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Baitball Blogger

(52,344 posts)
Sat Nov 15, 2025, 09:29 PM Nov 2025

I know Trump's comeuppance is just beginning, but, I'm wondering...

could his demise have turned out better if he had not run for office? Would it have been slower to bring him to justice?

I know the answer correlates with the way our Justice Department has always operated ineffectively. Too often they sat on their hands deferring to the result of an election. Or if someone kept a low profile, they would just pass him by.

What I do know is that once in office, Trump has done grave damage to America, and for that he will not get off easy.

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I know Trump's comeuppance is just beginning, but, I'm wondering... (Original Post) Baitball Blogger Nov 2025 OP
i understand the decisions pf biden and garland to let 2020 slide into history rampartd Nov 2025 #1
It's not entirely clear. He seems to be using the office to enrich himself and protect himself by "priveledge". marble falls Nov 2025 #2
I guess it depends on what you mean by "better." Gore1FL Nov 2025 #3
I think we are at a crossroads. Baitball Blogger Nov 2025 #4
I am 100% in agreement. Gore1FL Nov 2025 #5
Recommended. H2O Man Nov 2025 #6

rampartd

(4,628 posts)
1. i understand the decisions pf biden and garland to let 2020 slide into history
Sat Nov 15, 2025, 09:35 PM
Nov 2025

but i don't agree with it and now we are at the humpty dumpty stage of democracy.

marble falls

(71,919 posts)
2. It's not entirely clear. He seems to be using the office to enrich himself and protect himself by "priveledge".
Sat Nov 15, 2025, 09:39 PM
Nov 2025

Gore1FL

(22,951 posts)
3. I guess it depends on what you mean by "better."
Sat Nov 15, 2025, 09:52 PM
Nov 2025

Before he ran for office, I really didn't have a horse in the race. I heard of Trump for the first time in the lates seventies or early eighties. He was just some celebrity that made noise every so often. I didn't care.
In the Many people with great research and investigatory skills were in the same position as I; then he ran for office. I imagine there are now many thousands of these people focused on him.
I don't know if justice would have found him sooner or later had he not run for office. Perhaps more would have come out if there had been and Epstein trial. Perhaps it would have been hidden away for ever.

Baitball Blogger

(52,344 posts)
4. I think we are at a crossroads.
Sat Nov 15, 2025, 10:14 PM
Nov 2025

There has to be punishment to send a message that this period in history should not be repeated. If not, America will be in a freefall.

Gore1FL

(22,951 posts)
5. I am 100% in agreement.
Sat Nov 15, 2025, 10:40 PM
Nov 2025

I believe that we are on the threshold of an age of progressionism not seen since the wake of the Civil War.

Trump is the natural end of Reaganism.

When we put our resources back into the people, we will be unmatched.

H2O Man

(79,048 posts)
6. Recommended.
Sat Nov 15, 2025, 10:46 PM
Nov 2025

The answer is found by comparing the date that Jack Smith was appointed, and the felon announced he was running again. And to consider this in the context of in his post-first term telling those around him that he was done with politics.

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