Quote (bogie160 @ May 30 2024 05:29pm)
Yes, it's obvious enough that the politicization of justice is a far more serious offense than whether Donald Trump had sex with a porn star, or whether Bill Clinton lied about screwing an intern. What's scarier is that it's so likely to be overturned on appeal. Can you imagine a world where Donald Trump loses a race, one he's favored to win, in a close election after being convicted of a crime later overturned on appeal? The sitting president would have no legitimacy, and America's political institutions with it.
This is another one of those cult slight of hands that happen all the time.
I outlined the facts, you simply focus on the first one. Trump didn't just have sex with a pornstar. He also had that pornstar paid off during the presidential campaign in order to keep it quiet, and he falsified business records in order to pay his scumbag lawyer back.
Can you imagine a world where the nation in 2016 didn't find out Trump banged a pornstar while his wife was at home with his four month old baby, and it was hidden because of a scheme devised by his scumbag team of media/law/business people, and approved by him, who covered it up? The election was decided based on not that many votes in a few states, you could make the argument that this swayed the election. But you don't give a fuck because Trump won.
The whole "legitimacy" talking point is nonsense. Things happen and the election is held. Trump got an assist from Comey and the Russians in 2016, but you obviously wouldn't acknowledge those
facts as reason to treat Trump as an illegitimate president. So spare me the hyperbolic nonsense. People who would treat a Biden victory in 2024 as illegitimate because of this ruling have the same credibility as those who treated his victory in 2020 as illegitimate. And that's zero.