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  • do or die
    do or die

    At this point, in trying to get any kind of a "win" the Republican "leadership"  Trump, Pence, O'Connell along with the ole Tea baggers like Rand Paul.....are pretty busy at work.   Belittling, t

  • Mark F
    Mark F

    "I worked 4 months in New York (medicine hat)  in a lab (strip club) and we were forbidden to share anything to media (hookers)and weren't allowed to speak with non-family  (johns)  about the  sc

  • HardCoreBlue
    HardCoreBlue

    Unfortunate about the suicide. We do though need a lot more of this declining hush money to expose bad behaviours. Makes no difference to me who these people who do bad things support politi

comment_597163
25 minutes ago, HardCoreBlue said:

Isn’t fraud criminal? Yea I know I’m having a hard time keeping up.

The lawsuit was civil, meaning it did not involve criminal charges. But James said she was referring allegations of criminal wrongdoing to federal prosecutors in Manhattan and the Internal Revenue Service for investigation.

    comment_597180

    Alan Weisselberg, former CFO, pleaded guilty to state tax-evasion charges in a plea deal with the Manhattan District Attorney's Office, he agreed to testify at a criminal trial against the Trump Organization before serving a five-month jail sentence. 

    With Weisselberg spilling beans.......pretty sure Letitia James has what she needs on this one....

     

     

    comment_597196
    59 minutes ago, do or die said:

    Alan Weisselberg, former CFO, pleaded guilty to state tax-evasion charges in a plea deal with the Manhattan District Attorney's Office, he agreed to testify at a criminal trial against the Trump Organization before serving a five-month jail sentence. 

    With Weisselberg spilling beans.......pretty sure Letitia James has what she needs on this one....

     

     

    What’s 5 months of prison time buying them?

    comment_597201

    75 million, to 750 million?

     

    merely a slip of the sharpie!
     

    some advice for Mr. Weisman. 

    move into your basement, stay there till Putin is dead.

    The Trump\Republican\Russian mob ties are the thing I would like investigated.

    probably too many American  bigwigs involved for that.

    Edited by Mark F

    comment_597202
    23 minutes ago, HardCoreBlue said:

    What’s 5 months of prison time buying them?

    Weisselberg was convicted on 15 counts ranging from grand larceny to tax fraud to falsifying business records.  He admitted that he had conspired with the former president’s company to commit numerous crimes.
    He was facing about 15 years in a State pen.  As Trump's financial gatekeeper for decades.......he could give the DA a pretty good road map on where the bones are buried.

    Edited by do or die

    comment_597206
    41 minutes ago, do or die said:

    Weisselberg was convicted on 15 counts ranging from grand larceny to tax fraud to falsifying business records.  He admitted that he had conspired with the former president’s company to commit numerous crimes.
    He was facing about 15 years in a State pen.  As Trump's financial gatekeeper for decades.......he could give the DA a pretty good road map on where the bones are buried.

    Delay, plead ignorance, lie on social media, deflect/project, throw others under bus as appropriate and yell hoax/witch hunt has worked marvellously for grotesque Trump and his family so far. Will it continue to work? 

    comment_597211

    More than 60 percent of Republicans want the United States of America declared a Christian nation: report
       
    A majority of Republican voters favor establishing a national religion in the United States of America, according to the results of a survey conducted by Politico and the University of Maryland that was published on Wednesday.

    The poll contained two key questions.
    The first asked respondents if they believed that the Constitution allows for an official state religion.  Forty-three percent of Republicans said yes and fifty-seven percent said no.

    The second question was if those polled would "favor or oppose the United States officially declaring the United States to be a Christian nation?"

    Sixty-one percent of Republicans said they would, while only thirty-nine percent said that they would not.

    The First Amendment to the Constitution explicitly forbids such an action: Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances.

    Politico nonetheless noted in its report that "appeals to Christian nationalism have a long tradition in American history, though they have usually operated on the fringes. But the increasingly mainstream appearance of this belief in GOP circles makes sense if you look at new public opinion surveys. Our new University of Maryland Critical Issues Poll suggests that declaring the United States a Christian nation is a message that could be broadly embraced by Republicans in the midterms and 2024 presidential race. But our findings also see limits to its appeal — and over the long-term, Christian nationalism could be a political loser."

    It added that "much of the support for declaring the U.S. a Christian nation comes from Republicans who identify themselves as Evangelical or born-again Christians: Seventy-eight percent of this group support the move compared to 48 percent of other Republicans. Among Democrats, a slight majority of those identifying themselves as Evangelical or born-again Christians also backed such a declaration (52 percent), compared to just 8 percent of other Democrats."

     

    comment_597238
    Just now, bustamente said:

    So former bootlicker AG Barr says hands off Trumps kids, how about Biden's

    I seem to remember a certain orange troll telling the world that he handed responsibility for his companies to his kids in a blind trust. So, if they're criming like he was, and you know they were, they're fair game.

    comment_597253

    District 11 Appeals court, with 2 Trump appointees presiding in its 3 person panel,  overturned Judge Cannon’s order that the DOJ cannot continue it’s criminal investigation of Trump while the special master reviews the documents. One more delay tactic shot down (pending an appeal to SCOTUS if Trump’s team goes that route).

     

    comment_597254
    9 hours ago, FrostyWinnipeg said:

    Trump argues presidents have the power to declassify documents 'even by thinking about it'
       
    Former President Donald Trump recently suggested that presidents don't necessarily have to conduct a formal process when it comes to declassifying documents.

    In fact, the former president claimed documents can be declassified “even by thinking about it.”
    During a recent interview with Fox News' Sean Hannity, Trump offered his take on the top-secret documents taken from the White House and transported to his Mar-a-Lago estate in Palm Beach, Fla.

    “There doesn’t have to be a process, as I understand it,” Trump told Hannity. “If you’re the president of the United States, you can declassify just by saying, ‘It’s declassified.’ Even by thinking about it.”

    The former president went on to offer more context to his unfounded claim. According to Trump, a president has the power to make any decision he desires even without a formal process.

    “There can be a process, but there doesn’t have to be. You’re the president. You make that decision. So when you send it, it’s declassified,” Trump added.

    “I declassified everything.”

    Trump Docs Probe: Court Lifts Hold On Mar-a-Lago Records

    WASHINGTON (AP) — A federal appeals panel has lifted a judge’s hold on the Justice Department’s ability to use classified records seized from former President Donald Trump’s Florida estate in its ongoing criminal investigation.

    The ruling from a three-judge panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 11th Circuit is a victory for the Justice Department, clearing the way for it to immediately resume its use of the documents as it evaluates whether to bring criminal charges in its investigation into the presence of top-secret government records held at Mar-a-Lago after Trump left the White House.

    comment_597255

    "The Rule of Law means that the same laws apply to all of us, regardless of whether we are this country’s newest citizens or whether our [families] have been here for generations," Garland said. "The Rule of Law means that the law treats each of us alike: there is not one rule for friends, another for foes; one rule for the powerful, another for the powerless; a rule for the rich, another for the poor; or different rules, depending upon one’s race or ethnicity or country of origin." Garland

    Empty words. He protects the legal establishment as a whole providing cover for the bad players within it.  

    comment_597261

    Trump Tells Stunned Hannity FBI Were Looking for Hillary’s Deleted Emails in Mar-a-Lago Raid
    https://www.mediaite.com/trump/watch-trump-tells-stunned-hannity-fbi-were-looking-for-hillarys-deleted-emails-in-mar-a-lago-raid/

    Ultimate "But Hillary" moment.

    55 minutes ago, HardCoreBlue said:

    "The Rule of Law means that the same laws apply to all of us, regardless of whether we are this country’s newest citizens or whether our [families] have been here for generations," Garland said. "The Rule of Law means that the law treats each of us alike: there is not one rule for friends, another for foes; one rule for the powerful, another for the powerless; a rule for the rich, another for the poor; or different rules, depending upon one’s race or ethnicity or country of origin." Garland

    Empty words. He protects the legal establishment as a whole providing cover for the bad players within it.  

    Yup, the talk and walk, are two different things...........

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