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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#3188624 30-Jan-2024 19:00

From NBC News in August, following the berating Texas police after being wrestled to ground at rodeo:

"Jackson was elected in 2020 after gaining notoriety for his over-the-top pronouncements about then-President Donald Trump's health while serving as a top White House physician. A year later, the Department of Defense inspector general released a scathing report about Jackson's conduct while on the job at the White House.

The report concluded that Jackson made 'sexual and denigrating' comments about a female subordinate, violated the policy on drinking alcohol on a presidential trip and took prescription-strength sleeping medication that prompted worries from his colleagues about his ability to provide proper medical care."

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#3188633 30-Jan-2024 19:34

How the hell did that guy get to be a doctor to both Obama and Trump? Plus he was there on January 6 🙄

https://www.amazon.com/Find-Votes-Hard-Charging-Prosecutor-President/dp/1538739992 >> this comes out tomorrow and should be an interesting read (review here: https://www.theguardian.com/books/2024/jan/24/find-me-the-votes-book-graham-trump-georgia )

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#3188755 31-Jan-2024 10:03

The NY Times - Trump’s PACs Spent Roughly $50 Million on Legal Expenses in 2023

30 Jan 2024

Donald J. Trump piled up legal expenses in 2023 as he was indicted four times, spending approximately $50 million in donor money on legal bills and investigation-related expenses last year ...

Mr. Trump, who has long been loath to pay lawyers himself and has a history of stiffing those who represent him, has used funds in his political action committee, known as Save America, to underwrite his legal bills.

The account was originally flooded with donations that were collected during the period immediately after the 2020 election when he was making widespread and false claims of voting fraud.

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#3188824 31-Jan-2024 13:38

The NY Times - Opinion - Trump Has Devoured the Republican Establishment

30 Jan 2024

From the intro to a long and depressing opinion piece ...

The former president now controls the Republican Party by virtually every conceivable measure.

He has a commanding lead in fund-raising and polling.

His policies are a beacon to which most conservative lawmakers orient themselves in affairs both foreign and domestic.

His endorsement remains the single most coveted asset that any Republican could hope to brandish in a primary race, and he has already received support from an overwhelming majority of prominent elected Republicans.

In this election cycle, Mr. Trump has received endorsements from 130 House members and 31 senators, a majority of both Republican caucuses, according to an analysis by FiveThirtyEight.

Ms. Haley, his only remaining opponent, has received just one congressional endorsement, from a House member from her home state, South Carolina.

The picture is similar among governors, with 11 Republican governors endorsing Mr. Trump, two endorsing Ms. Haley, and two having endorsed Mr. DeSantis before his exit. ...

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#3188833 31-Jan-2024 14:15

The above is just so sad, so sad. All because of these peoples egotistical, greedy grabbing of power and prestige. If Trump did not have the low life red necks, who believe in him of America in his pocket, they would ignore him.

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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#3188888 31-Jan-2024 17:14

Mein Drumpf

'Those who can make you believe absurdities can make you commit atrocities.' Voltaire

'A patriot must always be ready to defend his country against his government.' Edward Abbey

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#3188913 31-Jan-2024 18:24

Maybe Trump is more a cutout cardboard 'Duce'.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Benito_Mussolini

Overshadowed by other Axis and Allied Leaders, having an ignominious end?
Though Duce was a much more capable evil than Trump who relies on others to pave the road to hell.

For something a bit lighter, or not.

Better a Pig than a Fascist | Video Essay ( 12min )

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#3188944 31-Jan-2024 20:41

It's hard to say why Trump lawyers are hired by the orange menace. It sure ain't based on skills.

Trump, being a spoiled 77 year old brat, could never take a loss and walk away. I guess $83 million was not enough to learn to STFU.

Newsweek: Lawyer Alina Habba's Trump appeal strategy may backfire

he legal strategy being deployed by Trump attorney Alina Habba in hopes of overturning the $83.3 million verdict could backfire and end up costing her and her client more money than already owed, an attorney has claimed.

Habba made a last-ditch attempt to overturn the verdict in the defamation trial brought by columnist E. Jean Carroll on Monday, asking the judge in the case to respond to allegations of a possible conflict of interest between him and Carroll's lead counsel. In a letter to Judge Lewis Kaplan, Habba argued that the alleged mentor-mentee relationship between the judge and attorney Roberta Kaplan, no relation, may justify a new trial on liability and damages in the case.

But while Habba sought to toss the case entirely or at least reduce the amount that former president Donald Trump owes the columnist for defaming her, Carroll's attorney cautioned that such a tactic could drive up the multi-million-dollar number that Trump's defense team is already up against.

In a Tuesday letter addressing Habba's accusations, Roberta Kaplan threatened to pursue sanctions against Trump and his legal team, arguing that the defense had pushed a "false narrative of judicial bias" since the beginning of the trial to undermine the jury's verdict.

"While Ms. Habba ends her letter by characterizing this as a 'troubling matter,'" Kaplan wrote, "what is actually troubling is both the substance and timing of her false accusations of impropriety by on the part of E. Jean Carroll's counsel or the Court. Accordingly, while we wanted to submit our response to Ms. Habba's letter as soon as possible, we reserve all rights, including but not limited to the right to seek sanctions."
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#3189003 31-Jan-2024 21:31

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Trump is the political equivalent of Roko's Basilisk:

[An] artificial superintelligence (AI) in the future would be incentivized to create a virtual reality simulation to torture anyone who knew of its potential existence but did not directly contribute to its advancement or development, in order to incentivize said advancement

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#3189024 1-Feb-2024 07:05

The Washington Post - Opinion - Why haven’t Republicans unified to stop Trump? Because they can’t.

29 Jan 2024

Republicans are stuck with Trump because their party has been unable to overcome its collective action problem.

For nine years now, they’ve known that they’d all be better off with Trump gone but also that anyone who tried to make that happen would risk the anger of his voters.

So individual politicians keep retreating to the same playbook: stay quiet on the sidelines in hopes that fate will intervene or that someone else will muster the courage to take him out. ...

The GOP today looks less like a political party than a collection of hundreds of political entrepreneurs.

They might all operate under the same franchise license, but their ties to fellow franchisees are weak, and it is hard to interest them in stewardship of a larger corporate brand. ...

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#3189027 1-Feb-2024 07:42

The NY Times - Trump’s Absurd Claim About the Stock Market

30 Jan 2024

The stock market is not the economy.

But don’t tell Donald Trump, who treated a rising stock market during his presidency as proof of his economic prowess.

And the fact that the market has been hitting new highs under President Biden is clearly driving Trump crazy, leading to outbursts like the one he posted on social media yesterday, claiming that investors are driving stock prices higher because they think Trump will win in November.

Taking credit for rising stock prices is silly even if you are the president; claiming credit when you aren’t is - can I say this? - demented. ...

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#3189079 1-Feb-2024 08:34

The point about Republicans being scared of Trump is - I feel - a very valid one. He can very easily rile an armed mob of thugs to do his bidding for him.

Personally I see it as quite ridiculous that these people place so little value in themselves that they would give up their lives/jobs/careers/family to swear allegiance to an orange buffoon who (in reality) couldn't give two stuffs about them, in return. I mean, really, how pathetic would you have to be?

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#3189096 1-Feb-2024 09:06

quickymart:

The point about Republicans being scared of Trump is - I feel - a very valid one. He can very easily rile an armed mob of thugs to do his bidding for him.

Personally I see it as quite ridiculous that these people place so little value in themselves that they would give up their lives/jobs/careers/family to swear allegiance to an orange buffoon who (in reality) couldn't give two stuffs about them, in return. I mean, really, how pathetic would you have to be?

Like Hitler, you mean?

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#3189099 1-Feb-2024 09:10

quickymart:

The point about Republicans being scared of Trump is - I feel - a very valid one. He can very easily rile an armed mob of thugs to do his bidding for him.

Personally I see it as quite ridiculous that these people place so little value in themselves that they would give up their lives/jobs/careers/family to swear allegiance to an orange buffoon who (in reality) couldn't give two stuffs about them, in return. I mean, really, how pathetic would you have to be?

Your two sentence seem at odds with each other. They are aligning with Trump in order to save their jobs/careers because of their justifiable fear that going against Trump will end their political careers.

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#3189210 1-Feb-2024 11:46

freitasm:

quickymart:

The point about Republicans being scared of Trump is - I feel - a very valid one. He can very easily rile an armed mob of thugs to do his bidding for him.

Personally I see it as quite ridiculous that these people place so little value in themselves that they would give up their lives/jobs/careers/family to swear allegiance to an orange buffoon who (in reality) couldn't give two stuffs about them, in return. I mean, really, how pathetic would you have to be?

Like Hitler, you mean?

You read my mind!

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