Donald Trump: Classic or Dud?

classic

I am very obviously biased because not only do I know the Manhattan DA from college but he also might be my distant cousin, but there was more to what happened to the case than just "the Manhattan DA didn't want to pursue it":

https://www.nytimes.com/2022/03/05/nyregion/trump-investigation-manhattan-da-alvin-bragg.html

Mr. Bragg was not the only one to question the strength of the case, the interviews show. Late last year, three career prosecutors in the district attorney’s office opted to leave the investigation, uncomfortable with the speed at which it was proceeding and with what they maintained were gaps in the evidence. The tension spilled into the new administration, with some career prosecutors raising concerns directly to the new district attorney’s team.

Mr. Bragg, whose office is conducting the investigation along with lawyers working for New York’s attorney general, Letitia James, had not taken issue with Mr. Dunne and Mr. Pomerantz presenting evidence to the grand jury in his first days as district attorney. But as the weeks passed, he developed concerns about the challenge of showing Mr. Trump’s intent — a requirement for proving that he criminally falsified his business records — and about the risks of relying on the former president’s onetime fixer, Michael D. Cohen, as a key witness.

the risks of relying on the former president’s onetime fixer, Michael D. Cohen, as a key witness.

This is only a risk if you consider the possibility of **gasp** losing a high-profile case as a greater risk than than letting gross criminal misconduct, for which you have plentiful evidence, go unchallenged in court.

I think if you stopped to process what you were reading before acting like a sanctimonious prick, you would have realized that the assertion here is that proving gross criminal misconduct hinged largely on the testimony of one witness without solid corroborating evidence due to Trump's penchant for avoiding email communication

Yeah if it's not there and nobody flips, *shrug* -- seems like it IS there for Weisselberg, which is why he's hunkering down and taking the hit.

Not disagreeing with your take DJP and I gave money to Bragg’s campaign after you posted about him originally, but there is definitely a difference between prosecutors willingness prosecute a drug case without overwhelming evidence and a white collar case without overwhelming evidence. In the latter, there has been a real aversion the last 10-15 years to even the possibility of losing a high profile case, which has not been helpful.

so is this gonna be another thing where Trump gets off scot-free cuz he's so dumb you can't actually prove he was trying to break the law

basically yes

"challenged in court" and then not being convicted gives him a "See, I was proven innocent! The libs like to persecute me!" take.

We've heard that from him hundreds of times already so I wouldn't really say *this* gives him that

To his followers it would, "tried in court and found innocent" vs him just saying he's innocent.

due to Trump's penchant for avoiding email communication

Give the guy a break, he simply couldn't find that AOL installation disc he got in 2001

Plane carrying Donald Trump made emergency landing after engine failure following GOP donor speech in New Orleans

So close!

I'm torn because it would have been so great but 'engine failure plane crash into the ocean' is probably the most conspiracy theory ready way possible.

There are probably conspiracies circulating at this moment that he has just survived another failed assassination attempt

if there’s going to be a crash we really need to get more of those donors on that plane

He'll join JFK Jr., Paul Wellstone and the Big Bopper in the fake plane death secure location

also Stevie Ray Vaughn--helluva band!

Wellstone’s death still hurts.

Buy Me Stuff?

NEW: Trump asking supporters to fund new plane after emergency landing https://t.co/ocbQz1tU8M pic.twitter.com/sZ5twiNwrJ

— The Hill (@thehill) March 10, 2022

one with an even more broken engine plz

Amazing detail is that the plane in question wasn't even Trump's big ol' Trumpy jet. That one has apparently been unused and in disrepair in a hangar for years. This was just a loaner.

you are not the owner of that jet, it is a loaner
I got money stacks as tall as you, that's just my persona

Be yourself
Give your free will a chance
You've got to want to succeed

Owner of a loaner jet

So the poor followers, struggling to make ends meet with inflation, they should buy the luxury jet - not the billionaire dude?

Grifters gonna grift

when you put it that way, and knowing how many donations probably pour in everytime he puts out a request like that, it really highlights the levels of stockholm syndrome a significant percentage of this country has with this fucker

lol classic Trump

OMG I’m dying!!! On a UFC podcast today, Trump is asked how he sees the war in Ukraine playing out and he launches into a riff about windmills! pic.twitter.com/S2nV6hLIbP

— Ron Filipkowski (@RonFilipkowski) March 10, 2022

Donald J. Quixote

his bit on that pod about YMCA being the gay national anthem was just indistinguishable from

SCOOBY-DON !! pic.twitter.com/DESl7LDplH

— James Austin Johnson (@shrimpJAJ) August 21, 2020

When Trump dies they need to setup some pay 2 bucks public bathroom setup at his mausoleum so everyone in the world can get a chance to pi$$ on his grave.

It would be a proper tribute.

you can hear his dentures are loose in the podcast clip

I guess he did a new interview where he claims Putin "changed" and that he was "surprised" he invaded, which is a rare instance of Asshole (or someone) realizing he stepped in it and is now doing damage control. Of course the quote I saw still called Putin smart, because Asshole has no discipline and can never back down entirely, but taken in tandem with other news stories making the rounds about the ineffectiveness of his political endorsements, maybe it's just a further sign that his inexplicable swagger is shifting to a stagger. Fingers crossed, and that he follows it up by dying.

He gave an unhinged rally in South Carolina over the weekend.

"We will pass critical reforms making every executive branch employee fireable by the president of the United States. The deep state must and will be brought to heel." -- Trump proposes a drastic expansion of presidential power pic.twitter.com/u09FV910iA

— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) March 13, 2022

Trump calls on his supporters to "lay down their very lives" in the fight against critical race theory pic.twitter.com/ZtbOizUDTa

— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) March 13, 2022

Man with barely high school levels of comprehension reads words written by someone with barely high school level of intellect.

She was a patriot. She threw her body between a high school kid and a teacher's mention of redlining.

The Apprenticification of the White House, ratings gonna be yuge,yuge

He gave an unhinged rally in South Carolina over the weekend.

🐦["We will pass critical reforms making every executive branch employee fireable by the president of the United States. The deep state must and will be brought to heel." -- Trump proposes a drastic expansion of presidential power pic.twitter.com/u09FV910iA🕸
— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) March 13, 2022🕸]🐦

🐦[Trump calls on his supporters to "lay down their very lives" in the fight against critical race theory pic.twitter.com/ZtbOizUDTa🕸
— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) March 13, 2022🕸]🐦

Pretty tepid crowd response for that "lay down your lives" line. Maybe CRT isn't quite the rallying cry he thinks it is.

He might as well be rallying the troops against square televisions.

Re: the crowd signage - is 'Save America' the new MAGA?

He already made America great again. Iirc "Save America" is his new members-only discount shopping venture.

SA, what a concise abbreviation, I wonder where we have seen those initials before. Hope it doesn't mean anything hella racist

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tSVSxZmOW04

Trump asked Kid Rock what we should do about North Korea. https://t.co/dvVSbkuPjS

— Laura Bassett (@LEBassett) March 22, 2022

Classic.

Classic Trump, I mean.

he touched us all

C'mon they all do it, we all remember when JFK sought Chubby Checker's advice on the Cuban Missile Crisis.

https://www.businessinsider.com/mo-brooks-says-trump-asked-him-to-immediately-remove-biden-from-office-and-illegally-hold-a-new-presidential-election-2022-3

In a statement on Wednesday, Trump said Brooks had gone "woke" by asking him to move beyond his repeatedly debunked claims about the 2020 election.

GOING WOKE IS THE NEW GOING ROGUE

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2022-03-24/trump-sues-hillary-clinton-democrats-claiming-2016-conspiracy