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Donald Trump will be the first former president to face a criminal trial, judge rules
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None at all. As a last resort they'll (successfully) make a incompetency plea, which is true. The man isn't competent enough to tie his shoes without adult supervision.
In a sane world, an incompetency plea would bar someone from office
That would mean:
Too incompetent to be found guilty of a crime, but still somehow competent enough to hold arguably the most important position in the world.
Please make it make sense.
That's not how incompetency pleas work.
He has dementia. It is how incompetency pleas work.
Not really.
A diagnosis of dementia would not automatically preclude someone from standing trial. Being incompetent to stand trial means that you can't assist your defense. I think that's a pretty high bar. Trump is obviously not one of our sharpest minds but he can't be competent enough to make speeches on TV (even if they are rants) while simultaneously be incompetent such that he can't discuss his case with his lawyers.
Citation needed.
I mean, have you not been paying attention for the last 4 years? He's been on a mental decline for a while now. It's just a matter of time before he has a sundowning tantrum on live TV.
Also, I know serval people in the mental health and elderly care fields, and they've known for a while now.
Being an asshole doesn't mean you have dementia, nor does that fact that you don't like Trump mean that he has a degenerative mental condition. Sorry, believing that is on the same level as believing qanon.
All you have to do is watch interviews of him from the 2000s to know that he's experienced significant cognitive decline.
He's always been a stupid narcissistic asshole, but he's clearly demented.
Also, I guess you missed the part where people with experience in the subject confirmed what I said.