Prosecutors in Donald J. Trump’s criminal trial want him held in contempt for attacking witnesses and others close to the case, which centers on a hush-money payment to a porn star. Testimony is set to resume later Tuesday morning.
Todd Blanche [Trump’s lawyer] says Trump is entitled to complain about “two systems of justice.” “There’s two systems of justice in this courtroom? That’s what you’re saying?” Justice Merchan says.
I mean, there are two systems of justice in this country, and he’s always been part of the better one. If he wants to see what the rest of us would have to go though, by all means, let’s try him under that system of justice.
Yeah. If a non-billionaire (allegedly) tweeted out barely-veiled threats to jurors and witnesses and the judge’s family that causes their friends to send death threats, you’d be in prison after you violated the gag order. Maybe not even get a gag order: just also charged with tampering.
Maggie Haberman writes:
I mean, there are two systems of justice in this country, and he’s always been part of the better one. If he wants to see what the rest of us would have to go though, by all means, let’s try him under that system of justice.
Yeah. If a non-billionaire (allegedly) tweeted out barely-veiled threats to jurors and witnesses and the judge’s family that causes their friends to send death threats, you’d be in prison after you violated the gag order. Maybe not even get a gag order: just also charged with tampering.
I would literally just be held in contempt without bond if I was threatening a judge and their family.
God, I need an army of idiots, I keep saying that but I never actually do the work and become a republican demagogue.