It may be about relevancy, but I’ll go a bit deeper: He had a crappy upbringing and a fairly rudderless life. Tucker has always been searching for meaning in his life- and when he thinks he’s found it he’s determined to tell everyone else what a genius he is, and how they should listen to him for advice. Getting drunk and mocking people was the way to live ( hell, I laughed along with him), writing and producing was the way to live(he still has a “business “ doing this), survivalism and military worship was the way to live, now he’s on to the God thing. He’s still trying to find meaning in his life. I’m not saying that I have all of the answers to our existence, but I usually don’t feel a drive to convince everyone that I do.
I have good news: you too can steal classified documents, keep them in your clubhouse bathroom where any paying members can look at them, hide them from the FBI when they come looking, and have your criminal trial delayed indefinitely. You just have to appoint the judge in charge of it all and she'll hook you up.
I don't have any classified documents, a clubhouse, or the ability to appoint judges. Plus, a woman judge? Pffff, that plan is terrible! What else you got?
A secret affair with a porn star while your wife is deep into pregnancy that you use your lawyer to "pay off"?
Reading about Trump, these trials, and his election chances is like watching Dave Roberts leading off first base back in the 2004 ALCS. We all know what the plan is, we just have to wait and see if he can pull it off.
Hmmm, but while gross, that may or may not be illegal. Do I have to wear lifts in my shoes and have an orange face? I'm assuming the porn star keeps giving me blowjobs while I'm in the White House?
Did Trump fuck when he was president? I doubt Melania let him touch her those four years, and I didn't hear about him having any side-pieces; it seems like the kind of thing he would end up blabbing about.
In my head, Melania makes a disgusted face, sighs heavily, puts on a rubber glove, and gives him a bored handjob while she scrolls through her Twitter account. He mumbles to himself about being the greatest lover, the best lover - just ask anyone.
Why do you think about this at all? Is there something you need to confess? I swear, the longer this shit goes on, the more it's clear it's a cult, with creepy sex overtones and all.
I have a fantasy about him having a brain aneurysm in the middle of it. This turns him into a drooling vegetable - very similar to today, but no longer verbal. His adherents can't use it as martyrdom because he's still alive, and his shitbag of a family doesn't inherit anything that he might have. I have a boner just thinking about it. Don't judge me.
I think the sordid details pose a much bigger risk to this prosecution than they realize. No one wanted to hear about the encounter, especially after all the very uncomfortable comments Trump's made over the years ("pussy grabbing, you remind me of my daughter", etc.). The judge saying "this is what the defendant wanted to hide" isn't going to cut it. IIRC the jury was told this wasn't about Trump having sex (in 2006 for fuck's sakes), but illegally buying silence. The media attention on this is going to focus on the sordid details and I think it spoils the jury, and Trump gets acquitted. Trump's legal troubles are unprecedented, and the main argument that they are politically motivated is the timing. The only investigations that I could see that needed years to get to Trump would be the various J6 cases. This investigation wouldn't have been taken up during Trump's actual administration, but the further this strays into what Trump did with his pee pee, the more likely it is to end with him benefitting from it in terms of fundraising and politically, and an acquittal.
the defense's argument in their opening was that trump didn't have sex, therefore he couldn't have covered up something that didn't happen. The defense fucked (no pun intended) this one up from the start, by making all of these details now relevant to the case
"You lied about $150,000 payment to a porn star." "Didn't have sex, so it doesn't count." Yeah, that's some Trump logic right there. Christ.
I'm waiting for the "He didn't finish so it wasn't actually sex" argument. You just know that's cumming....
Iranian president and foreign minister in a helicopter crash: https://apnews.com/article/iran-helicopter-raisi-b483ba75e4339cfb0fe00c7349d023b8 This could get really bad. Assuming it's just standard dumb-fuck helicopter pilot bad luck (seriously, foggy mountains in a helicopter) and the state runs with that, and the two officials are injured or safe, whew. If state media runs with "they were attacked!" or worse "this is a conspiratorial attack!" or somewhat ironically "this is a terrorist attack!", the whole region gets enflamed. Consider anything more than "oh, that whacky minister! What an oopsie, riding a helicopter in fog!" firmly cementing us in the "fucking around" stage of finding out. Iran's version of that could be whipping out their "you're not supposed to have those!" nuclear arsenal on Israel, and anyone usurping power (the Iranian line of succession isn't exactly a confidence booster to anyone in the State department) would never have a more convenient excuse and a more dire need to send a "no regime changes here, friends" message.
I just realized this is the "Butcher of Tehran" dude. What do you think the odds are that it was a CFIT/UFIT thing, a la Kobe Bryant, vs someone actually being like "you know what? Two people are on that bird who would make an excellent target right about now"?
He was on a 50yr old helicopter flying in fog & rain. My money's on either a maintenance problem, or controlled flight into terrain