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Stuart G

(38,414 posts)
Tue Feb 12, 2019, 02:33 PM Feb 2019

What the "Joaquin "El Chapo" Guzmn Loera" guilty decision means to me.

...In Latest Breaking News, "Joaquin "El Chapo" Guzmn Loera" well known drug kingpin who thought he was above the law, evidently will get a long sentence in prison. Perhaps a "life sentence." He is 61 and even 30 years might be life. Not going into details, what this means to me, is simply that "No One Is Above the Law." https://www.democraticunderground.com/10142264446
...I doubt that this bright fellow ever thought he would face that moment. He certainly thought that he wouldn't be caught, tried and sentenced to a long prison term, if not "life." Yes, he is smart, because he got away with it for many years. No he is not that smart because he is probably going to jail for the rest of his life...

...But my guess is that staying out of prison for so long doing what he did in some ways, shows he could be smarter than the current occupant of the White House. That current occupant has declared bankruptcy a number of times, and many other minor issues. But there is some evidence that there was some kind of "collusion with a foreign country during the last election". Currently, an individual named Robert Mueller, former head of FBI, is investigating the current occupant of the White House. Here is my point, if they got "Guzmn Loera" who was pretty sure they would never get him, I think they will get Mr. Trump's gang who conspired with Russia. Why do I think that?
....Well my guess is that the FBI, and the CIA were watching Mr. Trump very closely as he had "deals" with some very high Russian officials. And, if there was something "illegal going on" then the FBI and CIA have solid evidence of that illegal "something."

"Joaquin" "El Chapo" Guzmn Loera" today is in a place he thought he would never be: captured, tried, convicted on a number of counts of crime. He thought he was smarter than "the law". Mr. Trump I believe thinks the same thing. "I am smarter than the law."..But his lawyer, who used to help him is not, "smarter than the law." Some of his campaign people thought the same thing and they are not smarter than the law." And in the end, I personally believe that Mr. Trump and his gang are...not smarter than the law.Mr Trump and his gang may indeed think they are smarter than the law, but I am sure that "El Chapo" Guzmn Loera" thought the same thing. But he is NOT smarter than the law, and neither is Mr. Trump and his gang. No matter what his position is/was/ or will be. The law will get Mr. Trump as the law got "El Chapo."

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What the "Joaquin "El Chapo" Guzmn Loera" guilty decision means to me. (Original Post) Stuart G Feb 2019 OP
I like your positive attitude. n/t Harker Feb 2019 #1
Thank You..I have always that that Mueller will get him. Stuart G Feb 2019 #2
Initially, I figured six months. Harker Feb 2019 #3

Stuart G

(38,414 posts)
2. Thank You..I have always that that Mueller will get him.
Tue Feb 12, 2019, 02:57 PM
Feb 2019

..It is my deepest feelings that Mueller likes to "get those that think they will never get caught." Kinda like the idea that "no one is above the law." A particular person thinks that he/she can get away with anything, and Mueller's career shows that he gets some of those thinkers. Deep inside, I think Mr. Trump is one of those that thinks he and his family/gang can get away with "anything."
...If that thinking is "true" and Trump believes this, and if Mueller is on to this, then Mueller will not stop till most of Trump's gang/family is at least indicted. And convictions will take time in my opinion, but Michael Cohen's cooperation may speed things up and make the difference. But, I could be wrong, and time will tell. I hope we will all see the end, and I hope the whole thing doesn't take too long.

Harker

(14,010 posts)
3. Initially, I figured six months.
Tue Feb 12, 2019, 03:04 PM
Feb 2019

Now... the sooner the better, so long as the thoroughness leads to cases so tight that no one will ever try this sort of thing again.

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