Trump Idiot Convict Thread 1/12
Let me illustrate what a total idiot Trump has been. He now knows he will lose in November, all his own campaign staff say so, his FUNDING has ended, even Putin has stopped sending money because Trump will lose the election. Hence #TrumpCoupPlot
Idiot Convict Thread 2/12
Trump has committed a LONG series of crimes from LONG before he became President. Some of those are TAX crimes for example in New York state - crimes Pence cannot pardon Trump for. Trump is already investigated for tax crimes by NY Attorney General
Idiot Convict Thread 3/12
So I am not talking about Trump's NEW crimes while Potus, they will be ADDED ONTO his rap sheet while he is in prison & will go through DOZENS of criminal trials, losing most of them
I'm talking taxes. Tax crimes don't expire. No statute of limitations
Idiot Convict Thread 4/12
Trump KNOWS he is a criminal. He THOUGHT he was getting away with his crimes when he was in White House and had GOP holding Congress
Then a Stormy thing happened one day. The FBI raided Michael Cohen's office. THAT raid sends Trump to prison for life
Idiot Convict Thread 5/12
If Trump had been SMART. When Michael Cohen's office was raided by FBI, Trump should have sent attorneys to Mueller and asked for a deal. Stop the investigations & Trump steps down, but no prison time. Then have Pence take over as President
Idiot Convict Thread 6/12
When Trump still had a GOP Congress, he could have easily have negotiated a 'full pardon' package with Pence like Ford pardoned Nixon. & while Mueller had only just SEEN the New York tax frauds, Trump attorneys probably could have ended that with a FEE
Idiot Convict Thread 7/12
Trump could have gotten wealthy Republican donors to pick up his tab, pay a fee to New York state, have Mueller end the investigations emerging from Michael Cohen's office - settle with Stormy & other sex crimes - and be a free man & 'popular' ex POTUS
Idiot Convict Thread 8/12
Trump KNEW the Michael Cohen office raid meant TAX FRAUD was a guilty verdict in New York. Trump KNEW this. He had leverage with Mueller. If he had been smart, he'd done that, stepped down - and today run the Trump TV show on Fox
Idiot Convict Thread 9/12
Trump had a SECOND off-ramp. The impeachment. Remember, Trump KNOWS he will be convicted in New York on tax fraud the moment he steps down. HE KNOWS the FBI has seen the tax fraud papers & given them to NY, IL, CA, FL etc. And Pence cannot pardon them
Idiot Convict Thread 10/12
Trump could have taken a 'slap on the wrist' via a negotiated settlement with Senate (Mitch) and DEMs, where Trump is allowed to resign (like Nixon) AND Pence pardons Trump for federal crimes - but NY to agree not to prosecute, let Trump pay back taxes
Idiot Convict Thread 11/12
The DEMs would have had a tough debate about it, but I could see DEMs agree, as long as Trump pays back taxes, to not prosecute, as long as he accepts guilty verdict of Senate & steps down - or resigns before his trial. Trump could have avoided prison
Idiot Convict Thread 12/12
Any sane criminal would have taken the first off ramp. Trump's legal team pushed for it. He is an idiot. He thought he can win. Any sane criminal would have taken second off ramp. Trump didn't. Now the idiot will land in prison when he is out of office
Trump Idiot Convict PS Thread 1/5
So Trump didn't take the chance to stay a free man, even though SANE attorneys explained it to him. He decided to gamble and has lost.
BUT here is where it gets CATASTROPHIC for Trump. The PS to his stupidity..
Idiot Convict PS 2/5
Trump knows he has been doing MONEY LAUNDERING. Not just for the mob (for decades) but for SANCTIONED foreigners = Putin. That is something near to a TREASONOUS crime. When Putin was SANCTIONED, Trump laundered Putin's money.
Trump SIDED with USA's enemy
Idiot Convict PS 3/5
This money laundering happened for YEARS BEFORE Trump became President. It carries DECADES of prison time. All of THAT evidence, came out with FBI raid on Michael Cohen's office also
Trump knows this. Once NY tax crime case starts..
Throw away the key
Idiot Convict PS 4/5
When it emerges that Trump had been money-laundering for Putin YEARS before Trump showed in public he's Putin's slave, at the Helsinki Hostage Summit, all Republicans HAVE to pick a side: Trump or prison
Many will flee the country into exile
GOP will expire
Idiot Convict PS 5/5
Trump KNEW he'd been money-laundering for Putin (& others) for YEARS before becoming POTUS. It had REMAINED hidden, until Michael Cohen office raid by FBI caused by Mueller - thanks to Stormy Daniels.
Trump COULD have stepped down & be free man.
Is an idiot
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