I am asking here because all the political subs don’t allow a question, and US politics used to seemed so simple until to understand this man came along.

  • @[email protected]
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    21 year ago

    You can go to jail for being head of a criminal organization or conspiracy. This requires that 1) prosecutors prove that the conspiracy was in fact illegal, and engaged in illegal activity, and 2) that you were in fact the head of that conspiracy. That all requires cooperation from other defendants. So it takes time to build a case like that.

    • GreenBottles
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      21 year ago

      what do you think they’ve been doing the last few years?

      • @[email protected]
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        11 year ago

        I, uh…I think they’ve been building the case against Trump by getting convictions, confessions, and plea deals from his underlings. Which is what I said in response to the initial question: why isn’t Trump in prison, even though a lot of his underlings are? Because that was a necessary prerequisite to making the case against him, since he probably wasn’t involved in the day-to-day activities.

        I never said anything like “these are things they aren’t doing”. I’m just explaining the timing.