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I understand why the employee is not pressing charges. It’s a matter of their and their family’s safety. Ok.
But what I don’t understand is that if using the cemetery for political purposes is against the law, and there are obviously many photos released and used in Trump’s campaign material, why not use that evidence to charge Trump¥, the campaign, and the photographers?
¥ Sadly even if they tried to arrest Trump, I’m sure it wouldn’t stick anyway because apparently he gets away with everything.
This is a problem with liberals. Conservatives are playing to win, even if it means playing dirty. Liberals are playing to play. That is why Conservatives are winning and getting more powerful even while being openly wrong, weird, and stupid.
But they aren't winning, and aren't becoming more powerful. The GOP is weaker and more fractured than it's ever been in living memory.
They have the supreme court, they have taken away abortion rights. Jan 6th happened which was an attempted coup and very few were charged, some that were, were even released. Trump is openly talking about election fraud for the upcoming election. Trump is talking about becoming a Dictator. That is just the big stuff.
Yeah, they aren't that popular, but that doesn't seem to be stopping them.
In any sane society these actions would be lead Trump to be tried for Treason and MAGA to be labeled as a terrorist organization.
They also have a very good chance at taking both houses of Congress. I believe either half or more than half of the state Governors are Rep, and same for state houses. They’re not at all weak.
Your argument is full of fail. Straight from the beginning your position is established. Why should anyone listen to anything you have to say and not just block you outright?
Why didn't you?
Because I am right ;)
No, it over simplifies a whole effort by generations of people.
Hey, I am not saying liberals don't work hard. They work very hard! Then they watch as Conservatives walk back everything they did and more, with less popular support.
Are you from the past?
"fail blog! dot org"
ive got bad news for you if you just time travelled forward from 2006
Why not arrest ANY of the 50 or so people. Just start arresting the poorest person in the photo (money means no consequences) and then every day the next and so on.
I think it would super interesting.
any of them would get protection from trump and could still make the employee a target for hate
I agree with making the employee a target.
But Trump is known for not protecting those who stand up for him. The low level staffers would be in trouble and their god-king won’t bail them out. He only cares about himself.
my bad I forgot he was an a-hole lol
Because Trump is rich and influential and it's long past the time we should stop pretending the law actually applies to everyone.
Laws and rules are for regular people, if you are rich or famous or influential enough, laws do not apply to you
Law prohibits political campaign or election related activities at the cemetery, not photography in general. If their photographs are not used by their campaign officials and trump can reasonably articulate a reason to have been there aside from campaigning, which would be pretty easy, it does not seem there would be any grounds against him. It seems the news reporting on the incident is the primary coverage of the visit.
In order to press charges she has to announce her name publicly. And if she does that, MAGAts will come after her and her family. May even try to kill her. Trump’s followers are not our best.
I've seen several cases where on the docket and in court records its an anonymous victim, since charges aren't filed by the individual when it comes to criminal matters. It's the state or federal government that is levying the charges and the victim is largely a witness.
I don't know how any of this works, but I assume some person who "has been harmed" by the actions needs to press charges. I would assume that could potentially be any American. Wouldn't it be great if Harris did it? The former prosecutor/DA filing charges against the criminal opponent.
In most common law jurisdictions, the executive branch doesn't require even a victim, they merely need the elements of the criminal offence satisfied.
Not sure about the US, likely they need her to strengthen the case and won't bother without her witness testimony.
I don't think that's right. In cases where the person pressing charges makes the difference between filing suit or not, it's like because their testimony is crucial to the case. The government doesn't need it, though.
Bro if he didn't get any consequences from his FELONIES, you think him pushing someone is gonna get him punished?
They know he will get away with everything unless he loses in November.
At some point a line will get drawn. It’s a question of when and where.
Of all his crimes, Al Capone was convicted on tax evasion.
why do you use the yen sign for the asterisk lol
There wasn’t a particular reason; it’s what I decided to go with.
somehow that makes it worse