Newsworthy because this means an indictment decision is near. We already knew he was a potential person of interest, that is why the Special Counsel got appointed in the first place.
No, newsworthy because Trump is using his public profile to mess with this investigation again. We have no way of knowing whether or not he actually received a target letter because he lies about things constantly and could be lying about this as well.
I have a pet theory that he knows it’s in the future but not as imminent as he suggests (like the docs case) but if he says it’s imminent now he can spin yarns about their case being in tatters and delays being due to mistakes, etc like he tried to spin for the docs case.
I just don’t see a real motive for that 3D chess move stuff. Last time he said he got a target letter it was because he did, and he got indicted a week or two later. Simplest explanation is that he’s trying to deflate the power of the coming indictment by making it no longer a surprise.
Personally I’d be shocked if he lied about something that made him look so bad from every angle. There’s no rhetorical advantage he gets from being indicted 3 times that he wouldn’t get from 2. You’re saying it would “mess with the investigation” but the people directly involved in the investigation are exactly the people who know the truth of the matter, it’s the public he’s interfacing with here.
Right, and when he opens his mouth it's often completely false. Like when he claimed he was going to be arrested by the end of day and NY police said no such thing was happening.
So again, why are we believing him as a primary source?
I don’t see what saying that to me is going to accomplish…
If anything, it does the opposite by making this post more visible, which drives more clicks to the website, and makes the website write more about what trump says
So if you really want to do something about it, don’t reply.
Sorry, but whether we like it or not, the guy is still the leading GOP candidate for President and de-facto leader of the party. What he says could influence the nation’s future. So yeah, it is newsworthy.
Because prosecutors and judges are too scared of him to throw the gag order at him he’s earned a dozen times over with all the threats he’s made and violence that’s happened around him and more reliable sources are refusing to make any comments or give an off the record confirmation or denial, so he’s the only source of information we have about this. It’s an extremely frustrating situation.
I think there’s also an element of not doing gag orders on him unless vital as he’d likely break them anyway and use any enforcement action as a call to action to his supporters to say that he’s being ‘silenced by the Biden administration’ and fuel the very fires that lead to things like Jan 6th.
He does also do a very good job in giving prosecutors evidence against him when they just let him talk.
I think there’s also an element of not doing gag orders on him unless vital as he’d likely break them anyway
Imagine if we handled bank robberies this way, “Oh, they’re just gonna keep trying to take the money, you should just give it to them”
use any enforcement action as a call to action to his supporters
He’s already been issuing that call since before he was indicted. The obvious answer is to throw him in a jail cell and limit his communications to just his attorneys. We do this to suspected criminals every day and it’s absolutely warranted here.
Also, he should draw a charge for intimidating witnesses for all of this.
He does also do a very good job in giving prosecutors evidence against him when they just let him talk.
I guess we just have to hope that evidence isn’t the dead body of some poor person Trump convinces one of his idiot followers to kill, huh?
I didn’t say I agreed with the no gag order tactics. Just speculating why. I agree with you wholeheartedly on the dangers of letting him sling his angry mob at people.
Swear this happens every year. Someone either gets gored by a bison or tries to go swimming in a geothermal pool and gets boiled alive and then dissolved.
Some people just do not grasp the concept of National Parks. They’re not zoos or amusement parks. The things in here can and will kill you and there is almost nothing in the way stopping you from committing suicide in a horribly painful fashion.
Tom Scott was discussing this in his latest video on Bear Proof garbage containers. they’re designed to keep bears out, but some clueless people can’t open them either.
It’s the great divider. The smartest bears get to eat the garbage and the dumber bears get to eat the dumb people who can’t figure out how to throw their garbage away and keep it in their tent instead.
They’re literally just dumpsters with a little airlock chamber on top so that trash stink can’t escape and attract animals. If you’ve mailed a package at the post office and had to use one of those weird chutes, you can figure out a bear can.
Possible Baader–Meinhof phenomenon. The real fun one is if this is your first time hearing of the phenomenon and you see it again in the next couple days.
This does happen fairly often at Yellowstone, so it’s not widely reported when it does. It actually happened very close to me when I was there last year because a bison was laying very near a popular walkway near old faithful, but people still didn’t stop walking by it 🙃
I visited Yellowstone last year. The National Parks Service has an excellent walkway system which allows visitors to get an close-up view of the hot springs. All along the walkways are signs that say something along the lines of: “Step off this walkway and you will be boiled alive.”
The sheer number of people visiting these areas on an average day, and the quality of workmanship put into the park walkways projects a false sense of security. A few times I had to remind myself that I was standing above something that could kill me. Imagine being in a crowd of people seeing and experiencing something beautiful. Nobody there is unhappy, everyone is strolling along taking pictures and enjoying spectacular views of the hot springs. But in reality, it is a bunch of people standing on heat-resistant walkways above boiling lakes of death.
These warning signs are placed every few feet, but I can completely understand how idiots and children would ignore them and get themselves killed. Some walkways have railings, others don’t. Yellowstone is one of the most beautiful places on earth. The possibility of getting killed is not something actively going through your mind while you experience it.
Also, people taking photos of bison are incredibly cavalier about distance and safety. It makes sense that attacks and deaths are common enough not to make headlines.
He absolutely should be, but that was painfully obvious a long time ago at this point and he hasn’t been indicted yet. Hopefully the DOJ actually does it’s job and stops giving criminal Republicans passes, but I won’t believe it until they actually do it.
“this man gives out a loud ‘ha ha ha,’ and just runs in between some buildings.” … “I thought it was a bad joke at first, but when he didn’t come back, I realized it wasn’t a joke, and then everybody reacted and things got crazy.”
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