I think this is the first time I realized he is now facing 91 felony charges. If he is convicted for even a fraction of them it means a life sentence at his age. I imagine he is pretty desperate at this point.
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Excellent info graphic I saw earlier today: The average US president has been charged with 2 felonies.
if... he goes to jail, that is.
seems most likely he'll be under house arrest. which is a joke.
He will lokely get epstein'd if that happens. He's got too big of a mouth
Life sentence for people like Giuliani as well, who is 79. I expect more flips than a Waffle House when the juries start marching in.
91 felonies.
so.... anybody know any law-historians that might actually have a real answer as to who holds the single most felony convictions? (and would it be too low-class to take bets on if trump takes the record?)
Serial killer Samuel Little confessed to 93 murders so he's for sure on the leaderboard
Hmm. sounds like we need to drum up a few counts of witness tampering... got plenty of evidence, too.
This is like seeing a trailer for an awesome new movie that doesn't come out for another 6 months. The anticipation is killing me!
Super Tuesday 😂😂😂😂
And the E. Jean Carroll civil lawsuit is the same day as the Iowa caucus. 1/15.
SUPER DUPER MONDAY!!!
I thought this was supposed to be January 2nd. Or is this for another trial? It's so hard to keep track of them all...
1/2 is the first proposed date for the 1/6 trial in D.C.
Trump lawyers countrered that they wanted 3.5 years, which nobody is taking seriously.
Judge is due to announce the date on 8/28.
My favorite feature of this is the judge has threatened to speed the trial up the more Trump interferes. All judges should do this all the time from now on.
As someone who is not as familiar with the legal system as I probably should be: Does anyone have any guesses as to how long is this Georgia trial going to take? What if it is set 21 days before the New York trial but drags out longer? He can't be in 2 places at once, are there laws that one of the courts is required to adjust dates or could a judge be a dick and refuse to do so? Also, what happens if he would get sentenced to prison for one crime before another trial? Would they just ship him out of prison for his trial? What if he is sentenced to prison in Georgia but has to go to trial in another state, where does he stay during the trial, in a state or federal prison? Also, is it truly possible that we could have a reality where the president of the United States is in a state prison in Georgia during his term?
Not that I believe for one moment that he will ever spend a night behind bars. I will believe it when it happens.
I think even people familiar with the legal system are going to have no clue because we've never tried a former President before and certainly not one as delay prone as this one.
Looking at other GA RICO cases though, Fani Willis did the Atlanta public schools cheating trial with 12 defendants, it was the longest trial in Georgia history and took 8 months. There were originally 35 defendants and all but 12 took plea deals. She called over 100 witnesses.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atlanta_Public_Schools_cheating_scandal