Today in court, Trump had to hear and see memes mocking him as his defense sought to have jurors dismissed for past social media posts. He did not appear to enjoy it.
Hi, Miles! Thanks so much for crediting me in your piece, but I was very much a guy reading Twitter today. I did my best to cite the journos doing the actual reporting often in my thread. I'd be more than happy to show you the tweets with the original info so you can cite those reporters!
If only! I did my best to attribute, but sometimes I skipped a post or two, since I figured it was a thread and most people would read the posts before and after. Let me know if it would be helpful for me to dig up the original posts I got the info from. I largely relied on Tyler McBrien of Lawfare.
appreciate you reaching out, I was working fast and must have missed those. I’ve updated with links to reporters who were on hand (and look forward to crediting you directly in the future!)
The fun thing about Trump is that he's such a thin-skinned loser that I figure he'd get offended by the lowest effort memes. If he saw a hack meme of his face that just had "TRUMP HAZ SMALL PEPE" as a caption he'd have to rail a few extra addies to keep his shit together
He actually ripped out a picture of himself, circled his hands, wrote “not so short!” and sent it to Graydon Carter *multiple times* after he called him a “short-fingered vulgarian”. Trump doesn’t take things well. Carter receives them occasionally even 25+ years later.
I think that a collection of images of each meme paired with a screenshot of his face when it was revealed in court would be an important document to preserve in the Library of Congress for historical purposes.
Can you imagine his lawyers' agony? Trying to pick ones that will get the potential juror kicked, knowing that at any minute the old guy could stroke out.
"Yes, your honor, I have referred to the defendant as 'that orange shitgibbon' on multiple occasions. I have a list of other derogatory names I've used for him if you'd care to read them into the record."
You have 10 "peremptory" vetoes, for which you don't have to give a reason. You could technically veto every juror, but after 10 it has to be for one of a statutorily limited number of reasons.
Wait, are they hoping to find jurors who feel *neutrally* about him? I'm amazed they found 7. Surely they just found jurors who don't post politically on socials.
