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Countdown Clock, Trump Going to Jail

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UPDATED: Monday, June 3, 2024 16:11
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Monday, May 6, 2024 7:30 PM

THG

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Monday, May 6, 2024 10:02 PM

6IXSTRINGJACK

Fake News.

Trump's never been on his knees in his life.

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Political correctness is just tyranny, with a smiley face.

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Thursday, May 23, 2024 11:58 AM

THG

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Thursday, May 23, 2024 1:03 PM

6IXSTRINGJACK

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Originally posted by THG:

T

Your sick fantasies aren't going to happen buddy.

Trump will be fine.

He will also be your next President.

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Trump will be fine.
He will also be your next President.

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Thursday, May 23, 2024 1:24 PM

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The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at https://www.mediafire.com/two

What is Donald Trump’s “other crime”?

Bob Somerby summarizes the hush money case against Donald Trump this way:

To convict Donald Trump of a felony, the jury must find that he falsified business records (or directed that they be falsified) with “the intent to commit another crime.” http://dailyhowler.blogspot.com/2024/05/offenses-we-pity-fool-who-trie
s-to-get.html

But what is that "other crime"? Bob is unhappy that our press corps remains fuzzy on this topic, but it's not their fault. The fault lies with the prosecution team, which has itself been fuzzy on the topic.

They'll have to finally sharpen up their case when they make their closing arguments to the jury next week. But until they do, the rest of us can only make educated guesses.

I guess that they'll say the records were falsified to cover up the fact that the hush money was effectively an unreported campaign contribution. But that didn't convince a jury in the John Edwards case, so maybe they'll end up emphasizing something else. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Edwards#Indictment_and_trial

The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at https://www.mediafire.com/two

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Monday, June 3, 2024 8:37 AM

THG

Ah, excuse me? Wrong again Jack, yup, you are wrong again.

T

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Originally posted by THG:

T

Your sick fantasies aren't going to happen buddy.

Trump will be fine.

He will also be your next President.

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Trump will be fine.
He will also be your next President.

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Monday, June 3, 2024 4:11 PM

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The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at https://www.mediafire.com/two

The time for Biden to show restraint has long since passed.

Trump was just unanimously convicted by a jury of his peers for election interference. He had his hapless fixer pay off Daniels not “for personal gain,” as the Biden campaign statement alleges, but to defraud the American people, to deprive them of the information that they needed to make an informed decision on Election Day 2016 and to illegitimately obtain the most powerful office in the world on behalf of the country’s far right. Donald Trump covered up his affair with Daniels so he could appoint Brett Kavanaugh to the Supreme Court. He committed felonies so that the insurrectionists at the reactionary Heritage Foundation could rewrite the nation’s tax laws to make rich people richer. And so on.

Biden likes to repeat the canned phrase “Don’t compare me to the Almighty; compare me to the alternative”—a motto he attributes to his father and which is about as edgy as a mid-aughts Verizon Guy commercial. But what the hush money case demonstrates clearly is that Trump is a genuinely terrible human being. What kind of man has unprotected sex with an adult film star while his wife is home recovering from labor and delivery and caring for an infant? What kind of terrible employer has an underling borrow against his own home to cover up his boss’s sordid lies and extramarital affairs?

For years, leading Democrats have danced around a truly blunt assessment of Trump without ever coming out and saying it directly: The man is an evil, amoral cretin willing to betray those closest to him without a second thought. Find some coded language that can puncture the epistemic closure of conservative evangelical Christians. Call him the worst person in the entire country, which is basically what he is. Tap into the robust public opinion of the majorities who believe that extramarital affairs are morally wrong by asking: “If Melania can’t trust him, why should you?”

Whatever path they choose requires departing from the warmth and safety of “No one is above the law” framing. Letting the conviction more or less speak for itself is a conservative strategy that would make sense if Biden were decisively leading the race and wanted to avoid unforced errors. But as hard as it might be for everyone in the White House to accept, the president’s campaign is clearly trailing, according to public opinion polling. Yes, the margins are narrow, but if the election were held tomorrow, it is more likely than not that Donald Trump would win it. You can’t run out the clock when you’re losing. And that means that Biden needs to go on the offensive, just like dozens of leading Democratic officials and strategists are asking him to.

Yet Biden and his team clearly feel that having Biden stay out of the whole thing can help legitimize the prosecutions and whatever verdicts follow. This is wishful thinking. Take one fleeting glance at how people on the right are reacting to Trump’s conviction—that should be sufficient to disabuse the White House of the notion that there is anything it could possibly do to reach hardcore MAGA voters. Former Fox anchor Megyn Kelly promised prosecutions of Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama for unnamed offenses: “We’re going to have to look at what the statutes of limitations are on the various crimes they surely committed, “ she intoned. Charlie Kirk, the young MAGA media superstar, implored his followers to “indict the left, or lose America.” Donations to the Trump campaign surged. Nearly all Republican officeholders deemed the verdict somehow illegitimate. In other words, keeping the Trump prosecutions at arm’s length earned Biden precisely nothing from the right, which has existed in a state of continuous rage for so long that it does not have any other emotional register to draw upon.

More at https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2024/06/trump-president-biden-felo
n-alvin-bragg-democrats.html

The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at https://www.mediafire.com/two

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