HAPPY (4TH) INDICTMENT DAY!
YOOOOO IT’S OFFICIAL
Also, there are some BIG co-defendants in this one, including Jeff Clark (the guy Trump wanted as Attorney General during the coup attempt period) AND THE HEAD OF THE GEORGIA REPUBLICAN PARTY.....
.... PLUS. PLUS. RUDY GIULIANI!!! AND MARK MEADOWS!!!!! AND JOHN EASTMAN!!! AND RICO CHARGES FOR TRUMP!!!!
HAHAHAHAAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!
(oh damn, oh snap, a thing of beauty and a joy forever, etc)
Also, apparently this is technically his FIFTH indictment, as the superseding Mar-a-Lago charges added the other day count as another one. But wow this is a WHOPPER.)
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I like my shitposter Kevin hc so much because like you meet this guy in real life and he's so stoic and reserved so obviously you would think his social media would be filled with exy but NO!
You go to his twitter and you see the most insane shit ever like "What if teeth were squishy like marshmallows when they fall out and we ate them." or "How much redbull do you normally put in your coffee? I normally put in like 7." like THE most batshit crazy stuff you could imagine.
And what makes it worse is that he STILL tweets about exy like "What if exy racquets were miniature and we had to play but really carefully so they won't break." idk but you can pry this from my cold, dead hands because I KNOW that under all that trauma and pensiveness he's got the wackest personality ever.
Andrew is subjected to everything by default like its 5am (Kev's a history student he doesn't have normal sleep schedules) and Kevin's whispering in the dead of the night "What if carrots screamed when we crunched into them." "Kev, shut the FUCK up."
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Ann Telnaes, Washington Post :: [h/t Robert Scott Horton]
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Standing up to Trump's political terrorism.
August 18, 2023
ROBERT B. HUBBELL
Trump knows that a jury of his peers will convict him in a fair trial. He has therefore resorted to extra-judicial efforts to intimidate and prejudice the jury pool. His efforts are not only extra-judicial, they are undemocratic, thuggish, and illegal. Like a crime lord with feral instincts, Trump knows how to threaten without threatening and brutalize without leaving fingerprints at the scene of the crime. Instead, he grants permission to his followers to violate laws and norms, encouraging them to do the dirty work necessary to defend the indefensible.
Over the last several days, the breadth and viciousness of Trump’s assault on the legal system became manifest as MAGA extremists attacked the judge and jurors in Trump's various criminal proceedings. Before reviewing the latest insults to the rule of law, let’s skip to the end to discuss the solution: We must recognize that Trump is engaged in political terrorism designed to frighten good people who are the backbone of democracy. We cannot let that happen. The solution is not to shrink in fear, but to swell in numbers, strengthen our resolve, and dispel the exaggerated fears created by a skulk of cowards who hide in internet shadows.
In America, there is an ever-present risk of violence that cannot be entirely dismissed. Law enforcement and prosecutors should, therefore, vigorously pursue and prosecute the small, frightened, impotent cultists who threaten jurors, judges, and prosecutors. But we must recognize that the business model of political terrorism is for a few individuals to instill outsized and unwarranted fear in the masses. Recognizing that truth should allow us to keep in perspective the fact that a few thousand online pseudo-terrorists vanish to nothingness compared to 335 million Americans.
America is bigger than Trump and his minions. We should not cower in fear but should pursue justice with confidence and righteousness. We are protecting the Constitution and our system of laws. We cannot fail in that task—and there is nothing that cowards with keyboards can do to deter us.
Against that background, let’s look at the events on the ground.
Abigail Jo Shry of Alvin, Texas, threatened Judge Tanya Chutkan in a voicemail message that began with racial slurs and ended with threats of violence. Shry was quickly questioned, arrested, and charged in federal court. The magistrate ordered that she remain in pretrial detention for at least 30 days pending a determination of her danger to the community. That is type of federal response that will deter future threats.
At Shry’s detention hearing, her father provided background on Abigail Shry’s threats:
Her father, Mark Shry, testified at her detention hearing and said his daughter is a “non-violent alcoholic,” according to the court filing. [Her father] testified, “that she sits on her couch daily watching the news while drinking too many beers. She then becomes agitated by the news and starts calling people and threatening them.” Her father said, “his daughter never leaves her residence and therefore would not act upon her threats.”
There have also been threats against members of the Fulton County grand jury that indicted Trump and eighteen other defendants on RICO charges. See NYTimes, Officials Investigate Threats Against Trump Grand Jurors in Georgia (accessible to all). The Fulton County sheriff issued an anodyne statement acknowledging the threats and stating that the sheriff was investigating. (The statement said the sheriff was “aware of online threats against grand jurors and was working with other agencies to track down their origin.”)
A stronger statement from the sheriff and the quick arrest of several perpetrators would go some distance to damping the false bravado of other beer-fueled couch terrorists. A stronger reaction is necessary because the online threats are directed not only against the grand jurors, but future jurors who will preside over Trump’s criminal trials.
But there is more.
Trump released a video in which he attacked special prosecutor Jack Smith as a “deranged lowlife” for obtaining Trump's Twitter feed. See Forbes, Trump Attacks Jack Smith For Gaining Access To His Old Twitter Account. This is the type of statement that should cause Judge Tanya Chutkan to remand Trump into custody. At the very least, the statement should be added to the list of offenses that will finally cause Trump to be detained pending trial.
Detaining Trump before tria is not only inevitable but also necessary. Trump's continued attacks are having a corrosive effect that seeps into the nooks and crannies of the justice system everywhere. Many readers have commented on the raid on a Kansas newspaper because of efforts by the newspaper to report on the failure of local police to enforce DUI laws against a local businessman. Based on a questionable search warrant issued by a local magistrate, police seized computers, cell phones, and files—a gross violation of federal protections granted to members of the news media.
The public outcry and obvious illegality of the seizure forced the police to return the seized items and the local prosecutor to withdraw the questionable warrant due to 'insufficient evidence’. But the question remains, “How could this happen? How is it that local police and magistrate could ignore constitutional and statutory protections for the press?” Some of the sordid answers are detailed in this investigative piece by The Wichita Eagle, Judge Laura Viar, who approved newspaper raid, has DUI arrests.
Apart from the local magistrate’s questionable potential bias due to her own history of DUI troubles, another answer is that the police and magistrate are modeling themselves after a national GOP in which the rule of law is an impediment to power. In short, they thought they could get away with trampling the Constitution. Fortunately, they were wrong—and will likely be charged with crimes and serve time in jail. As should Trump.
If Americans see that Trump is punished for his attacks on the justice system pending trial, others will realize that they, too, must respect the justice system. We owe the Constitution nothing less.
[Robert B. Hubbell Newsletter]
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