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chowmama

(1,096 posts)
Fri Aug 23, 2024, 11:58 AM Aug 2024

Assuming Trump did decide to flee the country

And could find a place without extradition, that would only expose him to the only foods he will tolerate, no languages 'nobody ever heard before', preferably have no minorities at all or keep the ones he needs to depend on in the back rooms, out of his sight, and coddle his pasty white diapered ass 24/7/360, what happens?

To begin with, such a place doesn't exist. Russia would love him, but only as a hostage. He'd have no other use to them by then, and the footage of him, imprisoned, off his meds, sick, starving and abused, would be very effective at causing chaos here. We'd probably have to try to get him back, if only to get him a better prison here. Putin would love this. Trump, not so much.

And, of course, he'd flee with the RNC treasury. (The part, if any, that isn't already in one of his offshore accounts. And any other money he could lay his hands on.) Who would be left holding the bag? His DIL, Lara. Wife of his son, Eric. You know, the one who showed up at his trial. She, and maybe he, would end up in federal prison for embezzlement, bank fraud, mail fraud, election fraud and I don't know how many other charges. That's exactly the thanks anybody who works for Trump can expect.

I don't know if I want to explain this to them or wait till they figure it out.

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flying_wahini

(8,275 posts)
1. We can dream....
Fri Aug 23, 2024, 12:01 PM
Aug 2024

I’m sure that even if someone tries to tell TSF the truth he STILL does what he wants to.

Irish_Dem

(81,260 posts)
2. Trump can stay in the country and start throwing his family under the bus.
Fri Aug 23, 2024, 12:01 PM
Aug 2024

Jared, Ivanka, Don Jr, Eric, Melania.
Accuse them of all the crimes he committed.

yardwork

(69,364 posts)
3. He's so narcissistic, I don't think he would flee.
Fri Aug 23, 2024, 12:03 PM
Aug 2024

He lives in a fantasy world and there he'll stay, until he's imprisoned or Mar a Lago falls apart around him.

Fiendish Thingy

(23,227 posts)
4. He's not going to flee
Fri Aug 23, 2024, 12:05 PM
Aug 2024

His assets would be seized/frozen, he would forfeit his bonds for his appeals, which are I believe are tied to some of his properties as collateral.

No, he will stay and fight until bankruptcy, incarceration or death,, whichever comes first.

Emile

(42,287 posts)
7. In this country if you have money you can get away with anything.
Fri Aug 23, 2024, 12:16 PM
Aug 2024

34 felonies running for President and not locked up, only in America.

Justice matters.

(9,786 posts)
9. And moving top-secret nuclear weapons "vulnerabilities" from secured dwellings to...
Fri Aug 23, 2024, 12:30 PM
Aug 2024

his toilets and bragging about them to anyone who would fake to 'adore' him...

And refusing to obey a United States Department of Justice's lawful subpoena signed by a Judge to return them!

Nukes "vulnerabilities" imagine that!

If he wasn't wealthy (or pretending to be, other than the king of debts...), he would be counting minutes in total isolation 24/7 without means of communication with the outside world (his damn phone!...)

eallen

(2,983 posts)
10. Putin would welcome him
Fri Aug 23, 2024, 12:31 PM
Aug 2024

The rich live differently than the rest of us. Even in Russia, their bubbles are comfortable, and filled with attentive, multilingual staff.


haele

(15,397 posts)
11. Nah, you see how Putin looks at him whenever they're together?
Fri Aug 23, 2024, 12:55 PM
Aug 2024

He's Putin's puppet. Putin doesn't need him anymore.
He'll end up like that former head of Wagner Group...
"Donald, my friend, here - take this small plane to your new Dacha on the Black Sea..." 3 hours later ..." On, no, those Ukrainian Nazis shot down that perfectly innocent small plane to get at their enemy Trump! See, they're the evil ones, stop helping them, our war with them is perfectly justified. "

Propaganda is the only thing Putin would find Trump useful for if he fled to Moscow. Putin knows Trump is just a chaos agent.

Haele

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