Thomas Lecaque wrote on Twitter on August 6, 2023: "There's no master plan, there is no desire for martyrdom, there's no goal of incarceration as part of a political master strategy. Have y'all never met someone who never got told no before and couldn't figure out a way around it? It's a temper tantrum with teeth. Attacking the prosecutor, witness and judge is because he's a fucking fascist baby flailing and screaming and wailing, and the main problem is stochastic terrorism laps that up."
On August 13, Mehdi Hasan observed, as paraphrased by Ben Blanchet for HuffPost,
"recent remarks from Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-Fla.), who recently declared that 'only through force' can there be change in Washington.
He also looked at recent comments from Michigan state Rep. Matt Maddock, who – in a clip shared by The Messenger – warned that there could be a 'civil war or some sort of revolution' if the government 'continues to weaponize' departments against conservatives and citizens."
On August 14, Trump directly complained about Judge Chutkan, as Politico reported, even though at a hearing just three days earlier in his federal case for his attempts to overturn the 2020 election, Chutkan "warned Trump, who has a history of publicly assailing judges, prosecutors and those arrayed against him as witnesses, that his inflammatory remarks could force her to speed up his criminal trial."
On the evening of August 14, Trump was also indicted in Georgia for his 2020 election interference there. The charges refer to about a dozen separate incidents.
Can he wiggle his way out of these charges?
Former federal prosecutor Renato Mariotti said: "It is very, very challenging to represent a client that is facing criminal indictment on multiple fronts." While the prosecutor "can focus like a laser on what they need to do to get a conviction," the defense "has to balance a bunch of different competing concerns."
But Trump is not an ordinary defendant. We will see.
Some Republican activists are saying he can't win Georgia in 2024.
Meanwhile Sarah Palin too is encouraging his supporters to fight back. So too, Georgia state Sen. Colton Moore: "I don’t want to have to draw my rifle."
Here's his trial calendar, compared with the primary election calendar, as expected in late August 2023.
President Biden says
On September 28, 2023:
"'There’s something dangerous happening in America now,' Biden said during his speech in Arizona, where he was also honoring his friend, the late Republican Sen. John McCain. 'There’s an extremist movement that does not share the basic beliefs of our democracy: The MAGA movement.'
'There’s no question that today’s Republican Party is driven and intimidated by MAGA Republican extremists,' he said, using the acronym for Trump’s political movement. 'Their extreme agenda, if carried out, would fundamentally alter the institutions of American democracy as we know it.'
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'Trump says the Constitution gave him the right to do whatever he wants as president,' Biden said, referencing his most likely GOP challenger by name. 'I’ve never heard presidents say that in jest.'
— "Biden previews 2024 message by warning that Trump's movement is a threat to American democracy", CNN, Sept. 28, 2023.
In November 2023, one of the founders of Students for Trump was arrested for allegedly assaulting a woman with a gun.
On December 20, 2023, Colorado Secretary of State Jena Griswold said “I’ve received hundreds if not thousands of threats at this point.” This is about a case that Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington brought in September; it was "filed by six unaffiliated and Republican voters in Colorado." Technically, Griswold says, “I filed it because I’m the secretary of state. I did not bring this case. Within three weeks of it being filed, I received 64 death threats and over 900 non-lethal threats of abuse. I stopped counting after that.” What's up with those "non-lethal threats of abuse"? Well, that's stochastic terrorism, isn't it? People make the sort of threats that they feel is consistent with their own self-image. Most people don't think of themselves as murderers. Yet they don't mind ramping up the heat and waiting to see what others do.
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