That Sound You Hear Is Donald Trump Screaming, Crying, and Throwing Up in a Mar-a-Lago Bathroom
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Posted:Jul 21, 2023 4:05 pm
Last Updated:Jul 22, 2023 1:02 pm 5548 Views
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On the same day that word came down racketeering charges are likely to come out of the Fulton County probe, Judge Aileen Cannon set a date for the classified-documents trial for well before the 2024 election.
Donald Trump received some no good, extremely bad legal news on Friday, when The Guardian reported that Fani Willis, the Fulton County district attorney criminally investigating his attempt to overturn the 2020 election in Georgia has “developed evidence to charge a sprawling racketeering indictment next month,” according to people familiar with the matter. Obviously, being charged with racketeering would be exactly as bad as it sounds—and yet somehow, that wasn’t even the worst news the ex-president received today.
Instead, it was likely the decision by Aileen Cannon—a federal judge Trump himself appointed—to set a trial date of May 20, 2024, for Trump to face off with the federal government in the classified-documents case, that had staffers and aides hiding in hallways and coat closets to avoid Trump’s ire (and whatever ketchup bottles he could get his hands on). While the spring date is several months later than prosecutors had requested, it is very much well before the postelection one Team Trump had been angling for in the hopes of putting it off until the ex-president could have won a second term and made all of his legal problems—on the federal level, that is—go away.
Of course, just because Cannon issued a ruling that Trump will undoubtedly be very unhappy about today does not mean she won’t, as many fear, blow up the case in his favor when the trial finally kicks off. (As The Washington Post notes, “In her role, Cannon can have a significant impact on the case, including by ruling on what evidence can be included and deciding on any potential motions challenging the charges.”) On the other hand, the government’s indictment against Trump is said to be extremely strong: After the charges were unveiled last month, former attorney general Bill Barr opined: “I was shocked by the degree of sensitivity of these documents and how many there were, frankly. If even half of it is true, he’s toast.” As one Fox News legal analyst noted, “All the government has to do is stick the landing on one count, and he could have a terminal sentence. We’re talking about crimes that have a 10- or 20-year period as a maximum.” (Trump, along with his alleged co-conspirator, has pleaded not guilty.)
Incidentally, the documents case isn’t even the first criminal trial that Trump will have to fit into his schedule next spring. His trial versus the Manhattan district attorney—who charged him in April with various crimes related to his hush money deals—is slated to begin March 25, three weeks after Super Tuesday. (Trump has also pleaded not guilty in that case.)
In related news, The Washington Post reports that Trump’s many legal issues—including the New York case, the DOJ’s documents case, and the possible Georgia case, and the DOJ’s election-interference case that he's expected to be charged in—are eating into a huge amount of campaign funds:
To illustrate how Trump’s criminal defense is swallowing his campaign, just over half of the money he raised last quarter went not to the campaign itself but to an affiliated PAC that is footing the legal bills. Of more than $35 million raised between March and June, the campaign received $17.7 million, according to the latest report to the Federal Election Commission. The rest went to the Save America PAC, which will report its latest finances on July 31 but has been spending millions on lawyers representing Trump and allies in the multiple ongoing cases, according to FEC disclosures.
“A lot of money is going to legal and people who don’t do much, and not a lot is left over to do marketing and advertising,” said one Trump adviser, who like others spoke on the condition of anonymity to discuss internal plans. “A lot of the money we’re raising is just going to legal.”
And if you’re thinking perhaps Trump was chipping in at least a little bit of his own money for his legal fees, think again. According to the Post, the former guy “is not relying on his personal fortune to cover his legal bills.” (You expected Trump pay for this s--t out of pocket like some kind of commoner? C’mon now.)
Ken Cuccinelli, who is advising a Ron DeSantis–aligned super PAC told the Post: “Trump’s supporters are being taken advantage of by having to foot the bill for Trump’s legal troubles.”
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Hank dba Idiot
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Posted:Jul 17, 2023 4:53 pm
Last Updated:Jul 21, 2023 9:31 pm 5729 Views
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Updated 6/13/2023 8:26 PM CDT
For the first 234 years of the nation’s history, no American president or former president was indicted. That changed in March 2023, when former President Donald Trump was charged with 34 felony counts in connection with hush money payments to a porn star. Less than three months later, he was indicted again – this time on 37 felony counts for mishandling classified documents and impeding investigators. And two other ongoing criminal probes, both related to 2020 election interference, may prompt further indictments of Trump and his allies.
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She said...I said...
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Posted:Jul 14, 2023 5:00 pm
Last Updated:Jul 30, 2023 8:44 am 5439 Views
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She said:
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I said:
Nice try...
But, you're extremely naive to call me naive...
And, compared to YOU being bright, I've seen burned out light bulbs that were exponentially brighter then you could ever be. Probably a mixture of bad genetics coupled with the decades of being brainwashed by money grubbing evangelical frauds.
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The law is the law. Prosecute violators. Lock him up.
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Posted:Jun 15, 2023 4:05 pm
Last Updated:Jun 22, 2023 6:19 pm 6244 Views
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The law is the law.
Prosecute violators. Lock him up.
Bret Stephens
NEW YORK TIMES
For many years, but especially the past three, conservatives have warned of the dangers of a criminal justice system that is overly reluctant to put and keep dangerous people in prison. The law is the law. Violations of it should be prosecuted. We are, and must remain, the land of equal justice, not social justice dictated by the ideological fixations of angry Americans.
These same conservatives should try being consistent when it comes to the federal indictment of Donald Trump.
It is stunning to read the grand jury’s 37-count indictment, with its depictions of a former president treating the law with the contemptuous disdain of a mafia don — but with none of a don’s concern for covering his tracks. It is even more stunning to hear what some of those in the legal community who have been defenders of Trump have to say about it.
Alan Dershowitz: “It is the kind of evidence every defense lawyer dreads and every prosecutor dreams about,” the retired Harvard law professor wrote of Trump’s recorded admission of unlawfully possessing highly classified documents.
Jonathan Turley: “Some of the evidence is coming from his former counsel, and these are very damaging statements made against him,” the Fox News legal analyst said, referring to notes made by one of Trump’s lawyers, in which the former president plots to obstruct a government subpoena. “All the government has to do is stick the landing on one count, and he could have a terminal sentence.”
Bill Barr: “It’s a very detailed indictment, and it’s very, very damning,” Trump’s former attorney general told “Fox News Sunday.” As for the suggestion that Trump is the victim of a witch hunt, Barr noted that the Justice Department had “acted in a very patient way” in trying to obtain documents from Trump, only to be met with “very egregious obstruction.”
Barr added that the manner in which Trump held on to and possibly shared vital national secrets — including, reportedly, the Pentagon’s planning documents for an attack on Iran —was done in a way that “anyone who really cares about national security, your stomach would churn at.”
None of this will sway Trump’s base, because nothing will sway them. It doesn’t matter that they were the ones most outraged in 2016 by Hillary Clinton’s alleged mishandling of classified documents.
Or the most disgusted by the conclusion by the then-FBI director, James Comey, that “no reasonable prosecutor” would bring charges against her.
Or the most lustily cheering “Lock her up” at that summer’s Republican convention.
But what about more mainstream conservatives who know the 2020 election wasn’t stolen, that Jan. 6 was a disgrace for the ages, that Trump is a one-time-lucky serial loser whose bottomless narcissism keeps costing Republicans winnable Senate and gubernatorial races, that his entire presidency was a drunken joy ride with a reckless driver careening around hairpin turns at high speed, that his renomination as the GOP candidate would give President Joe Biden his best shot at reelection and that another Trump presidency would be an orgy of petty political retribution and reckless policymaking that would make his first term seem, by comparison, responsible and tame?
They are, with few exceptions, supine.
Their excuses for Trump have run the gamut. There were legally inaccurate claims about the Presidential Records Act, which does not give Trump whatever time he wants to return documents to the archivist of the United States.
There was the idea that Trump held on to the documents because he was a hoarder or that he had little idea what was in them or that any secrets they contained were not serious. The counts of the indictment powerfully indicate otherwise.
There’s also the whataboutism regarding Clinton’s emails and the documents found in Biden’s offices and garage. But the people who argue that Comey’s recommendation was a travesty of justice cannot now argue that Trump should be let off on far more serious charges. As for Biden, his case has its own special counsel: Let him come to his conclusions based on the facts.
Which leaves the argument that our democracy will be gravely damaged if the administration of an incumbent president sets the precedent of criminally prosecuting a political opponent.
That’s essentially what Trump threatened to do against Clinton.
That’s exactly what he sought to do against Biden by trying to dig up dirt on Hunter Biden’s business dealings in Ukraine — the subject of Trump’s first impeachment.
I don’t recall many conservatives taking a bold stand then against that attempt at using the formidable powers of the presidency to criminalize an opponent.
It remains true that the federal prosecution of Trump, along with his potential conviction and incarceration, will be a fateful moment in American history.
Far more fateful would have been the failure to prosecute. If Trump can be above the law, in a case of this kind, then we will have lost the rule of law.
As for larger considerations of justice, of both a legal and a cosmic kind, the English language is well stocked with phrases for occasions like this.
Turnabout is fair play.
Hoist with his own petard.
What’s sauce for the goose.
Lock him up.
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SCHIFF vs SKIFF
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Posted:Jun 11, 2023 1:50 pm
Last Updated:Jun 22, 2023 5:19 pm 6054 Views
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SCIF
Sensitive Compartmented Information Facility (pronounced “skiff”), a U.S. Department of Defense term for a secure room. It can be a data center or a secure room that guards against electronic surveillance and suppresses data leakage of sensitive military and security information.
SKIFF
Activities: Day Cruising, Freshwater and Saltwater Fishing
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Propulsion: Outboard Engine
Many different size, shape, and style boats could be called skiffs, but the common denominator is simplicity. Skiffs are open boats, usually with outboard power, which have little more than a hull, a powerplant, and some seats. They’re often used for activities like fishing, crabbing, clamming, or just puttering around small bays and tributaries.
When you're a crazed equine, it's not at all surprising you'd not know the difference...
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