I love his "I'm bored" stupid faces hes forced to make when in court 😭🤣 not even in his wildest dreams he imagined himself in that position and the DC jan 6 criminal onel seems to be primed for this summer 🤩🍿
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Blackmail doesn't work if everyone knows you're being blackmailed!
Are there any kind of standards on sources here? Raw Story is garbage, and this article basically boils down to a clickbait headline about a Truth Social post.
He's been floating this shit for months and just yesterday his lap dogs in the house tried to impeach Mayorkas cause they had nothing on Biden, he's said "I'm your retribution". This whole "presidents need immunity cause they would be subject to harassment when leaving office" is thinly veiled code for I'm gonna do it. The crucial part is that if you're not a declared criminal that gets difficult to accomplish when indictments are handed down by a jury
Difference between most Democrats and Republicans is that if a Democrat committed a crime another Democrat would want them prosecuted, same if a Republican committed a crime. Whereas if a Republican committed a crime other Republicans want the charges dropped and if a Democrat committed a crime they’d be calling for the death penalty.
Crimes are bad, mmm-kay. Doesn’t matter what side you’re on, mmm-kay. So, let’s not be bad, mmm-kay.
People give my "deep blue" state crap for corruption because so many of our politicians have been sent to prison for it.
... Ignoring that they're in prison because we actually investigate and charge our politicians for corruption, unlike their corrupt as hell states where those people are protected.
he won't blackmail, he will have-murdered Biden, in 2025.
Anyone who can't see that coming is wearing rose glasses.
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On fifth ave ? With a gun ?
Does he not realize that if he gets his wish, there would be nothing stopping Biden from having him assassinated as he walks out of the courthouse?
Out of the courtroom? Joe Biden could Terminator march into the courtroom and cap everyone! Who could stop him? Any judge ruling Trump's way would simply put a hand over the gushing wound in their heart and say "God bless America" as everyone is summarily executed by order of the President. I can only assume it would be illegal to stop him at that point.
I think the first step should be to just be to strip him off his secret service bodyguards...
Not a lawyer and not sure if this applies here, but the threat of blackmail itself seems like it should constitute a crime:
18 U.S.C. § 873 (2021)
§873. Blackmail
Whoever, under a threat of informing, or as a consideration for not informing, against any violation of any law of the United States, demands or receives any money or other valuable thing, shall be fined under this title or imprisoned not more than one year, or both.
the threat of blackmail itself seems like it should constitute a crime
My guy has been indicted 91 times and counting. What's one more?
Those are rookie numbers. Not even triple digits.
Yeah that was what I was thinking : in America, land of the lawyers, can't you sue someone who make such important threats ?
You would think so, but apparently Trump had it right when he said he could shoot somebody on 5th Avenue and not get in trouble. The laws never seem to get applied to him as they would anyone else in the country.
Your boss, Sleepy Joe, is a man with considerable means and connections, and if he's what you say he is, a communist with the power to imprison you, your plan is to blackmail this person?
If communists in the United States played an important role struggling for the rights of workers, the poor, African-Americans, women, and others, this was only their guileful way of gathering support among disfranchised groups and gaining power for themselves. How one gained power by fighting for the rights of powerless groups was never explained. What we are dealing with is a nonfalsifiable orthodoxy, so assiduously marketed by the ruling interests that it affected people across the entire political spectrum.
I understood this reference.
The dichotomy of the GOP and specifically trump: they're both strong and weak at the same time.
Actually, that's a play right out of the fascism handbook.
Schrodinger's president
He's asking Biden to pardon him... "or else..."
That sounds like an admission of guilt to me.
Pardons by law are an admission of guilt since like 1925.
GETTING a Pardon is an admission of guilt, but not only would said pardon absolve the guilty of any punishment for the crime, asking for a pardon is not an admission of guilt.
I don't see how asking for permission to admit guilt is not in itself an admition of guilt, unless it were stated as a hypothetical "if I were offered a pardon, then I might accept it"
Small clarification.
Accepting the pardon is accepting the guilt for the crime for which you were pardoned.
You could always choose not to accept the pardon and fight the charges in court.
Like it would matter to him and his base.
This ought to be #92 but probably won't be.
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