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riversedge

(70,488 posts)
Mon Apr 29, 2024, 04:08 PM Apr 29

'Rest of life in prison': RNC official frets about 'decades' in jail in fake elector case

Source: msn




Story by David Edwards • 3h •

Republican National Committee lawyer Christina Bobb, a former conservative news anchor and attorney for Donald Trump, said she expected to spend the rest of her life in prison if she is found guilty of trying to overturn the 2020 presidential election in Arizona.

During a Monday interview on Real America's Voice, host Steve Bannon asked Bobb what her punishment could be if she is found guilty on nine counts of trying to organize fake electors to hand the election to Trump.


"The nine felonies are how many years in prison?" Bannon wondered.

"I don't know how many for those nine felonies. Yeah, several decades or 50 years in prison," Bobb replied. "Yeah, I assume it would be the rest of my life in prison."


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...................Bobb was among 18 people charged in the Arizona fake elector scheme. Trump confidantes Rudy Giuliani and Boris Epshteyn were also charged.

Watch the video from Real America's Voice below or at this link.





Bobb noted that she had served in the Marine Corps.,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,

Read more: https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/rest-of-life-in-prison-rnc-official-frets-about-decades-in-jail-in-fake-elector-case/ar-AA1nSeZO?ocid=socialshare&cvid=71b1f5f43e924e0da879aecde512918c&ei=26



You would think a lawyer would know better!!





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'Rest of life in prison': RNC official frets about 'decades' in jail in fake elector case (Original Post) riversedge Apr 29 OP
Well, there's that old saying, Christina... Ocelot II Apr 29 #1
It's deeper that that . . . AverageOldGuy Apr 29 #23
As a Marine, she took an oath to this country and her actions betrayed that oath. Deuxcents Apr 29 #2
She should have thought about that Leith Apr 29 #3
Don't do the crime if you can't do the time... eShirl Apr 29 #4
Don't threaten me with justice and accountability ZonkerHarris Apr 29 #5
For good behavior they should give her a reduction of 20 minutes. twodogsbarking Apr 29 #6
I'm ok with that. James48 Apr 29 #7
She lucked out for not ALSO being charged in GA (at least yet) BumRushDaShow Apr 29 #8
Her sentences would be served concurrently, not consecutively Fiendish Thingy Apr 29 #9
She's a Trump Lawyer NonPC Apr 29 #27
Lucky they aren't facing a gallows. Kid Berwyn Apr 29 #10
In another era, they definitely would have. Wednesdays Apr 29 #18
Dress her in a puppy suit and tell Kristi Noem that she's untrainable. Hermit-The-Prog Apr 30 #45
Poor, poor baby. mwb970 Apr 29 #11
Oh well. I hear the dinner menu @ "club fed" is awesome. Botany Apr 29 #12
Flip yt woman flip irisblue Apr 29 #13
Where are they!? Oh there they are - 50 Shades Of Blue Apr 29 #14
#FAFO, Christina DinahMoeHum Apr 29 #15
Orange seems to be your new favorite color. rubbersole Apr 29 #16
A Marine and an attorney relayerbob Apr 29 #17
He'd have to be shaved, fumigated and bathed first. Prof. Toru Tanaka Apr 30 #44
Yeah right...a white republican doing time in prison? C Moon Apr 29 #19
Everyone's heard the phrase, but do they know the source? Grokenstein Apr 29 #20
He should have listened to his theme song (allegedly). Marcuse Apr 29 #32
Yeah, that works for me... 2naSalit Apr 29 #21
Time for some of that good ole Republican "personal responsibility" EarthFirst Apr 29 #22
Everything, everyone . . AverageOldGuy Apr 29 #24
But look at the bright side lady, Turbineguy Apr 29 #25
There is a time honored statement that covers this: Tough shit Sherlock. Chainfire Apr 29 #26
Chesebro -- the architect of the whole scam -- got a $5,000 fine and probation. Wouldn't worry Silent Type Apr 29 #28
Awww, poor baby. AllyCat Apr 29 #29
If only she gets that sentence. marble falls Apr 29 #30
Jeers for tears for fears. live love laugh Apr 29 #31
Meanwhile, we Americans are condemned to spending the rest of our lives trying to get rid of Trump Walleye Apr 29 #33
Cry in prison. Stupid ass. Evolve Dammit Apr 29 #34
Here's some advice. Ray Bruns Apr 29 #35
She'll just get a slap on the wrist like the rest of them. Irish_Dem Apr 29 #36
Kick usonian Apr 29 #37
This is the lawyer EndlessWire Apr 30 #38
Jeez - Have All of These Brain-dead Followers Attended Some Sort of Heritage or Federalist Society School of Whining? The Roux Comes First Apr 30 #39
Wasn't treason Old Crank Apr 30 #40
Well they can't put her into prison because she is now in charge of "election integrity" for the RNC Botany Apr 30 #41
So far the consequences of these trumper's actions haven't amounted to squat wolfie001 Apr 30 #42
Folks, there' a question that keeps rising up in my consciousness............ jaxexpat Apr 30 #43
She'll get a fine equivalent to a parking ticket. Justice is dead. Hermit-The-Prog Apr 30 #46

Deuxcents

(16,460 posts)
2. As a Marine, she took an oath to this country and her actions betrayed that oath.
Mon Apr 29, 2024, 04:12 PM
Apr 29

50 years in prison would be fine with me.

Leith

(7,818 posts)
3. She should have thought about that
Mon Apr 29, 2024, 04:24 PM
Apr 29

before she actively participated in a coup against a duly elected government official.

Too late to whine and squirm her way out of it.

James48

(4,445 posts)
7. I'm ok with that.
Mon Apr 29, 2024, 04:33 PM
Apr 29

Fifty years sounds about right for an accomplice.

Of course, for the main guys, I’d want to see double that.

BumRushDaShow

(130,162 posts)
8. She lucked out for not ALSO being charged in GA (at least yet)
Mon Apr 29, 2024, 04:40 PM
Apr 29

She needs to start working on some plea deals like her compatriots Jenna Ellis and Sidney Powell.

Fiendish Thingy

(15,723 posts)
9. Her sentences would be served concurrently, not consecutively
Mon Apr 29, 2024, 04:43 PM
Apr 29

And as a lawyer, she should know this.

My guess is the max sentence is 20 years, and the reality is she would maybe serve 8, 10 years tops.

Wednesdays

(17,509 posts)
18. In another era, they definitely would have.
Mon Apr 29, 2024, 06:03 PM
Apr 29

In many, many other countries, they wouldn't even get a trial before skipping right to the execution.

Botany

(70,677 posts)
12. Oh well. I hear the dinner menu @ "club fed" is awesome.
Mon Apr 29, 2024, 04:56 PM
Apr 29

And don’t know if she can flip on Donny being his lawyer and everything.


relayerbob

(6,562 posts)
17. A Marine and an attorney
Mon Apr 29, 2024, 05:54 PM
Apr 29

Committing treason. She absolutely knew better, she can’t argue ignorance. I have zero sympathy. My only question is why Bannon isn’t in prison.

Prof. Toru Tanaka

(2,000 posts)
44. He'd have to be shaved, fumigated and bathed first.
Tue Apr 30, 2024, 09:10 AM
Apr 30

As for Bobb, her trying to pull the veteran’s card for sympathy makes her crimes more outrageous and egregious. She knew better.

2naSalit

(87,021 posts)
21. Yeah, that works for me...
Mon Apr 29, 2024, 06:16 PM
Apr 29

I'd be getting the same if I were fucking stupid enough to pull the shit she did.

AverageOldGuy

(1,573 posts)
24. Everything, everyone . .
Mon Apr 29, 2024, 06:25 PM
Apr 29

Everything Trump touches dies.

Everyone Trump touches ends up hanging out there all by hm/herself.

They'll never learn.

Silent Type

(3,067 posts)
28. Chesebro -- the architect of the whole scam -- got a $5,000 fine and probation. Wouldn't worry
Mon Apr 29, 2024, 06:41 PM
Apr 29

too much if she cooperates. But, maybe Arizona will be different.

EndlessWire

(6,586 posts)
38. This is the lawyer
Tue Apr 30, 2024, 12:21 AM
Apr 30

that signed the affidavit for the classified docs that said they had all been returned, when in reality there were hundreds of retained and hidden docs. She's knee deep in it all on her own. Just another lawyer who gave up her life for the likes of Trump.

Well, Dear, ignorance is no excuse. Plus, it kinda looks like you were trying to overturn my country's government. So, stick it (time to turn prosecution witness, if you can't think of that on your own.)

The Roux Comes First

(1,303 posts)
39. Jeez - Have All of These Brain-dead Followers Attended Some Sort of Heritage or Federalist Society School of Whining?
Tue Apr 30, 2024, 01:14 AM
Apr 30

It is truly pathetic to realize that they have little more than "pitiful me" to their name! Maybe we should consider some tutoring and/or scholarship program to get them into something more constructive - like, say, a good master's program in rock-paper-scissors.

Old Crank

(3,685 posts)
40. Wasn't treason
Tue Apr 30, 2024, 01:57 AM
Apr 30

A capital offense and a firing squad? She gets off lightly. The current GOP wants to turn back the clock. But not for them.

Botany

(70,677 posts)
41. Well they can't put her into prison because she is now in charge of "election integrity" for the RNC
Tue Apr 30, 2024, 08:29 AM
Apr 30

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wolfie001

(2,324 posts)
42. So far the consequences of these trumper's actions haven't amounted to squat
Tue Apr 30, 2024, 08:51 AM
Apr 30

Everything's always on appeal. Waiting for the next court filing. On and on until after the November election. The judiciary is using Dean Smith's old delay tactics. Run the clock out.

jaxexpat

(6,888 posts)
43. Folks, there' a question that keeps rising up in my consciousness............
Tue Apr 30, 2024, 08:55 AM
Apr 30

"How the hell could these people do what they did and not realize they were betraying the ideals the nation's historic heroes fought and died for?"

Then an answer of sorts echoes in reply. Until the twentieth century, the US was a pretty much isolationist little backwater on the global stage. The two "so called" world wars found us, thankfully, an ocean away from the disruption of actual ground combat. Our whole "war" experience gave us a false sense of immunity from the bone deep horror and dread of mindless shells and bombs falling onto our homes and pastures as foreign troops maraud our neighborhoods. But we had "won" because our belief system and our society were "more just" than the others. This brings us to the epic myth of American exceptionalism, meaning, we can do literally anything to and on Earth.

After long decades of subsequent international "righteous" bullying, the infotainment media calling even the most shameful actors, "heroes", the national fashionable predilection became one of confidence and invincibility. This illusion was most consistently upheld as the only reasonable explanation by the neo-conservative party as it took over the Republicans. The marginally civilized among us, importantly including professional military personnel, have taken this blatant misinterpretation of contemporary events as a license to do whatever the hell they "feel is best".

Bottom line, they don't teach civics like they should anymore and "only minority people do actual, punishable crimes*".

* Whereas I believe disregarding low info civics is a major Department of Education misstep, the latter part of the sentence is purely because way too many stupid bastards believe racial prejudice is fact based and I like putting them down whenever I get the chance.

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