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Trump's lawyers realize their legal argument "ain't working": Ex-RNC chair
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I remember how the Muller investigation and report was fully dodged. I'd give him good odds on getting out of this fully or with a punishment that means nothing to him. I hold no hope for accountability for the rich in the US.
If he gets off that will gives leeway for everyone else to get off as well, This is an all or nothing case.
It's an interesting power game in that the police knows it's politicians that set their budgets and the laws that govern them.
What gives me some hope, is that it's in (part of) the republican establishment's interest for Trump to go to jail.
That way it becomes very hard for him still to run, he can be replaced by someone more controllable/sensible, but his 'persecution' can be used as a symbol to increase turnout of conservative voters.
I think it's a balance for them. He's unruly and I think they'd be happy to be rid of him, but they want to make sure they don't set precedence for them all to go to jail, too. That's the main reason they want him gone. They've been setting up dominos for decades and Trump is a whirling dervish fucking everything up. Some dominos get knocked down too early, some get interrupted from knocking down the whole path, some just become ineffective. It's hard to build infrastructure around what he does.
Yeah a big part of why nobody was prosecuted for the Iraq war was that everyone was guilty and everyone thought they were gonna get away with it. If one of them got prosecuted that would open up the door for the rest of them.
The actual Georgia establishment doesn't want to be told what to do by Yankees. Raffensberger and Kemp want their block back.
Honestly I was amazed that a New York carpetbagger that was lifelong friends of the Clintons who was so firmly in the Hollywood elite that his cabinet was full of producers is a savior to the southern republicans.
It’s really a testament to his acting skills.
Most especially if any (overly maga) Republicans have anything to say about it.