• jg1i@lemmy.world
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    5 months ago

    Eh… are there going to be any real consequences though? I have a feeling he’s not going to jail and he’s still gonna be the Republican candidate for president. Is this gonna end up like the impeachment? That didn’t do shit. :(

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      5 months ago

      An impeachment is just an investigation; if it doesn’t lead to a conviction (as his didn’t) it doesn’t mean shit. Agent Orange just got himself a felony conviction - what that means in terms of sentencing, idk - my hope is they throw the book at him and make him do some actual time. I doubt that’ll happen, cuz he’s Trump and always seems to find a way to weasel out of this shit… but then, he didn’t weasel out of this one, so who knows.

      I’m interested in what having a felony conviction means in terms of political candidacy, which might require setting some new precedents, since afaik we’ve never had a felon run for president before.

      In any case, this isn’t like those articles we’ve beein seeing for fucking YEARS exclaiming how he just took a major legal blow only for nothing to come of it - a felony conviction is a MAJOR leap forward, and gives me hope I haven’t felt in years that he’ll start facing some real consequences!