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Judge Slaps Trump With Fine for Violating Gag Order in Fraud Case
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Unfortunately Trump's best and only defense right now is that this is all a deep state witch hunt and he's being treated unfairly by the justice system. The way to not let that defense gain any traction is to make it painfully obvious to any observer that they are handling Trump as a defendant with kid gloves.
I feel like treating him like a regular person would also demonstrate that they're treating him fairly.
What's the average punishment for what he did? Perhaps it's a $5k fine. I don't have a clue.
Pretty much my thought. We can say it's nothing because he's rich, and to him it is nothing, but to the majority of people 5k is absolutely devastating
That's tragic evidence of a whole separate set of problems.
I cannot fathom how people don't get this. Look, if I told you what I would do to every human being that planned and participated on 01/06, I would get perma banned. I got more PTSD from that day than from literally having my ass kicked and robbed on Christmas Eve. I'm more than a leetle mad.
But we gotta handle this very damned carefully. Yes, that means being more than fair to Trump. We're going for the slam dunk conviction of the century, arguably the last two centuries.
I want this man in a concrete and steel box, with zero wiggle room to whine about unfairness.
That's the problem right there: Trumpers aren't "observing" any of this, they're just absorbing what (little) the right-wing media are saying about all of this. And the right-wing media will say it's a witch hunt regardless of what's actually going on. Worrying about what the right-wing media are going to say about anything is a losing game.