Former Rep. Adam Kinzinger (R-Ill.) said in a recent interview that he is worried about the upcoming presidential election because former President Trump “learned” the political system’s weaknesses in 2020.
“The problem is now, Trump and the Trump-type folks have learned where the weaknesses are in the system,” Kinzinger said on The Bulwark podcast on Tuesday.
I’m not throwing in the towel I’m just looking at the facts of what happens to rich white men in this country. He has found a way out of everything. People have been saying he’s goong to prison since 2016. They don’t call him Teflon don for nothing. I hope to see him pay for his crimes but I think it’s more likely he cheats to become president again and then it will all just go away. He also has the backing of the supreme Court and the Dems have a really hard time holding seats in Congress because we aren’t playing a fair game.
Yes, and I get all of that, but he’s “Teflon Don,” because his modus operandi was to make somebody else do his dirty work; he could claim plausible deniability.
He royally fucked up in Georgia, because not only was it him that made the call (because arguably, it couldn’t have been anyone else for his purposes), but Georgia is probably the worst state in the US to try to do what he did due to the power and breadth of their RICO laws.
And while I agree that the rich, white men among us often escape punishment, I do not think the facts of the case, the laws themselves, the judge he got, and his dollar store clown-show of a defense team can get him out this time. His goose is cooked.