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Continuing in personally attacking Engoron, he raged, "He’s an out of control 'Nut Job,' who fined me $10,000 over a ridiculous Gag Order
Maybe instead of a fine, it'll any amount of jail time instead.
Violations of gag orders and contempt always feel infuriatingly "gradual" because usually people just STFU after the first one. Trump (as we all know) doesn't have the self control normal asshole defendants have. Give it another gag violation and this moron is gonna spend the night in jail, then we all get to see him without his daily hair routine. That shit scares him more than anything.
Once Chutkan's gag goes back into effect, he'll be in jail quickly unless Kise or Lauro actually manage to get through his thick skull with an air hammer.
E: Also getting the idea that Engoron is patient enough not to expand the gag order (yet, anyway) because he knows he's already effectively ended the Trump organization. Trump's business "empire" is basically a dead man walking already.
What about the direct grifting he's doing? Someone needs to find a way to seize those assets and end that supply of money.
I feel bad for the victims but as PT Barnum said there's a sucker born every minute. Trump is tapped into a large number of suckers.
A short stay in jail won't break Donnie. It will energize his followers, and we'll have to hear them comparing him to Mandela and MLK for the next century.
I think the mugshots without his hair and makeup will go a long way in deflating not only his ego, but also the cult of personality built on his ego.
All his followers look in the mirror every morning. He is their ego projected. They will feel rage vicariously as if they were the ones being robbed of their dignity and dig in further.
Sounds hilarious.
More seriously, these people are lost. There is little purpose in trying to convert them, anyone hanging onto Trump now is either so incredibly ignorant we should just try to stem their paint-chip eating habit, so stupid they shouldn't be allowed to order appetizers unsupervised, or basically just fantastically bad, as in "I don't care if the world burns as long as I make a tidy sum before we collectively have to close up shop."
I've taken to publically shaming my maga family members into temporary Facebook silence. It's cathartic after a particularly frustrating work day.
They always bounce back to their old form after not-too-long, which just provides another opportunity to catharticallly wail on them.
Lol, they would, too! And then, like King's and Mandela's followers, they'd ~~peacefully march with signs saying 'Free my president, Li'l Donny!~~ probably start shooting people in vengeance because it's clearly the end of times and Joe Biden is the anti-Christ apparent.
He already compared himself to Mandela.
I think some wag already said they'd be fine with the comparison - throw him in prison for 27 years.
Nah, for some reason this defendant gets to trash the judges all he wants, no consequences.
He's never ever going to get contempt of court.
I want him to blow his top like a cartoon where his face gets red, steam comes out of his ears, and the toupee flies a foot straight up into the air
lul
That seems weirdly concise for him (to have typed). I wonder if he's got some publicist taking dictation.
I think at this point he definitely dictates to some lackey (and you know that guy wears a bowtie) who takes his word salad and turns it onto something vaguely comprehensible.
With a steam train horn sound in the background.
I hate even reading the deranged stupid shit that he has to say. So glad we don't have to hear it every day anymore.
I left it to better people than I to do the work of reading and listening to him.
A grateful nation thanks them for their service and sacrifice 🫡🙏🇺🇸
Alright Ivanka. This... THIS is your time to fucking shine.
Step up, be brutally honest. Sell that fucker out. Make a few clever remarks about him being a person who's too stupid to zip tie themselves and apologize for ever being near him.
Save yourself. Go full scorched earth on his ass.
She won't. She's almost as corrupt as her father. Don't forget, it's her husband Jared Kushner who accepted a 2 billion dollar investment from MBS.
Also, if she testifies truthfully, she'll be admitting to her own crimes, and to other things that will cost her real money. For example, one of the things she's going to testify about in this trial is how her father gave her several properties, but the properties were appraised using Donald's ridiculous appraisal logic, so that she would pay less in taxes. If she is honest, the IRS will be after her immediately.
By the way, there's a chance that she could have gotten out of this without testifying in open court, but her lawyers amateurishly missed doing anything by the deadline. And if you remember, Trump wanted a jury trial for this case, but his lawyer forgot to ask for one, so they got a bench trial, instead.
This kind of shit would be absolutely hilarious if there wasn't some chance that he'd become President again. This guy thinks he surrounds himself with "the best people", but all he can find are people who make elementary mistakes.
And the US President's biggest influence on the country is through his appointees. He actually has a few decent lawyers working for him now, but when the chips are down, he relies on these types of people, probably because they kissed his ass more, or swore allegiance to him or something.
Wouldn’t surprise me if she’s just asked questions like “what was X appraised for when your father sold it?” In order to show a pattern of this happening over and over. Of course the DA likely has the information already and a paper trail that shows she knows the answer.
Once that foundation is set then bring in multiple independent experts to testify on the true appraised values.
Ivanka doing all that? Have you seen her tweets and statements? She's all in for her father.
The most honest thing I think I've seen her say was in Born Rich:
I remember once my father and I were walking down Fifth Avenue and there was a homeless person sitting right outside of Trump Tower and I remember my father pointing to him and saying, ‘You know, that guy has $8 billion more than me,’ because he was in such extreme debt at that point, you know?
Lock him the fuck up.
Wow, it's almost like being a massive asshole makes people hate you. What are the odds?
Do you think, in his entire long, miserable life.... He has EVER, and just a single time would count here, has he EVER accepted fault for anything? Has he ever said something like,
"This person has a point, I was wrong here"
Ever, even just once, for any reason, like "this person was ahead of me in line actually"...
No? He hasn't?
Well then how do you take ANYTHING he says seriously? Every other person you admire makes little mistakes Mr. tump voter, so genuinely, how can you take him seriously?
Does he have a current gag order that this is violating? Because that would just be super.
Aw, poor little d the failed game show host. Everyone is out to get him.
The GOP would never have Hunter testify in a trial against Joe right? Hello?
Is this guy legit going to have a heart attack live on stage whilst ranting spurious nonense?
This would be a great Xmas present to all of America.
The best present would be him dying of old age in prison. But yours is actually likely to happen.
Don't. Don't give us hope.
Does this violate the gag order? Oh please oh please oh please!
Why would it matter? No judge has a spine to throw the book at this guy. He gets a totally different court system than the rest of us.
Cadet Bonespur will be locked up soon.