Donald Trump: Classic or Dud?

the biggest people

he doesn't need them, he got Rudy

Rudy (as we all know) can't fail

Meantime, this filing in re the Carroll suit and an appeal may seem pro forma:

https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.nysd.590045/gov.uscourts.nysd.590045.209.0.pdf

But to quote Mitchell Epner on Bluesky:

In my 25+ years as an attorney, I've never seen an appellant who had the $ that couldn't get a supersedeas bond. Donald Trump is so distrusted by the bonding community (who usually deal w/felons) that he has to deposit 110% of the $5M verdict into the Southern District of New York ($5.5M) to take an appeal.

Donnie Empty-Pockets

lmao 110%

111%!

Accordion hands: a definite tell. ✅ pic.twitter.com/DP75k8tEv1

— Ali Adair #DoTheRightThing 🟧 (@AliAdair22) June 23, 2023

I like the read of this:

ALERT: Special Counsel Jack Smith files motion with Judge Aileen Cannon in Trump criminal case

“The government files this motion to continue the trial date to December 11, 2023”

(More)

— Scott MacFarlane (@MacFarlaneNews) June 24, 2023

Namely, that this is not a delay but rather the counter, moving the tent date to a firm December, thus preempting Trump's typical delay strategy, while at the same time giving him several more months to put his foot in his mouth, while at the same time giving the government even more time to firm up its case, do interviews, find more evidence, etc.

https://www.cnn.com/2023/06/26/politics/trump-classified-documents-audio/index.html

Well, speaking of foot in mouth

ctrl-F "sir"

His need to show off is even greater than his (very large) sense of self-preservation.

this is what happens when you elect a joke president. the country would have been better off with a sign that said "deez nuts" propped up on a chair in the oval office.

Yeah, but the joke's on us.

Deez Nuts/Squirrel 2024

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FfTGZFB0iU0

Personally, I intend to vote for Joe.

Mama

we have to get bofa before the Supreme Court

lol

That audio is hilarious

"Let me show you this buttfor I snuck out of the Oval Office before I left"

Most of all bc he doesn’t seem to know that the pentagon draws up plans for tons of scenarios. The existence of that doc doesn’t mean milley “planned to attack iran”

Grasp any straw!

Former President Donald Trump insisted on Tuesday that he was not showing off classified documents in an audio clip first published by CNN in which he referred to “highly confidential” material and “secret information” that he could no longer declassify.

“I would say it was bravado, if you want to know the truth, it was bravado,” Trump said in an interview aboard his plane with Semafor and ABC News. “I was talking and just holding up papers and talking about them, but I had no documents. I didn’t have any documents.”

The latest comments suggested a new potential legal argument from the former president: That he was overselling the material he was showing to an aide and people working on a biography of former chief of staff Mark Meadows in the recording, a transcript of which featured heavily in his recent federal indictment.

“I just held up a whole pile of — my desk is loaded up with papers. I have papers from 25 different things,” he said, adding he kept relevant news articles about topics like Iran on hand.

Asked about his use of the word “plans” during a Fox News interview earlier Tuesday to describe some items he may have highlighted in the 2021 meeting, Trump insisted he was referring to “building plans” and plans for golf courses strewn about his desk.

“Did I use the word plans?” he said. “What I’m referring to is magazines, newspapers, plans of buildings. I had plans of buildings. You know, building plans? I had plans of a golf course.”

Asked if he had any regrets about his handling of classified documents, Trump said he did not.

NO REGERTS

Gen Milley totally fucked up the 16th hole. Lots of missing balls.

Okay he kind of sounds like he knows he’s fucked now

Can I just say? It's unlikely that Trump will ever see jail time, but I love - love! - the idea of all his knucklehead followers getting busted in convoluted, stupid plans to bust him out. Hell, I would love a parade of failed jailbreaks even if Trump was *not* in jail, like these nerds were so far up their own butts they were convinced he was in Guantanamo and hatched some ill-fated schemes.

They used to call that natural selection.

i was startled by his use of the word "please" when asking for cokes, v. weak imo

“ “I would say it was bravado, if you want to know the truth, it was bravado,” Trump said in an interview aboard his plane with Semafor and ABC News. “I was talking and just holding up papers and talking about them, but I had no documents. I didn’t have any documents.””

It goes without saying, but what a goddamn fucking moron.

“As democracy is perfected, the office of president represents, more and more closely, the inner soul of the people. On some great and glorious day the plain folks of the land will reach their heart's desire at last and the White House will be adorned by a downright moron.”

― H.L. Mencken, On Politics: A Carnival of Buncombe

Every time Trump attempts to wriggle out of trouble I think of

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3EVzoolYugA

Except in our cursed reality 3/4 of the world does Olympic-level mental gymnastics to pretend that they don't see the ALLEGED sprinkles that are vajazzled across the expanse of his pustulant mug

"Aides said he talked about Ivanka Trump's breasts, her backside, and what it might be like to have sex with her, remarks that once led (former Chief of Staff) John Kelly to remind the president that Ivanka was his daughter," Taylor writes.

"Afterward, Kelly retold that story to me in visible disgust. Trump, he said, was 'a very, very evil man.'"

ew, you know Jared has to regale him with the details of their marital relations

Date night

https://api.time.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/04/ivanka-trump-10.jpg

^^Worst Duran Duran video

*unbookmarks thread*

I wish

There a lot of avenues for disliking this fellow but maybe can we not joke about this one?

Like, the dude has a lot of flaws and vulnerabilities, but let's please not be flippant about pedophilia and incest and the power dynamics involved with rape culture, thxbye

he really loves those documents

EXCLUSIVE: Trump ordered his lawyers to get "my documents" back -- AFTER they told him he'd be indicted https://t.co/ig5qnGfYwh

— Noah Shachtman (@NoahShachtman) June 29, 2023

he was calling for his documents back on truth social like a few weeks ago -- after the indictment

the stuff about his daughter is stomach-churningly evil. i know that she and her husband are corrupt, complicit, consciousless, etc, but i can't help feelign bad for her.

*conscienceless

xp his presidential library will just be rows and rows of dusty banker's boxes... go ahead - lift the lid and see what's in there, maybe a yellowed clipping or some golf pants that don't fit anymore

If I hadn’t been prepared by years of jokes about Trump wanting to sleep with Ivanka, I would find this shocking

it's not shocking but it's disgusting

well, yeah

He really does think he's some kind of aristocrat. (Take that how you want.)

See what you did there.