• @Maggoty@lemmy.world
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    624 hours ago

    Paying minors for sex is hard time in prison. If evidence of such a thing became public the DOJ would essentially be forced to prosecute him. Right now they can just ignore it. Which they prefer to do because they like being employed.

    • @LifeInMultipleChoice@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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      23 hours ago

      Is it hard time in prison though? He trafficked them across state lines, meaning it goes to a federal court which makes it eligible for pardon

      I could be wrong, but I thought it went federal soon as it crosses the border

        • @LifeInMultipleChoice@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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          221 hours ago

          Hard to compare the actions of a pedophile and the Russian asset he pardoned before. But yeah, one might look worse to the public. Not like he needs to care about what the public thinks anymore.

          • @Maggoty@lemmy.world
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            120 hours ago

            Even dictators have to care. There isn’t a military in the world that can stop a million angry peasants.

            • @LifeInMultipleChoice@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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              Nah, just has to have the media to sell it so there are a million angry peasants to counter those million peasants, and most of them not able to see how they would be able to feed themselves in a week if anything actually happened.

              Edit: Sorry, just being contrary today it seems.

              • @Maggoty@lemmy.world
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                219 hours ago

                Yeah and if I’m mad it’s not at you. The reason though that countering one crowd with another doesn’t work is that all you’ve done is create a civil war at that point. The idea for any leader is to avoid a crisis of legitimacy so bad that you have to deal with an angry mob in the first place.