I feel like I'm reading the first line of an old dime novel.
But, no, it's the first line of the NYT front-page story, "In Court, a Tense Trump and a Poker-Faced Smith Finally Cross Paths/The former president and the special counsel were 20 feet from each other. But they exchanged not a word during their first, nearly hourlong encounter" (by Glenn Thrush).
Does Trump — a 77-year-old overweight man — really have back muscles that do things that are visible through his suit jacket?
Isn't it wonderful that cameras are banned in the courtroom forcing journalists to paint a picture in words?
"Mr. Trump’s body language in the courtroom suggested he understood the gravity of the situation. A former president who thrives on being in control seemed uncomfortable with having so little as a defendant...."
All you can do is imagine how he feels. How does any criminal defendant feel? Is it unseemly to dwell on such things?
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Biden arrests his rival.
2 hours after news that Biden is the real crook.
Lem suggested we all watch this:
I did - it's good.
For seven years now, what the press writes about Trump are theories of what he is probably thinking and what he must be feeling. This is because they have no actual evidence against him to justify their rage. Hillary's "extremely careless," per the FBI, but not "gross negligence," which would have been a crime, got a man who risked his life for the US, hanged in Iran, no problem. They want to put Trump in jail for the rest of his life for a library fine. They will never tell us what is in the document, either, because it is undoubted innocuous. The will characterize it for us, and deny us the original source.
Since Joe Biden has pretty plainly been monetizing access to classified documents through the offices of his son and bagman, Hunter, it falls under the rules of propaganda that the first action of defense is to accuse Trump of that which Biden is guilty of. Just like Hillary, with Joe Biden's help, was colluding with Ukraine against Trump in 2016.
Lefty p0rn
"Does Trump — a 77-year-old overweight man — really have back muscles that do things that are visible through his suit jacket?"
It's nice to know that despite the continuing writers strike the NYT reporters are still slogging away in the ink mines producing flowery bullcrap like the quote you're referencing.
Maybe they should join their comrades on the picket lines, for all our sakes.
“Ron DeSantis, who is the Governor of Florida, couldn’t be bothered to stay within his own state and come to Miami, and stand out here and address the people of Florida, his constituents, and say, ‘this is wrong, I stand with you, I support you!’” Christina Bobb then asked, “If you can’t address it now as the Governor of Florida, why would we trust you to address it as the president?”
I always enjoy NYT story time. Is there a word the NYT loves more than "seem" and all its forms? They always use it to make sure their readers feel good when the story is over.
I hope these intrepid reporters know just how clever they are with their various ways of presenting their opinions, those of their editors, and their publisher as fact. I'm not sure the NYT has the capacity to publish a story that is not an editorial in disguise. That's dedication.
Sad. A distraction from the exposure of the Biden Crime Family antics.
The NYT writers can see muscles through Trump's shirt, but are blind to Biden's mental and physical problems.
From the archives: "Sandy Berger, who was President Clinton’s top national security aide, pleaded guilty Friday to taking classified documents from the National Archives and cutting them up with scissors."
He described it earlier as an honest mistake. Jail time? Nope. No word on what Berger's was posture while sitting in the courtroom.
https://www.nbcnews.com/id/wbna7351422
Wendy - DeSantis has stated over and over that what the corrupt DC a-holes are doing to Trump is wrong, terrible, and disgusting.
and
"Ron DeSantis released an actual plan yesterday to dismantle the DOJ and FBI instead of standing around in front of a courthouse like a groupie waiting for a celebrity verdict."
btw- Wendy - DeSantis is being pressured in the other direction to disavow Trump.
Biden is currently SCREAMING about how @RonDeSantis
is removing pornography from school libraries.
Does this mark the return of NYT fiction author Jayson Blair, the creative "reporter" who lied about seeing tobacco fields from a house where they never existed?
Among chubby and unfit people, rolls of fat may be perceived to be muscles. Trump likely has 2" of mushy back fat...eww...
RHardin's soap opera women comes to mind reading this ridiculous prose.
RHardin's soap opera women comes to mind reading this ridiculous prose.
"Christina Bobb then asked, “If you can’t address it now as the Governor of Florida, why would we trust you to address it as the president?”
Why should Christina Bobb, whoever she is, expect a political opponent whom Trump has continually disparaged and insulted for no reason to stop campaigning and put in an appearance in Miami? Would Trump even want an opponent who is so woefully under endowed, short in stature and "sanctimonious" to speak on his behalf? As DeSantis has pointed out Trump's juvenile conduct is the principal reason he's not in the White House right now.
Not just through a suit but through a bullet proof vest as well. And a shirt. And an undershirt (?)
Those must be some back muscles.
John LGB Henry
I'd really like to see Elon Tweet "I'm thinking of buying the NY Times. Good idea? Bad idea?"
The entertainment value would be tremendous.
The Sulzbergers woul harrumph that they will never sell. Bezos paid $250mm for WaPo. What can the times be worth? $1bn? $2? Sofa change to Musk. Make them a crazy offer and they would sell.
John LGB Henry
John henry said...
"Not just through a suit but through a bullet proof vest as well. And a shirt. And an undershirt (?)
Those must be some back muscles."
The first thing I thought of was those AI images of Trump getting jacked.
Blogger deepelemblues said...
I always enjoy NYT story time. Is there a word the NYT loves more than "seem" and all its forms? They always use it to make sure their readers feel good when the story is over.
Fiction awards all around are in order.
Apparently the NYT writer was thinking of Bonfire's Assistant District Attorney Larry Kramer and his (Kramer's) "massive sternocleidomastoid muscles."
Trump was after all in a courtroom setting.
tim in vermont said...
6/14/23, 7:05 AM
They want to put Trump in jail for the rest of his life for a library fine. They will never tell us what is in the document, either, because it is undoubted innocuous. The will characterize it for us, and deny us the original source.
Thanks, Tim.
See, that's what I am wondering about (Note: IANAL, nor have I ever desired to be one, so maybe folks here can help me out.)
Is the jury, and the public, supposed to take the DOJ at its "word" that the documents and their content really and truly are so secret that no one without the right security level can view them? That the evidence is so sensitive that our national security would be jeopardized by revealing their contents, but they want an ex-POTUS found guilty of actions akin to treason on the basis of what DOJ asserts but cannot reveal?
Or, do they come up with some in camera solution to that situation? ...where the judge, and possibly the jury, can see & examine the contents to verify the validity of the charges and assertions that DOJ has made against not only an ex-President, but also a likely challenger to the sitting POTUS?
Is this like the admonition given by a parent to a corrected toddler, when he asks, "why?" -- "Because I said so"?
Or am I simply revealing my ignorance of all things litigatory?
Interesting they had no trouble imagining back muscles, but are oblivious to his backbone.
9 AM Jaydub - heh
NYT caca is written for intellectual pygmies and is never-ending.
I wonder what Smith had to eat afterwards. Trump had takeout from McDonalds on his plane.
Maybe Trump is so vain he has a bullet-proof vest that has exaggerated he-man muscle shapes molded into it, like Batman.
NYT caca is written for intellectual pygmies and is never-ending.
Grimm, unlikely. Pissed? Oh yeah, that's the word.
The NYT writes 'back muscles' - its winking euphemism for 'Satan's tail'.
Trump is never grim. He was not grim then. He was living it up in a small Cuban restaurant after the proceedings. Not the demeaner of a grim man. You can pretty much ignore anything else in that article when they can't get that right.
"I feel like I'm reading the first line of an old dime novel."
You are.
" Is it unseemly to dwell on such things?"
Yes, and millions of lefties are drooling over the chance.
"Lefty p0rn" is exactly right.
We need to face it. Millions of our fellow Americans would welcome an execution, assassination, accidental death, or even public torture if possible somehow. TDS is not a simple obsession - it's a debilitating disgusting psychosis and mass hysteria. Similar things have happened in the past, and it usually leads to atrocity.
Even if Trump did 100% of what he is accused of, what harm was done to the country by it?
1) Now do what Biden is accused of.
2) Now consider the harm done by having a justice system doing this to the most popular candidate, and interfering in the election with it.
3) Now consider the harm done by the spying, false accusations, impeachments, and the prosecutions, unlawful incarcerations, and torture of Jan 6th citizens for petitioning their government for redress of grievances.
Is Trump even in the top 100 people we need to be going after?
I feel like I'm reading the first line of an old dime novel.
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what was the magistrate judge thinking?
... Of all the court-rooms [gin joints] in all the towns in all the world, Trump walks into mine.
why are we sure AI did not commit that prose?
How does any criminal defendant feel? Is it unseemly to dwell on such things?
It’s called empathy. I’ve heard literature was invented for this purpose.
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