Donald Trump: Classic or Dud?

Lol

man if i needed that shit to feel right and was him, i have like the world most deluxe carwax for a totally buff outcome everytime. I’m talking robotic german wintersteiger stonegrind shit

maybe he should settle with the NY district attorney, like any decent person would caught red-handed breaking laws his own erstwhile attorney and corporate accountant serve(d) time in prison for

sounds like the cross on Cohen is taking forever but not really going anywhere, wonder if they're just going in circles because the defense has nothing but doesn't want to reveal if Trump will actually testify or not

Please let him testify, please.

I'm like 95% sure he's gonna say he wants to testify but can't because of the gag order, which is such an obvious lie, but his base have no standards for this sort of thing so they'll just lap it up anyway

if he does testify it would be such an utter disaster, one would think even a man of Trump's legal instincts knows it's a bad idea, but on the other hand he's been falling asleep in court every day so maybe his brains have completely turned to mush

if he does testify it would be such an utter disaster, one would think even a man of Trump's legal instincts knows it's a bad idea

Funniest possible outcome: he demands to testify, his lawyers say "Are you fucking kidding us right now," he fires them all and says, "I'm acting as my own lawyer from now on, and will take my own testimony," clambering out of the witness box to ask a question then climbing back in to answer it, judge saying "I'll allow it" through tears of helpless laughter.

it would be deeply unfair to make him testify when he hasn't yet been informed what the crime is

People are heckling Boebert, yelling Beetlejuice at her pic.twitter.com/SQxsPq4bKk

— Acyn (@Acyn) May 16, 2024

i saw someone point out that she was not present for her own minor son's court date recently but of course she is in NYC for this shit show

The son showed up to court without a lawyer.

Don’t these people have legislating to do?

yeah, Biden probably needs impeaching or something

in this display of subservient fealty, nobody wants to be seen not making the trek up to NY - he's keeping track

otm

I actually approve of GOP legislators not showing up for work, the more the merrier

Perfect time to vote for a new Speaker

do these folks actually ever get anything passed? I remember reading something about how a lot of these famous bootlickers never even write any bills. at least MTG is good at wasting people's time.

For some reason Mike Johnson going to NYC stands out as particularly pathetic. I guess you have to shed any ability to feel shame to reach such heights as he has.

Chip Roy to thread

“One thing. I want my Republican colleagues to give me one thing. One. That I can go campaign on and say we did,” Roy said. “One!”

“Anybody sitting in the complex, if you want to come down to the floor and come explain to me one material, meaningful, significant thing the Republican majority has done besides well, ‘I guess it’s not as bad as the Democrats,’” Roy lamented.

Chip Roy somehow OTM

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/0/03/Josep_Maria_Garc%C3%ADa.jpg/220px-Josep_Maria_Garc%C3%ADa.jpg

Of course, Chip Roy is in a gerrymandered, Hard R District In Central Texas, so he doesn't really need to run on anything.

Boebert says Trump isn’t sleeping, he’s praying but if he is sleeping, he looks pretty while he sleeps. pic.twitter.com/PHIxDOIm7b

— Acyn (@Acyn) May 17, 2024

it's not the brazenness of this that gets me it's the fact that anyone who actually believed this would basically be an insane person. its tough to see anyone debase themselves this hard even if it is Boebert

sounded like that was a good committee meeting

👀 At tonight’s House Oversight hearing, Marjorie Taylor Greene made a derogatory comment about Jasmine Crockett and “false eyelashes.” Then the committee erupted. AOC trashed MTG, demanded an apology (MTG refused); then demands for clarifications on whether personal attacks are… pic.twitter.com/o90T36DkBV

— Sahil Kapur (@sahilkapur) May 17, 2024

lol MTG probably knows nothing about her but she's one of the last members of Congress you'd want to mess with

holy shit

.@RepMTG: Are your feelings hurt?@AOC: Oh baby girl…don’t even play.

How it’s going in the House Oversight Committee pic.twitter.com/73RYvGhMVK

— Jay O'Brien (@jayobtv) May 17, 2024

"Oh Baby Girl... Don't Even Play" for June Thread Title.

Full exchange

This video lays out what happened in tonight’s heated exchange in the oversight hearing pic.twitter.com/7QTmpsa1eA

— Acyn (@Acyn) May 17, 2024

this might just be wishful thinking but I feel that acting like total psychos in order to appease a convicted felon (probably) who's also been found liable for sexual assault is gonna hurt them in the end. like having a bunch of them fly to NY just to "support" Trump so Dems can yell AREN'T YOU SUPPOSED TO BE DOING YOUR TAXPAYER FUNDED JOBS in a Congressional session is such a bad look. I genuinely think most Republican voters don't actually like this shit and vote Trump mostly because he's mean/racist and they hate the idea of people "getting free stuff". they aren't exactly pisspigs for Donald Trump, they'll be glad when he's out of the picture (as a lot of us will be for Biden). this stuff is embarrassing and I think it does turn a lot of not-particularly-engaged people off. don't forget most of the Trumpiest candidates lost in 2022, hell Lauren Boebert nearly lost an R+30 district to some guy nobody's ever heard of. the sexpest stuff cost them a Senate seat in ALABAMA a while back. every time Trump appears on the national stage his numbers go down. people aren't really going to his rallies and they sure as hell aren't showing up to support him in court. they really really need to find a way to keep MTG out of the news but they have no actual ideas whatsoever so good luck with that

Cohen did not do well on cross yesterday. I have no idea whether this is just a blip, but they are relying on him to tie all the other evidence together and he may have just untied it.

A befuddled Comer replied: “What now?”

He’s a massive piece of shit and deserves every moment of this.

Someone please re-share the video of the guy doing an angry impression of his Porky Pig ass voice when he was being cross-examined by Comer.

idk from what I've read Cohen didn't exactly bust open any part of the case, the defense just spent hours running in circles to call him a sleazy liar who's out to get Trump (just like everybody else), not sure how great a strategy that is when Trump is the one who hired him and was paying him lots of money

it sounded like Blanche was doing a poor job, like bringing up insults Cohen had posted about him doesn't do anything productive. It has already been established that Cohen is a dickhead. Apparently his best moment was to cast doubt over Cohen's memory of a phone call with Trump or something, which doesn't seem much when there are the calls Cohen recorded in evidence backing up his version of events.

Cohen is an awful person, but I can't see how the jury could ever come to the conclusion that Trump didn't know about the Stormy Daniels payoff and wasn't across how Cohen was being reimbursed.

I mean I don't think the prosecutions case rests solely on Cohen's memory of a phone call he had 8 years ago

Why couldn’t they get an honest and upstanding guy on the stand to testify about his years of doing crimes for Trump?

what is he doing

https://i.imgur.com/1IhCDBu.png

like Biden didn't accept a debate on Fox, in fact I kinda doubt Fox accepted it either, I feel like he just made this all up

Cohen is an awful person, but I can't see how the jury could ever come to the conclusion that Trump didn't know about the Stormy Daniels payoff and wasn't across how Cohen was being reimbursed.

I think the challenge for the prosecution is that they have to satisfy the jury that, not only did Trump know about it, but that he authorized it with the intent to keep it from the voting public in order not to hurt his chances at getting elected.

I agree that Biden’s 4 album run of Crippling Inflation, High Gas Prices, Crime in our Streets, and Border Chaos were devastatingly heavy

Virginua State University, or another venue

'I have accepted a ninth debate invitation on ESPN, which will be broadcast live from Saratoga Golf Club! We'll see how good of a putter Crooked Joe really is...'

I mean *why* he did it is kind of immaterial here, like even if he was primarily thinking of his family (lol) there's no way he wasn't also thinking of his election chances

It's actually not immaterial at all, it goes directly to the question of criminal intent.

sure but there are several legitimate reasons he wouldn't want that story to get out

idk I just think the idea is absurd that the prosecution would build a case against a former president (and current nominee) that would all be unraveled if Michael Cohen, a lawyer so sleazy and dishonest that he became Donald Trump's right hand man, forgot some detail from 8 years ago. I mean the dude was being cross-examined for hours by a lawyer who was by all accounts flailing around in order to paint him as a liar, even if he did discover something that could be a real sticking point chances are the jury are just gonna forget about it over the long weekend. I think CNN is being stupid about this, like are we really ignoring the piles and piles of evidence they already have

Thankfully, CNN isn't on the jury (afaik)

One of the things i remember about the OJ trial is that one of the jurors was asked something like ‘why did it only take an hour to deliberate’ and they said something to the effect of ‘we were in that courtroom for 6 months we knew everything all we had to do is vote.’ They’ve heard from a bunch of people besides cohen already all that evidence is banked. It’s just whether they agree with the DA’s case or not

there's plenty of documentation about the alleged payoff, they essentially just needed Cohen to corroborate what went down