Judge Arthur Engoron — who is overseeing proceedings in former President Donald Trump's civil fraud trial in New York — may be considering a harsher-than-expected penalty for Trump as he prepares to issue a final ruling in the bench trial.The Daily Beast recently reported that Engoron was alarmed by...
I really wish I could stop seeing this as one of the top comments in every single thread on this topic, seriously. Justice is slow and you’d really want it to be that way if you were on trial. You would want time to do things properly. That is what is going on here.
The difference is when justice is slow for us we’re spending all that time in jail. Trump is living carefree while all this time passes. People aren’t just tired of Trump not being in jail in general, people are tired of seeing another old rich white dude having no consequence.
That’s never going to change. If people keep getting hung up on that, then we really will not have progress as a society. Accept that life isn’t fair and that people can pay to win. Change that. Getting stuck on that causes people to just give up.
I really wish I could stop seeing this as one of the top comments in every single thread on this topic, seriously. Justice is slow and you’d really want it to be that way if you were on trial. You would want time to do things properly. That is what is going on here.
The difference is when justice is slow for us we’re spending all that time in jail. Trump is living carefree while all this time passes. People aren’t just tired of Trump not being in jail in general, people are tired of seeing another old rich white dude having no consequence.
That’s never going to change. If people keep getting hung up on that, then we really will not have progress as a society. Accept that life isn’t fair and that people can pay to win. Change that. Getting stuck on that causes people to just give up.