• UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world
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      6 months ago

      Four years ago, really. He should have exited 1600 Pennsylvania directly into the back of a squad car.

      Instead, he was free to continue doing crimes while rebuilding his base of support for another bite at the apple. Not a huge surprise, given the US’s long and ugly history of turning a blind eye to corporate goonery, financial malfeasance, and organized crime. But depressing, given how much of this was a predictable consequence.

      Guy was convicted on 34 counts but never even got to sentencing. Pathetic.

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          6 months ago

          After running the most embarrassingly stupid and dishonest and disgusting and alarming campaigns in the history of this once great nation, with a economic plan based on using tariffs to somehow make inflation go away. It’s like America randomly decided to commit suicide.

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          Free to campaign. Free to fundraise. Free to conspire within the party and continue to build support.

          And then the opposition ran a prosecutor mostly known for her reluctance to indict white collar criminals.

          No shit he won.

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          He committed those crimes to help himself, just imagine if we harnessed that criminal enterprise for the economy!

          -what millions apparently unironically believed

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    6 months ago

    good god look at this guy, it’s like a reanimated corpse someone’s puppeteering from under the suit