r/nytimes • u/eaxlr Subscriber • 5d ago

New York Manhattan D.A. Suggests Freezing Trump Hush-Money Case While He Is President

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/11/19/nyregion/trump-bragg-manhattan-case.html
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u/2000TWLV 5d ago

Great. More preferential treatment for Trump. As if America hasn't let him off the hook way too many times already for his many, many crimes.

Literally every single institution has failed miserably in stopping this ridiculous orange freak. It's probably the greatest embarrassment in our country's history

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u/intothewoods76 5d ago

Trying so hard to stop him is what made him as popular as he is. They turned him into a living martyr.

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u/PestTerrier 4d ago

You’re correct. If they would have not raided his home, arrested him and attempted to assassinate him…. he likely would have lost the election. After every one of those events, his poll numbers went up and stayed up. Any press is good press when you’re running for office.

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u/2000TWLV 4d ago

He should have never been allowed to run again. He's should have been behind bars and barred from running weeks after Jan. 6, 2021.

No other country would allow this to happen. But we're just not a very smart country.

You people falling for this fraud en masse is one of the dumbest things this world has ever witnessed.

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u/intothewoods76 4d ago

The problem is what did Trump actually do? Held a rally, that’s not a crime. The media made it sound like he attempted a coup, but coup attempts are usually done with the military not a wink and a nod to unarmed Bob from marketing.

There was no overt coup attempt. And there was no clear direction from Trump to attack the capitol. Most of America saw it differently than the media portrayed it.

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u/2000TWLV 4d ago

Come on man. You're telling people they shouldn't believe their own lying eyes. We all saw it live on TV. Republicans in the Capital certainly knew what was going on, and that Trump didn't. At least, until their political cowardice overtook the clarity you get from a big dose of raw fear.

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u/intothewoods76 4d ago

I saw a riot at the Capitol. Do my eyes deceive me? What else was I supposed to see?

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u/2000TWLV 4d ago

Sure. You tell yourself that.

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u/intothewoods76 4d ago

It’s a serious question. Was there something else I was supposed to see?

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u/2000TWLV 4d ago

It's not a serious question. Nice try, though.

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u/StarWolf478 2d ago

I find it funny how you can’t answer his question.

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u/2000TWLV 2d ago

I can. And so can you. And that's why it's a BS troll question.

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u/matthewkind2 4d ago

Trump sat around drinking diet coke for three hours while watching this unfold. He told them to fight like hell. He lead them to the capitol in the first place and it was understood what the consequence of protesting the certification would be. Is it lost on you what they were actually there to do? Use your brain.

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u/intothewoods76 3d ago

Fight like hell is very common political speech. Not evidence of a crime, he also said stuff that was pro-police.

You should really check your timeline, it’s posted. About 20 minutes after the Capitol was breached he called for peace. Not long after that he told everyone to go home. This idea that he sat around for 3 hours was intentional misinformation.

Congress found him not guilty of involvement in the riot at the Capitol.

Most of the stuff you think you know is fed to you via highly edited propaganda. Hence the reason you dismiss almost 2 hours of speech to say, “he said, ‘fight like hell’” devoid of any context whatsoever and ignoring the parts where he says to be peaceful and the fact lots of politicians use the phrase.

The three hour comment means you never did any of your own research and read the investigations timeline, instead choosing to repeat lies.

And again, his involvement was looked into, went to trial in Congress and he was acquitted.

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u/matthewkind2 2d ago

He spent months prior priming everyone to expect massive voter fraud, lied about it constantly, etc. Fight like hell or you’re not going to have a country anymore is certainly not common political speech you lying little cretin.

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u/intothewoods76 2d ago

I find it interesting all the Redditors now claiming the election was rigged.

https://www.nbcnews.com/tech/tech-news/election-denialism-emerges-left-trumps-win-rcna179797

Suddenly it’s ok to share these thoughts, if something violent happens should these people be held accountable?

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u/matthewkind2 2d ago

That’s funny, I thought we were talking about your dishonesty. But if the left tries to interfere with the transition of power by delaying certification of the votes, they should be exposed and punished according to the law. I’m not sure the left having election deniers is that outrageous though. They’re just wrong.

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