new york state!

Interesting.

When a billionaire is sentenced to prison, and then actually has to go to prison, it's called a "legal loophole".

After the election results and looking at Elon for past few months, I'm starting to think Trump isn't the problem. It won't matter if he stays or not. USA has got bigger knives in it's chest.

Yeah fucking right. Jesus Christ. We need to just accept that it's over. He's never going to face any consequences and NY is not sending anyone to the White House to drag him out...

Fun to think about, but I can promise that Trump will never see consequences for his actions. Everything just miraculously slides right off of him.

Not going to happen

I so badly want this to happen, but it's not going to happen

This country will never, ever prosecute a president because it would set a precedent of holding our politicians accountable. Ain't happening. We've all been watching Pelosi do insider trading for decades.

Yeah he's not going to jail. The bastard is just going to keep laughing at us every day. But he's only got maybe 20 years to go. I would be surprised if 10. He's basically 20% rotten McDonald's M double cheeseburger. We might have to deal with princes Vans instead of Maybe one of the other trump princesses. Who knows.

All we should do is wait and feed him Peanuts or pretzels. He's bound to choke in one of those things. Either that or the sodium.

"We put all our politicians in prison as soon as they’re elected. Don’t you?” “Why?” “It saves time." -Terry Pratchett, The Last Continent

Well NY can certainly sentence him, and he can potentially serve a custodial sentence. But I suspect that even if the judge handed him time in prison it wouldn't be four years and would almost certainly be appealed or delayed to be mostly irrelevant. But I would dearly, dearly, DEARLY love to see this asshole go to prison and preferably never come out.

The cope is strong here.

That’s 100% not going to happen. As much as it should.

You know how I know this is bullshit? Because even if Trump got the maximum sentence for each of his felony counts, which is three years of prison, they can all be served concurrently, so he would be out by November 2027 with more than a year left of his term.

If Judge Merchan proceeds with sentencing, Trump's legal team will just appeal and push it back until after Jan 20th.

Nice wishful thinking, but Trump winning erased the chances of him ever being held accountable for his crimes against the American people. A majority of Americans felt like he should get away with all of it. On day one he will appoint a sycophant to the DOJ who will drop all of his federal cases, and the state cases will get paused because the President is immune from state prosecution while on office.

If anybody here wanted to see justice done, you should have shown up on the 5th.

guys, this is dumb af. this is america. trump isn't going to prison.

JD Vance as president is an even more terrifying thought.

Beware the Monkey Paw

supreme court will toss all these out. Though it would be funny.

Step 1, appeal to supreme court. Step 2: go free.

Nothing in the Constitution prevents the President from holding the office from a jail cell.

I'm telling you, the premise of this should be a Michael Schur production.

Loophole or not. His AG (likely Cannon) will threaten prison time or charge with treason or insurrection with anyone who attempts to continue any cases against him

The legal loophole is called maximum sentence.

But no, he was always going to get something like 2 years supervised parole.

I'd assume any sentence for time to serve would be suspended until after his term.

That said, it would be very funny to be in a time where the US President could not visit certain states because he would be arrested.

I remember having dreams. You guys remember those? Fun times.

It doesn't matter. None of this matters.

It is not actually legal to do this. A state can't interfere with the functioning of the federal executive branch. Most constitutional scholars would say the sentence just gets suspended until the end of his term.

They would just exercise the 25th amendment and put Vance in the seat. I'm not sure who's ass is in the chair is the worst-case scenario

I am convinced that if Kamala won Trump would have started an armed insurgency. Well, this would definitely about do it.

Oh God, PLEASE, I know by now it won't happen, but I'm begging

Yeah, won't happen

Also, if it did, then what? You'll have a Jesus death cult in charge of nukes. At least you can control trump by brown nosing him, the cult just will destroy the world to bring back jesus

People in the Netherlands once ate the prime minster (basically president). Just saying, there are options.

Even if this happens, we'd end up with JD Vance likely running the show which would also suck.

Legal eagle on YouTube and nebula has a recent video on this very subject. Short form? It's over.

I doubt this will happen, and if it did it would do more harm than good. His followers would liken him to Paul.

Battle of the billionaires, make no mistake the way i see it, the world is being fought over by conflicting groups of billionaires. There's the current winner group the christo-fascist sect. The competing Tech-bro billionaires who want us all to live like foxxcon slaves and unfortunate dead last is the humanist billionaires who actually wanted to do some good while stealing us blind.

Why would you need a loophole to put a criminal in jail?

lol no it didn't

Nobody is going to put an elected present in jail. It’s game over.

Haha, hahahahaha, he could be in jail already for years and there's people thinking he'll go now? Hope is nice, but that's just a dream

Yes it would be funny, it would also probably cause a civil uprising.

Y'all know even if that were to happen, assuming the Biden administration even allows this, the military would storm in whatever holding cell hes in and break him out on January 20, then he'll invoke the insurrection act and order the arrest of NYC officials for treason.

Your cartoon kid doesn't need to pray, he has magic little fish who grant his every wish.

don't give us hope

A couple of questions (from someone not from US):

• Can't he just presidential pardon himself?

• Even if put in jail, can he continue to act as a president? Like, give out orders, hold meetings, etc?

test

Won't happen but even if it did, JD will be just as bad.

To do so would subvert the will of democracy. I thought liberals were the defenders of democracy? You lost the election. You fucking lost, move forward and try again in 4 years. Stop acting like spoiled entitled children.