrown violent fascists with help and financing from Berlin.

    Amateurs were turning this stuff up, not the authorities.

    William Maloney was an experienced federal prosecutor. He’d spent years at the U.S. Attorney’s office in the Southern District of New York handling high-profile federal cases of fraud and corruption. William Maloney had managed to run up an eye-popping, 400-to-nothing record as a prosecutor there. He’d never lost a case.

    In reality, a number of the most high-profile America First members of Congress were in cahoots with a paid agent of the Hitler government who was supplying them with propaganda intended not just to keep the U.S. out of World War II, but also to divide Americans along political lines, racial lines, religious lines, class lines, all in the interest of “national demoralization.”

    George Viereck and the Nazi government were using the America First movement and America First members of Congress for those ends.

    Senator Burton K. Wheeler of Montana, a leader of the America First Committee, has threatened to demand a Congressional investigation of the way the Justice Department has been handling the prosecution of Nazi sympathizers.

    This is a moment of great political danger, for these men.

    Wheeler used his position as a sitting member of the United States Senate to lobby the Justice Department to fire Maloney.

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  29. I guess in one way or another, I realized that once he won election, he wasn’t going to face prosecution while in office.

    But even with that, I was incredibly sad to hear the news today. The SCOTUS ruling on limited immunity was bad enough but it was kind of theoretical.

    This is just in our face, “It literally doesn’t matter” if the president uses the office to ignore the votes of the people, or treats national security documents like I treat junk mail. Emoluments clause? How cute. Using the office to coerce false witness by a foreign government against your opponent? Nah, part of the president’s ‘official duty’.

    We have a criminal as a president and there’s nothing we can do about it.

  30. This is actually the democrats fault. Specifically, Merick Garland let this happen. Good thing he never ended up on the Supreme Court.

  33. Well Democrats, you had 4 years to do something about it. Way to go. /s

  35. Voted dem and they are absolute pussies. Repubs cut every corner, win every time, and dems cry about them breaking the rules yet eat nothing but fat Ls. When will they start playing to win and realize the other side doesn’t give a fuck about the rules and norms.

  38. If Americans don’t protest this outcome, then they deserve whatever becomes of it.

  39. If we make it through the next 4 years and don’t end up with dictator Don I will be so surprised.

  40. America should’ve pulled a Brazil on Jan 6th, but we didn’t and here we are.

  41. I guess the adage “nobody is above the law” is just a myth. Kind of like being a secular government. Sad.

  42. It’s such a shame that the DoJ wrote that stupid memo after Watergate. The DoJ should never have second-guessed itself. It did the right thing by suing Nixon in US v Nixon. I guess the powers that be are still freaked out that the people managed to discover the smoking gun tapes.

  43. The Dems had 4 years to do prosecute someone who tried to overthrow the government. They did nothing. They failed miserably!

  44. I seriously don’t understand how this could happen

  45. Democrats need to stop “decrying” things and start figuring out how to actually beat these fuckers.

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