• Optional@lemmy.world
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    8 months ago

    Merchan said he doesn’t want to jail Trump, but “at the end of the day I have a job to do, and part of that job is to protect the dignity of the justice system,” and the violations “constitute a direct attack on the rule of law.”

    So you know you need to do it and you’re not doing it. Okay then.

    • Alien Nathan Edward@lemm.ee
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      8 months ago

      He knows what the fuck his job is, it’s to direct violence at the poor in order to protect and mollify the rich. The fact is the whole system is set up to prevent this embarrassment and Trump has been too pig-headed and boorish to take advantage of the multiple easy ways out that they’ve been offering him. He was supposed to do what the rest of them do, quietly agree to a generous plea deal to make the whole thing disappear so that no judge has to be broadcast on live TV showing such blatant favoritism to the aristocratic class.