How many of them were running for office? |
Scotland just arrested Nicola Sturgeon yesterday so add them to the list. |
All of them were the political opponents of the people in power. |
Were they the leading candidate in opposition? Trump is the leading candidate. |
So, allowing a criminal a seat in public office while others have to go to jail for doing the same thing somehow doesn't make us a banana republic? |
A number were. Berlusconi even got elected again after he was prosecuted. |
Oh goody! There is hope! |
A leading candidate that has been soundly beaten previously by the President, the one he has the best chance at beating once again. If anything, the DoJ is doing the Republicans a favor if they eliminate the one candidate in field that is most likely to be beaten by Biden. A Biden-DeSantis matchup, for instance, is less likely to go so well for Biden. |
Yup. Making it pretty clear that Smith's decisions have nothing to do with political calculations. |
Trump wasn't indicted for the documents he took. The documents he took but gave back when told to do so didn't even get him a slap on the wrist. It's the nuclear and national defense documents he took, pretended to give back, then didn't that have him facing jail time. |
I think Smith was told to indict. He was just given latitude about the specifics. |
That is not a license to commit crimes. |
Trump gave him a slam dunk case. |
To be fair, I do remember all the republicans in 2016 saying that DOJ should definitely not prosecute Clinton, no matter what she had done, because she was the leading candidate for the nomination. Don't you remember that? |
Why does that give him legitimacy? All these investigations started before he announced because he is a bad man who did bad things. |