When it comes to Donald Trump, accountability and incarceration are not always the same thing, writes ljstprof. Or at least they shouldn’t be.
This report has no doubt whet the appetite of progressives who hope someday to see the ex-president behind bars.face a massive jail sentence. “While a conviction is not a sure thing,” writes Bess Levin “and a sympathetic judge could go for the lower end of the sentencing guidelines, Trump, who is 76 years old, would obviously die in prison if he were to get the maximum time behind bars.”, prison time may be unlikely in Manhattan.
It’s all hypothetical at this point. But some of the rhetoric we’re seeing from progressives is striking. And expectations do not necessarily match reality. Sentencing criminals to substantial prison time or to die in prison is usually not high on the agenda of progressives. Yet some seem prepared to carve out an exception for Trump.
I certainly understand the appeal of a kind of poetic justice for the man who, during the 2016 presidential campaign,
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