Donald Trump: Classic or Dud?

I'm more interested in state prosecution, since he can't be pardoned by a GOP President for that.

Maybe he'll counter sue for emotional damages?

Apparently his recent attempted suit against Hillary Clinton for 'Russiagate' was so laughably badly written that the judge promptly tossed it

"... there are just simply no actual consequences whatsoever for rich white men. None."

I don't know, Epstein got a consequence.

One potential problem Trump could face in responding to multiple civil and criminal suits filed in multiple venues is that he'll need to assemble a large legal team to cope with them and the type of firms who could do this at a high level of competence have watched how Trump operates and very likely won't take him as a client. He's down to scraping the bottom of the barrel in terms of legal talent willing to represent him.

Look how well Alex Jones, who is both white and very wealthy, is doing with his incompetent legal team. There is room to hope that Trump will see some substantial consequences.

Alex Jones, for talking shit about parents of dead kids back in 2012.

It is a testament to our legal system that even the shittiest lawyers hired by the shittiest people for the crimiest crimes can stretch these cases out for decades

Exactly. He'll be dead before it gets around to any ramifications for him. Sure, his shitty offspring might be around to feel the sting, but he won't.

I'd settle for him being dead as a consolation prize.

Trump should be sentenced to never being allowed to shower or change his underwear again

nothing will happen. the DA who would prosecute this as a criminal case has already declined. in principal he can change his mind, but he won't.

good work AOC anyway

Trump can thank @AOC for this @NewYorkStateAG lawsuit https://t.co/KcDOzzNaQF

— Mike Sacks (@MikeSacksEsq) September 21, 2022

Alex Jones, for talking shit about parents of dead kids back in 2012.

The defamation suits against Jones were filed in Texas in 2018 and the verdicts arrived at in 2022. And there was a pandemic that made a total mess of court dockets inserted in that time frame. Just sayin' that not every suit takes ten years to resolve.

true but there is no one more skilled at delaying litigation than Trump. dude knows all the tricks and virtually every motion he files for is just an attempt to stall things further. he pleaded for a special master, got one who was firmly in his camp, and refused to even cooperate with that. it's all a show.

also, didn't the judge (the one confirmed in the days after january 6) who allowed the special master already state that she would take the special master's findings under review but could override them herself as she saw fit?

https://www.cnn.com/2022/09/21/politics/appeals-court-mar-a-lago-criminal-classified-documents/index.html

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/donald-trump-classified-documents-justice-department-11th-circuit-court-of-appeals-stay/

two of the justices were Trump appointees too, lol

By the end of this clip, Trump almost completely decomposes.

If you saw someone on a sidewalk talking this way, you’d put your phone to your ear, stare at the ground and cross the street as fast as possible.

Via @atrupar pic.twitter.com/SFUI8jOr4o

— Bill Grueskin (@BGrueskin) September 22, 2022

Brain visibly collapsing in on itself there.

remarkable how raddled and unkempt he looks there, like they dragged him from bed to do the interview

Hillary? LOL

hey, FOX calls him "former president." Progress.

Brain visibly collapsing in on itself there.

― circa1916,

Trump's too.

Slightly loving how painful it clearly is for Hannity to have to keep Trump from stepping on third rails in these interviews, and how unable Trump is to keep from treading from those third rails.

Maybe I'm dead and watching Hannity in Hell/purgatory?

sounds like he's doing an impression of James Austin Johnson at times

I mean, as usual Trump will skate on this documents thing because there's probably no specific law that says a President can't declassify thing "by just thinking about it."

By that reasoning, he's declassified 75% of Mr. Skin.

A journalist should send him the equivalent of a FOIA request. "Since you've declassified all these documents simply by waving your stubby paws over them, sir, may we read them now, too?"

Iirc a couple of people/organizations already did!

Has he ever attempted to explain why he "declassified" them and took them to Mar-a-Lago? I can't keep up.

they were just time magazines with him on the cover, he wanted to look at them in his free time

xpost Because he wanted to catch up on his work now that he doesn't have at that coup-plotting stuff to distract him.

all that

Some of those documents can't be declassified by anybody, even the President

“That was appropriately quick," former prosecutor @MitchellEpner noted. https://t.co/dlnbFe1Nzp

— Adam Klasfeld (@KlasfeldReports) September 22, 2022

supposedly this change she's made means that the stay can't be appealed to SCOTUS anymore

I don't know, Epstein got a consequence.

He got a get-out-of-jail-early card, and to protect dozens and dozens of his clients in the process.

anything can be appealed to scotus as scotus isn't following rules any more

the old court order was vacated and a newer one was issued, so there is no old order in force to appeal

Haberman describes Rep. Debbie Dingell (D-Mich.) getting a phone call from an unknown number. “When she answered, the man on the other end identified himself as a Washington Post reporter, and said he knew her husband from his investigations in Congress. The name he gave was not one she recognized. The man asked Dingell if she was looking for an apology from Trump. No, she replied, merely that people could be civil to one another. As the man talked, Dingell couldn’t shake the idea that his voice sounded like that of the forty-fifth president.”

Phony call very much in character.

Newly released Jan. 6 body-worn camera footage shows the mob using an enormous TRUMP sign as a battering ram against police. pic.twitter.com/8pPMupf2cn

— Ryan J. Reilly (@ryanjreilly) September 28, 2022

It may be new footage, but the only real reason for recasting this as 'news' is because most people in the USA have forgotten how they felt on Jan. 6, 2021 while watching all this in real time and half of them have had false memories implanted by the Trumpian media.

Literally a false flag, it clearly says "dWURT" or something.

tbh even I was skeptical of the idea that prominent Republicans including the President himself would've been involved in organizing this but I guess I forgot Trump rule #1 which is that things are always worse than they look

wow speaking of

NEW: Remember when Trump took a trip to Japan back in 2019 and reports surfaced that the WH requested the move the USS John McCain out of view so it wouldn't upset Trump?

Well, I #FOIA'd the military for docs about this & 3 yrs later they just arrived

"This just makes me sad" pic.twitter.com/GeJwQIn57S

— Jason Leopold (@JasonLeopold) September 29, 2022

actually remember some rightwingers chastising people for believing this "obviously fake" story

https://www.theguardian.com/books/2022/sep/29/trump-theresa-may-boris-johnson-maggie-haberman-book

“He just grabbed it,” May told aides. “What can I do?”

you just grab em by the, er, hand

"This just makes me sad" for October US Politics thread.

Apparently he's on quite a truth rant tonight, must be more bad news coming. Even for him, particularly unhinged, not the least of which is some extremely racist shit aimed at McConnell's wife.

I don't usually share his posts, but this is insane. pic.twitter.com/95gDKhjTWP

— Christopher Bouzy (@cbouzy) September 30, 2022

Holy fucking shit. He's losing what little self control he had.