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#3How the jury be considered unbiased given the amount of media coverage this has had? It seems near impossible that none of the members have been exposed to any of the coverage during or prior to the trial.
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#4America has officially crossed a line we won’t be able to come back from. How sad to see our justice system be politicized to this extent. There’s playing dirty politics and then there’s what just happened here. Not only did this strategy of one side persecuting a political opponent via our justice system set a dangerous precedent for America, but it’ll also undoubtedly backfire in the most spectacular fashion. Personally, I’ve never been more sure of whom I’m going to vote for than I am today.
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#5America has officially crossed a line we won’t be able to come back from. How sad to see our justice system be politicized to this extent. There’s playing dirty politics and then there’s what just happened here. Not only did this strategy of one side persecuting a political opponent via our justice system set a dangerous precedent for America, but it’ll also undoubtedly backfire in the most spectacular fashion. Perso…
I didn’t vote in 2016 because of the Access Hollywood tape, and voted Biden in 2020 because of COVID. But I’m going to knock on doors for Trump in 2024. This is Democrats’ January 6. Except instead of a bunch of rednecks getting out of control, it’s highly educated people who should know better than prosecuting the former president on charges that amount to a triple bank shot involving five different criminal laws.[1]
If you presented this case in a hypo in a law school classroom without mentioning Trump, I don’t think you’d find a single person who say stitching together (1) a time-barred documents misdemeanor with (2) an election manipulation misdemeanor that has apparently never been used before along with (3) uncharged federal campaign finance and tax law violations, into 34 felony counts is an ethical use of prosecutorial discretion. Even some Democrats can see that this is third-world-country stuff: https://nypost.com/2024/05/12/us-news/fareed-zakaria-doubts-...
[1] https://reason.com/2024/05/30/the-verdict-against-trump-sugg...
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#6America has officially crossed a line we won’t be able to come back from. How sad to see our justice system be politicized to this extent. There’s playing dirty politics and then there’s what just happened here. Not only did this strategy of one side persecuting a political opponent via our justice system set a dangerous precedent for America, but it’ll also undoubtedly backfire in the most spectacular fashion. Perso…
I didn’t vote in 2016 because of the Access Hollywood tape, and voted Biden in 2020 because of COVID. But I’m going to knock on doors for Trump in 2024. This is Democrats’ January 6. Except instead of a bunch of rednecks getting out of control, it’s highly educated people who should know better than prosecuting the former president on charges that amount to a triple bank shot involving five different criminal laws.[1…
I know folks who’ve never ever voted before who—even before this verdict—said that the persecution of Trump will be their reason for voting for the first time. I think Democrats are in for a rude awakening in November due to their extreme shortsightedness. It also doesn’t help that most Americans live in bubbles (politically and otherwise), so most folks cheering this on right now are likely mostly surrounded by others who feel exactly the same way.
What truly concerns me though is the fact that we’re almost certainly at the beginning of what’s going to be an endless cycle of political persecutions every election going forward. Democrats have asserted—loudly and proudly—that this is okay to do, so Republicans are going to follow suit, and before you know it, America will be indistinguishable from your average Third World nation.
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I didn’t vote in 2016 because of the Access Hollywood tape, and voted Biden in 2020 because of COVID. But I’m going to knock on doors for Trump in 2024. This is Democrats’ January 6. Except instead of a bunch of rednecks getting out of control, it’s highly educated people who should know better than prosecuting the former president on charges that amount to a triple bank shot involving five different criminal laws.[1…
I know folks who’ve never ever voted before who—even before this verdict—said that the persecution of Trump will be their reason for voting for the first time. I think Democrats are in for a rude awakening in November due to their extreme shortsightedness. It also doesn’t help that most Americans live in bubbles (politically and otherwise), so most folks cheering this on right now are likely mostly surrounded by othe…
Yes. And don’t forget that Trump is leading significantly among infrequent voters: https://www.cnn.com/2024/05/29/politics/turnout-2024-electio... (“Biden leads Trump by 4 percentage points among people who voted in both 2020 and 2022. But among those who voted in 2020 but not 2022, Trump led Biden by 12 percentage points”). Biden needed this to be a sleepy low turnout election, and instead this has dumped rocket fuel on Trump’s campaign. I think this will also galvanize a lot of Romney-Biden folks, like my wife. She held her nose and voted Biden “because of norms” and that mental block on voting for Trump has melted away.
Even MSNBC legal analysts are calling the case against Trump “some grotesque legal version of Frankenstein’s monster” that “most prosecutors probably wouldn’t have brought at all.” https://www.msnbc.com/opinion/msnbc-opinion/trump-guilty-hus.... If that’s what’s happening on MSNBC, how do you think it comes across to anyone who is even a bit Trump curious? Or even RFK curious (who has also condemned the conviction)?