Donald Trump said he would accept home confinement or jail time after his historic conviction by a New York jury last week but that it would be tough for the public to accept.
“I’m not sure the public would stand for it,” the Republican presidential candidate told Fox News in an interview that aired on Sunday. “I think it’d be tough for the public to take. You know, at a certain point, there’s a breaking point.”
Trump did not elaborate on what he thought might happen if that point is reached. He is scheduled to be sentenced July 11, four days before Republicans gather to formally choose their presidential nominee to face Democratic President Joe Biden in November’s election.
Asked what Trump supporters should do if he were jailed, Republican National Committee Co-Chair Lara Trump told CNN: “Well, they’re gonna do what they’ve done from the beginning, which is remain calm and protest at the ballot box on November 5th. There’s nothing to do other than make your voices heard loud and clear and speak out against this.”
Even more reason to do it. Trump shouldn’t be excused from being held accountable just because his supporters don’t like it, along with any people in power.
And they’ll live stream the evidence again
And pose for news photographers.
Break into laughter and start cheering
Ahhhhhhhhh yes, the breaking point, a fine California Champagne by Paul Masson.
Breaking news, breaking bread, breaking out the fine Chinah, breaking open a cold one with the boys. Everyone will forget after 15 minutes and he will be shoved into the dustbin of history. Real working people have been getting the shaft for decades, and he understands nothing of it. He capitalized on that misdirected anger but didn’t do squat for them except enrich himself. Just like 99% of of the politicians.
This guy projects harder than a Bell & Howell 3870 Overhead Projector with a transparency furiously marked up in permanent ink by the overworked teacher during lunch break in the staff room, right before a kid pukes up his Frankenberry pellets onto his desk and the janitor comes by and cleans it up with a cardboard box.
I’ll be fine, go ahead and take your time ☺️
makes wanking motion with hand
I doubt it.
I don’t ever want to hear another republican ever utter the words “We’re the party of law and order” ever again…
They must mean the television show.
Law and Order, Special Victims Unit
That show wouldn’t exist under modern Republican rule.
Well, they’re gonna do what they’ve done from the beginning, which is remain calm and protest at the ballot box on November 5th. There’s nothing to do other than make your voices heard loud and clear and speak out against this.
From the party that literally lead a violent insurrection intended to overthrow the government and install Trump as a dictator for life.
At every step of consequences a facsist will say:
If you hold me accountable, they’ll be consequences
What they leave out, is if we don’t hold fascists accountable, everyone in power starts acting like they’re not accountable. Before you know what’s going on, all the possible options are corrupt. And it’s no longer about winning, it’s about mitigating how much you’ll lose by.
But you always keep losing.
It’s a ruse. MAGAs are planning and scheming, likely with Putin’s help. They will obstruct voting, corrupt results and use violence. The Republican party is in its death throes, replaced by the insane authoritarian MAGA party.
Vote - your life and your families lives depend on it.And they’ll do it again in 2029. The most important part of that quote is their commitment to getting him another crack at it.
Vote in November.
Fuck me don’t say 2029. I feel my youth draining away
I feel you. I distinctly remember being inspired by a sci-fi show called Beyond 2000.
I’ve never seen anyone else mention that show. My brother and I used to watch it watch it all the time. It looks like it had a few different names/iterations, we watched The Discovery Channels verion in the U.S., in the early 90s.
That’s the one! I loved it. Such an intriguing and inspiring show. It would be interesting to watch it again to see what was actually developed.
It’ll be a breaking point for me, for sure. I’ll be breaking out the good booze.
I have a bottle of champagne that was a wedding gift.
We uncork it the day Trump goes to jail.
He’s right, it would make me drop whatever I’m doing and plan out a party that night. We should do it more often.
I’m trying to imagine what the day should be called?
“Grab em by the bussy” day?
Ah, I’m still working on it…
Trump already had the perfect name for it. Covfefe
July 4th: Independence Day
July 11th: Covfefe Day
Only one way to find out!
I sure hope so.
There’s a significant number of Trumpers who are just itching to put on their
brown shirtsred hats and start wreaking violence.At this point, it’s not really a question of if they do it, but just of when. On that point at least, Trump is right. He just doesnt acknowledge the fact that the reason those people are reaching a breaking point is that he’s self-servingly fed them a steady diet of propaganda and hatred.
So they’re going to go off the rails - they’re vtoo ignorant and too angry and too misled to do anything else.
The worst-case scenario would be that they do it after Trump has (god forbid) been elected. Because then they’re going to get official sanction. They really will be the new brownshirts.
The best-case scenario is that they do it soon, and in response to Trump being rightfully sentenced for the crimes of which he has been rightfully convicted. In that case, they’re going to have neither the illusion of legitimacy nor official sanction, and they’ll just reveal themselves as the lawless, petulant, violent asshats they are.
And hopefully either held in jail without bond or be convicted felons who can’t vote.
Now you keep saying that term…brown shirts…what do UPS delivery drivers have to do with this?
95% sure you’re making a joke, but in case you (or anyone else) actually doesn’t know: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sturmabteilung
Is it explicitly stated whom a president may not pardon (eg, themselves)?
If so, no reason to anyone to do anything if he’s elected
For this particular case, he couldn’t pardon himself because the president can pardon federal crimes, but in this case the crime is in the New York state court system, so the governor of New York would have to pardon him to my understanding.
The president can only pardon those convicted of federal crimes. He was convicted of state crimes in New York state, and only the governor of New York can pardon those convicted of crimes at the state level.
So he’s just gonna strong arm then into doing it.
There’s nothing saying he can’t pardon himself, but a president can only pardon for federal crimes.
If he’s elected, they’ll have free rein to do whatever they want to whoever they want, and they will.
Him being sent to prison would just be a trigger to release the hatred and urge to violence that’s already festering inside them. That hatred and urge to violence is still going to be there if he’s elected - it’ll just manifest a bit differently.
Right with ya. Problem is, the vast majority of Americans are ignorant of history and have a, “Can’t happen here!” attitude.
Fascism isn’t coming, it’s here, now, today.
You have it right on the best/worst case scenarios. Best case might sober enough people up to turn the ride. Otherwise we’re sleepwalking into this.
Highly recommend the Podcast It Could Happen Here with Robert Evans.
I tell people as often as I can, especially my trans and bipoc friends; now is the time. Get a couple guns (a long one and a short one) and learn how to use them. Learn some basic first aid, you really just need to know how to stabilize someone. Start networking with like-minded people in your communities. The police will not protect us, they’ve proven they’ll happily club senior citizens to the ground and shoot any protesters in the face with rubber bullets while escorting a rightwing murderer to safety.
Iran was a secular, liberal monarchy until almost 1980 when an Islamic theocracy was installed with public approval, it could happen here.
If I had a nickle for every headline I’ve read that has “trump says”
This mother fucker gets entire news articles every time he talks. The least interesting and most predictable man in the world has the news reporting his every word.
I can’t do another 4 years. I can’t.
Please stop treating politics like a cultural, intellect, personal identity battlefield when engaging in this topic. Your “opponent” will see it that way and have their gaurd up, only listening to what to say to try to disprove it rather than hearing what you say. Your job is to change that, so they actually find themselves having a conversation. Asking questions, giving more level but still emotional arguments (not sensationalized like this(
This shit isn’t helpful, it isn’t convincing anyone of anything. In fact I find it harmful
It sounds like he is just whining but the underlying message is there may be more violence if he is prosecuted. He is setting up a threat of violence. “They are going to do what they did since the beginning” is a threat. What did they do in the beginning??? Hmm oh idk unite the right rally and all that jazz. And bookends with one of the most significant moments in American history where the president encouraged and allowed an insurrection to take place for 6 fucking hours while ignoring pleas from his staff, family, legal counsel, and fellow government officials particularly his closest.
But you have to be able to have enough context and a depressingly low bar of critical thinking skills to read between the lines in the article, especially when the headline primes you for what another nutty thing he says and then the reader just decides if they think it is a bad thing to say or not. Ugh. UGH. Thanks for sticking this out
