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Mike S's avatar

“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”.

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Lynn  Bentson's avatar

he admitted it , no more proof needed

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JMFK's avatar

"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.

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MillennialExistential's avatar

Not to mention, Santos has been definitively, repeatedly proven guilty of lying.

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Sheri Smith's avatar

Not to mention he admitted lying. You know, all that “embellishment.”

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rlritt's avatar

Trump probably loves him.

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