Trump will eventually learn to shut up. He hasn't yet. But this action by E Jean Carroll (and her attorney) is a significant step. When Trump loses in court, if he continues that same action - there will be MORE punishment. Eventually that toddler will learn. This is a good step
THANK YOU everybody who read, commented and retweeted this Tweet. Among replies to the Tweet, the overwhelming sentiment is 'Trump is incapable of learning'. I will respond here to that with short Thread for you...
I agree it SEEMS Trump is incapable of learning BUT
BUT when you look at Trump history, you see he is incredibly cheap, miserly, and watches every penny (because he never was a Billionaire, he is a Debtonaire, owes a world record in personal debt). Once he has to PAY E Jean Carroll the first 5 million, he will change. Before...
...Before Trump is forced to pay, he continues his bullying behavior. He has no more 'adult' attorneys even WARNING Trump that Trump is currently accruing NEW PAYMENTS that WILL BE TAKEN from him by the courts. Because Parlatore quit, and Boris Epshteyn won't tell Trump the truth
When Trump understands, every time he makes that accusation about E Jean Carroll, he loses MORE MILLIONS of dollars - he will stop. Trump has CLEARLY shown this pattern before. Once he is forced to pay, he learns. But not until then.
Currently Trump has appealed the E Jean Carroll $5 million dollar compensation decided by a jury. That appeal will be rejected by appeals court. But until Trump is forced to pay - he does not yet 'learn' his lesson, and keeps making it worse for himself
DUH. Trump attorneys once HAD contact with Mark Meadows. And Meadows broke contact?
He HAS flipped
I told you. ALL behavior by Meadows is that he flipped immediately after search of Mar-a-Lago. At that point Meadows knew it is prison anyway, and wanted to avoid death penalty
Meadows was AT THE FIRST MEETING when Flynn, Sidney Powell & Giuliani pitched Jan 6th attempted coup on 18 Dec 2020
Meadows attended the SECOND meeting about Jan 6, with the GOP Pardon Possee, the Evil Eleven, on 21 Dec 2020
NOBODY can harm Trump more about Jan 6 than Meadows
but Meadows ALSO is central to Espionage-A-Lago. Mark was NOT involved in the final crimes of obstruction of justice, hiding documents from the FBI, as ratted out by former Trump attorneys Evan Corcoran & Tim Parlatore
Worse: Mark WAS there - when the documents were STOLEN.
Timing? Trump's first criminal trial (out of more than 50) scheduled for 25 March 2024. He will OF COURSE try to delay it with every trick he knows. I doubt he can move it much, might achieve some weeks delay
The trial is simple financial fraud. It won't last long & is slam dunk
Remember it is 34 individual criminal counts. He could face 136 years, but it could be that they are counted 'concurrently' and he could be out with as little as say 8 years on two SETS of crimes. But he goes to prison. AND he awaits in prison for his NEXT criminal trials (50+)
Remember Trump IS ALLOWED TO RUN FOR PRESIDENT as a felon.
The GOP would be catastrophically insane to NOMINATE a known serial fraudster - but they already did that knowingly in 2016. They are magamad. They will nominate Trump even if he is in prison
Jack Smith's investigation has not leaked one tiny bit.
& he would have ZERO motivation to leak THIS kind of info. This came from Team Trump to the Wall Street Journal
Treat it with caution. It may be they THINK this. Or try some distraction
First off, Mueller SW and several others Tweeting about this are doing a good job, it is accurately explaining what WSJ is reporting. I am not critical of our team reporting this news item - and I hope the news is true. ALSO about WSJ...
The Wall Street Journal, while a conservative paper, has generally been quite straight with Trump, a fair 'right wing counterpart' to the Washington Post which has a somewhat liberal leaning. I have no reason to doubt WSJ: are NOT like NY Times, Fox or recently CNN, serving Trump
Again.. this is mere speculation. BUT the TIMING fits.
It seems like Trumpworld has been convinced, their legal jeopardy is mainly about 'obstruction of justice' and are confident, they can weasel out of that - blame it on the Bobblehead and Evan Corcoran. Only they lied to FBI
Remember, Trump has been systematically bleeding legal sense. His personal attorney went from Michael Cohen to Giuliani to... ??? Putin's boy Epshteyn?
the White House semi-sanity, Patsy Baloney etc are gone (adults in room)
Bill Barrstone has abandoned Trump
The lunatics have taken over. The Diet Dutchess of Dr Pepper who testified to a judge in court, that nothing she says could have been taken as the truth - and Trump would put his hand over the phone, mocking her, when the Kraken Lady was on the phone to Trump team..
This is how it MIGHT have happened. I have NO knowledge this is what actually happened
In December Parlatore was forced to testify under oath to Jack Smith's investigation (this is true). He no doubt was asked of Trump's declassification claims (this my guess)
SPECULATION THREAD 2/
So in December, Parlatore is told prosecutors see Trump claiming he can declassify by thought. And Parlatore is asked, has Trump been told this by the lawyers
Parlatore responds: not to my knowledge, no.
Then he is asked..
SPECULATION THREAD 3/
Then he is asked: was Trump told what is the correct process of declassificaiton of documents
And Parlatore gives a 'lawyer reply': Not to my knowledge, but that would have been a White House briefing, and I was not hired by White House. He could have been