Re:Trump Pardons Convicted Binance Founder
by lukevp on Thursday October 23, 2025 @06:36PM
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What about Nixon’s impeachment and resignation? What about Trump being a convicted felon 5 ways to Sunday (yes they overturned this since he won again, but I doubt it would have gone this direction if he’d lost.)
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Re:Trump Pardons Convicted Binance Founder
by kragen on Thursday October 23, 2025 @07:55PM
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How much time did Nixon spend in prison? Or did he opt to be caned instead?
Re:Trump Pardons Convicted Binance Founder
by krainboltgreene on Friday October 24, 2025 @03:40PM
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1. There is no downside to impeachment. It has the same impact as a strongly worded letter.
2. Nixon decided to resign and not the alternative for doing something so insane: A restoration of damages.
3. Like I said, they were overturned. I mean even the NYT was trying to figure out the result: https://www.nytimes.com/2024/04/23/nyregion/trump-trial-hush...
The reality is the system will bend itself to avoid the problem, because it's been designed to avoid that problem.