Trump falsely claims police are preventing "thousands" of people from protesting his trial

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Trump falsely claims police are preventing "thousands" of people from protesting his trial
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Nypd has dump trucks?

Yeah they kinda look like this: NYPD dump truck

Occasionally they catch on fire: NYPD flaming dumpster

Damn. Burn.

edit: lmao even funnier that you edited in a burning one just as I commented

they also look like this:

edit: Oh look. here's some more dumptrucks.

Those look more like manure spreaders.

I wonder what it would cost to pay a guy with a manure spreader to drive out to the mar a lago golf course and spread some on the links?

I wonder why the NYPD owns a dump truck

I don't know why, but I never thought to question that until this very moment.

probably to do exactly what they did. specifically, to barricade streets from people also diving dumptrucks and whatever other heavy vehicle they might get. Chances are it was requested by the secret service detail.

It's either that or an MRAP, and MRAPS don't exactly convince people they're the Kinder and Friendly New York Police™️

Probably just a city truck that the police were using to block the street.

Probably for this exact purpose. It’s much less intimidating than the military vehicles.

Trump wondered why the police had not paraded down the streets, knocked on people's doors menacingly and told them to report to the Trump victory center for vote verification. After all, he had bought all those leather boots.

It kind of feels like he's banking on the police being supporters of his and is attempting to get them to lighten their security around the building. That would allow his protesters to pull another January 6th at the courthouse.

Are they not? I don't know how attacking the courthouse would help the outcome. I guess whatever it takes for another delay.

'Alternative Facts', should be really easy to disprove, no?

Basically why anyone has been voting Republican since the 90s when Newt Gingrich and Rush Limbaugh took the platform from "mostly bullshit with some outdated ideology mixed in" to "99.9% bullshit by volume".

.1% is giving them a lot of credit.

I was rounding up because determining how many 9 decimals is appropriate for accuracy would require too much research and abstract statistics 😉

Unless you have millions of sycophantic fans living in a media bubble...

Just more blathering from the anti-cop soft-on-crime hard right.