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Unrealistic expectations.
By and large I think that people have unrealistic expectations about what’s going to happen if former President Trump is indicted. There won’t be a perp walk unless he wants one because he ever plays the victim card.[1] He isn’t going to jail. He won’t be handcuffed. There will be a mug shot. So, there’s that.
People are treating an indictment like it’s a guilty verdict. It isn’t. Although Trump has maintained otherwise, pleading the 5th Amendment isn’t an admission of guilt either.[2] (He has pled the fifth multiple times.[3] ) Now, he says that people are a fool if they don’t plead the fifth.
What a difference an indictment can make.
Shades of Al!
Notorious crime boss Al Capone was sent to prison on charges of tax evasion, not for all the other crimes that he had “allegedly” committed.[4] BTW do you think that Capone died in prison? Well, he didn’t. He served 7 years and some change of an 11 year sentence and then went to Florida where he died 8 years later.
Now, Trump is certainly no Al Capone but the charges that might be made against him do have some potentially serious consequences. Ask his former attorney, now informant Michael Cohen who did some time for committing the crime/s that Trump is accused of and might be indicted for.[5] Cohen ended up in the pokey for a year.
According to legal eagles the hush money payments are the least of all the crimes that Trump might be guilty of and where feds also might have the weakest case. We really don’t know what evidence they have and how good it is. We do know that it was good enough to convict Cohen.
I don’t think that it’s going to be as big a deal as people think it is. Unless Trump pleads guilty.
That ain’t happenin!
[1] https://dictionary.cambridge.org/dictionary/english/perp-walk
[2] Trump, 5th Amendment: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CpfDwx7tiLY
[3] Trump pleading 5th: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RcPm2E4LRwg
[4] https://www.fbi.gov/history/famous-cases/al-capone
[5] https://www.latimes.com/world-nation/story/2021-11-22/michael-cohen-completes-prison-term-after-trump-related-crimes
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