Romney was never going to beat incumbent Obama. Romney could have produced his taxes like every other candidate had in the post-Watergate era. |
He's also a flight risk. He was convicted in NY. Typically, if you are released, you are not allowed to leave the state where you were convicted. In this case, everyone knows that his intent is to travel to Milwaukee for the RNC convention 4 days after the sentencing hearing. Even if he were to ask to travel to the RNC, with his own private jet, he has the ability to travel wherever and whenever he wants anywhere in the world, including outside of the US. And he is known to lie about his intentions and he has lied multiple times to Judge Merchan. So much so that Judge Merchan had already said that any future transgressions, he would incarcerate Trump. So, why would Merchan trust anything that Donald Trump has to say about his intentions? |
And he's struggling to meet other obligations such as paying the settlements and fines from his other cases. |
He’s running for president. I don’t think he’s a flight risk, especially when he isn’t looking at a long sentence, if any. |
Even if he weren't, he has lifetime Secret Service protection. It's hard to flee from those guys. Now...if Trump opts out of his detail like Nixon did, then I might consider him a flight risk. |
He's only running for president to get out of all of the litigation against him. He filed to run shortly after all of the 91 cases started popping up against him. His lawyers have been trying valiantly to delay any of the trials until after he believes he will be elected in November 2024. Any case not already in court will be dismissed or delayed until he leaves office in 2029 at which point, some of them, the statute of limitations will have expired. Others, he intends to pardon himself where he can. And still others, he would spend the presidency working to get anyone who isn't on his side removed from office or pressured to leave office. He's a flight risk because he thinks that he can leave the country and then work behind the scenes to get MAGA politicians to help him get rid of any legal issues he has. He's not a flight risk, as in, never coming back. He's a flight risk to avoid imprisonment and do whatever he wants when he wants to. He has never followed laws and he isn't about to start now. |
"I don't think that polling accurately reflects the sentiments of the American people"
Well, except when the polling goes their way - then it's God's Will. |
He's running for president because he thinks it will get him a pardon, immunity and/or let him go after the people who (rightly) found him guilty. |
Omg he’s running for president to become king and not go to jail
He knows once he’s in office the cash will flow right to him Taxpayers will be paying him to be in crowns and jewels and America will die a horrible death He will rape the treasury blind |
Meanwhile in reality… |
Woke up, saw this and... yup still Guilty! |
Some of “those guys” are very much politically aligned with the Christian nationalist and far right. Pence didn’t get in the car to leave because he had personal apprehensions about their allegiance to the alleged aims of protecting key government employees. I think there are a number of USSS who would happily assist Trump in fleeing if he so chose to, and I think this summer after his sentencing is probably the time that Trump is most likely to flee. Not that I think he’s necessarily going to do that, but for this I can’t say it wouldn’t happen. |
I still think Biden should have done some housecleaning in USSS when he took office. We STILL don't have the full picture of what was going on with them on J6, they destroyed records, wiped phones and everything else. Not to mention a number of other questionable and suspicious goings-on with USSS over the last few years. |
The SCOTUS immunity decision, no matter how bad it is, is not going to disappear a conviction of a former president for crimes committed in part before he was president. |