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Originally Posted by Lucas McCain
Try as the government may, we all know Trump's old fat orange ass is not going to jail. That narcissistic shithead would kill himself before that ever happened. And IMO, he has done nothing to deserve any jail time.
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I'm surprised that's what you believe, the bold text, as I figured you were harder on Trump than I am.
Legal issues aside, one of the big considerations should be foreign policy, and the rest of the world's perception of the USA. Are we the shining city upon a hill? Or another banana republic?
However this comes off, we're probably going to look like a banana republic. If Trump goes to jail, we look like many Latin American countries where the leaders have to leave their countries to avoid incarceration when they lose power. If he doesn't, then don't we look like hypocrites, when we promote democracy and the rule of law?
Another board member, who's brighter than I am but whose name I won't mention since he said this privately, had a good solution. Convict Trump but don't send him to jail. Give him a sentence and an ankle bracelet instead. That probably wouldn't be a bad outcome for Trump either. Mar a Lago's a pleasant place. And if he wins the election, he'd enjoy governing from there a lot more than from Washington D.C.! He'd have a golf course in his backyard!