Sooo, does Trump go to jail?
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Well?
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Always remember, Operation Valkyrie was an act of sedition.
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NY goes forward and he’ll get the same non-custodial sentence he would have received anyway, though perhaps deferred.
Federal charges get dropped by his AG in January.
GA on hold until his presidency ends.
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https://www.nationalreview.com/corner/biden-should-pardon-trump/
The first thing Joe Biden should do this morning is invite Donald Trump to the traditional visit in the Oval Office between the outgoing and incoming president. Biden should extend all the traditional and lawful assistance to Trump that is appropriate in anticipation of his forming a new administration.
Biden should then move to use his constitutional authority to pardon Donald Trump of all pending federal charges, and relieve special counsel Jack Smith of his duties. He should then ask New York governor Kathy Hochul to use her authority to pardon Trump for the crimes he was convicted of in New York State.
He should do this not because Trump is entirely blameless for the circumstances surrounding the indictments that have been leveled against him — he’s not blameless, most especially in the Mar-a-Lago classified-documents case, where the publicly available evidence shows that Trump was, at minimum, negligent and, at maximum, absolutely complicit in ignoring the statutes governing the handling of classified information and, possibly, those concerning the obstruction of justice. The constellation of charges surrounding Trump’s actions on and before January 6, 2021, are more opaque, not because Trump’s actions were not mendacious, self-serving, and contemptible, but because I’m not certain that Trump’s plan crossed the line from low politics and clearly impeachable conduct to criminal behavior, though my mind is open on that question. (The Stormy Daniels hush-money prosecution in New York was clearly bogus, turning an embarrassing situation that should have been handled administratively or as a misdemeanor into a criminal proceeding.)
"Now look here, you Baltic gas passer... " - Mik, 6/14/08
The saying, "Lite is just one damn thing after another," is a gross understatement. The damn things overlap.
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You realize that if the NYC case gets withdrawn before sentencing then Trump will not be a convicted felon?
Me/rry/Christmas
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@LuFins-Dad said in Sooo, does Trump go to jail?:
Trump will not be a convicted felon?
I'm pretty sure that will depend on who is speaking.
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@Copper said in Sooo, does Trump go to jail?:
@LuFins-Dad said in Sooo, does Trump go to jail?:
Trump will not be a convicted felon?
I'm pretty sure that will depend on who is speaking.
Oh no. If he is referred to as a convicted felon by Joy Reid, I would fully expect him to file suit.
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Jack Smith, the special counsel who pursued two federal prosecutions of Donald J. Trump, plans to finish his work and resign along with other members of his team before Mr. Trump takes office in January, people familiar with his plans said.
Mr. Smith’s goal, they said, is to not leave any significant part of his work for others to complete and to get ahead of the president-elect’s promise to fire him within “two seconds” of being sworn in.
Mr. Smith, who since taking office two years ago has operated under the principle that not even a powerful ex-president is above the law, now finds himself on the defensive as he rushes to wind down a pair of complex investigations slowed by the courts and ultimately made moot by Mr. Trump’s electoral victory.
Mr. Smith’s office is still drawing up its plan for how to end the cases, and it is possible that unforeseen circumstances — such as judicial rulings or decisions by other government officials — could alter his intended timeline. But Mr. Smith is trying to finish his work and leave before Mr. Trump returns to power, the people familiar with his plans said.
The election’s outcome spelled the end of the federal cases against Mr. Trump, since Justice Department policy has long held that a sitting president cannot be prosecuted for crimes. A Supreme Court ruling this summer significantly expanded the scope of official presidential conduct that cannot be prosecuted even after leaving office.As he prepares for his last act as special counsel, Mr. Smith’s ultimate audience will not be a jury, but the public.
Department regulations call for him to file a report summarizing his investigation and decisions — a document that may stand as the final accounting from a prosecutor who filed extensive charges against a former president but never got his cases to trial.
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Does he stay in the country?
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