That judges threats are emptier than an Donald Trumps head.
Don’t be fooled by the “10th time”. There were 9 separate violations that were all brought as a single complaint last week. So technically one “time” (as in, one ruling), just regarding 9 separate tweets so technically nine separate incidents. Number ten here is basically Donnie’s second strike in terms of actual warnings. If he gets a third without repercussions, then I think it’ll be fair to say the judge may be bluffing.
Remember, judges have to play things a little softly if they don’t want to set up precedent for appeal. He can’t give Trump any reason to claim he’s being treated unfairly. Two warnings is perfectly reasonable.
Maybe the Judge will actually do something useful once Trump’s stochastic terrorism actually, inevitably, leads to an act of violence.
But probably not.
Wheres all those people that were telling me he’d be jailed with the next contempt charge?
The protection did not even ask for jail time! WTF!
A weekend in the clink without a cell phone would do the man some good.
ChatGPT thinks this is would he’d post on truth social, but it’s not unhinged enough imho.
The radical left’s desperate attempt to silence me with a gag order won’t work! They want to throw me in jail for speaking my mind, but they’ll never stop me from fighting for the American people! #NoGagOrder #NotInJail
100 hours of trash pickup per violation
That wouldn’t be fair because standing up would count as trash pickup for him.
Trump’s hair has entered cotton candy mode
FUCKING DO IT YOU PUSSY!
Put his ass UNDER the jail
Threatening him does nothing but make the judge look like a chickenshit same as the rest
Bok bok!
“The last thing I want to do is put you in jail.”
~ Judge Juan Merchan
We love our fair and impartial judiciary, don’t we folks? Lets give Judge Merchan a big hand. He’s helping to Make America Great Again.
I wonder if he means that in the sense of “putting you in jail is only going to empower your frankly rabid base of supporters. I need to avoid even the slightest hint of a mistrial so we can put you in prison for good.”
I need to avoid even the slightest hint of a mistrial so we can put you in prison for good
I mean I’m pretty sure that’s it. There’s no chance whatsoever this doesn’t go to appeal if he’s convicted, and you don’t want the case to be overturned because the appeal court thinks the judge was biased against Trump
putting you in jail is only going to empower your frankly rabid base of supporters
What does the judge think will happen should the jury returns a guilty verdict?
A jury of people selected (partly) by his own lawyers convicting him should be a lot easier of a pill to swallow for his base than a “Democrat” judge unilaterally deciding, on his own, to detain trump.
key word here is “should”
Honestly while Trumps legal team have been complaining about not being able to get a fair trial, that works both ways. I’m worried about enough MAGAts making their way onto the jury to nullify
Then the jury will be targeted instead of the judge, so he’d prefer that.
He knows that the rabid Republicans will try to twist it to say that he was jailed to prevent him from attending his own hearing. When they would gladly teleconference him in from the cell, like they do with other criminals. But that’s not good enough for Donald Duck. Either this Jack-o’-lantern gets to sit there and look pretty or he will scream and cry a fit until election day comes around and it’s too late.
It’s all part of the nut factory’s plan.
Contempt charges are usually held in a cell in the courthouse, and they just parade you out for your trial and then put you back in the cell when it’s over. He’ll be able to do literally nothing but attend his own trial.
If the jail time is on par with the fines he gets, he should spend about five minutes in jail. That should teach him not to do it again.
It’s actually pretty likely to just be an afternoon, the first time around. Remember, this is a penalty for behaviour in court, not for the actual crimes he’s done. The point is to get him to stop acting like a little child. So yeah, odds are the judge books him for an afternoon, just so he can see how bad it is, then if he still keeps at it he starts getting week long stretches until he learns to stop attacking witnesses.
Oh neat, a judge admitting that the justice system isn’t blind at all and that there is a privileged class with very different rules.
Wow, he must have really learned his lesson from the last 9 telling offs.
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Oh fuck you for reminding me of that shit. Damn near a day ruiner.
It was one telling off, for 9 separate tweets that the judge was made aware of. So this is his second warning.
At $1,000 a pop, paid for by his cultists, he doesn’t care.
Sort of my point.
This could be a great way to lower inflation. Just keep holding Trump in contempt and taking the fines out of circulation.
Or maybe we can use the fines to fund mass transit expansion.
Doesn’t this create a precedence for being a dick to judges because they let it slide for Drowsy Don and everyone is supposed to be treated equally in front of court? I wonder what would happen if I were to be found in contempt of court for the 10th time in my trial.
He’s not been warned ten times. It’s ten violations. The first nine happened as a block. So this is his second strike, in terms of how often he’s been reprimanded for this.
It does! Tempted to start a campaign educating the accused on their rights to harass judges and staff.
You’ll run into less trouble if you just accept the fact that some people are more equal than others.
Meanwhile every other person:
gets shot for not following an officer’s orders in .5 seconds
Yes, but- A. Trump is white, B. Trump is rich, C. Cops are MAGA assholes.
Or shot for following orders from one officer because another officer didn’t know what the first officer told you to do
Or even the same guy – Remember Daniel Shaver? https://www.aclu.org/news/criminal-law-reform/youre-fucked-acquittal-officer-brailsford-and
Fuck wish I hadn’t
RIP Daniel, should never happen to anyone
Or they’re the same officer with an engraving on their personal rifle they use for work
I agree this is two-tired bullshit, but it’s exactly what needs to happen. At the first arraignment, Merchan fined the state maximum. At the second, he fined the state maximum and threatened jail time for a future infraction, after declaring his disinterest in jailing a former President. This is how a smart judge protects his rulings from mistrial appeal, which is exactly what the defense would do under even a hint of bias. Merchan wants everything to stick, just as we all do.
I could get away with ten contempt of court charges and not go to jail. /s
