The outcome wasn't guaranteed; that's the scary part. If Trump had decided to take a hand then it could have been drawn out for months at a minimum.

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ceejayoz 4 hours ago | parent [-]

At some point, barring him getting beaten to death in jail, this was always going to get in front of a judge who'd go "uh what the fuck?!" It's about as slam-dunk of a situation as you could come up with.

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lotsofpulp 3 hours ago | parent [-]

I could say that about a litany of court cases in the previous decade, yet here we are, our president winning immunity for all tax evasion, in the past and future, for his whole family, and getting seditious white supremacists paid while doing it.

	▲	ceejayoz 3 hours ago \| parent [-]
		It is my fervent hope that said fund will, when it encounters a judge, collapse for similar reasons.