• FiniteLooper@lemm.ee
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    And to think, all he had to do was not run for president of the United States (among many other things) and this probably never would have happened to him.

    I mean, I’ve never run for president of the United States, it’s a very easy thing to not do.

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      Seriously. Had he not ran, or dropped out early, he could have probably started his own fringe news channel and lived a relatively unchanged, trouble free life and probably made some money doing it.

      I personally think he expected to lose and wasn’t expecting the Russians to barely tip the scales to eek out an electoral college victory.

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      I can imagine a world where Trumps publicity presidential run starts spinning out and Jared/Ivanka start pulling strings to make it happen. Jared walked away with untold billions and just walks away unscathed. It’s disgusting, especially when you think of how the GOP will stop at nothing to bury Hunter.

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      Respectfully, I hope you are wrong.

      If not running was all it took not to be prosecuted then, to me, that says this is indeed a political prosecution and not about the rule of law.

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        I think they meant not run the first time? As in: he doesn’t run, and therefore doesn’t get elected, so he stays away from the spotlight and can, relatively, quietly live his life with his foot in his mouth at every turn, but nobody cares because he’s a D list celebrity.

        And of course, not being the president, he has no access to half of the shit he’s dealing with federally. I feel like the state stuff in NY was a pretty long time coming, but the federal stuff could’ve been avoided had he lost or not ran in 2016.

        I don’t even know what a world like that would look like, but I’m sure it would’ve been better than the four years we had of him.

        Edit: Mobile, misspelled some things due to autocorrect.

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        I think they mean for the first presidency. Had he not run for president and won via the electoral college, he never would’ve been in a position to commit a lot of the crimes he’s in trouble for.

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        Oh no, I agree with you. I was just making a joke. From what I understand he never really wanted to run for president in the first place, and was surprised he won. Honestly his business might have continued as it was, fraud and everything, if he had never done that plus all the other crazy stuff he did.

        I’ve very glad he’s getting what’s coming to him. I mean he brought this on himself.

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        Oh no, I agree with you. I was just making a joke. From what I understand he never really wanted to run for president in the first place, and was surprised he won. Honestly his business might have continued as it was, fraud and everything, if he had never done that plus all the other crazy stuff he did.

        I’ve very glad he’s getting what’s coming to him. I mean he brought this on himself.