#indictments

[contemplatingoutlander]

Trump's trial "is a fulfillment of his rights"

"That Trump will be tried for his coup attempt is not a violation of his rights. It is a fulfillment of his rights. It is the grace of the American republic. In other systems, when your coup attempt fails, what follows is not a trial."

--Timothy Snyder, PhD, Levin Professor of History, Yale University

#trump #indictments #coup attempt #fulfillment of rights #us democratic republic #timothy snyder #x-twitter

[letsnotandsaywewantedto]

Indictments Georg.

#donald trump #indictments #trump got indicted again #us politics

[tomorrowusa]

The Trump campaign will probably use that image for fundraising aimed at gullible MAGA zombies. Though they'll likely apply some photoshop to it to make him look less like a serial peeping Tom.

#donald trump #first president to get a mugshot #mugshot #republicans #indictments #racketeer influenced and corrupt organizations act #rico #criminal enterprise #election tampering #election fraud #election 2020 #georgia #atlanta #fulton county #fani willis #lock him up!

[thepoliticalfuckery]

LOCK HIM UP!!! 📣

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[aunti-christ-ine]

#editorial cartoons #mike luckovich #kevin mccarthy #jan 6 #indictments #political cartoon

[dontmeantobepoliticalbut]

One of the funniest subplots in the Donald Trump Indictment Show—which centers on the hush money payment made to porn star Stormy Daniels in 2016—involves the multiple reports that, after predicting to his followers that he would be arrested on March 21, the ex-president and his allies came to believe he was in the clear.

Trump, The Washington Post reported late Thursday, “had grown cautiously optimistic” in recent days, after “advisers had counseled him that a possible indictment by a Manhattan grand jury…would not come for some time—if at all.” The former president, the outlet noted, was apparently so unconcerned about the prospect of being charged that he’d “even begun joking about ‘golden handcuffs,’” which is probably not something one does if one thinks there’s a legitimate possibility they might be indicted, convicted, and sentenced to time in prison. “It was a surprise to everybody,” David Urban, a longtime Trump adviser, told the Post, which noted that “some of his lawyers had been preparing to take a few days off.” Following the indictment, The New York Times similarly reported that “Trump and his aides were caught off guard by the timing, believing that any action by the grand jury was still weeks away and might not occur at all.” The paper of record noted that Trump had recently been “telling nearly anyone that he was in a good mood and that he believed the case against him by Alvin Bragg, the Manhattan district attorney, had fallen apart.”

Of course, the biggest indication that Trump indeed believed he’d outrun Bragg? His taking to Truth Social on Wednesday to write: “I HAVE GAINED SUCH RESPECT FOR THIS GRAND JURY, & PERHAPS EVEN THE GRAND JURY SYSTEM AS A WHOLE…. THE GRAND JURY IS SAYING, HOLD ON, WE ARE NOT A RUBBER STAMP, WHICH MOST GRAND JURIES ARE BRANDED AS BEING, WE ARE NOT GOING TO VOTE AGAINST A PREPONDERANCE OF EVIDENCE OR AGAINST LARGE NUMBERS OF LEGAL SCHOLARS ALL SAYING THERE IS NO CASE HERE.” Sure, that could have been an unabashed attempt to sway the jurors through flattery—but, in retrospect, those very much sound like the words of a man who was extremely confident he was not going to be indicted. “Such respect”! “The grand jury system as a whole”! “The grand jury is saying, hold on”! Do you think he still stands by these statements? If there were ever a time for the internet-ism “ROTFLMAO,” it would be now.

In related news, according to the Times, Trump was less focused on “the legal consequences” of the indictment Thursday than “the political implications.” Trump previously said he would not drop out of the 2024 presidential race if charged, boldly claiming that being indicted might actually help his chances of making it back to the White House. One adviser told the Post that the ex-president and current presidential candidate is planning to “milk [the indictment] for all it’s worth politically.” And while Trump has reportedly raised millions since he first claimed he’d be arrested earlier this month, it does not appear that people are reacting exactly as he had hoped.

Per the Post:

"The causeway that leads to Mar-a-Lago has long been a rally spot for Trump supporters, especially during his presidency, when they would regularly gather to cheer on his motorcade. But as the sun set along the causeway Thursday, more people were fishing for sand perch and croaker than had shown up to support the former president. Shortly before 8 p.m., only a half dozen Trump supporters had amassed in their usual spot."

Meanwhile, according to the Times, on Thursday, “a large group of former Trump Organization employees was quietly cheering the latest developments via text messages.”

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[evvywevvy]

crimes georg

(chart from Twitter: @/Climatologist49)

#Trump #Indictments #Georgia #spiders georg #Tumblr #presidents #politics #crimes

[nodynasty4us]

Just as a reminder, I do sometimes quote conservative writers. Douglass MacKinnon worked in the Reagan and elder Bush administrations. From his August 19, 2023 opinion piece:

Suddenly, a covert plan to file semi-plausible indictments against Trump becomes a massive overreach that is defeating the original intent of manipulating the outcome of the Republican primary.

Voters not attached to the extremes of either political party may now be saying, “Wait a minute. They are now charging Trump with what? These Democrats now want to criminalize speech and past public statements? I may not like that Trump character, but this is starting to seem un-American.”

...

It’s not hard to imagine more and more voters saying to themselves: “If they can do this to a former president of the United States, they can surely do it to me or someone in my family.”

So, a new question for those Democratic strategists who believe “the more we indict Trump the more likely he becomes the Republican nominee” would be this:

“What if we have now collectively and brazenly overreached — and because we have, the voters who are now beginning to see Trump as a sympathetic character and even martyr overwhelm the millions of Trump-hating voters we wanted to bring out in November of 2024?”

#democrats #donald trump #indictments #swing voters

[sirladysketch]

I try not to get super political on here, but the New York Times did an annotated breakdown of the (current) charges against Trump and I thought it might be helpful for people who aren't 100% sure what's going on.

#US pol #trump #indictments #may he go to jail for a long time and end up penniless and alone

[leehiller]

 🍬🎄🎁🍬🎁🎄🍬

The Holidays are Happier with an Indict-MINT

https://bit.ly/HappyHolidayIndict-Mint

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[contemplatingoutlander]

DECODING FOX NEWS

The propaganda in this one Fox News segment is astounding, and succinctly sums up the alternate reality that right-wing media have constructed regarding Biden and Trump.

Mollie Hemingway, the editor-in-chief of the right-wing media outlet The Federalist, does four things in this video:

She ignores the history of the Trump family's financial corruption, both during his administration and shortly afterward (when Jared was given control of investing $2 billion by the Saudis).

She implies that the repeatedly debunked Burisma claim against the Bidens is true.

She implies that all the indictments against Trump are due to the Biden administration's attempts to "persecute" Trump for standing up "for the people" to the "corrupt" Biden regime.

She likens the indictments to what happened in the past in communist regimes, where people like the Czech Republic's Václav Havel had been persecuted but later became presidents.

Below is a breakdown of the video:

HEMINGWAY: Also does, though, is it shows us what we're dealing with as our country. We've had a lot of people who have become political leaders and become incredibly wealthy.

HEMINGWAY: Joe Biden spent 50 years in public service and his family all has bank accounts where they take money from foreign people. They go to public service, and they come out much better.

HEMINGWAY: You have with President Trump one of the first and only people to actually stand up against that corrupt regime.

HEMINGWAY: Seeing the persecution that comes associated with it, which also kind of makes the case for him, because people see that if you go along with the regime, good things happen to you. If you stand on behalf of the people, they will try to destroy you.

HEMINGWAY: So there's like a weakness that's shown here in the same way you think of like the... what the communists used do to their political opponents. They would imprison them.

HEMINGWAY: After communism ended, some of those people became presidents and leaders like Václav Havel in Czech Republic because people knew they were persecuted and imprisoned because they were they were opposing a corrupt regime.

If any of Trump's indictments end in conviction, dangerous civil unrest may very well occur--likely in part because of the kinds of false, wreckless statements that Fox News contributors like Mollie Hemingway have made repeatedly.

#fox news #right-wing propaganda #mollie hemingway #donald trump #indictments #joe biden #juliet jeske #decoding trump news #video #my gifs

[dontmean2bepoliticalbut]

#us politics #twitter #tweet #2023 #john iadarola #tyt #the young turks #rob reiner #republicans #conservatives #donald trump #2024 elections #2024 presidential race #indictments #ag merrick garland #biden administration

[tomorrowusa]

It's time, once again, to choose a Republican Speaker of the House! 😳

It probably won't be George Santos. Like Donald Trump, he's ineligible because of criminal charges against him. Rep. Santos now faces 23 counts. He needs to work harder to catch up to Trump.

Read the updated indictment of Rep. George Santos

Another member of the House who many people think deserves to be indicted is Gym Jordan – one of the candidates for Speaker.

Former Ohio State University wrestlers say Jim Jordan betrayed them and shouldn't be House speaker

Jordan is a facilitator of sex abuse. Imagine the editorial cartoons of him as House Speaker.

It says a lot about the GOP that their least bad candidate for Speaker once called himself "David Duke without the baggage". Duke was once the "grand wizard" of the KKK.

House speaker contender Steve Scalise reportedly called himself ‘David Duke without the baggage’

We can help erase the slim majority which GOP legislative terrorists have in the House. Support the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee.

#us house of representatives #steve scalise #la-01 #gym jordan #oh-04 #george santos #ny-03 #house republicans #indictments #the gop #democratic congressional campaign committee #brian mcfadden

[aunti-christ-ine]

You know what's the best part of tRUmp getting indicted for espionage?

tRUmp signed a law changing the penalty for mishandling classified docs to 5 years in prison & made it a felony.

The law he signed to punish Hillary will be used against him.

Shakespeare said it best:

Hoist with his own petard. 🤭

#indictments #irony #tRUmp #(the RU stands for RUssia)

[dontmeantobepoliticalbut]

There seems to be no stopping the zombie fans of Donald Trump. Rather than seeing the former president’s multiple criminal indictments, including new charges filed in Georgia last week, as a reason not to support his 2024 run, nearly 3 in 4 Trump voters say showing support during his legal fights is a reason to support him.

According to a CBS News/Yougov poll released Sunday, Trump not only holds a commanding lead over the field of his Republican rivals, he now holds his largest lead yet since CBS/YouGov started polling on the 2024 race. Trump has the support of 62% of likely Republican primary voters, while his nearest opponent, Ron DeSantis, trails him with a measly 16%. That’s a 7 point drop in DeSantis support among those voters just since June.

Likely GOP primary voters also weighed in on Trump’s latest indictment, with 77% saying they believe the indictment is politically motivated. Trump and 18 others were charged in Georgia last week with felony crimes related to his attempts to overturn the state’s 2020 election results.

The poll also questioned likely Republican primary voters about the events of Jan. 6 and Trump’s attempts to overturn the election. Among MAGA supporters, 41% said that then-Vice President Mike Pence did “the wrong thing” that day by counting states’ votes (aka not letting Trump subvert democracy). Only 21% said Pence did “the right thing,” while 38% said they were not sure.

Despite Trump’s countless lies, 71% of Trump voters believe he is a source of “true” information, beating even their own friends and family, who ranked second with 63%.

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[nodynasty4us]

While Trump may be consciously or unconsciously setting up a comparison of himself with Jesus, actually a better comparison might be with L. Ron Hubbard, who created a new "religion," Scientology (which some people regard as a cult). Like Hubbard, Trump has raked in millions of "followers" and dollars from it.

Electoral-vote.com

#donald trump #indictments