Trump would prefer the court to take up the case after the DC circuit rules – but he can’t oppose it and then make the same request later on

“ The problem for Trump is that his hands are tied. The former president would prefer the court to take up the case after the DC circuit rules because he’s eager to delay his impending trial as much as possible. But he can’t oppose the prosecutors’ request now and then make the same request in several months’ time.”

“And at the heart of the Trump legal team’s filing was the extraordinary contention that Trump both was entitled to absolute presidential immunity and that the immunity applied whether or not Trump intended to engage in the conduct described in the indictment.“

  • mateomaui@reddthat.comEnglish
    211·
    1 year ago

    Dotard vowing to take it to the Supreme Court absolutely shitting his pants that it’s going to the Supreme Court

    • Funderpants @lemmy.ca
      321·
      1 year ago

      By Spocks Ears, how can any self-respecting person read this kind of thing and think to themselves, ‘yes, this is my guy’.

      I want to say this is fake, and I’ve been fooled, but after years of this stuff I’m fairly certain it’s the real deal.

      • Billiam@lemmy.world
        13·
        1 year ago

        how can any self-respecting person read this kind of thing and think to themselves, ‘yes, this is my guy’.

        My man, you already listed three reasons right there:

        1. “self-respecting” (they’re not)
        2. “read” (they don’t)
        3. “think” (they can’t)
      • spaceghoti@lemmy.one
        10·
        1 year ago

        Because they perceive it as trolling liberals, and they love him for it. He doesn’t have to be coherent as long as he offends the right people.

      • vividspecter@lemm.ee
        81·
        1 year ago

        All of the unnecessary capitalisation makes him look like a functionally illiterate elderly person who just discovered the internet. It’s like I’m reading a “forwards from grandma” style email from the 2000s.

      • Telorand@reddthat.com
        61·
        1 year ago

        Unrelated, but I’ve been looking for other explicatives besides “by God.” I’m going to abscond with the spirit of that one.

    • PrincessLeiasCat
      201·
      1 year ago

      I can’t believe they send that shit out completely unironically.

    • Goku@lemmy.world
      9·
      1 year ago

      Banana Republic style

      Hmm I would say this is not Banana Republic at all. This is how the legal system operates and if anything, Trump has been treated with patience.

      I think Jan 6 more closely resembles the Banana Republic style.

      • mindbleach
        1·
        1 year ago

        For fuck’s sake, we’re asking the courts ahead-of-time if laws even work. It is comically far from The Idiot’s narcissistic projection. I am just so tired of dealing with this fat old child.

    • RunningInRVA@lemmy.world
      7·
      1 year ago

      Oh no. Let’s not injure his “150 million, at least, supporters”. You know when they wrote this for him he insisted they add the words “at least”.

      • Oderus@lemmy.world
        3·
        1 year ago

        Biden won 81,283,098 votes, or 51.3 percent of the votes cast. He is the first U.S. presidential candidate to have won more than 80 million votes. Trump won 74,222,958 votes, or 46.8 percent of the votes cast. That’s more votes than any other presidential candidate has ever won, with the exception of Biden. (Third-party candidates picked up 1.8 percent of the votes cast.)

        More than 159 million Americans voted in 2020: 159,633,396 to be exact.

        150 million at least??? Then why did you get only ~74M? God damn his lies have no boundary.