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C Moon

(12,221 posts)
Fri Aug 25, 2023, 12:37 AM Aug 2023

If tfg is found guilty, do you believe he will be imprisoned?

Look at the special treatment they are all getting now.
It’s been said time and again, but I believe that the rich live by a different set of laws and punishments.

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JohnSJ

(92,381 posts)
11. I agree, which is why I am hoping a few states will keep him off the ballot because of
Fri Aug 25, 2023, 01:39 AM
Aug 2023

the fourteenth amendment

That is why a televised trial is so important so people can witness the crimes he committed



Silent Type

(2,939 posts)
5. Certainly not in the Georgia State prisons I've seen (driving on back roads).
Fri Aug 25, 2023, 12:51 AM
Aug 2023

I’d bet not, but we likely won’t know for several years. Similarly, we likely won’t know about conviction.

Liberty Belle

(9,535 posts)
8. Yes, at a "Club Fed" prison for the federal crimes,
Fri Aug 25, 2023, 01:21 AM
Aug 2023

as they are accustomed to handling high-profile white collar criminals.

Perhaps if he starts racking up convictions he might decide to start copping plea bargains in Georgia to stay out of their notorious state prison-- maybe agree never to run for office again,and serve his federal sentence ahead of any state prison term.

I don't believe that most of these judges (the twit in Florida excepted) would let him get by with just an ankle bracelet at Mar a Lago. The charges are too serious, and he should have a more severe penalty than his underlings.

As far as I'm concerned, they can throw in in Guantanamo if he whines about security concerns.

yaesu

(8,020 posts)
12. No, I think he will have some sort of house arrest followed by probation
Fri Aug 25, 2023, 02:22 AM
Aug 2023

Unless he gets a whole floor of a club fed to himself.

elocs

(22,598 posts)
13. It's a nice fantasy for those of us on the Left, but no, Trump won't go to prison.
Fri Aug 25, 2023, 07:19 AM
Aug 2023

He is already in a prison of his own mind, or what passes for a mind.

llmart

(15,552 posts)
14. No.
Fri Aug 25, 2023, 08:20 AM
Aug 2023

I seriously doubt it, not that he doesn't deserve it. He deserves it more than anyone else, but he deserved it long ago too and look how that worked out.

Hopefully he'll be tied up with prosecutions and court dates for the rest of his miserable (hopefully short) years on this planet.

Cosmocat

(14,572 posts)
17. Some kind of Pablo Escobar arraingment
Fri Aug 25, 2023, 08:49 AM
Aug 2023

Further moving what had been the greatest democracy known to mankind toward third world country status.

Johnny2X2X

(19,114 posts)
18. I think he serves time
Fri Aug 25, 2023, 08:57 AM
Aug 2023

Until recently I thought no way. But these cases are piling up and the prosecutors and judges don't seem to be willing to drag it out indefinitely.

And I think things change when he's actually convicted. People on the fence, and there are still a lot of these people, will start saying, "well, he was convicted..." The GOP is going to flip out though and attack the rule of law, it will be very dangerous times.

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