Trump's Joke About Fleeing Country Could Come Back To Haunt Him In Court

Donald Trump decided that it would be funny to joke about fleeing the country in order to avoid criminal prosecution, going as far as to say that maybe he'll just flee to Russia and live with Vladimir Putin. This comment may have been a joke (maybe it wasn't?) but it will definitely come back to haunt him when he has to face a judge later this week, as even joking about fleeing can be grounds to have one's bond revoked. Farron Cousins discusses this.

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Well, folks, Donald Trump has decided to take the indictments in Georgia and his pending surrender tomorrow in stride by joking about possibly just fleeing the country and going to live happily ever after. With Vladimir Putin in a post on truth social on Monday after his attorneys agreed to the conditions of his surrender, including a $200,000 bond, Donald Trump posted this on truth Social, the failed district attorney of Fulton County, Atlanta, Fannie Willis, insisted on a 200,000 bond from me. I assumed therefore, that she thought I was a flight risk. I'd fly far away maybe to Russia, Russia, Russia, share a gold domed suite with Vladimir never to be seen or heard from again. Would I be able to take my very understated airplane with the gold Trump affixed for all to see? Probably not. I'd be much better off flying commercial. I'm sure nobody would recognize me.

So it's funny, right, because you have a defendant that is actually joking about fleeing the country to avoid prosecution. Get it because it's a joke somehow. Um, here's the thing, there's several things actually. Uh, I think the first and foremost thing we need to talk about is, of course, the fact that this is really a signal to his supporters. Like, this is Donald Trump trying to tell his supporters I could and I have the means to disappear outta your lives forever. And you don't want that. You don't want Donald Trump living in a foreign land never to be seen or heard from again, do you? Of course you don't. But that's what's at stake with these prosecutions. So first, it's a bit of a dog whistle to those supporters, warning them that Trump could go away forever, if not to Russia, Russia, Russia, than possibly to prison.

So he's sending that signal out to his supporters. The second thing, and this is probably the most important thing, is that he's gonna have to answer questions about this post in court. Like without a doubt. If it doesn't come up in the hearing that he's going to attend his arraignment, uh, on Thursday, then I'm sure it will come up at some point in a subsequent hearing, possibly brought up by prosecutors during the actual trial, because Donald Trump, as I have repeatedly said, and probably will continue to repeat, to say, doesn't know when to just shut the hell up. Everything you say from the moment those indictments were handed down, honest to God, even before the indictments were handed down, everything you say on social media can and will be used against you at trial. And this little joke here, like, oh, maybe I'll just move to Russia and share a, share a bedroom with Vladimir Pit like that, that's weird. Like,

I don't get that part of the joke. Like, if you want to go hang out with Vlad, cool, but, um, actually not cool, but you know what I mean. Like, but why, why are you insinuating that you two are even gonna share a bedroom right now? That that kind of raises More questions, uh, that I guess we'll never get answers to. But either way, this is going to come up. There are certain things, especially as a criminal defendant, that you actually cannot joke about. You know, there's certain things like you cannot joke about assassinations without the secret service coming and knocking at your door because they have no way of knowing 100% what is a joke and what's a legitimate threat, just like the prosecutors in this case. Yes, it's obviously a joke, right? But is it like, could you prove in court that this was a joke?

You can't, you can't prove without a doubt that he is not serious about this. You can't prove without a doubt that he is serious about it either. But if Trump keeps making hilarious jokes like this, it's going to become a very serious issue that could possibly land him in jail. If prosecutors do finally decide, you know, what? Enough of these jokes, he seems like a flight risk, we're revoking the bond. So I'm sure Trump's lawyers weren't too happy with this post, and hopefully they, they've told him Don't do it again, because they may not realize that you're joking and we can't exactly prove that you were.