All Things Trump: the story continues...

[JimC]

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2024-06-01/ ... /103917910

When politicians are investigated for alleged crimes, even arrested or charged, there's a temptation to think their career is over.

And if they're convicted of a federal crime, there has been an assumption that surely the public would not trust them now.

But for Donald Trump, his conviction in the hush money trial in New York really just gives him another line to help push the conspiracy therory he has been promoting to his supporters all along.

For the better part of 10 years, Trump has been telling his base America's institutions are out to get him.

That he needed to drain the swamp.

That they needed to stop the steal.

And for some people who — rightly or wrongly — feel they too have been hard done by and pushed down by a system, that is a very powerful message.

His guilty verdict is perhaps the most potent political weapon he now has to continue making the claim that things are stacked against him.

His most devoted supporters will not question the statement he made outside court on Friday that: "This was a disgrace, this was a rigged trial."

"The real verdict is going to be November 5 by the people and they know what happened here."

Outside the same court last year, as the first criminal indictment to name a former United States president was unsealed, his supporters were already calling this a "witch-hunt".

Trying to really interrogate that statement with several of those supporters taught me that there was no room left for logic because there was something more emotional at play.

There was no belief that Trump would be considered innocent until proven guilty, no thought given to the team of powerful lawyers he would be able to afford, no mind paid to the fact this gave their man an opportunity to settle the issue once and for all.

For those people who had travelled to be there, they already believed Trump would be found guilty, but not that he was guilty.

For years, Trump had been laying the foundations.

He had built a fortress around himself in the eyes of his most loyal supporters by tearing down the credibility of the American institutions that might be able to hold him accountable.

And it's the way he makes them feel that allowed him to do that.

[Tero]

The one wants to be dictator...but Biden caused inflation!
https://sherwood.news/personal-finance/ ... 8332280171

[Tero]

Trump to appeal to Supreme Court to get him out. Meanwhile.

...there has been a high volume of social media posts containing violent rhetoric targeting New York Judge Juan Merchan and Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg, including a post with Bragg’s purported home address. The group also found posts of the purported addresses of jurors on a fringe internet message board known for pro-Trump content and harassing and violent posts, although it is unclear if any actual jurors had been correctly identified.

The posts, which have been reviewed by NBC News, appear on many of the same websites used by Trump supporters to organize for violence ahead of the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the Capitol. These forums were hotbeds of threats inspired by Trump’s lies about the 2020 election, which he lost, and that the voting system was “rigged” against him. They now feature new threats echoing Trump’s rhetoric and false claims about the hush money trial, including that the judicial system is now “rigged” against him.

“Dox the Jurors. Dox them now,” one user wrote after Trump’s conviction on a website formerly known as “The Donald,” which was popular among participants in the Capitol attack. (That post appears to have been quickly removed by moderators.)

https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/donald ... rcna154882

[Tero]

This
https://www.uscourts.gov/about-federal- ... /supreme-1#

[Tero]

Where is everybody?
https://www.threads.net/@tomwellborn3/post/C7r-xGHvNkP

[Sean Hayden]

A third of republicans doesn’t translate to consistently leading in polling does it?

Whatever, we’re going to learn all about it after Biden wins and these polls are used to “show” the election was rigged.

Who knows. Independents. Low information voters. "The border! Gas prices!"

I think it's people like this Tero.

[Tero]

There will be some long term changes from Trump. The disintrest in the world affairs is clear. The Ukraines will get some support in the next 10 years, but the long term effect is that the leading role of the US military will gradually go to a small level. As small as Trump's mushroom penis.

[JimC]

There will be some long term changes from Trump. The disintrest in the world affairs is clear. The Ukraines will get some support in the next 10 years, but the long term effect is that the leading role of the US military will gradually go to a small level. As small as Trump's mushroom penis.

Being disinterested in world affairs is not necessarily bad, it implies not letting personal bias or emotions affect judgement in that area. But in a US president, being uninterested definitely is a bad thing...

[Tero]

What about the camps? You don't just deport millions in a week. Maybe a special landing strip nesr it?
https://www.threads.net/@aaron.rupar/po ... e2jIGiV-zw

[JimC]

When does the sentencing happen?

[pErvinalia]

July 11 I think it was

[Tero]

Juror #11
https://www.threads.net/@colbertlatesho ... 7x4-M_MXLK

[pErvinalia]

What about them?

[Sean Hayden]

What’s Dershowitz’s problem? He’s on Fox parroting Trump. He even says lawyers are telling him “in private” the trial was a sham!

He knows the best people, and they said it was a sham.

[L'Emmerdeur]

Meh, maybe he bonded with Trump while they were cavorting on Epstein's private island.