I really can’t wait until we stop hearing about Trump.
I hate to say it, but I don’t think that day will ever come. Even in death, his die-hards will be slinging conspiracy theories about how he was assassinated or how he was jesus and he’ll ressurect soon to take on mega-hillary’s doomsday army.
Hopefully we can at least confine it to its own section of the internet though.
I need to figure out how to create conspiracy theories that are crazier than Qanon. Trump shit on the constitution and did ALL those illegal things to EXPOSE the cracks on the system. He’s MAGA one felony at a time. He took the pallets of classified files ON PURPOSE so he could sacrifice himself to start the fall of America and Armageddon. He’s bringing Jesus BACK.
I’m getting a bit worried about Tuesday’s arraignment, as he’s pretty clearly calling for his cronies to show up to “support” him
I’m so over this game show host.
Why did anyone ever give a fuck about this guy?
He was a bottom of the barrel choice for a gameshow and was super lucky to get the Apprentice.
Any fuckstick could’ve taken that role and run with it
The Apprentice did more to convince people he was a brilliant businessman than his work in business ever did.
Hey now. Calling him a game show host is diminishing his filmography significantly. He was also an extra in Home Alone 2.
True. He also appeared on Saturday Night Live several times. Definitely presidential material.
Idk how many more qualifications you need, really.
Looking at this as non-partisan as I can… if Hillary wasn’t convicted for essentially doing the exact same thing (and deleting the evidence…) then I really don’t see any way for Trump to be convicted either.
What she did is not at all “essentially doing the exact same thing”. At all. I’m not saying she’s not probably guilty of some crime at some point because most of our politicians are corrupt, but you are absolutely misinformed if you think she kept hundreds of classified documents, showed them off to people, and lied to federal investigators about it.
You’re right… it’s worse. She covered her tracks by deleting all the data then lying about it.
I assume you have evidence of this?
you’d think if she actually did commit a crime the FBI would have actually charged and prosecuted her, considering they found the accusations so serious they essentially–unintentionally or intentionally, depending on how cynical you want to view this–interfered with a democratic election in publicly announcing they were investigating just days before the 2016 presidential election. and yet!
In May, the State Department’s Office of the Inspector General released a report about the State Department’s email practices, including Clinton’s. In July, FBI director James Comey announced that the FBI investigation had concluded that Clinton had been “extremely careless” but recommended that no charges be filed because Clinton did not act with criminal intent, the historical standard for pursuing prosecution.[7]
A three-year State Department investigation concluded in September 2019 that 38 individuals were “culpable” in 91 instances of sending classified information that reached Clinton’s email account, though it found “no persuasive evidence of systemic, deliberate mishandling of classified information”.[15] Yet a September 2022 “Fact Checker” analysis by The Washington Post, which followed a tweet by Clinton claiming, “I had zero emails that were classified”, also quotes the same 2019 State Department report as having noted, “None of the emails at issue in this review were marked as classified.”[1]
No evidence of Clinton’s alleged misconduct was found. Plenty of evidence of Trump’s was found. That’s the difference.
Maybe it’s because Clinton is innocent. Maybe it’s because she did a better job covering her tracks. Who knows? Regardless, you need evidence to convict someone, and I hope I speak for us all when I say the alternative is much, much worse.
She willingly hid classified documents on a private server and wiped it with BeachBit so investigators couldn’t recover the evidence. Arguably that’s worse since she could also be charged with destruction of evidence. Come on now… either BOTH Hillary and Trump should be in prison or neither of them should be in prison. Any other interpretation is being willfully partisan.
Arguably that’s worse since she could also be charged with destruction of evidence.
but like. she wasn’t. she was investigated extensively–and that investigation probably cost her the presidency insofar as any singular thing can be blamed for her loss–and she wasn’t. do you have a reasonable explanation for why she’d not be charged with these things if she was actually as damned as you’re suggesting?
Because the FBI is very clearly politically motivated.
i’m… sure you recognize that this is quite literally a case where the facts disagree with your personal feelings. i also i don’t really know where we can go from here if your earnest belief is the FBI was “politically motivated” into clearing Hillary Clinton when it literally said her actions did not rise to the standard of criminality and again, their investigation may be the single biggest reasons she lost the presidency.
Please explain to me how hiding classified documents on a private server with the intent of shielding yourself from oversight and then deleting the evidence when investigators close in NOT enough to rise to the standard of criminality? Seriously, I’m so sick of every online forum being dominated by partisan-talking points. It’s abundantly clear that BOTH OF THEM BROKE THE LAW AND SHOULD BE PUNISHED. However the justice system is 100% broken when rules are applied unevenly. And our entire system is broken when partisan political figures actually cheer the rules being applied unevenly.
Seriously, I’m so sick of every online forum being dominated by partisan-talking points. It’s abundantly clear that BOTH OF THEM BROKE THE LAW AND SHOULD BE PUNISHED.
this is a good sign this won’t go anywhere productive, because your conclusion here can really only follow from the premise that the FBI got it wrong and there is simply no evidence that they did. it is not a partisan talking point to say this–and ironically, what you’re saying is. do you earnestly believe that you are in a better position to assess criminality here than the literal, actual Federal Bureau of Investigation, who spent a full year investigating whether a crime was committed? or better than the Trump-era Inspector General of the Department of Justice, who was critical of Comey’s public handling of the investigation but found no bias in the investigation’s course in either direction? if so then i can’t stop you from believing that, but nobody should take your position seriously and there’s no sense in debating it. you’d be arguing from a position grounded by nothing at that point.
What level of investigation that doesn’t end up charging Clinton with a crime would you accept?
hiding classified documents on a private server with the intent of shielding yourself from oversight and then deleting the evidence when investigators close in
Prove it or it didn’t happen.
Seriously, I’m so sick of every online forum being dominated by partisan-talking points.
My partner in pasta, you are trying to dominate this forum with partisan talking points!
Why are even we talking about someone that was never President, is not running for President, and is not currently serving in public office?
Investigate and prosecute all criminals. That includes Trump, regardless of who else it also includes.
She did not do “essentially the same thing” for multiple reasons.
- The emails you’re referring to were not classified and went through proper process to get permission to be removed.
- Hillary has already been investigated and cleared, including investigations conducted by the Trump administration.
- Trump was given multiple opportunities to return documents. He kept lying and keeping things even after saying they’d returned everything. There are still classified docs that haven’t been found!
- The nature of the material is orders of magnitude different. Nothing that Hillary has been accused of destroying or storing improperly, even if those accusations were all true, even begins to compare to the sensitivity and importance of the kind of information Trump was hoarding.
- In addition to simply possessing the material he shouldn’t and refusing to give it back, he also breached security by showing sensitive information to people that weren’t allowed and, just at a practical level, has no reasonable need to see it in the first place.
Let me know when he goes to jail.
This. Pretty much as soon as he starting running for president there has been talk about illegal operations and trials. But nothing has ever come of it. Even if there’s a 98% chance, I’ll only really care once a sentence is handed out.
Listening to Youtube, Beau of the Fifth Column, he says the Federal court he’s in now in Florida has a 92-94% conviction rate.
I’m of mixed mind about this.
Obviously the course of justice must go forward, and if prosecutors have a strong case, the should pursue it.
On the other hand, given all that he’s done to undermine democracy, subvert elections, destroy civility, erode democratic norms and traditions, and find common cause with hostile foreign powers, I’m not really keen on the idea that 30 years later, when people say Trump, they’ll think “oh, the guy who mishandled classified documents?”
It would be like if Ted Bundy got caught writing bad checks and was locked up for that.
Trump will be remembered for much more. He is still the only twice-impeached President and one of very few to not win a second term. Jan 6 is going to be an event touched on in history books. Who knows what we’ll learn about the last few years in terms of Russia and disinformation and other corruption angles in the next few decades?
And don’t forget that there are more investigations still pending! This is just the most obvious, slam-dunk case out there so it moved the fastest.
This and Boris Johnson resigning makes my dick hard.
Can we try not to unnecessarily sexualize this? Too much of this and we’ll end up a reddit/twitter clone where people are just aiming for quick/easy zingers
