Trump Prosecution Debates
The cluster focuses on discussions about Donald Trump's alleged crimes and ongoing legal prosecutions, including comparisons to cases like John Edwards and Michael Cohen, debates over obstruction of justice, campaign finance violations, classified documents, and selective prosecution concerns.
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We’ve prosecuted a vice president candidate for similar crimes.https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/former-senator-and-presidenti...
This is about Trump and his crimes, not some abstract HN felon.
Wouldn't those fit under "obstruction of justice"?
Not guilty: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37740448
He hasn’t been charged yet but as we’ve seen with the January 6th cases federal prosecutors are very conservative about making sure they have an airtight case first, and they’re often willing to bring lower charges which have a greater chance of success rather than risk losing a bigger charge. This is especially true for charges which require proving that someone consciously intended a particular illegal outcome. One of his 4 criminal cases currently in progress covers the election tampering bec
Which will lead to an Obstruction of Justice charge or similar.
The prosecution record, where Trump and dozens of his allies were prosecuted, is the record of a banana republic.Like I said there's hundreds of thousands of regulations which hold the potential for criminal sanction. They could have found her guilty of something when she deleted those emails. The SDNY DAG found a way to charge the developers of Tornado Cash with running an illegal money transmission service when they didn't even hold it in custody of any funds, they simply publishe
But he is being prosecuted for fraud not for an official act as president
They're misdemeanor charges, though. I don't believe he was criminally charged in the US for the (alleged) fraud/bribery, only for contempt because he refused to produce documents as ordered by the court. Regardless of the evidence for or against his alleged past actions it's excessive to confine him to house arrest for 18 months when the maximum sentence for the charges, if proven, is just six months.
AKA "Crime is now legal" (for Republicans). Non-republicans will be prosecuted for non crime (e.g. Lisa Cook[1])[1] "Bill Pulte accused Fed Governor Lisa Cook of fraud. His relatives filed housing claims similar to hers" https://www.reuters.com/world/us/bill-pulte-accused-fed