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Traitor Watch - The 45 & 47 Thread
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"I don't know what the Congo is, but it's full of black people so it must be bad."
I certainly didn't think it was "rules" (let alone a promise), but they did say that wasn't going to be a feature this time.
Jack Smith’s Stunning New Evidence Against Trump Revealed
Here are the wildest details about Donald Trump from Jack Smith’s newly unsealed filing in the election interference case.
newrepublic.com
didn't matter before. won't matter now.
To the public. Doesn't matter to the public. The prosecutors, the lawyers: it matters to them. And when the trial finally happens: it'll matter to all of us.
Democrats are the supply siders!
Giuliani’s attempts to overturn 2020 election partly thwarted by wrong number
New details emerge that Trump’s then lawyer tried but failed to urge Michigan legislator to install fake electors
www.theguardian.com
Fantastic work, Rudy.
"So I need you to pass a joint resolution from the legislature that states the election is in dispute, there’s an ongoing investigation by the legislature, and the Electors sent by Governor Whitmer are not the official electors of the state of Michigan and do not fall within the Safe Harbor deadline under Michigan law."
"New phone. Who dis?"
"New phone. Who dis?"
Rudy is such an amazing story. The guy built a RICO case and took down the mob in the 80s or 90s. Rose up to be mayor of NYC and at the most amazing time. He was a steady hand on and after 9/11, broadly respected, finished his time and could have just retired and there'd be people on the left that would sometimes talk about the things he did that they didn't like but in general he would be remembered as a pretty successful guy.
Runs for President, looks like the front runner, trips on a scandal and drops out before it's even the election year. He could still have retired with a lot of dignity.
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Comes in to be Trump's lawyer when no one else will, works feverishly on fraudulent and felonious conspiracy, gets sued for all of his assets and loses, loses his law license, hair dye dripping down his face, sticks with Trump.
Gets indicted in a.....RICO case.
If I am betting not TOO much money, I say the guy is going to go to prison. But even if he doesn't. Dignity is just over, man.
Runs for President, looks like the front runner, trips on a scandal and drops out before it's even the election year. He could still have retired with a lot of dignity.
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Comes in to be Trump's lawyer when no one else will, works feverishly on fraudulent and felonious conspiracy, gets sued for all of his assets and loses, loses his law license, hair dye dripping down his face, sticks with Trump.
Gets indicted in a.....RICO case.
If I am betting not TOO much money, I say the guy is going to go to prison. But even if he doesn't. Dignity is just over, man.
Looking at all the other public figures who latched on to Trump despite not already being the type you'd expect it from—Scott Adams, Kid Rock, Kanye, the Sinfest guy, arguably Elon Musk—I am seeing a pattern emerge. These were all people whose star was waning or who had already said or done something boneheaded enough to cost them a significant chunk of their credibility. People who may have believed, rightly or wrongly, that they had nothing left to lose. In Rudy's case, I could see him being narcissistic enough for his failed run for President to be a much bigger collapse of his public image in his own mind than it was in the public's.
I mean, Trump himself, too. As much as he's been *the* go-to figure of mockery for a sleezy businessman for decades, he still would've been considered at least a businessman if he hadn't run for President. Now all of his years and years of scandals are dragged out into the light, so as soon as he loses this election and the Republican party no longer has a reason to prop him up for their own gain, it's all gonna fall apart. It really was just about the worst thing he could've done for his own legacy.
Especially if he goes to jail.
I still place even odds that he’s going to delay and keep pushing things back until he dies first.
That's two clocks that are ticking along and we don't know how much time is on either of them.
I'm really doubtful of him actually wearing an orange jumpsuit. He might get house arrest. And really a 78-year-old man who lives in a golf resort can weather house arrest pretty well.
Ideally, he'll lose the election, get dumped by the party, get dragged whining and screaming through the courts, lose everything, and live just long enough to see himself no longer making the news because he's fallen entirely out of relevancy. Being ignored because he's no longer newsworthy would hurt him so much more than jail.
Sadly, axaday is right. Even if he fell into the almost complete obscurity that accompanies imprisonment: we'd still get an earful when he finally dies.
Pretty sure kushner and his wife will end up dead by saudi hands anyway. That kind of money might be chump change to middle east politics: but you don't screw over the king of saud.
Pretty sure kushner and his wife will end up dead by saudi hands anyway. That kind of money might be chump change to middle east politics: but you don't screw over the king of saud.
As long as that's the last earful we get about him.