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billpalto t1_jcv5w2d wrote

Trump is pretty openly threatening an attack if he is indicted and arrested. The courthouse and the DA's staff have to be protected against the Trump terrorist attack.

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CW1DR5H5I64A t1_jcv9qs7 wrote

Terrorism: the unlawful use of violence and intimidation, especially against civilians, in the pursuit of political aims.

Trump called on his followers to protest and “take our nation back” in the event he is arrested. I don’t know about you guys, but that kind of sounds like threats of violence and intimidation in the pursuit of political aims to me.

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pickles55 t1_jcvarm3 wrote

They say they're going to investigate specific or credible threats as if that will protect anyone from an unannounced attack by one of the many right wing militias that love trump. The far right media is all on the same page that guns and fighting accomplish more than votes do. The number of individual hate crimes has exploded since 2016 too.

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Yousoggyyojimbo t1_jcvavf2 wrote

Replying to CW1DR5H5I64A (#2,273,094)

Also had a Republican congressman tell people that they needed to go scorched earth on this.

She's on the Homeland security committee, telling Americans to commit violence to prevent a republican from being arrested for crimes.

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MajesticOuting t1_jcvcksz wrote

The Trump terrorism camp is going to need new names to differentiate the numerous threats and riots they spin off, and that is kind of terrifying in itself.

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WirelessBCupSupport t1_jcvf9ud wrote

HELLO? How many times does the public need to read/hear from Donald Trump that he is ONCE AGAIN inciting violence to defer attention to him and away from courts?

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Most-Resident t1_jcvmyu5 wrote

The idea of a big pro trump protest in manhattan is kind of amusing. There might be protests other places but that could turn ugly quickly.

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kstinfo t1_jcvqdfw wrote

The Republican elite are all in favor of Trump being convicted of bribery rather than his other crimes.

Al Capone going to jail for tax evasion comes to mind.

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frealfr t1_jcvr35c wrote

This will just get him elected in 2024 thus owning the libs.

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BasroilII t1_jcvsl22 wrote

Replying to billpalto (#2,272,874)

  • Trump sexually assaulted dozens of young women and girls. And not only admitted it publicly but bragged about it. He was not arrested.
  • Trump used his wealth to campaign for the arrest and execution of five innocent men on no other basis than they were black and he still got away with it.
  • Trump collaborated with Russian government elements to have the election swayed in his favor and was not only not arrested, but was fucking elected president. Then when this was officially investigated later the evidence was ignored by half of Congress on the grounds of the law doesn't matter if they win an election.
  • Trump ordered a missile strike on an ostensibly allied country, extremely close to that country's international public airport, to assassinate a political figure from another nation. And didn't tell his allies he was having missiles launched in their country. And got away with it.
  • Trump refused to go to a ceremony honoring US war dead so he could meet in private with Putin. Without security or staff. And got away with it.
  • Trump publicly supported the Russian invasion of Ukraine. BOTH TIMES.
  • Trump met with Russian intelligence in the fucking oval office and exposed sensitive information about US allies; and nothing happened to him.
  • Trump riled up a mob and directed them to storm the capitol building to force an overturn of the election results; to wit, a coup. And got away with it.

Amazing what you can do when you have money and convince poor rural people you are one of them in spite of being neither poor nor rural.

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BasroilII t1_jcvt0va wrote

Replying to Eswyft (#2,274,148)

On his godawful social media platform that be built because even Twitter thought he was too scummy:

>Page 2: NOW ILLEGAL LEAKS FROM A CORRUPT & HIGHLY POLITICAL MANHATTAN DISTRICT ATTORNEYS OFFICE, WHICH HAS ALLOWED NEW RECORDS TO BE SET IN VIOLENT CRIME & WHOSE LEADER IS FUNDED BY GEORGE SOROS, INDICATE THAT, WITH NO CRIME BEING ABLE TO BE PROVEN, & BASED ON AN OLD & FULLY DEBUNKED (BY NUMEROUS OTHER PROSECUTORS!) FAIRYTALE, THE FAR & AWAY LEADING REPUBLICAN CANDIDATE & FORMER PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, WILL BE ARRESTED ON TUESDAY OF NEXT WEEK. PROTEST, TAKE OUR NATION BACK!

One could argue "take our nation back" was just reinforcing the call to protest, but given the events of Jan 6th, I think it safe to suggest instead that it was another call to a coup.

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MalcolmLinair t1_jcvu5pi wrote

Replying to billpalto (#2,272,874)

In the (in my opinion unlikely) event of Trump being indited, we're likely to see a wave of small to medium sized terrorist attacks by MAGA fanatics against police and infrastructure across the country. It's going to be worse than anything in our history short of the Civil War.

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sariisa t1_jcvyvgq wrote

Replying to [deleted] (#2,273,291)

> "This isn't a prosecution, it's a persecution,"

possibly the most trite, lame quip imaginable and yet 100% someone wrote this for him, because there is 0 chance that fucking syphilitic waterhead can even distinguish those two words unaided

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diamond t1_jcvyxoe wrote

Replying to Yousoggyyojimbo (#2,272,960)

I do. He's the idiot that Googled "how to get through bulletproof glass" in the middle of the attack and then died in a cornfield, right?

The threat absolutely is real, and it should not (and will not) be taken lightly. But these dipshits are not the "Coming storm". They are not nearly as powerful or numerous as they think. They can cause damage and kill people, but they're not going to Take Over the Country.

We should not be intimidated by them.

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jcooli09 t1_jcw7ogz wrote

If the redcaps get violent Trump should be charged with incitement.

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MatsThyWit t1_jcwjiob wrote

They're in luck. Donald Trump and employees of and or appointed by Donald Trump are not in charge of maintaining the safety of the insurrectionists this time, nor in charge of defending the DA staff for that matter.

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MatsThyWit t1_jcwpifh wrote

Replying to kstinfo (#2,274,133)

>The Republican elite are all in favor of Trump being convicted of bribery rather than his other crimes.

Exactly. They've really just been trying to figure out how and what they can charge him with that won't blowback on the established political leadership of the party. They have their hands in too much of what Trump did for him to ever face prosecution for any of it, but prosecution for this has no way of bouncing back on anybody important with the party and take's the need to deal with him off their plate as it ends his political career. At least that's what they're likely hoping for.

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Art-Zuron t1_jcwy67q wrote

Replying to Odd-Employment2517 (#2,275,782)

Republicans one the popular vote once in the last 20 years. It was George Bush right after 9/11, which Bush exploited to drag the country to war and murder hundreds of thousands of completely unrelated civilians.

Lots of money to be made in imperialism after all.

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[deleted] t1_jcx1l88 wrote

Replying to [deleted] (#2,277,023)

They'd probably join in while they're on the clock. Not like anybody's out there making sure they actually patrol their section or whatever.

Detectives probably have even less scrutiny, because by the nature of the job they could be anywhere in the city checking something out.

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cwn01 t1_jcx4ih1 wrote

After Trump abandoned his Jan 6th supporters, only idiots will do it again.

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Apart_Ad_5993 t1_jcxxs7r wrote

Trump is trying to mind-fuck his cult into protesting on his behalf. This is his narcissism on display.

He's connecting his arrest for campaign finance misdeeds to "an assault on the country...take it back". Like, anything that happens to him is a crime against the country.

No sir, it's not an assault on the country. Just you.

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Githzerai1984 t1_jcy1q8s wrote

Replying to BasroilII (#2,274,314)

New records in violent crime…naw dog, ever since we stopped putting lead in gasoline violent crime has been on the decline

“Whose leader is George Soros”

Welp that’s a pretty blatant dog whistle

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ih-shah-may-ehl t1_jcy1z9d wrote

Replying to BasroilII (#2,274,279)

Not just that but Trump is a grade A narcissist. I've dealt with narcs 2 times in my life. It would be a severe mistake to underestimate the instinctive skill with which a narcissist can twist your words and throw them right back at you.

I've experienced this myself. Me and a close friend dealing with a narc coach in our sports club. We went into his office, and we were going to set him straight. Half an hour later, we stand outside, having just agreed that everything was out fault, and we're looking at each other shellshocked with a 'WTF just happened' look on our face.

Trump will walk away from this too.

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BasroilII t1_jczltzp wrote

Replying to Githzerai1984 (#2,278,959)

About the time a lot of complaining was coming out about the Koch Bros and Murdoch the GOP starting screaming "Soros" like they were a pokemon named that, over and over. Typical whataboutism.

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BasroilII t1_jczm1xv wrote

Replying to DarkWasp14 (#2,276,551)

Nah, most of the politicians in the higher levels of government for the right are about as religious as my socks. But their voters are a lot more god-bothering, so it behooves the politicians to put that face on to appeal to their base.

With a few exceptions that really are crazed zealots.

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BasroilII t1_jczmfob wrote

Replying to ih-shah-may-ehl (#2,279,915)

Because admitting that using more ecological and healthy but less cheap materials in your industry practices, and admitting that health and safety and environmental regulations WORK, is anathema to a large portion of the politicians in this country.

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Medium-Oil1530 t1_jd06u1b wrote

If Trump is convicted will his Secret Service agents hang out in the hall outside of his jail cell?

Will Trump need to worry about getting shanked in the lunch line?

Like one of us peasants!?

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