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steve2470

(37,468 posts) Fri Jun 4, 2021, 09:08 AM Jun 2021

Note: I do NOT believe all those would 100% happen. It's a theory at the Lincoln Project. Listen, please, to the clip below:

Link to tweet

If all those happen in reality....depressing, to say the least.

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Hypothetical: Trump announces 2024 candidacy, Twitter and Facebook reinstate him, prosecutions die.. (Original Post) steve2470 Jun 2021 OP

Schmidt makes a good point about the prosecutions. sop Jun 2021 #1

hopefully they would make an exception this far out steve2470 Jun 2021 #2

Steve Schmidt is right on target 70sEraVet Jun 2021 #3

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1. Schmidt makes a good point about the prosecutions.

Fri Jun 4, 2021, 09:19 AM

Jun 2021

The DOJ does not undertake politically sensitive prosecutions that could influence the outcome of an election:

https://www.justice.gov/sites/default/files/oip/legacy/2014/07/23/ag-memo-election-year-sensitivities.pdf

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2. hopefully they would make an exception this far out

Fri Jun 4, 2021, 09:21 AM

Jun 2021

2023 and 2024, yes, definitely, he would be untouchable then.

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4. Oh, yeah? I remember the director of the FBI running his mouth ten days before the 2016 election

Fri Jun 4, 2021, 12:03 PM

Jun 2021

Seems to me they were trying to build a case on H. Clinton for about ten years.

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3. Steve Schmidt is right on target

Fri Jun 4, 2021, 09:34 AM

Jun 2021

Everything T-Rump does now needs to be seen as a desperate attempt to avoid prosecution!