Donald Trump: Classic or Dud?

The audiences for those gonzo rally speeches are just thrilled to be in The Presence of the Orange God; they aren't following every twist and turn.

Like lagoon I can both recognize decline and suspect it doesn't matter.

Why are news orgs interviewing that juror? She could possibly throw the case in jeopardy.

Knowing trump’s luck, I bet it will.

xp That was my thought exactly. It struck me as very irresponsible.

Wasn’t she advised by the judge not to do this?

i'm sure there are rightwing conspiracies being hatched right now, as well as leftwing counterparts that she was planted as foreperson in order to do exactly what she's doing now and fuck it up. i do have to wonder about the competence of any group of people who selected her as the leader

https://news.yahoo.com/cnn-panel-cringes-trump-grand-050305226.html

Honig, a former state and federal prosecutor, said that the interviews were a “horrible idea” and that prosecutors were probably wincing watching them, adding that it was “painful” to see Kohrs dropping hints.

“This is a very serious prospect here,” he said. “Indicting any person, you’re talking about potentially taking away that person’s liberty. We’re talking about potentially [indicting] a former president for the first time in this nation’s history. She does not seem to be taking that very seriously.”

Honig, a former assistant U.S. attorney, suggested that Kohrs’ comments could pave the way for Trump’s team to make a motion, should he be indicted, to dismiss the indictment based on grand jury impropriety.

“She’s not supposed to be talking about anything really, but she’s really not supposed to be talking about the deliberations,” he said, describing Kohrs as “a prosecutor’s nightmare.”

she said she was “insanely excited” about serving on the jury, adding, “This is one of the coolest things that’s ever happened to me.”

And now she wants to tell you all about it!

The greeting people involved also seems bizarre (shaking Rudy's hand, etc). You're not supposed to have any interaction with the parties involved.

"It's so cool being in Witness Protection. When I was known as Jane Miller, my life was under constant threat from organized crime. Oh, and please don't print that name in the paper", the star witness informed us exclusively this afternoon.

Subsequent attempts to get back in touch with her were unsuccessful.

Aren't jurors allowed to blab all they want after their work is done?

I mean, if I am ever on a high profile jury, just try and stop me! (And comments like that will preclude me from ever serving on said juries.)

I got a federal grand jury summons recently, but I was able to weasel out of it because I appeared for selection on a (non-grand) jury within the last year; one that I was not selected for

(being a victim of a violent crime sucked, but it means I'll probably never be selected so there's that)

i was summoned once in 2006, and never even left the lobby. read an entire Al Franken book that day.

the last time, they told me I didn't even need to show up the day before.

they must read my social media

This reminds me that the last time I got summoned I kicked the can down the road...and next month is the end of the road.

it's a pretty limited group of people that can serve on an 8 month grand jury where you instructed not to look at the news or talk to anyone about the case

you really can't blame them for wanting to get their yap on as soon as it's done

i shook rudys hand looked him dead in the eye and said you are americas mayor

and we're gonna get you out of this mess, sir

(being a victim of a violent crime sucked, but it means I'll probably never be selected so there's that)

I laugh because when I was last called for jury duty and woman said she should be excused for this very reason and the judge said, "ma'am, this is Cook County, everyone has been, or is related to, someone who has been the victim of a crime, that's not going to get you out of performing your civic duty".

Now, I do suspect that if the case involved a violent crime and wasn't a civil case that might have actually been taken into account - but you could see the shoulders slump on other potential jurors who hoped that would be their ticket out.

when you know a secret but you're not supposed to share but technically you are allowed to share so

https://i.imgur.com/figOhQ4.png

So he went to Ohio...

Not paper towels. This time tossing MAGA hats in a McDonalds.

Leadership. pic.twitter.com/YHc5ziDnJK

— Ron Filipkowski 🇺🇦 (@RonFilipkowski) February 22, 2023

Please enjoy this 2007 video of Sylvester Stallone taste testing Trump Water and truly hating it.

Easily the second most embarrassing Access Hollywood clip involving Donald Trump. https://t.co/HyIV02cqSy pic.twitter.com/spUZhpdbss

— Jon Bershad (@JonBershad) February 22, 2023

"Trump Water" is just Mar-A-Lago piss, yes?

Grand Jury is different from a regular trial jury, you’re not allowed to talk about what you’ve done even after your service is over.

I’m just going to be the one to say that even if they’re going after people whom I loathe and who want to kill me, grand juries seem blatantly fucked up and insane to anyone with a reasonable outlook on “justice” imho.

xp that's what I thought as well... that's why you get $40 per day instead of $15, to keep your trap shut

ok the poor hatless people of eastern Ohio now have some shitty hats, so there's that

I mean, when your economy has been fucked over by coroporate greed and your air is toxic, it's great that you have a stupid red hat. Hats are well known for their ability to protect you from economic and environmental harms wreaked upon you by... pretty much the same people who gave you a stupid red hat

carry on

take notes, biden

i'm reading https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/591675/american-made-by-farah-stockman/. it seems like a book length version of those NYT-on-safari-in-a-diner industrial midwest things, padded out to book length. and i guess it kind of is. but it's pretty good and th length allows her to talk a lot more about local labor history, etc. while still ultimately being a long profile of a couple of specific trump voters.

anyway, my point is, reading it, i feel confident that 1) these kinds of voters are not going to turn out for trump again en masse 2) they will never turn out for desantis.

Just a reminder about Ohio and pay for play politics. This story seemed to really go under the radar with the orange infants incessant crying.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ohio_nuclear_bribery_scandal

nice to take both trump and desantis out of the running! this is the day nikki haley became my president

Cut every cent from every country that hates us.

— Nikki Haley (@NikkiHaley) February 25, 2023

good luck ron!

Jeb Bush endorses Ron Desantis for president. pic.twitter.com/qBF0YGHcG4

— Ron Filipkowski 🇺🇦 (@RonFilipkowski) February 26, 2023

and

New: With Trump running, nearly all Republican senators say no to a presidential bid

“This cycle is shaping up to be very different from every cycle since 2000, where it seemed half the Senate was campaigning for president.”

w/ ⁦⁦@scottwongDC⁩: https://t.co/fIBWEYyF9H

— Sahil Kapur (@sahilkapur) February 26, 2023

Ted Cruz can humiliate his own damn self without any of your help, Mr. Trump!

Donald Trump and a group of individuals incarcerated for their alleged involvement in the Jan. 6 riot have collaborated on a song called “Justice for All.” It will debut Thursday at midnight on streaming services, including Apple Music and Spotify, according to a person with knowledge of the project.

The track interpolates Trump reciting the Pledge of Allegiance into “The Star-Spangled Banner,” which is performed by a group of about 20 inmates, called the J6 Prison Choir, housed at the Washington, D.C. jail. The song ends with the inmates chanting, “USA!”

Profits are slated to benefit the families of people imprisoned for their alleged roles in the Capitol riots that left five people dead.

A music video featuring footage of Trump performing patriotic acts during his presidency and shots of the riots, including police firing tear gas, will debut later Friday morning on Steve Bannon’s “War Room” podcast.

not linking because forbes is a shitty website

Find it so grim, so true, so real

I misread that last line as performing pathetic acts.

The ultimate in vanity
Exploiting white supremacy

what patriotic acts? skipping a visit to a cemetery because his hair would get wet?

A music video featuring footage of Trump performing patriotic acts

tossing rolls of Bounty to grateful Puerto Ricans

holding a Bible upside down in front of a church

ok, standing behind heaps of american berders

getting the best health care in the united states that is unavailable to almost everyone to treat his covid, then upon discharge from the hospital, ascending to the upstairs balcony of the white house to heroically unmask himself

including Apple Music and Spotify

the war on Big Tech

Dang Don, you’ve really outdone yourself

Just clips of him shovelling McDonald’s into his face.

It occurs to me that I've seen tons of photos of him posing with food but I've never actually seen a picture or video of him eating.

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/donald-trump-i-love-hispanics-taco-bowl-cinco-de-mayo/

i guess he was just posing in that one, too. you're looking for a food eating action shot?