Donald Trump discussion Thread IX (threadbanned users listed in OP)

Always wonder what happened to these people. Was he always hiding craziness or something that has popped out in old age?

You hear so many stories of formally fine people going down these rabbit holes and coming out bitter and full of hatred.

That sounds extraordinary on the face of it, almost as if its a routine he has to follow for taxation claim reasons. If the prosecutors have [most of] them already for prosecution reasons at state or federal level, he'd be better off doing a deal with them and have them do the securing of the documents free of charge and serve discovery documents in court on them when he needs the documents for his defence team. Maybe I'm being a bit naive in that line of thought.

As witch-hunts go, Trump should use his noggin and condemn [by use of smart wording] the woman in Texas who allegedly called the Washington courthouse and threatened the life of Judge Chutkan "you are in our sights, we want to kill you" if he wants to get ahead of the posses tailing him. The woman concerned allegedly used racist words to describe the judge during her interface with the court. The woman has been placed in arrest by the police in connection with her vocal threat against Judge Chutkan.

It's whether he would be wise enough to let his lawyers be his mouthpieces on this and keep his own mouth and thoughts private that will tell, whether a journalist asks the right way to get a self-harming quote from the horses mouth. Trump has his own internet platform to provide the public with his feelings on that.

In this era of dirty tricks, I wonder about the truth and reliability of reports of a alleged leak of the identities and home addresses of the Fulton County Grand Jury members on the internet as a leak of this kind would be useful for more than one participant in the Trump debacle.

Further to the above about heeding advice from his lawyers, Trump has cancelled a press conference he planned for next week to release what he had claimed is "new evidence" of voter fraud in the 2020 Georgia election. “Rather than releasing the Report on the Rigged & Stolen Georgia 2020 Presidential Election on Monday, my lawyers would prefer putting this, I believe, Irrefutable & Overwhelming evidence of Election Fraud & Irregularities in formal Legal Filings as we fight to dismiss this disgraceful Indictment," Trump wrote on his social media site Thursday in announcing his reversal.

My read on this example of Trump complying with his lawyers advice is that they told him they would walk away from him by way of a request to the court to be allowed come off record as his defence lawyers if he went ahead with his news conference. I note his use of the self descriptive "I believe" term in his online statement, not a "we" at that part of his statement.

The news that Trump has accused Fox News of conspiring against his re-election campaign with its use of a orange-coloured photo image which he doesn't like must sound like music to his opponents ears. Accompanying that is his declining to take part in the Fox News debate between the other GOP members liking to run for the nomination and letting people know he'll be interviewed by Tucker Carlson instead might, just might, mean there is clear unbridgeable water between him and Fox News Corp and he will be relying on his own internet media site to spread his views on politics and everything else, as he knows it. I'm mindful that a week in politics is a long time.

Yup. Presenting Trump in public like that is too risky.

As someone else said, if he can't win over swing voters, he can't win. All he is doing now is the last desperate grift. The only people that will tune into his Carson interview is his MAGA heads. He is using this time wisely, to scrounge every last dollar out of these MAGA heads. Expect his defence

I honestly wouldn't be surprised if he withdraws from the race, after securing the nomination. "I would have won, but those pesky Democrats stopped me from being YOUR PRESIDENT because of their WITCH HUNT"

Speaking of the last grift. IT's not going terribly well as his, "Patriot Legal Defence Fund" was hacked last Friday and is still up and hacked.

https://patriotlegaldefensefund.com/

Trump isn't doing the debates because he doesn't have to. There is no cost to him on avoiding it. His supporters were quick to label Biden as running scared during the 2019 election by avoiding rallies etc (Covid was the reason) but of course when Trump does it is simply his genius.

Second, he doesn't believe he is actually in a race. Why would he bother debating losers? He is not running for the GOP nomination, he is running for POTUS. You hear it all time. Especially that Trump shouldn't be indicted because he is running for POTUS. Technically he is only currently running for the GOP nomination but he doesn't see it that way.

He isn't avoiding them because he is worried he will lose the head. TO think that one has to believe that at some point Trump can see that something he says or does is wrong. We have no evidence that he ever thinks that.

He'd have to be careful about under what pretences the money is grifted under. Already in trouble for Stormy Daniels case for using supposed campaign funds for other purposes.

Doesn't he at least have to employ/use accountants to comply with PAC rules and regulations, keeping books etc to account for the donations and outgoings?

The notion that there'd be several sets of books used to disguise where the donations were going/being used for would mean he hadn't learned from the raid on one of his lawyers, the one tried and sent to prison after more than one set of accountancy books listed as being for Trump's firm was found in his offices in Trump towers some years back.

One thing that can [probably] be recognized as factual is that Trump looked at the two parties prior to 2014 and decided that the Dems [with the Clintons there] were not going to be a pushover for him and he chose the republican party because he saw its weaknesses when it came to flimflammery. As to whether he came in with a plan from the start to successfully remake the party in his own image, maybe history and his friends in the dirty tricks Dept will tell the republicans. I don't see history being kind to Trump though it might let the family off with their complicity and promotion of his activities.

A fish would never get caught if it kept it's mouth shut

According to a statement of the defendant on Truth Social, he will go to Atlanta, Georgia on Thursday to be arrested by a radical left DA, Fani Willis. That's very polite considering his varied description of people who've upset him.

In Georgia, the defendant will face a $200,000 bond and orders not to send threatening social media messages as he awaits trial, according to a bond agreement signed by the defendant's attorneys and the Fulton Country district attorney, Reuters reported.

One thing that will face the US, if the defendant is tried and convicted of the charges and put in prison, from that time on every new foreign ambassador to the US may have to visit him in prison to present him with the ambassadors credentials. That'll be something for them to tell the grandkids.

In breaking news, John Eastman has surrendered himself to authorities and was booked into Fulton County Jail. He is expected to have an arraignment set in the coming weeks in the racketeering case.