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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.
Are you asking Dick Cheney to do a Dick Cheney to Mr. Orange Man?
I'm not saying it's right or wrong though.
I see you like living dangerously.
Do you have to specifically ask a dick to be a dick? I don't think so. It just comes naturally.
Yes. Absolutely 100%.
maybe they'll have a duel and shoot each other!
I can guarantee that Trump has never held a firearm. His fat, tiny hands couldn't pull a trigger.
He was pretty liberal on gun control until someone told him guns might be the only way he gets into power
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.
Obligatory Princess Bride
Dick Cheney: "Hey Donald, I'm headed out bird hunting tomorrow...want to come along?"
Hunting involves walking, which Trump hates.
Just tell him that ~~Xander Cruz~~ Biden is going out into the swamp for a presser, might convince him to do it so he's not a pathetic, wimpery manchild.
Innocent people behave this way all the time.
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.
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.
Someone getting ready to go full fash.
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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