Trump falsely claims police are preventing "thousands" of people from protesting his trial

LOL, right.

Olivia Bensimon of the NYT writes: 'Trump’s motorcade left the courthouse just after 1:05 p.m., wrapping up the trial’s first day of testimony. The view was blocked by an N.Y.P.D. dump truck, to many reporters’ great frustration. Inside Collect Pond Park, across from the courthouse, a lone pro-Trump protester’s “Trump for President ’24” banner flaps meekly in the light breeze.'

Sauce: https://www.nytimes.com/live/2024/04/22/nyregion/trump-hush-money-trial/7717e205-063e-5703-a75c-1d365d885a58?smid=url-share

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Nypd has dump trucks?

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- Yeah they kinda look like this:
  
  Occasionally they catch on fire:
  
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- Allegedly for the counter terrorism unit. Found this:
  
  https://www.flickr.com/photos/90486887@N04/41337515975
  
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I wonder why the NYPD owns a dump truck

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- I don't know why, but I never thought to question that until this very moment.
  
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- probably to do exactly what they did. specifically, to barricade streets from people also diving dumptrucks and whatever other heavy vehicle they might get. Chances are it was requested by the secret service detail.
  
  It's either that or an MRAP, and MRAPS don't exactly convince people they're the Kinder and Friendly New York Police™️
  
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- Probably just a city truck that the police were using to block the street.
  
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- Probably for this exact purpose. It’s much less intimidating than the military vehicles.
  
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- My city uses them as snowplows
  
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Yes. The police. That famously liberal group of bleeding heart lefties.

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Remember kids: All Cops Are Bastards. ACAB.

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They did a great job on this one, lol.

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He looks kinda like the MADtv kid.

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Trump should incite a riot, that’d really show everyone!

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Hey, I've seen that one before!

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Trump wondered why the police had not paraded down the streets, knocked on people's doors menacingly and told them to report to the Trump victory center for vote verification. After all, he had bought all those leather boots.

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It kind of feels like he's banking on the police being supporters of his and is attempting to get them to lighten their security around the building. That would allow his protesters to pull another January 6th at the courthouse.

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Are they not? I don't know how attacking the courthouse would help the outcome. I guess whatever it takes for another delay.

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'Alternative Facts', should be really easy to disprove, no?

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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/bullshit_asymmetry_principle

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- Basically why anyone has been voting Republican since the 90s when Newt Gingrich and Rush Limbaugh took the platform from "mostly bullshit with some outdated ideology mixed in" to "99.9% bullshit by volume".
  
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Unless you have millions of sycophantic fans living in a media bubble...

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Does he mean the ones in prison...?

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Just more blathering from the anti-cop soft-on-crime hard right.

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I like the guy with the "Trump is a rime boss" banner xD

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By ‘thousands’ he means, like, a dozen.

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Wait, I thought he was pro police/law and order?

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Commenting from a different sub, unrelated to this post. They didn’t just delete my comment, they banned me. I guess they’re really zealous about enforcing their bubble.

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