Wouldn’t he have to be convicted of something in order to be barred? What criteria other than a conviction in a court of law could be used to disqualify him?
ChojinDSL@discuss.tchncs.de 10 months ago
I don’t think Trump will spend a day in prison. Simply because they don’t want to set a precedent, that a u.s. president can go to jail.
Worst that might happen, is that he’s barred from running again.
lemmyvore@feddit.nl 10 months ago
mtdyson_01@lemmynsfw.com 10 months ago
Not all crimes will keep him from being president. Any guilty verdict from Georgia will send him to jail for a minimum of 5 years, no probation, no home detention. The only charges that if found guilty that would disqualify Trump from being president are with Jack Smith. Essentially, Georgia will send him to jail if he lives long enough and it will be possible for Trump to set another first, the first president to serve from jail because he could not pardon himself for state crimes and the governor has very limited pardon powers in Georgia.
DogMuffins@discuss.tchncs.de 10 months ago
the first president to serve from jail
I know we’re in the weirdest timeline and all but this is just too bizarre to even consider. Imagine him being incarcerated for trying to undermine democracy while being the elected head of that democracy.
lemmyvore@feddit.nl 10 months ago
It’s already a pretty weird thing that a country as large as the US has managed to function well for 250 years with such major loopholes in its legal and executive systems and that nobody has bothered to exploit them until recently.
jecxjo@midwest.social 10 months ago
State cases will definitely put him in jail. They don’t care about any of the political nonsense and honestly I’m not seeing the DoJ backing down either.
Honestly if they dont put him away i think it will only embolden his group to make them feel they all are untouchable.
INHALE_VEGETABLES@aussie.zone 10 months ago
He will be found guilty and the given a presidential pardon by Joe Biden. Joe will make him verbally concede the election in return, maybe more.
TwoGems@lemmy.world 10 months ago
You inhaled something but it wasn’t vegetables
INHALE_VEGETABLES@aussie.zone 10 months ago
Relax buddy it’s just a silly prediction :) I’m sure if a year ago I told you what was going to happen one years time, the reactions would be similar.
Nixon was pardoned and it’s the only comparable event in history, so it’s plausible. If there isn’t a remind me bot on Lemmy I’ll be sad… either way:
!Remindme one year “did Biden have Trump concede the 2020 election results?”
DogMuffins@discuss.tchncs.de 10 months ago
Sorry that seems… implausible.
INHALE_VEGETABLES@aussie.zone 10 months ago
:)
traveler@lemdro.id 10 months ago
Wouldn’t that be a good precedent? Meaning that no one, no matter the position or how rich he is is above the law.
UnculturedSwine@lemmy.world 10 months ago
You would think. The reasoning is that you don’t want presidents being afraid of political opponents going after them for decisions they making while they’re president. Not that I agree with that logic. Trump needs to be made an example of.