Legal experts: Trump's unhinged attack on judge in court shows he "realizes he's going to lose"

3 years ago by CantaloupeLifestyle to c/politics

Trump's attacks threaten to "tank his ability to prevail at all in this legal proceeding," ex-Bush official warns.
iBaz 200 points 3 years ago

He’s already lost, this trial is only to determine how much it will cost him. I think it’s more that he’s realized how bad his attorneys are, and that he’s going to lose everything.

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FiniteLooper 141 points 3 years ago

And to think, all he had to do was not run for president of the United States (among many other things) and this probably never would have happened to him.

I mean, I’ve never run for president of the United States, it’s a very easy thing to not do.

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billiam0202 110 points 3 years ago

He also could have, you know, not crimed.

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kescusay 103 points 3 years ago

Could he, though? Really?

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TheBat 33 points 3 years ago
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Malfeasant 14 points 3 years ago

That's a lot harder to not do. Much easier to not run for president.

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billy_bollocks 45 points 3 years ago

Seriously. Had he not ran, or dropped out early, he could have probably started his own fringe news channel and lived a relatively unchanged, trouble free life and probably made some money doing it.

I personally think he expected to lose and wasn’t expecting the Russians to barely tip the scales to eek out an electoral college victory.

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TechyDad 10 points 3 years ago

Same here. There's a photo of him on election night as his win was being declared. Everyone around him looks happy, but he looks like he was just told he has 2 weeks to live.

Had Trump lost to Hillary, he would have done the whole "they stole the election from me" shtick. He'd have launched Trump Tirade Hour where he'd rant about the latest political topics - criticizing the people in charge and declaring that he'd solve everything so easily.

Of course, like his health care plan, Trump would never give details on HOW he'd fix everything. It would just be "A is doing B to fix complex problem C. That's the wrong thing to do. If I was in charge, I'd fix the complex problem easily by.... whoops, looks like it's time for a commercial break!" It would really have been the best job for him. It would have fit his skills of being an armchair critic that understands nothing and yet claims to know more than anyone else.

Sadly, he won and did the whole "I know better than anyone else despite not understanding anything" from the most powerful seat on the planet.

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DeanFogg 8 points 3 years ago

I know better than anyone despite not understanding anything

Fucking lol. If this century could have a headline

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Daft_ish 2 points 3 years ago

I can imagine a world where Trumps publicity presidential run starts spinning out and Jared/Ivanka start pulling strings to make it happen. Jared walked away with untold billions and just walks away unscathed. It's disgusting, especially when you think of how the GOP will stop at nothing to bury Hunter.

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bemenaker 1 point 3 years ago

They are desperate to show the Dems are just as bad.

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float 2 points 3 years ago

But he wants to look cool in front of his friends.

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CavalierBob -43 points 3 years ago

Respectfully, I hope you are wrong.

If not running was all it took not to be prosecuted then, to me, that says this is indeed a political prosecution and not about the rule of law.

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iltoroargento 56 points 3 years ago

I think they meant not run the first time? As in: he doesn't run, and therefore doesn't get elected, so he stays away from the spotlight and can, relatively, quietly live his life with his foot in his mouth at every turn, but nobody cares because he's a D list celebrity.

And of course, not being the president, he has no access to half of the shit he's dealing with federally. I feel like the state stuff in NY was a pretty long time coming, but the federal stuff could've been avoided had he lost or not ran in 2016.

I don't even know what a world like that would look like, but I'm sure it would've been better than the four years we had of him.

Edit: Mobile, misspelled some things due to autocorrect.

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Archer 14 points 3 years ago

I don’t even know what a world like that would look like, but I’m sure it would’ve been better than the four years we had of him.

President Hillary Clinton would be fully supporting Ukraine as House Republicans desperately searched for any excuse to launch their fifth impeachment

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jordanlund 31 points 3 years ago

When you run for president, you get the spotlight, but you also get a magnifying glass...

And in THAT mixed metaphor:

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Bridger 21 points 3 years ago

as president he had access to much higher level criming, which is why he is now in the trouble he is in.

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FiniteLooper 18 points 3 years ago

Oh no, I agree with you. I was just making a joke. From what I understand he never really wanted to run for president in the first place, and was surprised he won. Honestly his business might have continued as it was, fraud and everything, if he had never done that plus all the other crazy stuff he did.

I’ve very glad he’s getting what’s coming to him. I mean he brought this on himself.

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x4740N 15 points 3 years ago
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klemptor 7 points 3 years ago

I think they mean for the first presidency. Had he not run for president and won via the electoral college, he never would've been in a position to commit a lot of the crimes he's in trouble for.

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Smokeydope 5 points 3 years ago

He might have maybe still been persecuted but the feds and everyone involved would have taken their sweet time investigating potentially a few more years since he's still an ex president. Officially convicting him makes the office look bad and could potentially turn ugly with the MAGA supporters. Nobody wants jan6 2.0 and they very well might have been happy to let him fade into obscurity if that was deemed the best strategy to avoid civil unrest as a whole. Him putting himself in the spotlight again lit a fire under everyones ass and accelerated things drastically.

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LarryTheMatador 4 points 3 years ago
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FiniteLooper 5 points 3 years ago

Oh no, I agree with you. I was just making a joke. From what I understand he never really wanted to run for president in the first place, and was surprised he won. Honestly his business might have continued as it was, fraud and everything, if he had never done that plus all the other crazy stuff he did.

I’ve very glad he’s getting what’s coming to him. I mean he brought this on himself.

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AbidanYre 65 points 3 years ago

he’s realized how bad his attorneys are

Maybe he should have paid or listened to the first dozen sets of lawyers he went through.

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PM_Your_Nudes_Please 27 points 3 years ago

He’s almost certainly going to appeal whatever verdict he gets, claiming that he had ineffective legal council and that the judge was biased against him. Because the only effective reason you can appeal is if you don’t believe your trial was fair. So he’s basically stacking the “this trial was unfair” deck in his favor.

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Riccosuave 94 points 3 years ago

I hate to be that guy, but you can't appeal on ineffective assistance of counsel in a civil proceeding.

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CubbyTustard 79 points 3 years ago
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Riccosuave 35 points 3 years ago

I don't know, I just feel like correcting people on the internet often comes off as being pedantic even if that isn't the intention. That is why I included the disclaimer I suppose. Thanks for the kind words though, I appreciate it.

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MeetInPotatoes 21 points 3 years ago

Whoa, whoa..I was told this was a Reddit replacement and this is way too kind, humble, accepting, and level headed.

This is downright peaceful.

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nickhammes 13 points 3 years ago

Since when has something being legal or not ever stopped Trump from trying it?

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Riccosuave 8 points 3 years ago

I'm not sure what you mean exactly in this context? Are you saying he will try to appeal on those grounds anyway? If that is what you are saying then it doesn't work like that because the appeals court will simply throw out the appeal for lack of standing I believe.

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4am 31 points 3 years ago

“My trial was unfair!”

“On what grounds?”

“I made it unfair for myself!”

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cedarmesa 13 points 3 years ago

💀

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MeetInPotatoes 10 points 3 years ago

RBG was too ______ to retire as well.

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mateomaui 5 points 3 years ago

This oversight was first reported over two weeks ago, yet he hasn’t mentioned it or taken action in any way. Wonder if that would have an effect on such an appeal.

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Riccosuave 2 points 3 years ago

I don't think it would because it is unlikely this case would have been granted a jury trial anyway due to New York law. There are specific requirements for requesting a civil jury trial in New York, and all the legal analysis I have seen has suggested they would not have met that bar.

Jury Trials are onerous on the public and the judicial system, but are fundamentally necessary as well as guaranteed in criminal proceedings. However, for civil matters that is the exception rather than the rule.

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mateomaui 2 points 3 years ago

Interesting, I hadn’t heard the possibility that he may have been denied a jury until now. Maybe that’s why he’s been quiet about it (until now of course.)

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DogMuffins 1 point 3 years ago

Even if he did appeal, would that delay execution of the resulting court order?

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unclever_lemmy_name 17 points 3 years ago

he’s going to lose everything.

He's going to send out a new round of "save our country" money-raising emails and every one of his cult members are basically going to bail his ass out of this again.

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DogMuffins 2 points 3 years ago

Yeah but surely there must be diminishing returns, or at least there's a somewhat finite pool to draw from. Like as case after case goes bad why would anyone keep giving him money?

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unclever_lemmy_name 1 point 3 years ago

You would think. But it keeps happening. Maybe this will be the final straw?

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Zippy 0 points 3 years ago

Just to clarify, that makes it sound like it is political. It is not although I don't think you meant to imply it was.

Running for president just put him under the microscope like it should. Lots of illegal stuff came out.

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TheJims 128 points 3 years ago

I will never get tired of all this losing.

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pezhore 54 points 3 years ago

I would be happy with just one loss that actually sticks.

I feel like all I read is, "Trump is really in trouble this time!" - but all I actually hear is Waylon Jennings saying, "Boy that Donald sure is in a heap ah trouble."

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Selmafudd 24 points 3 years ago

He really is the best at losing, no one loses like he does, they say they do but they don't he is the best loser.

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TechyDad 6 points 3 years ago

Big strong men, with tears in their eyes, come up to him to say how great he is at losing!

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halfempty 107 points 3 years ago

Trump knows he can't win in a court of law, so he wants to win in the court of public opinion, where a con-man like him actually has some leverage over the gullible.

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stewie3128 78 points 3 years ago

Even if he loses, he will suffer no significant consequences, nor will the lawless movement that supports him.

He could lose all of these cases tomorrow, and it still wouldn't mean a thing. He could stand in the middle of Fifth Avenue and shoot someone, and there still would be no significant consequences.

The GOP are a lawless terrorist movement, but everyone else wants to "take the high road."

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btaf45 69 points 3 years ago

Convicted Sex Offender Treason Trump has already suffered huge consequences of losing his business license in NY and having his business go into receivership. In addition to the expected $250 million fine.

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KevonLooney 52 points 3 years ago

True. This is literally the corporate death penalty. His corporate assets may have to be sold to pay the debts. They will not get much, as the brand name will have to be changed. It's the worst thing that could happen to a business owner.

He will not be poor, but may end up with his name on worse buildings. Houston TX vs. Manhattan. And you know he doesn't want to leave NYC.

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Hominine 18 points 3 years ago

We don't want him in Houston either. Take that shit to San Antonio.

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shai_hulud 15 points 3 years ago

Fuck off, bro. Give him to Dallas.

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Chronova 9 points 3 years ago

That still remains to be seen.

He's losing in a big way with these NY cases. There's a strong chance that he'll never be able to do business in NY again, which means a lot of work restructuring his businesses. It's a pretty big hit and will take a lot of time and money to resolve.

The election cases will be held next year, and will determine whether or not he sees jail time. I still have high hopes that we'll see him behind bars in the next couple of years. These cases just take time because of the ramifications if the DOJ gets them wrong.

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CoggyMcFee -13 points 3 years ago

If the Democrats/Progressives take the low road to beat the Republicans at their own game, isn't that just one team winning over another team? Whereas if you’re fighting for ideals then you’re going to end up taking the high road a lot

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reverendsteveii 13 points 3 years ago

The ideal I'm fighting for is not being labelled a child sex offender and executed by the government because of my rainbow lapel pin. I'm open to higher ideals but when one side says we need to be "eliminated" I'm probably gonna tolerate a lot from the people who are trying to stop them.

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samus12345 10 points 3 years ago

"Take the high road" in this case means "treat treasonous criminals with kid gloves because they're supported by the GOP." If everything had been done by the book, Trump would have been in prison a long time ago.

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CoggyMcFee 4 points 3 years ago

I was operating on a different interpretation of “taking the high road”. In the way you are describing it, I agree with you completely.

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samus12345 3 points 3 years ago

Yeah, the "high road" they refer to is an excuse to avoid upsetting the status quo, not an actual high road.

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reverendsteveii 1 point 3 years ago
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stewie3128 1 point 3 years ago

The terrorists on the right need to be met - unfailingly - with unwavering resistance. And when they get violent, we have to stop them. That doesn't mean making a press release saying "we condemn in the strongest possible terms blah blah..." That means rounding up the violent actors and locking them away from civilized society.

Conservatives used to say that "tough on crime" should mean "tough on criminals." Well when the GOP are criminals, the law needs to get touch on them.

Currently they aren't scared of anything, because most of the other violent people sympathize with them. If they are going to wreck our Capitol and dismantle our freedoms, it's time for another Sherman's March, and finish the work that we started in Reconstruction.

They speak openly of killing the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs. And anyone else they don't like. They need to be scared of doing that, and we have to beat them to a pulp in order to make that happen - because that's the only language that thugs understand.

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Pratai 72 points 3 years ago
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btaf45 24 points 3 years ago

Imagine how sad it would be to have a sex offender as your hero.

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eran_morad 3 points 3 years ago
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mateomaui 57 points 3 years ago

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morphballganon 55 points 3 years ago

Excellent.

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cyd 49 points 3 years ago

Look, you are allowed as a defendant in a criminal case or a civil case," he continued. "You're allowed to criticize the prosecutor, you're allowed to criticize the other party. You're allowed to criticize the judge."

Are you allowed to criticize the judge like this, though? My understanding is that judges can nail people for contempt for far less. I know Trump is trying to score a political point here and a contempt of court ruling would play into that... but I wish one of these judges would go "idgaf" and bring down the hammer.

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TechyDad 26 points 3 years ago

I mean, you're "allowed" to do many things if you don't care about the consequences. Trump right now can criticize the judge as much as he wants - so long as he's willing to suffer contempt of court rulings.

You're right, though. Judges are being lenient on Trump with regard to his outside courtroom behavior due to his being a political figure. If you or I did what he has been doing, we'd be found in contempt of court ASAP.

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sysadmin420 4 points 3 years ago

We'd be held in contempt so bigly, it'd make our heads spin.

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reverendsteveii 12 points 3 years ago

When he says "criticize" he's employing the time tested GOP tactic of genericizing his way out of criminality. You start by saying something obviously inflammatory and criminal, then you characterize your actions as more and more generic until you end up with something harmless sounding. That's how you start by threatening witnesses and calling for violence against a judge then end up on TV talking about how you're being imprisoned for "having an opinion".

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jordanlund 49 points 3 years ago

John Yoo?

"I think that Trump has already decided he's going to lose on the law," John Yoo, a Berkeley Law professor and former Justice Department official in the George W. Bush administration, told Fox News on Monday. "Last week, the judge already made all the key findings against him. So what I think President Trump has done is turn this all into a political strategy."

Yeah... THAT John Yoo:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Torture_Memos

"a March 13, 2003, legal opinion written by John Yoo of the Office of Legal Counsel, DoJ, and issued to the General Counsel of Defense five days before the U.S. invasion of Iraq started, concluding that federal laws related to use of torture and other abuse did not apply to agents interrogating foreigners overseas;[3] and other DoD internal memos authorizing techniques for specific military interrogations of certain individual detainees."

and:

"You have asked for this advice in the course of conducting interrogations of Abu Zubaydah."[6] The memo's author, John Yoo, acknowledged the memo authorized the "enhanced interrogation techniques" used by the CIA in Zubaydah's interrogation.[7] Yoo told an interviewer in 2007, "there was an urgency to decide so that valuable intelligence could be acquired from Abu Zubaydah, before further attacks could occur."[7]

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paintbucketholder 71 points 3 years ago

John Yoo, a Berkeley Law professor and former Justice Department official in the George W. Bush administration

It's insane that a guy like this who tried to get government torture legalized in the United States has now had a long, well-paying, distinguished career and is being referred to as "a Berkeley Law professor and former Justice Department official" instead of "torture guy."

I guess having zero morals and ethics really does pay off.

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StereoTrespasser 28 points 3 years ago

It's ridiculous how much John Yoo's name comes up in media interviews. It's as infuriating as seeing Newt Gingrich or Grover Norquist's name crop up in every other article in the Washington Post, who scrambles to get their opinions on all things political. It's all one big circle-jerk of mainstream media, greedy politicians, and billionaires.

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DontMakeMoreBabies 6 points 3 years ago

Your last sentence is 100% correct.

Still not okay.

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Spacebar 15 points 3 years ago

Why the F does he have a job at Berkeley? Why isn't he unemployed?

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MedicPigBabySaver 47 points 3 years ago

Lock him up! Lock him up! Lock him up!

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InfiniteLoop 46 points 3 years ago

I really just wanna see the judge eviscerate this “no victims” defense BS. We do NOT wait for someone to be hurt to enforce the law. Can you imagine how many speeding tickets would be pled out of if this was a legitimate defense?

Even if you scope it down to the case at hand, we’d keep letting people commit financial fraud until the bank is finally harmed. And guess what happens when banks get fucked? The govt uses the common people’s tax dollars to bail them out.

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RagingRobot 23 points 3 years ago

If victimless crimes don't count then why do I have to hide my weed?

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afraid_of_zombies -1 points 3 years ago

You can argue the same about blasphemy. Either there is a god and it is so far beyond us nothing we could ever do could hurt it or there isn't one in which case what doesn't exist can't be hurt.

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Tammo-Korsai 23 points 3 years ago

The 'no victims' defence is right out of the Sovereign Citizen playbook and is often used in a futile attempt to get out of driving related charges and violations. I've seen videos of such world salad bombardments when the cops pull them over; it usually ends in a smashed window and handcuffs.

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vaultdweller013 12 points 3 years ago

Ya know as much as I hate cops, I feel like tasing a sovereign citizen in the nuts for being annoying doesnt count as undue violence.

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Tammo-Korsai 3 points 3 years ago

"I do not consent! I do not consent!"

Bzzt!

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btaf45 10 points 3 years ago

Everyone who uses the banking system was a victim. The money that Convicted Sex Offender Treason Trump defrauded the banks out of was paid for by other bank consumers.

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KevonLooney 5 points 3 years ago

Not really. It's a federal crime to lie on a bank document because they are federally chartered. Each document (or lie or something) can be punished with 2 years in jail.

If you say "I have this much money" on a bank document and sign it, you can go to jail for 2 years. It's not punished often, usually when a bank employee steals something.

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TechyDad 4 points 3 years ago

And the "no victims" defense is garbage anyway. He still committed fraud.

Suppose I steal $100 from you. I take that $100 and use it to bet on horse racing. My bets pay off and I win $1,000. Now, I return your $100. Can I be arrested for theft? After all, you got your money back so you (by Trump's "logic") aren't a victim. So I should be allowed to walk free with my $900 profit, right?

Of course not. I still committed theft. Returning the money later doesn't absolve me of my crime. Maybe, I'd get a lighter sentence for returning the money, but that's up to the judge.

So maybe Trump gets off slightly easier because the banks got their money back, but he still got loans based on fraudulent information and profited off of his fraud. No amount of loan repayment absolves him of the fraud that got him those loans.

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limelight79 44 points 3 years ago

"It seems to me Donald Trump's strategy here is essentially damn the torpedoes, full speed ahead,"

That has ALWAYS been Trump's strategy for everything.

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samus12345 15 points 3 years ago

And it has worked spectacularly well. Hoping someone will have the guts to finally impose consequences on him.

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HawlSera 4 points 3 years ago

It worked because of our culture of billionaire worship, something we are long overdue on abandoning

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samus12345 3 points 3 years ago

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Potatisen -1 points 3 years ago

Right? I was gonna say. Americans are some of the weakest minded people on the planet, maybe behind north Korea or something.

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Jakeroxs 3 points 3 years ago

Lol riiiight, as if Q Anon mania didn't spread out all over the world

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samus12345 3 points 3 years ago

The world loves American exports, including far-right conspiracy theories.

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InternetTubes 12 points 3 years ago
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limelight79 20 points 3 years ago

The only part of that I disagree with is the part that implies that is the only problem with him. Otherwise, yes.

I have a cousin that disappeared off Facebook that was a huge Trump fan (he literally commented "Don't worry, we still love you, President Trump" after the election loss). It's possible he unfriended me, which means I wouldn't see his profile or anything, but the timing is odd - you'd think he would have done that when we were arguing about, say, Covid in 2020. It makes me wonder where he was on January 6 and where he is now.

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afraid_of_zombies 1 point 3 years ago

If you are curious can't you just check out lic records to see if he got arrested? Or do you think he didn't get caught and is just trying to keep his head down?

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limelight79 3 points 3 years ago

I suppose I could, but eh, effort. I did a quick search and didn't find anything. I wouldn't be surprised if he was there but never went in the Capitol, or something like that. Or it's even possible he wasn't there and is horrified by what happened that day; I don't know.

After another Q-anon relative called me a pedophile for voting for Biden over Trump, he actually was like, "Whoa, slow down there, let's not be crazy..." (and then the other relative doubled down). So he may not have been as all in as it seemed and just deleted his FB account for other reasons.

It was really odd...he drove an electric Nissan Leaf (from one of the first years they made them) and loved it and would often post things like "150,000 trouble free miles and still extremely happy with it". He's also heavily into cycling. Neither are really what you'd expect from a Trump fan - but I guess it can be an attractive cult.

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Rice_Daddy 41 points 3 years ago

Looks like the only path of the man is to become a dictator. Can't see any other ways for him to avoid being held to account at this point.

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Corporate_Hippie 22 points 3 years ago

He's known this for a while now. Its why he's been pushing for delays to his trials, so he can just get another chance at being elected and then never leaving power again.

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malkauns 1 point 3 years ago

and pardon himself

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reverendsteveii 8 points 3 years ago

Watch the video of him on election night 2016. While everyone else is celebrating that they actually pulled off a really impressive underdog win, Trump himself looks rather morose. He looks like a guy who just realized that he's moved out of the realm of "screed-oriented media grifter surrounded by sycophants" into an arena where lying has consequences, criminality can't easily be dismissed and for the first time in his life his opponents will be just as if not more powerful than him. I think that day was the day he realized he's either gonna be king for life or he's going to prison.

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bemenaker 2 points 3 years ago

He didn't want to win. He wanted to lose, and then he could launch TrumpTV to take on Fox News. That was his plan.

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Illuminostro 1 point 3 years ago

His wife knew exactly what was going to happen. She had tears of rage rolling down her plastic face the day he was sworn in.

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ensignrick 37 points 3 years ago

Already starting the next grift

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Wolpertinger 9 points 3 years ago

The dude is just gifts all the way down.

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morphballganon 6 points 3 years ago

Grifts*

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ASeriesOfPoorChoices 3 points 3 years ago

The gift that just keeps on grifting?

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TechyDad 3 points 3 years ago

How else do you expect a "billionaire" to pay for all those legal bills? Obviously, it's up to people with very little money to support "billionaires" who don't want to stop criming.

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klemptor 2 points 3 years ago

He's just a thousand grifts in an orange skin suit.

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Rapidcreek 33 points 3 years ago

Lost? Well he already lost last week. This is the penalty phase.

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Nougat 14 points 3 years ago

The plaintiff's motion for summary judgment was granted for the main fraud charge. There remain other fraud charges to be litigated.

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Rapidcreek 4 points 3 years ago

Doesn't matter. It's the quarter of a billion dollars that has Trump's attention.

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Nougat 12 points 3 years ago

Oh sure, and it's $250M at minimum, even just for that one charge (is there a different word for that in a civil case?) which he was found liable for in summary judgment. There are still more, each with their own set of consequences.

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TechyDad 2 points 3 years ago

That and losing Trump Org and his properties. The fact that Trump Tower could be taken from him and sold off infuriates him. This strikes at the very heart of his narcissistic pride.

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rikudou 31 points 3 years ago

Not that I disagree, but how the hell is a "legal expert" any prerequisite for judging what a person's behavior says about them? That's more of psychologist's job, being a legal expert means as much as "the builder of the best sandcastle in the universe" in this case.

Not that it's very relevant to Trump, the only qualification required to analyze him is "being at least 5 year old of average intelligence". I just hate shitty titles, is all.

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Jakeroxs 6 points 3 years ago

My guess is they get an understanding for how "guilty" vs "innocent" people act/react, but that would definitely just be anecdotal at best.

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tias 3 points 3 years ago

I understood that reference

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ziggurat 4 points 3 years ago

Wtf is a dinosaurietogsubåt?

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tias 1 point 3 years ago

It's a dinosaur-train submarine.

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ziggurat 1 point 3 years ago

Yes, I got that, but what is that?

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Alami 28 points 3 years ago

I love reading good news! like seeing the annoying orange finally tasting karma. I am making fresh popcorn

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Treczoks 2 points 3 years ago

Let's hope he'll finally gets a jumpsuit color-matching his orange hair and tan.

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sin_free_for_00_days 26 points 3 years ago

What are the chances of jail time? White collar crime like this effects way more people than petty theft, but I'm thinking at most it'll be a hefty fine. Again, like on most topics, I'm pretty ignorant of the reality of the situation.

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0110010001100010 46 points 3 years ago

It's a civil case, which means no jail time should he be convicted. It will just be a fine.

That said, it's possible the verbal attacks against those involved lead to...something. I wouldn't hold your breath though.

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Nougat 14 points 3 years ago

It is also possible to plead the fifth as a defendant in a civil trial, however, a jury (or the judge, in this case) can make "adverse inferences" from that in civil court.

In a criminal case, a defendant who takes the stand has waived their fifth amendment rights. That's why you don't hear defendants on the stand in court saying "Fifth, fifth, fifth." A defendant retains their fifth amendment rights in a criminal trial by refusing to take the stand - as is their right.

What I'm not sure of is whether that also applies in a civil case. Unlike in a criminal trial, in civil court, the plaintiff can call the defendant to the stand. I don't know if that obliges the defendant to take the stand or not. Also, in civil court, a defendant can only plead the fifth if answering the question could implicate them in criminal matters. The civil matter at hand, all by itself, cannot be "fifthed out of;" if a defendant is on the stand, they must answer questions in relation to the case, again, so long as the answers could not implicate them in crimes.

We know that Trump is on the plaintiff's witness list. If plaintiff calls Trump to the stand in his civil case, is he obliged to go on the stand? I think he is, because fifth amendment protections do not extend to civil litigation. Then he could plead the fifth if the answer to the specific question posed implicates him in a crime. If that happens, there would surely be a motion from plaintiff's attorneys for the court to rule on whether fifth amendment protections extend to that question.

But this is a bench trial, where the judge is going to decide the outcome of the case. It would be completely reasonable for the defense to want a different judge to make that fifth amendment call; having the current bench learn about the potential answers to the question of fifth amendment protection would obviously tend to influence the very same bench who is responsible for deciding the case.

I have no idea what's going to come of all this.

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ordinary_dad 3 points 3 years ago

I would always prefer holding other people’s breath over my own.

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Endorkend 34 points 3 years ago

Unfortunately, this case, in a legal sense, is against his corporation, not him.

It's ruling will likely result in the dissolution of said corporation and the barring of Trump doing business in NYC, just like a similar case did with his charities, from which he stole.

That's the annoying thing with how corporations are handled in the US.

What Trump did in the charity and this case is criminal fraud. But because it was all nicely wrapped in the form of some corporate entity, it's a civil case. That shit is fucked up.

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mateomaui 10 points 3 years ago

He may also lose properties, to be sold to pay for the fines.

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BroccoliFarts 6 points 3 years ago

It's a civil trial. The court won't forcibly take anything from him.

I was defrauded by someone who lied on a house condition report, and the house needed $20k in work to not be condemned. I had paperwork the previous owner left in a closet that showed they were aware of the extent of the damage years before selling the house, but it was not disclosed.

Our attorney said "you can win this case. But you'll win a $20k judgement. If they don't pay, you have to sue again for failure to pay. If they die (they were elderly) legally the estate has to post in the local paper a notice. If you catch that notice within a couple of weeks, you will be able to claim $20k from the estate. If you miss this window, you're SOL."

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mateomaui 3 points 3 years ago

maybe, also possible that the sheer expansive scope of what he’s done and to whom may qualify him for something more extreme. I really don’t know, but it will be fun to find out 🍿

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TechyDad 2 points 3 years ago

The court has already ruled that Trump committed fraud, that Trump Org should be dissolved, and that properties should be seized. We'll get more details as to just what that means (likely receivership and then sold), but Trump will lose a lot from this civil case and he won't have that much recourse. (He can appeal, of course, but there's no guarantee that would help him.)

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partial_accumen 10 points 3 years ago

At this point I think I'd be okay with house arrest. Just confining his remaining years on Earth to Mar-a-lago would do wonders for the health of the world.

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theluckyone 13 points 3 years ago

Gotta cut off his internet access, too.

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SmashingSquid 6 points 3 years ago

Give him fake social media with AI that trolls and insults him.

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fubo 5 points 3 years ago

AI is too expensive. Just a bot that says "beep boop, you're a loser".

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TechyDad 1 point 3 years ago

Give him a cell phone that only gets 1 bar in a single room... if he stands on a dresser and reaches out at a weird angle.

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InLikeClint 23 points 3 years ago

Traitor orange is going down!

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TheFriar 9 points 3 years ago

He’ll be fined. And that money won’t be real to him. Don’t get excited.

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InLikeClint 1 point 3 years ago

"He'll be fine"? Tell that to his super morbidly obese heart trying to pump blood when fryer grease is clogging everything up and his bitch ass stress level is spiking cuz his grift is running it's course. Anyway.

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TheFriar 5 points 3 years ago

No, he’ll be fineD. Like, monetarily.

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InLikeClint 1 point 3 years ago

Ah I see, my fault. Yeah, the grift is real. His followers are a little behind in the evolutionary timeline.

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Snapz 21 points 3 years ago

"Just because I'm guilty of all these crimes, it feels like this person wants to prosecute me for them - it's not fair!"

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RedAggroBest 4 points 3 years ago

Citation: Narcissism

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HawlSera 17 points 3 years ago

No no no no, I think his strategy of directly antagonizing law enforcement is going to work and he should be encouraged to do so.. /s

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Otkaz 12 points 3 years ago

Why get legal experts to weight in on this? That assumes he is listening to his counsel which we all know he is not. Need a phycologist to weight in on this instead to make any sense of it. I don't think his delusional narcissistic ass has the capacity to realize he is going to lose, but I'm not a legal expert or psychologist.

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KingThrillgore 3 points 3 years ago

Frontotemporal dementia

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ki77erb 12 points 3 years ago

He's having a complete meltdown right now.

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InternetUser2012 5 points 3 years ago

This is the best popcorn I've ever had.

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ki77erb 3 points 3 years ago

Don't eat it all too quickly. I have a feeling this is going to get better and better.

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ksgt69 10 points 3 years ago

Between this and his lawyers "forgetting" to request a jury trial, this is gonna suck for him.

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0110010001100010 7 points 3 years ago

🍿🍿🍿🍿🍺🍺🍺🍺

Grab one and enjoy the show!

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WarmSoda 7 points 3 years ago

🍻

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FARTYSHARTBLAST 6 points 3 years ago

"I have the worst lawyers..."

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PetDinosaurs 14 points 3 years ago

this

I still haven't figured out how he has anyone willing to represent him. It appears that he doesn't pay any of his bills. Like ever.

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Pseu 9 points 3 years ago

Trump's PAC is paying his legal fees, not Trump himself. So far the Save America PAC seems to have spent at least 10 million on legal fees for the former president.

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Narrrz 5 points 3 years ago

the way they're talking him up, I have to wonder if they're MAGA cultists doing it pro... er, con bono

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PetDinosaurs 2 points 3 years ago

You got me interested. I know what you mean, but I needed to look it up.

Seems like contra bono would be the correct form.

It's a bit buried because they seem to be talking about for a fee rather than against the good of the people.

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Enkers 5 points 3 years ago

I can't imagine any lawyer wouldn't need an up front deposit before dealing with him. Then again, have you seen some of his lawyers?

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TechyDad 2 points 3 years ago

Not only that, but he lies to his lawyers and refuses to listen to him. Combine those and most lawyers wouldn't touch him with a twenty foot pole.

He's left with bottom of the barrel barely-lawyers who are looking to make a name for themselves and True Believer lawyers who are willing to crime all the crimes alongside Trump because MAGA. Neither of these provide good legal representation.

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StarManta 8 points 3 years ago

LegalEagle just did a video ranking Trump’s lawyers. Devin put over half of them in F tier.

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Wolpertinger 2 points 3 years ago

I guess one can get tired of winning!

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