What does the future hold for Donald Trump? - threadbans in OP

And cults don't necessarily need their leader to be alive in order to hold together. in fact, death can be something of a boon for the movement as a whole, as Trump would go from a figure at a podium, to giant flattering likenesses hung up on banners, while his various 'truths' and tweets become arranged into a body of dogma. There would be successors - none as charismatic as Trump himself - but they would be stewards who would not have the movement for themselves. Trump is, for better or worse, a pretty singular individual and those around him are just riding his coattails in order to further their own careers. I think that on some level 'the base' can sense this, and it's why he cannot be truly usurped.

Why isn't it a fair trial in DC, do you think trump's comments about DC as he drove to the courthouse helped him?

You have to hand wash his words. That’s very telling.

Where do you think your hero would get a fair trial?

And yet you've said nothing about Florida and judicial bias there.

Just highlighting the hypocrisy.

I think you forgot the quotation marks?

Just wondering because it reads like a typical Trump/Truth social ejaculation

The DOJ cannot prosecute Trump and not be accused of being weaponised. No matter how much of a case there is, the usual suspects will scream that it is a witch hunt. Once you go after Trump, a major political figure, the accusation will be that the prosecution is politically-motivated. So, really, why even bother entertaining these ramblings? As for bias, I'm not sure there's a functional adult in the USA who does not know who Trump is or not have a notion about him already.

Here we have a man who was talking about the 2020 election being rigged before the election even happened. We have him on tape trying to get the Georgian SoS to come up with more votes for him. We have him on tape admitting that he couldn't declassify those documents any longer, but was showing them off anyway. He is, at best, an ignorant windbag who has no business holding the responsibility of high office. He makes the crime that took down Nixon look twee.

Everyone: Corporate needs you to find the difference between these two scenarios...

There is no logical or legal defense of Trump, most people have to know this, even his lawyer, who must have had to have been COMMANDED by his client to go on TV and defend him the other night, even he could not smooth over the realities, openly admitting that his client wanted to take "Option D" (you're going to hear this phrase alot now, might as well be Option Donald), commit a violation of the law (John Eastman explicitly evidenced this in email format, quote "I implore you to consider one more relatively minor violation and adjourn for 10 days"). And that was someone with a bar card and was being paid to defend Donald Trump. What hope does any pleb have?

There's nothing to defend here: the facts are prima facie and bare, he's going to be convicted, it will uphold on appeal, and the SCOTUS will not land on the grenade. The only thing that's left to discuss is how Trump is to be likely sentenced. Barr seems to argue no president, in any administration, under any DOJ, should ever see the inside of a jail cell, because of the optics of having a former president in jail. Utter bananas from a banana republican. Democracies are nations of laws and he is going for the 2-tiers of sentencing play, it's pathetic. How do Republicans think the US will remain stable if, convicted of these crimes, they are given a slap on the wrist. Fitch's credit rating will be the least of the US's concerns, we will be a pariah state. That is also true of people who just want to bury their head in the sand, vote him back in anyway because of tribe politics, you wouldn't have a country anymore, it would be everything the framers warned us about.

“There is nothing which I dread so much as a division of the republic into two great parties, each arranged under its leader, and concerting measures in opposition to each other. This, in my humble apprehension, is to be dreaded as the greatest political evil under our Constitution.”

-John Adams

It's time some Americans put down their red hats and picked up their star spangled banners and have a bit of E Pluribus Unum and common sense.