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6 hours ago, YGIFS said:

On trial for his political life and facing possible incarceration, Trump fell asleep multiple times laying his throat jowls upon his SOFT BILLOWY chest.  And Mike Lindell didn’t seize upon the marketing opportunity for his new line of neck pillows?

my god, there’s been a crack in the simulation.  

“ and now at My Pillow, check out our newest product, the ‘Jowl Jewel’!  An improved version of the famous airplane pillow, the Jowl Jewel provides much needed support to the contours of your neck, keeping your head upright, even when dozing!  Upon landing, nobody will notice layers of drool and pieces of airline snacks hidden in your jowls, a must for those “gotcha” interviews!”

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“Me-sah can’t run Senate without it”

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1 hour ago, South Austin said:

I agree.  It does seem baffling.  Maybe that Rudy was always lurking under the surface, or maybe he had been doing batshit crazy things for decades that never made the press.  But Rudy v. The Mafia and Rudy v. Wall Street in the 1980s, and 9/11 Rudy, were commendable, even though not immune from criticism.  

This guy?  This guy is a fucking joke of a human being.

 

Even despite his recent insanity, when he was speaking to courts and legislatures during the peaceful part of the insurrection, he was smooth and articulate. You could see at least glimpses of who he was. 

Posted
12 hours ago, tbone_ said:


True. What I wonder though is is anyone still on the fence about this fucking guy? By this point how come your mind not be made up?

"I try not to think about politics. They are all the same." --SomeoneYouKnow

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3 minutes ago, jimmyjazz said:

. . . and just like that, one third of the country now believes criminal defense lawyers get unlimited juror strikes.

Not for everyone.  He said he was told strikes would be unlimited when "WE would be picking OUR jury" because he's so damned special.

 

In his mind, you need unlimited strikes in Manhattan because . . .

 

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2 hours ago, South Austin said:

I agree.  It does seem baffling.  Maybe that Rudy was always lurking under the surface, or maybe he had been doing batshit crazy things for decades that never made the press.  But Rudy v. The Mafia and Rudy v. Wall Street in the 1980s, and 9/11 Rudy, were commendable, even though not immune from criticism.  

This guy?  This guy is a fucking joke of a human being.

 

I've searched for it but haven't been able to find it but there was a cover photo of New York magazine with his picture sometime around 2015/16 with the caption "This Guy?"  

Stop and Frisk alienated him to a lot of New Yorkers.

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Posted
39 minutes ago, The Dog said:

WWAAAAAHHH! I DON'T KNOW THE LAW!

 

Same guy who thought a bench trial would be better than a jury trial for the fraud case?

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8 minutes ago, Superhero said:

Well since we’re posting pictures from My Cousin Vinny. May I present the lovely Mona Lisa Vito.

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A friend posted her HS photo to FB the other day:

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Posted
1 hour ago, jimmyjazz said:

. . . and just like that, one third of the country now believes criminal defense lawyers get unlimited juror strikes.

He was promised unlimited strikes. The best strikes, perfect strikes, really.

Which makes sense, as any criminal defendant should be able to strike every juror from now until infinity, so the defendant won’t have to participate in any witch-hunt trials. 

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Posted

Kind of crazy how an ex-president can be so objectively wrong about everything he talks about.

"I was told I could have three judges! And I could pick them! And I was PROMISED the trial could take place by the pool at Mar-a-lago!"

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Posted
6 minutes ago, Red Five said:

Kind of crazy how an ex-president can be so objectively wrong about everything he talks about.

"I was told I could have three judges! And I could pick them! And I was PROMISED the trial could take place by the pool at Mar-a-lago!"

I was told I wouldn't have a cell mate.

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Posted
14 hours ago, Goredho said:

MAGA thinks falling asleep at your own trial means your cool as a cucumber.

I just wish his body temperature was actually that of a cucumber.

I'd bet my entire portfolio of DJT stock that "cucumber" is not a word that will appear in Stormy Daniels' testimony.

 

3 hours ago, atomheartbevo said:

His first wife was also his cousin.

This is what you get when cousins fuck:

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26 minutes ago, Red Five said:

Kind of crazy how an ex-president can be so objectively wrong about everything he talks about.

"I was told I could have three judges! And I could pick them! And I was PROMISED the trial could take place by the pool at Mar-a-lago!"

And don't forget, catered by McDonalds.

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Posted
1 hour ago, jimmyjazz said:

. . . and just like that, one third of the country now believes criminal defense lawyers get unlimited juror strikes.

Oh Jerry, all these big deal defense attorneys...they strike down everybody.  

-Donald, you don't even know what a jury strike is, do you?  

No...but they do.  And they're the ones striking down the jurors.  Unlimited, giddy-up...  

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56 minutes ago, Red Five said:

Kind of crazy how an ex-president can be so objectively wrong about everything he talks about.

"I was told I could have three judges! And I could pick them! And I was PROMISED the trial could take place by the pool at Mar-a-lago!"

Even crazier that he can blast this BS out to his disciples and they lap it up as gospel.

Posted
2 hours ago, The Dog said:

WWAAAAAHHH! I DON'T KNOW THE LAW!

 

there's an Angel Hernandez joke in here but I'm not clever enough to pull it out.

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1 hour ago, Superhero said:

 


Well since we’re posting pictures from My Cousin Vinny. May I present the lovely Mona Lisa Vito.

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Assignment: construct a conditional sentence using the words "eat", "peanuts", "out of", "her", "shit."

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Posted
3 minutes ago, RDCanecutter said:

Assignment: construct a conditional sentence using the words "eat", "peanuts", "out of", "her", "shit."

 

3 minutes ago, RDCanecutter said:

Assignment: construct a conditional sentence using the words "eat", "peanuts", "out of", "her", "shit."

 

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Posted
1 hour ago, dcbc said:

I was told I wouldn't have a cell mate.

If he goes to prison, will the Aryan Brotherhood be able to protect him from MS-13 and whatever other gangs who want to shiv him?

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I also like how Trump put "unlimited" in quotation marks like he got cut off from breadsticks at Olive Garden because he left the premises to go to Burger King and then came back for more breadsticks.  There's a John Pinetta joke in there somewhere.  

also, we know he may very well get convicted on a lot of this stuff but will never see the inside of a jail cell.  But to game it out, since the Secret Service never thought this could happen in a thousand years...what would his cell situation be?  Obviously he would not be placed in GenPop, he'd have a solitary cell.  But would an agent be in there with him at all times?  Or would two stand guard outside?  What's the protocol on having non-prison personnel packing heavy weapons inside a federal or state prison?  What's to stop 50 inmates from bum-rushing them all at once to grab their carry?  

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15 minutes ago, YGIFS said:

I also like how Trump put "unlimited" in quotation marks like he got cut off from breadsticks at Olive Garden because he left the premises to go to Burger King and then came back for more breadsticks.  There's a John Pinetta joke in there somewhere.  

also, we know he may very well get convicted on a lot of this stuff but will never see the inside of a jail cell.  But to game it out, since the Secret Service never thought this could happen in a thousand years...what would his cell situation be?  Obviously he would not be placed in GenPop, he'd have a solitary cell.  But would an agent be in there with him at all times?  Or would two stand guard outside?  What's the protocol on having non-prison personnel packing heavy weapons inside a federal or state prison?  What's to stop 50 inmates from bum-rushing them all at once to grab their carry?  

 

Well, if he ever is convicted in a federal court, I believe Federal prisons are considered secure facilities.  Hays State Prison in Georgia?  Not so much.

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1 hour ago, C-Man said:

I'd bet my entire portfolio of DJT stock that "cucumber" is not a word that will appear in Stormy Daniels' testimony.

 

This is what you get when cousins fuck:

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Also this

 

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Posted
5 hours ago, atomheartbevo said:

His first wife was also his cousin.

 

5 hours ago, South Austin said:

And?

What part of Texas you from? Jonesboro?

Posted
48 minutes ago, YGIFS said:

I also like how Trump put "unlimited" in quotation marks like he got cut off from breadsticks at Olive Garden because he left the premises to go to Burger King and then came back for more breadsticks.  There's a John Pinetta joke in there somewhere.  

That’s all your strikes, fat boy! 

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Posted
Just now, Longhorn94 said:

you have just described every person i have ever know who comes from a privileged background.

It really is amazing how lacking in self awareness people who come from generational wealth are. I consider myself a lucky SOB to have been born into a situation where I never had to worry about money growing up and, for that reason, I want others to be able raise their families in the same way.

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Posted
23 minutes ago, royiv said:

For someone that has been afforded every single possible privilege in this country, he’s the got the biggest persecution complex and hates the systems that have afforded him the aforementioned privilege.

This.  I got the initial allure to his followers of "Strong, Alpha Male taking on the Establishment"  I knew it was bullshit, but I knew they were craving it.  But since his first impeachment, until now, ~5 years.  It's just been 5 years of bitching and moaning like a child.  Yeah, he still peppers in some insults and threats and moronic charm.  But the bulk of his messaging is "Poor me, look at me, I've been wronged.  And for 12 easy installments of $19.95, you can help me find my smile again..."  

6 minutes ago, Longhorn94 said:

you have just described every person i have ever know who comes from a privileged background.

I did not come from one at all.  But I work with a lot of family offices on myriad deals.  And I've noticed, across hundreds that I've met with and dozens we've worked with, the children are categorically into a binary outcome.  Either the kids just coast on the name/money and usually piss most of it away on stupid shit.  Or they stake out completely on their own outside the family business/portfolio and cut their teeth for a couple decades doing something else, geographically far away from the core family.  I've really never met anybody in the middle.  The guy who still uses the family plane, serves on the SFO investment committee, owns an unrelated small business, saves his own money, etc.  I know they exist, but 99% of the ones I meet fall into one of the other two camps.  

And as usual, in this analysis---Trump remains unique.  Leveraged the name, partied with girls with the money, kinda-sorta 'ran' the organization, pissed away most it on bad deals he thought were great, and decided to make his own name as an author and gameshow host.  He kind of embodies all three buckets and has failed spectacularly at each.  And how did we reward him?  Making him leader of the Free World.  There's gotta be 100 different heirs kicking themselves for not thinking to run for President with their family money, besides Connor Roy.  

The Trump family also stands uniquely alone in that they are the only "billionaire" family to not have an MFO/SFO.  They claim that their family office is comprised of investment returns recycled into new real estate/golf/hospitality ventures.  so yeah, they don't even know what a family office means.  Yet another thing he never felt at home about in elite Manhattan circles because he didn't even understand the fundamentals.  And another reason he's been lashing out on us and whining to them for the last 50 years.  "Yeah, we've got a family office too.  It's an office down the hall where I work and eat taco bowls.  And Eric and Junior and Ivanka are down to the right of me in their offices.  We're a family.  In offices.  Doing tremendous deals."  

Posted

Trump has an unusual request on trial Day 1

 

A trial as described by those in the room. Without live or even taped audio or video, the play-by-play was relayed to the outside world by those few reporters actually inside the courtroom.

CNN’s Kara Scannell and Jeremy Herb fed information from the court that ultimately made its way to the rest of us.

The first order of business in state court in Manhattan is to begin jury selection, a process anticipated to take as long as two weeks. The trial itself, which will take place on weekdays except Wednesdays, could stretch to two full months.

Of the first group of 96 potential jurors who crammed into the courtroom, more than half were immediately excused for saying they could not be fair and impartial.

Trump wants to take part in sidebars, which could put him very close to jurors. According to Scannell, defendants rarely get involved in sidebars with judges during jury selection, but Trump’s attorneys have indicated he will want to be involved, either approaching the bench or in a side room. This is a rare request.

“I have covered about two dozen trials, and I can’t remember one time the defendant opted to go up to the bench as the judge and the attorneys are asking questions of the potential juror,” Scannell said on CNN during a midday courtroom break. “So, this is really remarkable to me that he is choosing to do that, and he will be eye-to-eye with these potential jurors in close proximity as they answer questions.”

Searching for 18 impartial people. Ultimately, the field of jurors needs to be winnowed down to 12 jurors and six alternates. Around 500 jurors are expected to be called during each day of jury selection, and Scannell said the court would begin vetting about 100 potential jurors at a time in the courtroom.

They will be asked some general questions like whether they have an unbreakable commitment, need a religious exemption or don’t feel they can be impartial.

What does impartial mean? It’s ridiculous to think jurors would not have heard of Trump or even have opinions about him. He is, after all, one of the most famous people in the world.

Anybody so ignorant of world events so as to not have an impression of Trump would probably not be fit to serve on a jury anyway, writes Jeffrey Abramson, author of “We, The Jury: The Jury System and the Ideal of Democracy.”

“An open mind does not require an empty mind,” Abramson argues in a piece for CNN Opinion as he explains the process known as “voir dire.”

“We can find fair jurors who understand the difference between law and politics,” Abramson adds, noting that Trump has already faced New York juries who found him liable in civil cases related to defamation and sexual abuse of E. Jean Carroll, a former magazine columnist who said Trump raped her in a department store in 1996, although Trump denies the claim.

A Manhattan jury also found Trump’s business, the Trump Organization, guilty of tax evasion, although Trump was not personally named in that case.

The jurors will remain anonymous, but Abramson argues both sides in the case need to “sketch a personality profile of each potential juror.” A person with military training, for instance, who values loyalty might be a better juror for Trump, whereas someone who admires whistleblowers might be a better juror for the government, he writes.

What will jurors hear? At one point, Judge Juan Merchan read off the names of more than 40 people who could feature in the trial. Potential witnesses range from former Trump aides like Kellyanne Conway and Rudy Giuliani to the women who allege they had affairs with Trump: Stormy Daniels and Karen McDougal.

CNN’s Kaanita Iyer has a rundown of the key players.

And here is an excellent visual timeline of the entire hush money scandal.

Much of the morning centered on questions about what evidence Merchan will allow jurors to hear.

The judge, per Scannell and Herb’s feeds, will allow:

►Testimony from McDougal – She’s the former Playboy Playmate whose story of her alleged affair with Trump was bought by the National Enquirer with the intention of killing it before the 2016 election. But Merchan will not allow testimony about McDougal’s allegation that the affair was conducted while Trump’s wife, Melania, was pregnant and after she gave birth to their son Barron. That kind of testimony, Merchan said, could prejudice the jury against Trump.

►National Enquirer stories attacking Trump’s opponents – Prosecutors say Trump was involved in approving these stories.

Merchan will not allow:

►The infamous “Access Hollywood” tape – It included vulgar language from Trump, and the prosecution says its release just before the 2016 election helped lead to the hush money payment. It cannot be played to jurors, but it can be discussed.

►Testimony from Carroll – Separate civil juries found Trump liable for sexual abuse and defamation of Carroll, but her deposition cannot be shown.

What about Michael Cohen? There was also much discussion about what jurors can hear from or about Michael Cohen, Trump’s former fixer and the key witness in the case. It was Cohen who orchestrated the hush money payments and who pleaded guilty to federal charges of violating campaign finance law, for which he served time in prison.

Trump is accused by New York of falsifying business records when he paid Cohen back for the hush money scheme. Merchan has a nuanced set of guidelines for how to include the key elements of Cohen’s side of the story without making jurors think Trump is guilty of the crimes Cohen admitted committing.

New York Times reporter and CNN political analyst Maggie Haberman noted that Trump had to sit and watch while all of these uncomfortable subjects were discussed in court.

“This trial is going to be filled with personal discomfort for Donald Trump, who has often been able to just attack and then walk away,” she told CNN’s Jake Tapper. “This is going to be much harder for him here.”

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