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This is a companion discussion topic for the original entry at https://talkingpointsmemo.com/?p=1467636
This is a companion discussion topic for the original entry at https://talkingpointsmemo.com/?p=1467636
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Trump is his own worst enemy. Like all dumb thugs, he harms himself over and over again. He thinks he’s invincible and doesn’t listen to others. That’s why he digs himself holes that sane and less crooked people would avoid. His big mouth will sink him and his followers.
While his criminality adversely affects us all, in the end he’s selling himself and his dumb cultists down the river.
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All of these orders are aimed at protecting… the right to a fair trial.
TRUMP doesn’t want a fair trial, he wants a trial that finds him innocent.
fIrsT WITH That FuLTon CoUNtY ENergY
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Well, blathering buffoons do tend to undercut themselves…
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May this help with his absolute dissolution!
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TFG will get a fair trial in the District of Columbia. The jurors will listen to all the evidence, examine the exhibits, take to heart the jury instructions from the judge, and come back with a just verdict. Just because it will be a guilty verdict does not mean it’s not a fair verdict.
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May this be the case! I have been seated on some iffy juries, and a few pretty horribly conducted trials. Justice is not always blind, nor fair. Nor righteous.
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I’ve followed the two big insurrection trials in DC pretty closely, and the jurors did their job. Former DC prosecutor Glenn Kirschner has said more than once that a juror takes the oath, they take their job seriously. And both sides pick the jury, so there’s really not much of a chances of a hard core nutcase getting seated. When Paul Manafort was tried in Alexandria, their was a TFG cultist on the jury, and SHE voted guilty.
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The First, like all the rest, is not an absolute guarantee. Hmm, that must apply to the Second Amendment, too…
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Yes. The gun-humpers completely miss the words “well-regulated”.
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Exactly. Trump has never desired fairness in anything
in life. He was born into wealth with all its inherent
advantages and connections, proceeded to cheat his
brother’s family out of their share of the business,
refused to support a disabled nephew (if I recall
that correctly), cheated his contractors and staff from
their wages, cheated on his taxes and his bank loans,
cheated on his wives, cheated his stockholders,
cheated to win the presidency in 2016, cheated
America by subordinating our interests to Putin,
cheated on the traditions and unwritten rules to kiss
up to murderous dictators to make himself an enormous
sum of money, cheated unsuccessfully to win the
2020 election, and after failing that, led a full-bore
insurrection - up to and including violence - to
overthrow the legitimate government, overturn the
Constitution order, to make himself America’s first
dictator.
So, yes, it’s fair to say he doesn’t want a fair trial.
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Justice, such as it is, is administered by a few people who care about what they do and are very good at it, but there are far more people who punch a clock for a paycheck and even more who absolutely suck at their jobs.
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I believe in a system that hires professional jurors. There is nothing I would like less than being judged by an American “jury of my peers.” And make bad judges and lawyers accountable for their actions. Throw in bad doctors, too, but that’s for another topic…
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I don’t buy the notion that Trump is “hurting himself.” To believe that you have to believe that Trump is concerned, even in a selfish or unprincipled way, that he himself should get a fair trial. Like he was concerned that the 2020 election be free and fair, right?
For Trump, fairness is for losers. His game is power and domination–he takes what he wants, and mocks the people he’s taken it from for their weakness. His gambit for getting out of his legal trouble is to become president again–I don’t say “win the election” because that has no actual meaning to him, strictly speaking. He’s just seeking to be the person who is in power when the dust clears. If that means getting the most votes legitimately (for those of us to whom the word means something), fine; if not, he’ll try whatever other ways he can.
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Having just taken our two cats in for their annual shots yesterday, that is a very familiar scowl.
Oh, and the point about Trump wanting a dismissal by any means necessary is also spot on.
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I can’t imagine that Trump wants a jury trial anywhere, but certainly not in WDC NY or Fulton Co. I expect he will do everything he can to get these cases dismissed or delayed indefinitely. If he goes to trial, he knows he will lose at least 3 out of 4.
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To the minions, the case shouldn’t even be tried. A guilty verdict is just a further travesty that will most likely lead to someone getting hurt.
For a man who’s speech has allegedly been restricted…I can’t seem to get away from his non stop bleating nonsense…24/7… it is omnipresent…
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Like the proud boys and Capitol rioters,perhaps they will be the ones that get hurt. Perhaps the rule of law will remain in effect.
Of course, at the conclusion of the proceedings, many of the speech restrictions will be lifted, and Trump can speak his piece with the megaphone that the press is sure to provide.
Unfortunately, there will be reporters who will go into prison every day to “interview” this felon.
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