Legal Experts warn Trump may soon be facing “prison, not politics

Not gonna read this, if Trump was ever going to face consequences, it would have happened by now. The rapist is gonna die peacefully in his sleep eventually. There is no god.

- Literally the most hilarious thing I've read all week. Honestly I wonder if anyone who was involved in this article actually believes that.
  It just reads like more placation of the angry masses. "no need to burn things down, we promise he will be gone soon, no protesting necessary either"

Yeah, I been hearing this for about 4 years now.
- Myself falling for hope because Trump made me unemployed:
  
  Myself flying over from Canada wondering what you guys are doing

Some people commit a felony and get punished for four years or more, Trump commits 34 felonies and we get punished for four years (or more)

Can I downvote this any harder? We've been hearing "prison time" for years, just dangling a carrot. I'm not even going to bother reading this.

Stfu click bait. Why would he suddenly start experiencing consequences?

Trust me bro, just one more lawsuit and the Nazis are gone.
- Ya bro trust me this lawsuit will totally get him, promise

Similar to the case where he was convicted of multiple felonies and given (checks notes) not even a slap on the wrist?
- But it's on his permanent record! Surely that's punishment enough.
  
  hE LeArNEd hIS LEsSoN 🤡

Lol
Lmao
Nothing will meaningfully improve until the rich fear for their lives
- There was a moment when Trump wrote that Walmart must "eat tariffs" that I thought "oh we're getting close now. Of course I don't want the actual reign of terror that followed the French revolution, but I also wouldn't feel bad if a few examples were made.

What kind of AI generated blog spam website is this, why is a US website named Sarkari Form

by whose hand, exactly
- Anyone that actually tries to sentence him will end up on an ice plane to El Salvador.

Absolute hopium.

If Trump faces any consequences during his term, I’ll eat my fucking hat.
- I would exclude assassination from that bet if i were you.
  
  I’m already disfigured from crossing my fingers too hard.
  
  I wouldn't. The people who would actually do that are part of his cult.
  
  Executions don't give justice. The best we can hope for is Club Fed.
  
  JR announced he has cancer. Only bad things happen to good people. I expect this to continue

Give me a fucking break. If that cunt meets justice, it’ll happen on the street.

K. Let me know when it happens. I'll believe it then. I'll just keep hoping until then.

Everyone who still reads articles that say 'blah blah looking at, blah blah might be" and gets hopeful are morons. He will keep getting away with whatever he wants. These articles have been happening for 10 years now and nothing EVER HAPPENS.
- the only way trump will ever see justice is if he gets Luigied.
  
  No. Too humane.

I'll say what I've been saying for 9 years: I'll believe it when I see it.

Do those "legal experts" have the ability to enforce the law?

If that dude faced consequences I will eat my hat

He may be doing illegal shit that people want to put a stop to, but half the government backs him completely, and blindly. And the other half is a bunch of spineless pussies who care more about their donors and their own optics than bettering the country. Nobody is gonna do anything about it

He's been facing prison for years already, yet here we are

LOL
I've been hearing that since Trump 1.
Any day now.

Fucking DO IT ALREADY THEN

oh great, we're back to the old "trump's in biiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiig trouble THIS TIME!!!" headlines
can we please stop it with these bullshit posts? they are not uplifting, they are infuriating, because if it didn't happen after however tf many felonies, then it's never going to happen
- Trumps deep into mock court listing his crimes and him being put against the wall territory.

Obviously thats bullshit but elect me president and I will absolutely rid this country of Nazis and christofascists and imprison the fuck out of anyone who accepts ANY donations or gifts of ANY kind

I seriously, seriously doubt it. As much as the insiders all hate trump with an absolute vengeance, he is too goddamn useful for them to want to get rid of him.
Trump is a symptom of a much, much larger systemic issue that has been on slow burn for decades, but the thing that Trump does that no one else can do is have such a massive fanatical fanbase. They do not have any other person who can rile people up while also being an absolute moron who insults them at every turn and treats them worse than whatever shit he has them lick off his shoes.
If the bullet fired at him last year had hit him between the eyes and killed him before he hit the ground, it would not solve the problem, but it would have abso-fucking-lutely had a massive effect on everything. It would have hindered their ability to go forward with a lot of shit since his fanbase would have been heavily divided. Trump's attribute is that he is the glue that keeps their movement together, but not the actual mover of that movement. Trump doesn't have beliefs. He does not give a fuck about anything other than himself. He does not care about his children, grandchildren, wife, ex-wives/mistresses, his country, his friends (whom he does not have). He does not care at all about anything other than self-aggrandizement, enriching himself, and staying out of prison/legal punishment for his countless misdeeds.

I've heard that before and won't get my hopes up.
He has enough money to Stall out a court until he's long dead...

The Holocaust was legal

A mountain of felonies, millions of civil rights violations, violent insurrection, and not only is he not currently in prison for his crimes…

I wish I could say this is a click bait title, but its more like the title was written based on the assumption no one will click to read the article. No where in there were there any legal experts(Lawyers, Judges or legal scholars). No where in there did anyone actually suggest he'd face any consequences for his actions. Total bs title intended to give a few people hope I guess. Not really sure what the thought process was. Probably wasn't one of those either.
- intended to ~~give a few people hope~~ make a few people complacent
- I have hope 🥹
  
  Eh.....maybe don't.

Talk is cheap.
- Especially Political talk.

I'm on this poll for positive news. All I see is this political shit. No matter right or left or communists - I'm sick of all of it.
- Yeah I agree 100% with this sentiment. Every so often - say, every 20 posts or so - there's something that's actually uplifting. But most of it is just political wank, as you say. Or one was 'Israel finally allows some food into Gaza' which tbqh I don't find uplifting so much as absolutely sickening because it reminds me of how absolutely awful the context for it is.
  Still, not gonna unsub because Lemmy is too small for me to be that picky 😅
  
  Honestly, i get your point. But it is really easy to be the change you want to see and make a commubuty that does not allow polulitics and just crosspost what you think fits. People will likely enjoy that kind of content. You have one subscriber in me already if you make it.

Any day now....

The only way that remotely happens is if the dems take congress in 2026 and impeach and remove him (they'd probably have to get vance too). Which seems highly unlikely and has a high risk of another jan 6 like event.
I'd like to believe it, really, but there is no way that he ever sees justice for his crimes. He'll die of a cheeseburger-related heart attack before that happens.
- I find it odd that anyone thinks there's going to be (fair) elections. The Democrats (or any party other than MAGA Republicans) are never going to be in power again, ever.
  Too any rich and powerful people will end up in prison if that happened, and right now they're the ones writing (and rewriting) the rules and breaking the things they can't control.
  It's going on in front of everyone's eyes and the consequences are just being ignored by most. It's mindboggling.
  
  I know a lot of people have been saying this, but we’ve seen some nice surprise Democrat election victories lately, mostly on smaller local elections for State judges/senators. There was also the recent attempt to overturn Justine Riggs election, which saw huge public outcry and failed.
  It is reason to be optimistic, and the GOP has certainly had awareness of the importance of all those small local seats for a long time. So even if we presume they have some horrible, secret, nefarious way of manipulating results, I don’t think they can do that on enormous scales, or for every election.
  Be cautious, but you don’t have to be pessimistic.
- I would be fucking SHOOK if the Dems actually did that in '26 instead of settling for wheeling Schumer out to waggle his finger at Trump. I honestly think the only reason they're attempting impeachment now is that they know it has virtually zero chance to go anywhere, so it's just politically useful theater.
- I doubt Jan 6 would be allowed to happen again. 1. The police and military would be ready and waiting. 2. The rest of us will be ready and waiting.
  
  I hope you'd be right in that case. If an impeachment of Trump got to a senate vote that was expected to pass (removing him from office), I just don't see him going quietly. Especially considering he would still be in control of the military and well loved by the cops.
  I doubt that would come to pass though. The likelihood of the democrats getting enough votes to impeach and remove in 2026 seems far fetched. Especially since the current republican controlled congress is actively trying to pass voter suppression laws. Not to mention democratic voters don't turn out for midterms like they do for presidential elections. Maybe that changes, but from here it seems improbable.

He is literally a criminal already, if he's not in jail now he will never be unless democrats act or he is shunned from republican party

- My eyes see this as an ai generated slop, am I wrong?
  
  Idk I just googled guillotine and took a screenshot of a guillotine image
- That's for a population with balls.
  Not the neutered US.

Trump will die a free man, sadly. The justice system has already made up it's mind and nothing he does will ever be punished, no matter what.
Now, how he dies is still up in the air. I think the odds are already not in his favor to have a peaceful death in his sleep. The best he can hope for is a disease taking him out at this point.

Sensational clickbait headline,.stop posting nonsense

Should have gone to jail a long ass time ago...

I won't hold my breath..

Lol. Surely THIS time...

Sounds good. But until he is marched into prison in a orange jumpsuit I’m not celebrating.

Nothing involving trump's face is uplifting

I'll believe it, when I see it.
For the past 8 years they've been saying he "may" do this, or he "may" get punished for that, and everyone twiddled their thumbs until morons elected him into office again, making it all impossible again

The legal experts are usually wrong. I'm interested to hear what the legal amateurs have to say.

Which "legal experts" are claiming Trump could be facing prison? If they actually have JDs, they should be disbarred for incompetence.
SCOTUS has already ruled on this; the president has very, very broad immunity from any criminal prosecution. The case was dropped in Florida because his stealing highly classified documents was an "official action"; if that can be handwaved away, then so can defrauding the country with a shitcoin pump-and-dump.
- I read the article and that's what I was trying to figure out. What "legal experts" is the title referring to, because they aren't mentioned in the body of the article

maybe you stop predicting and actually start doing instead of getting my hopes up all the time legal experts.

Yeah sure. Been hearing it for the last decade.

If you would please consult the graphs...

The only solution is a French style revolution

Once he's out of politics, he is still on the hook for the Insurrection and the stolen documents. Those cases weren't thrown out, they just went dormant. They can be revived.
Also, he has immunity for "Official" presidential duties. For example, he can't be charged with murder because he greenlit a drone strike on a terrorist camp that also killed civilians. That would be considered within his official duties.
But he can't use his office to solicit bribes, perpetrate frauds, commit election fraud, etc. Those aren't part of his official duties, those are crimes, and he doesn't have immunity to commit crimes.
- he doesn't have immunity to commit crimes.
  Sadly, he apparently does
  
  There's a difference between immunity, and just not getting charged and prosecuted. Just because they declined to charge him, doesn't mean it's legal, or that he has immunity.
- Wait, didn't he accept a 400 million dollar airplane from a foreign king? I'm no american but I'd imagine that that is kind of a crime when it's the president doing it? I heard of raised eyebrows, nothing about criminal charges.
  I mean even if he would not keep the plane (as if) and even if the plane wasn't "prepped" by the gifters before, and even if it wasn't some unusable piece of junk they've tried to get rid of for years... it's still way too much of a gift to present to a president if it's not abundantly clear it's a gift to the people..... and I have heard no such thing.
  
  I’m no american but I’d imagine that that is kind of a crime when it’s the president doing it?
  It's standard practice for US presidents to accept bribes from middle eastern dictatorship, particularly Israel and Saudi Arabia. Nobody in power is going to risk setting a precedent that's is illegal.

Those walls have been closing in on Trump for 8 years now.
- "...*28 years now."
  Ftfy
  
  78 years now
  FTFY
  
  Before it wasn't so much national security stuff, more evil rich guy stuff they always get away with.

In and ideal world, sure.
But this article and the people who published it are deeply unserious.

Can we please keep depressing American politics out of "uplifting news"? I'm not subscribed to this community to see "Hitler definitely getting in biiiiig trouble" for the twenty seventh time.

Bit hard to be a legal expert from a foreign prison.
:(