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[–] riodoro1@lemmy.world 408 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (31 children)

donald trump gets 10 warnings for intimidating witnesses and indefinite trial postponement for hoarding and most likely leaking classified documents. Sweet sweet justice.

[–] octopus_ink@lemmy.ml 208 points 6 months ago (24 children)

People keep trying to convince me it's not evidence of two justice systems.

 

But it is.

[–] Schadrach@lemmy.sdf.org 3 points 6 months ago (5 children)

Someone should look up the maximum sentence for what he's been charged with. The current biggest hold-ups are not being able to make someone appear in multiple trials in different places simultaneously, and avoiding the appearance that the court is trying to interfere with an election.

You don't want the court to not care about the appearance of interfering with elections, or else you'll have the GoP trying to get Democrat politicians on dubious charges that they'll definitely not be guilty of but will definitely bury them in scandal and prevent them from campaigning effectively.

[–] Krono 6 points 6 months ago (1 children)

You're not wrong, these Trump trial judges are bending over backwards to avoid any grounds for mistrial. In one sense they are doing the right thing inside the legal framework, but look at the downsides.

The public is watching how a rich and powerful man can game the system, even as a criminal defendant the system is working for him. Every incarcerated person can see the reality: they were treated with default brutality, but Trump is treated as royalty.

And even worse, they are allowing Trump to delay every verdict until after the election. If he wins the election he pardons himself, this is a horrible precedent for our democracy.

[–] octopus_ink@lemmy.ml 2 points 6 months ago

I could not possibly have said it better than this.

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