"The brief due Thursday (9/26) ā€“ which is expected to exceed 200 pages, including exhibits, and is meant to convince courts Trump should be prosecuted for alleged obstruction and conspiracy criminal activity ā€” is a rare avenue for evidence to be aired in court before a trial.

Chutkan of the DC District Court, in a six-page opinion, said she would allowĀ such an outsized briefingĀ because the Supreme Court, in its recent decision to give Trumpā€™sĀ actions whileĀ president immunity from prosecution, has directed her as the trial judge to look closely at facts in the case to decide ifĀ some allegationsĀ could moveĀ forward to trial."

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    I love how she tied it to the immunity defense. ā€œOh because youā€™re only immune in these specific instances. Weā€™re going to review every single tiny last minutia of detail to see if youā€™re really immune or not.ā€

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    I wish I had any hope that this will lead to him rotting in a cell but, alas, itā€™ll be a nothingburger like every other action against him. We live in an alternate universe now.

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      If you follow court cases, this kind of time is normal. The other actions are not nothingburgers, not at all.

      Take the Sarah Palin email hack. Happened in Sept 2008, they zero in on him almost immediately, and heā€™s charged in Oct. The trial doesnā€™t even happen until April 2010, and then sentenced that November. That was a relatively straightforward case against a nobody.

      Or Kevin Mitnick, who was arrested for computer hacking in Feb 1995, charged in 1998, and pleads guilty in 1999.

      If Trump doesnā€™t win the election, heā€™s fucked. Only death will keep him out of jail. If he wins, itā€™s still quite possible Merchan sentences him to jail (on state charges that quite clearly have nothing where he can claim immunity), and then things will be a little too interesting. What happens when a state sentences someone who is the President-elect? Iā€™m a curious person by nature, but lets leave that question unanswered if we can avoid it.

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      Justice will not happen. But at least details will be aired one more time and a spotlight on how dangerous he is will shine shortly before the election.

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        Extremely sadly, if those details mattered anymore, we wouldnā€™t even have been talking about this guy in 2016 for more than a month or two.

        I guess thereā€™s a chance if something bad enough comes out. And I guess thereā€™s value in stuff being fresh in peoplesā€™ minds.

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      But heā€™s losing and not the Republicans golden boy anymore. Maybe heā€™s finally weakened enough to Finish Him!

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    Everybody knows that this will go absolutely nowhere despite what everyone wants to think. Trump is in the club, and the duopoly will never charge one of their own.

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      He was found guilty of 37 felonies. Pretty hard to keep the ā€œitā€™s a conspiracy theyā€™ll never find him guiltyā€ point when ā€œtheyā€ (the justice system) already did.

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        Yeah but I sold myself on both sides being the same side and Iā€™ve been pushing it so hard for so long that Iā€™m absolutely married to the idea and no amount of evidence will convince me otherwise.

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          Theater is absolutely the wrong word.

          Ineffective due to corruption? Maybe. But people are genuinely chasing these prosecutions with the intent of justice; itā€™s not just ā€œfor showā€

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      Trump has spent his entire life trying to get into ā€œthe clubā€. The specific ā€œclubā€ he was trying to get into was the Hollywood one for many years. The Apprentice got him close, but the ā€œreality TVā€ club isnā€™t quite the same as the ā€œHollywood clubā€. Luckily, for Trump, it was enough to get him into the political club. Iā€™m still not quite sure how, but it was. How it got him into the presidential club is even further baffling, but he did that too. Donā€™t get me wrong, I understand how he got elected. But I donā€™t understand how he survived the primaries. (I mean I do, but Iā€™m just sad about it.)

      But Trump, assuming he loses the upcoming election, is on his way out.

      Youā€™re probably right that heā€™ll never be in jail. Heā€™ll never serve a day in prison. But heā€™ll be in court. Heā€™ll be in court until the day he dies. Itā€™s not perfect. Itā€™s not what he deserves. But itā€™s whatā€™ll happen, and Iā€™ll take that.

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        After the election all the talk of trump being charged will fade away like yesterdayā€™s news. Much the way all the Republican talk of Hunter Biden fizzled to nothing after Biden backed out.

        Had Hillary never pushed her piped piper strategy he would have never been elected. Over $1b in free advertising did that

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        There was an article around here a few days ago about the creation of the Apprentice. And it basically all came from that. Without that show trump likely would have disappeared forgotten to history or lost to Russian debtors. This all started there with those producers.

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          And those are people who should be prosecuted, and they wonā€™t be, because theyā€™re in the club.

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            Wait, are you arguing that the people who put Trump on a reality are only avoiding criminal prosecution because they are in some club?

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          Iā€™m guessing https://www.nytimes.com/2024/09/14/business/donald-trump-apprentice.html

          and overall I agree.

          Iā€™ve never watched The Apprentice. Not because Iā€™m ā€œtoo coolā€ for it or anything. I remember watching the first season of two of Survivor. It was a fun enough show, but eventually I just got bored of it. I know Iā€™m somewhat in the minority as reality TV really took off. Tons of reality TV exists today for a wide variety of shows and there are tons of success.

          However I look at many of the folks (older adults) who are Trump supporters now and Iā€™m confident they got their start watching him on The Apprentice.

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        When youā€™ve convinced yourself of ā€œmuh both sidesā€ everything that happens just further confirms it. Like if Trump were to end up behind bars. . .do you think this poster would all of a sudden realize that both sides are not the same? Nope. They would just convince themselves that Trump was actually an outsider. . .and then probably pretend that they maintained this position the whole time.