Donald Trump, US President #47, US President #45, convicted felon, twice impeached, four times indicted, liable of rape, convicted for financial fraud, guilty of hiding hush money payments to porn actress in attempt to influence 2016 elections

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#2905052 21-Apr-2022 18:57

freitasm:

Still, just an edited ad for a new show. Wait for the actual footage, then get conclusions.

Some other people are thinking along the same lines as you: https://www.politico.com/news/2022/04/20/trump-piers-morgan-interview-00026718

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#2905359 22-Apr-2022 11:49

https://edition.cnn.com/2022/04/21/politics/trump-desantis-republican-party/index.html

It's starting to look like Florida governor Ron De Santis (someone else I find absolutely awful) is Trump V2, just a hell of lot more polished than Trump was. If he decides to run in 2024, well...what then?

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#2905397 22-Apr-2022 13:54

The NY Times - ‘I’ve Had It With This Guy’: G.O.P. Leaders Privately Blasted Trump After Jan. 6

21 April

In the days after the Jan. 6 attack on the Capitol building, the two top Republicans in Congress, Representative Kevin McCarthy and Senator Mitch McConnell, told associates they believed President Trump was responsible for inciting the deadly riot and vowed to drive him from politics.

Mr. McCarthy went so far as to say he would push Mr. Trump to resign immediately: “I’ve had it with this guy,” he told a group of Republican leaders, according to an audio recording of the conversation obtained by The New York Times.

But within weeks both men backed off an all-out fight with Mr. Trump because they feared retribution from him and his political movement.

Their drive to act faded fast as it became clear it would mean difficult votes that would put them at odds with most of their colleagues. ...

The confidential expressions of outrage from Mr. McCarthy and Mr. McConnell, which have not been previously reported, illustrate the immense gulf between what Republican leaders say privately about Mr. Trump and their public deference to a man whose hold on the party has gone virtually unchallenged for half a decade.

The leaders’ swift retreat in January 2021 represented a capitulation at a moment of extraordinary political weakness for Mr. Trump - perhaps the last and best chance for mainstream Republicans to reclaim control of their party from a leader who had stoked an insurrection against American democracy itself. ...

This account is adapted from a new book, “This Will Not Pass: Trump, Biden and the Battle for America’s Future,” which draws on hundreds of interviews with lawmakers and officials, and recordings of private conversations.

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#2905401 22-Apr-2022 14:11

The NY Times - Trump Campaign Ordered to Pay $1.3 Million to Omarosa Manigault Newman in NDA* case

20 April

A court arbitrator has ordered former President Donald J. Trump’s presidential campaign to pay nearly $1.3 million in legal fees to Omarosa Manigault Newman, the former “Apprentice” star, White House aide and author of the first tell-all book about the Trump White House.

The award, handed down on Tuesday, concludes a protracted legal fight after Mr. Trump unsuccessfully sued Ms. Manigault Newman over her book, “Unhinged,” arguing that she had violated a nondisclosure agreement she had signed while working for his campaign in 2016.

Mr. Trump lost the arbitration case in September 2021, one in a string of failed attempts to enforce nondisclosure agreements against former employees. ...

The award “hopefully will send a message that weaponized litigation will not be tolerated and empower other lawyers to stand up and fight,” said Ms. Manigault Newman’s lawyer ...

* Non Disclosure Agreement

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#2905403 22-Apr-2022 14:17

Sideface: The confidential expressions of outrage from Mr. McCarthy and Mr. McConnell, which have not been previously reported, illustrate the immense gulf between what Republican leaders say privately about Mr. Trump and their public deference to a man whose hold on the party has gone virtually unchallenged for half a decade.

“No wise man ever thought that a traitor should be trusted.”

Cicero

“Sweetie, if you’re going to be two faced, at least make one of them pretty.”

Marilyn Monroe

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#2905405 22-Apr-2022 14:26

Politico: Leader of effort to fund Trump's border wall pleads guilty to fraud

The co-founder of the “We Build The Wall” project aimed at raising money for a border wall pleaded guilty Thursday to charges in a case that once included former President Donald Trump’s adviser Steve Bannon.

Brian Kolfage admitted to pocketing hundreds of thousands of dollars while promising all donations would pay for the wall. His plea came a month before a trial in a case that began in dramatic fashion in August 2020 when Bannon was pulled from a luxury yacht off the coast of Connecticut and arrested on allegations that he and three others falsely promised donors that all donations would help build a wall on the southern border.

Bannon was pardoned by Trump just before he left office last year. Bannon had pleaded not guilty to charges that he pocketed over $1 million
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#2905408 22-Apr-2022 14:30

The Daily Beast: New York's District Attorney's Star Witness: Indict Trump Now or I’m Out

If Manhattan prosecutors don’t indict former President Donald Trump with the grand jury they’ve got in the next nine days, the key witness investigators have used to build their entire case says he won’t help revive it in the future.

Michael Cohen, the New York lawyer Trump used for years as his family company’s trusted consigliere, told "The Daily Beast" he’s already wasted too much of his time on a case that slowly and then suddenly doesn’t seem to be going anywhere.

Prosecutors only have until the current grand jury’s term expires on April 30 to issue charges, at which point they must ask jurors who’ve already done this for six months to continue hearing evidence—or call the whole thing off and awkwardly make the entire presentation all over again in front of another 23 jurors.

If this grand jury is let go, Cohen won’t play ball. Asked if he’d be willing to sit down again with investigators or testify at a future trial against Trump, Cohen responded with utter exasperation.
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#2905564 23-Apr-2022 07:25

A couple of the relevant cartoons from this week:

Political cartoon.

Also Marjorie Taylor Greene went on trial overnight as to whether she can run again or not, after having a hand in January 6:

https://edition.cnn.com/2022/04/22/politics/marjorie-taylor-greene-disqualification/index.html

"I don't remember", what a convenient memory fade.

And: https://www.politico.com/news/magazine/2022/03/31/house-majority-steal-presidency-trump-00021780

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#2905615 23-Apr-2022 11:12

The New York Times - McCarthy Said Trump Acknowledged ‘Some Responsibility’ for Jan. 6

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New audio captures what Representative Kevin McCarthy said to Republicans shortly after the Jan. 6 attack on the Capitol.

The audio obtained by The New York Times that emerged on Friday is part of a series of new revelations about Republican leaders’ private condemnations of Mr. Trump in the days after his supporters stormed the Capitol as part of an effort to stop the certification of electoral votes for Joseph R. Biden Jr.

“Let me be very clear to all of you, and I have been very clear to the president: he bears responsibilities for his words and actions,” Mr. McCarthy said on the call, which took place on Jan. 11. “No if, ands or buts.”

“I asked him personally today, does he hold responsibility for what happened?” Mr. McCarthy said. “Does he feel bad about what happened? He told me he does have some responsibility for what happened and he’d need to acknowledge that.”

Mr. McCarthy’s assertion is at odds with the former president’s refusal, then and now, to accept responsibility for the deadly attack.

It illustrates the vast gulf between the private, derisive tone Republican leaders use about the former president and their public flattery of the de facto leader of their party. ...

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#2905882 23-Apr-2022 21:35

"Imitation is the sincerest form of flattery"

The Sydney Morning Herald - Big Europe versus ‘Madame Trump’: Why the French election is bigger than Brexit

[where "Madame Trump" = Marine Le Pen] 🙄

This 2017 photo op with Vladimir Putin has come back to haunt French presidential candidate Marine Le Pen.

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#2905911 24-Apr-2022 00:04

Madison Cawthorn had some explaining to do this week.

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-10744923/Madison-Cawthorn-says-photos-lingerie-surrounded-women-cruise-ship-goofy.html

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#2905927 24-Apr-2022 07:57

Oh they were just "photos from a vacay"...apparently the liberal left media is out to get him. Don't worry, I'm sure the Republican propaganda machine will smooth the whole thing over, like they always do. The much more important issue is Hunter Biden's laptop, apparently 🙄

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#2905976 24-Apr-2022 12:10

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#2906167 24-Apr-2022 17:53

That is awesome, I might steal that.

Also a few primaries coming up in the next month or so - I think Ohio is next week. What will happen if JD Vance - Trump's pick - loses? Are we really going to start hearing that "election fraud" bs all over again? Spare me.

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#2906258 25-Apr-2022 07:09

https://www.politico.com/news/magazine/2022/04/24/sarah-palins-return-to-politics-00027304

Looks at what Sarah Palin may really want out of running for Congress in Alaska.

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