And there it is. Jack Smith is reading your socials, Donald

[blogslug]

Link to tweet

Scott MacFarlane @MacFarlaneNews

There it is.

Special Counsel has just alerted the DC federal judge about Trump's social media post today

[chillfactor]

1. Throw his ass in jail! n/t

[barbtries]

2. i think he's daring her

to jail him.

i also really hope she does.

[Maru Kitteh]

3. Agree. He's like a 9yo with oppositional-defiant disorder. nt

[canetoad]

9. Perfect description

[barbtries]

12. then he's been growing up some.

i see him as a person who never grew emotionally past the age of 2.

[Maru Kitteh]

28. Trying to remember how old he was when his weirdass mother got sick

Seems to be recognized as something of an event in his life. Mary Trump's book was well worth the read. Just a very, very odd group of people. Twisted, dark, empty. No wonder Fred Jr. couldn't survive that house.

[barbtries]

31. i read her book as well,

and i believe it was between the ages of 1 and 2.

[Maru Kitteh]

61. The emotional lability of a 2yo, the potential for planning, vindictiveness

and grudge-keeping of a 9yo.

I looked it up - at the time of his mom's hospitalization and hysterectomy, he was just about 2 1/4 and she had several repeat hospitalizations for a while because of subsequent infections.

He was a mean child and it doesn't seem like anyone really cared about him so the take-away lesson from that seems to have been "It's a waste of time to care about anyone else because they don't care about you."

[ExWhoDoesntCare]

64. Two year olds can do the planning, vindictiveness and grudges

My ex had an evil stepsister with one evil little brat. I would see him plotting to do evil crap at 2 y/o. He would watch my son playing with a toy that I guess he decided that he wanted. If my son would say, "it's my turn, okay?" the monster would start "fiddling" with a bigger toy, one that would hurt if used as a weapon. And then he would sneak over with that bigger toy and try to hit my son with it. Luckily, I was on the lookout to intervene, but once I couldn't get there in time. My son had to go to the ER for a head injury that was bleeding. He needed stitches from that little monster's blow to the head.

So don't think that two year olds aren't capable of being evil little monsters.

Because they can.

[barbtries]

67. yeah

i also think that he learned early on that throwing a tantrum was effective. apparently the grownups around him just always gave in. obviously he was a nightmare early on, which he remains a nightmare to this day

[CrispyQ]

54. The most prescient toon ever:

So much damage done.

[trusty elf]

55. Indeed, this almost seems like a plausible explanation for *rump and *rumpism.

[barbtries]

68. it's pretty funny too

[ExWhoDoesntCare]

62. At some point the DSM

Needs to update their info on Oppositional-Defiant Disorder, and extend it to describing adults, too.

The MAGAts are exhibit A for how it can persist long past the high school years.

[Maru Kitteh]

63. Antisocial personality disorder. nt

[BOSSHOG]

11. Donald expecting riots to save him from going to jail

Yesterday Donald expecting big crowds of support. Was he expecting family, friends, distant acquaintances, Republican Senators, Rape Victims? They didn’t show up Donald. No one will visit you in jail. Just you and the secret service agent assigned to you to protect you from the other prisoners. And you won’t possibly be able to figure out who’s fault it is.

[barbtries]

13. i think that he believes

that if he is locked up they'll come to break him out of the jail. he may even be partially correct about that, but the thousands that showed up to overturn the government on Jan 6? nah.

nah. he'll just be sitting there in a cell barely bigger than he is, raging.

just let it happen. he's daring you judge, show him what fuck around and find out means.

[dweller]

16. And if he's NOT locked up

He’ll be gloating he’s more powerful than justice itself





✌🏻

[barbtries]

17. true.

he'll learn one more time that he can get away with anything. not good.

[orangecrush]

48. That's the idea

To show us our institutions aren't enough to stop him.

And his remaining free after that post drives the point home

[UpInArms]

45. The T. Cullen Davis trial was held in Amarillo in 1977 ...

Davis received extra special treatment …

Trial Within a Trial

When the trial was moved to Amarillo, Tarrant County Sheriff Lon Evans called his Potter County counterpart to put in a good word for his friend Cullen Davis.

I was permitted outside my cell every day, Cullen recalled years later. He also enjoyed a freedom seldom seen for defendants who faced a possible death penalty. He was taken once for cocktails at the home of a defense lawyer after a visit to a local chiropractor.

Another time, left alone in an office near the radio room outside the lock-up area, Cullen even answered the phone when the deputies were away.

Meanwhile, the waitress at the Executive Inn, where the jurors were sequestered, kept the defense team well informed about the conversations of the jurors, who werent supposed to be talking about the case at all, let alone to an outsider.

She was constantly telling me we didnt have anything to worry about, Hudson said. She told me day after day they were all on our side.

I imagine TFG thinks he will get similar perks

[blogslug]

56. That old bastard is still alive

Cullen lost most of his money. Married again and found Jesus. The second wife died in 2016.

Priscilla died of breast cancer in 2001. Her two remaining children are also gone. Jack was found dead on a park bench in 2009. Dee died in a car crash in 2020.

I don't believe in hell but if there is one, Racehorse Haynes will be waiting for Cullen when the devil calls him home.

[UpInArms]

58. That house was in my

REO portfolio in the 80s …

I lived in Amarillo when that trial was happening …

I haven’t known many who I despised so much until after 2000, when the Extreme Court appointed Bush

[flying_wahini]

60. I was working ER when they brought the shooting victims in. I knew Bubba Gavrel who was

Paralyzed from the waist down when Cullen shot him. I had known Bubbas family in school.
When I saw Bubba he told me “Cullen shot me”. (He had known him for several years and been at the Davis mansion many times. His girlfriend was Pricilla’s daughter’s best friend.
He had no reason to lie. )
Pricilla Davis was a nasty bitch to all the nurses and Drs. I’ll never forget that she would smoke in her room and throw the butts on the floor for the nurses to put out and throw away.
She was what we used to call a real piece of work.

[Irish_Dem]

29. That is another thing he is angry about. No crowds threatening to riot for him.

[erronis]

51. His crowds are largely "paid for". If he can't bribe them to show up, who's left?

Well, yes - there are a few of those unfortunates....

[Larissa]

65. Yes, indeed

A number of the J6 team got their wings clipped with prison terms, house arrests and fines. So they might think twice before staging a repeat performance. They found out the hard way that TFG had no special legal defense accounts set up for them. Going forward, every time one of them gets pulled over by the police (Con-Air birds can't fly) their Federal rap sheet will light up like a Christmas tree.


https://www.politico.com/news/2023/05/30/january-6-arrest-sentencing-00099158

"After more than two years since the Jan. 6 riot at the Capitol, the sentences are piling up — and last week saw the longest prison sentence yet.

More than 1,033 of the rioters have been arrested, with approximately 485 federal defendants receiving sentences. About 277 defendants have been sentenced to time behind bars, and roughly 113 defendants have been sentenced to a period of home detention."

[Irish_Dem]

66. Yes the arrests and prison sentences has had a chilling effect on would be rioters.

Thank God.

[Dulcinea]

69. Nobody gives a crap about him.

Everything is transactional with this shitstain. It was just him & his lawyers at the arraignments. No adoring crowds or family. They've all moved on.

[Ferrets are Cool]

26. I is a bold face dare. We shall see if she will follow up on her statements.

[RockRaven]

4. So TFG should be happy then. He loves attention.

[Joinfortmill]

5. We're in the thick of it now. Hang on tight.

[BootinUp]

14. ikr, lol.

[Irish_Dem]

30. Jebus you got that right.

[rubbersole]

6. How rich would that be.

In jail, no bail. Fundraising not withstanding, please lock him up. Party in the streets. Make America Gyrate Again.

[canetoad]

22. You have the start of a rhyme there

In jail
No bail
Just a pail
Let him wail

[rubbersole]

41. Oh, no. Here I go.

No email
Will make him ail
And again he'll fail
At gettin' tail


Time to put down the scotch.

[erronis]

52. At 1:20AM? Too late. Keep on going. I like your "Make America Gyrate Again"

[ancianita]

7. It will hit media by morning. Velshi just reported it as breaking news. Thanks!

[Emile]

8. Put the terrorist in GITMO Cuba until after his trial.

[BigmanPigman]

10. Just saw it on MSNBC....

I should have expected it since this stuff happens often on Fridays.

[Thunderbeast]

15. Time to make a visit to jail.

He has broken the terms of his pretrial release. It took him less than 24 hours.

The unfortunate fact that he has a realistic chance of returning to the white house (at least according to him and some early polls), means that his threats of promised retribution ARE credible. If elected, he will have the means to unleash the power of the government on law enforcement, prosecuters, judges, and jurors.

When it comes to acts of grievance, we have all learned that he means what he says. He WILL Punish his opponents if given the means and opportunity.

His threats are real. He has, in a meaningful way broken his release terms. As always, he refuses to comply with any boundaries. It is his brand.

Judge Tanya Chutkan must haul him into court and revoke his release. He needs to be held accountable for his stochastic terrorism.

[Upthevibe]

18. Kick. N/T

[gordianot]

19. I figured Trump would push this to force his containment.

I wonder if there is a plan how to contain the Orange menace?

[catchnrelease]

23. Could they do home confinement

but NO access to any electronic devices? Or social media? Something that would keep him from posting his rants, and it would be obvious to everyone if he broke that rule. Then it's off to jail if he went that far. I don't know if something like that would be legal.

[gordianot]

36. It probably rests with the Judge.

The DOJ may have to give suggestions.

[NJCher]

43. I think that is the most realistic option

I heard a debate about how & why they wouldn’t want to put him in prison. Was on one of the msnbc news shows; made sense to me.

[gab13by13]

20. He is doing this to intimidate witnesses,

Jack Smith has a good argument.

[Backseat Driver]

33. Didn't TFG call some witness in the Carroll case once long ago, who then reported what seemed

to be intimidation but who wasn't quite sure it actually was by the wording TFG used. He reported it to the court - at the time the strategy being trying to taint a GJ or trial juror, , I kinda forget, and the prosecutor said YUP, you got the message, all rightee, and the media went wild for a day and a half...then crickets, but I guess that didn't work out so well...Seriously, this guy is dangerous and should be locked up...he's not in control of his actions or the lies that spew forth from that vengeful mouth.

After J6, look what happened by a crazy at the Pelosi home. Thank goodness, Paul was able to recover.

[Whiskeytide]

21. I would love to be able to listen in on the conversations ...

… among his lawyers right now. How many will bail off of this team by next week?

[summer_in_TX]

24. Jack Smith is asking for a protective order to prevent Trump

from using information and testimony contained in the documents the feds turn over to the defense in public posts which would be jury tampering.

[MOMFUDSKI]

49. Smith is

making the orange clown’s attorneys handle this asshole. Funny. Jack is only on step one. We will keep watching this show.

[Johnny2X2X]

25. Trump is desperate

He’s trying to force something because he is cooked.

[NoMoreRepugs]

27. tRumpy is in charge of his defense not his lawyers - thats obvious.

His playbook is written in crayon - yell, scream, claim witch hunt, grift every chance u get, threaten, delay, delay, delay, bluster bluster bluster - he’s seriously frightened at the moment.

[Backseat Driver]

38. Show 'em just how we roll, Tanya Sue. This ain't Burlesque...

Allow him to gradually see what he fears. Yep, sometimes you do feel like a motherless child.
Sometimes, you have to do what you promised - Comply with the conditions of your release. O, the indignity of it all!

[ecstatic]

32. Revoke his bail!

Let that fat mf do some jail time.

[usonian]

34. That post was just doubling down on a directed threat.

[gratuitous]

35. Whaddya gonna do about . . . Judge?

Did the defendant just need to blow off steam, or was he directly challenging your order? An order that he said in open court he understood.

Let him off the hook? You know where that's going to lead if you've been awake for the past eight years.

The Little Bunny Foo-Foo admonishment? You'll have to face his contumacious behavior sooner or later, because it won't stop. Are you willing to turn him into a goon, at last? He'll complain about how he got away with it two or three or four times, and now the judge is all prejudiced against him because he couldn't/wouldn't stop and he was warned only a few times and you're the meanest mommy ever and I hate you.

OR . . .

You show him in no uncertain terms that the court's orders are to be obeyed. Arrest, booking, and a night in jail. Bring him in the next morning, go over the order again, and ask him if he understands the court's order now, or does he need another night in the jug to think it over. When he says he's got it, let him go with one last admonishment that the next time will mean a minimum of three or five nights in jail.

[RobertDevereaux]

53. Perfect last paragraph.

This is PRECISELY how he must be handled.

[C Moon]

37. The truth is biting him in the butt. He knows he's going to lose.

[nolabear]

39. He's daring them to lock his ass up.

Smith is doing a perfect job of just taking him seriously. What’s he going to say, “Oh you know you can’t believe what I say!” #ProtectJackSmith is trending very high right now.

[stillspkg]

40. Yes

All of his life, he's been a little boy, wanting someone to care enough to say, "NO!" and mean it. All children need this. Sending your child to military school is not a substitute- it says, "let someone else do it." He's gotten really good at mocking everything it means to be responsible adult while destroying the work of responsible adults for spite.

What a tragedy that parenting Donald became the role of a whole nation. He is begging to be stopped. At this point, it's not a matter of caring enough about him, it's caring enough about our country.

The only one who can finally do this is the one who has the power to do so. Please, do it Judge.

[Hortensis]

42. For a long time tRump's been calling for "my people" to riot in the streets

for him. Some have to consider if federal detention could further his goals, such as an increase in societal chaos that could combine with other effects for use in another coup attempt. At very least provide him the gratification of violence and deaths at his direction. There are no doubt other effects to consider as well.

At this point the DoJ seems to have responded by requesting what's quickly becoming a routine protective order against tRump releasing discovery information that he could use to sic his mobs on witnesses and others.

A protective order was also issued in Trump's criminal hush-money case in New York, where prosecutors asked a judge to ensure that discovery materials in that case be used by defense only for trial, and referred to the former president's "longstanding and perhaps singular history of attacking witnesses."

And everyone else, but at least it comes with the job judges and prosecutors who go after powerful crime figures signed up for, and they get special protection.

He's scared and backed into a corner.

Remember when he was first elected and we questioned whether he'd leave quietly? The bumpy road continues.

[Vinca]

44. Pity the poor prosecution lawyer who has to follow him around the country and record

his tirades. Hope they get double pay - combat pay - for having to trail the POS around and listen to him violate court orders. There must be a whole sacrificial team. One for the events, one for social media, one for television appearances, one for radio, etc.

[sellitman]

46. Imagine.

The Monster finally behind bars.

I would be so happy I might have to buy some expensive Champagne. I only drink it on New Years but this would be better than any celebration on record.

[allegorical oracle]

47. What I think he's really after is something he said earlier about wanting massive

demonstrations "the likes of which has never been seen before" in NY, ATL, DC, etc.

Thirsting for multiple modern-day Nurenberg rallyies.

[Blue Owl]

50. Nothing more terrifying than someone coming after you in a golf cart

[UTUSN]

57. K&R

[mwooldri]

59. Appropriate music video for this piece of news:

The Police: Every Breath You Take.