@Teri_Kanefield: Maybe not stupid, but it will be interesting to see when and how he steps over the line and does something criminal that brings further restrictions such as relinquishing his passport, confinement, fines, etc., or spawns entirely new indictments on top of the ones he's already under.
He's pretty good at making threats that his supporters react to but give him "plausible deniability" that he wasn't making a direct threat even when he was. He's got that mob boss thing down, but he's also really pissing off the government which will bite him at trial. It'll be interesting to see how the rulings go when there could be leniency but doesn't have to be, he's pretty much quashed any favor there.
@goodreedAJ this is spot on. Team #Trump injects his narrative into social media following his violation of his pretrial conditions. (See highlighted text)
The #TruthSocial post is evidence of his violation. Their excuse is weak, but it is being pushed for the public, who are NOT aware of what the conditions are.
NOTE how his people pushed this false definition for the public. (I broke it up so I won't act as data mules on his message as @emptywheel suggests we do.) @Teri_Kanefield
@spocko @goodreedAJ @Teri_Kanefield
I find it interesting that he's turned on the Koch brother(s), traditionally one of the major funders of Republican candidates.
#USPolitics #CharlesKoch #TrumpIndictment
Frankly, the Koch thing was always an overstated thing that certain media outlets used to generate headlines and attract clicks and, sadly, sort of mislead their readers.
This is not so much interesting turning on Kochs as it is they were never ever actually such allies as had been betrayed in the media, and it is a very very good reason that we need to stop listening to such media outlets that are manipulating us with these kind of dramatic stories.
@volkris @spocko @goodreedAJ @Teri_Kanefield
I also remembered that Charles Koch had been saying nice things about DeSantis; so naturally, Trump will treat Koch like he is suddenly Satan.
Just goes to show, maybe don't treat anything Trump says as particularly reliable or intelligent or noteworthy?
Like, I really don't give a shit how Trump treats anybody. Why would anybody care how that moron treats anybody? Unless you're actually having dinner with him or something, which why?, but skipping right past that, stop giving a shit about what some moron thinks about things, is my opinion.
I don't really care whether Trump treats somebody as Satan or an angel or a toilet. It just really doesn't matter because he is not somebody to be so obsessed with.
