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wpot posted...

Agreed: so are the 557 other worse things he's done. It doesn't mean that any of it is OK, but it does unfortunately mean that - in the US - if you are rich/powerful enough you aren't going to get burned for it.

That is the correct example to use: I hope you're right. But there were limits to Capone's economic/scare power. Trump's economic/political power does not appear to have those limits. Can you REALLY imagine him going to jail or becoming unable to run in 2024 because of this? He SHOULD be unable, certainly, but the coup (or hamfisted collusion, or sexual assault, or various frauds, or insert terrible thing here) should have made him ineligible already.

Unfortunately you need to attack him as a potential candidate and keep his worst characteristics in clear focus. THE MAN ATTEMPTED (AND IS STILL ATTEMPTING) A COUP! By comparison document retention is nothing: Trump's people are laughing that this is distracting the public from the Jan 6th committee...remember that?

If would be great if he could get convicted of any of the things he deserves to be convicted of, but I'm not holding my breath.

You're trying to act like this isn't a big deal. Even on Fox News they are talking about how he might have had copies of the nuclear launch plans that a president has to select if it ever came down to mutually assured annihilation.

There is a lot of legitimate criticism that the government classifies stuff that doesn't need to be classified or is too slow in de-classifying documents that no longer need that classification. Those aren't the documents he is accused of apparently just leaving sitting in a public hallway in the case of some of the boxes.

Him potentially violating the espionage act is a big fucking deal. What exactly is your goal in downplaying it? You think things are worse? So what? Al Capone went down for taxes, Trump can go down for "but her emails" and the beautiful irony that entails.