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Trump shows in Iowa he still rules the GOP – despite his deepening criminal peril

Donald Trump only needed 10 minutes to show why his growing pile of criminal charges is not yet loosening his grip on the Republican presidential race and why his opponents will find him so hard to beat.

The ex-president’s growing legal peril hung Friday over the first showcase featuring all poll-leading GOP candidates on the same stage – an American Idol-style audition in Iowa, the first-in-the-nation caucus state.

But his closest rivals didn’t dare bring up a legal quagmire that threatens to be a liability in a general election if Trump is the nominee for fear of alienating his still-massive support in the grassroots. Minor candidates with much less to lose did take on the stampeding elephants in the room – but were rewarded with silence or a torrent of boos.
 
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topcat said:
I'd wager nobody in the room could define irony. I love the poorly educated.
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It takes more than mere ignorance to support Trump after all this shit, it takes mean and stupid too. What do these people think they will get? What is their real or imagined payoff? Desantis is fucked and Tim Scott is black, and he might as well be running for grand wizard of the KKK as the republican nominee these days. It looks like Donald will walk away with the nomination even if he fucks up in DC and ends up in a Jail cell pending trial. By election day he should have over 100 criminal indictments and have ongoing trials for some or most of them. If he is the nominee he will have coat tails alright, but anybody holding them will go off the cliff with him. Christ knows what will come out about Donald before republican convention, much less the election and guys in the GOP like Mitch and Karl Rove need to get rid of Donald ASAP or 24 could be a disaster for them. With abortion, guns and other issues poling against them they don't need Trump running amuck with a knife inside the GOP while being driven mad by fear of prison and becoming America's biggest loser.

He will say he won the nomination even if he didn't and that he was cheated out of it, if he wins the nomination, then conviction and imprisonment await, state and federal. Even if he wins the election in 24 by a miracle in the midst of multiple trial and convictions, he will serve his term from a state prison. He has until Jan 20th, 2025, to avoid prison, winning might mean getting sprung from a federal prison but not a state one. IMO he won't win the nomination and could be in jail before the convention, if he does, he won't win the general election. Soon he will be spending more time with lawyers and in court than trying to get elected.
 
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topcat said:
"The moral imperative to save lives", but only if it's cheap enough. Get the damn oil cos. to chip in.
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They could have a federal low-cost housing program like they used to, but that would be socialism, let em starve and freeze is the republican answer. They have no answers or policies except to be mean and cruel while spouting about bullshit culture wars and blowing smoke, a party of grifters and the suckers who vote for them. Win big enough in 24 and you might have low-cost federal housing again, as a direct way to solve the homelessness problem, landlords and some homeowners will whine, those who are driving inflation and homelessness, fuck them.
 
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Florida Republicans are saying Harris told a complete lie. Desantis doubled down by saying some "of the folks" benefitted because they "learned how to be a blacksmith." They even identified a handful of people who did prosper once they were freed, as if their prosperity came from being civilized while enslaved. How do they manage it? How do they hold their heads up and say shit like this?

PolitiFact FL: Do school standards say ‘enslaved people benefited from slavery,' as Harris said?

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Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis, speaking in Utah that day, said he "wasn’t involved" in writing the standards, but he defended them as being "rooted in whatever is factual."

"They’re probably going to show that some of the folks that eventually parlayed, you know, being a blacksmith into doing things later in life," he told reporters.

The Republican National Committee accused Harris of telling a "complete lie." Conservative critics said Harris was focusing exclusively on one part of the standards.




Although the new standards include many conventional lesson points about the history of slavery, they also include a sentence that enslaved people developed skills that "could be applied for their personal benefit" — and this has drawn heated rebuttals from historians, who consider it factually misleading and offensive for seeming to find a silver lining in slavery.
 
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