Which was in response to people saying that what is happening here is not like in other judicial systems, not on people having an opinion about this case or our court system. My point is not that people can’t have opinions on our politics or judicial system, but that we don’t need to be told that our systems are different. We know that. It’s not moving the conversation along at all. It’s really just some condescending bullshit that treats our systems as if their inferior to the also flawed European systems of justice. They original article just came off as that kind of European sneering you sometimes get when discussions of the US come up with people who live elsewhere.
Yeah, I was wondering about that. The legal system is incredibly slow with white collar/rich and powerful asshole crime. I guess a big reason is that the wealthy can hire lawyers who are good at gumming up the works. Which means that at least with this set of charges, he’ll have plenty of time and space for keeping his campaign going, and for raking in lots of I’m the Real Victim Here bucks.
It’s incredibly slow all around, sadly. My grandfather was ripped off by his wife, and the family had dead solid evidence including her admitting she did it. She fought it, using his money, then he died and parts of the case were dismissed for being moot, and the lady kept delaying the trial until she also passed, and that rendered the rest of it moot. My classmate was murdered by a guy in 2019 and still hasn’t had a trial scheduled yet.
It does feel like it has taken an age to get TFG (that fuckin’ guy?) in front of a jury.
He should have been tried years ago, sure, but the US system wouldn’t have indicted him this time on anything less than watertight evidence, of that I am convinced.
The US system has its’ flaws, as does the UK’s . They may simply be different flaws but, in the long run, and it is always a long run when trying to reel in the bigger fish, they are both ultimately effective.
Here’s to a decently long sentence (his, not mine).
