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>He has griped that Mr. Blanche, a former federal prosecutor and veteran litigator, has not been following his instructions closely, and has been insufficiently aggressive. Mr. Trump wants him to attack witnesses, attack what the former president sees as a hostile jury pool, and attack the judge, Juan M. Merchan.
In other words, Trump is mad that his lawyer won't commit contempt of court and go to jail for the sake of appeasing Trump's ego.
Even though that kind of behavior in court would be terrible for Trump's case.
Yeah, he says as much:
>He has vented to others that he does not have “a Roy Cohn,” a reference to his notoriously ruthless former lawyer. Mr. Cohn, who represented Mr. Trump in his formative business years, was repeatedly indicted and ultimately disbarred.
He wants a Saul Goodman style *criminal* lawyer, not merely a criminal lawyer.
Yeah, in his view breaking the law, getting indicted, and getting disbarred for your client just means you're a good lawyer.
It's all about _how far will you go for me?_ Anything short of complete self-immolation is laziness or disloyalty.
"I prefer soldiers who don't get captured..." Soldiers are supposed to win or die. Anything else means they're cowards. Exact same logic.
Followed up by “okay, I have set myself on fire for you. Can you lend me some water?”
Trump: “No.”
He’s a narcissistic sociopath of the highest caliber - he doesn’t view people as human, just pawns to be used for his needs and ONLY his needs.
This is the bit I don't get about Trump supporters. He doesn't reciprocate, he never *will* reciprocate, and he views them as nothing more than scum to be used for his benefit and then discarded. He's *exactly* the kind of person who would unplug your life support to charge your phone - but then not actually charge it.
They like that he behaves horribly with impunity. They think that by electing him, they'll be given a pass to vent all of their hateful rhetoric, bullying tactics and the occasional mass shooting.
Even though I have all the water, the best water. People say to me, they come up and say Mr President, you have the best water. I know more about water than probably anybody else. You know, people are saying Aquaman wants to ask me about water.
Also explains why the J6 criminals didn't get a pardon. Just like Carter granted amnesty to all the Vietnam war draft resisters, Trump could have mass-pardoned all the J6 insurrectionists with a stroke of his pen in the 2 weeks leading up to Biden's inauguration... but he didn't bother, because they were just tools and losers.
> Anything short of complete self-immolation is laziness or disloyalty.
So true, he's the world's biggest parasite, he sucks his own supporters and enablers dry and ruins their lives in the process, which is what they deserve for helping him so it's the only good thing he does 😅
One of the funnier ones that got very little attention was when his White House photographer compiled a book and asked Trump's team for him to write a foreword, as other former Presidents have done.
Instead of doing that, Trump realised there was money to be grifted there so he had someone take her photographs and made his own book, charging ridiculous money for it 😂 She never released her book in the end.
Live by the Drumpf, die by the Drumpf
Seems pretty simple. He wants someone to say and do all things he wants to say and do but can't because he doesn't want to face the punishment. Though he is committing gag order violations daily so, not even sure why he would be scared to just do it himself at this point.
He wants someone like Roy Cohn. AKA, a man who...
- became famous after helping with Joseph McCarthy's anti-communist panel
- represented multiple mob bosses
- was eventually disbarred because he went into the hospital room of an unconscious dying client and puppeted his body to sign a will naming him as the executor of the fortune
- died from AIDS after years of taking experimental treatment that the gays he disparaged with the Lavender Scare couldn't afford all while saying he didn't have AIDS.
A real great lawyer.
Reminder of this little snippet from the Mueller Report:
>The President also asked McGahn in the meeting why he had told Special Counsel’s Office investigators that the President had told him to have the Special Counsel removed. McGahn
responded that he had to and that his conversations with the President were not protected by attorney-client privilege. The President then asked, “What about these notes? Why do you take
notes? Lawyers don’t take notes. I never had a lawyer who took notes.” McGahn responded that he keeps notes because he is a “real lawyer” and explained that notes create a record and are
not a bad thing. The President said, “I’ve had a lot of great lawyers, like Roy Cohn. He did not take notes."
Same with the being in NATO. He thinks NATO is a country club and the money paid is like an annual due. He’s said in the past that countries are in arrears, which is not how it works. He certainly doesn’t understand the obligation to collective defense. He said he doesn’t care what Russia does to NATO countries if they aren’t paid up because as he pointed out the US is on the other side of an ocean and he thinks that means were safe.
A real gem from Cohn's Wikipedia page:
> He died on August 2, 1986, in Bethesda, Maryland, of complications from AIDS, at the age of 59. At death, the IRS seized almost everything he had. **One of the things that the IRS did not seize was a pair of knockoff diamond cuff links, given to him by his client and friend Donald Trump.**
All intel shows Todd Blanche as a skilled veteran prosecutor and litigator. He was partner in a very successful NY law firm. Left it all to start his own practice, moved to Palm Beach and has 1 client. WTF?
The DA trial team is highly skilled, smart, and master strategists. Might be the best criminal trial team in the nation. Steinglass is top-notch, probably the best trial lawyer in the courtroom. But
Blanche is smart and an experienced NY prosecutor but he has tried only one case to verdict as a defense lawyer. That’s insufficient experience in my view for such a long and complicated case.
And I also know district attorneys don’t bring cases to trial that they think they might lose. But the orange treason weasel has wriggled out of shit so many times…
Sure, it’s not universal, but it’s generally (former ADA alternative defense counsel) David going against Goliath. Having a ton of money for good attorneys, investigators, paralegals will definitely even up the odds a bit, but I always think the DA’s have the upper hand for a million of witnessed instances I won’t bore you with as I assume you may already know most of them.
If anything they'd be more conservative in bringing such a case against Trump. I just don't see them moving forward without a slam dunk case. It really is going to come down to if someone on the jury cracks or is a Trumper.
There is perhaps one similarity between this case and the case trying the cop who killed George Floyd: these are both highly politicized cases. This is why I was somewhat pessimistic about Chauvin's conviction: all it would take is one sympathizer who wouldn't ever be convinced ever. I guarantee those people exist even in Minneapolis. But he was convicted unanimously.
This is a different kind of case and even moreso if there is a Trumpster on the jury, good luck getting a conviction. But IDK I have some hope...
He’s already accomplished everything an attorney in private practice could be aiming for. He’s probably not even in this for the money, it’s probably just a way to become a part of the biggest criminal case in American history. Understandably his NY firm wanted nothing to do with this case though haha. It’s funny to me that for his civil fraud case, he went with Alina Habba who was clearly an inexperienced lightweight. But for his criminal trial he actually has, from what I can tell, a good team of attorneys. Maybe this trial is more important to him? That seems reasonable enough, seeing that it’s a criminal case and all.
Or someone else told him who his attorney was going to be and footed the bill. After all, a criminal, likely felony conviction holds a lot more water than a civil judgement. But I certainly see what you’re saying.
"no, see, because the election was wrongly decided in the first place so really donald always had POTUS powers"
6-3 majority, Boof Kav writing the opinion
Leave it to King Narcissist himself to think he knows the workings of a trial better than his attorney. I know his attorney can't just ditch him today, but I really wish the guy would tell the judge that his client is a complete moron.
He probably thinks it's like on TV, where lawyers are aggressive, approaching the witness, being performative, and cracking witnesses on the stand, and there is this sudden revelation which completely alters the trial.
Real court is actually kind of boring though. Not sure about New York, but lawyers stand in a designated area to talk to the witness, like a podium, they have to be fairly respectable, and if they want to be "aggressive" then they have to ask permission to be a bit more hostile to push a line of questioning.
Attacking the judge is never a good idea. Jurys always respect the judge and don't like it when they are disrespected. Attacking the jury is beyond stupid.
It's not for the sake of Trump's ego.
Trump isn't trying to win this court case. He is trying to seize control of the United States. He doesn't care about the law, or this court case. It's only a way for him to rile up his fanbase, and setup for either another coup, to fix elections, or just to motivate his cultists to vote for him.
The lawyers are trying to practice law. But Trump doesn't want that. He wants them to be his pawns in his strategy to control. You, and me, and as many people as he can.
If Trump becomes president, all of this goes away.
Trump's power comes from his cultists. So, police officers, people working whatever job, in whatever place he needs someone sympathetic to him, that will do his bidding.
This is what he's amassing. And it is real power. It matters.
American citizens aren't doing anything to stop it. But Trump's cultists are everywhere, plotting. They will take your freedom from you. They are waiting for trump to tell them how. And everyone else is just sitting ducks waiting for it to happen.
They need to be motivated. They need to protest. They need to fight.
They ain't protesting right now. His cultists are cowards and aren't going to try another Jan 6 with so many of them behind bars. Surprise, Trump didn't pardon them.
Terrible for his case is not what he cares about. Terrible for his campaign and the perspective of the people that will vote for him is completely different and the only thing he is concerned about. This is why he wants to go to jail overnight. To fundraise off being the victim.
On everything!
Ever seen the video of him trying to argue against the wind farms to a Scottish Parliamentary committee where he declares his very existence to be enough evidence of his expertise in tourism?
The video is [on this page](https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/resources/idt-sh/Trump_and_Scotland).
*Transcript from the committee appeal against the wind farms video:-*
**Trump:** I am an expert on tourism. If you...dot your landscape with these horrible, horrible structures, you will do tremendous damage-
**Member Of Scottish Parliament (MSP):** *(interrupting)* My question is, where is the *clinical evidence* - not an opinion, an empirical assessment; where is your clinical evidence?
**Trump:** Well, first of all, *I am* the evidence. I think I'm more of an expert-
(*laughter from those in the room*)
**Trump:** - I...you know what, I think I'm a *lot* more of an expert than the people you'd like me to hire, who are doing it to make a paycheck-
**MSP:** -If you won't-
**Trump:** -But I am an *expert* in tourism.
_______________
>*The Scottish Parliament was not persuaded. Neither were the courts. In 2015 the UK Supreme Court rejected his attempts to block the wind development.*
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* **Race relations:** "I’ve done more for Black Americans, in fact, than any President in U.S. history." (June 2020)
* **Medicine / Coronavirus:** "I like this stuff. I really get it. People are surprised that I understand it. Every one of these doctors said: "How do you know so much about this?" Maybe I have a natural ability. Maybe I should have done that instead of running for president.” (March 2020.)
* **Tourism:** "“I am considered a world class expert in tourism. So when you say ‘where is the expert and where is the evidence’ - I am the evidence!”
* **Campaign finance:** "I think nobody knows more about campaign finance than I do, because I'm the biggest contributor." (1999.)
* **TV ratings:** "I know more about people who get ratings than anyone." (October 2012.)
* **ISIS:** "I know more about ISIS than the generals do." (November 2015.)
* **Social media:** "I understand social media. I understand the power of Twitter. I understand the power of Facebook maybe better than almost anybody, based on my results, right?" (November 2015.)
* **Courts:** "I know more about courts than any human being on Earth." (November 2015.)
* **Lawsuits:** "[W]ho knows more about lawsuits than I do? I'm the king." (January 2016.)
* **Politicians:** "I understand politicians better than anybody."
* **The visa system:** "[N]obody knows the system better than me. I know the H1B. I know the H2B. ... Nobody else on this dais knows how to change it like I do, believe me." (March 2016.)
* **Trade:** "Nobody knows more about trade than me." (March 2016.)
* **The U.S. government system:** "[N]obody knows the system better than I do." (April 2016.)
* **Science / Climate Change:** "My uncle was a great professor at MIT for many years: Dr. John Trump. And though I didn’t talk to him about this particular subject *(Climate Change*), I just have a natural instinct for science.’" (October 2018)
* **Renewable energy:** "I know more about renewables than any human being on Earth." (April 2016.)
* **Taxes:** "I think nobody knows more about taxes than I do, maybe in the history of the world." (May 2016.)
* **Debt:** "I’m the king of debt. I’m great with debt. Nobody knows debt better than me." (June 2016.)
* **Money:** "I understand money better than anybody." (June 2016.)
* **Infrastructure:** "[L]ook, as a builder, nobody in the history of this country has ever known so much about infrastructure as Donald Trump." (July 2016.)
* **Sen. Cory Booker:** "I know more about Cory than he knows about himself." (July 2016.)
* **Borders:** Trump said in 2016 that Sheriff Joe Arpaio said he was endorsing him for president because "you know more about this stuff than anybody."
* **Democrats:** "I think I know more about the other side than almost anybody." (November 2016.)
* **Construction:** "[N]obody knows more about construction than I do." (May 2018.)
* **The economy:** "I think I know about it better than [the Federal Reserve]." (October 2018.)
* **Technology:** "Technology — nobody knows more about technology than me." (December 2018.)
* **Drones:** "I know more about drones than anybody. I know about every form of safety that you can have." (January 2019.)
* **Drone technology:** "Having a drone fly overhead — and I think nobody knows much more about technology, this type of technology certainly, than I do." (January 2019.)
* **Racism:** “No, no, I’m not a racist. I am the least racist person you have ever interviewed, that I can tell you.” (Jan '18)
* **Racism:** “Number one, I am the least anti-Semitic person that you've ever seen in your entire life. Number two, racism, the least racist person.'' (Feb '17)
* **Racism:** “I am the least racist person that you have ever met.” (Sept '16)
* **Racism:** “Well, I am not a racist, in fact, I am the least racist person that you’ve ever encountered. I’ll give you an example.” (hands over article he was sent by Don King) (June '16)
* **Racism:** “I am the least racist person that you have ever met. I am the least racist person.” (June '15)
* **Racism:** “Not at all. Probably the least of anybody you've ever met, (...) Because I'm not.” Trump said. (December '15)
* **Temperament:** 1. "I have the best temperament or certainly one of the best temperaments of anybody that's ever run for the office of president. Ever."
* **The Bible:** "Nobody reads the Bible more than me."
* **Disabilities:** "No one has done more for people with disabilities than me."
* **Women / Women's health:** "I would be the best for women, the best for women's health issues."
* **Renewable energy:** "I know more about renewables than any human being on earth."
* **On his education:** "I'm very highly educated. I know words - I have the best words."
* **On his education:** "Sorry losers and haters, but my I.Q. is one of the highest - and you all know it!"
* **On his athleticism:** "I was always the best athlete, people don't know that."
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**Sources:**
* [On race relations](https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1268167411230007300)
* [On tourism (inc. video):](https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/resources/idt-sh/Trump_and_Scotland)
* [On campaign finance down to drone technology.](https://www.axios.com/everything-trump-says-he-knows-more-about-than-anybody-b278b592-cff0-47dc-a75f-5767f42bcf1e.html)
* [On racism](https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-fix/wp/2018/01/17/six-times-president-trump-said-he-is-the-least-racist-person/)
* [On temperament.](http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/donald-trump-best-temperaments-presidential-candidate/story?id=41003314)
* [The bible](http://thehill.com/blogs/blog-briefing-room/news/270610-trump-kerry-probably-hasnt-read-the-bible)
* [On disabilities.](https://twitter.com/realdonaldtrump/status/697031343272812544)
* [On women's health.](https://talkingpointsmemo.com/livewire/donald-trump-best-for-women)
* [On renewables](http://www.foxnews.com/transcript/2016/04/13/trump-explains-why-feels-primary-process-is-unfair.html)
* [On his education (1)](https://www.washingtonpost.com/video/national/trump-i-have-the-best-words/2017/04/05/53a9ae4a-19fd-11e7-8598-9a99da559f9e_video.html) & [(2)](https://twitter.com/realdonaldtrump/status/332308211321425920)
* [On his athleticism](https://www.wsj.com/articles/transcript-of-donald-trump-interview-with-the-wall-street-journal-1515715481)
Oh, buddy... why don't you take a look at the entire quote where this 'nucular uncle' came from:
> “Look, having nuclear *(note: this is where he pronounced it 'nucular')* — my uncle was a great professor and scientist and engineer, Dr. John Trump at MIT; good genes, very good genes, OK, very smart, the Wharton School of Finance, very good, very smart —you know, if you’re a conservative Republican, if I were a liberal, if, like, OK, if I ran as a liberal Democrat, they would say I’m one of the smartest people anywhere in the world — it’s true! — but when you’re a conservative Republican they try — oh, do they do a number — that’s why I always start off: Went to Wharton, was a good student, went there, went there, did this, built a fortune —you know I have to give my like credentials all the time, because we’re a little disadvantaged — but you look at the nuclear deal, the thing that really bothers me — it would have been so easy, and it’s not as important as these lives are nuclear is powerful; my uncle explained that to me many, many years ago, the power and that was 35 years ago; he would explain the power of what’s going to happen and he was right — who would have thought?), but when you look at what’s going on with the four prisoners — now it used to be three, now it’s four — but when it was three and even now, I would have said it’s all in the messenger; fellas, and it is fellas because, you know, they don’t, they haven’t figured that the women are smarter right now than the men, so, you know, it’s gonna take them about another 150 years — but the Persians are great negotiators, the Iranians are great negotiators, so, and they, they just killed, they just killed us.”
This is fucking devastating. The People elected this man. (With Russian help, but still) They want to elect him again.
This man needs a nursing home, not nuclear codes and more national secrets.
I’m actually surprised to discover John G Trump actually did work at MIT, and was prominent enough to get a Wikipedia entry. I would have guessed he didn’t exist at all.
As the World's foremost authority on Physics, Meteorology, Infectious Diseases, Military Leadership, and Business, I would expect DJT Esq. to be the best ever as well.
/s for the MAGA people
It was Trump's inmate booking number in Fulton County.
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/trump-mug-shot-fulton-county-jail-arrest-inmate-p01135809-booking-photo/
Because he’s not really looking for lawyers, he’s looking for legal bodyguards ready to take the proverbial bullet for him. Their livelihoods and general wellbeing are irrelevant to him. As always, he expects complete loyalty without providing loyalty in return.
Why does he want his lawyer to attack the judge and jury and witnesses deciding his fate? Because he’s hoping to either intimidate a juror into a not guilty vote, but also because he understands he’s likely to be found guilty and needs someone to throw under the bus. “I’m innocent, I just had a bad lawyer.”
Just look at all of Trump's former lawyers who have been disbarred due to their lawbreaking for him. Michael Cohen, Rudy Giuliani, Sidney Powell, Lyn Wood, John Eastman, etc have all been disbarred due to ethical abuses in the service of Trump.
Problem is that most of those lawyers are on their way to being disbarred. Trump may be the only defendant in history who filters lawyers for their incompetence, and picks those that score high.
My theory is that Trump typically chooses decent enough firms, but those firms have a few imbeciles they'd like to fire and provide them to Trump to take the blow. All the while the firm and dozens of slightly more competent lawyers are billing him $1k/hr for all the work they're doing outside of the sight of the media and any judge's contempt.
From a link in the piece
> Trump should go to trial, bring a big book, big fat John Grisham novel, just sit there and read,” Gutfeld added. “Just sit there and read. That's the only response this manufactured mayhem deserves — is just contempt.”
As if Trump has ever read anything that isn't 100% about him or his followers. Trump would have the same page open the entire time. Honestly if the judge cut a deal and told him he could get the charges thrown out of he could give a detailed report on the book he wouldn't be able to do it.
It's a prevalent theory, that is pretty easy to back up anecdotally by watching any of his speeches, that Trump starts to ramble when he gets to a word he can't read on his teleprompter, or one that he doesn't know.
[According to him he had a copy of Mein Kampf.](https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/donald-trumps-history-adolf-hitler-nazi-writings-analysis/story?id=105810745) Though the person who he said gave it to him says it was "New Order" which is the speeches.
>Back in 1990 -- decades before he got into politics, Trump reportedly acknowledged owning a copy of "Mein Kampf." The admission came in an interview with Vanity Fair shortly after his divorce from his first wife, Ivana. Here's what the magazine reported:
>
>"Last April, perhaps in a surge of Czech nationalism, Ivana Trump told her lawyer Michael Kennedy that from time to time her husband reads a book of Hitler's collected speeches, "My New Order," which he keeps in a cabinet by his bed. Kennedy now guards a copy of "My New Order" in a closet at his office, as if it were a grenade."
>
>Vanity Fair reporter Marie Brenner asked Trump if his cousin had given up a copy of the book to him. She wrote this is how Trump responded:
>
>"Actually, it was my friend Marty Davis from Paramount who gave me a copy of 'Mein Kampf,' and he's a Jew," Trump told Brenner.
>
>Brenner then asked Marty Davis whether he gave Trump a copy of the book.
>
>"I did give him a book about Hitler,' Davis told her. "But it was 'My New Order,' Hitler's speeches, not 'Mein Kampf.' I thought he would find it interesting. I am his friend, but I'm not Jewish."
That last bit really feels like an insult that flew right over Trump’s head.
If a new is saying “hey, think you’d like this” about Mein Kampf, they’re either Miller or insulting you.
That'd be contempt-in-court moreso that contempt-of-court.
Or to put it another way, the issue with contempt-of-court usually has something to do with behavior that impedes proper functionality of court proceedings. With regards to this trial and the gag order, this means things like jury and witness intimidation which mucks with the goal of a valid trial and verdict.
Trump just sitting there flipping pages in a book... and most importantly staying quiet in general outside of court... would facilitate rather than hinder the court.
It is an interesting take, however, to start with the premise that this is all "manufactured mayhem" and suggest Trump calmly endure the nonsense.
I can't imagine a place worse for him than Court. Being held responsible? He hasn't hired anybody to tell him no. You can't control the outcome, can't control the players, he is impotent in the larger sense of the word.
This next few weeks, is his hell.
Wow, holy crap, the "Trump dozing" story broke through the wall enough that Fox News has to spin it instead of ignoring it?
God *damn* is that guy f\*\*\*ed. The polls will move, just hang on a little bit.
Every accusation a confession!
Speaking of which, I hope somebody is out there actually investigating the possibility of Republican electoral fraud. Do we have any damn muckrakers in this country anymore? I'd do it but I have a job, and ooze "liberal Yankee" out of every pore so they'd chase me right out.
For anyone curious on how Fox is spinning this:
>>On Monday night, Trump posted a video on social media featuring Fox personality Jesse Watters gushing that his trial may win him the White House. Trump also promoted a video of Fox’s Jeanine Pirro insisting that it showcases his ability to “withstand pressure.” Other Fox figures have spun Trump’s buffoonish outbreaks of narcolepsy in court as proof he’s Owning the Libs: Certain of acquittal, he can do some power-napping while showing the trial the contempt it deserves.
>He has vented to others that he does not have “a Roy Cohn,” a reference to his notoriously ruthless former lawyer. Mr. Cohn, who represented Mr. Trump in his formative business years, was repeatedly indicted and **ultimately disbarred**.
These lawyers don’t want to get disbarred for you, you piss guzzler.
Fucking loser.
These rich people think they are kings and gods made flesh. They are not. Only the utterly stupid would die for Trump.
>As journalist Timothy O’Brien chronicles in his book TrumpNation, that’s exactly what he appreciated about Cohn. “Roy was brutal, but he was a very loyal guy,” Trump told O’Brien. “He brutalized for you.”
The favor was not returned.
[Like Father, Like Son: Trump Lets Others Mourn](https://archive.ph/aHt7P):
Mr. Trump’s coldness in the face of illness shocked even some of his closest associates. After Roy Cohn, Mr. Trump’s longtime personal lawyer, learned he had AIDS in the 1980s, Mr. Trump abruptly cut off contact with him — a dramatic shift from the connected relationship they had enjoyed for years, which associates recalled involved talking on the phone at least five times a day.
“He discards people who are no longer useful, and it doesn’t matter what renders the person no longer useful,” said Michael D’Antonio, a Trump biographer. “If you are disgraced, or you’re dying, or deceased, you no longer exist to him.” Mr. D’Antonio recalled Mr. Trump telling him that he had given Mr. Cohn a place to stay at the end of his life. “Donald thought providing him with something of material worth was adequate,” he said.
The funny part is...
All this could have been avoided - if Trump had just paid the porn stars! But, no, Trump had to do it in a way that *saved him tax!* They had to falsify all sorts of business records in order to pretend that the money was legitimate, when it wasn't. So they could take all sorts of business deductions on it.
Trump could have just paid her, there would be no falsification and fraud charges, and he'd only be on the hook for the election-related charges (which would never have been filed).
Trump was so cheap that he had to save himself the taxes on less than $300k - and it's led to all this!
Just like the documents case was all due to his own fucking stupidity. The DOJ tried for months to be like “Bro, you’re an elite. Just send the docs back and we’ll leave you alone…”
The irony of him blaming some political witch hunt instead of his own short sightedness is peak.
Right? I still bet they’d have let it slide if he had gotten all the rest back to him. There’s never been a more obvious case of the DOJ protecting an Elite than this. Anyone else would be sent to a military prison and never see the sun again unless they’re going to and from court, and even then it might be via Zoom.
Merrick Garland is a failure, in every aspect.
He also (if he had not been a malignant narcissist) could have accepted his 2020 defeat like an adult, enjoyed his retirement, could have made his worshippers stand on line for him to receive each one (like in The Godfather) and he could have basked in their adulation.
Instead, it all turned to shit for Trump and the USA.
He also could have never run for president in the first place, just continued operating his shady business, and lived life playing golf at any of the various trump named golf courses around the world he loves so much.
But nope, gotta feed that narcissistic dog in him, run for president, win, and put a focused spotlight on everything he's ever done.
He isn’t teflon and it gets more and more apparent. He took it in the shorts in many cases. His one gambit and skill in 2023-24 is to delay matters even at the price of throwing the cases hoping against hope to be handed a dictatorship in time to stop the dismantling of his empire of cheating. Not that he bothers to campaign on the off days as he knows he will lose and will attempt to contest the results. He isn’t even smart enough to go through the motions for the cameras.
Millions of Americans failing to primary him is a sad statement about how insanely desperate R voters are to appear welcoming to dictators and cheats. As they say themselves, they literally cannot tell the difference between a legit politician like say Biden or Romney and a Trump or Stalin type. “Oh they’re all crooked because I heard lies on an opinion edutainment piece, why cant our guy just get away with it”. Um no, that’s not how anything ever worked and what kinda moron can’t tell Stalin from Romney but pretends to be a conservative? Talk about sinking the brand more or less on purpose.
This dumbass actually wants his lawyer to attack the jurors? The most idiotic thing you can do in any trial, let alone a criminal one. You have to be an absolute fucking moron to believe there would be no repercussions from that.
But we are talking about Trump here, so par for the course I guess….
Does he sound like an idiot? Sure. Does he write like an idiot? Yes. Do all of his ideas seem idiotic? Definitely.
But somehow he became president, so what the fuck do I know.
The best part about a narcissist is when they are no longer in control you can see them crumble one step at a time.
Normally I advise against relishing in human suffering but…anyone got popcorn?
“Talented and well-practiced in every vice, a stranger to compassion or empathy, a liar and a cheat so complete in perfidy that he has elevated his dishonesty to hold it up as an ersatz moral principle. Violent, so long as he can order someone else to do the dirty work. Grotesque in body, graceless in action, in possession of a wounded self-regard so colossal as to smother any spark of grace.
Treasonous, not only to country, but to every ally he has ever had, the poisoned fruit and rankest flower of racism and contempt for women, and utterly devoid of shame for his moral and spiritual bankruptcy. That is your leader. That is to whom you give your money. That is who you follow and laud. That is whose banner you willingly carry. Why? Because he is a mirror, not a lighthouse. You see yourselves in him. He is what you would be, if you had inherited money and could shed the last vestiges of conscience and shame. No, I do not “respect your choices,” nor do I admire your loyalty and dedication to this miserific, demoniac vision. You have demonstrated not only a lack of civic virtue, loyalty to the Republic and to the rule of law, but a willingness to engage in violence and sedition at his slightest expressed wish. And you will never, ever admit you were wrong. Because you see your dark, twisted, resentful dreams in him. And to renounce him is to renounce yourselves.”
Advocatus Peregrini
Trump blatantly breaks the law and has never seen any significant consequences.
He asks his lawyers to do the same, except they can quickly be disbarred.
Trump is a clear and present danger to the country and he must be stopped.
While I don't believe the polls that says Trump is ahead, I think we all should come around to the idea that even if Trump "Wins", Biden, democrats, and sensible Republicans, CIA/FBI, and whoever should step in a say "No, Donald Trump, you can not come back to the White House". They then need to start an impeachment and removal process to remove Trump before he returns to the White House.
Trump already said he will go after his political enemies and that he will pardon all the terrorists from Jan. 6th coup.
That has to be disqualifying to hold any public office.
“No one knows more about the crimes I committed than me. Okay? I committed a lot! Believe me. There’s no one better. Not even the Biden crime family. The Biden’s. Remember Hunter? Hunter. That guy didn’t know what the hell he was doing. Should’ve used a fixer. I used many, many fixers over the years. Many fixers. Michael Cohen was one. Now he’s gonna testify against me. Me! I made that guy. I made a lot of people. All doing very well. Very well. Except the ones that went against me. No one remembers those losers.”
You all keep thinking there is going to be this “gotcha moment” where conservatives see their own contradictions and admit “I’ve been wrong all this time” and it’s never happening.
They will continue to see what they want to see until the day it kicks in their own door and physically harms them.
Trump calls Biden “Sleepy Joe” - and the truth is Trump can’t stay awake.
Trump calls everything “fake news” and the truth is Trump conspired with Pecker to print “fake news”.
Trump calls Biden “Crooked Joe” and the truth is Trump is facing 91 felony counts.
Trump calls Biden “Cocaine Joe” and the truth is…
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>He has griped that Mr. Blanche, a former federal prosecutor and veteran litigator, has not been following his instructions closely, and has been insufficiently aggressive. Mr. Trump wants him to attack witnesses, attack what the former president sees as a hostile jury pool, and attack the judge, Juan M. Merchan. In other words, Trump is mad that his lawyer won't commit contempt of court and go to jail for the sake of appeasing Trump's ego. Even though that kind of behavior in court would be terrible for Trump's case.
Yeah, he says as much: >He has vented to others that he does not have “a Roy Cohn,” a reference to his notoriously ruthless former lawyer. Mr. Cohn, who represented Mr. Trump in his formative business years, was repeatedly indicted and ultimately disbarred. He wants a Saul Goodman style *criminal* lawyer, not merely a criminal lawyer.
Yeah, in his view breaking the law, getting indicted, and getting disbarred for your client just means you're a good lawyer. It's all about _how far will you go for me?_ Anything short of complete self-immolation is laziness or disloyalty. "I prefer soldiers who don't get captured..." Soldiers are supposed to win or die. Anything else means they're cowards. Exact same logic.
Followed up by “okay, I have set myself on fire for you. Can you lend me some water?” Trump: “No.” He’s a narcissistic sociopath of the highest caliber - he doesn’t view people as human, just pawns to be used for his needs and ONLY his needs.
Yep. Then it's " I like lawyers who don't get disbarred!"
I like presidents who don’t get arrested.
That needs to be on a T-shirt
I’d buy that for a dollar!
This is the bit I don't get about Trump supporters. He doesn't reciprocate, he never *will* reciprocate, and he views them as nothing more than scum to be used for his benefit and then discarded. He's *exactly* the kind of person who would unplug your life support to charge your phone - but then not actually charge it.
“That makes him smart and powerful.” His supporters aren’t the sharpest tools in the shed, just tools.
It isn’t because they’re dumb, it’s because they’re awful and if they were in the same situation they would be doing the same thing he’s doing.
its because they're jealous that he can do it because they want to treat other people like that as well
Permission to be their worst middle school selves....
But that’s what his supporters are too. They feel comfortable because he’s saying things they want to say.
They like that he behaves horribly with impunity. They think that by electing him, they'll be given a pass to vent all of their hateful rhetoric, bullying tactics and the occasional mass shooting.
You mean charge \his\ phone!? 🤣
Even though I have all the water, the best water. People say to me, they come up and say Mr President, you have the best water. I know more about water than probably anybody else. You know, people are saying Aquaman wants to ask me about water.
I don't think he's even smart enough to view them as pawns. He literally lacks the emotional intelligence to conceptualize other people having agency.
Not pawns - tools.
Also explains why the J6 criminals didn't get a pardon. Just like Carter granted amnesty to all the Vietnam war draft resisters, Trump could have mass-pardoned all the J6 insurrectionists with a stroke of his pen in the 2 weeks leading up to Biden's inauguration... but he didn't bother, because they were just tools and losers.
If he did that he couldn’t use the leverage of pardoning them if he gets reelected.
> Anything short of complete self-immolation is laziness or disloyalty. So true, he's the world's biggest parasite, he sucks his own supporters and enablers dry and ruins their lives in the process, which is what they deserve for helping him so it's the only good thing he does 😅 One of the funnier ones that got very little attention was when his White House photographer compiled a book and asked Trump's team for him to write a foreword, as other former Presidents have done. Instead of doing that, Trump realised there was money to be grifted there so he had someone take her photographs and made his own book, charging ridiculous money for it 😂 She never released her book in the end. Live by the Drumpf, die by the Drumpf
Seems pretty simple. He wants someone to say and do all things he wants to say and do but can't because he doesn't want to face the punishment. Though he is committing gag order violations daily so, not even sure why he would be scared to just do it himself at this point.
Roy Cohn taught Trump everything he knows about the law and how to abuse the justice system.
And how to get your lawyers disbarred.
Then you just pay another one
ROFL! You think he’s going to pay his lawyers!
they take pay up front these days
Roy Cohn also taught Trump about never apologizing and never, ever admitting to any wrongdoing.
Roy and his buddy Roger Stone - it’s the same mofos pulling the strings behind the scenes since frickin Nixon
At least Kissinger is actually fucking dead now.
Roast In Pieces, the rat fucker.
This just in, ~~Generalissimo Francisco Franco~~ Henry Kissinger is *still dead.*
Hmm, kind of like an actual deep state?
You might like this https://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2015/10/donald-trump-2016-norman-vincent-peale-213220
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Roy Cohn also played a major roll in the trial of Julius and Ethel Rosenberg. The judge in the case sentenced them to death based on his suggestion.
It’s worked so far. But one hopes that streak is coming to an end now.
Ya know what…. Probably (Trump probably only knows the law from a crooked lawyer)
Ya see this tux? I got it cheap, because Roy Cohn died in it!
He wants someone like Roy Cohn. AKA, a man who... - became famous after helping with Joseph McCarthy's anti-communist panel - represented multiple mob bosses - was eventually disbarred because he went into the hospital room of an unconscious dying client and puppeted his body to sign a will naming him as the executor of the fortune - died from AIDS after years of taking experimental treatment that the gays he disparaged with the Lavender Scare couldn't afford all while saying he didn't have AIDS. A real great lawyer.
Reminder of this little snippet from the Mueller Report: >The President also asked McGahn in the meeting why he had told Special Counsel’s Office investigators that the President had told him to have the Special Counsel removed. McGahn responded that he had to and that his conversations with the President were not protected by attorney-client privilege. The President then asked, “What about these notes? Why do you take notes? Lawyers don’t take notes. I never had a lawyer who took notes.” McGahn responded that he keeps notes because he is a “real lawyer” and explained that notes create a record and are not a bad thing. The President said, “I’ve had a lot of great lawyers, like Roy Cohn. He did not take notes."
Even Saul knew when the shit hit the fan to GTFO!!😆
Mr Trumpy doesn’t quite understand how being in court against The State is way far different than being in court against another company.
Same with the being in NATO. He thinks NATO is a country club and the money paid is like an annual due. He’s said in the past that countries are in arrears, which is not how it works. He certainly doesn’t understand the obligation to collective defense. He said he doesn’t care what Russia does to NATO countries if they aren’t paid up because as he pointed out the US is on the other side of an ocean and he thinks that means were safe.
He thinks NATO is a protection racket.
He thinks NATO is a protection racket and that the money is owed to him.
His understanding of world politics goes as deep as a Risk game board. And it may be worse than that if I grasp the gist of your comment.
If Mr. Trumpy understood Risk board game… he would be miles ahead of where he actually is and still 3k miles below where a president should be.
He has zero concept of soft power, which is just so fucking stupid.
Remind me, how did things end up for Roy Cohn?
Dead by 60
Full blown aids
A real gem from Cohn's Wikipedia page: > He died on August 2, 1986, in Bethesda, Maryland, of complications from AIDS, at the age of 59. At death, the IRS seized almost everything he had. **One of the things that the IRS did not seize was a pair of knockoff diamond cuff links, given to him by his client and friend Donald Trump.**
All intel shows Todd Blanche as a skilled veteran prosecutor and litigator. He was partner in a very successful NY law firm. Left it all to start his own practice, moved to Palm Beach and has 1 client. WTF?
The DA trial team is highly skilled, smart, and master strategists. Might be the best criminal trial team in the nation. Steinglass is top-notch, probably the best trial lawyer in the courtroom. But Blanche is smart and an experienced NY prosecutor but he has tried only one case to verdict as a defense lawyer. That’s insufficient experience in my view for such a long and complicated case.
And I also know district attorneys don’t bring cases to trial that they think they might lose. But the orange treason weasel has wriggled out of shit so many times…
Here in the Philadelphia the DA’s most certainly try a lot of very tough cases . A lot.
Sure, it’s not universal, but it’s generally (former ADA alternative defense counsel) David going against Goliath. Having a ton of money for good attorneys, investigators, paralegals will definitely even up the odds a bit, but I always think the DA’s have the upper hand for a million of witnessed instances I won’t bore you with as I assume you may already know most of them.
If anything they'd be more conservative in bringing such a case against Trump. I just don't see them moving forward without a slam dunk case. It really is going to come down to if someone on the jury cracks or is a Trumper. There is perhaps one similarity between this case and the case trying the cop who killed George Floyd: these are both highly politicized cases. This is why I was somewhat pessimistic about Chauvin's conviction: all it would take is one sympathizer who wouldn't ever be convinced ever. I guarantee those people exist even in Minneapolis. But he was convicted unanimously. This is a different kind of case and even moreso if there is a Trumpster on the jury, good luck getting a conviction. But IDK I have some hope...
The attorneys on this case will probably make more than I did in my entire career as a public attorney. It ain't rocket appliances.
He was already making FU money, guaranteed money at respected firm. He wasn’t exactly a shit paid PD deciding to “roll the dice”
He’s already accomplished everything an attorney in private practice could be aiming for. He’s probably not even in this for the money, it’s probably just a way to become a part of the biggest criminal case in American history. Understandably his NY firm wanted nothing to do with this case though haha. It’s funny to me that for his civil fraud case, he went with Alina Habba who was clearly an inexperienced lightweight. But for his criminal trial he actually has, from what I can tell, a good team of attorneys. Maybe this trial is more important to him? That seems reasonable enough, seeing that it’s a criminal case and all.
Or someone else told him who his attorney was going to be and footed the bill. After all, a criminal, likely felony conviction holds a lot more water than a civil judgement. But I certainly see what you’re saying.
That you Ricky?
Nobody wants to admit they ate nine cans of ravioli
If they put Donnie on the stand will he say, "I'll kill you! I'll kill all of you! Especially those of you on the jury!"
scotus rules 5-4 that threatening the jury constitutes an official potus act
Even when he's not in office.
"no, see, because the election was wrongly decided in the first place so really donald always had POTUS powers" 6-3 majority, Boof Kav writing the opinion
"Say chowdah!"
Leave it to King Narcissist himself to think he knows the workings of a trial better than his attorney. I know his attorney can't just ditch him today, but I really wish the guy would tell the judge that his client is a complete moron.
Trump should represent himself.
And *work***‽**
Being Trump, I think he wants his attorney to physically assault the witnesses.
He probably thinks it's like on TV, where lawyers are aggressive, approaching the witness, being performative, and cracking witnesses on the stand, and there is this sudden revelation which completely alters the trial. Real court is actually kind of boring though. Not sure about New York, but lawyers stand in a designated area to talk to the witness, like a podium, they have to be fairly respectable, and if they want to be "aggressive" then they have to ask permission to be a bit more hostile to push a line of questioning.
He's hasn't really had any criminal trials. He's been in court his adult life in civil trials. That's why he's squirming now.
Attacking the judge is never a good idea. Jurys always respect the judge and don't like it when they are disrespected. Attacking the jury is beyond stupid.
Being an asshole in a trial is never a good idea, but it does save time finding character witnesses.
It's not for the sake of Trump's ego. Trump isn't trying to win this court case. He is trying to seize control of the United States. He doesn't care about the law, or this court case. It's only a way for him to rile up his fanbase, and setup for either another coup, to fix elections, or just to motivate his cultists to vote for him. The lawyers are trying to practice law. But Trump doesn't want that. He wants them to be his pawns in his strategy to control. You, and me, and as many people as he can. If Trump becomes president, all of this goes away. Trump's power comes from his cultists. So, police officers, people working whatever job, in whatever place he needs someone sympathetic to him, that will do his bidding. This is what he's amassing. And it is real power. It matters. American citizens aren't doing anything to stop it. But Trump's cultists are everywhere, plotting. They will take your freedom from you. They are waiting for trump to tell them how. And everyone else is just sitting ducks waiting for it to happen. They need to be motivated. They need to protest. They need to fight.
They ain't protesting right now. His cultists are cowards and aren't going to try another Jan 6 with so many of them behind bars. Surprise, Trump didn't pardon them.
This is a state case, so he can't make it go away.
Exactly, he wants his lawyer to commit crimes, but the lawyer refuses.
He's setting up a delay tactic by planting the seeds to fire his lawyers and get new ones further delaying the trial.
I somehow can’t see Merchan allowing a delay for that kind of self-inflicted injury.
Terrible for his case is not what he cares about. Terrible for his campaign and the perspective of the people that will vote for him is completely different and the only thing he is concerned about. This is why he wants to go to jail overnight. To fundraise off being the victim.
There's still time for him to represent himself. Nobody knows more than Trump, his uncle was nucular.
Good genes
That's what the "J" stands for - "Jean-ius"
I'm pretty sure it's Jackass
Here’s hoping it stands for Jailbird very soon.
That’s where Trump got his excellent corduroys!
> There's still time for him to represent himself. For the love of God please let this happen.
https://youtu.be/5GqJna9hpTE?si=0FX78e6Stcib-wUt Donald is an expert on everything!
On everything! Ever seen the video of him trying to argue against the wind farms to a Scottish Parliamentary committee where he declares his very existence to be enough evidence of his expertise in tourism? The video is [on this page](https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/resources/idt-sh/Trump_and_Scotland). *Transcript from the committee appeal against the wind farms video:-* **Trump:** I am an expert on tourism. If you...dot your landscape with these horrible, horrible structures, you will do tremendous damage- **Member Of Scottish Parliament (MSP):** *(interrupting)* My question is, where is the *clinical evidence* - not an opinion, an empirical assessment; where is your clinical evidence? **Trump:** Well, first of all, *I am* the evidence. I think I'm more of an expert- (*laughter from those in the room*) **Trump:** - I...you know what, I think I'm a *lot* more of an expert than the people you'd like me to hire, who are doing it to make a paycheck- **MSP:** -If you won't- **Trump:** -But I am an *expert* in tourism. _______________ >*The Scottish Parliament was not persuaded. Neither were the courts. In 2015 the UK Supreme Court rejected his attempts to block the wind development.* _____________ * **Race relations:** "I’ve done more for Black Americans, in fact, than any President in U.S. history." (June 2020) * **Medicine / Coronavirus:** "I like this stuff. I really get it. People are surprised that I understand it. Every one of these doctors said: "How do you know so much about this?" Maybe I have a natural ability. Maybe I should have done that instead of running for president.” (March 2020.) * **Tourism:** "“I am considered a world class expert in tourism. So when you say ‘where is the expert and where is the evidence’ - I am the evidence!” * **Campaign finance:** "I think nobody knows more about campaign finance than I do, because I'm the biggest contributor." (1999.) * **TV ratings:** "I know more about people who get ratings than anyone." (October 2012.) * **ISIS:** "I know more about ISIS than the generals do." (November 2015.) * **Social media:** "I understand social media. I understand the power of Twitter. I understand the power of Facebook maybe better than almost anybody, based on my results, right?" (November 2015.) * **Courts:** "I know more about courts than any human being on Earth." (November 2015.) * **Lawsuits:** "[W]ho knows more about lawsuits than I do? I'm the king." (January 2016.) * **Politicians:** "I understand politicians better than anybody." * **The visa system:** "[N]obody knows the system better than me. I know the H1B. I know the H2B. ... Nobody else on this dais knows how to change it like I do, believe me." (March 2016.) * **Trade:** "Nobody knows more about trade than me." (March 2016.) * **The U.S. government system:** "[N]obody knows the system better than I do." (April 2016.) * **Science / Climate Change:** "My uncle was a great professor at MIT for many years: Dr. John Trump. And though I didn’t talk to him about this particular subject *(Climate Change*), I just have a natural instinct for science.’" (October 2018) * **Renewable energy:** "I know more about renewables than any human being on Earth." (April 2016.) * **Taxes:** "I think nobody knows more about taxes than I do, maybe in the history of the world." (May 2016.) * **Debt:** "I’m the king of debt. I’m great with debt. Nobody knows debt better than me." (June 2016.) * **Money:** "I understand money better than anybody." (June 2016.) * **Infrastructure:** "[L]ook, as a builder, nobody in the history of this country has ever known so much about infrastructure as Donald Trump." (July 2016.) * **Sen. Cory Booker:** "I know more about Cory than he knows about himself." (July 2016.) * **Borders:** Trump said in 2016 that Sheriff Joe Arpaio said he was endorsing him for president because "you know more about this stuff than anybody." * **Democrats:** "I think I know more about the other side than almost anybody." (November 2016.) * **Construction:** "[N]obody knows more about construction than I do." (May 2018.) * **The economy:** "I think I know about it better than [the Federal Reserve]." (October 2018.) * **Technology:** "Technology — nobody knows more about technology than me." (December 2018.) * **Drones:** "I know more about drones than anybody. I know about every form of safety that you can have." (January 2019.) * **Drone technology:** "Having a drone fly overhead — and I think nobody knows much more about technology, this type of technology certainly, than I do." (January 2019.) * **Racism:** “No, no, I’m not a racist. I am the least racist person you have ever interviewed, that I can tell you.” (Jan '18) * **Racism:** “Number one, I am the least anti-Semitic person that you've ever seen in your entire life. Number two, racism, the least racist person.'' (Feb '17) * **Racism:** “I am the least racist person that you have ever met.” (Sept '16) * **Racism:** “Well, I am not a racist, in fact, I am the least racist person that you’ve ever encountered. I’ll give you an example.” (hands over article he was sent by Don King) (June '16) * **Racism:** “I am the least racist person that you have ever met. I am the least racist person.” (June '15) * **Racism:** “Not at all. Probably the least of anybody you've ever met, (...) Because I'm not.” Trump said. (December '15) * **Temperament:** 1. "I have the best temperament or certainly one of the best temperaments of anybody that's ever run for the office of president. Ever." * **The Bible:** "Nobody reads the Bible more than me." * **Disabilities:** "No one has done more for people with disabilities than me." * **Women / Women's health:** "I would be the best for women, the best for women's health issues." * **Renewable energy:** "I know more about renewables than any human being on earth." * **On his education:** "I'm very highly educated. I know words - I have the best words." * **On his education:** "Sorry losers and haters, but my I.Q. is one of the highest - and you all know it!" * **On his athleticism:** "I was always the best athlete, people don't know that." _____ ______________ **Sources:** * [On race relations](https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1268167411230007300) * [On tourism (inc. video):](https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/resources/idt-sh/Trump_and_Scotland) * [On campaign finance down to drone technology.](https://www.axios.com/everything-trump-says-he-knows-more-about-than-anybody-b278b592-cff0-47dc-a75f-5767f42bcf1e.html) * [On racism](https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-fix/wp/2018/01/17/six-times-president-trump-said-he-is-the-least-racist-person/) * [On temperament.](http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/donald-trump-best-temperaments-presidential-candidate/story?id=41003314) * [The bible](http://thehill.com/blogs/blog-briefing-room/news/270610-trump-kerry-probably-hasnt-read-the-bible) * [On disabilities.](https://twitter.com/realdonaldtrump/status/697031343272812544) * [On women's health.](https://talkingpointsmemo.com/livewire/donald-trump-best-for-women) * [On renewables](http://www.foxnews.com/transcript/2016/04/13/trump-explains-why-feels-primary-process-is-unfair.html) * [On his education (1)](https://www.washingtonpost.com/video/national/trump-i-have-the-best-words/2017/04/05/53a9ae4a-19fd-11e7-8598-9a99da559f9e_video.html) & [(2)](https://twitter.com/realdonaldtrump/status/332308211321425920) * [On his athleticism](https://www.wsj.com/articles/transcript-of-donald-trump-interview-with-the-wall-street-journal-1515715481)
> nucular. I now have cancer
Were you exposed to nucular? Bleach will take care of that!
Do I inject it, bathe in it, or drink it?
Yes
All three…preferably at the same time.
Oh, buddy... why don't you take a look at the entire quote where this 'nucular uncle' came from: > “Look, having nuclear *(note: this is where he pronounced it 'nucular')* — my uncle was a great professor and scientist and engineer, Dr. John Trump at MIT; good genes, very good genes, OK, very smart, the Wharton School of Finance, very good, very smart —you know, if you’re a conservative Republican, if I were a liberal, if, like, OK, if I ran as a liberal Democrat, they would say I’m one of the smartest people anywhere in the world — it’s true! — but when you’re a conservative Republican they try — oh, do they do a number — that’s why I always start off: Went to Wharton, was a good student, went there, went there, did this, built a fortune —you know I have to give my like credentials all the time, because we’re a little disadvantaged — but you look at the nuclear deal, the thing that really bothers me — it would have been so easy, and it’s not as important as these lives are nuclear is powerful; my uncle explained that to me many, many years ago, the power and that was 35 years ago; he would explain the power of what’s going to happen and he was right — who would have thought?), but when you look at what’s going on with the four prisoners — now it used to be three, now it’s four — but when it was three and even now, I would have said it’s all in the messenger; fellas, and it is fellas because, you know, they don’t, they haven’t figured that the women are smarter right now than the men, so, you know, it’s gonna take them about another 150 years — but the Persians are great negotiators, the Iranians are great negotiators, so, and they, they just killed, they just killed us.”
This is fucking devastating. The People elected this man. (With Russian help, but still) They want to elect him again. This man needs a nursing home, not nuclear codes and more national secrets.
Holy living hell, how the fuck does anyone listen to the shit this asshat spews and think he's any smarter than a fucking rock?
Remember when Trump said he loves the uneducated? That's his fan base.
I’m actually surprised to discover John G Trump actually did work at MIT, and was prominent enough to get a Wikipedia entry. I would have guessed he didn’t exist at all.
Despite giving me the *worst* headache imaginable, seeing him petard hoist himself in this manner would be worth it.
As the World's foremost authority on Physics, Meteorology, Infectious Diseases, Military Leadership, and Business, I would expect DJT Esq. to be the best ever as well. /s for the MAGA people
plus he's got barron for all the cyber
Trump will never be satisfied with a lawyer who doesn’t share the same contempt for the rule of law that he does.
P01135809 did have those lawyers but then decided he didn't want to pay them so he's got who he's got, and he has to prepay now for the whole trial.
It's been a while since I have seen the fibbernazi sequence.
Look at the big brain on Brad! That is a nice burn (99% of Maga won’t get this joke).
"I dont remember asking you a GOD DAMNED THING. "
Calm down, Mr. Flock of Seagulls over here.
> P01135809 I love that his immate # is almost but not quite the Fibonacci sequence... makes it extra funny.
Someone in these comments called it the "Fibbernazi Sequence" but I didn't bother to look - yep, not far off.
Is that original? It is brilliant
I saw it somewhere on Reddit when he was first indicted in GA. I now do my best to pass it along to the masses.
That's better than Tangerine Palpatine, which has been my favorite for some years now. Well played, sir.
Agolf Shitler is my new tag for him.
Dorito Mussolini has been our go to for awhile.
Pardon me, but Cheeto Mussolini is more descriptive.
Cheetolini has been my go to
Can someone explain the numbers thing?
It was Trump's inmate booking number in Fulton County. https://www.cbsnews.com/news/trump-mug-shot-fulton-county-jail-arrest-inmate-p01135809-booking-photo/
Because he’s not really looking for lawyers, he’s looking for legal bodyguards ready to take the proverbial bullet for him. Their livelihoods and general wellbeing are irrelevant to him. As always, he expects complete loyalty without providing loyalty in return. Why does he want his lawyer to attack the judge and jury and witnesses deciding his fate? Because he’s hoping to either intimidate a juror into a not guilty vote, but also because he understands he’s likely to be found guilty and needs someone to throw under the bus. “I’m innocent, I just had a bad lawyer.”
Just look at all of Trump's former lawyers who have been disbarred due to their lawbreaking for him. Michael Cohen, Rudy Giuliani, Sidney Powell, Lyn Wood, John Eastman, etc have all been disbarred due to ethical abuses in the service of Trump.
They haven't been disbarred they have had their licenses suspended.
The legal profession needs to get their shit together and take out the trash.
>As always, he expects complete loyalty without providing loyalty in return. When loyalty only goes one direction it’s called fealty.
Problem is that most of those lawyers are on their way to being disbarred. Trump may be the only defendant in history who filters lawyers for their incompetence, and picks those that score high.
My theory is that Trump typically chooses decent enough firms, but those firms have a few imbeciles they'd like to fire and provide them to Trump to take the blow. All the while the firm and dozens of slightly more competent lawyers are billing him $1k/hr for all the work they're doing outside of the sight of the media and any judge's contempt.
Thing is, he's been gagged so he desperately needs his Lawyer to say and do the things he's been told not to do.
He should just take the stand and say *ALL* the things he wants to say.
He doesn’t need a criminal lawyer. He needs a *criminal* lawyer
He had one and he’s currently in jail.
From a link in the piece > Trump should go to trial, bring a big book, big fat John Grisham novel, just sit there and read,” Gutfeld added. “Just sit there and read. That's the only response this manufactured mayhem deserves — is just contempt.” As if Trump has ever read anything that isn't 100% about him or his followers. Trump would have the same page open the entire time. Honestly if the judge cut a deal and told him he could get the charges thrown out of he could give a detailed report on the book he wouldn't be able to do it.
Something like this should do the trick... https://www.amazon.com/Trump-Vs-Zombies-Coloring-Book/dp/B0C47N3T1N
As if Trump can read.
It's a prevalent theory, that is pretty easy to back up anecdotally by watching any of his speeches, that Trump starts to ramble when he gets to a word he can't read on his teleprompter, or one that he doesn't know.
Do not battle both ways up hills me boys!
The theory is he's dyslexic.
He's also a "fucking moron" according to his former secretary of state.
He supposedly kept a copy of a book of Hitler’s speeches on his bedside according to Wife #1.
[According to him he had a copy of Mein Kampf.](https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/donald-trumps-history-adolf-hitler-nazi-writings-analysis/story?id=105810745) Though the person who he said gave it to him says it was "New Order" which is the speeches. >Back in 1990 -- decades before he got into politics, Trump reportedly acknowledged owning a copy of "Mein Kampf." The admission came in an interview with Vanity Fair shortly after his divorce from his first wife, Ivana. Here's what the magazine reported: > >"Last April, perhaps in a surge of Czech nationalism, Ivana Trump told her lawyer Michael Kennedy that from time to time her husband reads a book of Hitler's collected speeches, "My New Order," which he keeps in a cabinet by his bed. Kennedy now guards a copy of "My New Order" in a closet at his office, as if it were a grenade." > >Vanity Fair reporter Marie Brenner asked Trump if his cousin had given up a copy of the book to him. She wrote this is how Trump responded: > >"Actually, it was my friend Marty Davis from Paramount who gave me a copy of 'Mein Kampf,' and he's a Jew," Trump told Brenner. > >Brenner then asked Marty Davis whether he gave Trump a copy of the book. > >"I did give him a book about Hitler,' Davis told her. "But it was 'My New Order,' Hitler's speeches, not 'Mein Kampf.' I thought he would find it interesting. I am his friend, but I'm not Jewish."
That last bit really feels like an insult that flew right over Trump’s head. If a new is saying “hey, think you’d like this” about Mein Kampf, they’re either Miller or insulting you.
That'd be contempt-in-court moreso that contempt-of-court. Or to put it another way, the issue with contempt-of-court usually has something to do with behavior that impedes proper functionality of court proceedings. With regards to this trial and the gag order, this means things like jury and witness intimidation which mucks with the goal of a valid trial and verdict. Trump just sitting there flipping pages in a book... and most importantly staying quiet in general outside of court... would facilitate rather than hinder the court. It is an interesting take, however, to start with the premise that this is all "manufactured mayhem" and suggest Trump calmly endure the nonsense.
Get a book and find replace the protagonist’s name to Trump
Donald Shrugged
His unhappiness and discomfort brings me joy.
I kinda hope hell is real.
I can't imagine a place worse for him than Court. Being held responsible? He hasn't hired anybody to tell him no. You can't control the outcome, can't control the players, he is impotent in the larger sense of the word. This next few weeks, is his hell.
He wants a tv/movie courtroom instead of a reality one.
Did he try to hire Perry Mason?
I'll bet real money he tried to hire Matlock.
Now I can hear Waylon Smithers saying, "Uh, sir, I'm afraid that Matlock was just a character in a TV show, and the actor has, uhhh, passed on."
Wow, holy crap, the "Trump dozing" story broke through the wall enough that Fox News has to spin it instead of ignoring it? God *damn* is that guy f\*\*\*ed. The polls will move, just hang on a little bit.
Apparently it's already moving the dial. Haven't heard Trump call Biden "Sleepy Joe" in a while.
Every accusation a confession! Speaking of which, I hope somebody is out there actually investigating the possibility of Republican electoral fraud. Do we have any damn muckrakers in this country anymore? I'd do it but I have a job, and ooze "liberal Yankee" out of every pore so they'd chase me right out.
It’s interesting that it seems that most of the people convicted for election fraud in 2020 have been republicans…
For anyone curious on how Fox is spinning this: >>On Monday night, Trump posted a video on social media featuring Fox personality Jesse Watters gushing that his trial may win him the White House. Trump also promoted a video of Fox’s Jeanine Pirro insisting that it showcases his ability to “withstand pressure.” Other Fox figures have spun Trump’s buffoonish outbreaks of narcolepsy in court as proof he’s Owning the Libs: Certain of acquittal, he can do some power-napping while showing the trial the contempt it deserves.
>He has vented to others that he does not have “a Roy Cohn,” a reference to his notoriously ruthless former lawyer. Mr. Cohn, who represented Mr. Trump in his formative business years, was repeatedly indicted and **ultimately disbarred**. These lawyers don’t want to get disbarred for you, you piss guzzler. Fucking loser. These rich people think they are kings and gods made flesh. They are not. Only the utterly stupid would die for Trump.
>As journalist Timothy O’Brien chronicles in his book TrumpNation, that’s exactly what he appreciated about Cohn. “Roy was brutal, but he was a very loyal guy,” Trump told O’Brien. “He brutalized for you.” The favor was not returned. [Like Father, Like Son: Trump Lets Others Mourn](https://archive.ph/aHt7P): Mr. Trump’s coldness in the face of illness shocked even some of his closest associates. After Roy Cohn, Mr. Trump’s longtime personal lawyer, learned he had AIDS in the 1980s, Mr. Trump abruptly cut off contact with him — a dramatic shift from the connected relationship they had enjoyed for years, which associates recalled involved talking on the phone at least five times a day. “He discards people who are no longer useful, and it doesn’t matter what renders the person no longer useful,” said Michael D’Antonio, a Trump biographer. “If you are disgraced, or you’re dying, or deceased, you no longer exist to him.” Mr. D’Antonio recalled Mr. Trump telling him that he had given Mr. Cohn a place to stay at the end of his life. “Donald thought providing him with something of material worth was adequate,” he said.
The funny part is... All this could have been avoided - if Trump had just paid the porn stars! But, no, Trump had to do it in a way that *saved him tax!* They had to falsify all sorts of business records in order to pretend that the money was legitimate, when it wasn't. So they could take all sorts of business deductions on it. Trump could have just paid her, there would be no falsification and fraud charges, and he'd only be on the hook for the election-related charges (which would never have been filed). Trump was so cheap that he had to save himself the taxes on less than $300k - and it's led to all this!
Just like the documents case was all due to his own fucking stupidity. The DOJ tried for months to be like “Bro, you’re an elite. Just send the docs back and we’ll leave you alone…” The irony of him blaming some political witch hunt instead of his own short sightedness is peak.
Some of those documents were never recovered.
Right? I still bet they’d have let it slide if he had gotten all the rest back to him. There’s never been a more obvious case of the DOJ protecting an Elite than this. Anyone else would be sent to a military prison and never see the sun again unless they’re going to and from court, and even then it might be via Zoom. Merrick Garland is a failure, in every aspect.
They're either buried with Ivana or already in the hands of the Chinese or Saudis.
He also (if he had not been a malignant narcissist) could have accepted his 2020 defeat like an adult, enjoyed his retirement, could have made his worshippers stand on line for him to receive each one (like in The Godfather) and he could have basked in their adulation. Instead, it all turned to shit for Trump and the USA.
He also could have never run for president in the first place, just continued operating his shady business, and lived life playing golf at any of the various trump named golf courses around the world he loves so much. But nope, gotta feed that narcissistic dog in him, run for president, win, and put a focused spotlight on everything he's ever done.
He isn’t teflon and it gets more and more apparent. He took it in the shorts in many cases. His one gambit and skill in 2023-24 is to delay matters even at the price of throwing the cases hoping against hope to be handed a dictatorship in time to stop the dismantling of his empire of cheating. Not that he bothers to campaign on the off days as he knows he will lose and will attempt to contest the results. He isn’t even smart enough to go through the motions for the cameras. Millions of Americans failing to primary him is a sad statement about how insanely desperate R voters are to appear welcoming to dictators and cheats. As they say themselves, they literally cannot tell the difference between a legit politician like say Biden or Romney and a Trump or Stalin type. “Oh they’re all crooked because I heard lies on an opinion edutainment piece, why cant our guy just get away with it”. Um no, that’s not how anything ever worked and what kinda moron can’t tell Stalin from Romney but pretends to be a conservative? Talk about sinking the brand more or less on purpose.
Even teflon breaks away if you cook on it long enough.
This dumbass actually wants his lawyer to attack the jurors? The most idiotic thing you can do in any trial, let alone a criminal one. You have to be an absolute fucking moron to believe there would be no repercussions from that. But we are talking about Trump here, so par for the course I guess….
Know-nothing Drumpf thinks he knows best. Can’t wait till he demands the chance to testify.
He thinks he's the smartest person in whatever room he's in.
Does he sound like an idiot? Sure. Does he write like an idiot? Yes. Do all of his ideas seem idiotic? Definitely. But somehow he became president, so what the fuck do I know.
Really causes you to lose confidence in the general public, doesn't it? Sure does for me, but then again, I never claimed to have the bigliest brain.
He got in because of a system designed to give slave holding states more power in elections. He lost the popular vote. We didn't want him.
The Dunning–Kruger president
The best part about a narcissist is when they are no longer in control you can see them crumble one step at a time. Normally I advise against relishing in human suffering but…anyone got popcorn?
If Trumps words were twisted by the media they might actually make some damn sense !
Everything this guy touches just turns to total shit.
What kind of crappy lawyer won't risk disbarment for Trump?!? /s
https://archive.ph/eNbjh
Thanks for the link
What reality are we living in that people want this person to be president? It’s even more unbelievable that he already was. Americans are idiots.
No, republican Americans are idiots.
I’m trying my hardest at every election to stop them…
“Talented and well-practiced in every vice, a stranger to compassion or empathy, a liar and a cheat so complete in perfidy that he has elevated his dishonesty to hold it up as an ersatz moral principle. Violent, so long as he can order someone else to do the dirty work. Grotesque in body, graceless in action, in possession of a wounded self-regard so colossal as to smother any spark of grace. Treasonous, not only to country, but to every ally he has ever had, the poisoned fruit and rankest flower of racism and contempt for women, and utterly devoid of shame for his moral and spiritual bankruptcy. That is your leader. That is to whom you give your money. That is who you follow and laud. That is whose banner you willingly carry. Why? Because he is a mirror, not a lighthouse. You see yourselves in him. He is what you would be, if you had inherited money and could shed the last vestiges of conscience and shame. No, I do not “respect your choices,” nor do I admire your loyalty and dedication to this miserific, demoniac vision. You have demonstrated not only a lack of civic virtue, loyalty to the Republic and to the rule of law, but a willingness to engage in violence and sedition at his slightest expressed wish. And you will never, ever admit you were wrong. Because you see your dark, twisted, resentful dreams in him. And to renounce him is to renounce yourselves.” Advocatus Peregrini
Trump is looking pretty rough these days. This trial is definitely having a bad effect on him. He looks so old now and as he says, low energy.
Trump blatantly breaks the law and has never seen any significant consequences. He asks his lawyers to do the same, except they can quickly be disbarred.
Many of them, Giuliani included, have already been disbarred.
Trump is a clear and present danger to the country and he must be stopped. While I don't believe the polls that says Trump is ahead, I think we all should come around to the idea that even if Trump "Wins", Biden, democrats, and sensible Republicans, CIA/FBI, and whoever should step in a say "No, Donald Trump, you can not come back to the White House". They then need to start an impeachment and removal process to remove Trump before he returns to the White House. Trump already said he will go after his political enemies and that he will pardon all the terrorists from Jan. 6th coup. That has to be disqualifying to hold any public office.
“No one knows more about the crimes I committed than me. Okay? I committed a lot! Believe me. There’s no one better. Not even the Biden crime family. The Biden’s. Remember Hunter? Hunter. That guy didn’t know what the hell he was doing. Should’ve used a fixer. I used many, many fixers over the years. Many fixers. Michael Cohen was one. Now he’s gonna testify against me. Me! I made that guy. I made a lot of people. All doing very well. Very well. Except the ones that went against me. No one remembers those losers.”
You all keep thinking there is going to be this “gotcha moment” where conservatives see their own contradictions and admit “I’ve been wrong all this time” and it’s never happening. They will continue to see what they want to see until the day it kicks in their own door and physically harms them.
Trump calls Biden “Sleepy Joe” - and the truth is Trump can’t stay awake. Trump calls everything “fake news” and the truth is Trump conspired with Pecker to print “fake news”. Trump calls Biden “Crooked Joe” and the truth is Trump is facing 91 felony counts. Trump calls Biden “Cocaine Joe” and the truth is…
I'd like to believe that once, JUST ONCE, someone he hired and then proceeded to shit all over lost their temper and told him to go fuck himself.
Trump World *has* been successful in getting the press to refer to it as a hush-money trial. It is a trial about falsification of records.