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Vidal

(642 posts)
Sat May 25, 2019, 09:58 PM May 2019

How Trump Ends Up in Jail

It just occurred to me what Nancy Pelosi's real game plan is: for Donald Trump to end up in jail as soon as possible.

She has been focusing 100% on winning the 2020 elections, and having another Blue Wave like we had in 2018.

When that happens, we'll not only keep the House but also get the Presidency (maybe the Senate but not likely).

She knows that as soon as Trump is no longer president he can be indicted and arrested and put on trial and be convicted and END UP IN JAIL.

So it's very simple: she is thinking about that one thing only: beating Trump in 2020.

Everything she says and does is for the purpose of achieving this one goal.

Not only will it save our democracy, but it also is the fastest way for Donald Trump to FINALLY pay the price for all of his crimes and evil misdeeds and go to prison, where he truly belongs.

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Chin music

(23,002 posts)
1. Well, if the elections are the true strategy,...and the only one,,...
Sat May 25, 2019, 10:05 PM
May 2019

then she just got another step/day towards it. Fastest? Uh, not so sure about that. At all.
I really hope, in my lifetime, should I lose my damn mind and do something (or a string of somethings), as horrible as don trump, that the law enforcement figures around me, give me as much leeway as the trump family has been given. I have a feeling that if i was trump, I'd be starting my second year in prison somewhere.

empedocles

(15,751 posts)
4. The election is hugely important, however, given putin especially, not the only option . . .
Sat May 25, 2019, 10:19 PM
May 2019

. . . I hope

ginnyinWI

(17,276 posts)
2. I like the word "prison" better.
Sat May 25, 2019, 10:15 PM
May 2019

Jail seems like a temporary holding pen for people, as in a courthouse. Prison is a long term place to put criminals.

The Velveteen Ocelot

(115,681 posts)
3. I don't think Trump will spend a minute in prison.
Sat May 25, 2019, 10:18 PM
May 2019

Even assuming he's voted out of office and indictable, and would not be pardoned by a Dem president (at least I hope not!), it will be decided somehow that it would be "too divisive" to send a former president to the pokey. I could imagine some kind of plea deal involving asset forfeiture but I just don't see him going to prison, although I'd love to see it happen.

Chin music

(23,002 posts)
5. I like the idea of exile.
Sat May 25, 2019, 10:21 PM
May 2019

To an island of mice. Like someone posted last night about one in the Pacific. With SHARKS all around. The thing he fears second only to those pictures getting out.

ginnyinWI

(17,276 posts)
8. I think he'll just slide into dementia and be taken off the world stage.
Sat May 25, 2019, 10:25 PM
May 2019

Sooner or later. I agree these guys don't usually pay for their crimes.

empedocles

(15,751 posts)
9. That was the Watergate experience and Nixon did no prison time, of course. Given that historical
Sat May 25, 2019, 10:26 PM
May 2019

lesson, it seems less likely to have that Watergate 'heal the nation' bs fly again - especially since traitortrump is so much worse than Nixon, nd has aggravated so much more, and more deeply.

However, despite all those considerations, I wouldn't be surprised is somehow the traitor does manage to . . .

Volaris

(10,270 posts)
13. The feds and the doj might not want the controversy of indicting him,
Sat May 25, 2019, 11:42 PM
May 2019

But I suspect that no atty in the state of New York State would bat an eye at him dying in Rikers Island...it might be a right-white rallying cry in Bumbleuck, Kansas, but it won't be in Manhattan.

 

smirkymonkey

(63,221 posts)
6. I really want to see him spend time six feet under.
Sat May 25, 2019, 10:23 PM
May 2019

Sorry. But that is where I really want him to be. That is where he really belongs,

Chin music

(23,002 posts)
11. Better men than he, and more beloved, suffered much worse fates, for far less.
Sat May 25, 2019, 10:32 PM
May 2019

JFK and RFK come to mind. MLK too.
Where's the faction that made all THAT happen, when the country really DOES need them?
Terrible to even have to think about. We didn't ask for trump though.

 

Hoyt

(54,770 posts)
12. There is no place in this country where a jury will convict trump. There will always be one
Sat May 25, 2019, 11:33 PM
May 2019

or two white wingers on the jury in any venue.

Beat him, and beat him and GOers, badly. Then, move on.

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