# A Perfectly Reasonable Amount of Schadenfreude about Things Happening to Trump & His Enablers (Part 2) **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Tags:** trump\ **Created:** [May 19, 2023, 3:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-perfectly-reasonable-amount-of-schadenfreude-about-things-happening-to-trump-his-enablers-part-2/984250 "2023-05-19T03:20:08Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 281
**Author:** ![Akaj](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/akaj/32/145_2.png) [@Akaj](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Akaj)\ **Post date:** [April 24, 2024, 4:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-perfectly-reasonable-amount-of-schadenfreude-about-things-happening-to-trump-his-enablers-part-2/984250/5602 "2024-04-24T16:00:35Z")
> [@Odesio](#): > > Suing Trump again is about the only option Carroll has to stop him from lying about her. I know it’s been discussed in other threads, but doesn’t this repeated defamation at some point cross the line into behavior that can be addressed by a restraining order? (Or some other legal directive – maybe a cease-and-desist? Obviously IANAL.) Then if Trump continues to do it he can actually be prosecuted. ---
**Author:** ![dasmoocher](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/dbc845/32.png) [@dasmoocher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dasmoocher)\ **Post date:** [April 24, 2024, 4:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-perfectly-reasonable-amount-of-schadenfreude-about-things-happening-to-trump-his-enablers-part-2/984250/5603 "2024-04-24T16:01:36Z")
I originally posted this in the wrong forum: Brian Stelter describes bombshell testimony from the Trump trial: “CNN - April 23, 2024 - David Pecker, former publisher of the National Enquirer, while testifying today about the tabloid’s catch-and-kill tactics for stories unfavorable to Donald Trump, admitted on the stand that Trump had confided to him back in the 1990s that he was the father of Bat-Boy. Bat-Boy, who has been described as half human, half bat, and half squirrel, and an Endangered Species, was a staple of the tabloids during that time. Trump, according to Pecker, claimed he had passed out after eating a half dozen fermented banana cheesecakes during a golf outing in Costa Rica and that a succubus had copulated with him in his suite afterward. The succubus later demanded money to keep the story quiet. The notorious Bat-Boy was infamous in the tabloid media during the '90s for his daring escapes from Deep State government scientists and Bill Gates, who wanted to clone Bat-Boy to take advantage of his appetite for mosquitos to combat malaria in sub-Saharan Africa. When informed about their half-brother, Donald Trump, Jr. and Eric Trump stated that they would seek an injunction to prevent Bat-Boy from being included in their father’s will.” ---
**Author:** ![BlankSlate](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/blankslate/32/80_2.png) [@BlankSlate](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BlankSlate)\ **Post date:** [April 24, 2024, 4:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-perfectly-reasonable-amount-of-schadenfreude-about-things-happening-to-trump-his-enablers-part-2/984250/5604 "2024-04-24T16:26:48Z")
How long before Trump fakes an illness in an attempt to buy time? ---
**Author:** ![Jack\_Batty](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jack_batty/32/3201_2.png) [@Jack\_Batty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jack_Batty)\ **Post date:** [April 24, 2024, 4:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-perfectly-reasonable-amount-of-schadenfreude-about-things-happening-to-trump-his-enablers-part-2/984250/5605 "2024-04-24T16:28:21Z")
He doesn’t need to fake an illness. He’s got bone spurs. ---
**Author:** ![Frodo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/frodo/32/302_2.png) [@Frodo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Frodo)\ **Post date:** [April 24, 2024, 4:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-perfectly-reasonable-amount-of-schadenfreude-about-things-happening-to-trump-his-enablers-part-2/984250/5606 "2024-04-24T16:30:59Z")
I’m surprised he hasn’t done it before to be honest, I guess he wants to project an image of strength. ---
**Author:** ![OldOlds](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/a3d4f5/32.png) [@OldOlds](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/OldOlds)\ **Post date:** [April 24, 2024, 4:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-perfectly-reasonable-amount-of-schadenfreude-about-things-happening-to-trump-his-enablers-part-2/984250/5607 "2024-04-24T16:36:20Z")
Well, I know we have some lawyers here who probably have their own commentary on this, but I’ve seen how badly this goes. Without getting into too much detail, the backstory is that this was two officers of the company I worked at who were in trouble over some SEC shenanigans. Officer #1 was charged, taken to court, fined, and prohibited from serving as an officer of a publicly traded company for some number of years. Officer #2 was charged and faked a terminal cancer diagnosis, claiming to have less than a year to live. He was not prosecuted. Until his own lawyer, realizing that he had defrauded the court, turned him in. Officer #2 ended up spending 5 years in prison. ---
**Author:** ![running\_coach](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/running_coach/32/15836_2.png) [@running\_coach](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/running_coach)\ **Post date:** [April 24, 2024, 4:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-perfectly-reasonable-amount-of-schadenfreude-about-things-happening-to-trump-his-enablers-part-2/984250/5608 "2024-04-24T16:39:07Z")
> [@OldOlds](#): > > Officer #2 was charged and faked a terminal cancer diagnosis, claiming to have less than a year to live. He was not prosecuted. Which is ridiculous. Charge him, try him. If convicted, give him a life sentence… ---
**Author:** ![OldOlds](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/a3d4f5/32.png) [@OldOlds](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/OldOlds)\ **Post date:** [April 24, 2024, 4:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-perfectly-reasonable-amount-of-schadenfreude-about-things-happening-to-trump-his-enablers-part-2/984250/5609 "2024-04-24T16:40:24Z")
I probably should have said his prosecution was deferred so he could go home and die. It does make sense not to waste resources on someone who probably won’t even live through the trial, or will miss day after day due to treatment. ---
**Author:** ![Smapti](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/smapti/32/17938_2.png) [@Smapti](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Smapti)\ **Post date:** [April 24, 2024, 4:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-perfectly-reasonable-amount-of-schadenfreude-about-things-happening-to-trump-his-enablers-part-2/984250/5610 "2024-04-24T16:50:05Z")
> [@BlankSlate](#): > > How long before Trump fakes an illness in an attempt to buy time? Surely you’re not implying that the Healthiest President Ever, who is going to be the first person to live to be 200, could possibly ever be sick. ---
**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:** [April 24, 2024, 5:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-perfectly-reasonable-amount-of-schadenfreude-about-things-happening-to-trump-his-enablers-part-2/984250/5611 "2024-04-24T17:33:09Z")
He _does_ have that healthy orange glow, after all. > [@DWMarch](#): > > There is a great ad from an anti-Trump Republican group linked at this Yahoo story showing how someone with 88 felonies pending and who has been found liable for sexual assault would have a difficult time getting a job at a mall: > [How Toxic Is Trump? Republican Group's Hidden Camera Reveals Uncomfortable Truth.](https://news.yahoo.com/toxic-trump-republican-groups-hidden-082646093.html) Good stuff, thanks! Here’s the ad itself: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=\_wgWICaEEuw](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_wgWICaEEuw) ---
**Author:** ![Monty](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/monty/32/47_2.png) [@Monty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Monty)\ **Post date:** [April 24, 2024, 6:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-perfectly-reasonable-amount-of-schadenfreude-about-things-happening-to-trump-his-enablers-part-2/984250/5612 "2024-04-24T18:23:46Z")
From wherre I sit, it seems like he’s already been on the planet for 200 years. ---
**Author:** ![Pardel-Lux](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pardel-lux/32/20182_2.png) [@Pardel-Lux](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Pardel-Lux)\ **Post date:** [April 24, 2024, 6:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-perfectly-reasonable-amount-of-schadenfreude-about-things-happening-to-trump-his-enablers-part-2/984250/5613 "2024-04-24T18:26:14Z")
Eighty-eight felonies pending? I would never trust any pend…ejo that has anything to do with or dares to include any reference to 88 in his name, avatar, bio, resumé, tattoos or anything really. Never ever. We had some here in this board, I believe they have all been banned, and with good reason. ---
**Author:** ![wolfpup](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wolfpup/32/10618_2.png) [@wolfpup](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wolfpup)\ **Post date:** [April 24, 2024, 6:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-perfectly-reasonable-amount-of-schadenfreude-about-things-happening-to-trump-his-enablers-part-2/984250/5614 "2024-04-24T18:29:05Z")
> [@Akaj](#): > > We have, you know, laws and stuff. Well, used to, anyway. With the Orange Felon flouting all norms and conventions and establishing a new baseline of chaos while also flouting actual laws and – so far – getting away with it, I’m not so sure any more. ---
**Author:** ![Love\_Rhombus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/love_rhombus/32/10694_2.png) [@Love\_Rhombus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Love_Rhombus)\ **Post date:** [April 24, 2024, 6:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-perfectly-reasonable-amount-of-schadenfreude-about-things-happening-to-trump-his-enablers-part-2/984250/5615 "2024-04-24T18:35:30Z")
I know it won’t have any real effect, but I just like to see their names get muddied just a little bit more. > **[Trump, Giuliani, Meadows are unindicted co-conspirators in Michigan fake...](https://abcnews.go.com/US/trump-giuliani-meadows-unindicted-conspirators-michigan-fake-elector/story?id=109578220)** > > Former President Donald Trump is among several unindicted co-conspirators in the Michigan AG's case against the state's "fake electors," an investigator has revealed. ---
**Author:** ![SunUp](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ea5d25/32.png) [@SunUp](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SunUp)\ **Post date:** [April 24, 2024, 6:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-perfectly-reasonable-amount-of-schadenfreude-about-things-happening-to-trump-his-enablers-part-2/984250/5616 "2024-04-24T18:49:30Z")
Good lord. O’Donnell really knows how to twist the knife: > "Donald Trump is the only criminal defendant I have ever seen who cannot round up a single family member to sit in the front row of the courtroom in support of criminal defendant Donald Trump… > Serial killer and sometimes cannibal Jeffrey Dahmer had his parents in the courtroom every single day. Donald Trump has less familial support than Jeffrey Dahmer had in the courtroom. ---
**Author:** ![Buck\_Godot](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/buck_godot/32/6573_2.png) [@Buck\_Godot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Buck_Godot)\ **Post date:** [April 24, 2024, 6:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-perfectly-reasonable-amount-of-schadenfreude-about-things-happening-to-trump-his-enablers-part-2/984250/5617 "2024-04-24T18:54:12Z")
Quick definition question to anyone in the know: Does the title of unindicted generally mean not going to be indicted, or does it mean not yet indicted? ---
**Author:** ![Procrustus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/procrustus/32/2994_2.png) [@Procrustus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Procrustus)\ **Post date:** [April 24, 2024, 6:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-perfectly-reasonable-amount-of-schadenfreude-about-things-happening-to-trump-his-enablers-part-2/984250/5618 "2024-04-24T18:59:52Z")
> [@Buck\_Godot](#): > > Does the title of unindicted generally mean not going to be indicted, or does it mean not yet indicted? It could be either, but I think in this case it means “not likely to be indicted,” or they woud have done so by now. ---
**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:** [April 24, 2024, 7:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-perfectly-reasonable-amount-of-schadenfreude-about-things-happening-to-trump-his-enablers-part-2/984250/5619 "2024-04-24T19:05:36Z")
> [@Pardel-Lux](#): > > I would never trust any pend…ejo But Trump is a peachy cool arrow! ---
**Author:** ![JKellyMap](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jkellymap/32/15880_2.png) [@JKellyMap](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JKellyMap)\ **Post date:** [April 24, 2024, 7:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-perfectly-reasonable-amount-of-schadenfreude-about-things-happening-to-trump-his-enablers-part-2/984250/5620 "2024-04-24T19:14:11Z")
> [@Monty](#): > > From wherre I sit, it seems like he’s already been on the planet for 200 years. Tell me about it. I was a _Spy_ Magazine subscriber. ---
**Author:** ![Buck\_Godot](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/buck_godot/32/6573_2.png) [@Buck\_Godot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Buck_Godot)\ **Post date:** [April 24, 2024, 7:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-perfectly-reasonable-amount-of-schadenfreude-about-things-happening-to-trump-his-enablers-part-2/984250/5621 "2024-04-24T19:24:19Z")
> [@Procrustus](#): > > It could be either, but I think in this case it means “not likely to be indicted,” or they woud have done so by now. Thanks, I thought that was probably the case. ☹ [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-perfectly-reasonable-amount-of-schadenfreude-about-things-happening-to-trump-his-enablers-part-2/984250.md?page=280) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-perfectly-reasonable-amount-of-schadenfreude-about-things-happening-to-trump-his-enablers-part-2/984250.md?page=282)