Will any trial of Trump’s multiple indictments actually get underway before the 2024 election? Doubt it. So the only thing Trump has to do to stay out of jail is to win that election. All the indictments will then be quashed. No trials. Like it never happened.
@johnldeboer he can do nothing about Georgia. And he won't win.
@SECRET_ASIAN_MAN If he doesn’t win, no problem then. But if he does, and the Georgia trial hasn’t started yet, his DOJ can overrule any state AG’s case if they can argue the case involves federal law.
@MidnightRider @johnldeboer @SECRET_ASIAN_MAN
My 2¢: we didn't think he could win in 2016 and then TFG became president. I do not take it for granted that he won't win next year. I have never prayed for an aneurysm as hard as I am now. A literal act of God would have to neutralize him at this point.
@publickovacs @johnldeboer @SECRET_ASIAN_MAN How about some reasonable justice? I don't care if he lives he just needs to get in the back seat instead of driving the USA bus.
@MidnightRider
I would love reasonable justice but there are giant crowds of MAGAts who would not recognize it as justice at all and that would still be an issue
@publickovacs @MidnightRider @johnldeboer @SECRET_ASIAN_MAN
It would be. And I can envision the ensuing violence and calamities they would visit upon every one. But it can't go unchecked. 🤷🏻♀️
@CinnamonGirlE @publickovacs @MidnightRider @SECRET_ASIAN_MAN Trump is blatantly using that threat of violence in his campaign. Some judge needs to put a gag order on such inflammatory speech.
@johnldeboer @publickovacs @MidnightRider @SECRET_ASIAN_MAN
Ding ding ding! Yes. Any one of us would have been behind bars.
@johnldeboer @CinnamonGirlE @publickovacs @SECRET_ASIAN_MAN He's under a gag order the DOJ lacks the balls to enforce it, you or I would be in jail already.
@MidnightRider @CinnamonGirlE @publickovacs @SECRET_ASIAN_MAN It’s my understanding that Trump is under a gag order in the NY hush money case, but only as it involves social media. I’m unaware of gag orders in the federal indictments.
@johnldeboer @MidnightRider @CinnamonGirlE @publickovacs hopefully forthcoming tomorrow.
@johnldeboer @CinnamonGirlE @publickovacs @SECRET_ASIAN_MAN I thought the DOJ enacted one, certainly he was instructed not to slander and libel Jack Smith but I could be completely mistaken about that.
@MidnightRider @CinnamonGirlE @publickovacs @SECRET_ASIAN_MAN I’m just not sure what speech proscriptions have been imposed on Trump in the Smith cases so far, if any. Anyone know that answer?
@johnldeboer @CinnamonGirlE @publickovacs @SECRET_ASIAN_MAN In general, what do you suppose would happen to a regular citizen taunting the prosecutor before trial? Why do we lay down as citizens and allow politicians to enjoy a monarchy?
@MidnightRider He’d be sanctioned, for sure. This regular citizen’s lawyers would caution him not to do it for that reason. The lawyers can question prosecution motives in public statements, but the client would be advised to stay mute. They don’t call lawyers mouthpieces for nothing!
@johnldeboer I'm going to assume you would also advise him not to do what he always does and make up a fourth grader taunt (often based on the target's name) to bloat his ego and placate his sycophants.
@MidnightRider For all the good that would do, right?😀
@MidnightRider @CinnamonGirlE @publickovacs @SECRET_ASIAN_MAN Okay, in the classified documents case, Trump has been barred from disclosing evidence to the public and discussing the case with his co-defendants, but he can still rail against Smith and the DOJ in his rallies, as far as I know.
@MidnightRider @publickovacs @SECRET_ASIAN_MAN If he loses the election, I predict he’ll try for a deal(s) with Smith to keep him out of prison. I think Smith, for the good of the country (shades of the Ford pardon of Nixon) will be amenable. But will NY and Georgia? That’s the question.
@johnldeboer
I would be happy w the outcome if the deal was that he gets to not go to prison in exchange for never running for elective office again
@publickovacs @johnldeboer @SECRET_ASIAN_MAN * But goes directly to jail if he writes or speaks about the outcome*
@johnldeboer @SECRET_ASIAN_MAN If he wins it will be four years of revenge only focus in governance. The secondary goal will be maintaining the office beyond what is normal. It will be grim for everyone except his followers.