Donald Trump's legal advisors reportedly implored him to drop his plans for a press conference on his Georgia voter fraud claims before he gets in trouble.
This is the real Superbowl. A coworker of mine told me he treated Election Day as the super bowl each year, taking the day after off so he could stay up and watch the content all night.
I'm starting to see his point. I have paid attention to so much more political news the last couple years than I ever did before, and I'm really looking forward to this conference and the coverage of it afterwards.
True story coming up. I had a pretty major surgery the night of the Georgia run off election. The very first thing I asked when I remembered how to talk was "did Herschel lose?" I don't live anywhere near Georgia, but I just really had to know if that stupid fucker ended up losing. Last I knew when I got put under was it was pretty even, but way too early to call.
I woke up and after seeing all my siblings come to visit, I asked about politics. None of them had a clue what I was talking about. But I finally got motor control back and turned the room TV on to check on it. I don't think it was yet called at that point, but it was soon after. I was so happy. I don't know much about Warnock, but at least he won't be trying to join werewolf committees.
It was still way closer than it any business being.
Sorry about the random rant, that memory just hit me while I was typing.
For the first time in my life, I want to watch Trump's press conference, and I really, really hope he actually does it. Seems weird for him to chicken out now.
This isn't a trump 5d chess thing or whatever but it might honestly be the smarter move for him to just keep riling up his base and make it a guarantee riot if he gets jailed.
Seems pretty likely he's fucked legally so he's put in a situation that breaking law and order is probably his best move.
I don't disagree with the message and hope he gets what's coming to him, but what is this source? To quote:
Trump’s Lawyers Ask Him to Cancel Press Conference on Georgia Election Before He Makes Matters Worse, Jon Karl ReportsKarl noted that between Trump’s enraged reactions to his fourth indictment, Trump announced on Truth Social that he would hold a press conference on Monday where he would produce a “Large, Complex, Detailed but Irrefutable Report” that will supposedly prove he was right that Georgia’s 2020 election results were “rigged” by mass voter fraud.
That's a one sentence paragraph with the nineteen-word title (from another source perhaps?) injected as the subject.
I feel like we should all make accounts on true social to triple dog dare him to ignore the lawyers, and do the press conference. I'll pop the popcorn.
Dang! They are killing all the fun! I would have loved to see him either lying with more invented "evidence" and get slapped by the court for this, or just spewing stupid nonsense that makes him even more of a laughing stock.
Bonus: He could have threatened even more people he shouldn't, getting him a nice "Go To Jail Go directly to Jail. Do not pass GO, do not collect $200" card.
"I'd love to show you the report, it's beautiful, and perfect, and it shows in so many ways how I'm innocent of all charges. My lawyers wept when they, true story! My lawyers were VISIBLY WEEPING as they read it. VISIBLY! But now, on the advice of those lawyers, I can't release it to you. I CAN'T! I want to, but I can't. They tell me it would tell these evil, nasty, prosecutors too much about our defense, so, you know, we can't have that."
Trump's only chance is probably to foul the magisterial process as much as possible to prevent it from holding him accountable. It's worked for him so far, and even if he is taken into custody, that will only increase his popularity and stoke outrage. There's nothing for him to lose.
Image him skipping the republican debate, interviewing with Tucker, threatening witnesses during the interview, and being thrown into prison the next day.
Why they still post his pictures where he looks like a superstar while he is a desperate salesman past his prime. On articles ridiculing him, nothing less.
Could also be setting up a "My lawyers are stopping me from sharing the evidence that will exonerate me" excuse to cover for not actually having anything.
"Look, everyone knows the SICK Georgia DOJ is corrupt, and the election was totally, totally rigged and the most corrupt in history. Everyone says so, and I have such uge piles of PROOF, many many folders, but my lawyers - and they are the very, very best lawyers...they want me to wait for my press conference, which by the way will be the most important press conference any president has ever given ever, for a few days, maybe next week. I dunno, maybe I'll give it anyway, because nobody knows the law better than I do, and my PATRIOTS will stand with me against the dirty RIGGERS, and we will MAKE AMERICA GREAT again!"
I think the lawyers feel the need to do this publicly, whether they’re sincere or not, to avoid any accusations of “he didn’t have a proper defense” or “how could they let him do that?!?!!”.
So they’re proclaiming -loudly- that “no btw we told him it was bad but he didn’t listen”…whether they actually care if he does it or not because they know what a shitshow this all is and that it won’t end well for anyone involved.