Oh, no… he still claimed it was rigged even after he won because he lost the popular election/ didn’t win in a landslide.

He was still declaring it rigged afterwards. Probably just softening people up for 2020.

You can’t be a republican without being some combination of stupid or evil.

And I don’t just mean stupid colloquially as “people I don’t like” but more specifically as “incapable of looking at facts and drawing reasonable conclusions from them.”

Trump’s quote there happened before Tarrio’s conviction, otherwise I would love for you to be right.

Edit: my mistake, it did not.

It also says to hinder or delay, if that would be taken litteraly then most politicians would be barred from holding office.

I would caution you against having any expectations.

Certainly does feel like a pivotal time in the republic doesn’t it?

The big problem is that he still has influence over people that will cause trouble in streets if something happens to him. Not different to that time Mexico had to let go of El Chapo’s son because cartel soldiers started causing trouble to get him back. Any other nobody could have their rights violated left and right and no one would stand up for them. If the government tries to do something and then has an uprising it proves they don’t have a monopoly on violence and that could have other knock on political effects.

Case in point why solidarity is so powerful and unions are fought tooth and nail. These alt right guys are just too far in to deal with the normal tools of the state.

We still need the trial, but I think he should have his bond revoked and await trial in jail.

This is America

And furthermore, Susan, I wouldn’t be the least bit surprised to learn that all four of them habitually smoke marijuana cigarettes…

It would be actually wild if he implicated himself in an actual murder.

I might be giving him too much credibility because it’s not like Trump is a fine strategist or anything, but at this point I think he knows he’s fucked in court anyway. He already lost this battle so to speak, so I doubt he’ll make any sort of effort to help his own case. He’ll do what he does best and stir up shit as fast as possible, making the biggest circus imaginable with whatever he can, and insulting the judges and admitting to his crimes is definitely a signature wtf play of his. Another angle is that the case is lost, he knows, and Trump never admit defeat, he’ll just double down and pretend it’s not a crime because he did it on purpose.

Surely at this point there aren’t really any expectations of Trump’s lawyers. They just have to file documents for him and tell him when to show up where. Then after a few weeks you just tag out.

The corrupt GA GOP are going to remove Fani Willis. They’ve invented a committee specifically to do just that.

Jack Smith isn’t going to be able to do any lasting damage. Everything about Trump is already known, and Trump’s racist jug-hooting base is sticking with him. Findings in a trial will be meaningless for them.

Unless he actually gets sentenced to real prison - which he won’t - nothing about this matters.

In all things I yearn for the past. Modern fashions seem to keep on growing more and more debased. I find that even among the splendid pieces of furniture built by our master cabinetmakers, those in the old forms are the most pleasing. And as for writing letters, surviving scraps from the past reveal how superb the phrasing used to be. The ordinary spoken language has also steadily coarsened. People used to say “raise the carriage shafts” “raise it” or "trim it."When they should say, “Let the men of the palace staff stand forth!” they say, “Torches! Let’s have some light!” Instead of calling the place where the lectures on the Sutra of the Golden Light are delivered before the emperor “the Hall of the Imperial Lecture,” they shorten it to “the Lecture Hal”, a deplorable corruption, an old gentleman complained.

And the word ‘aesthetic’ … please add that to the list.

? Words have zero meaning anymore.

yeah if you’re a fucking moron. the rest of us use these things to communicate for fuck’s sake, don’t let this idiot ruin language next.

Not sure what you mean connecting Trump to the word “literally.”

I’ll leave that decision up to the prosecutors.

Not sure why you’re getting downvoted. The exchange is:

“Were you calling the shots?”
“As to whether or not I thought the election was rigged, yeah it was my decision.”

Trump is being charged with conspiracy to prevent the election results from being certified. He’s not being charged with lying about election rigging. He can flat out say “yeah I knew I lost I just wanted to lie to people”. He’s not obligated to tell the truth and it’s not why he’s in legal trouble.

He would need to have said something about creating a plan to delay or prevent the certification and that lying about the election being rigged was part of that. Prosecutors claim they have this evidence anyways.

Well damn, you’re right. Not much meat on that bone, changes nothing. I was so hoping he really fucked up this time, laid down something the prosecution could bite on.

“Did you decide the election was rigged? Ultimately, were you the sole arbiter of that decision?”

“Yes.”

And like the man said, if Trump was dumb enough to blame his lawyers, he’d open up a 50-gallon drum of evidence against him.

Cannot wrap my head around how obviously stupid this man is, yet slick as hell with his non statements. Only thing I can figure is that he’s so well practiced in legal trouble that it just rolls off the tongue.

He goes onto say the prosecution can’t do much with it because we’ve already proved Trump’s centrality to January 6th and people referred to him as the boss. It’s another piece of evidence that they may or may not use but don’t need to prove that Trump was the one pulling the strings and making things happen. This is in direct contradiction to him saying that he just listened to his lawyers, did what they said, and thus didn’t break the law.