In a YouGov poll conducted between July 25-29, 59 percent of Republicans surveyed said they would prefer a president under the age of 75. Trump celebrated his 78th birthday in June. Forty percent said they had no preference, and just two percent said they would prefer a president over the age of 75.

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185 points

He knows if he isn’t elected, he’s going to prison.

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1 point

he’s not going to prison, he’ll get like house arrest on his golf course

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I think it’s because he knows that if he is elected he’ll be President until old age and unhealthy living kill him, whether that’s two years from now or twenty.

“You won’t have to do it anymore. Four more years, you know what? It’ll be fixed, it’ll be fine. You won’t have to vote anymore, my beautiful Christians,” he said.

And who knows what the remaining government of Trumpistan will choose to do for his replacement after that.

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He’s not going to prison

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1 point

Do they send 78 year old people to prison?

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28 points

I’m not so sure I agree that he will be held accountable for his actions if he doesn’t win. I think he still narrowly avoids prison even if he doesn’t win, or maybe only spends like 3 days maximum in prison, sadly.

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He is not a healthy man, Trump will die before he’s held accountable for anything. He’s lived a long life of being a terrible person and the only consequence he’ll face for it is the stress of court cases through his final years and the knowledge that only 40ish% of voters would vote for him again.

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Nah, the miracle of modern medicine with being able to afford the best doctors in the world will keep him for many years to come.

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9 points

You may be absolutely correct, but we know for a fact that he won’t be held accountable if he does win.

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28 points

I really don’t think his Supreme Court is going to allow him to have a custodial sentence. They showed they were fully on the Trump train by finding immunity in the constitution when it plainly reads otherwise.

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13 points

There’s also the possibility of house arrest. I’ll take that.

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For most people, it would be a horrible punishment to be forced to spend your older years at one of his resorts*… surrounded exclusively by people who are happy to support him financially.

*or maybe “resort”, anybody know if you can stay at any impeached ex-presidential resorts besides mar-AHHHH!!!-lago?

lol:

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It doesn’t seem like a real consequence. Also, what if he breaks it? Will there be a consequence for that? I don’t see it happening.

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94 points

…or Russia.

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8 points

A good plan B if he was capable of planning on his own.

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7 points

I highly doubt the Feds would allow that.

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42 points

Go directly to gulag, do not pass Mar-A-Lago.

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7 points

This is depends if there are still top secret documents there.

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29 points

A Russian prison would be a fitting setting for him. Hope he outlives his usefulness.

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21 points

They wouldn’t throw him in prison even if he could get there. They would put him on one of their propaganda “news” channels and let him go to town. They can subtitle whatever they want for the locals so he can say whatever.

But he’ll never get there. He has a permanent secret service escort that probably isn’t going to be cool with defecting to russia.

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True. It wouldn’t shock me if he did the Idi Amin thing.

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