@just_another_person@lemmy.world Looks like Rawstory heard the complaints and modified the headline on you.
The new headline is “Trump and Vance face criminal charges over Springfield hoax”
If you could make this match, that would be great!
Why are politicians not accountable for spreading lies? Not even ridiculous ones like this?
I think it would be pretty hilarious if this was the thing that got Trump in jail. Aaaaaall the other stuff? Nah. but this Springfield hoax? Yeah we got to do something about that.
Al Capone got put away for Tax Evasion, so anything is possible I guess.
If only the IRS had the teeth now as it did then, we’d never heard about this trump fellow.
We probably would have heard about him going to prison in the 80s.
Tempted to remove as “Fox by Proxy” but here’s an alternate source which confirms the story and raises an excellent point:
https://www.npr.org/2024/09/25/g-s1-24436/haitian-group-charges-trump-vance-springfield
“If it were anyone else other than Trump and Vance who had done what they’ve done — wreak havoc on Springfield, resulting in bomb threats, evacuated and closed government buildings and schools, threats to the mayor and his family — they would have been arrested by now,” Chandra said. “They are not above the law.”
Chandra said the U.S. Supreme Court’s July ruling granting ex-presidents broad immunity from criminal prosecution does not apply in this case because Trump is currently a private citizen and Vance was not acting in his capacity as a senator when he amplified the rumors that members of Springfield’s 15,000-member Haitian community were eating people’s pets.
"If it were anyone else … they would have been arrested by now,” Chandra said. “They are not above the law.”
Those two sentences don’t add up.
Yeah. “They shouldn’t be above the law.” works better.
“They are not above the law” is the justification for calling for their arrest.
They add up to “therefore they should be attested”.
Good on them for trying.
So this is the real reason why Trump cancelled his Springfield visit.
Trump’s scared that Vance’s family will eat Laura Loomer
I think she’d have more to be worried about with Robert Kennedy around talking to Trump. Trump is so easy to control and that dude needs help.
If you ever needed to plumb the depths of American bigotry, it’s Trump appearing on stage glad-handing a dog eater and then making up some bullshit about Haitians.
I thought it was when he had a public meeting at his home with a fucking self-admitted Nazi.
I don’t understand. Is Laura Loomer a brand of couch I haven’t heard of?
Yes. Please don’t research Laura Loomer any further
Stochastic terrorism needs to have more severe criminal penalties for career politicians specifically. Right-wing figureheads have been getting away with this shit for too long.
We’re now penalizing the parents of school shooters, so if we find out that someone who threatens to bomb a school is a super fan of X person, then X person should face some sort of penalty if they continually put out deliberate lies about said school. We did a version of this with Alex Jones already, just follow through with that logic honestly.
I’ll believe it when I see it.
It’s now a talking point, which is good.
It might not be true, but by golly people are talking about it which is what counts!
It’s very true. What are you talking about?
You wouldn’t know the truth if it slapped you in your willfully ignorant face.
Yeah mate, a criminal record
Send them to prison and hide the couches.
Naw. Just cover the cushions in sand.
“There’s nothing special about Trump and Vance that entitles them to get away with what they’ve done and are doing,” the attorney added. “They think they’re above the law. They’re not.”
Except for the Senate Republicans who would not hold their own accountable for crimes they committed or the federal supreme Court Justice feeding Trump’s attorney legal advice to use in the lower courts. And the billions in PAC funds and trinket grifts used to campaign for politicians and appoint judges who are loyal to them above the Constitution and citizens. And anything Trump did as president is legal if he says it was part of the job. Except for those facts sure they’re just like you or me in the eyes of the law.
Yeah, you can’t even pretend that Trump isn’t above the law when the Supreme Court has literally ruled that he is at their discretion.
Technically the ruling was for
crimesofficial acts he committed while in office.He’s no longer president and holds no privilege, except being the Republican nominatee for President. Which apparently is a protected class.
even as a president, this wouldn’t be protected under the immunity act, only presidential actions. Speaking to the public, as far as i am concerned is not considered to be a core “presidential action” in the government.
SCOTUS has decreed that SCOTUS alone can determine what is an official act.
Correct. Regardless, it has been codified that he IS above the law in some cases. Slippery slope is not a fallacy in this instance.
Lock them up! Lock them up! Lock them up!
Would love to see it happen, but I won’t hold my breath.
Well that’s one way to keep them out of your city while campaigning. Can we do that here in MI? I’m sick of them being here every week.
Have an immigrant file a suit for libel (or slander…I forgot which is which. Hell, both).
Libel, like library
Ugh, Trump’s looking especially hideous in that picture!
