Thanks. FWIW I doubt this would be the case to put him behind bars. The Mar-a-Lago documents case, yes, but not this one.

I was interested in the potential effect of the barbs thrown at the judge. Thinking about it, maybe there isn’t a lot of precedent for how to deal with that behaviour.

The only new ground that is being tread are those that perpetuate baseless lies on his behalf, while gaining absolutely nothing from it other than to trigger the libs. Know anyone who does that? I think the systems in place are dealing with him as they should. The misplaced “no one knows how to deal with it” is only realized when you reread point one.

I've said this before. Most of the MAGA people that I personally know are good people. They are good workers and neighbors. They are honest, hard working, generous, kind and faithful to their families. They would never consider cheating someone out of money, nor would they threaten, harass or lie about someone. They wouldn't tolerate any of that behavior from their kids, yet for some reason they support a guy who does all of that.

I think that some of it is related to what Sphere commented on in the post about his relatives. They are simply oblivious to much of it because they don't hear it on Fox, or if they do Fox is lying about it. They dismiss is as lame-stream-media lies, or they simply refuse to believe it.

Yes. The hush money is small peanuts compared to the GA election interference and the classified documents case. The intent interests me in the latter. Did he keep the documents because they are valuable commodities? Or was there a plan to hand the documents to someone in particular?

Yeah that's disappointing but not surprising.

I worked in NIST 800.53 shops. Taking a single document out of the enclave would have us arrested and prosecuted. Taking boxes and boxes of TS-SCI, hiding them, and lying about it: "doesn't look like anything to me". It's infuriating.