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1. 🇺🇲 watson :dealwithit: (watson@freeatlantis.com)'s status on Sunday, 27-Aug-2023 20:07:57 JST 🇺🇲 watson :dealwithit:

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   New #GOP presidential primary @ trafalgar_group polls show a changing #DonaldTrump lead based on indictment talk and actuality.

   +12 before indictment announcement

   +14 after indictment announcement

   +33 after actual indictment

   Report: https://www.thetrafalgargroup.org/news/gop-ppp-0402/

   https://twitter.com/RobertCahaly/status/1642835714332151808

   #TrumpIndictment

   • 🇺🇲 watson :dealwithit: (watson@freeatlantis.com)'s status on Sunday, 27-Aug-2023 20:07:58 JST 🇺🇲 watson :dealwithit:

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     check out this thread re #TrumpIndictment .... most of you may have already seen this 50 miles ago.... PRECEDENCE, fluckers!
     https://twitter.com/DawsonSField/status/1642516082643664896

   • 🇺🇲 watson :dealwithit: (watson@freeatlantis.com)'s status on Sunday, 27-Aug-2023 20:07:59 JST 🇺🇲 watson :dealwithit:

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     5/ The laws SENATORS tend to break? They're written so you have to prove "intent." Prove they KNOWINGLY broke the law. You need telepathy, basically.
     https://twitter.com/mattcolville/status/1641571088919568384

   • 🇺🇲 watson :dealwithit: (watson@freeatlantis.com)'s status on Sunday, 27-Aug-2023 20:08:00 JST 🇺🇲 watson :dealwithit:

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     3/ The answer? "What does that have to do with anything?"

     They believe everyone is breaking the law all the time, that the law is just a convenient fiction to be used whenever you want to put other people away.

     And they think it's right and proper that this only works on people with no power. People WITH power do NOT go to jail, because that's the purpose of having power.

   • 🇺🇲 watson :dealwithit: (watson@freeatlantis.com)'s status on Sunday, 27-Aug-2023 20:08:00 JST 🇺🇲 watson :dealwithit:

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     4/ YOU might think "well, he broke the law, he should go to jail" but they assume whoever you VOTED for agrees with them, not you.

     It's only you, the voter, the hapless citizen, who believes jail and punishment and fines have anything to do with the law, or guilt.

     They believe the Rule of Law means the people who Rule get to use the Laws.

     If you doubt, look at intent.

     The laws you and I might break? Those are written so that "ignorance of the law is no excuse."

   • 🇺🇲 watson :dealwithit: (watson@freeatlantis.com)'s status on Sunday, 27-Aug-2023 20:08:01 JST 🇺🇲 watson :dealwithit:

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     2/ They don't think anyone on EITHER side believes "going to jail" has anything to do with "breaking the law."

     So they see this move as a breaking of the covenant. "We all agreed not to send each other to jail. That only happens to poor people."

     They assume whoever's in power could just decide to send their enemies to jail, and laws will be found that they will have broken. "What am I accused of" is just a formality to them.

     You might ask them "well, didn't he break the law?"

   • 🇺🇲 watson :dealwithit: (watson@freeatlantis.com)'s status on Sunday, 27-Aug-2023 20:08:02 JST 🇺🇲 watson :dealwithit:

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     #TrumpIndictment
     BREAKING: House sources say Democratic Rep. Daniel Goldman of Manhattan -- who prosecuted the first Trump impeachment & has been bragging to reporters about sabotaging GOP investigations of the Bidens -- has privately consulted with Manhattan DA Alvin Bragg about indicting Trump
     https://twitter.com/paulsperry_/status/1641659405857857537

   • 🇺🇲 watson :dealwithit: (watson@freeatlantis.com)'s status on Sunday, 27-Aug-2023 20:08:02 JST 🇺🇲 watson :dealwithit:

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     1/ Indicting a former President is going to have some interesting repercussions. It represents a major sea change in how this country works, if indeed it does work.

     You have to understand how these people think...

     They don't believe people get arrested for breaking the law. They believe people get arrested because they have no power.

     The only reason Presidents and Senators etc... don't go to jail all the time, is because everyone on both sides agrees not to use their power that way.

   • 🇺🇲 watson :dealwithit: (watson@freeatlantis.com)'s status on Sunday, 27-Aug-2023 20:08:03 JST 🇺🇲 watson :dealwithit:

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     #TrumpIndictment

     I suspect some ADA's will be facing ethics charges eventually over this if it's accurate. No evidence that it is not.

     First they are attempting to make a felony charge based on false records to conceal a crime.

     But Trump was already cleared of that crime by the FEC.

     https://twitter.com/JeffreyStamber1/status/1641555512495046656

   • 🇺🇲 watson :dealwithit: (watson@freeatlantis.com)'s status on Sunday, 27-Aug-2023 20:08:04 JST 🇺🇲 watson :dealwithit:

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     #TrumpIndictment
     https://twitter.com/JeffreyStamber1/status/1641555512495046656

   • 🇺🇲 watson :dealwithit: (watson@freeatlantis.com)'s status on Sunday, 27-Aug-2023 20:08:05 JST 🇺🇲 watson :dealwithit:

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     #TrumpIndictment

   • 🇺🇲 watson :dealwithit: (watson@freeatlantis.com)'s status on Sunday, 27-Aug-2023 20:08:05 JST 🇺🇲 watson :dealwithit:

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     #TrumpIndictment

     The Grand Jury has acted upon the facts and the law.

     No one is above the law, and everyone has the right to a trial to prove innocence.

     Hopefully, the former President will peacefully respect the system, which grants him that right.

     https://twitter.com/SpeakerPelosi/status/1641594971462541315

     << i guess the presumption of innocence is ..... a social construct....? >>

   • 🇺🇲 watson :dealwithit: (watson@freeatlantis.com)'s status on Sunday, 27-Aug-2023 20:08:06 JST 🇺🇲 watson :dealwithit:

     #TrumpIndictment FBI Ran to Senate Intel Committee for Discussions of Trump Posture Following Reports of Looming Manhattan DA Indictment
     https://theconservativetreehouse.com/blog/2023/03/29/fbi-ran-to-senate-intel-committee-for-discussions-of-trump-posture-following-reports-of-looming-manhattan-da-indictment/