Donald Trump: Classic or Dud?

Nixon has often been described as amoral, but I agree, he was not an obvious sociopath in the way Trump so clearly is.

nixon was an angry, bitter person who hated himself.

reagan was the poster child of toxic positivity, that particularly american brand of cruelty rooted in wilful ignorance.

trump is a gangster and an animal.

The verdict sheet in Carroll v. Trump is four pages long.

This first page illustrates the various theories under which a jury can find the former president liable of battery under New York's Adult Survivors Act.

Doc: https://t.co/6rGyXbcBvI pic.twitter.com/fWGmv1qhUE

— Adam Klasfeld (@KlasfeldReports) May 9, 2023

The jury has reached a verdict in the civil rape trial brought by E Jean Carroll, who claimed Donald Trump raped her in New York in the 1990s

that was quick

Judge issues decorum warning for Carroll v. Trump verdict:

"No shouting. No jumping up and down. No race for the door."

— Adam Klasfeld (@KlasfeldReports) May 9, 2023

No shouting holy shit a shred of accountability for the very obviously guilty man

Trump more likely than not sexually abused E. Jean Carroll, a federal civil jury unanimously finds.

Story soon, @LawCrimeNews

— Adam Klasfeld (@KlasfeldReports) May 9, 2023

The judy did find that he sexually abused Carroll.

The jury has found that Trump did not rape Carroll.

$2 million verdict.

The jury also finds that Trump defamed Carroll.

Total awards: $5 million.

— Adam Klasfeld (@KlasfeldReports) May 9, 2023

Joe Tacopina got a lot of adulatory press when Trump signed him as his lead defense lawyer. This jury shat all over him. Good on them!

and his numbers skyrocket among GOP voters

It's hard to put up a good defense when you really have none, and your client basically shrugs the whole thing off.

"Soros-funded jury" to trend on Twitter in three, two...

Joe Tacopina got a lot of adulatory press when Trump signed him as his lead defense lawyer. This jury shat all over him. Good on them!

― more difficult than I look (Aimless)

The late Glenn Frey excepted, no man looked more like autonomous life carved from capicola.

Isn't CNN supposedly hosting a townhall with Trump tomorrow?

an L for the orange man, may there be many more

i agree, unfortunately or fortunately

― treeship., Tuesday, May 9, 2023 12:29 PM (one hour ago) bookmarkflaglink

This clip is weird as hell, like all of this has been basic reality processed through a glitching AI

Joe Tacopina got a lot of adulatory press when Trump signed him as his lead defense lawyer. This jury shat all over him. Good on them!

Like Trump himself, Tacopina has been well known to East Coast natives for decades. As I said upthread, if Tacopina's your lawyer, you might get off (he got Meek Mill released), but everybody will know that you did that shit, and probably more.

Really happy for her. I wonder if this result will encourage others.

yeah, it would be great if he got a judgement like this say, oh, every other week for the rest of his life

fuck yeah.

Even beyond the end of his life.

I think the fact that he didn't show up once, not even on the first day, must've not done him any favors with the jury

post through it bitch

https://i.imgur.com/21s7f5X.png

i wonder if any of the other GOP candidates will attempt to use this against him.

maybe this is the greatest witch hunt of all time. I'm feeling pretty psyched about it right now anyway

massive respect to E. Jean Carroll though, I'm particularly glad the jury decided he defamed her

doesn't Fake News CNN have a town hall with Trump tonight

i wonder if any of the other GOP candidates will attempt to use this against him.

― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Tuesday, May 9, 2023 8:40 PM (three minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink

the won't

massive respect to E. Jean Carroll though, I'm particularly glad the jury decided he defamed her

― rob, Tuesday, May 9, 2023 8:42 PM (two minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink

absolutely

It looks like the town hall is tomorrow, assuming it is t cancelled

xp probably true. they will continue to fight among themselves and/or wait for something to happen that rules trump out (passive voice).

sure is nice of CNN to reward him with a bunch of free airtime to say whatever he wants, given he spent his entire term shitting on them constantly

On the other hand, CNN will get exclusive rights to the start of whatever defamation case he sets in motion next.

well, given that half his Cabinet works for them, why not

DeSantis should immediately call out Trump as a sexual predator, so Trump will be forced to respond by insulting his wife or something, please throw a can of kerosene on this upcoming dumpster fire called the GOP presidential nomination

Drinking to this outcome

is DeSantis even running

wins otm

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/EZMFX7aXYAElc7i.jpg

xp TALLAHASSEE, Fla. — Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis severed his connection to his long-standing state political committee and the tens of millions of dollars that it now controls, a step he needs to take ahead of a presidential campaign

welp RIP DeSantis I guess

I know DeSantis is a garbage candidate and scared of Trump and his followers, but if he refuses to use this, then he just does not want to win.

may he swim eternally in swift rivers of piss

he can try but he's too chickenshit to do it I think

going after Trump would mean ignoring the anti-reality shield the GOP has so meticulously built up these past few years and siding with....fact checkers and the media

Every single opportunity these GOP dummies have had to sever ties with Trump, or sideline Trump, they have instead turned up the volume of their support. At this point I suspect, go figure, they just kind of like him in all his criminal, corrupt glory.

Geraldo knows which way the wind is blowing, this is not going to just disappear or be forgotten about.

Geraldo on Fox News: "It is so parochial and partisan to suggest that a finding of sexual battery is nothing. This is not nothing." pic.twitter.com/5Rg8eC3I4T

— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) May 9, 2023

I dunno, the party has become so stupidly, blindly ugly and contrarian that it would not shock me if they pushed to decriminalize sexual assault. And justified it as somehow protecting children.

Oh PLEASE stop it
You cannot be serious
This is a day for vindication not florid catastrophizing

I don't know what this changes or affects in the long term, but fuck yes this is good. Good for E. Jean Carroll for standing up to him, she never had to say a word about this and risked a fair amount by doing it. She deserves every penny.

Also, in re the long term, there's no way it doesn't hurt him. Whether other Republicans use it against him or not, Democrats and progressive outside groups definitely will. I imagine there'll be an anti-Trump spot just featuring her.