Former President Donald Trump was indicted for an unprecedented third time on August 1, adding another set of serious federal charges to the mounting legal issues he faces.

  • @ZestycloseReception8
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    2811 months ago

    yeah and only in our wonderful country this schmuck is allowed to run for office from jail. I thought you can’t run for president after ur third indictment which he certainly has.

    • Flying Squid
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      11 months ago

      There’s nothing in the Constitution that says you can’t run from prison (Eugene V. Debs did it in 1920), and it also says nothing about three indictments.

      • @ZestycloseReception8
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        111 months ago

        probably if the laws written in a way that considers politicians regular people and aren’t considered an exception.

    • @Godric@lemmy.world
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      For some reason the founding fathers didn’t anticipate that someone running from prison could ever become president. To be fair, before this fuckin clown, nobody else did either.

      • Piecemakers
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        211 months ago

        Incorrect. There was one other, technically, and they got a sizeable amount of votes considering they were incarcerated at the time — not enough to win or even skew the election numbers, but still. It happened.

      • @ZestycloseReception8
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        211 months ago

        lol it was one of those things that was just assumed by the general population that was never gonna happen so why worry about putting laws in place to prevent it. I think it’s safe to assume that we need to put laws into to. prevent this from happening before 2027