A lengthy investigation from The New Yorker estimates Trump and his family will have enriched themselves by more than $3.4 billion by the end of his second term, much of it from deals, transactions, and investments that almost certainly wouldn’t have happened if he’d never been president.
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That was his only reason to get into the White House.
Well, also protection from prosecution.
Are we still sold on the theory that a billionaire ex-President was finally going to get his come-uppence via a state court campaign finance law conviction, when the judge deliberately dragged out the sentencing until after the polls closed?
Or are we holding out on Kamala Harris being tougher on Trump than Clinton was on Reagan or Bush was on Clinton or Obama was on Bush or Trump was on Obama/Hillary or Biden was on Trump 41?
The special counsel had finally moved forward with prosecuting right before the election. There was going to be a federal trial. That all got dropped when he won.
what a strange thing to do
Trump’s been doing crimes since the 1980s and skated every time. You are deluding yourself if you believe a special counsel was going to finally do its job, the day after Trump returned to political irrelevance.
Not when everyone from Guliani to Comey to Garland had dragged their heels for 40 years.
The thing is, we don’t know. The evidence was clear as day.
Fixed that for you. The fact that it’s so obvious and egregious, yet they STILL dragged it out until it was too late makes it clear that the fundamentally corrupt US “justice” and political systems would never have reined him in, even if he HADN’T managed to con his way back to the white house.
He was successfully convicted. He didn’t even get a slap on the wrist. At best, he got a paper cut from the judge throwing the sentencing papers at him.
He got zero jail or prison time.
Speaking of which, whatever happened with that judge who threatened consequences if Trump continued to ignore his orders? Why isn’t Trump in jail yet? Dude’s a fucking judge; quit fucking around and arrest his ass already.
It went nowhere because he wasn’t going to be the first judge to give a former and possibly future president any consequences.
Even Hitler got thrown in jail. It was a ridiculously cozy jail for a few months, which gave him time to write his infamous book, but still.
Indeed also that.