A reminder on the eve of day three of the trial, of Donald Abraham Jesus Mandela Trump. The gag order might be working if only because Trump decided to attack Kimmel for a bit from earlier this week, revealing that he’s still steamed over Kimmel’s closing comments at the Oscars in real-time.
Trump, comparing himself to Lincoln forgets the fact that Lincoln was assassinated.
“you know, in history, they say the president that was treated the worst was Abraham Lincoln. But he had the…little Civil War going…I haven’t seen the new list. But if I’m not number one over Abraham Lincoln I will be very disappointed.”
President Abraham Lincoln’s Gettysburg Address was just over 250 words long. It followed a two hour speech by Edward Everett at the dedication of a soldier’s cemetery on 19 November 1863 at the site of the bloodiest battle in American history, during a war that cost more American lives than all other wars combined.
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In his historic New York criminal trial, former President Donald Trump faces the prospect of some very real punishments—including fines and even prison time.
But in court in Manhattan on Tuesday, the former president was subjected to a different kind of punishment that seemed almost expressly designed to torment him: he had to sit silently as mean tweets about him were read aloud.
As prosecutors and defense lawyers sparred over the composition of the jury that will ultimately decide the hush money case, some of the prospective jurors’ past social media posts about the former president were debated for evidence of possible bias. As a result, for more than an hour the notoriously thin-skinned Trump was forced to listen to jokes about his appearance, his likeability, his intelligence, and—to use a phrase Team Trump first popularized—whether prosecutors should “lock him up.”
“I’m dumb as fuck,” an AI-version of Trump said in one video shared by a prospective juror about two weeks ago. (After admitting they found the video funny, this person was dismissed for cause, but the other two described above ultimately made the jury—no doubt much to Trump’s annoyance).
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Bill Christeson, a 70-year-old activist, came up from Washington. Asked whether the trial — and a possible conviction — would change the trajectory of the race, he whipped out a sign that read: “It’s not about the mushroom” — a bodily reference used by Stormy Daniels, the porn star at the center of the case — “follow the money.”
OPENING DAY — Sure, it was the so-called trial of the century, but the scene outside former President Donald Trump’s hush money trial today — the first criminal trial of a former American president — was more like a sad circus than anything else.
Beneath billowing, giant “Trump or Death” and “Trump 2024” flags, a few dozen Trump supporters gathered in a park across the street.
In the past, Trump has always been able to count on his supporters turning out en masse, from his signature rallies to the riot at the Capitol. But today in Manhattan, at a pivotal moment for the MAGA movement and Trump’s campaign, the faithful were uncharacteristically quiet. The endless litany of Trump’s legal proceedings seemed to be wearing on them: More than two hours after the the New York Young Republican Club’s “rally for President Trump” was scheduled to begin, demonstrators were still heavily outnumbered by hundreds of members of the news media.
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