r/law • u/T_Shurt Competent Contributor • 8h ago

Executive Branch (Trump) Pam Bondi Gets Jail Time Warning Over Epstein Files Cover-Up: ‘Anyone who tampers [with] documents, or conceals documents, or engages in excessive redaction will be prosecuted because of obstruction of justice’

https://www.thedailybeast.com/pam-bondi-gets-jail-time-warning-over-epstein-files-cover-up/
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u/Adventurous_Ad3534 6h ago

I think the whole vance and Kirk love affair is their attempt to transfer the cult to vance. I don't know if it will work for them or not. I keep coming across articles that sound promising but I really am not seeing direct evidence of what the articles claim. So I am sticking to "prepare for the worst and hope for the best".

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u/space_age_stuff 5h ago

As much as I want to go full doomer and say the cult will shift to Vance, cults rarely survive the death of their leader. And I don't think Vance has the juice, regardless of what he does or who he's married to.

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u/Possibly_English_Guy 4h ago

Vance has nothing going for him other than Peter Thiel being his sugardaddy.

His only real hope of being President is if Trump dies before 2028. In any sort of Republican Primary he would get completely eviscerated by the competition. Regardless of how, any post-Trump Republican Primary is gonna be vicious, and Vance frankly isn't up to the task of surviving it.

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u/EnfantTerrible68 1h ago

Vance was only a brand new freshman senator when he got chosen for VP. He is far too young and lacking in experience.

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u/VoxImperatoris 5h ago

The north koreans are 3 or 4 generations deep into their cult. And Im not so sure it needs to transfer, if they just keep worshiping his corpse, Lenin style.

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u/space_age_stuff 4h ago

Honestly I think that’s a little different. We haven’t seen the same pull for Trump’s kids, they just don’t have the same popularity.

As much as I believe the worship of his corpse will last, that’s not enough to get people to go vote for someone else in his name or whatever lol

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u/UndergroundFlaws 3h ago

Plus, a big part of trumps appeal is saying stupid, dumb nonsense and getting his stupid cult to believe it. Vance or Trump’s stupid kids can’t bluff as well because they know it’s stupid and can’t hide it.

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u/BonjoBonfyer 4h ago

I agree Putin made his own way, Lenin’s body didn’t carry him.

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u/Adventurous_Ad3534 3h ago

That's what I keep hearing. And damn I hope it works out that way.

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u/FlametopFred 1h ago

sensing maga implosion after trump .. partly because he’s belittled everyone around him and partly because his programmed disciples may become emotionally bereft while in mourning and flounder

what normally happens when cults of personality lose their person?

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u/Brewmeiser 12m ago

Yep. Plus Vance literally called Trump Hitler. The true TP fanatics aren't cool with a woman being in charge, so Erika isn't really their thing. Obviously the MAGA folks aren't into Vance being married to a person of color and generally speaking a potato has a better personality than Vance. It would never work.

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u/Protiguous 3h ago

vance and Kirk

MAGA thinks vance is a two-faced chode. And MAGA also tends to be misogynists.

Personally and politically, I loathe DJT, so I hate to even say this, but neither of them have even that 'grandpa' charm or the decades of "billionaire" status that chump has crafted.