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  1. So, having followed those cases a bit, here's some considerations on the summary. Stormy Daniels case. As far as I understood this case, the problem isn't the fact that he paid her and the tabloid to keep quiet. I mean, it's a problem for a presidential candidate to do this, it's immoral and unethical, but this is not the main meat of the case. I heard this hammered over and over again, not sure why you guys chose to mischaracterize it like that. It has all to do with how the payment was made. Trump used his lawyer at the time, Michael Cohen, to make those payments in his behalf concealing it as payment for his lawyer, using campaign funds. Michael Cohen went to jail for that, and later he said himself that Trump directed him to do this. So we're not talking about a hush money case here, we're talking embezzlement and fraud with campaign money. Trump put on paper that the money he used was for his lawyer's service, but it was actually to pay hush money for Stormy Daniels and some tabloid there. And it wasn't his money, it was campaign funds. I dunno how the law works in the US, but here where I live this would be enough to put a candidate in jail and for him to have his right for candidacy suspended for a period of time, usually two terms - 8 years. I understand it's different there, because likewise a presidential candidate cannot run for presidency in jail here. A convicted criminal also can't. The secret documents case. Quantity aside, add how Trump denied several times, then refused and then fooled agents who were there to retrieve things by moving documents around, which in my opinion should qualify for an entirely other level of crime in comparison to any other public servant who also found secret documents in their possession and returned it promptly, be it president, vice-president or whatever - and then, what about the fact that he has shown those documents after he was already not a president to journalists and that Australian Billionaire weirdo? Doesn't this make the entire case another level above in severity? Those were US government secret documents, with afaik very sensitive and secret information. I'm not an US citizen, but looking from outside, this sounds like straight treason to me. Aside from selling it out to countries that are direct enemies of the US, this mishandling is basically one level bellow the very worst thing that Trump could've done to them. So it's quite impressive to me that Trump wasn't taken to jail over this alone. And then you guys forgot the case he just lost recently which adds over 300 million dollars to his penalties - the New York businesses and real estate case. You know, the one he almost lost the right to run a business in New York, but didn't. It's like, the first time Trump got elected, you could say it was mostly voters fault that got a whole ton of people by surprise and was a real f*ck up. This time, if he gets elected, the fault lies not only in voters, it will also lie in US justice system, in Biden's administration inability to address what happened properly, and in people who knows what Trump represents to US democracy and still failed to act. This isn't about Trump's charisma or electorate stupidity anymore, it becomes about a democratic system that has failed to defend itself. I've been saying this for years now, on Democrat or neutral channels and whatnot, that US Democracy has been on it's death bed for a while now. If someone as transparently corrupt and unabashedly fascist as Trump can raise to power like that, whether Trump wins or loses this round, it's just a matter of time until someone like him, but perhaps not as stupid, takes over US government and turns it into a dictatorship or theocracy. Trump is almost like the worst type of character to try this, and he is right about to do it. These constant affirmations that he won't go to jail because he is a former president is just an indication on how things are already warped in people's mind. He is a f*cking sh*tty president that attempted a coup, and is using friggin' Nazi rhetoric in his pre-campaign speeches. It's like the US is begging for democracy to end. All the while, the only other party who can elect a president is basically trying to fight in the election with a rubber stick, which is Biden, as if his politics of trying to be a middleground candidate didn't already fail. The US is truly and really f*cked. I dunno what else to say. I don't see a path towards correction there. I only see a path towards self destruction with the options for a faster or slower route.
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