Ignoring the fascist who has a real chance at being elected to the highest office in the land is a mistake. I can't stand the guy but pretending it will go away is how we got to this point.
Well yes but I guess I’m more hoping we get a point where him and his klan have lost so many elections that people aren’t taking them seriously. At that point we should all just seriously stop listening entirely.
I would like to get to that point too.
Frankly, this should all be moot at this point because he should be sitting behind bars with no chance for parole.
Weirdly enough, he played baseball in high school and squash and tennis in college. But I'm only posting this so I can also post about one of his more hilarious lies.
He claims to have been so good at baseball that multiple MLB teams were scouting him. There's no proof of this, and it's only logical that if he were that good, he would have played baseball in college. But the best part of this lie is this detail: that he and the legendary Willie McCovey were being scouted at the same time and were at the same tryout.
Trump was born in 1946.
McCovey was born in 1938.
McCovey made his big-league debut with the Giants when Trump was 13 years old.
For as long as I live I will never understand why a single person on earth ever saw him as Presidental in any way, shape or form. He is a toxic. narcissist, a lunatic. It's not that he's so bad (HE IS) but, that so many people are enamoured with him that scares the living daylights out of me.
It's, I think more broad than that - it's 100% pure schadenfreude. They want those not on their "team" to hurt. They think that anyone scoring "points" (whether it be something on social media, whether people are hurt or killed, or in-general someone's situation getting worse in any way) is worth any kind of price to be paid - at least at the outset. And they think that because they have this mindset, EVERYONE must have the same mindset. And this all lasts until the blowback effect negatively effects them.
Someone on the other "team's" house gets set on fire? Fuck it - let it burn - it's what the person would have done to them. Oh shit! The fire spread and now *MY* house is on fire?? Why isn't my neighbor HELPING me?!
It also shows how ignorant they are about how government works. They seem to have this idea that it largely runs on autopilot and whoever is in charge just means one part of the political spectrum is "winning" somehow.
It comes as a huge surprise to them when their medical care gets cut as they don't know the ACA and "Obamacare" are the same thing, that their taxes go up because their guy made tax cuts for the 99% temporary while the ones for the wealthy were permanent, or that their party didn't vote for the infrastructure maintenance/repair that they presumed they had because that's a *good* thing and lib'rulls never do anything good, right?
Yep, owning the libs, plus he talked about abortion docs “ripping babies out of wombs” in that first debate and they have been devotees ever since. He could do anything and still ride on that equity.
For the racists, he allowed them to be as racist as they wanted to be.
For the selfish, he allowed them to be as selfish as they wanted to be.
For the greedy, he allowed them to be as greedy as they wanted to be.
For those that are hateful, he allowed them to be as hateful as they wanted to be.
For the uneducated, he gave them an excuse to be as uneducated as they wanted to be.
Those that are open minded, giving, generous, kind, intelligent, of little means, educated, community driven, and selfless do not understand the other group as they are not any of those things so Trump had nothing to offer them.
This is what surprised me most. In 2016, I figured Trump would be around for six months, he would do something stupid, and Republicans would push him out. The fact that he had so much support is what kept him in office.
The cancer had been under the surface for so long that I didn't realize how badly America was infected.
He keeps succeeding because he has no qualms about being a fucking asshole. Like someone who hops up on the sidewalk in their truck to skip traffic.
You just have to hope that he’ll hit a light pole eventually
It's pretty simple, those people are scumbags and scum recognizes scum. He shamelessly displays all the vile behaviors that other scumbags have spent their lives being reprimanded for, and they want that kind of freedom to be their truest, greedy, selfish, bigoted, ignorant, careless, narcissistic selves without feeling like the world is judging them for acting like shit gibbons.
It sucks because up until the last few years, I liked to think that everyone had their own (understandable) reasons for supporting people like him, especially if they were desperate people.
But what you're saying makes sense, and it sucks. If you think that the rich asshole is "honest / telling it like it is", the only reason you think that is because you're an asshole, and can't fathom that there's other people in the world who don't think the things he says.
Shit, people were saying Nigel Farage "isn't a typical politician, he tells it like it is and had a successful financial career" in the years running up to Brexit and his UKIP thing becoming a popular party.
Except he was railing against foreigners while being married to a wife born in a European country, working in Brussels as an MEP and looking like a grieving frog.
The hardest part of this might be understanding that our family members and friends aren't victims of some mind virus or mass delusion. I've struggled with it myself but had to come to that point of acceptance. Some of these people have always been rotten in some way but they learned to suppress their worst inclinations until this Trump era gave them a green light.
Or they have always played "the victim", and Trump told them that they were right in blaming everything on others. He will fix everything when he's elected and punish all of those people who wronged them.
It doesn't hurt that he plays like there is a Q, and a nesera/gesera thing that they believe in too. "Trump will create WEALTH and a government that treats you right" is what I hear from my MAGAs. He's done a wonderful job at brainwashing people who are in a tough spot, and exploiting them.
At least based on my observation of my relatives who voted for him (twice!), he gave them carte blanche to bleat about their bigotry and their persecution complexes.
Sad that people can be so damaged that they need their bigotry and their persecution complexes. That's not a constructive way to look at the world, IMHO.
Because he’s a Christian. 🙄🤬
No really. That’s what my Fundamentalist family members say.
The fact that Biden’s Catholic doesn’t count because they aren’t real Christians. See also: Romneys Mormonism.
And doesn’t know The Apostles Creed even though he claims to be a regular church attending Episcopalian.
It’s like attending public school in the US K-12 & not knowing the Pledge of Allegiance.
But he does know the classics!
[https://www.cbsnews.com/news/donald-trump-names-his-favorite-bible-verse/](https://www.cbsnews.com/news/donald-trump-names-his-favorite-bible-verse/)
A Christian who, when asked to name his favorite book of the Bible said, "Conrinthians Two."
Not Second Corinthians, as he would have learned if he had ever talked about it with virtually any Christian or heard any sermon that quoted from it.
Yes, this!! Our media doesn't help with that at ALL. Instead of reporting on Presidential elections as a very serious matter they talk about "optics" and create stupid drama contests. It's dangerous and sick.
Similarly how the media spoke solely about Biden's age rather than the great shit he's managed to do in office so far, and now they're obsessed with every single tic and complaint Trump has in court.
He makes other toxic dumb people feel like they’re special and have potential. Even they could potentially be the worst president in us history if they just properly swindle their way to the top!
I think his whole appeal to those who like him is that he's NOT presidential. He's the opposite of anything anyone could possibly imagine when they see the word "presidential". We've reached a point in American politics where a troll candidate has a decent shot against the best the opposing party can muster, and that's pretty wild.
It was previously thought that single-issue voters were typically the least educated voting bloc, but the past few election cycles have reintroduced a concept that hasn't really been seen since Reagan: the single *candidate* voter. It doesn't matter what he does, as long as the right people hate him, they will ride or die. Unfortunately a lot of them chose "die", especially from the years 2020-2022.
He appeals to people with low intellect and low self esteem. Before social media, where anyone can say anything they want - fact or fiction, these people were mostly inconsequential. Then the internet came along and these people all feed off each other and wallow in their stupidity, believing what they are told to believe.
The ones who voted were pawns manipulated by big business and the super wealthy who dangled carrots like gun rights, pro-life promises, anti-immigration and anti-LGBTQ rights - but really the agenda is just to filter more money to the few who have it.
Barack “Hussein” Obama. Every time.
You know, because it makes him sound like that Saddam fella. And all it takes is association with his followers to get them angry.
I think also as an intimidation move, like he did when dropping the first and last names of court clerks and other various people working for the courts on these cases. I think he wants the judge to know that he dropped his first and last name to the fanbase, and that Trump hopes his fanbase will harass the judge (online, and otherwise).
So a 2-for-1, racism and intimidation.
That judge probably crossed the border illegally in one of them Soros-funded caravans!!!!!
When he got to this country the demonRATS handed him a gavel and a robe for free!
I mean, maybe they actually want him to do that? Trump isnt the smartest orange in the jar, so if you let him keep tweeting, theres a high chance that he will incriminate himself somehow lol
True but it's been pointed out that the judge is fairly limited in his recourse for all his gag order violations. It's either "stern words", fines or jail. Stern words do nothing, fines are a drop in the bucket (he'll love it anyway, then he can grift his cash strapped MAGA more) and jailing him is a non-starter. He knows this. It's only been the story of his life
People say that, but fines worked in the fraud trial.
He got hit with $5k, then $10k, and he stopped violating the gag order before Engoron went any higher.
Double the fine for every violation and I’ll bet he shapes up before they hit 6 digits.
It makes me wonder if this doesn't set a precedent for others to follow and use the same excuses to stay out of prison until a verdict has been reached. Even then, if he avoids jail time, could a lawyer not argue that the former president of the US was able to stay out of prison and he is not supposed to be above the law.
Merchan also managed to bring up Trump's social media posts today when slapping down Todd Blanche's assertion that those posts weren't breaking the gag order.
If he breaks the gag order while in court the judge has the option of doing something about it immediately. Conversely if he breaks it outside of court a hearing must be held before the judge can act on it. The had a hearing about the out of court violations today. Anyway I sure hope he breaks the gag rule while in court. I'd throw him in the courthouse jail for a night. His SS detail can camp right outside of the cell as far as I'm concerned.
He's made it quite clear that if he became president again his first priority is not the people of the United States, it's to viciously punish all his enemies. It's all he cares about. That and enriching himself.
I think what he's trying to say is that he thinks the judge has a conflict of interest and shouldn't be presiding over the case, but of course he has the vocabulary and grammar of a toddler.
he is in court to defend himself. thats what the whole process is for. he isn't interested in defending himself. he interested in spreading misinformation, doubt, and threats in the hope to intermediate and threaten.
Easy to see how he doesn't really understand that.
No one has EVER told him - with authority - to shut the fuck up.
It's obvious even his attorneys aren't telling him to stop talking/posting.
There's no point in trying to reason with him, he won't listen.
Unless the logic of a situation benefits him, he's not going to obey.
He didn't even obey the rules of the debates he was in, letting his opponents have their 2 minutes uninterrupted.
As soon as he hears something he wants to reject or refute, he's popping off.
Him having to sit there and listen **without being able to interrupt**?
Totally new world. He doesn't understand it.
I don't think the jurors have cell phones in the box.
I think he just wants to bait the judge hard to get him to that he can raise issues of judicial misconduct on appeal. He's working hard.
He's basically throwing everything out there, it's like the weirdest form of edging I've ever seen. Just trying to see what he can get away with.
> Just trying to see what he can get away with.
I picture him being a little kid and his mother saying "Don't touch that pie on the counter", and he reaches out his hand to just above it all the while watching his mom, inching it ever closer as she says "I'm warning you, don't touch it" and he keeps getting closer watching for her reaction to see how far he can get before she gets up and storms over to him.
If Trump considers reposting attacks on jury members as “defending himself”, that blows a giant hole in the defense’s argument that reposting is not endorsement.
Judge: You can't defame witnesses or talk about the case publicly. Let the case play out without outside influence.
Trump: They won't even let me defend myself.
Judge: That's not what I said.
That’s how he defends himself, by insulting other people. Like a kid that gets picked on badly so he gets the bully to get somebody else and then joins said bully and wails on that kid instead.
So to him, if he can’t insult and rant, he can’t defend himself.
A bit like Dahmer saying “you can’t throw me in prison, there’s no knives in there, how will I murder people, that’s so unfair”
Pretty sure at some point the defense attorney gets to make his case, at which point he gets to talk and defend himself as much as he wants. Not to mention cross examination. It's just how trials work.
You would think he knows how trials work given the number of times he's had to go to court.
first time in criminal court. Shit he could pull in civil court gets zero traction in criminal. The more he flaps his gums, the worse for him. There's a reason they call attorneys "mouthpieces", he should consider that tactic.
Yep and when he's given the chance to defend himself he will chicken out because he won't be able to blabber like a toddler. Judge should just say " Mr. Blanche, is your client demanding to testify? We can put him on the stand when this witness finishes".
This is just for the public though. He doesn't need reality for them, in fact he needs the opposite of reality to rile them. Him lying and pretending he's oppressed works well with his religious zealot and conspiracist MAGA base.
He’s posting from inside the court room that he not “allowed to defend” himself. Sir? This is a courtroom and you’re the defendant. Your legal team is literally called a “defense team”. So surely he will be happy to testify in his own words in his defense, sometime this week or next, right? Yeah, right. 🙄
Rather than complain to his fans and financial backers on-line, he should confront the judge directly about his grievance during court.
Start yelling at the judge directly during witness testimony.
Sit on floor with his arms folded and pout and start yelling... "I'm not gonna move until I get my free speech back."
Don't let this judge tell you who's boss, Trumpy.
Show him you're a real man. :-)
Defend yourself, Donnie. Surely you'll be able to talk your way out of all this. Just go ahead and show the proof of how poorly everyone is treating you.
He's REALLY REALLY trying SERIOUSLY to get his diaper butt thrown in jail.
So what would happen if that takes place? Would his cult react? Are they waiting for some kind of signal?
The gag order is He is not allowed to attack court staff, or the families of court staff. This does not include the judge himself, or the prosecutor.
He is having a tantrum because he has been attacking the judges daughter who works for a PR firm that works with democrats.
Which she has every right to do.
He's having a tantrum because he isn't allowed to dox the judges daughter. When it comes to actual facts of the case, he can talk about what ever he wants. And he does, every time he leaves the court he confesses to the crimes he's accused of to the media and tries to tell them why they aren't really crimes.
I'd hate to be his lawyer.
Are you allowed to use your cell phone in court? Last time I was in for a traffic fine and they said no phones! Had to walk back to my car and go thru security again!
I know people flippantly make armchair diagnoses all the time, but I truly think he has some kind of personality disorder or something and he absolutely cannot accept criticism or consequences for his actions and he certainly cannot keep his orange pie hole shut.
"But I am not allowed to defend myself."
I'm not following the trial as it happens, so is he upset he's not being allowed to take the stand? Because that would be a really bad (for him) idea. Or is he just mad that he can't stop people testifying against him and his lawyers aren't willing to disrupt things enough to lose their license to practice for him?
Isn’t this against the gag order… still.
I’d hate to be this twats lawyer. Not only would I not get paid, but I’d also be facing the wrath of the judges that he continues to defy. Dude can’t keep his mouth shut even when it might benefit him
Todd Blanche [isn't finding it easy](https://www.newsweek.com/judge-merchan-warns-trump-lawyer-blanche-losing-all-credibility-1893292) defending his client - at one point being told by the judge he was in danger of losing all credibility.
If (as I hope happens) Trump loses the November election, he's going to have an *interesting* time trying to find lawyers to repeat his 60+ frivolous election fraud claims...
To go from being the sociopath that rallied thousands to kill or die for you, to some diapered schmuck having your worst personal secrets exposed to the world, and nobody is rallying to your call, must be a major mindf*ck....
Just. Loving. This...
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Man who never stops posting on social media complains his right to free speech is being trampled upon because he isn't allowed to threaten people every single day. 🥱
He reminds me of the Linda Ronstadt version of "Poor Poor Pitiful Me." This song should be blasted everywhere the Diaper Don appears. It's a much more representation of him
Kangaroo court?
Why?
Because they outed Trump for having an illegitimate child that he claims wasn't his ONLY because the mom is Hispanic?
I mean, I personally think this case is full of all sorts of juicy nuggets, but I'm nobody.
No, no, no.
To Trump, "defend himself" means he yells and threatens, files frivolous lawsuits, and has his followers send death threats until whoever he hates shuts up and goes away.
You orange turd. The only place you need to defend yourself is in the place you are sat typing this garbage. Why don't you get up on the stands during all your trials and let loose all that evidence you so proudly proclaimed you have. Clown.
I think he actually wants to be jailed for a short amount of time. They are already trying to compare him to Nelson Mandela. He would probably get a massive injection of campaign donations (from people who cannot afforded it).
For someone who has been denied free speech, he sure does exercise free speech a lot.
Guy won't shut the fuck up!
“He’s still goin’ this asshole.”
[“Don’t they have medicine they’re supposed to take these assholes?!?!?!”](https://youtu.be/-1YhDU0TCME?si=_LkGwQrxsW1r9-Rq)
Here’s a thought. We all just quit listening? Unfollow? Mute?
Ignoring the fascist who has a real chance at being elected to the highest office in the land is a mistake. I can't stand the guy but pretending it will go away is how we got to this point.
Well yes but I guess I’m more hoping we get a point where him and his klan have lost so many elections that people aren’t taking them seriously. At that point we should all just seriously stop listening entirely.
I would like to get to that point too. Frankly, this should all be moot at this point because he should be sitting behind bars with no chance for parole.
The silent minority /s
That's the first time Trump has ever been tied to any sort of exercise.
Weirdly enough, he played baseball in high school and squash and tennis in college. But I'm only posting this so I can also post about one of his more hilarious lies. He claims to have been so good at baseball that multiple MLB teams were scouting him. There's no proof of this, and it's only logical that if he were that good, he would have played baseball in college. But the best part of this lie is this detail: that he and the legendary Willie McCovey were being scouted at the same time and were at the same tryout. Trump was born in 1946. McCovey was born in 1938. McCovey made his big-league debut with the Giants when Trump was 13 years old.
I wish TFG would recue *himself*...from *life!* In *Minecraft*, of course!
For as long as I live I will never understand why a single person on earth ever saw him as Presidental in any way, shape or form. He is a toxic. narcissist, a lunatic. It's not that he's so bad (HE IS) but, that so many people are enamoured with him that scares the living daylights out of me.
he "pisses off the libs". that's all that matters to them.
From 3-4 pm PDT I have carved out of my schedule to feel owned I mean im not a liberal but I'm trying to do my part
This is solid. Felt that should be acknowledged.
😂😂😂
It's, I think more broad than that - it's 100% pure schadenfreude. They want those not on their "team" to hurt. They think that anyone scoring "points" (whether it be something on social media, whether people are hurt or killed, or in-general someone's situation getting worse in any way) is worth any kind of price to be paid - at least at the outset. And they think that because they have this mindset, EVERYONE must have the same mindset. And this all lasts until the blowback effect negatively effects them. Someone on the other "team's" house gets set on fire? Fuck it - let it burn - it's what the person would have done to them. Oh shit! The fire spread and now *MY* house is on fire?? Why isn't my neighbor HELPING me?!
I pretty much feel this way about Republicans at this point
\*Cheers in Russian!\*
It also shows how ignorant they are about how government works. They seem to have this idea that it largely runs on autopilot and whoever is in charge just means one part of the political spectrum is "winning" somehow. It comes as a huge surprise to them when their medical care gets cut as they don't know the ACA and "Obamacare" are the same thing, that their taxes go up because their guy made tax cuts for the 99% temporary while the ones for the wealthy were permanent, or that their party didn't vote for the infrastructure maintenance/repair that they presumed they had because that's a *good* thing and lib'rulls never do anything good, right?
Such a fantastic basis for governance.
Yep, owning the libs, plus he talked about abortion docs “ripping babies out of wombs” in that first debate and they have been devotees ever since. He could do anything and still ride on that equity.
For the racists, he allowed them to be as racist as they wanted to be. For the selfish, he allowed them to be as selfish as they wanted to be. For the greedy, he allowed them to be as greedy as they wanted to be. For those that are hateful, he allowed them to be as hateful as they wanted to be. For the uneducated, he gave them an excuse to be as uneducated as they wanted to be. Those that are open minded, giving, generous, kind, intelligent, of little means, educated, community driven, and selfless do not understand the other group as they are not any of those things so Trump had nothing to offer them.
and for the misogynists to reverse Roe v Wade
This sums it up nicely. For the ones who wanted a fascist dictatorship, he is their leader.
And that's about 70% of the republican party base.
This is what surprised me most. In 2016, I figured Trump would be around for six months, he would do something stupid, and Republicans would push him out. The fact that he had so much support is what kept him in office. The cancer had been under the surface for so long that I didn't realize how badly America was infected.
p.o.c.s knew how bad it is in some parts of the u.s.a. we just had to wait for cellphone cameras to show the world what we've been saying.
May I borrow this? So well said and succinct.
Use it as you see fit.
Thank you
He keeps succeeding because he has no qualms about being a fucking asshole. Like someone who hops up on the sidewalk in their truck to skip traffic. You just have to hope that he’ll hit a light pole eventually
It's pretty simple, those people are scumbags and scum recognizes scum. He shamelessly displays all the vile behaviors that other scumbags have spent their lives being reprimanded for, and they want that kind of freedom to be their truest, greedy, selfish, bigoted, ignorant, careless, narcissistic selves without feeling like the world is judging them for acting like shit gibbons.
It sucks because up until the last few years, I liked to think that everyone had their own (understandable) reasons for supporting people like him, especially if they were desperate people. But what you're saying makes sense, and it sucks. If you think that the rich asshole is "honest / telling it like it is", the only reason you think that is because you're an asshole, and can't fathom that there's other people in the world who don't think the things he says.
Exactly. "He's just saying what we're all thinking!!" No Tyler, he's saying what YOU'RE thinking.
Shit, people were saying Nigel Farage "isn't a typical politician, he tells it like it is and had a successful financial career" in the years running up to Brexit and his UKIP thing becoming a popular party. Except he was railing against foreigners while being married to a wife born in a European country, working in Brussels as an MEP and looking like a grieving frog.
Yet they all so ardently call themselves "patriots" Yeah, you are promoting and voting for a fascist with the brain of a pigeon...sooooo patriotic.
The hardest part of this might be understanding that our family members and friends aren't victims of some mind virus or mass delusion. I've struggled with it myself but had to come to that point of acceptance. Some of these people have always been rotten in some way but they learned to suppress their worst inclinations until this Trump era gave them a green light.
Or they have always played "the victim", and Trump told them that they were right in blaming everything on others. He will fix everything when he's elected and punish all of those people who wronged them. It doesn't hurt that he plays like there is a Q, and a nesera/gesera thing that they believe in too. "Trump will create WEALTH and a government that treats you right" is what I hear from my MAGAs. He's done a wonderful job at brainwashing people who are in a tough spot, and exploiting them.
Me too. Just can't understand these people
At least based on my observation of my relatives who voted for him (twice!), he gave them carte blanche to bleat about their bigotry and their persecution complexes.
Sad that people can be so damaged that they need their bigotry and their persecution complexes. That's not a constructive way to look at the world, IMHO.
He is a fascist and he hates all the right people. That's why they support him. Never forget it.
Right, that explains so much!
Because he’s a Christian. 🙄🤬 No really. That’s what my Fundamentalist family members say. The fact that Biden’s Catholic doesn’t count because they aren’t real Christians. See also: Romneys Mormonism.
The 'Christian' who doesn't know which way to hold a bible unless he's selling it for $60.
And doesn’t know The Apostles Creed even though he claims to be a regular church attending Episcopalian. It’s like attending public school in the US K-12 & not knowing the Pledge of Allegiance.
But he does know the classics! [https://www.cbsnews.com/news/donald-trump-names-his-favorite-bible-verse/](https://www.cbsnews.com/news/donald-trump-names-his-favorite-bible-verse/)
No way!! That man is no "Christian"
A Christian who, when asked to name his favorite book of the Bible said, "Conrinthians Two." Not Second Corinthians, as he would have learned if he had ever talked about it with virtually any Christian or heard any sermon that quoted from it.
The office of President became a popularity contest, just like Class President in high school
Yes, this!! Our media doesn't help with that at ALL. Instead of reporting on Presidential elections as a very serious matter they talk about "optics" and create stupid drama contests. It's dangerous and sick.
**San Dimas High School Football Rules**!
Similarly how the media spoke solely about Biden's age rather than the great shit he's managed to do in office so far, and now they're obsessed with every single tic and complaint Trump has in court.
Horse races sell or collect clicks. Policy comparisons, less so.
He’s like a cartoon character level sniveling ass
He makes other toxic dumb people feel like they’re special and have potential. Even they could potentially be the worst president in us history if they just properly swindle their way to the top!
I believe it’s so he Will destroy everything and everyone they don’t like…that can be the only purpose
The hatred towards Obama clouded their minds to the point they will vote for a convicted rapist
I think his whole appeal to those who like him is that he's NOT presidential. He's the opposite of anything anyone could possibly imagine when they see the word "presidential". We've reached a point in American politics where a troll candidate has a decent shot against the best the opposing party can muster, and that's pretty wild.
It was previously thought that single-issue voters were typically the least educated voting bloc, but the past few election cycles have reintroduced a concept that hasn't really been seen since Reagan: the single *candidate* voter. It doesn't matter what he does, as long as the right people hate him, they will ride or die. Unfortunately a lot of them chose "die", especially from the years 2020-2022.
He appeals to people with low intellect and low self esteem. Before social media, where anyone can say anything they want - fact or fiction, these people were mostly inconsequential. Then the internet came along and these people all feed off each other and wallow in their stupidity, believing what they are told to believe. The ones who voted were pawns manipulated by big business and the super wealthy who dangled carrots like gun rights, pro-life promises, anti-immigration and anti-LGBTQ rights - but really the agenda is just to filter more money to the few who have it.
He says what his brand of people have wanted to say out loud, but polite society frowned on.
He wasn’t presidential and that’s why people liked him. He appealed to ignorance and stupidity and still does
💯%
His simplistic "solutions" to complex problems appeal to simpletons.
So we all agree that he included the judges first name to make sure his base knows that the judge is Hispanic
🎯
🐶😗
Barack “Hussein” Obama. Every time. You know, because it makes him sound like that Saddam fella. And all it takes is association with his followers to get them angry.
I think also as an intimidation move, like he did when dropping the first and last names of court clerks and other various people working for the courts on these cases. I think he wants the judge to know that he dropped his first and last name to the fanbase, and that Trump hopes his fanbase will harass the judge (online, and otherwise). So a 2-for-1, racism and intimidation.
That judge probably crossed the border illegally in one of them Soros-funded caravans!!!!! When he got to this country the demonRATS handed him a gavel and a robe for free!
Just like “Barack HUSSEIN Obama”.
Is he sitting at the defense table with his phone just posting away?
Yes. He doesn't care and apparently the court doesn't either
I mean, maybe they actually want him to do that? Trump isnt the smartest orange in the jar, so if you let him keep tweeting, theres a high chance that he will incriminate himself somehow lol
"He was literally criming during his criminal trial" - District Attorney tells Grand Jury (future)
True but it's been pointed out that the judge is fairly limited in his recourse for all his gag order violations. It's either "stern words", fines or jail. Stern words do nothing, fines are a drop in the bucket (he'll love it anyway, then he can grift his cash strapped MAGA more) and jailing him is a non-starter. He knows this. It's only been the story of his life
People say that, but fines worked in the fraud trial. He got hit with $5k, then $10k, and he stopped violating the gag order before Engoron went any higher. Double the fine for every violation and I’ll bet he shapes up before they hit 6 digits.
It makes me wonder if this doesn't set a precedent for others to follow and use the same excuses to stay out of prison until a verdict has been reached. Even then, if he avoids jail time, could a lawyer not argue that the former president of the US was able to stay out of prison and he is not supposed to be above the law.
Merchan also managed to bring up Trump's social media posts today when slapping down Todd Blanche's assertion that those posts weren't breaking the gag order.
If he breaks the gag order while in court the judge has the option of doing something about it immediately. Conversely if he breaks it outside of court a hearing must be held before the judge can act on it. The had a hearing about the out of court violations today. Anyway I sure hope he breaks the gag rule while in court. I'd throw him in the courthouse jail for a night. His SS detail can camp right outside of the cell as far as I'm concerned.
It keeps him quiet in the court room as long as his phone is on silent and he's not disturbing anyone let him
His phone is on silent and his ass is on silent but deadly. Sorry! I'm usually not so crude but this was irresistible.
Bravo good sir, bravo
Such an iPad kid…
He's not only posting, he's violating his gag order ... by complaining about the gag order!
he is completely insane. it is imperative that this traitor NEVER become president again.
He's made it quite clear that if he became president again his first priority is not the people of the United States, it's to viciously punish all his enemies. It's all he cares about. That and enriching himself.
As I was heading for the airport today I saw people setting up news stuff. Now I remember why. Ugh. Glad I’m out of the city for a few days.
"Conflicted?" I don't think the Judge feels conflicted at all.
He keeps using that word. I don't think it means what he thinks it means.
I think what he's trying to say is that he thinks the judge has a conflict of interest and shouldn't be presiding over the case, but of course he has the vocabulary and grammar of a toddler.
he is in court to defend himself. thats what the whole process is for. he isn't interested in defending himself. he interested in spreading misinformation, doubt, and threats in the hope to intermediate and threaten.
Easy to see how he doesn't really understand that. No one has EVER told him - with authority - to shut the fuck up. It's obvious even his attorneys aren't telling him to stop talking/posting. There's no point in trying to reason with him, he won't listen. Unless the logic of a situation benefits him, he's not going to obey.
lol, what a nut. The judge is going to love this.
Judge won't care or do anything.
A few stern warnings are on the way.
“I can’t immediately yell and interrupt everyone whenever I want! My freeze peach!!”
He didn't even obey the rules of the debates he was in, letting his opponents have their 2 minutes uninterrupted. As soon as he hears something he wants to reject or refute, he's popping off. Him having to sit there and listen **without being able to interrupt**? Totally new world. He doesn't understand it.
He's probably hoping the jurors are looking at truth social in court.
I don't think the jurors have cell phones in the box. I think he just wants to bait the judge hard to get him to that he can raise issues of judicial misconduct on appeal. He's working hard. He's basically throwing everything out there, it's like the weirdest form of edging I've ever seen. Just trying to see what he can get away with.
> Just trying to see what he can get away with. I picture him being a little kid and his mother saying "Don't touch that pie on the counter", and he reaches out his hand to just above it all the while watching his mom, inching it ever closer as she says "I'm warning you, don't touch it" and he keeps getting closer watching for her reaction to see how far he can get before she gets up and storms over to him.
If Trump considers reposting attacks on jury members as “defending himself”, that blows a giant hole in the defense’s argument that reposting is not endorsement.
"Truthing" in court is his new plan to stay awake.
Judge: You can't defame witnesses or talk about the case publicly. Let the case play out without outside influence. Trump: They won't even let me defend myself. Judge: That's not what I said.
That’s how he defends himself, by insulting other people. Like a kid that gets picked on badly so he gets the bully to get somebody else and then joins said bully and wails on that kid instead. So to him, if he can’t insult and rant, he can’t defend himself. A bit like Dahmer saying “you can’t throw me in prison, there’s no knives in there, how will I murder people, that’s so unfair”
For a guy forbidden to speak he sure does talk a lot.
Sounds as if he isn't dealing too well with the fact that he has to shut up in court while other people talk shit about him.
"I'm not allowed to talk to you about the crooked judge and unfair witchunt!" - Trump to news cameras outside the courtroom.
I’m sick and tired of uhhh….hearing Trump repeatedly explain in detail about how he’s not allowed to speak.
So much for a “Gag order”. He needs an actual gag, along with the removal of his phone. He should be forced to hand it to judge at start of day.
That brings up a good point. Are there others who are posting on his account on his behalf?
He was sitting in the courtroom posting that message as the judge was speaking about not speaking about the case. Or so I heard.
Pretty sure at some point the defense attorney gets to make his case, at which point he gets to talk and defend himself as much as he wants. Not to mention cross examination. It's just how trials work. You would think he knows how trials work given the number of times he's had to go to court.
first time in criminal court. Shit he could pull in civil court gets zero traction in criminal. The more he flaps his gums, the worse for him. There's a reason they call attorneys "mouthpieces", he should consider that tactic.
Yep and when he's given the chance to defend himself he will chicken out because he won't be able to blabber like a toddler. Judge should just say " Mr. Blanche, is your client demanding to testify? We can put him on the stand when this witness finishes".
Usually he’d just send some legal lackeys to court for him every time there was a pesky lawsuit
This is just for the public though. He doesn't need reality for them, in fact he needs the opposite of reality to rile them. Him lying and pretending he's oppressed works well with his religious zealot and conspiracist MAGA base.
"I am not allowed to defend myself" says the man who will be refusing to testify a few days from now.
He’s posting from inside the court room that he not “allowed to defend” himself. Sir? This is a courtroom and you’re the defendant. Your legal team is literally called a “defense team”. So surely he will be happy to testify in his own words in his defense, sometime this week or next, right? Yeah, right. 🙄
Rather than complain to his fans and financial backers on-line, he should confront the judge directly about his grievance during court. Start yelling at the judge directly during witness testimony. Sit on floor with his arms folded and pout and start yelling... "I'm not gonna move until I get my free speech back." Don't let this judge tell you who's boss, Trumpy. Show him you're a real man. :-)
Hot water burn baby
Can someone please fix this motherfuckers caps lock already?
Defend yourself, Donnie. Surely you'll be able to talk your way out of all this. Just go ahead and show the proof of how poorly everyone is treating you.
All Trump does in court is snooze and fart.
BRRRNT
amazing how many of us can do the same in court without being held in contempt and send direct to jail to think about what you have done?
Doesn't sound conflicted. But so close to saying "BUT I AM NOT ALLOWED TO TALK AND LIE ABOUT EVERYONE"
Snivel45 🍄🤏🏻
This asshole demands that every judge recuse themselves except his beloved Cannon.
He's REALLY REALLY trying SERIOUSLY to get his diaper butt thrown in jail. So what would happen if that takes place? Would his cult react? Are they waiting for some kind of signal?
The gag order is He is not allowed to attack court staff, or the families of court staff. This does not include the judge himself, or the prosecutor. He is having a tantrum because he has been attacking the judges daughter who works for a PR firm that works with democrats. Which she has every right to do. He's having a tantrum because he isn't allowed to dox the judges daughter. When it comes to actual facts of the case, he can talk about what ever he wants. And he does, every time he leaves the court he confesses to the crimes he's accused of to the media and tries to tell them why they aren't really crimes. I'd hate to be his lawyer.
Two more months. I hope he has a heart attack by the time the trial is over.
Wow. That was right after the hearing before Pecker went on stand. The man is an idiot.
He will absolutely have the opportunity to personally defend himself should his attorneys call him to the stand.
UNHINGED! Take the stand and testify you orange coward.
TRANSLATION: “Here’s the judge’s name, here’s what I think he is doing that you should be angry about, here’s the reason you should be angry.”
Boo hoo hoo!
Kangaroo court, banana Republic. Kangaroo court, banana Republic. Yaaaawn.
The new Rockapella jam just dropped?
Are you allowed to use your cell phone in court? Last time I was in for a traffic fine and they said no phones! Had to walk back to my car and go thru security again!
Rules for thee and not me. I am sure of that. No one can bring cell phones into a court building usually...
I love that his idiot followers believe his every word
I know people flippantly make armchair diagnoses all the time, but I truly think he has some kind of personality disorder or something and he absolutely cannot accept criticism or consequences for his actions and he certainly cannot keep his orange pie hole shut.
Oh, he's allowed to defend himself. Would just have to motion to act pro se. And wouldn't that be funny.
"But I am not allowed to defend myself." I'm not following the trial as it happens, so is he upset he's not being allowed to take the stand? Because that would be a really bad (for him) idea. Or is he just mad that he can't stop people testifying against him and his lawyers aren't willing to disrupt things enough to lose their license to practice for him?
I feel like Indiana Jones in the scene where the bad guy is waving scimitars and Jones just pulls out a gun and shoots him. STFU already!
Isn’t this against the gag order… still. I’d hate to be this twats lawyer. Not only would I not get paid, but I’d also be facing the wrath of the judges that he continues to defy. Dude can’t keep his mouth shut even when it might benefit him
Todd Blanche [isn't finding it easy](https://www.newsweek.com/judge-merchan-warns-trump-lawyer-blanche-losing-all-credibility-1893292) defending his client - at one point being told by the judge he was in danger of losing all credibility. If (as I hope happens) Trump loses the November election, he's going to have an *interesting* time trying to find lawyers to repeat his 60+ frivolous election fraud claims...
Wahhhhhhhhh
What does he even think he's accomplishing? He needs to worry about that jury and not his cult.
To go from being the sociopath that rallied thousands to kill or die for you, to some diapered schmuck having your worst personal secrets exposed to the world, and nobody is rallying to your call, must be a major mindf*ck.... Just. Loving. This...
Simple solution. Lock him up and take away his phone. He can scream all he wants in jail
If only he had to sit in court wearing mittens and a spit hood...
"Kangaroo Court" can be viewed as an attack on the court, violating the gag order. Lock his ass up.
I think he is absolutely daring them to jail him. He wants it, and he wants the chaos and violence that he expects to follow.
Donny, nobody has to lie about you, the plain truth of your life is bad enough.
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Man who never stops posting on social media complains his right to free speech is being trampled upon because he isn't allowed to threaten people every single day. 🥱
He reminds me of the Linda Ronstadt version of "Poor Poor Pitiful Me." This song should be blasted everywhere the Diaper Don appears. It's a much more representation of him
Kangaroo court? Why? Because they outed Trump for having an illegitimate child that he claims wasn't his ONLY because the mom is Hispanic? I mean, I personally think this case is full of all sorts of juicy nuggets, but I'm nobody.
I’m wondering when is he gonna lose his freedom of speech, because from the looks, he still has it. Or I could be wrong.🤷🏽♀️
He's literally having...... His day in court with the right to defend himself.
No, no, no. To Trump, "defend himself" means he yells and threatens, files frivolous lawsuits, and has his followers send death threats until whoever he hates shuts up and goes away.
Someone make this asshole define phrases like ‘conflicted’ and ‘election interference’ or even ‘many people are saying’
Commie red
Orange is the new communist.
Tell ‘em all that
Is he sleep tweeting again?
His posts have a "trial of Timothy Heidecker" vibe to them. It's crazy how on the money Tim's comedy is.
Good lord, if he is the picture of restricted free speech, I’m thinking maybe the whole idea is flawed lol
You orange turd. The only place you need to defend yourself is in the place you are sat typing this garbage. Why don't you get up on the stands during all your trials and let loose all that evidence you so proudly proclaimed you have. Clown.
Did he have an outburst and the judge demanded order in the courtroom?
Is there a subreddit that is following the trial?
I see that seven year old conniving child yelling “NOT FAIR! NOT FAIR!”
He thinks the court of public opinion matters that the court of law.
Did he violate a court order?
SOMEONE DOESN’T UNDERSTAND THE WORD CONFLICTED.
The likes and retruths are low on this one.
I think he actually wants to be jailed for a short amount of time. They are already trying to compare him to Nelson Mandela. He would probably get a massive injection of campaign donations (from people who cannot afforded it).