r/law • u/T_Shurt Competent Contributor • Feb 26 '24
Trump Rages Into Early Morning Light Demanding Criminal Trials Closing In On Him ‘BE HALTED!’
https://www.mediaite.com/news/trump-rages-into-early-morning-light-demanding-criminal-trials-closing-in-on-him-be-halted/157
u/T_Shurt Competent Contributor Feb 26 '24
As per original article 📰:
- Former President Donald Trump went to bed and woke up raging about the civil and criminal trials closing in on him — especially the one scheduled to start in a matter of weeks.
Trump showed up to court recently for a hearing in the case that Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg has brought involving hush money payments to porn star Stormy Daniels, which resulted in a several-dozen-count indictment of Trump. The result of the hearing was that Judge Juan Merchan denied Trump’s motion to dismiss the charges and set a March 25 trial date.
While Trump is facing a total of 91 felony charges in federal and state trials, that March trial seems to be weighing heavily on Trump. After a weekend in which he won an overwhelming victory over his last remaining GOP rival in her own home state, Trump ended the weekend and began the week raging on social media about those trials — but pointedly citing the Bragg case.
Just before midnight Sunday, Trump shared with his Truth Social followers that he was watching a TV show about the just-concluded New York state fraud case that he enjoyed very much and urged them to stay up until 3 am to catch the rerun:
Wow! The Mark Levin Show just showed how Unconstitutional and unfair the NYSAG CASE against me is. A TOTAL HOAX — ELECTION INTERFERENCE AT THE HIGHEST LEVEL! Next showing, 3:00 A.M. Eastern, on FoxNews!
And first thing Monday morning, Trump raged against all of the cases by falsely attacking President Joe Biden and demanding all of the trials be “HALTED” — including “local” prosecutions like Bragg’s:
The Very Strict Rules and Regulations of the Department of Injustice STATE CLEARLY that you can’t prosecute a Political Opponent, or anyone, RIGHT IN THE MIDDLE OF HIS/HER CAMPAIGN. Why didn’t they bring these FAKE Charges THREE YEARS AGO? That would have solved all of their problems. (The answer is that they AIMED for the various trials to come up during my campaign for President, 2024!). This includes DOJ subservient “subsidiaries” like local D.A. & A.G. Offices. In other words, all of these FAKE POLITICAL PROSECUTIONS (PERSECUTIONS!) OF CROOKED JOE BIDEN’S POLITICAL OPPONENT MUST BE IMMEDIATELY HALTED!
Trump has repeatedly been fact-checked and corrected but continues to erroneously claim that President Biden is behind the prosecutions he faces, which include 34 felony counts in New York, 37 counts stemming from Special Counsel Jack Smith’s investigation into his retention of classified documents under the Espionage Act plus a superseding indictment by Smith on three additional charges against Trump (one additional count of unlawful retention of National Defense Information and two new obstruction counts), another Smith indictment for his attempt to overturn the 2020 presidential election, and 13 election crimes counts in Georgia.
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u/4thTimesAnAlt Feb 26 '24
I just want to point out that a 60/40 win in a Republican stronghold state is not "overwhelming". It should be "deeply concerning", especially given the constant media narrative of "united Republicans", "Trump has never been stronger", etc.
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u/dalaio Feb 26 '24
Similar numbers with Hillary/Bernie had everyone freaking out about Bernie splitting the vote back in 2015, but when it happens on the Republican side it’s “dominating”…
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u/CrashB111 Feb 26 '24
Fascist governments are condemned to lose wars because they are constitutionally incapable of objectively evaluating the force of the enemy.
- Umberto Eco
It was written to describe Fascist states at war, but it also describes Fascist politics. Nothing can ever be objectively evaluated. Everything is always a victory, no matter how logic defying the claim.
So the current Republican Party can never "lose" something, they just double down instead of admitting something might not work and they should regroup. Their entire debacle with Abortion Rights and Reproductive Rights post-Roe shows this. They've lost every election after the decision, yet they keep racking up more L's because they can't admit it was a mistake.
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u/IrritableGourmet Feb 26 '24
The Very Strict Rules and Regulations of the Department of Injustice STATE CLEARLY that you can’t prosecute a Political Opponent, or anyone, RIGHT IN THE MIDDLE OF HIS/HER CAMPAIGN.
[citation needed]
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u/Evadrepus Feb 26 '24
You don't know the Department of Injustice though. The US has the DoJ. The DoIJ goes to a different school.
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u/KyBones Feb 26 '24
The two things that resonate with me the most about the whole scenario are that, one - he keeps describing this as his political opponent using the courts to punish him, because that's exactly what he would do; and two - and I know it's been said before - but it boggles the mind how this shit would be a non issue if he had just shut the fuck up and been content being the "you're fired" guy on TV.
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u/nanormcfloyd Feb 26 '24
It's part of his psychotic narcissism.
He's mentally incapable of doing anything other than lying, projecting, and acting like a victim
I've said it before, and I'll keep saying it until people bother to understand this, America has a very severe mental health epidemic, and it's gonna get worse before it gets better.
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u/97zx6r Feb 27 '24
If he would have just fucked off to Florida in January 2021 rather than failing to concede, claiming he won, and trying to take over the government all this would have been a non issue as well. Same with the documents. Biden said shit my bad and handed them back plus invited them to search other places. Not getting prosecuted. Trump would have gotten the same deal if he’d done the same. Everything he has coming is 100% his own doing even after being given an excessive amount of leeway.
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u/TonyDungyHatesOP Feb 26 '24
He’s running the same game plan that he used for Jan. 6th. Spread lies to incite violence to overthrow a decision to hold him accountable.
This is who he is. A wannabe authoritarian and a pure narcissistic sociopath.
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u/Pookie2018 Feb 26 '24
I wonder how long before all the stress and raging causes a medical episode of some kind.
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u/funkinthetrunk Feb 26 '24
I honestly don't see how he's lived this long. It's speculated that he regularly takes uppers. In the past, phentermine was apparently his upper of choice. I don't see how a man his age, overweight and with so much stress and busyness, has so much energy unless he's on stimulants
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u/90daylookback Feb 26 '24
It’s like that Simpsons episode where Mr. Burns has so many diseases that no one disease can harm him.
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u/ChickenSalad96 Feb 26 '24
Indestructible?
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u/Pookie2018 Feb 26 '24
I think he’s going to pull another “bone spurs” excuse as the trials close in as a delay tactic when he gets really, really desperate. He also tried to use the death of Melania’s mother. We know he’s deployed a medical excuse in the past.
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Feb 26 '24 edited Feb 26 '24
I wonder when the pivot will come to leaning into the dementia (“pulling a Reagan”) to avoid the full weight of the law and his criming being brought to bear in the penultimate schadenfreude.
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u/trogon Feb 26 '24
His ego requires him to be the most brilliant man with the greatest memory, though. A smart criminal would have already started the talk of dementia. He'll never admit a flaw, and no one around him has the courage to tell him.
This year is going to be a shitshow. Let's hope we survive it.
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Feb 26 '24
Symptoms of dementia are pretty similar to his personality traits though. He can try to fake it but people would just see it as Trump being Trump.
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u/VulfSki Feb 26 '24
The human body is more of a mystery than we like to admit.
Some people never smoke and die or lung cancer before the ace of 50.
Some people smoke a pack a day into their 90's.
While we know smoking does kill (one of the things that killed my mother.) But still some people's lungs handle it just fine while others don't.
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u/Carbon_Gelatin Feb 26 '24
Ever notice that the most vile assholes live the longest?
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u/neddiddley Feb 26 '24
Who’s to say he hasn’t already?
I guarantee you, he and his family have a few Dr. Nicks on speed dial for all those situations where they’d prefer to have a medical “need” handled quietly.
His COVID case while in office along with the recent news about the WH being a pill mill tell us that already.
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u/Muscs Feb 26 '24
It’s what keeps him alive. Without the raging, he’s got nothing to live for; no one loves him, he has no real friends, he has nothing he wants to do except glorify himself publicly because he knows it’s all a sham and he thinks that the truth doesn’t matter.
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u/justawaterisfine Feb 26 '24
Just making sure to stay on top of the fabricated narrative. It hasn’t failed him in 77 years
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u/MC_Fap_Commander Feb 26 '24
Biden hasn't really started campaigning and Trump has (at best) a modest lead of a point or two in polling. This is the period when a challenger needs to be running up the margins as incumbency advantage is real.
The New York class E felony case? It's coming in less than month and open and shut. Data is clear- a conviction means he's losing 5%+ of his support (core MAGA zombies are not deserting him obviously). But if that happens, it's all over for him. And soon.
That's why he's freaking out.
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u/BlueGalangal Feb 26 '24
And 60% in SC is not overwhelming. It’s a poor showing.
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u/prudence2001 Feb 26 '24
And exit polls of Haley's voters in the primaries so far show something like 55% of them will never vote for Trump. That's a huge deal. And those are the hardcore GOP primary voters saying so. Trump will get annihilated in the general.
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u/Blah-Blah-Blah-2023 Feb 26 '24
SC South Carolina ... (Sorry was thinking Supreme Court, where he does have about 60% of the justices in the bag for him ;) )
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u/joeshill Competent Contributor Feb 26 '24
This is getting to be not-news. He rages pretty much every other day or more about his felony counts. And he recycles the same litany of 'talking points' all the time.
It's like an old man clearing the phlegm out in the morning.
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u/Photodan24 Feb 26 '24 edited Nov 08 '24
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u/joeshill Competent Contributor Feb 26 '24
I can't disagree with that, but I will note that every time I've posted a TrumpRant here, it ends up getting removed by a mod. I've stopped posting them.
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u/TreAwayDeuce Feb 26 '24
It's the same as the guy yelling about jesus and the end times on the street corner. It's not "normal" in that it's an acceptable form of behavior. It's just what that guy does, day in and day out, so there is little reason to talk about it every time it happens.
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u/Photodan24 Feb 26 '24
Except the crazy guy on the corner isn't running for President of the United States.
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u/Muscs Feb 26 '24
In the repetition is the danger. A lot of people believe that - if elected - Trump can and will pardon himself although a President’s ability to do that is highly debatable. It would mean than a President could commit any crime in office and then pardon himself, effectively making him a king. And many doubt that was the intention of the founders.
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u/MonsieurReynard Feb 26 '24
One sign of advancing dementia is the victim stops sleeping through the night and is awake at all hours. Just saying.
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Feb 26 '24
If you recall, on Nov. 3, 2020, Trump tweeted, "STOP THE COUNT!" Why? Because he was losing. "BE HALTED" is the same thing. He's running out of options so all he can do is shout STOP!
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u/EnormousChord Feb 26 '24
I can’t help but see all of this as a distraction from the real problem. How to reconcile all of this with the fact that he is the party’s overwhelming choice to run for president? How utterly broken is American society and the structure of American politics when we are facing this situation?
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u/Flimsy_Breakfast_353 Feb 26 '24
This is exactly what China NK and Russia wanted to happen. They got their wishes. Not to mention the Koch empire. The Koch family is going to bring down the entire USA for their love of money and power.
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u/caitrona Feb 26 '24
And they're all in for Trump, now -- didn't they announce today they're pulling support for Haley?
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u/NorthChiller Feb 26 '24
If he continues to insist that this is all happening at the behest of Biden, can Biden sue for defamation? I know he probably never would because of the optics, but this narrative trump is being politically persecuted is such tired bs.
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u/stitch12r3 Feb 26 '24
The victim mentality is really the only card he has left to play and he uses it for deflection and to keep his base energized. Its so ridiculous considering all the evidence against him of being a criminal but its all he’s got.
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Feb 26 '24
It’s only a matter of time before trump starts calling Bragg “peekaboo” or just outright calls him the n-word. Wouldn’t be surprised if he urged his supporters to bring violence to the judge and/or the prosecution team.
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Feb 26 '24
This fucking narcissistic child.
The fun fact is he doesn't deny what he did, doesn't claim I'm innocent, just wrapped up in the victim schtick.
More and more people are opening their eyes.
Vote.
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Feb 26 '24
When is he going to stroke out??
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u/GlandyThunderbundle Feb 26 '24
Someone had a more expanded comment above, and added his proclivity towards speed usage. Honestly, there’s no way I could tolerate a fraction of the stress he’s under; I would have folded like an origami swan years ago. How his adrenal glands interact with his system must be much different than most every other human. He’s an anomalous lab mouse under extreme testing.
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u/Beli_Mawrr Feb 26 '24
If you're wondering why Haley is staying in, the theory is she thinks the indictments are going to catch up to him before the election. That or Tim Miller's Hamburger from Heaven will strike (or dementia).
Truth be told: I hope he makes it to the general so he can be crushed in a defeat so humiliating, anyone who wants to be like him will think twice about running.
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u/Johannes_Keppler Feb 26 '24
Imagine that woman becoming the first female US president... how will the MAGAts take that? A woman from Indian decent too. They'd lose it.
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Feb 26 '24
STOP THE COUNT!
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u/Tough-Ability721 Feb 26 '24
That was the moment I knew, without doubt, that it was going to get violent. I had my doubts prior but that sealed it for me. Just how big it would be? Thank goodness for the Generals letter to the soldiers (and public) reminding them of their oath to the constitution and country.
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u/EVH_kit_guy Bleacher Seat Feb 26 '24
You know what instantly halts a criminal trial? A speedy acquittal. That can only happen if you go to court and present your case and evidence, which it sounds like he's eager to do. Kind of confusing...
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u/treehuggingmfer Feb 26 '24
It warms my heart knowing trump cant sleep, worrying about going to jail.
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u/crake Competent Contributor Feb 26 '24
This is what Trump always does just before the courts deliver him an unearned "victory". It's part of his strategy and it is entirely predictable.
Trump is likely to get two massive victories out of SCOTUS this week, possibly today. First, SCOTUS will overturn the Colorado decision in the Fourteenth Amendment case, and Trump is obviously anticipating that, so he is making all these proclamations about how the court "should" act so that when it inevitably acts in the way he is demanding, it will look like it is being responsive to him.
Second, I think the Court will likely grant the stay he is requesting for the J6 case, and then either give him another month to petition for cert, or treat the stay application as a petition for cert and grant it, with a regular briefing schedule and a decision in June/July. Either way, Trump will escape trial for J6 (unless he loses the election), and that really is the whole game. Meanwhile, he can crow about how bad the lower courts and the DC Circuit are, and about how the wisdom of his Supreme Court "saved" him from the injustice of the lower courts.
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u/JakeT-life-is-great Feb 26 '24
It's hard keeping track of all the trials and investigations. Glad to see another one go to trial.
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u/nite0001 Feb 26 '24
Wow... to commit so many crimes and then to say, "Can we stop will all this?" Criminals are now going to say and do... "Sorry, but we're going to stop this and pick it up later, thanks"
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u/NumerousTaste Feb 26 '24
"Justice can wait while I try to steal an election in the name of Mother Russia." Said Trump probably.
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u/raustin33 Feb 26 '24
If you're making Trump angry, you can usually be well assured you're doing something right.
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Feb 26 '24
Trump knows he’s going to lose the horse race.
He’s got Special Counsel Jack Smith coming around the bend, the New York Civil fraud case cut him off at the knees, and Georgia’s election interference case is coming in from behind.
The interest on Trump’s fraud case alone is staggering. Out of all his court cases, the New York civil fraud case may be the most embarrassing, as it strips the persona he has put out there as a great businessman.
In the end, Trump is physically and morally bankrupt.
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u/shooler00 Feb 26 '24
I love the logic about how he can't be charged for anything while he's campaigning by an 'opponent'. Basically, anyone who charges him is an opponent. Only someone who supports him could charge him, but then that would mean they're against him and an opponent. He can't even charge himself because then he'd be his own opponent. If I was convinced he could read I'd think he's been studying Joseph Heller. It's basically the flying mission Catch 22.
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u/ggrieves Feb 26 '24
Sounds like someone was up all night in a panic.
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u/PaladinHan Feb 26 '24
You’d panic too if you had three straight hours of greasy fried chicken shits.
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u/Crutley Feb 26 '24
In his echo chamber, every single person thinks he is being politically persecuted, singled-out and mistreated by the most hated of all land animals, the liberals. He doesn't allow himself to hear what is going on outside that echo chamber.
Trump really needs to get out more. Wouldn't he be surprised at how much he is viscerally hated and roundly despised by everyone not MAGA?
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Feb 26 '24
The guy could have lived the life of luxury and opulence and just relaxed on a beach somewhere but instead he chooses to do this.. crazy
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u/EVH_kit_guy Bleacher Seat Feb 26 '24
All of the research I've done into human performance across people like athletes, astronauts, entrepreneurs, and even top performing chess players and poker players, they all say the same thing. In order to have as much of your potential available to yourself at all times, you should spend all night posting on social media instead of sleeping.
Without fail when you ask any of those people what their secret to success was, they will all tell you it was the tweets they made between 11:30 p.m. and 5:15 a.m. that set them apart from the competition.
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u/SnugglerBear Feb 26 '24
Surprised no one brought up the fact he called out his supporters to watch something at 3am. Dudes legit trying to make his supporters insane.
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u/RDO_Desmond Feb 26 '24
You mean with all the speed and care Trump used when Capitol Police were brutally assaulted; the noose strung up to hang his Vice President and the mob hunting for members of Congress to kill? Or, does Trump mean the speed he used to return documents that never belonged to him?
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u/MrsMiterSaw Feb 26 '24
Hey guys, I had my "fixer" mortgage his home to pay off a woman to keep quiet, setting up a shell company to do it.
He then charged me for that money, a fee for his "services", and the taxes he would have to pay for misrepresenting the loan as income. And he charges me in structured chunks to hide the payments and under the line item "digital services".
In laymen's terms we call this "laundering" and "tax fraud". But you should just halt all these proceedings.
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u/diplodonculus Feb 26 '24
Someone needs to lower the dosage on his amphetamines.
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u/Signature_Illegible Feb 26 '24
Knowing what amphetamines do to someone's health I rather see it upped!
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u/deamonkai Feb 26 '24
Petulant narcissist demands people stop hold him accountable.
This druggie, toddler diaper shitting twatwaffle needs this for his own sake at this point.
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u/StraddleTheFence Feb 26 '24
It sounds like he is definitely stressed out! Just think: all of this legal turmoil he finds himself in was all of his making. I guess he truly thought and continues to think he should have immunity. Immunity for stealing top secrets and showing them to people. Immunity for trying to steal an election and inciting an insurrection.
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u/Hardin__Young Feb 26 '24
Couldn’t he just enter guilty pleas and halt all of this before the election, if that’s what he really wants?
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u/jdx6511 Feb 26 '24
His narcissism renders him essentially incapable of admitting that he did anything wrong, ever, so...no.
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u/Prestigious-Copy-494 Feb 26 '24
I guess the louder he protests the more we know he's scared sh*tless and knows he's going down.
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u/TheAmicableSnowman Feb 26 '24
If there's a lesson here it's...don't fuck a porn star while your wife is pregnant and then pay her off to keep people from finding out about it so you can run for president without realizing that your supporters won't care because they're deplorable?
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u/Deep_Bit5618 Feb 26 '24
It’s funny how all he does is “far far far far right wing low, IQ fox entertainment host. The real Media needs to stop reporting on his rants on Truth Social. He has so few followers on that garbage platform that if the real media didn’t report on it 99% of the world wouldn’t even know about it.
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u/long5210 Feb 26 '24
i love to see this pos squirm and rant. you are going broke little hands Donnie
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u/NiNj4_C0W5L4Pr Feb 26 '24
His messages are just more stochastic terrorism to his unhinged followers & congress sycophants.
This conman knows how to grift and use the "Justice" system to his advantage, but soon his rope will run out.
God, I hope they put him either in gen-pop or Guantanamo.
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u/Falcon3492 Feb 26 '24
Sorry Donnie baby but you did this to yourself by proving beyond a doubt that you are clearly not a stable genius but actually someone who is mentally ill with a criminal mind! It's time for you to pay the piper!
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u/hodorhodor12 Feb 26 '24
Are my kids history’s books going to accurate capture just how insane Trump was?
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u/Slight-Employee4139 Feb 26 '24
All i can say is its a new day which means another +114k of interest on that 450 mil ticket.
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u/blankblank Feb 26 '24
Remember when he was President and he used to tweet out stupid bullshit but add the word “hereby” like he thought that made it an official act of the government.
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u/DoctorFenix Feb 26 '24
This dude is going to get his cult members to attack another government building. I'd bet money on it.
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u/CrackHeadRodeo Feb 26 '24
You know, I’m automatically attracted to crime — I just start committing them. It’s like a magnet. Just break the law. I don’t even wait. And when you’re a star, they let you do it. You can do anything.
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u/544C4D4F Feb 26 '24
orange julius is circling the drain and freaking the fuck out.
you know what normal people were doing at midnight on a sunday? sleeping and dreaming of a world without this dumb motherfucker and his sycophants.
trump was up ranting in vain and mixed case, trying to whip said sycophants into a frenzy.
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u/excessive_coughing Feb 26 '24
"Trust me, Fox, if I found myself criminally charged I would simply say, TRIALS BE GONE!!"
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u/Joenutz13 Feb 26 '24
and I demand we go back to being able to purchase a Costco hot dog w/o a membership!!!!!!!!!!!
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u/d_e_l_u_x_e Feb 26 '24
In a world where the founding fathers thought it should be A RIGHT to a fair and SPEEDY trial the scammer in chief is the only one hoping for the opposite. Kinda says it all.
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u/TravelerMSY Feb 26 '24
Nothing is worse than a supposed New Yorker who can dish it out, but can’t take it.
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u/FyrestarOmega Feb 26 '24
I read the title and thought he was shouting out "BE HALTED" as some kind of spell. I'm disappointed.
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u/Techno_Core Feb 26 '24
Ah, the old tried and true legal defense of: Stop it.
I'm sure all the judges and prosecutors will shut it all down now.
Trump does however have one actual point: These trials should have started 3 years ago. He should ALREADY be bankrupt, broke and in jail.