Donald Trump: Classic or Dud?

Something's up?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NUQQDwsXsA0

Jack Smith is about to announce a stadium tour.

Steve Bannon suggested Sunday that a presidential ticket with former President Trump (R) as president and Robert F. Kennedy Jr. (D) as vice president could result in “a massive landslide.”

And it's just weird enough that it might become a reality

The spectacle of MAGA-on-MAGA violence is too good not to post.

https://www.rawstory.com/donald-trump-supporters-2662573161/

“Tensions flared…with pro-Trump protesters denouncing the move (to change the delegate-selection process), police getting called and two factions nearly coming to fisticuffs,” the report said.

Fisticuffs!

a massive landslide like a deadly earthquake that ends civilization, sure

UPDATE: It’s happening. Prosecutors have entered the courtroom and a new “grand jury returns” has been added to the docket.

— Kyle Cheney (@kyledcheney) August 1, 2023

Court is now closed. We may have to wait for Trump to get the summons and hop on Truth Social to learn what happened.

— Kyle Cheney (@kyledcheney) August 1, 2023

_Steve Bannon suggested Sunday that a presidential ticket with former President Trump (R) as president and Robert F. Kennedy Jr. (D) as vice president could result in “a massive landslide.” _

And it's just weird enough that it might become a reality

Former President Donald Trump has been informed he has been indicted, a source says.

That source? John Barron.

Breaking: Trump has been indicted — https://t.co/prZhOLzl1v pic.twitter.com/lPA9ys6Yai

— Hugo Lowell (@hugolowell) August 1, 2023

because he's once...twice...three timmmmmmes indicted

If you'd like some reading material

https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.dcd.258149/gov.uscourts.dcd.258149.1.0_1.pdf

the big one...for overturning the election. or trying to.

i already told my FB friends that "who cares nothing will happen" posts will be deleted on site. let's do this

Are you allowed to run for president if you're in jail?

yes

It's not only allowed, it's encouraged.

But ex-cons aren't allowed to vote?

gonna be the first President to conduct a meeting with heads of state while shitting in an open cell

"I don't want a max prison, I want SUPERmax, I demand it!"

Apparently Rudy also has a minor role as "indicted co-conspirator 1."

But ex-cons aren't allowed to vote?

― the world is your octopus (Camaraderie at Arms Length)

depends on the state

Most states deprive convicted felons of many of their civil rights, including the right to vote. These rights are usually restored upon release, unless you have the misfortune to live in a state like Florida, which in an example of its endless fuckery won't restore them until the felon pays court costs, restitution, etc.

A felony conviction is no bar to running for President of the United States. The Senate could have convicted Trump in the second impeachment and prohibited from ever running for federal office again. Short of that, he'd have to be found to have engaged in rebellion.

that's the trick, you have to stay convicted, then you can do whatever you want. once you stop being convicted is the problem

Apparently Rudy also has a minor role as "indicted co-conspirator 1."

John Eastman as well... he was the architect of the 'bully Pence' theory

thats just common sense tho

"You're too honest."

— What Trump told Pence on Jan. 1, after the then-VP said he had no constitutional authority to reject or return votes to the states, according to the indictment. https://t.co/zqADs0guFJ pic.twitter.com/swWZ9uWG9G

— Adam Klasfeld (@KlasfeldReports) August 1, 2023

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/F2UxuJxWEAIi7sU?format=jpg&name=medium

feeling happy for the eric clapton looking liberal guy again.

As a west coaster, Rehoboth Beach sounds very Lovecraftian to me

He is truly fucked...unless he wins the next election.

Jack Smith speaks:

Smith: The attack on our nation's capital on January 6th was an unprecedented assault on the seat of American democracy. It's described in the indictment. It was fueled by lies. Lies by the defendant, targeted at obstructing a bedrock function of the U.S. Government pic.twitter.com/wj685DpKIy

— Acyn (@Acyn) August 1, 2023

Feel like I've seen Smith in a bunch of B movies as a prolific yet respected character actor

Trump is scheduled to appear at the Washington, DC, federal courthouse at 4 p.m. ET on Thursday.

Will that be his first return to DC since losing?

if it's what you say i love it

https://i.imgur.com/9LrGF7T.jpg

Feel like I've seen Smith in a bunch of B movies as a prolific yet respected character actor

Wasn't he the EPA guy in Ghostbusters?

Dud.

Ooooohhhhhh he went there

“Today's indictment serves as an important reminder: anyone who puts himself over the Constitution should never be President of the United States,” Pence said in a statement.

Considering the guy reportedly took notes, and no doubt said notes had a big impact on this indictment, I guess that loser has nowhere else to go.

Feel like I've seen Smith in a bunch of B movies as a prolific yet respected character actor

― Andy the Grasshopper, Tuesday, August 1, 2023 6:25 PM (one hour ago) bookmarkflaglink

for a while when he was first announced this was the photo they kept using and when i saw it i thought: yeah, this might actually go somewhere. this guy looks like a motherfucker out of central casting.

https://media.cnn.com/api/v1/images/stellar/prod/221210021157-jack-smith-special-counsel-2020-file.jpg?c=16x9&q=h_270,w_480,c_fill

I always see Haywire from Prison Break.

Rehoboth is nice, Andy.

I see "preacher who is visited by Benson and Stabler that knows more about what happened than he lets on"

Super weird how the right sees Jack Smith as some sort of a "bedraggled nervous wreck, dripping with anger and highly emotional," and not a stone cold legal killer.

Trey Gowdy was their idea of a stone cold legal killer, so...

Rehoboth/Dewey has been one of my family's go-to family gathering spots for decades, it's nice in a classic Atlantic Seaboard way.

Also whatever happens with this I'm so glad he got outright charged for Jan. 6 — good! Any fuckin thing we can do to make anyone think twice about doing that again.

Meanwhile Yglesias is SURPRISED that some of the people in the White House were actually ACTING like they were trying to steal an election.

WTF did he think they were doing?

This reveals a more serious level of real planning for a seizure of power than I’d guessed was happening. pic.twitter.com/k9o0pxl8v8

— Matthew Yglesias (@mattyglesias) August 1, 2023

(I know, dunking on Yglesias should be confined to the Yglesias thread. My bad.)