Exclusive: Trump had lawyers negotiate booking to take place during prime viewing hours to get maximum television ratings
  • @DoomBot5@lemmy.worldEnglish
    116•1 year ago

    I think the biggest news we’ll get out if this is his actual weight being recorded instead of a clean bill of health by a fake doctor.

      • @DoomBot5@lemmy.worldEnglish
        41•1 year ago

        All his meals would have the catered in.

        I’m sure there is a McDonald’s nearby secret service can fetch his meals from.

        • Hyperreality
          12•1 year ago

          Water would suffice for a few months given he’s obese. Probably do him a world of good too.

          • @baldingpudenda@lemmy.world
            5•1 year ago

            Y would any sane person want to make him healthier? He’s got 3 years tops. I’m surprised he’s lived this long from what I’ve heard about his diet and lack of exercise.

            • Hyperreality
              2•1 year ago

              I’m surprised he’s lived this long from what I’ve heard about his diet and lack of exercise.

              Doesn’t drink, doesn’t smoke, has a good doctor.

              Not that surprising.

      • @grue@lemmy.worldEnglish
        25•1 year ago

        You don’t want him to stay in jail.

        Speak for yourself!

        Not only would I be ecstatic about that for all the obvious reasons, as an Atlanta resident I’d also appreciate more of a spotlight being put on what a shithole the Fulton County jail is, to help shame the county commission into fixing it.

      • @treefrog@lemm.ee
        11•1 year ago

        Why would his meals be catered?

        And jails have seg units. So a cell by himself isn’t hard Secret Service can stand outside the door.

          • @treefrog@lemm.ee
            10•1 year ago

            It’s not like your name is on your tray in jail so someone would have to poison the whole jail basically.

            And if they need to, the Secret Service can make him a damn ham and cheese sandwich.

            You really don’t have any idea what jail is like I take it? So I’m going to paint a picture. It’s not a resort. You don’t get your own food. You don’t get a room. You get a cell with a metal toilet with no ring and no lid. You get a metal sink and three trays of slop a day. That’s all that they’re required to provide.

            And if needed, jails are quite capable of segregating inmates in a single cell with 24 hour lockdown. Maybe with an hour out for rec by himself. If the jail is equipped for it.

            He’ll be quite safe. Uncomfortable and probably screaming like a baby until he tires himself out. But safe.

              • @treefrog@lemm.ee
                1•1 year ago

                This article is mostly about the federal prison system. They may have different rules about segregation units. Minimum yard time, stuff like that. The article mentions movement and keeping a protective bubble around Trump, two issues that state prisons and county jails solve every day with extended segregation units when housing high profile prisoners. Yes, having Secret Service in the prison would make things a bit more complicated but much less so if Trump was in segregated housing.

                Not that I think extended seg time is a great way for anyone to spend their life. But this idea that Georgia can’t figure out how to put him in prison if they want to just isn’t true. It’s just not that complicated once you take movement and other prisoners out of the equation.

  • @Hazdaz@lemmy.world
    21•1 year ago

    The public demands that his mugshot and photos of him in cuffs and in an orange jumpsuit are released.

    Seeing him stripped of his fancy suit is the equivalent to what the Allies did to the emperor of Japan at the end of WW2. Before and during the war, the people of japan saw their emperor nearly as a god figure. Easy to justify the idea of kamikaze missions and not surrendering and not admitting defeat if they are in defense of a deity. When Japan lost, the Allies quickly moved to portray the emperor as just another regular old person to kill off that “god-like” image of the emperor’s.

    With how so many MAGAts see Trump as their lord emperor since they have been blinded by images of him with his jets and fancy suits and gold-plated toilet, seeing him in prison outfit can help crush Donald’s image of being rich, powerful and untouchable.

    Remember folks: We aren’t fighting a war of reality here. Image (real or otherwise) is just as important as the facts.

      • @Hazdaz@lemmy.world
        2•1 year ago

        There are different levels of delusion. There are some core supporters that won’t change their minds no matter what. But that doesn’t represent the entire Republican Party. All we have to start doing is start chipping away at those on the edges. Those that voted for him, but maybe lost a few relatives to COVID and now that the adrenaline of chanting “lock her up” has passed, they are realizing that they lost their job and all their family is on their case. It isn’t an all-or-nothing situation. Some of these people can indeed wake up from the mass hysteria.

  • AutoTL;DRBEnglish
    17•1 year ago

    This is the best summary I could come up with:

    Donald Trump is expected to surrender at the Fulton county jail on Thursday evening on racketeering and conspiracy charges over his efforts to overturn the results of the 2020 presidential election in the state of Georgia, according to two people briefed on the matter.

    The former president – seeking to distract from the indignity of the surrender by turning things into a circus – in essence had his lawyers negotiate the booking to take place during the prime viewing hours for the cable news networks.

    Trump has posted on his Truth Social platform that he would be arrested on Thursday, but the prime-time scheduling was finalized in recent days after his lawyers met with the Fulton county district attorney, Fani Willis, at her office on Monday.

    Trump returned to his instinct to maximize television ratings to his benefit for his surrender to authorities in Atlanta, the people said, and could extend the coverage of the proceedings by speaking afterwards in front of cameras and reporters.

    At the Rice Street jail north-west of downtown Atlanta, where defendants charged in Fulton county are typically taken, the booking process involves a mug shot, fingerprinting and having height and weight recorded.

    Trump could face major difficulties with that argument, however, since he would have to show that taking steps to change the outcome of the 2020 election in Georgia amounted to him acting in his official capacity as president, legal experts have said.

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    • @grue@lemmy.worldEnglish
      8•1 year ago

      You’ve got a bit of a non-sequitur in the transition between the last two paragraphs, bot.

  • @OldWoodFrame@lemm.ee
    13•1 year ago

    Makes sense to quash the Republican debate reactions. Even if someone breaks out it’ll be news for pretty much just Wednesday.

    • @NounsAndWords@lemmy.world
      17•1 year ago

      The smart move would be for just every single one of them to spend the whole debate dunking on him. Then the next day he goes to jail like a wounded puppy (of they sent wounded puppies to jail…I lost the metaphor).

      But they won’t. Because they’re cowards.

  • Che Banana
    9•1 year ago

    I have seen this on no less than 5 other instances and all i can say is: sttaaaaahp, I can only get so hard!