A friend sent me this, has anyone else heard this about TFG? :-)

[Omaha Steve]

I just woke up (and couldn't get back to sleep). Sorry if this is a dupe. I hope this is correct.

[Emile]

1. Just a matter of a little time and he'll be handcuffed,

that's the word around here!

[Escurumbele]

5. Amen, and that is why the media needs to stop talking about the buffoon running on 2024

He will be indicted this year, he will be jailed this year.

Everyone, repeat after me:

trump will be indicted this year, he will be jailed this year.

[COL Mustard]

6. I want to believe that he'll face justice

But I’m not holding my breath.

[Jedi Guy]

16. He may well be indicted this year.

I doubt very much he'll be jailed this year, though. A case like that will take months to go to trial, the trial will last a while, and if he's convicted, sentencing will be a while after that. He might be in the clink next year, though. From our lips to God's ear...

[oldsoftie]

17. Not gonna happen. Especially the "jailed" part.

It just isnt
I would prefer to see his businesses all fail and he become broke. Jailing him would make him a martyr. Breaking him makes him a LOSER. Again.

[Dan]

20. Jail might make him a martyr to those outside the criminal justice system, but

Trump ain’t got the strength or character to handle jail.

[Joinfortmill]

23. 👍

[Dorian Gray]

8. Unlikely

though I would love to be proven wrong.

[smb]

9. Where Are The Gonna Find Such Tiny Cuffs? nt

[Emile]

10. I never thought about that, I guess zip ties might work.

[Comfortably_Numb]

13. They can use a bread tie, but just twist it until it gets tight.

[certainot]

40. his wrists are normal sized but his hands would pull right out of any sized cuffs! his head is

bigger than his neck though

[EYESORE 9001]

2. A cursory glance at the purported source (NYT) doesn't show anything about this claim

Would be nice if tweeters provided a link to the source.

[Ford_Prefect]

29. Click bait headline of wishful thinking or another troll?

[certainot]

31. yep. would it make sense to ask them that and what if they said he did? more likely

they want to know who their group leaders were and then they would ask those guys who they were coordinating with, who was paying them, etc.

who told the guy who started the chants to "hang mike pence?"

[Ford_Prefect]

34. I checked the source tweet and it has ZERO reference to any NYT reportage.

That is to say I looked at the original posting on his twitter page. It includes no references or links to any specific report at NYT.

IMO this is the account author injecting attitude. Nothing at the NYT confirms this specific action or behavior on the part of prosecutors. It may be what they would do, it may have happened to some of those investigated, but I see no evidence to corroborate it.

Not specifically a false claim but it sure reads like click bait to me. Looks like one more juicy rumor to spread and stir the information stream.

...Also one of the first rules about spam in email: "A friend sent me this..."

[634-5789]

3. Went to NYTimes... nothing that I could see.

[EYESORE 9001]

4. Well, that's unusual

I thought that tweets carried as much authority as if it’d come from a burning bush. This comes as a huge disappointment.

[reACTIONary]

14. +10 nt

[mahatmakanejeeves]

15. I still haven't seen independent verification of the fired ADA in Queens story either.

Different people retweeting the same tweet that has already been retweeted does not count as independent verification.

Mon Jan 10, 2022: Shannon Stephens, Queens NY DA office -- FIRED

[left-of-center2012]

7. No matter how much dirt comes out on TFG

I do not expect him to be handcuffed, and go to jail.
Not that he shouldn't.
You should.

I just don't see America putting a former president in jail.
He will be censored in some way but not by the gray bar hotel.

Just my humble opinion, of course

[oldsoftie]

18. I agree with your assessment. nt

[Dan]

22. If America lacks the will to do the right thing in the case of Trump,

Then this is less about Trump than it is about US.

There is always, always a first time.

[stopdiggin]

24. love to be wrong about this

but that's kind of where I come down too. There could be fairly heavy censure and punitive measures (although probably not for actions in office) - but the orange jump suit, not at all likely.

(we did a pretty good job of making Richard Nixon a political and social pariah - that might have to do here as well)

[bucolic_frolic]

11. A few seem to have said so spontaneously unprompted in court

So doesn't surprise me.

[Laura PourMeADrink]

21. My first impression I read this was coercion. Perhaps

Just the way it was written? Hope not

[Torchlight]

26. How does the way it written come across as coercive to you?

[Laura PourMeADrink]

35. These words

[Torchlight]

36. I can't infer any coercion. Could you explain it to me?

[Laura PourMeADrink]

37. Duh. Sorry I just realized I used the wrong word. I meant entrapment.

[no_hypocrisy]

12. TFG did everything but outright command the mob to go to the Capitol

and "take back democracy".

While I understand mob psychology, where a group of people act as a cohesive whole and not as individuals, all the demonstrations I've participated in NEVER had a "leader" tell us to violate the law. Just march and chant and be respectful of both police and counter-demonstrators.

You'll never convince me that the mob or individuals acted on their own initiative, that it was THEIR idea alone, to storm the Capitol, forcibly enter the Capitol, stop the vote-counting, and perhaps do "vigilante justice". It's disingenuous for them to say they got carried away. They wanted to please THEIR LEADER, TFG.

[Mr. Ected]

19. There are acts of commission...and there are acts of omission

Trump is guilty of both. Not only did he cajole the insurrectionists to storm the capital, he didn't make a peep to dissuade them from stomping the shit out of it for several hours when he obviously had the opportunity.

Frankly, they've got him coming and going.

[stopdiggin]

25. think you have a much stronger case there for

acts of omission. If there is true 'commission' - I've yet to see anything (that would come close to holding up in court) laid out. Tie this guy (perhaps in a phone call) planning offensive action against the Capital w/ the Proud Boys ....

[gab13by13]

27. They are doing it to charge them with

impeding an official proceeding of Congress, a felony.

[Kingofalldems]

30. Kick and rec for Trump's secret pals.

[we can do it]

32. Cue the haters in 3, 2, 1.........

[Laura PourMeADrink]

38. Haters of whom?

[we can do it]

39. Garland

[samnsara]

33. prosecuters are 'asking' rioters to admit? Thats too polite..