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#3069165 29-Apr-2023 10:36

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Vanity Fair: Melania Trump Apparently RSVP’d “F--k Off” to Her Husband’s Post-Arraignment Speech

Shortly before the news broke last week that Donald Trump would, in fact, be indicted, we learned that Melania Trump was reportedly still angry about her husband’s alleged affair with porn star Stormy Daniels and did not “sympathize” with the fact that he was facing criminal charges and possibly even time in prison.

Now that the ex-president has been formally charged—with 34 class E felonies—and is looking at a potential century-plus behind bars if convicted on all counts, the question is whether the former first lady still feels that way.

...Melania, of course, has not said anything publicly about the matter—but one hint that she may not be too broken up about all this? Maybe the fact that she skipped her husband’s post-arraignment speech last night.

Yes, following her decision to not accompany the ex-president when he appeared in court on Tuesday, the former first lady chose not to show up for Trump’s rambling remarks at Mar-a-Lago later that day, despite literally living on-site.
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#3069211 29-Apr-2023 14:18

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kingdragonfly: I suspect she a strong believer in the second amendment to have guns, but not the opening clause: "A well regulated militia"

She'd be heavily in favour of that because it doesn't mean what you think it means. At the time it was written, "well regulated" meant "heavily armed". This is why, in some westerns, when the sheriff assembles a bunch of armed killers to go after a different bunch of armed killers, they're labelled "regulators".

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#3069215 29-Apr-2023 14:38

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neb: She'd be heavily in favour of that because it doesn't mean what you think it means. At the time it was written, "well regulated" meant "heavily armed". This is why, in some westerns, when the sheriff assembles a bunch of armed killers to go after a different bunch of armed killers, they're labelled "regulators".

I'm going to assume that is 100% sarcasm and 0% fact.

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#3069216 29-Apr-2023 14:39

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gzt: I'm going to assume that is 100% sarcasm and 0% fact.

Sheesh, Google it if you don't believe it.

Edited to add: I've done it for you, here you go:

One of the biggest challenges in interpreting a centuries-old document is that the meanings of words change or diverge.

"Well-regulated in the 18th century tended to be something like well-organized, well-armed, well-disciplined," says Rakove. "It didn't mean 'regulation' in the sense that we use it now, in that it's not about the regulatory state. There's been nuance there. It means the militia was in an effective shape to fight."

In other words, it didn't mean the state was controlling the militia in a certain way, but rather that the militia was prepared to do its duty.

And here's the use of regulators to mean well-armed killers.

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#3069219 29-Apr-2023 15:01

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neb: At the time it was written, "well regulated" meant "heavily armed"

The document you linked does not support that statement. Not even the most conservative supreme court judge agrees with that statement. I take your point as a general point and not a specific one. Broadly I agree with the document you linked as a contended area which is exactly what the authors intended.

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#3069278 29-Apr-2023 17:57

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Seems USA Republican Party has no desire to cleanse itself of this madness.
He is their number 1 candidate at this point still ?

Donald Trump embraces Jan. 6 defendant who wants Mike Pence executed
Micki Larson-Olson, who served months in jail for her actions on Jan. 6, told NBC News that politicians who certified the results of the 2020 election deserve to be be killed for treason.
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/donald-trump/donald-trump-embraces-jan-6-defendant-wants-pence-executed-rcna81958

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Larson-Olson said she believes that the members of Congress who voted to certify Biden's presidential election should be executed.
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“The punishment for treason is death, per the Constitution,” Larson-Olson said. “I believe every single person, every single person that stole a voice from our collective voice of 'We the people, of the people, for the people, by the people,' deserves death, and no less than that.”

Larson-Olson added that she “would like a front seat of Mike Pence being executed" and that he should be the "No. 1" person on her list of those who committed treason.
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#3069331 29-Apr-2023 18:52

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Sigh. Here we go again.

https://uproxx.com/viral/rudy-giuliani-jan-6-eric-bolling-newsmax-interview/

Who's the next factual guest they'll have on? Sidney Powell?? Hell, why not the pillow guy while we're at it 🙄

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#3069535 30-Apr-2023 16:08

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A lot of talk relationship of lawyers and their mob bosses, which include Trump.

Trump's Lawyers Keep Crime-Fraud-ing

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https://edition.cnn.com/2023/04/30/politics/senate-race-rankings-may-elections/index.html

2024 senate races are shaping up to be somewhat interesting.

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#3070159 1-May-2023 20:19

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AP News: Trump ups competition with DeSantis in planning trip to Iowa

The competition between Donald Trump and Ron DeSantis is intensifying as the former president is scheduling a return trip to Iowa on the same day that the Florida governor was already going to be in the state that will kick off the Republican contest for the White House.

A Trump campaign official said Saturday that the former president plans to be in Iowa on May 13 to headline an organizing rally at a sprawling park in downtown Des Moines. That’s when DeSantis was already slated to headline Iowa Rep. Randy Feenstra’s annual summer fundraiser in northwest Iowa and speak at a party fundraiser later that evening in Cedar Rapids.
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The move is a sign of the escalating competition between the two men who, at least for now, are leading contenders for the Republican presidential nomination. Trump and his allies have become increasingly emboldened in their efforts to attack and marginalize DeSantis, who is expected to announce his White House bid sometime after the Florida Legislature wraps up its work in the coming week.
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#3070247 2-May-2023 09:23

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And now for something completely different ...

The Times (UK) - Donald Trump visits his golf courses in Scotland

01 May 2023

“Trump Force One” landed at Aberdeen airport this morning

Donald Trump, with his son, Eric, right, cut the ribbon on a “new and spectacular second course in Aberdeen”

Donald Trump has returned to Scotland for the first time in five years proclaiming “it’s great to be home”.

The 45th US president arrived in a private jet at Aberdeen airport and was driven in a motorcade to his Menie estate, eight miles north of the city, to inaugurate a new golf links, the MacLeod course.

It would be “a new and SPECTACULAR Second Course” he said on his Truth Social site, adding: “Very exciting despite the fact that it is ‘MAKE AMERICA GREAT’ that is on my mind.”

The 76-year-old has said many times that he inherited his love of Scotland from his late mother, Mary Anne MacLeod, a native Gaelic speaker who met his father, Fred, after she emigrated to the United States as a young woman.

I wonder if he'll try to claim refuge in Scotland - but the locals hate him. 🧐

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#3070376 2-May-2023 11:20

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Looks like all the ceremony of opening a new parking lot. Where's the giant scissors, or gold shovel?

Trump looks like a normal elderly tourist, but somehow Trump Jr still looks like a low-price store mannequin.

I hope Scotland puts up lots of offshore wind power, windmills, surrounding the golf course.

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#3070386 2-May-2023 11:46

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Based on the Trump's lawyer's "let's make the judge really angry" strategy, he must be following Trump's instructions without question.

New York Times: Who is Lewis Kaplan, Judge in Carroll Case Against Trump?

The federal judge is renowned for his command of the courtroom.

When former President Donald J. Trump asked a Manhattan judge to delay a civil trial over allegations that Mr. Trump raped the writer E. Jean Carroll decades ago, his lawyer cited a “deluge of prejudicial media coverage” of Mr. Trump’s recent indictment.

But the judge, Lewis A. Kaplan of Federal District Court, denied the request, saying that there was no justification for a postponement and that many of the news stories were “invited or provoked by Mr. Trump’s own actions.”

“It does not sit well for Mr. Trump to promote pretrial publicity,” Judge Kaplan wrote, “and then to claim that coverage that he promoted was prejudicial to him.”

It was not the first time Judge Kaplan had denied a request from Mr. Trump to delay Ms. Carroll’s day in court. In a separate defamation lawsuit she had filed, the judge wrote that Mr. Trump’s tactics suggested he was “acting out of a strong desire to delay any opportunity plaintiff may have to present her case against him.”

Judge Kaplan’s resolute approach to holding the trial was not a surprise to lawyers who have tried cases before him.
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#3070395 2-May-2023 11:58

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Trump's lawyer consults "magic 8 ball"

CNN: Trump’s motion for mistrial in battery case is denied as questioning of E. Jean Carroll concludes

A federal judge overseeing a civil battery and defamation trial involving Donald Trump has denied the former president’s motion for a mistrial.

The ruling came before E. Jean Carroll, the columnist who sued Trump, again took the stand for cross-examination in a session that included questions about a “Law & Order SVU” episode and Trump’s former program “The Apprentice.”

Trump had argued that Judge Lewis Kaplan had made “pervasive unfair and prejudicial rulings” against him. In a letter filed overnight Monday, his attorney Joe Tacopina said alternatively he would ask Kaplan to “correct the record for each and every instance in which the Court has mischaracterized the facts of this case to the jury” or provide him greater leeway in cross examining Carroll.

“Here, despite the fact trial testimony has been underway for only two days, the proceedings are already replete with numerous examples of Defendant’s unfair treatment by the Court, most of which has been witnessed by the Jury,” the letter said.
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And now for something completely different ...

The Times (UK) - Donald Trump visits his golf courses in Scotland

Donald Trump has returned to Scotland for the first time in five years proclaiming “it’s great to be home”.

He went on to say "Scotland bestowed the honorary title of 'Sassenach' on me when I landed. I'm a true Sassenach, biggest Sassenach that ever lived, no-one else is as big a Sassenach as me".

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