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Nov 15, 2022Liked by Lucian K. Truscott IV

This review helps explain my heart issues.

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Nov 15, 2022Liked by Lucian K. Truscott IV

Elect a sociopath, get crimes galore! This list is stunning, outrageous, horrific and likely incomplete. I hope I’m still alive 10 or 20 years from now when history has an accurate telling of these years and how completely crazy making it was for those of us living through it. People like Lucian Truscott help us deal with it and keep a record of the actual facts (not the BS alternative ones.)

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Nov 15, 2022Liked by Lucian K. Truscott IV

Thanks for the stroll down memory lane. These facts should be etched in stone for history’s sake and bookmarked for reference in the next few years.

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Nov 15, 2022·edited Nov 15, 2022Liked by Lucian K. Truscott IV

my head is spinning reading all that.

thank you, LKTIV, for listing them for us.

i had just a few minutes before read a litany of likely crimes trump and cohorts committed in Georgia. the lede of that article, authored by several legal experts, said of the many possible charges he might face everywhere else, these in the article look like the first likely to hit him.

i'll say again i really don't care what he gets nailed with, as long as it sticks and puts him away until he can do more harm.

i add i hope too that it is something that shames him.

and i'm not afraid to admit i hope he ends up in a prison with some big bubbas who will love his fat pink a§§.

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Nov 15, 2022·edited Nov 15, 2022Liked by Lucian K. Truscott IV

But he would never be put in with the gen pop! In the totally unlikely event that he’s ever convicted, he’d be sentenced to house arrest, or maybe one of those country club prisons where they send rich white guys convicted of financial misdeeds.

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No, he cannot go into general population, but he can be in a special section of a prison. All the January 6 guys are segregated in the DC jail. Even what you refer to as a country club prison is still prison. It will be unadulterated hell for trmp to be in any prison. He will not be able to have a Diet Coke brought to him, opened for him, and poured for him about five times a day. He had a special button installed on the Resolute Desk to signal his need for a Diet Coke.

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What about putting him in Jeffery's old cell...

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He will never, ever spend a single moment in prison!

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Unless you consider one of Dante's circles of hell a prison. I have hopes for this, at least.

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Agreed

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He would be put in protective custody, like Mark David Chapman. And he would hate every second because it's basically solitary confinement. He isn't a reader but he'd have a TV, and he'd be in his cell except for showers and one hour of exercise per day.

House arrest? What house? His 200 room mansion by the sea? Not likely. And certainly, he could be sentenced to a minimum security facility, but that's generally a perk for defendants who cooperate with the authorities, something the Donald would never do.

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i know but,

i can still enjoy my schadenfreude hope. ;)

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Nov 15, 2022Liked by Lucian K. Truscott IV

I am with you.... my little head spins reading all the shit he has done to this country. Lucian, we are in your debt!!!

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I think that shaming the former guy might be next to impossible--how can you shame such an amoral creature who hasn't a conscience?

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ah yes.

i forget, was it keats or yeats who said:

(paraphrased) you cannot shame one who is never shamed in his eyes nor his neighbour's eyes.

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Once again, Lucian, thank you for summarizing so concisely all his known misdeeds. He has made a mockery of our legal system all his life, and Garland now validates it by not indicting him. The election is over, and there’s no reason to wait any longer. *Rump believes that he has immunity once he declares his candidacy, which is rationally untrue. Regardless, he will wear any indictment as a badge of victimhood, which is one of his specialty whines. I am six years older than *Rump, but I want to live long enough to see him held accountable for something, anything, anywhere. Fleeing into exile also works (for me) just so we’re not subjected to him in any way ever again. We all have our fantasies. Those are some of mine.

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Do you read Joyce White Vance here on Substack? She believes Trump will be indicted, and I trust her judgment. I also think there is ample reason to believe the Justice Dept. has little choice but to prosecute Trump because the alternative is to open the door to all future presidents behaving just as egregiously as Trump. It would set a very bad precedent.

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I haven’t read her comment, but I’m very much inclined to agree with her. Not indicting him not only opens the door (further) to future presidents to behave as ‘egregiously’, as you say, but it also further establishes two standards of law, which essentially exists now, in that you can get as much justice as you can afford. The rich get away with a lot more than the poor, and it has always been thus.

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There are also plenty of people who think prosecuting a former president would be unseemly and would embarrass the US. I think letting Trump off the hook for his crimes would destroy our credibility and expose us to worldwide ridicule.

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Nov 15, 2022Liked by Lucian K. Truscott IV

With the recent election results he (Trump) May finally be vulnerable. I’m not holding my breath . . .

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Nov 15, 2022Liked by Lucian K. Truscott IV

The Chief Traitor’s thinking they won’t indict him if he’s running for Prez.

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That's not a substantive legal argument or defense, although it does look like something Trump's lawyers might assert anyway.

Desperate, feckless attorney: "But Your Honor, my client is running for president! He can't be indicted!"

Judge: "Imagine the precedent that would set, sonny. Anyone could announce they are running for president and have that confer immunity to indictments? Really?

Now sit down while I draw up charges to have you considered for being disbarred."

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Nov 15, 2022Liked by Lucian K. Truscott IV

If Trump is not the Republican candidate in 2024, whoever is needs to be asked early and often whether they’ll give him a pardon if elected.

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They wouldn't answer. Besides, presidents can only pardon federal crimes. Trump's in the soup for tax fraud in New York, a state crime.

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How. Does. He. Continue. To. Walk. The. Earth? We deserve to be free of him. I see life as a lab rat as appropriate for him.

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His father already did that to him

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While reading this review, we won't even talk about the business end of his 'empire' which is now today under trial for tax evasion by his executives.

I'm pretty well convinced that there is no crime he hasn't committed, in person, by others or by 'suggesting' them to his followers.

That includes, by the way, manslaughter by depraved indifference-which comes from the pandemic.

He's guilty of all of them, many times over. It's about time he be prosecuted for even just one major crime and put in prison for the rest of his tawdry life.

Because crime isn't supposed to pay. He's been getting away with crime for the better part of 50 years-and even Al Capone got caught eventually.

Donnie No Brains should be put in solitary and never heard from again.

That's the only way we'll get past the wreckage he's strewn about for others to pick up.

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Nov 15, 2022Liked by Lucian K. Truscott IV

All that and he’s still free— walking his daughter down a non-existent aisle like he hasn’t got a care in the world. He will NEVER be indicted, much less convicted and imprisoned.

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I fear so

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Nov 15, 2022Liked by Lucian K. Truscott IV

I don't think DOJ is going to do anything. We'll see.

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So far your predictions have been bupkis....

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It seems all the preliminary work is not done. If they are working their way to the top, they need to collect Steven Miller at least and maybe even Barr and the rest of Opus Dei, so we can have a clean slate re separation of church and state.

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Your post deserves more than one "heart"! 💙💙💙💙💙💙💙💙!

Thank you!

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WHY WHY WHY WHY WHY does a single person on God's green earth want this vile creature to be in charge of even one human being? I will NEVER understand the mental gyrations needed to get to that point.

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It should also be noted that the bulk of the evidence adduced by Mueller’s team supports the proposition that Trump was aware of Russian interference in the election on his behalf and embraced it eagerly. There is little doubt that the Donald called Trump Jr. just before the meeting with a Russian lawyer and was briefed on that meeting’s agenda (to acquire and spread dirt on Hillary Clinton). Trump was candid with George Stephanopoulos on 13th June 209 that he saw no reason not to accept and use foreign intelligence to damage his political enemies. And, of course, he held US aid to Ukraine hostage to his demand that Zelinsky open an investigation into Hunter Biden’s business dealings. It is now dogma on the right that Trump was unfairly targeted from the first by the FBI, and that Mueller’s report absolves him of all misdoing. Baloney. Don Trump, like Don Corleone, knew everything being done at his direction but has, thus far, skated clean of the consequences. Any ordinary Don would have been behind bars years ago.

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ITMFA (coined by Dan Savage)

Indict The Mother Fucker Already

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ITMFA - it just rolls off the tongue.....ITMFA, ITMFA, ITMFA,!!!!!!!!

Otherwise our imperfect democracy, already hanging by a thread, is doomed. ENOUGH!

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