US Politics Thread 2021-24

[Buddahaid]

[Torvald Von Mansee]

Originally Posted by Ostfriese

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

Top tier Stepford wife creepiness

[Jimbuna]

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/w...-b2510452.html

[Armistead]

Originally Posted by Ostfriese

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

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

[Buddahaid]

Originally Posted by Armistead

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

Mopping the floor?

[Ostfriese]

Originally Posted by Armistead

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

Wouldn't that be illegal in Alabama?

[Reece]

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

[Jimbuna]

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/uknew...age=BB1jIfh5|1

[Onkel Neal]

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

[Dargo]

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.

[Dowly]

Originally Posted by Onkel Neal

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

[Skybird]

Originally Posted by Onkel Neal

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

One does not know whether to laugh or cry.

[vienna]

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...





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




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[Jimbuna]

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/w...-b2512796.html

[em2nought]

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