Donald Trump: Classic or Dud?

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

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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”

That's the Trump inner circle's biggest failing, the happy talk.

Captain Sensible to thread

tfw you go home with a dude in his early 80s and he's got documents strewn all over the garage floor, like grow up already.

Yeah but did you see the Corvette

that’s the classic move, he lures you in with the corvette and then he’s got all these boxes

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

― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Wednesday, June 7, 2023 5:08 PM (yesterday) bookmarkflaglink

Lol

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

― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Wednesday, June 7, 2023 5:08 PM (yesterday) bookmarkflaglink

Lol

Dear Martha Mae,

We have seen some dark days since the onset of this terrible conflict, but none that has so seared our souls ...

We take no pleasure in reporting that @CrackerBarrel has fallen.

A once family friendly establishment has caved to the mob. pic.twitter.com/IM0p1NT20S

— Texas Family Project (@FamilyProjectTX) June 8, 2023

Whoops

!!

Trump lawyer Jim Trusty on @CNN interview just now with @kaitlancollins says charges include:

18 USC "1512"!!

“We weren’t advised of anyone else being indicted.” "I have a theory."

KC: What's your theory?

It is subtle but then intimates that Walt Nauta may have flipped. pic.twitter.com/Lhg31aPnW5

— Ryan Goodman (@rgoodlaw) June 9, 2023

Time to go full resistance lib as a treat

Gonna get Avenatti on the phone er hold on

But who is Walt Nauta, you ask https://nymag.com/intelligencer/2023/03/walt-nauta-diet-coke-valet-trump-loyal-aide.html

Tipsy that Civil War joke may just be the zeitgeist

Fox News: Trump indictment is an insult to the soldiers who died at Gettysburg. pic.twitter.com/TeFjVPvJhl

— alexander nazaryan (@alexnazaryan) June 9, 2023

lol I actually meant to post it on the politics thread but #onethread

LOCK HIM THE FUCK UP

— Jeff Tiedrich (@itsJeffTiedrich) June 8, 2023

So happy for this guy

LOCK HIM THE FUCK UP

— Jeff Tiedrich (@itsJeffTiedrich) June 8, 2023

So happy for this guy

That picture always makes me think it's Eric Clapton, which is funny.

So if you're Atlanta, working on your own Trump legal shit, do you wait for this to move further along before dropping your own indictment? Do the states coordinate and cooperate for a clean unrolling?

That picture always makes me think it's Eric Clapton

You got me on my knees, Melania

I'm begging darling please

Darling I don't care do you?

Billy Joel shout out

We didn't start the indictment

YES...I keep thinking it's Eric Clapton. So I think, "nah, it's the good Clapton". But he's so cringey you don't wanna think he's the good anything. Alas, this day is for him and he's allowed to be an all-caps guy

orange man down bad

that’s the classic move, he lures you in with the corvette and then he’s got all these boxes

So if you're Atlanta, working on your own Trump legal shit, do you wait for this to move further along before dropping your own indictment? Do the states coordinate and cooperate for a clean unrolling?

― Josh in Chicago, Thursday, June 8, 2023 10:43 PM (forty-five minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink

she's on the record as saying her indictment, if it comes, will be between july 11 and september 1. https://www.nytimes.com/2023/04/24/us/trump-investigation-georgia.html

absolute loser response from desantis. he doesn't want to win.

https://edition.cnn.com/2023/06/09/politics/trump-tape-didnt-declassify-secret-information/index.html

lol

CNN first reported last week that prosecutors had obtained the audio recording of Trump’s 2021 meeting at his Bedminster, New Jersey, resort, with two people working on the autobiography of Trump’s former chief of staff Mark Meadows as well as aides employed by the former president, including communications specialist Margo Martin.

The transcript of the audio recording suggests that Trump is showing the document he’s discussing to those in the room. Several sources have told CNN the recording captures the sound of paper rustling, as if Trump was waving the document around, though is not clear if it was the actual Iran document.

“Secret. This is secret information. Look, look at this,” Trump says at one point, according to the transcript. “This was done by the military and given to me.”

Possible candidate for Mount Rushmore of self-pwn.

Roughly 90 minutes after he found out about his latest travails, Mr. Trump — who was playing disc jockey on his club patio at Mar-a-Lago after his April arraignment — went to the main building at Bedminster for dinner outdoors.

Wearing a red Make America Great Again cap, he again acted as a D.J., according to a person there, using an iPad to play some of his favorites: Elvis, the opera singer Pavarotti and his idol in showmanship, James Brown.

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/06/09/us/politics/trump-indictment-club-bedminster-nj.html

Flunky President (It's Bad)

https://edition.cnn.com/2023/06/09/politics/trump-tape-didnt-declassify-secret-information/index.html

― serving aunt (stevie), Friday, June 9, 2023 8:20 AM (twenty-two minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink

“As president, I could have declassified, but now I can’t,” Trump says, according to the transcript.

heh