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Are you willing to see Biden go to jail because an activist DA in TX used an obscure law that no one had ever been prosecuted under, in a 90+% "red" venue, with

Are you willing to see Biden go to jail because an activist DA in TX used an obscure law that no one had ever been prosecuted under, in a 90+% "red" venue, with a complicit judge and jury? This ruling is meant to protect the office from precisely these types of politically motivated attacks.

insane_dreamer 2y ago
Better than the alternative. I would imagine that such a case would be appealed anyway (just as Trump has appealed his cases).
camgunz 2y ago
> Are you willing to see Biden go to jail because an activist DA in TX used an obscure law that no one had ever been prosecuted under, in a 90+% "red" venue, with a complicit judge and jury? This has always been possible (Nixon v. Fitzgerald) but has never happened. Choose whatever reason you want: any amount of decency, any sense of shame, low odds of winning, likelihood of terrible retribution from generally good people.
HaZeust 2y ago
Sure. One-off's of loose checks and balances are better than codified law(s) and ruling(s) that we don't have any at all.
Hikikomori 2y ago
Bribing a porn star to keep quiet about your extramarital sex and breaking accounting/campaign financing laws by trying to disguise the payments before you are president should be considered an official act by the president? Weird argument to make.
- mrkeen 2y ago
  It's such a weird timeline. Trying to blackmail Ukraine into providing dirt on his political rival by withholding congressional funding, getting rid of Comey, and requesting that some additional votes for him should be found are the top 3 that come to my mind. I couldn't give two shits about extramarital sex, and I honestly would have expected him to write about said sex on twitter sooner than cover it up. I don't think the campaign donors would have been too steamed about where that money went either. It's not like him dipping into his other charities (which I find more despicable than hush money.) I wonder why this was the charge that stuck.
  - Hikikomori 2y ago
    The only ones that should care are the evangelical christians, but it seems they would even vote for satan if he was a republican. The hush payment would not even have been an issue if they didn't use campaign money or Cohen as middle man, that's the illegal part. If Trump just wrote a check directly it would not have been an issue and we would likely never know about it unless NDAs were broken.
  - Zak 2y ago
    > I wonder why this was the charge that stuck. It was first. It was also relatively simple in both law and fact, so there were fewer opportunities for delay. Even so, it was more than a year from indictment to conviction.

insane_dreamer 2y ago

Better than the alternative. I would imagine that such a case would be appealed anyway (just as Trump has appealed his cases).

camgunz 2y ago

> Are you willing to see Biden go to jail because an activist DA in TX used an obscure law that no one had ever been prosecuted under, in a 90+% "red" venue, with a complicit judge and jury? This has always been possible (Nixon v. Fitzgerald) but has never happened. Choose whatever reason you want: any amount of decency, any sense of shame, low odds of winning, likelihood of terrible retribution from generally good people.

HaZeust 2y ago

Sure. One-off's of loose checks and balances are better than codified law(s) and ruling(s) that we don't have any at all.

Hikikomori 2y ago

Bribing a porn star to keep quiet about your extramarital sex and breaking accounting/campaign financing laws by trying to disguise the payments before you are president should be considered an official act by the president? Weird argument to make.

mrkeen 2y ago
It's such a weird timeline. Trying to blackmail Ukraine into providing dirt on his political rival by withholding congressional funding, getting rid of Comey, and requesting that some additional votes for him should be found are the top 3 that come to my mind. I couldn't give two shits about extramarital sex, and I honestly would have expected him to write about said sex on twitter sooner than cover it up. I don't think the campaign donors would have been too steamed about where that money went either. It's not like him dipping into his other charities (which I find more despicable than hush money.) I wonder why this was the charge that stuck.
- Hikikomori 2y ago
  The only ones that should care are the evangelical christians, but it seems they would even vote for satan if he was a republican. The hush payment would not even have been an issue if they didn't use campaign money or Cohen as middle man, that's the illegal part. If Trump just wrote a check directly it would not have been an issue and we would likely never know about it unless NDAs were broken.
- Zak 2y ago
  > I wonder why this was the charge that stuck. It was first. It was also relatively simple in both law and fact, so there were fewer opportunities for delay. Even so, it was more than a year from indictment to conviction.