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"See?! Perfect phone call."

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Thankfully racketeering is still solid. Trump has good company with Al Capone, Gambino, Genovese, Lucchese, Giuliani (!), etc., who all got caught up in Rico charges.

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I'm starting to come to the conclusion about three things: first, Trump is never going to jail no matter the outcome of any trial; Second, the criminal trials will continue well into 2026 or later courtesy of the SCOTUS; Last, the true death blow to Trump will be the money trials. No delays, no appeals, nothing ahead for Trump but total and final financial ruin. He will be broke and broken.

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Meh, the rubes willl buy more swag and Chubb Elon will give them money for the tax breaks.

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88 felonies? the Nazi Q-loon numerologists will surely see this as a sign!

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I am in fact about to go out and walk a neighbor dog. She will spin around and around for the greeting and bring me a toy.

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I still think Trump will see the hard nose of justice. It took awhile for the Feds to bust Al Capone. Trump and his people are wounded animals, and there are more of us than there are of them, come voting booth day. Cheerio, Wonkateers!

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November 6, 2024, Donald Trump announces his run for the 2028 presidential election.

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"Go outside and play with some dogs or something."

Or garden. Or walk. Or sit. Get some fresh air.

You know it makes you feel better! *thumbs up emoji*

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Just go ahead and drop all the charges. We're done here. Other means will have to be employed to save our democracy. So you can go ahead drop all pretenses that we have justice in this country. At least show ys enough respect to stop lying to us. You're only fooling yourself if you think that we don't see you

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Our justice system has been peeing in my Cheerios for a long time now. I'm just so sick of the pretense that we even have a justice system anymore. It's just disappointment after disappointment after disappointment. Especially when the stakes are so high.

In case it wasn't clear, I don't really want them to drop all of the charges. I want them to fucking do their job. This shit is killing our soul. We need the sense that somebody is driving the fucking car.

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Buyer beware! You are going to hear a bunch a " legal" opinions here, just remember half of all lawyers lose every day. Despite them thinking they are the smartest people in the world, they aren't. The judge can do whatever it wants "law" be damned.

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Knew it was gonna be a bust

Totally called it. Knew McAfee was gonna do this

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He's a straddler.

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I saw a 'splainer ( at WaPo, maybe ) that McAfee discarded the charge about Trump soliciting the Sec'y of State to "find" 11,000+ votes because there was no real expectation that Raffensberger would or could actually do that. That struck me as specious reasoning - just because it couldn't be done, doesn't mean that asking for it to be done was any less illegal.

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Thats like saying that because you didn't get away with a crime you cant be charged fir attempting it. The underwear bomber still went to prison even tho his underwear didn't asplode

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Failing to rob a bank because they don't have money on hand. Not a crime!

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Yeah, that sounds about right - which means either I misunderstood what I read ( always a possibility ) or that McAfee, who's only been a judge for like six months, has made a spectacularly inane decision

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Inane

That's the word I was looking for!

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Is Trump claiming TOWTAL AND COMPLEAT EXONORAYSHUN yet?

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thanks evan, an explainer like this is sorely needed by the laity, like me … vote D in november & put the old codger in a cell … slava ukraini ! …

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McAfee is pure MAGAT. Don'r assume anything good outta him.

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The ONLY way we make sure Mango Unchained sees the inside of a jail cell is if we ALL vote en masse this November. In fact the ad should basically say "Want to see Trump face Justice? Vote!"

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Mango Unchained! Stealing it.

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Go ahead, I stole it myself!

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