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Originally Posted by nik-
He's definitely not going to jail federally, even without any pardons in place. I doubt the state charges go anywhere either. They'll likely get pressure to just let everything go away. The US is so insanely partisan now that they just don't want any potential optics of legally going after the other party's president after he leaves office. Regardless of how much it's needed and how much he deserves it, I just don't see it happening.
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If Trump goes to jail every Democratic president will face charges the day they leave office. Guaranteed. It will be like the terminal days of the Roman Republic where consuls were all brought up on charges by their political enemies when their terms in office were up. That ended poorly.