# A Perfectly Reasonable Amount of Schadenfreude about Things Happening to Trump & His Enablers (Part 1) **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [November 14, 2020, 12:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-perfectly-reasonable-amount-of-schadenfreude-about-things-happening-to-trump-his-enablers-part-1/925537 "2020-11-14T00:09:51Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 160
**Author:** ![silenus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/silenus/32/166_2.png) [@silenus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/silenus)\ **Post date:** [October 17, 2021, 4:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-perfectly-reasonable-amount-of-schadenfreude-about-things-happening-to-trump-his-enablers-part-1/925537/3185 "2021-10-17T16:38:01Z")
Because this is a New York civil suit where he will lose a building if he doesn’t show up. The judge isn’t fucking around, and will issue a summary judgment against Fuckwit in a heartbeat. ---
**Author:** ![Johnny\_L.A](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnny_l.a/32/1084_2.png) [@Johnny\_L.A](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_L.A)\ **Post date:** [October 17, 2021, 4:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-perfectly-reasonable-amount-of-schadenfreude-about-things-happening-to-trump-his-enablers-part-1/925537/3186 "2021-10-17T16:46:16Z")
> [@silenus](#): > > Because this is a New York civil suit where he will lose a building if he doesn’t show up. According to the 2015 article linked in the link: > The plaintiffs allege Schiller struck Efrain “with a closed fist on the head with such force that it caused Galicia to stumble backwards,” according to the lawsuit… > > The plaintiffs are seeking an injunction to forbid the Trump security officials from interfering with their public protests and are seeking damages for pain and suffering, medical and legal expenses and punitive damages. I don’t think he’d lose a building for someone being caused to stumble backwards, even with pain-and-suffering and punitive damages. ---
**Author:** ![silenus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/silenus/32/166_2.png) [@silenus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/silenus)\ **Post date:** [October 17, 2021, 5:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-perfectly-reasonable-amount-of-schadenfreude-about-things-happening-to-trump-his-enablers-part-1/925537/3187 "2021-10-17T17:09:09Z")
This is New York. Anything could happen. 😛 I think the biggest impact will be the chink in his air of invulnerability. Any batshit crazy he spouts under oath will just be gravy. ---
**Author:** ![DesertDog](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/desertdog/32/11503_2.png) [@DesertDog](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DesertDog)\ **Post date:** [October 17, 2021, 5:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-perfectly-reasonable-amount-of-schadenfreude-about-things-happening-to-trump-his-enablers-part-1/925537/3188 "2021-10-17T17:09:13Z")
Why da hell would he be allowed to make a video deposition? Haul his ass into court like the rest of us ordinary citizens. It’s not a perp walk but it’s the next best thing. ---
**Author:** ![silenus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/silenus/32/166_2.png) [@silenus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/silenus)\ **Post date:** [October 17, 2021, 5:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-perfectly-reasonable-amount-of-schadenfreude-about-things-happening-to-trump-his-enablers-part-1/925537/3189 "2021-10-17T17:09:52Z")
Covid. In-person is a thing of the past, I’m guessing. ---
**Author:** ![DesertDog](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/desertdog/32/11503_2.png) [@DesertDog](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DesertDog)\ **Post date:** [October 17, 2021, 10:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-perfectly-reasonable-amount-of-schadenfreude-about-things-happening-to-trump-his-enablers-part-1/925537/3190 "2021-10-17T22:06:18Z")
All the more reason. “Your actions made it worse. You take the risk.” ---
**Author:** ![smithsb](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/smithsb/32/12107_2.png) [@smithsb](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/smithsb)\ **Post date:** [October 17, 2021, 11:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-perfectly-reasonable-amount-of-schadenfreude-about-things-happening-to-trump-his-enablers-part-1/925537/3191 "2021-10-17T23:42:57Z")
Unfortunately another mob tatic from DumpsterFire. The underlings take the fall. Some LLC goes bankrupt. CFSG won’t “remember” anything (working on that mental incompetence defense). Nothing is in writing. The guy’s not family so screw him and move on. ---
**Author:** ![Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/7cd45c/32.png) [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elendil_s_Heir)\ **Post date:** [October 18, 2021, 6:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-perfectly-reasonable-amount-of-schadenfreude-about-things-happening-to-trump-his-enablers-part-1/925537/3192 "2021-10-18T18:01:54Z")
> [@DesertDog](#): > > Why da hell would he be allowed to make a video deposition? Haul his ass into court like the rest of us ordinary citizens. > > It’s not a perp walk but it’s the next best thing. Depositions are rarely taken in courthouses - usually in lawyers’ offices. And doing it by video was commonplace even before the pandemic. ---
**Author:** ![DesertDog](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/desertdog/32/11503_2.png) [@DesertDog](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DesertDog)\ **Post date:** [October 18, 2021, 6:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-perfectly-reasonable-amount-of-schadenfreude-about-things-happening-to-trump-his-enablers-part-1/925537/3193 "2021-10-18T18:04:26Z")
Sopena him as a witness, then. I’m remembering his last recorded deposition where he couldn’t read the questions in front of him – he said – because he’d forgotten his glasses. ---
**Author:** ![bobot](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bobot/32/21622_2.png) [@bobot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bobot)\ **Post date:** [October 18, 2021, 8:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-perfectly-reasonable-amount-of-schadenfreude-about-things-happening-to-trump-his-enablers-part-1/925537/3194 "2021-10-18T20:53:48Z")
I just heard on MSNBC that the con man did the deposition today. Four hours worth. No way in hell did he not lie about something. ---
**Author:** ![Johnny\_L.A](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnny_l.a/32/1084_2.png) [@Johnny\_L.A](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_L.A)\ **Post date:** [October 18, 2021, 9:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-perfectly-reasonable-amount-of-schadenfreude-about-things-happening-to-trump-his-enablers-part-1/925537/3195 "2021-10-18T21:26:19Z")
From a [CNN article](https://www.cnn.com/2021/10/18/politics/donald-trump-deposition-2015-case/index.html): > Dictor declined to characterize Trump’s testimony or answer whether he believed it to be truthful. > > “The President was exactly how you would expect him to be, he answered questions the way you would expect Mr. Trump to answer questions and conducted himself in a manner that you would expect Mr. Trump to conduct himself,” Dictor said. Heh. ---
**Author:** ![bobot](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bobot/32/21622_2.png) [@bobot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bobot)\ **Post date:** [October 18, 2021, 9:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-perfectly-reasonable-amount-of-schadenfreude-about-things-happening-to-trump-his-enablers-part-1/925537/3196 "2021-10-18T21:29:29Z")
Q: Please state your name. A: Biggest inauguration crowd ever, believe me. The likes of which you have never seen. Before mine. ---
**Author:** ![Aspenglow](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/aspenglow/32/76_2.png) [@Aspenglow](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Aspenglow)\ **Post date:** [October 18, 2021, 9:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-perfectly-reasonable-amount-of-schadenfreude-about-things-happening-to-trump-his-enablers-part-1/925537/3197 "2021-10-18T21:32:11Z")
> [@Johnny\_L.A](#): > > Heh. LOL, gad, that’s some of the best tongue-in-cheek understatement I’ve read in a long time. Tells us everything without saying a specific word on the subject. ---
**Author:** ![Euphonious\_Polemic](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/euphonious_polemic/32/3002_2.png) [@Euphonious\_Polemic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Euphonious_Polemic)\ **Post date:** [October 18, 2021, 9:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-perfectly-reasonable-amount-of-schadenfreude-about-things-happening-to-trump-his-enablers-part-1/925537/3198 "2021-10-18T21:48:04Z")
> [@Aspenglow](#): > > LOL, gad, that’s some of the best tongue-in-cheek understatement I’ve read in a long time. Tells us everything without saying a specific word on the subject. Reading between the lines, that statement might have read: “As Trump is known to be a lying sack of shit who acts like a petulant three year old, he answered questions by lying like a sack of shit while crying like a petulant three year old.” ---
**Author:** ![DesertDog](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/desertdog/32/11503_2.png) [@DesertDog](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DesertDog)\ **Post date:** [October 18, 2021, 10:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-perfectly-reasonable-amount-of-schadenfreude-about-things-happening-to-trump-his-enablers-part-1/925537/3199 "2021-10-18T22:00:57Z")
It also lets the MAGAts picture him pinning the interlocutor with his steely gaze while deftly swatting aside those foul attempts to defame his sterling character with gotcha questions. The videos that will come out later showing him as a LSoS? CGI. ---
**Author:** ![Euphonious\_Polemic](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/euphonious_polemic/32/3002_2.png) [@Euphonious\_Polemic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Euphonious_Polemic)\ **Post date:** [October 18, 2021, 10:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-perfectly-reasonable-amount-of-schadenfreude-about-things-happening-to-trump-his-enablers-part-1/925537/3200 "2021-10-18T22:05:50Z")
> [@DesertDog](#): > > CGI. Body double. Lizard replicant. Fake News. or most likely: Not Reported. ---
**Author:** ![Mundane\_Super\_Hero](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mundane_super_hero/32/6304_2.png) [@Mundane\_Super\_Hero](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mundane_Super_Hero)\ **Post date:** [October 19, 2021, 10:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-perfectly-reasonable-amount-of-schadenfreude-about-things-happening-to-trump-his-enablers-part-1/925537/3201 "2021-10-19T10:14:41Z")
> [@Euphonious\_Polemic](#): > > Body double. > Lizard replicant. > Fake News. > > or most likely: > > Not Reported. Well, it might be reported. At the Hilton Body Shop, just ten easy steps away from ‘Jared’s House of Dildos and Plugs.’ Show this AD & get $10 off of your first Lube Job. Genuine FRAM filters installed for just $5 more. ---
**Author:** ![Aspenglow](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/aspenglow/32/76_2.png) [@Aspenglow](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Aspenglow)\ **Post date:** [October 19, 2021, 5:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-perfectly-reasonable-amount-of-schadenfreude-about-things-happening-to-trump-his-enablers-part-1/925537/3202 "2021-10-19T17:23:51Z")
Well, if we wanted some indication that things are going on behind the scenes with respect to a federal investigation, I’d look at this as a pretty good sign that… yes, there are. > **[FBI at Russian oligarch's homes for 'law enforcement' action](https://apnews.com/article/donald-trump-russia-elections-presidential-elections-paul-manafort-90c01dfee5c36ebd75a38e20640e6b38)** > > WASHINGTON (AP) — Federal agents were carrying out “law enforcement activity” on Tuesday at a Washington mansion and New York City townhouse tied to Russian oligarch Oleg Deripaska , a close ally of Russian President Vladimir Putin. It’s a very short article, but huge in terms of what it implies. To me, at least. ---
**Author:** ![Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/7cd45c/32.png) [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elendil_s_Heir)\ **Post date:** [October 19, 2021, 6:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-perfectly-reasonable-amount-of-schadenfreude-about-things-happening-to-trump-his-enablers-part-1/925537/3203 "2021-10-19T18:00:39Z")
Suh-WEET! ---
**Author:** ![Euphonious\_Polemic](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/euphonious_polemic/32/3002_2.png) [@Euphonious\_Polemic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Euphonious_Polemic)\ **Post date:** [October 19, 2021, 6:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-perfectly-reasonable-amount-of-schadenfreude-about-things-happening-to-trump-his-enablers-part-1/925537/3204 "2021-10-19T18:09:09Z")
Moscow Mitch McConnell certainly has strong ties to Rusal, the Russian aluminum producer that is strongly tied to Oleg Deripaska. McConnell was openly working for the Russians. > **[How a McConnell-backed effort to lift Russian sanctions boosted a Kentucky...](https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/how-a-mcconnell-backed-effort-to-lift-russian-sanctions-boosted-a-kentucky-project/2019/08/13/72b26e00-b97c-11e9-b3b4-2bb69e8c4e39_story.html)** > > A spokesman said the Senate majority leader did not know the measure would help a company building an aluminum mill in an impoverished part of his home state. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-perfectly-reasonable-amount-of-schadenfreude-about-things-happening-to-trump-his-enablers-part-1/925537.md?page=159) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-perfectly-reasonable-amount-of-schadenfreude-about-things-happening-to-trump-his-enablers-part-1/925537.md?page=161)