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Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin

(136,931 posts)
Mon May 4, 2026, 02:26 PM Monday

How Much Is Trump Going To Destroy?

Dina Doll

I was in a courtroom this week when James Comey was indicted. Not the same courtroom. I was covering the preliminary hearing for Nick Reiner, a man charged with the murder of his parents. Reiner’s public defender stood up and requested yet another delay of his preliminary hearing, the next step the prosecutor must take to move the case to trial.

That is what the criminal justice system looks like up close.

It is slow. It is procedural. It is, on its surface, unremarkable. And that is entirely the point.

The system was not built for speed. It was built for protection. Hundreds of years of hard lessons, bad kings, crooked sheriffs, and railroaded defendants went into designing a process that puts friction between the government and the power to take away your liberty. Every scheduling date, every motion, every required appearance is a speed bump placed deliberately in the path of the state. Because the state is enormously powerful. And people are not.

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How Much Is Trump Going To Destroy? (Original Post) Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin Monday OP
How much will Republicans LET Trump destroy. legallyblondeNYC Monday #1
yes Skittles Monday #3
The system only works for the rich who can afford lawyers who know how to manipulate it. lees1975 Monday #2

legallyblondeNYC

(192 posts)
1. How much will Republicans LET Trump destroy.
Mon May 4, 2026, 02:40 PM
Monday

That's the real question. On his own, he's just a very sick old man with multiple personality disorders +++.

On his own, he would be nothing. SHAME ON THEM.
It's the appeasers - the ones who laugh and giggle - but we're talking about the dignity of the American people and the USA.

Skittles

(172,537 posts)
3. yes
Mon May 4, 2026, 06:05 PM
Monday

I get so tired of hearing repukes won't do well in the midterms because of the Iran war, gas prices, inflation, etc. Overall people are simply SICK of Trump and sick of the ENTIRE GOP enabling him. THIS IS NOT HOW OUR GOVERNMENT IS SUPPOSED TO WORK and even MAGAts are starting to get it.

lees1975

(7,163 posts)
2. The system only works for the rich who can afford lawyers who know how to manipulate it.
Mon May 4, 2026, 03:40 PM
Monday

It never works for the rest of us.

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