Greg Sargent: Media is being too credulous about Trump's threats to prosecute Dems "for revenge." This implies he's just threatening to do what is being done to him. That's deception: He's vowing evidence-free prosecutions, which is *not* what's happening to him. 1/ Link: newrepublic.com/article/1824...

Media is being too credulous about Trump's threats to prosecute Dems "for revenge." This implies he's just threatening to do what is being done to him. That's deception: He's vowing evidence-free prosecutions, which is *not* what's happening to him. 1/ Link: newrepublic.com/article/1824...

Trump’s Bizarre Moments With Dr. Phil and Hannity Should Alarm Us Allnewrepublic.com Earth to media: The criminal prosecutions of Trump are legitimate. The “revenge” he’s promising would be wholly illegitimate. Time to make that a whole lot clearer.

Trump's exchanges with Dr. Phil and Hannity showed that even his friendliest interviewers can't disguise his lawless intentions for a second term. But they also showed what a monstrous scam it is when Trump says he'll prosecute in "retaliation." 2/ newrepublic.com/article/1824...

Media frame is: Will Trump seek “retaliation," or won’t he? But that lets him set the terms of the debate. He is expressly vowing prosecutions *solely because* he's been held accountable to the law, meaning he'll prosecute with no evidence of wrongdoing. 3/ newrepublic.com/article/1824...

You often see news stories about Trump's threats that don’t explain the basic difference between bringing prosecutions in keeping with evidence and rule of law, and bringing them as purported “retaliation.” Why would casual readers infer simply this distinction? 4/ newrepublic.com/article/1824...

The Dr. Phil/Hannity exchanges are pernicious because they treat it as a *magnanimous favor* Trump would be doing for the country if he shows forbearance and refrains from prosecuting Biden and Dems. But he has zero basis for seeking "revenge" in the first place! 5/ newrepublic.com/article/1824...

So let's lay down a marker: Every media report on Trump's threats should convey clearly what the news org itself knows: That the prosecutions of him are in keeping with evidence/rule of law, and what he's threatening is deeply destructive to it. 6/ newrepublic.com/article/1824...

More Dems need to step up and say clearly that Trump's threats to prosecute enemies without cause disqualifies him from the presidency, just as his criminal convictions do. Here's what that might look like. h/t @brianbeutler.bsky.social @jbouie.bsky.social END newrepublic.com/article/1824...

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With thoughts of greatness, Dr. Phil sighs whistfully, “But I can change him. He will listen to me because… I’m special.” A narcissist thinking he can change a narcissist. What a freakin’ circle jerk.

Trump sounds deranged. Can he be detain on any US mental health law.

Is there any way you can do alt text for us older folks and visually impaired?

I hate to tell you that you are usually barking up the wrong tree with someone who posts picture texts like that. They don’t fucking care about your needs. (See also, Ben “Onion”)

I just tried signaling the alt-text bot and hopefully it will fill it in for us.

Which it did. 🙂

I didn't know about that! Thank you!!! 🥰

Trump and his cult rarely testify at their own trials because they know they are lying. They also refuse to accuse the democrats of anything in a court of law because they would have to lie under oath without evidence. Outside of court they'll say anything that comes to mind.

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He did this before!!! He manipulated the DOJ into changing Cohen's charging documents, had them go after a politician in New York state, and got Barr to cover up what Sessions wouldn't.

yep -- the effort to go after Hillary is mentioned in there

I couldn't actually read the image 👓

Hunter Biden is an example of what trump will do. He certainly committed the crimes but let's face it, he is being procescuted because he is a Biden and the special prosecutor is Republican. In fact, if trump is elected, they will make up crimes.

The media will do all this, then be *really* surprised when trump shuts the paper down and has them all arrested.

They do it all the time! All the time serving up ,so to speak, to his needs & wishes. The German media are doing the same with the conservative German Trump Merz. No wonder, since Edolf, Döpfner & Murdoch are buddies. I'm so sick of it . So sick of it.

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Retaliatory prosecution is a win-win for Trump. It satisfies his ego while further enshitifying the process that indicted him.

He will.

That is not "prosecution". It's "persecution". Trump does not know the difference.

Dr. Phil must be like 140 years old or something, right? I mean he was on that schtick when I was a kid, and he's still at it.

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And some people still claim elections don't matter.

It’s not as if he had a long history of prevenge, calling for the extrajudicial incarceration of opponents. But the media lives by the rule that anything any Dem or their associates say or do is fair game whereas any Republican position expires the moment it’s uttered and can’t be used against them.

It must cause you dismay to observe colleagues simply regurgitating Trump’s ludicrously false claims without a crumb of context. He handily manipulates NY/DC scribes with minimal. They’re simply not equipped to cover him, safely or responsibly.

WE'VE BEEN ALARMED FOR 8 YEARS AND WAITING FOR THE USA TO DO SOMETHING

Doesn't "revenge" already mean that his prosecutions would be purely retaliatory *rather* than following the law?

don't you let 𝘢𝘯𝘺𝘰𝘯𝘦 slide? ever? 😆

Not often

Also: headlines like this tacitly imply that we are too dumb or delirious to be alarmed. Instead of "should" alarm us they can just say "is alarming"

Dr Phil has ALWAYS been a major POS. What I find amusing is these clowns cannot even tee this mentally degraded criminal up!🤣😂🤣😅🤣🤣😂💙💙💙

That this man would be seriously considered for ANY job - even Walmart greeter, is lunacy.

Absolutely 💯%, Babe!

Dr Phil has reached a new low. Doesn't he have people like trump on his show criticizing their whoring around on their wives and neglecting their children and committing criminal acts? He'll have to change his show to "Okay to be a Jerk and Too Bad Family, Suck it up." Does anyone still watch him?

Oprah has a lot to answer for.

One obvious conclusion is that many in the media actually believe that holding Trump accountable in a court of law is automatically political. That’s incredibly dangerous.

Gee I wonder if trump will *actually* weaponize the DOJ. There probably isn't any way to really know. Checkin up on other news, Hunter Biden by sheer coincidence, it on trial for federal crimes. I wonder how that happened?

Unfit as can be Vote blue

We are past that, his closest henchpeople have already called for the death penalty. www.villages-news.com/2024/06/02/l...

Loomer calls for death penalty for Democrats who committed ‘treason’www.villages-news.com Far right activist Laura Loomer has called for the death penalty for Democrats who committed “treason.”

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