r/politics • u/Picture-unrelated Oregon • 3d ago
Oops: Trump Accidentally Blew Up His January 6 Legal Defense on National TV - Jack Smith’s job just got significantly easier.
https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2023/09/donald-trump-accidentally-blew-up-his-january-6-legal-defense-on-national-tv5.4k
u/VanCardboardbox Canada 2d ago
Another reason Trump's defence lawyers could never put him on the stand. Even the flattery of a prosecuting attorney could probably get him to take credit for crimes.
"Isn't it true, Mr. Trump, that your aides, staffers and even your lawyers are not nearly as smart as you obviously are, and could never have come up with a plan to steal an election as brilliant as the plan you, yourself single-handedly drew up and executed? Would you say that's true?"
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u/TheIllustriousWe 2d ago
Just like that Simpsons episode where Bart and Lisa trick Sideshow Bob into confessing that he rigged the election, just by accusing him of not being smart enough to do it.
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u/servey02 2d ago
Simpsons did it!
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u/pichiquito California 2d ago
They also predicted his rise to power…
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u/jereman75 2d ago
Truly the darkest Simpsons prediction to come true.
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u/plipyplop Delaware 2d ago
Don't Blame Me, I Voted For Kodos.
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u/baby_blobby 2d ago
My fellow Americans. As a young boy, I dreamed of being a baseball. But tonight I say, we must move forward, not backward; upward, not forward; and always twirling, twirling, twirling towards freedom!
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u/BeardCrumbles 2d ago
Greatest campaign speech of all time. Twirling towards freedom is so inspirational.
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u/ArniePalminator California 2d ago
I’ll just vote for a third party.
GO AHEAD. THROW YOUR VOTE AWAY!
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u/PoxyMusic 2d ago
Abortions for everyone!
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u/jewwwish 2d ago
What if I want a miniature American flag instead???
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u/ikkleste 2d ago
Given we're talking about how suggestible trump is might they have even put that idea in his head?
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u/Numerous_Photograph9 2d ago
He'd probably blurt it out just because another witness was being questioned along the same lines.
Something like, "Mr Witness, can you tell us just how stupid you think Mr. Trump really is?"
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u/courthouseman 2d ago
so did the producer and director/writer of Back to the Future II. They said they modeled the 1985 alt present "Biff" on Donald Trump's arrogant attitude. I think this was 1989 when the second movie came out, right?
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u/civildisobedient 2d ago
Yes, Trump had been "thinking about running" since the 1980s. I think we all thought the joke was too obvious at the time. Can't believe how sharp a u-turn reality took.
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u/Punchinyourpface 2d ago
I was familiar enough with Trump being garbage that I was absolutely floored the first time I realized people believed the grift. A man was on the news saying Donald Trump cared about the working man and I almost had a stroke. The shock was real lol. How did I know he's trash and those people didn't? I have no idea.
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u/peoplewatcher5 2d ago
Or his rise to influence. Persuading backwards-brained bigots takes very little... effort. The Simpsons simply point fingers at the simpletons.
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u/BEX436 2d ago
I mean, the simpletons voted for Trump. It's not hard to point my fingers at them.
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u/Dagoth 2d ago
They did not:
" The images from The Simpsons shown [...] did not originate in 2000, however. They were taken from a short video entitled "Trumpastic Voyage," which was posted to the "Animation Domination" YouTube channel page on 7 July 2015, after Trump had announced that he would be seeking the Republican presidential nomination for 2016. "
" The animated series did feature a joke about Donald Trump's becoming president in a 2000 episode entitled "Bart to the Future," but since Trump had been flirting with the idea of making a presidential run since at least as far back as 1999, such a "prediction" wasn't as prescient as it might seem in retrospect."
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u/celerydonut Vermont 2d ago
So back to the future was after?
Pretty obvious who the fuck biff was
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u/Caniuss 2d ago
Possibly my favorite episode.
"....your guilty consciousness may lead you to vote Democratic, but deep down, you secretly long for a cold-hearted republican to raise taxes, brutalize criminals, and rule you like a king!"
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u/murrdy2 2d ago
"Mayor Quimby even released Sideshow Bob, a man twice convicted of attempted murder. Can you trust a man like Mayor Quimby? Vote Sideshow Bob for Mayor"
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u/axiom1_618 2d ago
I don’t understand how a convicted felon could get so many votes and another convicted felon could get so few.
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u/Medium-Oil1530 2d ago
Hey Bobs a Yalie, we need an eighth to row against the Princeton Alums!
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u/ThaiJohnnyDepp 2d ago
Princeton? You mean Clown College?
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u/TreeRol American Expat 2d ago
I'll thank you not to refer to Princeton that way.
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u/PrometheusLiberatus 2d ago
...your guilty consciousness may lead you to vote Democratic, but deep down, you secretly long for a cold-hearted republican to raise taxes...
Ah yes, the 90s. When some Republicans actually supported raising taxes. Those were the days!
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u/iknownuffink 2d ago
They still support raising taxes.
On poor people.
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u/riskbreaker23 2d ago
First they cut taxes for everyone.
Then after a year they expire for everyone but rich people.
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u/heffalumpish 2d ago
It’s lower not raise. The line is “to lower taxes, brutalize criminals, and RULE YOU LIKE A KING.”
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u/sthlmsoul 2d ago
That's how you bait Trump: suggest someone is mor capable/competent/smarter and hell step right into it.
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u/candycanecoffee 2d ago
Or just suggest he's wrong about anything. He misspoke once about Hurricane Dorian's projected path, and instead of saying, "oops, it's a rapidly developing situation, weather is complicated, I was misinformed," he redrew the hurricane's path on the map with a sharpie, because he CANNOT be wrong about anything.
"You believed Brian Kemp would alter election results in your favor, but you turned out to be wrong about that, didn't you?"
"NO, I wasn't wrong, he could have done it! Just throw out a bunch of Dem ballots like I asked him to!"
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u/Cyno01 Wisconsin 2d ago
I wish they would tack charges on for that one too, false weather reporting is a crime and he just went and did it right on TV, he did a million worse things, but that one is so ridiculous and so open and shut.
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u/DillBagner 2d ago
It'd be an interesting case. The law states it has to be presented as coming from the weather bureau, US signal services, OR other branch of the government service... It'd get some case law in to the vague nature of something tacked on to something specific in a law.
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u/turtle_mummy 2d ago
The sharpie thing was such a microcosm of Trump's entire presidency.
Everyone seemed to focus on his idiocy and the absurdity of the situation (like, literally everyone in the world knows he was falsifying the data but still gave him a pass.) But his underlying narcissism that caused it showcased just how dangerous of a character flaw that is--he cannot, under any circumstances, admit to any wrongdoing.
Trump's ham-fisted COVID response likely led 200s of thousands of American casualties. Why? Because he downplayed the risk early on to avoid spooking the stock market. And from then on, there is no way he would let himself look "weak" by admitting the virus was more serious than he originally indicated. Once the vaccine became available, he had to somehow take credit for the miracle "cure" against the Democratic hoax that he said didn't really exist in the first place. And he did so in full view of the world with zero self-awareness. Because then, like always, he was incapable of thinking ahead more than a few minutes at a time, and only ever acting in whatever was his own personal best interest for that moment.
"Ha ha, he drew on the map with a sharpie!" People laugh. Ha ha, we're all going to die because this pathetic loser can't possibly admit that it's okay to be wrong.
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u/snowlock27 Tennessee 2d ago
Wasn't that the rumor about why he fired Bannon? It got back to him that people were saying Bannon was the real President because Trump went along with whatever Bannon wanted?
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u/MrMeseeksLookAtMee Canada 2d ago
Police Chief Wiggum: "You're under arrest."
Sideshow Bob: "WHAT!? Oh yes, all those things I did."
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u/lucklesspedestrian 2d ago
Its similar to a Colombo episode, albeit one with a brilliant criminal
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u/Ok_Pirate4131 2d ago
Trump’s Attorney: Objection, leading que-
Trump: Overruled!
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u/Estilix Oregon 2d ago
It'll be the trial of Tim Heidecker all over again.
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u/sexlexia_survivor 2d ago
That was hilarious. I love how multiple charges are for beating people up and tries to beat the witness up 😂
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u/Barbed_Dildo 2d ago
Ok, I have two questions?
Who the fuck is that guy?
Who the fuck does that guy think he is?
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u/aijoe 2d ago
Who the fuck does that guy think he is?
A writer and comedian https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tim_Heidecker
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u/Cyno01 Wisconsin 2d ago
IDK if many people have had the pleasure of watching theentire On Cinema Cinematic Universe, but the buildup to The Trial over the seasons of On Cinema At the Cinema is one of the most insane and hilarious media experiences ive ever had, from 11 minute movie reviews, to the most patriotic action series ever, to seven hours of murder trial...
Recently got around to watching the last season of OCatC, great as ever, Tim has a new music project and it took me a minute to realize but they were doing the same damn song again!
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u/notyourbutthead Mississippi 2d ago
I want to believe this is a reference to the opening of Super Mario Sunshine. Please let it be!
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u/bunkscudda 2d ago
“Who was the mastermind?”
“Who was the big man calling the shots?”
“Who was everyone looking to for orders?”
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u/whatproblems 2d ago
T: starts blabbering
Judge: yes or no only please
JS: no it’s ok let him talk he’s just burying himself
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u/BloodyMalleus Washington 2d ago
That's why Trump won't be able to take the stand. It'd be suicide. He has no defense. His only defense is a pardon.
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u/18voltbattery 2d ago
Assuming it’s on direct examination and not cross…
“Objection leading question.” From defendant’s counsel…”Your honor, my client is prone to acknowledging such leading questions in the affirmative not because he did the deeds but because he believes himself to be smarter and therefore must indicate his affirmation. We move to strike the question and have the court instruct my client to not answer”
“No it’s a good question, I want to answer” DJT chimes in from the stand. “It’s actually a great question and I did come up with it…”
Defense counsel interjects … “your honor please.”
Judge…”I’m going to let your client respond since he feels the need to do so. Go ahead Mr. President…”
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u/five_speed_mazdarati 2d ago
Could his own attorney ask the judge to make Trump answer the question?
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u/18voltbattery 2d ago
Theoretically but I’d be curious as to why he’d want that
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u/five_speed_mazdarati 2d ago
I was thinking more like Trump was rambling and incriminating himself and spewing everything except the answer to the attorney’s question that was supposed to actually help the case
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u/RedofPaw 2d ago
At this stage they've given up. This is an all or nothing, with the all being political corruption.
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u/Sunflier Pennsylvania 2d ago edited 2d ago
Isn't it true, Mr. Trump, that your aides, staffers and even your lawyers are not nearly as smart as you obviously are, and could never have come up with a plan to steal an election as brilliant as the plan you, yourself single-handedly drew up and executed?
Objection: Compound question, assumes facts not yet in evidence, and calls for speculation.
Though your point is true, valid, and fair, any good attorney would never ask that question in this way.
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u/DunkinEgg 2d ago
I really hope he burns the entire party down on his way out.
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u/mabhatter 2d ago
Yup. They had 2.5 years to cut him loose. They should have taken their lumps in 2022 and started rebuilding. They tripled down on MAGA instead.
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u/Sniffy4 2d ago
They trapped themselves by normalizing his bs, now they can’t escape their own farther-right base
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u/PoliticsLeftist 2d ago
We as a country cannot escape their base.
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u/Liquid_Snow_ 2d ago
Get this defeatism out of here
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u/faustianBM 2d ago
I agree. He was a useful idiot for Putin.... If used properly, he can be a useful idiot for progressive ideas: "If you want government to threaten your bodily autonomy, or your right marry whoever you want, then keep letting the right leaning authoritarians like Cheeto Bandito win."
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u/metengrinwi 2d ago edited 2d ago
After the insurrection there was a minute they could have cut the cord by impeaching and convicting.
I legitimately think the politicians fear physical violence from the base and that’s a big reason they won’t go against the guy.
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u/MrVeazey 2d ago
Mitt Romney spends like a million bucks a year on security now, thanks to Y'all Qaeda.
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u/ShrimpieAC 2d ago
It’s a real problem. This kind of terrorism works. It discourages people from running for office, especially on the left. They’re effectively silencing all the sane voices slowly.
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u/doesntaffrayed 2d ago
They can’t give up the power.
They know they’ll never win another election without him.
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u/MrVeazey 2d ago
Good. After encouraging and abetting him at every turn, they deserve to never win again.
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u/ptraugot 2d ago
It wasn’t accidental. He’s a moron and still believes he’s above the law, so he still believes nothing he says about anything has any implications or impact on him.
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u/sonofabutch America 2d ago
I mean… so far he’s been right. When has he ever faced any consequences for his actions?
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u/ptraugot 2d ago
Let’s hope the old adage starts to apply: “past performance is no indication of future returns.“
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u/Cl1mh4224rd Pennsylvania 2d ago
I mean… so far he’s been right. When has he ever faced any consequences for his actions?
I know it's not necessarily the consequence that we all want right now, but remember that he did fail to be re-elected. That was a direct consequence of his actions.
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u/PandaCamper 2d ago
Wrong, that election was stolen, not lost... So not a consequence of my actions - a voice in Trumps brain (probably).
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u/Chickston 2d ago
I'm ready to steal the election from that pos again. I bet 81m other Americans are too. Now let's hope they can vote in the right states in the right portions to beat the slanted electoral college. You know the thing the actually stole the election 2 times since 2000.
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u/discussatron Arizona 2d ago
Well, he can't operate a charity anymore, and he's a proven rapist now.
It's nowhere near enough for trying to overthrow the United States of America, but it's a start.
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u/Stranger-Sun 2d ago
I see this comment a lot, but he has lost court cases. He had to pay up for Trump University, for a fraudulent charity, and for E Jean Carroll.
And now he's being CRIMINALLY charged for the first time. I see no reason why he couldn't also lose a criminal case.
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u/mabhatter 2d ago
This is what's going to be brutal for the GOP. The prosecutor is gonna break him. It's gonna be ugly and very, very public.
This is what courts do to people like him every day that think the law doesn't apply to them and nobody can "make me".
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u/quizteamaquilera 2d ago edited 2d ago
This. He fundamentally doesn’t understand that using the power of a public office for your own gain is illegal — or at least thinks he’s the only one who should be able to do it. America is his, didn’t you know? /s
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u/SirRipOliver 2d ago
Why would Hunter Bidens laptop take over Trumps teleprompter like this?
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u/JuddRunner 2d ago
I remember when trump mocked Obama for needing a teleprompter at all. That shit ended day one when he ramped up his political career. Funny how he never mentions it anymore
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u/mok000 Europe 2d ago
Those derogatory statements work in the moment, their truth value doesn't matter and Trump knows it.
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u/armen89 2d ago
Why doesn’t someone publicly ask him these contradictory things?
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u/yomjoseki Pennsylvania 2d ago
Facts and hypocrisy don't matter to the people who vote for him, so why bother? It may even work in his favor.
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u/CarlRJ California 2d ago
Remember, that's the same guy who said if he was president, he wouldn't have time to play golf, because of how busy he'd be
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u/continuousQ 2d ago
Unfortunately, it takes a lot less effort to destroy than to create and maintain.
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u/Drumboardist Missouri 2d ago
He'd also run into a school to stop a school shooter. Like...I don't believe you'd do anything, anywhere, to assist any children (except Ivanka), let alone run.
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u/Squirrel_Chucks 2d ago edited 2d ago
Remember, that's the same guy who said if he was president, he wouldn't have time to play golf, because of how busy he'd be driving the country into a ditch presidenting.
Well Trump had a lot of help from the right wing media sphere that didn't give a shit if he was a hypocrite and a liar.
The right wing website Judicial Watch filed tons of Freedom of Information Act requests with the Obama administration to track every penny of taxpayer money that Obama spent on personal travel (golfing, family trips, etc.).
They even sued Secret Service and the Air Force for travel expense info.
Their justification? They said the President was accountable to the public for that personal spending.
Aannnddd then they stopped doing all that investigating about a year into the Trump administration...
...when it became clear that--despite his promises to the contrary--Trump was going to outspend Obama's eight year travel tab in under four
They picked up investigating Presidential travel with Biden. Hell they did it before Biden was elected by going back to when he was VP (especially to see how much was spent on Hunter Biden traveling with his dad).
I think this one example encapsulates the fundamental ethical hypocrisy of the American right: public accountability and ethical conduct in office don't really matter to them because they wont try to live up to those ideals.
If Republicans do the exact bad thing they accused Demicrats of doing? Just say nothing and pretend like nothing is happening.
Desantis in Florida and Sanders in Arkansas don't want the public to see how they are spending taxpayer money on travel.
They learned from Trump that their base won't want transparency from them. That's only an ethical concern when a Democrat is in office.
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u/Haikouden 2d ago edited 2d ago
Don't forget tweeting. So many nonsense bullshit rants when he was supposed to be doing his job. And the golfing he still did despite what he said.
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u/SirRipOliver 2d ago edited 2d ago
If true, whoever teleprompted inject the bleach and spread the cheeks to allow the sunlight in - get’s a couple free drinks on me
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u/MeccIt 2d ago edited 2d ago
I think he came up with that on the spot after looking at a display chart to the side that mentioned bleach to clean all surfaces to aid disinfection. And he just spouted it out, on national TV
edit: yep he just looked at a presentation for the first time, having missed all the prep, and then just made stuff up on the podium
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u/octopornopus 2d ago
The exports of Libya are numerous in amount. One thing they export is corn, or as the Indians called it, Maize. Another famous Indian was Crazy Horse. In conclusion, Libya is a land of contrast.
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u/notanothersmith38 Missouri 2d ago
But her emails!!
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u/litnu12 2d ago
It wasnt the laptop it were the dick pics spread over republicans pcs to manipulate them /s
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u/2_Sheds_Jackson 3d ago
But he still remains out of jail. I just cannot understand.
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u/DrRonny 2d ago
I just cannot understand.
It takes a LOT to jail a rich person
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u/base2-1000101 2d ago
It takes a LOT to jail a rich person
You basically have to steal from richer people.
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u/befeefy 2d ago
Bernie Madoff didn't get that memo
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u/Sea_Puddle 2d ago
Tbf Bernie Madoff was one rich person who got caught out of thousands of other rich corrupt people who aren’t in jail.
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u/Dotard1 2d ago
Being rich and white is a huge advantage in the justice system, but there are still a lot of rich white guys in prison for white collar crime. Trump is on another level. At this point I’m convinced any other rich white guy would be in prison too.
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u/RedofPaw 2d ago
Other white rich guys are I jail for less. He's a white rich politician with leverage over other white rich male politicians.
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u/discussatron Arizona 2d ago
He hasn't taken anything from the other rich guys yet. To the contrary, he gave them a fucking shit-ton of handouts from 2016 to 2020. He knows which side his bread is buttered on.
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u/HeatherFuta I voted 2d ago
He got all those rich white senators to run for their lives on Jan 6.
But, I guess they'd rather he threaten their life than try to take their money.
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u/KingMario05 2d ago
Yeah, I honestly think Trump being banished from America is the best we can hope for. Him living it up in Moscow ain't justice, but hey... better than nothing at this point.
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u/GI_Bill_Trap_Lord 2d ago
Putin would milk every scrap of information possible out of him then give him a nice quiet polonium nap within 5 years
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u/KingMario05 2d ago
...Ah, so they won't use the "he fell from a building" trick? Not surprised - when the victim is so damn heavy, there's only so much y'all can do.
Note: In case the Secret Service see this, I AM JOKING.
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u/rubbarz America 2d ago
If only Trump said he has a list of ultra rich people he's going to go public with that will incriminate them. He'll be in prison yesterday.
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u/RegulatoryCapturedMe 2d ago
“I just cannot understand.
It takes a LOT to jail a rich person”
They jailed Martha Stewart for far less.
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u/Little_Cost_9327 2d ago
They jail women for not knowing their place. They aren't supposed to be out there competing with men.
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u/lightknight7777 2d ago edited 2d ago
He posted bond. He paid to be out. People who commit murder and pay bond also get out as long as they're not seen as a present threat or flight risk. It's the whole innocent until proven guilty thing (and is why they're even talking about getting rid of bonds as a concept altogether).
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u/2_Sheds_Jackson 2d ago
All I can say is if you or I did what he did in the documents case we would be jail. Period. No bail. And this guy is allowed to go to Europe while he awaits trial. With missing documents.
No way.
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u/lightknight7777 2d ago
Oh, in the documents case? It would have been a full swat pickup at the first inkling of a single stolen top classified document.
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u/mabhatter 2d ago
Jack Teixeira would like to say hi. But he's on lockdown.
https://amp.cnn.com/cnn/2023/07/17/politics/jack-teixeira-out-of-jail-classified-trump/index.html
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u/lightknight7777 2d ago edited 2d ago
The classified documents case absolutely should have put Trump's ass in jail. Yes.
The defense actually made a decent case for his (Teixeira's) release on bond. The judge wasn't having it.
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u/data_head 2d ago
No one wants to deal with a jailed former US President underground under methamphetamine withdrawal.
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u/BadgerOver4239 2d ago edited 2d ago
As the saying goes "The wheels of justice grind slowly but they grind finely"
If you're someone with money (in theory in DT case since he just swindles people) it takes a lot to put away someone like that away in the pretrial stage. However DT making statements like this does legitimately make his defense on the Jan 6 trial that much harder which is why there's both positives & negatives to this from the prosecution's POV
TLDR yes he gets to spout his BS but he also can't help but get himself in deeper shit so the prosecution tend to be ok with that
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u/LoudLloyd9 2d ago
I can't either. He's violated his gag order walking out of the courtroom. He's threatened individuals abd protected groups. He's obviously deranged. Yet, he's a free bird. 🤔 hmmmm
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u/TekBuddha 2d ago
Because we are in an extremely dangerous uncharted territory and only have one chance to get things right. Also, there's a very real possibility that a large portion of our government was/is compromised by Russia. If we have any real patriots left in Washington, they're doing their best to salvage what they can and fight back with Justice. The challenge is, the gears of justice turn slowly. Innocent before proven guilty takes a lot of time and our adversaries have been heavily taking advantage of that. Remember, the government has always operated slowly and It is quite clear that Putin and the Republican party have used this to their advantage. Commit as many crimes as possible to dismantle democracy, eliminate equality, steal tax payers money and turn people against each other. And if you actually get caught, you can delay and appeal your court case to infinity with enough money. We are living in Putin's crescendo of chaos and Jack Smith is playing chess. This has to be executed perfectly or democracy is dead. This is the most serious event in this nation's history. So that's why it's taking a seemingly unfair, overly long period of time. Justice must remain blind to be impartial and ensure nobody is above the law.
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u/data_head 2d ago
He's a former US President. He knows national secrets, and putting him in jail where he can't get his drugs and will feel pressured to impress total strangers is a national security risk.
Gitmo or bust.
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u/Cl1mh4224rd Pennsylvania 2d ago
He's a former US President. He knows national secrets, and putting him in jail where he can't get his drugs and will feel pressured to impress total strangers is a national security risk.
He would be isolated from any general prison population.
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u/Zh25_5680 2d ago
As long has he keeps doing these things… I have no problem with him yapping until trial
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u/inpennysname 2d ago
I’m convinced it’s never going to happen. The amount of hype and edging for the last like 7 years about how ….anything? Serious will happen to him has me convinced. That, and how we are thundering towards dystopia politically and environmentally, and the very minimal effort writ large to do anything meaningful towards changing either. We’re just careening down the track and the tunnel is painted on the side of the mountain like the road runner cartoons. No adults are in charge. It’s two kids kids in trench coats all the way down. He’s never going to jail. I hate it. We can talk all day about the laborious litigious process especially when someone has the finances to do so, we can even pretend he HAS the finances to do so. It’s not happening because earth is ghetto and I want to leave.
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u/DocM123 2d ago
It’s almost like it’s a horrendously bad idea to go on multiple national TV interviews while you’re under 91 different indictments. I wonder if he’s getting tired of winning?
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u/QanonQuinoa 3d ago
What kind of lawyer let’s their loud mouth client do tv interviews before their trial? A lawyer that doesn’t know if they’ll get paid.
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u/briansabeans 2d ago
If you think his lawyers are even trying to get him to shut up, I think you are mistaken. Trump is an out of control man and the definition of a "bad client." His lawyers know this. As long as the checks cash, they will keep showing up. Heck, all of Trump's admissions/confessions probably just made the lawyers money since they have new issues to research!
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u/seeking_horizon Missouri 2d ago
As long as the checks cash
Yeah, about that....
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u/lemon900098 2d ago
His lawyers have a blank check the size of the GOP coffers.
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u/Hot-Praline9384 2d ago
Which is honestly okay with me. Trump vacuuming up all the voter donations that keep the GOP alive and blowing them on defending his laughable legal arguments doesn't seem like a bad thing.
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u/FIContractor 2d ago
It’s funny that you think voter donations keep the GOP alive. Corporate dark money and hostile foreign governments keep the GOP alive.
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u/AnalSoapOpera I voted 2d ago
One that thinks they can win the presidency because of all the media. And then pardon himself.
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u/RazzleThatTazzle 2d ago
All of the lawyers smart/brave enough to shut him up have jumped ship already. He's left with the dregs now c
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u/Hodaka 3d ago
Trump can't tell right from wrong.
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u/Imacatdoincatstuff 2d ago
Trump decides what's right and wrong. There is no stand-alone reality independent of his judgement.
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u/The_Hot_Stepper Georgia 2d ago
With the way trump is handling his defense we might as well just move to sentencing and save everyone some time.
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u/GullCove1955 2d ago
This will be Jack Smiths easiest sedition conviction. Trump can’t shut up, won’t listen to lawyers and believes he is far smarter than he actually is. Just keep him talking.
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u/minor_correction 2d ago
There is already more than enough evidence for any sane juror. Adding more evidence doesn't change anything.
The problem is the insane jurors. There is no amount of evidence to turn them.
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u/spoda1975 2d ago
Ya know how you keep seeing headlines about how screwed Trump is….
I keep seeing headlines about how he just confessed to the crimes he’s accused of…
And guess what? He’s chillin in a beach front golf course.
Wake me up when something actually happens
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u/Atlusfox 2d ago
What was that about not needing a gag order?
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u/mabhatter 2d ago
He has the Right to remain silent, but not the ability. This will be used against him.
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u/MC_Fap_Commander America 2d ago
He has no intention of being acquitted. He's banking on getting one MAGA to cause a hung jury, claim that as exoneration, and pardon himself if he wins the election.
He's speaking to that hypothetical MAGA. The case is inconsequential.
Will be won or lost at jury selection.
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u/JeanLucSkywalker 2d ago
A hung jury just means a retrial. He can't pardon himself, because this is the Georgia case.
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u/Pyr0technician 2d ago
Dude is like a hippo flicking it's tail and spraying shit everywhere, so that everything loses all meaning and the public can't tell what's what. Thankfully, court procedures are the antithesis to this tactic.
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u/HowCouldYouSMH 2d ago
He’s going to wind up in a sitch where no one will represent him. Then he’ll cry he can’t get a fair trial. He may be right at that point, plus he’s poisoning the jury pool. He’ll also appeal the he’ll out of any decision or verdict against him.
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u/NWTrailJunkie Oregon 2d ago
Holy Jesus! We keep hearing this every other damn day. Trump outted himself. Trumps lawyer confessed. Theres video , there's texts, people confessing, Trump totally blew it blah blah blah.... and yet this slimy f is probably gonna walk. Might even win the Presidency. WT actual F.
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u/grixorbatz 3d ago
Accidentally? Try, "Pigheadedly"
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u/king-one-two 2d ago
Also it was 100% intentional on the part of the reporter. She teed him up for it perfectly because she understands his pathology.
She basically went "Mr. Trump, is it true that you are an obedient little boy who was bossed around by his lawyers? Or are you actually a big strong man who was in charge and did it all on his own?"
Easiest man on earth to bait.
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u/Dotard1 2d ago
I swear this is the thousandth time I have seen this same headline. They just rearrange the words every other day.
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u/mabhatter 2d ago
No, this one is new. He gave an interview over the weekend and the reporter led him by the nose to talk himself into jeopardy.
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u/kendostickball 2d ago
How long before he tries to claim that “loser Jack Smith is stalking me by watching my social medias. Very sick. Obsessed.”
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u/chironomidae Illinois 2d ago
To be fair, Trump's plan of "They can't convict me of a crime if I openly admit to it" has been working for nearly a decade now. Gunna catch up to him any day now...
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u/EatsShitsAndLeaves 2d ago
Before the trial even starts: I ordered the Code Red.
Well alright then.
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u/MikeAK79 2d ago
Trump is so dumb. How any sane and free thinking person can listen to the shit he says then come away thinking he's the guy they want running the country is beyond me. Trump is a total idiot.
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u/NoWayNotThisAgain 2d ago
just got significantly easier
The fact that prosecuting him hasn’t been considered a slam dunk since 2017 is disturbing as hell
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u/RawLife53 2d ago edited 2d ago
Why are so many people unwilling to accept truth in its Raw and Bare state of being?
Trump is and has been and continues to be a damaging danger to American Dignity and American Integrity. The people who chose to back Trump were the same people who would choose the most vile, malice driven, greed chasing and destructive being as their resentment at the fact that a black man became president and did what no white man could do. Which was fix and economy that was broken and forced to its knees by Republicanism. Within 4 yrs a Republican white male took the economy back down on its knees and lied to the nation which helped fuel the death of a million people with, by and through his lying about COVID, and while doing so, pushed and promoted a continuing divisiveness by stomping around the nation promoting belligerence and attack agenda for the sake to divide the nations people along political and racial lines.
That's only part of it, he create and led a terrorist insurrection to go and attack the U.S. Capitol and sit back and gloated over himself, while watching the madness. He pushed the attack against Pence, that enticed as if to command his terrorist to hang Pence.
No sugar coating can cover that up, no soft talk can change that and this half hearted mentality of trying to sanitize the truth, can't void out the truth that the entire world saw live on TV.
But, it not much different than the people who convinced themselves of denialism as they watched the attack on black people in Selma, or the many times they watched police attack black people with dogs and water hoses, stick and other items they used as weapons. The people who denied that, are of the same type of try and promote the denialism of the madness and malice and incessant lying and continues divisive attacks Trump engages.
Jan. 6, committee showed it all to the world with live video and audio.
America's biggest problem is a large segment of America have been groomed over many decades to try and sanitize away the raw truth, and try and white wash over the facts to make them feel better about themselves. We see it when they try and give a soft stroke to killers who shoot up kids in schools and then do nothing to try and fix schools to prevent it, we see it when people kill over the whole family, as efforts to try and sanitize it are promoted.
The world has been and is watching, and the world watched the segment of society who does all it can, to try use the Jim Crow Justice tactics to try and give cover to Trump.
The people who back and support that craziness is the same people who cater to Trump, when he continues to tell people of the crimes he's committed and then claim that he expects to be made exempt from being held accountable.
Trump and his followers are like a remake of Jim Crow Idealist, 5.0... still using denialism, deflection and out right lying and white nationalist delusions of white supremacy, to do a Jim Crow style refusal to hold a white man accountable.
Why are so many people unwilling to accept truth in its Raw and Bare state of being?
People wonder why violence is so brazen today, its because people are watching these people who did grave damage to the nation, being given soft sentences and allowing a terroristic man who engaged treasonous acts upon and against the United State, continued to be praised by his followers.
It all send a message to people, that they can be violence, that harming and killing others does not matters, and that anything goes. Because people see their violence as far less consequential, than what Trump has done in his broad spectrum of criminality. The tone of the madness and violence was set in place over the 4 yrs Trump sat in the seat of the Presidency, and spread the belligerence and endorsed violent and malice acts as a standard ideology. That ideology spread across America like a wild fire.
When Republican let Trump off the hook... it only amplified the spirit of violence, contempt and rages that became the go to mentality within society. It made violence, contempt and rage acceptable conduct in society.
We see it with people on Airplanes, in Shopping Places, on Schools Board Meeting and any and every places. That 4 yrs of leadership of Trump... is the essence of what escalated violence, contempt and rages within and throughout society.
It's been said many times, that Leadership has consequence and those consequences of Trump in that role reverberates within society years after he has been out of Office. and he travels the country fanning the flames to keep violence, contempt and rage alive.
Why are so many people unwilling to accept truth in its Raw and Bare state of being?
- That is America's biggest problem in this day and time, is a society that can't accept the truth.
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u/Franklin_le_Tanklin 2d ago
No no you see this is a big brain play. He’s going to stop others from testifying by just admitting to it - that way no one can testify against him and he stays out of jail! Or something…
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