I confess to back pedaling into Trump territory when I wanted to leave discussions about him in the garbage can. My thread on the read-only break room site has 9,600 replies so I thought I'd bring up a new one.
He's not going away.
Haberman's book is out based on interviews. I won't read it, but the excerpts are interesting. Especially what he says about McConnell, a description that's against the Terms of Service here, but I actually don't disagree with. LOL
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“At one point, Trump made a candid admission that was as jarring as it was ultimately unsurprising. ‘The question I get asked more than any other question: “If you had it to do again, would you have done it?”’Trump said of running for president. ‘The answer is, yeah, I think so. Because here’s the way I look at it. I have so many rich friends and nobody knows who they are.’ … Reflecting on the meaning of having been president of the United States, his first impulse was not to mention public service, or what he felt he’d accomplished, only that it appeared to be a vehicle for fame, and that many experiences were only worth having if someone else envied them.”
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Beerman said:
Maybe, maybe not.
Not a very well disguised deflection.
Deflecting from what?
You said read the article. I did and then shared a thought on his analysis. How in the world is that a deflection? You didn't even bother to offer an opinion or a thought.
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Heard this sports radio host today Colin Cowherd: Trump should be judged by the company he keeps.
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"He's trying to sell me an America that doesn't exist,” Cowherd said on his latest podcast episode for The Volume. "I don't see crime, I'm not stumbling over homeless people. I see happy people. Dodger Stadium is full, leads Major League Baseball in attendance. Laker games are full. NFL games are full. People have money in their pocket. LAX is packed, I just saw record airline revenue over the weekend. I'm constantly being sold an America by Donald Trump of 'crime rates are skyrocketing.’ No, they're actually not. ...
"Donald Trump is now a felon,” Cowherd said. "His campaign chairman was a felon. So is his deputy campaign manager, his personal lawyer, his chief strategist, his National Security Adviser, his Trade Advisor, his Foreign Policy Adviser, his campaign fixer and his company CFO. They're all felons. Judged by the company you keep. It's a cabal of convicts.”
Maybe the world is not against you...stop selling that everything is rigged."
The Proud Boys are back. Four years after the failed effort to overturn Trump's 2020 electoral defeat, the violent all-male extremist group that led the storming of Congress on Jan. 6, 2021, is rebuilding and regaining strength as Trump campaigns to return to the White House, according to interviews with eight Proud Boys, two U.S. law enforcement officials and four experts who track the group's online activity.
Since the Jan. 6 Capitol riot, four former Proud Boys leaders have been convicted in federal court of seditious conspiracy, each sentenced to 15 or more years in prison. At least another 70 members were charged with participating in the violence. But that crackdown hasn't stopped the Proud Boys.
Some Proud Boys say they are preparing to emerge once again as a physical force for Trump, drawn to his hardline nationalism and convinced their leaders will be pardoned if he wins. Trump himself promises to pardon convicted Jan. 6 rioters if he's elected.
After last Thursday's historic guilty verdict against Trump, an Ohio Proud Boys chapter vowed "war" and posted a video of Proud Boy street brawls that ended with the message, "Fighting solves everything.” A Miami chapter said, "Now, more than ever, we are recruiting!” Some posted images of the upside-down American flag symbolizing the "Stop the Steal" movement that falsely claims Trump won the 2020 election. One Proud Boy told Reuters that America is in a period of "calm before the storm.”
Oh boy. Look at the patriotic fever that Trump inspires.
Trump gets more people in legal trouble who are trying to help him retain lost power and overturn election results. All victims of a corrupt conman.
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The Wisconsin charges were filed against Trump's attorney in the state, Jim Troupis, 62, attorney Kenneth Chesebro, 62, who was advising the campaign and Mike Roman, 51, who was Trump's director of Election Day operations. Roman allegedly delivered Wisconsin's fake elector paperwork to a Pennsylvania congressman's staffer in order to get them to then-Vice President Mike Pence on Jan. 6, 2021.
All three are due in Dane County Circuit Court on Sept. 19, according to court records. They each face one felony count punishable by up to six years in prison and fines of up to $10,000.
This is not Mr Chesebro's first legal rodeo as a defendant who was trying to elevate Trump by extra-constitutional means. My guess is that Trump has people similarly motivated to break laws for Trump already in place in battleground states for the November election. There really are so many deceived and deluded people in the party of Trump just now.
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Wisconsin Republican U.S. Sen. Ron Johnson called the charges "outrageous.”
"Now Democrats are weaponizing Wisconsin's judiciary,” Johnson posted on X. "Apparently conservative lawyers advising clients is illegal under Democrat tyranny. Democrats are turning America into a banana republic.”
Weaponizing is the current rhetoric of deceit from republicans as they weaponized government.
Now that it's all over, will the jurors reveal their identities, get exposed by someone else or just fade back into the fabric of civilian life? And if they speak, what might they say?
Social psychologist and jury consultant Julie Blackman joined Consider This host Ari Shapiro to explore what could be next for these inadvertently influential folks.
Blackman says the transition back to normal life might take the jurors a minute, due to the demands of serving on the jury.
"They were instructed by the court at the beginning of the trial, and throughout the trial, to stay off the internet, to avoid any information that's relevant to the trial at hand," she explained.
"And so one of the things you would expect they would be doing at this point, assuming that they'd followed that instruction, is checking to see what was happening during the course of the trial to try to reestablish themselves in a sense and in the world of news about this case."
And on whether they should reveal their identities to the world?
"I mean, in some respects, I'm very eager to hear from the jurors, in particular because Trump has derided the process. He's talked about it as rigged. And the ultimate proof that it was not, is hearing from jurors who say, 'I was there. I was in the room, and I'm willing to kind of pierce the black box of juror deliberations to describe our process and to say that we were fair.'"
Blackman expects that during this time, the jurors are weighing the risks and possible benefits of coming forward. Including the possibility of doxxing.
If the jurors are thinking of their lives going forward they will pretend like they had nothing to do with this Trump case. Too many Trump supporters are not thinking clearly and instead rely upon their feelings and emotions to dictate their actions.
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Deflecting from what?
You said read the article. I did and then shared a thought on his analysis. How in the world is that a deflection? You didn't even bother to offer an opinion or a thought.