# How has the disgraced, CONVICTED FELON, former but once again President Trump pissed you off today? (Part 1)

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**Created:** [May 15, 2021, 6:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-has-the-disgraced-convicted-felon-former-but-once-again-president-trump-pissed-you-off-today-part-1/942178 "2021-05-15T18:35:41Z")\
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It won’t matter. Trump is impervious to books and their contents.

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Yeah, they all go right over his head. He is beneath such mundane things as reading.

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He’s beneath pretty much everything.

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Except 6 feet of earth.

Someday…

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**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)\
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Couldn’t it be deeper? With a very, _very_ heavy monument on top?

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And a drainage system installed.

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> [@Johnny\_L.A](#):
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> With a very, _very_ heavy monument on top?

Needs to include a public urinal.

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> [@MindsEye\_Watering](#):
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> Needs to include a public urinal.

Why only a urinal?

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**Post date:** [December 18, 2023, 6:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-has-the-disgraced-convicted-felon-former-but-once-again-president-trump-pissed-you-off-today-part-1/942178/5269 "2023-12-18T18:28:30Z")

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I don’t give a shit for him.

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**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)\
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Ah, but many will. And might pay for the privilege!

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I smell a new grift. Get your ticket to leave a DFT! (Dump for Trump)

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A post was split to a new topic: [Rondav’s Troll Posts](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rondavs-troll-posts/994789)

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Since he doesn’t understand what a president does (in business nor politics), looks like we’re lucky!

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Every possible delaying tactic he can think of. Bastard. (Gift link.)

> **[Trump Asks Full D.C. Appeals Court to Review Gag Order in Election Case](https://www.nytimes.com/2023/12/18/us/politics/trump-gag-order-election.html?unlocked_article_code=1.G00.35r9.HoP6bNsSKWvV&smid=url-share)**
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> The former president is seeking the full court’s review after a three-judge panel upheld a gag order imposed by the trial court but narrowed its scope.

> Two weeks ago, a three-judge panel of the appeals court upheld the basic idea of restricting Mr. Trump’s public statements about the case but [narrowed the terms](https://www.nytimes.com/2023/12/08/us/politics/trump-gag-order-election-case.html) of the order in a handful of important ways. As part of its revisions, the panel gave the former president wider latitude to make comments about potential witnesses in the proceeding and to attack Jack Smith, the special counsel overseeing the prosecution.
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> In its decision, the panel made an important finding: that Mr. Trump’s remarks did not have to present a “clear and present danger” to anyone involved in the case and the gag order could be used as a pre-emptive measure to prevent people from suffering harm.
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> Mr. Trump’s lawyers, in their request to the full court, took issue specifically with the panel’s ruling that the former president’s speech could be curtailed even if his words could not be linked to any immediate threat.
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> “This petition presents a question of exceptional importance,” the lawyers wrote. “Whether a district court may gag the core political speech of the leading candidate for president of the United States — disregarding the First Amendment rights of over 100 million American voters — based on speculation about undefined possible future harms.”

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I know you didn’t expect anything less. I know I didn’t.

Fortunately, the courts seem to be turning these delaying motions around very fast (for them) and I suspect this will be a quick briefing schedule, hearing and ruling.

Trump and his team keep trying to make this a free speech issue. It’s not. Trump is a criminal defendant, and his liberty can be constrained by the courts in many ways to assure a fair trial – to both sides.

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> [@MindsEye\_Watering](#):
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> > [@Johnny\_L.A](#):
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> > With a very, _very_ heavy monument on top?
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> Needs to include a public urinal.

I was thinking of a dance floor.

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**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:** [December 18, 2023, 11:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-has-the-disgraced-convicted-felon-former-but-once-again-president-trump-pissed-you-off-today-part-1/942178/5277 "2023-12-18T23:29:12Z")

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Also is this really going to delay the trial as a whole? This ruling doesn’t affect the way the trial is conducted, its only affects how much Trump can make an ass of himself outside of the court. The schedule for discovery, prep and jury selection should not be affected by the results of this hearing.

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You’re right, it doesn’t.

I think there is already a stay of the proceedings pending a ruling on Trump’s immunity/double jeopardy claims, though.

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> **[Trump recorded pressuring Wayne County canvassers not to certify 2020 vote](https://www.detroitnews.com/story/news/politics/2023/12/21/donald-trump-recorded-pressuring-wayne-canvassers-not-to-certify-2020-vote-michigan/72004514007/)**
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> Trump pressured two canvassers not to sign the certification of the 2020 presidential election, according to recordings reviewed by The Detroit News.

> Then-President Donald Trump personally pressured two Republican members of the Wayne County Board of Canvassers not to sign the certification of the 2020 presidential election, according to recordings reviewed by The Detroit News and revealed publicly for the first time.
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> On a Nov. 17, 2020, phone call, which also involved Republican National Committee Chairwoman Ronna McDaniel, Trump told Monica Palmer and William Hartmann, the two GOP Wayne County canvassers, they’d look “terrible” if they signed the documents after they first voted in opposition and then later in the same meeting voted to approve certification of the county’s election results, according to the recordings.
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> “We’ve got to fight for our country,” said Trump on the recordings, made by a person who was present for the call with Palmer and Hartmann. “We can’t let these people take our country away from us.”
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> McDaniel, a Michigan native and the leader of the Republican Party nationally, said at another point in the call, “If you can go home tonight, do not sign it. … We will get you attorneys.”
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> To which Trump added: “We’ll take care of that.”

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> [@Smapti](#):
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> Too easy. “Today we remember the birth of Jesus, a man who was treated almost as unfairly as “Trump” has been treated by Crooked Joe Biden and his Thugs, including deranged Jack Smith, “Peekaboo” James, crazy Judge Engoron and his “clerk”, Mitch McConnell and his China-loving wife, the fake news at MSNDC and the failing New York Times, Rosie O’Donnell, Megan Rapinoe, the very unfunny Alec Baldwin, and many other haters and losers. Merry Christmas to all, including them!”

I wasn’t too far off.

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