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They're OK with having a convicted criminal for president. He was a criminal for the entire term.
He's been a criminal for all of his adult life. He's just rich and white and flew under the radar enough. If he had just fucked off into retirement on some island rather than becoming president (and committing more crimes) you'd probably never hear about him anymore and he could have lived in peace.
They say some people are so poor, all they have is money.
But he got tired of money, he gets off on power and being the prophet of his little cult
yeah but then he wouldn't be the megalomaniac that he is
He's no Jesus. Certainly no fucking Elvis.
LOCK HER UP!
Nelson Mandela was a convicted criminal when he was elected president of South Africa. Vaclav Havel was a convicted criminal when he was elected president of the Czech Republic. Corrupting the legal system to criminalize political opposition does very little to make a political figure less popular. Often, it just makes them martyrs.
Trump is no Mandela. And something tells me Trump's supporters would feel very different about voting for someone like Mandela...
Kind of missing the point there, bub.
Nah, it's you missing the point.
Trump wasn't convicted for who he was. He doesn't get a pass because of who he is or the fact he's running for President, either. A jury of 12 people unanimously declared that the prosecution proved their case 34 times. Any one of them could have said no to the charges. In fact, one seemed to be very interested in that course of action. But in a room with only 11 other people, he weighed the evidence, considered the charges, listened to the arguments made by both the Defence and Prosecution, and then, with all of that weighing on his mind, and with the added weight of his conscience, came to the conclusion that he couldn't get Trump off on a SINGLE charge.
Put Trump's supporters on a jury for a trial of a Black man doing the shit Trump did, they'd ABSOLUTELY convict that Black man of the charges they insist were cooked up for Trump on the exact same evidence, WHILE protesting that Trump was unfairly convicted by "Demoncrat plants and lawyers and Deep State Operatives". Fortunately, our court system is designed to filter out these kinds of people, which is why I don't buy your bullshit about 'corrupting the legal system'. It's not corrupted, despite all the effort Team Pepe puts into it. Now buzz off with your nonsense.
It's a good thing that didn't happen. Having an independent state prosecutor bring state crimes in front of a jury of his peers in a public trial has been a great example of democracy working as intended.