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The indictments of Donald Trump, capped by this final, vindictive effort at humiliation, are an attack on the rule of law and the foundation of our society. On social media, people mentioned the attack on Fort Sumter that launched the Civil War. And the analogy is valid, because there, too, the rebels held the advantage until the nation could regroup, and respond decisively.
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And it no longer matters whether this is all part of a clever Democratic plan to ensure that Republican voters nominate a supposedly “unelectable” candidate. It doesn’t even really matter if Trump loses this election. Few Republicans will consider that result credible. And the fight will continue, long after Trump, until the immense wrong of this moment — of six years of torment — has been remedied.

I was fearful of what a Trump mugshot might feel like. Not because of what might mean for the next election, but what it might mean for the country. I feared a sense of degradation. I feared that Democrats would not stop with Trump: the fact that the Georgia indictment — like the parallel federal indictment — criminalizes political speech really does mean they are coming for all of us.

But I found, to my surprise, once I saw the mugshot, that I felt excited, almost elated. Trump’s glowering face did not show pain or shame. It did not even show anger. It was a look of righteous indignation, the glare of a man who may be a prisoner now, but is actually in control. It was the expression he wore a thousand times on episodes of “The Apprentice.” It was how he looked when he said, “You’re Fired.”

They will all be fired, if he wins. And half the country is prepared to do whatever it takes to give him the chance.


1 posted on 08/26/2023 9:57:37 AM PDT by SoConPubbie
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To: SoConPubbie

It’s not a mug shot… It’s a “lemme see yer war face” moment.


2 posted on 08/26/2023 9:58:38 AM PDT by NFHale (The Second Amendment - By Any Means Necessary.)
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To: SoConPubbie
The mugshot of President Donald Trump has rallied the opposition behind him. And it will give the former president a mandate, should he win the election, to sweep away the rot in our government, without compromise.

The mugshot for America!!


3 posted on 08/26/2023 10:00:11 AM PDT by Grampa Dave (Covid acts of terrorism by officials, who were hired to protect us will harm our people for decades!)
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To: SoConPubbie

“Republicans will feel it necessary to prevent them from ever doing it again.”

Noy sure I believe that. Not about the current bunch anyway many of them are in this whole thing to keep Trump out of office.


4 posted on 08/26/2023 10:01:08 AM PDT by Jonny7797
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To: SoConPubbie

Bkmk


8 posted on 08/26/2023 10:03:47 AM PDT by sauropod (I will stand for truth even if I stand alone.)
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Its not even a mugshot, its totally gangsta and an exact replica of the photo on the cover of his book, I think he practiced that shot for days..he totally played these fools totally played them..they wanted a sad lil man staring at the camera and instead they got a defiant man just look at the eyes, they can see right through you he wants revenge and its gonna be SWEET


10 posted on 08/26/2023 10:04:19 AM PDT by Sarah Barracuda
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To: SoConPubbie

Yes they have.

https://twitter.com/CitizenFreePres/status/1695236516241400289?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1695236516241400289%7Ctwgr%5E9d3118d219a4d23d69a099af3a4722b88e773a0b%7Ctwcon%5Es1_&ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Ftheconservativetreehouse.com%2Fblog%2F2023%2F08%2F26%2Faugust-26th-2023-presidential-politics-resistance-day-942%2F

Language alert, but wow.


11 posted on 08/26/2023 10:10:12 AM PDT by dforest
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To: SoConPubbie

It rallies his base. We will see if the independents care.


12 posted on 08/26/2023 10:10:13 AM PDT by Brilliant
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Being attacked by the corrupt evil who’ve hijacked government is truly a badge of honor.

Considering ONLY Trump has been subjected to this is more than revealing. This de facto makes Trump possibly the greatest president in American history and clearly the #1 arch enemy of the corrupt evil ruling class.


13 posted on 08/26/2023 10:10:57 AM PDT by dragnet2 (Diversion and evasion are tools of deceit)
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A lot of Dems and even Republicans don’t understand how this has the possibility of making him a much more sympathetic figure to minorities.

He’s not an untouchable white man anymore.


14 posted on 08/26/2023 10:11:31 AM PDT by struggle
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Trump was coming out of a bankruptcy hearing

a reporter asked if he was going to give up

Trump said, “Do I ever?”

he does not back down


15 posted on 08/26/2023 10:13:20 AM PDT by joshua c (to disrupt the system, we must disrupt our lives, cut the cable tv)
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Biden gets to use Trump as the “bogeyman” to motivate his base to vote for the Democrats.


17 posted on 08/26/2023 10:14:22 AM PDT by MinorityRepublican
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Democrats relished this moment — for years. Yet, what they should really fear is
what Republicans will do in response. Big changes will be made, and justifiably so.
<><>Secret Biden archives will be opened.
<><>Mass pardons will be offered to those incarcerated for Democrats’ invented crimes.
<><> Whole government departments will be dismantled or relocated.
<><>There will be no kangaroo courts.
<><>there’ll be none of the perversions Democrats have committed.
<><>There’ll be no mercy for those who have attacked the rights and values of our constitution
<><>no mercy for those claiming to be acting “in defense of democracy”
<><>no mercy for those who abhor democracy
<><>no mercy for govt officials who serve the left’s corrupt interests.


Democrats smugly claim that Trump is getting what he deserves. They know the Georgia indictment is a joke — that a thousand Democratic politicians, (including the Ga prosecutor herself), by their words and actions, could easily be indicted for the non-crime of claiming that elections have been “stolen.”


20 posted on 08/26/2023 10:19:52 AM PDT by Liz (More tears are shed over answered prayers than over unanswered ones. St Teresa of Avila)
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Netanyahu in Israel rode bullshit indictments back into power, and this last time -- just last November -- he had a coalition willing to rule.

Bebe is now in his 16th year as Prime Minister. 16.

Berlusconi was tried in court six times, and still served as Prime Minister of Italy on three different occasions for a total of 9 years. 9.

It is telling how utterly provincial Trump's opposition is (including Ronlims), they don't understand lawfare is how marxists in the Free World attempt to destroy freedom; and Soros, through his gay buddy Obama, has simply imported lawfare to America in an effort to destroy President Trump and the US Constitution.

Their trial run isn't going very well because they picked the wrong m@#$%&*)> to try it on...


29 posted on 08/26/2023 10:27:16 AM PDT by StAnDeliver (Tanned, rested, and ready.)
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Trump the mugshot is a bigger hit than Spaceballs the flamethrower! 🤣


31 posted on 08/26/2023 10:28:17 AM PDT by Magnum44 (...against all enemies, foreign and domestic... )
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To: SoConPubbie

Those behind the scene no longer control events. At some point they may become desperate.

They have already crossed one line unwisely they may believe that they can cross that final line to silence President Trump.

I would advise them not to take that step.

Students of history have noted that great changes in nations often occur unexpectedly when something happens that may appear trivial turns out to be anything but. These are often called “black swan” events or “tipping points”.

The thing with tipping points is that they are just a catalyst that releases the energy that makes the change, there is no controlling what follows.

Like the world leaders leading up to the Great War (WWI) who thought they were controlling events, the current elite power brokers working behind the scene think they are controlling events. News flash, they are not. They are as wrong today as they were over a hundred years ago.

There is time to avert what is destined to happen, and it would not take much. A single federal judge could rule that the prosecution of President Trump (and his staff) is with out merit and dismiss all charges.

Will they do it? Not likely as they believe they can control it.

As the saying goes, “hang on, we are in for a bumpy ride.”


43 posted on 08/26/2023 10:35:44 AM PDT by CIB-173RDABN (I am not an expert in anything, and my opinion is just that, an opinion. I may be wrong.)
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To: SoConPubbie

The only caption for that photo has to be,

“Paybacks A Bitch”


48 posted on 08/26/2023 10:48:13 AM PDT by muir_redwoods (Freedom isn't free, liberty isn't liberal and you'll never find anything Right on the Left)
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NEVER SURRENDER!!!!


52 posted on 08/26/2023 11:04:26 AM PDT by Jim W N (MAGA by restoring the Gospel of the Grace of Christ (Jude 3) and our Free Constitutional Republic!)
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To: SoConPubbie

This country is a Banana Republic. When do we ever jail the opposition? I feel a civil war is happening!


62 posted on 08/26/2023 1:20:40 PM PDT by Deplorable American1776 (Guns don't kill people, LIBERALS DO!! Support the Second Amendment...)
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Trump for Savior 2024!! America needs a SAVIOR, not a president!!


63 posted on 08/26/2023 1:32:38 PM PDT by Deplorable American1776 (Guns don't kill people, LIBERALS DO!! Support the Second Amendment...)
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