The Trump downfall thread

[Tiffany]

This judge is in total control of this trial, yes, I've noticed that. The lawyers have so far been challenged by the selection of unbiased jurors. This trial, may be Trumps complete undoing.

 

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This judge is in total control of this trial, yes, I've noticed that. The lawyers have so far been challenged by the selection of unbiased jurors. This trial, may be Trumps complete undoing.

Yes, quite. The bold bit I was thinking that too, because if this trial shows that he's not untouchable, the others will snowball.

 

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Drain the swamp by getting rid of Trump and his corruption once and for all.

Why is the former president’s case only coming to trial now? In part because the Trump administration politicized the legal process and perverted a federal investigation without cause.

The former president has the entire scandal backwards. He believes the real controversy is that the case wasn’t prosecuted sooner, when it reality, it would’ve been prosecuted sooner had partisans on his team not corrupted the process on his behalf.

Why didn’t Trump’s trial start years earlier? Blame Bill Barr

Why are Donald Trump's alleged crimes from 2016 being prosecuted now? In part because of former Attorney General Bill Barr's actions.

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[Tiffany]

Good article. Bill Barr had more credibility in his younger years.

The old proverbial saying:

Power corrupts; absolute power corrupts absolutely.

It takes a lot of integrity these days to maintain integrity and respect. The political scene is so corrupted.

 

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Check out just how deluded Trump's supporters are as this video is hilariously facepalmy. When people say the cult of Trump, believe it. This is what it looks like. And these people are allowed to vote...

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Here's the article covering this video:

Jordan Klepper Has Mind-Melting Encounter With Trump Supporters Outside NY Trial

"The Daily Show" correspondent tried logic on some of the ex-president's fans. He didn't get very far.

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Great news: Trump's trial has hardly started and it's already wrecking his campaigning!

Even before Donald Trump’s criminal trial in New York began, it was clear that the lengthy and demanding proceedings would fundamentally change his 2024 campaign.

But it only took a few days to show that Trump’s hush money trial will be even more damaging, more constraining, and more significant than anyone expected.

The headlines alone told the story. During the trial’s opening week, for instance, Trump arguably drew the most attention for appearing to fall asleep in the courtroom.

“I had sort of underestimated just the giant time-suck this is going to be for him as a candidate,” Alex Conant, a GOP strategist and a top aide on Marco Rubio’s 2016 campaign told The Daily Beast.

Crucially, it’s not just time, but money, being left on the table as the hush money case drags on.

“He could be raising six, seven figures pretty regularly at major-dollar events around the country at this point,” Conant said. “That’s literally what Biden is doing. So Trump’s fundraisers are probably frustrated that because he’s in New York, they can’t schedule that stuff.”

Trump’s Trial Is Already Wreaking Havoc on His Campaign

Photo Illustration by Luis G. Rendon/The Daily Beast/GettyWelcome to Trail Mix, your 2024 election sanity guide. See something interesting on the trail? Email me at jake.lahut@thedailybeast.com. To get Trail Mix in your inbox, subscribe here for free.This week, we take an early look at just how...

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[Tiffany]

I've read Trump has appeared to be nodding off at times in court and yes, so much havoc....he can't campaign if he's sitting in a trial for weeks. I still think this is the trial that will really expose the dark side of Trump that people are unwilling to see.

A man doused himself with an accelerant and set himself on fire today in front of the court house where Trump is:

MSN

I'd like to know what level of "crazy" you would have to be to do this to yourself and for what reason....any reason related to Trump?

 

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I love this. He's gotta take all this criticism in court, but can't hit back at it. He must also attend court every day of the trial and isn't allowed to walk out. All this takes him down a peg or two. Maybe some of his loyal fans will finally start to see through his fakery? This is what he fears most and he's right to as it will help him to lose the election and the world will finally be rid of him.

NEW YORK (AP) — He seems "selfish and self-serving,” said one woman.

The way he carries himself in public "leaves something to be desired," said another.

His “negative rhetoric and bias," said another man, is what is “most harmful."

Over the past week, Donald Trump has been forced to sit inside a frigid New York courtroom and listen to a parade of potential jurors in his criminal hush money trial share their unvarnished assessments of him.

It’s been a dramatic departure for the former president and presumptive GOP nominee, who is accustomed to spending his days in a cocoon of cheering crowds and constant adulation. Now a criminal defendant, Trump will instead spend the next several weeks subjected to strict rules that strip him of control over everything from what he is permitted to say to the temperature of the room.

“He’s the object of derision. It's his nightmare. He can't control the script. He can't control the cinematography. He can't control what's being said about him. And the outcome could go in a direction he really doesn't want," said Tim O'Brien, a Trump biographer and critic.

Trump forced to listen silently to people insulting him as he trades a cocoon of adulation for court

Over the past week, Donald Trump has been forced to sit inside a frigid New York courtroom and listen to a parade of potential jurors in his criminal hush money trial share their unvarnished assessments of him. Now a criminal defendant, Trump will instead spend the next several weeks subjected...

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Down boy! Sit! Trump's humiliation grows by the day as he's now treated like a dog by the judge.

As the 45th president of the United States, Donald Trump isn't used to being reminded that he's now a criminal defendant. He got one stark reminder from Judge Juan Merchan on Friday, according to a new report.

The Daily Beast's Jose Pagliery reported that during Friday's jury selection, Merchan had to tell Trump to sit down after he abruptly stood up before the judge finished his sentence. Merchan had just gotten through more than an hour of back-and-forth arguments with both the prosecution and the defense about a contempt hearing scheduled for next week, where Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg is alleging that Trump has repeatedly violated the court's gag order.

"Merchan turned his face to the former president and said in a firm voice: 'Sir, can you please have a seat,'" Pagliery wrote. "His long, black robes dangled from beneath his right hand as he waved it down, like a man addressing his dog."

Pagliery, who was present during the hearing, wrote that Trump then "went and plopped straight back down into his maroon leather chair at the defense table—and remained for another minute, fuming as the judge gathered his paperwork and strolled toward his chambers."

Now, for some prison time.

Trump was 'fuming' after Judge Merchan made him sit 'like a man addressing his dog': report

As the 45th president of the United States, Donald Trump isn't used to being reminded that he's now a criminal defendant. He got one stark reminder from Judge Juan Merchan on Friday, according to a new report.The Daily Beast's Jose Pagliery reported that during Friday's jury selection, Merchan...

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Well, this is an interesting twist. You can see from this that this is yet another scam by Trump who's now even trying it on with the court. The judge should never have let him off the $464m that he needed to post and let Letitia James sieze his assets as he couldn't pay it.

New York Attorney General Letitia James has asked the judge in Donald Trump’s civil fraud case to void the $175m bond posted previously by the former president, after questioning whether the insurance company has sufficient funds to back it up.

Mr Trump’s bond was posted by California-based Knight Specialty Insurance Company (KSIC), and Ms James raised concerns that the insurer was “not authorised” to write business in New York.

In a 26-page filing posted on Friday ahead of a pre-scheduled hearing next week, her office also argued that the collateral put up by the former president should be under the full control of the company.

Ms James said that the KSIC "had never before written a surety bond in New York or in the prior two years in any other jurisdiction, and has a total policy holder surplus of just $138 million,” according to the documents obtained by NBC.

Trump’s $175m bond in fraud case should be voided, says New York attorney general

Mr Trump’s hefty bond was posted by California-based Knight Specialty Insurance Company last month

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This is a hilarious takedown of Trump's scam bible. Check out the stuck together pages!

Heck, this bible is so unique and crazy, that it might be worth collecting.

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So, Trump is a total fraud. Who knew?

Taylor also dispensed with the argument that the former president’s wealth is proof of his business acumen.

“Al Capone was incredibly rich,” he said. “You can be rich and not be a great businessman. You can be a fraud. And we’ve seen this with Donald Trump throughout his history. Even people who’ve been huge supporters of his have come away saying, ‘he’s a total fraud.’”

There's also another massive factor to his wealth: he was born with a silver spoon in his mouth since he was born into an extremely wealthy family. Kinda hard to fail when you've got that kind of money behind you.

Ex-Trump Official Busts 1 Of Trump's Favorite Myths About Himself Wide Open

Miles Taylor said even people who were close to the former president eventually reach this conclusion about him.

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Here's another article showing the corruption* in the Supreme Court for slow-walking the insurrection case against Trump to the point where it now will almost certainly not come to trial before the general election in November. As the articles says, we're at a fork in the road between democracy and autocracy. The stakes literally couldn't be higher for the whole world, let alone America and most people don't realise this.

The former president’s legal strategy largely boils down to delaying, by any means necessary, the growing pile of criminal and civil threats against him in courtrooms across the country.

Supreme Court justices delivered him a key victory. The months of debate and delays – culminating in the Supreme Court slow walking one of the most important tests of presidential power in American history – have all but ensured that voters will not see a verdict in a trial to determine if he unlawfully conspired to overturn an election before they cast their ballots in the next one.

“The substance of this case is nothing less than a fork in the road on whether we will continue to have democracy, a constitutional republic, with checks and balances that have characterised the presidency, or whether we will embark on the road to autocracy,” according to Norm Eisen, a senior fellow with the Brookings Institution who served as co-counsel for the House Judiciary Committee during Mr Trump’s first impeachment.

*Note that they don't actually claim that the SC is corrupt as that would open them up to libel, defamation etc, but that's exactly what underhand tactics like this are.

How Supreme Court delays gave Trump what he wants before 2024 elections

 

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Oh dear, when it comes to E Jean Carroll it's really not going well for Trump, lol.

I'd like to know what evidence was so compelling that she should win an £83m judgement against him.

A federal judge on Thursday upheld the verdict and award of more than $83m to the writer E Jean Carroll in a defamation case against Donald Trump after he called her a liar for accusing him of sexually assaulting her.

Judge Lewis Kaplan, a senior district judge on the US district court for the southern district of New York, denied Trump’s motion for a new trial and affirmed that Carroll suffered harm caused by Trump’s 2019 public statements.

“Mr Trump’s argument is entirely without merit both as a matter of law and as a matter of fact,” Kaplan wrote in his opinion released on Thursday.

Carroll, a journalist and advice columnist, first sued Trump in 2019 for sexually abusing her in a New York department store changing room around early 1996. A jury awarded her with $5m in compensatory and punitive damages last year.

I say this because what evidence does she have that he sexually assaulted her in 1996? As far as I can tell, in these historic sexual abuse cases, it's the accuser's word against the accused's, so that's just hearsay, hence Trump may well not be lying when he says he's never met her. Again, I'd like to see all the evidence before make a judgement call on this one.

Judge upholds $83m E Jean Carroll defamation verdict against Trump

The former president’s motion for a new trial was denied and his argument deemed ‘entirely without merit’

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That illegal fake electors scheme that Trump tried to subvert the 2020 election with is rather complex, having many aspects to it, so here are a couple of articles explaining it. Have a large mug of your favourite beverage to hand before you start reading them.


This may end up locked behind a paywall, but at the moment it's readable.

The Fake Electors Scheme, Explained (Published 2022)

The plan to reverse the outcome of the 2020 election by creating slates of electors pledged to Donald Trump in states he had lost was expansive, long-running and often confusing.

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And here's the always free Wikipedia:

Trump fake electors plot - Wikipedia

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Here's why the impeachment attempt against Joe Biden quite rightly went nowhere.

Though some Republicans may blame House oversight committee Chair James Comer (R-Ky.) for their failure to impeach President Joe Biden, the real reason is simple: The whole party bought into long-debunked conspiracy theories peddled by their leader, Donald Trump.

As usual, the serial Liar-in-Chief's lies don't stand up to scrutiny.

The Impeachment Inquiry Against Joe Biden Was Doomed From The Start

Republicans were working with claims that'd been debunked repeatedly — and even certified as Russian propaganda by the Trump administration in 2020.

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