Donald Trump: Classic or Dud?

Caesar Trump would a thousand Mark Anthonys

And Baron would slay them all

Trump: All I know about magnets is this, give me a glass of water, let me drop it on the magnets, that’s the end of the magnets pic.twitter.com/TopK4BRsOq

— Acyn (@Acyn) January 6, 2024

When Jefferson Davis was on trial for treason, his lawyer used the Fourteenth Amendment to argue that since he's already banned from office he shouldn't face any further punishment. He didn't need to have been found guilty of insurrection for the Fourteenth Amendment to apply to him.

https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2023/12/11/what-happened-when-the-us-failed-to-prosecute-an-ex-president

Davis walked out a free man, released on bail. And not too many months after that the federal government’s case against him fell apart. There’s no real consensus about why. The explanation that Davis’s lawyer Charles O’Conor liked best had to do with Section 3 of the Fourteenth Amendment, known as the disqualification clause, which bars from federal office anyone who has ever taken an oath to uphold the Constitution of the United States and later “engaged in insurrection or rebellion against the same, or given aid or comfort to the enemies thereof.” O’Conor argued that Section 3’s ban on holding office was a form of punishment and that to try Davis for treason would therefore amount to double jeopardy. It’s a different kind of jeopardy lately.

I just saw the vid of a party at Mar-a-Lago: Trump looking like the saddest rich geriatric freak in the world. The daylong pissed Giuliani, slow dancing and looking like he's probably grotesquely putting his hands all over an unfortunate woman on the dancefloor, while fiftysomething Vanilla Ice is on the stage with a teenage mutant ninja turtle. Not feeling so fomo about not attending any Christmas parties last year, now.

When Real Life is weirder than A.I.

blood meridian is less disturbing than calzino's description. rudy is dancing dancing, tho maybe it's trump claiming immortality

When Real Life is weirder than A.L.

he is a great favourite

https://www.wbez.org/stories/trump-did-not-sign-illinois-candidate-loyalty-oath/1d1fbaf4-261f-4c15-b466-8fb749d404e1

a peek into how things work out well for trump:

if he would have signed it, it would have been news

since he did not sign it, it is news

nobody should sign it tbh, but his likely reason for not signing it still emblematic of his douchery

He signed it in 2020 lol

icrime at the time but the laws we changed em

he posted a video yesterday that strongly implied george bush sr. killed kennedy lmao

this election is going to be absolutely insane.

this is brutal, pretty much how all interviews with these lunatics should go

BORIS SANCHEZ: What would be your justification for removing Joe Biden from the ballot in Missouri?

JAY ASHCROFT: There have been allegations that he's engaged in insurrection

SANCHEZ: How so?

ASHCROFT: Um, I've seen allegations from the lieutenant governor of Texas pic.twitter.com/687uqKyCUw

— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) January 8, 2024

show me staters demand you show the evidence that joe biden did not engage in insurrection, allegedly, is what we heard

"Boris Sanchez" is a comic book character name.

seems to have some interviewing skills tho...

Treeship: as opposed to all those really civilized and sober ones that we've gotten for the last, uh, 44 years?

Lemme guess: this Jay cat's related to our beloved John Ashcroft.

his son!

looks like he might have been conceived by a minute droplet of aftercum

Trump the Comforter:

As a close-knit community in Iowa grapples with a school shooting that killed a sixth grader and left seven others injured, former President Donald Trump had this advice: “Have to get over it.”

“We’re really with you as much as anybody can be. It’s a very terrible thing that happened,” he said Friday during a speech in Sioux City, Iowa. “And it’s just horrible to see that happening, it’s just horrible. So surprising to see it here. But, uh, have to get over it. We have to move forward, we have to move forward.”

posts consist of so many things, so many ideas; really almost any combination of words can form a post, this is the magic of ilx

Hardly getting over it, he's hardly getting used to getting by ...

Hüsker Dön

just be grateful for the time you have your with your child, they may not always be around

TBF Trump is viewing the tragedy from his own perspective, where like losing Don Jr. just means there's suddenly one less person to go fetch him a hamberder, a little sad but you move on

Masochists can listen to the first (I believe) hearing to determine if a president has immunity for all "official" acts:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PEQ1aToavl8

The seemingly incredulous judge (I think) just asked the defense if a president could be prosecuted for ordering the assassination of a political rival, and the defense basically said no, unless the president were convicted in an impeachment trial.

Judge asks if a president ordered the murder of political opponent by Seal Team 6, would he be immune from criminal prosecution? Trump lawyer says yes, in effect, unless he was impeached and convicted first.

— Jim Sciutto (@jimsciutto) January 9, 2024

oh sorry already mentioned

https://x.com/jimsciutto/status/1744735106970108230?s=20

Judge noted that Trump argued during impeachment trial that, in effect, there was no need to vote to convict there because he was subject to criminal prosecution later, adding those arguments are in the congressional record. She then asked his lawyer, “What changed?”

— Jim Sciutto (@jimsciutto) January 9, 2024

it's very interesting to listen to this, but good lord, someone give this lawyer some water and a cough drop

Covid *taps noggin knowingly*

Meanwhile, one of the defendants in the GA trial has filed a motion accusing Fani Willis of having an improper relationship with one of her prosecutors and paying him excessively to be on the team then taking fancy vacations with him.

I have no idea how real any of this is, could be utter BS. Apparently Willis will be filing a response soon.

lol, that voice, reminds me of giamatti in american splendor

it would be pretty wild to put yourself front and center against Trump and his hordes without knowing they would be coming for you with anything they could. xp

xp

I kept thinking of this

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=czWGMpRm9I8

she probably went on vacation to a hotel and coincidentally ran into him there and said 'nice to see you' and put her hand on his shoulder once and then left to go to her room

xxp

Thats true, but it's also kind of a wildly bold claim to put in a court motion if it's completely fabricated

it doesn't have to be completely fabricated. just misrepresented.

it's what Trump does and trains the people he pays to do - find something relatively minor that could be spun into a big deal with a little imagination

that is entirely possible, but also not exactly a great outcome

the fuck is a great outcome?

because who knows what actually happened. the filing was made, and Trump's lawyer already gave the excuse as for why she can't provide evidence in the filing, and Trump can then go on social media and share the bombshell news, knowing that Fani Willis cannot reply to it publicly and has to follow the proper channel to respond.

there might be something to it, but there doesn't have to be. Trump's claims stay in the news and circulating among his idiot fanbase for several days, if not longer, and by the time the complaint is dismissed as a nothingburger, the story's circulated enough to poisoned everybody's perception of what happened

The seemingly incredulous judge (I think) just asked the defense if a president could be prosecuted for ordering the assassination of a political rival, and the defense basically said no, unless the president were convicted in an impeachment trial.

I thought you lot had a revolution to get rid of this sort of behaviour from your rulers?

xpost I mean he literally did this all the time when he was President

basically, this:

https://www.thedailybeast.com/fani-willis-allegations-wont-put-trumps-georgia-prosecution-at-risk

(written by former federal prosecutor)