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

This is the opinion of a former prosector, not a ruling. The court may or may not come to the same conclusion.

The prolonging of consequences for 45 is proof that there are two justice systems in the US. If you can afford to, you can file spurious applications and appeals and tie the system up in knots. I am certain there will be a reckoning, but it is such a painfully long wait.

Trump is always given special treatment (as are plenty of other rich people). His lawyers will claim that it was all correct except for one of two issues, completely innocent and that it will be rectified in short order. Asking for an extension of three weeks, maybe slightly more, as the client is extremely busy and has little time to allocate to such a trivial matter.

He will be given extraordinary treatment again.

think about how much he has skirted over the years. Years. Years. This guy raped. This guy stole national security information and was reckless as all hell with it, likely shared or leaked it and he’s still. Not. Faced. Any. Actual. Consequences.

don’t be certain they’ve finally run him out of room there until his name is chiseled off the building.

Not a cult.

Not a cult.

Not a cult.

Trump will attack these guys verbally and hurt them financially, if he can after Nov election.

How would he hurt them financially? If he wins, his administration would probably be acting unlawfully if it terminated those retired military officers' pensions.

SCOTUS would rule against him. If Trump thinks that dismissing government lawyers who disagree with him would mean that he would be victorious then he has forgotten about the 'Saturday Night Massacre'.

Reading Doppelganger by Naomi Klein atm and one of her points is that people like Bannon and Trump latch onto real concerns but basically sell their own warped versions of it. So their version just generally misses the real issues and it pulls in really random supporters as a result.

He still had to go through the stress of a case…

It was a civil case that was about wrongful termination of employment - it's not like he was accused of murder or, worse still, sex crimes that allegedly took place decades ago!

I never said there was any such thing alleged in McCabe's case - I said "it's not like he was accused of …. sex crimes" in order to create perspective because there is no way that a civil case about wrongful termination would be as stressful as being prosecuted for alleged historic sexual offences.

You've let your mask slip there a little there…

Do you think justice has a time frame? These are no longer alleged crimes, he was found in a court to have committed sexual assault.

Do you think it's ok to commit crimes of a sexual nature if you can get away with it for a few decades?

Trump will find a way lawfully or unlawfully to punish these guys, maybe under "dictator for a day" status, Trump and the law are strangers.

And had the resources to. Many many wouldn't

Hey "I'm perfectly happy to downplay a woman being sexually assaulted" guy.

Trump lost the nursing home vote so you know what that means we have to do?

https://www.mediaite.com/politics/trump-backed-senate-candidate-suggests-people-in-nursing-homes-to-close-to-death-to-vote/

The mask slips again, but what are you even talking about here, I assume it's being irate that some Generals filed an amicus brief (which is cost-free to do really), but Gen. Mike Flynn had no similar resources and depended on a criminal pardon from Trump (thereby accepting guilt for his crimes)

Sure remember when trump fired Alex Vindman's twin brother, Eugene a lt. colonel at the time, solely because Alex testified before the Senate.

I'm trying my best not to hope that Trump's block-headed arrogance will somehow still result in him losing his properties sooner rather than later. Trying not to hope that maybe over the course of the summer we could perhaps see those gold-plated Trump letters crowbared off Trump Tower, while Truth Social ends up bankrupt and to finish off the trifecta; Trump is maybe even crimanally charged over the hush-money thing.

I'm trying not to hope that, because the Orange rapist has the Devil's own luck it seems. Something stupid will come along to give him a break…again. I will be surprised if he actually starts to face consequences. Plesantly shocked…but shocked nonetheless.

With this hope I also have to wonder; if Trump lost the Trump Org, and was reduced to scraping the bottom of the now-spartan GOP funding barrel, could he still keep going? Already now, he's reduced the amounts of events or Trump rallys he's doing. He never really paid venues for even the 2016 rallies, but I'm guessing there is a whole host of practical day-to-day costs that you'd need just to make a rally happen, with cash on hand. My guess is that he's already critcally low on cash. If all of the things that should happen to him come to pass during the summer, what will he do?

He can of course still rant on Social Media. Arguably this was the most impactful marketing tools he had in 2016, and in the Twitter days it was essentially free for him to use it (none of this Truth Social nonsense). The Trump Cultists will still rally around him, but will he have the means to reach any other voter? The Biden campaign has loads of cash, and their canditate isn't pouring the contents of the warchest into legal bills or payments. Could be very one-sided marketing on the US airwaves in the run up to November, with only one side with enough cash for adverts.