Should Donald Trump fail a second time to be re-elected he faces the very real possibility of jail time and massive financial penalties due to the sheer volume of criminal cases and civil lawsuits that are on hold until after the election.

That is the opinion of Syracuse University law professor Greg Germain who explained in an interview with Newsweek that the former president’s only path to get out from under the federal cases he now faces is to beat Vice President Kamala Harris in less than two weeks and then push the Department of Justice to drop the cases filed against him.

As Germain stated, the multiple federal cases Trump is facing are solid and his only path to victory may be having them shut down.

Newsweek source: https://www.newsweek.com/donald-trump-legal-cases-georgia-washington-florida-new-york-stormy-daniels-chutkan-cannon-1974406

  • @fine_sandy_bottom
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    025 days ago

    Yeah but also nah.

    Airing dirty laundry in discovery is tantamount to an unfavourable ruling - its still the courts undermining a democratic process.

    Imagine if the shoe were on the other foot - a republican judge digging away for dirt on Kamala during “discovery”.

    You would feel that unfair, and that’s exactly how republicans world feel about Trump going through some kind of discovery process now.

      • @fine_sandy_bottom
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        124 days ago

        Sorry, that’s quite simply untrue. There is no law that says you must finalise a case against a candidate during the campaign.