Yeah... There's a lot of people complaining about politicizing the legal system tonight, and those same people said nothing when Trump's most popular campaign promise was to put his political rival in jail.
I think that it’s actually a good thing. If a criminal record disqualified you, it could be easy to cook up bogus charges against a political opponent just to kick them off the ballot. We also have along history in the USA of black folks getting charged with crimes at a disproportionately high rate.
I sincerely hope he spends the next month until sentencing shitting bricks stressed out.
He's done so much awful shit that nobody remembers the entirety of it from trans people, to Chinese people (China flu) and even the adoption of renewables.
He's fucked over everyone including many of his own employees.
It was a step back 40 years. Now with him gone, assholes won't be emboldened as much
As a non-american, is this really a big deal? It doesn't disqualify him from going for presidency and it's possible that he doesn't serve any time at all due to his old age and no criminal record, as the article suggests.
What happened to all of the posts reporting on this? Two hours ago the frontpage was top to bottom guilty verdict posts and now this is the only one in any sorting method (including by comments). It suggests they were removed.
Am I the only one seeing this? Did individual instances manually remove them?
I think new posts just cycle off the main page pretty quickly (I actually like it being that way.) It seems unlikely that Lemmy admins would conspire to get rid of news about Trump -- you can try top last 24 hours to see if they're actually gone or something.
Yes, very strange. Normally "Hot" sorting is good but doesn't cycle quite that fast for me. Sorting by comments (because a LOT of them had comments) would have returned them, and toggling different sorting methods didn't return most of them, just the occasional one. Top-Day was the sorting that returned them.
I did some somewhat extensive investigation of voting on some propaganda-bot-adjacent posts, because I suspected they were doing some fake voting... I saw some suspicious stuff but nothing really all that incriminating. I didn't spend too much time on it though.
Is there one of these stories with a ton of downvotes that you'd like me to look into? I looked at a couple of the big ones about the Trump verdict that dropped off the page just now, and they actually only had a few downvotes each, which kind of rules out that theory.
Maybe it's my doomerism at play, but even one year house arrest I'd be OK with. Keep him in NY in his Trump Tower penthouse. Don't let him go out to campaign.
Obviously jail would be better. I just don't think fines alone are going to cut it. He's not going to pay them.
We gotta break the seal. It has to be jail. He tried to kill the vice president, he stole classified documents and got dozens of CIA assets killed, he explicitly sides with the enemies of the US and against the American people. He wants to shoot protestors and have the military seize the voting machines.
I understand the reluctance. This particular thing, as weird as it is, wasn't actually all that bad. But you gotta break the seal. It's like when you're leaving an abusive partner; the idea of really pulling the trigger is terrifying, because what's gonna happen? And there's no going back. But we have to.
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Donald Trump has been convicted on all 34 counts of falsifying business records.
Trump, who was indicted in connection with a hush money payment made to an adult-film actress ahead of the 2016 presidential election, is the first former president convicted of a crime.