How the hell did Tucker ever live down that whole balls tanning bs? He should have been mocked back to the stone age.
FBI Search and Seizure at Trump's Mar-A-Lago Residence, August 8, 2022, Case Dismissed July 15, 2024
They’ll leave him with a copy of Forbes magazine as well.
Spoken like a person with pale balls.
If he was in a regular prison with the regular population and with absolutely no access to any trappings of his previous life, I wonder how he would deal with not having the luxury etc to which I’m sure he feels entitled.
There is a unbelievably large amount of people that will lick their finger before turning a page. Add in coughing and sneezing,possibly eating at desks, paper can get very icky very quickly.
For others who may have been puzzling over the acronyms:
TS/SCI = Top Secret / Sensitive Compartmented Information
RD/FRD = Restricted Data / Formerly Restricted Data
Old news, but it easily could have been very bad: https://www.cnbc.com/2019/11/25/chinese-trespasser-at-trumps-mar-a-lago-resort-sentenced.html
I think house arrest is the most likely sentence.
Unfortunately I think the most likely outcome is he runs out the clock to 2024, DeSantis, or some other Republican gets in and it all goes away.
I didn’t open the article, but haven’t there been at least two Chinese nationals arrested (on different occasions) for Trespassing (at least) at Mar-A-Lago ?
At least it keeps him out of the White House.
Trump isn’t the one in charge of the time table, though. There’s no clock for him to run out. It’s up to DOJ and the courts, with a clear motivation to get it done before such a thing could happen.
Plus Trump is going to run for president unless the Republicans do something to stop him. Either he gets the nomination and we get a rerun of 2020 with him having even less support, or, more likely, he’s a bomb who destroys the chances of anyone else.
I would not at all put the Republicans winning in the presidency in 2024 as the most likely outcome. It’ snot impossible: Trump won with a 1 in 5 chance in 2016. But his continued presence is very much lowering their chances. He excites a certain base, but no one else.
The headling describing her as carrying “a bag full of electronics” is a little… misleading. It was:
four mobile phones, a laptop computer, an external hard drive, and a thumb drive that “contained malicious software,”
Mulling that over though, is that necessarily a net positive for whoever the democrat candidate may be?
It is a comforting thought that Trump gets barred from holding office, I’ll buy that for a dollar, but does that mean a less deranged republican with perhaps wider appeal gets to run whilst plausibly pointing to a “politically motivated hit-job”?
That doesn’t sound great, mind you the alternative of Trump beating the rap isn’t great either.
Not everything is about politics and our “team” winning. While I’d certainly rather have a Democratic candidate in the White House come January 2025, I’d take a slightly saner Republican over Trump.
Trump back in the White House, I don’t know if our country would survive recognizably. DeSantis, for all the faults I have with him, at least seems to want there to still be a country after he leaves office.
Will we recognize the country, though? And why wouldn’t he push for an extended time in the office once he gets settled in?
The problem with a Republican president is that he would most likely pardon any crimes Trump and his cronies (may have) committed, and initiate a Purge on Democrats and freedom.
Isn’t it a weird world where the very minimum of respectable leadership behaviour needs to be flagged as something in a candidates favour?
You’re probably right. In my head he was just in ‘regular’ prison, not a fancy white collar resort/prison.
If he can still have visitors, use his phone and have internet access, would anything be any different?
At least if he’s in jail all his communications with the outside world would be monitored/recorded and there would be a list of every visitor.
YMMV but I think a nice jail is still a jail. Pablo Escobar was able to build his own prison and one thing he made sure to include was an escape tunnel so he could leave at will.
The part you quoted was about house arrest.