Donald Trump the Megathread part II - mod warnings in OP, Updated 18/03/25

If a judge is suspected of breaking the law, they should be arrested. Similar to a politician or a businessman.

Remember when that Kerry judge was found with child porn on a computer, should get have been arrested? He got off on some technicality but all was well in the end, and the same may happen here.

You remember it?

Then you should know its not remotely the same situation.

This is an attack by a fascist administration on the independence of the judiciary resisting their diktats.

Kind of confusing now with Rubio telling the news media that if Trump/the US, put's more sanctions on Russia now, it will make the war last two [2] years longer.

Terrible, using that logic, that all the sanctions put on Russia to date because it invaded Ukraine [in continuation of the war it started in Ukraine in 2014] have ended with continuation, and not cessation of the Russian war efforts in Ukraine.

So wrong of the world's nations to have caused the continuation of the war.

BTW, I'm being a tad sarcastic in those last few lines.

Where it come to Crimea, what [apart from possible extension of Russia's toehold on the Black Sea - and bases close to other former USSR countries] does Crimea have value-wise?

Does Crimea have, percentage-wise, enough of Ukraine's rare earth and critical minerals to make it worthwhile for Russia to insist that it hold unto Crimea as part of any peace-deal Trump insists Ukraine accede to to end the war [as presently pursued by Putin]?

Not heading down the conspiracy rabbit-hole quite yet, I keep in mind how much of a row there has been between Biden and himself, not mentioning all the Ukrainians in several of that country's administrations and US ambassadors, over the past 10 years now where commercial interest-plans there are concerned. Letting go of the personal grudge match between Biden and Trump, what is in it for Trump at this stage. He has to know peace, not war, there is now an even longer term proposition for all those involved in any ceasefire there.

remember what exactly?

A judge getting arrested

On what Crimea has. Crimea in 2014-22 allowed Russia to turn Ukrainian trade through the Sea of Azov through Mariupol (especially steel - Azovstal was the worlds largest steel plant) on and off for political pressure.

That was likely a factor in why Russia built the Crimea bridge to Kerch.

Keeping it would allow them to do the same with Odessa including agriculture. 97% of Ukraine's grain exports use Odessa.

I'm surprised that the border with Crimea was so weakly defended. Some officials in the South seem to have betrayed orders to blow bridges. Promises of collaboration in Kyiv seem to have failed though, with people taking the Russian money and not helping them. Thats one of the reasons the siege of Kyiv failed.

"A mass lynching of Italian Americans in New Orleans in 1891 prompted U.S. President Benjamin Harrison to make the 400th anniversary of Columbus's arrival a national holiday in 1892, though he intended it to be a one-time celebration. In 1937 U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt proclaimed the day an annual holiday."

"Congress declared Columbus Day a federal holiday in 1937 and a legal public holiday in 1968. Hawaii, Alaska and South Dakota do not recognize Columbus Day as a holiday. Columbus Day is not celebrated in 22 states. "

Might be nice to ask the ICE Barbie Noem why South Dakota does not recognize it.

"By the 500th anniversary of Columbus's exploration, the tide had turned against the explorer. Today, Columbus is regarded as the instigator in the series of events that led to genocide, dispossession and disease for Native Americans and African slavery in America"

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https://www.wuft.org/national-news/2012-10-08/twelve-little-known-facts-about-columbus-day-and-its-namesake

Trump doesn't intend taking any action. It's more meaningless drivel to deflect from the mess he is creating.

What always staggers me is that Trump is always taken as telling any form of truth, yet consistently lies.

Even in the Time interview he admitted that he was lying about solving Ukraine war on Day 1. And yet the interviewer never asked how anyone can take anything he says seriously since he clearly lies so often.

Why should anyone believe he can MAGA? Is that just another exaggeration? Another lie?

So instead of asking what Trump will do, the first question is whether this is yet another lie?

Crimea sounds like it's going to be Northern Ireland for Ukraine's treaty negotiations. And honestly that looks the most likely outcome. You'll have Ukranians split in the same way we were post Treaty with the opinions being all-or-nothing v best we could have gotten at the time

Trump must have been watching the Sopranos over the weekend, and now thinks he's Silvio Dante

Well, that didn't last long ….

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/apr/27/trump-zelenskyy-putin

https://www.newsweek.com/green-card-holder-us-over-30-years-detained-cbp-after-tripfamily-2063647

Irish woman now detained. 30 years on a green card but 20 year old expunged drug charges are what she's being targeted on. She's not exactly a hardened criminal but sure this is the new norm in the US...

There is a reason why it is extremely dangerous to go around arresting judges. Judges are not 'above the law' but there is a requirement for the judiciary to be protected from interference from the police because they often come into conflict with law enforcement and need to be independent.

If a Judge commits a criminal act that is completely independent from their role as a judge, then they should of course, be held accountable the same as anyone else, but when you have a political appointment of the head of the FBI directing their staff to arrest a judge because a different, highly politicised law enforcement function accused her of 'obstructing' them without even getting a 2nd judge to issue the warrant, this is undoubtedly an attack on the legal system at large.

Judges, in their normal performance of their duties will often do things that could be interpreted as 'obstructing law enforcement' and if Bondi can get away with arresting Judges for interfering with ICE enforcement, then this would be a huge moment on the road to a full on police state.