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I mean, you don't want a Trump getting in office and then stopping someone from running for president with a bunch of bogus charges. That's why there aren't that many ways to completely disqualify someone. It's a concept that's proven to be timely as it's part of how Putin stays in power.
... the presumption is that we should all be smart enough to realize the charges are real and not put the felon in the Whitehouse.
Many would argue that he can't run for president either.
We're fucked
Because stopping him from running would require a constitutional amendment of some sort, OR he be disqualified under the 14th.
A federal judge in texas ruled last year that preventing people under indictment from purchasing firearms was unconstitutional based on the Supreme Court's Bruen decision, just FYI. So I don't think the situation is as cut and dry as it would have been just a couple years ago.
I don't really think it's super worthwhile to spend a bunch of time discussing if and should about those cases here. The larger point is that he apparently tried to lie about his gun cred by pretending to buy a gun. And that of he had, he would have been committing the same crime they got Hunter with.
In other news, Bruen is terrible.
TIL…well good to know if I ever become indicted & feel the need to purchase a gun, which I’ve never done before.