Another day, another Trurmp indictment
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Yeah, briefly. None have ever been more indicted than Trump, by almost any margin.
I think you've got: Johnson, Nixon, then Trump who've been impeached.
Johnson was removed, but I don't think charged with a crime.
IIRC Nixon was indicted with something after resigning, but then was pardoned by Gerald Ford.
That means prior to Trump, no president was convicted of anything.
Trump is the only President, or presidential candidate that I can think of, that has been indicted and convicted, let alone indicted a bajillion times, let alone impeached twice.
And to be clear, as far as I can tell, Donald Trump did not directly allow, endorse, or participate in any crimes against humanity, or commit any wartime atrocities, or break serious international law. (Except once, he assassinated a member of the Iranian government on a diplomatic mission. Funny, practical, and not really argued against by the establishment; but it was illegal).
Trump hasn't even gone to trial yet on any of the indictments. How can he have been convicted of anything? Am I missing something?
Pretty sure he was "convicted" partially in that sexual assault case where the lady based her assault story off of an episode of Law and Order. Perhaps that is what they are talking about? But I'm pretty sure that is a civil case and not one of the indictments being discussed.
And I'm not an expert on legal jargon but I doubt the word "convicted" even applies when losing a civil judgement.
Oh, the E. Jean Carrol lawsuit he lost. Right. A BS rape charge degraded to a lawsuit for I forget what.
/u/OldBullLee ^ this is the conviction I was talking about.
Normally, former presidents aren't indicted on anything at all.
Ford pardoned almost immediately to make sure there wouldn't be any more drama, it's where "our long national nightmare is finally over" came from.
I don't think those are different.
If I recall correctly, his military guys wanted to use typical drone strike to blow up the General's car, but Trump insisted on the experimental manhack missile to try and avoid collateral damage. (civilian casualties)
I hadn't heard of any of this. What's a manhack missle?
Sorry I just saw this. I assumed you were talking about the Soleimani assassination. Unfortunately the wiki article doesn't talk about the payload, but I remember seeing the aftermath pictures on 4chan, and I believe this quora (ick) answer is describing the same thing.
I used manhack as a reference to Half Life 2 which has so-named flying blade drones that kamikaze into enemies. :)
No president has ever been charged with crimes after he left office. Andrew Johnson was almost convicted while he was in office (the way impeachments work here is the House of Representatives, our lower house, votes on impeachment, then there's a criminal trial held in the Senate, our upper house). Richard Nixon was impeached over Watergate, resigned before he could be convicted, and the next president, Gerald Ford, pardoned him for everything he did or might have done almost immediately.
Don't worry, I'm just as lost and this shit is all going down in my backyard.