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I was shocked to find out that all his crimes apparently don't disqualify him from running for/being president again. Like what?
You would think there would be like... some laws or something.
I heard that it's a mechanism to prevent the ruling president from just locking up every competitor and win the next election by default.
I think that it’s actually a good thing. If a criminal record disqualified you, it could be easy to cook up bogus charges against a political opponent just to kick them off the ballot. We also have along history in the USA of black folks getting charged with crimes at a disproportionately high rate.
I mean it should disqualify him, for all intents and purposes, if we actually had a media that did its job and a non-corrupt Republican Party though.
Why shocked? This is America we’re talking about. I’d be shocked if he actually gets punished at all.