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DemocratSinceBirth

(101,430 posts)
Thu Aug 17, 2023, 09:19 AM Aug 2023

***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

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***BREAKING*** Trump Consiglieres Urge Him To Cancel Press Conference To Refute GA Charges (Original Post) DemocratSinceBirth Aug 2023 OP
Please proceed, fuckface Orrex Aug 2023 #1
THIS FalloutShelter Aug 2023 #5
THIS!!☝️ Bring it on so Jack can hang the death knell around your neck onetexan Aug 2023 #26
yes please proceed you orange asshole gopiscrap Aug 2023 #29
Yes! geardaddy Aug 2023 #41
PLEASE, PLEASE, PLEASE BlueWavePsych Aug 2023 #44
When did Dolt 45 ever listen to anyone? Dulcinea Aug 2023 #54
When did Donnie Dipshit ever take advice? ProudMNDemocrat Aug 2023 #2
Tell him to shut up, 3Hotdogs Aug 2023 #3
Brilliant ByebyeTrump Aug 2023 #4
He'll have to decide which is worse malaise Aug 2023 #6
Look at this proof! See? TOTAL EXONERATION ! ! ! trusty elf Aug 2023 #28
I like the sinking WH. Just like a sinking ship. Delmette2.0 Aug 2023 #36
Hehehehehhehe malaise Aug 2023 #55
Don't listen, Donnie Effete Snob Aug 2023 #7
Evil laugh! AKwannabe Aug 2023 #22
I don't inthewind21 Aug 2023 #31
+1 MorbidButterflyTat Aug 2023 #34
Same thing I was thinking ExWhoDoesntCare Aug 2023 #63
Nope. Let the fool speak. My popcorn is ready. The Third Doctor Aug 2023 #8
He'll do it, of course EYESORE 9001 Aug 2023 #9
... orangecrush Aug 2023 #25
Ramble on asshole,.... magicarpet Aug 2023 #10
This message was self-deleted by its author SKKY Aug 2023 #11
His attorneys are very afraid MOMFUDSKI Aug 2023 #12
What kind of lawyer has to trash their client to a network news channel? lindysalsagal Aug 2023 #14
Donnie, DO WHAT YOU WANT! You da man you know bestest! I care very much what you have to say!!! Brainfodder Aug 2023 #13
If I was the prosecutor I would want to know what is their defense. LiberalFighter Aug 2023 #15
Attorneys. What do they know? Kennah Aug 2023 #16
Donnie is a lost cause. I don't want his attorneys to go to jail; at this point flying_wahini Aug 2023 #17
Keep running your mouth, Cantaloupe Caligula meow2u3 Aug 2023 #18
Donald Trump has 'fascinating parallels' with Caligula, says historian (June 1, 2016) Celerity Aug 2023 #59
Don't stop him! This could be the shit show of the year. And send Triumph the insult comic dog Hotler Aug 2023 #19
now that NJCher Aug 2023 #49
Smell his mustache, smells like Chaney's ass. Hotler Aug 2023 #51
! MorbidButterflyTat Aug 2023 #53
So you're saying its a bad idea to double down after you've lost the hand??? jcgoldie Aug 2023 #20
He has jack shit and is going to clown himself again. Oneironaut Aug 2023 #21
another jack shit explanation NJCher Aug 2023 #50
Saw tat headline and thought 'that is a great set up line for Borowitz' rurallib Aug 2023 #23
Is he setting up an insanity defense? Nt spooky3 Aug 2023 #24
Didn't tfg assert that he had irrefutable evidence/receipts. What a fkn clown. iluvtennis Aug 2023 #27
Actually, the former president's planned remarks have already been leaked . . . hatrack Aug 2023 #30
I think he should get Rudy to do it. Soon, and often. BobTheSubgenius Aug 2023 #32
I'm a little surprised. Auggy74 Aug 2023 #33
It was never going to happen BlueIdaho Aug 2023 #35
r&k 😆 MerryBlooms Aug 2023 #37
Don't listen, Donny!! Only YOU know what's right! Artcatt Aug 2023 #38
But will Dump listen to good advice? Why would he start now? Martin68 Aug 2023 #39
TFG will make the right decision and Sean Hannity Tetrachloride Aug 2023 #40
C'mon SlobFather - a REAL man would say his piece and take on all comers. NoMoreRepugs Aug 2023 #42
Damn! I was looking forward to not watching! dchill Aug 2023 #43
Nooooooooooooo!!!!!! We all need to see him faceplant on televsion. ffr Aug 2023 #45
Kick BlueWavePsych Aug 2023 #46
Trump planted this because he has nothing, now he can keep lying about being able to prove fraud Hamlette Aug 2023 #47
Of course he's going to cancel it gristy Aug 2023 #48
Nooooo! I wanna hear. Might win me over. jeffreyi Aug 2023 #52
Do you know how unhinged you have to be as a client for your own legal team to leak this? LetMyPeopleVote Aug 2023 #56
No Monday TFG press conference with his magical report on voter fraud LetMyPeopleVote Aug 2023 #57
This means he finally gets his legal peril Recycle_Guru Aug 2023 #58
If they could, Trump's lawyers would have his vocal cords surgically removed. 11 Bravo Aug 2023 #60
This message was self-deleted by its author Wednesdays Aug 2023 #61
I guilty man lying RANDYWILDMAN Aug 2023 #62

Dulcinea

(9,337 posts)
54. When did Dolt 45 ever listen to anyone?
Thu Aug 17, 2023, 12:58 PM
Aug 2023

Let him shoot his mouth off on national TV. Dig your own grave, you waste of oxygen.

ProudMNDemocrat

(20,351 posts)
2. When did Donnie Dipshit ever take advice?
Thu Aug 17, 2023, 09:25 AM
Aug 2023

That means he has LOST control then?

Scared puppy is correct.

ByebyeTrump

(40 posts)
4. Brilliant
Thu Aug 17, 2023, 09:27 AM
Aug 2023

Maybe the man child, fake President will present some more evidence against himself.
Popcorn is ready.

malaise

(290,392 posts)
6. He'll have to decide which is worse
Thu Aug 17, 2023, 09:39 AM
Aug 2023

cancelling or exposing himself further

The party’s over!😀😀😀

 

Effete Snob

(8,387 posts)
7. Don't listen, Donnie
Thu Aug 17, 2023, 09:44 AM
Aug 2023

All your lawyers are a bunch of backstabbers.

They're not as smart as you are.

Don't listen to them.
 

inthewind21

(4,616 posts)
31. I don't
Thu Aug 17, 2023, 11:44 AM
Aug 2023

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.

Response to DemocratSinceBirth (Original post)

 

MOMFUDSKI

(7,080 posts)
12. His attorneys are very afraid
Thu Aug 17, 2023, 10:24 AM
Aug 2023

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 can’t keep their client in control they stand to lose big. Delicious

lindysalsagal

(22,761 posts)
14. What kind of lawyer has to trash their client to a network news channel?
Thu Aug 17, 2023, 10:30 AM
Aug 2023

Oh, yeah. A bottom-feeder who agrees to rep tfg.

LiberalFighter

(53,544 posts)
15. If I was the prosecutor I would want to know what is their defense.
Thu Aug 17, 2023, 10:39 AM
Aug 2023

Then they would know how to counter it.

flying_wahini

(8,209 posts)
17. Donnie is a lost cause. I don't want his attorneys to go to jail; at this point
Thu Aug 17, 2023, 10:48 AM
Aug 2023

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)
18. Keep running your mouth, Cantaloupe Caligula
Thu Aug 17, 2023, 10:51 AM
Aug 2023

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)
59. Donald Trump has 'fascinating parallels' with Caligula, says historian (June 1, 2016)
Thu Aug 17, 2023, 08:53 PM
Aug 2023


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 Tiberius’s 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. Caligula’s reputation has not been done any favours by his portrayal on TV and film.

Different generations may remember John Hurt’s 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 sister’s stomach. Or Malcolm McDowell’s 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)
19. Don't stop him! This could be the shit show of the year. And send Triumph the insult comic dog
Thu Aug 17, 2023, 10:54 AM
Aug 2023

to cover it.

NJCher

(41,813 posts)
49. now that
Thu Aug 17, 2023, 12:26 PM
Aug 2023

is sheer genius.

When he appeared as Bolton I thought I was gonna' fall off my chair laughing!

Oneironaut

(6,137 posts)
21. He has jack shit and is going to clown himself again.
Thu Aug 17, 2023, 11:02 AM
Aug 2023

I’ve 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)
50. another jack shit explanation
Thu Aug 17, 2023, 12:27 PM
Aug 2023

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)
23. Saw tat headline and thought 'that is a great set up line for Borowitz'
Thu Aug 17, 2023, 11:26 AM
Aug 2023

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?

hatrack

(63,813 posts)
30. Actually, the former president's planned remarks have already been leaked . . .
Thu Aug 17, 2023, 11:43 AM
Aug 2023
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BobTheSubgenius

(12,121 posts)
32. I think he should get Rudy to do it. Soon, and often.
Thu Aug 17, 2023, 11:47 AM
Aug 2023

Rudy has a huge penchant for unsolicited confessions, so....

Auggy74

(61 posts)
33. I'm a little surprised.
Thu Aug 17, 2023, 11:47 AM
Aug 2023

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)
35. It was never going to happen
Thu Aug 17, 2023, 11:52 AM
Aug 2023

TFG is long on promises and short on follow through. I’m still waiting for his health care and infrastructure plans from is disgraced White House days.

ffr

(23,291 posts)
45. Nooooooooooooo!!!!!! We all need to see him faceplant on televsion.
Thu Aug 17, 2023, 12:19 PM
Aug 2023

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.


Hamlette

(15,555 posts)
47. Trump planted this because he has nothing, now he can keep lying about being able to prove fraud
Thu Aug 17, 2023, 12:24 PM
Aug 2023

but now he doesn't have to show his "proof"

Recycle_Guru

(2,973 posts)
58. This means he finally gets his legal peril
Thu Aug 17, 2023, 08:39 PM
Aug 2023

he used to just tell them to go fuck off amd do whatever

Response to DemocratSinceBirth (Original post)

RANDYWILDMAN

(3,098 posts)
62. I guilty man lying
Thu Aug 17, 2023, 09:19 PM
Aug 2023

is all it would be.

I would be worried if he started listening to people around him,

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