And all those people on Twitter demanding Merchan lock Trump up by yesterday..@AWeissmann_ has another option for Trump gag order consequences:
— Sarah Burris 🌻 (@SarahBurris) April 29, 2024
Judge Merchan can hold sentencing until end of the trial & use that compounding threat of jail to motivate him to shush.
He can also tell Trump he'll use gag order breach in sentencing for a guilty verdict. pic.twitter.com/Mx47bCie0O
And if the delay doesn’t help Trump and he goes to trial in 2025? Well, who pays for it? He’ll be a two-time loser and not running for anything. Small donors are already drying up, and large donors won’t bother at all.Now think about the criminal case before Judge Chutkan: In a world where the Supreme Court similarly decides there must be further lower court proceedings to determine whether Trump can mount an immunity defense, can that case be tried before 2025? Increasingly, I think not--and…
— Lisa Rubin (@lawofruby) April 29, 2024
Always easier when the kooks aren’t hiding it.We've been talking about the Republican rejection of democracy for a while now, but to see and hear them explicitly state it is still unnerving. pic.twitter.com/2DNCzPnCER
— Maddow Blog (@MaddowBlog) April 30, 2024
Trump: 'There is a definite antiwhite feeling in the country' that 'can't be allowed'https://t.co/beabvMng8N
— Raw Story (@RawStory) April 30, 2024
an interview with Time Magazine, the former president was asked about polls showing that his supporters believe that "antiwhite racism" is now a greater problem than prejudice leveled against other minorities. There is a definite antiwhite feeling in the country,” Trump replied in response. “And that can’t be allowed either.”
Trump has a long history of deploying racist dog whistles, starting with his failed quest to prove that former President Barack Obama was born in Kenya and was thus not eligible to be president.Except I’d always understood a “dog whistle” meant someone was being subtle; and this is about as subtle as a white hood.
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