• ScornForSega@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    It kind of makes sense.

    Hear me out.

    He knows he’s screwed. He’s got 78 counts against him.

    At this point, the only thing that will make the federal charges go away is to win the presidency. The time to play it safe is over.

    The best bet right now might be to rally the base and get the GOP nomination. You might get clobbered in the general election, but that’s a 2024 problem.

    Then you have the constitutional crisis of a sitting president with a state prison sentence, but he doesn’t really care about the well-being of the country, so that’s moot to a raging narcissist.

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      1 year ago

      At this point, the only thing that will make the federal charges go away is to win the presidency

      it blows my mind that the people rallying behind him know this, and are OK with it

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      1 year ago

      Constitutionally it’s pretty clear his sentence would be suspended until his term as President is over. A president elected from jail isn’t a constitutional crisis. A president elected who’s committed a coup before, that’s a problem.