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    “Resources that would have gone into Ads and Rallies, will now have to be spent fighting these Radical Left Thugs in numerous courts”

    Or you could spend your own money

    “It is Election Interference, & the Supreme Court must intercede,”

    That isn’t how the court works you file in whatever court has jurisdiction then appeal if you have cause. It would be contrary to standards for them to even comment at this juncture.

    If he wanted to campaign unimpeded he could have simply not committed the crimes he has openly admitted to on TV

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      Wait…

      “Resources that would have gone into Ads and Rallies, will now have to be spent fighting these Radical Left Thugs in numerous courts”

      Did he just admit to another crime?

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        I don’t think so. You can put your own money into running a political campaign.

        However, the IMPLICATION that he uses campaign donations for his legal defense is there. And stupid MAGA donors will believe that’s how their money could be spent and that it’s OK.

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          I can easily see a scenario in the coming months where someone asks Trump to clarify this and he confirms he plans to use campaign funds and will say that he’s allowed to.

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        It’s all super PAC money that has very little rules about its use. They’ve been using it thus way all along and openly raising money for legal defense. He may be admitting to exerting control over the super pac, which is supposed to be against the law, but seems to be practically unenforceable.

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        Meh…sorta? I’m pretty sure he can legally use campaign funds to pay legal bills relating to the election interference cases, since the cases are sort of tied to actions made during his 2020 campaign. But AFAIK he cannot do so with the classified documents case, since it has no direct connection to his election campaign.

        But even if part of it IS legal, given his propensity to break the law whenever possible, it probably should warrant another investigation if nothing else.

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      There’s a part of me that believes he only ran again because, aside from his ego, he believed it would make him immune to indictments.

      Unfortunately Mango Mussolini could even be arrested and still win the presidency from prison… (Although it is a good thing the rules exist in that way)

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      IMO this is mainly a way to communicate talking points to his supporters. They want to start a lot of talk about Biden’s “election Interference” to make it feel like this is something both sides do but only Trump is getting charged for.

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      If he wanted to campaign unimpeded he could have simply not committed the crimes he has openly admitted to on TV

      For being the party that supposedly represents “law and order”, Republicans really seem soft on crime (at least on the ones they continually committed).

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        Crimes don’t just commit themselves! You gotta commit crimes, because if you don’t do it, who will?

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      Can’t the SCOTUS adopt cases they think have some sort of importance outside of the apeal system? I thought I heard of them just recently doing that on a case they ruled on.

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        Typically they don’t but this supreme court has already shown what it thinks of established legal procedure.

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        adopt cases

        there is no case to adopt… he wants them to create one or something, i don’t know… neither does he…

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        Yeah, basically the attorney general of some states claims that there was a business that was harmed by certain laws, which the business deny that they were harmed, but the supreme Court heard the case anyways and ruled that the business was actually harmed by said law so it was overturned.