And a huge chunk of the country somehow goes, "Yep, just what I'm looking for in November."
A huge chunk of the country just down plays everything.
"OH, if it's really so bad why haven't I heard about it." I just told you mf'r.
"Trump is the victim in all this." Get fucked. In no way has that silver spoon orange cum rag ever been the victim in his life. We are talking about the person that is suppose to represent and lead umpteen million Americans and you're treating him with kid gloves.
"Innocent until proven guilty." He was proven guilty.
"It's only civil court, it's not criminal." Hold still while I shove this goalpost up your ass.
A survey done at the Iowa caucus asked "if Trump is convicted, would you still vote for him?". Only about a quarter of Republicans asked said no...
So during a trial to decide damage amounts for previously made defamatory statements, you launch into a bunch of new defamatory statements?
Bold move cotton, we'll see how it plays out.
She can do this all decade long you stupid orange rapist. 5 Million. 20 Million. 100 Million. 300 Million. Keep it coming you idiot fuck.
If she's the one that breaks him we will finally have proof of the inmate goodness of the universe
"Inmate" lol
That's an amusing typo in this context.
He is banking on the publicity that making the additional defamatory statements will give him with his voting base. He is hoping that his re-election will at the very least stall all the proceedings against him, and he may even be able to quash some of them after re-election.
The more forceful he is at his defense, the more his supporters dig in. He doesn't care about defying the court, because he hopes to make the court irrelevant.
That or he's hoping one of his supporters will assassinate out of stochasticiam
You dropped this: (again)
Imagine if some country tries to stare us down while this guy is president.
We'll be a radioactive hole.
It's way more likely that we get manipulated and taken advantage of. Other countries realize Trump is easily manipulated because he's a narcissist, and it'd be much simpler to stroke his ego while he opens our wallets .
If their leader is smart enough to manipulate us. I don't know that Kim is.
He sure is. Remember he invited Trump across the border and told him he was the first president to come over. Trump bragged about that afterwords and talked about opening hotels on the NK waterfront.
Yes but Trump will absolutely excoriate them in online posts. Think of the embarrassment they would feel!
He's campaigning. A large part of the country love this sort of behaviour and if it costs him a few mill well then donations will take care of that.
“You owe damages of $3M, Mr. Trump.”
“Well, she’s a nasty person.”
“You now owe $3.2M.”
“And a liar.”
“$3.5M.”
“She’s not even…”
“$4M.”
“This is horse…”
“$4.2M.”
“But I…”
“$4.8M.”
“You’re a nasty person, too.”
“$5M, Mr. Trump, plus you’re now in contempt of court. I can do this all day.”
And I'd readily watch that all day.
He's shooting people in the middle of Fifth Avenue. Judge: What are you going to do about it?
It would be amazing if the jury said jail time would be more effective than another monetary settlement. Fingers crossed.
I don't think they have that ability.
Just treat him like he was black. Charge him with contempt for anything, the way he is breathing is too loud, and set the bail for more than he can afford. $1.5 trillion?
They don't have that ability in a civil trial, but could they say that? Something like "Here's the incredibly large amount of compensatory and punitive damages, which we still do not believe will suffice to prevent Trump from repeating this behavior. We believe that only detention will be successful in putting an end to this continuing defamation."
I suppose, but I doubt it would help.
Even then. I believe they're given a form letter and all they're allowed to do is fill in the blanks. At least that's what happened the one time I was on a jury.
I guess the only hope now is to try and bankrupt him…again
Well when one is a professional Loser like Trunp, another bankruptcy is no big deal. It's par for the course.
I would imagine it would have been much harder for his Loser routine if there was still a debtor's prison. It wouldn't be a standard way for him to do business.
With how many things he's failed at and in a big way involving investors, customers, regulators, and the courts, it's been amazing how he's been able to get his hooks into the country. Celebrity truly is king in America.
All it took was repeating bald faced lies about his business acumen on TV for a handful of years. Before apprentice, he was universally seen as the piece of shit that he is. So much so that he's basically the archetype of almost every movie villain from the 80s and 90s.
Just start calling in the new jury on the campaign finance violations he's about to commit the second he has to pay the settlement. Those carry actual jail time.
Money is the only thing he cares about. Keep the fines going up. We can call it the Trumping Point: the amount of money required to make a billionaire understand consequences. Then future fines to other billionaires can just start there.
For real though, imagine the orange apoplexy if he lost all his wealth.
Thank you, Iowa voters!
/s
Just another reminder that Iowa voters are generally morons who back a loser more often than they pick a winner.
Counterpoint: losers of presidential elections have been president as often as not in the past 20 years
Defaming someone just as you're arriving at a trial to determine how much extra you're going to owe for defaming them again after already being fined for defaming them would be SUCH a badass move if it wasn't so stupid and coming from someone so vile..
This should surprise nobody.
When I read these things I am tempted to believe more and more that all hope in humanity is lost. I can't believe that our so-called allies in America are not able to recognize injustice and treat it the same way. Your society is finished - there is no other way to put it.
I honestly don't think it's possible for them to change. Their democracy is done. They are now a warning symbol to the world. I know I'll start looking into my own countries politics . I've been addicted to the shit show coming from the states. I do always wonder how more extreme it is in the news then what the average American sees.
If he wins, we're done. No doubt about it. However, if we hold back the fascists this election (this includes the House and Senate,) there is a real chance at landing a huge defeat to maga extremism in '26 and '28.
Yes, you should be paying attention to your local politics: right wing extremism is on the rise everywhere.
He really doesn't know when to shut up, hopefully that will be his undoing.
Unfortunately that doesn’t seem to have been the case his entire life so far.
In large part - perhaps exclusively - because corporate news is utterly incapable of saying the basic truth. He's a demented rapist fraud who can not stop lying.
They can't say that! They can't get close to saying that! And that is what gives him his rabid base.
They can, but they just refuse to because they're all afraid of losing access.
The more he opens his mouth, the more his rabid fans adore him.
Hahaha boy I love this. On the hook for 10, who knows where it ends.
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