Donald Trump: Classic or Dud?

Per the NYT:

And Justice Merchan is now scolding Blanche because Trump was muttering. “I won’t tolerate that,” Merchan says, raising his voice. “I will not have any jurors intimidated in this courtroom.” He asks Blanche to speak to Trump, and Blanche quietly responds, "Yes, your honor." He then gives Trump the requested talking-to, and Trump looks furious.

I am delighted, frankly. (Not least because it humiliates both Blanche and Trump.)

https://i.imgur.com/bnKFckW.png

https://i.imgur.com/Nw0SEyW.png

too bad Trump's sleeping through all this

Yeah I was just thinking about how in a weird way this may be the most directly he's heard in a long while how people actually think about him who aren't slavering/paid devotees.

What is this “AI” and how did it learn trump is dumb as fuck must be a wise software

In any event, six jurors have already been seated so any fears that this would be endless can be set aside.

Any ilxors on the jury?

Garu G

apparently they're going to have 6 alternates which seems optimistic

Standard, though. Foreperson is an Irish guy and I would love the idea of someone from one of Trump's 'nice' countries for immigrants fucking him over.

Further re challenges etc from the NYT:

As they work to select the 12 people who will make up the jury panel, each side gets 10 peremptory challenges, which enable them to exclude prospective jurors without providing reasons. So far, Trump's lawyers have used 6 of their challenges and the prosecutors have used 4.

My understanding being that if/when they run out they actually have to provide reasons going forward which the judge can accept or deny, as has happened a couple of times already. So it's not like Blanche can automatically ask for everyone to get canned.

There should be a rich vein of social media posts dissing Trump that Blanche can mine for grounds for dismissal without using his peremptory challenges.

he should be on trial for negligent genocide

1.7 million dead in USA. gotta get down to it!

what if you knew her and found her dead on the ground?

https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2020/05/trump-obama-coronavirus-pandemic-response

> Foreperson is an Irish guy

RFK Jr?

Mick Mulvaney

Conan O'Brien

BONO

Shame-us Finnigan

i'll bet its that damn robert e. lee. "never fight uphill, me boys!"

i think i will probably be watching this forever.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pq4xSuiueUc

did he think Robert E Lee was a leprechaun

"Wow, that was a big mistake."

--Robert E. lee

that crowd is missing the strategically placed black person, they're dropping the ball

the fact that he was 2 hours from gettysburg will define his legacy...

Love the Ethan Suplee-lookin' MF in a baseball cap to Trump's right taking a biiiiiiig yawn at the start

too intelligent. dismissed!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tsz8wF-FAIY

i mean i could only hope someone that smart was on my jury. for my sham porn star hush money campaign malfeasance trial. she would see through the government's lies!

That was how I got out of jury duty the last time I was called, a couple of years ago. I explained to the judge that I was a freelance journalist who had to be able to pursue individual stories on my own time so I couldn't "take off work" and they let me go. Good thing, too; it was some kind of child sexual abuse trial that was projected to take six to eight weeks, as I recall, and even if I'd been collecting a regular paycheck I wouldn't want to spend two months hearing about that.

tell em yr a law buff and fuck facts you wanna make sure fellow jurors understand the law as you do they love that.

here's what's on his mind today

https://i.imgur.com/laiYaVp.png

(the Oscars were over a month ago)

That reads like an excerpt from Thomas Bernhard.

hey cut him a break, he finally got around to watching the second half of the show he had on the ol' DVR

hes never more cogent than when critiquing tv

I was watching the On Cinema Oscar Special like a normal person but uh didn't Al Pacino announce Best Picture?

the once vaunted Academy Awards

lol I never heard a single word about Kimmell flubbing an award announcement. Does the Oscar host actually give out the Best Picture award?

ha he did just make it up didnt he

Or is Trump mistaking Jimmy for Al Pacino?

“Picture of the Year”

there you go

Pacino, who won an Academy Award for best actor in “Scent of a Woman,” did not list any of this year's 10 nominees for best picture. Instead, he simply opened the envelope and said: “And my eyes see 'Oppenheimer.

I do like the idea of him not being able to tell the difference between Kimmel and Pacino though.

DON'T READ HIS TRUTH, JIMMY ME BOY, PLEASE DON'T DO THIS.

I set Trump's Gettysburg speech to music:

https://www.udio.com/songs/krQ3YrdYhXngU34199PipT

just realized truths are what post are called on truth social

Also, Oscar presenters haven't said "And the winner is..." since the 1980s. It's now "And the Oscar goes to..."

pacino getting up there and just doing whatever is too funny

Tbf to Al P, he says he wasn't supposed to read the 10 nominees. But "my eyes see Oppenheimer" is a funny way to announce the winner.

its so disrespectful

My eyes adored Oppenheimer.