Trump classified documents trial set for May 2024
Trump classified documents trial set for May 2024
Florida District Judge Aileen Cannon on Friday set the trial date in the classified documents case against former President Trump for May 20, 2024, per a court filing.
Seems like an own-goal to start the trial after he's potentially secured the nomination.
The goal is to set the trial as l late as she can get away with, then stall, stall, and stall some more in hopes he can get reelected before it ends and then just pardon himself.
I dunno I still see this helping Democrats in the end. R will give him the nomination with all his fans proclaiming with great sureness that a presently campaigning former president who is trying to be re-elected cannot be convicted, then BOOM he gets convicted <6 months prior to the election. Then what?
My thoughts exactly.
@pelespirit@sh.itjust.works mentioned that there are behind-the-scenes machinations to disrupt the process, and that's a very valid concern, but I don't see how it could be close enough to make a difference though if Trump is convicted of any charges that have been brought.
I've been wrong before though.
Don't forget that Trump is now a convicted rapist, as confirmed by the judge in his E Jean Carroll case. Close to half of the US population is willing to vote for a convicted rapist. Now tell me democracy is not in peril in the United States with a straight face.
The problem is they've lost touch with reality. They refuse to believe anything that paints "their side" in a bad light and instead choose to believe in vast conspiracies to frame everyone. To their world view there's a cabal of rich powerful liberals that control all media and government departments around the world and they're constantly working to frame or eliminate conservatives.
They literally don't believe Trump has ever done anything wrong in his life and that everything he has been accused or even convicted of is fake. Any reports even suggesting his involvement in anything negative are fake and part of the massive conspiracy.
There's literally no way to reason with them as they can simply choose to ignore anything they don't like and chalk it up to the "liberal conspiracy" probably while muttering something about George Soros and Bill Gates.
That's not really true. The E Jean Carroll case found him liable for defamation in a civil case. The standard was lower than for a criminal conviction (just as OJ lost his civil case but was not convicted of murder).
Furthermore, Trump basically accepted that he was liable for defamation, but not necessarily guilty of rape. That was enough for the judge, so he did not have to "confirm" anything else.
Actually, the judge commented directly in a written response, that yes, the jury did find that Trump raped Carroll. https://newrepublic.com/post/174448/judge-e-jean-carroll-case-yes-donald-trump-rapist
You're kind of both right and both wrong. Trump was not literally convicted of rape, that's true. On the otherhand the defamation he was found guilty of was saying the E Jean Carroll was lying about him raping her. One logically follows from the other. You do raise a good point though in that the burden of proof in this case was lower.
At the very least we can say it is highly likely Trump is a rapist based on his conviction (plus the various comments he has been caught making such as his infamous "grab em by the pussy" remark).
Many of them literally believe without irony that Democrats drink the blood of young children to stay youthful forever. Feeding off their adrenochrome.
Sure the people they're voting for aren't very good at all. But in their minds they're better than adrenochrome vampires. The problem is most of them have no contact with reality. And nothing will sway their minds once they've been made up. Literally made up
in their mind
Unlikely