• @UnderpantsWeevil
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      795 days ago

      Four years ago, really. He should have exited 1600 Pennsylvania directly into the back of a squad car.

      Instead, he was free to continue doing crimes while rebuilding his base of support for another bite at the apple. Not a huge surprise, given the US’s long and ugly history of turning a blind eye to corporate goonery, financial malfeasance, and organized crime. But depressing, given how much of this was a predictable consequence.

      Guy was convicted on 34 counts but never even got to sentencing. Pathetic.

      • Nougat
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        425 days ago

        Guy was convicted on 34 counts and then re-elected to the presidency.

        • @fluxion
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          225 days ago

          After running the most embarrassingly stupid and dishonest and disgusting and alarming campaigns in the history of this once great nation, with a economic plan based on using tariffs to somehow make inflation go away. It’s like America randomly decided to commit suicide.

        • @UnderpantsWeevil
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          95 days ago

          Free to campaign. Free to fundraise. Free to conspire within the party and continue to build support.

          And then the opposition ran a prosecutor mostly known for her reluctance to indict white collar criminals.

          No shit he won.

        • @TrickDacy
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          65 days ago

          He committed those crimes to help himself, just imagine if we harnessed that criminal enterprise for the economy!

          -what millions apparently unironically believed

          • @[email protected]
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            4 days ago

            I know you’re joking, but I believe his followers just don’t think any of it is real. They actually believe that it is all politically motivated.

            More projection of course.

            • @TrickDacy
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              04 days ago

              I think they believe whatever is most convenient. Sometimes that involves stuff about as insane as my joke :/

        • @AnUnusualRelic
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          45 days ago

          Yeah, that’ll teach him!

          No, wait, I got my pages mixed up…

      • @Feathercrown
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        44 days ago

        Was it even legal not to sentence him

        • @UnderpantsWeevil
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          24 days ago

          It’s not a crime if the President does it. Or so prior presidents have told me.