From what I understand the accusation is that the money he gave Stormy Daniels falls under: " crime to conspire to promote a candidacy by unlawful means"
What is the angle here, is he trying to turn a misdemeanor that was prescribed to something much bigger?
How can he do that without first having a trial for the misdemeanor itself? Isn't Trump innocent until proven guilty? In that case they must first convict him on the "unlawful means" before charging him on "crime to conspire to promote a candidacy by unlawful means".
What do you guys think it will happen and how do you see it going down?
From what I understand of the charges, it'll be a struggle to get them to stick - even if this court convicts they wouldn't stand up to appeal.
That's not the point of it, though, I suspect. Trump's innocence or not has nothing to do with anything. The point is that the Biden admin will not crack down on an NY DA that's going after a Biden political opponent for any reason at all. And if NY fails, Trump's going to be subject to frivolous suits from other blue states until they manage to take him off the ballot in 2024.
The Dems are pushing this case to bait the dumbest elements of the GOP base to nominate Trump again in 2024.
The Dems will indict Trump in many more frivolous cases to increase GOP base outrage and influence them to rally around a martyred Trump.
If Trump is the nominee, the Dems will not fight to remove him off the ballot.
He supercharged Dem turnout and galvanizes their base while alienating center right suburban voters. Dems would love to run against Trump.
The Dems will wait until they win the 2024 election and they will then ensure Trump is convicted in 2025.
Only way Trump avoids spending his last days in prison is if he loses the primary and another GOP nominee narrowly wins against Biden and protects Trump from Dem prosecution.
And putting desantis on the ballot will not fix anything. Take your /r/cons talking point back there. 2020 was a test run to seehow well the mail in ballots and voting machines can be rigged. How else could an election day turn into months? Not to mention the number fuckery that happened overnight.
I agree that abortion is a stupid hill to die on though. But gop is known for sabotaging itself to grift its base for more pity bux.
After the recent Dem win in Wisconsin supreme court it is clear Trump has no path to victory in 2024 and it is clear that it will also be extremely difficult for DeSantis to win 2024. The difference is that DeSantis is not viscerally hated like Trump and regardless of how much the media tries to do so, they can never match the level of hatred Trump invokes in people.
Calling elections rigged constantly demoralizes some of our voters and they don't even bother to vote. This way the Dems just win automatically. We need to stop this self-fulfilling prophecy.
The slim path to victory in 2024 relies on embracing ballot harvesting in swing states, not nominating Trump again and not pushing any abortion bans more restrictive than 15 weeks.
I am not optimistic because a lot of the base is sadly retarded.
Nor should they. There is no pᴏlitical solution.
And then what? Say DeSantis squeaks out a miraculous win in 2024. The media will wage war on him, he'll be thwarted and hamstrung at every turn, and he'll lose in 2028. And at that point, demographic destiny will have made a republican win fully impossible. Hoping for a Republican win in 2024 is like arranging deck chairs on the Titanic.