Fraud in a patient country, and a not so patient country.

Trump has been investigated since December 18, 2019. Truong My Lan's court case began March 5 this year.

Source 1: https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2024/04/10/trump-new-york-criminal-trial-merchan/

Source 2: https://edition.cnn.com/2024/04/11/business/truong-my-lan-vietnam-fraud-death-sentence/index.html

Trump tries and fails to delay N.Y. criminal trial for a third this week

Donald Trump’s lawyers failed again to persuade an appeals court judge to delay the former president’s New York criminal trial scheduled to begin next week

The Washington Post
@randahl patient? I think you misspelled corrupt.
@chris @randahl Well, I suppose you could want to live in a country that court cases were fast. Whether that would be to your benefit might be another thing. Do you want justice done fast or done right?
@ariaflame @randahl Speed isn't the problem, it is the ability of people to essentially buy that time because of access to limitless amounts of money and lawyers who manipulate the system to their benefit. The American justice system is controlled by access to money first, the law second.
@chris @randahl I guess the question is, do you take away the rights of those without resources, just to punish those with resources?
@ariaflame @randahl lol. no. You take away the *false rights* (eg. Rights by Cash) of those with resources.
@chris @randahl So the right to appeal?
@ariaflame @randahl I think the bond and bail stuff is the most annoying. There should be a cap on bails. Say $50,000. More than that and you don't get bail, you get jail. People like Trump should be in jail waiting for trial and/or appeal. The only reason he isn't and some racialized person picked up on a traffic stop is, is because of money.
@chris @randahl And currently politics, whether we like it or not. OK, so what would the consequences of your suggestion be? Would certain minorities tend to get more bails over that amount anyway?
@ariaflame @randahl Perhaps they would, it might not change anything for minorities. The point is, the rich law breakers would be in jail a lot more often.