Trump’s twittering revealed why Tolstoy feared the day when a Vlad the Impaler got hold of a telephone.
"It is a crime to exploit patriotism in the service of hatred."
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"There can be no liberty for a community which lacks the information by which to detect lies." Lippman
Even as a psychologist, I confess to not realizing that ignorant rednecks comprised such a huge swath of the American public.
I’d grown up believing America is a well-educated country (grotesquely untrue), filled with largely honest, well-intentioned people (incalculably false).
@jheil, you and the Harvard professor are so right about what the Reublicans have done to themselves re Trump. Do you think Trump has lured them into documented fraud or has them under serous physical threat? Or is it just the common ego and power thing.
Report says DeSantis is hoping to repair some of the damage in his relationship with Trump by pointing out that Trump is the one who can show us where the silver linings are for women who have been victims of rape.
Right after the US women’s team suffered a defeat to Sweden in the 2023 Women’s World Cup, Donald Trump gloated about the team’s loss. “Many of our players were openly hostile to America — no other country behaved in such a manner, or even close,” Trump full of nastiness wrote.
THIS ⬇️ is why a protective order is needed in Trump’s criminal cases to prevent Trump’s identifying witnesses to his deranged loyalists. Who he incites.
@AWeissmann_ Trump knows he can't control himself so he has decided that getting locked up and speaking about the injustice of doing that to a loudmouth, despicable, cry- baby fool is the way to go. And for him, trying to do that
might be his best hope even though it is close to none at all.
Bail means restrictions on your rights, up to and including your actual liberty if you are jailed pending trial. Trump is on bail in 3 cases so his rights are subject to court restrictions like any other defendant.
Ohio Voters Take First Crucial Step To Protect Abortion Rights Ahead Of November Vote
Voters defeated Issue 1, handing a major victory to abortion rights advocates in Ohio. https://t.co/Vsizm3UAgt via @HuffPostPol
The Trump Poll Team is pretty sure he can get re-elected running from prison. Now he wants them to determine if he can get re-elected running from Trump Tower in Pyongyang, North Korea.
If Trump is using (eg to pay legal fees) a PAC that made money by falsely claiming election fraud, well then that scheme can be the basis of fraud charges and the money obtained by that scheme can be seized in a pre-trial forfeiture order.