Meanwhile in the land of Hopium
https://twitter.com/highbrow_nobrow/status/1563549407299383304?s=21&t=5hahOM71PU1H2ALKdJTuTw
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Who do you imagine is going to stop him?
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I missed this doozy yesterday from John āWaterboardā Yoo
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Iām almost at the point where I would refuse to ever hire anyone with a Harvard degree.
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I think itās an interesting question. How does the DoJ let someone under investigation for espionage leave the country? My guess is heād be stopped and it would force their hand immediately
Edit: This is what I donāt think many truly grasp. Heās probably been under close surveillance for a while and is NOT being treated as someone who is innocent and will get away with it all
This. 2016-2020 are irrelevantāthey were not going to indict the sitting president. So we have 2021-present. Shit has happened since then that indicates things are changing. In particular, the FBI conducted a search of his home pursuant to the friggen espionage act.
As Iāve said, I donāt assert that itās a lock that he gets indicted, but I canāt understand spiking the ball on its ānever gonna happenā at this point. You donāt know that.
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And this sort of thing is just in-group signaling. Youāre just showing that you know that a majority of this board thinks it will never happen. That doesnāt make it correct.
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I worked with a grad student during my last quarter of college who got her undergrad from Harvard. She hated it and had only bad things to say and chose her grad school once she narrowed it down to her top 3 choices mostly based on which was the least snobby because of her time there. Iām sure sheād agree with this.
The sooner you accept that Trump is above the law, the sooner it will all make sense.
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i imagine in order to leave the country, heād have to notify secret service. in advance if he wanted protection while traveling.
Board a flight? Heās got his own jet.
What is the difference between āattempt to chargeā and āchargeā?
Pretty sure his jet is parked @ an airport, and he would have to clear customs in some manner?
My money is on he is charged because his sociopathy wonāt let him let anthing go.
He will force them to indict , if he would stfu and lay low, they would let it go.
If thereās a way for Biden to pardon him (after conviction) that keeps him out of jail/house arrest but somehow keeps the condition that Trump is ineligible for future federal office, I could see Joe doing that, even pushing for it.
You know what I mean lol 
Do you think he could he go abroad tomorrow if he wanted to?
No legal way for this to happen. Trump could conceivably run for president from jail.
I have no idea how all this works for private jets, but I tend to think of clearing customs as something that happens upon arrival at the destination (there are of course exceptions, like flying to US from Toronto).
So, āclearing customsā is only an issue if you are worried about Russia and Saudi Arabia not taking him. I donāt think thatās a problem.
At any rate, if he really wanted to he could just say heās flying to NYC. Have his pilot take him to Cuba and then one of Putinās cronies can take him to Russia. Or maybe just cut out that intermediate step and just fly straight there. Unless the Air Force is willing to shoot down his plane, it seems pretty unstoppable.
Me neither. I think there is some difference between a prosecutor charging and a grand jury indicting, but I donāt really know. Maybe a lawbro can help us out.
See my response to Papa Smurf above