Traitor Watch - The 45 & 47 Thread

[Steevy Maximus]

Same. He doesn’t care unless it means incarceration, and if that ever looked likely, I can see his legal minions quickly switching to an Uncle Junior defence. (I mean, probably with some success, given that Trump does seem cognitively impaired.)

I’m still rolling the dice on him dying from his health style and stress (maybe even suicide) before he spends a day in prison. I think it’s still up in the air if he’ll even survive through the Insurrection prosecution, given how long he and his lawyers are dragging it out.

 

[abates]

So is that it for Trump and court for now until the election obstruction case that starts March 4? It's genuinely hard to keep track!

 

[The Mighty Mollusk]

I think the fraud case is due soon? He's got dozens of cases left to go.

 

[wonko the sane?]

There's a reason that he's turning the court cases into campaign stops: he's got so many he didn't really have a choice.

 

[Ironbite4]

New York's fraud trial decision comes Wednesday I believe.

Ironbite-should be fun to see Habba get spanked on national TV again.

 

[KidTDragon]

Apparently the Trump White House Medical Unit Was Handing Pills Out Like Skittles

A Defense Department report makes the previous administration's clinic looks like a West Virginia drugstore.

www.esquire.com

https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1751348524338290993

 

[Paladin]

Behold, the only time this year you will actually see a headline with the words "Trump" and "sentenced to prison" together.

Trump tax return leaker sentenced to five years in prison

Judge Ana Reyes said: "It cannot be open season on our elected officials."

www.yahoo.com

 

[Pale Rider]

FB friend:

Donald Trump fancies himself Caesar, but the Roman figure he most closely resembles is not Caesar, but Crassus.

Marcus Licinius Crassus lived from 115 to 53BC. He was a Roman nobleman who made his money in real-estate. He accumulated vast real-estate holdings through one simple trick: he owned Rome's only fire department. When buildings were on fire, he would send his firefighters there but not put out the fire. Instead, he would offer to buy the burning building from its owner at an absurdly low price. If the owner refused, he would let the building burn down. If the owner agreed, he would put out the fire and add the building to his real-estate holdings.

He was such a corrupt, vile, selfish individual that the modern insult "crass" is named after him. When he was captured in Parthia after a disastrous attempt to play at being a general, it is said that his captors killed him by pouring molten gold down his throat, to mock his legendary greed.

 

[DefaultOption]

Something, something, time is a flat circle...

Trump PAC Paid to Investigate Stupidity of Trump’s Own Lawyers

Donald Trump’s fans paid for his revenge lawsuits, a private defamation case, his bail, and many more legal headaches. But they also paid to investigate his lawyers.

www.thedailybeast.com

 

[abates]

Many experts consider the maneuver a plain violation of basic ethics

Some people might even call it "fraud".

 

[abates]

There may be more classified documents hidden at Mar-A-Lago. There's a concealed room behind a dresser in Trump's bedroom that the FBI only learned about months after the raid:

Special counsel questioned witnesses about 2 rooms FBI didn't search inside Trump's Mar-a-Lago residence: Sources

The special counsel has questioned witnesses about a so-called "hidden room" inside Mar-a-Lago that wasn't searched by the FBI during their August 2022 raid, sources say.

abcnews.go.com

 

[wonko the sane?]

Part of me is like "It's been two years, no way even trump is stupid enough to keep illegal stuff back there"

But then part of me is like "it's ******* trump. He would have had to have gotten someone to move that jive for him, and no one has narc'd on it yet... so there's probably illegally kept stuff still there".

 

[The Mighty Mollusk]

And then they open it and it's just Junior's coke stash. Donny didn't report it because that would've meant knowing or caring what his kids were up to.

 

[Pocket]

Of course, now that they've gone and announced their plans to do a second raid to the media, he's been given ample time to just move it somewhere else.

 

[wonko the sane?]

And once again create a steady stream of narcs: because he still doesn't do his own work. If they move it, it will be found out.

 

[Ironbite4]

Of course, now that they've gone and announced their plans to do a second raid to the media, he's been given ample time to just move it somewhere else.

They could give him a 4 month headstart and he still wouldn't move anything until the day before.

Ironbite-because he can't believe this is happening to him and nothing will come of it.

 

[Paladin]

He's right.

 

[KidTDragon]

Trump is not immune from prosecution in his 2020 election interference case, US appeals court says

A federal appeals court panel has ruled Donald Trump can face trial on charges he plotted to overturn the results of the 2020 election.

apnews.com

Not sure why it took this long.

 

[DefaultOption]

The decision is 56 pages long. Even with three co-authors, that's a lot.

 

[wonko the sane?]

Because nixon was pardoned. All these questions would have been answered 50 years ago in a less extreme, less fanatical context: but nixon got pardoned with the intent of healing and moving forward.

At least they did the right thing.

Edit: the appeals court, not gerald ford.