I just realized something about all those documents trump stole on his way out.

[calimary]

They’re not mere documents.

They’re poker chips.

[speak easy]

1. And the DOJ called his bluff.

[TheRealNorth]

2. It's a possibility

[Irish_Dem]

3. Yes some of the documents are for leverage.

Extortion

Also for sale, revenge, blackmail, bragging rights, etc.

[2naSalit]

4. He thought he was set for life.

Now that he's been caught, he's not squirming out of this. His biggest fear for his old age is to be facing accountability for his crimes. He'll never pay enough for his crimes, especially a million Americans.

[Irish_Dem]

5. Yes income and protection.

Revenge
Bragging rights

Yes he thought he was set.

Probably the most we can hope for is house detention for him. At least that is something.

[calimary]

6. But it'd only have an impact if all his methods of communicating

are TAKEN FROM HIM.

So he can’t keep stirring shit up.

[Irish_Dem]

7. If he had kept quiet and not stirred up trouble

He could have gotten away with everything.
Presidents are protected from consequences of their crimes.

He became very bad for the GOP brand so they are throwing him under the bus.

[Moostache]

8. I beg to differ...

The MOST we can hope for is that he becomes depressed and hangs himself, sparing us the effort. Short of that outcome, the second most we can hope for is that his diet and physique combine with physics and the nature of arterial plaque and blood pressure to produce a beneficial outcome of complete lack of blood flow to the brain (*he clearly already operates at less than full capacity there*) and he is found dead on the toilet with half eaten shoe-leather tough steak and ketchup dripping sarcastically down his face.

[calimary]

9. I've wondered about that, myself.

He will NEVER give in or concede. Because he CAN’T EVER admit he was wrong. Not good for the image he’s tried to project, over his whole lifetime.

[Irish_Dem]

10. Narcissists don't usually commit suicide.

They are so special and unique in their minds they cannot deprive the planet of their presence.

That said if they feel cornered they might hurt self or others.

Some of his recent pictures suggest health problems. We can only hope.

[KS Toronado]

26. He'll never commit suicide, IMO

What bothers me is he's getting cornered presently and will he unleash all his rabid MAGAts
onto Democrats in general. In his little brain we're the enemy and someone needs to pay for
his misfortunes.

[Irish_Dem]

29. Exactly. He is going to get more dangerous.

[ChazInAz]

16. With a Lenny Bruce type police photo:

Collapsed in front of the toilet, a needle in his arm.
That's really dark, I know, but all humanitarian feelings for this thug were burnt out years ago.

[Irish_Dem]

36. Persistent rumors that Trump snorts adderall, which is like speed/methamphetamine.

Trump being a speed freak, addicted to stimulants would certain explain much of his pathology.
Paranoia, manic behavior, up all night, grandiose, delusional, anger, rage, etc.

So you could be spot on with the picture you paint.
We can hope.

This man is burning down the country and the people I love, as did my father before me.
I have no sympathy for Trump whatsoever.

[dclarston13]

13. Hopefully he will be set for life

With 2 hots and a cot, courtesy of the US Govt.

[2naSalit]

22. And that's...

Better than he deserves.

[calimary]

24. No kidding!

WAAAAAAY better than he deserves.

And NO phone! NO calls. NO texting. NO messaging. NO attempted INFLUENCING!!! NONE!

[2naSalit]

25. And only let him watch...

Twenty minutes of news a day.

[calimary]

30. On MSNBC.

NO Pox Noise.

[2naSalit]

33. Give him a choce...

MSNBC or PBS.

[calimary]

34. That'd work!

Not CNN, though. I don’t know if they’re worthy of trust anymore.

https://m.dailykos.com/stories/2022/8/19/2117719/-CNN-s-new-CEO-met-with-GOP-lawmakers-to-promise-CNN-will-become-more-Republican

[onetexan]

27. all of the above. The Con wanted to be POTUS to line his pockets. Money & fame are all he wants.

His relationship to everyone and everything is transactional to him. He is a narcissistic sociopath. That's how they function.

[Beastly Boy]

11. That's what Michael Cohen said recently.

Only he used a different game for a metaphor: he called the stolen documents Trump's "get out of jail free" card

[Joinfortmill]

12. So he thinks.

[Heather MC]

14. Also realized, he just had the Saudis at marlago during a golf tournament

I wonder what they packed in their bags on their way home? hmmmmmm...

[Sneederbunk]

17. Bedminster not Mar a lago.

[Heather MC]

21. Ohhhh still tho!

Not that hard to move a file folder from Florida to Bedminster

[jmowreader]

23. Or from the White House to Bedminster

[Heather MC]

31. yep

[ChazInAz]

18. And Victor Orban at CPAC...

[sarge43]

15. I've always thought that.

He's never done anything that doesn't benefit him, usually money, ie power.

[Ford_Prefect]

19. Betcha find fingerprints and DNA from Flynn and Stone on some of the more interesting ones

[wnylib]

35. They would say that the fingerprints are from

when they were at the WH advising Trump.

[Ford_Prefect]

37. You mean they weren't planted???

[wnylib]

38. Well, that too.

[TomSlick]

20. Sure. He thought they were his get out of jail free card.

He assumed that he would be untouchable with just the threat of releasing the documents.

Fortunately, things didn't work out quite like he planned.

[xocetaceans]

28. They are proof that Trump is a threat to national security - either by his sheer incompetence or...

..by his intent. It is just unclear which of the two possibilities accurately represents reality. (That is, I don't know if his intent is provable in court.)

Basically, Trump needs to be treated now as a national security threat. Surveillance and searches of all his associates and properties should be conducted.

[calimary]

32. HELL YEAH!

Cuz that is EXACTLY what he IS.