Edit: please pay attention to the first two words of this headline. We don’t actually know if Trump received a target letter, he could be lying out of his ass to mess with the investigation.
Only two and a half Years late. Way to go Garland. No chance this will bite us in the ass. /s
Do investigators often send letters tipping off suspects?
If the investigator thinks the suspect will rush to social media to further implicate themself, yes.
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Why exactly are we trusting Trump as a primary source?
Because prosecutors and judges are too scared of him to throw the gag order at him he’s earned a dozen times over with all the threats he’s made and violence that’s happened around him and more reliable sources are refusing to make any comments or give an off the record confirmation or denial, so he’s the only source of information we have about this. It’s an extremely frustrating situation.
I think there’s also an element of not doing gag orders on him unless vital as he’d likely break them anyway and use any enforcement action as a call to action to his supporters to say that he’s being ‘silenced by the Biden administration’ and fuel the very fires that lead to things like Jan 6th.
He does also do a very good job in giving prosecutors evidence against him when they just let him talk.
I think there’s also an element of not doing gag orders on him unless vital as he’d likely break them anyway
Imagine if we handled bank robberies this way, “Oh, they’re just gonna keep trying to take the money, you should just give it to them”
use any enforcement action as a call to action to his supporters
He’s already been issuing that call since before he was indicted. The obvious answer is to throw him in a jail cell and limit his communications to just his attorneys. We do this to suspected criminals every day and it’s absolutely warranted here.
Also, he should draw a charge for intimidating witnesses for all of this.
He does also do a very good job in giving prosecutors evidence against him when they just let him talk.
I guess we just have to hope that evidence isn’t the dead body of some poor person Trump convinces one of his idiot followers to kill, huh?
e; me bad at make words sound good and stuff
trump can’t keep his mouth closed.
So if it’s too early for the government to make a statement, trump will usually start talking about it even tho he doesn’t have to
Right, and when he opens his mouth it’s often completely false. Like when he claimed he was going to be arrested by the end of day and NY police said no such thing was happening.
So again, why are we believing him as a primary source?
Because he said it…
And because reporting on it drives views to the website?
Like, do you honestly not understand why an article was written about it?
No one is “believing” him, the article doesn’t say it’s true, just that trump is saying it is.
Trump saying things shouldn’t be considered news.
Sorry, but whether we like it or not, the guy is still the leading GOP candidate for President and de-facto leader of the party. What he says could influence the nation’s future. So yeah, it is newsworthy.
Will be wild!
Newsworthy because this means an indictment decision is near. We already knew he was a potential person of interest, that is why the Special Counsel got appointed in the first place.
No, newsworthy because Trump is using his public profile to mess with this investigation again. We have no way of knowing whether or not he actually received a target letter because he lies about things constantly and could be lying about this as well.
I have a pet theory that he knows it’s in the future but not as imminent as he suggests (like the docs case) but if he says it’s imminent now he can spin yarns about their case being in tatters and delays being due to mistakes, etc like he tried to spin for the docs case.
It’s all about the optics to his base.
I think that sounds plausible, at least. If there’s anything that Trump knows how to do, it’s how to work a crowd
Oh fuck, are we going to get a bunch of articles to the effect of “We really got him this time!” every day until the end of time? Felt like spam on reddit, rather not see this shit until he’s actively being thrown in jail.
He had better be a target of that investigation.
