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> Can you imagine the outrage if Trumps' AG was appointing special prosecutors to oversee criminal cases of his children?

Well, that's a good question. How outraged were you when he messed with those cases? https://www.nytimes.com/2020/06/20/nyregion/trump-geoffrey-b...



That's bad too. The entire state of NY DOJ has been focused on Trump since 2016 However, its ironic that alot of the stuff is coming out a year before the 2024 elections.


It's not irony, most of the cases NY started were pretty unreasonable and more than a stretch, and have not gone very far, while the current stuff took this long for all the legal machines to get through, because it's really obnoxious to read through mountains of boxes of classified documents to figure out how bad it is, and attempting to claw back some partially destroyed evidence and flip important witnesses.

This is how long a trial of an important person takes.

Everything you've said has been less accurate than the headlines you've cribbed them from.


> It's not irony, most of the cases NY started were pretty unreasonable and more than a stretch, and have not gone very far

You mean, like, the guilty on all counts result in the Trump Org tax fraud case or the abuse of charity funds for personal political interests case against Donald Trump, his children, and the Trunp Foundation that ended with millions in liability, various bans, and the disbanding of the Trump Foundation?

Or something else that was a stretch that didn't go far?


Well yes, there were successes, but a financial liability has not proven to be something that actually concerns Trump or his cabal, explicitly because his supporters seem to see zero problem with paying for it.

Those findings are only justice for the minor crimes they committed, not the stuff that actually matters. Tax fraud and charity fraud are bad things to do, but not exactly the slam dunk that "Going to prison for attempting to overthrow the government of the USA" would be.


Considering that his playbook when it comes to legal cases against him consists of 'delay everything until either he, or the plaintiff drops dead from a heart attack', this doesn't seem ironic. It's just how he operates.

While that is an excellent approach to take when some nobody is suing you in a civil court, criminal prosecutors often have a... Longer, more patient view on things. The wheels of justice grind slowly, and all that.

The better question is 'How is he still walking around a free man?', when he makes a habit of threatening witnesses and judges.


> The entire state of NY DOJ has been focused on Trump since 2016

No, it hasn’t. They've done plenty else. Probably spent more time on the NRA than Trump.




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