Illinois judge rules Donald Trump is disqualified from the state's 2024 election ballot

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Illinois judge rules Donald Trump is disqualified from the state's 2024 election ballot - Lemmy.World

So, just to be certain, when USA today keeps giving Trump the benefit of the doubt and uses words in this article like, riot, and alleged role, they’re carrying water for him right? The man has been found to have had a role andtaken part in an insurrection in multiple cases now. They should just say it.
When was he convicted of insurrection or anything related to that?

I watched it on TV. Doesn’t take a genius to watch the days events of January 6th unfold, and the months prior to know he attempted a coup to stay in power. Why it failed, I don’t have any insider knowledge.

But it’s come out that it was a lot more coordinated behind the scenes than what we all witnessed on Jan. 6th. We don’t need a jury for that (although there is an ongoing criminal investigation for it)

Literally the FBI said it wasnt at all coordinated. But that is a separate question to if Trump was responsible for what happened in any way.

Donald Trump spent months telling people to come to rhe capital on January 6th, you really gonna try to say that wasn’t coordinated in anyway, hell?

But, that’s not even what I was talking about, Trump fired generals, and had a whole fake electorate scheme, and there was a behind the scenes coup attempt that the public didn’t really know about. That’s the part I was saying was coorsinated. Jan. 6th was a distract if anything for the real coup plot if anything.

And the only reason it failed is bcz there were a lot of high level officials in the government who wouldn’t go along with it.

What is wrong with telling people to come to the capitol? I understand your point, but he didnt do anything illegal or he would have been prosecuted already.

He IS being prosecuted for the fake electoral scheme. You also seem to think this country’s laws actually apply equally to everybody. You obviously haven’t been paying enough attention to what’s been happening.

Our system is pay to win.

So he has been convicted then? I agree, money and power talk; you ever wonder why this trial is happening now, not a couple years ago?
Because these things take forever to go through the courts and a major tactic Trump uses is delay delay delay. He constantly has his attorneys push for delaying any hearings. Then there are appeals which also delay, then bounce back to the other courts of various levels. It takes absolutely forever because he’s rich. If it were you or I we’d be sitting in prison and having a judgment within a month.
Literally people on Jan 6th were already convicted and are out of prison. The jan 6th shaman was sentenced to 41 months in prison and was already released back in the summer… I can understand how the process take a long time, but when was trump arrested?
Uh, couple of times now? Mug shots and everything…
You do know mug shots are not convictions right?
You do know arrests aren’t convictions, right? Whatever…
Gotcha, my mistake, I was actually looking for an answer to the question as an actual date to point out that he wasnt even arrested til 2023.