Prosecutors want Trump held in contempt for 'disturbing' Truth Social post attacking prospective jurors

[BumRushDaShow]

Source: Business Insider

Apr 18, 2024, 10:19 AM EDT


Manhattan prosecutors in Donald Trump's criminal hush-money case asked the judge presiding over the case to sanction him for attacking prospective jurors in the trial, arguing the former president had repeatedly violated his gag order.

The latest salvo, from Assistant District Attorney Christopher Conroy in court Thursday morning, concerns a Truth Social post made by Trump on Wednesday, in which he quoted the Fox News host Jesse Watters. "They are catching undercover Liberal Activists lying to the Judge in order to get on the Trump Jury," Trump posted on his feed, quoting Watters while applying his own letter capitalization.

Conroy told New York Supreme Court Justice Juan Merchan on Thursday morning that it was "the most disturbing post" among seven occasions in which Trump had violated his gag order since Monday, the day jury selection began.

He asked Merchan to hold Trump in contempt and fine him, adding that the Manhattan district attorney's office was "still considering our options" for the full scope of sanctions to request from the judge. Being held in contempt of court could result in jail time for the former president.

Read more: https://www.businessinsider.com/trump-trial-prosecutors-want-sanctions-truth-social-attack-prospective-jurors-2024-4

[Tetrachloride]

1. Trump doesnt care about being in contempt

… in my opinion

[bedazzled]

17. He's used to it!

Most folks in the NY/NJ metro area have held him in contempt for YEARS

[Magoo48]

21. It's embarrassing to live in a land where our leaders are so afraid of a blowhard bully.

[Tetrachloride]

25. bingo

[Escurumbele]

35. As long as no one makes in accountable for it, why not? Until the SOB is put in jail, he won't shut up and he

will continue to challenge the judge, and the court.

[bucolic_frolic]

2. "undercover Liberal Activists" reveals a paranoia trip of massive dimensions

TSF operates in a world of paranoia and secrecy, everyone is always out to get him, and he's out to get others.

"Liberal Activists" are not that savvy as to operate undercover, they are open because they believe people are logical and trusting and rational and can be convinced of the veracity of progressive ideas. How could TSF combine 'woke' with being undercover? It's ludicrous.

[underpants]

3. I've seen this "Runaway Jury" conspiracy theory on Twitter today

A couple of times.

In the movie, John Cusack’s character had a girlfriend killed with a handgun years before. Whenever there’s a high profile gun case he moves into the jurisdiction hoping to be called for jury duty. Gene Hackman is a jury consultant who dives into people’s backgrounds and weeds out potentially bad jurists for the NRA. He missed Cusacks history.

[FarPoint]

22. I have been remembering that movie for a week now....

I need to look it up and see if I can watch it again..... prep work so to speak....

[underpants]

26. I'd forgotten Dustin Hoffman was in it

Free on something called Plex

Hulu amazon Apple TV YouTube even.

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0313542/

[FarPoint]

27. Me too!

Your are right...thank you for remiding me...

[PatSeg]

43. Cool, I have Hulu

I think I'd like to watch that movie again. Thanks.

[Walleye]

4. No liberal has to be sneaky in Manhattan.

Of course they are just accusing us of doing what they are doing

[PatSeg]

9. Yes, that tends to be true

Apparently they think everyone is as dishonest and conniving as they are.

Also anyone who comes across as rational, honest, and somewhat logical is their idea of "liberal".

You don't have to be liberal to dislike and disapprove of Donald Trump.

[Walleye]

15. That is exactly right. They are so greedy, money-grubbing, and dishonest

They can’t imagine that anybody would be otherwise. I wonder if Mike Johnson is going to find it refreshing to work with the Democrats who make deals in good faith

[PatSeg]

18. I'm sure they're the ones who coined the phrase

"Nice guys finish last".

They seem to take pride in cheating the system, scoring a deal, or pulling one over on someone. Only suckers play by the rules or pay all the taxes they owe. If the cashier gives them too much back in change, they'll just put it in their pocket without saying a word. Cheating is okay as long as they don't get caught, but if they get cheated, you'll hear them ranting for miles (like if the cashier didn't give them enough money back).

They take credit for everything good in their life and blame someone else when things don't go their way.

[Walleye]

38. That's so true I would feel bad if I didn't give the excess money back to the cashier

That feeling doesn’t seem to exist in these people somehow

[PatSeg]

42. I've worked in retail

and I know it is a big deal if an employee's drawer comes up short. I certainly wouldn't want to be responsible for someone getting in trouble. It is really so easy to be honest and do the right thing, plus you sleep better at night.

[Wednesdays]

45. Indeed...

I remember the 2016 debate when Hillary criticized TSF for not paying taxes.

Hillary: “The only years that anybody’s ever seen were a couple of years when he had to turn them over to state authorities when he was trying to get a casino license, and they showed he didn’t pay any federal income tax,”

TSF: "That makes me smart."

[PatSeg]

49. Exactly

And that popped in my head when I was typing. People like Trump always have an angle because they are smart and everyone else is a sucker.

[PSPS]

11. It's not paranoia. It's just his trying to turn this into a trial by the (MAGA) press Wurlitzer.

In other words, turn the trial into a campaign event/fundraising/grift circus (which the press is itching to accommodate.) Thank heavens the trial isn't being televised.

[forgotmylogin]

34. He's already managed to make one juror quit.

This is also Fox's fault, but we know how they got the information.

[Traurigkeit]

40. Why couldn't some one of gotten him decades ago ?

[mwb970]

5. He can't control himself.

He should be declared mentally ill and treated accordingly. Another possibility is to simply treat him like a disruptive 4-year-old.

[Think. Again.]

8. Or treat him like any other defendent who...

...can cause fatal harm to witnesses and juries.

[PatSeg]

13. I just finished this article about Trump's mental state

The author would agree with you.

Trump’s Brain Is Not Okay
An expert’s view of Trump’s mental slide into dementia.

This wasn’t a new issue for me. I had written a series of op-eds about Trump’s signs of dementia in 2018 and 2019, and I was part of a group that publicly pressured Ronny Jackson to give Trump the dementia screening test that he can’t stop bragging about “acing.” I’d known for years Trump was showing medically unmistakable signs of dementia, but the press was hyper-focused on Biden falling off his bike, forgetting names, and being “too old.” (Bold emphasis mine)

snip
This is very important for people to understand. Not only will Trump continue to get worse and worse, his rate of decline is accelerating, and if he is typical, he will fall off what they call the “cognitive cliff” relatively soon. Based on his current accelerating rate of decline, it seems very unlikely that Trump could see out a second term without falling off the cliff and becoming totally incapacitated.

https://thinkbigpicture.substack.com/p/john-gartner-trump-cognitive-decline?utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=email&fbclid=IwZXh0bgNhZW0CMTEAAR38LtG403M0_gVH1oymvw9blAfrcGrpgTdgdd2D95ThOuEtIkRrXIUrLN4_aem_AdO6HeI5l1KjmumIAM5_d6ShG0g5QBWa3Qd6AKQAuVDWawNwo164ylTz9Xbp1AScHVmkecQr4iK9eb081PUry39J&triedRedirect=true

There is much, much more in the article. Well worth the read.

[Walleye]

39. I read that, and it's very interesting and detailed. Also frightening

[PatSeg]

44. Yes, very frightening

There was a time that I would have thought someone like that could never come close to the Oval Office. I've never recovered from the shock of election night 2016.

[Owl]

6. $1000 fine?

[BumRushDaShow]

10. I had heard in earlier reports when this came up

"per instance".

[Justice matters.]

7. Duh... Force him to bring his own "bible" and...

tell him to swear on it that he won't violate his gag order again...

Of course he will violate it again so tell his magats he is not to be trusted with his swears.

Money will not deter that criminal-defendant hitler2 wannabe.

[Novara]

12. The problem with continuing to seat a jury before addressing gag order violations ...

... is that they can get a jury all sworn in and then one of them might just get a little curious over the weekend to see what he's posting, and boom, jury tampering. He WILL NOT STOP until he is forcibly stopped.

I am wondering if that motherfucker can even be tried for any of these charges anywhere. They dismissed one juror (that was picked on Tuesday) because the media posted too much identifying information about him. People are fearful they will become targets for the terrorist's cult members.

The media should not have visual access to the jury box IMO. Audio only, and when during voir dire they talk about the person's job or past or anything else identifying, cut out the audio feed.

Too many people are intimidated already.

[MOMFUDSKI]

16. The judge has the power to stop this crap

NOW but isn’t. Weak tea

[Novara]

23. I don't understand why he is waiting until they seat a jury

Well, maybe that's not the reason why he won't address it until next Tuesday, but they are likely to have picked their jury by then. Seems to me that waiting means the jurors already picked might see some of these social media posts before the judge deals with this. And that is jury tampering.

[birdographer]

30. Another Merrick Garland?

[Hikerchick57]

14. Take away his toys and access to the internet when court is in session, no press talking during breaks!

Put a soundproof booth in the courtroom for him to sit in when he is misbehaving. These are the things I want…lol, my wish list!

[poli-junkie]

19. I don't understand how he

continues getting away with this!!!!

[OldBaldy1701E]

28. You don't?

That is why. You or I would never be given this amount of leeway, but you or I are not even rich enough to walk by people like that orange gibbon, so we don't get such a thing as 'leeway'.

[GB_RN]

20. Cantaloupe Caligula Sat There...

Thinking, “I already hold this court In contempt. So, what are they bab…babbley…babebely…talking about? See, Biden put a guy up there, I call him Peakaboo…”
😂😂

[Bundbuster]

24. Just as with all other Shitler malfeasance,

intimidation of anyone/everyone, threats, attacks, gagged/banned/prohibited rants have been normalized not only by the defendant and his MAGA hordes, but by a complicit media and cowardly legal careerists. In the coming months we will be witnessing the normalization of crime.

[Wednesdays]

47. Crime for SOME...

Now, Imagine a 16-year-old guy in inner-city LA or Chicago, stealing a sandwich from a 7-Eleven. Now, THAT'S a crime! (still)

[Bayard]

29. trump is contemptuous....

[4lbs]

31. Just take his phone away. Watch him squirm and seethe, not being able to post

except using someone else's phone.

"Hey, your phone doesn't have the TS app on it!"

"Yeah, I don't put useless sh*t on it"

[Basic LA]

32. On Lawrence O'Donnell last night ...

Attorney Weisman made it almost sound like the judge would lock Trump up this morning over this. Then, as usual with Trump, nothing happened. Not a word about it.

[bucolic_frolic]

41. He's so volatile I don't think locking him up for a few days will change anything

As soon as he emerges he'll be angry and make matters worse again. The only real solution will be to lock him up permanently, and if that doesn't happen, I don't expect short or intermediate lockups.

[Basic LA]

46. Sounds right, actually.

I wasn't expecting anything really, but Weisman was so emphatic and even red-faced last night, I let my skepticism drop a notch.

[GreenWave]

33. Like some stupid brat who just can't wait to defy the rules.

He must be locked up and little fines are a joke and it should be away from the courthouse where his taxpayer squadron of SS can protect him.

But media will try to figure out where he is.

[LudwigPastorius]

36. Trump WANTS to go to jail.

The judge should oblige him.

[republianmushroom]

37. Good luck with that.

[Stuart G]

48. K and R ...no text