Quote (Santara @ Oct 4 2017 06:27pm)
You pretty much just admitted to using the same standards that I do for calling a politician a criminal but somwhow my claims over the years are invalid whereas yours are not. I call that special pleading. t4t
What on earth? No I didn't -- by acknowledging that "rap sheet" is slang for an arrest record I noted that it was incorrect to have characterized this (or any) list of Trump's violations in such terms. Trump has not been arrested, that doesn't mean that he hasn't broken laws.
My standard has long been that crimes are crimes, each person's guilt should be decided based on action and evidence. The fact that Trump personally has the resources to settle or provide underhanded protection from his infractions has no bearing on his innocence in my mind. If that's the standard you hold every individual to then we share the same standard, but I don't get that impression.
Earlier in the thread when faced with the overwhelming evidence provided by a consortium of investigators and reporters that contends that Trump is a lifelong lawbreaker, you offered a response that comports to your overall worldview of IOIYAR. This obviously stands in stark contrast to the years of howlers that some of us were treated to from you during the Obama administration, when anything that they did that you either 1) didn't like or 2) didn't understand was a crime.
Perjury, obstruction of justice, bribery, witness tampering are against the law. They're crimes regardless of who is in the White House, or what the overall legal and political climate is re: who can or will bring action against the person who has committed such crimes.