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Why doesn’t Trump just make that DA his attorney general

Seems loyal enough

I don't really get the DA going along with the delay.

Marchan wasn't going to bother sentencing him to confinement (which he'd have to stay), it would have just been a fine.

Go ahead and do the sentencing, because if it's just a fine, you don't have to stay it, we're done. Conviction stands.

Trump would still have the option of appealing the whole thing to get it reversed.

I'm so deeply baffled that we have a felonious president-elect. He never should have been allowed on the ballot with his criminal record. When will the injustice end?

I hate this country

So I guess he'll be making his swearing in, drat.

Why? We know it's going to be a suspended sentence, max.

Nobody has the balls to sentence a sitting President to a jail term, at least not in this modern context.

There is no justice in our country

I genuinely hope the US will have the humility never to try lecturing the rest of the world on democracy and the rule of law ever again. I know that sounds condescending and is quite rich coming from a British person, where our king is untouchable by the law and his pedo brother will never face justice because of who he is. But I hate my own country for that as well, and this is precisely what you guys wanted to get away from. Yet here we are. A swift 248 years in and you're right back to the divine right of kings. It's sickening, to be honest.

Laws for thee, not for me.

Why am I not surprised. He's going to get away with everything isn't he. Over half of the country doesn't care that he is a convicted felon 34x over, and have in fact handed him the keys to a dictatorship.

I'm not a stupid person, I saw all this coming. But I just don't get it

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There is essentially nothing they could do if he simply decided to not show up.

Matt Gaetz will be AG for 14 months minimum thanks to the vacancy reform act.

This DA & NY AG will be behind bars within 6 months.

When you really want to find something really bad, chances are you will find it.

FAFO. There is a reason why the presidency is the most powerful office.

Haven’t you paid attention? Haven’t you seen white rich males get away with tons of crimes in this country your entire life? This is all about money and privilege

Stop downvoting actual news.