Donald Trump: Classic or Dud?

where is the courtroom artist's rendering of him sleeping

maybe they don't want to have to expand the gag order to cover that person's family

the fact that Bragg is black must just make Trump's skin boil

What if, randomly, one of the prospective jurors was a still-living OJ Simpson

The defense needs to find some of the OJ jurors. They even speak like Trump:

"I've always been very comfortable with my decision and the decision of the 11 other jurors," she said during the interview. "The evidence that was shown that was given to us and we had to consider. And at that point, there was reasonable doubt and it was something that you cannot deny, and that's why the verdict came so quick."

if the hamberder doesn't fit, you must acquit

Thanks to Trump I've had "Frankie Sinatra" by the Avalanches in my head all day. "Frankie me boy you don't know, you have the perfect voice to sing calypso"

this is a self-made billionaire, whose anti-american persecution is worse than communism. tax cuts!

Huh

Robert F Kennedy Jr claims Trump had asked him to be running mate

Robert F Kennedy Jr, the prominent conspiracy theorist and independent presidential candidate, claimed on Monday he had turned down an offer from Donald Trump to be his running mate for the White House.

The assertion followed the launch earlier in the day of a website attacking Kennedy, published by a pro-Trump political action committee called Make America Great Again Inc (Maga Inc).

Accusing Kennedy, 70, of being a “leftist radical”, the vitriolic website attempts to highlight what it says are his extremist liberal positions, including supporting a 70% rate of income tax and pledging he would sign an assault weapons ban.

NY judge Juan Merchan rejects Trump's request to skip attending trial next Thursday to attend Supreme Court hearing on his "presidential immunity" argument

Judge: "Your client is a criminal defendant in New York. He is required to be here. He is not required to be in the Supreme Court. I will see him here next week"

He could be lying, and he could be telling the truth. Either possibility is viable.

Xpost RFK JR

It would be fun to see both Trump & Kennedy go down on the same plane, but alas it may not happen

real american tax dollars pay for the judge-ship to keep peace and order for not against the mr. trumps of the world. tax cuts!

^^^^ gets it

real american tax dollars pay for the judge-ship to keep peace and order for not against the mr. trumps of the world. tax cuts!

re: RJK and Trump, I have a hard time determining which of these two stupid and insane bozos is lying

It will be interesting to see tomorrow if Trump ups his dosage of uppers in order to stay awake, and starts disassembling furniture in the courtroom.

They can't, obviously, ask prospective jurors how they voted last election or what their political affiliation is. I was thinking of ways you could maybe get around that:

"When you hear someone use 'bigly' in a sentence, do you immediately assume that person's a moron?"

https://i.imgur.com/YwoJ2fp.png

million bucks says he doesn't know what school Barron goes to

He should convey it to his son exactly like that post, verbatim.

his writing style is so relentlessly whiny, it's like he can't write a sentence these days without inserting a minimum of one grievances per five words expended. it's getting beyond self-caricature territory and into the realm of psychosis.

he should keep doing it people love that shit

Seems very unfair, doesn’t it?

also I'm sure once he sees all the coverage and jokes about him falling asleep at the trial he won't shut the fuck up about it, because that's the sort of shit that really bothers him. like he brings up the two-hand water thing and walking down the ramp all the time. also the thing where he thought he was running against Obamna. just one more thing to be really really fucking annoying about

his writing style is so relentlessly whiny, it's like he can't write a sentence these days without inserting a minimum of one grievances per five words expended. it's getting beyond self-caricature territory and into the realm of psychosis.

I wonder how many of his drongo followers on Truth Social even read through to the end of his tedious, paragraph-break-free blocks of whiny text.

if his judges are so corrupt, why doesn't he bribe them?

He can't afford it.

He's improved his comma game.

xps Stevie are you Australian? because I can’t think of a more Aussie term than “drongo”

It has long been in the realm of psychosis

just taking a moment to fully appreciate how extremely weird this all is, like for the first time in history a former US president is sitting in a criminal trial (with several more criminal trials on the horizon), and it's for paying off a porn star and falsifying a bunch of records to cover it up. he posts these really erratic word salad screeds about it online but falls asleep at the actual trial. and the thing he's complaining so much about is not getting to see his son's high school graduation, a kid he's never actually acknowledged in the past (Barron didn't even live at the White House did he?), who by the way was the one his wife was pregnant with when he was cheating on her. idk the whole thing is just insane, it kinda reminds me of late-period Rome when emperors would name their horses as Senators or whatever

xps Stevie are you Australian? because I can’t think of a more Aussie term than “drongo”

ha! no I am Britishes but thanks to a childhood misspent on Neighbours and the Paul Hogan Show I am entirely conversant w/Aussie lingo

I wonder if Merchan has any leeway in the number of alternate jurors he can seat along with the main twelve. I think the stress of this trial is going to eat jurors alive.

His tweets have lost the juice since they removed the character limit.

Absolutely no way he would have won in 2016 if you could write those long boring confusing tweets from 2009-2016.

Saw a post pointing out that by blabbing a defense in front of the cameras this morning he essentially walks in that defense. It becomes admissible.

Frogbs OTM

good morning, where's the consequences?

he has to sit through a 6 week trial when he really needs to be out there campaigning and it seems like the only time he gets any sleep now is in the courtroom

I'm seeing discomfort and inconvenience, but still no actual IRL consequences of any sort whatsoever aside from meaningless fines

Speak to the judge about accelerating the trial.

Look if he’s distracted and perpetually mad that’s a good thing and maybe he’ll stroke out.

^^^^

oh believe me I visualize it daily

Speak to the judge about accelerating the trial.

― the talented mr pimply (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, April 16, 2024 11:01 AM (twenty-seven minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink

the longer this goes the worse it's gonna be for him and it seems likely it might be a while because A) they're having a lot of problems finding jurors and B) he's almost certainly gonna violate his gag order

So the US jury selection system is a mystery to me, in the UK you just get sent a letter then you have to sit on whatever case you're picked for. What happens if they genuinely can't find twelve good men and true who are able to convince anyone that they're never heard of the fella and will judge him impartially? Move the trial to Puerto Rico or something?

is it really true that they are having a hard time? there's a very large pool for this trial and it seems like they are just going through it as expected, lots of people will be excused but they just need to get it down to 12 and maybe backups

I am not a lawyer, but I'm pretty sure eventually a judge can just decide to go with what they've got.

that is, jury selection can't be drawn out indefinitely.

Now: Trump's head slowly dropped, his eyes closed. It jerked back upward. He adjusts himself. Then, his head droops again. He straightens up, leaning back. His head doops for a third time, he shakes his shoulders. Eyes closed still. His head drops. Finally, he pops his eyes open.

— Frank G. Runyeon (@frankrunyeon) April 16, 2024