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Less than a day before first criminal trial begins, Trump attacks judge—again
(www.motherjones.com)
Can he be put in jail please
this post was submitted on 14 Apr 2024
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I’d settle for a massive coronary.
I would really prefer to see him live a very long time in prison but with the judiciary refusing to do literally anything to this POS.. fuck it lets go hamburders
Same. I hope he dies in a supermax, alone, pathetic, miserable, broken.
I want to see his real hair
Him getting that Phil Spector mugshot "what his head really looks like without cosmetic assistance" reveal would be so delightful.
I'd love to see it too, but I'm pretty sure that between the the logistics of locking up a former President and the very apparent dementia there's going to be some kind of clemency. As long as he is permanently barred from political activity, is sentenced to some form of house arrest, and of course has to pay whatever restitution is required, I'd be okay with that.
What logistics? You put him in a jail. Works for other people. “What about secret service protection?” They can go there with him. They can go home at night though. If you worry about his safety, put him in his own personal prison on an abandoned military base. It worked for Rudolph Hess.
It’s only hard if you make it hard.
House arrest is much too lenient for that man. I say this as someone who left their suburban property exactly once in the last 5 years.
He really really needs to be tried. It's the only way we'll get past the "you can't indict a president" nonsense.
In some ways, I'd love to see Trump get into office January 20th at noon and then indicted by a federal grand jury at 1pm.
But the headache of him issuing a pardon to himself is not something we're ready for as a nation.
poof, you have a massive coronary
I pledged to my kids that we would go back to Disney when Trump get sent to jail, I fell like my money's pretty safe, but I wouldn't going back to Disney.
Please don't give Florida your tourism money
I'm totally considering going to the California one due to the fascist Florida governor. But that is a lot more expensive to fly to. And I guess I could offset the moral dilemma, by pretending to be gay or wear a t-shirt saying I'm there to celebrate Trumps jail time.
And gagged with a dirty sock
What's the point of a.gag order if it accomplishes literally nothing?
Rules for us, not for them.
If us plebians did anything like what he's doing, we'd have been in jail the first time we violated the gag order.
Maybe the second if the judge is nice. Trump is on strike... What, 5?
It's so damn many, I've lost count.
The judge isn't part of the gag order. Meaning, gag order doesn't limit what it said about the judge.
They might be soon tho, because judges generally don't like to be intimidated.
If he does that 2 or 3 thousand more times the Judge might have to send him a VERY Stern Letter!
Daniel Stern? Howard Stern?
I hope the jurors are protected. I would not want to be a juror in this trial.
The upside is that you'd get infinite book deals and speaking engagements... the downside is never ending death threats.
Yea, I'd probably urge any jurors to retain anonymity.
Lucky that the jurors didn't have any opinions until the end of the trial, so hopefully that minimizes things to a spike of words, spread among 12-20 people.
Yeah, regardless of what the final decision is about a third of the country would...be less than happy with you. I figure it's at least even odds we get a hung jury just because of political polarization.
Punish him. Ffs.
Equal under the law huh?
Yeah, that's still true. Those of us under the law are equal.
They are above the law... :(
Deleted, put comment on wrong post lol.
What an absolute idiot.
Anything that comes from this will hit him even harder later on.
Seems to have been working so far though :-/
Idk bout that, his main company lost their business license in NY, their real estate values plummeted and the Truth Social Stock is in a down spiral as well. He is facing a number of civil as well as one criminal suit and the majority of his format accolades has either been prosecuted, jumped back to Republican default values or has abandoned him.
Smells a bit like he's at wit's end, even though it took quite a while. I'm confident at least he won't be able to hide from consequences anymore. Time to clean him up together with all the glass shards he left behind.
Aggressive words have lost all meaning. I'm pretty disappointed to see him not taking swings at anyone
It's irritating how often they use headlines like this when I wouldn't be surprised if he literally had a judge attacked physically
The American legal system is such a fucking joke