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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsThe DOJ has zero chance of securing convictions against Lisa Cook, Letitia James, and Adam Schiff
Because they didn't do anything wrong and because TACO demanded their prosecution.
Irish_Dem
(82,322 posts)Put them through pure hell just for Trump's fun and revenge.
DemocratSinceBirth
(102,007 posts)They will become folk heroes. MAGA hates em anyway.
Irish_Dem
(82,322 posts)Trump will destroy you if you speak out or bring him to justice for his crimes.
wiggs
(8,851 posts)one else would dare to do and the more outrageous and unthinkable the better. Loves.
Irish_Dem
(82,322 posts)And total immunity from the Courts.
He can be as hateful, cruel, revengeful as he wants.
His psychopathy and sadism are on full display.
Wiz Imp
(10,410 posts)It will likely be the taxpayers footing the bill. This seems like a clear cut case of malicious prosecution. A successful malicious prosecution claim can result in compensation for the damages suffered by the victim including legal fees and possibly additional damages.
Irish_Dem
(82,322 posts)Lawyers are not cheap.
They charge a huge fee per hour.
Yes the taxpayer pays for the DOJ attorneys.
So we all get ripped off every day but the jackass in the WH.
We are paying for his personal vendetta.
Wiz Imp
(10,410 posts)They would have to compensate the people they maliciously prosecuted for all of their legal fees and likely additional damages on top of that. In the end, it will cost the wrongfully prosecuted nothing (monetarily).
dsc
(53,443 posts)and would add to their cost in the short term. I don't know the finances of any of those people, so I have no idea the extent to which they can or can not afford to shell out those legal fees. While at least some of them are lawyers in their own right, the old saying that someone acting as their own lawyer has a fool for a client is an old saying for good reason, it has a lot of truth. My guess is the case alone will cost around $100,000 per person at a minimum. Appeals and other suits would add to that cost.
Wiz Imp
(10,410 posts)Most people don't have the evidence of a social media post from the President demanding the AG prosecute them no matter what. Trump has effectively already confessed in that post that it would be malicious prosecution even before anyone has been charged. This is the very definition of a slam dunk case. IMO.
In reality, I don't think they'll be prosecuted. Even Bondi is smart enough to know she can't win and I'm sure she doesn't want to lose her law license (even though she should lose it anyway for other things she's done as AG). If Bondi thought she could win, they would have been charged 6 months ago.
Irish_Dem
(82,322 posts)The US SC is unlikely to rule against Trump's DOJ and even if they
did, I do not see them forcing collection of said reimbursement.
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