George Conway doesn’t like Donald Trump. Conway is a lawyer and a conservative. He is married to Kellyanne Conway. I think it’s fair to say that George hates Trump. I would love to be a fly on the wall at their dinner table.
George regularly mocks Trump on Twitter. He attacks him in opinion pieces in the Washington Post. He slams him on TV news shows.
He was interviewed yesterday on “Morning Joe.”
“I think the walls are closing in on him,” Conway said. “There are so many different investigations. There’s also civil suits that are chasing him down. I think, bit by bit, we’re finally going to see the processes apply to him. He had his deposition taken yesterday by the New York attorney general. There are some civil depositions coming up, and he is being forced, essentially, to put up or shut up in these investigations. Yesterday, he, you know, took the Fifth 440 times, which is basically the most respect I think he’s ever shown for the Constitution of the United States.”
“But the Georgia case, I think, is particularly one to keep looking out for,” Conway continued. “It’s the one that sort of seems to be moving ahead the most quickly, but I think this documents investigation is one that we haven’t heard the last of. I mean, [Washington Postcolumnist] David [Ignatius] is absolutely right about the innate cautious and by-the-book nature of Merrick Garland. I think that he is handling this absolutely perfectly. I don’t think the Justice Department should be saying anything more than it already has said, which is basically nothing about this, because that’s what the rule of law requires. That is what grand jury secrecy requires.”
“The whole point of this exercise is that nobody is above the law,” he added. “The law applies equally to you and I, to the rich and the poor, to ex-presidents and just regular citizens. One of those protection people have is grand jury secrecy and the presumption of innocence. The reason why the Justice Department does not say anything about ongoing investigations, except in unusual circumstances or when indictments are there, is to protect the reputations of those that are the subject of investigation. If he really thinks that there is a witch hunt going on with these documents that were at Mar-A-Lago, he should tell us exactly what happened. Show us the search warrant. What was the government looking for? What did they take? He has a list of what they took, or should have a list, and that would tell us a great deal. But he doesn’t want to say anything because he knows it’s not going to be helpful to him, I’m sure. Just as actually answering questions from Letitia James yesterday wasn’t going to be helpful to him.”
Diane Ravitch's blog 
Unfortunate headline of the day: McCarthy seeks to probe Garland
That one is from the semi-Trumpy news site The Hill.
“But the Georgia case, I think, is particularly one to keep looking out for”
This is like getting Capone for tax evasion or worse, like getting John Wayne Gacy for jaywalking.
Discriminating against people of color in housing at his properties, stiffing contractors of money owed for services done, running a sham university, running a sham charity, money laundering for Russian mobsters, abetting espionage against the United States (“Russia, if you’re listening, . . .”), many cases of sexual assault/rape, passing national secrets to Russian officials, conspiring to impede the Russian investigation, defrauding the American public with a stolen election lie, colluding treasonously with various groups (Oath Keepers, Proud Boys) attempting to overthrow the United States government that he headed at the time (!!!!), conspiring to obstruct an official proceeding (multiple counts of this), seditious conspiracy (again, several counts, including the fake electors scheme), running several sham money-raising operations (contribute to the Trump legal defense fund), . . .
Of this long, long list, which just begins to summarize the breathtaking criminal history of this man ( I use the term loosely), the Teflon Don 2.0, and his RICO, attempting to fix the Georgia election is put one part of one of these and arguably far from the worst.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Legal_affairs_of_Donald_Trump
attempting to overthrow the incoming US government
Destroying/defacing US property
That’s an impressive list of litigation. He should get an award from the American Bar Associatuon for hiring so many lawyers.
Interesting that when he left Mar-A-Lago for his deposition in NYC, he left behind a lawyer in his MAL home. Does he have a lawyer available wherever he goes and whenever he leaves home?
Or did he have a heads up on this because he is thick with Russian intelligence and the latter has a mole who knew about the raid beforehand?
I’ll bet with Diane on this one. When you have a list that long, yu naturally would keep a lawyer on alert. Why trust an outfit that can’t even beat Ukraine?
Trump just hired an Atlanta lawyer known as “the billion dollar lawyer.” He will represent Trump in the Georgia case. He is known for representing rappers. Wonder if he will ever be paid.
Gacey jaywalked?! I am gobsmacked
Gob (euphemism) does a lot of smacking. And smiting. Or so it seems.
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I remember way back in early days, having already lived in NYC for a few years, being unsurprised when the don moved into the as-mobbed-up-as-NYC-concrete-contractors casino trade. A perfect fit.
yup. except he was too dumb to make it work. you have to be really, really dumb to lose money with a casino, and you have to be completely without a moral compass to want to start one to begin with (and you better have mob clout)
The Teflon Don, Cheeto “Little Fingers” Trumpbalone
The crook with no plan and the tan in a can who for many decades made US intelligence and law enforcement look like the Keystone Cops.
If you have any doubt that there are two justice systems in the United States, one for the wealthy and another for folks like you and me, look no further than this criminal and how he survived after running through, via business incompetence, the three quarters of a billion he got from his Daddy.
Traitor Trump also ran through a billion borrowed dollars from US banks who won’t lend money to him anymore due to several bankruptcies.
Then there’s almost a billion in government subsidies the traitor got as part of the deal to build his failed empire of hotel casinos in Atlantic City.
Where did all that money go?
And the traitor has always cheated his business partners, the contractors he hires to build things for him, the dangerously dumber than dumb MAGA fascists that keep donating money to him, the venues where he holds his hate rallies, et al.
Traitor Trump has never met anyone or anything he doesn’t want to cheat.
After he went bankrupt building casinos in Atlantic City (the intent, ofc, was to siphon cash from suckers), no US bank would lend to him. So, he took a trip to Moscow. Then, suddenly, when no US bank would touch him, Deutsche Bank, which had billions in deposits from Putin’s pals, extended the bankrupt trump a billion-dollar loan.
but hey nothing to see here. LMAO.
From NPR:
The House select committee investigating the Jan. 6 insurrection at the Capitol is calling it “the Big Rip Off.”
It says the Trump campaign took $250 million in donations from supporters that it said would go to an election defense fund to pay for legal fees to overturn the 2020 presidential election results. But the fund was never actually created, Rep. Zoe Lofgren, D-Calif., one of the committee members, said Monday in the panel’s second public hearing.
Instead, the money went to the Save America political action committee, she said, and the money went from there to several pro-Trump organizations which are headed by former officials close to Donald Trump’s inner circle.
“Not only was there the Big Lie,” Lofgren said, referring to Trump’s false allegations of election fraud, “there was the Big Rip-Off.”
I understand Traitor Trump has also reneged on paying back the loans to Deutsche Bank and the manager that handled his account alleged committed suicided like so many of rasPutin’s [Traitor Trumps alleged Russian handler] enemies.
“Former Deutsche Bank Exec Connected to Trump Loans Dies by Suicide in Malibu”
https://www.lamag.com/citythinkblog/deutsche-bank-death/
“The German bank loaned a cumulative total of around $2.5 billion to Trump projects over the past two decades, and the bank continued writing him nine-figure checks even after he defaulted on a $640 million obligation and sued the bank, blaming it for his failure to pay back the debt.”
https://www.wnycstudios.org/podcasts/trumpinc/episodes/trump-inc-trump-deutsche-bank-its-complicated
This was the second of the Deutsch officials connected to both Trump and Russia who “committed suicide.” You know, the way all those doctors who opposed Putin’s Covid policies suddenly started jumping out of windows.
This stuff is practically all out in the open. There for any idiot to see.
Deutsche officials
Suicide seems to have become a popular sport among those who have dirt on powerful figures.
I wonder how long it will be before Ghislaine Maxwell becomes a player.
Then again, maybe she has a “sui-shield” in the form of a Deadman switch comprised of encrypted video of Epstein’s clients “in action” set to automatically go off if she ever decides to take up the sport.
I suspect that this is the case and that she has made that quite clear. Meanwhile, she’s going to do a few years at a federal spa and then be released early.
Clearly, the wealthy in the US can avoid prosecution by throwing lawyers and money at a problem. Trump has done this over and over and over again for decades. It’s what does. He gets up in the morning, does that, and watches television. Making legal problems go away by throwing lawyers and money at them is clearly how our system clearly works. It’s purchasable. Take another look at that long, long list on the Wikipedia page. If you or I did any of this stuff, we would be in jail or prison quicker than Don the Con can say “Then I have an Article 2 where I have the right to do whatever I want as president, but I don’t even talk about that.”
cx: It’s what he does.
He also cheats at–er–plays golf. & eats lots of Whoppers (or Big Macs).
That’s it: he eats lots of Big Macs & tells whoppers.
LOL.
At the recent Saudi event, a number of players and onlookers were surprised that Trump is actually a pretty good golfer. This is not surprising, given how much he golfs. It’s difficult to play this much and not be fairly decent. There are many, many stories, though, of his cheating. I read one in which Trump hit his ball into the weeds and then played to ball in the fairway of his fellow’ golfer’s 11-year-old son, who was playing with them that day. That story has the ring of truth. It’s SOOOO Trump.
“Nobody is above the law”
Well, except for Dubya Bush and his illegal invasion of Iraq which cost at least a million lives, and his illegal surveillance programs and his illegal rendition and torture programs and….
Oh, I’m sorry, I forgot, he shared candy with Michelle and danced with Ellen, so he’s a good guy now. And even Darth Cheney said Orange Man Bad, so he’s all good now too.
I’m all in favor of Trump being prosecuted for any an all crimes and if he ends up in prison, I will happily throw away the key myself, but why is he the only one you care about any more? Well, him and other unrepentant “extremist” Republicans (as if there is any other kind)? Why do people like Bush and Cheney get a pass? Why does Nancy Pelosi get a pass for her insider trading? What about Obama (https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2013/05/the-biggest-obama-scandals-are-proven-and-ignored/275960/)?
I know, I know, “whataboutism”. But the thing is, I read this blog every day and never rarely do I see a peep about any alleged crimes besides Trump and his affiliates. One might start to think that the concern for the rule of law only applies to laws broken by one’s political enemies Why the silence about your own “side”? You have no grounds complaining about your neighbor’s house when your own is overflowing with junk, even if theirs is worse. Clean your own house first!
As for my “side”, that would be the people, especially the poor and marginalized that are being trampled by politicians and elites of both “sides”. Those people are already far over-represented in prison and they have no power to begin with. I side against those who have power and use it to harm for personal gain. There are plenty on both “sides” who fit those shoes. I don’t rail against Democrats because I’m a right-winger. I do it because they are right-wingers.
“As for my “side”, that would be the people, especially the poor and marginalized that are being trampled by politicians and elites of both “sides”
This is truly laughable coming from the person who railed against the black voters in southern states for not choosing “her” candidate in the 2016 democratic primary. As long as the poor and marginalized do what she wants them to do, she will protect them from being trampled.
But nothing as disgusting as a white person telling the African American voters who did not vote for Bernie in the primary that the reason she worked so hard every day to defeat the candidate they did vote for was for them. She was working so hard to defeat their preferred Democratic candidate and enshrine the right wing majority on the Supreme Court in 2016 was because she is “on their side” (and apparently knows what is best for them when they don’t.)
BERNIE SANDERS 12:55 PM · May 6, 2021·Twitter for iPhone
“Rep. Liz Cheney (R-WY) will likely be voted off the House Republican Leadership. Her crime: acknowledging the reality that Trump lost the election. The Republican Party is no longer a “conservative” party. It is an anti-democratic cult pushing the Big Lie and conspiracy theories.”
The Intercept, January 22, 2020:
“This month marks 29 straight years that the U.S. has been bombing Iraq. Joe Biden, who proactively aided and abetted the Bush administration’s drive for war, has been openly lying about his record, but Bernie Sanders also has some serious questions he needs to answer about his own support for regime change, missile strikes and deadly economic sanctions.”
The disingenuous apologists for fascism are full of hypocrisy. She excuses the most hateful actions of Putin (Putin murders children to fight Nazis), but claims some monolith she calls “the Dems” murder children because they are greedy and want to please their corporate overlords).
Not only will this person demonize Bernie Sanders and AOC and the squad with her smears, but she excuses actions of Putin and Trump.
She has lost perspective. She is the one who was begging the Dems to allow Trump to get away with all his wrongdoings during impeachment and after. If Obama had gone after Cheney and company, does anyone believe she would not have been shouting that the Dems need to stop focusing on the past?
Wow, and people think I’m the unhinged one. This is truly a bizarre rant.
I quote Bob below:
“No one here has said that Darth Cheney is now Mr. Goodbar. No one. That this has happened exists only in your own imagination, just like the rationales for imperialist Putin’s criminal invasion of Ukraine and systematic destruction, rape, torture, and murder there.”
What you say your principles are changes constantly depending on whether you can cite that principle to attack the Dems (how dare Obama not go after Cheney) or attack the Dems (how dare the Dems impeach Trump, they need to be focusing on the future). How dare “the Dems” cause civilian casualties by claiming to be fighting terrorists when they are simply obeying their neo-con overlords. Putin is just fighting Nazis when he destroys whole communities in Ukraine.
Why do you say, Dienne, that no one cares about violations of international law and common decency by Bush (and Obama, for that matter) when, in fact, both were constantly being racked over the coals on this site during their tenures? The Second Iraqi invasion was CLEARLY a violation of international law–a violation of the territorial integrity of a UN member state on a cooked-up pretext. And Obama’s foreign policy was indistinguishable, almost, from Bush, Jr’s. And both were consistently spoken against on this site. I know, for I was one of those voices opposing the Second Iraq War, the use of torture in interrogation, and other atrocities.
raked over the coals
Yikes. I need to proofread before hitting the Post button.
No one. Repeat, no one. No one here has given Bush and Cheney “a pass.” I recall, instead, people here saying that they should be in prison as war criminals after having been prosecuted, as Putin should be, for the crime of aggression, crimes against humanity, and war crimes under the Geneva Convention and the Rome Statute.
Oh for pity’s sake, the minute Dubya said Orange Man Bad this blog was full of praise for him.
Well, I personally don’t recall heaping praise on George W. Bush, but compared to Trump he looked like a statesman and a man of honor. Actually, Trump made Millard Pierce look good.
I myself posted on the elder Cheney’s commercial, and SomeDAM and I had a back and forth about how bizarre it was for Cheney to be the voice of reason. And I don’t remember anyone here praising Shrub. I have written, here, many times about what a wastrel, idiot, and international war criminal he was.
But on this you and I agree, Dienne. Obama and Bush Jr were brothers from another mother. Ofc, Obama was much, much smarter and better informed, but in terms of policy? Few major differences. Obama was slightly more to the left on SOME domestic issues. That’s pretty much it.
Let me be clear about this. I’ve said it here many, many, many times. The Second Iraq War was a violation of international law based upon a cooked-up pretext and the so-called “Bush Doctrine” of “preemption” that has never been accepted by the international community as law, and the folks who cooked this up and peddled it–Rumsfeld, Cheney, Rice, Bush, committed, on my view, crimes punishable under international law–the crime of aggression, war crimes, and crimes against humanity.
No one here has said that Darth Cheney is now Mr. Goodbar. No one. That this has happened exists only in your own imagination, just like the rationales for imperialist Putin’s criminal invasion of Ukraine and systematic destruction, rape, torture, and murder there.
Bernie Sanders and many of us HAVE expressed a positive opinion of Liz Cheney telling the truth about Trump’s attempt to end democracy. Maybe in her mind that is the same as saying Dick Cheney is perfect.
But I am just speculating as someone who is constantly victimized by folks like her claiming that I believe the Democrats are perfect and should never be criticized even though I have never said this.
I do notice a similarity to many Trump voters. They don’t want to discuss reality. They want to tell you what their false reality is, attack you for what they are certain you did in their false reality, and then demand you defend yourself although they don’t care what you say because they will simply continue to repeat their false reality.
NO!
The ExPres not only thinks he is above the law – HE FLAUNTS IT – HE TAUNTS IT – His “whataboutism” is to justify his actions when there is no evidence the others violated federal Constitutional Law.
C’MON – the man could care less about you, children, our country, and the majority of his freaking base except the millionaires. He’s using the rest. He was IMPEACHED TWICE. HE KNEW the Jan 6 rioters were ARMED – did nothing – POLICE DIED.
THIS IS JUSTICE and PROTOCOL FOLLOWED TO A T. STOP DEFENDING THIS MAN AND THOSE DEFENDING HIM.
People just need to STOP. Call out the defenders.
Historians are going to wonder what happened to hypnotize millions or seemingly rational people.
In recent days, the right wing attacked the institution of the FBI on behalf of Trump. This morning, an armed man (AR-15) tried to breach the FBI building in Cincinnati. As he fled in his car, he was pursued north on I-71. He took the Wilmington, Ohio (rural) exit and residents are instructed to lock their doors.
The story will end. Maybe, we’ll find he was driven by the inflammatory comments of the right wing. I’d bet money, if he survives, the taxpayer will have to pay for his defense lawyer- the irony.
If Trump is not prosecuted for seditious conspiracy and obstruction of an official proceeding for attempting to overthrow the incoming US government by stopping and/or falsifying the 2020 election count, then forget it. It’s absurd to even pretend, anymore, that this is anything approaching a democratic nation. If our justice system buckles, yet again, before the Trumpanzee minions of the Teflon Don’s RICO, including the elected ones, then it is clearly a banana republic Just Us system. (nod to SomeDAM, there)
cx: even to pretend
I think prosecution for sidvicious conspiracy is probably very unlikely given that Sid died in 1979..
But maybe Garland isn’t aware of that.
Sid was too stoned to conspire about anything, his drug of choice not being Trump’s snorted Adderall.
Christopher Wray testified a few days ago that the FBI is monitoring daily events and they’ve never been on this kind of alert before. There are people preparing for violence against civil government all over the nation.
There is much laughter these days in the Kremlin about the utter success of the intelligence operation that landed their asset, Putin’s dog, Trump in the White House. This has resulted in widespread undermining of the US government, including an attack on the Capitol, the emergence of “citizens’ militias” calling for insurrection and secession, many thousands of Republican Party officials supporting insurrection, a state Republican Party director in Texas called for the state to secede from the union, an enormous amount of white nationalist terrorism, and academic political scientists concluding that we are looking at civil war (or that a civil war has already begun).
THIS IS WHAT PUTIN’S DOG, TRUMP, CREATED. It’s his work. Talk about a useful idiot!!!!!!
If Don the Con is not sent to jail, this will continue and get worse. And that will be the end of democracy in the United States.
The only way this ends well is if Trump is arrested, tried, and sent to prison for obstruction, fraud, sedition, and possibly treason. Otherwise, this just gets worse and worse. Here’s what would happen if he were prosecuted: there would be some initial outrage and some outrageous acts by his supporters. Then it will die down. And people will have learned that in fact this is a nation of laws and a democratic country and not one with rich fat cats indistinguishable from kings.
Not holding my breath. I think, instead, that Teflon Trump will slide once again, that prosecution regarding the documents will be used to sideline him, that the Pugs will win in November and, with DeSantis at the top of the ticket, in 2024. Following that, there will be an enormous amount of repressive legislation when these people control the entire federal government–both houses, the Extreme Court, and the presidency. This legislation will include dramatic curbs of voting rights and on rights to protest and dissent, a dramatic increase in surveillance, the creation of official citizens’ militias, a codification of “the right to life,” the repeal of the marriage right for LGBTQX persons, and other atrocities. These will be met with protests in the street, which will be met with state violence backed up by legislation and an Extreme Court imprimatur basically undoing Posse Comitatus. The goon squad violence will be met with more protests, which will be met with more violence. This will escalate until everything breaks and the fascists are thrown out–go the way of Mussolini.
What I’m seeing coming like a freaking freight train.
The headline writes itself- cornered in a cornfield. I suspect he’s White. The incident would have gone down differently if he was Black.
The family will either say they had no idea or they will say he was radicalized. They’ll claim the person with the AR-15 is not the man they raised. If he’s from the Wilmington area, the odds are he IS the person raised in the community. The local businesses broadcast either Fox or end of times programs.
The guy who tried to get into the Cincinnati FBI field office is now dead. Shot by police. In this particular case, your argument doesn’t fly, although of course black and brown people are targeted and killed by police all the time
Law enforcement (more than 100 cars on the scene at the farm) negotiated with him for hours after he had brandished the AR 15 and possibly shot a nail gun at someone at the FBI office. Gunfire from him occurred in two places on the approx. 35 mile chase from Cincy to the Wilmington exit. After police decided negotiations were at an impasse, they approached him and he raised his gun and pointed it at them. At that point, they shot him (as reported on the news).
TOW-
related to the 8-11 Ravitch post about Republican treasurers promoting the Koch agenda -preventing actions aimed at stopping climate change, I wrote to Ohio’s treasurer who is a member of the State Financial Officers Foundation (ALEC). Utah’s auditor, John Dougall, and Utah’s treasurer, Marlo Oaks are also members of SFOF.
That guy was shot dead by theFBI in Ohio
Police selected an area location that could best serve the influx of media. It’s the parking lot of a downscale flea market.
Raising the Barr
No one is above the law
(Except the ones who are)
The quoting of this honored saw
Will always raise the Barr
“For tho’ from out our bourne of Time and Place
The flood may bear me far,
I hope to see my Pilot face to face
When I have cross’d the Barr.”
–with apologies to Alfred Lord Tennyson
Well done, SomeDAM, Roy!!!
Wow, Bob, I sure do hate your prognostications…mostly because I fear they’ll come true.
I’m not holding my breath either, & this is all too much of a huge stink to be holding my nose.
I’d ask how we ever got to these dire straits, but the signs have been there for a very long time. Complacency in America/people stuck on technology/sports/amusements.
It took a terrible turn on SCotUS to get people whose votes help us all to get Kansas off the technology & into the polling places &, even then, it should have been a resounding win–monumental %age of people voting FOR the people for once. I have been working on election protection for at least the last five years, poll watching, registering voters & doing (the most imaginable grunge work imaginable) post-election audits. (I have to say, this may be the first time we defended voting MACHINES, i.e. Dominion!) Just in our little corner of the world, the election fraud has been unreal. (& please make NO mistake: I’m not taking about VOTER fraud, which is VERY rare, contrary to what voter suppressionists–in states like GA–would have you believe.) The misinformation, the miscounting, the abundancy of throwing people off the voter rolls (NY) & issuance of provisional ballots (which rarely are counted) & on & on. Now that we’re at the point where people are scared &, possibly, more are registering & are voting in record #s we have the threat of having those who have the final say, oversee our states’ elections & who certify our elections are foxes watching the chicken coop. All too scary.
That having been said, rent a bus or make multiple runs to pick people up & GET THEM TO REGISTER. Then, get THEM TO VOTE. Phone bank. Write postcards. Knock on doors. Do ANYTHING & EVERYTHING you CAN. Volunteer w/your local Indivisible: it’s the most cogent, competent & effective save-Democracy organization I’ve seen in my more than half-a-century lifetime.
It ain’t over till the fat lady sings, & I haven’t sung yet…& especially NOT on November 8, 2016.
Bless you, Retired!!!! YOU ARE A FREAKING MODEL TO US ALL!!! As Diane said here recently, this upcoming election really means something, and we must do everything we can to help get out the vote.
BTW–the worst & most criminal thing Obama did (& NEVER, EVER to be forgiven) was to appoint Arne Dumkin Sec. of Ed., & then John King, twisting the knife into the backs of American public school children & educators & ruining the education system for millions of American families, for that time & for future generations.
I’m afraid that we will never recover from that terrible, horrendous betrayal.
& remind me, please, what that Nobel Peace Prize was all about?
It was so weird that they gave him a Peace Prize in hopes that he would then do something to deserve it. Utterly weird. That was after the shock of the Shrub Maladministration.
And yeah, Arne and King were vandals who did incalculable harm to American K-12 education, and to this day, Obama has no clue that this is so. Clueless.
But here’s my candidate for the worst thing: He could have structured the bailout so that the funds went through the defaulted homeowners to the banks. That way, the homeowners could have held onto their homes. But no. He didn’t give a microbe on a hair on a rat’s tushy about the little people who were losing their homes (their homes!!!!!). It was all about protecting the fat cats. And as soon as that was done, the people who created the packaging of dubious home loans and credit default swaps that initiated the disaster went right back to giving themselves multi-million-dollar bonuses each year, and the equity firms bought up the homes that families were kicked out of and are now rented those at jacked-up rents to those families
Obama looking after the little guy.
Trump 2024
20 for obstruction of an official proceding, 24 for seditious conspiracy
proceeding
Trump 2024 Campaign Slogans
Why just documents in the toilet? Why not the whole country?
Making America Grate Again
MAGA: Moscow’s Asset Governing America
The Man with No Plan and the Tan in the Can
Trump, the Relapse
Back to the Future! Way, way, way back!
Trump: For a Whiter House in 2025!
Vote for Trump or He’ll Stop His Foot, Hold His Breath, and Throw a Plate of Food
Cuckoo Coup Redo
If I Lose Again, It’s Because It Was Rigged
Because He Doesn’t Give a **** about You
cx: Stomp (or stamp) his foot
Absolutely you’re right: that WAS the worst thing. The dominoes fell: homeless kids, broken families, total misery. & he’d worse than clueless. Lives in yet another mansion, just built in Hawaii. Let’s see…that makes FOUR homes?
He could probably offer comfortable housing to @least 4 families of four in each of them.
It hit Tampa, where I live, really hard. Lots and lots of people lost their homes, and having lost them, found it impossible to rent. We literally had whole families, with little children, living on the street. And then Blackstone (and equity group) bought 1 billion dollars’ worth of foreclosed Tampa homes. This was horrific, disgusting, predatory.
And all the while, Obama was on television, smiling, telling people about how he was going to ensure that homeowners would be treated fairly.
It was nothing but talk. Disgusting. Sickening. And there was almost no reporting about this. Because it only hurt poor people, little folk.
It’s good to be a king in America.
This story, capped by Blackstone cashing in on the new pool of renters who used to own their own homes, is as all-American as it gets. It’s utterly horrific. It makes me so freaking mad. And almost no one in the country knows this whole story, beginning to end. It’s like a Dickens novel. Rapacious, rich villains, the exploited poor.
Obama worked for Jamie Dimon (Jp Morgan), Lloyd Blankfein(Goldman Sachs) and the other big bankers.
He didn’t really even try to hide it. He became giddy whenever he met with them, like a little kid in the presence of their sports idol.
Bets on what was in the safe?
If it is so sensitive high security top secret – WHY didn’t he shred it?
I bet it’s top secret and HE WANTS THE ARTIFACT FOR HIS SCRAPBOOK!
He’s so freaking vain and self-absorbed, rather than shredding evidence, he’d KEEP A LETTER FROM PUTIN or HIS DIRT on OTHER PEOPLE.
One sick puppy!
Wait, What? We can only imagine what’s in there. My sick thought (but no sicker than it45!): if he’s used the toilets for ripped up papers & stuffed them up that way… ???
Mary Trump, please lend your psychiatric opinion!
In Trump’s safe
His binky
Backup supply of Adderall
Love letters from Vlad
Exfiltration plan from his Russian handler
Lock of Ivanka’s hair
Copies of classified documents for resale on Ebay when the heat’s off
About I.G., Joseph Cuffari, “Secret Service watchdog suppressed memo on Jan. 6 texts’ erasure.” (Guardian 8-11-2022)
An AG who finally got the goods on the traitorous Russian asset and lifelong career criminal Donald Trump would be remembered as the greatest law enforcement official in history. The one who finally nailed the most Teflon Don.
But my take is that corruption is so endemic in our system that the scoundrels will just continue getting away with it, whatever it is. They will steal many, many millions from Medicare and then win a Senate seat. They will participate in the services of Jeffrey Epstein and never be outed. They will rob and cheat and steal and defraud and run fake charities and universities and launder money and attempt to overthrow the government and then run for president again.
To be wealthy and powerful in the United States is to have a get out of jail free card.
And the poorer you are, the more certain that if you cross any line, you will pay for it. So, there is this inverse relationship between punishment and power.
So much for equal justice under law. So much for being a nation of laws. So much for the all men are created equal mythos.
If Trump is not punished for the attempted overthrow, then that founding mythos is a baldfaced lie for all the world to see. A bad joke.
Here’s how historians can put in in the future:
And then the government of the United States prosecuted and locked up all the January 6th insurrectionists and conspirators with a net worth of under $500K, in keeping with the American principle that all people are equal but some are more equal than others are.
US Just us
The little guy gets jailed
While wealthy guy gets off
The little guy gets nailed
With Jesus to the cross
OK, SomeDAM. Your signature light verse has, here, headed right over the demarcation line into genuine, powerful poetry. This is magnificent. A gem.
All Men are Created Equal
The claim was deceitful
A lie in plain sight
The men who are equal
Are rich and are white
But one thing was truthful
The “men” in the text
The women are useful
But only for sex
ziiiiiiiiing
Should probably be
“the women are equal
But only for sex”
That’s good.
The women were created
Quite equally– for men
So latter could be sated
Repeatedly ( again)
And black folks were created
Quite equally as well
To labor unabated
For farmer in the dell
I’ve been writing 2024 campaign slogans, hoping to catch Trump’s eye and rake in the big bucks! How’s this:
Trump 2024 20 for conspiracy to disrupt an official proceeding. 24 for seditious conspiracy.
Please vote for me, or I’ll go to prison!
Given the amount of time that legal proceedings take and the virtual certainty that any charges leveled against a former president regarding things that he did while in office will eventually end up being decided by the Supreme Court, it is very unlikely that any potential prosecution will be completed before 2024 AND very likely that it will eventually end up being decided in Trump’s favor.
There is the obvious hope among some that charges related to handling of classified documents can be made to stick, but that is not at all clear, since most legal experts actually agree that the president can pretty much decide at will what gets classified and what gets declassified. When it gets to the Supreme Court as it surely will, how many people actually believe the majority are going to rule against Trump?
Some of The materials he kept can never be declassified.
They can be read only in a safe room, never removed.
Much as I would like to believe that, the reality is that it’s not at all clear that z Supreme court would decide against a former president regarding declassification even under the most unbiased of cut instances.
But unfortunately, this Supreme Majority is nowhere close to unbiased.
But at any rate, this sort of thing has never been tested and who really believes that the current Supreme Majority would NOT rule in Trump’s favor?
I’m not even sure the majority would rule against Trump if it were somehow proved that he had given top secret docs to a foreign power.
But that they will follow the law and Constitution would not seem to be certain, by any means.
Incidentally, the claim that a president can essentially declassify at will is actually not just something Trump or Republicans have made up.
https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2017/may/16/james-risch/does-president-have-ability-declassify-anything-an/
And though some experts think the president still has to follow an official process to declassify something, not all believe that and the mere fact that there is disagreement is not a reassuring sign , particularly given the current makeup of the Supreme Court.
SDP, I have read on the sites of national security specialists that a President can’t declassify whatever he wants.
First, there is a process involving paperwork. Trump never bothered with that process.
Second, some documents are so sensitive that no one can declassify them. Those at the highest level can be viewed only in a safe room and may not be removed, not even by the President.
Third, a question raised recently was why Trump wanted these documents. According to people who worked on the National Security Council, Trump never read these documents, was bored by briefings, and never showed any interest in them.
Barb McQuade
@BarbMcQuade
Classification is irrelevant. Government documents that pertain to the national defense may not be withheld from the government upon request for return. The obstruction charge in the warrant suggests Trump tried to conceal what he had
Barb McQuade
@BarbMcQuade
Brilliant tactical move by DOJ on selecting statutes for the search. None of the crimes cited require the documents to be classified. Any claim by Trump that he declassified the documents is irrelevant.
So, nothing until the Pugs are in charge of it all. The Teflon Don slides again.