NonilexOct 21, 2024

For #Trump, a Lifetime of Scandals Heads Toward Moment of #Judgment

When the history of the 2024 #election is written, 1 of the iconic images illustrating it will surely be the mug shot taken of Trump after 1/4 indictments, staring into the camera w/his signature glare. It is an image not of shame but of defiance, the image of a man who would be a #convicted #felon before Election Day & yet possibly #POTUS again afterward.

#democracy #criminal #law
#HarrisWalz2024
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/10/20/us/politics/trump-scandals.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare

For Trump, a Lifetime of Scandals Heads Toward a Moment of Judgment

No major party presidential candidate, much less president, in American history has been accused of wrongdoing so many times.

The New York Times
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Sometimes lost amid all the shouting of a high-octane campaign heading into its final couple of weeks is that simple if mind-bending fact. #America for the first time in its history may send a #criminal to the Oval Office & entrust him w/the #nuclear codes. What would once have been automatically #disqualifying barely seems to slow #Trump down in his comeback march for a 2nd term that he says will be devoted to “#retribution.”

#democracy #criminal #law
#HarrisWalz2024

Oct 21, 2024 at 11:46pmWeb
Show threadNonilexOct 21, 2024

In all the different ways that #Trump has upended the traditional rules of #American #politics, that may be one of the most striking. He has survived more #scandals than any major party presidential candidate, much less #president, in the life of the republic. Not only survived but thrived. He has turned them on their head, making allegations against him into an argument for him by casting himself as a serial victim rather than a serial violator.

#rape #democracy #criminal #law
#HarrisWalz2024

Show threadNonilexOct 21, 2024

#Trump’s *persecution defense*, the notion that he gets in so much trouble only because everyone is out to get him [#paranoid #delusions], resonates at his rallies where he says “they’re not coming after me, they’re coming after you, & I’m just standing in the way.” But that of course belies a record of #scandal stretching across his 78yrs starting long before #politics.

#rape #misogyny #fraud #racism #WhiteSupremacy #MaleSupremacy #RulingClass #law #democracy #criminal #law
#HarrisWalz2024

Show threadNonilexOct 21, 2024

Whether in his personal life or his public life, he has been accused of so many acts of #wrongdoing, investigated by so many prosecutors & agencies, sued by so many plaintiffs & claimants that it requires a scorecard just to remember them all.

#criminal #civil #law #rape #SexualAssault #misogyny #fraud #racism #WhiteSupremacy #MaleSupremacy #RulingClass #democracy
#HarrisWalz2024

Show threadaardvarkOct 22, 2024
@Nonilex wait, are you talking about Trump or Musk?
Show threadJonChevreau 🇨🇦Oct 22, 2024
@aardvark @Nonilex Sad it could be either but guessing here it is #TheDonOld
Show threadSueDiOhOct 21, 2024
@Nonilex He had help.
Show threadKanaMaunaOct 21, 2024
@Nonilex A small slice of America is sending him there. He will easily be the most unpopular president ever.
Show threadnotthatkindofdoctorOct 22, 2024
@Nonilex
George W. Bush pled guilty to a misdemeanor DUI charge, does that not count?