His use of capital letters Is so Random.
WTF would Reagan have had to do it? He was a two term president that didn't lose the second time...Originally Posted by Seshmeister
I suppose it does make sense that he wouldn't bother with the debate, in that when you are up by that many points and people already know who you are there's no upside to the debate from where Trump sits: all Trump showing up serves to do is potentially elevate the rest of the field. Trump is better off just holding rallies and doing his thing solo style.
Scramby eggs and bacon.
Eat Us And Smile
Cenk For America 2024!!
Justice Democrats
"If the American people had ever known the truth about what we (the BCE) have done to this nation, we would be chased down in the streets and lynched." - Poppy Bush, 1992
Yeah, the press conferecnce where he was gonna "release a supposed extensive report that he
previously said would clear him and his allies of wrongdoing in the wake of his latest indictment
by a Georgia grand jury"
Probably one of the few times he actually listened to someone advising him and thought better of it.
Georgia’s fake electors acted at Trump’s direction, indicted ex-GOP chair says
David Shafer, former chairman of the Georgia Republican Party and one of the 19 defendants in the
Georgia election interference case, claimed in a court filing that he and the other Republican electors
who tried to falsely certify Donald Trump as the winner in Georgia were acting at the former president's
behest.
Full story at:
https://www.axios.com/2023/08/22/geo...-elector-trump
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Buried in Trump trial date filing from Jack Smith is a key Secret Service detail
One of the key frustrations from the House Select Committee investigating Jan. 6 and the attempt to
overthrow the 2020 election was that the Secret Service "accidentally" deleted every text communication
between agents and officials from that day. It was scheduled maintenance, the Homeland Security
Inspector General's report explained in 2022.
At the time, the Secret Service denied the report from the IG.
But Smith revealed in his filing that he 3.1 million pages of Secret Service emails did exist – and he
has them.
Full story at:
https://www.rawstory.com/secret-serv...ed-jack-smith/
I find it to be conspiratorial the court did not seize his passport. This F A T, traitorous criminal will most likely make his bond as well.
Not looking good at all for the orange ol' F A T T Y
For any of you gamblers out there...
You Can Bet on Trump’s Weight Ahead of His Surrender to Jail
"The line currently sits over/under 278.5 pounds, a far cry from the 244 pounds White House physician
Sean Conley recorded for Trump in 2020."
Full piece at:
https://www.thedailybeast.com/you-ca...on-county-jail
So much fake shit on the internet already. Old people and dumb folk, the two biggest voting blocks on both sides are not going to know what hits them next year and it's all kind of scary...
It boggles my mind that anyone thinks this set of politicized prosecutions are anything remotely a good idea. History will look upon this as one of the ugliest times and most corrupt in American history. And I am not looking at Trump here. It's disgraceful. Sad to see.
Roth Army Canada
Last edited by FORD; 08-25-2023 at 08:17 PM.
I don't think I would trust anyone on this panel to mow my lawn...I doubt they could start the mower.
Gives a whole new meaning to "A Clockwork ORANGE".
Trump gave the same height and weight as Chris Hemsworth
I'm confused...
Writing In All Proper Case Takes Extra Time, Is Confusing To Read, And Is Completely Pointless.
Cheeto's Rosh Hashanah message to American Jews....
Trump Basically Just Lost the New York Bank Fraud Case Before It Even Started
Former President Donald Trump, his top executives, and heirs were declared completely liable of “persistent
and repeated fraud”—and the real estate empire was unceremoniously stripped of its business licenses
in New York—after a judge’s powerful ruling Tuesday ahead of a massive trial that seeks to hit them with
more than $250 million in penalties for bank fraud.
And in a stunning development, the judge has already ordered the complete dissolution of the fabled Trump
Organization–the tycoon’s pride and joy, the empire that made him famous and elevated him into
the White House. The Trump Organization and its sister companies will be sent into receivership to be
under the control of a court-appointed officer.
Even before the trial officially starts, the ruling handed New York Attorney General Letitia James a
near total victory, meaning that next week’s trial will mostly focus on damages that could pulverize
whatever is left of Trump’s many business entities and bank accounts.
Full story at:
https://www.thedailybeast.com/trump-...t-even-started
Related:
Eric Trump mocked for claiming Mar-a-Lago is worth over $1 billion — after judge says he lied
https://www.rawstory.com/eric-trump-mar-a-lago-value/
Last edited by silverfish; 09-27-2023 at 08:20 AM.
How much did the guys that worked at the banks who lent all that money based on obvious bullshit make in commission?
Trump co-defendant pleads guilty in Georgia election case
Scott Hall, one of the 18 defendants charged along with former President Donald Trump for
allegedly interfering with the 2020 presidential election results in Georgia, pleaded guilty Friday.
Hall is the first defendant to enter a plea in the case.
Under the terms of an agreement with Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis' office, Hall pleaded
guilty to five misdemeanor charges and will be sentenced to five years' probation, if he abides by
the terms of the deal. He also agreed to testify in related court hearings and trials stemming from
the sprawling 41-count indictment that was unsealed in August.
Full story at:
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/don...ase-rcna118140
And the whole house of cards continues to fall for the Cheet-o cult leader.
Roth Army Militia
Originally posted by WARF
Rikk - The new school of the Roth Army... this dude leads the pack... three words... The Sheep Pen... this dude opened alot of doors for people during this new era... he's the best of the new school.
Trump Deceived Deutsche Bank, Former Exec Testifies
A former Deutsche Bank executive testified this week that the German financial behemoth only
agreed to make massive loans to Donald Trump because of Trump’s vast personal fortune. The
problem? The bank apparently thought, based at least partly on financial statements provided by
Trump, that he was far wealthier than he really was.
Haigh testified that when Trump approached the bank for loans, he offered several properties as
collateral, including his Doral golf course and his Chicago hotel and condo building. Those properties
alone, Haigh said, would not ordinarily have been enough. Haigh, who was head of risk assessment for
the Deutsche’s private wealth management division—a division that handles banking for very wealthy
clients—said that it was unusual for a customer to try to offer those types of properties as collateral.
A key part of Trump’s defense in the case has been that no one was really hurt by the deceptions, so
James has no reason to sue him for fraud. Judge Engoron rejected that idea in his ruling before the
trial. He found that Trump had indeed committed fraud and noted that even if fraud doesn’t cause a
loss to anyone, it can undermine the stability and credibility of the financial system.
Full story at:
https://www.motherjones.com/politics...xec-testifies/
CORRUPTION
SEPTEMBER 14, 2022
How Donald Trump Perfected the ‘Art of the Steal’
BY GREGG BARAK
Trump Tower, Chicago. Photo by Daniel Huizinga via Flickr
Donald Trump has spent a lifetime of deception conning other people including those who have worked for him or with him.
As a connoisseur of racketeering with numerous illicit schemes or rackets under his financial belt, Trump’s litanies of fraud and wrongdoing have crisscrossed the private and public spheres.
For example, traditional forms of money laundering have been ongoing for some three decades. They include some $100 million received from associates of Russian syndicated crime, whether in the forms of direct leasing or purchasing of Trump properties in the Borough of Manhattan, or indirectly from loans passed through Deutsche Bank to the Trump Organization amounting to $2 billion.
The fraudulent financial and political behavior once confined to Trump Tower and, more recently, carried out from the Oval Office, the Trump International Hotel DC, or Mar-a-Lago, simply represent the latest “art of the steal” or political entrepreneurship from Boss Trump.
When he was elected president in 2016 and became the Racketeer-in-Chief, the fraudulent behavior not only encompassed the fleecing of adversaries and consumers alike, but the range of victims or “marks,” expanded to include tens of millions of his political supporters.
With the power of the presidency, Trump ramped up his illegal and fraudulent schemes of white-collar, corporate and state crime. Whether we are talking about Trump and his associates’ looting monies from the coffers of the 2016 and 2020 political campaigns, or the allegations of fraud in connection with raising funds, these actions are all indicative of a business model that profits in one form or the other from dirty or stolen money.
As the former president as well as a potential candidate for president in 2024, Trump has only ramped up his illegal and fraudulent schemes of white-collar, corporate, and state crime.
The Shell Game
What has always been the key to Trump’s modus operandi and to the illicit patterns of his criminal enterprise has been usage of shell companies.
For example, the Center for Responsive Politics (CRP), a research and government transparency group that tracks money in politics and its effects, revealed that layers of shell companies were used to pay for 2020 Trump campaign adds. During the summer of 2020, the Campaign Legal Center (CLC) filed a complaint with the Federal Election Committee.
The CLC filings claim that the Trump reelection campaign and its joint fundraising committee had laundered nearly $170 million in spending through firms headed by Trump’s former campaign manager, Brad Parscale, and other firms created by Trump campaign lawyers.
All for the purpose of hiding millions of dollars provided to companies engaged in significant work for the campaign including “payments to Trump family members or associates.”
Similarly, according to CRP, the Trump Make America Great Again Committee, spent more than $771 million through American Made Media Consultants, LLC, including more than $3.5 million in direct payments to people and firms involved in organizing and arranging for the Stop the Steal rally at the White House on Jan. 6, 2021.
Trump’s criminal enterprise and its economic bottom lines were fraudulently enhanced by his losing the 2020 reelection, the Jan. 6 assault on the Capitol, and the FBI search of Mar-a-Lago.
Overlapping Rackets
I am referring specifically to the overlapping political rackets designed as best as possible to circumscribe campaign finance laws, such as Trump’s Save America PAC and the fake elector scheme, a multimillion-dollar grift revolving around Trump’s Big Lies.
Increasingly, thanks to the House Select Committee hearings and the Mar-a-Lago Scandal, more and more people, including conservative legal pundits, believe that Trump will be prosecuted, “even if the case is a negotiated plea,” Washington Post columnist Paul Waldman wrote this week.
“To do otherwise,” he added, “would be the most dangerous thing of all.”
It’s hard to disagree with Waldman’s conclusion: Not to prosecute Trump for his lifetime of lawlessness before, during, and after the presidency would provide official validation to “the presumption that the law doesn’t apply to those with money and power.”
https://thecrimereport.org/2022/09/1...-of-the-steal/
It would show, he said, that “the system can be bullied or bought; [that] consequences are for little people, and the likes of Donald Trump can do whatever they please.”
Gregg Barak, Ph.D., is an emeritus Professor of Criminology and Criminal Justice at Eastern Michigan University
Do y'all believe that Trump is really that clever to pull off all that shit on his own or just a really good leader with a great talent to find and hire top-tier crooks to further his wealth..?
I'm leaning towards the later... but then wondering shouldn't that make him a great politician..?
"If you want to be a monk... you gotta cook a lot of rice...”
No, but I believe he is that fucking stupid to pull off all that shit on his own.
It’s not about Trump. It’s about non-politicians winning key positions that aren’t part of the two party system. There’s a lot of people in Washington DC who got rich while in office. They all have dirt on each other and so nobody goes after anyone. What criminals fear is outsiders not part of the well oiled corrupt system.
No! You can't have the keys to the wine cellar!
Well he's kind of gotten caught so not smart?
And even the stupid that have amassed money and power have a good firewall only they can fuck thorugh...
Weird illogical post.
He was obviously a successful politician in that he managed to become president of the USA but that doesn't mean that was a good thing. Plenty of countries have had horrendous leaders throughout history - this is not a new thing.
As far as the great talent to find people thing I think as a voter you should really sit and think on that. If you think that Biden is too old and daft to be president I would say look at who he appoints to do the actual work. Did they get the work done? Compare that to Trump as president and the shitshow. Last time he said he would find all these amazing people - what actually happened? How many people did he appoint and then sack? Basically everyone. Twice.
Yeah the premise of my post was somewhat illogical... but based on simple leadership constructs.
Most of the good and a few great leaders I've encountered are rarely the smartest person within a leadership team. Most have the instinct to make smart choices in who implements their vision, and all are strong negotiators/motivators.
Big government such as ours, though this doesn't really apply as much like in business. The party infrastructure combined with the "swamp/deep state" has a life of its own beyond the single person in various leadership positions... especially at the top.
Personally, I don't view Trump nor Biden great leaders but give Trump the edge over Biden as I don't believe Biden is doing much more than keeping a seat warm and consuming oxygen... others are driving the train.
It definitely feels that way now with Biden...a bit ga-ga/out to lunch, and I voted for the guy. No regrets whatsoever about that vote, either, but of it's Biden vs. Trump in 2024 (and even being fully aware that my vote doesn't matter in the least) I'm not even gonna bother going to the polls.
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