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[–] Dagwood222@lemm.ee 61 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Trump logic.

The courts won't let me speak and tell my side of the story.

I don't want to testify under oath

[–] SuckMyWang@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

The court will only use his testimony against him. So unfair!

[–] Rapidcreek@lemmy.world 53 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I mean, was there any doubt?

[–] WhatAmLemmy@lemmy.world 58 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (5 children)

I'm just mesmerized by his neck pussy.

[–] alquicksilver@lemmy.world 39 points 1 year ago (3 children)

For me, I can't stop staring at the clearly defined edge of his makeup. It's so obvious that I'm beginning to think his (probably underpaid) MUA does it intentionally.

[–] Dagwood222@lemm.ee 35 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Remember when he boarded Air Force 1 with a string of toilet paper sticking to his heel?

Imagine the contempt the people around him feel to let him do that.

[–] InternetUser2012@midwest.social 3 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Only the ultra rich and idiots like him.

[–] Dagwood222@lemm.ee 10 points 1 year ago

Trump is despised by the Manhattan elites he spent his life trying to impress.

This article explains how he was given a golden opportunity to get in good with them, and blew it through his own arrogance, stupidity, and greed.

Bonus appearance by John Barron.

https://www.forbes.com/sites/michaellisicky/2020/10/03/how-donald-trump-took-down-bonwit-teller-a-fifth-avenue-landmark/?sh=151308875f69

[–] rdyoung@lemmy.world 8 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Only the idiots like him. Guaranteed he doesn't fit in with the ultra wealthy, he is likely seen as a tool literally and figuratively by the people who have been able to keep and grow their generational wealth where as he lost his familial wealth multiple times over.

[–] InternetUser2012@midwest.social 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

He gives them tax breaks though, they'd vote for him over Biden.

[–] rdyoung@lemmy.world -1 points 1 year ago

Read my comment again.

[–] MegaUltraChicken@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

I remember reading somewhere that he insists on doing his own hair/makeup most of the time which lines up to me. If Donald Trump did someone else's hair/makeup I'd expect them to look the same.

[–] Nobody@lemmy.world 7 points 1 year ago

I kinda want to grab the neck pussy. If only I was a star…

[–] driving_crooner@lemmy.eco.br 5 points 1 year ago

It's called nussy

[–] Darkassassin07@lemmy.ca 3 points 1 year ago

Bright orange throussy

[–] dohpaz42@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago
[–] Jaysyn@kbin.social 36 points 1 year ago

Just like everyone said he would.

He's a fucking coward at heart.

[–] ImplyingImplications@lemmy.ca 35 points 1 year ago (2 children)

It would be the absolute stupidest thing he could do. The fifth amendment is waived if he takes the stand meaning the jury is allowed to assume the worst if Trump refuses to answer tough questions.

[–] Ashyr@sh.itjust.works 12 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Can you explain why? Is it because he’s not required to be a witness in his own trial? So that’s the fifth right there and by taking the stand you’re functionally waiving the fifth?

[–] jaschen@lemm.ee 3 points 1 year ago

Wow, TI.L. Thanks

[–] breadsmasher@lemmy.world 33 points 1 year ago

“There is no case”

Whats the odds trumps lawyers said this, meaning “trump has no case” and this mongoloid took it the complete opposite way

[–] carl_dungeon@lemmy.world 25 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] tsonfeir@lemm.ee 15 points 1 year ago

Sleepy “Pussyneck” Donny

[–] Donjuanme@lemmy.world 15 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I thought that fad of Japanese men doing their hair like Elvis would never catch on....

Then there's that picture.

Lock this slumlord up already.

[–] Spaghetti_Hitchens@kbin.social 10 points 1 year ago

Man, there are surfers who've never caught a wave that big

[–] vividspecter@lemm.ee 7 points 1 year ago (2 children)

He actually thinks he looks like Elvis. Maybe obese Elvis in his final days.

[–] formergijoe@lemmy.world 9 points 1 year ago

Here's hoping he dies on the toilet.

[–] Granite@kbin.social 3 points 1 year ago

I’d imagine he would eat bacon, peanut butter, and marshmallow fluff sandwiches too.

[–] cosmicrookie@lemmy.world 14 points 1 year ago
[–] echo@lemmings.world 8 points 1 year ago

Nobody saw that coming...

[–] autotldr@lemmings.world 5 points 1 year ago

This is the best summary I could come up with:


The former president called in to Newsmax on Thursday night after the conclusion of day seven of his historic trial, where he was asked by anchor Greg Kelly about his intentions to testify in his own defence based on what he had seen of the proceedings so far.

Mr Trump went on to cite conservative lawyers Andrew McCarthy, Jonathan Turley and Mark Levin to back up his baseless insistence that the legal establishment is almost entirely in agreement with him about Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg having no case against him.

Mr Bragg charged the former president with 34 counts of falsifying business records to conceal a hush money payment to adult film star Stormy Daniels to suppress allegations of an affair ahead of the 2016 presidential election.

So far in the trial, jurors have heard from testimony from David Pecker, former publisher of tabloid giant The National Enquirer, who has described a months-long scheme to “catch and kill” embarrassing stories about Mr Trump’s alleged affairs.

He testified that he vowed to be the “eyes and ears” of the Republican’s campaign, going beyond what he called “chequebook journalism” to give Mr Trump a direct line to a media apparatus to influence the outcome of the 2016 vote.

On Thursday, Mr Pecker testified that then-president Trump had later thanked him for handling Ms McDougal’s contract and “the doorman situation” after he entered the White House.


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