Trump never having been jailed for contempt is baffling
this post was submitted on 05 Aug 2023
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I think you misspelled infuriating.
Different rules for the rich and powerful.
What baffles me is his supporters all rage against stuff like this but don’t recognise their orange idol sits at the top of the pile.
They're not against it in principle. They want to be the one doing it. It's others winning they object to.
They're not against it in principle
Exactly, they have no principles just wins and losses against the other side where everything is a zero sum game
How about we stop acting like this is a goddamn game and take this seriously?
Throw him in jail until the trial starts.
The day he sees the inside of prison is the day I begin to re-evaluate my belief, or lack thereof, in a higher power.
Come on Anu/Vishnu/Zeus/Jesus/Utu/Osiris/Joe Pesci, make me a believer. Please.
How dare you leave out our lord and savior, gaben?
valid point, especially considering the large amount of free shit I've gotten from his beardedness, in direct opposition to the zilch I've gotten to the other deities mentioned.
Destroy atheism, throw him in jail.
Might be a good slogan for Christianity. Haha.
You know this whole bullshit has just reenforced my atheism. There really is no one out there protecting us. If we don't do the right thing we have to live with that.
Wouldn’t that be considered witness tampering or something like that?
Add it to the list. Neither he nor his voters care about that stuff
When he said he could shoot a man in cold blood in the middle of times Square, he wasn't kidding. He's literally raped children for God's sake.
As often as he projects... i'm kind of wondering if he's had people murdered... like the time he accused Joe Scarborough of murdering his intern... i remember thinking holy shit... start searching trump properties for buried bodies.... i mean shit he buried his ex wife on a golf course.
I mean he wouldnt do it himself. He'd hire a hitman. Which then he'd short the hitman on paying him. Its the trump way to never pay the ending fees on a contract. I dont think he himself has had a direct hand with murder. But I 100% believe he's a child rapist. He talked fondly of jeffrey epstein, and went to his parties, and commented himself on the young girls at the parties.
Just ask "Katie Johnson" the pseudonym of the little girl who was raped by trump and epstein when she was just 13 years old.
He’s a convicted rapist. No conjecture or hyperbole. A convicted rapist.
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Does the justice?
No, worse its witness intimidation. Essentially tampering "you should x" intimidation "I'll do x" one effects current witnesses while the other implies they'll go after current and potential witnesses.
That only counts when you don't have money.
I thought this was directed at the judge?
Edit: Given the context it seems aimed at the witnesses.
Possibly, but it depends on how the judge interprets it.
How is this statement open to any other interpretation than as a direct threat.
idk, i'm not a lawyer
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The prosecutors said Trump’s post raised concerns that he might improperly share evidence in the case on his social media account and they urged that he be ordered to keep any evidence prosecutors turn over to his defense team from public view.
He probably gives a flying fuck about this. He is already in deep shit creek, and any chance to rally his fans is more important than just another half inch of extra mud he is sticking in. Because if those morons vote him back into the white house, the first thing will be to pardon himself from all the crimes he did, and retaliate against the juridical system with prejudice.
He is already in deep shit creek
It's either:
He is in deep shit
or:
He is up shit creek (without a paddle)
If he is convicted surely he can't run. I thought you had to have a clean criminal record to run for office?
Nope:
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2023/04/17/can-convicted-felon-run-for-president/
The constitutional qualifications for being president are being a natural-born U.S. citizen, a resident for at least 14 years and over the age of 35. A person can be disqualified by conviction in a Senate impeachment trial, but a criminal conviction does not affect eligibility.
His only hope is to sow chaos and delay, until he is inaugurated. Then he'll disband the FBI and build a Gestapo.
Trump wrote in all caps Friday afternoon
What a dumbass. Can't really read his tweets without hearing him losing it or having a stroke.
on Truth Social, which is run by a media company he co-owns.
Does it still work? What a surprise. Unpleasant one.
I wouldn't mind him having a stroke.
Truth Social uses Mastodon code, so it does work.
Not like they have to do much, it's just mastodon with federation turned off
Trump is incapable of not saying or doing stupid shit.
Feral genius presents as saying stupid shit.
The guy is a monster but somehow slips the snare over and over again.
I would love to lose the bet, but my money is on time, nullification, or pardon ensuring that he isn’t particularly inconvenienced by the four indictments.
He can’t stop digging
He keeps digging, yet somehow he's still outside the hole. I know the prosecutor wants to make sure they get everything right, but this man is embarrassing the entire country, and making a joke of it's institutions.
Our institutions have been a joke for almost 250 years.
I am 100% convinced that he thinks pushing the envelope as far as possible thought out this will stall the process, cause conflict, and make the court look like it has a vendetta against him. He’s going to do this most with NY, DC, and GA case, and not as much in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Florida case because his entire argument in those other cases is that the courts themselves are trying to silence him. And who knows. It might work. It’s worked for him well in the past.
His only way out of this is to stall, stall, stall, and win the election by making himself look like the victim to his core supporters and few dumb fuck centrists in swing states.
And it’s working. You’ll be seeing influential people who were critical of trump come out and say “I hate trump but it’s obvious he’s being attacked simply because they hate him.” These people will be paid millions by his campaign. People like Joe Rogan etc. will “gradually” become full on trump supporters with the narrative they they still don’t like trump but hate what the DOJ is doing more and paint trump as a future political prisoner.
The only way out of this is a huge effort to get people to vote. They’re counting on apathy and muddy waters.
Throwing an ex president in jail would bring a myriad of problems, but at some point America should bite the bullet, own its mistake, and fucking do it.
But not throwing him in jail sends a pretty terrible message to his contemporaries, causing more problems.
For his first dumb tweet he'll get the protective order. If he does it again I could see a judge definitely thinking of putting him behind bars. Whether it happens or not depends on whether he wants to double down. I'm hoping he does.
Or when you see idiots post things like this. If you want to complain that's fine but at least look at the facts what you're comparing. Apparently Trump supporters are incapable of that. Yes Hilary questioned the election results and even Democrats objected to the electoral count of the certification of some of the rust belt states Trump won. But they didn't try to get Joe Biden to send the results back to Michigan, Wisconsin and Pennsylvania. Obama wasn't calling up state officials to overturn the results. Democrats didn't get an angry mob to storm the capitol.
Also, while I don't doubt that there were more than enough people voting for Trump anyway, considering the fact that he has attempted to fiddle with the results before, what is the guarantee that he hasn't before that?
I'm not saying Hillary was right (it doesn't matter in hindsight anyway), but at least now I understand her doubts a bit more.
With all the projections of him losing, Hillary winning popular vote by 3 million, I've thought since then something shady happened. Then in 2020 with all the bullshit he spewed, where did he get that idea from? Everything these clowns do is projection. The only fraud found was fraud they committed. How much more did they do that didn't get looked into?
At this point, whenever someone from the GOP accuses anyone from the left of something, I say both get immediately investigated. We all know what the results would be and right would plug their ears and walk away yelling Hillary's emails and Hunter's laptop.
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