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    11 months ago

    I want him to blow his top like a cartoon where his face gets red, steam comes out of his ears, and the toupee flies a foot straight up into the air

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    11 months ago

    Alright Ivanka. This… THIS is your time to fucking shine.

    Step up, be brutally honest. Sell that fucker out. Make a few clever remarks about him being a person who’s too stupid to zip tie themselves and apologize for ever being near him.

    Save yourself. Go full scorched earth on his ass.

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      She won’t. She’s almost as corrupt as her father. Don’t forget, it’s her husband Jared Kushner who accepted a 2 billion dollar investment from MBS.

      Also, if she testifies truthfully, she’ll be admitting to her own crimes, and to other things that will cost her real money. For example, one of the things she’s going to testify about in this trial is how her father gave her several properties, but the properties were appraised using Donald’s ridiculous appraisal logic, so that she would pay less in taxes. If she is honest, the IRS will be after her immediately.

      By the way, there’s a chance that she could have gotten out of this without testifying in open court, but her lawyers amateurishly missed doing anything by the deadline. And if you remember, Trump wanted a jury trial for this case, but his lawyer forgot to ask for one, so they got a bench trial, instead.

      This kind of shit would be absolutely hilarious if there wasn’t some chance that he’d become President again. This guy thinks he surrounds himself with “the best people”, but all he can find are people who make elementary mistakes.

      And the US President’s biggest influence on the country is through his appointees. He actually has a few decent lawyers working for him now, but when the chips are down, he relies on these types of people, probably because they kissed his ass more, or swore allegiance to him or something.

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          I have seen the form (but I think not the actual filled out forms for this case), and my memory is that it has a check box to request “jury trial”, and a check box to request “bench trial”.

          As I recall, on the DA’s form, they checked the box for “bench trial”, while on defendant Trump’s form, they didn’t check any box at all, which is also technically a valid way to fill out the form, but if a defendant does that, they will usually get a bench trial.

          So, through incompetence, Trump’s attorney’s form was essentially asking for a bench trial, but it wasn’t specifically filled out asking for a bench trial.

      • IphtashuFitz@lemmy.world
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        11 months ago

        Wouldn’t surprise me if she’s just asked questions like “what was X appraised for when your father sold it?” In order to show a pattern of this happening over and over. Of course the DA likely has the information already and a paper trail that shows she knows the answer.

        Once that foundation is set then bring in multiple independent experts to testify on the true appraised values.

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          11 months ago

          My understanding of the criminal justice system is that the prosecuting attorney (or really, any attorney will only ask a question they know the answer to.

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        Absolutely no argument there, and a good reminder of who she is.

        I got pretty good at ignoring her shit with many others in the “entitled moron” classification, and not being on X or truth and such, I forget that yeah, she is just as guilty as her piece of shit genetic donor.

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        11 months ago

        The “best people” are the ones that commit crimes and then fall on their sword for you. They’re even bester when they don’t complain about you when you refuse to pay for their legal defense.

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      11 months ago

      Ivanka doing all that? Have you seen her tweets and statements? She’s all in for her father.

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        11 months ago

        The most honest thing I think I’ve seen her say was in Born Rich:

        I remember once my father and I were walking down Fifth Avenue and there was a homeless person sitting right outside of Trump Tower and I remember my father pointing to him and saying, ‘You know, that guy has $8 billion more than me,’ because he was in such extreme debt at that point, you know?

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        That’s where i gotta admit, I’ve seen little from her, and it’s largely because i don’t go on X or Truth and largely ignore folks like her.

        So yeah. There goes my idea. Ultimatly i hope she just fucks off into nowhere after all of this. or better yet, if she doesn’t turn, prison.

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    Do you think, in his entire long, miserable life… He has EVER, and just a single time would count here, has he EVER accepted fault for anything? Has he ever said something like,

    “This person has a point, I was wrong here”

    Ever, even just once, for any reason, like “this person was ahead of me in line actually”…

    No? He hasn’t?

    Well then how do you take ANYTHING he says seriously? Every other person you admire makes little mistakes Mr. tump voter, so genuinely, how can you take him seriously?

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      I ready Mary’s book. He does not. Never once. His dad always bailed him out. And I suspect he believes his dad will somehow arise from the dead and bail him out even now.

      The average trump voter probably suffers from the same inability to feel loved enough too which is probably why they are drinking his koolaid.

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      11 months ago

      Most of his behavior I’ve been reading about sounds exactly like a toddler acting out having a tantrum testing the limits of what they can get away with, so I doubt it.

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      has he EVER accepted fault for anything?

      Not possible, unfortunately. If you read Mary Trunp’s book it shows how he was abused and never shown love during his formative childhood years. This doesn’t excuse him being a giant piece of shit, because other people who’ve gone through worse have turned out better. But without either therapy, some modicum of intelligence, or at least a desire for change he’ll be stuck being a narcissist who can’t understand any emotions deeper than what children feel until he croaks.

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        it was his brother, Fred, who was not shown any love and compared constantly to Donald. Donald was the golden boy. And even then Donald still felt he was not shown enough love. Hence the point ‘too much is never enough’ as the title of that book.

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          Golden boy or not, his father was a narcissist incapable of showing love and his mother was largely checked out of caring for her kids.

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    11 months ago

    Is this guy legit going to have a heart attack live on stage whilst ranting spurious nonense?

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          11 months ago

          I should start a go fund me to buy trump as many hamberders as he wants. Whenever he wants,

      • CharlesDarwin@lemmy.world
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        11 months ago

        Or someone like Hillary. Remember all the stupid conspiracy theories about Scalia and how Hillary had him bumped off? LOL.

        And they care about little d a whole lot more - I fully expect that if the failed game show host has the all-too-predictable health outcomes of his completely unhealthy lifestyle combined with his advanced age that they’ll fire up the Qtard nonsense machine.

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      I mean… if that happened, his followers would stage a coup under the pretense that he’ll come back to life or something. Not sure that’s better

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        They’re going to do that no matter what. Need to stop tiptoeing around this guy and deal with the fallout as it comes.

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      I forget who the quote is about for “he’s what a stupid man thinks a smart man looks like” was originally about, but for little d, I think “he’s the incel’s idea of a well-adjusted male” applies, as well as “he’s what a person utterly ignorant of business thinks a successful businessman looks like”.

      Remember: this is the guy the unhinged right selected in order to “own the libs”, because they think he’s so masculine and so on. He’s the biggest fucking snowflake there is.

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    Wow, it’s almost like being a massive asshole makes people hate you. What are the odds?

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      also, being a flagrant criminal makes a judge impose restrictions and punishments while acting not too happy about your behavior. In fact, it’s their job.

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      Even if he was it would just be another fine that he can dig out of his couch cushions like the last two. He will never see the inside of a jail cell.

      I would love nothing more than to be wrong.

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        I’m happy for the fines to pile up. Liable for rape, fraud, violating gag orders, just let everything get real cumulative.

        The fact that he’s even undergoing all of these lawsuits is great, nobody even thought he would be in court once, and now he’s facing multiple civil lawsuits and at least two criminal trials.

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          He’s just unaccustomed to consequences. If he thought about it, disparaging the people may be worth the 10k it cost him - as long as he stays out of jail.

          Who knows, maybe even going to jail is something he can leverage to squeeze another round of violence out of his followers.

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      Why would it matter? No judge has a spine to throw the book at this guy. He gets a totally different court system than the rest of us.

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        The fact that he is playing with all these privileges and advantages and is still losing is a glaring signal that all he did is way worse than what the courts have found. And he’s is way more incompetent, an actually smart sociopath in his place would’ve already conquered the world and gotten away with it. We are lucky he is this stupid and I hope he gets muzzled and jailed.

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          Many people want to put him back in the White House forever, and he now has a stacked court to support it. It’s not the world, but he is dangerously close to conquering this country.

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      Nope. I think the gag order only covers court staff, not the judge. To me this means Trump knows exactly where the line is. I hope the judge plays doesn’t react to any further violations until Trump’s in court again, then gigs him in person.