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Never Trump is OK with Political Prosecution
DeSantis stands against this or he is not worth a vote.
GOP candidates not decrying this will most likely change my mind on who I am willing to vote for if they win the primary.
All of you who think things are fine, will you agree they are not if this happens? Of course not. Y’all will be happy because it gets Trump.
We will see who is on the side of law, and who is on the side of political prosecution.
Now, I am more than willing to buy Trump is pumping things up. But, that is typical for political people. Ginning up the base is what is done. It’s how you get into power.
The justice system has been taken over by the Democrats and used against us. How the anti Trump people think this is OK is beyond me.
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I can’t imagine Trump being denied bail. I actually would anticipate Trump being released on his own recognizance. It is not like Trump is a flight risk.
The irony is that the Georgia case is far more serious.
Hopefully the Republican Party will have a nominee who isn’t under indictment.
Yeah. Good luck with that.
Now let’s wish there could be a Democrat nominee who isn’t under indictment and also shouldn’t be.
The Georgia case with that grand jury?
Heh.
All democrats pursuing prosecution against a Republican running for president.
And you have nothing wrong with that because it’s going after the person you hate.
You voted for Biden who is clearly one of the most corrupt politicians in history and somebody your patr and Saint disliked and loathed.
The D’s nominated last time a crook who should have been in prison. 10% for the big guy.
The only way to be sure is for them to nominate a Biden.
Or a Clinton.
This should end Trump. Can’t run if a criminal. It will be interesting if they lock him up with no bail but that is how our law runs
Yep.
Matt Walsh’s theory is that they are doing this to ensure that Trump wins the nomination. Because they think he’d be a whole lot easier for 10%-for-Grampy to beat than someone who has the same intentions but not as much baggage. (Not that they couldn’t generate baggage in the time honored ways if they put their fetid little minds to it…see Kavanaugh, Thomas, et al).
“If you come at the King, you best not miss.” So said Ralph Waldo Emerson. Or was it Omar from The Wire? Google is unclear on this. Whatever. Just a pack of hyenas trying to take down a water buffalo and I’m sick to death of it. I want Trump to go away. This latest attempt at nipping at the big guy’s flanks will most likely fail as did all the others and he will come back stronger than ever. We are looking at another Biden/Trump face-off and I weep for this country.
But if people vote for Biden instead of Trump, don’t they pretty much deserve it?
That isn’t a prohibition at all. Eugene Debs ran from jail in 1920 as one example. He didn’t win, but got the highest vote total for the socialist party to that point. If you mean he cannot win either the nomination or the Presidency, while I agree that no Republican can win the White House in 24, he can certainly win the nomination…even from jail. Perhaps especially from jail.
The prosecution of Trump is designed to have Trump win the Republican primary and lose the general. Yeah, I would vote for Trump in the general, like I did in the last two elections, but it would only be a protest vote against the democrat. Trump is not the best candidate for either the republicans or for the USA. The Trump prosecution is not my circus and not my monkeys; no one other than Trump supporters are obligated to condemn it. Let’s focus on the substantive evils the democrats are doing to our country, this is small potatoes. People can only be outraged by so many things at one time. Maybe you can call non Trump supporters Fake Conservatives again.
Wonder if the cops will shoot / kill him? That will give them what they want. Maybe a good Memphis still police action.
They can claim they had to shoot him because he tried to grab for the steering wheel from the back seat, again.
Pretty sure the Democrats win the primary no matter what GOP runs. The last election showed that it is a joke and the GOP are done at the POTUS and majority of the Senate ones.
Here is a helpful article from TIME about the mechanics of what would happen if Trump is arrested. https://time.com/6264352/donald-trump-arrest-what-happen/
I wonder if, someday, we could try having a Democratic candidate who shouldn’t be under indictment.
Let alone already locked up.
Trump had to be destroyed and not just defeated because he pulled the curtains back and showed the corruption and uselessness of TPTB, the Swamp. Remember that he didn’t say the “Democrat Swamp” or the “GOPe Swamp”, just “The Swamp”.
Here ends the lesson: Anyone the Swamp, TPTB, don’t try to destroy doesn’t deserve your vote. He is a member in good standing.
We know the highly partisan USAG for SDNY passed on this case. And that it is a cynical political stunt. They want to divide that, to mobilize the MAGA demographic to either nominate an angry and even more divisive Trump or to destroy the candidacy of any other Republican. They want violence to run their “insurrection” game to suppress the right and take extra steps to “protect our democracy” with huge piles of mystery ballots like those 4,000 or so with identical times stamps in a backwater county in 2022.
If there is a slim silver lining it is akin to that which kept Garland off SCOTUS, namely holding the bastards to their own standards. If J6 Grannies have to be hunted down for those ten minutes on site the cops welcomed them to and if Trump can be subjected to an unprecedented level of scrutiny and dubious accountability, then Democrats need the same treatment. And if we see reports of misdeeds that are not prosecuted, we get to locket the homes of prosecutors and judges because we know that it’s OK to picket even SCOTUS homes per Garland. The entire Biden clan must do time.
If there’s a dog nearby it doesn’t stand a chance.
Bryan, If I may I would rewrite your title:
“Never Trump is Okay with Totalitarianism”
This case continues America’s descent into a Totalitarian Police State, which is much welcomed by the UniParty. Much of the commentary above assumes a Presidential Election in 2024, which may never happen the way things are going. Unless the Pubs finally stand tall on the Budget and other matters there will be an economic collapse by then and an excuse for Martial Law.
” The Entire Biden Clan must do time”.
I would say the extended Biden Clan including all those involved one iota with who brought about the J6 prosecutions, the VAX mandates, the spying and censorship of American Citizens, the rigged elections and this latest travesty against Trump should all do decades behind bars.
From the (famously) pro-Trump side of things, I could quibble, but what you said sounds fair enough. Likewise, I’ll vote for the nominee.
We’ve seen the whole machine spring into inaction, refusing to open an eye nor lift a fingernail in the direction of Clinton/Obama/Biden crimes. I mean no-kidding, unambiguous, evidence falling out of dumpsters, crime.
And nothing.
I don’t know about full-on civil war, or what that would even look like nowadays, but the machine keeps encroaching on territory that clearly abuts armed insurrection. Which by the way, does not even slightly resemble J6. Just saying.
Just understand this is how law works. How all law works. The corruption of all law.
I have been fearing that for a half decade now.
Small potatoes? The highly politicized DOJ that arrests a GOP candidate on “trumped” up charges to keep him out of the White House, and you think this is small potatoes?!
You want to focus on the substantive evils the Democrats are doing — then this is where to focus: an evil, corrupt DOJ persecuting anyone just two inches to the right of Hillary. If you believe in justice, in fairness, in equal treatment under the law, then you are obliged to condemn it. If you dismiss this because you don’t like Trump and therefore don’t care how corrupt the DOJ is, . . . well, frankly, go become a Democrat. We don’t need you on our team.
Good grief.