Why Elisabeth Holmes and not Trump ?

[drray23]

She is currently on trial for defrauding investors by misrepresenting what her company was accomplishing and selling.
She is facing up to 20 years if found guilty.

All that is understandable, however I fail to see why Trump is not in the same predicament. After all, the Trump University debacle was also fraud on a grand scale.

He has a plethora of other dubious schemes that could qualify as well.

What is Trump doing that has kept him out of prison for decades, even prior to being president ?

[Stargleamer]

1. He knows the value of delay, impede, appeal, postpone. . .

in evading justice. He has a legal team with years of experience in these endeavors.

[uponit7771]

6. So does she in her lawyers, she's female and laws are different

[FelineOverlord]

2. His pal Rudy

Was Mayor of NYC for 8 years. There are rumors he kept him out of trouble at least for those years.

[Bernardo de La Paz]

3. She committed her crimes 8 years ago, not 1 year ago. And she is not as big a fish or tricky. . .nt

[uponit7771]

7. So did Trump, multiple crimes even when he began with obstructing Comey

[jmowreader]

14. It was before that when he started committing crimes

He was committing crimes long before he was president. My best guess as to why he tried to overthrow the country, is that by serving two terms the seven-year statute of limitations on all his pre-election crimes would have expired while he was still in office.

[uponit7771]

15. +1

[Hoyt]

4. Investors came after Holmes, authorities listen then.

Normal people, not so much.

[jmowreader]

5. You simply don't understand

Ms. Holmes is on trial for the same reason Bernie Madoff was: fleecing the rich.

If she’s have ripped off the working class like Trump did, she’d still be free.

[uponit7771]

8. ah ... got it 👍🏾👍🏾👍🏾

[drray23]

9. Yes there seem to be a pattern there...

[keep_left]

10. Yup, she ripped off her investors...

in a big way. It's hard to overstate what a scam she was running. She had contracts with drugstores like Walgreens that were already a going concern even before the Theranos machines could be delivered (and of course, they didn't work). And her corporate board was a who's-who of government/military leaders (e.g. George Schultz). There is a really good book about the Theranos scam: Bad Blood by John Carreyrou.

[tblue37]

11. I read somewhere that he was sometimes an informer for the feds. I have no idea if that's

true, but it would explain why they let him get away with everything for so long. He'd still be protected if he hadn't run for president.

[JenniferJuniper]

12. It wasn't just investors,

They gave patients invalid blood test results. Diabetics thought they were miraculously cured, non-diabetics thought they were diabetic, and worst of all, cancer survivors got bad news regarding blood markers leading them to believe their cancers were back

[mucifer]

13. presidents are above the law. trump is by no means the first