98 points

Wow, I thought it was going to be some sort of slip-up, but no. They just straight up admit he obstructed the election. They’re not even coy about it.

He really does know the best people.

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This is the textbook play. If you can’t obfuscate that it happened, you brazenly embrace it as though there is nothing wrong with it.

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28 points

But that doesn’t work in court, only in the media.

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21 points

It’s pretty obvious that he’s playing for either nullification or a political solution.

And, chances are good that he’ll get one.

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He really does know the best people.

All the best people probably told him he has no case so he found some incompetent whackos who will argue whatever he wants them to.

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Well this is an easy block. Fuck off racist.

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Account less than an hour old. Made to “troll”, im sure.
Very “original”.

Also got banned, nice.

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5 points

T_D leaking again after all these years?

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Can you give us a link to back up those numbers?

Excuse me if I don’t hold my breath.

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The mere fact he’s still likely to win the next election is such an embarassment. I’m not American but it’s genuinely worrying if you’re European too. You just know he’ll cave to Russia within days of being elected.

If you’re Ukrainian it’s horrible. Putin has no motive to stop the war till after the election. If Trump wins, he’ll do his best to fuck over Ukraine and help Putin.

And I know there’s a sizeable amount of Trump supporters in Taiwan and Trump likes to go on about being tough on China, but given Trump admires Xi, those in power have got to be worried about the prospect of a second Trump term too.

On the plus side, I hope that Europe has finally realized we can’t rely on the US, and need to rebuild our defense industry. Obviously, that doesn’t necessarily serve US interests, as we may be forced to side with China on certain issues against a beligerent US administration.

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Where are you getting this “fact that he’s likely to win” ? He didn’t win the last one and he’s worse off this time. Also there are loads of new voters who are finally old enough to vote that are sick of all the anti-abortion anti-LGBTQ stuff the right has been pushing the last 4 years. If you regurgitate that rhetoric it’s more likely to happen.

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Aggregated polling data:

https://projects.fivethirtyeight.com/polls/president-general/2024/

Trump is invariably within the margin of error. Add a bit of election interference, a third candidate to siphon votes, some gerry mandering, a bit of help from a partisan supreme court, …

If you regurgitate that rhetoric it’s more likely to happen.

I have a related degree.

An important way republicans will try to win the election for Trump, is to target democratic voters with propaganda which suggests that Biden is certain to win or that he’s more right wing than he actually is, thereby lowering democratic turnout.

They know they won’t convince young voters to vote conservative, they know they won’t win majority support, so they’ll try to convince progressive to not bother voting at all.

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The polls are only showing that because he hasn’t clinched the nomination yet so the huge number of people who dislike both candidates don’t feel like they have to make a decision yet. Once that happens, I think we’ll see a big drop in his numbers. I could be wrong, but I’m usually not, at least when it comes to politics.

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There won’t be any gerrymandering for President unless they are able to change State boarders. Voter suppression in targeted areas however is possible.

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Gerrymandering doesn’t affect presidential elections. Only the lower house of Congress and the state legislative branch.

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That’s their plan. Anyone posting bullshit like that is someone I’ll be immediately suspicious of. Trump will lose again and maybe it’ll be blow that sends his racist cult back under the rocks they came from. Everyday boomers are dropping to old age and younger people are hitting voting age. The last election was their last chance and they knew it, that’s why they all knew what he was trying to do and they went with it. Soon we can start repairing the damage they’ve done and start working ourselves back out of the 60’s and look to the future.

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3 points

I agree but we have to get and actually vote!

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And also Q-Anon isn’t a thing anymore, which was a base of his firmest believers, fighting against Hillary and others, who were said to be eating children in a Washington Pizzeria. But I really ask myself what on earth could make people hold on to this criminal and vote for him…

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I’m sorry to say it but Q-Anon is absolutely still a thing. They aren’t as loud but I know at least 1 person in my town who rants about Q-Anon type shit.

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@Hyperreality @Reverendender

Try being Canadian and living next door to this crap, with the most porous borders in the world between us.

*sigh*

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Try living in southern Canada (Minnesota) and not having a college degree so Canada most likely won’t let me immigrate.

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Try being disabled so no country will take you regardless your qualifications

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As long as there’s no wall to hold you up you could try to sneak in illegally.

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Reading your comment I am thinking that Mexico might pay for a border after all - to keep Americans out.

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Expect refugees from the US when Trump wins.

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As an American I hope your last paragraph is true. Ive come to hate America, better yet American, not the land, it’s clear people, nature, and humanity are low on their list. Another country should break our fake image of worth. I hope someday I can leave America or this place changes completely.

If another country doesn’t break our fake image than another politician will come along to use us people and motivate us to live for false hope that continues to rape our lives.

It goes deeper than politics… It’s our businesses and business culture too. As well as the people that normalize the over-consumption consumerism lifestyle.

I’ve experienced both sides, mainstream and street life and they are both the same… The successful in both cultures use the same abhorrent methods to gain power.

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Another country should break our fake image of worth.

You guys are doing a great job of that on your own 😥

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To the rest of the world maybe, but the hyper patriotic lunkheads here in the States legitimately believe in American superiority.

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The most depressing part of it all is that if Trump is in the rush to win, neoliberals would still blame the stupidity of the people, or anything else, except themselves. IF Trump sucks and is about to win, imagine how much Biden sucks

I am absolutely TIRED of politicians never having to do any “Mea Culpa” and blaming everything else except themselves for losing an election, I am tired of neoliberals shitting on people and then say “If you don’t vote for us then the world is gonna burn”

Biden went to power with Universal Basic Income, Debt Pardon, Universal Healthcare, and was able to achieve NOTHING, 0, NADA, NYET

I am tired of the only argument of the neoliberals worldwide is always the boogeyman on the other team, instead of some kind of merit they could have

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I have a feeling this is intentional. These statements can be used as evidence and it gets him off the case for which he probably realized he’s never getting paid and his client is a moron.

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The “this obviously stupid thing must have been done on purpose” take is the stupidest thing about the Internet.

They can just request to be removed as council.

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I’d assume it’s more of a ploy for trump to appeal on the basis of ineffective counsel.

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This is not a thing. This is never a thing. This won’t happen.

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stupidest thing about the Internet

*counsel

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That’s basically my point. Why are people making weird arguments for why this isn’t stupid?

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24 points

If he didn’t get paid up front he is the real moron

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He’s not using the I didn’t know it was wrong defense (that was earlier) but the my lawyers told me it was fine defense (his previous lawyers, not these two).

So, I don’t think these statements matter to his current defensive strategy.

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Honest question, is that a defense that has ever actually worked for crimes this serious? I can understand something like “Your honor, I totally thought I could park there because a police officer said it was fine, but then the parking enforcement wrote me a ticket!” But not “Your honor, a very Bigly smart man said I could totally disenfranchise all of America and it is very cool and very legal!”

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It can work but probably won’t in this instance. There was an article about it posted yesterday that talked about it.

I think his actual strategy is to delay as much as possible and either have his own AG drop the charges, or, have a GOP president pardon him.

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If he uses advice of counsel defense, he has to waive attorney client privilege. Seems like a nice trap by special counsel.

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It was a trap by the special counsel set by… getting him to hire terrible attorneys? I would think that more a consequence of the magnitude of his crimes + his history of nonpayment, leaving only desperate lawyers willing to be the next in line trying to defend one of the most obvious criminals in recent history and humiliating themselves in the process

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Yeah, was a lot of the argument in that article.

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@willsenior @treefrog

Every one of his lawyers must be bald at this point.

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Dude Trump has literally broadcast his crimes on Fox TV. It doesn’t take a lawyer admitting it.

I still have plenty of doubts the indictments will put him away for any amount of time that he actually deserves. I’d say 3 month suspended sentence at best. I’ll believe he’s going to jail when he’s in jail.

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