Ne too. The Lincoln Project is mostly former GOP operatives. And no one knows how to get under Trump's thin skin then they do.

 

What a great dad. Using his son for a prop.

How about this explanation. Sorry son I was fucking a pron star when you were born. Then I paid her off to save my campaign. And now I have been indicted for that and may have to be in court when you graduate. And I may have to be in prison when you graduate college too.





'Who will explain to Barron?' Trump raves when judge doesn't immediately approve time off

Matthew Chapman
April 15, 2024 7:01PM ET




US President Donald Trump at a press conference in the East Room of the White House, October 2, 2019. (AFP / Saul Loeb)




Former President Donald Trump erupted on Truth Social Monday after the judge in his hush money trial refused to immediately approve his demand to skip court one day in May.

Judge Juan Merchan told Trump Monday he needed to see where the trial stood before he allowed the former president to miss proceedings to attend his youngest son Barron's graduation ceremony.

Trump was outraged.

"Who will explain for me, to my wonderful son, Barron, who is a GREAT Student at a fantastic School, that his Dad will likely not be allowed to attend his Graduation Ceremony, something that we have been talking about for years, because a seriously Conflicted and Corrupt New York State Judge wants me in Criminal Court on a bogus 'Biden Case' which, according to virtually all Legal Scholars and Pundits, has no merit, and should NEVER have been brought," Trump raged.

ALSO READ: Revealed: What government officials privately shared about Trump not disclosing finances

"This Fake Case is solely meant to attack Crooked Joe Biden’s Political Opponent, ME, who is seriously leading him in the Polls, for purposes of Election Interference," the former president continued.

"The Judge, Juan Merchan, is preventing me from proudly attending my son’s Graduation."

As many reporters in the courtroom have noted, Merchan has not yet ruled whether he will prevent Trump from attending. They also note it is common practice to require criminal defendants to appear in court.

"Seems very unfair, doesn’t it? But this whole event is unfair," Trump wrote. "Every one of the many Fake Cases that are perpetuated by the White House in order to help the Worst President in History, by far, get Re-Elected, are UNJUST SCAMS. We won’t let that happen, but we will MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN!"

The case, brought by Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg, charges Trump with business fraud over his alleged hush payment to adult film star Stormy Daniels.

Bragg — along with some of Trump's old associates such as attorney Michael Cohen — say was in service of a scheme to conceal information about an affair from voters in the 2016 election.

Trump denies there was an affair and has pleaded not guilty.




https://www.rawstory.com/barron-trump-graduation/

 

Its fun for me at least to watch Trump struggling like a man in quicksand against reality. Trump exists in his own delusional reality where he is always the smartest, toughest, invincible, and infallible. And universally loved as well. But now reality is closing in on him from all directions which he cannot bear.

‘I’m Not Unpopular!’: Donald Trump Admits What ‘Bothers’ Him, And It’s Zero Surprise
Josephine Harvey
Mon, April 15, 2024 at 5:55 AM MDT·1 min read
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Shocker: leaving the page." data-wf-tooltip-position="bottom" data-wf-reset-every="90">Donald Trump doesn’t like being called unpopular — even if it’s true.

During a rally in Schnecksville, Pennsylvania, on Saturday, the former president and presumptive GOP presidential nominee complained about reports that neither he nor President Joe Biden are popular candidates.

“You know what bothers me though? This bothers me,” he said from the podium. “I’m always watching, ‘Joe Biden and Donald Trump are the two candidates. They are both unpopular people.’ I’m not unpopular! You know? He is unpopular.”

“He is unpopular. But I am not unpopular,” he continued. “With 95% of the Republican Party and a lot of Democrats are gonna vote for us because they don’t want to have open borders and drugs for everybody. They don’t wanna have it.”


Trump admits he's "bothered" by (accurate!) reports about his unpopularity pic.twitter.com/oMX48RUpgb

— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) April 14, 2024

Polling ahead of this year’s presidential election has indicated that Americans are not particularly happy about either of their options.

According to an analysis by FiveThirtyEight, on average, about 53% of Americans have an unfavorable opinion of Trump, while 55% have an unfavorable opinion of Biden.

If both continue to hold negative favorability ratings through to the election, it would be only the second presidential election since 1980 in which voters had a negative view of both candidates, according to FiveThirtyEight. (The first was 2016).

Trump lost the popular vote in both 2016 and 2020.

Jury selection is scheduled to begin Monday for his hush-money case, the first of his four criminal indictments to go to trial.


https://www.yahoo.com/news/m-not-unpopular-donald-trump-115533693.html

 

Trump declares Atlantic Ocean diminishes importance of 'Ukrainian survival' to the U.S.

Kathleen Culliton
April 18, 2024 5:10PM ET




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Donald Trump took a break from his criminal hush money trial Thursday to share his views on Ukraine funding and Europe's fair share of that bill in a bizarre social media post which stressed that nobody speaks on his behalf.

"I am the only one who speaks for 'ME,'" Trump declared in the text of a Truth Social Post. "GET MOVING EUROPE!"

In just 126 words, Trump touched on topics of national and international import, primarily the war in Ukraine and the presumptive Republican nominee's upcoming presidential election.

After one House Democrat cried out Thursday for immediate aid for the war-beleaguered nation — accusing House Republicans of dragging their feet at their presidential candidate's behest and at the cost of Ukrainian lives lost daily — Trump explained his reasoning why the U.S. need not involve itself more.

"We have an Ocean between us as separation," he explained.

What Trump did not explain was why he quoted the word "me" and capitalized the words billion, dollars, ocean, country, survival, strength, crooked, incompetent and war, that latter of which he declared would never have happened had he remained in the White House.

Trump's post appeared at 1:55 p.m., just minutes before jury selection resumed in a Manhattan criminal courtroom where Trump stands accused of falsifying business records to cover up hush money paid to an adult film star.

ALSO READ: A criminologist explains why keeping Trump from the White House is all that matters

He used the post to declare the U.S. had delivered $100 billion more than "Europe" to the war in Ukraine.

While the Kiel Institute for the World Economy's support tracker estimates the U.S. aid total at 67.7 billion euros or about $72 billion, a CNN analysis of U.S. State Department Office of Inspector General and the Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget records put the number at $113 billion.

The European Union states it has put forward more than 88 billion euros, or roughly $93 billion, since Russia invaded Ukraine in February 2022.

"As everyone agrees, Ukrainian Survival and Strength should be much more important to Europe than to us," Trump said, with a caveat. "But it is also important to us!"

Trump's assertion that he could have prevented Russia's invasion was not met with blanket approval on the social media site whose publicly traded parent company bears his name.

Truth Social user @SaaraSomething called out Trump for his relationship with Russian President Vladimir Putin and public attacks on the North Atlantic Treaty Organization.

"If you support a dictatorship You do not belong in the United States," they wrote. "This beautiful country was founded on a democracy with checks and balances to keep it that way."

"Just stop talking," added @ChrisTurner1. "The world would be better off."



https://www.rawstory.com/trump-ukraine-2667812240/

 

Unlike treasonous conservative/America Hating/Republicans I actually watch Trump. I watch to see what lies he's telling and how incoherent he's babbling. But I also pay special attention to how he looks, how he's moving, tone of voice, and facial expressions. And today Trump was one rattled and defeated man. He was waving a big stack of papers he claims were "experts" saying how the case should have never been brought. But he didn't believe it himself. And I think that prop may have been given to hm by his lawyers. Kind of like a baby toy to to keep him occupied so he didn't violate his gag order again.


Trump awkwardly brandishes printed news stories after full day of criminal trial

Matthew Chapman
April 18, 2024 5:27PM ET




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Former President Donald Trump held an angry press conference following a full day of his criminal trial in Manhattan, during which he brandished a bunch of news printouts and claimed the criminal justice system was rigged against him.

"I'm supposed to be in New Hampshire," Trump said to reporters after emerging from the courthouse. "I've been here all day."

The former president reiterated that he believes the trial against him, for business record fraud to allegedly cover up an affair with an adult film star ahead of the 2016 election, is "very unfair." He waved around the handful of news clippings, most of which had been taken from right-wing media outlets criticizing the trial and defending him, saying that he had pages of "stories from legal experts about how there is no case" and that "I haven't seen one that says it's a good trial."

ALSO READ: Revealed: What government officials privately shared about Trump not disclosing finances

Trump added that Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg, who is prosecuting the case, is the "real fraud" and accused him of falsifying business records himself, saying "he's the one" who did it and "everybody's outraged" that Bragg is prosecuting him when there are "murders going on right outside" the courthouse in Manhattan.

Trump also pushed the idea, with no evidence, that President Joe Biden orchestrated the charges against him, and added, "We've got a crooked president, he should be on trial!"

As of Thursday afternoon, a full jury has been selected to hear the trial. However, at least one more day of jury selection remains as the court must decide on six alternates; Judge Juan Merchan hopes to have that process wrapped up by the end of the week so the trial can move ahead.

Watch the video below or at the link right here.





https://www.rawstory.com/trump-brandishes-documents/

 

This is an interesting aspect to me. Trump exists in a delusional reality where he is always the greatest, the smartest, the toughest, invincible, and infallible. And he cannot bear to have that delusional reality challenged. In fact Trump surrounds himself with an army of sycophants whose job it is to prop up that delusional reality, and protect Trump from actual reality.

To the extent when Trump was president his staff would make sure wherever he went the route would be chosen to avoid all protesters so Trump didn't have to see them. Because it might rattle his ego.

But now he is stuck in court listening to mean tweets about him being read in court. And prospective jurors trashing him to his face. And worst of all he can't even lash out at them. And I think that's obviously taking a physical and mental toll on Trump.



Trump forced to listen silently to people insulting him as he trades a cocoon of adulation for court
JILL COLVIN
Fri, April 19, 2024 at 10:04 PM MDT·7 min read
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Former President Donald Trump appears for jury selection in his trial at Manhattan criminal court in New York, Friday, April 19, 2024. (Curtis Means/DailyMail.com via AP, Pool)
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NEW YORK (AP) — He seems "selfish and self-serving,” said one woman.

The way he carries himself in public "leaves something to be desired," said another.

His “negative rhetoric and bias," said another man, is what is “most harmful."


Over the past week, Donald Trump has been forced to sit inside a frigid New York courtroom and listen to a parade of potential jurors in his criminal hush money trial share their unvarnished assessments of him.

It’s been a dramatic departure for the former president and presumptive GOP nominee, who is accustomed to spending his days in a cocoon of cheering crowds and constant adulation. Now a criminal defendant, Trump will instead spend the next several weeks subjected to strict rules that strip him of control over everything from what he is permitted to say to the temperature of the room.

“He’s the object of derision. It's his nightmare. He can't control the script. He can't control the cinematography. He can't control what's being said about him. And the outcome could go in a direction he really doesn't want," said Tim O'Brien, a Trump biographer and critic.

While Trump is occasionally confronted by protesters, generally he lives a life sheltered from criticism. After leaving the White House, Trump moved to his Mar-a-Lago waterfront club in Palm Beach, Florida, where he is surrounded by doting paid staff and dues-paying members who have shelled out tens of thousands of dollars to be near him.

Many days, Trump heads to his nearby golf course, where he is "swarmed by people wanting to shake his hand, take pictures of him, and tell him how amazing he is,” said Stephanie Grisham, a longtime aide who broke with Trump after the storming of the Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021.

When he returns to Mar-a-Lago in the afternoon, members lunching on the patio often stand and applaud. He receives the same standing ovation at dinner, which often ends with Trump playing DJ on his iPad, blasting favorites like “It’s a Man’s Man’s Man’s World” by James Brown.

Grisham, who spent long stretches traveling with Trump and at Mar-a-Lago during his 2016 campaign and as White House press secretary, described staff constantly serving as cheerleaders and telling Trump what he wanted to hear. To avoid angry outbursts, they requested motorcade routes that avoided protests and left a stack of positive press clips every morning on the Resolute Desk in the Oval Office.

Now, Trump faces a trial that could result in felony convictions and possible prison time. And he will have to listen to more critics, without being able to punch back verbally — something he revels in doing.

Among the expected witnesses in the trial are his former lawyer and fixer, Michael Cohen, and the porn actor who alleged she had sex with him, Stormy Daniels. Both have savaged him in interviews and books as well as on social media.

Trump campaign spokeswoman Karoline Leavitt said Trump proved during his first week in court that “he will remain defiant in the face of this unprecedented political lawfare” and said, “It is clear that his support from the American people will only grow as they watch Joe Biden, Alvin Bragg and the Democrats putting on this bogus show trial six months before the election.”

New Yorkers who said they couldn't approach the case fairly were excused during jury selection. But one of the women with the harshest assessments of him will be among those who will determine his fate on 34 counts of falsifying business records.

“I don’t like his persona, how he presents himself in public," said the woman, who has lived in upper Manhattan for the last 15 years. The woman said she didn't agree with some of Trump's politics, which she called “outrageous."

“He just seems very selfish and self-serving, so I don’t really appreciate that in any public servant,” she said, adding that while she doesn't “know him as a person,” how he "portrays himself in public, it just seems to me it is not my cup of tea.”

Trump’s legal team took issue with her responses, but they were out of challenges by the time she was up for consideration.

Judge Juan Manuel Merchan has withheld the names of prospective jurors for safety concerns.

On Friday, one prospective juror, who said she had attended the 2017 Women’s March protesting Trump’s inauguration, complained of the influence he has over his base.

“I think his rhetoric at times enables people to feel as if they have permission to discriminate or act on their negative impulses,” she said, citing people she has heard make homophobic or racist comments. Still, she said she didn’t have strong feelings about the former president and wasn’t sure of his current policy positions.

Another man said he’d grown up admiring the former president and business mogul's real estate portfolio and even thinking he might someday live in Trump Tower. But he had come to oppose Trump's “negative rhetoric and bias against people that he speaks about."

At other times, lawyers read aloud social media posts from prospective jurors mocking Trump and celebrating his defeats.

One prospective juror, an older white woman, was struck from the jury pool by the judge after Trump's legal team uncovered years-old social media posts that described Trump as a “racist, sexist” narcissist.

One of Trump's attorneys called the posts "vitriolic.”

“She harbors a deep hatred for him,” said the lawyer, Susan Necheles. “She said that ’I wouldn’t believe Donald Trump if his tongue were notarized'” and that he was “anathema” to everything she was taught about love.

Confronted with the posts inside the courtroom, the juror said she understood why they’d be concerning to the defense, but her views had evolved. “Election policies can get pretty spicy and Mr. Trump can get pretty spicy,” she said.

Merchan, the judge, also dismissed a man who in 2017 had shared a Facebook post celebrating the defeat of one of Trump's policies in court. “Get him out and lock him up!” it read in part.

Court rules require Trump to be present throughout the trial. He can't storm out of the courtroom like he did during a recent defamation trial. He is also barred by a gag order from attacking any of the jurors, including on his Truth Social platform.

He has already been admonished by Merchan for audibly uttering something and gesturing while one juror was answering questions.

"I will not tolerate any jurors being intimidated in this courtroom,” said Merchan, who previously warned Trump he could be sent to jail for engaging in disruptive behavior in court.

Trump's assessments in the courthouse weren't all bad, however, with a perhaps surprising number of potential jurors saying they had no strong opinions about one of the best known and most divisive men on the planet.

In fact, the process seemed to reveal more supporters than might be expected in a borough where President Joe Biden captured 87% of the vote in 2020.

One potential juror Thursday who spoke of Trump in glowing terms said he was “impressed” with Trump's career as a successful businessman.

“I mean he was our president, pretty amazing. He is a businessman in New York. He has forged his way, you know, he made kind of history in terms of like where he started and where he has become," said the man, who said he saw his own story similarly.

On Tuesday, another man expressed regret that he couldn’t juggle the trial with his job.

“Your Honor, as much as I would love to serve for New York and one of our great presidents, I could not give up my job for six-plus weeks,” he said.

Many said they had read his book “The Art of the Deal.”

Even the woman who criticized his persona and ended up on the jury anyway acknowledged his appeal to voters.

“Sometimes the way he may carry himself in public leaves something to be desired. At the same time, I can relate to sometimes being a bit unfiltered,” she said. “I see him speak to a lot of people in America. I think there is something to be said about that.”


https://www.yahoo.com/news/trump-forced-listen-silently-people-040458432.html

 

Again Trump's kind of mental illness the mental health experts documented is on clear display. Trump cannot grasp the true situation. He is sitting in court facing serious felony charges in what appears to be a very strong case that could land him in prison. But all Trump can focus on are just totally meaningless perceived slights to his ego and lack of control.



Trump Privately Rages About His Sketch Artist, Courtroom Nap Reports
Ryan Bort, Asawin Suebsaeng and Catherina Gioino
Sat, April 20, 2024 at 8:00 AM MDT·7 min read
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leaving the page." data-wf-tooltip-position="bottom" data-wf-reset-every="90">Donald Trump, if you take it from him, is cherishing the opportunity to stand trial on criminal charges related to a hush-money payment to a porn star. “I’m very proud to be here,” he told reporters before heading into court on Monday, calling the proceedings an “assault on America” that his presence, presumably, would serve to expose. “I’m very honored to be here,” the former president added.

Trump hasn’t been taking to martyrdom very well behind the scenes, though, three sources with knowledge of the matter tell Rolling Stone. He has privately raged over everything from reports that he can’t stop dozing off, to how the court sketch artist is rendering him, to late-night talk show hosts joking about his legal troubles. The former president is reaching levels of fury over the judicial process and all it entails that are “maxed out, even for him,” says one source who has had to personally endure Trump’s recent rantings about his trial.

The presumptive 2024 Republican presidential nominee has a lengthy track record of getting volcanically angry, and often allowing his rage to dictate political, legal, and policy decisions. But with the historic first criminal trial of an American president now underway, his public and private wrath has become particularly multi-faceted, and sustained to the point that longtime confidants have taken notice.


Among the heavily recurring topics in Trump’s private sniping this past week — according to the source, another person familiar with the situation, and a different Trumpworld figure briefed on the matter — is the former president’s bitterness towards New York Times reporter Maggie Haberman, who reported in print, online, and on CNN that Trump was visibly nodding off while in court. “He appeared to be asleep,” she told the network. “He didn’t pay attention to a note his lawyer passed him. His jaw kept falling on his chest, and his mouth kept going slack.”

The observation immediately went viral, provoking an irate denial from Trump’s campaign and reigniting the former president’s antipathy towards Haberman, who has been reporting on him for years. The resentment lasted the entire week, the sources add. It did not help Trump’s denial that he continued to doze off while seated in the Manhattan courtroom throughout the rest of the week. “Trump appears to have fallen asleep in court again,” Haberman wrote on Friday. “His eyes were closed for extended periods and his head dropped down twice.”

In recent conversations with Republican associates, Trump has repeatedly torn into Haberman and her CNN appearances, attacked her journalistic credentials, and bizarrely insisted that she was wrong about him falling asleep. Despite his dozing being widely reported, the former president has laid much of the blame for the detail going viral at Haberman’s feet. He was even observed glaring at her on Monday as he exited the courtroom following her CNN appearance.

It’s not just Haberman who’s been inflaming Trump during the first days of his criminal trial.

Trump has also privately asked people close to him if they agree that the courtroom sketch-artist must be out to get him, two of the sources say. Trump has critiqued the sketches of him that have circulated in the media this week, and insisted some of the images were likely drawn to make fun of him. One such sketch captured Trump snoozing, with his eyes closed and head tilted.

When court broke for lunch on Tuesday, Trump was observed licking his lips as he walked down the middle aisle before flashing a small smile at the courtroom sketch artist as he exited.

“None of these sources know what the hell they’re talking about and clearly have no access to any type of factual information,” says Trump campaign spokesperson Steven Cheung. “These are the types of losers who will try to peddle fantasy as fact because they live miserable existences.”

The former (and perhaps future) president has also voraciously monitored the media and entertainment coverage of the trial. He appeared especially upset with Jimmy Kimmel, the comedian and ABC late-night host who has been commenting on the trial with relish, and whom Trump has long despised — to the point that, as Rolling Stone reported, he tried to get his White House staff to pressure Disney, which owns ABC, to force Kimmel to stop making fun of him.

“Stupid Jimmy Kimmel, who still hasn’t recovered from his horrendous performance and big ratings drop as Host of The Academy Awards, especially when he showed he suffered from TDS, commonly known as TRUMP DERANGEMENT SYNDROME, to the entire World by reading on air my TRUTH about how bad a job he was doing that night,” Trump wrote on Wednesday, referring to Kimmel reading one of Trump’s posts criticizing him during the Oscars last month. Trump added that Kimmel pulled off a “CLASSIC CHOKE” job by fumbling the Best Picture announcement, confusing the host with Al Pacino.

Trump, sources recount, has also been savagely annoyed about some of the rejected jurors — and the memes and social-media mockery that they posted that he was forced to engage with in court. Jury selection wrapped up on Friday, but dozens were dismissed over posts they had made roasting Trump or after admitting they could not be impartial.

The court dismissed one potential juror after Trump’s legal team had flagged their social media post last month of an AI-generated video featuring Trump saying “I’m dumb as fuck.” Trump’s lawyers sought to strike another potential juror over social media posts made or shared by her husband in 2016. In one, Trump’s head is in the hands of a character from The Simpsons. In another, Trump is pictured next to former President Barack Obama with a comment about how this is not what was meant by “Orange Is the New Black.” A third post was set in the theme of “The Avengers Unite Against Trump.” While the challenge failed, the woman was ultimately dismissed.

Judge Juan Merchan reprimanded Trump for being “audible” and “gesturing” within 12 feet of a juror who was asked to explain a social media post showing people celebrating Biden’s 2020 win. “I will not have any jurors intimidated in this courtroom,” Merchan said before directing the defense team to counsel their client on his behavior.

Trump has also, of course, been publicly wailing about several aspects of the trial, including the “freezing” temperature in the courtroom; the jury selection process, which he seemed to think allowed his team the ability to blackball an “unlimited” number of prospective jurors; and the expansive gag order Merchan imposed on Trump in the wake of Trump repeatedly attacking his daughter on social media.

Trump was especially incensed about the order Friday morning. “People are allowed to speak about me and I have a gag order, just to show you how much more unfair it is,” he ranted to reporters outside the courtroom, before calling the people who continue to talk about him “real scum.”

To those who’ve known Trump for a long time, or who used to work for him, it’s no surprise that the gravity and process of this criminal trial would uniquely, severely grate on him.

“I was actually just thinking this morning about how cold [Trump] kept complaining to be yesterday. In his normal world, someone would have jumped up and run, not walked, to get the temperature perfect for him,” says Stephanie Grisham, Trump’s former White House press secretary who fell out with him years ago. “This entire experience must be beyond uncomfortable for him, not just the fact that it dives into such personal details, but he has absolutely no control for probably the first time since he was a young child.”

Grisham adds that Trump being on trial this week “reminded me that not only in the White House, but every facet of his life — be it at Mar-a-Lago or Trump Tower or Bedminster — he has a group of people that cater to his every whim. At Mar-a-Lago, people literally stand and applaud him just for walking into the room, and in court, he has to sit there quietly while some people talk about how much they don’t like him. I can’t imagine how hard it has been for him not to get up and storm out of the place like a five-year-old.”

He’ll have plenty more chances to do just that, as opening arguments don’t even begin until Monday. Judge Merchan warned Trump this week, however, that if he misbehaves or skips out on the proceedings, he’ll be subject to arrest. Trump said he understands.


https://www.yahoo.com/news/trump-privately-rages-sketch-artist-140000547.html

 

Again its just so much fun to me at least to see Trump's absolute panic as reality closes in on him.

And there is not now and never has been any presidential immunity for presidents that commits crimes. And that was proven when Gerald Ford pardoned Nixon so he would not be charged with crimes after he left office. And according to the former Watergate investigators they fully intended to indict Nixon.


Trump posts seven-page 'presidential immunity' rant ahead of his first criminal trial date

David McAfee
April 20, 2024 3:52PM ET




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Donald Trump on Saturday unleased some of his classic arguments for "full presidential immunity" from all criminal charges, as his first criminal case is bearing down on him.

Trump, who is preparing himself for the launch of his first criminal trial, has denied that he falsified financial records to hide a payoff to a woman he had an affair with. He has also sought to argue presidential immunity in the case, despite the payoff predating his presidency, but that request was rejected by the court.

Still, just days before the trial is set to begin, the former president took to his social media site, Truth Social, in an attempt to argue all charges against him in all cases should be completely dropped.

ALSO READ: Revealed: What government officials privately shared about Trump not disclosing finances

"IF THEY TAKE AWAY MY PRESIDENTIAL IMMUNITY, THEY TAKE AWAY CROOKED JOE BIDEN’S PRESIDENTIAL IMMUNITY," Trump wrote in the first post on the subject Saturday.

He then claimed that, "WITHOUT PRESIDENTIAL IMMUNITY, IT WOULD BE IMPOSSIBLE FOR A PRESIDENT TO PROPERLY FUNCTION, PUTTING THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA IN GREAT AND EVERLASTING DANGER!"

"REMEMBER, if I don’t have Presidential Immunity, then Crooked Joe Biden doesn’t have it either, and he would certainly be Prosecuted for his many ACTUAL CRIMES, including illegally receiving massive amounts of money from Foreign Countries, including China, Ukraine, and Russia, paying off Ukraine to fire an unfriendly prosecutor, allowing millions of people to illegally Enter and Destroy our Country, SURRENDERING in Afghanistan, with Hundreds Dead, many Americans Left Behind, and handing over Billions of Dollars Worth of the Best Military Equipment anywhere on Earth, the Decimation of American Wealth through the Green New Scam, and so much more," he wrote. "REMEMBER, Crooked Joe Biden and his CORRUPT JUSTICE DEPARTMENT, D.A.’s and A.G.’s, has attacked his Political Opponent at a level never seen before in this Country, and wants desperately to PUT 'TRUMP' IN PRISON. He is playing a very dangerous game, and the great people of America WILL NOT STAND FOR IT. MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN!!!"

Trump goes on to say that "a President has to be free to determine what is right for our Country without undue pressure."

"If there is no Immunity, the Presidency, as we know it, will 'no longer exist,'" he claimed. "Many actions for the benefit of our Country will not be taken. This is in no way what the Founders had in mind. Legal Experts and Scholars have stated that the President must have Full Presidential Immunity. A President must be free to make proper decisions. His mind must be clear, and he must not be guided by the fear of retribution!"

Finally, he said legal scholars "are extremely thankful for the Supreme Court’s Decision to take up Presidential Immunity."

"Without Presidential Immunity, a President will not be able to properly function, or make decisions, in the best interest of the United States of America. Presidents will always be concerned, and even paralyzed, by the prospect of wrongful prosecution and retaliation after they leave office. This could actually lead to the extortion and blackmail of a President," he added. "The other side would say, 'If you don’t do something, just the way we want it, we are going to go after you when you leave office, or perhaps even sooner.'"

He then hammered the point further.

"Of course I was entitled, as President of the United States and Commander in Chief, to Immunity. I wasn’t campaigning, the Election was long over. I was looking for voter fraud, and finding it, which is my obligation to do, and otherwise running our Country," he said. "If I don’t get Immunity, then Crooked Joe Biden doesn’t get Immunity, and with the Border Invasion and Afghanistan Surrender, alone, not to mention the Millions of dollars that went into his 'pockets' with money from foreign countries, Joe would be ripe for Indictment. By weaponizing the DOJ against his Political Opponent, ME, Joe has opened a giant Pandora’s Box. As President, I was protecting our Country, and doing a great job of doing so - Just look around at the complete mess that Crooked Joe Biden has caused. The least I am entitled to is Presidential Immunity on Fake Biden Indictments!"



https://www.rawstory.com/trump-presidential-immunity-rant/

 

I was really looking forward to Trump's rally in North Carolina last night because I wanted to see if the trial getting to him would carry over into his rally and of course see if he flipped out and violated his gag order again. Unfortunately it got cancelled due to thunder storms at least according to Trump.

But the toll the rial is taking on Trump mentally and psychically is pretty big news everywhere else. The reporters who have covered Trump for years are reporting on it. But even some of the prospective jurors that got dismissed have mentioned to reporters that he didn't look like they thought he did or didn't look healthy.

And it makes perfect sense that Trump would be cracking under the pressure mentally and physically because it was predicted by the mental health professionals. They pointed out Trump exists in his delusional realty where he is always the greatest, the smartest, the toughest, invincible, and infallible. But that delusion can only exist and be reinforced if Trump is in environments he can control. Which is almost all the time. But if he gets put in an environment where he has no control he is in danger of reality sinking in which psychologically he will not be able to bear.



Insiders worried about 'haggard' Trump making it through his hush money trial

Tom Boggioni
April 21, 2024 9:02AM ET




Donald Trump (Photo via AFP)




One week into Donald Trump's Manhattan hush money trial, aides to the former president are growing both worried and anxious about how he will deal with being stuck in court for a possible six weeks and if he can endure it.

According to a report from the New York Times' Maggie Haberman, the former president started off the week looking like his confident old self but after four days of jury selection, "Mr. Trump appeared haggard and rumpled, his gait off-center, his eyes blank."

That has led to growing concerns about how he will deal with the monotony of court proceedings, with testimony interspersed throughout, as well as hearing attacks on his character without the ability to push back immediately as is his habit.

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According to the report, "It is hard to recall any other time when Mr. Trump has had to sit and listen to insults without turning to social media or a news conference to punch back. And it is just as hard to recall any other time he has been forced to be bored for so long."

That has Trump's people more than a little concerned.

"People close to him are anxious about how he will handle having so little to do as he sits there for weeks on end, with only a handful of days of testimony expected to be significant. It has been decades since he has had to spend so much time in the immediate vicinity of anyone who is not part of his family, his staff or his throng of admirers," Haberman explained before adding that his advisers are brainstorming getting him out and around more.

"Some advisers are conscious of Mr. Trump appearing diminished, and they are pressing for more — and larger — events around the New York area," she wrote before explaining, "The highly telegraphed plan was for Mr. Trump to behave as a candidate in spite of the trial, using the entire event as a set piece in his claims of a weaponized judicial system."

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I agree with Mary Trump. Trump tries to avoid anyone protesting, mocking, and insulting him. And if he can't he will usually lash out at them immediately to try and save his wounded ego. So he's never had to sit there and just silently take it. And in Trump's delusional mind that's probably more painful than the charges.



Mary Trump 'Can't Help Laughing' At This 'Schadenfreude' In Uncle's Trial
Lee Moran
Updated Mon, April 22, 2024 at 5:36 AM MDT·1 min read
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Mary Trump said she was tickled by one part in particular of her uncle’s ongoing hush money trial.

And that was when the former president and presumptive GOP nominee was forced — during jury selection last week — to sit and listen to derogatory comments that potential jurors had made about him on social media.

“I can’t help laughing,” the clinical psychologist and fierce critic of her four-time-indicted relative told SiriusXM host Dean Obeidallah.

“Just because leaving the page." data-wf-tooltip-position="bottom" data-wf-reset-every="90">Donald is so mean to other people, he’s so insulting and demeaning that there was a bit of schadenfreude when the judge read into the record certain posts that prospective jurors had put on their social media pages,” she explained.

“You know, ‘Donald invited the Thai boys to the White House, but they decided they’d rather go back to the cave,’ for example,” Mary Trump continued. “And just pointing out how stupid he is and he has to sit there and take it.”

Mary Trump suggested her uncle had “probably been dreading” being held to account for his actions for decades.

“So, part of him was probably always terrified that it was going to come but also he probably never believed it would because he always gets away with everything. And here we are. And trust me, he understands how serious this is,” she added.

Donald Trump faces 34 felony counts over accusations he falsified business records to cover up hush money paid to porn actor Stormy Daniels during the 2016 election season to keep quiet about their earlier alleged affair.

The trial continues Monday.





https://www.yahoo.com/news/mary-trump-cant-help-laughing-065830826.html

 

Its fun to watch the panic setting in. And I think its more than fund raising. Trump fears he will no longer get his supporters to turn out or keep giving him money. And I see a big risk for him here. What if they don't. What will that do to his ego and delusional slithery?




‘I COULD BE THROWN IN JAIL AT THAT VERY MOMENT!’ Trump’s Latest Fundraising Email Touts Court Hearing to Raise Cash

Michael LucianoApr 22nd, 2024, 6:32 pm
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Former President Donald Trump appealed to supporters for campaign donations on Monday by telling them he could be tossed in jail this week.

The presumptive GOP presidential nominee has pleaded not guilty to 34 felony counts of falsifying business records to conceal payments meant to cover up extramarital affairs he had before the 2016 election.

Judge Juan Merchan, who is presiding over the case, issued a gag order preventing Trump from attacking witnesses, courthouse staff, and members of their families. Legal experts have said that Trump has violated said order on multiple occasions. Prosecutors have urged that the former president be held in contempt. A hearing is set for Tuesday, which the Trump campaign touted in an email.


“ALL HELL BREAKS LOOSE IN 24 HOURS!” the subject line blared. “Friend, in 24 hours, the hearing on my GAG ORDER will begin. I COULD BE THROWN IN JAIL AT THAT VERY MOMENT!”

The rhetoric was similar to an email the campaign sent three days before jury selection began, warning, “72 Hours Until All Hell Breaks Loose!”

A jury of 12 jurors and six alternates has since been impaneled without any – let alone all – hell breaking loose.


The rest of Trump’s email read:

This is what the Hate-America Deep State has always dreamed of. I won’t be able to campaign. I will be muzzled and silent. And Democrats will have free rein to destroy our country. We need a HUGE outpouring of support before the day is over, because tomorrow, all hell could break loose for our MAGA Movement. Right now, at this very moment, I’m calling on EVERY Patriot reading this message to chip in and say, I STAND WITH PRESIDENT TRUMP!

ALL HELL BREAKS LOOSE IN 24 HOURS!

Friend, in 24 hours, the hearing on my GAG ORDER will begin.

I COULD BE THROWN IN JAIL AT THAT VERY MOMENT!

This is what the Hate-America Deep State has always dreamed of.

STAND WITH TRUMP

I won’t be able to campaign.

I will be muzzled and silent.

And Democrats will have free rein to destroy our country.

We need a HUGE outpouring of support before the day is over, because tomorrow, all hell could break loose for our MAGA Movement.

Right now, at this very moment, I’m calling on EVERY Patriot reading this message to chip in and say, I STAND WITH PRESIDENT TRUMP!

STAND WITH TRUMP

Crooked Joe Biden thinks that if I’m locked away, then supporters like YOU will abandon me.

BUT I KNOW THAT WILL NEVER HAPPEN!
Only your actions at this moment will show them just how big of a mistake they’ll make if they lock me away.

With you by my side, we will peacefully win back the White House at the ballot box and MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN!

In addition to funding a campaign, Trump continues to face massive legal bills stemming from his civil and criminal cases. Last year, he spent $50 million in donor money on legal fees.


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'Needy, rattled' and 'smaller' by the day: Columnist sees trial taking toll on Trump

Travis Gettys
April 23, 2024 2:39PM ET




Former U.S. President Donald Trump departs Manhattan Criminal Court on April 23, 2024 in New York City. Former U.S. President Donald Trump faces 34 felony counts of falsifying business records in the first of his criminal cases to go to trial. (Photo by Yuki Iwamura-Pool/Getty Images)




Donald Trump boasted that he would use his criminal and civil trials to campaign for president, but he already looks "needy and rattled" after just a week in court, argued one columnist.

The former president – amplified by numerous media outlets – claimed he would bask in the wall-to-wall coverage to manipulate the courts and boost his campaign profile, but that's not what has happened since he lost defamation and fraud judgments for more than a half-billion dollars, wrote Washington Post columnist Jennifer Rubin.

"When the criminal trial actually began, reality hit home," Rubin wrote. "Rather than dominate the proceedings or leverage his court appearance to appear in control and demonstrate no court could corral him, Trump day by day has become smaller, more decrepit and, frankly, somewhat pathetic."

New York Judge Juan Merchan controls his courtroom and hasn't let the ex-president forget that, lecturing him for commenting on jurors and witnesses. And he has ordered Trump to attend trial every day or risk jail time.

"Trump whines that the judge makes him show up every day — even on days his son is graduating from high school or the Supreme Court is hearing his immunity appeal," Rubin wrote. "He is incensed that someone else controls his calendar. It must be a rude awakening to him that in a criminal trial the judge runs the proceedings, not the defendant."


The former president has apparently dozed off several times in trial, drawing mockery on social media and late-night comedy shows, and Rubin noted the irony of his inability to remain conscious after attacking President Joe Biden's vigor.

"When Trump emerged from court to show off pages of comments from loyal Fox News lackeys knocking the trial, he looked downright needy and rattled," Rubin wrote.

"By the end of each long court day in which the judge, prospective jurors and prosecutors recite bad things about him, a short rant outside the courtroom only underscores the power imbalance. He seems diminished."


https://www.rawstory.com/trump-courtroom-2667858531/

 

Hey its Wednesday and no court today so where is Trump campaigning? I mean if its the trial keeping him off the campaign trail then surely Trump is out there campaigning today isn't he? So maybe the Trump supporters can tell us where his campaign events are?

But in the meantime this is more than just a phony staged event. This is the kind of thing his sycophants come up with to try and boost his sagging ego so he doesn't just collapse.


'Pretending to be president': Trump slammed for gifting White House 'key'

Kathleen Culliton
April 24, 2024 1:51PM ET




Donald Trump gives former Japanese prime minister Taro Aso a ceremonial “key to the White House” on April 23. (Trump campaign)




Former President Donald Trump received a digital tongue-lashing Wednesday after a post-hush money trial photo-op saw him hand Japan's former prime minister a White House "key."

Trump invited Taro Aso to Trump Tower's golden lobby on Tuesday, just hours after he left Manhattan's criminal court, to present his guest with a golden key.

The resultant photo — which shows Trump and Aso, the deputy head of Japan’s ruling Liberal Democratic Party, beaming into the camera — caused NBC executive Mike Sington to raise the proverbial eyebrow on X.

"Not sure what gives him the right to do this," Sington wrote. "Probably Citizen Trump once again pretending to be President."

Sington was hardly alone.

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"Did he steal that key?" replied @SojournadaTruth. "Only a lunatic like Trump would do this."

Trump's New York City trial — in which he stands accused of falsifying business records to hide hush money payments ahead of the 2016 presidential election — is one of three in which prosecutors contend he broke the law to claim residence at 1600 Pennsylvania Ave.

While Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg focuses on Trump's initial White House bid, special counsel Jack Smith and Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis levied charges linked to the 2020 loss he baselessly has claimed was a victory.

This contention spurred much mockery from those who saw Trump handing out the White House "key."

"Still pretending to be president," replied William Buecker. "This is actually kind of sad."

"He will never let go," added X user CarrieT. "He believes he is president for life."

Another viewer poked fun at Trump's recent bids to funnel funds into dwindling campaign coffers that have included selling $59.99 Bibles and $399 golden sneakers.

Replied X user Covfefe — also the "bizarre" Trump typo that went viral in 2017, "I’m guessing he’ll sell Trump keys soon at $39.95."



https://www.rawstory.com/trump-gives-key-to-white-house/

 

Their are few things funnier and more rewarding to me than watching Trump in full blown panic mode. MAKE IT STOP!!! MAKE IT STOP!!!! MAKE IT STOP!!!! I AM TERRIFIED!!!! MAKE IT STOP


Just what are the treasonous conservative/America Hating/Republicans supposed to do? That just cracks me up.



'Republicans must step in!' Trump begs for help with legal troubles in frantic 2 a.m. rant

Travis Gettys
April 24, 2024 6:41AM ET




Former President Donald Trump speaks during the Alabama Republican Party’s 2023 Summer meeting at the Renaissance Montgomery Hotel on Aug. 4, 2023, in Montgomery, Ala. Trump's appearance in Alabama comes one day after he was arraigned on federal charges in Washington, D.C. for his alleged efforts to overturn the 2020 election. Julie Bennett/Getty Images




Donald Trump begged Republicans to step in and help him wriggle out of his legal troubles in a middle-of-the-night rant Wednesday.

The quadruple-indicted former president is standing trial in Manhattan in the hush money case and has already been found liable for fraud, defamation and sexual abuse, resulting in a half-billion dollars in penalties. He continues to insist the cases in both federal and state courts are a political hit job from President Joe Biden and his Democratic allies.

"We have a Rigged Judge, who is working for the Democrat Party and refuses to terminate this 'case,' which should have never been brought by Soft on Crime Alvin Bragg," Trump posted at 2 a.m. on Truth Social.

"Judge [Juan] Merchan should be immediately removed, and the Appellate Courts have to take over. That also applies to Corrupt Judge [Arthur] Engoron, who knew I did nothing wrong, and still fraudulently fined me $500 Million Dollars while having no knowledge of Valuation, Finance, or in any way what he was doing. Same with Judge Kaplan, who allowed a woman, who I have never met (celebrity photo line does not count!), and know nothing about, to get a lawless judgment of $90 Million Dollars. New York Justice is in shambles, and only the Appellate Courts can save it."

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Trump has falsely claimed he won the fraud case in appeals court, which last June did exclude his daughter Ivanka Trump from the lawsuit due to the statute of limitations but did not dismiss claims against him or his two eldest sons.

The ex-president has filed an appeal of Engoron's judgment against him and, while it's possible he'll eventually win that appeal, the court's ruling last year did not exonerate him or prevent New York Attorney General Letitia James from suing him or collecting the penalties imposed by the judge.

"A Republican doesn’t stand a chance," Trump raged in his overnight post. "This is not Justice."

"This New York Cabal, run by Crooked Joe Biden’s White House, is a hit job on a Political Opponent the likes of which the USA has never seen before," Trump added. "For the Good of our Country, it must be stopped. The Crooked Joe Biden Witch Hunts have to be ended. REPUBLICANS IN WASHINGTON MUST TAKE ACTION!"



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Trump calls for multiple judges to be removed ahead of gag order decision
Filip Timotija
Wed, April 24, 2024 at 8:39 AM MDT·2 min read
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Former President Trump called for multiple judges to be removed Wednesday, ahead of the gag order decision in his hush money case.

Trump went after Judge leaving the page." data-wf-tooltip-position="bottom" data-wf-reset-every="90">Juan Merchan, who is presiding over the New York hush money case, which was the former president’s first indictment. Trump faces 34 felony counts of falsifying business records in connection reimbursing his then-fixer, Michael Cohen, who paid porn actress Stormy Daniels in the lead-up to the 2016 election to stay quiet about an alleged affair with Trump.

“We have a Rigged Judge, who is working for the Democrat Party and refuses to terminate this ‘case,’ which should have never been brought by Soft on Crime Alvin Bragg,” Trump said in a Truth Social post published early Wednesday morning. “Judge Merchan should immediately removed, and the Appellate Courts have to take over.”


Trump also ripped into New York Judge Arthur Engoron, who presided over a civil fraud case against the former president, and Judge Lewis Kaplan, who oversaw Trump’s defamation trial, in which he was ordered to pay $83.3 million to columnist E. Jean Carroll, in the post.

“That also applies to Corrupt Judge Engoron, who knew I did nothing wrong, and still fraudulently fined me $500 Million Dollars while having no knowledge of Valuation, Finance, or in any way what he was doing,” Trump said.

“Same with Judge Kaplan, who allowed a woman, who I have never met (celebrity photo line does not count!), and know nothing about, to get a lawless judgment of $90 Million Dollars,” he continued. “New York Justice is in shambles, and only the Appellate Courts can save it. A Republican doesn’t stand a chance – This is not Justice…”

Prosecutors working in the Manhattan district attorney’s office have argued the former president has violated Merchan’s gag order 10 times. The order prevents him from attacking prosecutors, court staff, witnesses and the judge’s family.

Trump lawyer Todd Blanche has argued his client was responding to political attacks.

Merchan said Tuesday he would reserve the decision regarding the alleged gag order violations, but noted to Blanche that he was losing credibility after he claimed Trump was “being very careful” not to violate the gag order.


https://www.yahoo.com/news/trump-calls-multiple-judges-removed-143941645.html

 

The despicables hate it when their corruption is publicized.