• mercano@lemmy.world
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    His lawyers, for all their failings, have managed to keep him out of prison so far. (Having a few judges in his pocket doesn’t hurt.)

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      23 hours ago

      Well…He was convicted on 34 criminal counts. He didn’t go to prison only because of a feckless judge who was too scared of his responsibility to give a meaningful sentence and didn’t punish him at all.

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      Tbf the us citizens at large kept him out of prison via the vote. I mean he probably wouldn’t have gone to prison because he’s rich and connected to all the people he pretends to hate and pretend to hate him but the voters at least put the nail in the coffin on the idea.

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        Yeah, his lawyers don’t have that great a track record; Giuliani was his lawyer for a while. He probably gets lucky occasionally, but I really think he’s too stupid to know the difference between a competent an incompetent person in any field.

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          I’m pretty sure for press secretary he just thinks them being attractive by his standards is the definition of competent. Beyond that he mostly values loyalty from what I can tell.

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      Just blind luck, like most of his successes. And also collusion with conservative justices and judges and prosecutors.