Quote (Black XistenZ @ Jun 22 2024 11:51am)
Cheating on your spouse is not a felony, though - and the whole purpose of this sham trial was that Democrats and their media allies can call Trump a "convicted felon" for the rest of this campaign season.
Cuomo is a corrupt slimeball, but he has no vested interest in defending Trump, so I don't see why his personal shortcomings should take away from his criticism of the Trump trial.
Speaking of holding political leaders to a higher standard than normal people: I can't recall you criticizing Biden's mishandling of classified documents (lying around in his garage) or the role he played in the flagrant influence-peddling his son was engaged in for literally decades. A holier-than-thou figure who is maximally concerned with upholding democratic norms and standards as well as the general population's trust in politics would have wanted to avoid the semblance of corruption and told his son to stop that stuff.
Falsifying business records in order to conceal paying off a pornstar very well could be a felony, though. That's the funny thing... you call it a "sham trial" but obviously Trump did it. The only point of debate is whether it's a misdemeanor or a felony. And when you are debating that, you are losing.
In a better world, Biden's opponent wouldn't have intentionally brought home several classified documents, he wouldn't have shown some of them to random people, he wouldn't have stored them in his bathroom and/or in some concert hall. He also wouldn't have clearly obstructed the government's attempts to get them back.
In a better world, Biden bringing home classified documents when he was Vice President would not be surrounded in the context of the above, or the context of Pence bring home documents. But we don't live in that world.