Merged So what's next for Trump?

[Swammerdami]

I think Trump is probably guilty of treason, although there won't be firm proof until some Kremlin apparatchik writes his memoirs in 2 or 3 decades. And even then Trump would have the Stupidity defense.

And he's guilty of plenty of other crimes: inciting insurrection, attempted rape, rape (probably), big financial frauds, tax evasion, mistreating secret documents and so on.

Or how about this one?

Anger as Trump posts picture of himself wielding baseball bat next to Alvin Bragg’s head

Manhattan district attorney leading probe into hush money payments allegedly made to Stormy Daniels

ca.news.yahoo.com

Donald Trump sparked anger by posting a picture of himself holding a baseball bat next to the head of the Manhattan District Attorney leading an investigation into him.
And he added: “He’s trying to get this man killed. Period. Enough.”

“Threatening a prosecutor is a crime in NY. In fact MULTIPLE crimes: Harassment in the first degree NYPL 240.25; menacing in the second degree NYPL 120.14; stalking in the fourth or third degree NYPL 120.45 & 120.50 And that’s just for starters….” he tweeted.

Surely he should be prosecuted just for that?

Compared to his major crimes, the telephone calls are minor felonies. And putting the Stormy payoff -- where a conviction is impossible -- at the top of the list is absurd.

Trump has violated so many laws and agreements and used his "charity" to pay off penalties, sold off failing casinos for an outrageous profit, incited a riot that paused our democracy... and he is still out there.

I commend you for your optimism, but Trump has some unique quality which has insulated himself from personal responsibility for a long time.

I see your frustration and raise you three points of anger.
But even a long time is finite. Trump will never get actual justice, but he will be taken out of the game relatively soon.

Might it not be better to keep him in the game? The entire Republican Party is corrupt and unworthy. I want Trump to bring the whole Party down.

 

[Elixir]

putting the Stormy payoff -- where a conviction is impossible -- at the top of the list is absurd.

Maybe not. The Stormy threat is sufficient to get Cheato to rev up his thugs up to 11, and it’s really the nothingburger of the entire smorgasbord. If he keeps freaking out with false alarm pronouncements of his pending arrest, while nothing happens, the mob is going to start tiring out. Presumably their dually trucks need oil changes, their doublewides need power washing, the kid needs to be bailed out for his drunk driving incident… they don’t have infinite time to devote to responding to Cheato’s false SOS calls. By the time it gets serious (treason, sedition, obstruction, election fraud) the MAGAts might be running out of stamina.

 

[ZiprHead]

Trump won’t change, and that shows he can’t win

Americans know that Trump can’t stop himself from nursing piddling grudges and throwing out childish insults. They saw this behavior in 2020 and the 2022 midterms and said we need less anger and mo…

nypost.com

Check out the comments section. The crazy lives on.

 

[Patooka]

I'm certain this is fake. There is also a non-zero possibility this can become a thing in 2024.

 

[ZiprHead]

 

[ZiprHead]

 

[Shadowy Man]

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Perfect game plan: ask your lawyer to commit the crime and to lie about it. If he gets caught and implicates you, you can just say he's not credible because he's a convicted liar. And if your lawyer doesn't want to commit the crime, he asks another lawyer to commit it for him, leaving you even more protected. You gotta admit, there's at least one thing that Trump is good at.

 

[Elixir]

View attachment 42747

Perfect game plan: ask your lawyer to commit the crime and to lie about it. If he gets caught and implicates you, you can just say he's not credible because he's a convicted liar. And if your lawyer doesn't want to commit the crime, he asks another lawyer to commit it for him, leaving you even more protected. You gotta admit, there's at least one thing that Trump is good at.

Well, almost a perfect plan. Problem arises when your lawyer, who suspected they were getting played by their client, gets another lawyer to commit the crime, but then gets forced to testify about it when the attorney-client privilege is pierced.
Oooops!

 

[blastula]

I don't think Cohen's credibility is an issue since the evidence supports what he says. I mean it doesn't make sense that he was paying Daniels on his own initiative.

 

[Shadowy Man]

View attachment 42747

Perfect game plan: ask your lawyer to commit the crime and to lie about it. If he gets caught and implicates you, you can just say he's not credible because he's a convicted liar. And if your lawyer doesn't want to commit the crime, he asks another lawyer to commit it for him, leaving you even more protected. You gotta admit, there's at least one thing that Trump is good at.

Well, almost a perfect plan. Problem arises when your lawyer, who suspected they were getting played by their client, gets another lawyer to commit the crime, but then gets forced to testify about it when the attorney-client privilege is pierced.
Oooops!

But clearly that lawyer is not credible because they are a criminal.

 

[Elixir]

View attachment 42747

Perfect game plan: ask your lawyer to commit the crime and to lie about it. If he gets caught and implicates you, you can just say he's not credible because he's a convicted liar. And if your lawyer doesn't want to commit the crime, he asks another lawyer to commit it for him, leaving you even more protected. You gotta admit, there's at least one thing that Trump is good at.

Well, almost a perfect plan. Problem arises when your lawyer, who suspected they were getting played by their client, gets another lawyer to commit the crime, but then gets forced to testify about it when the attorney-client privilege is pierced.
Oooops!

But clearly that lawyer is not credible because they are a criminal.

Nonono, the client (Trump), and the lawyer who got talked into lying (Christina Bobb) are the criminals! Mr. Corcoran was simply fooled by all of the bad actors. His testimony is pristine!

 

[Shadowy Man]

View attachment 42747

Perfect game plan: ask your lawyer to commit the crime and to lie about it. If he gets caught and implicates you, you can just say he's not credible because he's a convicted liar. And if your lawyer doesn't want to commit the crime, he asks another lawyer to commit it for him, leaving you even more protected. You gotta admit, there's at least one thing that Trump is good at.

Well, almost a perfect plan. Problem arises when your lawyer, who suspected they were getting played by their client, gets another lawyer to commit the crime, but then gets forced to testify about it when the attorney-client privilege is pierced.
Oooops!

But clearly that lawyer is not credible because they are a criminal.

Nonono, the client (Trump), and the lawyer who got talked into lying (Christina Bobb) are the criminals! Mr. Corcoran was simply fooled by all of the bad actors. His testimony is pristine!

Sure sure... fool me once, shame on you, fool me twice, sha.. sh..... won't get fooled again!

 

[Elixir]

View attachment 42747

Perfect game plan: ask your lawyer to commit the crime and to lie about it. If he gets caught and implicates you, you can just say he's not credible because he's a convicted liar. And if your lawyer doesn't want to commit the crime, he asks another lawyer to commit it for him, leaving you even more protected. You gotta admit, there's at least one thing that Trump is good at.

Well, almost a perfect plan. Problem arises when your lawyer, who suspected they were getting played by their client, gets another lawyer to commit the crime, but then gets forced to testify about it when the attorney-client privilege is pierced.
Oooops!

But clearly that lawyer is not credible because they are a criminal.

Nonono, the client (Trump), and the lawyer who got talked into lying (Christina Bobb) are the criminals! Mr. Corcoran was simply fooled by all of the bad actors. His testimony is pristine!

Sure sure... fool me once, shame on you, fool me twice, sha.. sh..... won't get fooled again!

Yeah, it’s always a clusterfuck when you try to unsnarl the tangle of deeds done by a cabal of scumbags.

 

[ZiprHead]

Stormy Daniels destroys critic after she’s attacked for sex with married Trump

‘Why did he invite me to his room, take off his clothes and corner me when I came out of the bathroom even though he knew he had a wife?’ adult actor tweets

www.independent.co.uk

A short, funny read.

 

[T.G.G. Moogly]

Stormy Daniels destroys critic after she’s attacked for sex with married Trump

‘Why did he invite me to his room, take off his clothes and corner me when I came out of the bathroom even though he knew he had a wife?’ adult actor tweets

www.independent.co.uk

A short, funny read.

It's pretty obvious that Orange Face doesn't trust anyone he comes to perceive as being at least as smart as himself. That ain't sayin' much but you get the point.

 

[blastula]

Trump can’t dodge claim in civil rape case nearing trial

Defamation claims over a Truth Social post can proceed, a federal judge ruled.

www.courthousenews.com

Donald Trump must face one of the civil charges against him, a judge ruled Tuesday, as the former president gears up to defend himself in federal court next month against sexual assault allegations.

Trump faces a lawsuit accusing him of raping writer E. Jean Carroll in the mid-1990s in a Bergdorf Goodman dressing room. Carroll, who for decades penned an advice column for Elle magazine, filed the suit in November under a newly enacted New York law allowing survivors to file ordinarily time-barred claims during a one-year look-back window. In addition to a battery count the complaint alleges a defamation count based on an Oct. 12, 2022, post on his platform Truth Social — a categorical denial peppered with insults.

Former Trump aide ordered to turn over White House emails

The Justice Department is seeking emails from a personal encrypted account.

www.courthousenews.com

A federal judge was scathing of a onetime trade adviser to former President Donald Trump in a ruling Tuesday that clears the way for the government to access up to 250 of Peter Navarro's encrypted personal emails.

 

[Ford]

Trump appears to be stuck in the first 2 stages of grief over his 2020 election loss. Denial, and anger. One might be able to say that his candidacy is an expression of the bargaining stage (please elect me so I can get back my job), but I wonder if we'll have to wait until November of 2024 for the depression part, or if he'll just go back to denial and anger.

 

[Shadowy Man]

Trump appears to be stuck in the first 2 stages of grief over his 2020 election loss. Denial, and anger. One might be able to say that his candidacy is an expression of the bargaining stage (please elect me so I can get back my job), but I wonder if we'll have to wait until November of 2024 for the depression part, or if he'll just go back to denial and anger.

Sorry, has he ever shown an emotion other than denial or anger? I'm not sure there are any other stages for him.

 

[Ford]

Trump appears to be stuck in the first 2 stages of grief over his 2020 election loss. Denial, and anger. One might be able to say that his candidacy is an expression of the bargaining stage (please elect me so I can get back my job), but I wonder if we'll have to wait until November of 2024 for the depression part, or if he'll just go back to denial and anger.

Sorry, has he ever shown an emotion other than denial or anger? I'm not sure there are any other stages for him.

Is leering an emotion? Because I have it on good authority (a friend who was on his reality show) that he's got leering down pat.

 

[Cheerful Charlie]

Trump appears to be stuck in the first 2 stages of grief over his 2020 election loss. Denial, and anger. One might be able to say that his candidacy is an expression of the bargaining stage (please elect me so I can get back my job), but I wonder if we'll have to wait until November of 2024 for the depression part, or if he'll just go back to denial and anger.

Sorry, has he ever shown an emotion other than denial or anger? I'm not sure there are any other stages for him.

Greed. Lust. Self pity. Meglamania. Vanity.