• @UnderpantsWeevil
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    791 month 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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      421 month ago

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

      • @fluxion
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        221 month 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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        91 month 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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        61 month 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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          1 month 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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            01 month ago

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

      • @AnUnusualRelic
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        41 month ago

        Yeah, that’ll teach him!

        No, wait, I got my pages mixed up…

    • @Feathercrown
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      41 month ago

      Was it even legal not to sentence him

      • @UnderpantsWeevil
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        21 month ago

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