Don_Dickle@lemmy.world to No Stupid Questions@lemmy.world · 8 days agoBecause of Trump, is it now open for someone with a criminal background to hold the office?message-squaremessage-square19fedilinkarrow-up146arrow-down16
arrow-up140arrow-down1message-squareBecause of Trump, is it now open for someone with a criminal background to hold the office?Don_Dickle@lemmy.world to No Stupid Questions@lemmy.world · 8 days agomessage-square19fedilink
minus-squareSnowMeowXP@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up2·8 days agoI’m not from the US, but I am interested to know if Benjamin Franklin falls on this category? What is his crime?
minus-squareTheFogan@programming.devlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up18·edit-28 days ago I’m not from the US, but I am interested to know if Benjamin Franklin falls on this category? What is his crime? By definition the founding fathers were part of an opposing empire.
minus-squareohulancutash@feddit.uklinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up17·8 days agoTreason, tax evasion, sedition, breach of the peace, incitement to riot, incitement to murder.
minus-squareh54@programming.devlinkfedilinkarrow-up4·8 days agoEnslavers, rapists, and genocidal too.
minus-squareJustPlainDave@lemmy.ziplinkfedilinkarrow-up4·8 days agoYeah, but not all of them were slavers and rapists. Only most of them.
I’m not from the US, but I am interested to know if Benjamin Franklin falls on this category? What is his crime?
By definition the founding fathers were part of an opposing empire.
Treason, tax evasion, sedition, breach of the peace, incitement to riot, incitement to murder.
Enslavers, rapists, and genocidal too.
Yeah, but not all of them were slavers and rapists. Only most of them.