Donald Trump: Classic or Dud?

I mean if a cokehead were to deny they do coke I guess they would do it loudly

and sweatily

"Never change your name in the middle of a campaign"

NEW: Potential charges in Trump-Georgia probe, per ppl familiar
— solicitation to commit election fraud
— conspiracy to commit election fraud
— solicitation of a public officer to fail to perform duties
— solicitation to destroy ballots@guardian exclusive https://t.co/8qPQ7usAgU

— Hugo Lowell (@hugolowell) July 25, 2023

Pew research found that 63% of Americans of all political affiliations have an unfavorable opinion of Trump – an increase from 60% last year.

of course, both Biden & Harris are polling pretty low as well.. so he might get the nomination, but it seems like even a reasonably well-behaved sea lion could beat him in the general

the problem with dismissing Trump's chances based on a number that aggregates all voters into one national lump is the fucking electoral college, which has been the perennial problem with electing presidents for the past several decades. he's wildly popular in all the extremely rural states with outsized effects in the general election.

If/when a GOP candidate wins the popular and loses the electoral, only then will it be an issue

No other country in the world does this shit, no state, no county, nowhere

American exceptionalism iirc

Yeah well think of the feelings of the electoral collegians for once why doncha

idk 63% unfavorable is really really bad for a presidential candidate, IIRC he was at something like 57% in 2020 and still lost pretty badly. can't imagine new sets of criminal charges and having this guy constantly back on TV again is gonna make anyone like him *more*

Andy, the GW Bush campaign was expecting to win the popular vote but lose in the EC, they had a legal strategy lined up already to challenge the results, and had a PR strategy to discredit the EC.

what's really going to doom DeSantis now is that, like Trump, he was faring well in head to head election polls with Biden, but his numbers have slipped significantly, with three of the last five polls having Biden with a margin of 4 points or better.

Trump himself has slid in the same head to head polls, though not quite as much, and considering the lack of enthusiasm for DeSantis, you'd look to some other factor to make his case.

Most of the poll shifting seems to be undecideds deciding, and obviously polls this far out with the Republican party not having an official nominee are meant to be taken with a grain of salt, but the negativity amongst both candidates seems to have a tangible impact now.

Polls this far out are gross indicators at best.

Trump is pretty gross

Here we go again

BREAKING: Two sources with direct knowledge of the situation tells NBC News that Trump attorneys Todd Blanche and John Lauro are meeting with prosecutors in the Special Counsel's office in Washington and have been told to expect an indictment against Donald Trump. @MSNBC

— Kyle Griffin (@kylegriffin1) July 27, 2023

Here's why it looks bad for President Biden.

lol Alfred

lol xp

guy is piling up a lot of charges

a double header?

Barricades erected outside the Fulton County courthouse now. Looks like preparation for some big legal news… pic.twitter.com/3QOccQOMnf

— Charles Bethea (@charlesbethea) July 27, 2023

Build the wall! Build the wall!

It's just a shame that a full two years after Jan 6, we only have 1,734 indictments.

we need hundreds of millions of indictments

I could have sworn I heard am interview with prosecutors that said, after a very brief lull several months ago, that there could be another thousand on the way.

I wonder if anyone from a small town will come to Atlanta to Try That

It would be cool if a small town indicted Trump too.

I was indicted in a small town

son take a good look around

Met an N.Y. Don and brought him to this small town
Now he's small town just like me

just a small town girl
livin' in a racist world

I guess the long-term play for DeSantis right now is to hope that all this stuff does make Trump look less and less electable, so that if the Trump fever ever breaks Dr. Ron is right there. It's just so hard to imagine that really happening.

And of course DeSantis can't be too brazen about trying to capitalize on any of it. Like, you would think that your opponent facing multiple criminal indictments in multiple jurisdictions would be the most obvious attack point. But apart from Asa Hutchison none of them want to do that. What an insane time.

BREAKING: A superseding indictment has been filed with new charges against Donald Trump.

— Kyle Griffin (@kylegriffin1) July 27, 2023

Justice Department: The superseding indictment also charges Trump, De Oliveira and Nauta with two new obstruction counts based on allegations that the defendants attempted to delete surveillance video footage at The Mar-a-Lago Club in summer 2022.

— Kyle Griffin (@kylegriffin1) July 27, 2023

are we led to believe that they tried and failed to delete the footage

Indicted on charges of bumbling

Well the good news is Byron Donalds is Donald's Byron.

What's crazy to me is I expressed support for the vast majority of the new African American history standards and happened to oppose one sentence that seemed to dignify the skills gained by slaves as a result of their enslavement.

Anyone who can't accurately interpret what I… https://t.co/b6hqaSJtlp

— Byron Donalds (@ByronDonalds) July 27, 2023

yeah thats crazy man who wouldve thought that the scorpions would react that way

Shocked to find racists under these hoods

Waiting for Trump to be indicted again for trying to delete his demand that the security footage be deleted.

Go to hell, you cowardly turd

Indictment Days Are The New Infrastructure Weeks

I’m so indicted! And I jus

did we already do that at some point? probably

One of the new charges against Trump is that he willfully retained a top-secret document about Iran attack plans, which he discussed with biographers during a taped meeting at Bedminster. The charging document doesn't name the country, but Trump allies, and Trump himself even,…

— Kaitlan Collins (@kaitlancollins) July 27, 2023

Tipsy, Desantis is relatively young and has time. He can wait for another cycle or two (as Biden did).

Or he can die in a fire

Alfred: yes, preferable.

I can't imagine him getting any less repellent than he is now.

Maybe he will catch Woke

From a Woketopus Teacher

This also suggests that, as in other legal matters, Trump is making his attorneys take absurd positions that will just make them look bad in the front of the judge. It's one thing to do that in a civil case, but in a criminal case, you might want to listen to your attorneys. https://t.co/MTKGP0wxfg

— Secrets and Laws (@secretsandlaws) July 27, 2023

imho this is him testing Cannon

— southpaw (@nycsouthpaw) July 27, 2023

DOJ: "There is no basis for the defendant’s request ... and it is particularly striking that he seeks permission to do so in the very location at which he is charged with willfully retaining the documents charged in this case"

Trump response due 8/9. https://t.co/OP0CTK4nGn

— Zoe Tillman (@ZoeTillman) July 28, 2023