# 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:** 496
**Author:** ![Dandan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/a87d85/32.png) [@Dandan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dandan)\ **Post date:** [May 6, 2023, 7:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-perfectly-reasonable-amount-of-schadenfreude-about-things-happening-to-trump-his-enablers-part-1/925537/9907 "2023-05-06T19:40:23Z")
> [@Shoeless](#): > > Unfortunately, Gov Kemp will soon be signing legislation (or maybe already has) that will allow him to get rid of DAs who do things the GOP doesn’t like. I have a feeling it won’t be long before this whole Trump election tampering case in Georgia gets buried. If the D A is kicked out, I hope she takes a whole flock of thumb drives with her. You know, as party favors for interested parties. Dan ---
**Author:** ![Railer13](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/railer13/32/9742_2.png) [@Railer13](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Railer13)\ **Post date:** [May 9, 2023, 7:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-perfectly-reasonable-amount-of-schadenfreude-about-things-happening-to-trump-his-enablers-part-1/925537/9908 "2023-05-09T19:28:50Z")
Never mind. ---
**Author:** ![JohnT](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnt/32/15048_2.png) [@JohnT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JohnT)\ **Post date:** [May 9, 2023, 7:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-perfectly-reasonable-amount-of-schadenfreude-about-things-happening-to-trump-his-enablers-part-1/925537/9909 "2023-05-09T19:29:58Z")
Thread here: > [@Civil Trial: Trump v E. Jean Carroll (Carroll wins, awarded $5 million)](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/civil-trial-trump-v-e-jean-carroll-begins-april-25-2023/982820): > > It seems that this trial is going ahead on April 25, as Trump’s lawyers attempts to delay it have been quashed by the judge: Judge Lewis A. Kaplan in Manhattan said the civil trial on claims against Trump by a longtime columnist, E. Jean Carroll, will begin as scheduled on April 25. As I understand it, the initial lawsuit by Carroll was for defamation, based on remarks Trump made against her. She then upgraded the lawsuit in November last year, accusing him of rape, after New York State’s A… ---
**Author:** ![Railer13](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/railer13/32/9742_2.png) [@Railer13](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Railer13)\ **Post date:** [May 9, 2023, 7:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-perfectly-reasonable-amount-of-schadenfreude-about-things-happening-to-trump-his-enablers-part-1/925537/9910 "2023-05-09T19:31:00Z")
Yeah, I just saw it. Which is why I removed my post. Thanks, @JohnT! ---
**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:** [May 9, 2023, 8:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-perfectly-reasonable-amount-of-schadenfreude-about-things-happening-to-trump-his-enablers-part-1/925537/9911 "2023-05-09T20:00:04Z")
Idjit: > **[Georgia GOP chairman says he was just following orders from Trump lawyers |...](https://www.cnn.com/2023/05/08/politics/georgia-gop-chairman-says-he-was-just-following-orders-from-trump-lawyers/index.html)** > > Lawyers representing David Shafer, the embattled chairman of the Georgia Republican Party, are arguing their client should not be charged with any crimes for his actions following the 2020 election because he was following advice provided by... ---
**Author:** ![Atamasama](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/atamasama/32/12961_2.png) [@Atamasama](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Atamasama)\ **Post date:** [May 9, 2023, 8:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-perfectly-reasonable-amount-of-schadenfreude-about-things-happening-to-trump-his-enablers-part-1/925537/9912 "2023-05-09T20:04:49Z")
> Lawyers representing David Shafer, the embattled chairman of the Georgia Republican Party, are arguing their client should not be charged with any crimes for his actions following the 2020 election because he was following advice provided by attorneys working for former President Donald Trump, according to a letter sent to Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis last week. Son of Sam only killed people his neighbor’s dog told him to kill. …Unfortunately for Mr. Shafer, that defense didn’t work for Berkowitz either. ---
**Author:** ![k9bfriender](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/k9bfriender/32/3283_2.png) [@k9bfriender](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/k9bfriender)\ **Post date:** [May 9, 2023, 8:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-perfectly-reasonable-amount-of-schadenfreude-about-things-happening-to-trump-his-enablers-part-1/925537/9913 "2023-05-09T20:15:44Z")
> [@Atamasama](#): > > …Unfortunately for Mr. Shafer, that defense didn’t work for Berkowitz either. True, but I’ll happily support him suing Trump for misleading him into illegal activity. ---
**Author:** ![Atamasama](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/atamasama/32/12961_2.png) [@Atamasama](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Atamasama)\ **Post date:** [May 9, 2023, 8:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-perfectly-reasonable-amount-of-schadenfreude-about-things-happening-to-trump-his-enablers-part-1/925537/9914 "2023-05-09T20:20:14Z")
> [@k9bfriender](#): > > True, but I’ll happily support him suing Trump for misleading him into illegal activity. Better than suing a dog. ---
**Author:** ![OttoDaFe](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ottodafe/32/356_2.png) [@OttoDaFe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/OttoDaFe)\ **Post date:** [May 9, 2023, 8:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-perfectly-reasonable-amount-of-schadenfreude-about-things-happening-to-trump-his-enablers-part-1/925537/9915 "2023-05-09T20:46:53Z")
Not that there’s a better chance of recovering any damages awarded. ---
**Author:** ![Atamasama](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/atamasama/32/12961_2.png) [@Atamasama](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Atamasama)\ **Post date:** [May 9, 2023, 8:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-perfectly-reasonable-amount-of-schadenfreude-about-things-happening-to-trump-his-enablers-part-1/925537/9916 "2023-05-09T20:50:08Z")
Agreed. I just don’t like the idea of putting a dog through that. Trump, on the other hand, sue the shit out of him. ---
**Author:** ![Fear\_Itself](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fear_itself/32/19637_2.png) [@Fear\_Itself](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fear_Itself)\ **Post date:** [May 10, 2023, 1:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-perfectly-reasonable-amount-of-schadenfreude-about-things-happening-to-trump-his-enablers-part-1/925537/9917 "2023-05-10T01:33:41Z")
Looks like Trump is getting tired of all the winning: > ---
**Author:** ![Roderick\_Femm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/roderick_femm/32/14875_2.png) [@Roderick\_Femm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Roderick_Femm)\ **Post date:** [May 10, 2023, 3:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-perfectly-reasonable-amount-of-schadenfreude-about-things-happening-to-trump-his-enablers-part-1/925537/9918 "2023-05-10T03:00:43Z")
So “the worst place in America for [Trump] to get a fair trial” is Manhattan? Isn’t that his home town? What does that say about his ability to poison his own surroundings? ---
**Author:** ![Robot\_Arm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/robot_arm/32/18280_2.png) [@Robot\_Arm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Robot_Arm)\ **Post date:** [May 10, 2023, 3:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-perfectly-reasonable-amount-of-schadenfreude-about-things-happening-to-trump-his-enablers-part-1/925537/9919 "2023-05-10T03:20:45Z")
Word salad is nothing new. [![](https://writing.rocks/wp-content/uploads/2015/10/Doonesbury-a-verb-senator.gif) ](https://writing.rocks/wp-content/uploads/2015/10/Doonesbury-a-verb-senator.gif) ---
**Author:** ![scabpicker](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/scabpicker/32/8268_2.png) [@scabpicker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/scabpicker)\ **Post date:** [May 10, 2023, 5:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-perfectly-reasonable-amount-of-schadenfreude-about-things-happening-to-trump-his-enablers-part-1/925537/9920 "2023-05-10T05:16:46Z")
Hehehe, how would he have known she wasn’t his type if he didn’t even know who she was? The outcome was “As negative as it could possibly be”? Nope, that would only be if you’d been convicted of a civil charge of rape, which you somehow dodged. What a complete lying dipshit, for the millionth time. ---
**Author:** ![Folacin](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/folacin/32/3195_2.png) [@Folacin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Folacin)\ **Post date:** [May 10, 2023, 11:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-perfectly-reasonable-amount-of-schadenfreude-about-things-happening-to-trump-his-enablers-part-1/925537/9921 "2023-05-10T11:09:49Z")
> [@scabpicker](#): > > Hehehe, how would he have known she wasn’t his type if he didn’t even know who she was? Because his ‘type’ is based purely on physical attributes, which you can tell from a photo. Of course, that he thought it was a picture of wife #2 kind of puts the lie to that statement. ---
**Author:** ![Horatius](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/horatius/32/3572_2.png) [@Horatius](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Horatius)\ **Post date:** [May 10, 2023, 12:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-perfectly-reasonable-amount-of-schadenfreude-about-things-happening-to-trump-his-enablers-part-1/925537/9922 "2023-05-10T12:08:54Z")
> [@scabpicker](#): > > The outcome was “As negative as it could possibly be”? Nope, that would only be if you’d been convicted of a civil charge of rape, which you somehow dodged. Let’s just keep pointing this out: Despite all his whining about people out to get him, and how he can’t get a fair trial, the jury actually did its job, and made a considered decision on the actual issues before them. If he really was being railroaded, there’s no way he’d have skated on the rape part. ---
**Author:** ![Johnny\_Bravo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnny_bravo/32/493_2.png) [@Johnny\_Bravo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_Bravo)\ **Post date:** [May 10, 2023, 12:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-perfectly-reasonable-amount-of-schadenfreude-about-things-happening-to-trump-his-enablers-part-1/925537/9923 "2023-05-10T12:22:37Z")
> [@Horatius](#): > > If he really was being railroaded, there’s no way he’d have skated on the rape part. That just shows how devious this Soros judge and Soros jury are. They knew you’d Soros that and so they dropped one charge to Soros the other charges. Soros. ---
**Author:** ![Gyrate](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gyrate/32/3588_2.png) [@Gyrate](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gyrate)\ **Post date:** [May 10, 2023, 12:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-perfectly-reasonable-amount-of-schadenfreude-about-things-happening-to-trump-his-enablers-part-1/925537/9924 "2023-05-10T12:25:44Z")
> [@Johnny\_Bravo](#): > > That just shows how devious this Soros judge and Soros jury are. They knew you’d Soros that and so they dropped one charge to Soros the other charges. > > Soros. [Derek](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yBnfziw1IhM)? Is that you? ---
**Author:** ![Pleonast](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pleonast/32/1183_2.png) [@Pleonast](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Pleonast)\ **Post date:** [May 10, 2023, 2:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-perfectly-reasonable-amount-of-schadenfreude-about-things-happening-to-trump-his-enablers-part-1/925537/9925 "2023-05-10T14:28:11Z")
> [@Johnny\_Bravo](#): > > That just shows how devious this Soros judge and Soros jury are. They knew you’d Soros that and so they dropped one charge to Soros the other charges. But hear that it’s now totally okay for judges and juries to get bribes from billionaires. /sarcasm > [@Pleonast](#): > > bribes from billionaires Band name! ---
**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:** [May 10, 2023, 2:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-perfectly-reasonable-amount-of-schadenfreude-about-things-happening-to-trump-his-enablers-part-1/925537/9926 "2023-05-10T14:47:04Z")
> [@Roderick\_Femm](#): > > So “the worst place in America for [Trump] to get a fair trial” is Manhattan? If you commit a crime in a place where everybody knows your history, and nobody likes you, you can’t get a fair trial in that place. Therefore, If you commit a crime in that place, you can’t be prosecuted. [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=495) [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=497)