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    A judge finds you guilty of a crime, your are arrested and go to jail.

    DOGE employee: jail and frozen assets

    Local Podunk Texas cop who refuses to enforce: jail and frozen assets.

    Former President Convicted of 34 Felonies: No Restrictions

    Justice Juan Merchan followed through on a promise made one week ago to give Trump a sentence of unconditional discharge, which includes neither jail time nor any other restriction that might impede Trump after his inauguration on Jan. 20.

    THIS is what we’re all screaming at you while you ask if we ever took a civics class.

    TRUMP IS ABOVE THE LAW and he was above the law before he even took office this time around.

    We’re all handwaving away your assurances because they are all about things that CAN happen in a world where people are following the rules and things work like they should. A world that no longer exists.

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        When they do, I’ll come back to acknowledge I was wrong. In the meantime, I’m not holding my breath. 4 years of that was enough.

        You’re missing the point.

        No, you are missing mine.

        My point is that nothing that happened with Trump over the course of four years that gives me ANY confidence regarding how the system will work now. (see 34 felonies case)

        Your “well okay, Trump is above the law, but the folks below him might not be” is not the confidence builder you seem to think it is. When folks start going to jail (and staying there) I’ll share your enthusiasm.

        Edit: And it doesn’t count if they are going to jail after we’ve reached the “rebuilding our nation from rubble” stage.