I dont know, I’m Aussie, my politicians jack off on their colleagues work desks.
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cordlesslamp@lemmy.today 5 weeks ago
Please explain to a non American, why a convicted felon not in federal prison but instead running for president?
dumbass@leminal.space 5 weeks ago
sudo@programming.dev 5 weeks ago
He hasn’t been sentenced yet and won’t be for months. Its possible that he won’t be sentenced untilafter the election. He’s also been indicted for paying the porn star, Stormy Daniels, hush money.
So, out-of-context, its just another rich dude doing money crime in the US. Its not like he’s been convicted of being a russian asset or doibg war crimes. Convention is to give him a slap on the wrist. But external political pressures and him being a unique dumbass to the judge will probably result in a tougher sentencing. But I doubt there will be any prison time, even white collar.
Also you cans still run for president from prison. Eugene V. Debs ran as the Socialist Party candidate while jailed for sedition during WWI.
ASeriesOfPoorChoices@lemmy.world 5 weeks ago
will be sentenced on July 11th.
the crime is election fraud - money was just the method he used to do it.
sudo@programming.dev 4 weeks ago
No that’s a different case in Georgia which we haven’t had a verdict on yet. The recent indicants were from the Stormy Daniels case in NY.
ASeriesOfPoorChoices@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
no, Georgia is election interference.
Stormy Daniels case is about election fraud.
Rekonok@sh.itjust.works 5 weeks ago
Orange man is litteraly a russian asset and it should be enough to jail him…
But to answer on a theorical level you cannot prevent felons from politic in a democratic society, otherwise you just throw accusations at your opponent to win elections and sadly it happen in a lot of places