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Former President Donald Trump was indicted for an unprecedented third time on August 1, adding another set of serious federal charges to the mounting legal issues he faces.

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[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Wasn't he indicted before ? What happens next ?

[–] [email protected] 24 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

He was! He now has three indictments under his belt.

  1. New York State hush money payments
  2. Classified Documents Case
  3. January 6 Insurrection

If you ask me, now we throw a few back tonight and wait for the fourth indictment coming from Georgia this month. 😎

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

Georgia is interesting in that it's pardon proof

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

A president can pardon federal crimes but not state crimes.

Georgia law makes pardons an option only five years after the completion of a sentence. Getting a sentence commuted would require the approval of a state panel.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Oh I see. I assume the govenor can pardon state crimes?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago
[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Is he ever going to jail or not ?

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

You ask me? Donny boy is royally fucked. The documents case is a few steps too far, and even a rich former president of the US will have to sit behind bars for that one. Hey SHOULD be in jail already for that one.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

...aight so I'm fucking stupid or something and can't figure out how to link to another user's comment (it's just the chain link icon literally on the comment right? ...but when I click that it directs to a different comment... is this a bug or am I really just stupid?) but I don't want to just steal this guy's work, some I'm linking to his profile instead:

https://lemmy.world/u/[email protected]

In the comments tab, do a Ctrl+F search for "you are here" and you'll find a map of exactly what happens next in this and every other trump case.