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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsA man THIS corrupt should not have to become President to get prosecuted.
We need a system of justice that treats mobsters, crime families, and big time con-men at least a little worse than poor people unable to pay their traffic tickets. Maybe slightly better than it treats dads making a bit of money selling loosies on the street corner, or kids pulling out a toy gun at the playground.
Seriously, who are all of the people who have protected this guy for decades?
Nice editorial, New York Times. The question I have for our society is: WHY did he get away with so much for so long?
samnsara
(17,622 posts)..he could be at mara lago now or trump international moscow....having drinks with his russian buddies and NO ONE would be the wiser... tsk tsk..now hes going to live the rest of his life disgraced in the eyes of any decent person...
brush
(53,778 posts)lostnfound
(16,179 posts)I dont consider him fit for airtime, let alone White House time.
Has he really met any standards? Why are there no standards?
People at the bottom lose whatever they have for one or two mistakes.
Multiple bankruptcies, involved in 3500 lawsuits..yet isnt destroyed by them.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Legal_affairs_of_Donald_Trump
elocs
(22,576 posts)Too many on the Left have been complacent for too many years, abdicating our responsibility to participate in our electoral system, flawed and imperfect as it is, and while we slept the Republicans were working from the local level up to take control of the government.
Frankly the two sides are so politically polarized and entrenched, each completely convinced they are right and the other side is not only wrong, but evil with evil intent, that if this were the 19th century we would be ripe for another Civil War. And nobody could say we don't have the guns to do it now.
RandomAccess
(5,210 posts)dchill
(38,493 posts)JK.
JHB
(37,160 posts)Kidding or not, that's just how they roll.
dameatball
(7,398 posts)Skittles
(153,160 posts)while Hillary was held to impossible standards
lostnfound
(16,179 posts)Iokiyar
Skittles
(153,160 posts)the most qualified person ever to run for president (a woman) was held to impossible standards while the least qualified person ever to run for president (a white man, OF COURSE) was held to no standards at all
CousinIT
(9,245 posts)It's what sociopaths DO. They use and abuse people and institutions to protect themselves and get what they want.
malaise
(268,998 posts)and politicians want the money to buy these ads, scumbags, common thieves and other vermin with money will get a pass. They all took his crooked money.
lostnfound
(16,179 posts)I find it hard to believe he didnt earn some jail time before now.
In courtrooms all across the country, people who have no money to pay for a speeding ticket are jailed or lose their ability to drive a car. Whats the penalty for being a chronic fraudster and sociopath? You get your own TV show?
Skittles
(153,160 posts)Trump has been a sick fuck and a buffoon for decades - I remember the first time I saw him with Cohn back in the 80's I thought, what a fucking creep - what does it say about America that so many Americans have been fooled by Donald Fucking Trump
TNLib
(1,819 posts)but then again as a brown woman born and living in the deep south have known that for a long time.
Skittles
(153,160 posts)I knew that Obama's election drew a lot of them out from under their rocks but the total number of people who actually voted for that assclown Trump is just plain, well,
cpamomfromtexas
(1,245 posts)Last edited Fri Apr 13, 2018, 06:47 PM - Edit history (1)
And are we to assume that he would have skated except he got a little vain and ran for president?
If so, we need to do something about others that might be out there
lostnfound
(16,179 posts)I assume that he could have continued conning people out of money and cheating on his taxes for the rest of his life.
Paying off court-ordered fines using other peoples money and calling it charity.
Money laundering.
Evading responsibility.
How many people decided to let it go, because he had money or made donations?
Hortensis
(58,785 posts)court ordered documents as a civilian, and that sort of thing's pretty much SOP for him. So, why wasn't he prosecuted? Conservative voters, of course, protect the privileges of the wealthy classes, but maybe we should be insisting more.
Vinca
(50,271 posts)Duppers
(28,120 posts)K&R
scarytomcat
(1,706 posts)They rail against liberals, the Clintons and the Obamas yet they think god sent this asshole. If anything this proves to me how confused religious advocates can be. Laws need to be enacted to lock up people that prey on others. Trump thinks he is untouchable.
KY_EnviroGuy
(14,491 posts)Says a fellow traveler in being totally baffled!
Plus, they do it tax-free.
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UCmeNdc
(9,600 posts)To him that is normal. He thought if you have the whole GOP in your pocket who will stop him.
That is why he is so mad at Jeff Sessions.
KY_EnviroGuy
(14,491 posts)that would mean there's 525,600 suckers born in the world every year, and we have our fair share.
tRump is indeed the King of Flim-Flam.
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Siwsan
(26,262 posts)Let us hope this one comes soon, and that it is spectacular.