Trump guilty on all accounts
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Welp there it is
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Precedent only becomes precedent, once there is follow up/subsequent action. Until there’s corresponding action, calling it precedent before it actually is, is not accurate/guarantee.
Yes, but if you precede the precedent before it becomes a precedent, does this mean Trump preceded the precedent by being a president?? (Humor, the best medicine...)
Exactly. Look at all these times that we've claimed a precedent was set:
1.Trump's first impeachment
2.Trump's second impeachment
3.The fraud trial with Letitia James
5.The presidential immunity ruling
When Trump was arrested
All the times Trump was indicted
The Supreme Court rejecting his request to prevent his tax returns from being investigated
Every time he was subpoenaed to testify for various committees
Having search warrants for his home
All of those examples are just what I found after doing a search here for "precedent" and scrolling through the results. I'm sure there are plenty more that I'm missing.
But where have any of these events been used as a precedent against anyone else?
Has Biden been impeached? Then impeached again? Has he or any of the other former presidents gone on trial for fraud or felonies? Have any of them been arrested for anything? Found guilty in a court of law? Been indicted for anything?
But any time Trump has some sort of legal problem happen, everyone starts up with the "It sets a precedent!" stuff.
A positive take on the situation given we don't have all the info. It could very well turn out to be incorrect but what else do we have?