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Phil Rees Feb 17, 2024

What's most noteworthy about the judgment against Trump today is that he's been a crook for decades. Countless prosecutors, banks, and others who were in positions to hold him accountable -- including journalists in some ways -- totally capitulated to him when it mattered most.

Our democracy is teetering in significant part because of those abject failures.

Law enforcement seems to have learned from what it did wrong. Journalism plainly has not.

Dom Pates Feb 16, 2024

@dangillmor Still time? Admittedly not likely on evidence so far…

Bruce Elrick Feb 16, 2024

"The core proposition of anti-conservatism requires no supplementation and no exegesis. It is as sufficient as it is necessary. What you see is what you get:

The law cannot protect anyone unless it binds everyone; and it cannot bind anyone unless it protects everyone."

Jon Het.Feb 16, 2024

@dangillmor , I feel it is a shame that his biggest creditors, the Russian mob, don't get to hold him accountable.

Darrin West Feb 16, 2024

@Jon_Kramer @dangillmor Depends where he lands his plane, next week. At some point he’s going to wonder if sticking around is the best plan. Maybe try his luck in Saudi?

glutto Feb 16, 2024

@Jon_Kramer @dangillmor
For the Russians, the useful idiot will eventually have run out of usefulness, then it's an invitation to fly to Moscow via a Legacy 600 plane.

Jon Het.Feb 16, 2024

@glutto @dangillmor I'm not sure. He may be a worthwhile addition to Moscow. At least as long as Putin lives.

Darwin Woodka Feb 16, 2024

@dangillmor Ayup

Darwin Woodka Feb 16, 2024

@dangillmor I think the reckoning is coming and it's going to make FDR look like a slacker. It may take a few years but it's going to happen.

Ω 🌍 Gus Posey Feb 16, 2024

@dangillmor He's still skating past every significant punishment. If they're learning, they're taking their sweet time about it.

Ariaflame Feb 17, 2024

@Gustodon @dangillmor Every fine is money he can't spend on campaigning. And if he wants to appeal he has to pony up the money. With interest. Money is what is important to him, and adulation.

Zorro Notorious MEB 😡Feb 17, 2024

@dangillmor Trump is still defrauding Republican voters.

Mastodon Migration Feb 17, 2024

This certainly doesn't right all wrongs, but today is a very good day. Let's appreciate that whether or not the tide has turned, it is still possible to hold a powerful criminal to account. Hopefully this will encourage others to exhibit the backbone necessary to rescue the nation.

lupus_blackfur Feb 17, 2024

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Would that I had more than just one boost to give...

Violet Madder Feb 17, 2024

Why the hell do people keep calling this sort of thing "failure", as if it's just some kind of oopsie and not corruption and betrayal?

2¢Feb 17, 2024

@violetmadder @dangillmor perhaps because his behavior represents an accepted standard. His failure was overreach that snagged him.

Ben Aveling Feb 17, 2024

@dangillmor I remember one time Trump said something like “if I hadn’t tried to become president the law would have continued to let me do what it previously always had let me do”. And I’m afraid he’s right about that. He donated a lot of money to a lot of ppl, on both sides. Best democracy money can buy.

Jay 🆘Feb 17, 2024

@dangillmor People with enough money are “too big to jail.” Culturally we revere wealth so much that we struggle to imagine that wealthy people really deserve punishment, not to mention the enablers who are intoxicated by wealth and will do anything to be near it. “Crime” is what poor people do.

Deb has moved! (see profile) 🇨🇦Feb 18, 2024

@dangillmor yes. He's been "immune" to the rules the rest of us are constrained by, for 70 years. Now he insists on formally being granted immunity ... and (shock! horror!) it doesn't seem likely. And wait til his money runs out ... will everyone cut him the same slack then?