Donald Trump: Classic or Dud?

Yeah well think of the feelings of the electoral collegians for once why doncha

idk 63% unfavorable is really really bad for a presidential candidate, IIRC he was at something like 57% in 2020 and still lost pretty badly. can't imagine new sets of criminal charges and having this guy constantly back on TV again is gonna make anyone like him *more*

Andy, the GW Bush campaign was expecting to win the popular vote but lose in the EC, they had a legal strategy lined up already to challenge the results, and had a PR strategy to discredit the EC.

what's really going to doom DeSantis now is that, like Trump, he was faring well in head to head election polls with Biden, but his numbers have slipped significantly, with three of the last five polls having Biden with a margin of 4 points or better.

Trump himself has slid in the same head to head polls, though not quite as much, and considering the lack of enthusiasm for DeSantis, you'd look to some other factor to make his case.

Most of the poll shifting seems to be undecideds deciding, and obviously polls this far out with the Republican party not having an official nominee are meant to be taken with a grain of salt, but the negativity amongst both candidates seems to have a tangible impact now.

Polls this far out are gross indicators at best.

Trump is pretty gross

Here we go again

BREAKING: Two sources with direct knowledge of the situation tells NBC News that Trump attorneys Todd Blanche and John Lauro are meeting with prosecutors in the Special Counsel's office in Washington and have been told to expect an indictment against Donald Trump. @MSNBC

— Kyle Griffin (@kylegriffin1) July 27, 2023

Here's why it looks bad for President Biden.

lol Alfred

lol xp

guy is piling up a lot of charges

a double header?

Barricades erected outside the Fulton County courthouse now. Looks like preparation for some big legal news… pic.twitter.com/3QOccQOMnf

— Charles Bethea (@charlesbethea) July 27, 2023

Build the wall! Build the wall!

It's just a shame that a full two years after Jan 6, we only have 1,734 indictments.

we need hundreds of millions of indictments

I could have sworn I heard am interview with prosecutors that said, after a very brief lull several months ago, that there could be another thousand on the way.

I wonder if anyone from a small town will come to Atlanta to Try That

It would be cool if a small town indicted Trump too.

I was indicted in a small town

son take a good look around

Met an N.Y. Don and brought him to this small town
Now he's small town just like me

just a small town girl
livin' in a racist world

I guess the long-term play for DeSantis right now is to hope that all this stuff does make Trump look less and less electable, so that if the Trump fever ever breaks Dr. Ron is right there. It's just so hard to imagine that really happening.

And of course DeSantis can't be too brazen about trying to capitalize on any of it. Like, you would think that your opponent facing multiple criminal indictments in multiple jurisdictions would be the most obvious attack point. But apart from Asa Hutchison none of them want to do that. What an insane time.

BREAKING: A superseding indictment has been filed with new charges against Donald Trump.

— Kyle Griffin (@kylegriffin1) July 27, 2023

Justice Department: The superseding indictment also charges Trump, De Oliveira and Nauta with two new obstruction counts based on allegations that the defendants attempted to delete surveillance video footage at The Mar-a-Lago Club in summer 2022.

— Kyle Griffin (@kylegriffin1) July 27, 2023

are we led to believe that they tried and failed to delete the footage

Indicted on charges of bumbling

Well the good news is Byron Donalds is Donald's Byron.

What's crazy to me is I expressed support for the vast majority of the new African American history standards and happened to oppose one sentence that seemed to dignify the skills gained by slaves as a result of their enslavement.

Anyone who can't accurately interpret what I… https://t.co/b6hqaSJtlp

— Byron Donalds (@ByronDonalds) July 27, 2023

yeah thats crazy man who wouldve thought that the scorpions would react that way

Shocked to find racists under these hoods

Waiting for Trump to be indicted again for trying to delete his demand that the security footage be deleted.

Go to hell, you cowardly turd

Indictment Days Are The New Infrastructure Weeks

I’m so indicted! And I jus

did we already do that at some point? probably

One of the new charges against Trump is that he willfully retained a top-secret document about Iran attack plans, which he discussed with biographers during a taped meeting at Bedminster. The charging document doesn't name the country, but Trump allies, and Trump himself even,…

— Kaitlan Collins (@kaitlancollins) July 27, 2023

Tipsy, Desantis is relatively young and has time. He can wait for another cycle or two (as Biden did).

Or he can die in a fire

Alfred: yes, preferable.

I can't imagine him getting any less repellent than he is now.

Maybe he will catch Woke

From a Woketopus Teacher

This also suggests that, as in other legal matters, Trump is making his attorneys take absurd positions that will just make them look bad in the front of the judge. It's one thing to do that in a civil case, but in a criminal case, you might want to listen to your attorneys. https://t.co/MTKGP0wxfg

— Secrets and Laws (@secretsandlaws) July 27, 2023

imho this is him testing Cannon

— southpaw (@nycsouthpaw) July 27, 2023

DOJ: "There is no basis for the defendant’s request ... and it is particularly striking that he seeks permission to do so in the very location at which he is charged with willfully retaining the documents charged in this case"

Trump response due 8/9. https://t.co/OP0CTK4nGn

— Zoe Tillman (@ZoeTillman) July 28, 2023

whoa it’s like he dngaf!

me: he cannot afford to do. and… it might work, i guess. not that i can imagine that.

Discovery of deleted Mar-a-Lago surveillance video casts a shadow over the Biden White House.

— New York Times Pitchbot (@DougJBalloon) July 28, 2023

lmao

the video was of Hunter spilling coke on the documents

The expanded indictment against Trump includes a detailed and incredibly damning articulation of how his team allegedly tried to bury security footage. I walked through it. https://t.co/E2GA0ZMm7B

— Philip Bump (@pbump) July 28, 2023

We now come to one of the most intriguing new parts of the indictment.

“Between 1:31 p.m. and 1:50 p.m., DE OLIVEIRA walked through the bushes on the northern edge of The Mar-a-Lago Club property to meet with NAUTA on the adjacent property,” the indictment alleges, “then walked back to the IT office that he had visited that morning; and then walked again through the bushes on the northern edge of The Mar-a-Lago Club property to meet with NAUTA on the adjacent property.”

There are a few possible reasons for this weird (alleged) interaction. One is that Nauta was engaged in some activity off the Mar-a-Lago grounds and simply couldn’t come closer to De Oliveira. Another is that Nauta didn’t want to been recorded as having visited Mar-a-Lago that day, either by Secret Service or other employees. Another is that Nauta and De Oliveira — by now very aware that the federal government was interested in movements at the facility — were eager not to be observed. Remember that De Oliveira’s conversation with the IT staffer took place not in the staffer’s office or a hallway but, instead, in a small nearby room.

That people can gain access to Mar-a-Lago by slipping through the bushes is, of course, a subject that probably deserves more consideration, too.

why did Hunter spill coke on the docs?
No one can read with coke on the docs
After a while, we learn from our talks
He did it
Cos we said "no"

In October of last year, the room were the surveillance footage was stored on a server was flooded as the nearby pool was being drained. This was likely after the subpoenaed footage had been turned over to investigators and it doesn’t appear that the server was damaged...the staffer responsible for draining the pool and accidentally flooding the room was none other than Carlos De Oliveira.

This part reminds me of that commercial where the woman tries to trash her ex's beloved SUV by having it pushed off a cliff, but of course the thing rolls over and over and emerges from a cloud of dust unscathed, to the woman's anguished chagrin.

by the way, "the room were the surveillance footage was stored", "didn't want to been recorded"...does WaPo even read these things before they post them?