“Innocent until proven guilty” is such a cheap, cynical deflection.
Of course that’s the case in a court of law.
Applied to politics, it implies that only convictions can be used to judge someone’s character and fitness for office (i.e. by a voter), or to hold an elected official accountable for misbehavior.
Trumpist Corollary - anything short of a criminal conviction is “exoneration”.
“Innocent until proven guilty” is such a cheap, cynical deflection.
Of course that’s the case in a court of law.
Applied to politics, it implies that only convictions can be used to judge someone’s character and fitness for office (i.e. by a voter), or to hold an elected official accountable for misbehavior.
Trumpist Corollary - anything short of a criminal conviction is “exoneration”.
"Innocent until proven guilty." Unless of course you are Hilary Clinton, Joe Biden, or any other Democrat, immigrant, black person, Hispanic, non-Christian, or LGBTQ. Then you are by definition guilty of anything and everything they can dream up. On the other hand, convicted Republicans were railroaded by the socialist pedophile deep state.
“Innocent until proven guilty” is such a cheap, cynical deflection.
Of course that’s the case in a court of law.
Applied to politics, it implies that only convictions can be used to judge someone’s character and fitness for office (i.e. by a voter), or to hold an elected official accountable for misbehavior.
Trumpist Corollary - anything short of a criminal conviction is “exoneration”.
he admitted it , no more proof needed
"Innocent until proven guilty." Unless of course you are Hilary Clinton, Joe Biden, or any other Democrat, immigrant, black person, Hispanic, non-Christian, or LGBTQ. Then you are by definition guilty of anything and everything they can dream up. On the other hand, convicted Republicans were railroaded by the socialist pedophile deep state.
Not to mention, Santos has been definitively, repeatedly proven guilty of lying.
Not to mention he admitted lying. You know, all that “embellishment.”
Trump probably loves him.