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

Actually, I thought maybe he had already, but at this point when it comes to Jabba, I've lost track of what is reality, what he could do and he actually has done.

I would propose to lock him up while in the courtroom. Use the glass cubicles the Russians are fond of using!

You seem unbelievably oblivious both to Trumps actual conduct and to the hysterical conduct of his MAGA supporters. If you want to see social / media hysteria have a look at the incoherent deluded rants from Trump on social media and elsewhere.

The idea of calmer times? Is your idea of calmer times a fascist dictatorship? Trump abandoning Ukraine to Putins death squads?

Trump has shown he will be happy to dismantle checks and balances in the US system so he can rule without legal restrictions, happy to ignore democratic results… how that would lead to calmer times is something that could only come from someone dumping MAGA propaganda without scrutiny.

And this is Trump - a rapist and a racist, a man child with contempt for democracy and the law.

Epic fail at spreading your fake news there.

I think Trump is angling for the "martyrdom" of being thrown in jail without really believing that it'll happen, and without having any real understanding of what it'd mean.

If he decides to flout the gag order again, I'd like to see Judge Merchan schedule the next hearing for immediately after the end of that day's court proceedings (instead of before they start as he's done previously) and to order Trump be taken into custody directly from the courtroom for one night, with a comment along the lines of how it seems that it's only fair that he gets a taste of what awaits him if he continues to disrespect the court. And it should be a genuine incarceration - the one phone call, no visitors, no mobile phone, prison food, no fancy bedding, leave your valuables, belt and laces at the front desk, etc.

Then back to the court in the morning looking like something the dog dragged in.

Maher is just another hypocrite who has given a voice on his show now to those he mocked during Trumps term as president and those are the folks that still toe the Trump party line and spew their bile on his show and are not challenged by him at all.

Yeahhhhh but … no, I think the shock of being slapped with an incarceration at the end of a long day in front of the jury would hit him hard, and especially so if he couldn't rant and rave about it all night. It would also mitigate the martyrdom thing for the judge to impose one "taster session" like that, then get him back in the courtroom and ask him if he understood that every future breach of the gag order would result in the same treatment. It'd put any future imprisonment squarely on his own shoulders.

He didn't say he doesn't care though, he said he's not gonna "go nuts" again if he wins because what would be the point. He obviously cares, he says it pretty much every week.

I agree he's out of touch about the economy though and constantly calling Americans who aren't millionaires like he is stupid for thinking things are expensive . Not a good look

knocking it out of the park with what, appealing to career contrarians?

Maher is a sad old man shout at clouds these days he sacked his agency because he wasn't invited to the Oscars afterparty.

For man who prides himself in being anti-establishment everything, it's pretty funny that he lost it over not getting invited to a Hollywood after party while also being paid $250k an episode to be on the now real establishment of HBO.

Wasn't Maher a stand up comedian at one stage?

He was and he was a decent one as well in the early/mid 90's I saw him a couple times live in mid 90's and they were fun shows.

He has gone from angry outsider in his 20's/30's to turning into everything he hated back then.

The classic liberal in young age who becomes conservative as they get older when they have something to lose.

Trump's financial backers moreso than Trump himself want him to spend a few hours in jail for the absolute publicly that will comes from that.

He will sit behind bars for a couple of hours surrounded by secert service and have a KFC and then will be bailed out and he will walk out the front door and rant and rant and rant and that will just reinforce to his MAGA base that he is willing to do anything for them even go behind bars because he isn't part of the establishment.

Yes, though given the nature, it's possible the judge may not set bail. Or he does set bail and, while it still has the overall effect of another fine, still challenges the stigma against jailing a former president.