What does the future hold for Donald Trump? - threadbans in OP

Fat chance of that.

Regarding his last opponent, their corruption trial starts today.

Gillum put out a big public statement hoping to defend himself. We'll see what happens..

Who knows if they will settle, but they are well incentivized to try and give it their best shot. Fox News has cash on hand averaging over $5 Bn and Rupert is worth $17 Bn. They could, if they wanted, offer Dominion a lot more than they're asking for in a closed-settlement.

If I were Dominion though honestly there's no settlement amount or wordy apology they could write that would convince me Fox News was contrite about anything other than getting caught. Tucker Carlson would just deadly read the mandated apology and then smirk like he just saw a mexican family getting evicted on the way to work

With this much dead to rights evidence in their favor, there's no sense in not going to trial and putting the Fox brand to account on record.

But Dominion? I have no idea if they operate on sense, and they're worth less (way less) than fox.

Just watching a bit of a disgusting Trump speech at an NRA convention where he basically blamed transgenderism for mass shootings in the US. There is literally no end to how low this guy is willing to go, is there?

But his cult members here will still ignore this, stay quiet for a day or two and then come back and say they don't support "the donald" but ignore his disgusting statements and come out with some random "fact" like he has the voters cos he hot some record breaking" amount of votes (ignoring the fact Biden got more).

Nevermind that trump gave speech at NRA conference: "so what? Gun violence is not because of guns. Its because of transgenders. The Donald said so and 74 million people can't be wrong... but I'm not a fan. Just saying facts. Anyway, did you see they are putting a prison beside disneyland? That'll show the libtards. All those tax payers losing jobs if it goes belly up. But its ok, they are all woke"

TELL ME I'm wrong. Tell me I'm f#cking wrong. Fed up talking to his f#cking cheerleaders and cultists. Disgusting lot. Think ill take a break as I'm more and more disgusted watching them wriggle out some support for him and his hate-cult.

You want to know if I'm f#cking triggered? I ask what is wrong with people who do NOT deplore his actions?

If you are not, then take a good hard look at yourself.

Funny, doesn’t look like a drag queen.

Tbh, I’m not surprised anymore.

The Republican Party is in the gutter.

There is definitely more to this story.

Regardless of the final payout,the real loser in all this is Trump and his supporters.

Not only have the claims of vote rigging been thrown out of any court it was tested at, this case shows that far from the left wing woke media lying to people it was actually a concerted effort from Trump and Fox that lied to the American people and Trumps supporters.

Fox News, worked to actively get the result of a democratic election overturned despite knowing that the election was fair.

It continued to push Trumps agenda, despite knowing it was all a lie simply to further it political and financial goals.

It shows Trump is a liar and that his continued insistance that the election was stolen is nothing more than a con perpetrated on his gullible supporters.

How anyone can still stand by and say they have anytime for Trump is not only a dangerous fool, but an active danger to democracy.

The trouble is Fox News viewers are never going to accept it. The courts are biased against Fox News and conservatives, they conspired with Sleepy Joe's DoJ to damage Fox News' reputation and harm them financially, Trump is right about everything, the next election will be stolen.

I mean even here we've had numerous reveals about Tucker Carlson's true opinions on Trump, the Jan 6th riot, and how Fox needs to do what they have to do to prevent their viewers from switching to another channel, and yet people here still posted Carlson's selective cherry-picking of security footage designed to drive that exact same narrative.

Additionally, I think fox will just drop the story and those viewers will just forget it ever happened, they'll have a speeded up warning at the end of each program ala those pharmaceutical adverts. But the long term effects of this lawsuit, and the subsequent smartmatic suit that is an even bigger amount of damages saught, will see the break up of the fox news network and selling of those assets to meet those damages

Don't get fixated on the payout. That is what Trump and posters like MisterAnarchy want as they the conversation revolves around the size of the payout rather than the actual reality of what happened.

I don't know anything about Dominions financial position and the financial impact that this lie may have on their future business, but that is for them to calculate. What this case is showing is the level of deceit and the way that Fox News knowingly spread lies and disinformation in order to subvert democracy and the basis of them wanted Trump to win.

And it shows that Trump, although every critical thinking person already knew this, has been knowingly lying the entire time and continues to use this lie to scam funds from his supporters.

I'd agree. Dominion obviously put as big a figure on it as could be considered practical, but it's probably unlikely they'd ever get such a figure. You sue for as much as possible, and get awarded as much as you can prove. They'd likely get far more than the $80m they may have been worth a few years ago. They're suing for the huge reputational damage done to the company.

Ultimately though, considering Fox News' defense is centered on freedom of the press and the First Amendment, a win by Dominion regardless of the actual financial payout would substantially prove that Fox News acted with purposeful intent beyond what could be considered reasonable.

I see what you are saying but the reason they took the case was primarily to repair the reputational damage done to them, a payout by itself doesn't do that.

Apparently a problem here is the Dominion may want Fox to admit they were at fault to clear their own reputation - but by doing so Fox would be opening themselves up to even more legal cases from investors, who would taking an indirect loss for any payment made by Fox to Dominion. Fox will be looking for a confidential settlement where they don't really have to admit any wrongdoing, but Dominion, for reputational reasons, need the admission.

I see Hires The Best People is lashing out at former chief of staff Mick Mulvaney for being a “born loser” 🤔

The thing is he's still using the big lie. You'd think that, at this point, anyone with even an ounce of honour would have dropped it by now. But Trump still continues to spread a blatant lie about a "stolen election". He probably can't believe how fucking stupid his supporters are himself.