Everyone is speculating but we really don’t know.

Reports I’ve seen indicate that people that knew him in high school said that he self-identified as conservative. His father is a registered Libertarian, his mom is a registered Democrat, but there were Trump signs in their yard up until a few weeks ago. He was registered as a member of the Republican party, despite having donated $15 to a progressive voter turnout organization in 2021. Given what we do know, right now, it’s reasonable to infer that he was right of center.

Maybe the state should think about that.

Ideally, yes.

Privatizing prisons nearly always ends up costing more than doing exactly the same thing in a state-run prison would though. Privatization brings in a profit motive, and the desire to make profits means you need to cut something.

You don’t know but you assume he would have been useless?

There’s no indication that he has, or had, any significant medical training, so his claims about going to offer medical assistance specifically seems hollow.

The felony charges will be overturned, and Trump was never convicted of rape.

He’s lost all of the appeals on the defamation case that he’s tried so far, and he keeps digging that pit deeper instead of just shutting his mouth. While it’s true that it’s not a criminal conviction, it is a finding of fact, and he had the opportunity to fight it.

The conviction in New York state is unlikely to be reversed, given that he would need to argue that paying off Ms. Daniels was an official act as a president, and given that most of the underlying actions preceded his election. The payments themselves can’t possibly be an official act, since they were made prior to the election, so he’d have to argue that falsifying business records to cover up his actions as a candidate was somehow an official act after he was elected, which is clearly absolute nonsense. As far as all the other felony trials go, well, why do you think he’s desperate to get re-elected? The mishandling of classified documents was a clear-cut egregious legal violation, and Judge Cannon’s dismissal of the case on very dubious legal grounds is almost certainly going to be reversed. (TBH, given that she’s been reversed so, so many times, I’m surprised Smith hasn’t filed to have a new judge assigned to the case.) Since that all occurred after he was no longer president, the only way that he gets out from under that is by getting elected and either pardoning himself, or having Smith removed from the DoJ. In Georgia, the state legislature has attempted to pass laws allowing them to remove a prosecutor rather than allowing the case to go to trial; I find it quite telling that Trump and his legal team would rather not even allow all the evidence to be made public in a trial.

With literally any other person having this many criminal cases going against them at the same time, in different courts in different jurisdictions, with different prosecutors, 9,999 our of 10,000 people would admit that there was likely criminal activity happening on the part of the defendant. (In point of fact, prior convictions and arrests are not generally admissible in court because they would be prejudicial. So potential jurors would not be able to be told about the multiple criminal cases.) And yet, for Trump, I so often hear special pleading, that in this case it’s just different, somehow.