How Trump is being treated isn't fair

[RAB910]

[meadowlander]

1. It's not just unfairness. It undermines the seriousness of what he is charged with.

[paleotn]

7. Exactly!

[debm55]

24. agree

[Faux pas]

2. Kickin'

[Bettie]

3. Kalief Browder, never even charged...three years in Rikers

for being suspected of stealing a backpack.

https://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2015/06/08/412842780/kalief-browder-jailed-for-years-at-rikers-island-without-trial-commits-suicide

[Marius25]

5. Sadly we have people here still pretending like the Justice system isn't two tiered

One for the rich and famous, one for everybody else.

It's a proven fact that the DoJ is treating Trump with kid gloves and has been for years.

[paleotn]

9. It's been multi tiered since the founding of the Republic.

We aspire to better, but unfortunately end up with "human." That's annoyed the hell out of me since Tricky Dick.

[KentuckyWoman]

13. Well put.

[LittleGirl]

41. Bingo!

I was so mad Nixon got pardoned, I didn’t vote after 1980. Until, Obama came on the scene. 911 really woke me up and after that, I had to STUDY to understand the political system and what had happened. Reagan raised my waitress taxes and I thought I knew they were all crooks. The 90s was a blur.

Now, DU is my homepage.

[ExWhoDoesntCare]

28. Name them

Because I've seen precious little evidence of that assertion.

[lonely bird]

22. Past time to shut down Rikers

The privatized retribution system needs to be dismantled.

[GoodRaisin]

4. Truth

If you don’t have tens of thousands to defend yourself the system sucks you right in. Innocent people too.

[Cheezoholic]

8. Yes, especially now with the privatization of the penal system

criminal punishment is now a commodity, a multi billion dollar industry. And like any industry the commodity that drives profits, in this case "criminals" will be nurtured, protected and obtained in the largest quantities at the cheapest prices possible and recycled when possible because those commodities are pre-processed and represent recursive income. Thats why we imprison more people per capita than any other country. $$$$$$

Its fucking disgusting

[Bettie]

26. That's also why rehabilitation is

not really a thing...they need repeat offenders to feed their business plan.

[OMGWTF]

40. THIS! THIS! THIS!

Remember the "Papers Please" law in Arizona that Governor Jan "Cruella" Brewer instituted? It was just a way to round up more 'customers' for her campaign manager who was tied to Corrections Corporation of America, the largest private prison company in the country.

Fking disgusting indeed! These mofos belong in one of their Grey Bar Hotels.

[treestar]

6. It is not about skin color

it's his particular privilege. Whether white defendants have it easier, when they are average, than POC is another question. TFG is getting preferential treatment beyond ordinary white defendants.

It's because he was POTUS.

[orleans]

14. do you think obama would have gotten all the special trump has gotten? nt

[treestar]

34. No, but then that's two presidents

it wouldn't have been the same for Obama as for any regular defendant. The secret service protection issue alone would make him in a better position than the average white defendant. Obama would never do any such thing, though. You'd have to picture a potential corrupt black President.

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

10. Good one

[lees1975]

11. I've been saying all along that he would not be treated like any other person charged with the same

crimes.

And he's being given privileges the rule of law would give to no one else.

So the jury is still out, so to speak, on whether no one is above the law, or whether some people are, and one of those is Donald Trump.

[Emile]

12. Amen, they should have arrested him last Friday

and spent a weekend in jail.

[bullimiami]

15. It's not just dark, poor or minority. He is being treated different than virtually anyone.

He has gotten the platinum spoon treatment his whole life in everything.

[treestar]

35. +1

He expects it, too, which may make it more difficult to enforce. Many people would have some sense of shame. Even Nixon had enough to resign. Even Nixon didn't take classified documents, and even Nixon would have returned them is taken by accident.

[JanLip]

16. I hope and pray

That Mr. Brian Hopkins gets elected. He posted a truthful and honest tweet. It’s true the difference for the rich and the poor are apparent. It’s just not fair how differently people are treated. I grew up poor in the south and have seen it up close. We always say it’s who you know and who you blow. If you have a lot of money and are well known you get special treatment. The rest of us can just rot in jail. I read a post today that said our justice system is just as bad as our health care system. Nothing could be more true.

Jan. Georgia please elect Mr Hopkins Y’all can get rid of large Marge too while you’re at it.

[stage left]

17. People are not

equal under the law and probably never will be.

[BigOleDummy]

18. Exactly!

I've been debating with myself posting a opinion here saying essentially the same thing. Too afraid of being called a Dick Downer I guess. The amount of deference shown this orange piece of shit is infuriating to me. No bail. Essentially no restrictions. Walked out a free man with charges like he has?!? Its INSANE! Its not fair. Yes, I'm overjoyed he was arrested and charged. But damn!!!!! He didn't even have to give up his passport!

Its double standards like this that WILL cause a revolution eventually.

[debm55]

27. Well, then I'm a Debbie Downer. I agree with everything you posted. Isn't he attending a party

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tonight? How many of us could say the same thing ? Federal crimes-no bail, no passport taken, no mug shots, etc.

[Septua]

19. Very well expressed and so very true.

[SouthernDem4ever]

20. Absolutely Brian!

Dump's treasonous behavior is the worst crime you can commit against our country and doesn't deserve any preferential treatment. In the old days, he would be marched to the guillotine.

[republianmushroom]

21. Nailed it.

I like this posting.
This is our 2-tier justice system in action as seen today.
28 months and counting

[Backseat Driver]

30. Even the cult leader in Kenya is being detained until the investigation is over; hope

the investigation lasts months, then he better be convicted of high-level murderous lawlessness, mind-controlled domestic terrorism that caused many suicides by starving (perhaps by other methods?) and also, what happened to the missing children??? Are Kenyans guilty until proven innocent, hence his detention. With a name like pastor Paul MacKenzie is he even Kenyan??? Not even close to what TFG has done to this nation's national security or what SCOTUS has done to its own integrity by not following the ROL processes for the rest of public servants, or the misogny shown the women of this country - All appalling beyond words...JUST APPALLING the deference he's still being shown that so enhanced his sociopathy and criminality all his life!

[Orrex]

23. Absolutely 100% correct

He should have been jailed when he stole from his charity, instead the light, scarcely binding admonition that he received.

He should have been frogmarched in shackles, shoved into the back of a squad car and thrown in jail pending trial.

Worse is done to petty criminals nationwide every hour of every day, and I'd venture that none of them sold nuclear secrets to foreign powers.

[JoeOtterbein]

25. K n R ! Thanks for posting!...

...What I've been stewing about all day!

[Uncle Joe]

29. Kicked and recommended.

Thanks for the thread RAB

[Pluvious]

31. Original link

Link to tweet

[Solly Mack]

32. K&R

[uponit7771]

33. K&R,

[spanone]

36. 👍🏼...K&R...👍🏼

[Blue Owl]

37. K and fucking R

[niyad]

38. Stroke out already, you F'n, murdering, orange, RAPIST, TRAITOR**.

[llashram]

39. yes!

[Initech]

42. It's completely insane that right wing media is giving him a "get out of jail free" card.

I mean shit, these are the most patriotic people who've ever patrioted, and an act of espionage committed by a former president has been committed that borders on treason, and they're doing everything they can to obstruct real justice from being committed. It's completely criminal.

[Pokeemahn]

43. Flattering Drawing of Trump during trial.

Has anyone noticed the courtroom drawing of Trump by Wm Hennessy?
Is it me or does it make him look like a 20 yo movie star with perfect hair and trim. I was flabbergasted. No wrinkles? Talk about bias and being treated differently