Comment on Because of Trump, is it now open for someone with a criminal background to hold the office?

• TheFogan@programming.dev ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  I’m not from the US, but I am interested to know if Benjamin Franklin falls on this category? What is his crime?

  By definition the founding fathers were part of an opposing empire.

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• ohulancutash@feddit.uk ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  Treason, tax evasion, sedition, breach of the peace, incitement to riot, incitement to murder.

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  • h54@programming.dev ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    Enslavers, rapists, and genocidal too.

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    • JustPlainDave@lemmy.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      Yeah, but not all of them were slavers and rapists. Only most of them.

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