A “new low” for Trump, I didn’t think it was possible!
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Being Donald Trump might run it a close second. Does he actually strike you as someone who is at ease with himself and the world?
It’s said that right-wingers are so because they are actually fearful, especially of loss and change. His constant emphasis on his assets suggests this may be the case with him.
It’s also worth remembering that Berlusconi in Italy went into politics partly to get immunity from possible prosecution for fraud. The US is fortunate that nobody would do that there. Not, at least, if they were black or a Democrat.
Speaking as an European, I’m pretty sure it has been for a loooong time…
'Course, I’m not saying politics aren’t a big hecked up joke everywhere else. Just maybe not quite as much.
That’s what anti-SLAPP laws are for, and they’re becoming more widespread. When we get a good federal anti-SLAPP in place it’ll be the turning point.
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He’s exactly the candidate that our country deserves. We’ve become so cynical and so craven, this buffoon is the outcome.
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Not that it matters legally since the time to prosecute has run out (?!?) and the crime took place after the marital rape exceptions were repealed, but I don’t think that the marital rape exceptions even matter at this point. Those are really a matter of humans rights - women can’t be subject to violence just because they are married, they are human beings not their husbands’ property.
If you tried to argue, legally, that you hadn’t committed a rape because at the time you committed the act there was a law that said the woman wasn’t really a person who deserved protection under the law, I think you’d have a hard time of it. The fact is, we now believe that women are people and have always been people, so laws - or rulings - from the past that say otherwise are not really part of the current discussion.
Though, more to the point, WHAT THE FUCKING FUCK?!?!?
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I’m a Canadian lawyer and unless the code of ethics for lawyers in whatever jurisdiction Trump’s lawyer practices in (I’m guessing New York?) is significantly more lax than it is in the two provinces I’ve practiced in, sending threats like that will get you in some serious trouble with the bar association.
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The crazier Trump looks, the less cartoonish those horrible excuses for human beings look. This is The Plan, folks.
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Admittedly, this seems highly plausible, if only because it already works. I think most of us have voted against a candidate (instead of for one) and this could very well be a similar application.
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I think I’m probably wrong, but my recollection is that in Texas (don’t know about the rest of the country) there’s a difference between attorneys and lawyers. The former has no special qualification beyond calling one’s self an attorney, while the latter possesses a special piece of paper that bears the words “Juris Doctor.” In the unlikely event that I’m right about this, it could explain the egregious and/or stupid verbiage that an attorney spews.
I think that you’re thinking about the difference between someone who has passed the Bar Exam and someone who hasn’t. Cohen is Special Counsel of the Trump Organization, which leads me to believe he’s a licensed attorney. (There are some very bad attorneys out there practicing law.)
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If Trump pursues a run as an independent, “The Plan” didn’t work so hot for anyone involved.
Yeah, that’s true. If this is The Plan, it is playing with a bit of fire. But Trump’s also a blowhard - he might say he’ll run as an independent today because it makes him sound tough and determined and in a month he’ll claim he never said that and that anyone who thinks he did is an idiot.
The degree to which he’s playing “off the leash!” vs. actually is off the leash is kind of an open question, I think.
I expect his running mate will be Carly Fiorina, so he can repeat his claim that they they are the right people to run America because they know how to run businesses, then accuse their critics of sexism when they point out what she did to HP.
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I’ve kind of felt that we hit that point when we elected Schwarzenegger and Jesse Ventura to office.
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We can’t definitively say that he doesn’t either.
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Bad Attorney Anecdote!
When I divorced my first husband, his lawyer called me up and left threats on my answering machine (back when people still had those). Then she tried to argue that I couldn’t produce that tape in court because she hadn’t consented to be recorded. On an answering machine.
Sadly, I didn’t get to find out what the judge had to say about it, because she took offense to something my soon-to-be-ex said to her and just up and left before we even got our hearing. He had to fire his attorney in open court because she was on the documents as representing him. Sometimes you get to see karma in action, and it is delightful.
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When my ex and I divorced, their attorney refused to abide to what we agreed upon. They then claimed to relent, but started trying to secretly file papers to do it their way, while my ex and I followed them around the court. My ex finally fired them, at which point they started angrily yelling and threatening us in the middle of a busy court office. It was surreal!
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Two questions:
- Would Trump ever employ Fiorina in one of his businesses?
- Would Fiorina have given Trump a job at HP?
OTOH - McCain had Palin for a running mate. Perhaps I am setting the bar too high for the Republican nomination process.
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You use this word “we”, but you are not referring to the majority of Americans.
Why do you choose to speak for such a large population who have very little effect on campaign politics, and the campaign narratives that the media crafts alongside politicians?
He is the media’s candidate, what they love to love and hate (depending on what side of joke “journalism” they take.) He is not America’s candidate.
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