What does the future hold for Donald Trump? - threadbans in OP

or more likely trump knew via his attorneys that an indictment was imminent so dropped some hunter biden "news" as an attempt at distraction.

They don't think he should face any investigations, full stop.

I'm still curious to know what credible explanation they can offer for the charges on the basis that they're all political.

The same candidate who said they'd let China invade Taiwan after 2028?

So.. if someone commits a crime, it should be put to one side and you should be pardoned...? Why, then, have a system of justice? Might as well just scrap all laws and make everything legal if you're not going to convict anyone (assuming your view is consistant and you believe everyone to be equal in the eyes of the law...)

Incidentally, if you think he should be pardoned, then that implies you think he's guilty of something in the first place...

Die-hard Trump supporters will frame every single thing said or done against Trump as an unfair move to try and take him down. Every single time. Without exception. If Trump shot someone on 5th Avenue, his supporters would say the victim fully deserved it. There is no end to how they will merrily rearrange reality to make him the hero of the story.

Nothing like this has been seen the history of the U.S.. A former president under 4 indictments. To the Trump supporters, this only shows how desperate the Deep State is to take him down.

...lads, he's been recorded on the phone to the Georgia SoS. He was live on the news riling up those supporters at the Capitol based on no credible evidence (only one lawsuit filed in the aftermath of 2020 succeeded and it was over vote curing in Pennsylvania), and for months before that. He's on tape admitting that he couldn't declassify those documents anymore. It isn't just some conspiracy against him. He is actually that bad.

If people want to talk about the Deep State, I would argue that Donald Trump is a great friend of it, because Donald Trump revels in division, and that division prevents any political cohesion that could potentially break the monopoly of any of the monied interests sitting behind the scenes. He's the ultimate diversionary sideshow. It's maybe time he agrees to step out of public life and give some room for a real unifier to try and step forward.

The personal insults are to serve the purpose of discredit the 'argument' or stand they are making against Trump.

 Typically this term refers to a rhetorical strategy where the speaker attacks the character, motive, or some other attribute of the person making an argument rather than attacking the substance of the argument itself. 

Seems a pretty accurate description of Trump's conduct to me.

But feel free to enlighten us as to how precisely Trump should be criticised for such conduct, and to how Trump is using these insults 'characteristically'?

Or are you actually defending Trump's insults?

Otherwise, it will be reasonably assumed to be another incidence of your "See no evil, hear no evil, speak no evil" policy when it comes to Trump.

Eskimo just hops around between Republican flavours of the month. It was DeSantis last time. Now it's Vivek who is completely unserious but Eskimo is easily persuaded.

Indeed. Pardon someone for this and it's open season for every election that follows.

Another alt-right gay conservative poster with transphobic viewpoints writing discrimnatory and conspiracy theory posts they're unable to back up - what would be the odds?

Remember when MAGA'ts used wet themselves over tweets like this?

That and the whole 'Lock her Up' BS from the 2020 campaign.

Now, when confronted with actual crimes, intent, evidence, due process and accountability, they cannot imagine that this isn't politically motivated.

Trump f'd around, now he's finding out.

Deal with it.

There's no point in trying to reason with these people. They're so entrenched that even if Trump arrived at their doorstep with a loaded shotgun and threatened to blow their heads off, they'd claim that it wasn't actually Trump, but a Democrat that'd had extensive plastic surgery to make them look like Trump, so as to frame him.

Trump is actually still claiming that the election of 2020 was stolen from him. And they went after Obama for wearing that famous tan suit. What a time we live in.

In all that flurry... was there one post actually defending Trumps innocence of the charges?

Speaks volumes.