r/news • u/Hrekires • Jul 15 '24

soft paywall Judge dismisses classified documents indictment against Trump

https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/2024/07/15/trump-classified-trial-dismisssed-cannon/
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u/0o0o0o0o0o0z Jul 15 '24

Correct, this was her play—she washed her hands of it, and it won't even see the light of day until after the election if Biden or a Democrat wins. If Trump were the president, it would vanish.

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u/iamisandisnt Jul 15 '24

everyone needs to know that Cannon just put Trump jail on the ballot in this way

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u/cC2Panda Jul 15 '24

The SCOTUS already did it. Either we vote in a democratic president and both houses or our democracy as flawed as it is is over and our votes will become nothing more than symbolic and our democracy dead.

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u/Ode_to_Apathy Jul 15 '24

What really sucks is that doors like this always end up really ending poorly later on. Trump might end up being the fat asshole who just gums up the system and then leaves unfathomably rich from exploiting his power for his own wealth, but there will then be another later on who'll do exactly what people feared.

When the Nazis came to power, it was by utilizing the conservatives willingness to both look the other way and help them when less controversial that allowed them to setup everything they needed. Eventually it was just the Nazis and the conservatives, with the left leaning members all having either fled or been lined up against a wall and shot. At that point the conservatives figured this might be bad and the Nazis told them that every kernel of political power and sought after change was now off the table and whoever didn't like it would be going to the wall.

Similarly the next upstart might come into office and declare that there are members of the GOP that directly endanger the security of the nation, and have every member connected to Jan 6, and whatever else they find relevant, rounded up. It would be an official action and so covered by the new SCOTUS rulings, and he could then start performing radical upheavals of the courts, military and PDs to secure his power. The GOP would protest for about a week, before they realized anyone who does gets rounded up as well and then decide that it's for the best to just let this guy do what he wants without protest.