Trump threatens to 'blackmail' Biden if he doesn't make charges go away
Former President Donald Trump ramped up his threats to prosecute President Joe Biden if he wins another term in the White House.An appeals court rejected Trump's claims of immunity in the federal election subversion case in the District of Columbia, although he intends to press the same argument in ...
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Leave it to Donnie to misrepresent what the ruling means. Presidents still enjoy lots of immunity, especially where it pertains to their "color of office" duties. They just don't have total immunity from anything and everything, especially where it doesn't pertain to their duties. We do not have monarchs or dictators.
So no, you can't just shoot someone on Fifth Ave and declare Presidential Immunity to avoid justice, and you can't just steal government secrets to use as business leverage, and you can't make phone calls to heads of states to "find votes," and you can't incite an insurrection and claim plausible deniability.
Eat shit. I hope you get no sleep because of these rulings.
Yeah but what if the person on fifth Avenue was literally holding the original constitution and threatening to tear it in half? Would presidential immunity apply then?
Hear me out: what if the person had a pussy and you wanted to grab it?
According to their logic, it is ok if you are famous. Clearly we should base our jurisprudence on fame then. /s
In that case they let you do it because you’re famous
Fortunately OR unfortunately
That would be him committing be suicide then
Ah yes, the age old "if you are facing felonies, threaten to blackmail the US President trick."
I'm sure that will work.
"threaten to blackmail" is such a funny expression, that threat is literally blackmail already.
His uh, posts sound really desperate. 🍿
Hey you gonna share that popcorn?
You said when I went to make popcorn that you didn't want any, so I only made enough for myself. I'll go make more though 🍿🍿.
You want cheese powder on it?
Salt and vinegar please
Wait....you can do that? I thought that was a chips-only-condiment-combo. Blowing my fucking mind right now chief.
Keep the requests coming, I want to learn more popcorn secrets. I'm a butter and salt person. I grind my salt in my coffee grinder to a fine powder though and use that, I get better coverage.
M S G.
Add that in with your salt 50/50, You'll thank me later.
This seems like it is probably somewhere between Cocaine and Fentanyl on the addictive scale.
Healthier option: Brewers/Nutritional Yeast (in addition the required salt and butter anyway).
I usually just have it however it comes out of the bag, but I'll occasionally add a seasoning blend I have in the kitchen.
Two favorites have both been from Trader Joe's, their Umami mushroom powder and their "everything but the leftovers" blend.
While nicely frugal, I just buy a small shaker of popcorn salt for $2. A shaker lasts roughly one human lifetime if not accidentally spilled all over the counter.
Just FYI, you can buy "popcorn salt," which is already fine ground.
And doesn’t taste like coffee.
Dill pickle 😋
One of my local restaurants has fresh cut salt and vinegar fries, and they're absolutely incredible.
The best popcorn is the popcorn you add weird toppings to.
Garlic and onion is my favorite, but you can use basically any seasoning shaker. I use a spray bottle of distilled water, spray on, add flavor shaker, done.
Super low calorie option that still tastes great. You can use oil if you want but it really doesn’t add much when you have actual flavors.
You can do the same thing with sweet flavors if you want, cinnamon sugar or drink powder mixed with sugar make for great sweet popcorns.
Nutritional yeast, tamari, and red chili powder for me, please. I thought I didn't want any but it smells so good, and this is getting entertaining.
Can we just, lock him up already?
Please? Or at the very least break his jaw so he has to shut the fuck up while it heals?
We all know he’s guilty. We all know he’s a treasonous insurrectionist. We all know he belongs in prison.
We all know that any normal person would have been hanged by now.
You'd have to break his fingers too
We need a tiny hammer
No reason he should have his cell phone in jail. He can use the pay web terminals like everyone else, one hour per week with a 56k connection.
Being dead didn't stop Herman Cain from tweeting, not having access to the internet won't stop Trump from posting his drivel either.
I bet he only uses the one finger.
Lmao
He's blackmailing him with blackmail?
That's some real 4d chess, man.
Just this whole attitude towards the thing shows how crooked he is. As far as I can tell, Biden has tried to remain hands-off from the Justice Dept and just let them do their own thing to avoid even the appearance of impropriety. And I believe that's more or less been how most Presidents have tried to behave since maybe Nixon EXCEPT for Trump, who seems to view it as his own personal legal hit-squad, to be used for just litigating people he doesn't like, instead of... y'know, administering justice. He completely misunderstands the purpose of government and really should not be allowed anywhere near the position. He should be rotting in prison now, he's a complete shitstain on history.
Of course. He’s literally demented.
Threatening the president is a federal crime, right?
Maybe they can kill two birds with one stone - visit him about this threat to the president, and quickly check in the hidden room that they missed during the mar a lardo search warrant.
Oh they didn’t miss it… they chose not to check it.
Why
Member how the entirety of the DCI’s TLDs did sweet fuckall about Trump while he was in office? Even after Mueller found there was significant cause to charge him? Well, that’s not because they’re incompetent necessarily.
Consider Officer Sicknick was a Trump supporter.
And a metaphor.
I wish I knew.
I think they politely enquired as to whether there was anything they ought to see in the hidden room. When Trump confirmed that there was not, they accepted that claim at face value, because trump would never lie... right ?
Blackmailing a president is a crime as well.
With prosecution, if he wins an election?
Maybe. But he’s not outright threatening assassins in the night. (They’re too incompetent for that. They’ll show up in the day and ask the secret service for directions to his office.)
I’d hate to say it, but the very act of voting for trump is, at this point, an act of evil.
Always has been.
The same was true 7 years ago as it will be for the foreseeable future.
It's an act of willful ignorance, something this country doesn't take seriously enough.
Biden should tell him he’ll pardon him if he drops out and then not pardon him.
Biden would probably get charged with murder because that would surely cause the inevitable aneurysm.
Manslaughter at worst
Nobel peace prize likely
Ah, the Underwood approach.
Headline is technically true but this is a non story.
Trump is mad about the appeals court ruling that he isn't immune from prosecution and is lashing out.
Everything about this turd is a non story except for the fact that he incited an insurrection on the US capital for which he has not been committed to prison or executed for. Now that's a story.
Not just the attack, but he actively tried to secretly replace electors in states as well. We literally know he tried to cheat and are like, "it's fine".
No. I'd say his willful mishandling of a pandemic outbreak, for which he'll never be punished, is a pretty fucking horrific story. Way worse than his little temper tantrum at the Capitol.
That's going to be really hard to do while you are rotting in custody, Donnie.
Custody?! In prison? Nah Trumpy boy is never gonna set foot in prison. Guantanamo is never gonna close though...
I said custody and not prison for a reason.
He'll be on house arrest in a shitty barrack on a military base somewhere, just like Nixon's lawyer.
Like a fatter, dumber, less charming Napoleon sent to Elba.
I feel like the absolute harshest punishment I can reasonably see him ever facing is nothing more than a ban from holding public office.
That's it.
Maaaaaybe a few months of house arrest at Mar a Lago. Maybe punitive fines.
No prison time. Nothing that will affect his wealth. Nothing that will deplatform him as the grotesque figurehead of American conservatism until he dies.
I'm confident he will play kingmaker for that half of the American political landscape until he's dead.
Nah, the feds know where those missing top-secret files ended up at by now. The DoJ doesn't spend this amount of time, money & manpower to hand out a slap on the wrist.
New York is quite literally about to make Trump insolvent.
I hope you're right, but I'm not holding my breath.
Any. Day. Now.
Yes, literally. It would have been last week, but Judge Engorgon decided he needed to tack on more zeros since he discovered Trump's financial controller committed perjury in his court room.
If I threatened Biden with a dirty look, I’d have secret service at my door. But if Trump says he’ll commit a crime, no one does anything.
This really encourages me to want to not obey laws.
If you're not already, you're not rich enough to start.
I’m not 😭
It just means you're accepting that there are different codes of law for different social strata, which is both unjust and contrary to the propaganda you were taught in school.
To be fair, as an ex-president he has probably already 24/7 the secret service at his door. But I'm hoping that he someday has correctional officers at his (new) door.
$226,300/y
It should be minimum wage, plus those other benefits.
Imagine if tiny d won the electoral college, but not the majority (again) and if the majority of the country threw an insurrection like the teabaggers did. How could the teabaggers complain?
Rules for thee, they’ll plea.
Difference between most Democrats and Republicans is that if a Democrat committed a crime another Democrat would want them prosecuted, same if a Republican committed a crime. Whereas if a Republican committed a crime other Republicans want the charges dropped and if a Democrat committed a crime they’d be calling for the death penalty.
Crimes are bad, mmm-kay. Doesn’t matter what side you’re on, mmm-kay. So, let’s not be bad, mmm-kay.
People give my "deep blue" state crap for corruption because so many of our politicians have been sent to prison for it.
... Ignoring that they're in prison because we actually investigate and charge our politicians for corruption, unlike their corrupt as hell states where those people are protected.
Not a lawyer and not sure if this applies here, but the threat of blackmail itself seems like it should constitute a crime:
Whoever, under a threat of informing, or as a consideration for not informing, against any violation of any law of the United States, demands or receives any money or other valuable thing, shall be fined under this title or imprisoned not more than one year, or both.
Yeah that was what I was thinking : in America, land of the lawyers, can't you sue someone who make such important threats ?
You would think so, but apparently Trump had it right when he said he could shoot somebody on 5th Avenue and not get in trouble. The laws never seem to get applied to him as they would anyone else in the country.
My guy has been indicted 91 times and counting. What's one more?
Those are rookie numbers. Not even triple digits.
Your boss, Sleepy Joe, is a man with considerable means and connections, and if he's what you say he is, a communist with the power to imprison you, your plan is to blackmail this person?
Schrodinger's president
Don’t threaten me with a good time! Virtually all U.S. presidents have caused thousands of civilians to be killed in wars we shouldn’t be fighting.
Terry Pratchett, The Last Continent
What do you mean lie? It’s more than 400,000 civilian casualties directly caused by US Wars since 9/11.
https://watson.brown.edu/costsofwar/costs/human/civilians#:~:text=Key%20Findings,4.5%2D4.7%20million%20and%20counting.
That’s an alarming statistic and nobody was held accountable for giving the orders to start those wars.
You know, I'm starting to think maybe we might not be the good guys...
We've literally NEVER been the good guys. We pay PR companies to white-wash our atrocities. Literal billionaire funded think-tanks that do nothing but spew US propaganda just so idiots in flyover states have one more make-believe story to hang their identity onto, like that Jesus fella.
He's asking Biden to pardon him... "or else..."
Like it would matter to him and his base.
GETTING a Pardon is an admission of guilt, but not only would said pardon absolve the guilty of any punishment for the crime, asking for a pardon is not an admission of guilt.
Honey, that's already blackmail.
That's what Innocent People do!
Good. Get unhinged you fuck.
Realize this, fatty donnie, you have a cap of voters. A cap which, you can't even guarantee that you'll meet by the general election should your ass somehow squeak by being on the ballot in every state. You're going to lose because you're a loser in denial, in life, in election and as a human being.
Oh and I bet Donnie has shit through several diapers too throughout this trial. Yeah, imagine that, electing a diaper-shitting president. Good on ya, republitards.
I wish I shared your optimism, but I've read way too many YouTube comments. There is no shortage of knuckle-dragging soldiers waiting to do Trump's bidding. It is beyond scary how many of them there are, and I don't see the problem just magically disappearing if/when old Adolf Shitler finally sees some consequences. Now that there is a permanent strategic unification between Evangelicals, Fascists, and Capitalists they will continue to use their uneducated, quickly reproducing, white-trash, zombie army to do their collective bidding.
Sounds a little redundant there, dontcha think?
At this point yes, but it is a relatively modern development for there to be so much organized mobilization of these factional groups. The most dangerous thing that Trump accomplished was getting them all to identify as one big in-group, so there really is no functional difference anymore.
They are about 3 minutes from eating their own. They are just barely holding their party together and I really don't think Donny can bring them together this time, what with being so busy trying not to go broke and go to jail.
They'll turn on each other the moment they can. Just look at the Minnesota GOP. They literally cannot resist dividing because they're beliefs are so fucking specific and niche and everyone who doesn't fall in line with them is a 'rino'
Is he threatening the president? Doesn't that usually end with a visit from
FBISecret Service?Edit: Thank you for the correction...twistypencil?
Add it to the list. Keep prosecuting till the end of his days.
Secret service
I bet that protectees ordering each others assassinations or getting in a physical fight with each other wasn’t something the Secret Service thought about before, but definitely thinks about now
Thank you. Edit and attribution.
If you find crimes worthy of putting any of them in prison then do it. Dont threaten us with a good time.
The thing about blackmail is that it doesn’t have to be about crimes. You dipping your genitals into a teacup before drinking out of said teacup, it’s perfectly legal. But if I see it, I can still threaten to tell everyone about it unless you give me $100.
Nothing wrong with a little vinegar tea
Everything about this is just awful. The fact that someone so criminal and so thuggish is exactly who about 30% of this country thinks should be President - and they might get their way due to our broken election system (electoral college means a minority get to choose the leader of the free world).
Pffft.
40% want him to be dictator for a day.
Even after being president for 4 years, he still doesn't understand what a president can and cannot do.
to be fair, he doesn't understand anything.
Out of the courtroom? Joe Biden could Terminator march into the courtroom and cap everyone! Who could stop him? Any judge ruling Trump's way would simply put a hand over the gushing wound in their heart and say "God bless America" as everyone is summarily executed by order of the President. I can only assume it would be illegal to stop him at that point.
I think the first step should be to just be to strip him off his secret service bodyguards...
Next thing is that he demands a presidential pardon from Biden for his crimes. I can already see him whining on his loser social insurrectionist network.
Isn't that what this article is saying? Make charges go away = pardon?
No, he believes that a president has direct control over a functional attorney general.
At the moment, Trump expects Biden to illegally meddle with the juridical process. Which would be the most stupid thing Biden could do.
A pardon can only be granted after a process when a person has been sentenced. Which, in this case, would also be a stupid thing to do.
Oh fuck off President Piss Tape. You loser.
The tape wasn't piss... the P in the P-tape has a more Epstien meaning.
At least one woman has come forward and said he was into piss and that it was taped.
LOCK HIM UP
Oh dear another crime.
Blackmail doesn't work if everyone knows you're being blackmailed!
he won't blackmail, he will have-murdered Biden, in 2025.
Anyone who can't see that coming is wearing rose glasses.
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On fifth ave ? With a gun ?
This ought to be #92 but probably won't be.
ah yes, a wonderful day to be able to read, i am going to go back into my hole now...
Are there any kind of standards on sources here? Raw Story is garbage, and this article basically boils down to a clickbait headline about a Truth Social post.
He's been floating this shit for months and just yesterday his lap dogs in the house tried to impeach Mayorkas cause they had nothing on Biden, he's said "I'm your retribution". This whole "presidents need immunity cause they would be subject to harassment when leaving office" is thinly veiled code for I'm gonna do it. The crucial part is that if you're not a declared criminal that gets difficult to accomplish when indictments are handed down by a jury
I love his "I'm bored" stupid faces hes forced to make when in court 😭🤣 not even in his wildest dreams he imagined himself in that position and the DC jan 6 criminal onel seems to be primed for this summer 🤩🍿
“do what I say or get blackmailed” so is that blackmailing with threating to blackmail someone? Did he technically just publicly blackmail POTUS? I have a feeling that's not fully legal.
Promise?
I want to know why he snubbed the Clintons here. I figured his phone would have added them using the auto complete feature.
The syphilis in his brain has rendered him unable to remember back that far.
The people he's hoping to influence don't remember back that far.
I have a shitbag neighbor that sent me blackmail. Now his friends follow me all over town and shit-talk me to anyone that helps me in stores.
what a fucking loser my neighbor. he voted for trump and plays his dirty games. but he still smells walks and talks loser just like trump.
He is just making things worse for himself.
I'm starting to think I should take what this guy says with a grain of salt