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(97,627 posts)calguy
(6,154 posts)To win the Republican nomination!
Hekate
(100,133 posts)calguy
(6,154 posts)up and down the ballot.
brush
(61,033 posts)by the day. The many court appearances and campaign stops witll just further aggravate his decline.
Woohoo, bring on the repug nomination, and a huge Democrati win.
Irish_Dem
(81,266 posts)W_HAMILTON
(10,333 posts)They thought they could sit home, or cast idiotic protest votes, etc. because no one believed Trump could actually win.
Meanwhile, Trump's campaign was colluding with Russia and Putin and his troll farms were working overtime to get his puppet elected.
It was a confluence of factors -- never forget what Comey did, what the New York times did in claiming the FBI had no evidence of Trump campaign's Russian ties, etc. -- that led to him winning by *just* enough votes. Since then, he and his Republicans have been getting mostly beat up and down the ballot because everyone realizes the real threat they pose and no longer take them for granted.
This won't change in 2024.
calguy
(6,154 posts)Irish_Dem
(81,266 posts)SoFlaBro
(3,790 posts)Captain Stern
(2,253 posts)LiberalFighter
(53,544 posts)LetMyPeopleVote
(179,868 posts)TFG's mental decline is becoming more and more obvious
Link to tweet
https://www.meidastouch.com/news/trump-glitches-again-during-speech-concerns-over-cognitive-decline-grow
Trump: 'Terrortismterrorwhat, what you're doingterrorism.'
Trump's latest glitch adds to an expanding list of gaffes that call into question his mental fitness. He recently stated that Viktor Orbán is the leader of Turkey. Orbán is the Prime Minister of Hungary.
During the same speech, Trump delivered a bizarre rant suggesting he was the first person to notice 'us' and 'U.S.' were similar and that no one would give him credit for that 'genius' discovery.
Link to tweet
rsdsharp
(12,002 posts)Other than his three minutes on the stand earlier this week for violating the gag order, I dont believe he has ever testified live in court (I could be wrong). Unless he just invokes the Fifth Amendment, it would not surprise me if he starts to jibber, drool and throw his own Depends.
leftieNanner
(16,159 posts)He can't hide.
His stress level must be intense.
Good.
rsdsharp
(12,002 posts)The trier of fact (in this case the judge) can take a negative inference from it, but he can invoke it. In fact, he invoked it nearly 450 times when he was deposed by the AG.
Progressive dog
(7,603 posts)He already did plead it over 440 times in a deposition for the NY A.G.'s trial.
Since the trial is civil, taking the fifth can be used against him.
LetMyPeopleVote
(179,868 posts)In TFG's second depo, TFG did not take the 5th and made some admissions that were used against him
JohnQFunk
(492 posts)At least human-turtle hybrid Mitch can be rebooted.
Quixote1818
(31,155 posts)Looks bad but I would like to see a longer clip.
LetMyPeopleVote
(179,868 posts)hatrack
(64,887 posts)There's never flesh-eating bacteria or brain-eating amoebas around when you really need them.
struggle4progress
(126,153 posts)Initech
(108,783 posts)Consuming all that hate and rage 24 hours a day like he does can't be good for you.
BigmanPigman
(55,137 posts)Projection
Maybe he will stroke out on live TV as he rants and raves about the unjust justice system. He makes Mitch look like a healthy man.
I will celebrate like never before when that happens
LetMyPeopleVote
(179,868 posts)Chellee
(2,300 posts)I'm sure the people of Iowa don't mind that at all.
GreenWave
(12,641 posts)Chellee
(2,300 posts)Ocelot II
(130,533 posts)I want him strapped to a gurney on a Thorazine drip.
ChazInAz
(3,017 posts)Does anyone else think his handlers keep him refrigerated between appearances...just to prevent parts from falling off?
Rather like HP Lovecraft's story "Cool Air".
LetMyPeopleVote
(179,868 posts)LetMyPeopleVote
(179,868 posts)TFG has been showing signs of senility for some time and this detachment from reality is getting worse.
Link to tweet
https://www.rawstory.com/trump-detached-reality/
"Trump, since he left the White House, and this is really the theme of my book, has become more detached from reality than he ever was even in the White House," he claimed.
To make his case, he continued, "If you think of where we were in January of 2021, that's the starting point for where a Trump presidency would be next time around. So I think he's had largely, believe it or not, a free ride. Again, the criminal cases we know about, but what he's thinking, what he's doing, he had a speech just the other day in Texas where he referred to the people that are in prison because they attacked the U.S. Capitol and beat up police officers, he called them not prisoners but hostages."
"Trump has become also increasingly confused about things. He sometimes he thinks that he lost to [Barack] Obama in the last election," he offered. "He confuses basic facts and says some rather strange things, but there isn't much attention paid. As we get closer to these primaries, we'll see where not just Trump is based on these criminal cases, but where he is now as a human being."
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