'He's done': how Donald Trump's legal woes have just gotten a lot worse

[Uncle Joe]

Donald Trump’s legal perils have become insurmountable and could snuff out the former US president’s hopes of an election-winning comeback, according to political analysts and legal experts.

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“He’s done,” said Allan Lichtman, a history professor at American University, in Washington, who has accurately predicted every presidential election since 1984. “He’s got too many burdens, too much baggage to be able to run again even presuming he escapes jail, he escapes bankruptcy. I’m not sure he’s going to escape jail.”

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Laurence Tribe, a constitutional law professor at Harvard University, noted that the civil component “involves things of particular significance to Trump and his family and his organisation, namely their ability to defraud the public, to defraud banks, to defraud insurance companies, and to continue to subsist through corruption. Without all of that corruption, the entire Trump empire is involved in something like meltdown.

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Kurt Bardella, an adviser to the Democratic National Committee, said: “If the best defence you have for your conduct is: if you hold me accountable, there will be violence, that sounds like someone who has no business being either in public service or being outside of jail.”

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https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2022/sep/21/donald-trump-lawsuit-new-york-investigation

[bahboo]

1. Inshallah...

[niyad]

2. May it be so!

[OMGWTF]

3. People keep calling for Traitor Tot to be jailed -- NO -- he needs to be in prison.

Cleaning toilets every fking day until he is DEAD.

[panader0]

12. I wouldn't trust him to clean my toilet.

[japple]

13. With a toothbrush...

[spike jones]

17. With his own toothbrush. n/t

[joshdawg]

4. LOCK HIM UP!

Sorry for yelling.

[barbtries]

5. i hope the corporate media is listening to this.

i'm sick of hearing pundits defaulting him to another candidacy in 2024.

[Cosmocat]

6. They aren't

nm

[Sky Jewels]

8. I'm sure if Obama had attempted a coup d'etat in 2012, stole top secret documents,

carried out Putin's orders, tried to undermine Ukraine, ran an unimaginably corrupt business empire for decades, scammed untold rubes, sexually assaulted many women, and so on, that the corporate media would have still considered him a legit candidate for a second term.

[barbtries]

21. right?

left wing media my ASS

[Pepsidog]

7. I have a feeling that one morning I will wake up and discover that TFG was indicted, surrendered,

and taken before a judge to enter a guilty plea, and sentenced in a pre-arranged deal. Rachel spoke of this several weeks ago about how Agnew entered a guilty plea moments after a new VP was sworn in. I’m starting to believe he will be held somewhat accountable but I don’t believe they will perp walk a former POTUS. It will be done quickly and quietly. And part of the deal will be he can never hold office again.

[Sky Jewels]

10. I think his bestie Putie should conscript him into his army.

Trump is 76, so 11 years over the top age of Russian soldiers, but Vlad would probably make an exception, ya know, because Trump is such a buffed warrior and all.

[Aristus]

22. Trump is such a skilled warrior,

he managed to graft a Soviet-designed RPG onto an American M-60 machine gun. Those are some mad skills...

[Cosmocat]

9. All due respect to Lichtman

but, given we never before had a brain eating, begging to overthrow the country into a full out chrisofascist idiocracy party, unless he actually IS indicted, he will run and will be a heavy favorite to win the nomination, because just as the last time there will be dozens of these lunatics running and he will bully his way into a big enough portion of them to win the nomination, some of them will act all high and mighty for a short time, but when faced with the spectre of whoever the D is winning, they will say they have no other choice than this idiot, and it will be a coin flip like it was the last two times.

[Uncle Joe]

11. My own gut feeling is

it will become crystal clear to ever increasing numbers of those on the fringe that they're speeding down a dead end street in regards to following the beast.

[GenThePerservering]

14. Except that if he runs for office

the GOP might collapse from infighting. Gropers are never far from backstabbing at the best of times.

He could probably just run while he's IN jail, too, though.

[quakerboy]

15. Let me know when anyone with any actual power says this

Opinions are a dime a dozen, especially in regards to the former inhabitant of the whitehouse.

they mean very little until someone actually has a real consequence or legal reprecussion.

[Initech]

16. Trump is a useful idiot to the Christian right fascist cabal.

When he becomes too much of a liability, like he is now, he'll be tossed aside for someone much scarier.

[onetexan]

18. i don't care for smartypants Kurt Bardella but Laurence & Lichtman are great authorities to heed

the jackass & his crooked spawns are done, because the legal liabilities of misrepresenting facts on loan documents and whatever else will be YUUUGGGEEE.

[jaxexpat]

19. It reads like a stand-up prognosticators' comedy club material from 2017.

So prescient, those comedians.

[IronLionZion]

20. He doesn't have a political agenda so it's not terrorism