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  #2709701 19-May-2021 15:58
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Has Donald been a naughty boy?

 

BBC News - New York prosecutor says Trump inquiry now 'criminal'

 

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The New York attorney general's office says it is investigating the Trump Organization "in a criminal capacity".

 

A spokesman for the state's top prosecutor, Letitia James, said the inquiry into Mr Trump's property company was "no longer purely civil".

 

Ms James has been scrutinising the ex-Republican president's financial dealings before he took office.

 

The Trumps deny wrongdoing and say the inquiry by a Democratic prosecutor is a political vendetta.

 

Ms James' spokesman, Fabien Levy, told the BBC on Tuesday: "We have informed the Trump Organization that our investigation into the Organization is no longer purely civil in nature."

 

"We are now actively investigating the Trump Organization in a criminal capacity, along with the Manhattan DA. We have no additional comment."

 

The statement did not say what turned the inquiry from civil to criminal in nature, or whether the former president himself might be personally implicated in any allegations.

 



and ..

 

The Washington Post - Investigation of Trump Organization now exploring possible criminal conduct, N.Y. attorney general’s office says

 

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NEW YORK - New York Attorney General Letitia James's investigation into the Trump Organization is now considered a criminal matter ...

 

"We have informed the Trump Organization that our investigation into the company is no longer purely civil in nature," said Fabien Levy, a spokesperson for the attorney general's office.

 

"We are now actively investigating the Trump Organization in a criminal capacity, along with the Manhattan DA. We have no additional comment at this time."

 

The attorney general's notification to the Trump Organization suggested a cooperative relationship has developed between investigators working for James and Manhattan District Attorney Cyrus R. Vance Jr., whose office has been heading a criminal probe into the company and its officers since 2018.

 

Both officials are Democrats. 

 





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  #2709704 19-May-2021 16:02
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You beat me to it by a second! 

 

 





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  #2709707 19-May-2021 16:12
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Rikkitic:  You beat me to it by a second! 

 



 

Good news spreads fast!  🙂

 

 

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  #2709804 19-May-2021 18:59
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Loads of higher-ups will go down, but Teflon Trump himself will get off scott free.

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  #2710177 20-May-2021 13:31
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Plesse igmore amd axxept applogies in adbance fir anu typos

 


 


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  #2710331 20-May-2021 19:57
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The New York Times - The Punchiest Punchlines (Fraud Edition)

 

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This criminal investigation is a big deal. Up until now, the case against the lingering orange fart was merely financial and might have cost him money but didn’t threaten his liberty. And I assume ‘liberty’ means freedom and not the name of another porn star he paid off.” - STEPHEN COLBERT

 

And they’re looking now at bank fraud, tax fraud, insurance fraud. It’s starting to look like the guy who ran a fraudulent charitable foundation and a fraudulent university might be a fraud.” - JIMMY KIMMEL

 


It’s just like that old saying: Crime doesn’t pay, except for the first 74 years of your life, and then probably longer depending on appeals.” - JAMES CORDEN

 





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  #2710762 21-May-2021 12:49
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The Washington Post - Opinion: The threat of violence now infuses GOP politics. We should all be afraid.

 

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If Trump has a political philosophy, one of its main tenets is toxic masculinity - the use of menace and swagger to cover his mental and moral impotence. ...

 

When Trump operative Stephen K. Bannon proposed that Anthony S. Fauci should be beheaded, when Trump ally Joseph diGenova said a federal cybersecurity official should be “taken out at dawn and shot,” when Trump lawyer Rudolph W. Giuliani urged Trump supporters to engage in “trial by combat,” all of this was more than paunchy, pathetic, aging White men talking smack they could never back up. 

 

It exemplified a type of politics where cruelty is the evidence of commitment, brutality is the measure of loyalty and violence is equated with power. ...

 

 


 





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  #2710870 21-May-2021 15:15
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If Trump really cared about the morons, he would have given them all a pardon for the insurrection that happened (that he instigated).
Of course, he doesn't care about anyone but himself, hence why none of the losers got a pardon. He got what he wanted out of them - to invade the Capitol - and then promptly forgot about them afterwards, apart from some lame-arse short video he was forced to do, where he told them they were beautiful and he loved them. Aside from that? His care factor for them is 0.


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  #2710876 21-May-2021 15:24
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I just saw a very interesting point being made on MSNBC. I hadn’t really dwelt on it before. The point is that, whether by grift or otherwise, Trump is an extremely effective fund-raiser for the Republicans. If they dumped him their finances would take a major hit. Possibly they wouldn’t even survive it. This why most of the Republican establishment is so craven about him. It’s the money, stupid!

 

 





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  #2710983 21-May-2021 19:45
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Rikkitic:

 

I just saw a very interesting point being made on MSNBC. I hadn’t really dwelt on it before. The point is that, whether by grift or otherwise, Trump is an extremely effective fund-raiser for the Republicans. If they dumped him their finances would take a major hit. Possibly they wouldn’t even survive it. This why most of the Republican establishment is so craven about him. It’s the money, stupid!

 

 

 

 

it helps that the voters love him too.

 

even if he is in guantanamo bay jail they will still vote for him. probably gets more votes if he's in jail.


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  #2711218 22-May-2021 10:20
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Rikkitic:

 

I just saw a very interesting point being made on MSNBC. I hadn’t really dwelt on it before. The point is that, whether by grift or otherwise, Trump is an extremely effective fund-raiser for the Republicans. If they dumped him their finances would take a major hit. Possibly they wouldn’t even survive it. This why most of the Republican establishment is so craven about him. It’s the money, stupid!

 

 

Ironically Trump's existence was a huge motivator for donors to democratic party, allowing them to outspend the GOP in the lead up to 2020 🤣


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  #2711225 22-May-2021 10:59
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The Washington Post - Opinion: The threat of violence now infuses GOP politics. We should all be afraid.

 

today (extract)

 


If Trump has a political philosophy, one of its main tenets is toxic masculinity - the use of menace and swagger to cover his mental and moral impotence. ...

 

When Trump operative Stephen K. Bannon proposed that Anthony S. Fauci should be beheaded, when Trump ally Joseph diGenova said a federal cybersecurity official should be “taken out at dawn and shot,” when Trump lawyer Rudolph W. Giuliani urged Trump supporters to engage in “trial by combat,” all of this was more than paunchy, pathetic, aging White men talking smack they could never back up. 

 

It exemplified a type of politics where cruelty is the evidence of commitment, brutality is the measure of loyalty and violence is equated with power. ...

 

 

Gawd, I wish I'd said that. I think I'll frame it and hang it on the back of the loo door.





'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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  #2711229 22-May-2021 11:14
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Here's the whole article:

 

Opinion: The threat of violence now infuses GOP politics. We should all be afraid.
Michael Gerson
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May 20, 2021

 

American politics is being conducted under the threat of violence.

 

Rep. Liz Cheney (R-Wyo.), who has a talent for constructive bluntness, describes a political atmosphere within the GOP heavy with fear. “If you look at the vote to impeach,” she said recently, “there were members who told me that they were afraid for their own security — afraid, in some instances, for their lives.” The events of Jan. 6 have only intensified the alarm. When Donald Trump insists he is “still the rightful president,” Cheney wrote in an op-ed for The Post, he “repeats these words now with full knowledge that exactly this type of language provoked violence on Jan. 6.” And there’s good reason, Cheney argued, “to believe that Trump’s language can provoke violence again.”

 

Sometimes political events force us to step back in awe, or horror, or both. The (former) third-ranking Republican in the House of Representatives has accused a former president of her party of employing the threat of violence as a tool of intimidation. And election officials around the country — Republican and Democratic — can attest to the results: Death threats. Racist harassment. Armed protesters at their homes.

 

From one perspective, this is not new. Trump has made a point of encouraging violence against protesters at his rallies (“knock the crap out of them”), excusing violence by his supporters (people "with tremendous passion and love for their country”) and generally acting like a two-bit mob boss. He publicly supported Kyle Rittenhouse, the teenager charged with homicide in the killing of two people in Kenosha, Wis. (Rittenhouse has pleaded not guilty.) He embraced Mark and Patricia McCloskey for brandishing guns at peaceful marchers in St. Louis. He deployed federal security forces to break heads in Lafayette Square.

 

If Trump has a political philosophy, one of its main tenets is toxic masculinity — the use of menace and swagger to cover his mental and moral impotence. And the mini-Trumps have taken their master’s lead. When Trump operative Stephen K. Bannon proposed that Anthony S. Fauci should be beheaded, when Trump ally Joseph diGenova said a federal cybersecurity official should be “taken out at dawn and shot,” when Trump lawyer Rudolph W. Giuliani urged Trump supporters to engage in “trial by combat,” all of this was more than paunchy, pathetic, aging White men talking smack they could never back up. It exemplified a type of politics where cruelty is the evidence of commitment, brutality is the measure of loyalty and violence is equated with power.

 

This approach to politics is disturbing at any time. But now it has fastened itself upon an object, a project. Rather than trying to win future elections by attracting new voters, Trump Republicans wish to reshape the electoral system to produce more favorable results. Instead of using the 2020 presidential loss as a guide for additional outreach, Trump Republicans want to ensure they can claim and enforce a victory in 2024 with essentially the same vote total as 2020 — probably the high-water mark of the Trump coalition.

 

In some ways, the Trump movement of authoritarian populism is forward-looking. It eternally relitigates the 2020 election as preparation for the next. Compared with the utter chaos of previous efforts, this time there seems to be a strategy at work. First, undermine Republican confidence in the electoral system and stoke the party’s sense of grievance. Second, modify state election laws to try to discourage Democratic (and particularly minority) turnout. Third, replace or intimidate state election officials who show any hints of independence or integrity.

 

The first goal has been achieved: In a recent poll, more than two-thirds of Republicans denied the legitimacy of Joe Biden’s election as president. Results on the second goal (so far) have been mixed. Republican “reforms” have made the system marginally less fair than the status quo, but not quite as bad as some feared.

 

The third goal is where the threat of violence has mattered most. Officials who held the line against electoral corruption in 2020 have been worn down by threats. Some have retired or been forced out of office. State legislators who didn’t act as reliable partisans have been targeted and intimidated. All who resist Trump’s will know they will be singled out by name. They will be exposed to political jeopardy and physical peril, particularly from activists who view the right to bear arms as the right to make armed threats.

 

This is not a joke. This is not a myth. This is not a drill. According to a survey last year, a majority of Republicans agreed with the statement: “The traditional American way of life is disappearing so fast that we may have to use force to save it.”

 

Ultimately, it is not enough for political figures to ritually denounce the use of violence while amplifying the lies that lead to violence. The only way to defuse this bomb is to embrace the truth.





'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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  #2711242 22-May-2021 11:35
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geekIT:  Gawd, I wish I'd said that. I think I'll frame it and hang it on the back of the loo door.

 

 

 

 

You could hang this one on your toilet door ... could be handy if short of loo paper ...

 

 

 





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  #2711271 22-May-2021 13:01
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Christ, I hope not. A lot can change in 4 years, mind you.


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