RE: Trump threaten to flee the country
October 18, 2020 at 12:40 am
(This post was last modified: October 18, 2020 at 12:42 am by Rev. Rye.)
I don't know how plausible it is that Trump would actually be prosecuted when he's out of office. I know that Biden's claimed he won't stand in the way of a potential prosecution, but that means nothing about whether or not a prosecution would actually happen.
That said, if Trump were to leave the country to escape prosecution, I think Russia would be the obvious choice, and Trump's longstanding relationship with Putin aside, Russia A) has no extradition treaty with the US, and B) Is not a member state of the International Criminal Court, having withdrawn from it.
Other nations by area that fit both these favourable criteria (citing nations that have either never signed or signed/ratified but withdrew, not nations that have signed and not ratified):
And let's be realistic, can we really expect Trump to live in any of the Middle Eastern, Asian, or African nations? Or that he's going to suddenly have a conversion to Catholicism so he can hide out in the Vatican?
That said, if Trump were to leave the country to escape prosecution, I think Russia would be the obvious choice, and Trump's longstanding relationship with Putin aside, Russia A) has no extradition treaty with the US, and B) Is not a member state of the International Criminal Court, having withdrawn from it.
Other nations by area that fit both these favourable criteria (citing nations that have either never signed or signed/ratified but withdrew, not nations that have signed and not ratified):
- Europe: Vatican City, Belarus, Russia
- Middle East: Lebanon, Saudi Arabia, Armenia, Azerbaijan
- Asia: Kazahkhstan, Turkmenistan, China, Nepal, Bhutan, Macau, Taiwan, Laos, Vietnam, North Korea
- Africa: Libya, Mauretiania, Sudan, Ethiopia, Somalia, Togo, Equatorial Guinea, Rwanda, Burundi
- Oceania: The Philippines, Indonesia
And let's be realistic, can we really expect Trump to live in any of the Middle Eastern, Asian, or African nations? Or that he's going to suddenly have a conversion to Catholicism so he can hide out in the Vatican?
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