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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsWhat's this "put Trump in jail for a few hours" BS?
And I mean bullshit. I have heard some pundits that I really like, and respect say that Trump may be put in jail for a "couple of hours or so". That won't be much of an inconvenience, and he gets the talking point with no real punishment.
If Judge Merchan is going to incarcerate the orange piece of shit, it should be at least overnight. And it should be after a Monday session so he can get up from jail early in the morning and get ready for court by himself. Let's see how his hair and makeup look when he has no help.
calimary
(81,804 posts)Let's see how his hair and makeup look when he has no help.
The more I think about it, the more I want to see it.
Prof. Toru Tanaka
(2,033 posts)Hopefully, hell also have a backache from sleeping (or tossing and turning) on a prison issued cot.
RockRaven
(15,241 posts)TFG has already complained about sitting in the courtroom for so many hours per day. A few additional hours in a different room during the afternoon/evening isn't any kind of punishment, not really.
It would need to be from the word "go" until the following sunrise to even register as anything qualitatively different from what he's doing several days per week already.
Old Crank
(3,780 posts)Would be a good start.
Emile
(23,730 posts)Irish_Dem
(49,669 posts)Jail would have to be during court time or overnight.
Old Crank
(3,780 posts)For delaying the trial.
Throw him in for a weekeend. FAFO time.
Irish_Dem
(49,669 posts)He should be locked up right now for life in a supermax prison with 24 hour isolation.
But we have to deal with reality.
The judge doesn't want anything turned over in appeals court.
And he doesn't want the optics of looking like he is interfering with a presidential campaign.
He most likely is looking at baby steps in his actions.
Appeal courts like that.
And the public will accept it better.
And less likely Trump can use it to play victim.
He will look like a baby. Like whining about the courtroom temperature.
Old Crank
(3,780 posts)not what will actually happen.
In a just world he would have been tried and convicted already.
Fake Judge Cannon wouldn't be still holing his hand and the Supreme court would have slapped his lawyers down for trying to make him king.
Irish_Dem
(49,669 posts)He has already threatened it.
He doesn't seem like a bullshitter in the least.
But he will do it in very measured terms.
The thread was intended to be based in reality.
But I am fine with it being a fantasy list.
My fantasy is Trump in Supermax for life.
Rhiannon12866
(208,345 posts)Like picking up trash along the highway along with fellow convicts. He might complain about jail, but that would involve no effort on his part. And it might mess up his hair and smear his makeup.
Irish_Dem
(49,669 posts)And so we are back to a standoff with the judge or jail time.
Rhiannon12866
(208,345 posts)He can spend the rest of the trial there.
Irish_Dem
(49,669 posts)Put Trump in isolation and he can view the proceedings via a TV feed.
Hermit-The-Prog
(33,844 posts)Staph
(6,267 posts)make sure that his height and weight are formally taken at the jail. And then released to the public. That would embarrass him bigly!
Irish_Dem
(49,669 posts)We have to face realty.
Judges don't seem to have the courage to do the right thing with Trump.
So we have to come up with ideas based on that fact and use psychology in our favor.
Trump going to jail overnight or a few hours is going to be hell for Trump.
Humiliating and terrifying.
He is a coward and baby.