Former Arkansas Gov. Asa Hutchinson was booed on Saturday for claiming there is a good chance former President Trump could be found guilty of a felony.

He is the latest GOP candidate to be booed for criticizing Trump

        • BassTurd@lemmy.world
          16·
          1 year ago

          Hitler was young and had a second chance after imprisonment. Trump won’t have that luxury if convicted, especially if the 14th is invoked.

            • RGB3x3@lemmy.worldEnglish
              3·
              1 year ago

              I’m morbidly curious to see what happens when the “host” of the disease dies though. Where are his supporters going to go? What are they going to do? Who are they going to start supporting?

              Many have tried to replace Trump, but have so far failed. Those idiot voters are going to follow him off the cliff if it means avoiding admittance they were wrong.

          • NielsBohron@lemmy.worldEnglish
            6·
            1 year ago

            I’m not worried about Don Sr. if he’s convicted, but if there aren’t serious convictions among his children, I’m somewhat worried that Don Jr. or Ivanka might step in as the next fascist of choice for the GOP. I think Ivanka and Kushner are smart enough to stay out of the political limelight if they get out of this shit show without a long jail term, but Don Jr. is practically a carbon copy of the racist asshole that spawned him.

            However, the rest of the maga bootlickers currently in office prove that you don’t need to be a Trump to spew hateful rhetoric and persecute minorities, so who knows. I’m hopeful that some serious repercussions at the highest levels of the Trump administration might be able to restore some of the deteriorating political norms, and that plus a few more judges tossing out gerrymandered maps might be the last few nails in the coffin for the GOP. But then again, the genie might be out of the bottle and the next fascist that makes it to the Oval Office probably won’t be as incompetent as Trump.

          • AlwaysNowNeverNotMe@kbin.social
            5·
            1 year ago

            Hitler didn’t have children or a vast network of multinational corpofascists to carry on his ambitions after he Burned two women and escaped to Argentina killed himself.

          • thisisnotgoingwell@programming.dev
            4·
            1 year ago

            Honestly asking here, can’t they just appeal the conviction to the supreme court and get it thrown out? The supreme court has been abusing it’s power for a while now, thanks to the stacked GOP judges

            • TechyDad@lemmy.world
              7·
              1 year ago

              You don’t always get to appeal all the way up. Now, I’m not a lawyer, but my understanding is that an appeal can be heard or rejected. Let’s say Trump is convicted in the DC case and sentenced to 20 years in prison. (Which, for him, might as well be a life sentence.)

              Trump would appeal. The appeals court could decide to hear his case or deny his appeal. If they deny it, that’s it. Game over. He can’t appeal the appeal denial.

              If they accept and hear the case, they can overrule the verdict, overturn part of it (e.g. instruct the judge to use different metrics to decide on how long a sentence should be), or rule against him.

              If the appeals court hears his case, but rules against him, he might be able to appeal up a level, but he might not be allowed or the higher up level might deny it (game over again).

              And even if it gets to the Supreme Court, they might not take up the case and might not rule for him. For all their horribleness (which is plenty), the conservative Supreme Court justices seem hell bent on pushing a conservative agenda. They realize that Trump wants to push a Trump agenda. This might include some conservative elements, but it also might mean doing things that even they (the conservative Supreme Court justices) find distasteful. They might toss Trump to the curb so that a more conservative Republican could take office.

    • Kowowow@lemmy.ca
      19·
      1 year ago

      I think part of the problem is the conflicting news, my roommate was watching fox and this week they where boasting about how great trump is doing in the trial

  • finthechat@kbin.social
    41·
    1 year ago

    Bad summary. That’s not a criticism at all. Though the summary comes from the website, not the OP.

    Also, linking to Fox News, gross.

    Also, context for people who I know are not going to click on that:

    The former Arkansas governor told the Florida Freedom Summit in Kissimmee, Florida, that such an outcome will make it harder for Republicans down the ticket to win their races if Trump, who is leading in the polls, wins the 2024 Republican nomination.

    “There is a significant likelihood that Donald Trump will be found guilty by a jury on a felony offense next year. That may or may not happen. Before you vote in March, and it might not make any difference to you, but it will make a difference for our chances to attract independent voters in November. It will make a difference for those down-ticket races for Congress and Senate, and it will weaken the GOP for decades to come. As a party, we must support the rule of law,” he said.

    He’s trying to rally Republican voters to make sure they don’t get too complacent with Trump being a sure bet during the next election, not criticizing him.

  • Treczoks@lemmy.world
    18·
    1 year ago

    They simply cannot accept reality. If they had not bent reality by gerrymandering and manipulating access to ballot boxes, reality would have kicked their sorry asses long ago.

  • TechyDad@lemmy.world
    121·
    1 year ago

    Boo at it only being “significant likelihood” and not “absolutely assured - in fact, he’s in prison now.”

    But a cautious yay at the direction that the justice system is headed with Trump. (In all but the documents case with Cannon. Double Boo there.)

  • theodewere@kbin.social
    143·
    1 year ago

    respect to Hutchinson for saying it and just continuing to make his point through the boos

    • ChunkMcHorkle@lemmy.worldEnglish
      10·
      1 year ago

      Asa Hutchinson was Governor of Arkansas from January 2015 to January 2023. Note that he is only just now saying anything at all.

      Which is to say that while he was licking the orange hand that fed him, he was all too content to let anything negative regarding Trump remain unsaid.

      Hutchinson is only speaking up now because he’s trying to rally GOP voters who won’t vote at all if the spraytan antichrist can’t be president again. You don’t even have to read between the lines, it’s right there:

      The former Arkansas governor told the Florida Freedom Summit in Kissimmee, Florida, that such an outcome [felony conviction] will make it harder for Republicans down the ticket to win their races if Trump, who is leading in the polls, wins the 2024 Republican nomination.

      . . . “That may or may not happen. Before you vote in March, and it might not make any difference to you, but it will make a difference for our chances to attract independent voters in November. It will make a difference for those down-ticket races for Congress and Senate, and it will weaken the GOP for decades to come. As a party, we must support the rule of law,” he said. [note in brackets added by me]

      He’s literally begging them to vote even if Trump is convicted and therefore cannot be president, because he’s only worried about the GOP falling from power and wants their votes for the rest of the GOP downticket candidates.

      You don’t really think Fox News is going to glorify a turncoat with coverage, do you? If he’s on Fox News, he hasn’t jumped ship at all, lol.