This title is a little misleading. No, Trump has not been arrested but he did appear in court. He is not in any form of jail (yet).
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Am I missing something? I don't see where it says he's under arrest.
Excellent. May his orange jumpsuit soon follow.
I'm just sad that federal mugshots aren't made public.
No mugshot "because the president is recognizable." I guess that's a thing, though I've never heard of it being used before.
The president certainly is recognizable ... thing is, he's a dead ringer for Joe Biden.
The resemblance between the current president and Joe Biden is uncanny, to say the least.
I thought he looked more like JFK Jr 🤔
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No worries! I'd just like to keep the referring to Trump as "the president" to his spin team. They never call him "the former president" for a host of reasons, but that doesn't mean reasonable people should follow suit.
Also they aren't gonna handcuff him because they don't want him to look guilty or something like that.
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So much unprecedented stuff has happened since his term, but I don't think anyone was ever confident he would actually stand trial for a federal jury.
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It's been such a long drawn out process, but I guess it happened, Donald Trump has been arrested.
This is the biggest deal, imo. Having nuclear secrets, audio of him admitting he was breaking the law - and the public knowing about that, to me says they have much more ammo they'll be bringing to light in trial. I think he's screwed. I don't want to hold my breath, but this seems like it will really take him down.
He was processed in New York, too. I'm going to guess that he's going to go through this process at least once more (in Georgia). I don't think he'll need to be fingerprinted and processed again if there are other federal charges while these are pending, but charges related to Jan. 6 might change his bail or conditions of release.
This is a bigger deal. Telling authorities you don't have top secret classified documents at your residence and allowing them to search certain rooms and then having them come back later with a warrant and finding them hidden in a bathroom (that they weren't allowed into originally) is really really bad.
It makes his other charge of using campaign donations for personal reasons look like jaywalking.
This is a bigger deal. These federal charges are way more serious than what he's facing in New York.
he pleaded not guilty. and his lawyer said this is "an attack on america".
'cause he had boxes of papers he wasn't supposed to have, that this is an attack on america? yeah, okay 🙄
The whataboutism will be endless as well
He's just a walking blizzard of dishonesty.
This is gonna be wild... the feds hardly ever lose.
With that, I'm very curious to see the fallout should he be convicted.
i'm a little worried some of his cultists may find their way onto the jury and block a conviction
All it takes is one. They’ll refuse to consider anything other than not guilty.
the rest of the jury can ask the judge to remove one who is not deliberating in good faith
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I work with many people who are so upset over this, calling it injustice and how horrible that we choose to prosecute Trump when we should instead be jailing Hillary, Harris, and Biden.
I bite my tongue and don’t say anything but it’s so frustrating.
As far as Hillary goes I am not sure why Trump's DoJ didn't hand down an indictment if it had evidence that she ultimately committed a crime? I guess the same is true for Hunter.
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same here. i'm all for treating everyone as equal, but i'm pretty sure nothing new came up after hillary was already investigated and iirc biden was slapped on the wrist for not returning some documents. but hey, you know, one box is the same as rooms full of boxes, apparently
The difference seems to me, as far as I know (please correct me if I have missed something) is that Biden and related parties cooperated with getting the documents returned while Trump hid and tried to erase evidence that he had them. And I believe that some have yet to be found, potentially sold off.
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his lawyer said this is “an attack on america”.
I'm wondering if the lawyers who quit did so because they were too embarrassed to say shit like that in court, despite a certain client's demands.
the lawyers that quit are lawyers who don't want to perjure themselves, probably 🙃
I hope it just keeps getting better from here!
The vast majority of federal cases end with a plea deal. Any idea if that could include forfeiting any right to run for public office? Would be great for peace of mind if so
I want him to rip DeSantis to shreds first. Hopefully he does it out of sheer spite anyway if he can't run.
That would look way too much like partisan coercion and would absolutely blow up in Biden and the Democrats' faces. They need to have a real iron-clad case if they're going to make this work, which means they'll need to prove it in court.
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Surreal
Trump is arrested and Kutcher scores $2bn. Seems to me like he got played by his own son-in-law.
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Justice.
Don't care who it is, I,D,R,G,L, you break the law to this extent you get punished.
Nobody is above the law.
I don't want to get my hopes up, but this feels very "end of the line" for him.
he'll get out of it one way or another. i don't even know how they're letting this guy declare a run for presidency
There are only 3 requirements for being/ running for POTUS:
Natural born citizen 35 years old 14 year residency in the US
In theory he could be found guilty, still elected and serve from a federal jail cell.
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Man I hope. Otherwise, I'll have no faith left in this country.
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AP news says Trump will be released without bond
Trump will be released without having to pay a bond. He will not have to surrender his passport or restrict his personal travel.
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