What's the difference between Biden and dictators? Both throw opponents in jail? That is what I got back from some Trump devotees on a private Facebook site when I accused Trump of planning to be a dictator in his second term. The answer lies in the degree of support, respect, and abiding by the process rules and laws that put anyone in jail or deprive them of jobs and civil rights. It is the rule of law, not the rule of a person who says which laws apply and how they are interpreted. Why do I think that?
. The criminal process (the only process that"throws Trump in jail" )filed by the Biden Justice Department has not gone to trial yet. Other criminal cases are either state, not federally controlled like Georgia's, and probably will not be concluded until after the November 2024 elections. Those on January 6 already in jail had all of the due process protections a democracy affords the accused. Whether Trump is subject to the 14th Amendment keeping him off ballots as an insurrectionist will be decided by a Trump appointee-dominated US Supreme Court well before the November 2024 elections. The Colorado case that is key was brought by members of the GOP or independents, not Democrats or Biden.
The following has been moved and posted as a separate post on January 1, 2024
MUFTIC FORUM BLOG: Short and simple: Is Biden or Trump a dictator?
MUFTIC FORUM BLOG: If you think Trump was kidding about being a dictator, the joke is on you.
https://mufticforumblog.blogspot.com/2023/12/what-is-dictator-and-does-trump-fit-it.html
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