Donald Trump

[r.soleofsalford]

Just so.

Victimhood is part and parcel of the Trump playbook.

So is election denialism. We've seen this time and again. How it works is as follows:
1) When questioned about whether or not he'll accept the results of an election, Trump will invariably site fake "evidence" of past voter fraud, and then will equivocate;
2) Next, Trump will be pressed - "Will you accept the results of the upcoming election?" Trump will reply, let's see - appealing to his base who don't believe in election outcomes, and at the same time creating ground for rebutting attacks against him as an election denier. Typical Trump.

I’m sure Trump has a Scouse family tree

 

[SkyBlueFlux]

Word on the street is that one Stephanie Clifford (a.k.a. Stormy Daniels) is going to be on the stand today...

Trump taking it characteristically well, in ways that walk the line of his gag order. He put a post on Social then deleted it 10 minutes later... coward.

 

[AliBobbyJ]

Who else thinks that Trump will be jailed for contempt of court within the next 30 days?


Juan Merchan Merchan has had enough. After issuing this warning to Trump, Merchan will be compelled to jail the former president should he - inevitably - violate the terms of his gag order.

I look forward to him going on hunger strike in protest and having to be force-fed (with Big Macs?) like the suffragettes.

 

[TinFoilHat]

Jailing Trump will cause "Secret service issues" apparently.

As in we'll know they've done an Epstein on him when he's found with his red tie hanging from his neck.

 

[Gareth Barry Conlon]

 

[SebastianBlue]

Word on the street is that one Stephanie Clifford (a.k.a. Stormy Daniels) is going to be on the stand today...

Trump taking it characteristically well, in ways that walk the line of his gag order. He put a post on Social then deleted it 10 minutes later... coward.

Posting it all, even if deleted, could still be a violation of the gag order, depending on the content.

 

[SebastianBlue]

Jailing Trump will cause "Secret service issues" apparently.

As in we'll know they've done an Epstein on him when he's found with his red tie hanging from his neck.

Looking forward to Trump complaining about the “two-tiered justice system” after the Secret Service steps in to say he can’t be jailed for intentionally violating the lawful gag order 150 times.

 

[SkyBlueFlux]

Posting it all, even if deleted, could still be a violation of the gag order, depending on the content.

I don't think it was a violation of the gag order. It didn't contain any details or comments about the witness, just saying that his team were given no notice because the judge is corrupt and it's a witch hunt. I think 'political statements' about the judge and the trial in general have been consistently overlooked as not covered by the order, it only explicitly protects witnesses and other court staff.

I think the reason his lawyers made him take it down is actually a bit more nuanced. The Prosecution had been withholding the order in which they were going to call witnesses (which is their right). This is something that the Defence is normally told as a common courtesy but the State declined to provide the order of witnesses because the Defence kept leaking things to the media. A few weeks ago they came up with a compromise which was basically "we'll give you 24 hours notice of the next witness, but if anything gets leaked we'll revoke that right."

Trump posting in the way he did made it obvious that the next witness was Daniels. The Prosecution would have no doubt taken that badly and revert to giving them zero notice. Which is ironically, the thing Trump was complaining about.

 

[Iassel]

Who else thinks that Trump will be jailed for contempt of court within the next 30 days?

I would say there is next to zero chance of that. Merchan is desperate to *not* jail Trump so will give him multiple ‘final warnings’.

 

[TinFoilHat]

Who else thinks that Trump will be jailed for contempt of court within the next 30 days?


Juan Merchan Merchan has had enough. After issuing this warning to Trump, Merchan will be compelled to jail the former president should he - inevitably - violate the terms of his gag order.

If he is "jailed" I suspect it would be in the court cells rather than a real prison. Another example of him being treated differently in the eyes of the law.