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The only reason we still have our constitutional republic is because of Republicans and former Trump supporters who stood up to him when he pressured ...

You'd have to be an idiot to think Trump was just innocently asking a state official to investigate fraud, after listening to that call and knowing th...

I agree simply because atheism and materialism are not synonymous, even though many people treat these two positions as if they are. As an atheist, I'...

Trump is no victim. He brought all of this on himself. All of it. He could have refrained from whatever he did to Jean Carroll. He could have refraine...

I definitely think it is a cult mentality as a form of hero worship where they have accepted the narrative that Trump is the outsider/renegade/avenger...

In Trump's January 6th speech compare how much language of fighting there is to how much language there is about peace. By my count, he says fight, fi...

Something I've heard from conservatives is that they wish Trump hadn't been indicted and they'd rather his future be decided by the will of the voters...

Presumption of innocence is a legal principle that applies to the judge and jury in a trial, and it is a good principle to have. But let's not apply i...

Sure, his innocence is assumed as a matter of legal principle and the burden is on the prosecution to establish his guilt. I agree with you on that. B...

I suspect that the reason Trump announced his candidacy abnormally early is that he anticipated being indicted. He knew that once he was a candidate h...

Julius Caesar, more than anybody, is responsible for the death of the Roman Republic, and yet he is the most famous and arguably most admired Roman of...

What's your support for this premise? Why should we think free will is impeded by constant divine scrutiny? Is that like saying being aware the police...

That's true, it doesn't. I was only responding to the OP question of "is philosophy still relevant?" and pointing out that is a philosophical question...

I've seen this topic come up repeatedly over the past thirty years or so, since I've developed an interest in reading philosophy for pleasure (early 9...

What this amounts to is an exception being made for the White House using a very specific interpretation of of the statute to freely engage in nepotis...

Signed. Just think, Trump wouldn't be going through all of this if he had just conceded the election and gave back classified documents when asked nic...

No, it means there are different ways of violating the statute: (1) by employing a relative, and (2) by paying a relative you employed. Nowhere in the...

Section b says they can't be appointed or employed. Section c says they can't be paid.

Kushner created his investment firm the day after Trump left the White House in January 2021 and the Saudi government gave it the $2 billion six month...

It's not Russophobia. I like Russians. I greatly admire the likes of Glazunov, Borodin, Rimsky-Korsakov, Glière, Doesteyevksi, Tolstoy and many others...

Do you understand the concept of a someone running as a third party splitting the vote which ends up helping the opposition to win? It's the same conc...

By all means, investigate the Bidens. If they're guilty of any crimes, let the evidence come out. Unlike many Trump supporters, I'm not going to deny ...

I don't disagree with everything you said but come election day I may not have a choice since not voting for Biden will be equivalent to handing the e...

Maybe it's just me, but there seems to be a degradation in the quality of younger generations and the politicians they produce. We're stuck with Biden...

The intended victims of Trump's felonies were the American voters. If you voted for Biden, and in particular if you sent a mail-in ballot that wasn't ...

I don't think it much matters what Trump believes or believed. It's like when you catch a snake oil salesman selling poison to people and telling them...

You'll be waiting a long, long time if you're waiting for an old fraudster like Trump to confess. You'd have to be an idiot to think he believed the e...

Oddly enough, even a confession doesn't establish certainty. People have confessed to crimes they haven't committed.

It's an inference but not that big of a stretch. It's not like they don't know each other and the best explanation is that Bannon's and Stone's predic...

The mantra from Trump's lawyer and supporters that I keep hearing now is "they're trying to criminalize political speech." But what if some 'political...

People should read the indictments where the charges are laid out clearly. My questions go in the opposite direction. If you are a Trump supporter, an...

Yes, Roger Stone did as well. https://sports.yahoo.com/video-shows-roger-stone-telling-065216462.html

We knew prior to the election that Trump was planning to declare victory prematurely if it looked like he was ahead, and claim any subsequent votes th...

That's a lot different from declaring victory on election night when he was behind and all the votes hadn't been counted yet.

They are evidence that there was a plan to overturn the election results if Trump was losing or lost. Stone and Bannon were both confidants and adviso...

I remember hearing audio clips from Steve Bannon and Roger Stone prior to the election that the plan was for Trump to claim the election was rigged an...

In the 1960 election JFK got 303 electoral votes to Nixon's 219. Hawaii at that time was worth 3 electoral votes. In the initial count of the popular ...

I can imagine a better analogy with a relationship to the perpetrator's belief, not merely what he said in an operational sense. Consider someone who ...

This is mostly what the defense will amount to, but it won't hold up because the charges aren't about Trump doubting the election results or investiga...

I would say the decline in belief in sin directly correlates to the decline of belief in God, since sin is by definition transgression of God's law. W...

I understand what you are saying, but what other option is there? Using logic and reason won't work on everyone all of the time, but it must work on s...

I don't want to get bogged down defending Drange's argument since I was only presenting it for the purposes of illustration. I was more focused on a r...

Recently, I saw a Christian use "the greatest trick the Devil ever pulled..." quote and it got me to thinking about how such a Christian will argue th...

Keep in mind that argument is targeted to people with very specific beliefs about God. If you don't have those beliefs, it doesn't apply to you. For e...

That's correct. I am going with the traditional interpretation of classical theism with God defined with the attributes of omnipotence, omniscience, o...

That's true, and that's why I said "most forms of Christianity." I am going by popular interpretations and doctrines. In classical theism, God is trad...

We know that Trump did try to exert influence over his own DoJ on particular issues. For example, he pressured them to “Just say the election was corr...

I'm suspicious that the only reason Trump is running for president again is to try to avoid all of these legal challenges. I think it's why he announc...

Whataboutism is not a legal defense. Both things could be true: Trump could be guilty of crimes and Hunter Biden could be guilty of crimes. Both may a...

I didn't think it was conceivable that Trump would win in 2016. He was a non-serious candidate, a reality TV star with no political experience, a real...