MicroWave@lemmy.world to politics @lemmy.worldEnglish · 17 days agoThanks to Donald Trump, 2025 was a good year … for white-collar criminalswww.theguardian.comexternal-linkmessage-square17linkfedilinkarrow-up1274arrow-down10cross-posted to: tuesday@lemmy.worldeuropeanfederalists@lemmy.world
arrow-up1274arrow-down1external-linkThanks to Donald Trump, 2025 was a good year … for white-collar criminalswww.theguardian.comMicroWave@lemmy.world to politics @lemmy.worldEnglish · 17 days agomessage-square17linkfedilinkcross-posted to: tuesday@lemmy.worldeuropeanfederalists@lemmy.world
minus-squareUnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up8·16 days agoYes. And then dupe idiots into funding me 3x what I paid to fund the criminals originally.
minus-squarequick_snail@feddit.nllinkfedilinkarrow-up2arrow-down4·16 days agoYeah, you’re the criminal
minus-squareUnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3arrow-down1·16 days agoCan’t be a criminal if nobody is getting prosecuted.
minus-squarequick_snail@feddit.nllinkfedilinkarrow-up4·edit-216 days agoOf course it can. Most US presidents are war criminals, even if they haven’t been prosecuted for war crimes.
minus-squareTheJesusaurus@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkarrow-up1·4 days agoI’m more refering to the idea that international “law” is effectively a fiction. Which law outside the USA bonds the US president
Yes. And then dupe idiots into funding me 3x what I paid to fund the criminals originally.
Yeah, you’re the criminal
Can’t be a criminal if nobody is getting prosecuted.
Of course it can.
Most US presidents are war criminals, even if they haven’t been prosecuted for war crimes.
According to whom?
Academics (not judges, yet)
I’m more refering to the idea that international “law” is effectively a fiction. Which law outside the USA bonds the US president