So many that hack off the donnie…
So many more of his psychophants willing to rid him of these meddlesome people.
Given the median age of their viewers I’d say their perspectives have been encased in amber for quite some time.
FOX may be evil, but it’s the broader MSM that is doing most of the dirty work.
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Trump: Obama is a dictator. He is doing everything in his power to stop a rich white man to become the most successful POTUS.
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Usually with Trump, I think the scales are pretty well balanced between stupid and evil. In this case, I have to give Trump credit for a highly effective, but completely despicable, ploy. By launching his vicious, racist (and long winded) attack on the judge from a podium with heavy media media coverage, Trump has made his own claims that Judge Curiel might be prejudiced against him appear credible. Who wouldn’t have a grudge against the blowhole who made those kind of statements?
I’m not an attorney, but I hope someone who is chimes in with some insight as to how this kind of asshattery generally plays out once a defendant, or his legal team, is back in a federal courtroom.
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Calling Trump a rat does a disservice to rats. Studies have shown that rats regret bad decisions:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/nature/27716493
Trump, not so much.
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No, I tend to disagree with your stance. For if it were so, WACKO Donald J Trump and his mob squad would enter a plea for Judge Curiel to recuse himself from the case based on “prejudice” toward the defendant. Certainly, this is not in the best interest of the Commonwealth! However, if Judge Curiel’s decision is based on a legal stance, then we can move forward with the trial and to have Judge Curiel to continue to reside over it!
Remember, it is WACKO Donald J Trump’s right to be “prejudice” towards the judge (i.e., his rants released on Friday), but the judge has no right be be “prejudice” towards the WACKO Donald J Trump!
Maybe. I think it’s more likely that the lawyers appeal and drag their heels for 6 months. Alas, the wheels of justice turn slowly and getting things done is rarely so simple as a judge ordering it and it just happening…
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The interesting part is, while this might make for a shaky, but possibly valid grounds for an appeal, only the judge can recuse himself. No one else can get the venue moved, or get a different judge assigned until this judge has either stepped down, or ruled on the case. So, yes, Trump could try to make the argument that the judge was biased (though I doubt I higher court would agree with an argument that the Donald’s creating a bias on purpose is a valid grounds for appeal) but it won’t affect the case until after the case is over the first time.
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Donnie is frantically trying to pollute the waters…claim the judge is biased against him, and particularly because the judge is of Hispanic ancestry…
And in the process, try and pollute the potential jury pool by spending lots of time bleating about how this is all so unfair and the system is out to get him because he is “speaking the truth.”
If he somehow manages to get Curiel thrown off the trial, will a replacement justice be better for Trump…or worse?
The crazy thing is that Trump is making a big deal about this NOW and giving it publicity. By all accounts, any trial on this issue wasn’t supposed to happen until AFTER the election. Bleating now puts it right in the spotlight. I am not sure this is a smart move on Donnie’s part, but then LOTS of what he does seems stupid and yet seems to do virtually no harm.
This is a mysteriously bizarre moment in American politics and increasingly frightening, frankly.
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Which reminds me----what about the Bridgegate unindicted co-conspirators? We’re still waiting for that list, right? Realistically, can Trump hold off the document dump until after the election?
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Oh! I agree with the Drumpf lawyers that it has commercial value.
I expect to see lots of Clinton commercials about this loser and how he bilked people.
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Yeppers
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I think that Curiel’s reasoning here is an impeccable gotcha. Remember, he’s not ordering the release on his own, he’s responding to requests from news organizations to have the papers unsealed. So in effect he’s saying, “I would have been fine with the agreement between the defense and plaintiff to keep the documents sealed, but with all the noise that’s being made about the case, and especially the claims that the case is being administered unfairly, I have to agree to the media requests to release the documents so that everyone can see justice is being done.”
If Trump hadn’t gone on endlessly about how the judge was biased against him because of race, the argument for unsealing the documents would have been weaker. (And the “commercial value” argument is particularly rich, not only because Trump U is defunct, but also because the whole point of the suit is that the curriculum had no commercial value – except if you consider the possible use for another celebrity scammer trying to separate marks from their money.)
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Trade wars with escalating tariffs will not be exactly helpful to the economy, and abandoning climate change agreements would be disastrous. Among about a thousand other Trumpian “policies”.
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If Chris Christie is his veep, he certainly will try but I don’t see how.
Trump thought he could bully the judge like he gets away with bullying everyone else. Finally !!! He met his match. More cowards need to grow a backbone and stand up to this bully…
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Thanks for this. The most telling sentence that debunks Trump’s imagined judge bias is its last:
“Earlier this month, Curiel delayed the start of trial proceedings until November.”
The judge could have scheduled the trial well before the election as the plaintiffs requested for June or July. Instead he set it for November 28 as the Trump lawyers wanted.
Trying to bully the judge via political rally is Trump’s modus operandi. No surprise there. Not that his supporters would see it any other way. They project their own racist views on others. They are biased against brown and black people; and so they assume brown and black people are biased against whites.
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“Believe me, the judge is a hater.”
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karma’s a bitch, especially when you’ve been one…
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Donald
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