Why would Trump's toadies be willing to take the fall for him and go to prison?

[pnwmom]

1) They don't want to get killed on the street by some Russian with poison.

2) By the time they're convicted of anything, it will be that much closer to 2024, and they'll be counting on a Trump win and a pardon.

[SharonClark]

1. Because they're toadies and true believers?

[Murphyb849]

2. Blackmail.

[sheshe2]

3. They won't.

They will turn on him in a NY minute and that includes his spawn.

[myohmy2]

4. I think you've nailed it...

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[RockRaven]

5. Even if Trump were to win in 2024, a POTUS can't pardon state convictions/crimes, only federal...

They would have to be gambling on a NY Repuke governor in the near future for #2 to hold true.

More likely they are just betting on getting one MAGAt/moron out of twelve on the jury. Hung jury. Retrial. Rinse and repeat, ad nauseam. As long as they can pay their lawyers (like perhaps the Trump Org offers to pay them, for real), they can draw it out until the prosecutors give up because of the waste of resources.

[pnwmom]

6. Right -- thanks for the reminder. NY better not be stupid enough to vote for some R. n/t

[Progressive Jones]

7. They're desperate, sniveling ladder-climber types. No pride, no spine. nt

[Buckeye_Democrat]

8. They're a cult.

Like the Jim Jones followers who committed mass suicide.

Edit: And many of them have associated critical thinking and independence with "evil" for so long within churches, while also associating submission to a church with love and acceptance, they're more prone to following a "strong leader" who lies about his love for them.