Donald Trump: Classic or Dud?

I know but like

totally impeached

Relax folks, he’s gonna pull something in the third year in his second term, most likely involving bribing state officials to ratify the proposed constitutional amendment to eliminate term limits, that he is like going to totally get actually punished for.

More like during his third term.

Meantime in the snakepit

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2023/jun/01/trump-lawyers-resign-criminal-investigation

"some of the lawyers started to believe the biggest impediment to defending Trump might just be the distrust and interpersonal conflict Trump."

Fixed

hahaha covering their fair & balanced ass

Notably, Thursday night’s town hall with Trump in the Des Moines suburb of Clive will be pre-taped, giving Fox News the option of editing out egregious lies about the 2020 election in general or Dominion and Smartmatic in particular before its broadcast at 9pm.

Once they edit out all the insane bullshit, it'll be 10 minutes of actual Trump Q&A, and 45 minutes of Hannity and whoever else is still on board that sinking ship talking about what a genius he is.

really starting to wish the republicans had followed suit and decided to change the order of states in their primary

heh

The word/byline ratio on this story is 34/6. https://t.co/sRrygfQLuO

— Isaac Chotiner (@IChotiner) June 6, 2023

34:1, technically, but hey, don't let that get in the way of a funny tweet

Mar-a-Lago ketchup reserves are about to go through some things pic.twitter.com/IhaUPKtKQ2

— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) June 7, 2023

Congrats to Truth Social for getting this scoop

I saw someone post an even more aggrieved than usual rant of his right after his team was done meeting with the DOJ, and that was seen by some as confirmation that they came back and told him, "Sorry, dude, you're getting indicted. Again."

🚨🚨🚨🚨🚨

BREAKING per @AndrewFeinberg :

MARK MEADOWS has agreed to plead guilty to several lesser federal crimes in exchange for his testimony under a limited grant of immunity. It is believed Trump will be indicted as soon as tomorrow on obstruction & Espionage Act charges.

— Spiro’s Ghost (@AntiToxicPeople) June 7, 2023

"As soon as tomorrow," which means between now and never.

didn't you do the exact same thing with the last indictment?

Holy fuck.

"As soon as tomorrow," which means between now and never.

is there really any doubt this will happen soon very soon? obv most are skeptical of what becomes of it all but come on

The idea of Meadows pleading to lesser crimes and flipping is pretty astonishing. Of course, his lawyer says it's complete bullshit.

note from a british person: if the independent is reporting it as an exclusive, it's probably not true.

Yeah I'm treating everything as rumor mill stuff unless/until it actually happens.

Yeah so far I'm only seeing the independent as a source for those specifics.

Yeah I think it’s happening, maybe not this week or even this month but this is the exact way he was publicly freaking out before the first one

what the hell is a spiro's ghost

My guess is someone trying to ride the Richard M. Nixon twitter account vibe.

This is a bit more reputable, at least the byline:

NEW: Special Counsel formally told Trump’s lawyers last week that the former president is a target in the Mar-a-Lago docs investigation, per people familiar. @guardian confirming https://t.co/U71nLjZ1x8

— Hugo Lowell (@hugolowell) June 7, 2023

well I guess we finally got him now

yes, a target

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VHW33NjVRMQ

who else would be the target of the investigation into him stealing documents?

Anyone involved in helping him directly/assisting with hiding them further.

this is a good explanation of what it means when they say that he is the target of the investigation

Trump has been informed he is the target of a special counsel investigation over classified docs, sources say.@AshaRangappa_: "This means that they are basically at the end of the investigation, at least the one that is the subject of the target letter."https://t.co/iohAbVemwd pic.twitter.com/Bm0VVMBFwo

— ABC News Live (@ABCNewsLive) June 7, 2023

in other words, this is not just stating an obvious fact that we've known all along, it is a formal step in the process towards an indictment

ah gotcha. thanks for the clarification.

Yeah, it's always nice to be reminded that "target" is a formal legal term.

also a store that worships satan

Hmm...

The coup-attempting former president says he has been indicted, and has to appear at the federal courthouse in Miami on Tuesday. pic.twitter.com/thlCH5wwxi

— S.V. Dáte (@svdate) June 8, 2023

Nominate Alfred to be our special correspondent.

Billy Joel shout out at the end

"I AMMMMMM...not handling PRESSURE."

Logged on just to see when (not if) someone here would make that joke. I knew ILX wouldn't let me down.

I'm a big fan of his infantile deflection, which any parent will appreciate. "I didn't do anything wrong! But even if I did, they did the same thing I did, why aren't they in trouble?! It's not fair!!!!"

“Documents strewn all over his garage floor where he parks his Corvette”

The Diamond Joe archetype is so strong. pic.twitter.com/5n3wlITm6J

— southpaw (@nycsouthpaw) June 9, 2023

Hmm...does Trump actually drive? Like, beyond golf carts?

Trump just posted a Truth Social video about his indictment and all I focus on is this. https://t.co/ldZtH6JY0k pic.twitter.com/9syWvcsUyM

— Kyle Cheney (@kyledcheney) June 9, 2023

Hmm deleted

Repost

Trump just posted a Truth Social video about his indictment and all I can focus on is this. https://t.co/ldZtH6JY0k pic.twitter.com/ZDcJAIFyRK

— Kyle Cheney (@kyledcheney) June 9, 2023

lol this was my first thought too

pic.twitter.com/UzoowpVsZo

— Kevin M. Kruse (@KevinMKruse) June 8, 2023

Thread with some interesting context

(thread/tonight) What I'm hearing... Trump is frustrated not just with the indictment but with people in his inner circle who reassured him for months that it was very unlikely to happen... source close to Trump says "too much happy talk for way too long" about what could happen

— Robert Costa (@costareports) June 9, 2023

“Too much happy talk”