Trump on Sunday called for recusal of the judge presiding over the case that alleges he illegally conspired to overturn his election loss in 2020.

Former President Donald Trump on Sunday called for recusal of the judge presiding over the federal case that alleges he illegally conspired to overturn his election loss to President Joe Biden in 2020.

  • AFK BRB Chocolate@lemmy.world
    120·
    1 year ago

    He has not, will not, and can not provide any reason for why she should recuse herself or in what why she’s biased. He’s just scared because she’s been tough on insurrectionists so far.

    There was a former solicitor general on NPR the other day who said that conservatives should want liberal judges, not conservative judges, when they’re on trial. The reason being that liberal judges tend to be sticklers for defendants’ rights, regardless of circumstances.

    • YoBuckStopsHere@lemmy.worldEnglish
      30·
      1 year ago

      20 years in prison is the likely outcome. Now that prison will be a hotel suite and Trump will likely have access to social media where he will claim to be a political prisoner, but he won’t be playing golf or riding down golden elevators.

            • Flying Squid@lemmy.world
              3·
              1 year ago

              I’ll take either at this point. Or just, as Douglas Adams once put it about what happened to the second-worst poet in the universe, “his own major intestine, in a desperate attempt to save life and creation, leapt straight up through his neck and throttled his brain.”

        • InternetUser2012@midwest.social
          13·
          1 year ago

          Even if he’s on lockdown in a hotel, I’m alright with that. He’ll be out of the public eye and it will eat at him until the day he dies.

            • InternetUser2012@midwest.social
              32·
              1 year ago

              Because in the real world, the world were the GOP rigged the system, that isn’t going to happen. Would I like it? Hell yes. I’d buy a ticket to watch him hang. I’d rather see him in a hotel on lockdown that him walking the streets in front of a camera.

                • InternetUser2012@midwest.social
                  1·
                  1 year ago

                  I would be locked up. I’m not rich and an ex president either. This fuck should be in prison for bullshit he’s done 40 years ago and has continued to do, but he’s got dirt on people and money. It’s not defeatist bullshit, it’s being realistic. IF you think he’s going to do hard time for anything, you really have no idea how things work. Is it right? Hell no, is there anything we can do about it? Again, hell no. No way in hell the people in power are going to let that happen because then we could go after them and they’d all be in prison leaving us with nobody to run shit.

          • UristMcHolland@lemmy.world
            28·
            1 year ago

            He should consider himself lucky if he gets to die in supermax. The punishment for treason was public execution not all that long ago.

            • evatronic@lemm.eeEnglish
              8·
              1 year ago

              While the “public” part is undefined, the US Constitution lays out death as a potential punishment for treason, still.

          • sudo@lemmy.today
            13·
            1 year ago

            Yes how absolutely unreasonable that an obese and nearly 80 year old criminal with multiple felony charges against him for some of the most serious crimes against our nation goes to a secure prison and serves his sentence like any normal person would. Wow. Relax guys.

          • whois@lemmy.todayEnglish
            13·
            1 year ago

            Do note we’re in hostile territory here. Prepare for combat. ⚔️

        • PaulDevonUK@lemmy.world
          10·
          1 year ago

          Emoluments?

          Make him pay back every corrupt dollar he gifted. Lots and lots of cases for each individual crime, tying him up in court for decades. Drain him dry in lawyers fees and repayments.

          It’s probably just a dream but I like the thought of it.

    • Dagwood222@lemm.ee
      2·
      1 year ago

      Old joke. A Conservative is a Liberal who just got mugged, and a Liberal is a Conservative who just got arrested.

  • Alien Nathan Edward@lemm.ee
    84·
    1 year ago

    This is just establishing the narrative. They’ll deny the motion because there’s no legal basis for it, and he’ll go on social media and blither on about how he’s the victim of an illegal witch hunt and suchlike. He knows it won’t succeed, but he doesn’t need it to succeed. He just needs to give his terrorists something to latch onto, some narrative they can take back to their echo chamber and use to morally justify more terrorism.

    • orbitz@lemmy.ca
      13·
      1 year ago

      Funny how someone can whine about being a victim when he started out with millions of dollars and never faced real consequences for his plethora of crimes. This guy commits more crimes before breakfast than most people commit in their lifetime. Also if the White House schedule was accurate he does like nothing till late morning, so gives him more time to commit a bit of light treason to get the day started. Won’t someone think of the old rich racist white once in awhile? Not knocking on white or old dudes just the racist ones with too much privilege,

  • OldWoodFrame@lemm.ee
    482·
    1 year ago

    “BECAUSE IT’S DEVASTATING TO MY CASE!” energy.

    You’re allowed to seek a new judge, but you have to give a good reason that isn’t “I think I’m gonna lose” and there isn’t one mentioned.

  • Zetta@mander.xyz
    321·
    1 year ago

    Right, but the judge presiding over his other case was personally appointed by Trump and has shown personal bias towards supporting Trump in the past. She hasn’t recused herself yet, that makes sense right?

  • flossdaily@lemmy.world
    28·
    1 year ago

    So in this temper tantrum, he uses quotes to imply that this judge … Wasn’t actually assigned to the case? And that she can’t be fair? … Because ?

    Is it Trump’s brief that the only fair trail is one where the defendant had given the judge her job?

  • MicroWave@lemmy.worldOPEnglish
    23·
    1 year ago

    The case was assigned to U.S. District Judge Tanya Chutkan, according to the docket in federal court in Washington, D.C. Chutkan, 61, was appointed to the district in 2014 by then-President Barack Obama. She is one of the only federal judges in D.C. who has delivered sentences against defendants in cases related to the Jan. 6 Capitol riot that are longer than the sentences that the DOJ asked for, according to NBC News.

  • ape_arms@lemmy.world
    19·
    1 year ago

    It is comforting to think of Trump as an idiot, and he may be, but don’t disregard that he has consistently shown that he is superb at manipulating systems. This strategy is the M.O. of the wealthy who can afford legal fees and cheat the system over and over and over again. Every one of these judicial ploys seems ridiculous in itself, but taken together, they show how he can just delay/bog down the system to HIS advantage. The courts have to play by the rules, were he does not. This guy will never serve time. The only way he would is if he pissed off OTHER WEALTHY PEOPLE.

      • ape_arms@lemmy.world
        2·
        1 year ago

        Anyone come to mind that you can mention? I know his history of scamming, but to my knowledge, he takes advantage of those in a less powerful position (e.g. construction companies, students, etc.)

  • ATQ@lemm.ee
    16·
    1 year ago

    Desperate acts of desperation deserve mockery and condemnation, not serious attention. Trump can beg for whatever he wants, but that clown is going to jail.

  • IHeartBadCode@kbin.social
    9·
    1 year ago

    THERE IS NO WAY I CAN GET A FAIR TRIAL WITH THE JUDGE ‘ASSIGNED’ TO THE REDICULOUS FREEDOM OF SPEECH/FAIR ELECTIONS CASE. EVERYBODY KNOWS THIS, AND SO DOES SHE

    — Donald Trump

    On what grounds?

    Trump previously said it would be “IMPOSSIBLE” for him to get a fair trial in Washington, in part because he has called for “a Federal TAKEOVER” of the district “in order to bring our Capital back to Greatness,” according to posts on his social media site.

    So the logic is that if I say some crazy ass shit then I can just keep delaying my trail and picking judges that I like? I don’t think that’s a great lead chief but let’s see how that plays out.

  • scripthook@lemmy.world
    7·
    1 year ago

    My favorite line he says at his rally is “They’re not coming after me, they’re coming after you” - case example that the 2024 campaign is about making his greivences the greivences of his followers. Where in 2016 to his credit, he got in the White House for making other people’s greivences his own.

  • jkmooney@kbin.social
    61·
    1 year ago

    Don’t you almost wish you had a Truth Social account right now? I bet you could make S’Mores off the seething, flaming, butt-hurt coming off his feed right now ;)