"The brief due Thursday (9/26) – which is expected to exceed 200 pages, including exhibits, and is meant to convince courts Trump should be prosecuted for alleged obstruction and conspiracy criminal activity — is a rare avenue for evidence to be aired in court before a trial.

Chutkan of the DC District Court, in a six-page opinion, said she would allow such an outsized briefing because the Supreme Court, in its recent decision to give Trump’s actions while president immunity from prosecution, has directed her as the trial judge to look closely at facts in the case to decide if some allegations could move forward to trial."

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    Trump has spent his entire life trying to get into “the club”. The specific “club” he was trying to get into was the Hollywood one for many years. The Apprentice got him close, but the “reality TV” club isn’t quite the same as the “Hollywood club”. Luckily, for Trump, it was enough to get him into the political club. I’m still not quite sure how, but it was. How it got him into the presidential club is even further baffling, but he did that too. Don’t get me wrong, I understand how he got elected. But I don’t understand how he survived the primaries. (I mean I do, but I’m just sad about it.)

    But Trump, assuming he loses the upcoming election, is on his way out.

    You’re probably right that he’ll never be in jail. He’ll never serve a day in prison. But he’ll be in court. He’ll be in court until the day he dies. It’s not perfect. It’s not what he deserves. But it’s what’ll happen, and I’ll take that.

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      There was an article around here a few days ago about the creation of the Apprentice. And it basically all came from that. Without that show trump likely would have disappeared forgotten to history or lost to Russian debtors. This all started there with those producers.

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        I’m guessing https://www.nytimes.com/2024/09/14/business/donald-trump-apprentice.html

        and overall I agree.

        I’ve never watched The Apprentice. Not because I’m “too cool” for it or anything. I remember watching the first season of two of Survivor. It was a fun enough show, but eventually I just got bored of it. I know I’m somewhat in the minority as reality TV really took off. Tons of reality TV exists today for a wide variety of shows and there are tons of success.

        However I look at many of the folks (older adults) who are Trump supporters now and I’m confident they got their start watching him on The Apprentice.

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        And those are people who should be prosecuted, and they won’t be, because they’re in the club.

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          Wait, are you arguing that the people who put Trump on a reality are only avoiding criminal prosecution because they are in some club?

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      After the election all the talk of trump being charged will fade away like yesterday’s news. Much the way all the Republican talk of Hunter Biden fizzled to nothing after Biden backed out.

      Had Hillary never pushed her piped piper strategy he would have never been elected. Over $1b in free advertising did that