If only it was that easy ...

Shouldn't that say Unloading? 

• Apple spent less on lobbying than Microsoft,Facebook,Amazon, and Alphabet.
  
  
• However, Apple CEO Tim Cook has forged close ties with President Donald Trump, his daughter Ivanka Trump, and Trump’s senior adviser Jared Kushner, the Wall Street Journal‘s Tripp Mickle reports.
  
  
• If Cook disagrees with one of Trump’s policies, he often lets the administration know before taking a stance.

• >Microsoft spent $US24 million
  
  
• Facebook spent $US32 million
  
  
• Amazon spent $US36 million
  
  
• Alphabet spent $US47 million

The more dirt the democrats dig up on Trump, the more desperate they seem, the more I believe everything Trump says. #MAGA #KAG

The unfortunate belief of ~ 50 million Americans  (why getting rid of the fascist cult of Trumpism isn't going to be easy).

BBC News - Trump impeachment: Second whistleblower emerges

today

A second whistleblower has come forward in the impeachment case against US President Donald Trump, according to lawyers representing the first one.

 

Mark Zaid told ABC News the second person was also an intelligence official and they had spoken to the inspector general.

 

The White House has made no direct comment. President Trump has repeatedly rejected the original complaint.

 

No details have been released about the second whistleblower's claims. 

 

However, Mr Zaid said the person had first-hand knowledge of allegations associated with the phone call Mr Trump made with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky on 25 July.  ...

 

"This whistleblower has first hand knowledge"

The Washington Post - The Justice Department is oddly incurious about potential criminality in the Trump-Ukraine mess

October 6 at 3:57 PM

Something is not adding up about the Justice Department’s account of its decision not to open a criminal investigation based on a complaint by a whistleblower in the U.S. intelligence community about President Trump’s dealings with Ukraine. ...

 

The Justice Department appears to have conducted a wholly cursory examination. 

 

It interviewed no witnesses and examined no evidence other than the complaint. 

 

Text messages within the State Department that might have provided evidence of criminality were not examined. 

 

Justice closed the file without opening a formal investigation. ...

 

 

 

[The three top officials in the Justice Department’s criminal chain of command have no prosecutorial experience]

 

One point the Justice Department has maintained consistently is that the final decision was made by Brian Benczkowski, the head of the Criminal Division, in consultation with career attorneys at the Public Integrity Section.

 

Benczkowski is a political appointee with zero prosecutorial experience. 

 

Likewise, neither Deputy Attorney General Jeffrey A. Rosen nor Attorney General William P. Barr have spent a day as a prosecutor. ...

 

Political power is not there so you can punish those with no political power, it's to ensure those with power go unpunished.

Has anyone noticed that an anagram of Donald Trump is: ton lard dump? 

Mike Pence works out to peek c mine!

The New York Times - Trump Taxes: President Ordered to Turn Over Returns to Manhattan D.A.

A judge rejected the president’s argument that he was immune from criminal investigations. 

Oct. 7, 2019

A federal judge on Monday rejected a bold argument from President Trump that sitting presidents are immune from criminal investigations, allowing the Manhattan district attorney’s office to move forward with a subpoena seeking eight years of the president’s personal and corporate tax returns.

 

The ruling issued by Judge Victor Marrero of Manhattan federal court does not mean that the president’s tax returns will be turned over immediately. 

 

Mr. Trump’s lawyers quickly appealed the decision, and the appeals court agreed to temporarily block the order. 

 

The judge’s decision came a little more than a month after the Manhattan district attorney subpoenaed Mr. Trump’s accounting firm, Mazars USA, for his personal and corporate returns dating to 2011. ...

 

Donald the Victim - again!

kingdragonfly: Regarding "pushing the New York City and State prosecutors to go get President Trump"

Don't forget that when New York charged Cohen they documents also listed an unindicted co-conspiritor who was equally culpable in his crimes. They are probably waiting for Trump to leave office before charging him. The Mueller probe turned up a lot of criminal wrongdoing a fair bit of which was handed off to state level authorities to charge. State level charges can't be pardoned by the President so he can't pull a Nixon and resign and collect a pardon from his VP on the way out.