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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#2975979 1-Oct-2022 15:49

The NY Times - Jan. 6 and Mar-a-Lago Inquiries Converge in Fights Over Executive Privilege

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WASHINGTON - Two high-profile criminal investigations involving Donald J. Trump are converging on a single, highly consequential question: How much residual executive privilege can a former president invoke after leaving office?

As the Justice Department investigates both Mr. Trump’s attempt to overturn the 2020 election and his retention of sensitive documents at his Florida residence, his legal team has repeatedly claimed that he has retained power to keep information secret, allowing him to block prosecutors from obtaining evidence about his confidential Oval Office communications. ...

Bob Bauer, a former Obama White House counsel who is now Mr. Biden’s personal lawyer, dismissed Mr. Trump’s privilege argument.

“Trump’s legal team is facing very long odds, to say the least,” Mr. Bauer said. “But they may see strategic value in slowing things down by litigating every last strained argument. So it is more ploy than law.”

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#2976192 2-Oct-2022 10:47

The Washington Post - Trump escalates attacks on McConnell with ‘DEATH WISH’ post

01 October 2022

Former president Donald Trump is facing blowback for an inflammatory online message attacking Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) that many viewed as a threat.

“He has a DEATH WISH,” Trump posted late Friday on his Truth Social platform, criticizing McConnell for agreeing to a deal to fund the government through December.

He also disparaged McConnell’s wife, Elaine Chao, who served as Trump’s transportation secretary and was born in Taiwan, in racist terms, calling her “his China loving wife, Coco Chow!”

The post marked a further escalation in an increasingly strained relationship between the two Republican leaders. ...

They often had a tense working relationship during Trump’s presidency and fell out in the aftermath of the 2020 election, when Trump refused to concede and tried to overturn the results, and the attack on the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021.

The Don is going into full gangsta mode ...🙄

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#2976198 2-Oct-2022 10:57

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The Washington Post - Trump escalates attacks on McConnell with ‘DEATH WISH’ post

01 October 2022

He also disparaged McConnell’s wife, Elaine Chao, who served as Trump’s transportation secretary and was born in Taiwan, in racist terms, calling her “his China loving wife, Coco Chow!”

The Don is going into full gangsta mode ...🙄

I mean FFS McConnell or his wife needs to sue him. If it was anyone else who publicly said these comments, they would be.

Anyway check out this site of the real Coco Chow who is a young and emerging Chinese oil painter. She is eager, restless to find the meaning of life, the truth, love..........

Non of those things are DJT. He would not know what they meant anyway.

Whilst the difficult we can do immediately, the impossible takes a bit longer. However, miracles you will have to wait for.

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#2976209 2-Oct-2022 11:23

In the context of the events at the Capitol building this sounds like a death threat followed up with a racist lynchmob.

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#2976222 2-Oct-2022 12:01

gzt: In the context of the events at the Capitol building this sounds like a death threat followed up with a racist lynchmob.

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#2976223 2-Oct-2022 12:03

Go Trump! Shoot yourself in the foot and nail it to the floor! The best asset of the Democratic party! Not only a toxic pathological narcissist, but a clearly dementing racist!

And he STILL has documents that belong to the National Archive! He is just the gift that keeps on giving.

And he can't spell and doesn't understand English grammar!

Plesse igmore amd axxept applogies in adbance fir anu typos

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#2976439 2-Oct-2022 19:08

This is pretty sad (or, impressive - depending on your viewpoint):

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/jan-6-texas-family-of-5-prison-time/

Not just one election-denying loser, but a whole family of them! How would the younger ones explain this to their kids, should they ever have any?
I'd actually be embarrassed to have parents like that.

Yes, jail time for both the (current) parents sounds like a fantastic idea.

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#2976473 2-Oct-2022 22:52

Follow on from my previous post. By the way Matt partner in crime is being convicted of sex trafficking a minor, but Matt Gaetz isn't.

The prosecutor admitted to convict a powerful person you need higher standard of evidence, than ordinary sex offenders.

In other words "All Americans are equal but some are more equal than others".

Independent: Matt Gaetz draws only six viewers to his inaugural Twitch stream

Republican Congressman Matt Gaetz announced last week that he would be throwing his hat into the online streaming ring and starting his own Twitch channel.

So far, his peak viewership has been six people.
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Mr Gaetz has an inherent advantage over a 16-year-old hoping to stream their Dungeons and Dragons campaign or their latest video game speed run — he's a congressman. Theoretically, he has a baked-in audience.
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Those who have followed him to the streaming site don't appear to be fans.
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#2977094 4-Oct-2022 08:53

HA HA!

https://www.axios.com/2022/10/03/supreme-court-mike-lindell-reject

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Maybe he'll learn to keep his big, lying mouth shut for a bit.

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#2977108 4-Oct-2022 09:36

"In the tank" is slang for a solid political supporter. It's excessive support, but just shy of jingoism.

In a different context, usually financial, "tanked" or "in the tank", but that means a bad performance. Not relevant here.

Vanity Fair: “In the tank for trump hardly describes it”: Legal experts blast Trump udge Cannon’s classified-docs ruling

Trump appointed judge Aileen Cannon’s decision to let Trump continue to baselessly claim the FBI planted evidence at Mar-a-Lago has not been well received.

Donald Trump’s attempt to make his classified-documents scandal go away suffered a series of setbacks this month when the special master his lawyers begged to have appointed ordered him to put up or shut up re: his baseless claims that

he declassified the information the FBI recovered from Mar-a-Lago in August and
the feds planted evidence when they raided the Palm Beach club.

But as they say in the legal profession, “It’s only a setback if you don’t have a federal judge willing to destroy her reputation in service to you”

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#2977114 4-Oct-2022 10:13

The NY Times - Opinion - America Has a Ginni Thomas Problem

02 October 2022

Clarence and Virginia (Ginni) Thomas don’t discuss their dueling efforts to destroy our democracy when they come home from a day of wreaking havoc.

That’s what Ms. Thomas, a conservative activist and an adherent to the lie that Donald Trump won the last election, wants us to believe.

That’s essentially what she told the House committee investigating the Jan. 6 attack on the Capitol when it interviewed her last week.

I don’t believe that any more than I believe Trump can declassify documents with his mind.

Why does this matter?

Because Ms. Thomas pressed the White House and various state legislators to overturn the 2020 election, and her husband has refused to recuse himself from election-related cases.

In fact, Justice Thomas was the Supreme Court’s lone dissent when it rejected Trump’s efforts to withhold documents from the Jan. 6 committee. ...

Ms. Thomas didn’t just encourage people to overturn the election; she was at the Stop the Steal rally from which the insurrection sprang on Jan. 6 ...

In other words, Ms. Thomas is a one-woman constitutional crisis.

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#2977118 4-Oct-2022 10:16

Oh but apparently she "left" the rally "before it got violent". Isn't that convenient?

In her mind, she probably had absolutely 0 to do with the rally - but we all know that's definitely not the case.

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#2977174 4-Oct-2022 10:59

The Washington Post today

The 5-Minute Fix: What happens if Republicans take control of Congress?

Here’s a rundown of three scenarios of congressional control, in order of likelihood, based on what we know now about the midterm elections. [headings only]

1. Republicans take the House, Democrats keep the Senate

In a GOP-majority House, Republicans could ...

Disband the Jan. 6 committee
Investigate Hunter Biden
Start lots of other investigations - everything about the Biden administration

Meanwhile, in a Democratic-majority Senate, Democrats could ...

Mostly just confirm Biden judges

2. Republicans win both chambers

In a GOP-majority House and Senate, Republicans could ...

Stymie Biden’s agenda
Hold up court vacancies
Debate a national abortion ban

3. Democrats keep both chambers

If they kept the House and Senate, Democrats could ...

Take another whack at liberal priorities
Limit what a President Trump [clone] could do
Maybe try to keep Trump from running

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#2977225 4-Oct-2022 11:21

I hope for 3, but I really think 1 is far more likely.

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#2977263 4-Oct-2022 13:43

The Guardian - Trump sues CNN for defamation and seeks $475m in punitive damages

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Donald Trump has sued cable TV network CNN, claiming defamation and seeking punitive damages of $475m, according to a Florida court filing on Monday.

The US cable news station has attempted to smear the former US president “with a series of ever-more scandalous, false, and defamatory labels of ‘racist,’ ‘Russian lackey,’ ‘insurrectionist,’ and ultimately ‘Hitler’,” Trump’s lawyers claimed.

The lawsuit has been filed in federal court in Fort Lauderdale.

“Beyond simply highlighting any negative information about the plaintiff and ignoring all positive information about him, CNN has sought to use its massive influence, purportedly as a ‘trusted’ news source, to defame the plaintiff in the minds of its viewers and readers for the purpose of defeating him politically,” the filing states.

Poor Donald ... still a helpless victim ... and he needs the money 🙃

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