• FReddit@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    I think he will get the rich assholes slap on the wrist.

    But treason is a capital crime …

    • YouShutYoMouf@lemmy.fmhy.ml
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      1 year ago

      Fully expecting him to live the rest of his life comfortably under house arrest. If he lives through the trial. He do be old and unhealthy.

      • TechyDad@lemmy.world
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        1 year ago

        If they can’t put Trump in a prison, due to the Secret Service needing to protect him, I say convert Mar-A-Lago to a Trump prison.

        Kick everyone except Trump (and the Secret Service, guards, etc) out. Remove all the cushy stuff from his room and give him a standard prison issue cot. Keep him in his room for 20 hours a day with no phone, computer, or TV. Let him go you the empty dining hall to eat - but replace his gourmet food (or what passed for gourmet food at Mar-A-Lago) with standard prison slop.

        Let him slowly rot away inside Mar-A-Lago, haunted by the memories of when he rubbed shoulders with top people in those very halls.

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      1 year ago

      There is a 0% chance he gets tried for treason. I struggle to even imagine how one could think he committed treason, as described in the Constitution.

      Edit: not making excuses for this POS. Treason is literally defined in the constitution and it’s a narrow definition

      Article III, Section 3, Clause 1: Treason against the United States, shall consist only in levying War against them, or in adhering to their Enemies, giving them Aid and Comfort. No Person shall be convicted of Treason unless on the testimony of two Witnesses to the same overt Act, or on Confession in open Court

      Hopefully he gets another dozen+ felonies though. At some point they stack so high that “rich guy leniency” can’t possibly matter.

      Hoping he follows in the footsteps of my home state’s biggest piece of shit: https://www.justice.gov/usao-sdoh/pr/former-ohio-house-speaker-sentenced-20-years-prison-leading-racketeering-conspiracy

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        1 year ago

        An actual treason prosecution is incredibly difficult and hasn’t been done in over a century, IIRC, thus Seditious Conspiracy would be more likely - easier to prove and easier to prosecute.