“The ideas you are about to hear are not idle conjecture. I have built upon a foundation of indisputable first causes, so that the unifying force which controls the cosmos is revealed in full clarity.” — Jack VanceTrump named the plans for his second term “Agenda 47,” although for reasons known only...
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.
Guy was convicted on 34 counts and then re-elected to the presidency.
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.
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.
He committed those crimes to help himself, just imagine if we harnessed that criminal enterprise for the economy!
-what millions apparently unironically believed