• UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world
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    6 months ago

    “The last thing I want to do is put you in jail.”

    ~ Judge Juan Merchan

    We love our fair and impartial judiciary, don’t we folks? Lets give Judge Merchan a big hand. He’s helping to Make America Great Again.

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      6 months ago

      I wonder if he means that in the sense of “putting you in jail is only going to empower your frankly rabid base of supporters. I need to avoid even the slightest hint of a mistrial so we can put you in prison for good.”

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        I need to avoid even the slightest hint of a mistrial so we can put you in prison for good

        I mean I’m pretty sure that’s it. There’s no chance whatsoever this doesn’t go to appeal if he’s convicted, and you don’t want the case to be overturned because the appeal court thinks the judge was biased against Trump

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        putting you in jail is only going to empower your frankly rabid base of supporters

        What does the judge think will happen should the jury returns a guilty verdict?

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          A jury of people selected (partly) by his own lawyers convicting him should be a lot easier of a pill to swallow for his base than a “Democrat” judge unilaterally deciding, on his own, to detain trump.

          key word here is “should”

          Honestly while Trumps legal team have been complaining about not being able to get a fair trial, that works both ways. I’m worried about enough MAGAts making their way onto the jury to nullify

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      He knows that the rabid Republicans will try to twist it to say that he was jailed to prevent him from attending his own hearing. When they would gladly teleconference him in from the cell, like they do with other criminals. But that’s not good enough for Donald Duck. Either this Jack-o’-lantern gets to sit there and look pretty or he will scream and cry a fit until election day comes around and it’s too late.

      It’s all part of the nut factory’s plan.

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        Contempt charges are usually held in a cell in the courthouse, and they just parade you out for your trial and then put you back in the cell when it’s over. He’ll be able to do literally nothing but attend his own trial.