Former president’s posts on Truth Social about Republican critic stoke fears of persecution of opponents if he wins 2024 election
  • dhork@lemmy.worldEnglish
    1491·
    6 months ago

    He better watch out. He brags about being able to shoot a man on Fifth Avenue and get away with it, but her dad shot a man in the face and that man ended up apologizing for being in the way.

    Trump might be in over his head in this one.

  • DeepThought42@lemmy.worldEnglish
    521·
    6 months ago

    Trump and his minions keep talking about “evidence”, but based on their many court losses over the years due to a lack of it I don’t think that word means what they think it means.

  • NocturnalEngineer@lemmy.world
    17·
    6 months ago

    Wonder if Trump’s public deflection could be admissible as consciousness of guilt?

    Jan 6 investigations are clearly pushing the right buttons, he’s having a tantrum again.

    • TheDannysaur@lemmy.world
      2·
      6 months ago

      Not a lawyer, but I really doubt it. As has been used before, his lawyers can argue that he really does believe he’s being treated unfairly, so of course he would speak out. Or the route that it’s protected political speech meant to rile up his base. I mean if January 6th wasn’t stochastic terrorism, it leaves space for this kind of thing.

      I don’t like Trump either, but anything legal around speech is pretty difficult. I’m quite shocked the Carroll case actually landed against Trump, but you can see how egregious it had to be. He’s talked about jailing all kinds of political people for all kinds of reasons. If you don’t do something the first time, then it can be used as justification that he’s not doing anything different. Is it a shitty argument? Sure. But in court, it’s effective.

      • Neato@ttrpg.networkEnglish
        10·
        6 months ago

        Of course the SCOTUS won’t give their decision on this until after the election so that they can either A) give Trump unilateral power if he wins or B) ensure Biden doesn’t get that power if he wins.

        Only reason I can think why the SCOTUS didn’t rush to making a decision on making the President a literal dictator.

    • jordanlund@lemmy.worldM
      84·
      6 months ago

      C’mon, man…

      Rule 6:

      No hate speech, slurs, celebrating death, advocating violence, or abusive language. This will result in a ban. Usernames containing racist, or inappropriate slurs will be banned without warning

      • Fapper_McFapper@lemmy.world
        24·
        6 months ago

        This is the reason this crap keeps happening. DJT can say whatever the fuck he wants and suffers no repercussions. One random person alludes to violence on a tiny website used by approximately 470,000 people and we immediately censor them. I get it, rules for the plebs not for the kings. I also get that it is out of your control mod and snowflakes are going to report everything they can get away with and your job is to do your job.

        Steve Bannon can issue a call activating lone wolves, DJT can say there will be a bloodbath if he’s not elected. DJT can try to incarcerate political opponents because they dared investigate him, DJT can send a mob to the Capitol to try and stay in power.

        Billy Bob from down the street with absolutely no power or following can make a statement calling for violence, that motherfucker will get banned in a heart beat.

        Just pointing out that things seem a little backwards. Like the cards are stacked against us.

        • skozzii@lemmy.ca
          12·
          6 months ago

          This is a great example of the double standard, nobody holds Trump accountable for anything, even the little things us peasants cant even imagine saying or doing, and we’ve had enough.

        • stoly@lemmy.world
          3·
          6 months ago

          I don’t think it’s backwards, though, because do you really want to lower all of your discourse to his level? There is something to be said about being the “better” person in these situations.

        • Fapper_McFapper@lemmy.world
          2·
          6 months ago

          Good morning master blaster! Just curious, do you know why this comment was removed? I don’t recall you stating anything that would break the rules.

  • AutoTL;DR@lemmings.worldBEnglish
    4·
    6 months ago

    This is the best summary I could come up with:

    Donald Trump has renewed calls for Liz Cheney – his most prominent Republican critic – to be jailed for her role in investigating his actions during the January 6 Capitol attack launched by his supporters in 2021, a move that is bound to raise further fears that the former president could persecute his political opponents if given another White House term.

    In posts on Sunday on his Truth Social platform, Trump said other members of the congressional committee that investigated the Capitol attack – and concluded he had plotted to overturn his 2020 electoral defeat to Joe Biden – should be imprisoned.

    Cheney, who served as vice-chair of the January 6 committee and was one of two Republicans on the panel, lost her seat in the House of Representatives to a Trump-backed challenger, Harriet Hageman, in 2022.

    Trump is also facing charges of 2020 election interference in Georgia, retention of government secrets after he left the Oval Office and hush-money payments that were illicitly covered up.

    In the article, published on the right-wing website the Federalist, Patel claimed that Cheney and the committee “suppressed evidence” which “completely exonerates Trump” from charges that he had a hand in the January 6 insurrection.

    Cheney was one of 10 Republicans who voted to impeach Trump over the attack, which has been linked to nine deaths and sought to prevent the congressional certification of Biden’s victory in the 2020 presidential election.

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