US Politics Thread 2021-24 [Archive] - Page 31

Jimbuna

03-08-24, 12:09 PM

Donald Trump posts £71million bond in advice columnist E. Jean Carroll defamation case

Facing a looming deadline less than three days away, former President Donald Trump caved and paid the $91.6 million (approximately £71 million) bond he owed in the defamation suit he lost against writer E. Jean Carroll in late January.

A court document obtained by The Hill shows a statement written by Trump's lawyer Alina Habba, who represented him throughout the trial. It reads: "President Trump respectfully requests that this Court recognize the supersedeas bond obtained by President Trump in the sum of $91,630,000.00 and approve it as adequate and sufficient to stay the enforcement of the Judgment, to the extent that the Judgment awards damages, pending the ultimate disposition of President Trump’s appeal."

It remains unclear where the extra $8 million came from — Trump had originally been ordered to pay $83.3 million to the columnist, who accused him of raping her in a Manhattan department store in the mid-1990s. She then accused him of defaming her after several derogatory comments he made about her, which accused her of lying.

Trump's payment comes a mere day after Judge Lewis A. Kaplan, who oversaw the defamation suit, denied Trump's request to delay his payment deadline so he could secure a loan that would help him pay the hefty sum.

He told Trump's legal team that he wouldn't delay any deadlines that would prevent 80-year-old Carroll from being awarded the money she is owed, especially if the appeals Trump is currently making to overturn the verdict are unsuccessful. He also said any financial harm caused to Trump would be the result of his slow response to pay up after the verdict came down in late January.

"Mr. Trump's current situation is a result of his own dilatory actions," Kaplan wrote. Trump's legal team waited 25 days after the verdict to appeal for a delay. The judgment in the case becomes final on Monday.

Trump's team had challenged the ruling, stating that $65 million in punitive damages awarded to Carroll was excessive. The lawyers said there is a "strong possibility" that the amount would be reduced or completely eliminated once they appealed. It hasn't been.

The rape Carroll accused Trump of allegedly occurred in a Bergdorf Goodman store in Manhattan in the spring of 1996. There was a separate trial related to that claim, and Trump was ordered to pay $5 million to Carroll in damages. A jury found that Trump had sexually abused her — but that he hadn't raped her, as the term was defined at the time (in 2019) under New York State law.

That law has since been changed, meaning that rape now constitutes much more than just vaginal penetration by a penis — it includes all kinds of nonconsensual sex, PBS News Hour reported.

He was then found guilty of defaming her in late January after comments he made while in office as president in 2019, stating that she was lying and that she was using her lies to sell books.

Ultimately, Kaplan ruled against Trump's legal team as they appealed the large sum ordered in the defamation suit because he said it does not, as Trump's lawyers said, "impose irreparable injury in the form of substantial costs."

The former president has found himself in a rather nasty financial bind amid several recently concluded and pending legal suits, including four major criminal indictments — three federal and one at the state level — that accuse him of 91 felony counts related to the mishandling of classified documents, insurrectionism and election fraud.

In his civil fraud trial, which also played out in Manhattan, the businessman was accused of grossly inflating his net worth by several billion dollars in order to secure better deals and loans related to the real estate holdings he and his company, the Trump Organization, hold in New York City and across the state.

Brought forth by New York Attorney General Letitia James, the suit also indicted Trump's sons, Donald Jr and Eric, who were and still are key players in the Trump Organization. His daughter, Ivanka, was also indicted, but a statute of limitations loophole ended up allowing her dismissal from the case as it was also argued that, at the time most of the shady dealings were happening, she was getting ready to help her father by serving as one of his White House advisers in early 2017.

In that case, Trump was ultimately ordered to pay $355 million in penalties. He has been struggling to pay that amount, and the large sum he paid on Friday didn't exactly help with that. He also faces immense legal fees for the four indictments and is struggling to fund his presidential campaign ahead of the November elections, when he hopes to win a second term in the Oval Office.

Just last week, he was seen meeting with tech mogul and billionaire Elon Musk at his Mar-a-Lago estate, ironically also the site at which he was accused of illegally storing classified documents in a shower — the subject of one of the indictments. It is believed that he was lobbying Musk for funds for his campaign.

The tech mogul has been known to donate to campaigns on both sides of the aisle, having given money to both former Presidents Barack Obama and George W. Bush. This year, he seems to have fallen in with the far-right Republican camp, constantly bashing President Joe Biden, by whom he feels scorned after the Democrat didn't invite his company Tesla to an electric vehicle summit in 2022.

In any case, Trump desperately needs cash if he hopes to not only win the 2024 election but also foot the massive legal bills he faces across at least six cases in the coming months. Friday's payment served as a massive blow to the businessman.
https://www.msn.com/en-gb/news/world/donald-trump-posts-71million-bond-in-advice-columnist-e-jean-carroll-defamation-case/ar-BB1jyQLe?ocid=msedgntp&pc=U531&cvid=cf54a35d8cc34c6bc87eb18a850d8201&ei=19

Buddahaid

03-08-24, 03:27 PM

Trump ordered to pay legal fees of Orbis Business Intelligence for suit he brought over the Steele dossier.
https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-68499543

Ostfriese

03-10-24, 06:26 AM

That Katie Britt reaction came straight from bizzaro world...

Jimbuna

03-10-24, 08:27 AM

State of the Union: Biden draws election battle lines in fiery speech

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-68472309

Buddahaid

03-10-24, 12:43 PM

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9w4nObwDw1A&t=929s

Torvald Von Mansee

03-10-24, 10:31 PM

That Katie Britt reaction came straight from bizzaro world...

Top tier Stepford wife creepiness

Jimbuna

03-11-24, 02:41 PM

Trump seeks trial delay for hush money case pending Supreme Court’s review of ‘immunity’ claim:

Donald Trump’s attorneys want the judge overseeing his criminal case in New York to take the trial off the calendar until the US Supreme Court decides whether the former president can claim “immunity” from prosecution in a separate case.

The nation’s highest court will hear Mr Trump’s arguments on his “immunity” defence on 25 April, the final day for oral arguments in this year’s session, and one month after his trial in New York is scheduled to begin.

Meanwhile, Mr Trump falsely claimed in his “play by play” commentary of the State of the Union that “Republicans have no plan to cut Social Security, a made-up story by Crooked Joe!”

On CNBC Monday morning, in response to a question about “how to handle entitlements, Social Security, Medicare, Medicaid,” Mr Trump said: “There is a lot you can do in terms of entitlements, in terms of cutting, and in terms of, also, the theft and the bad management of entitlements … I know that they’re gonna end up weakening Social Security because the country is weak.”

President Joe Biden shared the clip on X saying: “Not on my watch.”
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/donald-trump-news-jimmy-kimmel-truth-social-b2510452.html

Armistead

03-11-24, 03:37 PM

That Katie Britt reaction came straight from bizzaro world...

It was like her hubby was under the table doing, you know.

Buddahaid

03-11-24, 06:38 PM

It was like her hubby was under the table doing, you know.

Mopping the floor?

Ostfriese

03-12-24, 12:50 AM

It was like her hubby was under the table doing, you know.

Wouldn't that be illegal in Alabama?

Reece

03-12-24, 01:49 AM

Yes, I think the top of the table is ok! :yep:

Jimbuna

03-12-24, 05:00 AM

New lawsuit possible, lawyer says, after Trump renews attack on writer who won $83.3 million award

An attorney for a longtime advice columnist who won an $83.3 million defamation award against Donald Trump suggested Monday that a new defamation lawsuit was possible against the ex-president after he resumed verbal attacks against her at a weekend rally.

Attorney Roberta Kaplan, who represents 80-year-old writer E. Jean Carroll, noted in a statement that the statute of limitations for defamation in most jurisdictions ranges from one to three years.

“As we said after the last jury verdict, we continue to monitor every statement that Donald Trump makes about our client, E. Jean Carroll,” Kaplan said.

Her statement came after the Republican front-runner in this year's presidential race angrily complained during a nearly two-hour speech at a Rome, Georgia, rally on Saturday that he had “just posted” a $91.6 million bond to cover the January verdict by a Manhattan jury while he appeals.
He told the rally that the verdict was “based on false accusations made about me by a woman that I knew nothing about, didn't know, never heard of.”

His statements about Carroll were similar to those he made while he was president after Carroll first publicly revealed her claims in a 2019 memoir that Trump had raped her in a Bergdorf Goodman dressing room across the street from Trump Tower in the spring of 1996. At the time, Trump said she was lying to sell her book and damage him politically.

“This woman is not a believable person,” Trump said Saturday. He also denounced the trial judge as a “Democrat Trump-deranged judge” and derided a state judge in a separate case who recently refused to halt collection of a $454 million civil fraud penalty against Trump as “another whacked-out judge.” For over 10 minutes, Trump railed against his civil cases and four criminal cases, saying he'd been indicted more often than the “late, great Al Capone.”

Trump, 77, followed up his Saturday rally statements with an interview on Monday on CNBC's “Squawk Box” in which he labeled Carroll as “Miss Bergdorf Goodman” and said, “I have no idea who she is.”

The January verdict at a trial that Trump regularly attended and briefly testified at was based on the 2019 comments. The trial judge instructed the jury that it was only to determine what damages, if any, Trump owed as a result of his 2019 statements. They were to accept the findings of the previous jury that last May concluded Trump sexually abused Carroll at the department store but did not rape her according to New York state's legal definition of rape.

That jury, in awarding Carroll $5 million, also found that Trump defamed her with statements made in October 2022. Trump did not attend the May trial.
https://www.msn.com/en-gb/news/uknews/new-lawsuit-possible-lawyer-says-after-trump-renews-attack-on-writer-who-won-83-3-million-award/ar-BB1jIje7?ocid=msedgntp&pc=U531&cvid=46d1d545afb04a2ab29847c6fc757dd2&ei=28#image=BB1jIfh5|1

Onkel Neal

03-12-24, 10:49 AM

You want a primer on what's wrong with America, just watch this guy's twitter feed. Psycho
https://twitter.com/RevRayCistman

Dargo

03-12-24, 02:02 PM

In 1984, this KGB defector exposed the 4-stages identified by Soviet intelligence as the necessary steps to cause the psychological implosion of American society, think same operations from that time are run today but now via the internet.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yErKTVdETpw

Dowly

03-12-24, 05:40 PM

You want a primer on what's wrong with America, just watch this guy's twitter feed. Psycho
https://twitter.com/RevRayCistman

I agree. That account and your post are both excellent examples of what's wrong with America.

Hint: Reverend Racist Man :roll:

Skybird

03-12-24, 05:53 PM

You want a primer on what's wrong with America, just watch this guy's twitter feed. Psycho
https://twitter.com/RevRayCistman
:D
One does not know whether to laugh or cry.

vienna

03-14-24, 05:46 PM

Re; the GOP response to the SOTU speech; when it came on, my first reaction was "Oh look, the GOP is using an AI avatar..."; then,upon realizing it was indeed a real human (or at least I think she was), my thoughts went to Stepford Wives as a possible basis for what I was seeing...

The fact the GOP has seemingly wanted the US voters to just forget the rebuttal even happened is an indication of just how far afield of the intended aim the whole thing went; from the very first moments, the fact that the rebuttal would be a prime source material for an SNL send up was glaringly obvious, and SNL did not disappoint...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cCfLpuLdF8Q

...and, yes, that is Scarlett Johansson portraying Katie Britt in the sketch (she is married to SNL head writer Colin Jost)...

<O>

Jimbuna

03-15-24, 09:39 AM

Fani Willis can stay on Donald Trump’s election interference case, judge rules

Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis will be allowed to continue to criminally prosecute Donald Trump and more than a dozen co-defendants who are accused of mounting a “criminal enterprise” to unlawfully overturn Georgia’s election results in 2020.

The judge overseeing that case has rejected efforts from Mr Trump and his allies to disqualify the district attorney following allegations of misconduct with a prosecutor she hired to lead the case.

In his 23-page decision on Friday, Fulton County Superior Court Judge Scott McAfee wrote the defendants “failed to meet their burden” in proving a “conflict of interest” that would require her removal, but he noted that any appearance of “impropriety” could necessitate Ms Willis or prosecutor Nathan Wade from withdrawing for the case to move forward.

Ms Willis may “choose to step aside, along with the whole of her office,” or Mr Wade can withdraw, which would allow the parties in the case “and the public” to “move forward without his presence or remuneration distracting from” the proceedings, according to Judge McAfee’s order.

“As long as Wade remains on the case, this unnecessary perception will persist,” he wrote.

Attorneys for Mr Trump and his co-defendants accused Ms Willis of financially benefiting from the case against the former president by hiring a lead prosecutor with whom she was romantically involved.

Mr Wade and Ms Willis have acknowledged their prior relationship, but they have repeatedly testified that they started dating after he was hired, split their expenses, and that the relationship ended last summer before an indictment.
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/fani-willis-trump-fulton-county-b2512796.html

em2nought

03-15-24, 12:22 PM

Make love not lawfare. :D

u crank

03-15-24, 01:41 PM

Make love not lawfare. :D

Maybe they don't know how.

:D:03::O:

Buddahaid

03-15-24, 08:36 PM

Pence announces he won't endorse Trump. :haha:

Gorpet

03-15-24, 09:41 PM

I agree. That account and your post are both excellent examples of what's wrong with America.

Hint: Reverend Racist Man :roll:

There's nothing wrong with America Dowly. We have Finland right where we want you. LOL:up:

You want a primer on what's wrong with America, just watch this guy's twitter feed. Psycho
https://twitter.com/RevRayCistman

Well Neal, It's reparations :up: White man's burden until the end of time.:har:

:har:Pence announces he won't endorse Trump. :haha:

Pence, was the deep throat of Trump's administration.Who cares right, Joey and the gang now want a real War, yes the smartest brains , who by the way have clocked up defeat after defeat starting with the Korean War, right up to our current war.
Now these brains think this "Well we have our bunkers, we will survive and we will be needed to create a new Government and make the planet better again"

Oh and by the way they stocked all the military weapons, so when they all come out of their bunkers. Ya get to vote for the only party that has unlimited bullets. And Democracy will start over again. Well i got my meds and on second thought, I don't think these SOB's will never be able to come out of their bunkers.It will take them longer to die.. And that's a good thing.

And where the F is Greta Thunberg? Mother earth is being pocked marked and between the diesel and explosives. I just can't believe she is not telling NATO you are killing the planet.Where are you Greta when Earth needs you. Oh that's right when she was a baby girl and she was useful . But now she can't stand up and say BLAh,BLAH,BLAH . She is a NATO girl now..

Fani Willis can stay on Donald TrumpÂ’s election interference case, judge rules

Jimbuna, The Fani Willis are all through your government.You see we get BBC here in the US. And Sky News, At 12:00 pm here in Florida i watch your 5:00 pm news there. And though i don't understand all of your political ritual's...It is easy to see what is in Washington blows across the Atlantic into London. Hey every country has to be subservient to the United States and our Political Families.You can have your K@Q but your government serves ,Those who protect you.And now your country is going to be worried about more sh.it than Donald Trump . Your country will be at war long before there's an Election in this country. It's time to pay the piper and there's no way out.

em2nought

03-16-24, 12:12 AM

:har:

Joey and the gang now want a real War, yes the smartest brains , who by the way have clocked up defeat after defeat starting with the Korean War, right up to our current war.
Now these brains think this "Well we have our bunkers, we will survive and we will be needed to create a new Government and make the planet better again"

I'm thinking "this" is their big plan, to dump WW3 in our laps if they can't steal "it" from us peons again. :03:

Gorpet

03-16-24, 01:00 AM

I'm thinking "this" is their big plan, to dump WW3 in our laps if they can't steal "it" from us peons again. :03:

Well, The richest and the smartest have finally figured out, There is nowhere to go. What humans need to survive is here.So what can we expect ? Covid was a test.I think the next round will be attributed to the coming war.Look this planet only has a certain amount of resources.And there are more humans. So cull the Humans. Now if i was living and jet setting, Hell ya, what the hell would i care about anybody.

Buddahaid

03-16-24, 01:13 AM

Now who poked Gorpet? Fess up!:Kaleun_Wink:

Jimbuna

03-16-24, 05:50 AM

Speaker Mike Johnson says he's planning vote on Ukraine and Israel aid with Democrat support as pressure mounts

Speaker Mike Johnson revealed that he expects the House to hold a standalone vote on Israel and Ukraine aid as pressure builds from the Senate after it passed foreign aid package last month.

He insisted he would not be pressured to rush the Senate package to the floorm as the White House says Ukraine's need for defense aid is urgent to keep Russian President Vladimir Putin at bay.

'We will work the will of the House,' Johnson said during a fireside chat at the House GOP retreat.
'No one wants Vladimir Putin to prevail,' he went on. 'I'm of the opinion that he wouldn't stop in Ukraine. If he was allowed, he would go all the way through Europe.'

'I understand the timetable and understand the necessity of the urgency of the funding,' the speaker said, adding that the House would not work through foreign aid until the government funding fight for fiscal year 2024 is completed.

'I think it is a stand-alone, and I suspect it will need to be on suspension,' Johnson later told Politico of foreign assistance.

Suspension requires a two-thirds majority and wide Democratic support. Johnson uses the procedure when he can't pass a rule for legislation, since passing the rule relies on Republican-only votes.

Congress has spent months at an impasse over further aid for U.S. allies - as the rightward flank of the House has even begun to threaten to motion to vacate Mike Johnson from the speakership if he puts further Ukraine aid on the House floor.

Another vote in the House would be the third go at aid for Israel.

The House first passed $14 billion in aid for Israel, but it was offset by cuts to the IRS - killing it in the Democratic-led Senate. And after last month a vote on a stand-alone Israel aid bill failed, Johnson declined to bring it up again.

Earlier this month the House passed its first tranche of six funding bills combined into one package. Another funding deadline looms on March 22 for the next six funding bills.

All 12 appropriations bills were supposed to be passed before the start of the fiscal year on October 1.

Johnson has seemingly backed down from demanding border security before passing Ukraine aid.

He mentioned border security in comments about foreign aid, but did not lay out any clear line demanding it in exchange for the money.

'It's difficult to explain to some people around the country that were "securing the border" of the European nation when our own border. It's wild,' Johnson said.

'The fact is that the President has not yet taken executive action.'

In December of last year, Johnson had explicitly told the White House: 'Supplemental Ukraine funding is dependent upon enactment of transformative change to our nation’s border security laws.'

The Senate's $100 billion foreign aid package included border provisions in addition to money for Ukraine, Israel and the Indo-Pacific. But House Republicans shunned the package, arguing it was more about immigration reform than securing the border.
https://www.msn.com/en-gb/news/world/speaker-mike-johnson-says-he-s-planning-vote-on-ukraine-and-israel-aid-with-democrat-support-as-pressure-mounts/ar-BB1jY2Is?ocid=msedgntp&pc=U531&cvid=410640f65081429f9f485b334f094406&ei=25#image=BB1jXqVg|1

Skybird

03-16-24, 06:58 AM

Why I post this in the US thread, you ask? Think sharp and you will find the answer.
https://www.dw.com/de/brasilien-ex-milit%C3%A4rs-berichten-%C3%BCber-putschpl%C3%A4ne-bolsonaros/a-68590838

In the investigation into Jair Bolsonaro (https://www.dw.com/de/jair-bolsonaro/t-46100245) 's alleged plans to overthrow the government following his defeat in the presidential election, former high-ranking military officers are heavily implicating the ex-president. Brazil's (https://www.dw.com/de/brasilien/t-17518270) federal police have accused the right-wing former head of state and his allies of preparing a coup in order to stay in power after losing the election to current President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva (https://www.dw.com/de/luiz-inácio-lula-da-silva/t-63292770) in October 2022.

According to investigation files, the far-right politician drafted a coup declaration, which he presented at a meeting with army representatives in December 2022, three weeks before his successor Lula da Silva was sworn in. They have now been published by order of the country's Supreme Court.

According to the files, the then army chief Marco Antônio Freire Gomes stated during his interrogation by the police that he had attended the meeting at Bolsonaro's presidential residence in the capital Brasília. An advisor had explained the legal basis for the planned coup d'état. Freire Gomes also stated that he had made it clear that the army would not take part in such plans to "reverse the electoral process".

The former head of the air force, Carlos Almeida Baptista Júnior, told investigators that Bolsonaro had urged him to look for "mechanisms" to prevent Lula from being sworn in. The coup d'état would "possibly" have been carried out if Freire Gomes had not positioned himself so resolutely against it, said Baptista Júnior.

The police had previously seized detailed coup plans from the private home of former Justice Minister Anderson Torres. The investigators accuse Bolsonaro of attempting to discredit Brazil's electronic voting system with a "disinformation campaign" in order to "legitimize a military intervention" in the event of defeat.

The ex-president rejects the accusations. In June last year, Bolsonaro had already been banned from all political office (https://www.dw.com/de/gericht-amtsverbot-für-brasiliens-ex-präsidenten-bolsonaro/a-66085015) for eight years (https://www.dw.com/de/gericht-amtsverbot-für-brasiliens-ex-präsidenten-bolsonaro/a-66085015) by the country's Supreme Electoral Court due to unsubstantiated allegations of electoral fraud.

In addition, the Supreme Court is currently investigating the ex-president on suspicion of inciting unrest following his election defeat. On January 8, 2023, thousands of Bolsonaro's supporters stormed the government district in Brasília. They attacked and vandalized the parliament, the Supreme Court and the presidential palace. To this day, Bolsonaro does not acknowledge the election victory of left-wing politician Lula da Silva and continues to fuel rumours of electoral fraud.
In a world were insanity is the new normal, everything is possible.

em2nought

03-16-24, 03:24 PM

Is a coup d'état something new? :D

Skybird

03-17-24, 06:10 AM

https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/2024-election/war-game-deepfakes-disrupt-2024-election-rcna143038

“It was jarring for folks in the room to see how quickly just a handful of these types of threats could spiral out of control and really dominate the election cycle,”

Jimbuna

03-17-24, 08:13 AM

Trump warns of 'bloodbath' if he loses presidential election

Donald Trump told a rally in Ohio on Saturday that November's presidential election will be the "most important date" in US history, painting his campaign for the White House as a turning point for the country.

Days after securing his position as the presumptive Republican nominee, the former president also warned of a "bloodbath" if he is not elected – though it was not clear what he was referring to, with the remark coming in the middle of comments about threats to the US auto industry.

"The date – remember this, November 5 – I believe it's going to be the most important date in the history of our country," the 77-year-old told rally-goers in Vandalia, Ohio, repeating well-worn criticisms that his rival, President Joe Biden, is the "worst" president.
Criticising what he said were Chinese plans to build cars in Mexico and sell them to Americans, he stated: "We're going to put a 100 percent tariff on every single car that comes across the line, and you're not going to be able to sell those cars if I get elected."

"Now if I don't get elected it's going to be a bloodbath for the whole – that's going to be the least of it, it's going to be a bloodbath for the country. That'll be the least of it. But they're not going to sell those cars."

As Trump's comment gained traction on social media, Biden's campaign released a statement calling the Republican a "loser" at the ballot box in 2020 who then "doubles down on his threats of political violence."

"He wants another January 6 but the American people are going to give him another electoral defeat this November because they continue to reject his extremism, his affection for violence, and his thirst for revenge," the campaign said, referring to the deadly attack on the US Capitol by Trump supporters in 2021.

Later, Biden spoke at a dinner in Washington, where he also warned of "an unprecedented moment in history."

"Freedom is under assault... The lies about the 2020 election, the plot to overturn it, to embrace the Jan. 6 insurrection pose the greatest threat to our democracy since the American Civil War," he said.

"In 2020, they failed, but ... the threat remains."

The 81-year-old, who has waved off concerns that he is too old for a second term, leavened his rhetoric with humor.

"One candidate's too old and mentally unfit to be president," he said of the presidential race. "The other guy's me."
https://www.msn.com/en-gb/news/world/trump-warns-of-bloodbath-if-he-loses-presidential-election/ar-BB1k2aie?ocid=msedgntp&pc=U531&cvid=b8ed578569254c9b9416f039d1e364a8&ei=11

mapuc

03-17-24, 09:42 AM

It sounds like he think the sun is orbiting around him, that he think he is the most important person in the US and the World.

Markus

Buddahaid

03-17-24, 10:03 AM

It sounds like he think the sun is orbiting around him, that he think he is the most important person in the US and the World.

Markus

Exactly, and he doesn’t care who is in the way or anybody else, sprinkle in ineptitude, cronyism, nepotism, and grift and you have the GOP twitter candidate.

He will never debate Biden because he knows he will fail.

em2nought

03-18-24, 09:29 AM

Trump warns of 'bloodbath' if he loses presidential election

He's a genius, I'm sure he intentionally left out the word "financial' from "financial bloodbath" just to get the exact reaction and press he has from the crazed lunatic left. He was clearly speaking of Chyna building cars in Mexico for the US market being a financial disaster for domestic auto makers. He's now making statements that he knows they will demonstratively "twist" just so we all see them doing it. :D

Their deluded response to him alone on this speech just makes me want to hand over scads of money to President Trump. If only there wouldn't be the unwanted constant half decade long barrage of telephone calls, emails, and texts afterward from every two bit republican on the planet wanting MORE of my money. Having scads of money would help my cause too. LOL

August

03-18-24, 10:18 PM

Exactly, and he doesn’t care who is in the way or anybody else, sprinkle in ineptitude, cronyism, nepotism, and grift and you have the GOP twitter candidate.

He will never debate Biden because he knows he will fail.

:har:

Old Joe can't put together a complete sentence without a teleprompter and you actually really believe that Trump wouldn't wipe the floor with him on the debate stage?

Onkel Neal

03-19-24, 07:41 AM

:har:

Old Joe can't put together a complete sentence without a teleprompter and you actually really believe that Trump wouldn't wipe the floor with him on the debate stage?

Probably the only part of this election mess I am looking fwd to, except the Biden team will shoot Old Joe up like they did for the State of the Union... :har:

Aktungbby

03-19-24, 09:45 AM

Probably the only part of this election mess I am looking fwd to, except the Biden team will shoot Old Joe up like they did for the State of the Union... :har: Dr Theodor Morell https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/7/79/Morell.JPG/264px-Morell.JPG would probably be the most qualified man for the job!??https://cdn.theatlantic.com/media/mt/science/assets_c/2013/05/pervitin-thumb-570x392-123230.jpg:O: https://allthatsinteresting.com/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2018/04/hitler-and-staff-1940.jpg<Theodor Morell (second from right, second row) accompanied Hitler to meetings, into bunkers, and to conquered territory. He was always on hand to administer daily injections. https://allthatsinteresting.com/theodor-morell

August

03-19-24, 12:57 PM

Probably the only part of this election mess I am looking fwd to, except the Biden team will shoot Old Joe up like they did for the State of the Union... :har:

Maybe, but giving a speech is one thing and debates with their prolonged back and forth and off the cuff responses are quite another. I think there is no way will he ever agree to debate Trump.

mapuc

03-19-24, 02:22 PM

I still say that he has high thoughts about himself.

If the Americans want him to be their next President then let it be so.

In a video posted by me in our Ukraine thread it is said that Russia is paying billions of dollars to manipulate the upcoming election.

They didn't have to-Trump has become popular, after 4 years with a President who does not know left from right.

Markus

Buddahaid

03-19-24, 06:15 PM

Maybe, but giving a speech is one thing and debates with their prolonged back and forth and off the cuff responses are quite another. I think there is no way will he ever agree to debate Trump.

I think just the opposite so let's see who challenges a debate and who refuses. I mean Trump wouldn't even debate his own party candidates. In any case Trump, is now for sale trying to find bond money. I wonder how many Chinese are making money off of the 100 million bond issued by Chubb.

Rockstar

03-19-24, 08:33 PM

Democrats Vow To Arrest As Many Political Opponents As It Takes To Defeat Fascism
POLITICS
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Mar 22, 2023 · BabylonBee.com

https://babylonbee.com/news/democrats-fight-fascism-by-arresting-political-opponents

I liked it better when the Babylon Bee was satire.

Buddahaid

03-19-24, 09:08 PM

Hey welcome back!:Kaleun_Cheers:

Torvald Von Mansee

03-19-24, 10:15 PM

Some of you live in a reality of your own choosing, and there's no reason to interact with you.

Aktungbby

03-19-24, 10:16 PM

Rockstar!:Kaleun_Salute:

em2nought

03-19-24, 10:27 PM

I can finally take a vacation! :D Tag, you're it! :har:

August

03-19-24, 11:10 PM

I think just the opposite so let's see who challenges a debate and who refuses. I mean Trump wouldn't even debate his own party candidates.

I don't recall Grandpa Joe debating any of the Dem candidates either and probably for the same reason. The party front runner is never helped by debating the also rans. He can only be hurt.

In any case Trump, is now for sale trying to find bond money. I wonder how many Chinese are making money off of the 100 million bond issued by Chubb.Laugh it up. Just remember that the Democrats have now opened a Pandoras box that will never be shut again. Lawfare is going to be the new way to conduct politics in this country. Welcome to the Banana Republic of the United States.

Now you may snort and harrumph all you want but if this fails, like every other attempt to get rid of Trump has failed, I will not be surprised if one of you takes the next logical step and tries to knock him off. Your side has consistently shown there are no limits to what you will do to try and destroy him.

Buddahaid

03-19-24, 11:31 PM

I can finally take a vacation! :D Tag, you're it! :har:

Don't let the door hit you on the way out..... :Kaleun_Cheers:

Rockstar

03-20-24, 04:55 PM

Told you months ago what was happening. Even though banks were made whole let’s make up an unprecedented half of billion dollar penalty where no crime was committed or monies lost. An abusive political party is intent on destroying its political opponent by bankrupting them.

Trump aside, their actions are scaring the hell out of business owners by turning us into a banana republic. If you don’t agree with the party you have your assists seized and go to jail and some Americans are cheering it on.

https://youtu.be/As44XTwp7fE?feature=shared

Otto Harkaman

03-20-24, 05:11 PM

https://a57.foxnews.com/static.foxnews.com/foxnews.com/content/uploads/2024/03/1200/675/CHRISTINE-BLASEY-FORD-THE-VIEW.jpg
Christine Blasey Ford, Is trying to make a comeback selling her book

Christine Blasey Ford was 'devastated' by investigations finding no evidence to support Kavanaugh accusations
Ford is promoting her new memoir 'One Way Back'
https://www.foxnews.com/media/christine-blasey-ford-devastated-investigations-finding-no-evidence-support-kavanaugh-accusations

Half a decade later, Christine Blasey Ford still has no corroborating witness - Washington Examiner
Summary by Washington Examiner
More than half a decade after Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh became the second of three Supreme Court justices appointed by former President Donald Trump, Christine Blasey Ford has reemerged from the wilderness of #Resistance-era one-hit wonders. Ford, as you may recall, became the cause celebre when she alleged that on an unspecified date in an unspecified Bethesda, Maryland, house, Kavanaugh sexually assaulted her when they were both t…https://ground.news/article/half-a-decade-later-christine-blasey-ford-still-has-no-corroborating-witness-washington-examiner

Buddahaid

03-20-24, 06:19 PM

Told you months ago what was happening. Even though banks were made whole let’s make up an unprecedented half of billion dollar penalty where no crime was committed or monies lost. An abusive political party is intent on destroying its political opponent by bankrupting ……

Here’s the court ruling listing the fraud. I suggest you read it.

https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/24432593-engoron-civil-fraud-ruling

Jimbuna

03-21-24, 06:01 AM

Trump wracked with 'frustration and concern' as time to pay bond ticks down

Former President Donald Trump feels the heat as the deadline to pay the bond in his $464 million civil fraud case ticks nearer.

In that case, Judge Arthur Engoron found the former president, his two adult sons, and his former chief accountant Allen Weisselberg liable for systematically lying about property valuations to manipulate tax liabilities and interest rates on loans.

According to NBC News, "Trump, the billionaire developer who is seeking a return to the White House, finds himself in the unenviable position of hitting up high-dollar donors not just for campaign cash — for which he has an urgent political need — but also to see whether they might guarantee his bond, according to a Trump ally who received such a call from a member of the presumptive GOP nominee's team."

Trump is already facing long odds in getting anyone to pay, because apart from the sheer size of the monetary ask, he has a long track record of stiffing people in business relationships.

The bottom line, NBC's Garrett Haake wrote, is that "[At] Mar-a-Lago, there’s frustration and concern over Monday’s bond deadline — but not panic — as Trump faces a cash crunch."

"A source close to the Trump family said Trump’s defense team is gaming out its options, including ways Trump could appeal Engoron's ruling without having to put the bond up and what would happen if they can’t secure the required sum. There’s also the belief that seizing Trump’s assets or liquidating them at 'fire sale' prices, as Trump has warned, could prove to be rocket fuel for his campaign," said the report. "'They’re looking to appeal the actual requirements to have to put up this amount of money to appeal and then, obviously, the appeal itself on grounds it’s a violation of the Eighth Amendment,' the source said. 'They have to figure all those machinations out.'"

Some other sources have suggested Trump is resigned to the probability New York Attorney General Letitia James will start seizing his property — but that he could try enlist the Supreme Court to claw it back for him.
https://www.msn.com/en-gb/news/world/trump-wracked-with-frustration-and-concern-as-time-to-pay-bond-ticks-down-nbc/ar-BB1kfLs3?ocid=msedgntp&pc=U531&cvid=92243bfeb3684945b026c31ea9fb81c6&ei=11

mapuc

03-21-24, 04:38 PM

August

03-21-24, 04:57 PM

What could prevent him from running for office ?

As I see it, Mr Trump is favorite to take seat in the Oval office once again next year.

However he has some trials ahead of him and can one of these stop him from becoming the next President.

Markus

So far the only way I know that he can be stopped from becoming president is for him to loose the election. This is all about degrading his ability to afford a presidential campaign and perhaps influencing his voter appeal.

mapuc

03-21-24, 05:53 PM

So far the only way I know that he can be stopped from becoming president is for him to loose the election. This is all about degrading his ability to afford a presidential campaign and perhaps influencing his voter appeal.

Thank you Dave

It is some of my FB-friends who claim he can't become President due to these trials who awaits him.

So now I can say to these:
These trials are not going to prevent him from running for office-Heck American law even allow inmates to run for office and voters can put their vote on them.

Markus

Buddahaid

03-21-24, 06:31 PM

So far the only way I know that he can be stopped from becoming president is for him to loose the election. This is all about degrading his ability to afford a presidential campaign and perhaps influencing his voter appeal.

It's all about his misdeeds catching up to him and being held accountable for the first time in his life.

"The judge presiding over Trump’s $465 million CIVIL FRAUD JUDGMENT, just gave the Court-appointed monitor over all of Trump and his Company’s assets enhanced super powers starting today, to stop fraudulent transfer of assets; and report on ALL representations made by Trump to bonding companies he claims won’t bond him, among other draconian remedies to stop Trump from committing FRAUD again."

August

03-22-24, 07:42 AM

It's all about his misdeeds catching up to him and being held accountable for the first time in his life.

"The judge presiding over Trump’s $465 million CIVIL FRAUD JUDGMENT, just gave the Court-appointed monitor over all of Trump and his Company’s assets enhanced super powers starting today, to stop fraudulent transfer of assets; and report on ALL representations made by Trump to bonding companies he claims won’t bond him, among other draconian remedies to stop Trump from committing FRAUD again."

Bogus politically motivated charges brought by a corrupt state AG to a biased court for the express purpose of interfering with a presidential election. Nobody has ever been convicted of fraud for overvaluing his property on loan paperwork.

Jimbuna

03-22-24, 07:56 AM

Congress unveils $1.2 trillion funding package

Lawmakers have unveiled a $1.2 trillion package to keep the government funded just days before a shutdown deadline at the end of the week. The sprawling plan of more than 1,000 pages includes provisions to bolster up border security, increase the military budget and ban cash for the main aid agency for Palestinians.
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Six of the 12 annual government spending bills have been bundled together and Republicans have celebrated cuts in areas like diversity and foreign aid. It now faces a sprint to get passed in the House and Senate before the Saturday deadline, when funding for government agencies will lapse.
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The package ramps up investment at the border amid the historic migrant crisis and includes a list of conservative cultural victories. There is a provision stating only American flags can be flown above embassies - in a victory Speaker Mike Johnson touted would ban Pride flags from being flown at U.S. embassies around the world. It also prevents the Consumer Product Safety Commission from banning gas stoves.

For the border, there is $19.6 billion for Customs and Border Protection, a $3.2 billion increase above fiscal year 2023. There is also $495 million for additional Border Patrol agents, which the Biden administration has called for, but no funds for the wall. The money will be used to pay 22,000 border agents. Immigrant detention beds would be boosted from 34,000 to 42,000 at migrant facilities across the country and funding for non-governmental organizations (NGOs) will be cut by 20 percent.

Foreign aid generally will be cut by six percent. For the military, there is a 5.2 percent pay increase for service members. Funding for most defense agencies would remain at current spending levels. Cash to a United Nations agency that gives relief to Palestinian refugees, known as UNRWA, has been cut. It also slashes funding to a UN agency that investigates Israel's alleged war crimes.

Israel accused 12 of UNRWA's 30,000 employees of taking part in the October 7 attack. They accused another 190 employees of being Hamas or Islamic Jihad operatives. Some $20 billion will be cut from the IRS and another $6 billion in funds for Covid relief will be clawed back. In the defense appropriations portion of the bill there is $500 million for Israel's defense programs, funding the Iron Dome, David's Sling and Arrow.

The defense bill also bans any funding for the Wuhan Institute of Virology and EcoHealth Alliance, believed to be Covid-19's place of origin. Another $3.3 billion will go to Israel under the State-Foreign Operations section of the bill, with new conditions on any assistance to Gaza and stipulations to prevent the money from being used to move the Israeli embassy out of Jerusalem or to implement an Iran nuclear deal.

Democrats have celebrated a list of investments in the package including a $1 billion jump in childcare, boosts for cancer and Alzheimer's research and the addition of 12,000 Special Immigrant Visas for Afghan refugees who fled the Taliban during the U.S. withdrawal. They can also tout a one-year extension of international HIV /AIDS prevention efforts under a program known as PEPFAR.

Johnson has called the new legislation a 'serious commitment' to 'strengthening our national defense' and moving the military to its 'core mission'. 'This FY24 appropriations legislation is a serious commitment to strengthening our national defense by moving the Pentagon toward a focus on its core mission while expanding support for our brave men and women who serve in uniform,' he said. 'Importantly, it halts funding for the United Nations agency which employed terrorists who participated in the October 7 attacks against Israel,' Johnson added.

Appropriations Chairwoman Kay Granger, R-Texas, touted the bill as a win and urged colleagues to vote for it. 'This bill funds our highest national security priorities - it invests in a more modern, innovative, and ready fighting force, continues our strong support for our great ally Israel, and provides key border enforcement resources. At the same time, we made cuts to programs that have nothing to do with our national security and pulled back billions from the Administration.'
https://www.msn.com/en-gb/news/world/congress-unveils-1-2-trillion-funding-package/ss-BB1kim3j?ocid=msedgntp&pc=U531&cvid=c98dd01ee2b2468ba4c68de2fa1bf5e5&ei=16#image=1

Rockstar

03-22-24, 11:02 AM

Bogus politically motivated charges brought by a corrupt state AG to a biased court for the express purpose of interfering with a presidential election. Nobody has ever been convicted of fraud for overvaluing his property on loan paperwork.

Just as those states who tried to interfere with the election process removing a candidate from the ballot. This will never stick on appeal either, but the damage is done. By damage I mean what Democrats have done to themselves by doing this. Foreign and domestic business, and our own people are watching and don’t like it.

No political ideas or platform to run on, they don’t need one. They’ll seize your property and throw you jail if you disagree.

August

03-22-24, 12:58 PM

Just as those states who tried to interfere with the election process removing a candidate from the ballot. This will never stick on appeal either, but the damage is done. By damage I mean what Democrats have done to themselves by doing this. Foreign and domestic business, and our own people are watching and don’t like it.

No political ideas or platform to run on, they don’t need one. They’ll seize your property and throw you jail if you disagree.

I believe the Democrats evil plan is to seize all of Trumps New York assets like Trump Tower and such and then sell them for pennies on the dollar to some deep pocketed supporters so that when Trump does win on appeal all he can get back is whatever they paid for the properties, not their actual value or the properties themselves.

Rockstar

03-22-24, 02:54 PM

I believe the Democrats evil plan is to seize all of Trumps New York assets like Trump Tower and such and then sell them for pennies on the dollar to some deep pocketed supporters so that when Trump does win on appeal all he can get back is whatever they paid for the properties, not their actual value or the properties themselves.

That, or turn them into sanctuary city migrant shelters. :haha:

Rockstar

03-22-24, 03:09 PM

The four steps of the Cloward-Piven Strategy:
1. Overload and Break the Welfare System
2. Have Chaos Ensue
3. Take Control in the Chaos
4. Implement Socialism through Government Force

The Cloward-Piven Strategy: A Blueprint for Chaos and Transformation
January 14, 2024 lanetodd

https://clowardandpiven.com/index.php/2024/01/14/the-cloward-piven-strategy-a-blueprint-for-chaos-and-transformation/

In a 1966 essay published in The Nation https://www.thenation.com/article/archive/weight-poor-strategy-end-poverty/, sociologists Richard Cloward and Frances Fox Piven introduced the Cloward-Piven strategy, a political approach aimed at creating chaos to prompt a political crisis that could lead to legislation for a guaranteed annual income and an end to poverty. Fast forward to the present day, and some argue that the events of the past year, including the COVID-19 pandemic and allegations of a rigged election, echo the principles of Cloward-Piven, resulting in a significant shift in American leadership and direction.

The objective of Cloward-Piven is clear: induce chaos and turmoil with the ultimate goal of recruiting the poor onto the welfare rolls. According to the sociologists, a federal program of income redistribution becomes necessary to lift the poor en masse from poverty once chaos is established. This perspective sheds light on recent developments, particularly the response to the pandemic and the measures taken by the government.

The author of the article “President Cloward, Vice President Piven” suggests that the handling of the COVID-19 crisis aligns with the Cloward-Piven strategy. Lockdowns, closed businesses, schools, and churches are framed as part of a larger plan, with the ruling class spending trillions of dollars to rectify the damage. The term “stimulus” is criticized as a guise for massive income redistribution, where funds move from producers to nonproducers, a process that may further entrench dependency on federal government support.

In Cloward-Piven terms, a crisis is defined as a publicly visible disruption in some institutional sphere. The essay argues that the orchestrated response to the pandemic serves as a crisis, disrupting institutions and creating the conditions for income redistribution. The author contends that the crisis can occur spontaneously, such as riots, or intentionally through tactics of demonstration and protest, generating institutional disruption or bringing unrecognized disruption to public attention.

The consequences of this strategy, as outlined by the essay, are profound. The shift from a government by, of, and for the people to a perceived tyrannical autocracy controlled by a small group of elites is depicted as a manifestation of the Cloward-Piven approach. The essay provocatively introduces the idea of “President Cloward and Vice President Piven,” metaphorical figures representing the alleged transformation of American governance.

Amid these claims, there is also a reference to the debate over the actual power dynamics within the current administration. The suggestion that the vice president might be the one in charge, rather than the president, adds an intriguing layer to the narrative. The term “cognitively impaired president in name only” is used to describe the perceived state of leadership.

In conclusion, the essay argues that recent events in the United States align with the Cloward-Piven strategy, suggesting a deliberate effort to create chaos and drive the nation towards a political crisis. The consequences, as outlined by the authors of the strategy, include income redistribution and a redefined relationship between the government and its citizens. The provocative notion of “President Cloward and Vice President Piven” encapsulates the alleged transformation of America’s political landscape, raising questions about the motivations behind recent policies and their long-term impact.

August

03-22-24, 03:37 PM

That, or turn them into sanctuary city migrant shelters. :haha:

Or both:

A rich dem donor buys it from the state for pennies on the dollar, then turns around and sells it to the City of New York for big money.

ronswanson

03-22-24, 03:40 PM

:haha:

em2nought

03-22-24, 04:39 PM

I think it's time for me to join Truth Social, and help President Trump get his $3 billion windfall when it goes public. :D

Buddahaid

03-22-24, 10:15 PM

It's your money. Put your life savings into it! :shucks:

This was embarrassing.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QqzrSnWLceU&t=27s

em2nought

03-23-24, 02:32 AM

It's your money. Put your life savings into it! :shucks:

It doesn't cost anything to join Truth Social, unless Letitia James decides to send her flying monkeys after me or something? :har:

https://i.imgflip.com/81bd3k.jpg

Ostfriese

03-23-24, 03:56 AM

It doesn't cost anything to join Truth Social,

Lesson number one for any internet user: if the service doesn't cost any money, you'll pay with your data - all of it. And considering how much others are willing to pay for your data it might be worth more than you think.

em2nought

03-23-24, 06:27 AM

Lesson number one for any internet user: if the service doesn't cost any money, you'll pay with your data - all of it. And considering how much others are willing to pay for your data it might be worth more than you think.

Most of the places already harvesting my data I'm not fond of, at least I'll be of like mind with this one. :D Now if I start getting telephone calls from every two bit budget cave-in republican I might change my mind. :03:

https://i.imgflip.com/4rdol6.jpg

Jimbuna

03-23-24, 06:47 AM

Lev Parnas predicts what’s on the horizon for ex-allies Trump and Giuliani: ‘Prison and jumpsuits’

Lev Parnas has offered a scathing prediction for what’s looming in the near future for former president Donald Trump and former New York City mayor Rudy Giuliani.

“Prison and jumpsuits,” he said. “They will be cellmates for the rest of their lives.”

The Ukrainian-American businessman and former close associate of Mr Giuliani spoke to The Independent after giving fiery testimony this week at a House Republican impeachment hearing into President Joe Biden.

During the House Oversight Committee’s 20 March hearing, Mr Parnas did not mince his words.

He testified that he had found “precisely zero proof of the Bidens’ criminality”.

But, instead he claimed that Mr Trump, Mr Giuliani and their associates “lied to” the American people when they pushed falsehoods “knowing it would undermine the strength of our nation”.
He said that Mr Giuliani, then Mr Trump’s personal lawyer, was “tasked” with “finding dirt” on the Bidens ahead of the 2020 presidential election.

Mr Trump and his allies then planned to use this information to “damage the Bidens’ reputations and secure the 2020 election for Trump,” Mr Parnas told the committee.

Speaking to The Independent on Friday, Mr Parnas said that it was poignant that Mr Trump, who has a penchant for posting on his Truth Social platform, “has not tweeted, not made one comment about me after the testimony.”

He said he believes that the former president hasn’t publicly remarked on his testimony for one of two reasons.

“Either he’s a coward…because he’s scared for the truth to come out,” he said. “Or maybe dementia has set in, and he just doesn’t remember who I am.”

His comments about Mr Trump and Mr Giuliani come as the pair face a mountain of legal battles.

In Georgia, where they are codefendants in a sprawling RICO case, they are each facing decades in prison. They have both pleaded not guilty to the charges.

The Independent has reached out to representatives for Mr Trump and Mr Giuliani for comment.

Aside from the 2024 Republican frontrunner and his former associate, Mr Parnas also slammed members of Congress in his testimony, accusing Rep Pete Sessions, former Rep Devin Nunes and Senator Ron Johnson of having “understood they were pushing a false narrative” in the runup to the 2020 election.

Asked how these elected officials should be held to account, Mr Parnas told The Independent: “We should have a congressional hearing on how Russian disinformation could get into the halls of Congress, the DOJ and the FBI and be used to impeach a sitting US president of false Russian information.”

He questioned whether or not individuals did this “knowingly” or “willingly”.

“Or was it just because they’re blatantly incompetent, stupid?” Mr Parnas asked.

“The only information ever pushed about the Bidens and Ukraine has come from Russia and Russian agents, which everyone sitting here today knows,” Mr Parnas testified on Wednesday, pointing to the recent indictment of former FBI informant Alexander Smirnov.

Earlier this year, Mr Smirnov was charged with providing “false derogatory information” about the Bidens’ business dealings. His arrest dealt a huge setback to the Republican-led probe, which so far has seen unsuccessful efforts to support allegations of the Biden family members’ corruption.

Mr Parnas reflected that, after sitting through the eight-hour long hearing: “I was truly disappointed. I’m embarrassed for our country.”

“The world saw a kangaroo court,” he said, adding that he believes Republicans are using the inquiry as “a political sham” rather than to seek the truth.

“They have no evidence, they don’t have the votes and it needs to stop,” he said.

At the chaotic hearing, Democratic Rep Stephen Lynch went so far as to say that the impeachment effort has “actually provided more evidence to impeach Donald Trump for a third time than you have in so much as laying a glove on Joe Biden“.
https://www.msn.com/en-gb/news/world/lev-parnas-predicts-what-s-on-the-horizon-for-ex-allies-trump-and-giuliani-prison-and-jumpsuits/ar-BB1knahp?ocid=msedgntp&pc=U531&cvid=1e77e62dc33e45b0936fdc6b217e2dc2&ei=20

Buddahaid

03-23-24, 10:58 AM

em2nought

03-24-24, 07:16 AM

Republicans are close to losing the majority in the House with another defection. Keep up the good work.

Wisconsin Republican Congressman Mike Gallagher is leaving April 12 because of the Donald Trump and MAGA takeover of the GOP.

I'm sure the deep state is hard at work looking extensively into every single republican so as to get them to simply quit instead of reveal whatever secrets they might have from their past. Taxpayer funds being used against taxpayer elected officials. :03: Our "protectors" certainly aren't busy checking the ISIS credentials of folks flowing over our border. :har:

Jimbuna

03-24-24, 07:34 AM

Biden signs trillion-dollar budget, calls on Congress to pass Ukraine aid bill

Today, March 23, President of the United States Joe Biden signed a $1.2 trillion government funding bill approved by the Senate. He also called on the House of Representatives to unblock the bill to provide support for Ukraine, Israel, and Taiwan.

The American president "clearly stated" that Congress has not yet completed its work.

"The House of Representatives must pass a bipartisan supplemental funding bill," Biden said, referring to the bill to fund aid for Ukraine, Israel and Taiwan, which Republicans oppose.

The US President noted that the budget bill signed today, which made it possible to avoid a shutdown, is "a compromise, which means neither side got everything it wanted."

Budget law to avoid a shutdown
Yesterday, the US House of Representatives passed a $1.2 trillion bill to spend $1.2 trillion on government agencies. This step will prevent a temporary shutdown of the government.

After that, the US Senate approved the corresponding bill today.

Question about US assistance to Ukraine
Earlier it was reported that the US Congress has been unable to provide new funding for Ukraine for several months.

A bill for $60 billion in military and financial assistance to our country has recently passed the Senate. But the House of Representatives refuses to consider it.

Speaker of the House Mike Johnson promised that the issue of aid to Ukraine would be taken up in Congress immediately after the budget vote.
https://www.msn.com/en-gb/news/world/biden-signs-trillion-dollar-budget-calls-on-congress-to-pass-ukraine-aid-bill/ar-BB1kpNjB?ocid=msedgntp&pc=U531&cvid=1ba3e47bdf914dc386788e9b13873c58&ei=24

Buddahaid

03-24-24, 11:27 AM

I'm sure the deep state is hard at work looking extensively into every single republican so as to get them to simply quit instead of reveal whatever secrets they might have from their past. Taxpayer funds being used against taxpayer elected officials. :03: Our "protectors" certainly aren't busy checking the ISIS credentials of folks flowing over our border. :har:

Sure, blame anyone and anything else but the failure that MAGA and all this Trumpery represents.

Jimbuna

03-25-24, 12:52 PM

Poll shows 40% of black voters don't want to vote in the 2024 election

A new poll indicates a group of Joe Biden's staunchest supporters - black Americans - are not feeling very enthusiastic about voting in 2024, possibly spelling trouble for the president's re-election effort. After losing the first two primaries in 2020, black voters handed Biden his first primary victory in South Carolina.

That watershed moment supercharged Biden's campaign and helped him beat out a crowded field to secure the nomination and later the presidency. Over 80 percent of black voters backed Biden in 2020. Now, as Biden has a firm grip on the Democrat party as he heads into a rematch against former President Donald Trump , that cohort of black voters may not show up.

A poll released Monday from In Our Own Voice: National Black Women’s Reproductive Justice Agenda with PerryUndem found that just 59 percent of black voters are 'almost certain' to vote this fall and 12 percent 'will probably' vote. The results indicate that around 40 percent of black voters are not certain they will cast votes in the 2024 elections.

Additionally, 30 percent of respondents indicated the upcoming elections are not that important. And as Biden has ostracized some potential supporters over his stance on the Israel-Hamas war, some voters revealed they have considered withholding their vote as an act of protest. Nearly 20 percent said they have considered withholding their vote, according to the poll.

That number shoots up to 25 percent among younger voters. Biden's handling of the Israel-Hamas conflict heavily divided black voters with a third approving of his response, a third disapproving and a third unsure. The poll, which surveyed over 1,000 black adults, also provided insights into how the president is performing with younger votes.

Only 38 percent of voters aged 18 to 29 said they were almost certain to vote, while just 17 percent indicated they will probably vote. That means that nearly half of black voters in that age group are not committed to voting this cycle. When asked if they had to vote immediately, just 44 percent of young black voters responded they would vote for Democrats.

Of that group, 37 percent said they were unsure or they would not vote. When accounting for all those surveyed, 63 percent have a favorable view of Joe Biden while 35 percent view him unfavorably. The number one issue for black voters in 2024 is the cost of living. Racial justice, health care and education also ranked among the top voting concerns.

Trump, on the other hand, has surged with black voters recently. A March poll from the New York Times/Siena showed that 23 percent of black voters would vote for the former president . A similar poll conducted by the same firms in July 2023 found that 12 percent of black voters would vote for Trump, indicating he is picking up votes as his campaign charges on.

Further, a December AP-NORC poll found that 25 percent of black voters approved of Trump, up from 18 percent in 2021. In the 2020 election, just eight percent of black Americans voted for Trump, according to Pew Research data.
https://www.msn.com/en-gb/news/other/poll-shows-40-of-black-voters-don-t-want-to-vote-in-the-2024-election/ss-BB1kvB8U?ocid=msedgntp&pc=U531&cvid=6b45f16206d24f80ad258b47810044e6&ei=21#image=1

Jimbuna

03-28-24, 09:32 AM

Chris Christie makes decision on whether to run against Trump and Biden as third-party 'No Labels' candidate after weeks of consideration

Chris Christie has decided that he will not run on a third-party ticket with No Labels in 2024.

No Labels has had a hard time finding a candidate willing to headline their prospective 'unity ticket,' which ideally would include both a centrist Republican and moderate Democrat running together as president and vice president.

Former New Jersey Gov. Christie, a Republican, is the latest to withdraw his name from consideration after several others did the same before him.
'While I believe this is a conversation that needs to be had with the American people, I also believe that if there is not a pathway to win and if my candidacy in any way, shape or form would help Donald Trump become president again, then it is not the way forward,' Christie said in a statement on his decision.

It comes after No Labels' Founding Chairman and former Democratic Senator from Connecticut Joe Lieberman died at the age of 82 on Wednesday following complications from a fall.

Lieberman was leading the effort to find an alternative candidate to former President Donald Trump and President Joe Biden in 2024.

Among others to turn down the offer or be reached for consideration from the group include Sen. Joe Manchin (D-W.V.), former Wyoming Rep. Liz Cheney (R), former Republican Maryland Gov. Larry Hogan, former Democrat Massachusetts Gov. Deval Patrick and Arizona Sen. Kyrsten Sinema, who changed her party affiliation from Democrat to independent and announced she will not run for reelection in 2024.

There are few remaining high-profile options for No Labels to tap for a centrist presidential ticket in November despite widespread public sentiment and polling that shows Americans don't want either of the mainstream options in a 2020 rematch between Biden and Trump.

'I believe we need a country that once again feels like everyone has a stake in what we're doing and leadership that strives to bring people together, instead of using anger to divide us,' Christie said in a statement on rejecting the No Labels pursuit.

Christie, who ended his Republican presidential primary bid in January, spent the last few weeks exploring whether he instead wanted to pursue a third-party bid with No Labels as the organization upped courtship for his candidacy.

This week, Christie made his decision.

The former governor's team commissioned polling in 13 states, calculated a theoretical campaign budget and concluded that for a third-party bid to be successful it would need to win 20 to 25 states, people involved detailed to The Washington Post.

While Christie does acknowledge there is appetite for a third choice in 2024, he concluded there is not a practical path to victory for him.

'I am going to make sure that in no way do I enable Donald Trump to ever be president of the United States again. And that's more important than my own personal ambition,' he said in January when ending his campaign.

He said he would not cast his ballot for Trump 'under any circumstances' but added: 'I can't see myself voting for President Biden, either.'

No Labels leaders have put a deadline for the first weeks in April to decide whether to nominate a presidential ticket.

The group has cautioned it will not continue its efforts if they cannot recruit someone with a path to winning. It was thought in recent weeks that Christie might be that candidate.
https://www.msn.com/en-gb/news/world/chris-christie-makes-decision-on-whether-to-run-against-trump-and-biden-as-third-party-no-labels-candidate-after-weeks-of-consideration/ar-BB1kGWVE?ocid=msedgntp&pc=U531&cvid=d67582a2cda043aba28a45d61262451a&ei=21

em2nought

03-28-24, 10:40 AM

"Chris Christie" and "run" just makes me think of this scene from Zombieland. :har:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sqFs6vFLRxk

https://www.scifimoviezone.com/imagehorror/zombieland040.jpg

Rockstar

03-28-24, 10:20 PM

In Lieu Of Abortion Pills, Planned Parenthood Begins Mailing Out Loaded Guns
U.S.
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Apr 13, 2023

https://babylonbee.com/news/in-lieu-of-abortion-pills-planned-parenthood-begins-mailing-out-loaded-guns

AUSTIN, TX — After legions of Texas feminists were thrown into an uproar over a court ruling prohibiting the sending of abortion pills by mail, Planned Parenthood released a statement assuring people they would begin mailing out loaded handguns instead.

"This will definitely get the same results," Planned Parenthood spokesperson Sue Gregory said in a statement to the media. "If the legal system refuses to allow us to provide women with the at-home healthcare option to conveniently kill their unborn children at home, we simply have to adapt and come up with alternative ways to help them end their babies' lives."

Sources say 9mm Glock pistols are already being shipped to customers in areas where they are unable to acquire abortion pills in the mail. Planned Parenthood claims the "bullet" method is a "quick, painless, and effective" means of aborting a baby, and has "absolutely no side effects."

"Loaded guns are healthcare, full stop," said Planned Parenthood CEO Jennifer Welch. "We need to get as many loaded guns into the hands of women with unwanted pregnancies as possible. It's the compassionate thing to do."

At publishing time, Planned Parenthood had announced they will soon be mailing out pruning shears for at-home gender surgery. When guns are finally banned in the coming utopia, you may still need to defend yourself on the rare occasion.

Jimbuna

03-29-24, 05:15 AM

Congress raids presidential campaign fund in surprise reversal

Congress quietly drained hundreds of millions of dollars from a largely unused presidential campaign fund to provide a jolt of cash to the United States Secret Service and election security grants.

The massive raid of the Presidential Election Campaign Fund was included late last week in Congress’ latest government funding package, which President Joe Biden signed into law.

Raw Story could not confirm which member, or members, of Congress are responsible for inserting language in the middle of the 1,012-page bill that tapped the fund to the tune of $375 million.

But the ramifications are clear: The Presidential Election Campaign Fund, which publicly funded White House aspirants’ campaigns from the 1970s to late 2000s, will now provide $320 million to the Secret Service and $55 million for election security grants as a part of the $1.2 trillion funding package that averted a partial government shutdown, according to a Raw Story review of legislation.

The $320 million will be directed to “operations and support” for the U.S. Secret Service, according to the legislation, which provided 11th-hour funding to major government departments through September.

The Secret Service, which provides security for the president, vice president (and such candidates), along with foreign heads of state, can use the funds for a variety of purposes — from purchasing vehicles to overtime pay to travel accommodations. Former President Donald Trump, in particular, has refused to reimburse local law enforcement at his presidential campaign rallies, and the Secret Service has previously stated that it cannot reimburse municipal governments for these public safety costs because it hasn't received money from Congress to do so.

The Secret Service acknowledged questions sent by Raw Story, including those about how the agency would use its new funding windfall. But, it did not respond by the time of publication.

A member of the Secret Service stands watch as Marine One, with U.S. President Joe Biden onboard, lifts off from the South Lawn of the White House October 7, 2022, in Washington, D.C. (Photo by Drew Angerer/Getty Images)

The $55 million designated for “election security grants” will be distributed to states within 45 days by the Election Assistance Commission to “improve the administration of elections for Federal office, including to enhance election technology and make election security improvements,” the bill said.
https://www.msn.com/en-gb/news/world/exclusive-congress-raids-presidential-campaign-fund-in-surprise-reversal/ar-BB1kIlQN?ocid=msedgntp&pc=U531&cvid=80622bed58c64362b9362850aae5bfb3&ei=6

em2nought

03-29-24, 07:37 AM

Congress raids presidential campaign fund in surprise reversal

Big money grab for secret service, but no secret service for Kennedy? I think the democrats/deep state are planning on slaughtering RFK jr. just before the election, and then blaming it on President Trump or Russia to drive voters to Brandon. :hmmm: I'm sure they've got plenty of other things up their sleeve too. Two weeks to flatten the measles curve possibly starting on Halloween? :har:

Buddahaid

03-29-24, 11:03 AM

Trump’s lawyers are arguing inconsistent positions in different criminal and appeal courts about Trump’s presidential immunity and first amendment protected free speech.

Trump’s criminal defense lawyer Sadow in Georgia is arguing to dismiss the indictments as protected free speech of "candidate" Trump while Trump's lawyers make the opposite to the US Supreme Court for the presidential immunity appeal hearing.

This will not end well as it can't be both. Trump is either candidate Trump, or President Trump.

mapuc

03-29-24, 11:27 AM

ET2SN

03-29-24, 12:12 PM

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jRgqRYPTis8

:O:

Buddahaid

03-29-24, 12:58 PM

Doesn't it depend on what Mr Trump was when he said these things ?-Was he President or was he a candidate ?

Markus

https://constitution.congress.gov/constitution/article-2/

I don't see campaigning listed as a presidential duty in the Constitution because it isn't.

Buddahaid

03-29-24, 01:13 PM

Here’s John Eastman’s disbarment ruling.
https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/24521266-judge-roland-wants-john-eastman-disbarred-full-ruling

Jimbuna

03-29-24, 01:41 PM

Biden hosts star-studded NYC fundraiser with Obama and Clinton

US President Joe Biden hosted a record-breaking election fundraiser in New York City, alongside his predecessors Barack Obama and Bill Clinton.

His team said the star-studded evening at Radio City Music Hall raised over $26m (£21m) for the campaign - a record for a single political event.

The president has a cash advantage over Republican Donald Trump so he can spend more on advertising in key states.

Polls suggest the race for the White House rests on a knife edge.

Mr Trump attacked the event's guest list as "deranged Hollywood liberals".

His campaign said on Thursday that the cash disparity demonstrated the difference between Democratic reliance on billionaires in contrast to the working-class supporters donating to the former president.

The high stakes of November's election were underlined by the speeches at the Biden event in New York.

Senate Majority Leader and New York Senator Chuck Schumer told the raucous crowd of 5,000 Democrats they must do whatever they could to ensure that the "dishonest, chaotic, ineffective regime of Donald Trump" did not return.

Comedian Mindy Kaling hosted the event and spoke just moments after singer Lizzo finished a rendition of her hit About Damn Time. Other stars such as Queen Latifah and Cynthia Erivo also took the stage.

But the longest standing ovation was saved for the moment when the three presidents - Mr Biden, Mr Obama and Mr Clinton - came out.

Chants of "four more years" echoed throughout the auditorium for Mr Biden.

"Three presidents... and none of them are here [in New York] to go to court," joked comedian Stephen Colbert, alluding to Mr Trump's legal troubles.

The late-night comedy host then moderated a conversation between the three presidents.

Mr Biden began with an oft-repeated slogan, saying democracy was at stake in this election. He said Mr Trump had a "perverse view of the world", noting his opponent's vocal support of those who participated in the 6 January Capitol Riot and his buoying of authoritarian leaders abroad.

"But I'm really hopeful," the president added. "If we get by this election, we can set the course for the next four, five, six decades."

Mr Obama, for his part, touted Biden's legislative victories. He said the president had done everything from reducing the cost of medicine to creating jobs - particularly for African Americans.

He added that Mr Trump, the presumptive Republican nominee, and his supporters seemed "increasingly unconcerned with the essence of America", which he said was centred on the idea of "bridging our differences and moving forward".

Mr Clinton, meanwhile, accused Mr Trump of "stealing a few good years" from the back of Mr Obama's administration and somehow claiming "overnight" successes.

The four men ended their time on stage by putting on aviator sunglasses in an impression of Mr Biden, which earned a standing ovation.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-68685608

Jimbuna

03-30-24, 05:48 AM

Trump accused of ‘inciting violence’ after posting image of Biden tied up in a truck

Donald Trump has been accused by Democrats of inciting violence against Joe Biden after he posted a video on social media featuring an image of the US President hog-tied in the back of a truck as if he had been kidnapped.

The former president on Friday shared a clip on his Truth Social account that contained an image of Mr Biden painted on the tailgate of a pickup truck.

The US president is depicted bound by his hands and ankles in the bed of the vehicle, which Mr Trump said was spotted in Long Island, New York, on Thursday, where Mr Trump this week attended a memorial service for a recently killed police officer.

The truck is also decorated with a “Trump 2024” sticker and flags claiming support for the police.
Mr Biden’s campaign quickly condemned the video for suggesting harm to the president.

“This image from Donald Trump is the type of crap you post when you’re calling for a bloodbath or when you tell the Proud Boys to ‘stand back and stand by,’” said Michael Tyler, the Biden campaign’s communications director, referring to the Right-wing group involved in the 2021 attack on the Capitol.

He added: “Trump is regularly inciting political violence and it’s time people take him seriously – just ask the Capitol police officers who were attacked protecting our democracy on January 6.”

The Trump campaign responded on Friday, saying the Democrats have encouraged violence against Mr Trump’s family.

“That picture was on the back of a pickup truck that was traveling down the highway,” spokesman Steven Cheung said.

“Democrats and crazed lunatics have not only called for despicable violence against President Trump and his family, they are actually weaponising the justice system against him.”

Mr Cheung cited a comment by Mr Biden in 2018 in which he said, “If we were in high school, I’d take him [Trump] behind the gym and beat the hell out of him.”

The post was still live on Trump’s feed on Saturday morning.

It is not the first time the former president has shared posts that contain violent images featuring his opponents.

Last year, before his indictment in New York over hush money paid on his behalf during his 2016 campaign, Trump posted a photo on social media of himself holding a baseball bat next to a picture of District Attorney Alvin Bragg.

In 2017, Mr Trump shared a doctored video of him hitting a golf ball at Hillary Clinton, who falls down. He shared another similar video featuring Mr Biden last October.

Throughout an increasingly hostile campaign for the White House, Mr Biden’s team has attacked Mr Trump, the presumptive Republican nominee, for language that they say insights violence.

In October, Mr Trump was accused of echoing the rhetoric of Adolf Hitler with regard to immigrants, following an interview in which he claimed that undocumented migrants were “poisoning the blood” of the United States.

The former president has painted an apocalyptic picture of the country if Mr Biden secures a second term and promised “ultimate and absolute revenge” if he returns to the White House.

“If I don’t get elected, it’s going to be a bloodbath for the whole — that’s going to be the least of it. It’s going to be a bloodbath for the country,” he warned at rally in Ohio earlier this month, while talking about the impact of offshoring on the US’s auto industry.

At a recent rally, Mr Trump cast Mr Biden’s handling of the border as “a conspiracy to overthrow the United States of America.”
https://www.msn.com/en-gb/news/world/trump-accused-of-inciting-violence-after-posting-image-of-biden-tied-up-in-a-truck/ar-BB1kMDFF?ocid=msedgntp&pc=U531&cvid=457b60a0b58b41ac99ff2953b3450432&ei=13

em2nought

03-30-24, 05:56 AM

Trump accused of ‘inciting violence’ after posting image of Biden tied up in a truck

I've "liked" that image before. :D Funny how this image didn't bother them at all.

https://a57.foxnews.com/static.foxnews.com/foxnews.com/content/uploads/2018/09/640/320/Kathy-griffin-trump_TylerShields.jpg?ve=1&tl=1

It will be a financial bloodbath if Biden's latest efforts to kill diesel semi-trucks gets traction. Might be time to learn how to do everything for yourself.

Jimbuna

03-30-24, 06:03 AM

Yeah, I reckon both are as bad as each other.

August

03-30-24, 11:25 AM

Yeah, I reckon both are as bad as each other.

Well Trump never tried to use the law to knock his opponent out of the race.

Rockstar

03-30-24, 01:21 PM

Well Trump never tried to use the law to knock his opponent out of the race.

I reckon times are a changin’ because I always thought it was the likes of Stalin, Mao, Hitler, Putin, Mussolini who did that kind stuff. I think I figured out the Democrat’s 2024 election platform and slogan. Let’s Destroy Democracy to Save It!

https://thepoliticalinsider.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/07/Democrat-Joke-1532998159.jpg

Buddahaid

03-30-24, 01:55 PM

Well Trump never tried to use the law to knock his opponent out of the race.

That belongs in the joke thread.

August

03-30-24, 11:17 PM

I reckon times are a changin’ because I always thought it was the likes of Stalin, Mao, Hitler, Putin, Mussolini who did that kind stuff. I think I figured out the Democrat’s 2024 election platform and slogan. Let’s Destroy Democracy to Save It!

Sounds about right. I really hope that if Trump wins back the Oval office he'll return the favor.

Gorpet

03-30-24, 11:19 PM

Now who poked Gorpet? Fess up!:Kaleun_Wink:

NATO,..... that is what pokes me.
And this Administration , Look i don't give a chit , The party of government that is now in charge, driving us into a world war, Elect Me, I will have all of them arrested.And we can stop the madness. Look the in 1968 these people were anti war hippies.Look all of them up.Now the same hippies who got into government and have been there for the last 60 some years, Are now in power and have decided they and their families want to rule the planet. Johnny Depp.Has told us .The super rich live on wine and mushrooms.

And, Buddahaid it will require everything from war to virus, Anything for these people who want to be the masters of the Planet. There is nowhere for the people of Earth to go. These Cockroaches know this and that is why, Their virus unleashed on us. Scared them and they had the antidote. So it's war, having a bunker to hide in , in a mountain they think is a way to cleanse the planet and they and their families and those who support them.Will come out from their holes and rule again. Who knows ? They think it's possible so let the dogs of war lose. Look the best brains of the best in the last 75 yrs have, got us right here.On the verge. If you think your going to Mars, Your fuking retarted. Oh damn , I just got reminded shut the hell up. Do you want to have a Drone fly into your house.? Well i don't have gas .I do live close to an airport , Ah what the hell Boeing are falling apart so if an engine hits my house. it is what it is.

Gorpet

03-31-24, 02:13 AM

Trump warns of 'bloodbath' if he loses presidential election

Oh Hell the Bloodbath. Damn does that bring back memories of the battles of The British Empire?

Ya know what, You got more to worry about than Donald Trump. You got the Americans and if you don't think your Island is not disposable , Your government turned your country over to our government back in 1943.And just as we gave Japan their Emp. We let you have a K@Q . Its all for show , Your politicians are as courpet as ours.And they belong to us...Damn Jimbo it's Democracy and the new version.Is the same thing as Benito.

Jimbuna

03-31-24, 06:07 AM

Donald Trump Criticizes Prosecutors and Judges to Provoke His Supporters to 'Attack' Them, Says Michael Cohen

Michael Cohen, an ex-lawyer of former President Donald Trump, claimed that the GOP nominee's continuous criticism of those handling his prosecutions is a deliberate strategy to provoke his supporters into attacking them, RadarOnline.com has learned.

Trump, who had previously bombarded New York civil trial Judge Arthur Engoron for months, continued his attacks on Judge Juan Merchan, who is overseeing the former president’s criminal trial in Manhattan, which is set to begin on April 15.

District Attorney Alvin Bragg alleges the ex-president falsified business records to conceal hush money payments to cover up extramarital affairs with adult film star Stormy Daniels.

The 77-year-old former president has pleaded not guilty and has repeatedly attacked Merchan and his daughter, doing so by name on Thursday, March 28.

During a recent interview with MSNBC's Joy Reid, Cohen tried to portray Trump's line of thinking, telling the host, "I have been treated very unfairly by this judge. Now, this judge is of Mexican heritage. I’m building a wall, ok? … The Trump-hating prosecutor in the case, his wife, and family despise me much more than he does. And he decides, I think he’s about a 10. They’re about a 15 on a scale of 10."

"Then you have deranged Jack Smith, who’s a Trump hater and represents all the Trump haters … You have a radical left attorney general like Letitia James, who’s a disgrace to our country," he continued. "The judges on these cases, they’re all Trump haters."

Reid asked Cohen, "Michael, what’s his goal when he does that?"

He answered, "His goal is to fuel up his supporters … to fuel up his [supporters] for the sole purpose of getting them to act no differently and as stupidly as they did on January 6th."

"His goal is to get them to attack these individuals, these critics of him as often and as frequently as they possibly can, whether it’s going to be on social media, whether it’ll be through phone calls, whether it will be in person. I mean, that’s his goal. Intimidation and witness — it’s witness intimidation and it’s harassment.

This isn't the only legal issue the ex-prez is facing. He is currently charged with 91 counts across four separate indictments in D.C., New York, Georgia and Florida.

The charges include solicitation, racketeering, forgery, false statements, obstruction, conspiracy against civil rights and the willful retention of national defense information.

He could face up to 300 years behind bars if he's found guilty of every charge.
https://www.msn.com/en-gb/news/world/donald-trump-criticizes-prosecutors-and-judges-to-provoke-his-supporters-to-attack-them-says-michael-cohen/ar-BB1kNXlH?ocid=msedgntp&pc=U531&cvid=a5b0a0d4dcd147e8ab6c861e9cc5a956&ei=54

Buddahaid

03-31-24, 09:24 AM

I've "liked" that image before. :D Funny how this image didn't bother them at all.

https://a57.foxnews.com/static.foxnews.com/foxnews.com/content/uploads/2018/09/640/320/Kathy-griffin-trump_TylerShields.jpg?ve=1&tl=1

It will be a financial bloodbath if Biden's latest efforts to kill diesel semi-trucks gets traction. Might be time to learn how to do everything for yourself.

Funny how she isn’t running for president.

Jimbuna

04-01-24, 12:50 PM

Trump says Mexican president 'lacks respect' for Biden after demanding $20 billion a year in aid for Latin American and Caribbean in exchange to help halt illegal migrants surge

Donald Trump has claimed the President of Mexico lacks respect for President Biden after asking for $20 billion simply to talk, as part of a series of outlandish requests that critics have termed 'diplomatic blackmail'.

Speaking on Fox News on Sunday night, Trump intimated that Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador's plan to ask for money simply to speak with Biden is a sign of Biden's weakness.
'He said he wants $10 billion essentially just to talk, $10 billion to talk. That wouldn't happen with me, with the wall,' Trump bragged.

Earlier this year Obrador suggested that the Mexican government would work to support the U.S. efforts to curb the surge of illegal migrants, but only if certain outlandish conditions were met.

Obrador wants the United States to reciprocate by sending $20 billion annually in taxpayer cash in the form of aid to Latin America and the Caribbean to address so-called 'root causes' of migration.

'We're not going to shut down our border until you change your policy on Cuba and change your policy on Venezuela,' journalist Brian Kilmeade reminded viewers of what Obrador had suggested before asking Trump: 'Is it OK for the Mexican president to dictate American policy?'

'It's very simple: lack of respect for the president. They would never say that to me. They would never say before we even talk. They want $10 billion a year, Mexico just asked for $10 billion a year. They would never ask it. I wouldn't give them 10 cents,' Trump continued.

Aside from the $20 billion in aid, Obrador wants to see Biden lifting sanctions on communist Cuba and Venezuelas socialist government and the granting, amnesty and providing of legal status to 'millions of law-abiding Mexicans living in the US.'

Obrador, realizing he has leverage over Biden with immigration a chief concern in this year's U.S. election, has suggested that the 'flow of migrants will continue' unless the U.S. meets his demands.

Obrador has explained such ideas as him 'speaking frankly' because 'we have to say things as they are — and I always say what I feel.'

House Speaker Mike Johnson recently said that the U.S. could even force Mexico to comply with American immigration policy, but the comments only served to irk Obrador further.

'We are not a colony. We are not a protectorate of any foreign country,' Obrador responded while appearing on CBS. 'And we have a very good relationship with the government of the United States — but not one of subordination.'

Mexico's has gone some way to crack down on immigration in recent months - at the urging of the Biden administration, and has hit Venezuelans especially hard.

The development highlights how much the U.S. depends on Mexico to control migration, which has reached unprecedented levels and is a top issue for voters as Biden seeks reelection in November.

Arrests of migrants for illegally crossing the U.S.-Mexico border have dropped so far this year after a record high in December.

The biggest decline was among Venezuelans, whose arrests plummeted to 3,184 in February and 4,422 in January from 49,717 in December.

While two months do not make a trend and illegal crossings remain high by historical standards, Mexico's strategy to keep migrants closer to its southern border with Guatemala than the U.S. is at least temporary relief for the Biden administration.

Large numbers of Venezuelans began reaching the U.S. in 2021, first by flying to Mexico and then on foot and by bus after Mexico imposed visa restrictions.

Last September, Venezuelans briefly replaced Mexicans as the largest nationality crossing the border.

Mexico's efforts have included forcing migrants from trains, flying and busing them to the southern part of the country, and flying some home to Venezuela.

More than 500,000 migrants have used the CBP One app to enter the U.S. at land crossings with Mexico since its introduction in January 2023.

They can stay in the U.S. for two years under a presidential authority called parole ,which entitles them to work.

The U.S. admits 1,450 people a day through CBP One with appointments that are granted two weeks out.

Texas Republican Gov. Greg Abbott has touted his own efforts to explain the recent reduction in illegal crossings in his state, where at least 95 percent of Border Patrol arrests of Venezuelans occur.

Those have included installing razor wire, putting a floating barrier in the Rio Grande and making plans to build a new base for members of the National Guard.

U.S. Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas has mostly credited Mexico for the drop in border arrests.
https://www.msn.com/en-gb/news/world/trump-says-mexican-president-lacks-respect-for-biden-after-demanding-20-billion-a-year-in-aid-for-latin-american-and-caribbean-in-exchange-to-help-halt-illegal-migrants-surge/ar-BB1kRtzx?ocid=msedgntp&pc=U531&cvid=2b06c3e480864c93b6cb93d87a8251cb&ei=65

Skybird

04-01-24, 04:43 PM

On a sidenote:

https://mises.org/power-market/wisconsin-formally-ends-sales-taxes-gold-and-silver

Now any guarantees are needed that the central government cannot again just prohibit precious metals being privately owned.

em2nought

04-01-24, 11:43 PM

Now any guarantees are needed that the central government cannot again just prohibit precious metals being privately owned.

Which is why I've gone pre 1933. :03:

Jimbuna

04-02-24, 05:49 AM

Three reasons Joe Biden is improving in the polls – and one why his numbers are still low

Story by Eric Garcia

Since the final quarter of 2023, President Joe Biden has seen brutal poll after brutal poll showing his numbers tanking. The reasons for his decline have been manifold: people continue to worry about his age; young Democratic voters are dissatisfied about his support for Israel; people still blame him for high inflation.

But Biden’s polling numbers seem to be improving to some degree. A CNBC All-America Economic Survey showed Biden about even with Donald Trump. A Quinnipiac University poll released last week also showed the race virtually unchanged from February but still too close to call. My colleague Andrew Feinberg reported last week that the president has cut into Trump’s lead in multiple swing states.
Trump still has numerous advantages, given that his supporters seem more enthusiastic. At the same time, Biden has started to gain some structural advantages. Here are three reasons why Biden is improving – and one reason why he still trails Trump.

As I wrote last month, Biden really could not ask for a better economy going into re-election. Last month, the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) reported that unemployment stayed below 4 per cent. While that slightly ticked up, the amount of people in the labour market – which is to say people who either have a job or who are looking for one – stayed the same.

In the same way, inflation has been perhaps Biden’s most persistent enemy. But now, hourly earnings continue to grow and they now seem to be outpacing inflation. That means that people are finally starting to feel the cooling of inflation that began around 2022 because they have more money in their pockets.

And people seem to be rewarding that performance. The CNBC survey showed Biden’s approval on the economy jumped six points from December, and the number of people who said the economy is doing fair or poor dropped from 80 per cent to 75 per cent. At the same time, the survey showed a plurality of voters believed they were better off financially during Trump’s presidency, and Republicans are leaning into that narrative, paraphrasing Ronald Reagan’s famous “Are you better off today than you were four years.”

Friday will prove to be a crucial day for the Biden team as the BLS will drop the jobs numbers for March.

Democratic voters have accepted the reality of Trump vs Biden

Multiplesurveys have shown that Americans do not want a Trump-Biden rematch. Last month, a Monmouth University poll from February showed that nearly half of the electorate believed Biden would be replaced. A New York Times/Siena College poll from the beginning of last month showed that only 23 per cent of Democratic primary voters were enthusiastic about the prospect of renominating Biden, but twice that number of Republican primary voters said they were enthusiastic about nominating Trump.

But now, voters are waking up to the fact that – regardless of whether they want it – they will have to make a decision on whether to vote for Trump or Biden. This may be why the CNBC survey showed that Biden’s approval improved among some core demographics, specifically with Democrats, independents and people with college degrees. The change might symbolise the reasons why voters gave a specific response: in the past, the polling was a way for Democratic-leaning voters to register their dissatisfaction with Biden when the general election was nominally still undecided. Now, voters likely see the vote as a binary choice.

That being said, Biden will still need more enthusaism from his voters if he is to have any chance in November.

Biden is campaigning more

For much of the last year, Biden did not focus on campaigning, but rather handling multiple crises domestically such as negotiating the debt limit to foreign policy challenges like the war between Israel and Hamas. But Biden has begun a barnstorming campaign regimen. Starting with his fiery State of the Union address just days after Super Tuesday, Biden has made his case to voters directly either through television ads or in swing states like Georgia, Arizona and Nevada.

Biden has also raised money at an astonishing clip, allowing him to directly push back and keep money coming for television advertisements.

But for all the improvements, there is still one big blaring red light that might be difficult for him to surmount.

His approval ratings are still low

For all the positive news, Biden still faces a difficult reality: his approval rating is still dismally low. In fact, the Quinnipiac poll showed that Biden’s approval rating dropped three points. A FiveThirtyEight average shows Biden’s numbers are not at their nadir of July of 2022 but still low.

If the election is a referendum on Biden’s performance, as re-election typically is, Trump could likely have an advantage. But if Biden makes the election more about whom they prefer and a referendum on Trump’s erratic and extreme rhetoric and defending abortion rights, he might be able to pull off enough votes for a victory.
https://www.subsim.com/radioroom/newreply.php?do=newreply&noquote=1&p=2907796

Jimbuna

04-05-24, 06:56 AM

Former Trump officials are among the most vocal opponents of returning him to the White House

NEW YORK (AP) — Former Defense Secretary Mark Esper has called him a “threat to democracy.” Former national security adviser John Bolton has declared him “unfit to be president.” And former Vice President Mike Pence has declined to endorse him, citing “profound differences.”

As Donald Trump seeks the presidency for a third time, he is being vigorously opposed by a vocal contingent of former officials who are stridently warning against his return to power and offering dire predictions for the country and the rule of law if his campaign succeeds.

It’s a striking chorus of detractors, one without precedent in the modern era, coming from those who witnessed first-hand his conduct in office and the turmoil that followed.

Sarah Matthews, a former Trump aide who testified before the House Jan. 6 committee and is among those warning about the threat he poses, said it’s “mind-boggling” how many members of his senior staff have denounced him.

“These are folks who saw him up close and personal and saw his leadership style,” Matthews said.

“The American people should listen to what these folks are saying because it should be alarming that the people that Trump hired to work for him a first term are saying that he’s unfit to serve for a second term.”

Yet the critics remain a distinct minority. Republican lawmakers and officials across the party have endorsed Trump’s bid — some begrudgingly, others with fervor and enthusiasm. Many aides and Cabinet officials who served under Trump are onboard for another term, something Trump's campaign is quick to highlight.

“The majority of the people who served in President Trump’s cabinet and in his administration, like the majority of Americans, have overwhelmingly endorsed his candidacy to beat Crooked Joe Biden and take back the White House,” said Trump campaign spokesman Steven Cheung.

Still, the Biden campaign has trumpeted the criticism of former Trump officials in statements and social media posts, hoping to convince at least some Republican voters — including those who backed other candidates during the GOP primary — that they cannot support his candidacy.

“Those who worked with Donald Trump at the most senior levels of his administration believe he is too dangerous, too selfish and too extreme to ever lead our country again — we agree,” said Biden campaign spokesman Ammar Moussa.

In many ways, the schism among former Trump officials is an extension of his time in the White House. Friction was constant as Trump’s demands ran into resistance from some officials and aides who refused requests that they found misguided, unrealistic and, at times, flatly illegal. Firings were frequent. Many quit.

Staff upheaval was particularly intense in the chaotic weeks after the 2020 election as Trump worked to overturn his election loss to Biden. Trump summoned supporters to Washington on Jan. 6, 2021, as his falsehoods about a stolen election became the rallying cry for supporters who violently breached the U.S. Capitol. Many people serving in the administration quit in protest, including Matthews.

Trump’s attempt to remain in office included a bitter pressure campaign against Pence, who as vice president was tasked with presiding over the count of the Electoral College ballots on Jan. 6. Trump was adamant that Pence should prevent Biden from becoming president, something he had no power to do. Pence had to flee the Senate chamber on Jan. 6 as rioters stormed the building to chants of “Hang Mike Pence!”

Pence recently said he “cannot in good conscience” endorse Trump because of Jan. 6 and other issues, despite being proud of what they achieved together.

And Pence is not alone.

Esper, who was fired by Trump days after the 2020 election, clashed with the then-president over several issues, including Trump’s push to deploy military troops to respond to civil unrest after the killing of George Floyd by police in 2020.

In a recent interview with HBO’s “Real Time With Bill Maher,” Esper repeated a warning that Trump is “a threat to democracy” and added, “I think there’s a lot to be concerned about.”

“There’s no way I’ll vote for Trump, but every day that Trump does something crazy, the door to voting for Biden opens a little bit more, and that’s where I’m at,” Esper said.

Among Trump's most vocal critics are former aides who worked closely with him in the White House, particularly a trio who gained prominence testifying about the Jan. 6 attack and Trump’s push to overturn the election.

The group includes Matthews, former Trump White House communications director Alyssa Farah Griffin and Cassidy Hutchinson, a former top aide to Trump chief of staff Mark Meadows. They have given a series of interviews in recent months opposing their former boss.

"Fundamentally, a second Trump term could mean the end of American democracy as we know it, and I don’t say that lightly,” Griffin told ABC in December.

John Kelly, Trump’s former chief of staff, had his own long falling-out with Trump. Kelly, in a lengthy October statement to CNN, described Trump as “a person who admires autocrats and murderous dictators” and “has nothing but contempt for our democratic institutions, our Constitution, and the rule of law.”

Olivia Troye, a former Pence adviser who left the White House in 2020, and former press secretary Stephanie Grisham, who resigned Jan. 6, are both outspoken critics who said they didn’t vote for Trump in 2020.

Even Bill Barr, Trump’s former attorney general who has not ruled out voting for him again, has referred to Trump as “a consummate narcissist” who “constantly engages in reckless conduct that puts his political followers at risk and the conservative and Republican agenda at risk.”

Still, the ranks of former Trump officials opposing his bid are greatly outnumbered by those who are supportive.

Linda McMahon, who headed the Small Business Administration under Trump, is co-chairing a major fundraiser for the former president on Saturday in Florida, along with former Trump Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross.

McMahon is also chair of the board of The America First Policy Institute, which is packed with supportive former Trump officials and has been described as an “administration in waiting” for a second Trump term.

The institute is headed by Brooke Rollins, Trump’s former domestic policy chief, and counts Pence’s national security adviser and retired Lt. Gen. Keith Kellogg among its chairs, along with former Energy Secretary Rick Perry, Trump’s U.S. trade representative Robert Lighthizer, and former National Economic Council director Larry Kudlow.

Former acting Attorney General Matthew Whitaker has campaigned for Trump, as has former Housing Secretary Ben Carson, who called him “a friend of America.”

Trump’s also got the backing of former acting Director of National Intelligence Richard Grenell, former Interior Secretary and Montana Rep. Ryan Zinke, and Russell Vought, who ran Trump’s Office of Management and Budget.

Vought said in a post on X that Trump is “the only person I trust to take a wrecking ball to the Deep State.”

Trump supporters are also quick to dismiss critics in the party.

Carmen McVane, who attended Trump's rally Tuesday in Green Bay, Wisconsin, said those who speak negatively against Trump or refuse to endorse are RINOs, or Republicans In Name Only, and will only help Biden and Democrats.

“There’s a lot of RINOs who don’t do what they’re supposed to do,” McVane said. “It’s time for everyone to back who we have and go full force ahead.”
https://www.msn.com/en-gb/news/politics/former-trump-officials-are-among-the-most-vocal-opponents-of-returning-him-to-the-white-house/ar-BB1l6C6I?ocid=msedgntp&pc=U531&cvid=80eafe7abf1f47a98c015b321cede413&ei=38

Jimbuna

04-05-24, 12:33 PM

First the pendulum swings one way and then the othrt.

No doubt there'll be many more in the coming weeks and months.

Biden Inches Ahead of Trump in Latest Polls, But Swing States Tell a Different Story

In a political landscape that's as dynamic as it is divisive, the latest polls have thrown a curveball into the 2024 presidential race, placing President Joe Biden slightly ahead of his likely rival, Donald Trump.

This development marks a significant shift in the narrative, suggesting an intensifying battle as both candidates gear up for what could be a historic rematch.

Biden's Surprising Lead in National Polls
The race for the White House is tightening, with recent surveys hinting at a shift in voter sentiment.

A series of polls, including those from Morning Consult and Marquette University Law School, now position Biden ahead of Trump in the national popular vote.

This marks a notable turnaround, especially considering Biden's trailing position in previous polls.

For instance, a Morning Consult poll of over 6,000 registered voters showed Biden with a 44% lead over Trump's 42%. Similarly, a Marquette University Law School poll of 674 likely voters gave Biden a 52% to 48% edge over Trump.

These numbers, complemented by a razor-thin lead in a Race to the WH aggregation, indicate a growing momentum for Biden, something his campaign hadn't seen since last November.

However, the optimism gleaned from national polls is dampened by the forecasts in key battleground states.

Despite Biden's improved standings, Trump appears to have the upper hand in crucial swing states like Michigan, North Carolina, Arizona, Nevada, Pennsylvania, and Georgia.

This discrepancy underscores the pivotal role these states will play in determining the next occupant of the Oval Office.
https://www.msn.com/en-gb/news/world/biden-inches-ahead-of-trump-in-latest-polls-but-swing-states-tell-a-different-story/ar-BB1l8jMM?ocid=msedgntp&pc=U531&cvid=29d907f782584efc962c4aa690cc561e&ei=59

em2nought

04-05-24, 05:33 PM

It does my heart good to know that some criminals jailed in NY will be given the opportunity to view the eclipse after a successful lawsuit. :D We are truly an enlightened nation.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/crime/solar-eclipse-new-york-murderer-felons-sue-for-religious-viewing-after-prisons-order-lockdowns/ar-BB1kZB9g

Jeff-Groves

04-05-24, 07:09 PM

Make them watch it without the protective glasses.

Buddahaid

04-05-24, 07:37 PM

Make them watch it without the protective glasses.

Maybe they'll be converts. :hmmm:
https://www.bbc.com/news/av/world-us-canada-41003929

Rockstar

04-05-24, 07:56 PM

CNN reports that the U.S. forces in the Middle East have been put on high alert, to prepare for potential Iranian attacks in retaliation for the Israeli airstrike in Damascus

“The Middle East Region Is Quieter Today Than It Has Been in Two Decades”.- Jake Sullivan a.k.a. the village idiot

Buddahaid

04-05-24, 08:15 PM

em2nought

04-05-24, 09:05 PM

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_QSUgaDYwdE

Iran should send BIG thank you gifts to Obama & Biden. :03: Of course, they've probably already taken their cut. :har:

Buddahaid

04-06-24, 01:37 AM

Cool, bring it on.

Please explain how it works and back it up with evidence.

em2nought

04-06-24, 03:05 AM

Cool, bring it on.

Please explain how it works and back it up with evidence.

I prefer to operate like the mainstream media, and just put out anything I want. I can always put a little blurb on a later post offering a correction. They don't even do that though. :D Maybe you can talk Neal into hiring some facebook fact checkers. :D

https://i.imgflip.com/1q7qym.jpg

Jimbuna

04-06-24, 04:18 AM

As if matters weren't already serious enough.

US on high alert for 'inevitable' Iranian revenge attack on Israel within days

As the war raging in Gaza intensifies, the US is reportedly on high alert and bracing itself for what could be a "significant" attack on Israeli and American assets in the region by Iran in the next week.

News of the escalating tensions between the countries comes after Israel reportedly killed several top Iranian commanders in a strike in Damascus, Syria, last week, a senior administration official in the US government told CNN.

Both senior American and Israeli intelligence officials shared with the outlet that an attack is "inevitable", with the US official stating that both governments are working as hard as possible to prepare for the attack and get ahead of what might come. No one is reportedly safe, the official said, as everyone in the region allied with Israel is now a target.
https://www.msn.com/en-gb/news/world/us-on-high-alert-for-inevitable-iranian-revenge-attack-on-israel-within-days/ar-BB1l94vP?ocid=msedgntp&pc=U531&cvid=ca165a42433647af8667d988d624e8ba&ei=28

Rockstar

04-06-24, 08:00 AM

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_QSUgaDYwdE

Key take aways from that video are…

“Deprioritizing the Middle East and investing the money in energy transition” :har: WTF?

The Titanic’s builders saved a great deal on cut rate rivets and shed weight by reducing the number of lifeboats. The press lauded an “unsinkable ship”, & “marvel of the age”. In retrospect, neither proved wise. If you’re looking for a fitting analogy for the Biden administration’s foreign policy, that might be it.

“It wasn’t us”. But I bet Biden & Co knew beforehand. They knew two weeks before Putin invaded and sounded the alarm. They knew a terrorist attack would happen in Moscow and sounded the alarm. Then nothing but crickets chirping before Israel wacked Iran’s embassy.

“the Biden administration doesn’t have the appetite, the desire, to be dragged into a regional conflict”.

Also explains why he drags his heels on military equipment support to Ukraine too. Oh and before anyone goes half cocked and blames it congress not passing H.R. 815. I read the bill and nowhere in it does it say Ukraine gets 60 billion but I know where the money goes and I also know Jake & Co. still had close to 6 billion U.S. and executive draw down authority they refuse to use.

The Whitehouse is full of weaklings.

U.S. President Joe Biden and his National Security Advisor Jake Sullivan “bought into” idea that Russia could use nuclear weapons if the U.S. provides Ukraine with “too many” weapons, Head of U.S. House Foreign Affairs Committee, Michael McCaul, said in an interview with Puck News on April

“Jake Sullivan is too cautious. He is very timid,” he said.

“And he has bought into the idea that if we give them (Ukraine) too much, Russia will use tactical nuclear weapons against us. Most of the intelligence I’ve seen suggests that they won’t. Because that would be a game changer for everybody.”

The whole point of nuclear deterrence is not so much having them, but more importantly making damn sure everyone in the world knows if they use them we will cause all holy hell to rain down upon them in response. Biden & Co is doing absolutely nothing as they watche the world burn. And why is the world burning? Why are our troops in the region under fire again? Why are there still American hostages being taken? Because our enemies knew full well that Biden, a man deemed too incompetent to stand trial, will not do a damn thing about it. The world went from 4 years of relative peace and strength to all hell breaking lose in a matter of months.

And in case you’re wondering why OPEC isn’t increasing production to keep your gas prices down? In truth not only does the global economy suck. You can also thank that incompetent bunch in the Whitehouse when they removed the Houthis from the terrorist watch list. Then put an end to American support for Saudi led offensive operations against the Houthis, including a freeze on arms sales to the Kingdom. A lot a good that did huh? Now not only are the Saudis ticked off and gas prices going up, the Houthis are targeting our warships and commercial shipping with drones and rockets too!

https://i.ytimg.com/vi/pLyobNsBDHI/hqdefault.jpg
https://media.makeameme.org/created/me-watching-the-895e27bb7f.jpg

Gerald

04-06-24, 10:27 AM

https://www.foxnews.com/video/6350411890112

Jimbuna

04-07-24, 11:54 AM

Donald Trump vows to become 'modern day Nelson Mandela' if he ends up in prison over gag order

In his latest unhinged rant on Truth Social, former President Donald Trump likened himself to a "modern day Nelson Mandela" as he stated that being imprisoned for violating his gag order in the hush money case would be his "GREAT HONOUR".

Taking to his social media platform on Saturday, Trump shared a three-part mega-rant that mentioned or slammed not only Manhattan Supreme Court Judge Juan Merchan but also President Joe Biden, US District Judge Lewis Kaplan and Manhattan Supreme Court Judge Arthur Engoron.

The gag order, which was issued ahead of the hush money trial — one of four criminal indictments the former president faces — seemed to be the main focus of the rant, with Trump slamming "Crooked Judge Juan Merchan" for issuing it as he said it's "taking away [his] First Amendment Rights", all because he said Merchan "doesn't want the FACTS behind the Gag to come out".

Trump stated in part three of his tirade: "Now, we have Merchan, who is not allowing me to talk, thereby violating the Law and the Constitution, all at once. It is so bad what he is trying to get away with - How was he even chosen for this case???"

He continued: "I heard he fought like hell to get it, and all of the rest of them also! If this Partisan Hack wants to put me in the 'clink' for speaking the open and obvious TRUTH, I will gladly become a Modern Day Nelson Mandela - It will be my GREAT HONOUR." Mandela became the first president of South Africa after a long prison stint incurred by his campaign against apartheid in the country.

In the hush money trial, Trump stands accused of paying off pornstar Stormy Daniels to silence her claims that she had sex with the businessman before he was elected to the presidency in 2016. It is argued that the claims were seen as detrimental to the real estate mogul's campaign — which he won, anyway — and so he and his team wanted her to stop making what they called false accusations.

Trump and his former lawyer turned arch-enemy Michael Cohen paid Daniels $130,000 (£103,000). Trump has consistently denied the accusations that he had sexual relations with her in Nevada in 2006, and he and his legal team have argued that the payment was in relation to legal fees.

Merchan issued the gag order against the former president amid his other unhinged rants against the people involved in his other cases, arguing that similar rants against those involved in the hush money trial could damage the integrity of the case. It applies to everyone involved in the suit, save for the judge himself and Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg, who brought forth the case.

In the first part of the rant, which was posted just after 1pm EDT, Trump stated: "How many Corrupt, Biased, Crooked Joe Biden-'Protection Agency' New York Judges do I have to endure before somebody steps in?"

He went off on Kaplan, who was the judge overseeing the $83.3 million (£65.9million) defamation suit brought forth by writer and columnist E. Jean Carroll, who accused the former president of raping her in a high-end Manhattan department store in 1996, then defaming her when she came forward with the claims during his presidency.

"I had New York Federal Judge, Lewis Kaplan, with a woman who I never knew, and had nothing to do with, until she sued me for 'defamation.' She did not know what day, month, or year the supposed 'incident' took place - She knew nothing," Trump wrote, referencing E. Jean Carroll, whom he doesn't name.

He continued: "Kaplan, a Hillary friend, wouldn’t even let my lawyers put on a proper case, made it two cases instead of one, took away my American Right to defend myself, and was a Crazed Bully as his wife and friends sat in the Courthouse, every day in their little roped off section, and prodded him on in awe. This mysterious lady, who said rape is sexy, got $91 Million Dollars."

In the second part of his rant, he went after Engoron, who oversaw the civil fraud trial brought forth by New York Attorney General Letitia James, who accused the former reality TV star of grossly inflating his net worth and the worth of his properties across the state and in other cities in order to secure better business deals and loans.

Trump was ultimately ordered to pay $454 million (£359million) in fines for the violations, a total that was later reduced to around $174 million (£138million).

The businessman wrote: "Then, of course, we have Arthur Engoron, a total lunatic, whack job, who ruled that I should pay an almost $500 Million Dollar 'fine' for having done nothing wrong (No Victims, No Damages, Ironclad Disclaimer, ONLY SUCCESS!), in fact, he was the one who committed fraud when he purposely, at the direction of Racist, Corrupt A.G. Letitia James, undervalued Mar-a-Lago at $18 Million Dollars [£14million]."

Trump, who is now the presumptive Republican nominee for the presidency as he vies for re-election in November against Biden, a Democrat, concluded by writing: "We have to Save our Country from these Political Operatives masquerading as Prosecutors and Judges, and I am willing to sacrifice my Freedom for that worthy cause. We are a Failing Nation, but on November 5th, we will become a Great Nation again. MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN!"

This isn't the first time Trump has compared himself to a key historical figure seen by many as a saviour — he recently compared himself to Jesus as he slammed the civil fraud trial in another set of unhinged rants.
https://www.msn.com/en-gb/news/world/donald-trump-vows-to-become-modern-day-nelson-mandela-if-he-ends-up-in-prison-over-gag-order/ar-BB1lbfXx?ocid=msedgntp&pc=U531&cvid=7de60fe82a3849539eaa2b65194cfbaa&ei=24

August

04-07-24, 01:01 PM

A Disinformation October Surprise Is Coming

Will the press be ready if, for the third election in a row, our national-security state meddles?

Two of the most interesting things ever to happen in American politics happened in the past few years. A Democratic presidential campaign, representing the incumbent party, fabricated evidence that its Republican opponent and the eventual president-elect was a Russian agent, and the in-power party’s FBI legitimated the evidence in the eyes of the media so it would be widely reported and believed by the public. To make sure it was believed, top intelligence officials of the outgoing administration went on cable television to call the new president a Russian mole and Vladimir Putin (https://www.wsj.com/topics/person/vladimir-putin) his case officer.

When the formerly incumbent party’s candidate was seeking to reclaim the White House four years later, the same former officials concocted a new lie to cover up embarrassing information about the candidate’s family. These highly connected former officials had five days to check things out before claiming Hunter Biden’s laptop had “classic earmarks of a Russian information operation.” The New York Post included a receipt showing the FBI had already been in possession of the data for 10 months. Its story documented how the Post acquired the same data. Specific, dated and verifiable events and messages weren’t denied by the Bidens, etc.
Obama intelligence officials James Clapper and John Brennan, and their 49 colleagues, lie today when they say they weren’t lying then.
These realties have been acknowledged on these pages, in a few other papers around the country, on Fox News and at some partisan websites. They might as well never have happened as far as most of the press is concerned.

New York Times (https://www.wsj.com/market-data/quotes/NYT) resident chin-stroker Thomas Edsall, in the Trump era, has devoted 380 articles, many of them 3,000 words or longer, to raking over voter surveys and long quotes from political scientists psychoanalyzing the U.S. electorate. Not one examined the effect of these glaring events on voters or even acknowledged that they happened.
Democratic and anti-Trump Republican political spinmeisters, from David Axelrod to Mike Murphy to Bill Kristol, spend a hours a week on TV and in podcasts holding forth on politics, talking endlessly about Donald Trump (https://www.wsj.com/topics/person/donald-trump), yet leave the collusion episodes unanalyzed as if they never occurred.
After years, the press finally acknowledges that pollsters find Trump voters every bit as concerned about democracy as Biden voters. “The two men are essentially tied on the issue of protecting democracy, with 43% of voters preferring Biden and 41% picking Trump,” says NBC. Unasked is why.
You might assume a utilitarian motive—Mr. Trump would benefit politically if the truth were acknowledged. Unless correlation has no relation to causation, unless participants in a thousand focus groups are lying, the opposite is true. The dishonesty of his opponents remains Mr. Trump’s great legitimizer, helping him past Jan. 6 and on the road to the White House again.

The real motive for the press silence is fear and shame over acts that are close to treasonous.

Mr. Trump’s many demerits don’t need to be enumerated here, but, after nine years, the tone of cable coverage has become more like primate gibbering than reasoned commentary. If it stops, even for a moment, other truths might come up for air. Plainly false campaign memes—he called neo-Nazis fine people, he advised drinking bleach—usually have their season and disappear. The anti-Trump tropes never (https://www.wsj.com/articles/disinfecting-journalistic-ethics-11588719176?mod=article_inline) get a day off, constantly (https://www.wsj.com/articles/joe-biden-misses-his-chance-11556920734?mod=article_inline) dunning viewers with Mr. Trump’s unique iniquity as if to rationalize his enemies’ behavior.
If the simple truth were admitted, Hillary Clinton would be a pariah. Adam Schiff would never appear on another ballot again. I’m not forgetting the complicity of the press, whose normal role is to take an interest in matters that are, you know, interesting. If it’s true that cowards die a thousand deaths, our media will bankrupt the fisc with all the end-of-life care it’s going to consume.
Mr. Trump turns out to be less of a danger to our institutions than they are to themselves. Worry about a future leader with President Obama’s gifts not Donald Trump’s—while remembering that the collusion hoaxes were promoted by official U.S. agencies in exactly the manner of Mr. Putin’s Russia.
All this is possibly going to matter a great deal this fall. Mr. Trump will tell his lies and tall tales and make his fabulous claims and the media will have to deal with it.
There’s also a significant likelihood that 2024 will see lies manufactured by agents and veterans of the national-security state, as in 2016 and 2020. Then the press will get a third opportunity. Those reporters and editors who are still capable of participating in the media business in good faith need to start thinking now about how they will deal with this if it happens again.

https://www.wsj.com/articles/an-october-disinformation-surprise-is-coming-election-9b67bf22?mod=opinion_lead_pos9

Buddahaid

04-09-24, 12:40 PM

Here's the jury instructions and questionnaire for the NY election interference case against Trump starting on the 15th and still on schedule. This will be another anonymous jury but for the first criminal case Trump faces.
https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/24536651-ny-v-trump-jury-instructions-questionaire-20240408

mapuc

04-09-24, 04:58 PM

^
If I get it correct-The Supreme Court has with 9-0 decided that Trump can't be removed from the ballot AND voters can put their vote on an inmate.

Which must mean that even if he get a sentence before the election-He can still be elected.

Or is there something I've missed ?

Markus

Gorpet

04-10-24, 12:36 AM

Now who poked Gorpet? Fess up!:Kaleun_Wink:

John Kerry: Kerry's wealth comes from his marriage to heiress Teresa Heinz. Well he is the Wounded soldier who threw every good soldier's metals over the white house fence but his.Hey it is what it was.
Now fast forward this piece of chit.Is now the big cheese of climate control.How in the frig does a swift boat coward who paid for his purple hearts.End up flying around the Planet spewing carbon at 40,000 feet, right up on the thin layer of our only protection with the rest of the worlds elite doing the same thing.

And they will tell me, I have to give up my California certified 4 cylinder Toyota Corolla.Yea John Kerry and all those wealthy who can have the greatest times at 40,000 feet.But i and my family will have to buy their approved rickshaws.By 2025. I want these low IQ Politicians who can't tell you what 1/8 th of a inch is on a working mans ruler.

Yet they are at war, Even though none of them have ever smelled copper. Anywho Buddahaid the elite poke me.

Gorpet

04-10-24, 02:13 AM

Trump warns of 'bloodbath' if he loses presidential election

Your a funny guy Jim.Hillary Clinton told your BBC.It will not matter who runs,they will lose In the next election. And all these years i respected you and your wisdom and now you. Quote without verifying what he actually said when he said it and the context of his speech. A"bloodbath" is coming if he loses.I'm really disappointed Jimbuna.Do you really think there will be a bloodbath ?

I think you should look closer to home.Your Island is a Bloodbath in waiting. You will surrender to your Immigrants or face gorilla warfare. And how in the hell can your Government fight a Immigrant uprising and fight Russia at the same time.And provide for your natural born.? Yes Bloodbaths are coming. Across this Planet.

Jimbuna

04-10-24, 06:00 AM

you and your wisdom.

You mistake me with somebody else surely.

Do you really think there will be a bloodbath ?

In light of what happened January 6, 2021 I believe it not beyond the realms of possibility.

August

04-10-24, 07:23 AM

In light of what happened January 6, 2021 I believe it not beyond the realms of possibility.

There wasn't a "bloodbath" on Jan 6th. Quit making it out to be another storming of the Bastille.

Rockstar

04-10-24, 10:16 AM

There wasn't a "bloodbath" on Jan 6th. Quit making it out to be another storming of the Bastille.

British tabloid news at its finest.

Only a few days ago SECDEF made public statements before congress concerning H.R. 815. What’s in it, and where the money goes and this is the best garbage British state run tabloid news can come with! Wth? I’ve said once let me say it again it is NOT a 60 billion nor is it a 95 billion Ukraine spending package. Try again.

Mr Biden has presented a $95bn (£75bn) Ukraine spending package to Congress but has been unable to pass it amid opposition from Republicans in both the House of Representatives and Senate.

https://archive.ph/vugN8

The one thing the U.S. appreciated about our special relationship with the U.K. was while they were in the E.U. they could influence E.U. politics. That’s gone since brexit, now they’re scrambling to build a navy again in the attempt to remain a global somebody. But the way their economy is that probably won’t last long either.

“The MoD also needs to get a firmer grip on the future costs of carrier strike. By failing to understand their full extent, it risks adding to the financial strain on a defense budget that is already unaffordable.”

https://www.defensenews.com/naval/2020/06/26/heres-why-britain-is-struggling-to-form-a-fully-effective-carrier-strike-group/

They’re on the fast track of becoming irrelevant to the point the only thing they can do these days is to talk about Trump and troll with more Steele dossier type garbage.

em2nought

04-10-24, 12:28 PM

Fine new citizens the democrat cartel has added to our nation. They're chanting DEATH TO AMERICA! in Michigan. :o

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/other/michigan-protesters-yell-death-to-america-in-raging-rally-held-in-rashida-tlaib-s-district/ar-BB1lex7i

...and Biden bows to them letting them direct the policies of the USA. :har:

https://s3.amazonaws.com/carolinajournal.com/app/uploads/2016/01/29084209/screen_55b23885e4840.gif

Rockstar

04-10-24, 02:03 PM

Bloomberg reports that the U.S. now believes a major wave of missile and drone strikes by Iran and its proxies against Israel “is now imminent”. https://archive.ph/1S4I1

But let us remember when in October 2023 we heard democrats proclaim ‘The Middle East Region Is Quieter Today Than It Has Been in Two Decades’ - Biden’s Boy Wonder Jake Sullivan.

It WAS until those two clowns took office, Thanks Joe & Jake! :yeah:

Rockstar

04-10-24, 06:25 PM

The consumer price index, a key inflation gauge, rose 3.5% in March, higher than expectations and marking an acceleration for inflation.

Shelter and energy costs drove the increase. Energy rose 1.1% after increasing 2.3% in February, while shelter costs were higher by 0.4% on the month and up 5.7% from a year ago.

Following the report, traders pushed the first expected rate cut out to September, according to CME Group calculations.

LIFE IS GOOD, Thanks Joe for letting the Houthis close down shipping lanes and shoot rockets at our warships and commercial shipping and taking a dump on the Saudis who could be increasing oil production to help out. Love the new cost of living and rising gas prices!

Buddahaid

04-10-24, 06:57 PM

There wasn't a "bloodbath" on Jan 6th. Quit making it out to be another storming of the Bastille.

People died and over a hundred officers were injured. Quit making it out to be Mrs. Johnson's Sunday School field trip.

em2nought

04-10-24, 07:11 PM

People died

The Capitol Police killed a young President Trump supporting woman by shooting blindly into a crowd. So brave!

Rockstar

04-10-24, 08:02 PM

People died and over a hundred officers were injured. Quit making it out to be Mrs. Johnson's Sunday School field trip.

:har::har::har: So what you’re saying is Biden and his open border policy should be held responsible for the murder of Laken Riley? Makes about as much sense as Trump being responsible for the killing of Ashli Babbitt.

Reports range that anywhere from 80 to 120 thousand people showed up to exercise their constitutional right to have their voices heard (fascists hate that). Afterwards 78,800 to 118,800 including Trump peaceably left the event. 1,200 kooks stayed, wandered off the reservation and were arrested for breaking the law for trespassing.

Try again.

Anyday now, low hanging fruit, the true believers hope upon hope not to look like a fool after all these years and all that jazz. :har::har::har::har::har:

Might want to stop reading the BBC , just a suggestion. ;)

August

04-10-24, 08:04 PM

People died and over a hundred officers were injured. Quit making it out to be Mrs. Johnson's Sunday School field trip.

Don't lie. Just one person was killed on Jan 6th, a single unarmed woman who was murdered by a cop. Mrs. Johnsons Sunday School trips probably involve more weapons than were carried by your so-called "Insurrectionists" on Jan 6th.

Not one single person, including that murdered woman, has ever been actually charged with insurrection though. Not one. :hmmm:

Otto Harkaman

04-10-24, 08:49 PM

Me: How many FBI agents were in the crowd at the capitol on Jan 6th?

AI Bing answer:
During the events at the United States Capitol on January 6, 2021, the FBI had a significant presence, including paid informants and undercover agents. However, the exact number of FBI agents in the crowd remains a matter of speculation and controversy.
Here are some key points:

Paid Informants:

The FBI had multiple paid informants present during the Capitol riot.
At least one informant was communicating with an FBI handler as they entered the Capitol.
The FBI lost track of the total number of informants and later conducted an audit to determine the exact count (https://nypost.com/2023/09/19/fbi-lost-count-of-number-of-informants-at-capitol-on-jan-6-ex-official/)1 (https://nypost.com/2023/09/19/fbi-lost-count-of-number-of-informants-at-capitol-on-jan-6-ex-official/)2 (https://townhall.com/tipsheet/rebeccadowns/2023/09/19/so-fbi-agents-did-have-paid-informants-at-the-capitol-on-january-6-n2628661).

Undercover Agents:

Former Capitol Hill Police Chief Steven Sund stated that the FBI had at least 18 undercover agents in the crowd.
Additionally, an estimated 20 agents from the Department of Homeland Security were also present (https://nypost.com/2023/09/19/fbi-lost-count-of-number-of-informants-at-capitol-on-jan-6-ex-official/)1 (https://nypost.com/2023/09/19/fbi-lost-count-of-number-of-informants-at-capitol-on-jan-6-ex-official/).

Comparison to Other Defendants:

Ray Epps, a former Marine and Trump supporter, was accused of being an FBI agent who incited violence during the riot.
Epps was sentenced to one year of probation for a misdemeanor charge related to his role in the Capitol attack (https://www.newsweek.com/ray-epps-sentence-compared-january-6-defendants-capitol-riot-1859224)3 (https://www.newsweek.com/ray-epps-sentence-compared-january-6-defendants-capitol-riot-1859224).
His case highlights the complexities of comparing outcomes for different defendants (https://www.newsweek.com/ray-epps-sentence-compared-january-6-defendants-capitol-riot-1859224)3 (https://www.newsweek.com/ray-epps-sentence-compared-january-6-defendants-capitol-riot-1859224).

In summary, while the exact number of FBI agents remains unclear, their presence underscores the intricate dynamics of the events on January 6th.

Me: Ray Epps sentencing Jan 6th

AI Bing answer:
Ray Epps, a former United States Marine and Oath Keepers chapter president, faced legal consequences for his involvement in the January 6, 2021 Capitol riot. Here’s what happened:

Charge and Plea:

Epps was charged with one count of disorderly or disruptive conduct in a restricted building or grounds.
He pleaded guilty to this misdemeanor charge in September 2023.

Sentence:

Epps received one year of probation as part of his sentence.
Additionally, he was fined $25, ordered to pay $500 in restitution, and perform 100 hours of community service.

Conspiracy Theories:

Conspiracy theories circulated, alleging that Epps was an undercover government agent acting on behalf of the FBI.
Epps and federal prosecutors denied these claims.

Comparison to Other Defendants:

Epps is the only defendant sentenced with just one count of disorderly conduct.
Comparing outcomes, some similarities exist:

Prosecutors sought six months of prison time, which is the maximum sentence for this charge.
Epps’ attorney requested six months of probation for his client.
Other January 6 defendants received varying sentences, including prison time, supervised release, community service, and restitution (https://www.newsweek.com/ray-epps-sentence-compared-january-6-defendants-capitol-riot-1859224)1 (https://www.newsweek.com/ray-epps-sentence-compared-january-6-defendants-capitol-riot-1859224).

In summary, Epps’ sentencing reflects the complexities and variations in legal outcomes related to the Capitol riot.

https://youtu.be/zEDamt4YaXM?si=MWYh8-9wtMQQgpOK

https://youtu.be/QHEEGxQKg20?si=-9ewaFI3kGf0-Lcu

Buddahaid

04-10-24, 09:02 PM

Don't lie. Just one person was killed on Jan 6th, a single unarmed woman who was murdered by a cop. Mrs. Johnsons Sunday School trips probably involve more weapons than were carried by your so-called "Insurrectionists" on Jan 6th.

Not one single person, including that murdered woman, has ever been actually charged with insurrection though. Not one. :hmmm:

Not a random shooting, he fires on the first person climbing through. The line was drawn, she crossed it and deserved it.
https://www.nbcnews.com/video/capitol-shooting-that-led-to-ashli-babbitt-s-death-captured-on-video-99180613572

Rockstar

04-10-24, 09:31 PM

Not a random shooting, he fires on the first person climbing through. The line was drawn, she crossed it and deserved it.
https://www.nbcnews.com/video/capitol-shooting-that-led-to-ashli-babbitt-s-death-captured-on-video-99180613572

Law enforcements use of force policy is very specific and in all my years of duty not once did I ever read of, nor was I ever instructed to use deadly force because someone crossed some imaginary line. Unless she threatened serious bodily injury or death the shooting of Ashli Babbitt was unwarranted. Frankly if that was the case everyone in the window should have been shot I’m sure full auto pray-n-spray would satisfy the likes of you wouldn’t it? Shame on you, ABC news is not the jury nor the judge and neither are you, drop it and seek help from a mental health professional. I’m serious, seek help it’s consuming you.

Buddahaid

04-10-24, 10:36 PM

Rockstar

04-10-24, 10:49 PM

What a bunch of crap. The barrier was broken into with clubs and whatever other items that are defined as weapons after other barriers were breached and officers injured.
https://www.justice.gov/usao-dc/pr/department-justice-closes-investigation-death-ashli-babbitt

Ms. Babbitt attempted to climb through one of the doors where glass was broken out. An officer inside the Speaker’s Lobby fired one round from his service pistol, striking Ms. Babbitt in the left shoulder, causing her to fall back from the doorway and onto the floor.

No use of force policy “when the barrier is broken” exists in this country. The only policy Im aware of that involves the use of deadly force to stop the commission of crime involves nuclear materials and to prevent serious bodily injury or death. What you posted makes no mention of either. It was a judgement call made by the officer involved and I’d wager that officer is in a living hell right now. He knows the truth, and neither you or the media knows jack. Quit politicizing the death of a fellow American and seek professional help.

mapuc

04-11-24, 06:52 AM

The right President will win the election, then peace will come upon the Americans thereafter the world.

Markus

Reece

04-11-24, 07:12 AM

I think they need new blood, both sides, Joe & Don are too old and both have had their time in office! :hmmm:

August

04-11-24, 08:15 AM

I think they need new blood, both sides, Joe & Don are too old and both have had their time in office! :hmmm:

Couldn't agree more but these two Jamokes are what the parties came up with. The scary part is the next generation of politicians are no better.

mapuc

04-11-24, 09:32 AM

Couldn't agree more but these two Jamokes are what the parties came up with. The scary part is the next generation of politicians are no better.

As said before, there's no law who says you have to put your vote on one of those two candidate.

I had a weird dream some nights ago
Trump had won the election. Right after his deployment(not the correct word I know)he issued many decrees. He even travelled abroad many times to NK, Ru, Ukr, Chn, a.s.o. The immigrants from South stopped during the first year and peace came to USA. In the end of his term peace had come to Ukraine, Israel and rest of the world

Not so good to explain my dream experience

Sometimes a cigar is nothing but a cigar in a dream.

Markus

August

04-11-24, 11:04 AM

As said before, there's no law who says you have to put your vote on one of those two candidate.

No there isn't but only two candidates have any chance of winning. A vote for a third party candidate may help the one that you like the least to win.

Buddahaid

04-11-24, 11:36 AM

Here’s a list of Trump cabinet members and others of his staff from his presidency that are on record stating they will not vote for him in 2024.

Mike Pence, VP
Bill Barr, AG
John Bolton, National Security Adviser
Jim Mattis, Defense Secretary
John Kelley, Chief of Staff
Mark Milley, former chair of the joint chiefs of staff
Dan Coats, former director of national intelligence
Mick Mulvaney, Chief of Staff
Karen Pence, former Second Lady
Marc Short, Pence Chief of Staff
Nikki Haley, ambassador to the United Nations
Anthony Scaramucci, White House communications director

There are a few more.

em2nought

04-11-24, 01:32 PM

I had a weird dream some nights ago
Trump had won the election. Right after his deployment(not the correct word I know)he issued many decrees. He even travelled abroad many times to NK, Ru, Ukr, Chn, a.s.o. The immigrants from South stopped during the first year and peace came to USA. In the end of his term peace had come to Ukraine, Israel and rest of the world

Markus

Sounds about right to me. :up:

Reece

04-11-24, 09:26 PM

Sometimes a cigar is nothing but a cigar in a dream.

Markus
So long as it's Cuban Markus! :yep:

Jimbuna

04-12-24, 05:07 AM

Trump couldn’t pardon Jan 6 rioters even if he wins in November, suggests new report

Former president Donald Trump has promised to pardon supporters of his who have been charged, convicted, and in some cases imprisoned for crimes committed during the January 6 attack on the Capitol.

But according to a new report from anti-authoritarianism group Protect Democracy, he may not actually have that power even if he is returned to the White House after this year’s election.

The report, titled Checking the Pardon Power: Constitutional Limitations & Options for Preventing Abuse, lays out a number of circumstances in which a presidential pardon would not be valid because it would not be a legitimate use of the president’s authority to grant reprieves for “offenses against the United States”.

For some time now, Mr Trump has been promising to free violent Capitol rioters, including those who’ve been convicted of assaulting police officers as they stormed the US Capitol in a last-ditch, desperate effort to prevent certification of Mr Trump’s 2020 election loss to Joe Biden.

In one post to his Truth Social platform last month, the disgraced former president said one of his “first acts” in office if he wins a second term would be to “Free January 6 Hostages being wrongfully imprisoned”.

He has also routinely referred to the convicted violent criminals — some of whom are in prison for offences such as Seditious Conspiracy — as “horribly treated” and claims they are political prisoners who have been persecuted for their support of him and his political movement.

One Republican-appointed federal judge, Royce Lamberth, said in January that he has been “dismayed to see distortions and outright falsehoods” regarding the violent riot “seep into public consciousness”.

Judge Lamberth, who made the comments during sentencing for a January 6 defendant, opined that he “[could not] recall a time when such meritless justifications of criminal activity have gone mainstream” over his 37 years as a federal judge.

Mr Trump also routinely used pardons during his first term as a way to reward supporters for their loyalty to him — and in some cases repay them for refusing to cooperate with criminal probes into his conduct.

He infamously pardoned his former chief White House strategist, Steve Bannon, his ex-national security adviser, Michael Flynn, his former campaign chair, Paul Manafort, and his longtime associate Roger Stone in the waning days of his term. All four were convicted of federal crimes but were rewarded by Mr Trump for their refusal to turn on him.

The possibility that Mr Trump could return to the White House and resume such uses of the president’s pardon authority has alarmed legal experts and anticorruption activists, even as many commentators have suggested there are not limits to the president’s authority when it comes to pardons.

But one of the report’s authors, Protect Democracy policy advocate Grant Tudor, says that conventional wisdom doesn’t stand up to scrutiny.

In a phone interview with The Independent, Mr Tudor explained that the courts have exhibited no qualms about placing restrictions on the president’s pardon power.

In one landmark case, Burdick v United States, the Supreme Court found that then-president Woodrow Wilson could not unilaterally issue a pardon to New York Tribune editor George Burdick to remove the threat of incrimination against Burdick and force him to give evidence before a grand jury.

The court’s ruling stated that Wilson was within his ability to issue the pardon, but at the same time, the pardon had to be accepted by the intended recipient to be effective.

Mr Tudor explained that the court found an “unresolved tension” between the pardon clause and the Fifth Amendment, the latter of which placed constraints on the president’s ability to pardon offences.

He also said the pardon power’s counterpart in English law — the royal prerogative of mercy — has also been subject to restrictions over its’ long history, citing the 1328 Statute of Northampton, which stated that the sovereign could not grant a pardon when doing so would violate his oath. Three centuries later, the 1869 Bill of Rights suspended the King’s ability to use pardons in ways that disregarded acts of Parliament.

Similarly, Mr Tudor said a pardon for January 6 rioters would run up against constitutional constraints because it would be a situation in which “the leader of an insurrection is pardoning fellow insurrectionists”.

“We've encountered many situations where presidents have pardoned those who took up arms against the United States ... in all of those instances, the point was to quell unrest, not to sanction it,” he said. “It would be the first time that a president who is himself a criminal defendant, in that same scheme is pardoning those who helped to further it”.
https://www.msn.com/en-gb/news/world/trump-couldn-t-pardon-jan-6-rioters-even-if-he-wins-in-november-suggests-new-report/ar-BB1lt28y?ocid=msedgntp&pc=U531&cvid=0d4a5f3dd42b41669c8d0889f8c8cd8b&ei=21

Skybird

04-12-24, 06:07 AM

Things to come? Maybe, maybe not. I dare no prediction anymore, I think everything is possible in the long term. And I thoughth and wrote that already 20 years ago in this forum. It'S just that today "long term" alreayd is 20 years shorter.

https://abcnews.go.com/GMA/Culture/review-prepare-wowed-civil-war-best-propulsively-exciting/story?id=109093191

Rockstar

04-12-24, 07:30 AM

Dear lawdy baby jeebus you people need help.

Frankly, as an American IÂ’m much more concerned with April 1st and Iran and their proxies striking here in retaliation. Germany should be concerned too. 3 suspected Islamist terrorists have been arrested in Germany after planning to massacre people attending church masses in the area of DÃ¼sseldorf

Global Britain is becoming a stooge of the US

Like I said when a whole nation is on the fast track of becoming irrelevant on the global stage not much else do to but just do what your told and post whataboutisms and what ifs.

The scenes as American and British troops withdrew from Afghanistan were heartbreaking. People desperate to leave the country they love, offering up their children for transportation to a more peaceful country, being crushed to death for a chance at freedom.

Those horrific scenes were also visual confirmation of BritainÂ’s waning influence in the world, despite hoping to become Â“Global BritainÂ” in the wake of Brexit. Tom Tugendhat, a Conservative member of parliament and chair of the foreign affairs select committee, described the departure from Afghanistan as Â“the biggest foreign policy disaster since SuezÂ”.

The 1956 Suez crisis Â– which ended with the US pressuring the British and French to end their invasion of Egypt Â– was a turning point in British foreign policy. It held up a mirror to the British political establishment, showing the public very clearly how BritainÂ’s overseas influence had declined.

The Leave campaign pitched post-EU Britain as an outward-looking world leader, fighting for the ideals the UK holds dear. But when push came to shove in Afghanistan, here were the British, again following the USÂ’s lead.

In his first official private meeting with US president Joe Biden since Biden took office, Boris Johnson was keen to leverage the Â“special relationshipÂ” to build BritainÂ’s international status and cement its position as the ally of choice for the US. But a closer look at the status of this relationship suggests the UK has, instead of taking a step towards becoming Â“Global BritainÂ”, traded its leading role in the EU for a subordinate one in the shadow of the US.

The Â“special relationshipÂ’Â” is built on military cooperation and the sharing of intelligence and the complementary elements of the US and UK intelligence services allow valuable information to travel in both directions. Any problems or issues within the relationship, such as the repercussions of the tragic death of Harry Dunn after being hit by a vehicle driven by the wife of a US intelligence officer, are quickly compartmentalised and largely forgotten about to maintain the working practices of the two partners.

By 2016, with the arrival of Donald Trump in the White House, many observers of British foreign policy recognised that the heady days of the Thatcher-Reagan or Blair-Bush partnerships were gone. In the short term, BritainÂ’s priorities were the Brexit negotiations and to build a relationship with Trump, beginning with a state visit to the UK. While the relationship between Theresa May and Trump may not have been perfect (nor the relationship between Johnson and Trump) it did at least keep the train on the tracks as far as the relationship was concerned.

The election of Biden, the Obama-era vice president and a Democrat, promised someone perhaps more level-headed than Trump. Still, there were concerns over BidenÂ’s Â– an Irish-American CatholicÂ’s Â– views on Northern Ireland and the Brexit negotiations, compounded by some objectionable comments Johnson made about Obama when Biden was vice president.

Moving forward

So far, we have seen very little of that Â“specialnessÂ” between Biden and Johnson, but tensions and complaints over Afghanistan were eased with two recent initiatives.

The first was AUKUS, the deal between the US, UK and Australia to provide nuclear submarines for use in the Pacific region.

Beyond its immediate financial benefits for the UK, this deal builds a stronger relationship with Australia, where Britain is very keen to sign a trade deal, and it demonstrates some closeness between the UK and the US. Being able to Â“get one overÂ” on the French is, for some, just an added benefit.

The second was the easing of travel restrictions between the US and the UK (and large parts of the EU). This was something the UK and EU had been working on and the success was counted, in both London and Brussels, as a sign of improving relations with Washington.

However, the UK government would be foolish to believe their own hype. The Â“special relationshipÂ” is far more special in London than it is in Washington and the election of Biden will not change that. While a post-Brexit Britain needs the US more than ever, the US needs the UK considerably less, and benefits come with costs.

After his meeting with Biden, Johnson claimed he hadnÂ’t been asked about Northern Ireland and the issue of Brexit. The White House transcripts disagreed, demonstrating that the US are unafraid to demand action and the UK can do very little to frustrate them. While Johnson may be able to ignore BidenÂ’s demands in private, he will be far less able if they ever become loudly public.

The US has always been able to shout Â“jumpÂ” and the UK ask Â“how high?Â” but the public humiliation which goes with that does not fit well with the post-Brexit rhetoric of a strong, Â“globalÂ” Britain. Voters may well hold the Johnson government responsible for any perceived decline they see in the UKÂ’s global influence.

As happened in Suez, the UK has been reminded that it is an Â– but not the only Â– important country internationally. It isnÂ’t in the big leagues, and therefore it will need to ensure it remains allied to a much bigger player if it wants to see its influence bear fruit.

That could have been the EU perhaps, or even the UN security council or Nato. But as Britain has done before, it has looked to the US Â– an example, perhaps, of what French foreign minister Clement Beaune described as BritainÂ’s Â“accepted vassalisationÂ”.

Britain in the 1950s was wedded to the US, acting as a partner rather than leading the charge. Now, while the UK continues to support the US, the influence it has seems negligible. While it may bring comfort to the UK to feel it is a partner to a superpower, being its stooge or subordinate is an unpleasant place to be, no matter how much you tell yourself it values your opinion.

I know itÂ’s hard to put the tabloid news down, but try. This might give you all a clue.

C SPAN
WordForWord

https://mailchi.mp/c-span/8x54njb61g-6360102

Good Thursday evening. In this edition: Japanese PM Kishida makes case for American leadership on the world stage; and FBI Director Wray warns of rising threats, urges FISA reauthorization.

American Leadership

Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida urged Americans to overcome their "self-doubt" as he called for the U.S. to retain its "indispensable" role on the world stage.

"You believed that freedom is the oxygen of humanity," he said in an address to a joint meeting of Congress. "The world needs the United States to continue playing this pivotal role in the affairs of nations. And yet, as we meet here today, I detect an undercurrent of self-doubt among some Americans about what your role in the world should be."

"This self-doubt is arising at a time when our world is at history's turning point. The postÂ–Cold War era is already behind us, and we are now at an inflection point that will define the next stage of human history." The prime minister said values long championed by the U.S. are being challenged on multiple fronts and drew a direct connection between Russia's war in Ukraine and China's ambitions in the Indo-Pacific. "China's current external stance and military actions present an unprecedented and the greatest strategic challenge, not only to the peace and security of Japan, but to the peace and stability of the international community at large," he said.

"As I often say, Ukraine of today may be East Asia of tomorrow."

His remarks were not so subtly directed at the contingent of House Republicans who have subscribed to the more isolationist "America First" foreign policy view and oppose sending additional military assistance to Ukraine. "I want to address those Americans who feel the loneliness and exhaustion of being the country that has upheld the international order almost single-handedly," the PM said.

"I am here to say that Japan is already standing shoulder-to-shoulder with the United States. You are not alone. We are with you."
Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) has said he intends to put an Ukraine aid bill on the floor, but what that might look like and when he would do so remains unclear. A majority of lawmakers in both parties support Ukraine aid, but a sizeable chunk of the Republican conference as well as former President Trump is opposed.

Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) has also strongly suggested she would trigger a vote to oust the speaker if he allows the Senate-passed Ukraine bill to come to the floor. House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-NY) today suggested that Democrats might provide the votes necessary to save the speaker's job if he allows a vote on the Senate bill.

"I believe that there are a reasonable number of Democrats who would not want to see the speaker fall as a result of doing the right thing," he said.

National Security & FISA

FBI Director Christopher Wray warned lawmakers about rising threats to Americans as he pressed Congress to fully fund his agency and provide the necessary tools to protect the homeland.

"As I look back over my career in law enforcement, I would be hard-pressed to think of a time where so many threats to our public safety and national security were so elevated all at once. But that is the case as I sit here today," he said during a House hearing on his agency's FY 2025 budget request.

Director Wray said the FBI's most pressing concern is an attack inspired by the ongoing turmoil in the Middle East, but that he was growing increasingly worried about an attack in the U.S. like the one carried out last month in Moscow by an affiliate of the Islamic State.

The FBI director also said it was critical for Congress to quickly reauthorize Section 702 of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA), a controversial spy power that allows the government to conduct targeted surveillance on foreign nationals outside the U.S. without needing to obtain a warrant.

"Let me be clear: Failure to reauthorize 702 or gutting it with some new kind of warrant requirement would be dangerous and put Americans' lives at risk," he said.

The House on Wednesday failed to advance a reauthorization bill after 19 Republicans rebuffed their party leadership by sinking a rule vote that would have allowed the measure to come to the floor. Members of both parties have raised concerns about the incidental collection of Americans' data through 702, but infighting has stymied multiple efforts to reauthorize the program, which expires April 19.
Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) plans to try again tomorrow on a bill that would reauthorize the program for two years instead of the five years that was rejected Wednesday.

The Rules Committee meets tonight on the bill, and lawmakers are set to hold a vote on the rule tomorrow at 8:30am ET.

House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-NY), who supports FISA reauthorization, told reporters that Democrats would not help the speaker approve a rule for the bill, a responsibility that falls on the majority party.
See the House FBI hearing and watch the House session tomorrow morning.

In other newsÂ…

Republican senators have been denying routine unanimous consent requests, such as on motions to adjourn, in protest of Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer's (D-NY) plans to quickly dismiss the impeachment articles against Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas. Forty-three Republicans sent a letter today to Sen. Schumer demanding he hold a full impeachment trial. The House is expected to transmit the articles on Tuesday.

A group of Maryland lawmakers unveiled a bill that would allow the federal government to cover the full cost of the recovery and rebuilding efforts for Baltimore's Francis Scott Key Bridge, which collapsed last month after a cargo ship rammed into one of its support beams. "As we continue to mourn the loss of life and this icon of our skyline, we can simultaneously begin work to heal the wounds created by this disaster. A new bridge can be a symbol of hope and resilience," Sen. Ben Cardin (D-MD), the lead sponsor, said in a statement. It remains unclear how much it will cost.
For your radar...

The House returns early Friday morning to try again on the FISA reauthorization bill. Watch LIVE on C-SPAN at 8am ET.

Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) and former President Trump are expected to hold a joint press conference on "election integrity" at Mar-a-Lago on Friday. The details of the event have not been finalized, but you'll be able to watch it online.

Buckle up!

Channel 14 in Israel is reporting that an Â“Advanced Missile ShipÂ” with the U.S. Navy, likely an Arleigh Burke-Class Guided-Missile Destroyer, has arrived off the Coast of Israel to assist with the Interception of Missiles and Drones launched by Iranian and/or Iranian-Backed Proxy Groups against Israel.

Also, Qatar and Kuwait have informed the US that they cannot use their bases on their territories against Iran. This move basically reduces US capabilities significantly in the region

Scoop: Iran warns U.S. to stay out of fight with Israel or face attack on troops

https://www.axios.com/2024/04/12/iran-israel-attack-us-troops-warning

Iran sent a message to the Biden administration through several Arab countries earlier this week: if the U.S. gets involved in the fighting between Israel and Iran, U.S. forces in the region will be attacked, three U.S. officials told Axios.

Why it matters: The U.S. and Israel are preparing for Iran to retaliate against Israel for an airstrike that killed a top Iranian general in Damascus last week.
The Iranian supreme leader has threatened "punishment" for Israel but through private channels Iran has signaled it would be limited.

Israel and the U.S. think an Iranian attack would include the launch of ballistic missiles, cruise missiles and attack drones from Iran to Israeli territory.
U.S. officials say the Biden administration asked Israel to notify the U.S. and for the U.S. to have a say before decisions are made about any retaliation by Israel.

Behind the scenes: Three U.S. officials said that in recent days the Iranians told several Arab governments they see the U.S. as responsible for the Israeli attack that killed the Iranian general in Damascus, regardless of U.S. efforts to distance itself from the strike.

The Iranian message was that if the U.S. gets involved after an Iranian attack on Israel, U.S. bases in the region will be attacked.
"The Iranian message was we will attack the forces that attack us, so don't f--k with us and we won't f--k with you," one U.S. official said.
Between the lines: President Biden and other U.S. officials have said publicly the U.S. would help Israel defend itself against Iranian attacks.

Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin told Israeli Minister of Defense Yoav Gallant in a call on Thursday that Israel "could count on full U.S. support to defend Israel against Iranian attacks, which Tehran has publicly threatened," the Pentagon said.

Gallant told Austin "a direct Iranian attack will require an appropriate Israeli response against Iran."

A U.S. official told Axios it wasn't clear from the message received via several Arab countries whether the Iranians were threatening to attack U.S. forces if they help Israel intercept Iranian missiles or only if they participate in an Israeli retaliation.

The general assessment of the U.S. intelligence community is the Iranians could attack U.S. forces only if the U.S. joins Israel in a counteroffensive, according to the U.S. official.

Yes, but: Iran is sending a different message through other communication channels, including calls between the foreign ministers of the UK, Australia and Germany and their Iranian counterpart on Thursday.

Two U.S. officials said the Iranian message in these calls was more nuanced and signaled the Iranians are aimed at a limited response that will not lead to a regional escalation.

Another U.S. official said the U.S. is communicating directly with Iran through the formal Swiss channel of communication and Iran did not communicate threats through this channel.

U.S. officials have been in touch with regional partners to discuss efforts to message to Iran to not escalate the situation, a U.S. official said.
They've also been in touch with Israel to ensure they are able to defend themselves and at the same time prevent tensions from escalating, the official added.

What to watch: U.S. CENTCOM commander Gen. Michael "Erik" Kurilla is in Israel to coordinate the U.S.-Israeli defensive effort ahead of any possible Iranian strike, U.S. and Israeli officials said.

The officials stressed the Biden administration asked Israel in recent days to notify and consult the U.S. in advance of any Israeli retaliation against Iran.
The Biden administration felt Israel didn't consult and didn't give it an appropriate notice before its strike in Damascus that killed the Iranian general, even though such a strike could have had implications for U.S. forces in the region.

The Washington Post reported Austin complained to Gallant in a call on April 3 about the lack of sufficient notice from the Israeli side.

vienna

04-12-24, 02:39 PM

...

Not one single person, including that murdered woman, has ever been actually charged with insurrection though. Not one. :hmmm:

It helps to know of what one speaks...

Yes, not one person has actually been formally charged with insurrection, but for a very good, and logical, reason; there is no need for the :hmmm: since there really is nothing sinister or ponderable about the situation; simply put, insurrection is a lesser crime and carries a lighter sentence; what the prosecutors have been filling, and getting indictments for, is Sedition, which carries a much heftier sentence under Federal Law; of all the defendants charged with Sedition, all have either been convicted of or pleaded guilty to the charges levied upon them; the net effect is those 1/6 thugs have actually been brought to justice and have been found guilty of their crimes...

...which, by the way, actually means that those crimes were actually committed as demonstrated by either evidence at trial or by the defendants own admission, so the claims that 'no crimes were committed' the Trump/MAGA/FR lemmings have been whining, moaning, and bitching about like little snowflakes doesn't really hold water...

It should also be noted the DOJ has pressed Sedition charges against the most egregious offenders who chose to try their luck in court; others may have dodged more serious charges by making plea deals since they weren't very high visibility targets...

Here is a link defining the various levels and conditions of Federal charges that can be possibly levied;

A Civilian's Guide to Insurrection Legalese --

https://www.themarshallproject.org/2021/01/08/a-civilian-s-guide-to-insurrection-legalese

...and if anyone is beyond curious, the DOJ maintains a publicly accessible database of all the cases brought in what the DOJ calls "Capital Breach Cases", which includes a link to a downloadable PDF of all the sentences handed down to date...

Capitol Breach Cases --

https://www.justice.gov/usao-dc/capitol-breach-cases

<O>

vienna

04-12-24, 03:14 PM

Stephen Colbert has been quite good this week...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sZWlXAq46XQ

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ADgYITQ8dZM

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9cWrifa81KI

For satirists like Colbert, Trump and his cronies have been a gift from above since, when commenting about the slapstick antics of the MAGA crowd, the jokes just simply write themselves; if truth is often stranger than fiction, when it it comes to Trump, et al, the truth is often funnier than anything someone could possibly imagine...

<O>

Rockstar

04-12-24, 04:58 PM

But they got a lot of jokes. ;). Oh and they have also brought us a lot more war too.

Opinion Data Points
American politics is undergoing a racial realignment

Democrats are rapidly losing non-white voters as the forces that ensured their support weaken

Headshot for John Burn-Murdoch

https://archive.ph/XVGDc

Last week, a New York Times poll showed President Joe Biden leading Donald Trump by just 56 points to 44 among non-white Americans, a group he won by almost 50 points when the two men last fought it out for the White House in 2020. As things stand, the Democrats are going backwards faster with voters of colour than any other demographic.

Such startling statistics often meet accusations of polling error, but this cannot be written off as a rogue result. Data from America’s gold-standard national election surveys show Democrats’ advantage among Black, Latino and Asian voters at its lowest since 1960. Figures from Gallup show the same steepening decline.

https://archive.ph/XVGDc/58ac2c3e045a21c705e040cb21422e1c7e396920.avif
Chart showing that Democrats’ advantage with non-white voters has been rapidly eroding and is now at its weakest since the 1960s

Part of this is due to fading memories and weakening ties. Black Americans who lived through the civil rights era still support the party at very high levels, but younger generations are wavering. There’s also the weakening correlation between income and voter choice in US politics. The image of the GOP as the party of wealthy country club elites is dimming, opening the door to working- and middle-class voters of all ethnicities.

More ominous for the Democrats is a less widely understood dynamic: many of America’s non-white voters have long held much more conservative views than their voting patterns would suggest. The migration we’re seeing today is not so much natural Democrats becoming disillusioned but natural Republicans realising they’ve been voting for the wrong party.

https://archive.ph/XVGDc/301108e3ae91951e293ebd516c5587a240f36629.avif
Chart showing that non-white conservatives are increasingly matching their vote choice to their ideology, shifting them towards the Republicans

This is best illustrated by US political researchers Ismail K White and Chryl N Laird, whose eye-opening 2020 book Steadfast Democrats demonstrates the incongruity between many black Americans’ policy preferences and votes.
Take deeply conservative positions such as support for gun rights or the belief that government should stay out of people’s lives and let them succeed or fail on their own. Very few white voters who take these positions identify as Democrats, but much larger shares of Black, Latino and Asian conservatives do.

https://archive.ph/XVGDc/86968948dbd5fe092f26a087ea942e43b1f1128b.avif
Chart showing that very few white conservatives identify as Democrats, but until recently much larger shares of Black, Latino and Asian conservatives do.

History, culture and community have long overridden this misalignment between non-white conservatives’ policy positions and party choice. As recently as 2012, three in four Black self-identified conservatives were Democrats, but that has fallen to less than half. These voters won’t be won back by a bold environmental policy or defunding the police. Their historical support for Democrats was an anomaly and a further rightward shift is likely as it corrects.
White and Laird’s insight is that social networks play an important role. Among Black conservatives whose social circles are predominantly Black, support for Republicans remains anaemic, but among those whose friends, family or colleagues are more diverse, social norms are much weaker and support for the GOP rises. My extension of their analysis shows the same is true for other non-white groups.

https://archive.ph/XVGDc/790a067cb4c49cd05fc5e8561f4e6929a7d57f91.avif
Chart showing that racially homogeneous social groups suppress support for Republicans among non-white conservatives

There are echoes of voters in Britain’s Red Wall — the communities in northern England identified by pollster James Kanagasooriam with conservative demographics and attitudes that had stopped short of voting Tory due to a long-held sense that the party was not for them. In 2019 that changed. Non-white Americans are in a similar position. Strong community norms have kept them in the blue column, but those forces are weakening. The surprise is not so much that these voters are now shifting their support to align with their preferences, but that it took so long.

As the US becomes less racially segregated, the frictions preventing non-white conservatives from voting Republican diminish. And this is a self-perpetuating process: discovering Republicans among one’s own group further weakens the stigma. As Republican pollster Patrick Ruffini puts it in his 2023 book Party of the People, this can create a “preference cascade”. Viewed in this light, the size of the shifts in current polling are entirely plausible.

To be clear, nothing in politics is guaranteed. Some shifts are temporary, and many of those deserting the Democrats will become swing voters rather than solid Republicans. They can be won back.

But the left’s challenge with non-white voters is much deeper than it first appears. A less racially divided America is an America where people vote more based on their beliefs than their identity. This is bad news for Democrats.

Kptlt. Neuerburg

04-12-24, 10:35 PM

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XflM-LKXOW4

em2nought

04-13-24, 01:27 AM

Opinion Data Points
American politics is undergoing a racial realignment

Democrats are rapidly losing non-white voters as the forces that ensured their support weaken

https://archive.ph/XVGDc

Finally leaving the plantation. :hmmm:

u crank

04-13-24, 05:51 AM

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XflM-LKXOW4

Maher is right. The lefty/progressives are ruining this country. Then they wonder how a right wing government gets elected. It is not that complicated. I know one thing. I will never vote for the Liberal party again. Ever.

Kptlt. Neuerburg

04-13-24, 07:35 PM

Maher is right. The lefty/progressives are ruining this country. Then they wonder how a right wing government gets elected. It is not that complicated. I know one thing. I will never vote for the Liberal party again. Ever. The problem at least in my opinion is that "The Government"TM has gone from actually governing to being a popularity contest and continually applying all the wrong solutions to fix the problems. Although while this is nothing new it has gotten A LOT WORSE in the past decade or so and both Biden and Trump are proof of it. A lot of decisions that where made while Trump was president and currently while Biden is president are being influenced by popular opinion.
Sometimes presidents need to make an unpopular decision for the good of the country and not just to say, "See I'm on YOUR side!". We used to have a government that despite of the disagreements from each party could find common ground and work together for the benefit of the nation (mostly) which has now devolved to a point of a finger pointing, demonizing, mudslinging, name called, book reading, stupid power point presentation amalgamation of nuclear fueled dumpster fire of a two ring circus. A case in point was the fact that the GOP has been continuously complaining about the Southern boarder and it needing to be fixed. Biden gave them a package that would have been the strictest boarder security laws on the books had it passed, at least according to the pundits. The GOP refused it not because they thought it was bad, indeed it gave the GOP everything it wanted and then some. But they refused it because it would "Be a win for the other side." End of political rant. FOR NOW.

u crank

04-14-24, 05:01 AM

The problem at least in my opinion is that "The Government"TM has gone from actually governing to being a popularity contest and continually applying all the wrong solutions to fix the problems.

As they say, 'there's your trouble'. In this country we have a Prime Minister who thinks you can solve a scientific problem, global warming, with a tax. In any other field if you suggested such a thing you would be laughed out of the room. Only in the political realm does such a thing make sense. Despite their progressive bona fides and elite education diplomas, they are just not that smart.

Skybird

04-14-24, 05:25 AM

I tend to think that presidents in the American system are not so much causes, but symptoms.

Jimbuna

04-14-24, 06:15 AM

Trump says Iran attack on Israel ‘would never have happened if I were president’

Donald Trump has weighed in on Iran’s airstrike against Israel on Saturday evening.

“ISRAEL IS UNDER ATTACK,” the former president said on his social media platform, Truth Social. “This should never have been allowed to happen - This would NEVER have happened if I were President!”

Mr Trump’s comments come after the Israeli Defense Forces announced Iran had launched dozens of drones against Israel, set to arrive Saturday evening. The US has since pledged its support to Israel.

“President Biden has been clear: our support for Israel’s security is ironclad,” National Security Council Spokesperson Adrienne Watson said on Saturday. “The United States will stand with the people of Israel and support their defense against these threats from Iran.”
The former president’s proposed policy on Israel’s offensive in Gaza, meanwhile, has been hazy at best,The Independent’s Richard Hall previously reported.

In the days after Hamas attacked Israel on 7 October, killing 1,200 people and taking more than 200 people hostage, Mr Trump offered his enthusiastic backing for Israel’s retaliatory offensive in Gaza. However, more recent comments from Mr Trump, coming after more than 33,000 Palestinians have been killed, could be interpreted as a sign that his unyielding support for Israel is not guaranteed.

“You’ve got to get it over with, and you have to get back to normalcy,” Mr Trump said in an interview with The Hugh Hewitt Show that aired earlier this month. The former president added that he wanted Israel to “get back to peace and stop killing people.”

On Truth Social, Mr Trump also inexplicably attacked Mr Biden for using a “taped” speech to address the people. However, Mr Biden has not addressed the nation since Iran launched their attack, and he is not expected to make any remarks on Saturday evening.

“AFTER READING MY TRUTH, BIDEN’S HANDLERS CONVINCED HIM NOT TO RELEASE HIS TAPED SPEECH ON ISRAEL,” Mr Trump wrote. “HE’LL NOW ATTEMPT TO DO IT LIVE, PROBABLY TOMORROW. HE DOESN’T WANT TO LEAVE HIS HOUSE, WITH THE CORVETTE, IN DELAWARE!!!”

Mr Biden had already left Delaware — his home state, where he was slated to spend the weekend — as of Saturday evening, cutting his trip short to handle the Iran crisis. The president is now in the White House, where an administration spokesperson said he would meet with his national security team.

Meanwhile, Speaker of the House Mike Johnson — a staunch ally to Mr Trump — has also attempted to pin Iran’s attacks on Mr Biden.

“The Biden Administration’s undermining of Israel and appeasement of Iran have contributed to these terrible developments,” Mr Johnson said in a statement on Saturday evening.

Tensions between Mr Netanyahu and Mr Biden have been on the rise in recent weeks.

This week, the president called for a temporary ceasefire in Gaza to allow humanitarian aid to reach Palestinians. However, he still appears poised to make an $18bn sale of fighter jets to Israel — a deal which the administration says has been in the making for years.

The Independent also exclusively reported this week that eight internal dissent memos were sent by US State Department staff during the first two months of the Gaza war, highlighting the widespread opposition within the department to the Biden administration’s support for Israel’s war in Gaza.

The former president is expected to speak at a campaign event in Schnecksville, Pennsylvania on Saturday evening, where he may comment further on the Iranian attacks.
https://www.msn.com/en-gb/news/world/trump-says-iran-attack-on-israel-would-never-have-happened-if-i-were-president/ar-BB1lzKBz?ocid=msedgntp&pc=U531&cvid=cb741c5eccaf462a932d99c88731db7f&ei=28

Rockstar

04-14-24, 08:30 AM

The problem at least in my opinion is that "The Government"TM has gone from actually governing to being a popularity contest and continually applying all the wrong solutions to fix the problems. Although while this is nothing new it has gotten A LOT WORSE in the past decade or so and both Biden and Trump are proof of it. A lot of decisions that where made while Trump was president and currently while Biden is president are being influenced by popular opinion.
Sometimes presidents need to make an unpopular decision for the good of the country and not just to say, "See I'm on YOUR side!". We used to have a government that despite of the disagreements from each party could find common ground and work together for the benefit of the nation (mostly) which has now devolved to a point of a finger pointing, demonizing, mudslinging, name called, book reading, stupid power point presentation amalgamation of nuclear fueled dumpster fire of a two ring circus. A case in point was the fact that the GOP has been continuously complaining about the Southern boarder and it needing to be fixed. Biden gave them a package that would have been the strictest boarder security laws on the books had it passed, at least according to the pundits. The GOP refused it not because they thought it was bad, indeed it gave the GOP everything it wanted and then some. But they refused it because it would "Be a win for the other side." End of political rant. FOR NOW.

Strictest border package? It does not address the root cause nor does it say anything of controlling the flow of migrants at the border. Oh sure it says a lot about increasing government bureaucracy, electronic notification of hearings, voluntary deportation, making sure paperwork is in the immigrant's language, customs and border patrol hiring practices and strengthening ports of entry. But all of that seems pointless if migrants can just ignore it and go around. THAT is what I believe the GOP wants to fix and the bill does absolutely nothing to address that. I think many Americans (including democrats in sanctuary cities) believe a wall will help, but someone made a promise not too so they just ignore the elephant in the room.

Kptlt. Neuerburg

04-14-24, 02:23 PM

Strictest border package? It does not address the root cause nor does it say anything of controlling the flow of migrants at the border. Oh sure it says a lot about increasing government bureaucracy, electronic notification of hearings, voluntary deportation, making sure paperwork is in the immigrant's language, customs and border patrol hiring practices and strengthening ports of entry. But all of that seems pointless if migrants can just ignore it and go around. THAT is what I believe the GOP wants to fix and the bill does absolutely nothing to address that. I think many Americans (including democrats in sanctuary cities) believe a wall will help, but someone made a promise not too so they just ignore the elephant in the room. I did say in my rant "according to the pundits", as in it's their opinion not mine. As for building a wall along the southern border how will that stop migrants from simply bypassing it using boats?

Catfish

04-14-24, 03:13 PM

Not necessary, 90 percent are entering the US via official border crossings, legally.

August

04-14-24, 04:03 PM

I did say in my rant "according to the pundits", as in it's their opinion not mine. As for building a wall along the southern border how will that stop migrants from simply bypassing it using boats?

Just spitballing here but i'd think that boats would be a lot easier to spot and interdict and there ain't enough of them in Mexico to accommodate the 100's of thousands coming across the land border so at very least forcing them to use the oceans will cut the numbers of attempts significantly.

Jeff-Groves

04-14-24, 04:49 PM

Daily chumming would help with the Ocean path.
:03:

Rockstar

04-14-24, 07:14 PM

I did say in my rant "according to the pundits", as in it's their opinion not mine. As for building a wall along the southern border how will that stop migrants from simply bypassing it using boats?

I spent a lot of time interdicting people at sea. It can be done with local, state and federal seaborne and aviation military and law enforcement agencies, good electronic surveillance systems ( got a lot of help from the army reserves and their radar systems). Also helped by the 100Â’s of thousands recreational, commercial boats, and condo commandos reporting them as well.

Daily chumming would help with the Ocean path.
:03:

That happened a lot too. Usually those coming across on inner tubes and small fast boats capsizing.

Not necessary, 90 percent are entering the US via official border crossings, legally.

The border is 100% overwhelmed itÂ’s a free for all. Many people are only identified then temporarily released while they await a hearing. ThereÂ’s no difference between those considered gottaways because there was nothing stopping them and those who entered were caught then never show up for their hearing. Why wonÂ’t they show up for a hearing? Because they know full well that even if they go to their hearing thereÂ’s no guarantee they will not be deported. Then we got to spend more time and money to find them amd roundÂ’em up. Only way I know to help control that is to control the border, a wall would definitely send a message and I hope think slow down the flow to manageable levels.

Before we used to throw them in places like Krome while they awaited a hearing. Now thereÂ’s so many flooding our border they are let in stuck in limbo without a court date, and those that do get one we can only hope they show up to court.

Jimbuna

04-15-24, 06:23 AM

Daily chumming would help with the Ocean path.
:03:

:o

:D

Skybird

04-15-24, 08:01 AM

I just red a piece about the Democrats preparing a coup at the party convention, and Biden handing over the candidacy to Pete Buttigieg.

Any truth in that, any chance?

em2nought

04-15-24, 08:20 AM

I just red a piece about the Democrats preparing a coup at the party convention, and Biden handing over the candidacy to Pete Buttigieg.

Any truth in that, any chance?

I would not doubt it. Pete is their kind of guy. :D I'm expecting just about anything at this point. Maybe they'll use bird flu to lock us all down around Halloween. :har: Bird flu has been in the "news" lately.

Rockstar

04-15-24, 08:33 AM

:o

:D

How is replying to individuals considered spam yet drowning the board in emojis & padding post counts not?:06:

Rockstar

04-15-24, 08:38 AM

I just red a piece about the Democrats preparing a coup at the party convention, and Biden handing over the candidacy to Pete Buttigieg.

Any truth in that, any chance?

Looking how Pete has responded to train wrecks and bridge collapses. I doubt anyone in their right mind would consider him as a candidate.

AVGWarhawk

04-15-24, 10:44 AM

I just red a piece about the Democrats preparing a coup at the party convention, and Biden handing over the candidacy to Pete Buttigieg.

Any truth in that, any chance?

Buttigieg is an absolute idiot. He has no business in the position he currently holds. Certainly not capable of running a country.

August

04-15-24, 11:01 AM

Jeff-Groves

04-15-24, 11:08 AM

But what about Kamala? Does she stay on as VPOTUS candidate or do they get someone who is not such a blithering idiot?
They'll pick Fetterman.
:haha:

August

04-15-24, 12:28 PM

They'll pick Fetterman.
:haha:

Well that actually would be pretty smart move. Fetterman is turning out not to be the idiot we initially was thought to be.

em2nought

04-15-24, 12:56 PM

Well that actually would be pretty smart move. Fetterman is turning out not to be the idiot we initially was thought to be.

Fetterman might have had to pay taxes for the first time in his life, and it instantly converted him to a conservative. :D

August

04-15-24, 12:59 PM

Fetterman might have had to pay taxes for the first time in his life, and it instantly converted him to a conservative. :D

He's a big supporter of Israel for sure. I also like him calling out that Menendez creep. That traitor is on more countries payrolls than even the Big Guy.

Rockstar

04-15-24, 01:09 PM

He's a big supporter of Israel for sure. I also like him calling out that Menendez creep. That traitor is on more countries payrolls than even the Big Guy.

I don’t know about the Menendez issue. I just find it weird that shortly after the Head of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee started investigating why our country’s top three oilfield services companies continued doing business in Russia after its invasion of Ukraine. He was suddenly accused of a bribery scandal, and he and the investigation quietly went away. You can’t fight the swamp, if you try you get railroaded with one accusation after another & court battles attempting to destroy you. Then the swamp offers up some clown who can’t string a sentence together and won’t get in the way. :haha:

I don’t know maybe I’m just a conspiracy theorist at heart :D

August

04-15-24, 01:27 PM

I don’t know about the Menendez issue. I just find it weird that shortly after the Head of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee started investigating why our country’s top three oilfield services companies continued doing business in Russia after its invasion of Ukraine. He was suddenly accused of a bribery scandal, and he and the investigation went away. You can’t fight the swamp, if you try you get railroaded with one accusation after another & court battles attempting to destroy you. Then the swamp offers up some clown who can’t string a sentence together and won’t get in the way. :haha:

I don’t know maybe I’m just a conspiracy theorist at heart :D

Do you really think Oil Field Services Companies have that kind of juice to manufacture such a scandal?

ET2SN

04-15-24, 02:51 PM

Just as reminder, things aren't going so great for China and Russia. :yep:

We should learn how Propaganda and Dis-Information work so we can make better decisions.

Those folks are always looking for Useful Idiots. :up:

Rockstar

04-15-24, 04:05 PM

Do you really think Oil Field Services Companies have that kind of juice to manufacture such a scandal?

Just a reminder, if some nobody with connections can start a fire with a dossier of made up fantasy and get all the useful idiots and lemmings of the world to fall in-line behind it. I suppose oils companies with connections could too.

However I know correlation doesn’t necessarily mean causation nor am I defending the guy or convinced of anything, just saying things like that cross my mind. Ya got to admit though it looks awfully familiar. He’s fighting the accusations, but if current events are any judge I’m sure the swamp will just wear him down financially with endless accusations as tries to defend himself in court too :03:

August

04-15-24, 05:04 PM

Just a reminder, if some nobody with connections can start a fire with a dossier of made up fantasy and get all the useful idiots and lemmings of the world to fall in-line behind it. I suppose oils companies with connections could too.

I assume you are talking about Steele, well he wasn't exactly a nobody and his story was "investigated with extreme prejudice" by a very willing FBI abetted by a mainstream press that has clearly taken a political side. I hardly think the Oil Service Industry has that same kind of pull, even against a mere congress critter.

However I know correlation doesn’t necessarily mean causation nor am I defending the guy or convinced of anything, just saying things like that cross my mind. Ya got to admit though it looks awfully familiar. He’s fighting the accusations, but if current events are any judge I’m sure the swamp will just wear him down financially with endless accusations as tries to defend himself in court too :03:

Sounds to me like you are convinced of quite a bit! :) Do you think that George Santos character was a swamp victim too? Sometimes crooked pols will suddenly find some noble or important cause to champion as a way to deflect or minimize getting caught with their hand in the cookie jar.

Rockstar

04-15-24, 05:43 PM

I assume you are talking about Steele, well he wasn't exactly a nobody and his story was "investigated with extreme prejudice" by a very willing FBI abetted by a mainstream press that has clearly taken a political side. I hardly think the Oil Service Industry has that same kind of pull, even against a mere congress critter.

Yep that’s the one, :up: the dossier was pure fantasy used by the swamp to smear a political opponent and from there it has snowballed into what we see today. It just keeps going and going and going and going.

Sounds to me like you are convinced of quite a bit! :)

No, I mean it when I say I’m not convinced of anything concerning Menendez. But as someone on the outside looking in knowing the multi-millions of dollars in campaign contributions made by the industry to politicians. It simply crossed my conspiratorial devious little mind :yep: when I see him lose his position and the investigation stops and goes away. I could be wrong it’s been a very long time since I last read anything about it.

Do you think that George Santos character was a swamp victim too? Sometimes crooked pols will suddenly find some noble or important cause to champion as a way to deflect or minimize getting caught with their hand in the cookie jar.

Nope Santos own very public behavior has me convinced he dug his own grave. What had me stumped was how he became a candidate in the first place.

Jimbuna

04-16-24, 12:15 PM

Senior Democrat says party will save House speaker from ousting – on one condition

Asenior Democratic member of the House Foreign Affairs Committee has said his party will help prevent the ouster of House Speaker Mike Johnson if the Louisiana Republican allows a defence aid package including humanitarian aid for Gaza to receive an up-or-down vote on the House floor.

Brad Sherman, a California Representative who serves as the second highest-ranking Democrat on the Foreign Affairs panel, told The Independent Mr Johnson could receive Democratic assistance on a vote to remove him if he ensures that the humanitarian aid provisions remain in the bill he has promised to put to a vote this week.

“We’ve got to pass it and it’s got to include the humanitarian aid,” he said. “I think if he does that, and then there’s a motion to vacate the speakership because he did the right thing, even if he did it in four separate notebooks on unlimited colored papers, the Democrats will not allow it [the motion to vacate] to pass.”
Earlier in the day, Mr Johnson refused to heed calls for his resignation from a far-right colleague after he agreed to allow the House to consider legislation to authorise further military aid to Ukraine along with defence assistance for Israel and Taiwan.

The Louisiana Republican was urged to step down by Kentucky Representative Thomas Massie during a meeting of the House GOP Conference on Tuesday after Mr Johnson said he was putting forth legislation to fund Israeli and Ukrainian defence needs over the objection of members such as Georgia’s Marjorie Taylor Greene, who weeks ago filed a motion to remove him as Speaker after he allowed the House to vote on funding the federal government for the rest of the current fiscal year.

Mr Massie, a MIT-educated engineer who routinely opposes all government spending bills, said he would co-sponsor Ms Greene’s measure, which would declare Mr Johnson’s office “vacant”. It is the same procedural tactic a group of Republicans used last year to oust former House Speaker Kevin McCarthy after he allowed a vote to keep the government funded.

But at a press conference on Tuesday, he dismissed Mr Massie’s demand outright.

“It is, in my view, an absurd notion that someone would bring a vacate motion when we are simply here trying to do our jobs,” he said. “I am not concerned about this, I am going to do my job, and I think that’s what the American people expect of us”.

Mr Sherman’s comment is the first direct sign from a senior Democrat that members of his party are prepared to cross over and vote against Ms Greene’s motion to vacate the speakership under any circumstances. A handful of other Democrats, though none connnected to leadership, have made similar indications in recent days.

But that potential support could quickly evaporate if Mr Johnson fails to bring the entirety of the supplemental foreign aid package to the floor, or allows poison pill amendments to drag the Ukraine funding portion into oblivion. House Democrats voted in lockstep in favour of the motion to oust former Speaker Kevin McCarthy last fall, declining to save the flagging GOP leader who had burned his credibility with many in the chamber.

Mr Johnson has yet to last one full year in the job, similar to his predecessor. This week, the House is almost entirely focused on foreign policy and is pursuing a series of bills targeting Iran following the drone and missile attack Tehran directed at Israel over the weekend. A final vote for passage of the Ukraine and Israel funding bills is set for Friday.

Before that, the speaker faces one key test: the passage of a rule vote governing debate and procedure for the passage of the entirety of the supplemental funding package. Mr Johnson is likely to see some form of conservative rebellion during that vote this week, as he did last week when Republicans revolted against the renewal of America’s foreign operative surveillance program.
https://www.msn.com/en-gb/news/world/senior-democrat-says-party-will-save-house-speaker-from-ousting-on-one-condition/ar-BB1lIRP2?ocid=msedgntp&pc=U531&cvid=99bf5ad6849245ff917b1c5ba4781aca&ei=21

AVGWarhawk

04-16-24, 01:12 PM

I think if there is any last second candidate swapping it'll be for California Governor Newsome. But what about Kamala? Does she stay on as VPOTUS candidate or do they get someone who is not such a blithering idiot?

Newsome will be of no help. People are flocking out of CA due to his utter craziness and sometimes dictatorship like approach to running a state. Kamala is as useful as a trapdoor in a canoe. She will stay as VPOTUS and left on the sideline where she has the best fit.

August

04-16-24, 01:44 PM

August

04-16-24, 01:49 PM

What had me stumped was how he became a candidate in the first place.

Apparently he checked all the right political and demographic boxes and the Long Island Repubes didn't dig into his background closely enough to discover the fraud.

AVGWarhawk

04-16-24, 01:52 PM

Yeah I don't think they would actually dare to change horses midstream at this point anyways.

This particular horse is a woman and black. First black woman VP ousted. That will do well in the papers. Not quite the picture Dems like to portray themselves.

Rockstar

04-16-24, 03:38 PM

Apparently he checked all the right political and demographic boxes and the Long Island Repubes didn't dig into his background closely enough to discover the fraud.

Neither did the media whose job I thought was to keep the public informed.

Rockstar

04-16-24, 03:44 PM

Newsome will be of no help. People are flocking out of CA due to his utter craziness and sometimes dictatorship like approach to running a state. Kamala is as useful as a trapdoor in a canoe. She will stay as VPOTUS and left on the sideline where she has the best fit.

Not too long ago Newsome and his minions were bragging having a $97.5 billion surplus to expand health care, social equity and educational programs.

Last I looked just a few laters he buried the state in 73 billion dollars of debt.

If he were elected it would be just more of the same.

mapuc

04-16-24, 03:51 PM

Feel like being on a sidetrack what are they discussing ?

Is there a better candidate than Biden ?
Or
Which third candidate would be preferred instead of the two main candidate. ?

Markus

Buddahaid

04-16-24, 06:24 PM

Rockstar

04-16-24, 07:39 PM

The only thing that’s prevented a further downturn in the state’s population are new immigrants. Yet California still continues the same policies which drove out those rich enough to afford the move. Thankfully the plantation owners now have a captive labor force that can’t leave even if they wanted to.

em2nought

04-16-24, 10:37 PM

The only thing that’s prevented a further downturn in the state’s population are new immigrants.

I think you meant to say new "illegal aliens". :03:

AVGWarhawk

04-17-24, 10:31 AM

That's no longer the case. The population is rising now.

In my recent search(today), CA is decreasing in population. U-haul can't keep enough trucks in the state as a result of people leaving. Any increase would be those jumping the fence.

August

04-17-24, 12:27 PM

In my recent search(today), CA is decreasing in population. U-haul can't keep enough trucks in the state as a result of people leaving. Any increase would be those jumping the fence.

I'll bet that is exactly the case.

mapuc

04-17-24, 01:22 PM

I'll bet that is exactly the case.

To which states are they fleeing to ?

This immigration flow is not just a CA problem as I understand it.

Markus

August

04-17-24, 01:31 PM

To which states are they fleeing to ?

This immigration flow is not just a CA problem as I understand it.

Markus

No it isn't just a CA problem.

Here is a link to a map from Allied movers showing the Moving migration pattern in the US for 2023.

https://www.northamerican.com/migration-map

Jeff-Groves

04-17-24, 01:42 PM

That map is messed up. Mississippi has the same stats as Florida but is not Blue.

Jeff-Groves

04-17-24, 01:44 PM

Any increase would be those jumping the fence.
Heck. They don't need to jump the fence anymore. Government helps lift them over fences and anything else in their way.

mapuc

04-17-24, 02:15 PM

No it isn't just a CA problem.

Here is a link to a map from Allied movers showing the Moving migration pattern in the US for 2023.

https://www.northamerican.com/migration-map

CA is only showing outbound and inbound not to where they moved to exactly.

The outbound is very high though.

Markus

August

04-17-24, 02:38 PM

CA is only showing outbound and inbound not to where they moved to exactly.

The outbound is very high though.

Markus

Try this then:

California’s population loss has been a source of endless speculation in recent years. And all these Californians leaving the state are scattered nationwide – from New York to Oregon. Where are Californians moving to in 2023?

Texas is the top destination for departing Californians, with 13.71% of California moving interest toward the Lone Star State.
Florida is #2 with 7.49% of interest. This confirms other reports that Californians are flocking to The Sunshine State.
The Golden State ranked dead last in moving interest in 2022 and currently ranks last in 2023, as well, according to moveBuddha data.

https://www.movebuddha.com/blog/where-californians-moving-to/

mapuc

04-17-24, 02:54 PM

Try this then:

https://www.movebuddha.com/blog/where-californians-moving-to/

Now this was very interesting moving from one migration problem to an another.

Must be other things behind their decision to move to another state.

'Cause I have been told that people from CA was fleeing due to the immigrations problem and that the state was run by a Dem.

Markus

em2nought

04-17-24, 02:58 PM

Is there a better candidate than Biden ?

Markus

The real question: "Is there a worse candidate than Biden?" :D The answer is "NO"

em2nought

04-17-24, 04:07 PM

...and just like that Border Czar Mayorkas impeachment is over. I guess our southern border is in fine shape, no worries at all? The democrat cartel triumphs yet again. and once again America loses. :har:

August

04-17-24, 05:04 PM

Now this was very interesting moving from one migration problem to an another.

Must be other things behind their decision to move to another state.

'Cause I have been told that people from CA was fleeing due to the immigrations problem and that the state was run by a Dem.

Markus

Like any oversimplification Markus it will not explain the breath of reasons people fleeing California, but they mostly have to do with the policies that the ruling party has instituted rather than who is occupying the governors seat.

From what I read the major reasons that people are leaving California are the increasingly high costs of living, housing, and transportation coupled with an increase in crime, pollution, and congestion. Illegal immigration would be connected to some of that but is not the only cause.

Businesses are also fleeing the state as well, citing things like crime, high rents, high taxes, high costs of living for employees, and increasingly onerous business regulations and red tape.

mapuc

04-17-24, 05:15 PM

Thank you Dave.

Well I hope it is better in the states they have moved to.

Markus

em2nought

04-17-24, 05:36 PM

Thank you Dave.

Well I hope it is better in the states they have moved to.

Markus

It will be if they don't keep voting democrat. :03:

Buddahaid

04-17-24, 06:11 PM

Like any oversimplification Markus it will not explain the breath of reasons people fleeing California, but they mostly have to do with the policies that the ruling party has instituted rather than who is occupying the governors seat.

From what I read the major reasons that people are leaving California are the increasingly high costs of living, housing, and transportation coupled with an increase in crime, pollution, and congestion. Illegal immigration would be connected to some of that but is not the only cause.

Businesses are also fleeing the state as well, citing things like crime, high rents, high taxes, high costs of living for employees, and increasingly onerous business regulations and red tape.

Tempered by highest average wages.
https://www.forbes.com/advisor/business/average-salary-by-state/
"States With the Highest Average Salaries
Massachusetts: $76,600
New York: $74,870
California: $73,220
When it comes to the highest average salaries, three states stand out: Massachusetts, New York, and California."

August

04-17-24, 06:35 PM

Tempered by highest average wages.
https://www.forbes.com/advisor/business/average-salary-by-state/
"States With the Highest Average Salaries
Massachusetts: $76,600
New York: $74,870
California: $73,220
When it comes to the highest average salaries, three states stand out: Massachusetts, New York, and California."

"Tempered" :) I like that. Apparently it ain't "tempered" enough to keep people from leaving though. It also doesn't "temper" the high crime rates or increasingly oppressive government regulations that are endemic to Democrat run states either.

Buddahaid

04-17-24, 07:07 PM

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/a0/GDP_by_U.S._state_2023.png/1920px-GDP_by_U.S._state_2023.png

States ranked by reliance on Federal aid. CA ranks 42nd.
https://www.moneygeek.com/living/states-most-reliant-federal-government/

Rockstar

04-17-24, 08:46 PM

I guess it really has to do with who you ask and what they count as aid and reliance and when. Also too what a state receives is usually dependent on how much they contribute to the pot too.

California ranks the highest at $43.61 billion, Texas second at $26.90 billion, and Florida third $23.77 billion.

https://worldpopulationreview.com/state-rankings/federal-aid-by-state

—————-

Which states received the most money from the federal government?

Federal funding comes through several overlapping programs targeting state and local governments. The proportion of state revenues attributable to federal aid is determined by combining the funding received by both state and local institutions.

The five states that received the most federal aid were:

California ($162.9 billion)
New York ($110.2 billion)
Texas ($105.8 billion)
Florida ($58.8 billion)
Pennsylvania ($57.1 billion)

https://usafacts.org/articles/which-states-rely-the-most-on-federal-aid/

—————-

Gorpet

04-17-24, 10:19 PM

You mistake me with somebody else surely.
I must have.

In light of what happened January 6, 2021 I believe it not beyond the realms of possibility.

There is a possibility in your own future that this man could bring the same realms around to your country.George Galloway?

Like any oversimplification Markus it will not explain the breath of reasons people fleeing California, but they mostly have to do with the policies that the ruling party has instituted rather than who is occupying the governors seat.

From what I read the major reasons that people are leaving California are the increasingly high costs of living, housing, and transportation coupled with an increase in crime, pollution, and congestion. Illegal immigration would be connected to some of that but is not the only cause.

Businesses are also fleeing the state as well, citing things like crime, high rents, high taxes, high costs of living for employees, and increasingly onerous business regulations and red tape.

Sorry August, they are not fleeing they are spreading.Does a weed in your yard flee.No it spreads.It will spread from your yard to your neighbor's yard until the whole neighborhood is infected.And if acceptance of the weed becomes a natural then we have, Acceptance and now they are here and the roots grow. If they are powerful there will be no flowers only weeds.

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/a0/GDP_by_U.S._state_2023.png/1920px-GDP_by_U.S._state_2023.png

States ranked by reliance on Federal aid. CA ranks 42nd.
https://www.moneygeek.com/living/states-most-reliant-federal-government/

Well damn, Buddahaid.. West Virginia needs more. Or is my home state nothing more than a Hollywood backdrop of Hillbillys.?

August

04-17-24, 11:40 PM

Sorry August, they are not fleeing they are spreading.Does a weed in your yard flee.No it spreads.It will spread from your yard to your neighbor's yard until the whole neighborhood is infected.And if acceptance of the weed becomes a natural then we have, Acceptance and now they are here and the roots grow. If they are powerful there will be no flowers only weeds.

American citizens are not weeds Gorpet, and I know people who came from California that are so conservative they'd make you look like a commie pinko by comparison.

Jimbuna

04-18-24, 05:01 AM

There is a possibility in your own future that this man could bring the same realms around to your country.George Galloway?

Now there is one oxygen thief if ever I saw one :)

Jimbuna

04-19-24, 11:11 AM

Ukraine and Israel aid packages head for House vote in defiance of GOP far right

The House of Representatives overwhelmingly voted to advance the process of passing a large foreign aid package before a final debate and vote set to take place on Saturday.

A bipartisan majority voted for the debate rule on four bills on sending aid to Ukraine, Israel, and Taiwan, as well as a fourth bill on fresh sanctions on Russia and the possible banning of TikTok in the US.

The foreign aid package passed the procedural hurdle by a margin of 316 to 94.

A total of 165 Democrats chose to back the rule put forward by Republican Speaker Mike Johnson – 151 Republicans also voted in support of the rule.

Thirty-nine Democrats and 55 Republicans voted against the measure.

The vote to advance the foreign aid package ahead of final passage comes after several days of Republican infighting between the party’s far-right, which opposes any further aid to Ukraine, and more moderate members.
On Thursday night, all of the Democrats on the Rules Committee voted to bring the rule to the floor helping, stepping in to bail out the speaker. Three rightwing Republicans, Reps Chip Roy, Ralph Norman, and Thomas Massie, voted against bringing the rule to the House for a full vote.

Hardright Republicans blasted the speaker on Friday.

“The question everyone should be asking is what deal did Speaker Johnson make with the Hakeem Jeffries to get the Democrats on the Rules Committee to vote for a Republican rule on the foreign war package which includes $60+ BILLION more to Ukraine? This never happens,” Georgia Rep Marjorie Taylor Greene wrote on X on Friday before the vote of the full House.

“We do not have a Republican majority anymore, our Republican Speaker is literally controlled by the Democrats and giving them everything they want,” she added.

“The last time the Democrats carried a Republican Speaker over the line on a Rule vote was McCarthy’s bad debt limit deal. Shouldn’t have happened then. Shouldn’t happen today,” Florida Rep Matt Gaetz wrote ahead of the vote.

The vote to consider the bill on the floor comes after the effort to get further aid to Ukraine has stalled for months. The House is now set to vote on the individual bills for foreign aid on Saturday. The vote on Friday revealed that the $95bn foreign aid package appears to have the support needed to pass.

Votes on rules for considering bills tend to be party-line affairs, but on Friday, more Democrats than Republicans ended up backing the rule. But it also showed that a majority within the House Republicans appear to back foreign aid in the face of hard pushback from conservative hardliners.

Getting past the procedural step on Friday was a massive step forward for the Biden administration’s longtime effort to fund Ukraine’s war effort as it struggles to hold back against the Russian onslaught.

The vote was a defeat for the isolationist forces within the Republican Party, led by former President Donald Trump, who blasted the idea of further US aid to Ukraine on Truth Social on Thursday.

“Why isn’t Europe giving more money to help Ukraine?” he asked. “Why is it that the United States is over $100 Billion Dollars into the Ukraine War more than Europe, and we have an Ocean between us as separation! Why can’t Europe equalize or match the money put in by the United States of America in order to help a Country in desperate need? As everyone agrees, Ukrainian Survival and Strength should be much more important to Europe than to us, but it is also important to us! GET MOVING EUROPE!”

Mr Johnson pushed ahead with the aid package over the objection of the rightwing of the party in the face of threats of an effort to oust him from the job.

Republicans who have announced their support for a motion to vacate the chair, the process which ousted former Speaker Kevin McCarthy last year, include Ms Greene, Mr Massie, and as of Friday, Rep Paul Gosar.
https://www.msn.com/en-gb/news/world/ukraine-and-israel-aid-packages-head-for-house-vote-in-defiance-of-gop-far-right/ar-AA1njnb9?ocid=mailsignout&pc=U591&cvid=9a17510d268f460bbd0fb62ff8bc2bfb&ei=25

Buddahaid

04-19-24, 06:34 PM

And the MAGA children in the House become even more irrelevant.

Rockstar

04-19-24, 07:16 PM

How I long for the days when we were at Double Take, life was good. Now the Air force has been on 15m minute state of readiness for years. Seems like these days the world is like a big truck going down a big hill with no brakes with Cocked Pistol just right around the corner and then we can all BOAKOAGB.

Dargo

04-20-24, 08:11 AM

Here are the U.S. congressional districts benefiting from Ukraine aidIf you knew that most of the military aid that Congress approves for Ukraine was being spent right here in the United States, quite possibly in your own congressional district — strengthening our defense production capacity and creating good manufacturing jobs for American workers — would you want your representatives in Washington to support it? As the House prepares to vote on a new military aid package for Ukraine, the map above details the congressional districts that have been getting Ukraine aid money, including examples of the weapons systems being produced. As this map shows, military aid not only protects Ukrainian civilians and advances U.S. national security — it is also good for workers and manufacturing communities right here at home.

Providing military assistance to Ukraine is the right thing to do. American-made weapons are protecting Ukrainian civilians from Russian bombardment, stopping Russian forces from seizing Ukrainian cities and slaughtering their residents, and decimating the Russian military threat to NATO. It is in both our moral and national security interests to help Ukraine defeat Russia’s unjust aggression. But our military aid to Ukraine is also revitalizing our defense industrial base, creating hot production lines for the weapons we need to deter potential adversaries and creating manufacturing jobs in the United States. That’s because 90 percent of the $68 billion in military and related assistance Congress has thus far approved is not going to Ukraine but is being spent in the United States, according to an analysis by Mark Cancian of the Center for Strategic and International Studies... https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2024/04/18/ukraine-map-districts-weapons/

mapuc

04-20-24, 09:44 AM

Are watching livestream from the Congress on Sky News.

There are many words I don't know what they mean in political term

I know what most word means in ordinary use.

Words like Reserve

Markus

Jimbuna

04-20-24, 12:19 PM

I can honestly say I can't blame him.

Hopefully it will stop almost endless legal cases.

Trump campaign announces 100,000 poll watchers and attorneys poised for election day

The Trump campaign has announced that they will have 100,000 poll watchers and attorneys ready to take action on election day as former president Donald Trump’s obsession with election security continues.

Mr Trump tried to overturn the 2020 election citing baseless allegations of fraud by Democrats, and he has made similarly evidence-free claims regarding what Democrats may do this November. Even in 2016, Mr Trump asserted that he only lost the popular vote to Hillary Clinton because of fraud.

The Trump Campaign and the Republican National Committee (RNC) said in a Friday statement that they would launch “the most extensive and monumental election integrity program in the nation’s history”.
https://www.msn.com/en-gb/news/other/trump-campaign-announces-100-000-poll-watchers-and-attorneys-poised-for-election-day/ar-AA1nkmUU?ocid=msedgntp&pc=U531&cvid=eaa61f5752ee4178a2ba19595bbada92&ei=65

em2nought

04-20-24, 02:29 PM

Rockstar

04-20-24, 05:04 PM

I know nobody here will take the time to read H.R. 8035. Instead most will likely continue to believe it’s some kind of 60 billion dollar give away to Ukraine. ITS NOT. No way in hell would anyone in their right mind just give away 60 billion to a nation as corrupt as Ukraine. We also expect to be repaid. What it does is actually push our defense spending this year over the $1,000,000,000,000 dollar mark.

Specifically, the bill provides appropriations to the
Department of Defense (DOD),
Department of Energy science programs,
National Nuclear Security Administration,
Administration for Children and Families,
Department of State, and
the U.S. Agency for International Development.

supporting current U.S. military operations in the region,
the Ukraine Security Assistance Initiative,
replacing defense articles that were provided to Ukraine,
reimbursing DOD for defense services and training provided to Ukraine,
the Foreign Military Financing Program,
economic support for Ukraine,
refugee and entrant assistance,
international narcotics control and law enforcement, and
the development and production of isotopes.

expand the authorities of the President to transfer defense articles and services from DOD to foreign countries or international organizations,

REQUIRE the President to transfer long-range Army Tactical Missile Systems to Ukraine,

The above is a big one because that feeble old man and his sidekick spank the boy wonder Jake Sullivan have so far refused to use presidential draw down authority and provide those missiles. In fact besides the 7 billion or so set aside for financial aid. The bill is actually forcing the president to get off his arse and start sending what he already had the authority to do but didn’t..

REQUIRE the President to enter into an agreement with Ukraine regarding repaying the United States for the economic assistance it has provided to Ukraine,

REQUIRE certain funds that are provided for Ukraine to be matched by other donors, and establish various oversight and reporting requirements for assistance provided to Ukraine.

vienna

04-20-24, 07:14 PM

I can honestly say I can't blame him.

Hopefully it will stop almost endless legal cases.

I don't blame him one little bit. They seems to think it's a bad thing to make sure that elections are honest. They're just lucky he's not complaining about their amigos knocking off all the "old" conservative voters with what mysteriously walked out of the Wuhan lab. :03: It could go very bad for them if the population started to suspect that.

The whole Trump/MAGA/Far Right GOP Dementia about non-existent "widespread voter fraud" is really very silly, stupid, and really very tiresome; in the years since the 2016 Presidential Elections (8 years and counting), no one has yet to present even a shred of definitive evidence any widespread fraud has occurred in th the US, certainly not at any level to overturn Dementia J. Trump's mad ramblings about some sort of steal; in the years since 2016, I have only heard of a few instances, all singular and not any sort of "conspiracy", and no more than a few dozen out of the millions of votes cast; oddly, a lot of the people caught casting illegal votes were GOP voters, some of whom thought they could "prove' the existence of "widespread fraud" by casting their own illegal, singular votes, which, of course, only resulted in the arrest and prosecution of those sad sacks when then existing systems, which apparently really does work without any need for further 'tweaking, caught them in their illegality; some of the others were the usual aberrations (voting for a dead relative, forging someone else's signature, etc.) and still there wasn't enough of those to even have any effect on the various elections since 2016 and 2016 inclusive (there was one case where a recent old widower cast a ballot for his deceased wife because, when he received her ballot in the mail, he felt that mailing it back completed would be his way of keeping her memory alive; I do hope whoever adjudicated his 'offense' cut him some slack)...

The deep ironies in the GOP's war on 'voter fraud'
How many Republicans will get caught committing voter fraud before the GOP stops pointing fingers? -

https://www.msnbc.com/opinion/msnbc-opinion/republicans-voter-fraud-convictions-2024-rcna146434

In fact, there is at least one case where voter fraud did affect and election since 2016 and it happened in North Carolina in 2018 and the perpetrators were GOP politicians and their cronies; the fraud resulted in the voiding of the House election a need to redo the ditrisct's election:

‘This Smacks of Something Gone AwryÂ’: A True Tale of Absentee Vote Fraud -

https://www.politico.com/news/magazine/2021/11/29/true-tale-absentee-voter-fraud-north-carolina-523238

...and, you know what, the NC GOP apparently thinks its a really good idea to run the politician who was part of the fraud for the same seat in 2024, even given his less than stellar track record:

Republican at center of 2018 ballot fraud scandal wins House primary in North Carolina -

https://www.cnn.com/2024/03/26/politics/mark-harris-north-carolina-house-primary/index.html

...and Harris's gall is near Trumpian as he now seems to be claiming the 2018 incident was not the result of his own camp's illegalities, it was actually another "steal"

But in making his self-described comeback bid, Harris spun a Trump-like narrative. Â“In 2020, Democrats stole the election from President Trump. The year before, they did it to me,Â” Harris said in his announcement video.

The word shameless is far, far too mild...

There was also another instance in another state where a GOP election official tried to alter an election by sequestering (stealing) ballots, but he was caught before the election results were finalized and he was prosecuted...

Not a single one of the many Trump/MAGA/Far Right GOP mouthpieces who have claimed to have 'actual' "proof" of widespread voter fraud have been able to produce a single bit of verifiable proof/evidence to support their claims; some, like Giuliani, haven't even been able to do so to save their own necks, as in the defamation suits brought against him: if he really didn't want to be held liable for defamation, all he simply had to do was display his 'proof' and the cases would go away and he (and Trunp0 would be vindicated ( something that would produce orgasms for the MAGAts) and, yet, with their very lives, livelihoods, and freedom on the line they seem to refuse to let us in on the big scandal they say they have found; even Trump seems unable to pull the switch on the "big Reveal":

Trump cancels press conference on election fraud claims, citing attorneysÂ’ advice -
https://apnews.com/article/trump-georgia-press-conference-canceled-57c3f560f4e9382df74cdf3422741c7c

...all Dementia J. Trump had to do was let the world see what proof he had for his version of the "truth" and there would be no trials and he could bask in the warm glow of "I told you so"; except for the MAGAts, who like the lemmings that they are, accept DJT's idiocy, the rest of the world see it is glaringly apparent that, as far as the supposed evidence of massive voter fraud, "there no there, there" and the whole vote fraud thing is, as the Trumpettes like to say "A big hoax!"...

For those who might be tempted to knee-jerk react and say my cites are just from the "mainstream media" and are invalid, maybe you should consider how a very well-known and, in Conservatives circles, cited and respected has been working very hard to root out all the villainous voter fraud they can find and seem to have a really, really hard time to make the numbers crunch in the Trump/MAGA/GOP Far Right's favor; I checked their results for my state of California, and, by my count, since 1993, they have come up with about 53 verifiable instances of election illegalities, which is not anywhere near "massive" in a state with tens of millions of citizens; in fact, their own website starts out with declaring 1,499 cases of voter fraud with 1, 275 convictions, a conviction rate a bit over 85%, so over a period spanning nearly 30 years, the best they could do in scrounging up "proof" over that time was around 1,500 cases or, based on about 30 years, about 50 cases a year...

A Sampling of Recent Election Fraud Cases from Across the United States -

https://www.heritage.org/voterfraud

So, The Heritage Foundation, not known for being Liberal by any measure, has been diligently seeking out malfeasance and illegality on a massive scale and has also, as with the despised "mainstream Media" efforts to investigate Trump/MAGA/Far Right GOP claims, come up with a gigantic 'nothing burger'...

Common sense and logic should make a few things obvious: a cabal to 'steal' an election on national level would, in today's media climate have leaked like a sieve and come to light; if there was wide fraud in the states, individual states would have most logically have found it and reported it; if there was any verifiable, truthful substance to the fraud claims, it would be in the very interests of the Trump/MAGA/Far Right GOP contingent to make them public and simultaneously vindicate their stance and crush the DEMS and yet they haven't - why not; as far as the media is concerned, mainstream or not, there is no shortage of hungry reporters and investigators who would give an arm and a legs to break a story a s big as verified widespread voter fraud - but there have been no stories- can millions of reporters and investigators seriously be working together to suppress the truth when actually report a big scoop like widespread fraud would make them famous, and most probably rich, beyond their dreams...

Just try using a little thought and common sense and logic; it will all be clear that what Dementia J. Trump is trying to feed you has no thought and common sense or logic...

<O>

Jimbuna

04-21-24, 12:42 PM

Legal fees eat into Donald Trump’s funds as Joe Biden ups campaign spend

Donald Trump has been forced to scale back spending on his campaign as legal fees eat up three-quarters of the cash brought in by a key fundraising group.

The former president, whose hush money trial will begin hearing evidence in New York on Monday, is directing roughly the same amount of money to his legal troubles as he is to convincing voters ahead of November’s election.

Figures released by the Federal Election Commission (FEC) revealed that Save America, one of the political action committees that funds Mr Trump’s campaign, spent nearly $3.7 million on legal-related expenses in March. That amounted to nearly three in every four dollars it raised.

Meanwhile, the Trump campaign spent the same amount, $3.7 million, on getting out the vote last month, the figures showed.
That left the presumptive Republican nominee far behind Joe Biden, who spent $29.2 million on his campaign in March, including a barrage of media buys in swing states.

The figures will concern Republican leaders, as Mr Trump’s ability to campaign in person will be limited over the next six to eight weeks, as he is forced to attend court in New York every day except Wednesday.

It comes as polls show that Mr Biden has cut Mr Trump’s lead significantly since February, with the New York Times showing him just one point behind, compared to five at the beginning of the year.

Mr Trump emphasised the impact the New York court case would have on his campaign in his latest fundraising email on Sunday. “In just 24 hours I’ll be back in Biden’s corrupt court to fight for my freedom – and yours,” supporters were told as they were asked to chip in what they could.

“The biggest impact is that it is keeping him in the news for something bad and preventing him from doing normal campaign stuff,” said Christopher Galdieri, professor of politics at Saint Anselm College in New Hampshire.

“Biden was in Pennsylvania, which is the swing state of swing states for days.

“It has to be terrible and frustrating for [Mr Trump]. He looks miserable and is bored out of his mind. He is realising this is his life for the next month or so.”

Apart from lambasting the trial when he arrives at court, the former president has reached out to voters with visits to fast-food restaurants, where startled customers have been given a close-up view of the presumptive presidential nominee.

Last week, Mr Trump descended on a Chick-fil-A in Atlanta and bought a round of 30 milkshakes for startled diners.

These pit stops, in which Mr Trump signed autographs, have gone viral and have been seen by millions of voters on social media.

Details from the FEC filings show that Mr Trump’s political committees have spent $16.7 million on legal fees this year, with more than $50 million from Trump-supporting Maga Inc, which was earmarked for campaigning, being transferred to help Save America meet the legal bills.

The impact of the Trump cash crunch will also be felt by Republican candidates with the Republican National Committee prioritising Save America – now used exclusively for legal fees – ahead of the needs of candidates in congressional races.

Spending by the respective campaigns in recent months has illustrated the extent of Mr Trump’s difficulties.

His team spent $6 million on media advertising since the beginning of the year, compared with $45.2 million by the Biden team.

While Trump campaign spending has slowed down, Biden’s has increased sharply with, for example, $6.9 million being poured into a text-messaging blitz.

Mr Trump will be the centre of media attention on Monday with the start of the hush money trial, investigating allegations he falsified business records to cover up a payment to porn star Stormy Daniels in 2016.

Much will hinge on the evidence from Mr Trump’s former fixer, Michael Cohen, who was jailed for his part in the alleged scheme to pay off Ms Daniels.

The 77-year-old former president has pleaded not guilty to 34 felony charges.

Alan Dershowitz, who defended Trump in his impeachment trial, said that the 12 jurors selected for the case did not bode well for the former president.

“This is a bad jury for Donald Trump,” he said, arguing that the “best he’s likely to do is a hung jury”.

“I think it’s too much of a New York Times, TikTok jury. This is maybe the best you can do with a New York jury pool, but it’s not a good jury for Donald Trump.”
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