Trump's threats of riots and violence show he's desperate, knows legal case is weak

[marmar]

Trump's threats of riots and violence show he's desperate, knows legal case is weak
The fact that Trump is leveraging his power to incite violence around these legal cases is a sign of weakness

By HEATHER DIGBY PARTON
Columnist
PUBLISHED AUGUST 29, 2022 8:15AM (EDT)


(Salon) It appears that we are in for another week of pins and needles waiting for court filings in the case of Donald Trump's stolen classified documents which prompted the FBI to get them to a safe place away where odd wandering MAGA fans and foreign spies can't get to them. The affidavit for the warrant was released last week and showed that the government had tried for months to get Trump to give the documents back and he either lied saying everything had been returned or made fatuous excuses as to why the government had no claim to them.

Next week we can expect that the Department of Justice will respond to a different judge's request on Trump's behalf that they show why they don't need to appoint a special master to determine if any of the documents should be shielded by attorney-client privilege. If so, that could take months, so Trump's usual delaying tactics may succeed once again. But, importantly, that's the only success he's having at the moment.

Trump and the Republicans originally thought the FBI search would be a big help to his and the party's political fortunes so they immediately jumped upon it, screeching that the FBI was acting like the Gestapo and predicting the beginning of a civil war. Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis, a Republican, superciliously declared "the raid on [Mar-a-Lago] is another escalation in the weaponization of federal agencies against the regime's political opponents.!" But it's not looking like the big winner they thought it was. CBS News polled the question last week and found that a large majority, including 20% of Republicans, believe the search was done to protect national security, not to persecute Trump.

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Nobody knows just how bad this thing will turn out to be. Since that first day when the entire GOP participated in their mass primal scream, we've learned that Trump had stashed at least 700 documents, some of them marked with the most top secret designations that exist. That's very difficult for the party that's been chanting "lock her up" for the past five years to defend.

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After Trump and the Republicans went on their tirade about the Mar-a-Lago search there were numerous threats against FBI agents, with one actual assault resulting in a devoted MAGA follower being killed by police. The extremists are exercised and Trump continues to egg them on. Posting on his Truth Social site he degrades and defames the FBI and the Department of Justice in the lurid terms he usually reserves for Democrats and the media. Holding nothing back, he's daily making a case for an armed uprising. ..........(more)

https://www.salon.com/2022/08/29/of-riots-and-violence-show-hes-desperate-knows-legal-case-is-weak/

[pwb]

1. Let's do it trump.

Show us your army of dumb fucks.

[Lovie777]

2. shithole is willing along with Graham, Hawley and many other Republicans ......

that physically harming fellow Americans is ok since they are superior gawd's anointed ones.

The 6 US SC Republican Justices also feel that way, also.

[Brainfodder]

11. The involved are going to SQUAWK until arrest day?

I'm not paying much attention to it, it is what it is, the last ditch efforts of criminals.

The types who will deny it even with undeniable evidence while their veins are being prepared?

Wait and see on that.

[Jarqui]

3. Its his modus operandi

Threaten, intimidate, extort, etc

[patricia92243]

4. He has incited violence once. His followers might remember that all they

did was get arrested. I think they will stay at home.

[Rob H.]

9. Came here to post the same thing

Nearly 900 people have been arrested and charged so far, and Combover Caligula hasn't lifted a finger to help any of them (and won't).

[LetMyPeopleVote]

5. You do not make these threats if you are innocent

[2naSalit]

7. For certain...

An innocent person would claim that the truth be observed.

[Beetwasher.]

6. Not That It Makes Any Difference and I Don't Think Trump Truly Believes He Is Innocent, BUT

I think that it's possible he truly thinks EVERYONE else has really done this type of stuff, i.e. Clinton, Obama etc. I think he can't imagine that ANYONE would have access to this stuff and NOT take it and use it like he wants to/does/did. So he's PISSED because on some level, if he does really believe that Clintons, Obama's and everyone else did it, then he's being treated differently. Not that it excuses anything, I'm just trying to understand what might be his motivation, because if you think about it, it's truly bizarre, the whole situation. I mean, just walking away with all this shit like it's nothing? One explanation that would make sense is that he truly is so fucking stupid and blindingly arrogant and entitled, that he TRULY believed EVERYONE before him did the same thing and it was kind of like, no big deal.

[Pluvious]

8. A very insightful speculation...

It’s hard for us Normies to view all this from the mindset of such an extreme deviant

Remember the astonishment the Groper expressed when witnessing the widow of some victim connected to him ?

It’s like they do assume everyone is just like them (albeit less smart of course)

[geretogo]

10. Trump is a true fascist . He should be in prison .

[Shoonra]

12. Go ahead and riot

A Trump riot would give me a pretext to shoot some MAGAts.