I didn’t necessarily mean that he would be IMMEDIATELY eligible for citizenship, just that it would give him the ability to live there and start whatever the citizenship process might be.
This is likely true - he’d only flee the country if he was definitely going to go to jail, and even then he’d probably just move between his properties elsewhere on the assumption that extradition is a pain in the ass for any country doing it. Dying in luxurious exile is better than dying in prison.
I’m not sure he’d have a right to citizenship, but would instead have a right to remain based on his human right to be with his family. Slovenia is in the EU, and falls under the European Convention on Human Rights, which includes the “Right to respect for private and family life”. Of course that assumes that Melania would want to go to Slovenia with him.
Surely he’d have an even better claim to British citizenship based on his mother?
Not necessarily, depending on her status at the time of his birth, and on whether the law at that time allowed for her citizenship to pass automatically to him (and I suspect it didn’t).
Another possible bolthole, should it be necessary, is North Cyprus - within the orbit of Erdogan (especially since their recent presidential election), no extradition treaties, nice climate, and no doubt plenty of opportunities (and people with no-questions-asked funding available) for flashy property development.
Just for the record, they won’t let you do it. My Canadian citizen son did just visit us after a 2 week quarantine, but a non-citizen cannot.
They certainly have taken passports away from people in the past without any due process.
I think Trump will go to Florida and NY state will spend the years between January 20 and whenever trying to extradite him. In the end, the Supreme Court will rule that cannot by a vote of 6-3.
See the wise last post before this.
Britain would extradite quicker than Florida.
Melania: Goddammit, do I have to wait for that to be all finished before I can divorce his sorry orange ass??
Yeah, I don’t feel sorry for her. She made her bed, quite literally, and has been lying in it for quite some time. They seem to have a fairly transactional relationship. I feel sorry for their kid, who had zero choice of parents.
There’s a chance for a happy ending for Baron.
His father goes to jail, and his mother raises him in Slovenia.
Perhaps he can build a tower in Mogadishu and take up residence there.
I agreed with Ford’s decision to pardon Nixon, we didn’t need to put the country through a criminal trial at that time. But I feel quite different now, we need to make an example of Don the Con for any other wanna be dictators out there. I sincerely hope he winds up in a federal supermax prison and stripped of every cent of wealth. Ditto for his grifter family with the exception of Barron.
Nixon was before my time but that’s exactly how I feel. Nixon paid what for him was the ultimate price: loss of the presidency and disgrace. Trump knows nothing about disgrace; he needs to do time.
Not sure about Nixon, but Trump was a criminal way before he got to the White House. Making an example out of Trump may help keep other crooks from running for office.
Trump should live out his days in solitary confinement (or what’s worse, Twitter oblivion) in a super-max – But even if not, we should still throw all the books at his entire retinue of enablers, Barr chief among them. For this, we DO have precedent from the Nixon era. See: John Mitchell.