Stupid Trumpkin Tricks

[Rajoo]

Posting a bit from NYT from a conversational column between Brett Stephens and Gail Collins.

Bret: I get the sense that the assassination attempt spooked him more than he’s willing to admit and also slowed him down. And yes, there are those niggling details about him being a nut, a narcissist, a boor, a bigot, a blowhard, a tornado of baloney — a man who, to borrow from an old joke, could commit suicide by leaping from his ego to his I.Q.

Gail: Love that line.

I too believe that Trump has been spooked and why he is behaving so erratically at his public campaign events. And now Ms. Harris is also living rent free in his head.

Also an idea occurred to me today. If President Biden were to pardon Trump for his classified documents theft case now, would Trump take it? And if he does, then Biden could perhaps score serious political points. The case as it stands now is a lost cause anyway, will take years to make it though the courts especially since every bit of evidence will be challenged under the new Scotus immunity clause and doubt Canon will be removed in the short term.

The risk may be that the liberal wing will hate him for it especially after his unwavering support of Netanyahu and Israel.

[Pio1980]

There really is no "bottom".
https://www.reuters.com/world/us/tru...on-2024-09-02/

[Rajoo]

Trump is now peddling a pictorial for $99, already a best seller on Azon.
Read a review in WaPo with this burn line:

He claims that “Save America” “is a MUST HAVE on U.S. History,” but the tone is so onanist that the book should really be left alone to enjoy itself in private.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/books...-america-book/

[RickeyM]

Originally Posted by Rajoo

Posting a bit from NYT from a conversational column between Brett Stephens and Gail Collins.



I too believe that Trump has been spooked and why he is behaving so erratically at his public campaign events. And now Ms. Harris is also living rent free in his head.

Also an idea occurred to me today. If President Biden were to pardon Trump for his classified documents theft case now, would Trump take it? And if he does, then Biden could perhaps score serious political points. The case as it stands now is a lost cause anyway, will take years to make it though the courts especially since every bit of evidence will be challenged under the new Scotus immunity clause and doubt Canon will be removed in the short term.

The risk may be that the liberal wing will hate him for it especially after his unwavering support of Netanyahu and Israel.

Why would President Biden need to score any political points? He's already in good with most Dems and it would take the second coming of Christ for the Rethuglicans to approve of him.

[donquixote99]

Originally Posted by Rajoo

Posting a bit from NYT from a conversational column between Brett Stephens and Gail Collins.



I too believe that Trump has been spooked and why he is behaving so erratically at his public campaign events. And now Ms. Harris is also living rent free in his head.

Also an idea occurred to me today. If President Biden were to pardon Trump for his classified documents theft case now, would Trump take it? And if he does, then Biden could perhaps score serious political points. The case as it stands now is a lost cause anyway, will take years to make it though the courts especially since every bit of evidence will be challenged under the new Scotus immunity clause and doubt Canon will be removed in the short term.

The risk may be that the liberal wing will hate him for it especially after his unwavering support of Netanyahu and Israel.

Agree with Ricky. Don't see the up side here. Instead it sends the message that there was something wrong with bringing this case, that Trump was NOT guilty as hell. And it sends the message that Trump skates again, and is still untouchable, while his enemies are failing and weak. Both not such great messages.

[RickeyM]

We're talking about tRump here. If Biden pardoned him Done would claim it exonerates him because it was all political and that he was innocent of everything to begin with. The only way to effectively deal with tRump is to jail him. Even if he flees the country (Venezuela perhaps) that still won't effectively shut him up.

[Pio1980]

Despite evidence, Trump calls Arlington Cemetery incident a 'made up story' https://www.npr.org/2024/09/03/g-s1-...ngton-cemetery

[Noogies]

There's no strategy behind anything Trump says now. He's just senile is all.

[Rajoo]

Originally Posted by RickeyM

Why would President Biden need to score any political points? He's already in good with most Dems and it would take the second coming of Christ for the Rethuglicans to approve of him.

Originally Posted by donquixote99

Agree with Ricky. Don't see the up side here. Instead it sends the message that there was something wrong with bringing this case, that Trump was NOT guilty as hell. And it sends the message that Trump skates again, and is still untouchable, while his enemies are failing and weak. Both not such great messages.

I believe that this case will die in the vine, even if Trump loses. He gathered the documents while he was still President and can now claim with the Scotus immunity clause in play. And lets not forget that Scotus has made it easy for Trump to appeal each and every piece of evidence submitted one by one. Theoretically this case could go on forever with Canon on the bench.

My pardon proposal was to throw a wrench in the works, strictly strategic not political. Pardon is not an exoneration and if he takes it, he admits guilt. I believe the best strategy to beat Trump now is to keep him rattled every which way and he will find a way to lose.

[Pio1980]

https://apnews.com/projects/january-6-cases/