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The former president complained that his sentencing is set to take place days before the Republican National Convention

Donald Trump says he wants the Supreme Court to intervene in his upcoming sentencing on 34 felony counts of falsifying business records. 

“The ‘Sentencing’ for not having done anything wrong will be, conveniently for the Fascists, 4 days before the Republican National Convention,” Trump wrote Sunday night on Truth Social, complaining that Judge Juan Merchan was an “‘Acting’ Local Judge, appointed by the Democrats, who is HIGHLY CONFLICTED” to “make a decision which will determine the future of our Nation.”  

“The United States Supreme Court MUST DECIDE!” Trump added in an appeal to the nation’s highest court.

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 6 months ago

The ‘Sentencing’ ... will be, conveniently for the Fascists, 4 days before the Republican National Convention,

Wait. What do the fascists have to do with his sentencing? Does he think the court will allow his own voters to sentence him? He's seriously losing his mind.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 6 months ago

Obviously not their job and it's his own actions being a racist piece of shit landlord in NYC that turned the public against him before he switched to Republican, and none of this is convenient when you only have two parties and one is stumbling over itself to be as despicable as possible and both prefer oligarchy over democracy.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 6 months ago (1 children)

This all feels like a bad reality TV show

[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Please, how do I unsubscribe from this program/station/network/reality?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 months ago

The secret is to dream walk.....

The skill is unlocking how to stay in that reality

[–] [email protected] 12 points 6 months ago (2 children)

I love how his base of supporters never catch on the endless crying and excuses this man produces.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 6 months ago

It's a goal of religious delusional upbringing to convince them that they are both superior AND the victim at the same time. Trump has tapped into that delusion and hence can do no wrong.

In fact, as we are seeing here the truth about him only feeds their victim hood...

[–] [email protected] 4 points 6 months ago

Infinite patience and forgiveness for themselves, infinite hate and oppression for everyone else.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 6 months ago

Someone needs to remove the caps lock key from Trump's Blackberry. He's Abraham Simpson with cotton candy hair yelling at the clouds.

[–] [email protected] 30 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Does anyone remember that Rick and Morty episode with the planet that has the sun that constantly screams? I think I would rather live there than listen to Trump talk ever again.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 6 months ago

I try to avoid listening to him because I can feel my brain dying.

[–] [email protected] 29 points 6 months ago

Hopefully they do not.

[–] [email protected] 64 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Once again: "the dying skeleton, Joe Biden, supreme commander of New York Stafe has outsmarted us once again" -Republicans, constantly

[–] [email protected] 50 points 6 months ago

Ur-Fascism #8:

  • Fascist societies rhetorically cast their enemies as "at the same time too strong and too weak". On the one hand, fascists play up the power of certain disfavored elites to encourage in their followers a sense of grievance and humiliation. On the other hand, fascist leaders point to the decadence of those elites as proof of their ultimate feebleness in the face of an overwhelming popular will.
[–] [email protected] 12 points 6 months ago (5 children)

Can someone please explain to me why he keeps saying the judge is conflicted?

[–] [email protected] 11 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Trump tried to manufacture conflict of interest. The best part was when he dogwhistled for his insane followers to go after the judge's daughter.

He threatened the judge and his family, then used that as a basis for why he couldn't be impartial. If that's how the system worked then any defendant could get away with anything so long as they threaten the judge.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 months ago

Oh yeah! The conflict of interest. I forgot that. I just kept thinking, " He's not conflicted. He thinks you're a piece of shit. We all do."

[–] [email protected] 8 points 6 months ago

Because it is useful for him

[–] [email protected] 4 points 6 months ago

It works in his favor to do so. If you think Trump ever thinks beyond that, you'd be wrong.

[–] [email protected] 22 points 6 months ago (2 children)

The judge's daughter is a Democrat whose worked for Democratic campaigns in the past. An appeals panel already weighed in on it though and said it didn't amount to a conflict worthy of recusal.

https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/daughter-of-judge-trump-case-biden-harris-work/

[–] [email protected] 5 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

It's not about the daughter though. If it wasn't the daughter he would've used some other excuse to complain. It's more like the other answer, the judge doesn't do what Trump wants, so Trump will complain endlessly.

[–] [email protected] 38 points 6 months ago

Meanwhile, his classified documents case being handled by a judge he appointed to the court is somehow not a conflict.

[–] [email protected] 31 points 6 months ago

Because the judge isn't bending over backwards to accommodate Trump's every whim. That's literally it. If he was, he'd be the best, most honest and fair judge our country has ever seen.

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