I think that it’s actually a good thing. If a criminal record disqualified you, it could be easy to cook up bogus charges against a political opponent just to kick them off the ballot. We also have along history in the USA of black folks getting charged with crimes at a disproportionately high rate.
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I was shocked to find out that all his crimes apparently don’t disqualify him from running for/being president again. Like what?
You would think there would be like… some laws or something.
Why shocked? This is America we’re talking about. I’d be shocked if he actually gets punished at all.
I think that it’s actually a good thing. If a criminal record disqualified you, it could be easy to cook up bogus charges against a political opponent just to kick them off the ballot. We also have along history in the USA of black folks getting charged with crimes at a disproportionately high rate.
I mean it should disqualify him, for all intents and purposes, if we actually had a media that did its job and a non-corrupt Republican Party though.
I heard that it’s a mechanism to prevent the ruling president from just locking up every competitor and win the next election by default.