Former President Donald Trump on Sunday called for recusal of the judge presiding over the federal case that alleges he illegally conspired to overturn his election loss to President Joe Biden in 2020.

  • @KevonLooney@lemm.ee
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    3711 months ago

    Prosecutors don’t bring cases they can’t win. They just don’t do it. It reflects badly on them.

    Add the fact that prosecuting a former president is incredibly hard. This guy 100% did all of this shit in public. They have:

    • Witnesses
    • Tape of him doing it
    • Video of him doing it
    • The actual documents
    • Witnesses who observed his co-conspirators
    • Tape of the coverup
    • Witnesses to the coverup

    There’s no way anyone is getting away without a felony conviction. Plus, the lawyers involved are buttercups compared to the federal prosecutors.

    I know one federal prosecutor. He is a very nice guy, very smart and will not hesitate to throw white collar criminals in jail. They ruin criminals’ lives like it’s their day job, because it is.

    • @Rivalarrival
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      11 months ago

      Prosecutors don’t bring cases they can’t win.

      (Cough, cough) Rittenhouse (cough)

      • milkjug
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        211 months ago

        That wasn’t a federal case, was it? I think it was prosecuted at a county level.

      • @kbotc@lemmy.world
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        311 months ago

        He will pardon himself. The problem is: He can’t pardon himself for states crimes.

    • athos77
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      -111 months ago

      There’s no way anyone is getting away without a felony conviction.

      They only need one MAGAt on the jury, and you only get so many challenges to get them out of the pool. It’s why he wants to move the case to West Virginia: higher proportion of Trumpsters in the population, better chance of no conviction.