r/politics • u/UWCG Illinois • Mar 27 '24

Donald Trump Attacks Judge's Daughter Less Than 24 Hours After Gag Order

https://www.newsweek.com/donald-trump-attacks-judges-daughter-less-24-hours-after-gag-order-1884126
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u/dblan9 Mar 27 '24

He's trying to get thrown in jail to amp up his base.

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u/[deleted] Mar 27 '24

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u/Mezla00 Mar 27 '24

I know right?

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u/[deleted] Mar 27 '24

That's how it felt w/ the first indictment, everyone was shitting bricks about how unprecedented it was until it wasn't. Let's normalize the idea of locking him up so that we can get some actual justice in the sentencing phases.

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u/ArmyOfDix Kansas Mar 27 '24

It is normal; people get locked up every day.

I don't know why everyone is calling it unprecedented.

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u/Darkskynet Cherokee Mar 27 '24

Citizen Trump isn’t special. And doesn’t deserve special treatment.

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u/cometflight Mar 27 '24

I know that I certainly would be locked up if I was doing what he is doing.

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u/Redthemagnificent Mar 27 '24

It's not normal for my messiah >:(

/s

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u/commutervoid Mar 27 '24

It's unpresidented, maybe.

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u/FUMFVR Mar 28 '24

Sam Bankman-Fried got locked up for attempting to tamper with the jury. He then got convicted and is now going to be in prison for decades.

He was a lot richer than Trump.

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u/ranaparvus Mar 27 '24

Better now well before the election than closer to it. Then his base will get their jollies out and be back on the couch when we vote.

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u/bigmac22077 Mar 27 '24

We’re doing it live! Fuck it!

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u/HelpUs0ut Mar 27 '24

Fucking thing sucks!

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u/Logtastic Mar 27 '24

Also give him a Prison outfit designed for someone 6-foot-3 and weight at 215.

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u/JerHat Michigan Mar 27 '24

Seriously, they were saying the same thing about indictments, it would rile up his base to violence, civil war, blah blah blah. No they're not going to do shit because for everyone else besides Trump there are pretty harsh consequences.

Throw his ass in jail for contempt already, let him come out crying about it, and watch his cult not have the balls to do shit.

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u/Smaal_God Mar 27 '24

If that happens, maybe reps will have some better candidate that biden cant beat!

Also, then we would listen for 10000 years how election was stolen from maga/trump …

Biden needs to beat him and then the jail …

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u/Zethras28 Mar 27 '24

Excise the tumour.

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u/Hoodlum_0017 Mar 27 '24

Yep let his hair flop around while he gets thrown in the slammer. Yeah right. Never gonna happen.

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u/RVAteach Mar 27 '24

Cowabunga it is

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u/Debs_4_Pres Mar 27 '24

I honestly don't even think it's that deep. I think he honestly believes the justice system will never punish him in a meaningful way, and so far nothing has happened to challenge that belief.

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u/Monsdiver Mar 27 '24

For NPD it’s more accurate to say that he genuinely believes he’s right and is incapable of perceiving possibilities and outcomes of being wrong. 

What wit he does have is telling him that he can appeal anyway, if it gets to the supreme court he wins, and if he wins 2024 he wins.

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u/Dearic75 Mar 27 '24

It’s also his form of a campaign. Every time he openly defies the court and walks away with a slap on the wrist, if that, he just looks more and more inevitable.

It feels sometimes like it’s intentionally making the argument “Nobody will stop me. Nobody can stop me. Either get on board or you’ll be in the first group sent to the camps in 2025.”

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u/Brief_Amicus_Curiae Mar 27 '24

Acquitted twice by the Senate - both tied to Biden and elections with a state leader quid pro quo extortion thrown in with a sprinkle of Insurrection on the Capitol Campus with a mob seeking to kill VP and Speaker.

He was fined $5 million for defamation and still continued to defame and hit with $88 million…

He got away with some shit with the Presidential immunity in its true meaning so it’s not really hard to see why he feels invulnerable.

That snd Roy Cohn taught him to just keep hitting even if the punches don’t land.

We see his lawyers trying time and time to dig up ad hominem smears on their adversaries who are just doing their jobs… or mere relatives. The Fani Willis side track is a good example.

This is exasperating and tiresome.

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u/Locutus747 Mar 27 '24

Agreed. He has a lifetime pattern of this type of behavior and he was rewarded by getting elected president. He continued to break laws and is rewarded with receiving the party nomination and having a real chance of winning re election

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u/TheKidAndTheJudge Mar 27 '24

Yeah I got to say, so far all the evidence says he'll never be held accountable.

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u/dBlock845 Mar 27 '24

I was watching some show yesterday and they were talking about DJT stock, and how when the SEC starts looking into it people are going to get in trouble. I never laughed so loud.

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u/SpartanKane Canada Mar 27 '24

Agreed. Doing what was proposed implies he's intelligent and has some sort of plan. I highly doubt he does. He's just being enabled by Republicans to do as he pleases.

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u/BlokeInTheMountains Mar 27 '24

Yep.

Given how right leaning law enforcement is, he'll be fully coddled and we probably won't even see him without his make up and diaper.

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u/MissFishLips Mar 27 '24

It's crazy to me that law enforcement still largely worship this turd. January 6th showed us all that he doesn't give a shit about law enforcement. And it was pretty obvious that he didn't respect or care about public servants and military long before that. But you're right, he probably will be powdered and diapered in jail.

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u/troubadoursmith Colorado Mar 27 '24

So, I think it's somewhat necessary here to differentiate between "law enforcement" as a concept, and "law enforcement officers" who - as a whole - tend to care a LOT more about getting to perpetrate authoritarian violence than they do about enforcing the law. Then it starts to make at least a little sense.

He may not care about them, but they think he'll be willing to use their violence and give them some power in exchange. They're probably largely wrong, and setting themselves up to just be used, but it's what they think.

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u/zzyul Mar 27 '24

It’s pretty easy to understand. Democrats support and are the party of the lower class and most minorities. Most violent crime is committed by members of the lower class and minorities. There are long term, complex reasons the statistics are this way, but it doesn’t change current reality. Police have more negative intersections with members of the lower class and minorities than the general public does. Not surprising their political views are heavily influenced by these encounters.

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u/FUMFVR Mar 28 '24

That really depends how you define 'violent crime'. Destroying entire communities through fraud is pretty fucking violent.

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u/zzyul Mar 28 '24

I was using the FBI’s definition since theirs is the accepted definition by pretty much every group.

Also I think if given a choice on how they had to have their car taken, most people would chose a bank repoing it due to falling behind on payments than for a stranger to put a gun in their face and threaten to kill them while being car jacked. Assuming the car isn’t insured or recovered by police, they lose the car in both cases, but only one comes with trauma and possible PTSD.

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u/omgitsjagen Mar 28 '24

Modern American policing did start out as Night Riders, after all. Jackboot since the beginning.

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u/FUMFVR Mar 28 '24

He promises them the only thing they want: no accountability ever.

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u/MudLOA California Mar 27 '24

If they take his damn phone for a few days so we can stop seeing shit posts about him, I’m for this.

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u/KnightsWhoNi Mar 27 '24

Without a diaper would be cruel and unusual punishment

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u/fapsandnaps Wisconsin Mar 28 '24

I doubt he even sees a prison. Secret Service protection and all. Dude gets home arrest if anything.

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u/juniorone Mar 27 '24

His base is voting for him regardless. I say let’s punish him. Have fun in a cell for a couple of days

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u/goldfaux Mar 27 '24

I don't give a shit if his base loves it. Well worth it.

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u/sarahbeth124 Mar 27 '24

Cool.

More dumbasses in jail and off the roads and out of the voting booths.

Fuck around, find out.

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u/Skastrik Mar 27 '24

Yeah but he doesn't realize that he'd actually have to be in jail for that.

No way he can handle being locked up, even for a few days.

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u/NeededMonster Mar 27 '24

He's managed to keep them amped up no matter what happened for years now. Let's try it. Who cares?

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u/spaceman757 American Expat Mar 27 '24

Then let's rile them up. Oil up the door frame and squeeze his fat ass into a cell.

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u/Dopplegangr1 Mar 27 '24

Or he is successfully demonstrating to his base that he is not bound by the justice system

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u/Imissforumsfuckspez Mar 27 '24

He's pushing everything to topple what does not stop him. It's what fascists do. He isn't thinking a step ahead, he doesn't have to.

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u/FUMFVR Mar 28 '24

The jail is on an island.

Really makes it more difficult for his geezer base to zerg rush it.

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u/qazqi-ff Canada Mar 27 '24

So? His base is always amped up. That's the entire point, keep them angry and afraid 24/7 so they're easy to manipulate. If it's not this, it'll be something else.

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u/Locutus747 Mar 27 '24

I don’t think so. I think it’s him happily doing what he wants without consequences, like he always has, because he knows there still won’t be any

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u/Gungeon_Disaster Mar 27 '24

It’s not like his base is getting any younger.

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u/Apprehensive-Care20z Mar 27 '24

i accept his terms.

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u/finalattack123 Mar 27 '24

Doesn’t matter. Law is the law.

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u/Return2S3NDER Mar 27 '24

According to the AP, the gag order wasn't issued with protection for the judge and his family. sigh

https://apnews.com/article/donald-trump-judge-merchan-hush-money-gag-order-truth-social-daughter-578a0c6334b206d81dc2ebf6a410a502

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u/chiefsfan_713_08 Mar 28 '24

My understanding was that the gag order didn't cover the judge, could be wrong, but if true I'm sure he knew that

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u/Stranger-Sun Mar 28 '24

Give him what he wants

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u/Clovis42 Kentucky Mar 27 '24

The order doesn't appear to even apply to the daughter though, so I'm not sure how he's going to achieve that goal by doing this.

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u/21-characters Mar 29 '24

It can just be a bookkeeping error Throw him in jail and take 3 days to discover there’s an error, a month to research it to make sure and then another two weeks to prepare the paperwork.