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Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin

(107,922 posts)
Fri Dec 9, 2016, 01:18 AM Dec 2016

This is what happens when Donald Trump attacks a private citizen on Twitter

About a year ago, 18-year-old college student Lauren Batchelder stood up at a political forum in New Hampshire and told Donald Trump that she didn’t think he was “a friend to women.”

The next morning, Trump fired back on Twitter — calling Batchelder an “arrogant young woman” and accusing her of being a “plant” from a rival campaign. Her phone began ringing with callers leaving threatening messages that were often sexual in nature. Her Facebook and email inboxes filled with similar messages. As her addresses circulated on social media and her photo flashed on the news, she fled home to hide.

“I didn’t really know what anyone was going to do,” said Batchelder, now 19, who has never discussed her experience with a reporter until now. “He was only going to tweet about it and that was it, but I didn’t really know what his supporters were going to do, and that to me was the scariest part.”

This is what happens when Trump targets a private citizen who publicly challenges him.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/this-is-what-happens-when-donald-trump-attacks-a-private-citizen-on-twitter/2016/12/08/a1380ece-bd62-11e6-91ee-1adddfe36cbe_story.html?postshare=5771481247155313&tid=ss_tw&utm_term=.86ba5277c81b

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This is what happens when Donald Trump attacks a private citizen on Twitter (Original Post) Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin Dec 2016 OP
That SOB needs impeached now. Some lawyer should take her case and doc03 Dec 2016 #1
Yes... Cha Dec 2016 #5
Using Twitter and being a douchebag are not impeachable offenses. cstanleytech Dec 2016 #7
Isn't using your position as President to line your own pockets? Isn't doc03 Dec 2016 #11
And when he mean-tweets somebody, and Bubba Redhat throws a Molotov cocktail . . . hatrack Dec 2016 #12
Again there are things that are impeachable offenses but cstanleytech Dec 2016 #20
Handy bathroom fixture, isn't it? hatrack Dec 2016 #24
Abuse of Power Bear Creek Dec 2016 #29
Probably wont work since he hasnt been sworn in yet, after? Maybe but its still a stretch. nt cstanleytech Dec 2016 #30
Inciting violence. DK504 Dec 2016 #14
On a side note, beyond Trump's hate speech encouraging the dangerous, where did you uppityperson Dec 2016 #2
Here Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin Dec 2016 #3
Thank you uppityperson Dec 2016 #4
"Punching down" is what he does best. Buns_of_Fire Dec 2016 #6
Yup he's a bully, bullies always attack people who don't have power Raine Dec 2016 #9
Microphone and twitter have to be taken away from him ......... he can not have them back once Kathy M Dec 2016 #8
Lower than pond scum. demmiblue Dec 2016 #10
Reminds me of this... PatrickforO Dec 2016 #34
he is a fucking bully bdamomma Dec 2016 #13
This is what will happen in Trump's America NewJeffCT Dec 2016 #15
k and r..thanks for posting. Stuart G Dec 2016 #16
This is classic fascism - a coward with unrestrained power BSdetect Dec 2016 #17
Hopefully, this shit will have a nasty. . . DinahMoeHum Dec 2016 #18
hitler with twitter. nt Javaman Dec 2016 #19
Karma for Cheeto Fucktrumpet can't come around soon enough. mnhtnbb Dec 2016 #21
he's such a 'big man'. fucking bully asshole. spanone Dec 2016 #22
all republicans do that, remember Mr. republican-radio, "slut" shaming, & republicans allowed. Sunlei Dec 2016 #23
He can't reply to everyone malaise Dec 2016 #25
What a POS Lotusflower70 Dec 2016 #26
She's right here, area51 Dec 2016 #28
you think she will say anything to shitgibbon that may stop her meal ticket? Feeling the Bern Dec 2016 #32
I would love to meet him just so I could tell him Zing Zing Zingbah Dec 2016 #27
Nazis with better communication capability The Wizard Dec 2016 #31
But "we have to win these voters over" resistance2016 Dec 2016 #33

doc03

(35,325 posts)
1. That SOB needs impeached now. Some lawyer should take her case and
Fri Dec 9, 2016, 01:42 AM
Dec 2016

sue the shit out of that SOB. The same thing happened with the union president from Carrier.

cstanleytech

(26,281 posts)
7. Using Twitter and being a douchebag are not impeachable offenses.
Fri Dec 9, 2016, 04:01 AM
Dec 2016

Hopefully though his actions will force the electoral college to do its job rather than the typical rubber stamping that people expect from them and tell him to piss off and instead choose Hillary.
Granted I doubt they have the spine it would take to actually do that but I can hope.

doc03

(35,325 posts)
11. Isn't using your position as President to line your own pockets? Isn't
Fri Dec 9, 2016, 09:54 AM
Dec 2016

other countries using your position as president to get favors and line their pockets. Isn't knowingly having
a foreign government back your election? So a president can get on twitter and attack a private citizen knowing
or maybe even directing people to threaten them and that is OK? You have a 1000% more chance getting him out
office that way then you will ever have getting a Republican elector to change their vote.

hatrack

(59,583 posts)
12. And when he mean-tweets somebody, and Bubba Redhat throws a Molotov cocktail . . .
Fri Dec 9, 2016, 09:57 AM
Dec 2016

. . . and people die, then what?

"Oh, nobody could have forseen that blahblahblah".

hatrack

(59,583 posts)
24. Handy bathroom fixture, isn't it?
Fri Dec 9, 2016, 07:24 PM
Dec 2016

Takes the blood and ashes off right away - it must be a Pilate 2000X!

Man, I so want one of those!

Bear Creek

(883 posts)
29. Abuse of Power
Sat Dec 10, 2016, 07:07 AM
Dec 2016

And I think that inciting is a offense that holds prison time. Carly Fiorina needed to be charged after the lies about Planned Parenthood and the murder caused by her incitement.

DK504

(3,847 posts)
14. Inciting violence.
Fri Dec 9, 2016, 12:17 PM
Dec 2016

Plain and simple. He has allowed his dogs (no offense to dogs) to go after Americans using their 1st Amendment.

uppityperson

(115,677 posts)
2. On a side note, beyond Trump's hate speech encouraging the dangerous, where did you
Fri Dec 9, 2016, 01:42 AM
Dec 2016

get the far right gif of Obama and Joe?

Buns_of_Fire

(17,174 posts)
6. "Punching down" is what he does best.
Fri Dec 9, 2016, 03:52 AM
Dec 2016

Of course, in his mind, "punching up" is impossible, since there is no one superior to The Emperor.

We have entered the age of Government by Snit.

Raine

(30,540 posts)
9. Yup he's a bully, bullies always attack people who don't have power
Fri Dec 9, 2016, 04:10 AM
Dec 2016

means & influence that the bully has.

Kathy M

(1,242 posts)
8. Microphone and twitter have to be taken away from him ......... he can not have them back once
Fri Dec 9, 2016, 04:08 AM
Dec 2016

they are gone trump shows no restraint

demmiblue

(36,841 posts)
10. Lower than pond scum.
Fri Dec 9, 2016, 08:54 AM
Dec 2016
After midnight, Trump’s director of social media tweeted out screengrabs of Batchelder’s social-media accounts. Trump’s supporters launched investigations of their own. At 7:39 a.m., Trump tweeted: “The arrogant young woman who questioned me in such a nasty fashion at No Labels yesterday was a Jeb staffer! HOW CAN HE BEAT RUSSIA & CHINA?”


Logic doesn’t matter to online trolls, who rated Batchelder’s physical appearance, threatened to rape or otherwise hurt her and called her vulgar names. A photoshopped picture popped up online depicting her face covered in semen.


I think this one is from Death Threat Guy:

“Wishing I could f---ing punch you in the face. id then proceed to stomp your head on the curb and urinate in your bloodied mouth and i know where you live, so watch your f---ing back punk.”


That poor young woman... this makes me sick to my stomach.

bdamomma

(63,836 posts)
13. he is a fucking bully
Fri Dec 9, 2016, 11:46 AM
Dec 2016

cyberbulling is an offense. Well she was right he isn't a friend of women. This man is an every explicit word/s you can think of.

NewJeffCT

(56,828 posts)
15. This is what will happen in Trump's America
Fri Dec 9, 2016, 12:27 PM
Dec 2016

anybody that speaks out against him will get tweeted about by Trump. Then, his deplorable followers will promptly and obediently proceed to threaten and harass the person that Trump tweeted about. When some of them go off the deep end and actually kill/maim somebody, he'll claim shock and horror like Henry II in Shakespeare (will no one rid me of this troublesome priest)

BSdetect

(8,998 posts)
17. This is classic fascism - a coward with unrestrained power
Fri Dec 9, 2016, 12:36 PM
Dec 2016

attacking the defenseless.

What a craphead he is.

Pure scum





DinahMoeHum

(21,783 posts)
18. Hopefully, this shit will have a nasty. . .
Fri Dec 9, 2016, 02:20 PM
Dec 2016

. . .and possibly fatal boomerang effect on that "God Emperor" motherfucker AND his children.

Just a matter of time until he pisses off the wrong person.

mnhtnbb

(31,382 posts)
21. Karma for Cheeto Fucktrumpet can't come around soon enough.
Fri Dec 9, 2016, 05:13 PM
Dec 2016

But it really does seem like these a$$holes must have made deals with the devil to survive
as long as they do in spite of the horrible stuff they do.

 

Feeling the Bern

(3,839 posts)
32. you think she will say anything to shitgibbon that may stop her meal ticket?
Sat Dec 10, 2016, 09:39 PM
Dec 2016

Trophy trollop #4 is just around the corner.

 

resistance2016

(86 posts)
33. But "we have to win these voters over"
Sat Dec 10, 2016, 11:08 PM
Dec 2016

We "need to listen to their concerns," because certain white people know one or two Trump-voters who are "most certainly not racist"

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