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  #2874208 24-Feb-2022 18:00
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kingdragonfly: Reuters: Judge signals Trump may be unable to countersue rape victim Jean Carroll in defamation case
Background: Advice columnist E. Jean Carroll said her black "Donna Karan" brand jacket dress has hung in her closet for more than 22 years — ever since the day that she alleges President Trump raped her in a dressing room. And now, after many years of not being used, Carroll says the dress may be the key to proving who the perpetrator of her assault really is.

CBS News: Donald Trump's DNA, not deposition, sought by lawyer for woman who accused him of raping her in the 90s

A lawyer for a woman who accused former President Donald Trump of raping her in the mid-1990s and then filed a defamation lawsuit against him said Tuesday she will not [ask for a deposition from] Trump prior to trial because it would cause unnecessary delay, but added that a DNA sample was still being sought.

Attorney Roberta Kaplan first made the revelation in Manhattan federal court during a pretrial hearing before explaining the decision to reporters outside the court as her client, E. Jean Carroll, stood by her side.

A deposition, Kaplan said, would "inevitably result in an inordinate amount of delay."

"We want the case to go forward," she said.
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  #2874315 24-Feb-2022 20:16
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geekIT: Trump 'type'.

Are you sure? This person looks too patriotic to be Trump's type.

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  #2874335 24-Feb-2022 21:11
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geekIT:  Trump 'type'.

 

 




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  #2874512 25-Feb-2022 08:28
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The Guardian: Belief in QAnon has strengthened in US since Trump was voted out, study finds

he QAnon conspiracy myth movement continues to thrive in the US and has even strengthened more than a year after Donald Trump left the White House, according to the largest ever study of its followers.

Some 22% of Americans believe that a “storm” is coming, 18% think violence might be necessary to save the country and 16% hold that the government, media and financial worlds are controlled by Satan-worshipping pedophiles, according to four surveys carried out last year by the Public Religion Research Institute (PRRI) think tank.

‘We have a project’: QAnon followers eye swing state election official races
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Each of these baseless and bizarre views is a core tenet of QAnon, an antisemitic internet conspiracy theory which held that Trump was waging a secret battle against a cabal of pedophiles and its “deep state” collaborators – a “storm” that would sweep them out of power.

Yet despite his election defeat by Joe Biden, major social media platforms banning QAnon activity and the disappearance of its leader, “Q”, the movement has not gone away. If anything, it has strengthened.

“The share of QAnon believers has increased slightly through 2021,” the report by the PRRI states. “In March, 14% of Americans were QAnon believers, compared to 16% in July, 17% in September, and 17% in October.
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  #2874803 25-Feb-2022 14:49
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geekIT: Trump 'type'.

Are you sure? This person looks too patriotic to be Trump's type.

 

Yep, At first I thought that, too. Also, their combined girths would have made Emission Impossible.

 

Then I spotted the knee and elbow callouses.




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  #2874984 25-Feb-2022 17:16
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Why So Many Republicans Are Pulling For Putin - "The Circus" Hosts On What Happened To The GOP

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  #2875190 26-Feb-2022 09:09
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The NY Times - Opinion - Defeat Trump, Now More Than Ever

 

24 Feb 2022

 


The democratic nations of the world are in a global struggle against authoritarianism. ...

 

But that struggle also has domestic fronts - the need to defeat the mini-Putins now found across the Western democracies. 

 

These are the demagogues who lie with Putinesque brazenness, who shred democratic institutions with Putinesque bravado, who strut the world’s stage with Putin’s amoral schoolboy machismo while pretending to represent all that is traditional and holy.

 

In the United States, that, of course, is Donald Trump. 

 

This moment of heightened danger and crisis makes it even clearer that the No. 1 domestic priority for all Americans who care about democracy is to make sure Trump never sees the inside of the Oval Office ever again. ...

 




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  #2875719 27-Feb-2022 13:05
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Comments made during CPAC, the annual conservative stink-tank.

BusinessInsider.com.au/: Ex-Trump aide says Michelle Obama would put Republicans in ‘a very difficult position’ if she ran for president in 2024

The conservative commentator Monica Crowley, a former Trump administration aide, on Saturday said that a presidential run by former first lady Michelle Obama would put Republicans in “a very difficult position.”

“If [Democrats] were to run Michelle Obama, that would put us in a very difficult position because they’d reach for a candidate who is completely plausible, very popular, and immune to criticism,” she said. “Also, when you think about her positioning, she spoke as a [Democratic National Convention] keynote speaker in 2020, she wrote her autobiography and did a 50-city tour, she has massive Netflix and Spotify deals, and she’s got a voting-rights group alongside Stacey Abrams.”

...She also spoke of the complications that Democrats might face in 2024 if President Joe Biden chooses not to run for reelection. (He has so far committed to running for a second term.)

Pointing to Vice President Kamala Harris and some of her first-year stumbles in office, Crowley argued that Democrats nonetheless would be hard-pressed to deny her a presidential nomination for fear of alienating Black women, who have been the most loyal segment of the party for years.

[Trump administration aide] Crowley, ... said that Democrats might seek another scenario that would thrill the party − the candidacy of former first lady Michelle Obama.

Obama ... has long expressed her distaste for politics. She has also enjoyed moderate to high favorability among the general public in various polls.

But, the former first lady has continually stated that she does not foresee her name being on a presidential ballot. Many Democrats, though, cannot help but envision her running for a White House bid given her status as a highly-regarded first lady with universal name recognition and an appeal that can cut across demographic and political lines.

Although conservatives are eager to regain the White House after former President Donald Trump’s 2020 presidential loss, Crowley, during the forum, refused to underestimate Obama’s potential appeal as a candidate.
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  #2876152 28-Feb-2022 11:12
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The only spurs on this guy are on his balls.

 

 




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  #2876476 28-Feb-2022 18:50
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The NY Times - Barr Rebukes Trump as ‘Off the Rails’ in New Memoir

 

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WASHINGTON - Former Attorney General William P. Barr writes in a new memoir that former President Donald J. Trump’s “self-indulgence and lack of self-control” cost him the 2020 election and says “the absurd lengths to which he took his ‘stolen election’ claim led to the rioting on Capitol Hill.”

 

In the book, “One Damn Thing After Another: Memoirs of an Attorney General,” Mr. Barr also urges his fellow Republicans to pick someone else as the party’s nominee for the 2024 election, calling the prospect of another presidential run by Mr. Trump “dismaying.”

 

“Donald Trump has shown he has neither the temperament nor persuasive powers to provide the kind of positive leadership that is needed,” Mr. Barr writes. ...

 

Mr. Barr was long considered a close ally of Mr. Trump.

 

But the two fell out toward the end of the Trump administration, when Mr. Barr refused to go along with Mr. Trump’s baseless claims that the 2020 election had been stolen. ...

 

 

 

 

 




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  #2876558 28-Feb-2022 20:29
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Oh I have to read that one! I must have read almost every book now by ex-Trump administration staff, especially the ones who really - and I mean really - didn't like him, or working for him.

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  #2876561 28-Feb-2022 20:37
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the ones who really - and I mean really - didn't like him, or working for him.

 

 

Isn't that the same thing?

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  #2876575 28-Feb-2022 21:13
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I guess I was trying to differentiate between people who tolerated him for the paycheque for as long as possible (Sarah Huckabee Sanders, Kellyanne Conway, Omarosa Newman, etc) as opposed to those who quite openly described him as an a-hole as soon as they left his employ (John Kelly, Mr Barr as above, etc).

 

Reading the review in that article, I'd probably be most interested in the bit where he tells Trump there's no election fraud, which Trump obviously disagreed with. That part has been covered (overlapping) in a few books I've read already, especially where Trump - bizarrely - says to him in the third person "you must hate Trump".

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quickymart:

 

I guess I was trying to differentiate between people who tolerated him for the paycheque for as long as possible (Sarah Huckabee Sanders, Kellyanne Conway, Omarosa Newman, etc) as opposed to those who quite openly described him as an a-hole as soon as they left his employ (John Kelly, Mr Barr as above, etc).

 

Reading the review in that article, I'd probably be most interested in the bit where he tells Trump there's no election fraud, which Trump obviously disagreed with. That part has been covered (overlapping) in a few books I've read already, especially where Trump - bizarrely - says to him in the third person "you must hate Trump".

 

 

Amusing to consider what Barr might have replied.

 

'Okay.'

 

'Oh no. Loathe and despise is more accurate, I think.'

 

'No. I've never been one to follow the crowd.'

 

'If you say so.'

 

'Which one?'

 

'Don't you?'

 

'Must? No, I never felt compelled.'

 

'Trump? Not really. I mean, it's better than Drumpf.'




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Trump continues to abuse the judicial system, trying to run out the clock.

The Guardian: Trump appeals ruling requiring him to testify in New York investigation


Donald Trump has appealed a judge’s decision requiring he answer questions under oath in New York state’s civil investigation into his business practices – a widely expected move that’s likely to prolong the fight over his testimony by months.

Lawyers for the former president and his two eldest children filed papers on Monday with the appellate division of the state’s trial court, seeking to overturn Manhattan judge Arthur Engoron’s 17 February ruling.

They argue ordering the Trumps to testify violates their constitutional rights because their answers could be used in a parallel criminal investigation.

In an eight-page ruling, Engoron set a 10 March deadline for Trump and his children, Ivanka Trump and Donald Trump Jr, to sit for depositions. Lawyers for the Trumps asked the appellate court for a stay to spare them from questioning while it considers the matter.

The court did not set a date for arguments. It typically issues decisions several months after that, but could be inclined to rule on an expedited basis given the urgency of New York attorney general Letitia James’ investigation and the Trumps’ desire to swiftly overturn Engoron’s ruling.

A message seeking comment was left with James’ office. On Friday, the attorney general had signaled she was ready for a long fight to get them to testify.
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Reuters: White House denies executive privilege for former Trump advisers

The White House said on Monday it is denying executive privilege to advisers of former President Donald Trump, whose testimony is being sought by a congressional committee investigating the deadly Jan. 6, 2021, Capitol riot.

In letters dated Feb. 28, a White House lawyer explained to former Trump trade adviser Peter Navarro and to a lawyer for Michael Flynn, Trump's first national security adviser, that President Joe Biden had determined that executive privilege "is not in the national interest, and therefore is not justified" in certain matters before the committee.

Deputy White House counsel Jonathan C. Su wrote in separate letters regarding the two cases that the subjects where executive privilege did not apply included "events within the White House on or about January 6, 2021; attempts to use the Department of Justice to advance a false narrative that the 2020 election was tainted by widespread fraud; and other efforts to alter election results or obstruct the transfer of power."

Navarro said he emailed Su, arguing it is "fanciful and dangerous" for a sitting president to be able to revoke his predecessor's executive privilege. "See you at the Supreme Court," he added in the email to Su, which Navarro shared with Reuters.
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