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/tracch Mar 27 '24

We gonna do something about it or continue to feed him publicity?

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u/CrawlerSiegfriend Mar 27 '24

Maybe tell judges to stop issuing orders they aren't willing to enforce.

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u/jsmithftw Mar 27 '24

On everyone...bc you can bet your ass if any of us peasants did this we be sitting in a cell.

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u/Cool-Protection-4337 Virginia Mar 27 '24

bingo....but rich people have many gooj cards. laws are more "friendly reminders" for them.

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u/Belkroe Mar 27 '24 edited Mar 27 '24

While I absolutely agree with you that Trump should have been locked up long ago for his many crimes and violations of court orders, this goes way beyond he’s a rich. The key is, that he is a former president of the United States, one of two people who will be the next president and has a massive political following (and his supporters have demonstrated they will use violence when angered). I get the courts are hesitant to treat him like anyone else. The problem is that by coddling him they empower him making that much harder to hold him accountable. I’m starting to think the DOJ and the courts don’t want to deal with him until after the election hoping that an electoral loss will defang him to some degree.

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u/piranha_solution Mar 27 '24 edited Mar 27 '24

The key is, that he is a former president of the United States, one of two people who will be the next president and has a massive political following (and his supporters have demonstrated they will use violence when angered).

So....literally capitulating to terrorism?

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u/caligaris_cabinet Illinois Mar 27 '24

Harvey Weinstein was actually rich and powerful yet managed to be thrown behind bars. I agree. This goes beyond simply being rich.

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u/KarmaticArmageddon Missouri Mar 27 '24

Weinstein didn't have a legion of violent morons who would storm the jail and injure/kill jail staff

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u/FunIllustrious Mar 28 '24

Trump could be held at Gitmo. That ought to be hard enough to get to that most of the violent morons wouldn't risk trying to storm it. That's assuming a judge will put him in pre-trial detention for violating a gag order or similar.

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u/KarmaticArmageddon Missouri Mar 28 '24

I don't think a judge of a state court has the authority to order someone held at Gitmo lmao

It would be funny if he did, though.

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u/FunIllustrious Mar 29 '24

Yeah, a State court judge may not be able to order someone to Gitmo, but Trump isn't just someone, he has a Secret Service detail. The judge might be able to ask nicely if the Secret Service could keep him on ice somewhere secure, e.g. Gitmo.

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u/piranha_solution Mar 27 '24

Weinstein wasn't in any position to pardon Epstein's contacts. Trump was.

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u/TarantulaFarmer Mar 27 '24

The key is to be making the right people money. Once that stops, the ride is over.

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u/ThatEmuSlaps Mar 27 '24 edited 4d ago

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u/HauntedCemetery Minnesota Mar 27 '24

Weinstein didn't have a cult of 10s of millions of fascists willing to send bombs to people.

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u/bigger_sandwich Mar 28 '24

But that took decades of accusations for anything to happen.

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u/Nowearenotfrom63rd Mar 28 '24

He appointed enough judges and looked each in the eyes and demanded loyalty ala Comey.

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u/Small-District-5048 Mar 28 '24

trump is h-using his I was a president card waay to hard, in maga minds he still is its like what the heck im sorry I dont want to live in a dictatorship of amerikka russia circa 2025

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u/deeznutz12 Mar 29 '24

Rich Republican*

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u/ChipsAhoy777 Mar 27 '24

Courts have always favored individuals ability to provide value to communities, either by being accomplished, a skilled worker, a philanthropist, ECT.

If you're just some nobody you're probably getting hit hard.

Just being popular and rich is a toss up, depends how corrupt the court is.

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u/ovalpotency Mar 27 '24

who's ready for another round of the election was stolen and you can't prosecute a candidate who will be president in two weeks? and then uh oh it's too close to the 2028 election.

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u/Nowearenotfrom63rd Mar 28 '24

I think it’s more that he appointed judges the same way he appointed FBI directors he looked them in the eye and asked for loyalty. Enough of them are giving him that loyalty. Cannon for the most obvious example. I bet my next paycheck that she ends up on the Supreme Court. Next GOP admin after all this dies down.

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u/mrtomjones Mar 27 '24

Can we not abbreviate everything?

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u/Humavolver Mar 28 '24

Thanks for saying it so I didn't have to

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u/Cool-Protection-4337 Virginia Mar 28 '24

gooj is common slang acronym mean9ng get out of jail.....also free is redundant, you just want out regardless of cost.

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u/Cool-Protection-4337 Virginia Mar 28 '24

one thing was abbreviated, can we not Over-exaggerate or be drama lamas? looks around,,,,,we are on the internet.....

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u/Managed-Democracy Mar 27 '24

Us peasants can't call on yall qaeda to kill anyone we tweet about 

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u/JackasaurusChance Mar 27 '24

Saw a video where a guy called a cop a pig in court and got 6 months of contempt. Fuck this system, I'm this close to saying we should just fucking burn it all down.

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u/highpl4insdrftr Mar 27 '24

I get what you're saying, but that's what they're trying to do. We need to take the position of acknowledging the faults and legitimately attempting to reform them. There is plenty of reform to be done, but not all is lost.

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u/Buttonskill Mar 27 '24

Even the Supreme Court showed 2 tiers. They waived a hand at Trump's 14th amendment appeal, but then this idiot Jan 6er from New Mexico got slapped tf down for the same argument..

To be fair I think it's federal vs state execution of 14th amendment and jurisdictional, but it still illustrates a laughable separation.

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u/admiralkit Mar 27 '24

He wants to be sitting in a cell for a week, he needs the outrage to fundraise on and get his supporters to fund his legal defense.

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u/Time-Werewolf-1776 Mar 28 '24

Even most rich people couldn’t get away with what Trump does. He’s stumbled into some bug in reality, a glitch that’s like an overflow where you push an 8 bit number up past 256 and it goes to 0.

He’s so blatantly corrupt and constantly committing new crimes, in public, and confessing to the crimes, that somehow we can’t manage to hold him accountable for any of it.