The Trump downfall thread

[Astro What]

However, I think on balance Biden was right to do this.

When you have a president and his cult members vowing to go after people when there is zero evidence of wrong-doing that they have any influence over then yes, they are a valid use. If the idiots are so assured that they have evidence, let them put it before a criminal court. All they want to do is have a political circus like they did with the Biden impeachment. Get their soundbites in and feel like they have done something without ever being able to prove what they have claimed. Seems since around 2016 that has been the GOP mantra.

 

[Astro What]

It's a mistake to brush these things off. No, there's something behind it alright.

Evidence without proof is just gossip.
And the same as with the allegations in the Trump 2020 "big steal", this will wash out the same. The issue is that each side is having to try and make excuses on why they lost.
It never could be because at the time of running the candidates offered were shitty, just one less so than the other.

 

[Retro]

I think we're going round in circles here. I'm just saying don't simply brush it off, but make a mental note of it, as Trump has said things before in an offhand manner that turned out to be true. This guy loves hinting and winding everybody up as they try to guess. Classic fucking troll and now he's the president. Again.

As far as those candidates, we've been over that before. I'll just briefly summarize what I said earlier that had the Dems fielded better candidates, it wouldn't have been close, so any possible cheating could not have taken place. I've said myself that it's possible that there was no cheating and explained why and that we'll now never know for sure since it wasn't investigated when the window of opportunity was open a couple of months ago.

 

[Retro]

Why the hell did Trump pardon this guy? Looks like it's simply because the people who nailed Ulbricht were also after Trump so he wants to get back at them. He's absolutely mad.

US President Donald Trump says he has signed a full and unconditional pardon for Ross Ulbricht, who operated Silk Road, the dark web marketplace where illegal drugs were sold.

Ulbricht was convicted in 2015 in New York in a narcotics and money laundering conspiracy and sentenced to life in prison.

Trump posted on his Truth Social platform that he had called Ulbricht's mother to inform her that he had granted a pardon to her son.

Silk Road, which was shut down in 2013 after police arrested Ulbricht, sold illegal drugs using Bitcoin, as well as hacking equipment and stolen passports.

"The scum that worked to convict him were some of the same lunatics who were involved in the modern day weaponization of government against me," Trump said in his post online on Tuesday evening. "He was given two life sentences, plus 40 years. Ridiculous!"

Trump pardons Silk Road creator Ross Ulbricht

Trump said he had called Ulbricht's mother to let her know he had granted her son a full pardon.

www.bbc.co.uk