Best sentence “This reads like a bomb threat from a particularly illiterate person at the end of a coke binge.” 😂 No one is above the law. This man’s delusional behavior gets worse and worse. And you are 100% right that he won’t let this go. I wonder how much time and money he has wasted in challenging every court ruling
I find it almost impossible to read anything written in all-caps. He is screaming at us—incomprehensibly at that. Trump is dissolving into a puddle of goo before our eyes!
Trump and his people have not thought their immunity argument through. Do they not see that if they win, Joe Biden has a green light to have Seal Team 6 neutralize Trump immediately?
Does Trump not realize that this ridiculous line of thinking about presidential immunity would also apply to President Biden .... who could then send Seal Team Six for a vist ... with zero repercussions?
I don't know where to even start with someone -- a lawyer, goddammit! -- who doesn't realize that impeachment in Congress, even if followed by conviction, is not the same as prosecution within the judicial system. "Double jeopardy" is a thing, but this isn't it.
You're assuming they don't know that they're making a BS argument. Trust me, they know it's BS. Just doing a job for which they almost certainly got paid for in advance - b/c they'd be crazy not to insist on that!
Point. I do have a hard time believing anyone could get up and BS like that for a national audience. Part of me is convinced that if you lie like that, your nose starts growing, and growing -- or maybe you start to look like the portrait of Dorian Gray.
I'm a retired lawyer who, in over 30 years of practice, never lied to a court or made an argument that I didn't think was defensible under the law. It takes a special type of person to represent Trump because both lying and making frivolous legal arguments are part of the job description.
Also a lawyer here, albeit one that never goes to court. Their arguments are so outrageous they seem almost sanctionable. Can we try to get these people disbarred?
trump didn’t write that truth social post. Someone lucid was given the directive to ghost write that post as if it were a “bomb threat from a particularly illiterate person at the end of a coke binge”. It is, strangely, too organized and coherent to have come from him.
"This reads like a bomb threat from a particularly illiterate person at the end of a coke binge." Its one thing when people you know say it,its another when Dan says it. What would we do without you Dan? The best.
If SCOTUS takes the case and rules in favor of Trump, Biden should order SEAL Team 6 to go after Trump. After all, he'd be immune from criminal prosecution, right? Presidents being above the law and all.
Hopefully, the SCOTUS will refuse to hear the matter at all. The appellate court's opinion is solid- there's nothing SCOTUS could add other than, "Cool, good job, thanks!" I guess we'll see tomorrow if Roberts or any of the other judges who aren't actually certifiable (i.e., other than Thomas or Alito), have enough integrity/self-respect to do the right thing.
Even this Court isn't going to rule in his favor on the immunity claim (ok, Thomas might). What's worrisome is that they could conceivably help him by agreeing to review it and then letting time run out while they "consider" it. I'm hoping they don't. After all, truth to tell, they haven't been too helpful to Cheeto so far in other cases before them. They're more interested in things like dismantling the administrative state and taking away women's rights. :(
They'll rule against him on immunity. No one who ever even came close to a law school could do otherwise. (Okay, except Thomas.) But I'm pretty sure they'll weasel a way to rule on his behalf on the issue of ballot eligibility (being argued in front of SCOTUS today).
Best sentence “This reads like a bomb threat from a particularly illiterate person at the end of a coke binge.” 😂 No one is above the law. This man’s delusional behavior gets worse and worse. And you are 100% right that he won’t let this go. I wonder how much time and money he has wasted in challenging every court ruling
I find it almost impossible to read anything written in all-caps. He is screaming at us—incomprehensibly at that. Trump is dissolving into a puddle of goo before our eyes!
HA - but his all-caps is the same way he speaks in real life 😂
Which is also a disqualification from office. Or from being the assistant night manager at your local Denny's.
Trump and his people have not thought their immunity argument through. Do they not see that if they win, Joe Biden has a green light to have Seal Team 6 neutralize Trump immediately?
THIS!!! With impunity. And all his MAGA goons, too. The level of dumb is astonishing.
They are relying on the fact that Biden, unlike Trump, isn't a criminal and wouldn't actually do this. Although it certainly would be cool if he did!
Does Trump not realize that this ridiculous line of thinking about presidential immunity would also apply to President Biden .... who could then send Seal Team Six for a vist ... with zero repercussions?
We took Dan's advice to raise the visibility of Trump's immunity claims.
Listen to this 13 min audio summary of the Appeal Courts denying Trump immunity from inciting the Jan 6th insurrection. https://thedemlabs.org/2024/02/06/trump-has-no-immunity-to-prosecution-for-jan-6th-insurrection-audio-summary/
Trump plans to appeal to the Supreme Court. Follow the Justices' connections and past actions with this relationship map. Spot the three current justices who were also involved in shutting the Florida recount that installed George W. Bush into the Presidency. https://thedemlabs.org/2024/02/06/supreme-court-trump-immunity-dc-circuit-relationship-map/
I don't know where to even start with someone -- a lawyer, goddammit! -- who doesn't realize that impeachment in Congress, even if followed by conviction, is not the same as prosecution within the judicial system. "Double jeopardy" is a thing, but this isn't it.
You're assuming they don't know that they're making a BS argument. Trust me, they know it's BS. Just doing a job for which they almost certainly got paid for in advance - b/c they'd be crazy not to insist on that!
Point. I do have a hard time believing anyone could get up and BS like that for a national audience. Part of me is convinced that if you lie like that, your nose starts growing, and growing -- or maybe you start to look like the portrait of Dorian Gray.
I'm a retired lawyer who, in over 30 years of practice, never lied to a court or made an argument that I didn't think was defensible under the law. It takes a special type of person to represent Trump because both lying and making frivolous legal arguments are part of the job description.
Also a lawyer here, albeit one that never goes to court. Their arguments are so outrageous they seem almost sanctionable. Can we try to get these people disbarred?
trump didn’t write that truth social post. Someone lucid was given the directive to ghost write that post as if it were a “bomb threat from a particularly illiterate person at the end of a coke binge”. It is, strangely, too organized and coherent to have come from him.
"This reads like a bomb threat from a particularly illiterate person at the end of a coke binge." Its one thing when people you know say it,its another when Dan says it. What would we do without you Dan? The best.
If SCOTUS takes the case and rules in favor of Trump, Biden should order SEAL Team 6 to go after Trump. After all, he'd be immune from criminal prosecution, right? Presidents being above the law and all.
My fingers are so tightly crossed that this moves the needle more than anything else 🤞
Hopefully, the SCOTUS will refuse to hear the matter at all. The appellate court's opinion is solid- there's nothing SCOTUS could add other than, "Cool, good job, thanks!" I guess we'll see tomorrow if Roberts or any of the other judges who aren't actually certifiable (i.e., other than Thomas or Alito), have enough integrity/self-respect to do the right thing.
Not tomorrow- Monday. As a retired person, it's so hard to keep track of what day of the week it is!
Even this Court isn't going to rule in his favor on the immunity claim (ok, Thomas might). What's worrisome is that they could conceivably help him by agreeing to review it and then letting time run out while they "consider" it. I'm hoping they don't. After all, truth to tell, they haven't been too helpful to Cheeto so far in other cases before them. They're more interested in things like dismantling the administrative state and taking away women's rights. :(
They'll rule against him on immunity. No one who ever even came close to a law school could do otherwise. (Okay, except Thomas.) But I'm pretty sure they'll weasel a way to rule on his behalf on the issue of ballot eligibility (being argued in front of SCOTUS today).
If by "protect," you mean" remove him from the ballot," then you are indeed correct.