CFordUNC
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Jeez almighty. It is really rough having to watch two people who claim to be conservatives twist their knickers into knots and going to the mat to defend lawlessness. That's been the worst aspect of Trumpism to me: that people like the ones on this thread were so willing to abandon the rule of law for one single person who would hate them if he met them.
You can think that criminal charges are frivolous. You can question whether the law is being applied consistently or with fairness. You are even free to think that someone is being persecuted solely because of their politics. What you can't do, however, is claim to be a conservative, and claim to love the United States of America, and swear fealty to its Constitution, and still believe that the justice system is wrong *only* in instances where you don't like its outcome. A jury of Donald Trump's peers- a jury selected by both the prosecution AND the defense- heard all of the evidence from both the prosecution and defense, and.....found the defendant criminally liable on 34 felony counts. That's literally exactly how the United States justice system is supposed to work! Like, textbook. You don't like the outcome of the verdict? The defendant can appeal! And appeal again! And appeal again! Guess what.....if that same jury of the defendant's peers had found the defendant not guilty, you'd be singing its praises.
This is why it's impossible to take these guys seriously. They don't have any principles other than "red team good, blue team bad, red team must win, blue team must lose, and if red team lose, it's rigged." One of them is claiming to be a political moderate, which is laughable because I don't know ANY moderate who thinks that the 250 year old justice system in the United States is "rigged" or that we should just completely discount a criminal conviction by a jury of the defendant's peers simply because we want to be able to vote for the defendant in a presidential election. The kind of people who think that way- that the justice system is rigged- are the extremists on both ends of the political spectrum.
You can think that criminal charges are frivolous. You can question whether the law is being applied consistently or with fairness. You are even free to think that someone is being persecuted solely because of their politics. What you can't do, however, is claim to be a conservative, and claim to love the United States of America, and swear fealty to its Constitution, and still believe that the justice system is wrong *only* in instances where you don't like its outcome. A jury of Donald Trump's peers- a jury selected by both the prosecution AND the defense- heard all of the evidence from both the prosecution and defense, and.....found the defendant criminally liable on 34 felony counts. That's literally exactly how the United States justice system is supposed to work! Like, textbook. You don't like the outcome of the verdict? The defendant can appeal! And appeal again! And appeal again! Guess what.....if that same jury of the defendant's peers had found the defendant not guilty, you'd be singing its praises.
This is why it's impossible to take these guys seriously. They don't have any principles other than "red team good, blue team bad, red team must win, blue team must lose, and if red team lose, it's rigged." One of them is claiming to be a political moderate, which is laughable because I don't know ANY moderate who thinks that the 250 year old justice system in the United States is "rigged" or that we should just completely discount a criminal conviction by a jury of the defendant's peers simply because we want to be able to vote for the defendant in a presidential election. The kind of people who think that way- that the justice system is rigged- are the extremists on both ends of the political spectrum.
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