Express fake surprise all you wish in reply to this @Zatara but, let's be honest here. You cannot be so slow as to presume person X is fundamentally incapable of sitting in legal judgment of person Y due to a characteristic of X that is different than Y, be that political, sex, race, religion, or other.
Zat, the judge doesnt finalize the jury selection or decide the outcome.
He also likely has deplorable characters in front of him all the time, from rapists to murderers and he knows he has to remain impartial. That's his job. The actions of his daughter are completely irrelevant.
Trumps lawyers could have rejected any of the jurors.
They could have called more witnesses
They could have let Trump testify on his own behalf
They did none of these things.
He was unanimously found guilty.
If you think thats rigged because the judge made a $15 donation 4 years ago, you should probably get your mental state checked.
Mad how people have spent 8 years twisting reality just to try to defend this Buffoon. No wonder they come across as unhinged, must be a headache having to constantly defend the indefensible.
All these complex interlinked belief in conspiracy, witch hunts, deep state machinations, and institution corruption have to be kept going, when it can be so easily explained by Trump being an obvious lying conman, who breaks the law cos he’s a billionaire who doesn’t think it applies to him.
In 2016 Hillary's campaign paid Christopher Steele for his dodgy dossier filing it under 'legal and compliance expenses'. The Steele dossier ultimately led to FISA warrants being issued against the Trump campaign. The FISA Court was not told this info came from the Clinton camp.
Hillary Clinton's campaign ultimately paid a small fine for illegally labelling the Steele payments as a legal expense. Yes, I'm meant to believe this prosecution of Trump(and possible jail time) was not politically motivated.
you can believe what ever you want.
Lardarse was found guilty.
$200 million in donations to the Trump campaign since the guilty verdict. 30% of donors had never previously donated to Trump. This, I think, correlates with my argument that his base is now motivated beyond belief. But hey, Dems wanted a few cheap headlines at Trump's expense.
Send me your money, I guarantee your path through the pearly gates.
Older than time itself.
The defense also went with an odd strategy. They made statements that the jury probably thought were outright lies - "Trump never slept with Stormy Daniel's or Karen McDougal".
If you are clearly going to lie about one item of the case you badly damage your credibility that you are telling the truth in another.
Irrc in John Edward's case his lawyers went with "yeah, it was a sleazy affair and gross but he didn't do anything criminal".
With regard to the actual election, it doesn’t matter how motivated his base is. The math doesn’t exist where they alone can send him back to the White House, as they represent AT MOST 30-35% of the people who will be going to the polls in November. There's a huge number of people who just won't be bothered with voting no matter what, probably another 10-15% that will vote for him just because he's this year's nominee for Team Red, and about 50% who simply aren't having him and would never consider voting for him under any circumstances.$200 million in donations to the Trump campaign since the guilty verdict. 30% of donors had never previously donated to Trump. This, I think, correlates with my argument that his base is now motivated beyond belief. But hey, Dems wanted a few cheap headlines at Trump's expense.
Surprised you made it out alive in that case.Everyone i met there did tell me before going to have my wits about me
The man's taken a punch to the heart, he's a warrior.Surprised you made it out alive in that case.
I cannot believe you are still peddling the idea your original comment was serious instead of recognizing how ignorant it was or just quietly slinking away.I cant believe you're so naive.
With regard to the actual election, it doesn’t matter how motivated his base is. The math doesn’t exist where they alone can send him back to the White House, as they represent AT MOST 30-35% of the people who will be going to the polls in November. There's a huge number of people who just won't be bothered with voting no matter what, probably another 10-15% that will vote for him just because he's this year's nominee for Team Red, and about 50% who simply aren't having him and would never consider voting for him under any circumstances.
He has to do something to persuade the small slice of voters who are still on the fence (I still don’t understand how such a person exists now that he’s such a known quantity after 9 years), and being convicted of 34 felony counts isn’t likely to move their needle in the right direction. I know you said a lot of this week's donors were first timers, but that's still probably just people from his hardcore base who hadn't yet gotten sucked into the grift.
However, his base foaming at the mouth more than ever does give me concern about the prospects of serious political violence between now and Inauguration Day early next year.
I cannot believe you are still peddling the idea your original comment was serious instead of recognizing how ignorant it was or just quietly slinking away.
I mean, you are in Asia and non-Asian, right? How in the world could you possibly receive a fair trial if prosecuted? Like that Colombian fellow sitting in judgment of Trump...
Appearances are clearly quite deceiving to you.It appears as though all of your posts tend to veer massively off topic.
I can tell you've never been in a position in Asia yourself and also have limited if any knowledge of the legal systems in different countries here.
Do you realise that Turkey and UAE are both in Asia? Add those to the likes of China to begin with and you may not be as confident about 'fair trials' in certain parts of the world.
A little research on other countries will also find cases of bias against non-locals.
Appearances are clearly quite deceiving to you.
Let's recap: Zatara claims a judge cannot preside over a fair trial if the defendant is of a different political party, which is patently absurd. BlueTX makes light of such nonsense by replying with a clearly offensive parallel. Instead of recognizing the reply is to point out the original absurdity and recognize it as such, Zatara feigns surprise one would not agree while being ever-so haughty and condescending in an attempt to belittle.
It's so very adorable and predictable.
Can Trump be given fair treatment by a Mexican born in Indiana or a Colombian who was raised in Queens (the Trump family borough) from the age of six? In addition to his claims of political bias, which are, like everything with Trump, purely conditional, do you agree with the racial component of his complaints?
I've taken legal action before and the judges clearly werent impartial. I wont go into that but, when you go down these roads...reality can be different.
You go off topic using Asia as an example.
You know this is starting to make sense. Because a judge has slapped you down in court before, your takeaway is that you were right and the judge must have been corrupt, rather than your lawsuit being wrong or frivolous.
And because you start with the conclusion that Trump shouldn't be found guilty, you're applying the same flawed rationale to the case:
All of that in your head it not just more likely but assumed true, rather than the alternative:
- The judge must have been biased, and you're naïve if you think otherwise
- The jury can't have been truly impartial, and you're naïve if you think otherwise
- The prosecution must have been politically motivated, and you're naïve if you think otherwise
It's interesting that you find it near-impossible that people you don't even know can behave in a professional manner, and would immediately resort to what amounts to 'cheating' to get their way.
- Trump committed a crime and was prosecuted for it, the case was presided over a by a judge who was able to adjudicate according to the law instead of their political leanings and he was found guilty by a group of 12 random Americans from New York
Tell us again about the Green and Orange men who hate each other. What planet was that on again?
No i did in fact win the case.
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