# Delay in prosecution of Trump **URL:** \ **Category:** Politics & Elections\ **Created:** [September 15, 2021, 5:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/delay-in-prosecution-of-trump/950708 "2021-09-15T17:47:51Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 8
**Author:** ![bobot](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bobot/32/21622_2.png) [@bobot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bobot)\ **Post date:** [October 7, 2021, 4:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/delay-in-prosecution-of-trump/950708/145 "2021-10-07T16:40:36Z")
If Trump leaves the country rather than speak under oath, I’ll be disappointed, but I’ll certainly find a way to live with the notion that Trump has left the country! 😁 ---
**Author:** ![Peter\_Morris](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/peter_morris/32/359_2.png) [@Peter\_Morris](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Peter_Morris)\ **Post date:** [October 7, 2021, 4:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/delay-in-prosecution-of-trump/950708/146 "2021-10-07T16:41:31Z")
What other country would have him? ---
**Author:** ![dtilque](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/d6d6ee/32.png) [@dtilque](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dtilque)\ **Post date:** [October 7, 2021, 4:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/delay-in-prosecution-of-trump/950708/147 "2021-10-07T16:42:26Z")
> [@Czarcasm](#): > > he will leave the country and rule over his Trumpettes as the “Martyr In Chief” from afar. That would make running for President in 2024 somewhat difficult. He hasn’t announced yet, but it should be soon. How’s he going to have rallies from some other country? ---
**Author:** ![BobLibDem](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/boblibdem/32/3149_2.png) [@BobLibDem](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BobLibDem)\ **Post date:** [October 7, 2021, 4:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/delay-in-prosecution-of-trump/950708/148 "2021-10-07T16:43:11Z")
Argentina has harbored other Nazis in the past. ---
**Author:** ![Aspenglow](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/aspenglow/32/76_2.png) [@Aspenglow](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Aspenglow)\ **Post date:** [October 7, 2021, 4:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/delay-in-prosecution-of-trump/950708/149 "2021-10-07T16:44:29Z")
“No. NO!! They speak _Spanish_ there!!” ---
**Author:** ![Gyrate](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gyrate/32/3588_2.png) [@Gyrate](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gyrate)\ **Post date:** [October 7, 2021, 4:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/delay-in-prosecution-of-trump/950708/150 "2021-10-07T16:44:37Z")
> [@Peter\_Morris](#): > > What other country would have him? Russia, of course. But they’ll take all his money and leave him in some remote dacha in “retirement” while they laugh about him on television. ---
**Author:** ![Czarcasm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/czarcasm/32/4050_2.png) [@Czarcasm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Czarcasm)\ **Post date:** [October 7, 2021, 4:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/delay-in-prosecution-of-trump/950708/151 "2021-10-07T16:46:13Z")
Video and radio. ---
**Author:** ![Temporary\_Name](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/8c91f0/32.png) [@Temporary\_Name](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Temporary_Name)\ **Post date:** [October 7, 2021, 7:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/delay-in-prosecution-of-trump/950708/152 "2021-10-07T19:28:45Z")
> [@Aspenglow](#): > > This is the point at which Trump usually settles the lawsuit. > > Somehow, I don’t believe Ms. Zervos will be amenable to settlement. You must not get my hopes up like this!! I ran around in circles, wagged my tail, and even barked when I read this. Eventually it was too much and I piddled on the carpet. > [@Czarcasm](#): > > Never happen. I hope you are wrong. I would love for him to swagger in there overconfident and trip all over his . . . body parts. > [@BobLibDem](#): > > Argentina has harbored other Nazis in the past. Love this post! Almost laughed out loud. > [@Aspenglow](#): > > “No. NO!! They speak _Spanish_ there!!” > [@Aspenglow](#): > > “No. NO!! They speak _Spanish_ there!!” “Very bad people there, very bad” [/Trump voice] Maybe he could move there and have all the Spanish speakers exiled to North America? Would that be a conflict for him? > [@Gyrate](#): > > while they laugh about him on television. And in private, behind his back and to his face. That is too much to even wish for, far too much to come true. ---
**Author:** ![eschereal](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/eschereal/32/18939_2.png) [@eschereal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/eschereal)\ **Post date:** [October 7, 2021, 9:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/delay-in-prosecution-of-trump/950708/153 "2021-10-07T21:29:08Z")
> [@Gyrate](#): > > > [@Peter\_Morris](#): > > > > What other country would have him? > > Russia, of course. But they’ll take all his money and leave him in some remote dacha in “retirement” while they laugh about him on television. preferably a 5-story pole building in Уэлен, Чукотский okrug, where he will be able to see Alaska from his top floor bedroom ---
**Author:** ![BobLibDem](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/boblibdem/32/3149_2.png) [@BobLibDem](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BobLibDem)\ **Post date:** [October 7, 2021, 10:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/delay-in-prosecution-of-trump/950708/154 "2021-10-07T22:51:29Z")
Honestly I don’t think the Russians would have any use for him. If he had bothered to read, understand, and remember all the secrets that he saw while in office it would be another story. But he knows no more about anything than the village idiot, so he has no value to a hostile state. ---
**Author:** ![Monty](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/monty/32/47_2.png) [@Monty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Monty)\ **Post date:** [October 7, 2021, 11:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/delay-in-prosecution-of-trump/950708/155 "2021-10-07T23:46:53Z")
> [@BobLibDem](#): > > But he knows no more about anything than the village idiot Don’t you mean “than any other village idiot”? ---
**Author:** ![Andy\_L](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/c67d28/32.png) [@Andy\_L](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Andy_L)\ **Post date:** [October 7, 2021, 11:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/delay-in-prosecution-of-trump/950708/156 "2021-10-07T23:54:31Z")
“Das Carphone is eine Nuisance Phone” ---
**Author:** ![iiandyiiii](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/iiandyiiii/32/7924_2.png) [@iiandyiiii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/iiandyiiii)\ **Post date:** [October 8, 2021, 12:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/delay-in-prosecution-of-trump/950708/157 "2021-10-08T00:03:41Z")
He has value to encourage others in the future to assist Russia. If Russia gives him a cushy retirement, future corrupt assholes in politics will know that they’re guaranteed a cushy retirement in Russia if they do their bidding, even if they get caught. ---
**Author:** ![Aspenglow](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/aspenglow/32/76_2.png) [@Aspenglow](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Aspenglow)\ **Post date:** [October 8, 2021, 2:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/delay-in-prosecution-of-trump/950708/158 "2021-10-08T02:58:25Z")
> [@Temporary\_Name](#): > > I ran around in circles, wagged my tail, and even barked when I read this. Eventually it was too much and I piddled on the carpet. LOL, whatever mess you made will pale in comparison to the one Trump will leave if he must testify under oath. Trump is simply incapable of telling the truth. The man is corrupt to the bone, has been his whole life. His narcissism is so severe, I don’t think he even realizes when he’s lying anymore – which is every time he talks. He should never have defamed Ms. Zervos as he did. I’ve read about how eager she is to force him to this deposition. She’s not the only one who is looking forward to it, obviously! ---
**Author:** ![Gyrate](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gyrate/32/3588_2.png) [@Gyrate](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gyrate)\ **Post date:** [October 8, 2021, 8:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/delay-in-prosecution-of-trump/950708/159 "2021-10-08T08:17:44Z")
> [@BobLibDem](#): > > Honestly I don’t think the Russians would have any use for him. If nothing else, the uses he has are 1) funnelling the money that he’s getting from the rubes into Russia’s coffers instead, and 2) trolling America. I mean, having a former president in hiding in Russia to mock - that’s propaganda gold right there. It’s not going to happen but it’s an amusing thought. ---
**Author:** ![Uniqueorn](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/uniqueorn/32/2807_2.png) [@Uniqueorn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Uniqueorn)\ **Post date:** [October 8, 2021, 11:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/delay-in-prosecution-of-trump/950708/160 "2021-10-08T11:41:21Z")
> [@Aspenglow](#): > > LOL, whatever mess you made will pale in comparison to the one Trump will leave if he must testify under oath. > > Trump is simply incapable of telling the truth. The man is corrupt to the bone, has been his whole life. His narcissism is so severe, I don’t think he even realizes when he’s lying anymore – which is every time he talks. This might be a small hijack, but are prosecutors allowed to set up witnesses for perjury? In other words, could the prosecutor ask Trump who won the election? ---
**Author:** ![k9bfriender](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/k9bfriender/32/3283_2.png) [@k9bfriender](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/k9bfriender)\ **Post date:** [October 8, 2021, 12:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/delay-in-prosecution-of-trump/950708/161 "2021-10-08T12:09:08Z")
They can ask questions, and if the witness lies in response, that’s perjury. The prosecutors aren’t setting them up for perjury by asking questions, they are simply asking questions, it is up to him whether he lies in response. There are not “prosecutors” in this either, as it is a civil matter, so it would just be the opposing attorneys. Now, as to your specific question, assuming that Trump has any sort of competent legal counsel, it will probably be objected to as being irrelevant to the case, and he would have no reason to answer. ---
**Author:** ![Gyrate](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gyrate/32/3588_2.png) [@Gyrate](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gyrate)\ **Post date:** [October 8, 2021, 12:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/delay-in-prosecution-of-trump/950708/162 "2021-10-08T12:49:28Z")
The opposing counsel won’t need to sneak in any blatant gotcha questions. Odds are that Trump will lie about several things in the course of answering even basic questions. It’s what he does. ---
**Author:** ![Johnny\_L.A](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnny_l.a/32/1084_2.png) [@Johnny\_L.A](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_L.A)\ **Post date:** [October 8, 2021, 2:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/delay-in-prosecution-of-trump/950708/163 "2021-10-08T14:42:12Z")
I read an article a while ago, where former Trump confidantes said that he really believes he won the election… because everyone is afraid to tell him otherwise. ---
**Author:** ![enipla](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/54ee81/32.png) [@enipla](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/enipla)\ **Post date:** [October 8, 2021, 4:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/delay-in-prosecution-of-trump/950708/164 "2021-10-08T16:19:19Z")
That just blows me away. Why is everyone so afraid of this big baby? He’s stupid fat and slow. He can’t walk down a ramp for gods sake. I would find it a great privilege to tell him what a loser he is. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/delay-in-prosecution-of-trump/950708.md?page=7) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/delay-in-prosecution-of-trump/950708.md?page=9)