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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region Forums***BREAKING*** Trump Consiglieres Urge Him To Cancel Press Conference To Refute GA Charges
Former President Donald Trump's promised press conference to refute the allegations in the indictment handed up by the Fulton County District Attorney's Office is now very much in doubt, multiple sources familiar with the matter tell ABC News.
Sources tell ABC News that Trump's legal advisers have told him that holding such a press conference with dubious claims of voter fraud will only complicate his legal problems and some of his attorneys have advised him to cancel it.
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https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/trump-s-legal-advisers-urge-him-to-cancel-press-conference-sources/ar-AA1forfa?ocid=msedgntp&cvid=94b1d76d609448eebf95dab06c5a23fe&ei=7

Orrex
(66,258 posts)onetexan
(13,913 posts)gopiscrap
(24,489 posts)BlueWavePsych
(3,198 posts)
Dulcinea
(9,337 posts)Let him shoot his mouth off on national TV. Dig your own grave, you waste of oxygen.
ProudMNDemocrat
(20,351 posts)That means he has LOST control then?
Scared puppy is correct.
3Hotdogs
(14,725 posts)and he opens up is 2 dip, a la mode hole, even more.
ByebyeTrump
(40 posts)Maybe the man child, fake President will present some more evidence against himself.
Popcorn is ready.
malaise
(290,392 posts)cancelling or exposing himself further
The partys over!😀😀😀
trusty elf
(7,520 posts)




Delmette2.0
(4,442 posts)malaise
(290,392 posts)
Effete Snob
(8,387 posts)All your lawyers are a bunch of backstabbers.
They're not as smart as you are.
Don't listen to them.
AKwannabe
(6,843 posts)
As I read this. And were my thoughts exactly!
Do it dumbass!
inthewind21
(4,616 posts)think he ever intended to have one in the first place. It's not the first time he's promised a "Huge press conference" and then it all just faded away. But, it's got EVERYONE talking about it. Which is ALWAYS his goal. Now, he'll whine and cry about how he is being prevented by the crooked leaders of the witch hunt from exposing the REAL fraud. And the wheels go round and round.
MorbidButterflyTat
(3,792 posts)"I'm being cancelled! Unfair!! Where's my first commandment rights?!!"
ExWhoDoesntCare
(4,741 posts)LOL
The Third Doctor
(445 posts)EYESORE 9001
(29,193 posts)One does not contradict the super genius
orangecrush
(27,076 posts)
magicarpet
(18,456 posts).... dig your hole deeper and wider....
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MOMFUDSKI
(7,080 posts)of the Judge. Not for orange guy but for themselves. Hoping it gets so bad that the Judge threatens attorneys with losing their licenses. If they cant keep their client in control they stand to lose big. Delicious
lindysalsagal
(22,761 posts)Oh, yeah. A bottom-feeder who agrees to rep tfg.
Brainfodder
(7,781 posts)

LiberalFighter
(53,544 posts)Then they would know how to counter it.
Kennah
(14,465 posts)flying_wahini
(8,209 posts)Maybe they can find a couple of lugs to tie him in a chair.
Stuff a rag in his mouth too.
meow2u3
(25,221 posts)Part of me wants to see him keep running his mouth and incriminating himself; part of me is sick of the drama.
Celerity
(52,669 posts)
Tom Holland tells Hay festival the notorious Roman emperor was a conscious populist like the US presidential candidate
https://www.theguardian.com/books/2016/jun/01/donald-trump-has-fascinating-parallels-with-caligula-says-historian

He has not yet made a horse his running mate, but Donald Trump can be compared to one of the most notorious of all Roman emperors, Caligula, according to best-selling historian Tom Holland. Holland told the Hay festival there were fascinating parallels between the actions and success of Trump and what was going on in Rome 2,000 years ago. Caligula has gone down in history as one of the maddest and baddest of all Roman emperors, a name synonymous with the worst excesses of absolute power. But there was more to the story of Caligula, Holland said. He is not quite the psychopath of popular imagination and we can see similarities between what is happening now and then. What is known for sure about Caligula, Holland said, is that he had a great love of spectacle and dressing up; and he enjoyed hurting and humiliating people.
The young Caligula spent six years on the island of Capri, where he often directed and appeared in spectacular pornographic tableaux for his great uncle, the emperor Tiberius a man it was said, who enjoyed having swimming boys nibble at his private parts. When Tiberius died Caligua left for Rome where his excessive tastes were translated on to the most public stage of all the imperial capital. He did things differently to his forebears, the polar opposite of Tiberiuss and, before him, Augustus moral strategy. Caligula had no interest in, no stake in the traditional values of Rome. He despised them. And he despised them because he saw them as entrenching the prestige and status of the aristocracy. Caligula wanted to rule as an autocrat and he was contemptuous of the pretence that the senate had any power at all. What he did was to trample the dignity of the senatorial elite into the dirt and what he discovered in doing that was that the mass of the Roman people really enjoyed it.
Holland said there were parallels with what Trump has done to the Republican establishment. Trump has said and done things that are utterly shocking by the standards of traditional political morality, but far from making him unpopular with the masses there is a sense in which he has become the toast of the people. As well as trampling down the elite, Caligula was like Trump a conscious populist and sponsored chariot races and made a huge six-horse chariot for himself, which he would drive around Rome showing off. He did all the things that the people thought an emperor should do they loved him for it. Treating the senate like dirt meant he was able to crush any conspiracy with ease. Caligulas reputation has not been done any favours by his portrayal on TV and film.
Different generations may remember John Hurts portrayal of him in the 1970s BBC TV series I Claudius and the shocking, invented, scene where he appeared with a bloody face after eating the foetus torn from his sisters stomach. Or Malcolm McDowells performance in the semi-pornographic 1979 film Caligula, produced by Penthouse supremo Bob Guccione. The most famous story about Caligula, that he planned to make his horse his consul, is too often misinterpreted, said Holland. It should not be seen as Caligula being unhinged he was saying even the consulship, the highest office in Rome, was in his power. It is a bitter, cruel joke about the reality of autocracy, said Holland. The knives were always out for Caligula but his downfall was entirely his fault, said Holland. He just could not help himself. Caligula told a captain in the Praetorian guard that he sounded like a girl. And the Praetorian killed him.
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hay_Festival

Hotler
(13,530 posts)to cover it.
is sheer genius.
When he appeared as Bolton I thought I was gonna' fall off my chair laughing!
Hotler
(13,530 posts)
MorbidButterflyTat
(3,792 posts)
jcgoldie
(12,046 posts)
Oneironaut
(6,137 posts)Ive already heard the talking points this morning from a caller into Fox News radio.
1. Voting machines actually were on a server, and, connected to China and Russia.
2. Some statistical magical thinking.
Trump is just trying to inject enough doubt to maybe affect his trial.
NJCher
(41,813 posts)My dog ate my report!
Oops scratch that, I don't have a dog.
And I hate dogs.
OK, how's this: I accidentally flushed my proof down the toilet at the WH!
rurallib
(64,288 posts)Or maybe this is a real headline with non-satirical real life fuck up from Trump.
However do Borowitz and the Onion outdo reality anymore?
spooky3
(38,030 posts)iluvtennis
(21,389 posts)
hatrack
(63,813 posts)BobTheSubgenius
(12,121 posts)Rudy has a huge penchant for unsolicited confessions, so....
Auggy74
(61 posts)TFG's usual thing is to let tomorrow take care of tomorrow, but he needs his adoration from the masses now and to heck with that whole "anything you say can be used against you" clause
BlueIdaho
(13,582 posts)TFG is long on promises and short on follow through. Im still waiting for his health care and infrastructure plans from is disgraced White House days.
MerryBlooms
(12,073 posts)Artcatt
(344 posts)Martin68
(26,557 posts)Tetrachloride
(9,191 posts)will confirm
NoMoreRepugs
(11,689 posts)dchill
(42,660 posts)ffr
(23,291 posts)This guy has made a living at doubling down. He believes his own bullshit. His press conference will expose him for the fraud that he is! Please, oh please, let TFG no heed his attorney's advice. We all need this last gasp hail Mary from him.
BlueWavePsych
(3,198 posts)
Hamlette
(15,555 posts)but now he doesn't have to show his "proof"
gristy
(10,720 posts)Was always the plan. He's got nothin'. And he knows it.
jeffreyi
(2,463 posts)Probably not.
LetMyPeopleVote
(171,814 posts)LetMyPeopleVote
(171,814 posts)Recycle_Guru
(2,973 posts)he used to just tell them to go fuck off amd do whatever
11 Bravo
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RANDYWILDMAN
(3,098 posts)is all it would be.
I would be worried if he started listening to people around him,