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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region Forums'He's going to pop': Warning given about Trump's age and stress during hush money trial
During an MSNBC panel discussion about Donald Trump's upcoming hearing on contempt charges related to attacks made on jurors and witnesses in his hush money trial, a former prosecutor predicted the former president is headed for a major meltdown. Speaking with the hosts of "The Weekend," Charles Coleman Jr. suggested the trial that will commence next week in the Manhattan courtroom of Judge Juan Merchan will be long and intense and that Trump's age and ability to deal with the stress could be a major factor.
Asked what he predicts will happen in the coming week when opening statements will be presented and the first witnesses will be called, Coleman went in a different direction about how the trial is weighing on the embattled ex-president. "Donald Trump is not used to being in spaces where there are narratives advancing about him that he cannot counteract and that is exactly why he has so much trouble with this gag order," he told the hosts.
"There are things being said about him and he feels as if his hands are tied: he cannot stand the feeling," he elaborated. "And I joked about it at the beginning of the last segment. The truth is that trial is a very long, arduous and exhausting process. For someone of his age, it is a lot of stress to deal with. That is why I fully expect, regardless of what happens with Judge Juan Merchan's recent ruling this week, he is going to pop."
"He is going to violate the gag order in grand fashion in front of the media and I think it will come sooner rather than later because it is not a position he is used to being in," he added before suggesting, "If I'm the prosecutor in this case, I'm going to sit back and let it happen."
https://www.rawstory.com/trump-age-mental-state/
pfitz59
(10,391 posts)when Stormy and others tell their sordid tales. The man has no filter or off switch.
Irish_Dem
(47,423 posts)I think Trump is going to feel more and more angry and out of control.
Feeling confined and dictated to by others.
People will tell the truth about him in stark ways he cannot face.
Trump is going to act out more and in very aggressive ways.
hadEnuf
(2,212 posts)We need to be prepared for that.
Irish_Dem
(47,423 posts)I hope the judge understands that.
He holds a mental health court, so he knows how things work.
And knows mental health professionals, I hope he is listening to them about Trump.
Takket
(21,629 posts)ProudMNDemocrat
(16,793 posts)Speaking as a former Prosecutor. Glenn Kirschner has said the same thing as well.
The more TSF talks, the more he seals his fate that there are realities he no longer has control over.
Kid Berwyn
(14,964 posts)Stink-y!
Joinfortmill
(14,460 posts)😊
Bernardo de La Paz
(49,043 posts)tRump is a machine for making ketchup, ego, diet coke, and lies into big stinks.
bucolic_frolic
(43,295 posts)J6 was an attempt to avoid outcomes. What will he try here?
PCIntern
(25,584 posts)His appearance resembles that of an individual whose physiology is decompensating.
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ananda
(28,876 posts)Just what is keeping him alive?
He is one the most unhealthy individuals and yet
he just keeps going.
Sheesh!
kimbutgar
(21,195 posts)He made a deal with the devil a long time ago.
ananda
(28,876 posts)I wonder if meanness keeps him alive longer.
I just can't figure it out.
Pluvious
(4,319 posts)Conjuay
(1,401 posts)NH Ethylene
(30,817 posts)Just putting in 6 or 8 hours days is likely too much for him, not even counting all the stress.
He may 'pop' in more ways than one.
onenote
(42,767 posts)Although I suppose at some point one of those predictions will turn out to be right.
Arthur_Frain
(1,859 posts)Been waiting to see a significant perp-walk since Mueller. Simply never happened. I'm not going to hold my breath here either.
RandomNumbers
(17,600 posts)is quite satisfying. For now at least.
If he ultimately goes away without a conviction here, that will be highly annoying; but at least he has had to endure some tiny fraction of what a normal person would have to deal with if they broke the law. It's not a lot but it's WAY more than he feels he should be subjected to, and that's something at least.
ProudMNDemocrat
(16,793 posts)His estate, or what is left of it after litigants(E Jean Carroll, the state of New York), creditors, and banks get their money, nothing will remain for his family. The 2 daughters are sitting just fine. The 3 sons? That's another story.
onenote
(42,767 posts)So it would be a while before the judgment could be enforced.
CanonRay
(14,118 posts)That would involve imagining his own death, and I'm not sure he's capable of that. Just a thought.
Ping Tung
(686 posts)Trump's going down. But I think it will be with a bang then a whimper.
Sky Jewels
(7,140 posts)Sky Jewels
(7,140 posts)orange makeup, ketchup, KFC grease ... and worse.
ProudMNDemocrat
(16,793 posts)[link:
|The opportunity lended itself.
Sky Jewels
(7,140 posts)Love the Python!
magicarpet
(14,175 posts).... pass on the coleslaw,.. that's a veggie,... it might be construed as being too healthy.
malaise
(269,172 posts)I have never heard any of them raise this about another criminal defendant
Chautauquas
(4,452 posts)It's a pleasant thought anyway
H2O Man
(73,621 posts)(recommended)
tanyev
(42,618 posts)Doodley
(9,129 posts)bucolic_frolic
(43,295 posts)Blue Owl
(50,505 posts)brewens
(13,622 posts)hide what people around him see every day. Falling asleep and shitting his pants are just the start. For a rally, he's fired up enough and with a fresh diaper can make it through okay. Weeks of having to control himself in court probably isn't going to turn out well.
He's having to follow the court rules all day every day. That's the worst thing that can happen to a dumbass authoritarian f-stain. Nothing brings out the man baby better.
wnylib
(21,611 posts)does with someone who has a substance addiction. Only worse, maybe, because Trump will (or already does) feel paranoid about so many people presenting facts that he can't face and yet can't escape hearing. He can't interrupt with his usual spin and talking over others to project his own version of himself. He will (or already does) feel trapped and cornered.
Desperate to escape feeling trapped, he will resort to escalattion of verbal attacks and attempts to create violence on his behalf through RW media and political followers. If unable to do that, he will collapse in on himself, like a building being demolished.
For the sake of the nation and the world, I prefer the demolished building outcome.
ecstatic
(32,731 posts)I know there's nothing the prosecutor can do beyond what he's already been doing, which is to demand accountability and consequences when trump violates the gag order. But someone's life will be put at risk when the MF does pop. That's the unfortunate part.
JustAnotherGen
(31,902 posts)For every minute of "mini press conferences" he gives entering and exiting the courtroom on publicly owned property (courthouse) the media needs to give equal time to the Biden Campaign.
RussellCattle
(1,535 posts)RussellCattle
(1,535 posts)......that, to some extent, he plays Crazy Trump to keep others off balance in their dealings with him. The idea that he is chained to his chair in the courtroom and cant stand being made to just keep quiet and listen, may be somewhat less burdensome to him than we might hope. I really hope that Im wrong, though, and that he either has a massive stroke or goes nuts and they have to restrain and sedate him with elephant tranquilizer.
SleeplessinSoCal
(9,145 posts)Once he declared his candidacy, he was subject to rules and regulations. And he thrives on breaking rules. But it's the people he warped along the way that is his biggest malfeasance.. it's beyond evil. He's earned his place on Hell. He broke America. Popping or no popping.
Do you suppose he is on Xanax?
gulliver
(13,195 posts)Texin
(2,597 posts)stopdiggin
(11,370 posts)(or any other case) on its merits. Not waiting for a gag order to be breached. The latter may serve up some satisfaction for the frustrated public - the prosecution is looking for a conviction on charges brought.
Traildogbob
(8,812 posts)The engorged, pus filled anus boil he is. Stand back and stand down, when it blows, because it will splatter everything in the country. Every single person will get some on them.
But the release may ease the pain in the ass he is.
PortTack
(32,794 posts)Anything to keep it going.
Blue Idaho
(5,057 posts)I give him seven years - tops. Three of those being on a post stroke debilitated state.
Skittles
(153,193 posts)THEN HE WILL FUCKING KNOW HOW IT FEELS TO BE *ANYONE* WITH CRITICAL THINKING SKILLS LISTENING TO HIM
Eliot Rosewater
(31,121 posts)even more time to stall so he can get in the WH and stop it all.
Hekate
(90,821 posts)Botany
(70,585 posts)... exposed as a liar on everything and a crook.
May the stress be so great that he "strokes out." This trial is just the start of his hellish stream of criminal and civil actions against him and all the time he will have some Judge telling him what he can and cannot do as his former people testify against him.
keithbvadu2
(36,917 posts)Buns_of_Fire
(17,196 posts)It's nicer than saying "he farted himself to death."
AuntyGravity
(208 posts)Takket
(21,629 posts)he might seem energetic TO SOME PEOPLE but that is because we only see him for a few hours a week at rallies populated by his cult. The reality is he is extremely unhealthy physically and mentally and having no place to hide for the next few weeks is going to take its toll on him.
DBoon
(22,397 posts)Titled "Mr. Creosote Blows"
But it was too gross even as a comparison to Trump