(September 17, 2023 at 5:39 pm)ShinyCrystals Wrote: I do not know, I mean, Trump is being tried for 91 charges, which do have to do with sedition and the insurrection, by the way. With what happened on January 6 and how serious it is, how do you not get charged for insurrection and sedition for something like that?
Plus, most of those charges, if not, all, are felony charges. Some here do not believe Trump might go to jail, but felony charges do carry a jail sentence. So if he is convicted on these felony charges, chances are, he is going to jail.
Prosecutors tend to file charges that have the best chance of getting a conviction. I agree with you completely that Trump’s behaviour on 6 January was both insurrectionist and seditious. But those are very high bars for a prosecutor to overcome. Trump has a much better chance of being convicted for conspiracy than those two.
This is known as the ‘fight the fights you can win’ strategy.
Boru
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