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B Keck's avatar

That’s a rhetorical question, right? 🙂 I think the more pertinent question is whether any judge will hold TFG to account when he breaks the gag order (which he’s already done elsewhere).

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Susan Campbell's avatar

That will be incredibly interesting. The legal gauntlet has dropped.

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Lynne DeLucia's avatar

The judge isn’t intimidated by DT. If anyone is going to hold DT to the gag order it is this judge. My money is on him— he’s not going to take any BS from DT.

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Susan Campbell's avatar

I think you’re right. This game plan has worked before but most likely not now.

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Lynne DeLucia's avatar

I'm hope I am right. It is a narrow gag order, but still this judge seems serious. Poor DT he seems grumpy and put out to be in court. AG James is tough too -- did you read her comments after court today. She won't be bullied.

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April Morin's avatar

I hope you are right!

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Rich Colbert's avatar

Why would anybody think rules apply when the law doesn’t? The cult leader and his followers won’t be happy until we commoners are feeding on stale bread and rancid vodka like Putin’s peasants in mother Russia!

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Susan Campbell's avatar

I really want to believe that someone somewhere can convince TFG that he's only damaging himself when he does this. I know he doesn't care about democracy or decency, but maybe someone can convince him that being this walking id doesn't play well in court any more.

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marcie's avatar

Actually, I seriously hope that he does blab soon and gets punished immediately. He needs to pay the consequences for his behavior. This seems like a good place to start.

My friend's co-workers and she are having a pool on how long it'll be before he violates the gag order. 🤣

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Susan Campbell's avatar

I wonder what the shortest time is in that pool.

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Carol M Robinson's avatar

Unfortunately, I do not believe that TFG is teachable. I believe the best that we can hope for is that he is mental disorder, and or illness is officially diagnosed and he will have the ongoing inpatient care he needs, and deserves. Other than his cholesterol taking over his blood vessels I believe psychiatric inpatient care would be the best solution for our country and TFG.

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marcie's avatar

Oh, but then he'd have another out, wouldn't he? Not guilty of his crimes because of mental incompetence?

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Carol M Robinson's avatar

I certainly hope not! I believe just because you need treatment for a mental disorder doesn't equate to incompetence. Persons, con artists, with mentally uncontrollable greed and need to satisfy that greed without remorse for those injured do indeed know what they are doing.

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Rich Colbert's avatar

The saying “you can’t teach an old dog new tricks” seems apt for this guy!

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Jac's avatar

I predict the same. He doesn't know how to restraint himself.

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Jac's avatar

restrain (not restraint)

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Thomas Dombroski's avatar

Listening to him crying about not having a jury trial was beautiful , especially knowing that it was because his incompetent attorney didn’t check the box for a jury trial

And the video of him crying about it while she try’s to get in the frame when he’s speaking actually made me laugh

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Susan Campbell's avatar

I saw that. And I giggled.

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Janet's avatar

Nothing will gag that guy, unless it’s a mouthful of fines he need to pay!

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Mary Ann Dimand's avatar

I keep thinking that President Trump really thought that his myrmidons and flying monkeys would bring down the government on January 6-and-following, and hand it to him.

I tend to read his actions ever since as effort at a redo on that, and am glad to feel pretty sure that his moment for taking over by coup, such as it was, is over. (I still think we need to act to prevent coups. I'm not saying that he's harmless. I just think him unlikely to succeed.)

And in that light, I tend to suspect that he's hoping that his being imprisoned or whatever will activate Yet More myrmidons and flying monkeys. So I don't think he'll shut up.

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Dave Walker's avatar

agreed.

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Paul Ashton's avatar

It depends on what you mean by “work”. If he ignores it, acts out and suffers the consequences; works for me. If he takes it seriously and behaves; works for him.

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Susan Campbell's avatar

ha. I knew that was what and who you meant.

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