• Admiral Patrick@dubvee.org
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    5 months ago

    The silver lining is he hasn’t ever built up a tolerance for consequences in the course of his life. So a little should hopefully go a long way.

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      5 months ago

      Yeah, but unfortunately with how charged everything is if he gets anything he will claim political persecution and try to be a martyr ( his campaign has claimed they already raised 55m since the conviction). It’s why I think he didn’t get really anything bad when he violated the gag order so much.

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        5 months ago

        Yeah, but unfortunately with how charged everything is if he gets anything he will claim political persecution and try to be a martyr

        He did that when he won.

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          Yeah, all the hand wringing about how he might twist anything punitive into a positive is moronic since Trump whines when he wins too.

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            5 months ago

            I agree that’s his shtick but his base votes more with emotion and bad things are easier to sell to them than good things.

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        Yeah, but unfortunately with how charged everything is if he gets anything he will claim political persecution and try to be a martyr

        He’s doing that now. He will do it if he is sentenced, and ALSO if he doesn’t get jail time. Appeasing him gets you exactly nothing.

        ( his campaign has claimed they already raised 55m since the conviction).

        His campaign claims a lot of things, none of them true. It would be surprising if this turned out to be the first time they weren’t lying.

        It’s why I think he didn’t get really anything bad when he violated the gag order so much.

        I think the judge was going overboard to give every benefit of the doubt to Trump so there would be no basis for appeal. I hope that’s the case.

      • Admiral Patrick@dubvee.org
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        Yeah, but unfortunately with how charged everything is if he gets anything he will claim political persecution and try to be a martyr

        Agreed 100% but to be fair, he’s already (been) doing that.