Finding himself in the unusual position of not being able to stiff his legal team trump is demanding the moon. Admonishing them to "fight harder" in open court and they haven't even sat the jury yet.
They should have one of those old Puritan fuckers that carried around a big stick with a brass knob on the end, to hit people who fall asleep in church.
Not that it would work, but it would be entertaining.
Michael Steele is the last good Republican. And it basically took the entire Republican Party explicitly saying that they only hired him because he was Black, and then attempting to blame the flaming pile of dog shit that has become the modern GOP on Steele.
Here's a little secret--Trump is going to raise as much as he possibly can from his usual sources. He will do so whether he's in jail or not. His only limit is how much money the idiots have to give.
Put him in jail and it keeps him from campaigning, it distracts him, it reminds swing voters that he's a criminal.
sure, he raised a couple million bucks after each of the major developments in his numerous cases but he's also spending a gazillion bucks each week in legal fees and mounting interest on the 475 million.
Doesn't matter. How is treating him any differently justified? It could be considered "election interference" not to bring the POS to trial and conviction if it were to make trump "more popular."
My brother's new roommate has a loud snore, but my brother doesn't mind. His former roommate was a maga, and wouldn't shut up about trump, so snores from an apolitical guy is far less annoying.
You could see the chuds trying to keep it from dropping below $30/share on Friday, but they gave up (ran out of money) over the weekend. I expect that they'll try and keep it above $25/share tomorrow, but I wouldn't be at all surprised if drops below $20/share by next week.
“The judge in Donald J. Trump’s criminal trial on Monday again refused to allow the infamous “Access Hollywood” tape to be played for jurors, but said that the comments Mr. Trump made on the tape could be introduced as evidence.”
I think that’s even better. It will sound way worse when the prosecutor gets to read it vs hearing Billy Bush soften it by going along.
Maggie Haberman with breaking news from the trial: Trump has leaned over on his right buttock and scratched his left buttock through the pants of his suit.
Maggie would be more like , “Trump reached back, almost gracefully for a man of his largesse, and seemed to satisfy an itch on his lower back. As he did a bluebird seemed to chirp in acceptance of the break of courtroom norms”
"Judge Merchan then warned Trump that although he has a right to be present for his trial, he will be removed from the courtroom if he disrupts the proceedings and put in jail. He also warns him that if he fails to appear for court a warrant will be issued for his arrest.
The prosecutors then asked that Trump be fined $1,000 for each of his posts that violate the gag order and that he be warned that if he does it again he will be put in jail. They noted that one of the posts happened while court was going on today which was a photo of Michael Cohen calling him a serial perjurer. They also cited the post praising Avenatti's interview with Ari Melber and posts about Stormy Daniels."
The point was presumably to see what Avenatti had to say about Donald Trump’s upcoming criminal trial.
But a clearly bitter Avenatti merely spent the whole time baselessly claiming that the criminal case is a weak one, before going on to bizarrely bash the Democratic Party. The whole thing was a misleading, pointless farce. Yet Melber did basically nothing to stop Avenatti from using the interview to make controversial false claims.
The whole thing was such a debacle that “Melber” and “Avenatti” and “MSNBC” ended up trending on Twitter all day Tuesday, as everyone piled on in disgust. Melber took the worst of it, and he deserved to. He has a consistent history of booking dishonest guests and then doing far too little to correct any of his guests’ lies. But this is a much larger problem.
Melber was merely using Avenatti to do what MSNBC nearly always does these days, which is to hype the notion that Donald Trump is going to “get away with it all.” People who actually know what they’re talking about when it comes to the upcoming Trump trial, such as witness Michael Cohen and the various legal experts who are closely following the case, are all in agreement that the case is a strong one and that Trump is on track to likely be convicted.
Ari Melber interviewed him from prison last week. It was absurd. I had it on in the background and then eventually muted the teevee. Then Ari kept playing clips of it the next day.
Ari and anyone who approved this interview at MSNBC should be flipping burgers by now.
For the heck of it I worked out how much money Trump lost in stock value today. So far it's about $219,064,000. Unfortunately, he obtained his 78.8 million shares of stock for essentially nothing so any positive value is profit for him.
Today's 18% decline has less to do with the trial and more to do with him filing with the SEC to issue another 21.4 million shares of DJT stock. That's an enormous fuck you to those who already invested. Who could have predicted?
More importantly, his followers see it that way. They fell all over themselves praising him for "earning" $6B a few weeks ago -- that was REAL money to them; watching it disappear has to be galling.
I seriously doubt there will be any notable outbursts from Trump during the trial -- unless he takes the stand, at which point I'll buy up ALL the popcorn. But the strain of having to sit at the defendant's table, six hours a day, four days a week, without the ability to speak or tweet or fart freely is going to have a knock-on effect. Expect further unhingedness after-hours.
Judge Merchan orders a 30-minute recess as team trump demands graham crackers and milk for their warrior.
"He naps better."
After the lunch break, Judge Merchan said that a hearing will be held on
April 24 on whether Trump should be held in contempt for violating the
gag order. The prosecution then noted that the defense failed to abide
by the court's deadlines to present all the exhibits they intend to use
at trial. Trump's lawyer complained that he didn't have time. Judge
Merchan had no patience with that and told them they have a deadline of
24 hours to have the clerk mark then and anything submitted late will
not be allowed in trial. ~Ron Filipkowski
Nobody will ever hold this man in contempt. Prove me wrong.
DO EET!!
I can only guess why the time lapse is that it would take away from the trial.
Oh my God, that's one day before my birthday. C'mon universe, Mama needs a present! 🎁🎁🎁
Only the best lawyers!
Finding himself in the unusual position of not being able to stiff his legal team trump is demanding the moon. Admonishing them to "fight harder" in open court and they haven't even sat the jury yet.
" In sign of defiance and protest, Trump falls asleep in court."- Media, most likely
They should have one of those old Puritan fuckers that carried around a big stick with a brass knob on the end, to hit people who fall asleep in church.
Not that it would work, but it would be entertaining.
Ah, the ol' Slap Stick!
"I was going to vote against trump again, but now that he was convicted of a felony, I am considering voting for him."
- NYT editorial board, 'Imagination Team".
Trump “I’m awake! I’m awake!! Sleepy Joe. Election interference!!”
NYT - A defiant Trump lambastes Biden in courtroom outburst
Heard just now on MSNBC (paraphrase):
"But if they jail him, he'll just be more popular and he'll raise millions".
"OK, but let's just try it."
Michael Steele has turned out to be a great talking head.
Michael Steele is the last good Republican. And it basically took the entire Republican Party explicitly saying that they only hired him because he was Black, and then attempting to blame the flaming pile of dog shit that has become the modern GOP on Steele.
I thought that was him, I was just listening.
"Nothing ventured, nothing gained."
-- Somebody
It was Les. Les Claypool.
https://youtu.be/HPNKgkSutr4?si=iz5WTEncGzmuFLQE
OBI-WAN: "If you strike me down, I shall become more powerful than you can possibly imagine."
DARTH VADER: "Lightsaber goes 'snap-hiss-crackle'."
good news for Palpatine!
And was he really?
Oh, but then Obi-Wan came back as....an occasional hologram to give pep talks to Luke.
That's not really more powerful than I can imagine, but I have a pretty good imagination.
"Luke. Use the Force. How many times do I have to come back from the grave to repeat that?"
Here's a little secret--Trump is going to raise as much as he possibly can from his usual sources. He will do so whether he's in jail or not. His only limit is how much money the idiots have to give.
Put him in jail and it keeps him from campaigning, it distracts him, it reminds swing voters that he's a criminal.
Exactly. Anyone tempted to support Trump BECAUSE he is in jail was going to support him anyway.
It's sort of like when someone says something unfair about Biden. I say "that's it, now I'm voting for Biden!" but I was going to vote for him anyway.
Drumpfenfuehrer won't be able to have his cell phone if he's locked up in jail.
The court can't hold him in contempt soon enough.
He just needs to get some cartons of cigarettes.
Almost all jails are non-smoking.
sure, he raised a couple million bucks after each of the major developments in his numerous cases but he's also spending a gazillion bucks each week in legal fees and mounting interest on the 475 million.
Speaking of that 475 million, he still hasn't posted a bond that was accepted.
that's all still in the making, apparently, but nobody would be shocked if this was just another delay-tactic and he couldn't get the money together.
$230K a day in legal fees as of Feb. and nary a Johnnie Cochran to be found.
And Daniel Webster is booked into next century.
he has Keis and Habba instead.
JFC, why does the media think that treating him like any other defendant will make him popular?
If he WAS treated like any other defendant, he'd be behind bars right now.
Because the media have been giving him special treatment all along, they can't imagine doing anything else.
The whole situation is so wacko I have no idea what to expect.
Doesn't matter. How is treating him any differently justified? It could be considered "election interference" not to bring the POS to trial and conviction if it were to make trump "more popular."
Because that's what the Trump people are saying.
What? You didn't think they would fact-check or apply rational analysis to the claim, did you?
I remember Woodward and Bernstein.
Woodstein!
Please proceed
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Will the judge allow Trump to bring his CPAP machine to court?
Well, he already brings his CRAP machine everywhere he goes.
I'd say yes. It'd be less distracting than Trump snoring.
My brother's new roommate has a loud snore, but my brother doesn't mind. His former roommate was a maga, and wouldn't shut up about trump, so snores from an apolitical guy is far less annoying.
I am not MAGA, but I can talk about PAB all the time too.
OT- any word on what the price of DJT stock will be today?
https://finance.yahoo.com/quote/DJT
Down $6 from last closing LOL!
You could see the chuds trying to keep it from dropping below $30/share on Friday, but they gave up (ran out of money) over the weekend. I expect that they'll try and keep it above $25/share tomorrow, but I wouldn't be at all surprised if drops below $20/share by next week.
Hmm.. well, there goes the first amendment protections on speech.
If you organize a protest, you risk debt and bankruptcy if any individual at the protest decides to get violent.
For some reason, I'm sure this will only apply to Black people and dirty hippies. MAGAts and neo-Nazis will almost certainly be exempt.
More info:
https://www.vox.com/scotus/24080080/supreme-court-mckesson-doe-first-amendment-protest-black-lives-matter
Good news for agent provocateurs
This is staggeringly unconstitutional.
Does NYC conduct random drug tests of criminal defendants? Asking for a friend.
“The judge in Donald J. Trump’s criminal trial on Monday again refused to allow the infamous “Access Hollywood” tape to be played for jurors, but said that the comments Mr. Trump made on the tape could be introduced as evidence.”
I think that’s even better. It will sound way worse when the prosecutor gets to read it vs hearing Billy Bush soften it by going along.
Can they play the reenactment video by Sarah Cooper and Helen Mirren?
James Earl Jones
Maggie Haberman with breaking news from the trial: Trump has leaned over on his right buttock and scratched his left buttock through the pants of his suit.
Maggie would be more like , “Trump reached back, almost gracefully for a man of his largesse, and seemed to satisfy an itch on his lower back. As he did a bluebird seemed to chirp in acceptance of the break of courtroom norms”
[agonized, disgusted groan]
All too entirely accurate.
Agonized groans for my posts fuel me.
Not sure if satire
I've always wanted to say that. Though the press crew would simply ignore me. Best to hold up the pages in pasteup.
Vicky Vale!
Lois Lane!
PETER PARKER!
That's Marvel.
"Judge Merchan then warned Trump that although he has a right to be present for his trial, he will be removed from the courtroom if he disrupts the proceedings and put in jail. He also warns him that if he fails to appear for court a warrant will be issued for his arrest.
The prosecutors then asked that Trump be fined $1,000 for each of his posts that violate the gag order and that he be warned that if he does it again he will be put in jail. They noted that one of the posts happened while court was going on today which was a photo of Michael Cohen calling him a serial perjurer. They also cited the post praising Avenatti's interview with Ari Melber and posts about Stormy Daniels."
~Ron Filipkowski
Do I want to know what Avenatti said that won him praise from tfg?
From the Palmer Report:
The point was presumably to see what Avenatti had to say about Donald Trump’s upcoming criminal trial.
But a clearly bitter Avenatti merely spent the whole time baselessly claiming that the criminal case is a weak one, before going on to bizarrely bash the Democratic Party. The whole thing was a misleading, pointless farce. Yet Melber did basically nothing to stop Avenatti from using the interview to make controversial false claims.
The whole thing was such a debacle that “Melber” and “Avenatti” and “MSNBC” ended up trending on Twitter all day Tuesday, as everyone piled on in disgust. Melber took the worst of it, and he deserved to. He has a consistent history of booking dishonest guests and then doing far too little to correct any of his guests’ lies. But this is a much larger problem.
Melber was merely using Avenatti to do what MSNBC nearly always does these days, which is to hype the notion that Donald Trump is going to “get away with it all.” People who actually know what they’re talking about when it comes to the upcoming Trump trial, such as witness Michael Cohen and the various legal experts who are closely following the case, are all in agreement that the case is a strong one and that Trump is on track to likely be convicted.
Ari Melber interviewed him from prison last week. It was absurd. I had it on in the background and then eventually muted the teevee. Then Ari kept playing clips of it the next day.
Ari and anyone who approved this interview at MSNBC should be flipping burgers by now.
They let him have his phone while in court?
I didn't think they allowed phones maybe they do or it was during a break?
Didn't think of that - breaks.
$1,000 *each*?
The prosecution is playing hardball.
It's just and too low imho.
It will add up.
And he won't be allowed to not pay.
For the heck of it I worked out how much money Trump lost in stock value today. So far it's about $219,064,000. Unfortunately, he obtained his 78.8 million shares of stock for essentially nothing so any positive value is profit for him.
Today's 18% decline has less to do with the trial and more to do with him filing with the SEC to issue another 21.4 million shares of DJT stock. That's an enormous fuck you to those who already invested. Who could have predicted?
https://www.cnbc.com/2024/04/15/trump-media-shares-plunge-after-company-files-to-issue-additional-djt-stock.html
"Unfortunately, he obtained his 78.8 million shares of stock for essentially nothing so any positive value is profit for him."
This is the real shame here. I'd love to be given millions of dollars....
A person like Trump is like a high stakes gambler. He doesn’t see making 2 billion after being up 6 billion as a win. He sees it as losing 4.
More importantly, his followers see it that way. They fell all over themselves praising him for "earning" $6B a few weeks ago -- that was REAL money to them; watching it disappear has to be galling.
HE SIMPLY WANTS EVERYONE TO HAVE THE CHANCE TO OWN A PIECE OF THE GOD EMPEROR
I seriously doubt there will be any notable outbursts from Trump during the trial -- unless he takes the stand, at which point I'll buy up ALL the popcorn. But the strain of having to sit at the defendant's table, six hours a day, four days a week, without the ability to speak or tweet or fart freely is going to have a knock-on effect. Expect further unhingedness after-hours.
Lots of heavy sighs and muttering
And the snoring, don't forget the COPD snoring.