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On Friday evening, the US president told reporters aboard Air Force One “we’ll sue them for anywhere between a billion and $5bn, probably sometime next week. We have to do it."
Sorry - can we sue people for saying things that aren't true? Why aren't people lining up to sue Trump?
Personally I think that the BBC should countersue Donald Trump for defamation with this remark :
“I made a beautiful statement, and they made it into a not beautiful statement"
His "beautiful statement" was in fact a shit speech which the BBC actually made better by cutting out most of the bollocks.
I reckon that the BBC should aim at getting $10 billion out of Donald Trump for telling lies about them.
Going off on a slightly different tack for a while (although a BBC is article referenced) I had to smile wryly at the comment in this report about potential use of SMRs at Wylfa where the Americans are kind of saying "Why are you not going with our reactor tech?"
In the light of the America First approach over there, there's quite a special irony or hypocrisy to moaning about missing out. The law of Unintended Consequences, perhaps.
BBC should just walk from the US and treat it the same way it does Moscow - send a reporter or two but treat it as the third-world tin-pot dictatorship it actually is.
Will not be impressed if any compensation is paid and in fact I'd quite prefer that they wasted five billion on lawyers before the give Trump a penny.
Really not surprised he's chasing BBC after the email rumours of blowing Bubba.
BBC should just walk from the US and treat it the same way it does Moscow - send a reporter or two but treat it as the third-world tin-pot dictatorship it actually is.
You should watch more of the BBC's news coverage of Russia and the US. It doesn't seem like you really know much about either place if you think they're "third world tin pot dictatorships".
https://youtube.com/@bbcstever
Trump is such a ridiculous man he will be seething at the blowing bubba stuff
I absolutely want the BBC to defend this charade and stand up to him. A report on the BBC today suggested they had insurance to cover this kind of thing, but wasn't clear if that was for legal costs or any damages.
This feels different now, he isn't able to brush it off as easily as he has done before. The danger is how far is he willing to go to create a distraction in the hope of moving on the news cycle, invade Venezuela or Canada. Unfortunately I think a lot of innocent people are going to get hurt as he desperately try's to save his own skin.
Nah
he'll blow it off (no pun intended) and his cult are easily distracted
I wish it was just a cult that supported Trump but unfortunately he has widespread support in the United States and his approval ratings makes him one of the more popular Western leaders.
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https://www.statista.com/statistics/1456852/world-leader-approval-ratings/
Right down the bottom where Trump should be lurks Macron and Starmer.
BBC should counter sure for his statement that 100% of their reporters are corrupt.
BBC should counter sure for his statement that 100% of their reporters are corrupt.
Trump is such a ridiculous man he will be seething at the blowing bubba stuff
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=StCO7h74ybU
BBC should just walk from the US and treat it the same way it does Moscow - send a reporter or two but treat it as the third-world tin-pot dictatorship it actually is.
You should watch more of the BBC's news coverage of Russia and the US. It doesn't seem like you really know much about either place if you think they're "third world tin pot dictatorships".
https://youtube.com/@bbcstever
Interesting. Are you suggesting that Russia is not a dictatorship?
I absolutely want the BBC to defend this charade and stand up to him. A report on the BBC today suggested they had insurance to cover this kind of thing, but wasn't clear if that was for legal costs or any damages.
"The President of the United States just called for Democratic members of Congress to be executed."
https://bsky.app/profile/chrismurphyct.bsky.social/post/3m6363k5nb22s
TBH going on his previous form
Asked whether he would declare war against the cartels, Trump suggested he would continue with individual strikes. “I think we’re just going to kill people that are bringing drugs into our country, OK?” he said. “We’re going to kill them, you know? They’re going to be, like, dead.”
he doesn’t really care whether other people live or die as long as it’s a benefit to him.
As long as he can get a little news soundbite for the daily Trump show.
I strongly recommend you do 'not' read this article if in any way sensitive to the topic of child loss.
if in any way sensitive to the topic of child loss
Jesus ****ing Christ, what a ****ing world where I post that 😕
Asked whether he would declare war against the cartels, Trump suggested he would continue with individual strikes. “I think we’re just going to kill people that are bringing drugs into our country, OK?” he said. “We’re going to kill them, you know? They’re going to be, like, dead.”
he doesn’t really care whether other people live or die as long as it’s a benefit to him.
I think he does care - in that he is genuinely cruel. He's genuinely thrilled by the thought that pain, injury, suffering and death is a tool available to him use. During his previous administration, when there were at least a few comparative grown ups around him, he was continually having to be talked out of plans of action that involved extrajudicial killing and maiming. His suggested border/immigration policy was literally to shoot people dead as they walked towards the border - when he was told how illegal that was his next request was that potential immigrants simply get shot in the legs. He was obsessed with how sharp the points on the top of his border wall would be and asking if there were ways of making them sharper.
The only thing stopping these things being announced and actioned was Whitehouse staff knowing how illegal his requests were and basically using distraction to get him onto any other topic.
Now things are different because the Supreme Court's 'Presidential Immunity' announcement means theres nothing Trump can be told he can't do. His enablers and courtiers of course aren't necessarily under the umbrella of that immunity (and not thinking too much about how that immunity annoucement was caveated) - the scope off that immunity has deliberately been left unsaid - and presumably aren't giving much thought, yet, as to what happens when this joy ride ends.
HIGNFY went with the blowing Bubba story, their lawyers must have had a night off
The only thing stopping these things being announced and actioned was Whitehouse staff knowing how illegal his requests were and basically using distraction to get him onto any other topic.
Well I guess this what's behind the Democrats current call for service personnel not to carry out illegal orders.
Disappointed MTG has chosen to quit, her recent criticism seemed to get much more traction and exposed Trump more effectively than many others. It's clear Trumps threats to put a candidate against her have intimidated her out the race, for financial reasons probably.
I do wonder what madness she will do next though.
I do wonder what madness she will do next though.
hopefully she’ll follow Palin into semi obscurity once the oxygen of publicity runs out
I do wonder what madness she will do next though.
She probably sees how things are finally turning sour for Trump, and will use the opportunity to do the TV circuit to stay relevant - being mindful of not criticising Trump too much at this time - then when Trumps ship is finally bow up & sinking she can position herself as the heroine in the story and get reelected..
*I refuse to believe someone as vile to the core as Trump doesn't get their comeuppance.
I refuse to believe someone as vile to the core as Trump doesn't get their comeuppance.
I fear that you are correct, bit I do wonder if the sucking up to the Saudis last week was partly to agree his sanctuary in the unlikely event that there a chance of justice in this world.
MTG will probably run for POTUS or something once Trump is out of the way.
It's clear Trumps threats to put a candidate against her have intimidated her out the race, for financial reasons probably.
Things are far more febrile than that in the USA, she had more to lose than just money by staying a high profile Trump target.
I don’t know how anyone can have any sympathy for MtG, she's just as vile as Trump. She only turned on Trump when he refused to support her senate run.
This is the vile woman who chased a school shooting survivor in the street, questioned 911, the Jewish space lasers and is supposed to have made money on insider trading when Trump crashed the stock market.
Just as evil as the orange turd she use to worship.
I don’t know how anyone can have any sympathy for MtG,
I'm not sure anyone does - she's just highlights something all the MAGA crowd are having to wrestle with just now - choosing your moment to unhitch your wagon from the Trump Train as it careers towards the buffers.
There isn't going to be a Trump 2028. But Trump has no interest in anointing a successor because he can't bear for the focus to be on anyone other than him. He also couldn't bear want to back a successor and see them loose . He'd happily see a Republican candidate fail though, because he could sell that as signifying of his own popularity. (the Republicans have lost in pretty much every election that doesn't have Trump on the ballot paper)
Republicans need to find a way of scraping all Trump's shit off their blankets - I think they see Epstein as a way of doing that. There isn't a way to capture the Trump vote if you're not Trump. They need instead to find something that will make Trump suddenly and utterly repellant to Trump voters. Otherwise the Republican Party goes forward without Trump at the helm, but instead having him sniping constantly from the sidelines - effectively having two oppositions rather than one. Epstein may work for them - it may just all blow up in their faces if it doesn't.
Everyone's trying to find the moment to play their hand - play it a moment too soon and you're a traitor - not being Trumpy enough is worse that being a democrat (Hang Mike Pence) . Play it a moment too late and you risk get dragged down with Trump if the Epstein files do turn out to the the kryptonite people hope it will be.
What's disappointing really is - the tool Greene needed to get the files released was entirely in her grasp. It's Speaker Mike Johnson that has been holding that back and he's utterly debased himself doing so. In his desperation to get back in the speakers seat previous Speaker Kevin Maccarthy set a condition that it only requires on person to make a motion to vacate and set the wheels in motion to boot the speaker out. Having stuck her head above the parapet anyway - why didn't MTG just do that?
There isn't going to be a Trump 2028. But Trump has no interest in anointing a successor because he can't bear for the focus to be on anyone other than him. He couldn't bear want to back a successor and see them loose . He'd happily see a Republican candidate fail though becuase he could sell that as signifying of his own popularity.
The fact is that Trump is not actually a Republican - he has been a registered supporter of a variety of other parties, including the Democrats, for long periods.
He is only interested in himself, as you say. His final act of throwing the GOP completely under the bus will be amusing to behold.
whoops wrong thread
But Trump has no interest in anointing a successor because he can't bear for the focus to be on anyone other than him. He couldn't bear want to back a successor and see them loose . He'd happily see a Republican candidate fail though becuase he could sell that as signifying of his own popularity.
He could do an 'Alex Ferguson' to cement his name in the pantheon of the great and the good. Personally I don't think he looks beyond the end of his nose, so I think it's unlikely. But if we start to see a hand-picked successor then maybe that's the plan...
Wouldn't he just get one of his kids to do it? Best way for the grift to continue.
Trump show was never like the Kardashian’s , as it’s only based on the Trump , there’s no way he could stomach someone else getting the daily coverage 🙂
Epstein files:
Obviously things can be redacted and not disclosed. Can the actual text contained be tampered with or altered then seen fit for disclosure?
With a friendly DOJ (anyone considered unfriendly to Trump, ie honest people, are being fired and placed in positions they are unable to take action from) incriminating evidence can be lost in the shredder.
It is a shame that the democrats didn't release it all when they were in power, but that is probably because the democrat establishment are just as deep in the shit on this.
There isn't going to be a Trump 2028.
Strong words. I know he's not a healthy man, but he has access to medical resources well beyond most other people.
I don't really understand the firing thing. I know American employment law is different but surely you can't just fire folk for no reason. All those generals can't have just been fired surely.
Wouldn't he just get one of his kids to do it? Best way for the grift to continue.
He hates his kids, with the exception of the one he is sexually attracted to.
I don't really understand the firing thing. I know American employment law is different but surely you can't just fire folk for no reason. All those generals can't have just been fired surely.
I worked for a Company with the HQ in Houston Texas. We got sold and then asset stripped.
The directors walked into the Houston office, 2 weeks before Christmas and gave nearly everyone a weeks notice. Warehouse staff were given longer to wind it down. No redundancy payments.
I don't really understand the firing thing.
It's not firing per se, he can't do that. He simply has them removed from post and reassigned to an unfavourable posting. That may be outside of their usual career progression, eg an infantry officer being moved to head up a logistics command or one deemed low in value. It's essentially a career stall that inevitably leads the individual to 'resign' from service.
I don't really understand the firing thing. I know American employment law is different but surely you can't just fire folk for no reason.
Many (think most) US states have "At-will" employment. So can be fired at anytime with no notice or reason. The only protection is if the "reason" is not a legal one eg discrimination or retaliation for the employee not doing something illegal.
You can have contractual protection on top but then thats got around by just being put on gardening leave until the contract period expires.
I don’t know how anyone can have any sympathy for MtG, she's just as vile as Trump. She only turned on Trump when he refused to support her senate run.
Thats one theory. The other is she has hit the obvious problem a lot of the maga supporters finding out that he really doesnt agree with them and is indeed one of the elite they all hate.
Sums up Trump in a nutshell that he was happy to weaponise the Epstein files against the democrats whilst knowing he is all over them himself.
Does also say something that despite the dislike for her from anyone on the left it took her upsetting the trumpites for the level of abuse and threats to get high enough she decided to quit. Did see somewhere though that handily the date she has chosen takes her one day over the minimum to start receiving pension benefits etc.
That's private sector though, this is public sector. AIUI, career bureaucrats can't be fired at will, but they can be reassigned. Political appointees (cabinet officers, etc.) can be fired at will. Military officers, I suspect, can be reassigned but not fired without cause (so that would involve a court-martial or other disciplinary hearing.)
I think some of the DoJ lawyers refused to follow instructions that they believed were improper or illegal and resigned, others were fired based on spurious accusations of misconduct. It looks like the Democrats will retake the House next year so that will mean years of hearings into all this.
Another legal failure by an unqualified Trump hire
BBC News - https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/cr7m7nd4d2kt
Live updates: Judge dismisses cases against James Comey and Letitia James - BBC News
Another legal failure by an unqualified Trump hire
Live updates: Judge dismisses cases against James Comey and Letitia James - BBC News
It's all part of "lawfare"; putting your political opponents under massive stress
Annoy President Trump and you will be subject to legal scrutiny (Comey's had a year of that this year and also previously), be subject to huge legal defence invoices, charged with felonies, indicted (since September), arraigned and finally tried.
So far the cases have been rejected only on grounds of the interim appointment of the US Attorney, the legal stuff is yet to be ruled upon.
Trump personally pays nothing.
Every time I load this thread up, and it pauses on page one while it does something to jump to the first unread post, I'm reminded about the very first post made about the tangerine toddler.
Been following his latest outbursts on the campaign trail for nomination.
I've got a sneaking feeling that he'd be an excellent choice, if only for the comedy value.
If only the biggest issue had been a lack of general competence. 😒
So far the cases have been rejected only on grounds of the interim appointment of the US Attorney, the legal stuff is yet to be ruled upon.
Trump's team are presenting this a a 'technicality' - that the case had been rejected because the attorney bringing the case hadn't been recruited in quite the right way. That makes it sound like a minor HR issue and ignores the fact that Lindsey Halligan desperately under qualified and has never actually brought any case to court before.
The thing likely to prevent Trump from making another attempt is the only reason that it fell to Lindsay Halligan to bring the case against Comey is because nobody else with even the faintest legal ability, no matter how loyal to trump, was prepared to take the case on. It's not just that Halligan was less than brilliant as a lawyer - she's totally on her own, she has no department, team or assistance. She seemingly can't even call on Clippy to check the spelling and grammar
The statute of limitations has passed on the comey case.
I assume he will sue.
My read was that it has passed to refile. But it is less clear to me if they can they escalate the current case up to the partisan supreme court or not. The strict legality of the case may be less may be less important when the supreme court is so blatantly corrupt.
I keep up to date here, although nothing's been published on the Comey case since last week. It was predicted to fail then,
On Monday morning, a federal magistrate judge in Virginia eviscerated attorney Lindsey Halligan over her actions in the case against James Comey, finding that she appeared to make “fundamental misstatements of the law” when presenting the case to the grand jury on September 25.
https://www.lawdork.com/p/11-reasons-why-the-jim-comey-indictment
federal magistrate judge in Virginia eviscerated attorney Lindsey Halligan over her actions in the case against James Comey
I know that the US still has capital punishment but that seems a bit harsh all the same.
I keep up to date here, although nothing's been published on the Comey case since last week. It was predicted to fail then,
There was always the question of whether they would get a true trumpist judge but it didnt look great for them. It started off with someone who although republican had some expertise and professional pride and they went "ermmmm maybe I can find something. Lets see. nope checked and its zilch". I assume then trump and co then asked various others going down the competence ladder and all but the last looked at the one above them and went "if they say nope then its nope".
There's a special election coming up in a Deep Red Tennessee seat, can't imagine it's not going to the GOP but if the Dems make any headway it'll maybe shift the GOP internal balance of power.... maybe...
Secretary of War, Pete Hegseth, has been advised that he's being investigated for allegedly ordering, "kill them all" following the sinking of a small Venezuelan boat by US forces
Widely reported.
There are linked stories relating to Senator Mark Kelly, an all-American hero, fighter pilot and space shuttle commander, who advised US personnel to remember their oath and to refuse unlawful orders and the early retirement of USN Admiral Alvin Holsey
Conveniently the USA aren’t signed up to the ICC, but of course there’s a risk that Hegseth could be detained at any point in the future for war crimes should he travel abroad. There’s probably quite a few heated discussions in the Pentagon with Generals who don’t want to see their future travel plans curtailed.
The other week one of Meidas Touch regular guest who is a retired JAG mentioned some current serving military personnel are seeking private legal advise on the orders being given and not going through the military legal support.
Conveniently the USA aren’t signed up to the ICC, but of course there’s a risk that Hegseth could be detained at any point in the future for war crimes should he travel abroad
Thats what the "invade the Hague" act is for aka "American Service-Members' Protection Act" which authorises the US President to use any option to release US military personnel from ICC courts/prisons.
LOL
Might not/probably won't come to anything admittedly
Well Hegseth has just thrown Admiral Bradley under the bus.
"Admiral Mitch Bradley is an American hero, a true professional, and has my 100% support. I stand by him and the combat decisions he has made — on the September 2 mission and all others since.”
Seem to recall the original Admiral involved resigned rather than carry out these attacks?
Secretary of War, Pete Hegseth, has been advised that he's being investigated for allegedly ordering, "kill them all" following the sinking of a small Venezuelan boat by US forces
Reminds me of this
Seem to recall the original Admiral involved resigned rather than carry out these attacks?
Took "early retirement" one year into a three year posting.
The blame game seems well underway currently with Hegseth and co realising that, just possibly, it might not be best to admit to war crimes even under the current administration since it might block holiday plans in a few years time unless they manage to go full dictatorship by then.
So he's in Slitherin then.
Looks like a bad photoshop to me, but made me chuckle.
The second strike on the boat seems to have rattled the White House, it could go very wrong.
We can forget about killing survivors clinging to wreckage now - Trump's said something awful about Somalians so move on
He also began a televised cabinet meeting by criticising the press for reporting that he's having trouble staying awake on the job then spend the rest of the meeting struggling to stay awake
Looks like a bad photoshop to me, but made me chuckle.
Isn't that this whole presidency? "That can't be real... can it?!?"
Seem to recall the original Admiral involved resigned rather than carry out these attacks?
Bradley's predecessor has apparently agreed to give evidence to the Congressional hearings into the boat attacks. Given that he quit after legal advice was taken over the attacks, and the UK refused to share Five Eyes intel in the region with the US for fear of being charged with being complicit with US activities, that could be a fun afternoon.
Watching one of the mainstream american channels 'Morning Joe' that was suggesting there were four missle strikes on the boat, not just the two. But Pete Hegseth hung around just for the first one, then obviously had to be at a really important meeting straight after that so didn't hang around for the rest of the show.
Just another day in the Trump office...
He also began a televised cabinet meeting by criticising the press for reporting that he's having trouble staying awake on the job then spend the rest of the meeting struggling to stay awake
just realised I recklessly squandered the opportunity to for a gag about being anti-woke.
The Pentagon has investigated SecWar Pete Hegseth's use of personal SM to send information about the strikes on Yemen. He's said, "No classified information. Total exoneration. Case closed"
Not quite; because he decides what's classified and what isn't, he hasn't sent "classified information" because he didn't call it that. He has breached policy and sent potentially damaging information had it leaked early.
WASHINGTON, Dec 3 (Reuters) - A Pentagon investigation has faulted U.S. Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth for using Signal on his personal device to transmit sensitive information about planned strikes in Yemen, saying it could have endangered U.S. troops if intercepted, two people familiar with the document said on Wednesday.
However, the report by the Pentagon's independent Inspector General did not weigh in on whether the information Hegseth posted was classified at the time since it acknowledged that he, as the head of the Pentagon, can decide what information is classified and what is not, the sources said.
https://www.reuters.com/legal/government/pentagon-review-faults-hegseth-over-signal-messages-yemen-strikes-2025-12-03/
The Wall St Journal has revealed that SecWar Hegseth asked Admiral Alvin Holsey, the head of US operations in the Caribbean, to step down after months of discord between the two.
Holsey's testimony will be interesting if he's asked to give evidence. I wonder if SecWar will be allowed to slap a "Classified" banner on it
"Hegseth Asked Top Admiral to Resign After Months of Discord
Relationship between Pentagon chief and military leader had been deteriorating since Trump’s inauguration"
https://www.wsj.com/politics/national-security/hegseth-asked-top-admiral-to-resign-after-months-of-discord-9e7b357f?mod=hp_lead_pos1
FIFA Peace Prize awared to the Donald Trump. OMG FML etc. Awarded for making the world a safer place. How come then so many people feel the opposite? Can't we just eject all this nonsense out into space?