Former President Trump's defiant response to the expanded gag order in his New York hush money trial has stirred controversy and raised questions about his approach to legal proceedings. With the trial looming just days away, Trump's willingness to flout judicial restrictions and his comparison of potential jail time to a "great honor" have drawn widespread attention.

 

The expansion of the gag order by Judge Juan Merchan, aimed at curbing Trump's public attacks on family members of those involved in the case, reflects the escalating tensions surrounding the trial. Trump's assertion that he would proudly go to jail for speaking what he perceives as "the open and obvious TRUTH" further underscores his confrontational stance.

 

In characteristically dramatic fashion, Trump likened himself to Nelson Mandela, positioning his legal battle as a noble struggle against perceived political adversaries masquerading as prosecutors and judges. His portrayal of the situation as a fight to "Save our Country" adds a patriotic fervor to his rhetoric, appealing to his base of supporters who view him as a champion against perceived injustices.

 

The case itself, involving 34 felony counts of falsifying business records related to alleged hush money payments made in 2016, is a significant legal challenge for Trump. As the first of his four criminal cases to go to trial, its outcome could have far-reaching implications for his political future, particularly as he considers a potential presidential run in 2024.

 

While Trump has pleaded not guilty to all charges and vehemently denied any wrongdoing, his combative approach to the legal process raises questions about his respect for judicial authority and the rule of law. As the trial date approaches, all eyes will be on Trump's next moves and how they may impact both the proceedings and his broader political aspirations.

 

08.04.24

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Go Trump go.

 

He knows that going to jail will just make him more popular and support his claims to being unfairly treated by the Dems using the judicial system against him.

 

No doubt the judge will know of potential problems for him and his family if he did jail Trump. Having made the threat, he is now in the unenviable position of either jailing Trump, with the potential problems for his personal safety, or of not jailing Trump and looking weak.

 

Trump has now thrown the ball into the judge's court, and we will have to wait and see what the judge does with it.

43 minutes ago, Social Media said:

 

The smile of a man that knows the judge is screwed if he does or if he doesn't.

 

The judge should have thought a bit more carefully before making the gag order, as he should have known how Trump would react.

For sure, Trump is not the usual accused that goes before the judge, one that is awed by the judicial system, and goes along with it. IMO Trump doesn't care about judges, or the judicial system, and with 91 or so cases against him has nothing to lose by mocking it and them. They can only put him in jail once, unless they have developed a way to clone him.

 

Every day with Trump in it is an interesting day.

I wish they would jail him snatch his big fat rearend straight out of the court room straight to booking have his perp walk in the orange suit or the paper painters suit handcuffed a real mugshot no makeup no comb over and his real weight.there will be protests so what it’s time !there won’t be throngs of trumpers crying blubbering and besnotting themselves.what many dont take into account is the absolute jubilation of the majority of Americans seeing this fraud put were he belongs!even if it’s just for a week!let that fraud do his court appearances on video like the rest of the people have to do when they run afoul of the law! Enough lock him up!!

1 hour ago, Tug said:

seeing this fraud put were he belongs!even if it’s just for a week!

you left off With no smart phone

TBL - "He knows that going to jail will just make him more popular". Oh he 'knows' that does he ? BUT is he right ? Surveys show that he'll lose lots of republican support, except of course, from MAGA fanatics.

 

I'm glad that he is looking forward to going to jail, because that is very likely indeed to be his fate. Trump's problem is he sees no greater Authority than himself.

 

A 'great honour' ? Yes dopey Donald - the 'great honour' will be for all law abiding USA citizens.

 

Nelson Mandela - ha ha !!

Trump projects that he’s not afraid of what he’s afraid of.

 

And really, Trump comparing himself to Nelson Mandela?

 

Trump needs be in no hurry, his first criminal trial is scheduled to start in 8 days time.

 

 

12 minutes ago, jerrymahoney said:

you left off With no smart phone

And the cavity search.

27 minutes ago, jerrymahoney said:

you left off With no smart phone

Sorry Jerry I stand corrected!

4 hours ago, thaibeachlovers said:

For sure, Trump is not the usual accused that goes before the judge, one that is awed by the judicial system, and goes along with it. IMO Trump doesn't care about judges, or the judicial system, and with 91 or so cases against him has nothing to lose by mocking it and them. They can only put him in jail once, unless they have developed a way to clone him.

 

Every day with Trump in it is an interesting day.

He will change his attitude soon.

7 minutes ago, Danderman123 said:

He will change his attitude soon.

As usual a pointless post that informs us of nothing and just your opinion anyway.

I think I was right when I wondered if it was about getting your post count up.

 

Bye.

Trump knows his only way out of a long stretch in jail or some sort of executive prison is to create chaos....and that, is what he is trying to do every day by getting more and more crazed....comparing himself to jesus and mandella, praising the jan 6 thugs who were convicted and sentenced for their crimes, insulting judges witnesses and worst...his big hope is that his brain dead maga cult will try and start  a civil war and in the process he will somehow escape his legal troubles...all of which are a direct result of his actions.

 

Look for him to start threatening that he has some juicy nuke secrets that he will give to putin or all of his dictator friends....anything no matter how nuts or dangerous as he is desperately trying to avoid what is headed his way.

 

I suspect in the end most of his maga cult is probably not very interested in participating in civil war type violence and end up in prison for a decade or so as "hostages".  It is a matter of time til at least one judge will grow a set and lock his ass up just as they would have with any other person long ago.

This man is such a coward, one day in prison and he would wet his pants. He could not go one day without a hamburger, this man doesn't know what the word sacrifice means, he loves to talk big as long as he thinks there's no consequences, and as long as he's convinced he will never have to follow up. Such insincerity.

An alternative would be to restrain him in a ward for geriatrics for a real psychological assessment if he breaks the gag order, that would certainly lower his status and wouldn't be prison by definition, an unfavourable psychiatric report could be 'leaked'.

6 hours ago, Tug said:

I wish they would jail him snatch his big fat rearend straight out of the court room straight to booking have his perp walk in the orange suit or the paper painters suit handcuffed a real mugshot no makeup no comb over and his real weight.there will be protests so what it’s time !there won’t be throngs of trumpers crying blubbering and besnotting themselves.what many dont take into account is the absolute jubilation of the majority of Americans seeing this fraud put were he belongs!even if it’s just for a week!let that fraud do his court appearances on video like the rest of the people have to do when they run afoul of the law! Enough lock him up!!

Calm down ! Wishful thinking. Never going to happen.  

Something that seems to pass people by is that, guilty or not, the man has absolutely no class. He is an ignorant (comparing himself to Nelson Mandella the last idiocy) loud-mouthed tasteless American who is interested only in himself and no-one and nothing else.

I've posted this before but it's worth putting up again, because it sums him up perfectly:

Someone asked "Why do some British people not like Donald Trump?" 
Nate White, an articulate and witty writer from England, wrote this magnificent response:
"A few things spring to mind.
Trump lacks certain qualities which the British traditionally esteem.
For instance, he has no class, no charm, no coolness, no credibility, no compassion, no wit, no warmth, no wisdom, no subtlety, no sensitivity, no self-awareness, no humility, no honour and no grace - all qualities, funnily enough, with which his predecessor Mr. Obama was generously blessed.
So for us, the stark contrast does rather throw Trump’s limitations into embarrassingly sharp relief.
Plus, we like a laugh. And while Trump may be laughable, he has never once said anything wry, witty or even faintly amusing - not once, ever.
I don’t say that rhetorically, I mean it quite literally: not once, not ever. And that fact is particularly disturbing to the British sensibility - for us, to lack humour is almost inhuman.
But with Trump, it’s a fact. He doesn’t even seem to understand what a joke is - his idea of a joke is a crass comment, an illiterate insult, a casual act of cruelty.
Trump is a troll. And like all trolls, he is never funny and he never laughs; he only crows or jeers.
And scarily, he doesn’t just talk in crude, witless insults - he actually thinks in them. His mind is a simple bot-like algorithm of petty prejudices and knee-jerk nastiness.
There is never any under-layer of irony, complexity, nuance or depth. It’s all surface.
Some Americans might see this as refreshingly upfront.
Well, we don’t. We see it as having no inner world, no soul.
And in Britain we traditionally side with David, not Goliath. All our heroes are plucky underdogs: Robin Hood, Dick Whittington, Oliver Twist.
Trump is neither plucky, nor an underdog. He is the exact opposite of that.
He’s not even a spoiled rich-boy, or a greedy fat-cat.
He’s more a fat white slug. A Jabba the Hutt of privilege.
And worse, he is that most unforgivable of all things to the British: a bully.
That is, except when he is among bullies; then he suddenly transforms into a snivelling sidekick instead.
There are unspoken rules to this stuff - the Queensberry rules of basic decency - and he breaks them all. He punches downwards - which a gentleman should, would, could never do - and every blow he aims is below the belt. He particularly likes to kick the vulnerable or voiceless - and he kicks them when they are down.
So the fact that a significant minority - perhaps a third - of Americans look at what he does, listen to what he says, and then think 'Yeah, he seems like my kind of guy’ is a matter of some confusion and no little distress to British people, given that:
* Americans are supposed to be nicer than us, and mostly are.
* You don't need a particularly keen eye for detail to spot a few flaws in the man.
This last point is what especially confuses and dismays British people, and many other people too; his faults seem pretty bloody hard to miss.
After all, it’s impossible to read a single tweet, or hear him speak a sentence or two, without staring deep into the abyss. He turns being artless into an art form; he is a Picasso of pettiness; a Shakespeare of <deleted>. His faults are fractal: even his flaws have flaws, and so on ad infinitum.
God knows there have always been stupid people in the world, and plenty of nasty people too. But rarely has stupidity been so nasty, or nastiness so stupid.
He makes Nixon look trustworthy and George W look smart.
In fact, if Frankenstein decided to make a monster assembled entirely from human flaws - he would make a Trump.
And a remorseful Doctor Frankenstein would clutch out big clumpfuls of hair and scream in anguish:
'My God… what… have… I… created?
If being a <deleted> was a TV show, Trump would be the boxed set."
 

By all means, grant this loudmouth fool his wish and throw his ample @ss in jail. Please!!

7 hours ago, thaibeachlovers said:

The smile of a man that knows the judge is screwed if he does or if he doesn't.

 

The judge should have thought a bit more carefully before making the gag order, as he should have known how Trump would react.

And that's what's wrong with the American legal system. Everybody seems so scared of that guy, that he is treated with kid gloves all the way.

Trump is out before his various trials have even begun, and he's spewing threats and hatred on a daily basis, anyone else would have been behind bars a long time ago. You can wait for your trial in cell block 7, sir.

Gag orders are meant to protect the integrity of the trial, and those judges don't seem to have the spine to actually do that.

Free Donald Mandela! 😅

Good!

Can you go today, please - and stay there for the  next 20 years?

Thank you.

Billions will thank you in numbers, "never seen before - across the world".]

Everyone will be saying "What a great Jesus man he is - so saintly!

Much quicker.

7 hours ago, thaibeachlovers said:

The smile of a man that knows the judge is screwed if he does or if he doesn't.

 

The judge should have thought a bit more carefully before making the gag order, as he should have known how Trump would react.

If he thought like you, he would not have become a judge....

7 hours ago, thaibeachlovers said:

Go Trump go.

 

He knows that going to jail will just make him more popular and support his claims to being unfairly treated by the Dems using the judicial system against him.

 

No doubt the judge will know of potential problems for him and his family if he did jail Trump. Having made the threat, he is now in the unenviable position of either jailing Trump, with the potential problems for his personal safety, or of not jailing Trump and looking weak.

 

Trump has now thrown the ball into the judge's court, and we will have to wait and see what the judge does with it.

Dude...whatever whack-a-doodle mind altering substance you're on...and for many years already...please let us know so we can be sure to NEVER get anywhere near that 💩❗

3 hours ago, thaibeachlovers said:

As usual a pointless post that informs us of nothing and just your opinion anyway.

I think I was right when I wondered if it was about getting your post count up.

 

Bye.

Silly post..........🙄

5 hours ago, Chomper Higgot said:

And the cavity search.

Bet you're spanking one out just thinking of it...

10 minutes ago, Presto said:

Everybody seems so scared of that guy, that he is treated with kid gloves all the way.

They don't want to give him the "Martyr" card to play , 

 

1 minute ago, sirineou said:

They don't want to give him the "Martyr" card to play , 

Trump acts like a mob boss, all the time. After intimidating witnesses or threatening members of the court, or family members, any mob boss would be behind bars by now.

Not so Trump. A two tier justice system, mainly out of cowardice.

 

Hope the animal finally gets what he derseves for screwing over so many people/. Last week he was selling bibles,this week comparing himself to Nelson Mandela.  What a grifting mongrel it is.

8 hours ago, thaibeachlovers said:

The smile of a man that knows the judge is screwed if he does or if he doesn't.

 

The judge should have thought a bit more carefully before making the gag order, as he should have known how Trump would react.

So, enforcement of the law is dependent on the Defendant's threats? Just asking the question. For this American, a citizen Grand Jury found enough evidence presented to warrant a trial ... so be it, no matter the threats of the Defendant nor of his supporters who are supporting him due to his giving voice to the justified frustrations/anger ... wrong individual to follow.

It would be a much greater honor---for the USA and the entire human species---if the clown was charged, convicted and executed for Sedition.

 

Only in that way is he capable of maga-ing.

 

And make good people smile.