I confess to back pedaling into Trump territory when I wanted to leave discussions about him in the garbage can. My thread on the read-only break room site has 9,600 replies so I thought I'd bring up a new one.
He's not going away.
Haberman's book is out based on interviews. I won't read it, but the excerpts are interesting. Especially what he says about McConnell, a description that's against the Terms of Service here, but I actually don't disagree with. LOL
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“At one point, Trump made a candid admission that was as jarring as it was ultimately unsurprising. ‘The question I get asked more than any other question: “If you had it to do again, would you have done it?”’Trump said of running for president. ‘The answer is, yeah, I think so. Because here’s the way I look at it. I have so many rich friends and nobody knows who they are.’ … Reflecting on the meaning of having been president of the United States, his first impulse was not to mention public service, or what he felt he’d accomplished, only that it appeared to be a vehicle for fame, and that many experiences were only worth having if someone else envied them.”
There's something to be said about pulling your candidate four months before the election. Will it be a new tactic of switching out candidates now at the last minute? 🤔
Poor Donald. Always the victim. Those mean ol' dems just don't play fair!
Trump at Michigan rally 7/20/24: "The only way I can lose is crooked judges. But we'll get it overturned, anything that happens"
He's just setting the stage for unconstitutionalactions to secure power, just like he did in 2020. He will now have the assistance of Clearance Thomas and the broken SCOTUS.
He's just setting the stage for unconstitutionalactions to secure power, just like he did in 2020. He will now have the assistance of Clearance Thomas and the broken SCOTUS.
The SCOTUS hasn't always ruled in his favor. None of the courts ruled in his favor with his claims of fraud the last time. Doubtful things have changed in the courts that much. As much as I dislike his appointees to the courts, I still believe in our system and they will be just.
But totally he agree he's setting up his base to believe that he's already the winner and if he doesn't win it's fraud.
...Pennsylvania State Police Commissioner Christopher Paris' striking testimony comes just one day after now-resigned Secret Service Director Kimberly Cheatle testified before the House Oversight Committee and largely declined to answer questions about the shooting at the former president's Pennsylvania rally.
Officers left post to look for Crooks
Two local law enforcement officers left a building with vantage points overlooking the roof where Crooks took aim at the former president before he fired shots, Paris testified.
Paris said that two officers with the Butler County Emergency Services Unit, a tactical force with sniper capabilities, left their posts in the building to look for a suspicious individual they spotted first and alerted to other law enforcement. That person was Crooks.
The lawmakers watched video taken during a congressional tour of the rally site Monday, from the building where the ESU officers left their post, showing the roof where Crooks eventually climbed and took shots at Trump.
"So are you then saying, to your knowledge, those ESU officers left the location where they could look out the window to go in search of this person?” Republican Rep. Dan Bishop of North Carolina asked.
"That is my understanding,” Paris said, adding that the officers went searching with other local officers in the area. "I don't want to establish a timeline minute by minute because we don't have that yet.”
Bishop also questioned whether the two officers who left their post could have seen Crooks climb on top of the roof if they had stayed put. Paris said he didn't know.
Crooks fired eight times
Investigators believe that Crooks fired eight rounds before he was killed by counter-snipers, Paris said.
"I believe that the number is eight,” Paris told the committee. "Eight casings have been recovered.”
Officials had previously only confirmed that the shooter fired multiple times at the rally earlier this month.
Paris also told members of Congress that "several Secret Service agents" told the state police area commander during a walkthrough of the area before the rally that the Butler County Emergency Services Unit was responsible for securing the building where Crooks fired the shots.
Minutes on the roof
A municipal officer came face-to-face with Crooks during the several minutes the would-be assassin was on the roof before Crooks fired on Trump, Paris testified.
Paris said that the brief confrontation came as a pair of local officers who had learned of Crooks' position on the roof attempted to climb up and confront the shooter. But while the officer was "dangling" from the roof, Crooks aimed his rifle at the officer and the officer fell.
Paris told lawmakers that Crooks was on the roof for roughly three minutes, but only a few seconds passed between when the officer confronted him and when he fired at Trump, correcting a timeframe he gave earlier in the hearing.
"When the one local officer hoisted the other one up, and subsequently falls,” Paris said, Crooks was "already, I believe, close to being in his final position there. And I'm told it's – again, sequence of events, not a timeline based on the prior criteria laid out – but seconds after that is when the first shots rang up.”
Paris said that whether, or when, the confrontation was relayed to the Secret Service or other law enforcement agencies at the rally "remains under investigation.”
Communications between Secret Service and local law enforcement
Paris also detailed communications among law enforcement about Crooks before Trump took the stage at the rally earlier this month.
According to Paris, "there was a text thread going" with members of the Butler County Emergency Services Unit, some of whom initially spotted Crooks and reported him as a suspicious individual.
"At some point when he utilized the range finder, the suspicion was heightened,” Paris said of Crooks.
State Police then received a call and a text from the ESU about Crooks' activity that they immediately relayed to Secret Service. Local, state and federal law enforcement were in a unified command post at the rally.
State Police "verbally turned right around and gave it to the Secret Service,” Paris said....
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Musk was quick to separate his personal politics, which he described as "Make America Greater" from those of Trump, while adding: "I don't prescribe to a cult of personality.”
...David Warrington, a lawyer for the Trump campaign, called the move "a brazen money grab that would constitute the single largest excessive contribution and biggest violation in the history of the Federal Election Campaign Act,” according to the complaint, a copy of which was seen by Bloomberg News...
...The legal question is a novel one, but many campaign finance experts say the transfer is probably allowed. Steve Roberts, a lawyer who has represented GOP candidates, has said the argument against it was "maybe wishful thinking" by his Republican colleagues.
The Harris campaign said the complaint would have no impact on its fundraising or spending.
...The complaint is against Biden, Harris, the Biden campaign (which is now the Harris campaign) and campaign treasurer Keana Spencer for allegedly "flagrantly violating the Act by making and receiving an excessive contribution of nearly one hundred million dollars, and for filing fraudulent forms with the Commission purporting to repurpose one candidate's principal campaign committee for the use of another candidate.”
Harris campaign spokesperson Charles Kretchmer Lutvak responded to the FEC complaint in a statement Tuesday, saying, "Republicans may be jealous that Democrats are energized to defeat Donald Trump and his MAGA allies, but baseless legal claims – like the ones they've made for years to try to suppress votes and steal elections – will only distract them while we sign up volunteers, talk to voters, and win this election.”
Harris campaign reporting raising $126 million in first 48hrs, 1.4 million donors.
We all know that Trump loves to use the legal system to create hardship and difficulty for those he considers opponents. He's been doing that for years. He's got all kind of chaotic legal machinations in play in his multitude of legal troubles. He only needs to postpone the trials and get himself some presidential immunity. That's a pretty big motivator for the felon to run.
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Poor Donald. Always the victim. Those mean ol' dems just don't play fair!