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How about fuck no! Can we please not give this guy a platform to campaign on? Please, for the love of all that is left in this country just don't give him an inch. I can see it now "The crooked Democrats are trying to use the political systems against me! Never has this happened in the history of our great country! The Biden crime family is trying to blah blah blah blah.......!!!!"
It doesn't matter, the people have already chosen their side. This won't flip anyone either way. Lets just hope everyone else is as incentivized to vote by the trials as his base will be. And hopefully most of his base is now fully aware of what happens if you answer his "subtle" calls to violent action.
You're assuming he survives the primaries. He still hasn't signed/accepted the forms that state "I will support who ever the GOP nominates." So he's not allowed at the GOP events, including debates
I don't like it, but I'm pretty sure he is the GOP leader now, no matter what the rest of the "official" party would like to think. He doesn't have to participate in their games at this point, he's getting the majority of the republican vote no matter what.
He could not sign and they would still let him in, most likely, as he has the leverage. However, as a narcissist who is happy to lie, he’ll likely sign as he doesn’t care about anything but attention in the moment. If he thinks attention won’t focus on him, when it could, he’ll want to be there. So it’s a little bit of a game of chicken at the moment.
think he’ll be complaining regardless and screaming victimhood for the rest of his life. We need not walk on eggshells around a clearly brazen huckster because then he can manipulate the situation. No, thanks
Trump was part of the political system. These people are part of the justice system.
Any date will be close enough to some other date for them to make a big deal out of it, and if it wasn't they would still say the same stuff.
Stop concern trolling.
Nothing prosecutors or anyone else could ever do to stop him from that type of talk. The reason we all recognize your phrasing as something he would say is because it is exactly like everything he ever says.
Let the trials go on. America is lost as a democracy if we don't convict the first insurrection by a president we've ever had.
Pretty sure all the trial dates are subject to change, and this one hasn't even been approved by a judge yet, it's just the first step. Trump team will counter with "Never, how about never going to trial, does that work?" then a judge will set a real date which will also be subject to change.