It doesn't sound to me like he thought he was above the law. He seemed to know the consequences. He just didn't think that Trump should be above the law. Or, at the very least, above presidential decorum.
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Yet the orange buffoon still walks the streets and continues raising hatred.
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He knew he wasn't above the law, he just believed the consequences were worth it. I hope he's right.
Yup. Dude took one for the team.
American hero
He held the records up to the light knowing he would be burned by it. Truly the definition of a hero.
Absolute bullshit that this guy is getting the maximum sentence for releasing what Trump himself had said he was going to release years ago and what it's just taken for granted that Presidents will always release (it should be a requirement for the job). MEANWHILE, the list of crimes that Trump has committed makes this seem like a petty crime in comparison and Trump is still walking free. Trump has literally admitted to seeing himself as above the law.
He's not guaranteed to get the maximum sentence. The prosecutor just asked for the maximum. He hasn't been sentenced yet.
This is probably one of the hardest things to do in the era we live in - go against our social engineering to sacrifice a relatively comfortable life in defiance of this moment.
Collectively, we're frogs in the pot, especially as we move towards the end of this year and the worldwide elections as an accelerator to societal collapse. It's so hard to know what to do that might make a difference today, at least this person tried, I hope society persists beyond this garbage moment and for long enough to allow history to look back on people like this as heros who at least tried.
Collectively, we’re frogs in the pot, especially as we move towards the end of this year and the worldwide elections as an accelerator to societal collapse.
Comparing us to frogs does a disservice to frogs. They tried to slowly boil frogs and the frogs jumped out.
We're more like people sitting in a hot tub while people pee in it. When will we notice that the hot tub is mostly pee and get the fuck out?
Littlejohn… friend of Robinhood?
If he gets jail time, I'll contribute to his commissary account.
Silly as it sounds, this is exactly how to support him. That and writing letters. It means so much to incarcerated folks to have the few things from commissary that make life just a little less miserable, and what to spend it on is a bit of choice and independence in a system designed to take every bit of those things away as a means of grinding inmates down.
Letters are just as important - a lifeline to the outside. Sometimes literally. Guards know who is in regular contact with people outside, and who doesn't have anyone to report abuse to. Being able to communicate things like unmet medical needs so someone can set up a call campaign can be life or death.
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Why wasn't he protected as a whistleblower? Or why isn't Biden pardoning him?
A. Probably because he took the specifically to do this.
B. They don't usually pardon someone before sentencing.
There's often a limits to whistleblower protections, usually you're only protected if you report it internally, and publishing private information is often not protected at all, and whenever there's protections available for publishing it then it's usually only protected if it's limited to what's necessary to inform the public about a sufficiently severe issue (like newsworthy major fraud).
It would be a pretty bad look for Biden to pardon him IMO. I think it would be a mistake for him to do so.
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I suspect he never believed he was above the law, but that the law was broken.
Everyone's taxes should be public information. There are too many rich assholes hiding the fact that they don't pay their fair share.
Sweden. It's not for the current year but the previously declared incomes. Anyone can get them. Seems to work just fine.
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Prosecutors for the Department of Justice’s “public integrity” section are complete fucking twats. They’ve been 1000% blind to anything trump has done, oh but this guy? Yeah “five years in jail”!
Fuckers. I hope they fear the truth that their lives are being wasted to serve their pinheaded idiot masters.
And we’re not doing the “but it’s against the law” thing when it comes to dealing with trump. The convicted fraudster rapist who stage a coup to stay in power? Motherfucker we’re about to go Thomas Jefferson on that demented greasy fuck if he keeps threatening the Constitution and, well, everybody else. Because the pinheads at the Department of Justice’s “public integrity” unit are busy stuffing their heads up their butts. Time’s up, Merrick. You got shit done.
Hey while we got ya Merrick, you got that unredacted Mueller Report we paid 15 million for? No? Still deciding on that are ya? Fuckhead republiQan stooge.
Obviously, with a name like "Littlejohn," he's a good guy in league with Robin Hood and Friar Tuck and all the other Merry Men. In his defense, Trump did (repeatedly) promise to disclose his IRS tax returns to the public. The man only helped Trump keep a campaign promise. Littlejohn ought to get an award and an all-expense paid vacation at Mar-a-Lago!
Littlejohn just pulled a big john in my pants move.
The hero we need.
Does he have a go fund me?
Talk about a real go getter attitude. He had his eye on the prize, followed through, and delivered!
EDIT II: I am indeed apparently quoting the prosecutors. Whoopsie doodles. Prosecutors are generally ass people, too, of course. Leaving the original for my shame.
Defendant weaponized his access to unmasked taxpayer data to further his own personal, political agenda, believing that he was above the law
Literally no one who does something like this thinks they're above the law when they're just doing to force our elected officials to comply with the law.
Fucking judges man, they're just as shitty as fucking cops. Look at this fucking holier than thou bullshit attitude from this asswipe. The number of judges who equate the law with morality and ethics is too damn high. The number of judges who trust the cops word over anyone else's simply because they're a cop is too damn high.
I got read the riot act by a judge over weed once. I may as well have been dealing with a priest I got so much holier than thou how dangerous you are bullshit over fucking WEED.
AJAB.
EDIT: I mean, hell, you want a real disgusting example of this? Go look at the court history around the prosecution of Daniel Ellsberg and the Pentagon Papers. Ellsberg got lucky, because he was absolutely treated similarly by the judge, as though he "thought he was above the law" and not that he was trying to correct an injustice. I guess judges only like it when they can "correct" an "injustice."
You quoted the prosecutors, not the judge...
Good catch, edited for shaming purposes.
Literally no one who does something like this thinks they're above the law when they're just doing to force our elected officials to comply with the law.
This didn't force any elected officials to comply with the law. As much as I dislike Trump and hope he goes to jail for his actual crimes, not releasing his taxes is not against the law.
He pleaded guilty, but I don't think a jury would have convicted him.
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Cool Story DOJ, now fuck off.
DOJ: "This man committed a crime and we're going to persecute him for it."
Audience: "OMG We Love That Guy! Wooooo!"
He did good.
2nd to the guy who became the university of ohio mascot to beat up the ohio state mascot.
I can't believe the prosecutor is talking about nobody being above the law with a straight face.
Thank you for your service to the public.
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That's rather hilarious, actually.
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