Happy 4th Indictment Day for anyone else who celebrates!
I bought the good beer tonight
Pliny the obese fascist?
It sounds like he's gonna get hit with RICO.
Alexa, order more popcorn.
Update if you haven't seen it: they went to RICO!
Alexa, cancel that. Make it champagne, instead.
Charge 1: RICO!
Can someone explain this to me like I’m an idiot?
RICO is an acronym that stands for Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations. It's used for organized crime. The short of it is it allows prosecutors to add to enhanced penalties.
His lead over Republican presidential rivals has widened since the New York charges were filed in April, according to Reuters/Ipsos polling.
But in a July Reuters/Ipsos poll, 37% of independents said the criminal cases made them less likely to vote for him, compared to 8% who said they were more likely to do so
How can someone see Trump been charged again and again, as something that makes him more compelling to vote for. I know the Republicans have put their egg in that basket(case), but as an independent, seeing all those charges, and think "Well, that works for me!" I don't get it...
They think criminal charges means he's pissing off liberals instead of... You know... Being a criminal.
Prosecutors brought 11 counts against Trump and his associates, including forgery and racketeering, which is used to target members of organized crime groups.
Prosecutors charged 18 other people, including Mark Meadows, Trump's former White House chief of staff, and lawyers Rudy Giuliani and John Eastman.
The case stems from a Jan. 2, 2021, phone call in which Trump urged Georgia's top election official, Brad Raffensperger, to "find" enough votes to reverse his narrow loss in the state. Raffensperger declined to do so.
The most deliscious thing (and worrying if I'm being honest) about all of this is that his biggest cheerleader, ~~Magic The Gathering~~ Majorie, is a representative of Georgia. Either this all happens under her watch and she's powerless to "take the heat off a guy" or she will pull every favor she can in her own state to reduce anything she can for him.
I forsee not only there to be many hiccups, but maybe even Watergate type charges for her office for meddling with the courthouse itself to try and fuck with the system. I would like to be wrong but this is a case that brings, perhaps not the actual charge but the spirit of, treasonous behavior. Anyone willing to end the democratic way of doing things for a dictator, will absolutely come to bat if it fails to try again.
Trump is fucked
Trump is fucked
Super fucked. And the Repubs are anchored to him. Lets keep it that way for a couple decades.
It's a good day
Gonna stop with the news right there and let some joy/schadenfreude seep in now
I literally have an erection that won't go away. This has never happened from news before…
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