LOL (assuming its true)
https://twitter.com/NoLieWithBTC/status/1612564851049615371?t=lXZZ-kPKx4PN3D8aeM19bw&s=19
I think it's true but she doesn't appear locked out any more. Man the US politics is toxic on social media
From guardian
Donald Trump is scheduled to venture out of his Mar-a-Lago resort and conduct a swing of presidential campaign events later this month
Lotsa pointin’ and waggle-dancin’. Yay!
He had an element of novel curiosity last time, now he’s just a ****ing arsehole.
Hopefully this will deter lawyers from filing frivolous lawsuits.
https://twitter.com/kyledcheney/status/1616256440456384513
Lovely footage popping up on YouTube of Donald's touching eulogy for 'Diamond' - half of the republican commentator double act 'Diamond and Silk' - cartwheeling gracefully from complaining that its taking too long and he has places to be, via rambling about inflation and what the price of a gallon of gas means to a hospital through to Arnold Swartzneger getting terrible ratings when he took over on the Apprentice, and how Martha Stewart was even worse.
Beautiful - I only wish she could have been there, if only for the the couple of occasions it occurring to him to mention her - in order to say that he knew who she was - and to comfort her sister and co-host 'Silk' by saying he has never heard of her though.
I only open this thread nowadays to see if he's dead
For fear of getting the thread locked I can't say whether I'm disappointed or not.......
Lovely footage popping up on YouTube of Donald’s touching eulogy for ‘Diamond’
I see he won a golf tournament at his club even though he missed the first round due to attending the funeral!
Fake news!
He did do the first round just a couple of days in advance with no independent witnesses.
I cant believe anyone would question his honesty about the score he achieved.
He did do the first round just a couple of days in advance with no independent witnesses.
Surely George Santos was there to adjudicate. His grandmother was Old Tom Morris and his grandfather was Young Tom Morris. It was George who gave Shaun Ryder the idea of inventing the Ryder Cup.
Fake news!
It’s a fair cop sir! I intentionally left out that piece of information to paint an unfair picture of the worlds greatest leader! I’ll hand myself in once I putt my 18th hole in one!
Lovely footage popping up on YouTube of Donald’s touching eulogy for ‘Diamond’ – half of the republican commentator double act ‘Diamond and Silk’ – cartwheeling gracefully from complaining that its taking too long and he has places to be, via rambling about inflation and what the price of a gallon of gas means to a hospital through to Arnold Swartzneger getting terrible ratings when he took over on the Apprentice, and how Martha Stewart was even worse.
Just watched it.
He really is the most narcissistic, sociopathic car crash of a human being.
It's nice that he has set his children on the path to riches.
I owe everything to my Dad
If he is as business minded as his old man,Eric will have a cunning plan.
Apologies to RNP if I got his hopes up. 😉🙃
It’s nice that he has set his children on the path to riches.
Poor Eric
"Brexit has impacted our business as supply chains have been impacted by availability of drivers and staff, reducing deliveries and the availability of certain product lines," he wrote.
Eric Trump also said staff availability had been a "challenge" due to wage inflation caused by "increased business levels" in the retail and logistics sectors, adding the "staffing pool" had been indirectly affected by Brexit "with lack of access to European staff for businesses in general resulting in greater demand for the individuals previously available at the resort"
It’s nice that he has set his children on the path to riches.
I owe everything to my Dad
If he is as business minded as his old man,Eric will have a cunning plan.
Apologies to RNP if I got his hopes up.
It is a shame the BBC didn't remind everyone that it is usual practice for Trumps businesses to report losses for tax reasons, while inflating profits and value to secure finance, and for that reason any report of a loss should be assumed to just be another lie.
Poor Eric
Och,he will be fine,his old man can make 4 million in an afternoon*.
I am sure Eric is just as slick 😉
* from the Trump book of easy business
Trump worried he might be arrested, so urges protectors onto the street...
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-65000325
I think Trump has misheard the DA refer to him as a “See you next Tuesday” and assumed wrongly.
Lol😁
so urges protectors onto the street…
I wonder what the turnout for this rallying call will be. And whether any horn-wearing QAnon shamans will be there.
I think his supporters should take note of how he quickly jumped to their aid, when they were accused, arrested and imprisoned the last time they acted on his words.
Mind you, they aren't the brightest of buttons in the box.
And whether any horn-wearing QAnon shamans will be there.
Isn't he in prison? As with others who turned up to the Donald's call for protest.
I wonder what the turnout for this rallying call will be.
It's gonna be yuge.
Indicted...now get him in court before the election.
Hallelujah!
Donald, you've been a very naughty boy.
The focus has been on the hush money payment to Stormy Daniels with, apparently, no interest in the other bit of buying silence; playboy model claimed an affair with trump; sold her story to the 'national enquirer' whose chief exec, david pecker - such an apt surname in this story - then killed the story by not publishing it.
US media have been reporting that pecker has been seen entering and leaving the NY court house where the grand jury for this case sit.
Wait, I hear you say - is there more than one grand jury?
Why, yes siree! How many fingers do you have to count them?
When you add in potential indictments in the 'classified docs' case and for election-tampering in Georgia, it's a veritable smorgasbord of courtroom action.
Oh, and Jean E.Carroll's civil case...
We all knew that Trump has always been a wrong 'un, when he was elected he was still a wrong 'un and wherever he ends up, he'll always be a wrong 'un.
I'd feel much greater satisfaction if Trump's campaign donors and media apologists were indicted too.
Call me naive, but I don't quite get it.....
You have an affair with a playboy model - she says she's taking the story to the press - you get an aid to pay her some money to stop her to make it more lucrative to take your offer than take the media's money.
Why is this illegal? In fact why is it not being blackmailed?
Don't get me wrong - the orange one being brought to book for pretty much anything is a great day; I'm just not quite sure why this is actually so very naughty. I'd far rather see him brought down for what happened on Jan 6th where people died and democracy was properly threatened. That's what should be sending him to prison.
Because the payments made involved campaign money from the 2016 election, so it became fraud. Trump's argument is that he was going to pay it anyway - and did, personally in the end - but it's the use of funds to cover something up that politicised it, and possibly aided his victory.
Why is this illegal?
Campaign fund violations, I believe. It's a bit like getting Al Capone on tax charges.
I’d far rather see him brought down for what happened on Jan 6th where people died and democracy was properly threatened. That’s what should be sending him to prison.
That's being investigated separately. He's facing multiple possible charges in different jurisdictions by different investigators. One effect of this will be to distract him badly. It will make campaigning for president difficult, and also tie his lawyers up with fighting a bunch of separate cases.
https://twitter.com/washingtonpost/status/1641555802216452100
Here’s hoping this pile upon on pile of extra stress takes its toll on the 76 year old cheezburger muncher. But not before his arse is handed to him by the courts.
Rotten bastard.
I’m just not quite sure why this is actually so very naughty. I’d far rather see him brought down for what happened on Jan 6th where people died and democracy was properly threatened. That’s what should be sending him to prison.
I agree. The Stormy Daniels stuff really doesn't, so far at least, sound that damning.
Apparently his former lawyer paid off Stormy Daniels and when later Trump reimbursed the lawyer by double the amount he put it down as "legal services" which it is claimed was false.
And because he allegedly benefited politically from the hush money they are trying to link it with campaign fraud.
The problem with going after Trump on pretty minor stuff like that, years after it happened, and as the result of intense investigations by the District Attorney, it does appear to look a bit like a political witch-hunt.
Which of course Trump is milking for all it's worth. If people start believing that Trump is the victim of am establishment witch-hunt it is likely imo to garner him sympathy which he isn't entitled to.
And will possibly make it more difficult to convince people that he is guilty of the much more serious stuff.
Trump's attempt to lead an insurrection to overturn a presidential election is far more difficult to dismiss as of little importance. Even some of his own supporters ended up disgusted with him.
However despite that as many as 40% of Americans believe that the last presidential election was rigged. IMO the issue should not be put to rest and instead vigorously pursued.
Trump is a criminal and should face the consequences. The Stormy Daniels sounds like a distraction to me.
Stormy Daniels a distraction?
It would take more than two mounds of silicone to distract me.
The issue, ernie, as has been pointed out many times is violation of regulations regarding use of campaign funds.
The sort of transgression that would offend your political sensibilities if it occurred in camden or croydon or some other inner city borough.
I don't care what it takes to sink trump; my interest is in seeing him sink.
As has been pointed out to you before, Alphonse Capone was a criminal non-pareil but was convicted on tax charges.
Get trump in court, charge him, convict him, sentence him.
Who gives a flying one what the charge is?
You might but the vast majority don't.
Trump is going to hand himself in apparently...
I'm a bit disappointed, I was hoping for an O.J. Simpson style get away in a golf buggy.
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Full MemberWhy is this illegal? In fact why is it not being blackmailed?
It's not being blackmailed because she didn't say "give me X dollars or I'll go to the press", he said "please don't go to the press, I'll give you X dollars"
And it's not illegal to pay people off- you're going to hear a lot of that coming up. What mattered was that he used campaign funds- other people's money- to do it, and that's fraud. Now a lot of people will say "so what". But Trump's entire career in politics and out has been about throwing around other people's money, so it's more relevant than it looks. It's not a one-off or a slip, it's his entire MO
It's like, if Boris Johnson gets done for misleading parliament, it's not just relevant for that one time, it's relevant because he's a compulsive liar and it's not one incident.
But Trump’s entire career in politics and out has been about throwing around other people’s money, so it’s more relevant than it looks. It’s not a one-off or a slip, it’s his entire MO
Exactly. He's made a career of just flouting financial regulations, knowing that investigating and prosecuting a rich guy is too much trouble for most regulators. When he does get caught, he hires lawyers to negotiate it down to a minor fine or something, then he just goes on doing it anyway. Yes, he should be prosecuted for the big crimes, but I think he should also be prosecuted for every single minor crime too, just like regular people would be.
https://twitter.com/SimplyMetric/status/1639317210765180952
Michael Cohen has already been sent to jail for this even though it was Trump who jumped into bed with Ms Daniels.
So it's hard to argue it's not a crime.
I watched a bit of this on Fox, as I thought it would be interesting to see if they're doing anything different while they get stuffed to the tune of $1.6 Billion for talking shite about Dominion.
Nope, not a bit of it, I swear they'd rather there be a full on Civil War than loose any viewers. The coverage of this is wall to wall, and it's just a long list of folks coming on to say it's the Dems out to get Trump or weaponizing the law, or any variation of the above.
I get why the NY cops want everyone on duty!
I’m a bit disappointed, I was hoping for an O.J. Simpson style get away in a golf buggy.
Please let it be so....
Even better, when he does get taken in to court, please can Melania wear this again.
The problem with going after Trump on pretty minor stuff like that
Minor stuff is what campaigns are built and won on. If repeated claims about sordid relationships and his attempts to hush them had been proven before the election, then his voters might not have been impressed.
Imagine a campaign without the relatively minor issue of Hillary Clinton's emails, for example. She'd probably win the election if the FBI hadn't announced an investigation weeks before the vote. Small things matter, as Trump found out. Literally small, according to Stormy Daniels.
Bit gutted about this tbh. He'll do far more damage to the republican cause if he runs. If the case prevents him from running they get a chance to 'wipe the slate clean' and win back some of the middle ground. Given that Biden will be visibly and publicly, very elderly, against a younger vibrant rep candidate, it could play into rep hands.
So whilst its legally (if not morally) fine to pay her hush money, its wrong because a rich man (who could afford $130K without noticing) put his hand in the wrong pocket to do the paying. Yes, I can see it's illegal but I'm still not convinced its the right first play.
Yes, he should be prosecuted for the big crimes, but I think he should also be prosecuted for every single minor crime too, just like regular people would be.
While I sort of agree, this is also politics. The republicans can set the narrative ball rolling in the court of public opinion (actually not public opinion - the bit of the public that either do vote GOP or could possibly vote it in the future) that this is persecution not prosecution- which will be a hell of a lot easier with this than the storming of the Capitol and people dying. By the time they get to the good stuff the public will either be bored or enraged and the Dems (who are not doing the prosecuting, but sort of are because of the daft US system) will start looking like the bad people. Stupid I know, but people are stupid.
Statue of limitations means they have to charge the Stormy Daniels campaign finance violation before May IIRC.
