Trump being asked awkward questions by a skilled prosecutor would have been an event for the ages. As always though he bottled it before his unhinged rant about wanting to take the stand in a safe space where he couldn’t be asked anything. The bloke is a fraud
Funny, strange, yes (I've said this since before he was president). Funny, comically, not so much.
As things stand he is a felon.
He is already a convicted felon by a jury. That is a fact. He may or may not get an appeal, which may or may not overturn his convictions, but at present he is a convicted felon.
Yep.
Neither, an inevitable thing. Factionalism and institutional warfare are a standard occurrence of civilisational collapse.
Yes, he'll get four years. As President.
Ah - but he has stated numerous times that he didn't have sex with her.
That's why he did not testify...he would have been cut to ribbons. Easier for him to whinge that he had been gagged.
Also why he didn’t take any press questions and did his post verdict speech on private property from the foyer of Trump Tower ( the NY Department of Buildings should demolish that monstrosity btw ) - funniest thing was him winging about still being under a gag order and not allowed to say anything about the trial at his post verdict speech before launching into a 10 minute abusive tirade on the Judge, the Prosecutor and the DoJ as well as discrediting all the ( ‘unnamed’ ) witnesses for the Prosecution- what a dumbo.
I doubt there is anyone who posts on this thread who is oblivious to anything about Trump.What concerns me is the wider picture here that people seem to be oblivious to:
The office of POTUS doesn’t just affect the US but whomever holds that office influences global economic and geo-political stability in a way no other world leader could - except perhaps Putin or XI.
An unstable America in the grip of civil breakdown is an unstable world.
Even if it doesn’t come to that:
Trump’s relationship with Putin, his obsessive attempts at bromances with other world dictators, his family influences and connections to the far right extremists Zionists in Netanyahu’s Government ; His climate change denying policies; His brand of populism that thrives on racial conflict, whether it be Islamophobia or prejudice against ethnic minorities, that requires people to hate others in order to flourish - and Trump is pumped for it.
Trump’s form of populism threatens to gain traction in British politics through the likes of Boris Johnson and Suella Braverman- more significantly for me, Liz Truss - all of whom have endorsed and continue to endorse Trump’s campaign for the Presidency.
Nah - my concern is not that he is a misogynist that can’t keep his pants up or is a law-breaking, weird looking blundertwunt - it is the political danger he presents to all of us, whether we live in the States, in Europe or the UK or indeed the Middle East.
But then this is a football forum - of course his affairs with Stormy Daniels and his character deficiencies makes for better reading than any political evaluation of the man .
