I mean, basically the whole family is going to jail the moment their dad is out of office. We know it, and they know it. Trump himself has been sowing seeds to declare a loss illegitimate, and for years now he's occasionally joked that it'd be super cool for America to have a president for life like all the dictators he looks up to. So does anybody really think that in the event of a Biden win, Trump's gonna just give up the office without a fight and wait for the noose to tighten around his, and his children's, necks? There's gonna be a huge electoral fracas at the very least. There could be a lot of fash violence too. I don't really think it'll spark Civil War 2 by itself but it could certainly help. It seems to me like a lot of folks here talking about a Biden presidency are ignoring the minor hurdle of getting Trump to cede power in the first place.

  • DrStrangeBalls [he/him]
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    4 years ago

    Presidents are completely above the law, we’ve seen this demonstrated again and again.

    Yep. There's a reason that Ford pardoned Nixon, and Obama completely kiboshed any idea of consequences for anyone in the Bush administration for what their absolutely 100% objectively criminal acts: it would have established a precedent that a president can even be made to face consequences. This will never happen.

    Trump and his ilk will not face any prosecution, definitely not federally, and most likely not anywhere else. Their class position above all else prevents it.

    • Darkmatter2k [none/use name]
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      4 years ago

      Much better put than I did, this was the point I was trying to make, democrats AND republicans have both worked for multiple decades to maintain the rule that presidents are above the law.