The Trump strategy to get away with crimes

[drray23]

Commit so many infractions that you overwhelm the system. Clog it by filling frivolous appeals.

Go from one scandal to another one by constantly spewing bullshit to keep the media off balance.

The poor DOJ and 1/6 committee keep having to issue more subpoena, talk to more witnesses because Trump and his crew raised the bar to a level that is order of magnitudes worse than Watergate.

Hopefully this will run to an end eventually and Trump will be caught. This strategy has worked all his life so far.

[Walleye]

1. And lie, lie, lie

[Orrex]

2. It really is a shame that he hasn't yet suffered a massive, skull-popping stroke.

[Mr.Bill]

14. I don't think he has the emotional capacity

to be stressed about anything.

[lees1975]

22. A stroke requires a brain...

[Probatim]

26. And a heart...

[Pinback]

33. And courage!

Ok, I guess maybe courage isn’t necessary, but I couldn’t resist.

[LastLiberal in PalmSprings]

36. My hope is that TFG gets a disease which totally incapacitates him.

I want him to be mentally acute, but unable to speak or move any part of his body. I want him on a ventilator for the rest of his life, being fed through a tube, and unable to get anyone to change the channel the television, which is locked on MSNBC.

Oh, and I want him to be incapable of wiping his own ass.

Then I want him to have the distinction of being the former president who has lived the longest -- maybe to 101 years old.

Is that too much to ask?

[TreasonousBastard]

3. If you can't dszzle them with your brilliance...

baffle them with your bullshit.

W. C. Fields

[milestogo]

4. Delay, delay, delay.

[Probatim]

27. That's the key to the political crimes.

[Gregory Peccary]

35. Lather, rinse, repeat

[Baked Potato]

5. And frame government as evil to

create sympathy for wrongdoers.

[SleeplessinSoCal]

6. As if the crimes weren't bad enough, he's tearing the country into pieces

[Moostache]

24. No...I don't give his fans that as an out.

Trump is a carnival barking narcissist of the highest order. He is nothing more than an evil W.C. Fields but more clownish and thus more evil.

People who openly support Trump's racist and authoritarian bullshit are 100% to blame for their own actions. I am not going to wait until after the war to call them out as the same people who will gleefully burn down the nation only to try to bury their uniforms and pretend later they were duped or coerced. Nuh-uh...no sale!

Trump is being himself, self-absorbed, moronic and boorish. So too are his loyal peons. They are the one's tearing apart the country because they want to say someone told them it is OK to be open and free bigots and fools.

[SleeplessinSoCal]

34. I've been waiting for his comeuppance since the late 80s.

He needs to be the model for justice meaning "nobody is above the law" in the times of winner-take-all, 21st century America. Otherwise there will be no JUSTICE. He is plowing ahead with his model of redefining justice as not applying to him or those in his circle because he can just willfully usurp our nation of laws.

[Norbert]

7. And what ever crimes you commit, accuse your enemy of doing the same thing

[Qutzupalotl]

8. And stay in power as president for life

so you can't face consequences.

Okay, that one didn't work out.

[budkin]

9. It's worked so far!

And most likely will keep on working.

[Laura PourMeADrink]

10. Why it was SO important to get him EARLY. Aides

literally started getting their resumes ready over Comey, anticipating FG's demise. His approval was at it's lowest at end of 2017. When we just blew off impeachment. Brilliant articles presented on 11-15-2017 by Steve Cohen D-TN.

[SeattleVet]

11. He's mastered the Gish Gallop of crime.

[spanone]

12. He's forever the victim. Always Persecuted.

[Bernardo de La Paz]

13. Bannon called it "Flood the Zone". . . . nt

[sop]

15. What's stopping authorities from focusing on one crime and prosecuting the hell out of it?

[Laura PourMeADrink]

16. Good question. What do you think the most slam dunk

Crimes are?

[sop]

20. His latest crime, violation of the Presidential Records Act, would be a good place to start.

And Fulton County's special grand jury investigating Trump's efforts to overturn the 2020 election in Georgia would be another.

[Paladin]

17. If it's that obvious, why aren't we fucking DOING SOMETHING ABOUT IT? (nt)

[thesquanderer]

18. Another strategy of his is to do it in plain sight.

Like he couldn't have been doing anything unseemingly if he was doing it so publicly.

[NoMoreRepugs]

19. Seriously - does anyone TRULY believe the SlobFather has a STRATEGY about ANYTHING?

I for one doubt he's capable of developing one.

[Moostache]

28. He is Heath Ledger's Joker portrayal brought to life....

A true dog chasing cars (an actual insult dogs)...and he honestly doesn't have a clue what to do with one if he catches it either...

[calimary]

21. And don't forget the delaying tactics.

Often he can just wait out the plaintiffs because they’ll run out of money first and will drop it or settle for pennies. In this case here and now, I bet he’s adding generous amounts of delay, anticipating that he’ll steal his way back into the White House and can just make it all go away.

I think too many people underestimate him, still. To this day. Even knowing (or conceding) what they know he’s already done and how many times and different ways he’s tried to cheat.

Seems to me there’s a point where the average person would sniff “naaaaah, he wouldn’t do THAT…” because the average person would tend to have at least some basic knowledge of morals and having a conscience and obeying the law. I’d guess the average person simply wouldn’t involve themselves in so many layers of shenanigans. And certainly couldn’t afford to. And few have his kind of chutzpah.

So, seems to me that would make it hard to wrap one’s mind around shady entanglements like his. Most of us simply don’t have that mentality or worldview, and/or weren’t brought up that way.

And I suspect he understands that very keenly. I bet that’s how and why he’s been able to find so many patsies and pushovers throughout his lifetime.
Hell, he’s not only rolled the biggest banks and lending/funding outfits in the world, he’s taken ownership of roughly half the American voting-age population.

I think it comes down to simple denial. Nobody but another con artist would imagine conning people as shamelessly and recklessly and on such a colossally huge scale could recognize this. Lucky for him, everybody else, including his millions of “marks”, is probably in denial. “Naaaaaah. Couldn’t happen.” Or, as this other mom I knew who was a Republican but who was sure Roe v Wade would always remain untouchable would say, “s’not happening.” It’s not in their so-called “wheelhouse” to operate that way. Therefore, the logical extension of that is the assumption that nobody else operates that way, either. Only bad guys (and maybe Democrats and others they hate and resent). But not him.

Really nice the way you’ve set this up, donald. Boatloads of chumps you’ve conned and conned and they’re so into you they keep coming up for more.

He’s the modern-day P. T. Barnum, who keenly understands how many suckers are born every minute.

[gab13by13]

23. To get to Trump we need to do what DOJ did for Watergate,

create a special grand jury. You can't start at the top to convict the top.

Let's look at Mark Meadows, the select committee sent a criminal referral 54 days ago. We have evidence in writing implicating Meadows in the plot to overthrow the election. Bring him before a grand jury, no excuses for executive privilege like we are going through now trying to get a conviction for contempt of Congress.

Let's look at Jeffrey Clark and John Eastman, they go before the select committee and plead the 5th 100 times. Bring them both before a grand jury, stop wasting time with this executive privilege bs. We have documents that Eastman wrote on overturning the election. Clarke wanted DOJ to send out bogus notices of election fraud.

The Watergate grand jury indicted numerous Nixon aides and cabinet members and named Nixon as an unindicted co-conspirator only because he was a sitting president.

Executive privilege does not apply when used to hide crimes.

[Nululu]

25. Same as any other crime family. Roll them up one by one

[Pepsidog]

29. Why can't he be indicted for Stormy Daniels campaign finance matter? It's a start.

[gab13by13]

30. Good idea, slam dunk case,

too late, the statute of limitations has expired.

[slumcamper]

31. Time for a new legal strategy?

The concept of "omnibus" (as in bills) is accepted practice in lawmaking/legislation.

Given that, why not omnibus lawsuit?

Wrap the entire shit-show up in a massive, single federal suit and file it in DC.

Too much dicking around otherwise, and the OP is spot on.

[AZLD4Candidate]

32. Classic narcissistic, sociopathic behavior. Run and hide, attack, lie, and deflect

[kairos12]

37. It continues to work.