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  #3138446 3-Oct-2023 20:04
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https://politizoom.com/youre-to-go-after-this-attorney-general-trump-orders-maga/

 

Words fail me. Imagine the outrage from the Republicans if Biden dared to speak like this?

 

But of course, it's the orange buffoon, so this is (apparently) all fine and normal, and life should just go on as usual 🙄

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  #3138452 3-Oct-2023 20:22
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Mostly Trump

A Closer Look Extended Edition: Trump Fraud Trial, Biden Impeachment, House GOP Chaos

Late Night with Seth Meyers

Seth takes a closer look at Trump appearing in court for his civil fraud trial, the GOP's sham impeachment inquiry for Biden, Rudy Giuliani being sued by his ex-lawyer and more in an extended A Closer Look.

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  #3138457 3-Oct-2023 20:43
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kingdragonfly: Mostly Trump

A Closer Look Extended Edition: Trump Fraud Trial, Biden Impeachment, House GOP Chaos

Late Night with Seth Meyers

 

Did Seth even take a breath discussing all the charges against Tr*mp at the beginning?

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  #3138511 3-Oct-2023 21:43
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Vanity Fair: Melania Trump Renegotiated Her Prenup in Case Trump’s Legal Problems Bleed Him Dry: Report

When we last checked in on the great love affair that is the marriage of Donald and Melania Trump, we learned that the former first lady’s take on her husband’s fourth indictment was, effectively, sucks to be you, pal. (A “social source” connected to Melania told People that “this fourth indictment is another problem for her husband,” and not a problem “for her.”) And six weeks later, it appears that the romance is still firing on the exact same amount of cylinders.

Page Six reports that, according to a source, Melania spent the last year renegotiating the terms of her prenuptial agreement with the ex-president, and that her new “postnup” is now in place. According to one source, the former FLOTUS wanted a new deal not because there’s a possibility she’ll have to move back into the White House, i.e., her least favorite place on earth, but because she’s worried about how much money will be left over for her and her son after Trump is done paying his various legal bills and damages. “This agreement was necessary because of the current legal battles…[Donald] has suffered,” a source told the outlet.
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  #3138545 4-Oct-2023 07:04
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I do not wish him anything inhumane, but let him curse the day, the hour, the minute and the second when he first made the decision to run for president.




     

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  #3138575 4-Oct-2023 07:40
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"Gold Star Families" is an American organization by those who lost family members in the Iraq War, and are thus entitled to display a Gold Star.

CNN: Exclusive: John Kelly goes on the record to confirm several disturbing stories about Trump

John Kelly, the longest-serving White House chief of staff for Donald Trump, offered his harshest criticism yet of the former president in an exclusive statement to CNN.

Kelly set the record straight with on-the-record confirmation of a number of damning stories about statements Trump made behind closed doors attacking US service members and veterans, listing a number of objectionable comments Kelly witnessed Trump make firsthand.

“What can I add that has not already been said?” Kelly said. “A person that thinks those who defend their country in uniform, or are shot down or seriously wounded in combat, or spend years being tortured as POWs are all ‘suckers’ because ‘there is nothing in it for them.’ A person that did not want to be seen in the presence of military amputees because ‘it doesn’t look good for me.’ A person who demonstrated open contempt for a Gold Star family – for all Gold Star families – on TV during the 2016 campaign, and rants that our most precious heroes who gave their lives in America’s defense are ‘losers’ and wouldn’t visit their graves in France.

“A person who is not truthful regarding his position on the protection of unborn life, on women, on minorities, on evangelical Christians, on Jews, on working men and women,” Kelly continued. “A person that has no idea what America stands for and has no idea what America is all about. A person who cavalierly suggests that a selfless warrior who has served his country for 40 years in peacetime and war should lose his life for treason – in expectation that someone will take action. A person who admires autocrats and murderous dictators. A person that has nothing but contempt for our democratic institutions, our Constitution, and the rule of law.

“There is nothing more that can be said,” Kelly concluded. “God help us.”

In the statement, Kelly is confirming, on the record, a number of details in a 2020 story ... as they stood among those killed in Afghanistan and Iraq in Section 60 at Arlington National Cemetery, and saying, “I don’t get it. What was in it for them?”


Those details also include Trump’s inability to understand why the American public respects former prisoners of war and those shot down in combat. Then-candidate Trump of course said in front of a crowd in 2015 that former Vietnam POW Sen. John McCain, an Arizona Republican, was “not a war hero. He was a war hero because he was captured. I like people who weren’t captured.”

But behind closed doors, sources told Goldberg, this lack of understanding went on to cause Trump to repeatedly call McCain a “loser” and to refer to former President George H. W. Bush, who was also shot down as a Navy pilot in World War II, as a “loser.”
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Forbes magazine knows first hand how often Trump lies about his wealth.

Forbes: Donald Trump Drops Off The Forbes 400 For Second Time In 3 Years
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[His liquid reserves of $426 million] may come in handy, given the deluge of legal threats Trump is currently facing. Among the cases: the $250 million fraud suit from the New York attorney general, who is accusing him of lying about his net worth to financial institutions for years—just as he lied to Forbes. A judge ruled that Trump was personally liable for fraud a week ago, and a trial for the case began Monday.

Trump has weathered storms in the past, and this is not the first time he has gotten kicked out of The Forbes 400. He conned his way into sharing a spot on the inaugural list in 1982 with his father, Fred Trump, by convincing a reporter that he held a larger percentage of Fred’s fortune than he actually did. Trump secured massive loans that led to massive bankruptcies, and he fell off the list in 1990, when Forbes exposed deep problems with his debt-fueled empire, ultimately putting his net worth “within hailing distance of zero.” But Trump emerged from those troubles and regained a legitimate spot on the 400. He remained on the list from 1996 until 2021, when six years of polarization and one year of Covid finally caught up to him, dropping him from the ranks once again.

A master of reinvention, Trump announced plans for a new social-media platform, Truth Social, within weeks of falling off the list. He pitched Truth Social as a cancel-free antidote to Twitter. Investors, especially mom-and-pop traders, loved the idea. They poured money into a special-purpose-acquisition company that planned to merge with Trump’s business, at one pushing the implied valuation of the venture above $15 billion. Forbes valued things more conservatively, adding $730 million to Trump’s fortune. That was still enough to put him back on the list of America’s richest people. Two years later, the SPAC deal remains in limbo. If Trump’s platform were thriving, he would probably have no trouble finding alternate financing. But it’s not, and there is little reason to be optimistic about Truth Social’s future.

After all, if people are not logging on to Trump’s platform to hear what he has to say now—while he is simultaneously facing a series of indictments and steamrolling the Republican presidential primary—they probably never will.

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  #3139585 4-Oct-2023 09:41
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The gambler only has to have enough real capital to pay all the legal fines. If, in the end, he comes out of it with a black zero and serves his legal sentence, that is at least satisfaction for all those he has despised and defrauded in his life. I regard lost capital for his supporters merely as „unavoidable collateral damage“ aka „apprenticeship fee for following a pied piper.“




     

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  #3142588 4-Oct-2023 10:15
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The Washington Post - Judge issues gag order in fraud case after Trump assails staffer on social media

 

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NEW YORK - The judge overseeing a civil trial over alleged business fraud committed by Donald Trump and his company issued a gag order in the case Tuesday barring the former president from making public comments about his court staff.

 

The decision by Judge Arthur Engoron, announced about a day and a half into the trial, came soon after Trump posted on social media about a staffer for the judge and included a picture of the person. *

 

Trump has spent a significant amount of that time castigating officials involved in the case.

 

He has repeatedly pilloried Engoron and Attorney General Letitia James (D), who brought the lawsuit. ...

 

Engoron said that violating his gag order would lead to “serious sanctions.”

 

 

*  EDIT  Trump posted a message on his Truth Social site targeting the judge’s law clerk, Allison Greenfield.

 




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  #3142646 4-Oct-2023 11:58
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The NY Times - Trump Said Shoplifters Should Be Shot, Part of a String of Violent Remarks

 

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Former President Donald J. Trump had a lot to say on the first day of the fraud trial against him and his company. ... “This is a disgrace, and you ought to go after this attorney general.”

 

The remark urging people to “go after” a top elected official in New York, by a former president whose invective has become a familiar backdrop of American life, was part of a pattern of increasingly sharp language from Mr. Trump.

 

Days earlier, he told hundreds of Republican activists in California that shoplifters should be shot. 

 

Not long before that, he insinuated that the military general he personally appointed as chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff should be executed for treason.

 

 

Typical Fascist behaviour.  🤫




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  #3142817 4-Oct-2023 16:16
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kingdragonfly: Forbes magazine knows first hand how often Trump lies about his wealth.

Forbes: Donald Trump Drops Off The Forbes 400 For Second Time In 3 Years
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[His liquid reserves of $426 million] may come in handy, given the deluge of legal threats Trump is currently facing. Among the cases: the $250 million fraud suit from the New York attorney general, who is accusing him of lying about his net worth to financial institutions for years—just as he lied to Forbes. A judge ruled that Trump was personally liable for fraud a week ago, and a trial for the case began Monday.

Trump has weathered storms in the past, and this is not the first time he has gotten kicked out of The Forbes 400. He conned his way into sharing a spot on the inaugural list in 1982 with his father, Fred Trump, by convincing a reporter that he held a larger percentage of Fred’s fortune than he actually did. Trump secured massive loans that led to massive bankruptcies, and he fell off the list in 1990, when Forbes exposed deep problems with his debt-fueled empire, ultimately putting his net worth “within hailing distance of zero.” But Trump emerged from those troubles and regained a legitimate spot on the 400. He remained on the list from 1996 until 2021, when six years of polarization and one year of Covid finally caught up to him, dropping him from the ranks once again.

A master of reinvention, Trump announced plans for a new social-media platform, Truth Social, within weeks of falling off the list. He pitched Truth Social as a cancel-free antidote to Twitter. Investors, especially mom-and-pop traders, loved the idea. They poured money into a special-purpose-acquisition company that planned to merge with Trump’s business, at one pushing the implied valuation of the venture above $15 billion. Forbes valued things more conservatively, adding $730 million to Trump’s fortune. That was still enough to put him back on the list of America’s richest people. Two years later, the SPAC deal remains in limbo. If Trump’s platform were thriving, he would probably have no trouble finding alternate financing. But it’s not, and there is little reason to be optimistic about Truth Social’s future.

After all, if people are not logging on to Trump’s platform to hear what he has to say now—while he is simultaneously facing a series of indictments and steamrolling the Republican presidential primary—they probably never will.

 

 

 

Donald has gone from the Forbes list to the Frauds list...

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Trump crowned? No faux King way!

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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  #3142899 5-Oct-2023 07:35
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Trump: "Does this mean I'd have to come into work? I'd have to talk to my parole officer. And I need a 7 figure salary. Is a prisoner's ankle bracelet a deal killer?"

NBC News: Trump is not ruling out being the new House speaker
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“A lot of people have been calling me about speaker,” Trump said Wednesday morning outside a New York City courthouse for the third day of New York Attorney General Letitia James’ $250 million civil fraud trial against him. “All I can say is we will do whatever is best for the country and other Republican Party and people.”
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And Trump, of course, is not a member of Congress. But the Constitution doesn't explicitly say that the speaker needs to be serving in the House, although so far, every one has been. That omission has occasionally led to speculation that there could be a nonmember leader of the House.
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Trump’s name being in the mix has already led to some of his biggest congressional supporters being put on the spot. Last night on Fox News' Sean Hannity show, [historic sexual abuser enabler] Ohio Representative Jim Jordan tried to avoid questions about Trump becoming an “interim” speaker by repeatedly saying he wanted him to again become president. Hannity kept pressing the point, and Jordan eventually said he wants Trump “at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue but if he wants to be speaker, that’s fine too.”

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The New Yorker: Trump’s Bloody Campaign Promises

Recently, I was talking with Patricia Evangelista, a journalist from the Philippines, who is about to publish an astonishing book, called “Some People Need Killing.” Evangelista, a fearless reporter in her late thirties, covered the regime of Rodrigo Duterte, a provincial mayor who won the Presidency promising to execute, without trial or even arrest, drug users or anyone else whom he deemed threatening to public order.
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Over time, Donald Trump has been no less truthful about his intentions than Rodrigo Duterte. (In fact, Trump is an admirer; in 2017, he congratulated Duterte for “the unbelievable job” he was doing “on the drug problem.” Trump was also undoubtedly delighted that Duterte had referred to Barack Obama as “the son of a wh_re.”) In recent weeks, Trump has made it plain that his plans for a second term are no less unbelievable than Duterte’s, no less vengeful or unhinged.

We should listen. These are campaign promises.

For many years, Trump has hidden in plain sight—he makes no effort to conceal his bigotries, his lawlessness, his will to authoritarian power; to the contrary, he advertises it, and, most disturbing of all, this deepens his appeal. What’s more, there is no question that Trump has so normalized calls to violence as an instrument of politics that it has inflamed countless people to perverse action. Trump has always delighted in the way he could arouse a crowd with implicit or explicit calls to vengeance, from his admonition to “Lock her up!” to his smirking at a protester at one of his rallies, “I’d like to punch him in the face.”

He was the inspiration for Charlottesville. The insurrection of January 6th was a direct response to his callout to his supporters: “Be there, will be wild!” During the protests that followed the murder of George Floyd, Trump asked his advisers, according to the former Defense Secretary Mark Esper, “Can’t you just shoot them? Just shoot them in the legs or something?” According to a recent report in the Times, since the legal search of Mar-a-Lago last year and the subsequent confiscation of confidential documents there, which caused Trump to vent his rage against federal authorities, threats against F.B.I. personnel and facilities have skyrocketed by more than three hundred per cent.

Now Trump has intensified the rhetoric. There is nothing he will not say. Suggesting that Mark Milley, the former chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, was guilty of a “treasonous act,” he has suggested that the best sanction would be execution. (“This is an act so egregious that, in times gone by, the punishment would have been death!”)

At a recent speech in Anaheim, California, Trump explained how, if reëlected, he would approach the problem of shoplifting: “Very simply: If you rob a store, you can fully expect to be shot as you are leaving that store.” Trump added, “The word that they shoot you will get out within minutes, and our nation, in one day, will be an entirely different place. There must be retribution for theft and destruction and the ruination of our country.”
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The NY Times - Opinion - This Is Why Trump Keeps Antagonizing the Judge in His Fraud Trial

 

04 Oct 2023

 


It’s not surprising that Donald Trump viciously insults Letitia James, the New York State attorney general who has taken him to court.

 

What is a little surprising is that he keeps bashing the judge who is trying him, to the point of saying he should be disbarred. ...

 

[Reasons why] Trump is attacking Justice Arthur Engoron ...

 

  •  One obvious reason is that Trump is furious that Engoron ruled that he inflated the value of his assets ... Billionaire-hood is a crucial component of Trump’s self-image. 

  •  Another obvious reason is that Trump likes the publicity. ...

  •  Trump’s modus operandi is to undermine any institution that stands up to him, whether the news media or the military or the courts. Causing people to lose confidence in the judiciary may be precisely what Trump is banking on ...



 




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