OED allows it, dates from 1889 xp
― that's when I reach for my copy of Revolver (WmC), Wednesday, 25 October 2023 17:31 (six months ago) link
lock him up!
Ad inifinitum.
― immodesty blaise (jimbeaux), Wednesday, 25 October 2023 17:32 (six months ago) link
dornaldo troomps for prions
― baths in the belfry (cat), Wednesday, 25 October 2023 17:40 (six months ago) link
Oh shit, looks like the judge put Trump on the stand, found him not credible, and fined him $10,000 on top of the previous $5000. Which, sure, is not a lot in Trumpworld, but you know it pissed him off.
― Josh in Chicago, Wednesday, 25 October 2023 18:55 (six months ago) link
nbd just a judge doing judge stuff
― more difficult than I look (Aimless), Wednesday, 25 October 2023 18:59 (six months ago) link
what a jack...butt...munch...ass
― real warm grandpa (Neanderthal), Wednesday, 25 October 2023 19:00 (six months ago) link
if you double it every time it gets pretty big fast tho as we know from the story of the chessboard and the rice
― lag∞n, Wednesday, 25 October 2023 19:00 (six months ago) link
I mean, this is the guy who looked at an eclipse. You tell him not to do something, he's gonna do it.
― immodesty blaise (jimbeaux), Wednesday, 25 October 2023 19:00 (six months ago) link
he had to be referring to Engoron's law clerk, because Cohen isn't "sitting alongside" the judge. So either Engoron is making empty threats or Trump has to be jailed.
― vodkaitamin effrtvescent (calzino), Wednesday, 25 October 2023 19:03 (six months ago) link
More about the whole thing.
https://themessenger.com/politics/trumpg-gag-order-violation-judge-engoron
In terms of 'empty threats,' the worst thing Engoron could have done would have been to simply throw him in the slammer immediately. Letting him hang himself on his own rope is a much better approach and if Kise tries to file an appeal or complain the next level up goes "Yeah, and how many times was he explicitly instructed about this, and how many ways did you try and skate?"
― Ned Raggett, Wednesday, 25 October 2023 19:14 (six months ago) link
frankly surprised Trump hasn't just lied and said he's in jail and taken a video in some cheap Spirit Halloween prisoner costume behind cardboard bars
― real warm grandpa (Neanderthal), Wednesday, 25 October 2023 19:21 (six months ago) link
imagine the FUNDRAISING
― real warm grandpa (Neanderthal), Wednesday, 25 October 2023 19:22 (six months ago) link
Remarkable exchange between the judge and Trump’s lawyer at the end of the day.When Robert requests a directed verdict again, the judge snaps: “Absolutely not,” adding that he doesn’t regard Cohen as a “key witness.”“There’s enough evidence in this case to fill this courtroom,” he adds.
When Robert requests a directed verdict again, the judge snaps: “Absolutely not,” adding that he doesn’t regard Cohen as a “key witness.”
“There’s enough evidence in this case to fill this courtroom,” he adds.
― Josh in Chicago, Wednesday, 25 October 2023 19:52 (six months ago) link
#BREAKING from @NBCNews team inside courtroom:“TRUMP IMMEDIATELY GETS UP AND STORMS OUT OF THE COURTROOM WITH SECRET SERVICE AGENTS CHASING AFTER HIM….COMPLETELY UNEXPECTED AND SURPRISING TO HIS OWN ATTORNEYS …COURTROOM GASPED”— Shawn Reynolds (@ShawnReynolds_) October 25, 2023
deal from strength or get crushed every time
― frogbs, Wednesday, 25 October 2023 20:20 (six months ago) link
I've had enough of this - good night!— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) February 25, 2013
― frogbs, Wednesday, 25 October 2023 20:25 (six months ago) link
If you can't beat 'em, pretend beating them is beneath your dignity.
― more difficult than I look (Aimless), Wednesday, 25 October 2023 20:27 (six months ago) link
at this rate he's gonna talk himself into the death penalty
― frogbs, Wednesday, 25 October 2023 20:30 (six months ago) link
it'll take 16 Big Macs to calm him down
― Andy the Grasshopper, Wednesday, 25 October 2023 20:32 (six months ago) link
gratifying AF but until he’s in debtors’ prison it’s temporary. XP
― BEWARE! SPOOKY! BOO! (Hunt3r), Wednesday, 25 October 2023 20:35 (six months ago) link
So it sounds like the sequence is:
Cohen says on stand that Trump did not directly tell him to inflate values.
Trump lawyer asks for directed verdict because this testimony absolves Trump
Judge says good try, Cohen isn't even a key witness.
Trump gets up and storms out
― Beyond Goo and Evol (President Keyes), Wednesday, 25 October 2023 20:47 (six months ago) link
Imagine him running you can't.
― nashwan, Wednesday, 25 October 2023 20:54 (six months ago) link
I'm imagining it alright, but he starts off running in place and not getting amywhere
― dell (del), Wednesday, 25 October 2023 20:57 (six months ago) link
with Hanna-Barbera sound fx playing on background
― dell (del), Wednesday, 25 October 2023 20:59 (six months ago) link
just like when I to type on my phone.
lol, I need caffeine
― dell (del), Wednesday, 25 October 2023 21:00 (six months ago) link
I want a GIF of Trump running that is accompanied by "Yakety Sax"
― Breakfast at Tiffani Amber Thiessen's (Ye Mad Puffin), Wednesday, 25 October 2023 21:25 (six months ago) link
So if you get up and storm out of your trial, at which you are (afaict) appearing voluntarily, can you be charged with contempt? Barring that, how about just for being a big drama-queen asshole?
― Josh in Chicago, Wednesday, 25 October 2023 21:38 (six months ago) link
Does anyone know the source of his beef with this court clerk?
My court experience is limited, but I generally don't hold political views of the staff... perhaps an earlier encounter?
― Andy the Grasshopper, Wednesday, 25 October 2023 22:22 (six months ago) link
He's got a great Deep State-dar.
― Josh in Chicago, Wednesday, 25 October 2023 22:23 (six months ago) link
iirc, one of the early stories about Trump's first statements attacking the clerk mentioned that during some of the more routine and preliminary court proceedings the clerk presided rather than the judge. my sense is that Trump is especially outraged by having a 'little nobody' kind of person in charge of any aspect of the case and treating him like any defendent. it afflicts his rich kid, spoiled, ex-presidential ego because such underlings should only appear in the role of doing his bidding and getting out of his way. I don't know if they are, but if the clerk is also a POC, that outrage would apply x10.
― more difficult than I look (Aimless), Wednesday, 25 October 2023 22:33 (six months ago) link
This is the clerk he doxxed right?
― Dwigt Rortugal (Eric H.), Wednesday, 25 October 2023 22:36 (six months ago) link
he posted a pic of the clerk that was taken with Chuck Schumer and inferred they were having an affair iirc
― vodkaitamin effrtvescent (calzino), Wednesday, 25 October 2023 22:41 (six months ago) link
Yes, he called her "Schumer's girlfriend."
― immodesty blaise (jimbeaux), Wednesday, 25 October 2023 22:41 (six months ago) link
he probably doesn't know what 'partisan' actually means, but heard it from Bannon or someone and thinks that it makes him sound smart
― Andy the Grasshopper, Wednesday, 25 October 2023 22:47 (six months ago) link
Never forget “…a very against police judge” from… 2018, i think?
― Its big ball chunky time (Jimmy The Mod Awaits The Return Of His Beloved), Wednesday, 25 October 2023 22:48 (six months ago) link
How does he cope with so much winning in court? Just needed to release the tension with a much-deserved victory lap? He won his case 10 times already, must be hard
― felicity, Wednesday, 25 October 2023 22:57 (six months ago) link
A contempt citation might be another $5,000 fine, which he can simultaneously ignore, appeal/challenge, and fundraise off of. Or do a Jim Carrey "I _AM_ in contempt!" speech.
But I wait in joyful hope for jail time
― Breakfast at Tiffani Amber Thiessen's (Ye Mad Puffin), Wednesday, 25 October 2023 23:05 (six months ago) link
he doesn't even need to be there, but who else will properly glower at the witnesses?
― Andy the Grasshopper, Wednesday, 25 October 2023 23:09 (six months ago) link
https://i.imgur.com/htqlu5A.jpg
― epistantophus, Thursday, 26 October 2023 00:37 (six months ago) link
what do you think would happen to any other defendant who decided to just storm out of a courtroom like that?
― frogbs, Thursday, 26 October 2023 13:29 (six months ago) link
Good question frogbs. Of course, I can't recall very many times that a defendant had been head of state and therefore (theoretically) in charge of the entire government?
(Not defending this repugnant worthless ass, of course. Just saying that it's just a pretty novel situation.)
― Breakfast at Tiffani Amber Thiessen's (Ye Mad Puffin), Thursday, 26 October 2023 13:34 (six months ago) link
Judge Ben Stiller looks on as Colin Jost testifies
https://media-cldnry.s-nbcnews.com/image/upload/t_fit-560w,f_auto,q_auto:eco,dpr_2.0/rockcms/2023-10/231225-donald-Trump-on-stand-ew-445p-c4abd1.jpg
― jaymc, Thursday, 26 October 2023 13:43 (six months ago) link
Keep thinking about this and wonder how many people have been tackled by the bailiffs for doing this.
― Maxmillion D. Boosted (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Thursday, 26 October 2023 13:49 (six months ago) link
yeah but bailiffs are usually not up against secret service agents
― Beyond Goo and Evol (President Keyes), Thursday, 26 October 2023 13:57 (six months ago) link
they were probably afraid of him actually shitting his pants on impact and getting it all over the flooring
― real warm grandpa (Neanderthal), Thursday, 26 October 2023 13:58 (six months ago) link
xp - of course not and I understand why this case is different, regardless I think it underscores how there remains two justice systems in this country.
― Maxmillion D. Boosted (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Thursday, 26 October 2023 14:02 (six months ago) link
Every time I open this thread I hope the c*** has died
― Yngwie Azalea (stevie), Thursday, 26 October 2023 14:03 (six months ago) link
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/donald-trump/colo-judge-rejects-trumps-bid-toss-lawsuit-aimed-keeping-2024-ballot-rcna122281
Similar lawsuit in Minnesota, and probably other states as well ...
Hard not to see a near future in which, depending on which state you live, there will be one major party candidate who the local government has ruled shall not appear on the ballot
― Dwigt Rortugal (Eric H.), Thursday, 26 October 2023 14:08 (six months ago) link
boy we are getting some purestrain Trump today. does this not defy the gag order as well?
The Radical Left Judge who should not be handling the FAKE & FULLY DISCREDITED CASE brought against me by the New York State A.G. (It should be handled by the Commercial Division, but should never have been brought!), fined me $10,000 yesterday under his so-called gag order. He is a judge that found me GUILTY before the trial even started, and long before he had the real facts, like Michael Cohen collapsing and choking yesterday under cross examination, and completely admitting that I did nothing wrong. He committed MASSIVE PERJURY, at a level seldom seen on the stand before. It was like watching the end of the best Petty Mason episode, where the defendant breaks down and cries, “Yes, I did it, I did it, I did it.” This case should be ended, NOW, but this Judge and his “boss,” Letitia Peekaboo James, will never let that happen. He even refuses to accept our big win in the Appeals Court. It is a disgrace to the legal system in the State of New York. This is a RIGGED CASE!
― frogbs, Thursday, 26 October 2023 14:29 (six months ago) link
No the gag order doesnt apply to the judge or AG aiui
― Its big ball chunky time (Jimmy The Mod Awaits The Return Of His Beloved), Thursday, 26 October 2023 14:32 (six months ago) link