Judge holds Trump in contempt of court, raises threat of jail time | Semafor
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By golly, you do that just 21 more times and you are going to regret it, mister.
And you get a free sub for filling the punch card!
It all makes sense when you realize that when they said "democracy" and "justice system", what they really meant was "corporate dictatorship".
"It's a big club, and YOU ain't in it!"
Fucking do it already
Raffensberger and Vindman and all them already made their choice, they didn’t try to pussyfoot around it or split the difference or give him the benefit of the doubt
You WILL be thrown in prison, or worse, if he gets a second term. All this careful procedural business as usual is doing is making it more likely that that’ll happen.
You’re on a boat, and there’s a guy with a handgun who keeps getting drunk and taking potshots at the captain and putting holes in the hull. And he keeps saying things need to change and he needs to be the captain. Stop hiding the liquor and hoping it’ll all blow over. Stop saying if this keeps on this way someone should do something.
It is YOU, your honor
YOU should be doing something
For real, he’s gonna try to find a way to straight up execute any and all judges who have ever decided anything against him if he gets reelected. Failing that, he’ll certainly try to do something fucky and illegally imprison them. I am not joking.
So you know you need to do it and you're not doing it. Okay then.
He knows what the fuck his job is, it's to direct violence at the poor in order to protect and mollify the rich. The fact is the whole system is set up to prevent this embarrassment and Trump has been too pig-headed and boorish to take advantage of the multiple easy ways out that they've been offering him. He was supposed to do what the rest of them do, quietly agree to a generous plea deal to make the whole thing disappear so that no judge has to be broadcast on live TV showing such blatant favoritism to the aristocratic class.
Hurr durr 11d chess
Anyones brow get furrowed yet?
Thats how you know theyre serious.
Susan Collins has assured me that Trump learned his lesson. Everything should be fine for.
I hope Susan Collins bangs her toe really fucking hard into a table.
Yeah, her cameltoe.
wait wasn't he just fined and threatened with jail time 9 other times?
Show of hands - who here thinks they can violate a judge's orders 10 distinct times, including at least one time after already having been fined for past violations and threatened with jail time for further violations, and then sleep in their own bed that night? The rich break the law 10 times and are told 10 separate times that if they do it again there will be consequences, the poor are held in solitary confinement for years without trial until the prosecution admits that they never had any evidence and then gives up.
This is the second time he was found in contempt.
The first time was on 9 counts. On the second time he was threatened with jail.
I believe that he committed contempt in two separate tranches and at the second series he still hadn't been warned of jail time at that point. He has now been so warned.
As to why the judge hasn't yet thrown his arse in jail - Trump always appeals, nowadays, always, as a delay strategy. The judge wants to limit every appeal element so as to keep things moving. Some of Trump's appeals have only lasted 20 minutes because of this.
https://www.wbaltv.com/article/donald-trump-hush-money-testimony/60644438 - last updated 04/30/2024
The judge threatened jail with the first 9 counts as well, and then Trump just kept breaking the law and the corrupt coward judge backed down because Trump and his ilk are not beholden to the law.
The second contempt hearing was over statements that were made between the first contempt hearing and the judge's initial ruling--i.e. they were statements made before he was initially sanctioned. The judge hasn't backed down, he's just not jailing him until he makes a statement made after his warning.
Jail? I'm sorry, best we can do is stern warnings.
Anyone feel like a $1000 fine for Trump is basically just equivalent to fining him a buck for a swear jar?
Shit or get off the pot, your honor.
There's no justice quite like rich white asshole justice.
And if he does that ten or twenty hundred more times after getting a couple people killed he can be POSITIVE that he MIGHT end up in a TIMEOUT Possibly!
This is the second time he was found in contempt.
The first time was on 9 counts. On the second time he was threatened with jail.
Stop sparing the rod and spoiling this child further.
Holy fuck just shit or get off the pot. Remand him to custody, or just admit you can’t do shit.
Give him orange jumpsuit trash pickup detail. Jail's too good for him.
Trash pickup is better than sitting on a cell.
Not for his fundraising ambitions, though.
People are saying that the judge is attempting to limit his ability to cry fowl, mistrial, grounds for appeal. In that light, I can understand the huge sway granted. It still pisses me off.
It doesn't matter how this trial turns out... he'll appeal the fuck out of it until January then make up some bullshit about being able to parson himself from state crimes...
That's the game...it doesn't matter if it's true or not. He'll claim it is, and by the time (or if even) the courts figure it out, the media will have forgot all about it and he'll get away with it. It's been a systemic dismantling of democracy that Biden didn't do anything to fix. We're fucked...royally fucked.
I know I can be in open contempt of court at least three or four times without making a judge so mad they lock me up, but maybe I'm just talented. /s
foul
Ha. I'm usually a stickler for catching writing mistakes. Except when I'm not. Thanks!