Donald Trump: Classic or Dud?

I daresay carbon rod would outpoll Pence rn

I think it’s also worth noting that his personality is such that, the more legal trouble he’s in, the less he can stop himself from digging himself a deeper hole. Case in point, the judge told him specifically not to make any statements that might jeopardize the rule of law or cause civil unrest (as he has a well-documented history of doing!), and he immediately went on the offensive against the judge and the prosecutor that same day. He can’t help himself- it’s what he thinks he needs to do in order to “win” and look strong- even when he is under a legal microscope. The more legal jeopardy he is in, the more opportunity he has to slip up, say the wrong thing, go off script, etc., so I say let’s give him every opportunity to make things worse for himself.

^^^ the Alex Jones Effect

Contempt of court seems like a good bet, if only because Trump truly holds the court system in contempt.

Ah, Day Two of every relationship between Trump and a new lawyer, when Trump still pretends to be a good client and the same Trump-whisperers pretend he writes the polite statements. https://t.co/SH0tIQ5HqX

— emptywheel (@emptywheel) April 5, 2023

"sooo" is a nice touch

Ha, I think he's gotten word of the delight the nation felt when those cops didn't hold the door open for him

damn looks like hes getting off

BREAKING: Donald Trump's former attorney Alan Dershowitz admits that the indictment looks grim for the ex-president and says that he "probably will be convicted by a New York jury" and he doesn't think that he could "could get this case dismissed so easily" and it would be a…

— Occupy Democrats (@OccupyDemocrats) April 5, 2023

BREAKING

Occupy Democrats is 100% exhausting

otm

otm seconded. That perpetual outrage isn't any more palatable to me when Occupy does it than Fox News.

Outrage is fine, being a source-free clown show isn’t

In more down to earth stuff:

NEWS: Mike Pence will NOT appeal a court order to testify to Jack Smith's Jan. 6 grand jury.https://t.co/kTB1fWwquq

— Kyle Cheney (@kyledcheney) April 5, 2023

(This was already kinda clear from the other week, but that's that. Reminder that Boasberg, the new judge in charge of things in general on the DC circuit but who has essentially approached everything so far much like Howell, told him "Yeah there are specific speech and debate things you aren't obligated to testify about but you still have to talk about anything illegal Trump did." Fun!)

Relatedly from the NYT story on this about the other aides who are being compelled to testify:

With their options narrowing, some of the witnesses who have recently lost their attempts to assert forms of privilege to avoid answering questions may soon take another tack and assert their Fifth Amendment right against self-incrimination, according to people familiar with the matter.

Kinda inevitable: you either consult with your lawyer, talk to the prosecution in hopes re immunity and sell out Trump or take the Fifth and likely get charged as a result. Poor souls!

Inanimate Carbon Rod is my new porn name.

Separately, doing great over there:

Last night Trump mused about what Jack Smith's name possibly was before, indicating he has changed it or something. This is something Trump has been suggesting privately, often saying "if that's really even his name" when talking about the special counsel, per several people.

— Kaitlan Collins (@kaitlancollins) April 5, 2023

Jack Soros.

Tbf, his birth certificate probably reads 'John Smith' not Jack.

suuuuuure

Weird

Could be an antisemitism thing.

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First time the NY'er is using a courtroom sketch as a cover.

lol that is not flattering

The New Yorker has not been quiet, to date, on its contempt for the orange individual. There have been a bunch of anti-Trump covers.

That said, I am pretty sure there is not a single Trump supporter who reads the New Yorker or gives a shit what it thinks of them.

Like, New Yorker readers (of whom I am one!) are a subset of a subset of mostly coastal liberals.

Us coastal liberals may get a mild chuckle from this but let's be realistic - it does not even budge the needle of national politics.

I will never not love that magazine but I am fully aware that it's conversation with its audience is a circular one. It preaches to a very specific choir.

NY'er knows this will rile him something fierce. good on them!

Aimless otm

Yer a mean one, Mr. Trump

All credit to Jane Rosenberg, the artist. I bet Drew Friedman said "oh hell yeah."

he loves being hated and the new yorker love hating him. the relationship between trump and places like the new yorker is symbiotic.

I think "codependent" is closer

Mouly has had the job for thirty years this year; pretty sure she’s done it well in most of those without considering Trump, let alone his reaction to her choices, and I doubt that he has ever even thought of her having an opinion, an aesthetic, or an identifiable editorial approach.

Last night Trump mused about what Jack Smith's name possibly was before, indicating he has changed it or something. This is something Trump has been suggesting privately, often saying "if that's really even his name" when talking about the special counsel, per several people.

Basically he's too lazy to invent his latest conspiracy theories and, instead, just asks a question that gets his base to start making shit up

I'm not saying that Hillary Clinton is a shapeshifting lizard creature, but I'm also not NOT saying it, if you take my meaning.

seems like he just thought the name jack smith seemed too generic, so then he must be a spy, maybe a jewish trans spy

Early colonial America was explored by Commodore Giuseppe O'Malley Chan-McGillycuddy. But that was deemed too ridiculous, hence the creation of the fictional Captain John Smith.

it was...jack drumpf, nobody wants that

Kind of amazed at the anti-Semitism this guy gets away with.

it's pretty much accepted mainstream behavior over here these days unless you are saying something bad about Israel

"He tells it like it is" is conversational shorthand for "I'm also reprehensible".

nice to live in a world where every belief spreads by meme and link

"THINK FOR YOURSELF, SHEEP", says the people who do nothing but share one person's tweets all day

i guess you can't call them Tweets since Trump posts them on another platform

Teets

Speaking your mind is not a virtue when your mind is a dumpster fire.

Troompths

New w ⁦@maggieNYT⁩: Former President Donald J. Trump has told aides to hire Laura Loomer, a far-right and anti-Muslim activist, for a campaign role, according to four people familiar with the plans. https://t.co/IsCZFZgTcY

— Jonathan Swan (@jonathanvswan) April 7, 2023

IT LOOMS.

hell yeah

bigots to the front

she's going to chain herself to the mailbox of the courthouse