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  #3125676 10-Sep-2023 20:27
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kingdragonfly: Note that in a previous life Giuliani was a very successful lawyer, convicting many gangster of the same crime he's now accused of: organized crime and racketeering.

 


Understandably, this rubs off at some point and you've learned all the clients' tricks.




     

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  #3125920 11-Sep-2023 12:13
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https://www.politico.com/news/2023/09/10/trump-campaign-out-of-public-view-00114873 >> rather than his big rallies surrounded by his (mindless?) adoring fans, Trump pulls back on the campaigning.  I guess the difference between now and 2016 is people know who he is, so he doesn't need to do as much work to win the nomination.

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  #3126075 11-Sep-2023 15:34
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quickymart: I guess the difference between now and 2016 is people know who he is, so he doesn't need to do as much work to win the nomination.


If Trump really had the big brain he described, it would be because he was listening to his lawyers, and shutting the f*ck up.

However it's more likely he's butt-sore that his wife and children have got want they wanted out their sugar daddy, and are avoiding him.

His greatest fear is he's being snubbed, given the cold-shoulder, he's reached his peak of approval, and it's all down hill.

Like anthropomorphizing a cockroach, I wouldn't make the mistake of attributing Trump with thoughtfulness.

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  #3126141 11-Sep-2023 16:25
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An article from 2021, but a good one

New York Times: How Trump steered supporters into unwitting donations

Stacy Blatt was in hospice care last September listening to Rush Limbaugh’s dire warnings about how badly Donald J. Trump’s campaign needed money when he went online and chipped in everything he could: $500.

It was a big sum for a 63-year-old battling cancer and living in Kansas City on less than $1,000 per month. But that single contribution — federal records show it was his first ever — quickly multiplied. Another $500 was withdrawn the next day, then $500 the next week and every week through mid-October, without his knowledge — until Mr. Blatt’s bank account had been depleted and frozen. When his utility and rent payments bounced, he called his brother, Russell, for help.

What the Blatts soon discovered was $3,000 in withdrawals by the Trump campaign in less than 30 days. They called their bank and said they thought they were victims of fraud.

“It felt,” Russell said, “like it was a scam.”

But what the Blatts believed was duplicity was actually an intentional scheme to boost revenues by the Trump campaign and the for-profit company that processed its online donations, WinRed. Facing a cash crunch and getting badly outspent by the Democrats, the campaign had begun last September to set up recurring donations by default for online donors, for every week until the election.

Contributors had to wade through a fine-print disclaimer and manually uncheck a box to opt out.
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  #3126147 11-Sep-2023 16:47
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Grifters are going to grift. And the cultists will not believe anything about it.




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  #3126150 11-Sep-2023 16:49
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kingdragonfly: An article from 2021, but a good one

New York Times: How Trump steered supporters into unwitting donations

 

 

Still from the article: "He was then able to use tens of millions of dollars he raised after the election, under the guise of fighting his unfounded fraud claims, to help cover the refunds he owed."

 

That's the definition of a pyramid scheme.

 

IT'S A SCAM, YOU IDIOTS.

 

 




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  #3126153 11-Sep-2023 16:58
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I can't stop reading the article - "Eventually it ratcheted up the volume of emails it sent until it was barraging supporters with an average of 15 per day for all of October and November 2020."

 

God $deity. 

 

These guys are scammers and spammers.

 

Why these people were not indicted in fraud before?




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  #3126161 11-Sep-2023 17:18
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Logically, a one-eyed man is king among the blind, acts like that and thinks there are only blind people left in the ROW. 😄




     

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  #3126481 12-Sep-2023 13:10
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This (Republican, I think) writer makes a few good points about the people bashing Biden due to his age

 

https://www.19fortyfive.com/2023/09/forget-joe-biden-donald-trump-is-just-too-old-to-be-president/

 

Spoiler: Trump ain't that much younger, and he's way less healthier.

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quickymart:This (Republican, I think) writer makes a few good points about the people bashing Biden due to his age

 

https://www.19fortyfive.com/2023/09/forget-joe-biden-donald-trump-is-just-too-old-to-be-president/ Spoiler: Trump ain't that much younger, and he's way less healthier.

 

Reducing the question to its simplest form translates as: 'Who's most likely to make the best decisions for the country?'

 

No-brainer?




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TO QUALIFY FOR NEXT DEBATE, G.O.P. CANDIDATES MUST PLEDGE TO GO TO PRISON FOR TRUMP 

 

WASHINGTON (The Borowitz Report)—In order to qualify for the next nationally televised debate, Republican Presidential candidates must sign a pledge to go to prison in place of Donald J. Trump, the Republican National Committee has confirmed.

 

Ronna McDaniel, the R.N.C. chairperson, said that agreeing to serve hard time for Trump was the “only way” that G.O.P. candidates could prove their loyalty to the Party.

 

As for whether Trump had been asked to sign a pledge agreeing to go to prison for any of his Republican rivals who might become convicted of a crime, McDaniel said, “Absolutely not. He’s very busy these days, and we didn’t want to bother him.”

 

Nearly all of the G.O.P. contenders immediately agreed to sign the pledge, with the exception of Chris Christie and Asa Hutchinson, the latter of whom said that he preferred to be “hog-tied.”

 

“I’m sorry to hear that Asa feels that way,” McDaniel said. “Being asked to go to prison in place of Donald Trump is an honor that comes around only four or five times in a lifetime.”

 

 




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  #3126562 12-Sep-2023 15:10
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The Washington Post - Opinion - Rudy Giuliani’s fall  (08 September 2023)

 




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  #3126583 12-Sep-2023 16:45
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Republicans: "Sedition and treason are such strong words. I prefer to think of it as ancient best-forgotten history over a difference of opinion. Now about my investigation into Secretary of State Hillary Clinton in the 2012 Benghazi attacks...

CNN: Trump is explaining exactly how wild and extreme his second term would be

Donald Trump is conjuring his most foreboding vision yet of a possible second term, telling supporters in language resonant of the run-up to the January 6 mob attack on the US Capitol that they need to “fight like hell” or they will lose their country.

The rhetorical escalation from the four-times-indicted ex-president came at a rally in South Dakota on Friday night where he accused his possible 2024 opponent, President Joe Biden, of ordering his indictment on 91 charges across four criminal cases as a form of election interference.

“I don’t think there’s ever been a darkness around our nation like there is now,” Trump said, in a dystopian speech in which he accused Democrats of allowing an “invasion” of migrants over the southern border and of trying to restart Covid “hysteria.”

The Republican front-runner’s stark speech raised the prospect of a second presidency that would be even more extreme and challenging to the rule of law than his first. His view that the Oval Office confers unfettered powers suggests Trump would indulge in similar conduct as that for which he is awaiting trial, including intimidating local officials in an alleged bid to overturn his 2020 defeat.
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In a recent CNN poll, for example, only 28% of Republicans thought Biden legitimately won sufficient votes to win the 2020 election.
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Back home, the ex-president’s extremism also exposes the timidity of most of his Republican primary rivals, who have recently been ganging up on rookie candidate Vivek Ramaswamy but are only willing to criticize Trump in the most oblique terms to avoid crossing his millions of GOP supporters. About the closest that one candidate, former South Carolina Gov. Nikki Haley, came to criticizing Trump’s conduct on CNN’s “State of the Union” on Sunday was to warn that “we need to leave the negativity of the past behind us”
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  #3126605 12-Sep-2023 17:05
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kingdragonfly:
“I don’t think there’s ever been a darkness around our nation like there is now,” Trump said...

 

It's because there's still a chance you could be president again, you deluded, clueless moron 😡

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  #3127123 13-Sep-2023 14:14
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Trump later added:

"Can't you see it's a brown and a woman?

Plus she thinks criminals should be prosecuted and imprisoned!!!

All outrageous!

I'm not the crazy one here! Person. Woman. Man. Camera. TV!"

The Independent: Trump demands Jan 6 judge recuse herself

Trump’s legal team filing a motion to have Judge Tanya Chutkan removed from his federal January 6 criminal case in Washington, DC, the motion stating that the justice had said, in connection with other cases, that Mr Trump should be prosecuted and imprisoned, arguing that this disqualifies her from his case.

All of which came a day after Mr Trump bizarrely demanded that his media enemies, including Rupert Murdoch and his family, submit to mental acuity tests to prove their fitness for work.


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