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RockRaven

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

Reply to pnwmom (Original post)

Wed Jun 23, 2021, 10:43 PM

Jun 2021

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.

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Why would Trump's toadies be willing to take the fall for him and go to prison? [View all] pnwmom Jun 2021 OP

Because they're toadies and true believers? SharonClark Jun 2021 #1

Blackmail. Murphyb849 Jun 2021 #2

They won't. sheshe2 Jun 2021 #3

I think you've nailed it... myohmy2 Jun 2021 #4

Even if Trump were to win in 2024, a POTUS can't pardon state convictions/crimes, only federal... RockRaven Jun 2021 #5

Right -- thanks for the reminder. NY better not be stupid enough to vote for some R. n/t pnwmom Jun 2021 #6

They're desperate, sniveling ladder-climber types. No pride, no spine. nt Progressive Jones Jun 2021 #7

They're a cult. Buckeye_Democrat Jun 2021 #8