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JBSay01/22/20252 repliesview on HN

Quite an interesting fact that both committed victimless crimes and both were victims of exceptional prosecution


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WinstonSmith8401/22/2025

That's comparing apples and oranges. One spent 10 years in a jail for making himself rich (and some others), the other never spent a day in a jail for committing at the highest level election subversion, retention of classified information, hush money payment (and more) - and was caught on the latter, eventually. It was arguably "exceptional prosecution" for that hush payment, like Al Capone was caught on a mere tax fraud

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mcv01/22/2025

Are you calling Trump's crimes "victimless"? And he's barely been prosecuted. Everything was postponed indefinitely or blocked by corrupt judges.