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Obviously, I have stumbled into the “Mental Midgets With TDS” thread. Sorry to interrupt. I will show myself out. Carry on.

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Keep on keepin’ on

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What do you make of the sudden SDNY reveal? Given the number of documents involved, my concern is more endless delays. I’m remembering the rumors from 2016 that the SDNY was full of Trump supporters. I have a feeling we haven’t heard the last from them, and that this case will also get pushed out past the election, like all the other criminal trials.

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I completely agree that Trump is an odious man. I also completely agree that he is guilty of many legal transgressions. And that's an understatement. He's patently crooked and corrupt to the core

HOWEVER, I have doubts about the utility of legal maneuvors to erradicate the Orange Monster.

The more we sue him; the more he rises in the polls.

Also recall liberal litigators and their lawsuits, in the late 60's and 70s, to enforce school busssing to promote racial integration. Their legal efforts were a huge impetus to the right and sparked the narrative that elites were tryiing to steer the ship of state to reorder our society.

AND WHY ARE SO MANY MILLIONS UNDER TRUMP'S THUMB

I suggest that America may be suffering from the pathology that led France to collaborate with Nazi Germany. I refer you to my article:

https://davidgottfried.substack.com/p/our-national-political-nervous-breakdown

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Having just had my narrative history White House Wild Child released I have a new way to think about how trump has tainted our culture. when TR Roosevelt as president made BookerT Washington his unofficial advisor he realized lynching was brutilizing a generation of Young Americans. When people raced to watch a lynching their minds were changed. TR said this made some unable to participate in a democracy. That is what Trump has done. He’s brutalized minds we are not the same thank goodness he will be eventually be taken out by biology’s term limits.

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Thank goodness Jonathan will be there to guide us through all this. His reporting will be the next best thing to bring there.

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Mar 20·edited Mar 20

Following is my all-purpose anti-Trump manifesto:

As long as he lives, Donald Trump threatens to destroy the union, thwart justice, disrupt domestic tranquility, demolish the common defense, impair the general welfare, and deny the blessings of liberty to ourselves and our posterity, the people of the United States of America.

(Rudely adapted from the Preamble to the U.S. Constitution, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, 1787)

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Jonathan, can you do artist’s sketches as well? Looking forward to the blow by blow. Yes, we all feel that he is the “Teflon Don“ but things are starting to stick. And once that happens, It may accelerate! Hoping and praying.

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I think it's unfortunate that this is the first case against the Orange Blob that is going to trial. I understand the implications of his actions - that he was doing damage control on his image - but many voters won't make that connection. They'll see it as tawdry and politically motivated, unlike the J6 case. JMO.

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This is the longest, slowest, nastiest and most destructive fall of one plague of a human being in all of human history in fact or legend, and him a mere shitbum outa Queens. And to think he may yet take us all down with him. What a time to be alive!

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On Mon., Michael Cohen pointed out that Donald Trump told a trial judge, UNDER OATH, that he had $400 Million cash available for appeal bonds. Now maybe we get to see that money, OR we get to see Donald Trump indicted for LYING UNDER OATH!

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schadenfreude.

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Finally - maybe, just maybe - something will stick to the teflon man.

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A thorough, professional update with just the right amount of glee.

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Poor Trump! However, I just can’t conjure up any sympathy for a narcissistic, psychopathic authoritarian who wants to undermine our democracy! 😁

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