Summary
Should he win, Trump would become the first convicted criminal to hold the office, granting him access to the nuclear codes, while defeat could lead to more trials and possible imprisonment.
Throughout his life, he has often evaded legal consequences—from discrimination lawsuits in the 1970s to recent fraud cases and the dissolution of his charitable foundation. Accusations of sexual misconduct and a history of falsehoods have marked his personal and political life.
Despite these challenges, Trump portrays himself as a victim of a corrupt system, turning legal battles into rallying cries. This election may bring a reckoning that even he cannot escape.
Election day is judgment day for America and its people.
Either we carry on, to ever better days, or we throw it all away.
It’s binary. It’s really that simple.
I don’t know about ever better days when this binary choice is happening every 4 years with the campaigns lasting for two years.
Sentencing on the New York convictions is on 11/26:
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/trump-sentencing-delay-hush-money-case-new-york/
Maximum penalty is 4 years, so he might be going away regardless. He’s ALREADY been convicted.
There’s no way they will sentence a sitting president.
He won’t be President on 11/26. Regardless of the election.
Lol, $300 sentencing is delayed.
Well, it’s already been delayed.
Yeah, hence $300 instead of $3.
This is a weird premise because he could be in jail already. Democrats truly made justice for J6 one of their lowest priorities, where they could have chased it relentlessly from every angle, and not stopped or started over until justice was done, taking the case to the American public; pursuing it as violently as they have the defense of a genocide by an American Ally: they didn’t. It didn’t become a priority until election year, and even then they blew it on all fronts from either incompetence or naivety.
So we can’t really believe an argument that suddenly Democrats are going to have a coming to God moment and prioritize Trump experiencing consequences for J6. It simply wasn’t a priority for the party. It seems Trump is too useful a Boogeyman to not have as an opponent.
I personally think he should be locked up in a cell deep below Leavenworth, and we should never have had to hear his name again. The man’s acts define the word treason. I just can’t take a government seriously which can’t effect that.
So we can’t really believe an argument that suddenly Democrats are going to have a coming to God moment
That’ll only happen when Trump’s thugs come to purge them. But then it’ll be too late, of course.
IF he loses, I assume he might try to flee.
I used to think that (even before Jan 6), but I’ve changed my mind. The trouble is that in order to make the decision to flee, he would have to first recognize and genuinely accept that he lost, but he’s so terminally narcissistic that he’s literally incapable of fathoming that concept. He’d still be loudly rationalizing to himself that he’s “the real president” even while standing in a prison cell wearing an orange jumpsuit.
I’ve been saying this for years. Eventually something is get him to point he’s really cornered.
Quick trip to Russia or North Korea, and he will live the few years he has left just fine.
He said next time he would talk with Musk, it might be in Venezuela
Do you think he’s as sick to his stomach as everyone else
Prison. The word is prison, not jail. He hasn’t committed petty crimes, he’s a motherfucking terrorist, insurrectionist, rapist, and pedophile.
0% chance
He will run to Russia. I have zero doubt about this. Hopefully he takes his cronies and followers with him.
He won’t need to. And there’s not enough fried chicken over there anyway. The guy has been absolutely untouchable. He’s not suddenly going to get spooked. It sucks, but if we are lucky enough for a Harris Victory, the world will move on and I don’t think there will be strong efforts to punish him. He will become irrelevant which may be the greatest punishment of all for him.
Yeah, but what a story that would be: Trump wins/steals the election, gets sentenced to prison time, then leaves the country.
Talk about chaos.
But he’s not useful to them in Russia, so they might just let him hang and prop him up as a martyr.
Nah, they have a playbook for this. They’ll put him on house arrest and trot him out every couple of years to make a speech about how terrible and corrupt the US is.
I’ll tell you the same thing I told the other guy in this thread with the same prediction (https://lemmy.world/comment/13226562):
I used to think that (even before Jan 6), but I’ve changed my mind. The trouble is that in order to make the decision to flee, he would have to first recognize and genuinely accept that he lost, but he’s so terminally narcissistic that he’s literally incapable of fathoming that concept. He’d still be loudly rationalizing to himself that he’s “the real president” even while standing in a prison cell wearing an orange jumpsuit.
He really only needs to see that he’s going to jail, and then he’ll flee. He won’t see it as fleeing, but that’s what it is. Flight from prosecution.
He will likely go if he loses.
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