Hieronymous Alloy posted:

His takeaway will be "I was acquitted of rape. She was lying about the rape. They want me to be a rapist but I'm not folks I'm not they're all liars."

Kavros posted:

They ... have no mouth and they must scream

Fork of Unknown Origins posted:

Wasn’t he posting pictures claiming it was the feds setting up the boxes to frame him at one point or was that a fever dream?

Tayter Swift posted:

What's funnier

Rudy's witness no longer exists

or

Rudy still exists

bird food bathtub posted:

I feel like maybe letting the boss that throws people under the bus on the regular pay for your legal representation in a federal case he is also involved in might not be the best move but I guess I'm just not smart enough to be a diet coke delivery boy for our big, wet, president.

Caros posted:

It is worth mentioning that May is likely as early as we can get in part because of the other trials. The three stooges effect of all his crimes means that they can't have say, a March trial date, because he needs to be in NYC for a different criminal trial.

Tayter Swift posted:

I'm now contemplating the hellworld scenario where the trial starts October 2024, Trump wins the election in November, he's convicted in December, pardons himself after the inauguration in January only for SCOTUS to rule the action unconstitutional in February and he has to serve as President from jail.

Inferior Third Season posted:

Sounds like he did a pretty poo poo job at draining the swamp.

mobby_6kl posted:

Oh, Twitter's already been fined $350k for not complying lol

At least it was in this other article: https://www.politico.com/news/2023/08/09/special-counsel-obtained-search-warrant-for-donald-trumps-twitter-account-00110484

deoju posted:

Musk isn't a "natural born citizen," and Constitutionally can't be president.

And thank God for that.

bird food bathtub posted:

I suspect a not-insignificant amount of the contenders are also doing the math on a geriatric, obese, narcissistic-raging rear end in a top hat that sucks down hamberders all day while thinking exercise depletes your body battery and figuring they've got a more than decent shot at the base's tangerine dream dropping dead at a convenient time. Once he's dead they'll have a, probably metaphorical, knife fight to take the torch out of his still cooling hand and run with it.

KillHour posted:

Nitrousoxide posted:

He doesn't have to drop out even then. He can still run as an independent candidate, or threaten it and demand they make him the official one anyway to avoid him acting as a spoiler.

I honestly expect him to burn the Republican Party down if he has to try to get that presidency and its sweet self-pardons.

Oracle posted:

And that's why there' s no vampires in the US. They're afraid of our prison sentences.

Hieronymous Alloy posted:

There was a case where someone tried to argue they had already completed their life sentence because they had died then been resuscitated.

Spoilers: the courts did not find this argument persuasive

Deuce posted:

Any decent defense attorney would have known to appeal that to a Fey court.

Edit: Particularly if the convict was a vampire. The undead by definition cannot serve a life sentence!

Hieronymous Alloy posted:

On paper sure but Trump's main defense is "chud juror creates mistrial" and that's a lot lot lot more likely if Trump is in the room. Chuds are a lot less likely to just TROMP OUT if it's not trump himself in the defense stand.

It's not like any of this is hard to prove. Nobodys' arguing he didn't do it. There's no factual issue here. Trump will tell you he did it, and it was perfect, the best ever.

Caros posted:

Are you telling me that duechebank engaged in fraud?

I... I never thought this day would come.

Simplex posted:

Someone probably stole his phone to keep him out of jail

Republicans posted:

Basically do everything you can to run out the clock and hope you get elected before you're in jail.

Gyges posted:

Honestly, if you actually want to cause Trump distress when violating the gag order, then all early infractions should come with global press releases that pontificate on whether it's his hands or his actual net worth that are smaller.

Cimber posted:

Powell going first put the screws to everyone else. Now they know that she got a sweetheart deal and they are more likely looking at prison time unless they cough up something _really_ good.

Shooting Blanks posted:

Kinda nerve wracking that this whole thing might come down to voir dire.

Asproigerosis posted:

I'm willing to bet the small fish are such nobodies they are truly all in on the cult and even when they get thrown in prison they'll keep faith in trump.

Rigel posted:

I'm assuming he is focused on "after I win, all this poo poo goes away and we will also make sure I am president for life"

SpeakSlow posted:

Trump's Defence is at one all things, but is also NOT all things at the same time.

skeleton warrior posted:

Not to mention it gets the punishment now, rather than at the end of a multi-year appeals strategy.

Jesus III posted:

Trump should flip

skeleton warrior posted:

I mean, would you rather have Trump in jail for five years starting in February, or Trump in jail for ten years starting when he’s 84?

Ms Adequate posted:

Why, on Joe Biden, of course!

Meow Tse-tung posted:

Imagining an x-men style magneto prison that no tweet can penetrate

Retro42 posted:

Been mentioned before but I think Trump has FAR less COH than people think. His personal interest in this trial in particular is because it's his revenue stream yeah, but also if all his companies die all the bills are due and THAT isn't something he can handle I think. I don't know NY law but I'm assuming outstanding debt gets priority when his companies are dismantled.

H.R. Hufflepuff posted:

Which would be different from any other day how?

Lammasu posted:

What would happen if Don Jr. got caught snorting in the courthouse bathroom? There is a non-zero percent chance of this happening.

The Bible posted:

So just literally "I have no business running a business of any size. I don't have the faintest clue even of what I'm [i]supposed[\i] to be doing."

Clarste posted:

Aren't the accountants the ones being thrown under the bus right now?

Gyges posted:

They have nothing to argue for an appeal, and so are now trying to create an issue to appeal. They've locked in on the clerk, because as a bunch of bullies they can tell that's what'll piss off the judge the most. The consequences they face tomorrow are irrelevant to them, because this is today and those consequences are for some future chump to deal with.

Gyges posted:

See, nothing stops the deepstate swamp from victimizing your favorite President. Such a strong, unbeatable, lion of a man can't be stopped, but the only way to save him is for you to send him the balance of your savings account. It's for America, and God!