But it is different. Few if any people in this country have the ability to speak and be heard as widely as Trump. In reality, most defendants would be lucky to get 5 people to listen to their bullshit, and therefore don’t require instruction. Trump, sadly, can reach millions.
Like it or not, he’s a former president – however ill-deserved – and will be afforded many considerations not given to others.
I hate it too, but I understand why.
Trump: You can’t do that! Do you know who I am?!
Judge: A citizen of the United States, subject to its laws and my authority.
While the remote attendance is indeed an unearned perk, I agree that the reasons behind it are likely less about an advantage to Trump, rather than a stern warning as stated upthread.
So as Aspenglow pointed out, this leaves him up the proverbial creek if he fails to comply. No wiggle room. And I agree, that it is extremely unlikely he won’t at some point or another put himself in contempt.
…from which he will understand and retain less information than a dog sniffing another dog’s ass.
Yeah, this. WTF?
The couple that commits treason together stays together go to different prisons:
They built a new life near Charlotte after Jan. 6. Now, husband, wife are going to prison.
The owners of “Free Folk Pastures” are no longer free.
Instead, Dale “D.J.” Shalvey and Tara Stottlemyer, who run a regenerative cattle and poultry farm 45 miles north of Charlotte, have become North Carolina’s first husband and wife sentenced to prison for their roles in the Jan. 6, 2021, riot at the U.S. Capitol.
On Thursday, U.S. District Judge Timothy Kelly of Washington ordered Shalvey and Stottlemyer to serve 41 and eight months, respectively. They will begin their sentences at a later date.
The best part of this story is the judge was appointed by Tan the Conman.
It’s also a bit like judges dealing with those sovereign citizen idiots. The judge really wants to ensure that they have a fair trial, so that they can’t dispute the outcome, no matter what it is. So the judge goes nuts on the details, to make sure the appearance of fairness prevails.
It’s also not hyperbole to say these judges have to be careful about being the proverbial straw for all the non-arrested lunatics still out there.
A judge who orders Trump’s arrest is going to bear some of the responsibility for what happens immediately afterwards. Whether we like it or not, Trump is fully capable of going the rest of the way off the deep end and calling for another insurrection. Or maybe he just gives another of his “won’t somebody rid me of these troublesome priests” speeches and another MAGA nut goes on a shooting.
So the judge can give a perfectly legal order that is almost certain to result in some kind of terrible nonsense. Or he can treat Trump with kid gloves, because it’s not his fault that our country handed a narcissistic toddler this kind of influence and power.
That is such an odd fact to point out. Were other married couples in contention? In addition to prison time do they also get a years supply of Rice-A-Roni?
My understanding is that a dog gets a shitload of information from sniffing another dog’s butt, so I reject your comparison.
Agreed, but he did say “less” so he’s not wrong.
Though it’s a bit like saying that liquid helium is less warm than the sun’s core.
I thought there were rules against cruel and unusual punishments?
Actually, yes:
Snipping a part of @Horatius’s response (which I fully agree with) because… this is a profound realization for me. Trump is in some ways the Ultimate Expression of a SovCit Diety. The laws that bind others don’t bind him (or at least, so he states, and to date hasn’t yet been bound by them), he’s a special being and his own entity/Brand that others can only interact with through careful contracts, and everyone else recognizes that in a way that SovCits expect but don’t actually get.
Sure, he doesn’t use the various spells/language of an actual SovCit, but from the outside, he looks like a SC ideal made life.
But also like a SovCit, he feels that the laws are for other people but not for him.
I’ll be pondering on this for a while in terms of my understandings of Trump and some of those who follow him as a slightly different angle of understanding. Thanks!
[ of course, it won’t take away from my cancerous burning hatred of Trump and his enablers and supporters, but will if anything, probably increase it ]
“The family that betrays together, stays together!”
Cancellation of outdoor Trump rally in Iowa: fear of a bigger blowhard* or not drawing crowds like he used to?
*i.e.: tornado.
Well, there was a tornado watch for virtually the entire state.
Of course, we Midwesterners know that a ‘watch’ doesn’t mean shit.
I said the headlines should have said, “God cancels Trump rally, Christians still not getting the message”.
It’s a bit old, but still one of the best put-downs of Trump and his followers. And put to music! SUCKERS - Randy Rainbow Song Parody - YouTube
Concerning Rudy Giuliani, an enabler of the tallest order:
If only half of the alleged crimes are true I cannot help but wonder how those people did get away with it for so long. Well, they still are getting away with it.