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Actually the buck stops with Trump as well, only in a very different sense than the way Truman used it. As many bucks as possible stop with Trump.
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'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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Stupid is as stupid does 🙄 it really is a cult, IMO.
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The Washington Post - Special counsel files notice of appeal in Cannon’s dismissal of Trump case
17 June 2024
Special counsel Jack Smith formally filed notice on Wednesday that he will appeal a Florida judge’s decision to dismiss Donald Trump’s 40-count indictment for allegedly mishandling classified documents and obstructing government efforts to retrieve them.
The appeal, laying out Smith’s argument for why the case should not be dismissed, is expected to land in the coming weeks in the Court of Appeals for the 11th Circuit - an appeals court in Atlanta * whose jurisdiction covers Florida. ...
Smith was appointed by Attorney General Merrick Garland, who said a special counsel was needed to assure the public that the politically fraught prosecutions of Trump would be shielded from any interference by the Biden administration.
* In 2022, a three-judge panel on the appeals court in Atlanta unanimously rebuked Cannon in a different matter, and overturned her decision.
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On the second day of the Republican National Convention, the theme was Make America Safe Once Again. Inside the Fiserv Forum, delegates waved signs that said “Stop Biden’s Border Bloodbath,” and speakers identified as “everyday Americans” spoke of urban areas in crisis from crime and drugs. Anne Fundner, a mother who lost her son to fentanyl poisoning, spoke through tears. “We need President Trump back to save the lives of our kids,” she said. The program was designed to convey an America defined by lawlessness and chaos, but the mood toggled between these ideas and an emphasis on party unity and positivity.
“They always bend the knee,” Donald Trump once said, of the G.O.P. skeptics who have gone on to endorse him. Last night, Trump came to see his former opponents praise him. He joined the R.N.C.’s evening session, where he sat watching from an imperial red box. Two conventions ago, in 2016, Senator Ted Cruz refused to endorse Trump and told delegates to “vote your conscience.” Now the Party belongs to Trump, and last night, Cruz (of whom Trump reportedly said, earlier this year, “Ted—he shouldn’t even exist”) was the first former critic to take the stage to thank God for Trump. Then came Nikki Haley. “President Trump asked me to speak to this convention in the name of unity,” Haley said, to a standing ovation. Trump has mocked Haley’s birth name, told crowds that her wardrobe is hideous, and reportedly said that, because of a “complexion problem” with her skin, he could never appoint her Secretary of State. “We shouldn’t have followed him,” Haley said of Trump after January 6th. “You don’t have to agree with Trump a hundred per cent of the time to vote for him,” she said last night. Trump smiled.
Florida Governor Ron DeSantis, whom Trump has called Meatball, DeSoros, and DeSanctimonious, was next. Earlier this year, DeSantis made fun of Republicans who “kiss the ring” for Trump, but he was there to do just that. Echoing the Party’s big-tent message this week, DeSantis was notably more moderate in his speech to delegates than he was in his own Presidential bid; when he said Americans deserve the “right to life,” he segued straight to add “liberty and the pursuit of happiness,” instead of highlighting his staunch anti-abortion stance. Rupert Murdoch, who had fallen out with Trump after 2020, and whom Trump called a “MAGA-hating globalist,” watched the spectacle of reconciliation from the Fox suite. Later that night, at a party, Ted Cruz offered to give interviews, but many opted to stick to their drinks and baskets of cheese curds. Haley and DeSantis seemed like last-minute invitees, not fully welcomed into the inner circle—the Party wants their voters, not their friendship.
(I trust this 'Trumpish' enough to make the cut)
'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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