Donald Trump - MAGAtwat news and discussion

[ohmyliver]

I love how it has the classic directional arrows. Arrows of madness or to madness. The loons love a directional arrow.

It used to be BOnkErs PUNCuaTIOn and too many !!!11!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!11!!!!!!!!!!s

 

[teqniq]

The judge seems nice:

'The Worst Trump Could've Got': Lawyers Spill on His Jan. 6 Judge

Lawyers who've appeared before Chutkan say she's polite, fair, and not shy about handing down harsh sentences for Jan. 6 rioters.

www.rollingstone.com

 

[pogofish]

I’m not an American but I can confirm that it’s standard protocol for former presidents to be addressed as president, while they’re still alive I think. In this case it’s not a manifestation of the orange one’s outrageous ego. Though I’m sure it strokes it.

Yes, after their elected term is finished they retain the right to be addressed as and use President as an honorary title.

Trump however has been milking this "right" for all it's worth in order to lend legitimacy to his false claims and posturing.

 

[pogofish]

I do feel for anyone involved in the trial, they'll become targets for Trump's loons. What's the timescale for this as well, hard to see it happening this year tbh, especially as his side will drag it out pre-trial on any excuse surely?

From my experience of opposing his golf course, the timescale for getting in the sights of Trump's loons is pretty short. Literally hours after sticking my head over the parapet they were getting stuck right-in to trying to identify me IRL, for much further harassment/threats/false accusations etc if the experience of the folk they did successfully identify was anything to go-by.

As I was fairly careful about my incriminating data, they didn't get very far, about the worst they could throw at me was accusations of being a participant in a "secret" email server run by the incumbent Liberal councillor - now where did we hear that one reused..?

 

[two sheds]

The geezer who promised a computer (etc) giveaway in NY is being charged with inciting a riot with seemingly a lot less evidence against him.

https://edition.cnn.com/2023/08/04/us/kai-cenat-union-square-nyc-crowds/index.html

 

[teqniq]

Heh.

Bill Barr says he’s willing to testify against Trump at Jan. 6 trial

Former Attorney General Bill Barr said he is willing to testify against former President Trump at his Jan. 6 trial. Barr, who was appointed by Trump, responded “of course” when asked on…

thehill.com

 

[krtek a houby]

The geezer who promised a computer (etc) giveaway in NY is being charged with inciting a riot with seemingly a lot less evidence against him.

https://edition.cnn.com/2023/08/04/us/kai-cenat-union-square-nyc-crowds/index.html

Oh, that guy is huge. Seems to be reasonably popular with young men over here. Lots of people recognising him when he was in Tokyo.

Although Trump has his fans here, also.

 

[gentlegreen]

Mike Lindell: Trump 'will have more votes than people in the US' for 2024 election

MyPillow CEO Mike Lindell predicted Donald Trump would "have more votes than people in the United States" in the next election because he has faced so many indictments. On Monday, Lindell told podcast host Steve Bannon that Trump's indictments were only increasing his support. "And I and you...

www.rawstory.com

 

[two sheds]

That's a shame for him Was going to say I'm not sure what raped "digitally" means, but I just realized .

 

[Kaka Tim]

Article speculating that if Trump continues to gob off on social media (as he surely will) he could end up in jail until his trial.

Will Donald Trump be jailed before his trial? | Robert Reich

 

[two sheds]

I do keep wondering whether Contempt of Court applies in the US.

 

[Ax^]

damn straight it does that what the protective order is about

 

[Yuwipi Woman]

Is there solid proof Alinsky ever said that, or is that a myth coming from the far-right weirdos who fixated on it? I suspect it's the latter. Doing a quick search, can't find much hard proof of Alinsky saying it, but also find it attributed to Lenin and Goebbels, who also probably didn't say it.
eta: can find the rules listed here, and that's definitely not one of them: Rules for Radicals - Saul Alinsky

As with so many other quotations, it's been variously attributed to Alinsky, Lennin, Stalin, etc. Whoever it came from, the far right has implemented it.

 

[two sheds]

Keep going Donny

Trump’s UAW rally crowd draws suspicion: Latest news

Follow the latest updates from the former president’s 2024 campaign and ongoing legal woes

www.independent.co.uk

 

[Yuwipi Woman]

Keep going Donny

Trump’s UAW rally crowd draws suspicion: Latest news

Follow the latest updates from the former president’s 2024 campaign and ongoing legal woes

www.independent.co.uk

Why can't he have a massive coronary and put us out of our misery?

 

[Ax^]

Keep going Donny

Trump’s UAW rally crowd draws suspicion: Latest news

Follow the latest updates from the former president’s 2024 campaign and ongoing legal woes

www.independent.co.uk

hmm doing all this was protesting the idea of the DC judge putting in a protective order on the evidence from his jan 6 enquiry as he used it to intimated witness and discredit information on truth social

the guys a massive genius so massive

 

[Wilf]

Why can't he have a massive coronary and put us out of our misery?

I remember when Reagan got shot and the bullet just missed his heart. A cartoonist had him coming out with the line 'lucky my heart's so small'.

 

[Yuwipi Woman]

I remember when Reagan got shot and the bullet just missed his heart. A cartoonist had him coming out with the line 'lucky my heart's so small'.

I used to not understand why you'all hated Thatcher so much. I understand now.

 

[Dogsauce]

Imagine if the cunt dies in jail in slightly uncertain circumstances. How mental would the right go if that happened?

 

[Yossarian]

Imagine if the cunt dies in jail in slightly uncertain circumstances. How mental would the right go if that happened?

 

[Jeff Robinson]

genuinely deranged:

 

[a_chap]

Imagine if the cunt dies in jail in slightly uncertain circumstances. How mental would the right go if that happened?

I'm praying for the opportunity to find out.

 

[krtek a houby]

I'm praying for the opportunity to find out.

These days would anybody notice if the right lost it, though?

 

[sealion]

The judge seems nice:

'The Worst Trump Could've Got': Lawyers Spill on His Jan. 6 Judge

Lawyers who've appeared before Chutkan say she's polite, fair, and not shy about handing down harsh sentences for Jan. 6 rioters.

www.rollingstone.com

I'm praying that he gets a custodial. Build that wall, build that wall

 

[Ax^]

most he get is house arrest and barred from being involved in politics
cannot see the tank putting a former president in prison

ffs if the GOP had not bottled his impeachment after Jan 6th the world would be a better place atm

 

[Cloo]

I'm still in disbelief that under the current circumstances it should be possible for him to be a potential presidential candidate.

 

[two sheds]

Why the prosecutor's got access to his Twitter account - to track exactly where he was when particular tweets were made so he can't say someone else made them.

Donald Trump's movements were tracked by Twitter—Prosecutor

A federal prosecutor suggested what sort of information Jack Smith's office was seeking when it sought a search warrant for Trump's Twitter account.

www.newsweek.com

"And it's interesting, the tweet about Mike Pence not having the courage to reject or delay the count, that came after advisers tell Trump there has been a riot at the Capitol, the Capitol had been breached, and he sends it anyway," Greenberg said.

"So that goes towards intent. What is his intent? To delay that certification of the count. So that's the key to the objective of this conspiracy. That tweet is critical to proving his intent."

and they didn't let him know about it so he wouldn't delete his tweets.

 

[agricola]

most he get is house arrest and barred from being involved in politics
cannot see the tank putting a former president in prison

ffs if the GOP had not bottled his impeachment after Jan 6th the world would be a better place atm

Pelosi bears some of the blame for that as well, there was no need for that impeachment to be rushed - if they'd waited until he left office he could have been done then.

 

[sealion]

I'm still in disbelief that under the current circumstances it should be possible for him to be a potential presidential candidate.

Nothing should come as a shock in politics anymore. I mean, people elected two proper, dangerous, 24 carat fuck nuggets in Trump and Johnson to govern their countries.

 

[Cloo]

Yeah, that said, if Boris had refused to concede an election and then roused a mob to storm parliament, the Mail, Sun, Telegraph and Express would probably still have backed him for a political return.