Thread by @amandacarpenter

Gonna make my time here w/ the last gasp of my blue check mark count. A rant.

I see that the new standard among my Republican friends is that we cannot indict anyone running for president, anyone who is president, or anyone who used to be president. Cool, cool.

Why stop there though. Let's make this fair. Let's repeal all campaign finance laws. Let people buy off whoever they want whenever they want on whatever terms. Make this fair.

Also, get rid of all business and banking fraud regulations. Fair is fair. If Donald Trump gets to hide illegal payments to deceive voters before the most important election our country conducts, everyone else should be able to do so as well.

Oh! And, I totally understand why people are clutching their mf-ing pearls that this is the first indictment. Wah-wah. You want it to be easier. I totally understand. Stormy Daniels makes you feel icky. So, better to let Trump off. You pansy whiners.

But that's where this goes. Election criminality is cool as long as it's tawdry and white collar. You can't get angry about fraudulent business expenses! Even if they were used to lie to an entire country about the character of the most powerful person in the world.

You want some other indictment to go first. Because somehow you have convinced yourself that THAT INDICTMENT WILL BE DIFFERENT and Trump's voters will accept it. It's delusional but it's your belief. Guess what: it doesn't get easier.

And if you can't understand how this is just ONE PART of Trump's overall ELECTION CRIMINALITY that runs thru hush money payments to Russian contacts to Ukraine shakedowns, to January 6 you are not paying attention and I can't help you.

With that I'm gonna go finally eat a sandwich now. I feel like that's good use of my final mark. Thx.