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Trump hints at siccing feds on woman who beat him in court

Summary

Donald Trump hinted at legal action against E. Jean Carroll, who previously won defamation suits against him, by reposting a Truth Social image suggesting women face jail for false accusations.

Carroll’s lawyer, Roberta Kaplan, indicated potential further legal action against Trump.

Trump has also threatened rivals like Liz Cheney, Joe Biden, and even poll workers.

Trump hints at siccing feds on woman who beat him in courthttps://www.thedailybeast.com/president-elect-donald-trump-hints-e-jean-carroll-could-be-next-legal-target-in-truth-social-post/Open linkView original on lemmy.world
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lemmy.world

And the fed is supposed to obey without thinking...?

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ChowJeeBaireply
lemmy.world

In his world? Yes. Unfortunately there hasn't been a whole lot of significant precedent for pushback against the man child in chief during his earlier tenure, so i wouldnt hold my breath.

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Skvlpreply
lemm.ee

And they have used 4 years to make plans to get «sympathetic» people into as many positions as possible.

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14th_cylonreply
lemm.ee

And even after four years of thinking, they have trouble putting together the fucking cabinet :D

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Thank you for brightening my day 😄

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ChowJeeBaireply
lemmy.world

Well, tbf not like the Dems did anything to plug the holes in the system while they had the deciding vote the first 2 years.

Sigh. It's gonna get worse the next 4, right?

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The Dems are part of the problem, even if they are immensely better than what’s incoming.

Yes, it will.

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aussie.zone

Downvotes here are hilarious. What are you downvoting? The fact Trump is a Putin puppet or the fact that the CIA/NSA let him become President twice? Pray tell.

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jaybonereply
lemmy.world

Ok I was trying not to go there, but alright so… then who and/or what criteria does the CIA use to determine who to wack? Do the corporations tell the CIA who to wack? Are we to assume there is some benevolent good intentioned body within the CIA watching over us with fairness and good intentions in their hearts?

I think that was my original line of thought, that this isn’t really their job. This is why we are supposed to have courts. But those are broken too.

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I mean, if you want a serious answer: if the President is overtly and actively damaging US national security, that’s a situation I would have thought that some shady stuff might be done against the president, up to and including helping the line of succession… succeed, as it were. But that clearly isn’t happening.

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Eldritchreply
lemmy.world

Not to mention, the CIA is foreign espionage and assassination. Not domestic. NSA is a global intelligence gathering. And even less assassination oriented.

The people that likely killed MLK would be the proper group. But they practically line up to wash the orange turds taint with their tongues.

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Were one of the agencies responsible for killing undesirable presidents they would set up Trump to die of something that looked natural

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lemmy.world

Isn't this exactly why the demons that wrote up Project 2025 have lots and lots of purges planned?

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As the head of the executive branch, the President is ultimately in charge of them. Now, the President is supposed to avoid conflicts of interest and allow the DOJ to operate independently to carry out their duties and not to interfere with investigations. Historically that has of course been spotty to say the least.

And Trump definitely doesn't give a single fuck about conflicts. If the department heads won't do it he'll just fire them and get someone in the office who will. The normal check on this system is Congress, and they won't do anything to defy Trump, at least not enough of them to actually stop anything.

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discuss.online

How is it that we are supposed to remain within the “ToS” when we have this shit going on?

If he gets to do whatever he wants, I should too.

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If only somebody could organize people like me with a limited future due to medical reasons. Thing is, though, most of us are pretty tired.

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lemmy.world

That's the essential appeal of agent orange - his deplorables think he'll enable them to just do whatever the fuck they want.

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Shawdow194reply
fedia.io

That's the danger of the insurrectionists. The party of "law and order" seems to find themselves above it most of the time...

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psudreply
aussie.zone

I don't know that I like the option of the next several alternatives should Trump become unfit for office

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lemmy.world

I'm sure this will provide economic relief to all those feeling that "economic anxiety".

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I'm not an economics major, but I think it is a market fundamental that every time donvict bleats out something about "nasty women" that have wronged him that the consumer prices for everything drop some percentage points, including eggs.

It's just science.

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lemmy.world

Hints? That orange shitbucket has been pretty clear that he has every intention of weaponizing the justice system against everyone who opposed him.

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Man gets beat in a court room, gets group of men to go beat her. Nice. Presidential material.

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Would it be cowardly or prudent for Carroll to just leave the US?

I would probably just leave.

If you can't try a sitting president then you sure as shit can't defend a law suit from one. She will end up getting fallen out of a window.

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