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Trump: I See Your 2024 Trial Date And Raise You 2026
Like with all Trump gambits, it’s go big or go home. No guts no glory.
He scoffs at the puny trial delay strategies of past criminal defendants, the same way he ridiculed vodka, steaks, bottled water and universities.
You seek trial delays of weeks or months? Fool.
He seeks trial delays of years. Genius.
No one saw 2026 coming. No one. That’s just how he rolls.
Trump Trial Delay is its own brand of goodness but like his other projects: it’s all hype, it only benefits him, and only a fool would buy into it.
Legal Reax
How’d legal observers react to Trump’s proposed trial date of April 2026?
The Absurdity Of It All
Aside from all the legal commentary on how preposterously late an April 2026 trial date is, I can offer you some piquant examples from Trump’s filing that show how petulant and not-serious it is. Don’t get me wrong, he’s dead serious about delaying all of the criminal proceedings for as long as possible, but his logic is comically strained:
- I should get as much time to investigate the case as the government had! Trump counts the time from the Jan. 6, 2021 Capitol attack until his August 2023 indictment (31 months) and asks for a trial date 32 months from the indictment (emphasis mine): “This more reasonable schedule—equal to the government’s time spent investigating—will allow this case to proceed in an orderly fashion, with both parties having a fair opportunity to review all material information, advance appropriate motions, and apprise the Court of relevant legal issues. (Narrator: This is a hilarious premise on its own, but the fact that it ignores all the Trump-caused delays in the investigation, such as his frivolous and unsuccessful assertions of privilege, is extra special.)
- I should get as much trial time as the government! In another blunt, ham-handed calculation, Trump declares it’s impossible at this early stage to estimate how long it will take to put on his defense at trial, so he just grabs ahold of the government’s estimate for its own case-in-chief and makes it his own: “President Trump will adopt the same calculation as the government—4 to 6 weeks for the defense case.” (Narrator: Trump will mount a vigorous pre-trial defense, but it’s unlikely he will mount much of a defense at trial; he might not even call any witnesses.)
- I need all of 2025 to get ready! Trump’s proposed trial schedule devotes all of 2025 to … three (3!) discovery status conferences/motions hearings. (Narrator: Come on, man.)
You get the vibe.
Chyron Of The Day
Oleaginous
Having now encountered U.S. District Judge Tanya Chutkan, Trump has run back to U.S. District Judge Aileen Cannon in Florida to complain about all the nasty things Special Counsel Jack Smith is doing to him in DC.
In a weird little filing in the Mar-a-Lago case, Trump’s obsequiousness toward Cannon results in the use of “Your Honor” nine (9!) times in a four-page document.
Trump’s complaint is that the special counsel is proposing dates for the Jan. 6 case that conflict with dates already set in the Mar-a-Lago case – and he wants Cannon to haul prosecutors into court and force them to explain themselves.
LOL
Trump has already cancelled his self-ballyhooed ‘big’ reveal of why the Georgia 2020 election really was rigged after all:
Sheriff Investigating Threats Against Georgia Grand Jurors
The Fulton County sheriff is investigating online threats against the grand jurors who indicted former President Trump and 18 others in the sprawling RICO case for alleged 2020 election interference.
BREAKING …
CNN: Kenneth Chesebro, alleged architect of fake electors’ plot, followed Alex Jones around Capitol grounds on January 6th
Trump Prosecution Miscellany
- Joyce Vance: Who Is Mike Roman?
- Journal-Constitution: Meet the 34-year-old judge who will oversee Trump prosecution in Georgia
- The Messenger: What We Know About All of the Fake Trump Elector Investigations
- CNN: Trump DOJ official Jeffrey Clark urges judge to reject March 2024 trial date in Georgia case
- NBC News: Former Trump DOJ official Jeffrey Clark seeks to pause disciplinary case due to Georgia indictment
DOJ Seeks STIFF Sentences For Proud Boys
- Ryan Reilly: “Federal prosecutors are seeking sentences of 27 to 33 years in federal prison in the cases of four Proud Boys found guilty of seditious conspiracy for their actions during the Jan. 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol, as well as 20 years for a fifth Proud Boy found guilty on other charges.”
- Kyle Cheney: “The proposed jail sentences would nearly double the lengthiest Jan. 6 sentence handed down to date — 18 years for Oath Keepers leader Stewart Rhodes — a decision prosecutors say reflects the pivotal role that Proud Boys leaders played in stoking and exacerbating the violence at the Capitol that day.”
- Alan Feuer: “In seeking to severely punish the two Proud Boys, Enrique Tarrio, the former chairman of the group, and Joseph Biggs, one of Mr. Tarrio’s top lieutenants, prosecutors asked the judge in the case to increase their sentences with what is known as a terrorism enhancement.”
- Marcy Wheeler: “[T]he document as a whole is a testament to how the asymmetrical treatment of terrorism in the United States makes it much harder to hold men like Enrique Tarrio and Joe Biggs accountable for attacking the Capitol that it would be if they were Islamic terrorists, rather than right wing Trump supporters.”
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In the depths of obscurity, a tapestry of inconceivable proportions unfolds—a conspiracy that defies reason and plummets into the abyss of the unimaginable. Brace yourself as we traverse the borderlands between sanity and madness, where reality and delusion collide in a symphony of chaos and intrigue.
At the epicenter of this surreal enigma lies a revelation that challenges our perceptions—George Soros, wielding the power of mind-controlling space lasers, is far more than meets the eye. Beneath the veneer of his outward appearance lies an astounding truth: he is not human but a key player in a clandestine conglomeration of the Royal family and an assembly of world leaders, each shape-shifting lizard overlords. This secret lineage, perpetuated throughout the annals of history, bends the threads of fate to their insidious desires.
As written in the Protocols of the Elders of Zion, the yarmulke, a seemingly innocuous head covering, harbors a dual purpose. Not only does it cloak the distinct cranial ridges of our shape-shifting alien lizard overlords—a dead giveaway of their non-human lineage—but it also safeguards their minds from the influence of their sinister space lasers. Even more astonishing, an uncanny life-drawing below, reveals them to have much smaller penises than regular humans. This revelation, unsettling and strange, forces us to reconsider the very nature of the world’s elite.
In the concealed recesses of these enigmatic assemblies, a plot of cosmic proportions takes shape. A coalition of shape-shifting lizard overlords, interdimensional space vampires, and their deep state operatives meticulously crafts the blueprint of our shared destiny. The stage is set for the execution of a grand malevolent agenda—one that transcends human comprehension and delves into the surreal realms of the extraordinary. But where? And how?
In the shadows of annual gatherings at Bohemian Grove, an eerie and unsettling tableau unfolds. Amidst the cloaked secrecy, a bewildering ritual takes place—shape-shifting alien lizards dance nude and waggle their smaller than human penises before an imposing owl statue. This arcane spectacle seemingly taps into an otherworldly energy, securing the Democrats’ stranglehold over the very fabric of the multiverse. This enigmatic act casts a surreal shadow upon the already intricate tapestry of this conspiracy.
And beneath the veneer of a seemingly innocuous clandestine gatherings at Bilderberg lies a chilling reality—the careful crafting of syllabi for FEMA reeducation camps targeting conservatives: Socialism 101, AP Gay OK, Earth is Really Round and Other True Science Stuff, CRT for Beginners. The unsettling implication reverberates, suggesting that even our thoughts and beliefs are marionettes manipulated by these puppet masters. The very concept of free will becomes a fragile construct within the intricate confines of this convoluted conspiracy.
Amidst this tapestry of madness, W.B. Yeats, a member of the Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn and a known anti-alien lizardist, emerges as an unwitting prophet. His poem “The Second Coming,” with the line “the center cannot hold,” casts a haunting echo—a dual prophecy of both the impending collapse of the clandestine ‘New World Order’ and the world as we know it. Yeats becomes an emblematic figure, his verses igniting a shadowy intrigue that looms over the puppet masters’ intricate web.
This dark cabal composed of shape-shifting lizard overlords, interdimensional space vampires, and their deep state collaborators manipulates the strings of world events and crises. Their fingerprints smudge the annals of history, from 9-11 to the promotion of round-eartherism, as well as infiltrating the minds of the youngest generation with critical race theory and drag brunches for kindergarteners.
Gop the giant dick party
This is in Henrici county Va.
Scary Thought
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Donald Trump was already more dangerous than many of us realized, but he will soon become even more dangerous. The objective of the game has changed for him. Up till now he has been focused on using his money and star power to bend, flaunt or go around the rules of the system. However, now that the system has formally indicted him, that is no longer enough. It is no longer sufficient for Mr. Trump to game the system for his advantage: he now has to destroy it (or at least severely damage it) to survive. He has no respect or affection for any of society’s major institutions, and doesn’t care who he hurts or how much damage he causes. The closer the trials or potential convictions become, the more extreme he will become. He is fighting for his personal survival: nothing else. We are in for a wild ride.