He should have resigned in the last year of his presidency. Had Pence pardon him. Then attended functions for the rest of his life as a "dignified former president"
But nah. He bought his own hype. Now he has to win or he dies in prison. And it's every bit his own damn fault. Fully self inflicted.
The problem is he didn't trust pence to follow through. And self pardons were a very big legal grey area. And it didn't help that people were realizing Biden could kick his ass which brought back trump's PTSD over Obama's... existence?
But also? He will never see a day of prison (might get some jail stays though). Democrats care too much about "decorum" to throw the book at him and his handlers have enough money that he will appeal everything until the day he dies... which might be accelerated depending upon how much he pisses off those handlers.
But it wouldn't have been a self-pardon if he resigned and had Pence take over. There's already precedent with Ford's pardon of Nixon.
The problem is he didn't trust pence to follow through.
Trump's PTSD over Obama's... existence
Watch American history unfold, and that's not hyperbole. History changed that night.
This fucker is driven by nothing but his psychotic narcissism. The very idea of no longer being center of attention is probably his biggest nightmare.
Does Trump know the word "dignified"?
It's kind of like Vizzini in that regard. He uses it, but it doesn't mean what he thinks it means.
A pardon wouldn't help him. His 34 felonies were at the state level. Pardons are only for federal crimes.
This is in a hypothetical situation where he didn’t run in 2020, so he wouldn’t have done the election manipulation in Georgia.
His felonies are for paying the porn star hush money.
"dignified" ... Ha!
I hope so. Biden is old, but his problems with mental acuity were dramatically exaggerated by the media and conservatives. When people asked him questions, he would actually answer them. Meanwhile republicans were “omg he doesn’t even know what room he’s in bro” and that was sort of ridiculous. But then, you have Trump seems not just loopy but insane and deranged, and unlike Biden, he’s always been an idiot. However Trump he gets a pass from these same people. The press has never paid nearly enough attention to how incoherent he is. It gets frustrating because it has to be on purpose.
Of course it's on purpose. Most of the media are owned by oligarchs that support Trump because all they care about is their next tax cut.
Right. The "liberal media" BS has been of the Republican's most successful tactics. Corporate media is not left-wing - it's absurd, but that's what conservatives push and many people fully believe it. Almost all media outlets in the US support conservatives in subtle ways, but people have been trained to think that right/centrist corporate media is rabidly biased towards the left.
Thanks to years of cutting and gutting education they've made a base for themselves that can't think for themselves and just follow the orders given to them by fox "news".
A lot of Biden was also focused around a brainfart he had during the debate.. I just spent days at an expo, and I had plenty where I lost my chain of thought due to being tired.
And a photo where it looks like he's speaking to nobody.. But they cropped the parachuter out.
Whereas, Trump constantly makes major mistakes for things he should know. And it is in general incoherent rambling. I'm a total introvert and even I don't fuck up the way Trump does (ie, completely mixing up people and names constantly).
Because he's always been an idiot he set the right expectations, let that be a lesson for any of you getting into politics
It worked for GW Bush, too... come off as sorta dense and dopey, then people will act pleasantly surprised when you exceed expectations vs. be critical for falling short of them.
Imagine giving Trump $180,000,000 and he calls you "Leon". LMAO at these clowns.
Did he actually do that? He said he was going to, but Leon Musk is famously a big fucking liar.
I understand it was advertising credits for twitter specifically. So not really 'money'
Relevant quote:
"Boeing had a little hard time, so they are going to save — Leon's going to send up a rocket," Trump said. "He looks forward to it. That's all he thinks about is things like that.".
Not remembering names and making shit up. As usual.
Leon Umsk
Leon Skum
And we shall forever call him Leon Skum.
umsk umsk umsk umsk boots and pants and boots and pants and boots and pants and…
There's someone out there named Leon Musk who's day just got profoundly weirder.
Oh gosh. I now want to know what all the Leon Musks of the world are going through.
He has been insecure about his intelligence his entire life.
Well, he has every reason to. According to all accounts but his own, he really is breathtakingly stupid.
But he tapped his head and said "MIT" tho, so legit smarts!
I’m gonna call him Leon now. I bet it pisses him off more than any of the other insulting nicknames we’ve come up with for him.
Don’t besmirch Leon S Kennedy like that
Leon Skum
DonOLD is slipping fast. He admits people 80 years old are too old to sign documents.
Honestly? I hope he keeps running, then has a massive public dementia breakdown like a week before the election. I think Kamala can beat Trump, so keep him in the race until it’s too late for repubs to shoehorn anyone else in.
probably called him Felon Musk
Prob forgot his name and said Elon Tesla like he did with Tim Apple.
He doesn't have a problem with mental acuity...
.... he was always an idiot.
He didn't change, he's always been like this
No, he's much worse than he used to be.
Which was already bad.
No, there has definitely been a drop in his coherence.
He used to be an idiot you could understand, now he's just spewing words together than sound like partial thoughts
I don't know why people like OP post "He's always been (stupid/senile/deranged/whatever)!" Does it make them feel smart to say,"I've always known better and you're an idiot if you think this is new!"
Trump is clearly past some kind of tipping point here. He's gone downhill so far and fast that, were he a relative, we would have been plotting elder care a year or two back, no longer fit to live alone and keep house.
I hope he legit called him "Elongated Muskrat."
But... Elon's a man (technically). Not a woman, camera, or TV. How did Trump pass that in-depth cognitive test!?
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