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Proud Boys member gets six years in prison for Capitol riot after insulting judge
(www.theguardian.com)
this post was submitted on 25 Jan 2024
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He assumed that since Trump gets away with insulting the judge, he could do it, too. This was partially a consequence of treating Trump with kid gloves and tolerating his shenanigans. I hope Trump’s other judges take note, but they probably won’t.
Well they REALLY want to make things stick to Trump which means giving absolutely zero possibility of an appeal determining bias from the judge. They want these cases to be run so well and so by the book that there's no chance of him getting off on a technicality.
I understand that, but they’ve gotta draw the line somewhere. So far, it doesn’t look like they have. All the various judges seem to have done is sternly told him things that are common sense to virtually every other defendant.
He's got like 3 gag orders that have through multiple appeals courts and been affirmed. How many previous presidents were sued criminally and given gag orders? Precisely 1. This is still truly gigantic. It took someone like Trump to come along for the court system to ever even have to test the limits of how you treat former presidents.
Oh, yeah, I’m not arguing with you. I just mean that those gag orders wouldn’t have been necessary if he had the self discipline of a ten year old. Most other defendants would have been thrown in jail for contempt of court.
These are those few cases when you see what narcissism actually is. The narcissist has a polished look that they project to the world--confident, successful, whatever it is that they deem as "good". In reality, it's projected insecurity and is as fragile as a house of cards. Once the cracks start to show, the insecurity comes out to the open and you see this behavior. It even has a name: narcissist rage.
Slapping Trump down in court would feel awesome until whatever decisions the judge makes get overturned on appeal on some technicality. I'm perfectly happy with the current strategy of giving him all the rope he wants. If his supporters want to fuck around and find out how the justice system works for folks in their income bracket...well, I'm sorry but insurrection has consequences and unapologetic insurrection has bigger consequences.
I'm sure he's emulating people like Trump, but I doubt he's doing it because he thinks there won't be consequences because of them. I doubt he's thought about it at all.
However, WERE there actually consequences here for insulting the judge? Sounds like the sentence is what he was going to receive anyway.