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.”
Trump's story is a complete fabrication. No tape of his call with Zelensky was ever released; Pelosi could not possibly have been angry with her allies after hearing a tape of the call because she has never heard a tape of the call. In fact, as of nearly five years after the July 2019 call, there is no known US recording of the conversation. What Trump's White House actually released in September 2019 was a rough written transcript of the call — which corroborated, rather than contradicted, a government whistleblower's central allegations about what Trump had said. Pelosi spokesperson Aaron Bennett said Sunday that Trump's story is "fact-free nonsense.”
"You know what's interesting? Joe Biden won against Barack Hussein Obama. Has anyone ever heard of him? Every swing state, Biden beat Obama but in every other state, he got killed,” Trump said.
Trump unable to finance an appeal bond for at least $450 million, lawyers say
Thoughts and prayers. Not.
His property is probably all heavily mortgaged. When Trump does post his huge bond, who will he owe? Trump will be so debt compromised that he wouldn't be able, as a regular citizen, to get a security clearance to access a military base.
Here's the link to the crazy speech for the people who think he was taken out of context while talking about violence and lying and telling confused stories.
No, this wasn't presented out of context by the liberal media and the likes of Nancy Pelosi.
Actually, many outright lied about his comments, and it was grotesque.
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Heard at Trumps rally on grounds of Dayton International Airport Saturday.
ABC: Donald Trump's speech over the weekend was dark and menacing. He started it off by paying tribute to the people who attacked the Capitol on January 6 and called them 'patriots.' Trump called immigrants 'animals' and said there will be a 'bloodbath' if he isn't elected
Today while Trump's lawyers submitted brief he's unable to secure bond in NYC lawsuit, announced Paul Manafort considering joining Donald Trumps 2024 campaign team.
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...The job discussions have largely centered on the Republican National Convention in Milwaukee in July and could include Manafort playing a role in fundraising for the presumptive GOP nominee's campaign,
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Heard at Trumps rally on grounds of Dayton International Airport Saturday.
ABC: Donald Trump's speech over the weekend was dark and menacing. He started it off by paying tribute to the people who attacked the Capitol on January 6 and called them 'patriots.' Trump called immigrants 'animals' and said there will be a 'bloodbath' if he isn't elected
Today while Trump's lawyers submitted brief he's unable to secure bond in NYC lawsuit, announced Paul Manafort considering joining Donald Trumps 2024 campaign team.
I wonder who decided that it was a good idea for Manafort to be brought back on Trump's staff. Putin maybe? Maybe this is a conditional agreement...a transaction of sorts.
It would be fun to have a fully unredacted Mueller report about now. Come on, AG Garland, take Barr's ink off that report.
Trump better be careful, if his speeches are too divisive and dark the republican House won't invite him to deliver a SOTU.
I'm always struck by how sensitive Trump supporters are to what they see as lies about Trump.
Fine with me if they stop with SOTU addresses. They have morphed into a silly waste of time and resources.
Are you siding with with those, such as Pelosi, who lie and claim Trump said he was literally going to exact a bloodbathe for our country if he's not elected?
It'd also be worth your while to watch the Stephen A Smith clip I posted further above.
The Russian government interfered in the 2016 presidential election in sweeping and systematic fashion. Evidence of Russian government operations began to surface in mid-2016. In June, the Democratic National Committee and its cyber response team publicly announced that Russian hackers had compromised its computer network. Releases of hacked materials—hacks that public reporting soon attributed to the Russian government—began that same month.
Additional releases followed in July through the organization WikiLeaks, with further releases in October and November...
RUSSIAN SOCIAL MEDIA CAMPAIGN
The Internet Research Agency (IRA) carried out the earliest Russian interference operations identified by the investigation—a social media campaign designed to provoke and amplify political and social discord in the United States. The IRA was based in St. Petersburg, Russia, and received funding from Russian oligarch Yevgeniy Prigozhin and companies he controlled. Prigozhin is widely reported to have ties to Russian President Vladimir Putin, and the investigation identified evidence of his relationship with the Russian Ministry of Defense and high-ranking government officials...
Trump Campaign and the Dissemination of Hacked Materials (starts on page 56)
Beginning in 2017, the President of the United States took a variety of actions towards the ongoing FBI investigation into Russia's interference in the 2016 presidential election and related matters that raised questions about whether he had obstructed justice. The Order appointing the Special Counsel gave this Office jurisdiction to investigate matters that arose directly from the FBI's Russia investigation, including whether the President had obstructed justice in connection with Russia-related investigations. The Special Counsel's jurisdiction also covered potentially obstructive acts related to the Special Counsel's investigation itself. This Volume of our report summarizes our obstruction-of-justice investigation of the President.
...This report on our investigation consists of four parts.
Section I provides an overview of obstruction-of-justice principles and summarizes certain investigatory and evidentiary considerations.
Section II sets forth the factual results of our obstruction investigation and analyzes the evidence.
Section III addresses statutory and constitutional defenses.
Section IV states our conclusion.
E. The President's Efforts to Remove the Special Counsel
Overview - Pg. 82
J. The President's Conduct Towards Flynn, Manafort, and Stone - starts Pg.125
Conduct Directed at Paul Manafort Pg. 127
On October 27, 2017, a grand jury in the District of Columbia indicted Manafort and former deputy campaign manager Richard Gates on multiple felony counts, and on February 22, 2018, a
grand jury in the Eastern District of Virginia indicted Manafort and Gates on additional felony counts.846 The charges in both cases alleged criminal conduct by Manafort that began as early as 2005 and continued through 2018.
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Trump makes stuff up? I'm shocked. (sarcasm font)
https://www.cnn.com/2024/03/17/politics/fact-check-trump-ukraine-zelensky-call-pelosi/index.html
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024/mar/17/trump-verbal-gaffes-ohio-rally-bloodbath
Quote of the day: "One candidate is too old and mentally unfit to be president. The other one is me..." Joe Biden