Ex-RNC chair calls for Donald Trump to be thrown in jail

He's a mob boss. When will people stop treating him like he's a normal person?
- I don't think money or influence satisfactorily explains how DT gets away with what he does.
  The thing that would explain it is if people think he might be backed by Putin directly.
  If you think you might fall out a window "accidentally" you're going to tread pretty carefully.
The latest ruling from the Colorado judge baffles me. They wrote an extensive ruling saying that Trump engaged in an insurrection and detailed how his actions were not simply exercising free speech. Then decided that while he took an oath to "preserve, protect and defend" the constitution, he never took an oath to "support" the constitution. And also that while the 14th amendment forbids an insurrectionist from holding any office of the United States, the presidency isn't an office. What the actual fuck??
- Reminded me a lot of the Mueller Report.
  Bury the lede of his obvious guilt, and shirk responsibility of enforcing consequences.
- Didn’t the Colorado suit though only focus on the primary, and the GOP is a “private” entity who can select who they want. Now if they happen to chose Trump and put him on the general ballot then that is where a lawsuit should occur. But as it stands now, since he hasn’t been selected for a general ballot there was no standing in the case.
- I'll let you know if they turn the local strip mall into a national guard staging area again. Been here forty years and 2020's the first (and only) election they did it. 2022 wasn't big enough.

Michael Steele- the last Republican we could even pretend was sane.

This makes me want to do some historical research. I don't remember specifics off the top of my head, but I recall Steele saying some "garbage person" things when he was RNC chair. I'll come back later if I find details.
Edit: Just from Wikipedia,
Roe v. Wade was "wrongly decided" (2008)
While he opposed a constitutional amendment banning same-sex marriage, he would uphold the Republican party platform and support such an amendment (2008)
Opposed same-sex civil unions (2009)
Compared embyronic stem cell research to Nazi medical experiments during the Holocaust (2006, later apologized)
Stated that the Afghan war was "a war of Obama's choosing [???]" (2010)
Now I remember. He's said wrong, patently ridiculous, and contradictory things. Just because he happens to be on the right side of an issue right now doesn't necessarily mean that he was before, or will be in the future ... or would oppose his Party platform and stand on his own principles.
- Something something broken clock
Hey, at least he finally realized they let the fascists in and gave them a home.
hate, hate, hate, hate, hate
That mentality led to the current GOP. The slippery slope is real.
Meanwhile Texas rejects any textbook that mentions the climate…
Any sane person would have left the Republican party by now.

He's still a Republican, though, and only out for himself. He just realized that if the country went full MAGA he wouldnt exactly be welcome....

And he'll still vote for Trump when the time comes, so fuck him.

Isn’t it funny how all these ex-Republicans suddenly grow a fucking spine?

Wish some fucking current members of the party had the balls to request this. Always get bold and real when they don't fucking matter anymore.

Token realizes what we all knew decades ago.

This is the best summary I could come up with:

Trump, who is the frontrunner for the 2024 Republican presidential nomination, continues to face various legal troubles with trials at both the state and federal level, and has been civilly sued by New York Attorney General Letitia James for $250 million.

Chutkan had originally lifted the gag order to allow Trump's lawyers time to prove why the former president's comments should not be restricted ahead of the federal trial, which is scheduled to begin in March 2024.

"I have just learned that the very Biased, Trump Hating Judge in D.C., who should have RECUSED herself due to her blatant and open loathing of your favorite President, ME, has reimposed a GAG ORDER which will put me at a disadvantage against my prosecutorial and political opponents," he wrote on Truth Social.

Former U.S Attorney Barbara McQuade previously told Newsweek in a statement that this move is "incredibly reckless" of Trump, explaining that someone can view this post and take violent action against James and Engoron.

Court system lawyer Lisa Evans said Engoron and his staff have received hundreds of threatening and antisemitic phone calls and letters since the trial began in October, the Associated Press reported Thursday.

However on Thursday, a state intermediate appeals court, headed by Judge David Friedman, granted a temporary stay on Engoron's gag order effectively suspending it due to the "constitutional and statutory rights at issue."

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