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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsWho Here Thinks Trump Knows He's Going To Jail?
Besides me?
I think he just recently realized his time was almost up.
Downtown Hound
(12,618 posts)Blue Owl
(59,104 posts)Both of them would be sweet!
zipplewrath
(16,698 posts)He thinks he can get out of anything.
TheBlackAdder
(29,981 posts)sprinkleeninow
(22,343 posts)Zoonart
(14,465 posts)We will never be able to de-louse it anyway.
Talitha
(7,988 posts)Charlotte Little
(658 posts)It makes me shudder to think what that plane and the White House smells like - Purell mixed with old man sweating pits & balls and stale big mac wrappers.
KentuckyWoman
(7,401 posts)We don't send US presidents to jail. We vote them out, we might impeach them at worst. But they don't go to jail.
MANative
(4,188 posts)His kids are slightly less likely to escape their deserved fate.
KentuckyWoman
(7,401 posts)leftieNanner
(16,159 posts)He has scammed the world his whole life and never does anything wrong. Never admits to making a mistake. There may be a part of him that knows other people close to him are in trouble, but I think he will be BIGLY surprised when the marshalls show up with the hand cuffs.
libdem4life
(13,877 posts)He's such a con...always weaseled out...I read folks talking about it, but can't wrap my head around it yet. I still think he'll find a way to Nixon out and tell the Bleating Sheep that "He Won".
God, I hope I'm wrong.
ProudMNDemocrat
(20,897 posts)Because Mueller has the shit on Pence too.
NewJeffCT
(56,848 posts)being a subject or target of Mueller or that he's even been called as a witness.
Qutzupalotl
(15,824 posts)and hired Flynn knowing he could be compromised.
One possible reason he wasnt called as a witness is he could be a target.
Va Lefty
(6,252 posts)My father used to say "you're innocent as long as your money holds out"
That said, has trump grifted enough from taxpayers that he has been able to pay down his debts to Russia, the Saudis and others?
RDANGELO
(4,158 posts)Then he puts himself in the spotlight by running for president. There is a disconnect form reality here. He has never thought of himself as a criminal. He is going to go to jail a very bitter man.
Regardless of his reactions
He thinks he is untouchable
He will outsmart Mueller - so he thinks
unblock
(56,198 posts)He will delay, he will get a pardon, he will settle for a cash payment, he will claim medical issues prevent incarceration, he will flee the country, whatever, or some combination of the above.
Our system is not very good at holding very rich and powerful people accountable.
wasupaloopa
(4,516 posts)out of everything. He would have to lose all and any kind of support to go to jail.
Qutzupalotl
(15,824 posts)but hes never had a Mueller on his case. This is different. His past can no longer be seen as prologue.
rzemanfl
(31,378 posts)He just believes stuff that has no real connection to reality, but makes sense to him in his deluded little world.
trueblue2007
(19,251 posts)randr
(12,648 posts)And the next one will be much worse for our country. He needs to be made an example of our system of justice, or the rule of law only applies to some Americans , not the powerful or wealthy.
FSogol
(47,623 posts)We are broken.
OAITW r.2.0
(32,133 posts)we are setting a terrible precedent on future Presidential behavior. I had no interest in sending Bill Clinton to jail for getting a BJ from a consenting adult, but policy changes based on kompromat or personal financial gain that hurt our countries longterm interests are grounds for criminal prosecution on charges of treason. Trump obviously didn't think this through when he elected to run for POTUS. Or maybe he had no choice. Maybe he should have given himself up in 2016 and asked the Feds for witness protection.
ooky
(10,922 posts)He is so unhealthy looking and under so much stress it seems to me the odds he croaks first are much higher.
But there are so many scenarios that could take place it is not out of the realm of possibilities.
ooky
(10,922 posts)sweetroxie
(776 posts)and is delusional.
I think he might flee to Equador or Russia.
Or "an hero."
((that's internet speak for suicide))
bearsfootball516
(6,713 posts)The Velveteen Ocelot
(130,533 posts)He could be indicted after he leaves office, of course; but what might be more frightening for him in the near future is that the House Dems are able to subpoena his tax returns and other financial data that show he's not actually rich at all, but deeply in debt and that many of the creditors are Russian.
Mr. Ected
(9,714 posts)If he doesn't, I swear I give up on the concept of justice and rule of law as applied in the US.
Then again, I probably already gave up on it after OJ, after GWB, after.....
GemDigger
(4,380 posts)DonViejo
(60,536 posts)Mike Nelson
(10,943 posts)
but I don't think he will go to jail.

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