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.”
An immediate 14% drop in stock price certainly trims the cash expectations for Trump. I wonder where that stock price goes Monday. It might depend upon Trump's ability to make bond.
Order quickly, Trump says that we're missing religion and have to bring Christianity back into our lives.
Make America Pray Again.
You always said he was a grifter. Now I see why. Him selling Bibles should be revolting to Christians everywhere. One reverend said ""Seeing the indicted, would-be dictator, sell so-called 'patriotic' Bibles does provide a parallel to Holy Week, but it's not with Jesus,"
At a Grand Rapids, Michigan, campaign event on Tuesday, former President Donald Trump told his supporters that he had spoken to the family of Ruby Garcia, a 25-year-old woman who was allegedly murdered by an undocumented immigrant.
But Garcia's sister said Trump didn't speak with anyone from the family, and she criticized him for politicizing her sister's death.
This is great for Trump's presidential campaign and it highlights how trustworthy his utterances are as he enters his first criminal court proceedings.
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"He did not speak with any of us," Ruby's sister, Marvi Garcia, said in an interview with NBC affiliate WOOD-TV. "So it's kind of shocking seeing that he had said he had spoken with us ... misinforming people on live TV,” she said.
Maybe it was just a mistake. Would Trump ever apologize and admit to making a mistake?
Wow, criminal activity surrounding Trump? Say it isn't so.
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Florida venture capitalist Michael Shvartsman and his brother Gerald Shvartsman pleaded guilty on Wednesday to participating in an insider trading scheme linked to the blockbuster deal that brought former President Donald Trump's social media business public.
Nineteen retired generals, admirals and former top civilian defense officials have filed a brief with the U.S. Supreme Court opposing former President Donald Trump's bid for immunity from prosecution. "We risk jeopardizing America's standing as a guardian of democracy in the world and further feeding the spread of authoritarianism, thereby threatening the national security of the United States and democracies around the world,” the group wrote. The 38-page amicus brief includes officials from Democratic and Republican administrations dating back to former President John F. Kennedy, as well as four-star generals from the Army, Air Force and Marines, and Navy and Coast Guard admirals.
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The former military leaders said allowing immunity would undermine confidence in the role of the military at home and abroad, and relations with allies and potential enemies. "Presidential immunity from criminal prosecution would threaten the military's role in American society, our nation's constitutional order, and our national security,” the former defense leaders wrote. "It also would have profoundly negative effects on military service members, who answer to the orders of the president as commander in chief.” The group argued immunity would place commanders and their troops in a vise between obeying their oath to the Constitution and orders from the president. "The president could, with impunity, direct his national security appointees to, in turn, direct members of the military to execute plainly unlawful orders, placing those in the chain of command in an untenable position and irreparably harming the trust fundamental to civil-military relations,” they wrote.
Trump's un-American thinking needs to be rejected soundly by citizens and patriots in November. His Congressional sycophants need to go too.
An immediate 14% drop in stock price certainly trims the cash expectations for Trump. I wonder where that stock price goes Monday. It might depend upon Trump's ability to make bond.
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About two weeks since its meteoric debut, shares of Truth Social are slumping, wiping out billions of dollars in value in former President's Trump's stake.
Shares of Trump Media & Technology Group — the company behind Truth Social — lost 8% on Monday after already losing 12% on Friday.
Apparently, it's still over-valued and Trump can't cash out until September unless he asked the Trump supporting board for permission earlier. Not sure about those details though.
Apparently, it's still over-valued and Trump can't cash out until September unless he asked the Trump supporting board for permission earlier. Not sure about those details though.
The analysts suspect his cult is keeping the stock from crashing completely. Who wants shares in a business venture that has never been profitable?
The overall thrust of Smith's new brief, submitted in advance of high-stakes oral arguments set for April 25, is that acceding to Trump's broader immunity arguments would convert the presidency into an authoritarian post by removing one of few constraints on presidents obeying the will of voters.
"The effective functioning of the Presidency does not require that a former President be immune from accountability for these alleged violations of federal criminal law,” Smith's team wrote. "To the contrary, a bedrock principle of our constitutional order is that no person is above the law—including the President. Nothing in constitutional text, history, precedent, or policy considerations supports the absolute immunity that petitioner seeks.”
Should Trump win these immunity arguments (its unlikely) wouldn't that mean that Biden has a whole new box of tools to use in the coming months to maintain his position?
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Similarly, if Republicans kill FISA won't that make it easier for President Biden to use our intelligence agencies to spy on his political opponent? You know, like Nixon did?
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An immediate 14% drop in stock price certainly trims the cash expectations for Trump. I wonder where that stock price goes Monday. It might depend upon Trump's ability to make bond.