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

It was absolutely a dog whistle.

And even if you think it wasn't, it is criminally reckless to speak as he did in such language

a) having fought and encouraged others to fight against the lawful transition of power

b) literally at the same speech in which he praised those who did create a bloodbath on January 6th

c) as it escalates the tension approaching the election and

d) as it attempts to normalise such inflammatory rhetoric

It absolutely is in order to call him out for this, and every single other outrageous thing he does. It is important not to become numb to all this.

Beau lays out why Boebert might be in trouble. She's already in Congress so she cannot run for outgoing rep Ken Buck's seat - in the district she's running for in the general, because of the new redistricting. So, someone else new will be the winner of the special election for his seat coming up around the corner, and then she has to try and convince voters to vote for her again instead of the new incumbent, in November.

George Conway's take...

"The theory of Trump’s complaint here is that, since the jury in Carroll II, the case tried last year, unanimously found that Trump forcibly and without consent penetrated Carroll’s vagina with his fingers and not his penis, and since this constituted sexual assault and not rape as defined by the New York Penal Code, Stephanopoulos libeled him by saying he had been held liable for “rape,” even though the judge in the Carroll case has held multiple times since the verdict that in common parlance (and the law of most other jurisdictions) forcible digital penetration is rape.

In other words, Trump is suing Stephanopoulos and ABC because Stephanopoulos repeated what a federal district judge has said repeatedly in written opinions.

By bringing this lawsuit, Trump will only bring more public attention to what he did to Carroll. And he and his lawyers may very well be—in fact, ought to be—sanctioned.

Another brilliant stable-genius move.

Trump is not only a rapist, he’s a nut job, and a very, very dumb one at that."

The attorney who leaked Dominion emails to a MAGA sheriff (who then proceeded to publicize them) thereby trying to spoil the Dominion case has been arrested

Yes. Clearly not a talented guy.

Either way DOJ should continue on apolitically without trying to get this done by election - nevermind that Cannon seems dead set on ensuring that it won't happen before then but I think it's reasonable to conclude Biden is re-elected, and the attempts at delay become fairly moot. They could as easily agree to Cannon's ultimatum, or appeal it to 11th circuit and in doing so create a gap in the schedule for one of the state criminal cases to proceed unabated this summer.

Navarro showed up for prison. Fox News cut away when he tried to say his criminal conviction was merely ‘alleged’

He also crowed that it was an “assault on the separation of powers” - despite pleading his case all the way up to the Supreme Court - and was prosecuted by the same branch he claimed privilege from - under criminal statues passed by the Congress... 😭

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024/mar/19/trump-lawyers-us-supreme-court-immunity

"The filing contended that all of Trump’s attempts to reverse his 2020 election defeat, from pressuring his vice-president, Mike Pence, to stop the 6 January 2021 certification to organizing fake slates of electors, were protected activity".

Trump needs this immunity or he is going down, helps to keep postponing the case though.

A bit like how the "Hillary Emails" thing unduly influenced the 2016 election? I don't see an issue.

The case isn't about winning or losing, or even going to court. Trump is attempting to bully the press to drop talking about it. The hope is that the media company don't want the fight and will simply ensure that it isn't broadcast again. That would cover the entire station.

That would then lead to other organisations being reticent to even discuss the matter.

Robert Reich on the 5 steps to a Dictatorship. This is Trump and his enablers’ plan. This is worth 5 minutes of everyone’s time.

To the supporters of Dictators (and the euphemistic Strong Men Leaders), one day they will go after the thing that you care about and you will be powerless to do anything about it.