Ohhhh, Princess. You’re ugly when you pout! Lone Star Spaceballs
The mug shot 234 years in the making. As Lawrence O’Donnell just said on MSNBC, High school students 300 years from now will be opening their history books and looking at the only presidential mug shot in history. Donald John Trump.
On the MSNBC live coverage of Trump surrendering in Fulton County, Ari Melber said a couple of things that got my whiskers twitching. So far Traitor Tot has had what has irked some people as deferential treatment by the law. This is for the simple reason that on each arrest, Trump has voluntarily surrendered and appeared, sparing himself a perp walk. Thank God that only the Fulton County Sheriff had the balls to push the button on the digital camera.
But with each voluntary surrender, the Secret Service has been heavily involved in how Trump would be processed, in order to ensure his personal protection. But Melber’s research and contacts showed that the Secret Service had drawn two red lines in the sand.
First, if Traitor Tot had not voluntarily surrendered to the process, and law enforcement officers with a duly issued arrest warrant had shown up, the Secret Service would not have stepped in to interfere. With a duly signed arrest warrant, Trump was now a criminal detainee in the hands of the arresting jurisdiction. Trump would have been cuffed, and placed alone in the back seat of the car while the Secret Service arranged transportation and arrest facility security. If they told Trump that, maybe that’s why he complied so meekly when it runs against every grain in his body.
Then came the McGuffin. According to Melber, the Secret Service has already determined that there is no way that His Lowness could be housed in either a state or federal facility if convicted where the Secret Service could ensure the safety of both Trump as well as their agents. Their recommendation was that any sentence be served under some form of home confinement. Well, maybe not. Either the state or the federal government could construct a detention facility for Trump specifically to serve his time in.
But let’s talk about home confinement for a minute. Personally, I have no problem with Trump serving a sentence under home confinement, just so long as it’s home confinement under penal conditions. What would that mean? Let’s see.
It means that the responsible authorities would choose the location of the home confinement. State or federal prisoners don’t get the luxury of trading one prison cell for another just because the weather turns. Mar-A-Lago, Bedminster, or 5th Avenue in New York, dealers choice. Personally I prefer 5th Avenue, since it’s the most restrictive and easiest to control.
- But if it’s one of the other two, what do penal restrictions mean? Well, for starters a fence. A Big F*cking Fence. And in the case of Mar-A-Lago, the fence runs around the perimeter of the residence. Convicted felons don’t get to play golf.
- Standard prison visitors privileges. That means that whether it’s Mar-A-Lago or Bedminster, the court will order that it shut down as a publicly accessible club. If you think that the term Club Fed is accurate, just ask Michael Cohen
- Guards. And discipline. The Secret Service and vet state or federal correctional employees to run the show at the facility. A 9 PM lights out curfew means 9 PM, moron!
- Uniforms. Whether it’s a state orange jumpsuit, or a federal blue denim pants and blue denim shirt, one of the dehumanizing features of prison is the lack of individuality. Regular prison employees can collect his used laundry and drop off new, clean clothes, and that includes bedsheets and pillowcases
- No frills. Prisoners have to request permission to an office or law library to work on their appeals. Trump’s personal office would be off limits without permission. And convicts don’t get day passes to go to their doctor, pastor, or lawyers. Those all come to him
- Forget the fancy food bro. Prisoners don’t have personal chefs. Either there can be a small, vetted correctional facility kitchen crew with normal correctional facility food that they can prepare for him in the kitchen, or they can just import the same slop everybody else is getting from the local jail or lockup
- Most importantly, An. Ankle. Monitor! Ankle monitors are almost universal for prisoners on home confinement. Why should Il Douche be any different?
Nothing in this is unusual, or should be. When Michael Cohen was on home confinement during covid, he received a call on his home phone from the monitoring service. He had something like 20 minutes to return the call from that phone, or be in non compliance of his terms of release. He had to get court approval for a trip to his doctor, church, or his lawyers office. He even had to get special permission to take his family out to a restaurant for his wife’s birthday. Nobody ever said that home confinement should mean unadulterated freedom.
I’ll close with this. I may have a little different take on this than you all simply because my circumstances are different than yours. For all purposes, I basically live under home confinement. Being legally blind, other than tackling the stairs to go down to the pool some 100′ from our door, I don’t go anywhere without my seeing-eye-human, Teri. Once or twice a week I go with her to Smiths to shop and get out of the house, and once every 7-10 days or so we go to our locals place to play a few penny slots. That’s it.
Don’t get me wrong. I’m not bitter, and I love our place. In fact, Teri and I refer to it as Bag End, because it’s our hobbit hole. Is that lame or what? lol My point is that even f*cking Buckingham Palace can be constrictive if you’re wandering around the place by yourself, especially surrounded by people in uniforms waiting to tell you what to do. There are all kinds of prisons.
I agree with everything you said. I just have one addition: no internet or social media. I bet life within these restrictions would really chap his hide.
Too much is being made of this. A facility could easily be converted at Quantico, either at the FBI Academy or near the Brig. A no-frills cinder block building with bars on the windows. A bedroom for Trump with a standard prison rack, mattress, pillow and sheets. A very basic bathroom and sink, preferably stainless steel prison type. A room with a small table to eat meals, and enough space to accomodate his lawyers when they visit. Or visitors but he’d have the same limits on number of visitors and time with them as any other inmate. Meals? I’d live with them being brought over from the FBI academy dining room but I’d rather Trump be close to the brig so he’d eat prisoner food. I can provide more details but Quantico is a place where Trump can readily be secured and the Secret Service requirements met.
Sorry, but Traitor Tot deserves supermax prison, fed only cheap gruel, no contact with anyone ever, and should have to watch/listen to Randy Rainbow videos 24/7/365!
Ok now that last one is just cruel. lmao
I’d allow some Rocky Mountain Mike and Parody Project music parodies interspersed tieh Randy. Maybe even Marny Fetlocks.
What are we doing with Guantanamo at the moment?
I honestly don’t give a fat rats A$$ where he goes, just as long as he’s out of camera shot and we don’t have to look at or hear his ugly a$$ voice ever again! :/
His attorneys and rwnj attorneys are all getting their fifteen minutes of fame in with the talking heads in the media sphere. I’m hearing “it was free speech”, “he thought the election was stolen”, “he did not know what he did was against the law”, “it was on the advice of his attorneys”, etc. none of which seem like winning court strategies to me but do sound pretty asinine coming out of the mouths of people who ought to know better. Sometimes it is better to just STFU rather than do the “remove all doubt” thing.
IF HE IS CONVICTED, why should the Secret Service have ANY say in where he goes? Why should he continue to get ANY Secret Service protection? He should lose that when he becomes a convicted felon, if for no other reason than to establish that premise…convicted felons are not entitled to Secret Service protection. Have that rule in place in case there is another Republicon ever elected as president.
There’s a federal statute that governs the issue of Secret Service protection for former Presidents and their families so Congress could in fact change it and exclude those convicted of felonies, or certain specific or even types of felonies from Secret Service protection. Now THAT would be a true sh*t-show in both chambers of Congress! The sad, even infuriating part is that it’s a no-brainer. It should have been done long ago due to Nixon but everyone assumed (I guess) that with some of the reforms that were made that level of corruption and criminality would never happen again.
As a relative of Joe Biden, Hunter Biden also could have secret service protection. So the same would apply to him?
Unlike the President and spouses there’s a time limit on protection for children. If there’s a specific and credible threat after that point there is as I recall a procedure where a temporary detail can be approved until the threat is resolved.
That almost makes too much sense to be federal law. JK, glad to hear it.
Simple solution. Apply the fourteenth amendment, disqualify Trumo from holding office, and strip him of all U.S. government benefits, including all former president perks and protetions. Then throw him into the common prison population. End of story.
“And convicts don’t get day passes to go to their doctor, pastor, or lawyers. Those all come to him.”
Yes, and none of the doctors or pastors is anyone he knows. They arre prision physicians and prison chaplains. His personal doctor or pastor would be allowed to see him as a visitor, IF approved by the prison after a background check. the pastor could counsel hiim but not provately – it woud be done in a public visitation room. Neither the doctor not the pastor could bring anything like a bible ot a stethoscope into the room woth them
Attorney visits would be his attorney(s) provided they are not also incarcerated, and they do have some privacy, butstill no contraband allowed (and contraband is anything they tell you it is.) I’m sure an attorney would have to show every blessed thing he heeded to take in to the visit. Ad no internet or docial media.
There is one contractor who is currently offiereing some kind of prison cell phone, which I assume has extremely limited capabilities. Its name is “JPay” – you can check it out online. It’s not availabe in every state I don’t know about federalprisons.
WRT Secret Service, because it’s law. If Congress wants a public servant entitled to liifetime SS prtection to lose it if convicted of a felony, they will need tolegislate that. Personall, I conider it a good idea. And Trump** is perfectly safe. Democrats don’t do political assassinations, not even if one would hugely benefit the country. We just don’t.
I would by far prefer to see him in an actual prison.
How about a minimum security fed prison like Eglin AFB? Two room.suites. A Secret Service agent has a bunk to sleep.in. Block off five suites, close them off. Secret Service than have 7 bedrooms. He can eat chow Hall food Likely not doing chores,other than cleaning all the suites in his pod. They could also consider putting a couple of his former defendants in the suite across the hall ditto the other bedroom in his suite. They can perhaps have their hour of free time together. Books on a truck from the library can be brought in. One phone call a week.So Cell this used to be a dorm for active duty E AF,they can likely choose the 6suites furthest from the stairs. No one gets in or out.
I can handle home confinement,, and I think NYC would do. But no Malaria or Barron.His private elevator would have security at the bottom. And confinement to his bedroom and bathroom. I would love him to.have to.wear a uniform. And all the tv channels turned to.religious programming and the The or MSNBC, no Foxx he can see how the world has done great without him. Oh, and books preselected by the local.NY Public branch. Maybe only romances,and cozy mysteries.
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Well yeah he might get home confinement but I’m thinking not. I’m thinking they would set up a wing at say a military prison. They would be able to accommodate him and his security detail. And like you say, no social media accounts. He committed serious crimes and he has threatened the people that are going to hold him to account for it already. I’m thinking he has already blew that home confinement with an ankle bracelet shit. Equal justice under the law doesn’t mean you get to lounge around in a luxury townhouse apartment. But the prick probably will get to go to one of his properties. I still think they need to nail him and that little candy ass Kushner for their covid response. Their fake, stupid response to that and Jared’s little auction of PPE supplies that he was stealing from everyone that he could. They are directly responsible for people dying. That’s not a joke. That’s a fact. There’s probably at least a quarter million people that they killed with their inaction and we only have a few and it will be gone by summer. Congress has the paperwork that shows they lied about what was going on and that they knew people were going to die but they did nothing. It’s on paperwork and there’s evidence. All they could do is complain about Dr. Fauci. If it wasn’t for him it would have probably been ten million people dead. Where’s the trial on that. Jesus Christ, what’s wrong with people!