I think the one thing that may have disuaded him was actual jailtime before the election.
everyone had to make their calculations on how best to deal with him, politically, in a courtroom and they all came down on the side of caution. honestly, given the stakes, thats not unreasonable at all.
now we have octogenarian who has still never received an appropriate consequence and is now deeply messianic. if (when!) this SoB looses, is when he makes his last bid - pardon, or I start the civil unrest.
I will say that the extent to which he has been treated with kid gloves (for various reasons - some reasonable, some extremely dumb, some as a result of outright corruption and obvious quid pro quo arrangements) is deeply infuriating.
I think the one thing that may have disuaded him was actual jailtime before the election.
everyone had to make their calculations on how best to deal with him, politically, in a courtroom and they all came down on the side of caution. honestly, given the stakes, thats not unreasonable at all.
now we have octogenarian who has still never received an appropriate consequence and is now deeply messianic. if (when!) this SoB looses, is when he makes his last bid - pardon, or I start the civil unrest.
thats my current take at least.
Yep, that’s more or less my read on it too.
I will say that the extent to which he has been treated with kid gloves (for various reasons - some reasonable, some extremely dumb, some as a result of outright corruption and obvious quid pro quo arrangements) is deeply infuriating.