The trials and tribulations of an ex-president (including SCOTUS on the 14th amendment)

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  • Again, as has so often been stated: a President cannot evade state charges, nor pardon himself for them if convicted.
  • RuthRuth Shipmate
    He can't evade state charges, but I wouldn't bet against him evading state prison sentences if he's president.
  • DoublethinkDoublethink Admin, 8th Day Host
    This is a powerful summary of the legal history of Trump attacking democracy (in the form of an endorsement of Harris). I don’t think I had quite appreciated the scale.
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  • HugalHugal Shipmate
    Ruth wrote: »
    Hugal wrote: »
    So Trump has suggested that Presidential candidates take a competency test of some kind. Does he not want to be President?

    This doesn't deserve an answer, but I'll give one anyway. He does in fact want to be president, because the presidency is his get-out-of-jail-free card, something he needs -- the 65 pages of this thread are but one minor testament to that.

    There was a level sarcasm in my post which doesn’t always come across. You are of course right but it is at best a temporary get out of jail free card. He can’t stay President for ever, despite his ambitions. Also he is not young.
  • Yes, death will end this circus sooner or later—though I doubt he takes that into account when he’s making plans. I suspect we’re at the point where he’s just clutching anything he can think of to keep from the long fall downward. (And of course he’s all but said he intends to make himself president for life, and spare us all the trouble of ever voting again.)
  • RuthRuth Shipmate
    Hugal wrote: »
    Ruth wrote: »
    Hugal wrote: »
    So Trump has suggested that Presidential candidates take a competency test of some kind. Does he not want to be President?

    This doesn't deserve an answer, but I'll give one anyway. He does in fact want to be president, because the presidency is his get-out-of-jail-free card, something he needs -- the 65 pages of this thread are but one minor testament to that.

    There was a level sarcasm in my post which doesn’t always come across. You are of course right but it is at best a temporary get out of jail free card. He can’t stay President for ever, despite his ambitions. Also he is not young.
    No, I got the sarcasm - I just don't appreciate it.

    As for his staying president forever -- look up the word "dictator" some time. Think about Putin.
  • There are a troubling number of my fellow Americans who seem to yearn for the country to be ruled over rather than governed.
  • The_Riv wrote: »
    There are a troubling number of my fellow Americans who seem to yearn for the country to be ruled over rather than governed.
    I’m afraid you’re right.


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