I’m just curious to see the escalation rate 🥳

He's going to keep violating it until he gets a day in jail so he can play the victim.

How can we know if he actually paid the fines?

Nah

What I want to know is whether this can be taken as precedent for not fining anyone more than one millionth of their self-declared total wealth.

I mean at this point Trump might just nickle and dime himself to death if he keeps this up

@@hfar_in_the_sky I dunno, I suspect his supporters will donate more than enough each time he whines that he's been "unfairly sanctioned" and begs for help.

@@lazykbys True. I wouldn't put it past Trump to try and pull an Alex Jones. Guess then what this could be a buildup for is more severe sanctions or punishment in the future, citing a clear pattern of disregard for the law

@@lazykbys Maybe going homeless after donating their life savings to a billionaire is the wakeup call that they need to stop being Republicans. Not holding my breath.

Fines should be set at a minimum level then scale up with income/ actual wealth.

If their goal is to make the court system look weak and ineffectual, they're doing an A+ job. Some KZfaq lawyers used to talk about how scary being disrespectful to judges is, I just imagine how emboldened all future criminals will be from the example they're making of Trump with their lame responses.

@@roofdogblues7400 you have too be rich for it to work

100%. The courts are materially assisting trump in his political campaign and fundraising efforts by stating a gag order and then staying it, or minimally fining him rather than applying the order like they would to a regular person who got on tiktok to talk about their case in a similar way.

Your last sentence is EXACTLY why it is EXTREMELY important to know a candidate's goals/intent for the position they are running PRIOR TO VOTING FOR THEM. We the People, while lacking critical thought, voted in the people who passed laws which currently grant special treatment to the self admitted criminal. The public not being educated as deemed mandatory under a yet to be enforced federal law is the actual joke. The system works when the internal gears are not metaphorically rusty. Until we enforce the aforementioned federal law, we can not expect to fix that which is seriously broken.

Imagine the insane riots that would occur if Trump was actually arrested.

The higher the level of wealth or power, the stricter and less lenient the scrutiny. As far as I'm concerned, if you're in national office and break the law, it should be presumption of guilt with you suffering immediate and maximum penalties. The most powerful should be the least free simply because there is too much risk of them misusing their power.

@@defies4626yes, this is how it should work. Sadly, not in America Im afraid.

@@defies4626Half of our elected officials would disappear 😄

​@@Mr_Balls106win win

​@@Mr_Balls106pretty sure it would be a lot more than half which is a good thing and not going to happen.. He's being targeted on purpose he isn't controllable he runs his mouth too much and he's clearly not innocent entirely either but he never really said he was rather he just enjoys the same benefits systems etc everyone else uses and they don't like that. It's politically motivated either way.. Now if only we did the same to litterally every other politician in office..

White Collar is a cool show thou.

its practical, if the judge is lenient with trump it gives him less room to appeal the decision if he loses, and would actually cause trump to open himself to more legal risk if he attmpted to do so

On the surface, it doesn't look like Trump is getting much punishment, but below that, it's really all just a waiting game. The easy bit is knowing that Trump is in the wrong. The hard bit is building a solid precedence (not evidence) for someone like him, that would ensure he truly doesn't get away. Look at it this way, by being lenient, it makes it easier for Trump to dig himself a grave, and harder to appeal due to bias/unfair treatment. A lot of the "Trump trials", are also new unprecedented grounds (e.g. no ex-president has ever been under trial for an attempted coup), one wrong move can easily kill someone.

@@not_avaliable but it make him less likely to lose, and shows the world that in the US you can buy "justice". to be fair most people already know that.

@@not_avaliableso you’re saying biased distribution of justice.. is a good thing..?

Even when it's in his best interest. 🤣

His defense: “I am baby….”

That was Ron White about himself

Ron White style joke: Trump has the right to remain silent....but he doesn't have the ability.

just like his supporters

Classic Trump gaslighting.

Even if he makes it that far it probably won't be Biden he has to compete with. I'm sure dems want to replace him with a more competent candidate. His entire job was just to get Trump out of there and lets be real it doesn't matter who it was anyone would win when they were running against Trump (unless you're Hillary (but even then she probably would have won if people got a free sample of his policies first))

​@@someonerandom9939personally betting he'll be overtaken by Harris.

@@someonerandom9939 Most people babbling about Biden being "incompetent" can't ever seem to actually formulate an argument beyond posting gifs of Biden tripping or misspeaking, something conveniently never held against Trump by these same people.

@@Hjernesprengtbh, Biden is pretty incompetent, but he’s a hell of a lot better than Trump. He’s a far better speaker and walker than I am, though, so that makes me extra incompetent.

All presidents get special treatment….

​@@adamhero459That's the problem. No one should get special treatment in the court of law.

@@adamhero459he’s not president

I really wish judges would be far less willing to set this precedent that somehow running for President grants you special privileges when this man has been campaigning for 8 years straight at this point, including while he was President. These decisions are basically just writing the worst person in the country a blank check to misbehave in court.

​@@adamhero459name one former president that got this level of special treatment when they were under investigation for 94 different crimes😂

100% - If you have enough cash, money is a get out of jail free card.

Dayfines like several countries have, are great. A person is given X dayfines as the punnishment, the size of a dayfine is defined by the finances of the person.

Ah, so youve learned about capitalism. Nice

​@@Stoyonthey can also workaround that. They should break the person's financial confidentiality and fine X % amount of total $ in assets in their tax files or whatever is recorded in the system. But then again the tax system seems extremely effective when it comes to poor people, some powerful people could still work their way out of that ... I'm pretty sure their tax returns or any financial information tied specifically to their individual (and not sketchy holdings and companies) doesn't reflect their actual wealth.

Trump's net worth is negative though

Other reminder the president can be elected from prison

Wtf does this even mean?

@@declaniii6324 It is a refutation of Trump's claim that it was a concerted effort to begin these trial proceedings during his campaign. Even if Trump was not running, these indictments would continue.

​@@declaniii6324most of the trials he's on are old things, from before or during his govern (or trials about his leaving as the one of Marolago). They were in hold because you cant put the President on a civil trial and would happen the instant he's out of the White House. Saying that he is being "in trial during campaign" reverse the order of things, making it seem like Trump anounced his campaign first and them they sued him (what would make his claims of political conspiracy stronger if that was the case). Trump knew beforehand he would be in trial and choose to make a campaign anyway, not the other way around.

Mitch McConnell said it himself when he voted against impeachment. Let the courts decide it. Which is exactly what’s happening, regardless of whether or not trump decided to run for President again.

It would be interesting if someone tried to make it so that people in public office or running for it would be subject to the harsher limits that the Gentile ruling seemed to require lawyers to follow. It would make sense, it feels like a perversion of the first amendment that it is being used by people in power to lie and abuse people.

It really should

you can bet the people in power legislated themselves the hell out of those responsibilities.

​@@Dawubbzwhy should it? Edit: to clarify, I thought the person I was responding to was advocating for people running for office to have additional rights, not additional responsibility

Because they're running to be a representative of the nation trusted with the power of the nation. Insert spiderman quote.

But yet he cries about how hard he has it. 🤣 🤣

Yes! He is still handled with kid gloves! Why?! Because this country is insane at this point. Count your days America

I love the phrase "acts of stochastic terrorism" 😂

​@@TheSummoner it's a phrase we should all pay attention to

Don’t forget witness tampering!

totally agreed

exactly!

Not to mention extremely predatory to those who are.

Spot on assessment. My attorney told me if you have enough money you can buy your way out of almost anything. Exceptions are bank robbery, sexual assault and murder.

Dude there is an episode from Elementary thats set during the mid 2010s. Quoting (roughly) "(...) in the legal justice system, race and wealth play a far greater role than anyone would care to admit (...)" And this is from a fictional Sherlock Holmes series.

Depends on the fine…

They should adjust the fines to be a set percentage of personal income or wealth.

@@lollorosso4675 now that would be fair and equitable.

good thing that trump is about to lose all his net worth then, lmao

​@@lollorosso4675they should bankrupt him

It's more like they are merely paying a small price for a license to violate gag orders and threaten and endanger lives.

Hell they should bankrupt him while they're at it, god knows the guy doesnt have any other redeemable qualities

depends on the price. 10k is nothing to them, but 1mil+ would be something.

As the saying goes: 'Punishable by fine' means 'legal for a price'

I think the cost should double each time. Eventually, it'll hurt his bank account enough for him to notice, and he seems to care more about his net worth than anything else.

What makes him a conman? Be precise.

​@@JimmyKay1976everything? Like, he didn't even follow the gag orders, plural.

​@@xaf15001gag orders shouldn't be legal in the first place.. outside of that this is entirely politically motivated.. If you really dumb enough to believe that this has to do with justice or something I have no hope for you. We have far worse people in office who control everything and get away with it despite the fact we do know of the corruption and people let it go

@@JimmyKay1976 KZfaq comments have a character limit, so it's impossible to be precise. The entire saga of Trump University would already be too much.

The whole charity thing was pretty gross

That would be amazing and how it should be...don't tell my why I shouldn't vote for the other guy, tell my why I should vote for you....but that would never fly. Nevermind something revolutionary like making it so you could only accept donations/funds from individuals, not organiztions or corporations ( and in the case of senators and representatives, only funds from those who actually physically live in the district/county/state you represent ). If you REALLY want to get radical, how about term limits. We have em for the President for a good reason, but the rest of the government can keep going in perpetuity as long as they can get votes.

@@MrGoesBoom Talking about themselves and their own policies has worked just fine in the past. Bill Clinton didn't attack Bush or Gore and won against both of them. Obama generally didn't trash talk his opponents either. Biden only really got down and dirty because he didn't have much choice. The republicans in recent history have often been the ones slinging mud, trying to win by tearing their opponents down as much as promoting themselves. Trump was all smoke and mirrors with regard to his own policies and value, but gained popularity with the right because of how much dirt he was throwing at everyone else in the primaries. Hillary was an easy target in my opinion,. She had already been publicly smeared and labeled by the right-wing conspiracy nuts with all kinds of insane theories, and that's why Trump was able to win the first time around.

Lol, if that were the case, the democrats would have nothing to campaign on.

I don't know how you could enforce that, but that is certainly a good litmus test for a respectable candidate. Regardless of your notions about RFK Jr, that is one thing he has excelled at. Focusing on his policy positions and refusing to engage in any inflamatory attacks or discussions about the other candidates.

​​@@Echidna23GamingKinda hard to do that nowaday when your opponent get an entire state worth of vote just by talking trash about you. Campaigning is a multiplayer game, not singleplayer. You might not do it but your opponent sure as hell might.

No m! the judge demanded A bench trial, thus no jury.

truth doesnt matter to him or his followers unfortunately

​@@MaryReese-oy8isincorrect

@@MaryReese-oy8is Yes, and it was LegalEagle who also mentioned that that same judge had that idea beforehand because of how it makes it a different case, but also told T***p's lawyers what the possibilities are to NOT have that type of a trial, what paperwork had to be filed for this, and what the time limit was for that, and they messed it up... They simply messed filing paperwork in time up, because they didn't understand the type of trial requested and the documents required to request a different type. This is on the lawyers of T***p, and given how he can now rally around that specific point, you would almost be able to say that it would be deliberate so he can target the whole process because T***p's followers believe without any doubt anything he says, but given how many lawyers are doing superdumb things you should know you should not do as a lawyer, we need to take the fact into account that they are just stupid and literally didn't know what they were doing, or what possibilities they had. This is on the lawyers of T***p, not on the judge, who basically laid out to them: "This is how you can avoid that" and they simply didn't.

@@MaryReese-oy8is The judge did not "demand" a bench trial. The plantiff filed requesting a bench trial, and the defendant never filed anything requesting otherwise. Since their request was unopposed, the plantiff's request was granted. The defendant could have filed the request at any time.

Yes. Put all the dems in jail immediately.

@@cameronwalker294 Bro got the capacity to speak but less intelligence than the dog. I feel bad for the little guy

@@cameronwalker294 wild that THATS the conclusion you came to for this comment. It’s almost like you literally didn’t, but rather, you just needed a place to nest this opinion that is entirely irrelevant to this video.

I think every time he re-violates the gag order they should add a zero to the previous fine. See goe long it takes him to run out of money.

@@cameronwalker294 Lets put all polititions in jail that lie under oath and break the oath of upholding the constitution. There, fixed your sentence.

He got confused. The case is the people Vs donald J trump, so he thought all people everywhere were involved in the trial😂

@@_Twink I know you're joking but that sounds like something he'd actually think

@@artsyscrub3226 *sleepy joe would think like im not a trump supporter, but joe is 100% more likey to think that hahahaa guys on another planet.

indeed. Because he has had the ultimate authority, it can be expected people follow him earlier.

I think the problem for these judges is if they do anything that could even be perceived as slightly incorrect against Trump it gives the possibility of an appeal.

That is an amazing metaphor.

@@austinestep8461 Agreed. In a way they are saving other judges from being forced to see his stupid face. Follow the most liberal interpretation of the law so appeals never happen. I also think a part of them WANT him to believe he is free to say what he wants. Of course the safety of witnesses and such is paramount, but by the same token... every word he says works against him

So true. Many of the wounds are self-inflicted. Had he returned the classified documents, even though they were not his, there would have been no charge of obstruction. Had he limited his verbal attacks and just said that the trials were politically motivated and a witch hunt, even though that is a lie, instead of threatening judges and witnesses, there would be no gag order. And the list goes on and on. Basically, all the judges ask of him is to show a minimum of respect for the justice system and obviously he is incapable of doing that.

@@austinestep8461 More or less, yes. The main thing is that, in order to prevent a more widespread and violent repeat of January 6th from the most rabid of Trumps supporters they have to treat him the same as any other defendant in similar cases and, sadly, the US justice system has been unreasonably lenient towards rich white dudes committing borderline treasonous crimes in the past.

😂

That image is seared into my mind now!

😆😅😂🤣

You’re welcome?

Yeah, my immediate reaction was utter disgust.

Whilst comfortable in the knowledge, they won't get paid

Damn happy I´m just labourer and not a Trump lawyer @@paulwilliams2663

Except that he's running for president &this is all politically motivated

@@JimmyKay1976 You missed a small but glaringly obvious point in the video that great concessions are being made to allow this guy to run a campaign for president during a criminal trial. Something I should never even have to type. The only political motivation here is on Donald's end. If he doesn't make president he's finished. He will have no legal protection.

@@JimmyKay1976 Nope.

What made you interpret that?

The audacity! Oh wait, that's exactly what our thousands of Ab-loving 5th-columnists are claiming, so it must be ok.

Did you pay any attention to his last presidential campaign or the one before that? To me, the claim sounds accurate. I cannot understand why my father voted for the man three out of the four times (one primary, both finals).

@@SakuraPhantom The part where Trump said John F. Kelly (his former Chief of Staff and a retired Marine General) was a traitor, and that they used to execute traitors. And then he complained that he can't "criticize" people while he's running for President.

​@@edgrimm5862most people vote for trump because he pisses off the very people that they want to piss off. He's a populist (although he completely failed to drain the swamp lol)

Also a "how did this happen" (answer: DNC forcing Hillary in as the 20th Presidential candidate despite her overwhelming unpopularity)

Absolutely 💯

If nothing else, it will be an example on how difficult your client can be; being on the same side doesnt shield you.

When I was in law school, a guy in my class bragged to everyone how he was taking a case to the supreme court that would set a precedent we would all be studying for years to come. It took a couple years for his hearing and I lost contact with him after the first year, but eventually I did remember and looked it up. He lost his case, horribly, and his case was indeed used as a precedent - as a reason why his argument doesn't work lol.

No we only have a country for another year

Any gag order needs to come with a physical gag. Trump is physiologically incapable of keeping his mouth shut.

Biden inspires me.. My parents said if i get 70K followers They'd buy me a professional camera for recording..begging u guys , literally Begging...

@@meldroc Don't forget the chinese finger traps to stop him from texting too.

And he is going to be the next president, sorry pal

​@@edwarddormondyou said that last election. Then cried when he lost.

thats just for regular people, to every single one of these people, even the ones on the side of the law, we are fodder.

While I want to agree I think that's what trump wants. It would probably help his campaign since it would "proof" that they are out to get him and make him look like a martyr in the eyes of his followers. To really hurt him they should set the fines based on his reported net worth.

The more things that restrict the presidency, the more methods a political institution would have to play a dirty game. If being charged with a crime stopped you from running for president, there could be a future where political parties in power used their criminal investigation arm to prevent their key opponent from running fairly-the exact argument currently being used by the Trump team as a smokescreen for why he's being accused. It of course feels crazy in this circumstance because of how obvious and numerous his crimes are, but by principle it should be a tightrope to walk in giving accusations (or criminal charges) a limited power to interfere with people. Convictions, on the other hand, are used as a standard to limit privileges and rights. And currently, there's nothing that stops anyone who was criminally convicted (or even still incarcerated!) from holding the office of the President.

Well pretty much all of them are criminals one way or another,whats one more to the pile? On a serious note alot of his trials actually do run the risk of him being barred from running again, but thats if hes found guilty...which...might not be a strech

@@artsyscrub3226your first sentence is insane.. they’re NOT all criminals, trump is one of the biggest criminals in the history of the United States. His level of corruption far surpasses anything in DC right now, he’s not just “one more to add to the pile.” Stop trying to make it seem he’s no less guilty than others. They’re not the same

$10k won't kill him, but I'll bet he has a lot less cash on hand than people think he does.

​@@twill9278It's not even a drop in the bucket. He can get way more than 10k whenever he wants

This. This this this.

@@twill9278 rich people rarely do. That’s the thing.

He'll raise another mil or two off playing victim to his cult members. This is NO DETERRENT, it's advertising ammo.

Don't worry. His lawyers are just as diluted as he is.

It is, though. 🤷‍♂️

@@decwow -- Don't count on it. Even the 1A has limits.

@@decwow You're gonna be in for a bad time if you ever try that in a court, look up Criminal Contempt.

10 psychic damage right there.

Laughter is the best medicine, it appears that you may have overdosed 🤣

Just glad I wasn't drinking my morning coffee.

Except it's a true statement. Cope ans cry harder

​@@chrismaddox9884as we can totaly see 😂 oh sorry, I forgot you only see the things you like(like conspiracy theories and the stuff trump himself says), you can't be helped then... 😂

Heh. Heh heh. Heh heh heh... Want a shot of whisky?

Just the way I want to see him IRL.

aight, ai image guys, you know what to do

It was a choice.

@@Alice_Fumo .. put trump in a furry suit?

He is already hated by courts. He just didnt do anything serious at all prob aly didnt even commit a crime he can be sentenced for

@@SakuraPhantom No, he did.

@@SakuraPhantomno…he has…he has done many crimes ..

The word you're looking for is "commited" and again you havnt listed any @@Jmg5594

yes I know i spelt that wrong

When my son threatened to call, I told him, How do you think those missing kids get on the milk carton?? He put down the phone and that was the last time I heard that crap LOL. He is 35 now and I live in his dog cage. I have a nice comfortable retirement and all the alpo I can eat ha ha ha 😱😱😜😜👍👍🤡🤡💩💩

And Biden is the child that was never told he can"t have icecream.

And when child services investigates and finds the truth, Trump is like, "I didn't mean LITERALLY, geez, you're being so dramatic. Let it go!"

​@@LegDayLasand Trumpettes are the ones who can't let their god king get insulted without bringing up the other guy.

@@Robert-oq8ye I don't like Trump. Cute name though.

A reasonable take? In the KZfaq comments? Get outta here

And no threat of jail if it's jail without the possibility of bail.

Assuming he stays out of jail, he’s obviously going to be the GOP nominee. And unfortunately polls show that he and Biden are closely tied.

Well, he still is the frontrunner by a huge margin. His cult is gonna pull him through the primary, leading to an easy Biden win in the general.

Yet it’s one of the few points on which I would believe him. For the past several years, the Republican Party has displayed a near total willingness to enable even the vilest of his whims, up to and including stealing an election. The Republican Party is his plaything, and he knows it.

@@chrismaddox9884 You're doing another asspull.

​@@chrismaddox9884Which I find alarming. Pres T presided over a collapse of civil order and attacked democracy, and somehow that is preferable to the past 3 years.

I wish his face wasn't still left unbroken.

So, you're ready for Creepy Joe, Hunter, Nancy, Schumer, etc, etc to be jailed immediately? Me too

If you watch devin making the tier list, you will probably know that the best lawyer simply refuse represent him because what he asked indirectly put them on jeopardy. Most of the A lister that Devin mentioned was getting that simply because they DIDN'T talk to the media rather than because they had done good lawyering. Even the best one who tried to cooperate and send every classified document from mar-a-lago was allegedly being carefully persuaded to leave some, and actually done not so thorough check when they actually turned the docs resulting a raid to fully extract all the top secret documents.

You're assuming that his lawyers would actually do that. Their job, as far as they're concerned, is to do anything and everything that Trump says.

​@@tonimi137until your actions become unprofessional and damage your reputation in the courtroom itself. Trump is one client but they have an entire career to protect. Hell. WHEN trump admits guilt to something he hasn't been charged with yet they are REQUIRED to tell the courts...

@@tonimi137 The lawyers may be more fearful of the judge then trump is.

If you have been taking notes on how many times lawyers have lied or broken the law at his direction in recent history you would realize what a useless idea this is.

Got a lil snort laugh out of me for that one.

"They" are nearly half of all people in the US. Clearly they prefer a criminal over someone who disagrees with their politics. You can't hate a system that truly enforces the will of the people. If those people happen to be raving idiotic lunatics, well that's sort of the main weakness of that system huh?

He's done it for literally his entire adult life. The surprising thing is that there is now a concerted effort to hold him to account (only for the most recent stuff). The truth is, he simply went too far. If it weren't for his efforts to overthrow the election, he'd probably be fine right now.

Until he dies, I'm afraid. It's really hard to close Pandora's box again.

@@hugespicyhuge there's not a comparison to be had between the crimes of the two (also Biden hasn't done any crimes unless you have some miraculous evidence the world doesn't) and to imply there is demonstrates a massive inability to think critically. And I don't even like Biden.

hugespicyhuge...same with Biden what exactly? Cause after 3 years of nonsense conspiracies the republicans haven't produced a single shred of evidence of any crimes for Joe - not one legal court case or actual evidence.

6,700 people is 'no one'

It is lawyer game. As Trump I would violate the gag for fun.

That's dumb. As our legal eagle covered, while he only got $1000 fine for one of these violations, the conclusion was that Trump lied to his face. If you think that doesn't impact the trail you are very wrong.@@lolerie

attempted murder is still a crime, so is attempted threats, incompetence does not nullify your criminal behavior

@@Failedlegend well not if done internationally. Did you see the news today?

and than the fine is $5000 resp. $10.000. They lost me there. There should be at least one zero behind those numbers if they were serious.

For the rich by the rich

"In its majestic equality, the law forbids rich and poor alike to sleep under bridges, beg in the streets and steal loaves of bread." The laws are the same. The way they are fought and applied are different.

Yeap. Fines should be percentages.

I think you mean laws for rich people, then laws for whites, then laws for everybody else.

The US Justice system is probably the best on earth if you can afford to access those rights...

Just tell the courts that you identify as a rich white republican....

Because Trumpy doxxes and weaponises his following to go directly after anyone that dares hold him to account.

Because he's white and rich. Need I say more?

He’s thrown around so many accusations of corruption and bias for so long and has so many fervent supporters that anything else could be seen as evidence of a conspiracy against him. They need the case to be airtight to prevent further damage to our system. I’m not saying this is the best way to handle it, but there is a bit of logic to it.

I disagree. his supporters will believe that no matter what, so you might as well just throw the book at him.

Presumably to limit the number of appeals he'll get on this

I think the worry is the riots that might take innocent lives if Trump supporters see Trump in jail. It shouldn’t be but it’s a tricky situation because we don’t want lives to be lost but have to hold him accountable for his crimes, so to avoid loss of lives, they’re gonna have to be pretty crafty about things

Yep. Ordinary people wouldn't have gotten away with even 0.1% of what he did.

@@chrismaddox9884Sedition, treason, tax fraud, regular fraud, the list goes on.

@@chrismaddox9884Well he did admit to sexual assault and looking at underage girls naked in changing rooms already. So there’s that. Then we could talk about witness tempering.

@@chrismaddox9884 are you just ignoring the answers and pretending no one answered?

I was fascinated by the 'sovereign citizen' spiel until I did a little research into their history and found it always devolves into them monetizing their 'fines against LEOs' as fiat currency they use to defraud others with basically counterfeit money. edit: that's besides the overwhelming evidence these losers mostly trash the justice system simply because they're all dead beat dads trying to get out of alimony

He gives them a lot of money and promises (lies to their face) that if they look after him, he will look after them

you should hear my alcoholic family when a brown person pops up on the tv

​@@LiveDonkeyDeadLionPigboy Dumbhump couldn't pay me enough money to betray my country.

​@@LiveDonkeyDeadLionexcept he notoriously never pays

money

yes! certainly that last part. He is just a big time school bully

Yeah, as long as he is not convicted this is all useless theatrics.

We do. He's being attacked for nothing, Creepy and the dems are walking free and laughing at us after committing crime after crime.

ofc hes walking free, have you not heard about innocent until proven guilty?

@@MuiKaHo Critical thinking fail buddy.

@@MuiKaHo funny - related question: are you one of the "lock her up" or "hang mike pence" people? just out of curiosity... just to establish your own position on that "innocent until proven guilty" statement

The fact that people still look at these obviously fake indicments and consider that there is any truth to them makes me afraid for the future of our country and my own life and the livesof those I care about in the future

​@@cameronwalker294 It is ironic that you say that here of all places.

@@orekihoutarou6107can’t agree more

Seriously. I try not to think about it

Same.

it's probably true and very, very sad it is that way.

The he refuses to bend to the bananna republic tactics of this illegal admin, the more the we sane people love him; that's true

they've already convinced themselves that all opposition to trump, including established laws, are just personal attacks that are politically motivated, and therefore they can be safely ignored or should be removed. they are quite frightening because of how absurdly black an white they paint everything, where it's either in support of trump, or a traitor. If this was harry potter the trump supporters would be sneering at people and calling them mudbloods and blood traitors.

@@cameronwalker294 Not because you love him for some reason. It's because he has a gag order.

​@cameronwalker294 Be honest with yourself, if you (and other intellectually stunted subhumans) ACTUALLY thought the election was stolen you would have started a revolution years ago. You know it wasn't stolen.

​@@cameronwalker294lol obviously youve never actually read a single detail of his stories beyond the headline if your fav "news" source. Diving into court transcripts, the evidence of the trials, clips of him talking montaged against himself, even legal eagles very videos doing for you and are easily watchable if you cared about the truth.... Its freaking comically bad. The only people who support trump are idiots, mentally instable, or the politically apathetic who just like the controversy and drama.

Seems like this rule of not pissing off the judge is straight up false. Trump has repeatedly shown extreme contempt for the court but has yet to face any real consequences.

He always was a high profile criminal. Literally nothing has changed.

They’re all gonna be criminals to have gotten that far in politics. But Trump makes those other criminals look like Boy Scouts.

I know, it boggles my mind that people still vote for Biden.

​@@austin123457You're so edgy. Look out.

@@austin123457 How did those impeachment hearings go, bub?

Yes, your side wants to jail anyone who votes for Trump and 'reeducate' us all. Sort of like 1930's Germany.

I think the judge should get a list of all his public statements in violation of the gag orders. Then have the prosecution explain how each statement intimidates a witness or biases the jury. The burden of proof should be on the guy who wants to restrict freedom of speech, not on the guy defending it.

@@me-myself-i787 You are 100% correct and guess what? That's exactly what Jack Smith did is his 32 page filing...Imagine that.

I mean hey, if the trend of doubling the fine every time he breaks the gag order continues, he may genuinely run out of money by the end of the case.

His understanding of things is best expressed by Bender B Rodriguez: "This is the worst kind of discrimination - the kind against ME!"

I doubt it came from a speech writer. Trump's been described as just a guy who repeats what his followers say on social media and amalgamates it into a word salad that terrifies and confuses normal people, but to his cultists who have been trained to respond with rage to certain words like Pavlov's dog hearing a bell, it's "the truth that they establishment won't say". It's just that "Fake News" and "if the reporting is correct" are two phrases from the social media morass that his fever and coke crazed brain mashed together despite the fact that they're nonsense.

Maybe there's a Tokyo Rose amid his ranks.

But of course, the irony of your statement and the hypocrisy of Trump and his supporters, is lost on Trump and his supporters. :-/ For their benefit, here is the definition of Hypocrisy: _Hypocrisy is the practice of feigning to be what one is not or to believe what one does not. The word "hypocrisy" entered the English language c. 1200 with the meaning "the sin of pretending to virtue or goodness". Today, "hypocrisy" often refers to advocating behaviors that one does not practice. However, the term can also refer to other forms of pretense, such as engaging in pious or moral behaviors out of a desire for praise rather than out of genuinely pious or moral motivations._ -- Wikipedia

@@YodaWhat too many big words for MAGAts to understand.

Yes, sadly, often true. Big words really do seem to confuse them. I wonder what the overlap is among the several sections of the population who espouse the various crackpot beliefs? Oh, the ironic floccinaucinihilipilification!@@craigejacobs

and: too many. The sentences are too long. And there's interpunction.@@craigejacobs

and no pictures.@@craigejacobs

well yeah in the US poor people are guilty of the crime of not having money, lol

exactly. in the world's richest nation, too.@@bullpup1337

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If he really was worth billions then you'd be right, but uhhh... he probably wasn't ever actually worth that much: hence the fraud trial.

Yeah, the fines need to be proportional to both net income and net wealth, otherwise it's crippling for the poor and meaningless for the ultra wealthy.

He paid more for his lawyers to be there than the fine. But it probably all will be paid from his supporters donations, so not even close to a slap.

@@dfreadhoff Given that it's Trump, that he paid more for his lawyers is not certain. Both because he's scraping the bottom of the barrel regarding legal professionals.... And also because he has famously refused to pay his lawyers in the past.

Funny you bring up Nixon, considering Obama did the exact thing to Trump that Nixon was impeached for.

didn't we impeach him though?

@@CPorter nixon resigned before he could be impeached. trump was impeached, but not enough senators voted to actually convict him and remove him from office.

@@CPorter No, Nixon resigned rather than be impeached. He knew what would have happened if he fought, thanks to Barry Goldwater.

@@rcknbob1 Well said.

When are people going to realize jail is for the poor, not the rich.

Yeah having money is an advantage thats not a two tier system just capitalism. At some point, fines are turned into prison time, so… there are limits.

Unless you link the fine to a person's earnings/wealth. I believe Finland for example still has fines based on income, with a minimum amount that a person can be fined if their earnings fall below a certain threshold

"Punishable by fine." is just a less-inflammatory way of saying "Legal, for a fee."

the only difference between a fine and a tax is rich people pay fines

@@bullpup1337 The law in its infinite majesty makes it illegal for both the poor and the rich to steal food. Laws are but cobwebs for the rich and chains for the poor, and its not just finable offenses, many rich people should be in prison for everything from rape to manslaughter but they get out of it because adversarial justice doesn't seek truth but victory

He has had a hard time finding a competent one. All of his lawyers now are basically trash. Or at least the ones who keep appearing on TV.

It's funny when idiots think illegal orders mean anything. Let me know how that Rico case is going or the fake electors case....oh wait they are floundering and failing? Who knew?

So so many people think that threats are covered by the first amendment anyway. Especially online it seems that too many think it means one can say everything and no limits can ever be imposed. If trump said what he writes online to a person, or send as a letter, he'd have been in prison for years...

@@Trekki200 think is the key word. Thinking and truth are not the same

We know what a gag order is, do you know what a threat is? You guys heard "insurrection" in his Jan 6th speech when he clearly point blank said the opposite. I hear all the time that Trump threatened this person and that person but nobody can say what that threat was. Take the court clerk, what did he say about her on X that initiated a gag order? I notice also that a lot of Trump haters say that anyone else would already be in prison but what you don't seem to realize is most people would have never been charged in the first place. You don't think it's odd that all of these people loved Trump until he beat Hillary, before then you didn't hear story after story of him being charged. The NY fraud case is insane, they are using a law still on the books from 1956 where the AG can just dig into a corporation without anyone making a complaint. She dug for 2 yrs and found this instance of "fraud" where he exaggerated his assets to the bank for a loan, banks don't approve a loan based on what you tell them but even if they did, he paid back the loan and the bank made out great, there is literally no victim in this case. This law that the AG is using works great for her, she does not have to prove that he did it on purpose and it doesn't matter if anyone was financially hurt, they use it in special high profile cases like Exon, USB, JUUL, it's basically a slam dunk for the AG and since she campaigned on "getting Trump" I guess it's good they had this secret weapon tucked away, oh and they don't have to give him a jury either, if it was anyone but him would you be cheering this on? The Georgia case is not much better, they arrested his lawyers so they could use them against him, I honestly don't know a whole lot about the law, I spent a while reading about the NY one to understand it, I have not read a lot about the Georgia case but I do know one basic right we have that might be down the toilet after this, Attorney Client Privilege, So far 3 have pled guilty and part of their pleas requires them to testify in future trials so how can they abide by attorney client privilege. Idk, I was not always a Trump fan, mainly because his tweeting and the way he says things made me so mad but I saw a lot of hypocrisy with the Dems so I decided to look into things more and Trump really did a lot of good things for us, more than any other president in my life. He's not a politician so he doesn't act or talk like one. Anyway, didn't mean to go on this long LOL, I just feel like whether you love or hate Trump these legal proceedings are not in line with our justice system, a few legal professionals have said that. I whole heartedly believe if he had decided not to run in 2024 he wouldn't have any of these charges.

Gag orders are closer to someone filing a noise complaint then they are a restriction of speach. There is nothing they can do. If he commited a crime he would be in jail as any judge hed be put infront of would be appointed by biden anyway

Evidence of his contempt for the legal system. Potentially stuff like this is just adding to the ever growing hole trump has dug for himself.

He makes money off the fines through fundraising. The court knows this, but pretends otherwise.

The point is to destroy public perception of him by revealing him to be the petulant child he is, and to make sure that any judge who tries to overturn the final decision loses all credibility by doing so.

How do you do fellow retirees?

He is such a bore. Just lock him up already before we all fall asleep watching his temper tantrums.

​@@thomasallen6980he's most likely going to win the election and if he is jailed there will be hundreds of thousands of his followers who are extremely radical who will be out on the streets.

Yep, and you can include his weird dance with his fists up like a boxer? His stupid dancing across the stage? Oh, dang that reminds me of Kimberly Gargoyle dancing on stage, acting like she's all that! Gotta go bleach my mind now!

It was chatgpt that hid my pills

What lie? Name it

​@@chrismaddox9884what truth name it?

@@autorobo1000 it's laid out leftly and anti American.

@@autorobo1000 what lie? Name it

@@chrismaddox9884 I bet you have a confederate flag *somewhere* in your house.

Imagine going to jail for over 3 years for walking through a building and doing no damage? Almost a 1000 from J6.

​@@cameronwalker294 a peaceful walk that resulted in people killed, more injured, a gallows erected, and weapons brought with express intent to interrupt a government function. Crazy how the people who left when the mood of the crowd shifted avoided criminal charges, but the people who stayed and joined in were charged...

While uncommon for the wealthy, its quite common for those lacking means.

@@cameronwalker294 You do realize that death threats accompanied by a break-in counts as attempted murder, don't you? Also, AFAIK about all countries have some legislation that criminalizes intruding on governmental facilities in order to disturb the rightful undergoing of governmental procedures. Doing damage to the building (I'm not counting the dead policemen and the extraction of documents, which dd happen) would just have been the cherry on the top. It would be like allowing a burglar that brutalized a senior citizen in the victim's home just because he cleaned his shoes on the doormat in order to not dirty the floor.

@@cameronwalker294 Imagine being you lmao

Criticism to a narcissistic is the wrong look in your eye or not giving you ketchup.

I don’t know that he does. I think he just wants people to believe he is above even that level (a fairly low bar if we’re honest) of scrutiny.

It's the same understanding I have seen from Call of Duty players sending death threats to game developers whenever the guns in the game get re-balanced.

@@Denbrr And it has nothing to do with his bad behavior nor his character flaws. Its just a political thing.

He's also confused as to exactly who a political candidate should criticize in furtherance of his political campaign. Trump says a lot more about those involved in legal issues against him than he does about political opponents in his campaign.

If by "all of a sudden" you mean "Since the beginning"...

The law exists to protect one group and not bind them, and bind their foes and not protect them. This is standard right wing legal theory.

the right doesn't care about hypocrisy. "rules for thee but not for me" is their bread and butter

Do you know what you're saying? Lets take orange man bad out of it, for a sec, A judge just told a man he couldn't criticize someone. The judge didn't say you can't can't kill someone, the judge told him he couldn't say words. You should really think about what you're cheering for. It might come for you one day.

@@BayonetRed there are known consequences for a man like him crtiticising another person (let's ignore for now how rarely his criticism is reasonable) - trumpo called out his VP & on jan 6th an angry mob assembled with the clear intent to hang him... there's legitimate political criticism, and then there's inciting your (cult-like) supporters to do harm. that trump never (rarely?) overtly calls for violence does not excuse him from the violence his words can incite. he has a responsibility as a massively public figure (and a cult-leader) & allowing him to act reguardless of the effects of his actions is madness. also & ofc: his accusations are rarely founded in reality, must we excuse the dangerous & untrue statements of a man whose followers are already found guilty of various acts of violence against persons & the state? yes, fine, i like the idea of the first amendment, but there are good reasons to find fault with speech that directly endangers others.

Neither would any politician, car salesman, lawyer, government official, or just about anyone for that matter. Sadly, I don’t think I would like a world where I couldn’t let a child believe in Christmas, the tooth fairy, the Easter bunny, or their dreams. We may not be bothered by it much, but the children wouldn’t get to be kids anymore. Sounds like a sad world to me.

@@dargeton87I do believe a child can still be a child without being lied to by their parents.

@@larrywalsh9939 Well, to each their own I guess. Personally, I liked that our parents lied to us and allowed us to be a children and not know about how much they sacrificed at the time just to make sure we were happy, healthy, and learning. They kept the adult stuff to them and let us be kids. They told us about things as we got older and were able to comprehend it all. It gave me a lot more respect for them when I got older, but everyone has a different method I guess. Personally, I have never seen the “not lying to them” method work, but maybe it does. 🤷‍♂️ Good luck to the ones who do try and attempt it.

There is a difference between a white lie to a child who doesn’t have the mental capacity to understand certain things properly, I am on the autism spectrum and my parents never told me that our long time dog was put down instead of givin to a family that could afford her medical conditions. I respect the decision at the end of the day. But there is a difference between white lies and lying for personal reasons. It’s all about finding a proper balance.

"making lying illegal" would be a very bad idea, because it would mean that every statement of any sort would be subject to a level of arduous and expensive scrutiny which currently applies only to select things like statements before a court, or statements which harm someone's reputation enough to substantially affect them. It would also be impossible to enforce on any matter of legitimate controversy, such as theological claims, and even if you did the result would be having to imprison most of the population. I do think there should be a few more carveouts, especially for punishing people who spread lies by abusing a position of power or amplify their dishonest message through immense resources, but there is a good reason why the first amendment exists and protects lying by default.

You know it’s bad when Fox News turn On Donnie 😅

And to really squeeze out every last dime, charge the demon pumpkin by the word (spoken) or LETTER (written).

Infinite money? Trump is having difficulty paying his lawyers. Even getting finite money from Trump is difficult.

@@joelewis3446 have they turned on him though? My dad watches Fox News exclusively and they still seem to be riding the Trump train.

Oh, so that's why we have high inflation???

Loyalty isn’t something Trump can comprehend. He’s the classic example of someone so cynical and selfish that he expects everyone to be the same.

King Arthur

It IS rigged, in favor of oxygen thieves such as him (and the Biden family).