Lock him up, for fuck’s sake

There’s nothing I’ve really wanted to say about the Orange One’s legal woes, cos I prefer to have as little to say about him as possible, but there was an interesting development in the hush money trial:

So Trump keeps violating the gag order that’s been put on him by pissing and moaning on Truth Social, and there’s been a lot of discourse about why he isn’t in jail for it. Cos, you know, like everything else about Trump’s legal situation, ANYONE ELSE would’ve been in jail ages ago… anyway, though, Judge Merchan has finally raised the spectre of Orange Man having to wear the orange suit. So this is quite a move forward.

At least it will be if Merchan actually takes it; while noting that the $1000 fines he applied to each of the nine times he’s been allowed to violate the gag order have been useless as a deterrent, on the tenth violation he just fined him the thousand bucks again. And he’s said outright he doesn’t actually want to jail Trump either, all of which kind of begs the question: at what point does Merchan actually intend to consider the jail option? And when he does consider it, will he actually pack Trump off to a cell? Cos, obviously, ANYONE ELSE, like I said, would’ve been in one long before this. Amazing what leniency you can purchase just by having been president…