See, this is how you're looking at this whole thing wrong. It's not what Trump does or has to do, it's that Trump is Trump. That's it. Trump is Trump. Nothing else matters, nothing that he does or has done matters - He is Trump. It starts and ends there.
Money explains the rest of it. Tax free political "donations", ie under the table bribes. Two kinds of people support Trump - his cultists who believe Jewish Cuban ghosts stole the election from Trump and that Obama is a lizard person from Planet X, and the people who sell the first people "survival" seeds and limited edition Trump coins to use in the new economy after we defeat the lizard people invasion.
I've heard a pretty consistent answer from Trump followers on all those Jordan Clepper interviews and it's always that "well I don't agree with some things, but I believe in his message." and it's never clear which message that is. I think that's because it's really just his personality they want. They just want a connor mcgregor for politics. They want someone to be loud, be a dick, and to blame "The swamp". Somebody joked early about trump embracing LGBTQ+. I genuinely believe they'd shrug that off, or say it's an apart of his secret agenda, or just decide his view makes sense in some convoluted context. Pretzel logic.
"You can't punish Trump for doing that! You have to punish Biden for doing it instead! That's only fair!"
You can tell when they were just watching Fox and not the actual news, because they complain Biden had documents too. Yeah that's true. Trump wasn't charged with having documents. He was charged with keeping documents after being ordered to return them. And the Government apparently has the phone calls and conversations of Trump saying he wants to keep the documents and hide them from the Government.
www.theguardian.com
Let's also not forget that Pence had documents as well, but both he and Biden turned them over when requested.
Exactly. It seems like the Government really really really really didn't want to charge Trump and gave him literal years worth of chances to make good. This is a terrible day for the US, its allies, and all the shared national security. Now fucking Canada and Israel are asking if Trump was selling their nuclear secrets to Russia and Pakistan. Now England is worried their spies in China are compromised. This sets such a bad precedent for US law - not the indictment or trial, but just the need for it. Trump really stepped in the shit here. This will be the biggest, most painful, hate filled and dividing trial is US history.
Meanwhile, Trump vows to go after everyone who "wronged" him if he's re-elected.Fox News labels Joe Biden a ‘wannabe dictator’ during Trump speech
Fox was the only major cable news network to carry the former US president’s speech live following his arraignment hearing earlier in the day
Even our staunchest allies are going to think twice before trusting us with anything now, because we might elect some manchild who cares more about impressing people than protecting the country.
To clarify, I was (somewhat flippantly) thinking that if Trump decided that he wanted people to think he was up to no good, he'd have a hard time persuading them.
Between that and the discord leak, I'm hoping they start to really limit access to information cause otherwise it seems like a fool plan to trust the US.
Hahaha... no. They've always done that. The only concessions an 'ally' gets is, metaphorically speaking, dinner and movie before they get fucked.
Well, yes, but there's also some mutual self interest stuff, which may no longer apply.
Please don't tell me you're advancing the "US and its western vassals" nonsense...
Do you believe that the alliances that the USA has with its allies are entirely one-sided, or that there are clear benefits to the other party?
Right, but in that case the mutual self-interest certainly matters; it guides how and why these countries arrange their alliance with the US.
