Donald Trump: Classic or Dud?

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.

Every time I open this thread I hope the c*** has died

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

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!

No the gag order doesnt apply to the judge or AG aiui

This sounds like a guy who wants to discover what prison is like

Letitia Peekaboo James

wtf

PETTY MASON

he should hire petty mason. sounds like his kind of lawyer.

Lol Skot

an interesting point from yesterday is that Trump, without stopping for thought tells the lie that he was attacking the witness rather than the judge's clerk - so he was still breaking the terms of the gag order even in his lie.

Apparently he's been using the "Peekaboo" nickname for over a year. Nobody knows why.
https://nymag.com/intelligencer/article/letitia-james-peekaboo-trump-nickname-theories.html

he boxes in a manner similar to Mike Tyson?

I'd say that thinly veiled racism is a pretty cut and dried answer here

yeah really. barely veiled.

right I don't think it's a mystery it just feels like one of those old school racist terms he probably learned from his Dad

#onethread

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZBRREj1CLpQ

This sounds like a guy who wants to discover what prison is like

Or maybe like a guy who is 100% confident that when you're a celebrity former POTUS with millions of fanatical gun-owning followers they let you do it.

another new TRUTH about Maggot Haberman and Michael Cohen "chocking like a dog."

Peekaboo seems to me to be an obvious mashup of “pickaninny” and “jigaboo”

trump's from an era where that origin would make sense

yeah just hadn't noticed him using it before, unreal

the use of slightly altered racial slurs has been absolutely grotesque. At least Giuliani is going to have pay out bigtime to the black election worker he slandered and referred to as a "hustler". That has been a very satisfying outcome.

This was posted in the Urban Dictionary last year, fwiw:

peekaboo: Racist term used in white-supremacist circles to refer to a person of color, usually black, of upper or upper-middle class social standing.

by WhoKnowsWhoItCouldBe September 21, 2022

That's the same date Trump first called James that word

fwiw indeed then.

i remember back during the run up to the first muslim ban he, in an effort to get under the character limit, said something like '...bad hombres and immigs are flooding this country...,'"immigs" being short for "immigrants" of course. i was like damn this dude just invented a new slur whole cloth

"riggers" is another one he has been using

yeah, I can't remember if it was 'stop the riggers!' or 'catch the riggers!' but it was really, really bad sounding

'catch the riggers!'

by the toe, eh?

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.”

iirc Perry Mason always represents the defendants

Does Trump know who the defendant is in his own case? Maybe this is his way of confessing

What I don't get, as far as that bullshit goes, is how a dude so undisciplined, so prone to just babbling barely coherently at best, so unable to keep himself on subject, so primed to meander and ramble and hop from non sequitur to non sequitur, can keep himself from blurting out worse, especially when he is overtly tip toeing that close to saying the thing he is insidiously coming very close to saying. You'd think he'd accidentally say the other thing in public over the course of the past several decades as a public figure, even once, but somehow, no.

I still don't understand how his making fun of that disabled guy wasn't the last time he was ever allowed to be out in public

Because and his followers had some half-assed explanation how that *wasn't* what happened. He does so much egregious shit that would sink any other politician but always walks away.

he and his followers...

ever since that moment I'm sure we live in what future historians will call post-civilised times.

Not as bad as mocking the disabled obviously, but all the way back to the debates where he was lurking behind Hillary I was like 'what the actual fuck is this?' How does the moderator not tell him to sit his fat ass down. Hillary should have thrown her mic at him. But again, no repercussions.

https://i.guim.co.uk/img/media/fd7fc0342a3ef804ce06db6344616c121da45bb3/0_116_3514_2109/master/3514.jpg

I mean, "the grab 'em by the pussy" tape! JFC I remain absolutely stunned that he skipped away from that with hardly a dent! Entire political careers have been ended on far, far, far less. This guys just fails upward at every fucking opportunity.

it's because these things are exactly why his voters like him

The mostly-liminal message is 'I'm so powerful I can walk all over people and get whatever I want and because we think alike you can trust me to deliver for you.'

Yeah that sounds about right. Man, some people are stupid.

And vengeful. Those two things, more or less.

the irony is that he never wants to get within thirty feet of his actual followers.. they're dirty hillbillies, deplorables

Oh I absolutely get why it appeals to his voters. 100%. My point is more than even 5-10 years prior, that outburst would have led to an immediate disavowal from at lease large swatch of the mainstream press and media. But, y'know, clicks and content, clicks and content.

it's been obvious to the public since at least 1984 exactly who he is.

it's the public who's got worse.

My theory is that between now and Election Day the racist slurs will be flowing freely in his posts and rallies.

I'm less mystified as to how he's managed to tiptoe between the raindrops with respect to the many many many things that should have brought him financial/legal/personal ruin than I am by the fact that no one has ever pummeled him comatose. That, to me, is a sign that civil society is still functioning on some level, because if there was anyone who ever asked for it harder, practically begged for it with his ass fully out for decade upon decade, I don't know who it would be.

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