"Donald Trump is going to jail" says his favorite tabloid

[malaise]

Last edited Sat Sep 24, 2022, 10:01 AM - Edit history (3)

One of my siblings told me she saw the above front page lead headline in the National Enquirer when she was in the check out lane at her supermarket yesterday. She could not believe her eyes given the Slobfather’s relationship,with Pecker.

Can one of our experts post it for me

[bucolic_frolic]

1. They rub each others' backs - overexposure prejudices juries and sells papers

Shock value kaching

[BlueTsunami2018]

2. Here's a link to the cover.

https://www.magazinecafestore.com/products/national-enquirer-magazine?currency=USD&variant=42341121294525&utm_medium=cpc&utm_source=google&utm_campaign=Google%20Shopping&gclid=Cj0KCQjw1bqZBhDXARIsANTjCPJXGp98G_S9DpWbdspY1ubSDXpbBTwfqRRycF6cxac59z-zK0WsEZsaAuBYEALw_wcB

You can’t drop photos here so this is the best I can do. Maybe someone can post it on one of those hosting sites.

[malaise]

4. Damn that was quick😀

Thank you

[BlueTsunami2018]

5. You're welcome.

😎

[Emile]

14. You are faster than I.

[AllaN01Bear]

43. make it so, bot for now,,

[wnylib]

49. .

[Demsrule86]

16. Here is the picture...haha. Go to directly to jail, do not pass go...

[Lonestarblue]

45. Those three bullet points under the headline are good ones, especially the last two.

I’m sure the grand jury knows a lot more than we do, but I doubt real nuclear codes were found at MAL. The MAGA cult is far more likely to see and believe the National Enquirer than any mainstream media.

[wnylib]

51. This shows clearly how much

Republicans are done with Trump and want to throw him under the bus while they gather around DeSantis. The National Enquirer backed Agent Orange in 2016.

[AllaN01Bear]

38. id just turn the trash sheets inwards . i now feel contaminated

[A HERETIC I AM]

81. What do you mean you can't drop photos here?

I did that on my iPhone.

Easier on my desktop. Simple

[BlueTsunami2018]

82. Like you can do on other social media.

I don’t see a photo button where you can just drop it out of your collection.

[A HERETIC I AM]

84. I right clicked on the photo from the link you posted above and hit "Open in new tab"

Then I copied the URL from that new tab, pasted here, removed all the extraneous crap after the ".jpg" and voila!

Like I said....simple.

Here's the same method on your little Yoda thumbnail;

[Meowmee]

83. Megan fails royal lie detector test 😹

[MichaelSoE]

87. you can drop photos right click on photo, pick open in new tab or window, copy and past address

?v=1663745460

[Croney]

3. Here

[malaise]

7. Perfect- thanks

[Orrex]

36. He's going to lose his drizzly orange shit over that image!

[malaise]

58. That is why it is so perfect

We know the NE is shit but this is not complimentary

[Orrex]

65. And it sells very well to his older, white base

Poor Donnie!

[BlackSkimmer]

6. Lol...well, if the Enquirer says so...

[malaise]

9. Bwaaaaaaah

[Buckeye_Democrat]

8. Found it.

[malaise]

11. Thanks

It’s the Headline that counts not the vengeful FBI agents.

[Buckeye_Democrat]

19. Yeah, I noticed that too.

I was too slow to be the first poster with the picture, reminding me of the "up high, down low... too slow!" prank.

[Celerity]

41. The adorable love story behind Wikipedia's 'high five' photos

14 years later, the tale of this iconic couple can finally be told.

https://www.inputmag.com/culture/wikipedia-high-five-too-slow-photos-mystery-couple-solved

One reason I love the Wikipedia article for “high five” is that it’s one of those entries about an utterly basic aspect of everyday life that reads like it was written by a group of aliens observing human beings: “Its meaning varies with the context of use but can include as a greeting, congratulations, or celebration.” But the high-five Wikipedia page is among my very favorites not because of its writing, but because of its iconic photos — specifically the ones in the section on the “too slow” variation:





I love the aughts fashion, the use of the word “victim,” and the fact that “finger-guns” gets a hyperlink in the last caption. The woman in the photo gives an Oscar-worthy performance in the final image — she looks like she’s on the verge of tears — and her male counterpart couldn’t look more smug. The pictures are endearing and capture a kind of humanity you don’t find in your average stock photo.

The sequence was uploaded on August 14, 2008 by Bgubitz, a user who describes themself as an accountant who likes “sunsets and long walks on the beach.” Today, photos from the “too slow” series are featured on Wikipedia pages in eight languages and get more than 200,000 annual views.

A quick search of “high five wikipedia photo” shows that the images are an object of fascination for many others besides me. People around the world have noted that the pair looks a lot like Rachel and Chandler from Friends. But not everyone is a fan. In 2020, one particularly passionate Wikipedia user named Kugihot suggested the photos be removed because they were “simply a waste of precious Wikipedia public bytes.”

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keep reading!

[Tadpole Raisin]

50. Cool!! Thx!

[ornotna]

62. Great story

Thanks! That’s the kind of stuff that makes the internet great.

[Kali]

73. ha!

[Buckeye_Democrat]

75. Wow! I had no idea!

[PatSeg]

67. Yeah, almost like they're blaming the FBI

not Trump. And "Who Sold Him Out?" They created a drama around it all that is mostly imaginary maybe so they don't totally turn off his crazy, gullible base.

[live love laugh]

10. Enquirer is garbage.

[malaise]

13. MAGAts love it

That is all

[live love laugh]

18. They probably won't love this particular issue.

[malaise]

22. They may believe the NE😀😀😀😀

Fine with me

[Hermit-The-Prog]

86. I suspect that's why it has that cover -- to stir up a depressed MAGAt base to go vote.

[Clash City Rocker]

23. The point is, they've been backing up Trump forever

Even buying exclusive rights to negative stories about him so they could keep the news from being printed.

They say that Nixon knew he’d lost when he lost Cronkite. The Enquirer was Trump’s most favorable print media source. If he’s lost them…

[live love laugh]

24. Didn't know the back story... thanks 😊

[malaise]

25. THIS

I did not expect to see this in the NE

[SouthernDem4ever]

29. maybe so but Fox nooze is modeled after it

I can't tell the difference between the two media companies.

[tanyev]

12. This is why one should always keep a bottle of champagne in the fridge.

Just in case.

[malaise]

15. Yah think?😀😀

[Shermann]

17. Nuke codes found at Mar-a-Lago?

Ours or Kim Jong-un's? Maybe Trump lied about those not working.

[malaise]

20. I'm still laughing

This is not good for the Slobfather

[kentuck]

21. I heard some talking head say yesterday that there could not be a jury trial over the documents...

...because of the nature of their secrecy. They could not show the documents to the jury. I don't know about that. But, I don't see how that would prevent an obstruction charge for lying about the possession of the documents?

[getagrip_already]

33. There is a process for this exact scenario...

The doj will prepare a proxy summary for each document. It won't be classified but will describe in general terms the sensitivity and nature of the material.

Courts have accepted this process for decades.

That's what I read anyway.

[NJCher]

44. also

no jury, just a judge. A lot of trials are like that. This is civil, also, which I'm sure you are aware of but I'll point it out just for the record.

What I don't know is if the right to a jury trial applies in civil court. I don't think it does.

[spanone]

26. Pecker slams pecker head!

K&R

[malaise]

28. But who sold out the Slobfather?

[central scrutinizer]

79. Bat Boy

[Marcuse]

27. Pecker

David Pecker, the chairman of American Media, Inc., which publishes the National Enquirer, was granted immunity in exchange for giving prosecutors information about Cohen and Trump's knowledge of those payments, according to The Wall Street Journal and other media outlets.

The Enquirer allegedly used a tactic known as "catch-and-kill" — when a publication buys the rights to a damaging story for the purpose of sitting on it and keeping that story out of the news.

The Associated Press reported Friday that the magazine even had a location where records of these payments were stored: a safe full of documents, not only relating to Trump, but similar "catch-and-kill" deals with other celebrities.




https://www.npr.org/2018/08/24/641490961/david-pecker-of-national-enquirer-publisher-said-to-have-immunity-in-cohen-case

[malaise]

55. Good reminder

Thanks

[calimary]

68. That's the sweetest irony - a guy named Pecker runs the National Enquirer.

Exquisitely fitting!

[Chainfire]

30. I have never before bought a copy of that Rag, but I am going to hunt this one down.

It may be the closest thing to Trump being jailed that we will get.

[uponit7771]

31. TFG is whitey Bulger... Not going to jail

[getagrip_already]

35. Didn't Bulger die in jail?

Killed by another inmate?

[uponit7771]

63. Only after FBI was exposed after a trip up ... TFG does not have that issue and has info against

... alphabet crews.

Bulger was out till he was 81 yrs old because FBI didn't puruse

Evidence based on actions points towards TFG and his crew NOT going to jail

[Chainfire]

32. I have never before bought a copy of that Rag, but I am going to hunt this one down.

It may be the closest thing to Trump being jailed that we will get.

Just out of curiosity, I just checked the Vegas odds of Trump being indicted this year:

https://www.vegasodds.com/news/donald-trump-vegas-odds-to-be-indicted-in-2022/

In full disclosure, I remember the day before the election, Vegas had Hillary Clinton as a strong favorite.

[jaxexpat]

34. It's an odd day when the National Inquirer is the voice of authority. A bit disconcerting as well.

[NJCher]

46. that's not the point

see posts 13 and 23 for the point.

[jaxexpat]

52. obviously...........and What?

Did I fail to ooh and aah and echo correctly? You the point police?

[NJCher]

61. no need to get hostile

It's an odd day when the National Inquirer is the voice of authority. A bit disconcerting as well.

but this is not getting the point.

If you meant for the MAGA crowd thinking the NE is the voice of authority, then say that.

[jaxexpat]

71. My thought that in these days of "up" presented as "down", success as failure,.....

electoral victory as a conspiratorial rip-off perpetrated by the victors and (credible?) threats of armed combat at November's polls, "certainty" has taken on a new inference. The oddness of the NE presenting an incongruous POV (vis-a-vis its previous alliances) seem right in line with the oddities which we have come to accept as normal.
You'll recall how general Cornwallis had his band play "World Turned Upside Down" to mark his surrender to the colonial army at Yorktown. It is now considered a profound statement against the absurdity it must have seemed to those then present. I consider the idea of the NE actually foretelling, in a very out-of-character moment, an actual potential fact falls along that same line.

Thus, my allusion that the town's most famous liar portends a profound truth is so unusual and out-of-place that I'm not absolutely sure what to make of it. As can no one until the events actually unfold in time. So many points.

"If you meant for the MAGA crowd thinking the NE is the voice of authority, then say that." That concept never even entered my mind.

I initially found your response to my post condescending, one of the worst insults one may hurl. Your response to my second was just bossy. That's why my response..... Hostile or appropriate? In any case, no worries. Détente?

[NJCher]

76. actually

I came back to this post to apologize for sounding abrupt. While I was out doing my job, which required driving around, I thought about it and decided it sounded like that. No excuses for being so abrupt and quite likely "rude."

If you want to call it "condescending," it might be. I'll have to think on that.

I'll also have to think a bit more on what you wrote in this post, which further explains what you were saying.

[jaxexpat]

77. Of course. Thank you.

[cutroot]

37. It is a scare tactic

They want to keep their minions fearful and in line

[Tadpole Raisin]

39. Send a present to him wrapped with this paper.

Best to have the box big enough to have the full page on all 6 sides!

Suggestions for contents? - that wouldn’t get you in trouble with usps, ups, or whatever delivery company you want, or the Feds and FBI.

[Wicked Blue]

48. And stamp it "Classified" nt

[wnylib]

56. For contents, send a large box full of ketchup packets.

Make them Heinz ketchup to really rile him up.

(Heinz is family of John Kerry's wife.)

[llmart]

40. +1000

The Slobfather will probably take his copy of it and edit it with Biden's picture instead of his to hang on his Mar-a-Loco wall. That will make him feel better.

It's his M.O.

I, however, am enjoying this immensely!

[NJCher]

47. you can be damn sure

this one won't be hanging alongside his Time Man of the Year cover at one of his golf courses!

[malaise]

54. Bwaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaah!

For sure it won't

[AllaN01Bear]

42. off topic: how many of my era remember when these hacks got sued by celebs

and won?
id love to belive the banner but considering the source . nah
got to take morning meds . all i can say is

[MartyTheGreek]

53. See if this works...

https://www.businessinsider.com/donald-trump-settlement-offer-rejected-ny-ag-lawsuit-letita-james-2022-9

?v=1663745460

[malaise]

60. Thanks

[radical noodle]

57. Vengeful FBI agents TRAP ex-president

is just above the headline. That's the theme. Used to stoke anger against the FBI and DOJ.

[malaise]

59. No one sees that - they see the headline and Slobby

in an orange jump suit - an awful image for Mr Vainglorious

[JohnnyRingo]

64. Though it reads more as a complaint against the Deep State.

As though to rouse the rabble to an unjust situation..

[niyad]

66. This is the same fishwrap that last week's headline screamed about Biden's

"dementia-fueled rages in the WH".

[Treefrog]

69. Do they have a date? Like this one?

https://www.democraticunderground.com/100217074843

[kimbutgar]

70. That's one paper article clipping he won't be saving along with classified materials Mara a lago!

[LAS14]

72. I did enjoy scrolling through a half dozen of those front pages. :-) nt

[malaise]

85. Same here

I still think this does not help Slobby😀

[usonian]

74. The Ketchup is gone!

[Vinca]

78. Wonder if he'll hang that on the wall the same way he hangs all the others?

[malaise]

80. I think not