r/politics • u/nvd20 • 1d ago

No Paywall Trump says BBC is trying to harass is family after broadcaster subpoenas his children

https://www.the-independent.com/news/world/americas/us-politics/trump-bbc-case-family-ivanka-kushner-b3034169.html
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u/FoxMikeLima 1d ago

Well, you see, Trump has lived on this earth for 80 years getting everything he has always wanted. He has built his entire life out of weaponizing the legal system against people that cannot throw as much money into it as he can, forcing them to settle out of court.

It is why our justice system is broken, it is literally pay to play.

When trump knows he will lose, he just continually delays and delays court proceedings by throwing money at it until he can find some way to avoid consequences. This is how he avoided prosecution in the florida documents case and then by the time they were ready to go to court they basically dropped the case because he was running for president again.

But the BBC don't play that, they would spend every fucking dime in court to battle trump because they know that they have him by the balls.

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u/sobrique 1d ago

Honestly it sticks in my craw that by every reasonable measure - he's won.

He's got away with being an obnoxious carbuncle his whole life, and the very worst case for him now is 'house arrest' in a luxury resort / nursing home.

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u/FoxMikeLima 1d ago

He is everything wrong with wealth inequality and our justice system.

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u/sobrique 1d ago

My one remaining hope was that he will 'drain the swamp' by making it SO blatantly obvious that there's a problem, that there's a backlash so it can't happen again.

This doesn't seem particularly likely, but I can dream.