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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsNo jury will ever convict Trump, citizen or political
Any citizen jury will for sure have at least a few cult followers.
Sobering thought.
lettucebe
(2,336 posts)during jury selection. It's not hard to look up potential jurors online presence, in real time, so no doubt that'd be employed.
lame54
(35,287 posts)LisaL
(44,973 posts)NT
mysteryowl
(7,383 posts)Thekaspervote
(32,762 posts)WarGamer
(12,440 posts)Just imagine the not-guilty pleas from the insurrectionists.
Change of venue requests, Jury screening... voir dire is going to be killer. There might be juries of 6 Trumpists...
Oldem
(833 posts)just to see SDNY and the NY Attorney General dismantle the Trump Organization. And I'm not so sure a NY jury wouldn't convict him of money-laundering, fraud, or some such financial crime. He'll fund raise from his simpleton supporters; he'll be forced to because he'll be in such financial trouble. Nobody else--no bank, for instance--will lend him a dime.
Initech
(100,068 posts)I just want whatever it will take to keep him from running again in 2024. If we can stop him there, we can stop him for good.
WarGamer
(12,440 posts)But I don't think he'll run.
Here's what he will probably do:
After Senate trial, he will announce a MAGA2024 PAC to start fundraising. He will get the 757 back in the air and do rallies and such things. He will be "King Maker" for candidates. He will focus on revenge for those who "wronged" him.
His cohorts will take down probably 7 or 8 out of the 10 House members, a few Governors and eventually a few Senators.
2023 rolls around and Trump will decline to run and get 100% behind a protégé citing the "long list of accomplishments" and such nonsense.
It'll be Haley, Noem... someone like that, certainly Female.
mysteryowl
(7,383 posts)They must all be exhausted by his BS.
trueblue2007
(17,217 posts)can't get enough of it ...
WarGamer
(12,440 posts)bullwinkle428
(20,629 posts)Chump, or any member of his family or inner circle, but could very well play a role in any of the trials of his shit-bag insurrectionists, whenever their cases actually come to court.
bluestarone
(16,926 posts)BOUGHT OFF!!
mysteryowl
(7,383 posts)Would that do it?
bluestarone
(16,926 posts)Watch Bigtime background checks and also watch bank accounts!
mysteryowl
(7,383 posts)Watch jury bank accounts and do background checks?
bluestarone
(16,926 posts)Maybe background checks. I'm sure IF they can they WILL!!
PatSeg
(47,419 posts)to deliver a "guilty" verdict. The MAGA crowd is very threatening.
crazylikafox
(2,755 posts)Cicada
(4,533 posts)mysteryowl
(7,383 posts)Cicada
(4,533 posts)I love Obama but would vote guilty if the evidence proved guilt, I think. I bet a lot of Trump voters would too. Here is a question for jury selection which identifies a Trump voter with high accuracy. True or false, blacks would do as well as whites if they worked harder.
That is a question on a little racial resentment survey that predicts accurately and better than anything else whether someone votes for Trump. https://www.vox.com/identities/2017/12/15/16781222/trump-racism-economic-anxiety-study
gulliver
(13,180 posts)To prevent social pressure and threats from the Trump cult.
mysteryowl
(7,383 posts)Mike 03
(16,616 posts)tied up in legal cases and various court proceedings--civil and perhaps criminal--providing depositions, sweating it out, hemorrhaging money and paying hand over fist for attorney fees, and that is a small comfort.
I wonder how Scotland will vote on whether to bring his golf courses under scrutiny?
Turin_C3PO
(13,979 posts)Only 5% voted Trump. Manhattan only 12% voted Trump. There could easily be a jury there that convicts him. In my experience, even the Trump voters there arent necessarily cult types. They might be fair on a jury.
mysteryowl
(7,383 posts)Turin_C3PO
(13,979 posts)Hopefully they wouldnt be successful.
mysteryowl
(7,383 posts)Hopefully, it would be a criminal trial.
JI7
(89,248 posts)We are able to influence things through there.