barnswallow
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I hope you're right!
Purple and Black
Taking Independent and Unofficial Back
Taking Independent and Unofficial Back
Trump- Douches gonna douche
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RodeoSchro
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From Politico:
This October, Trump and his company are already set to go on trial in a civil fraud lawsuit brought by the New York attorney general. On Jan. 29, 2024, a trial is scheduled in a federal class action lawsuit accusing Trump and his company of promoting a pyramid scheme. And on March 25, 2024, he’ll face a jury on New York state criminal charges that he falsified business records in connection with hush money payments to a porn star.
The run of trials will occur during a pivotal period in the presidential race. Campaigns will be in full swing, and primary voting is scheduled to begin in early 2024.
Add to that the classified documents trial, starting in May 2024. And there are two more potential indictments coming - Jack Smith's federal indictment in Washington, D. C. over what Trump did on January 6th, and Georgia AG Fani Willis's potential RICO trial in Georgia, which will be a state trial.
Republican voters might decide that Trump has too much baggage, assuming he loses some or all of the trials against him. Worst-case scenario for the GOP is that Trump gets the nomination but gets convicted on most or all of the various charges against him. I think there's simply no way the entire Republican voter base would support him.
barnswallow
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Tommy Tuberville, gop senator from AL has been holding up military promotions. Believe it or not, this predicament, endangering national security, has to do with abortion access for military members. Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin instituted a policy enabling military members seeking an abortion to travel to states where it is not banned, if necessary. Tuberville is holding the military in a headlock because he doesn't approve.
See where Sen. Tommy Tuberville is blocking 301 military promotions [WaPo;8.12.23]
See where Sen. Tommy Tuberville is blocking 301 military promotions [WaPo;8.12.23]
RodeoSchro
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Trump may have just lost a whole lot of whatever fortune he has. He got raked over the coals in New York yesterday, and I mean raked. The AG's fraud trial against him and his sons is now nothing more than determining how much money they will be penalized - plus the Trump Organization will have its New York business certificates cancelled AND an outside auditor will be placed in charge of winding down the New York-chartered Trump businesses.
It boiled down to the fact that Trump thought that if he put a statement at the front of his balance sheet saying said balance sheet was "worthless" (his words), then he could attach any value to any asset he wanted. Finance does not work that way.
What's to come next is probably the flip side - Trump and his organization also allegedly undervalued assets when presented to taxing authorities, so as to reduce their taxes. It seems it would be hard for Trump to say stuff like, "Yes, I valued Bedminster at $700 million on THAT balance sheet, but THIS balance sheet I'm giving you only values it at $30 million, so that's what I need to be taxed on" and get away with it.
If Trump did indeed to that sort of thing, I think there's a very real possibility that more criminal charges could be heading Trump's way. He and his company would seem to be guilty of tax fraud, which is not something state and city governments look favorably on.
It boiled down to the fact that Trump thought that if he put a statement at the front of his balance sheet saying said balance sheet was "worthless" (his words), then he could attach any value to any asset he wanted. Finance does not work that way.
What's to come next is probably the flip side - Trump and his organization also allegedly undervalued assets when presented to taxing authorities, so as to reduce their taxes. It seems it would be hard for Trump to say stuff like, "Yes, I valued Bedminster at $700 million on THAT balance sheet, but THIS balance sheet I'm giving you only values it at $30 million, so that's what I need to be taxed on" and get away with it.
If Trump did indeed to that sort of thing, I think there's a very real possibility that more criminal charges could be heading Trump's way. He and his company would seem to be guilty of tax fraud, which is not something state and city governments look favorably on.
barnswallow
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Under increasing pressure from members of his own caucus, tuberville finally relented from delaying military promotions.
Sen. Tuberville drops remaining holds on senior military promotions [npr;12.19.23]
barnswallow
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I still don’t love this thread title but I’m looking for that trump-adjacent thread and I always end up here.
Here’s a video with content I hadn’t heard / read about in any other news media. It’s mike johnson, fragile majority leader in the U.S. Congress, suggesting funding cuts to law enforcement, the FBI, Dept of Justice, the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives [ATF], and more. The party that likes to tout itself as the party of law and order, which blows its stack about the stupid catch-phrase ‘defund the police’, is proposing cuts to law enforcement. Yup. It’s ‘opposite day’ again at the gop.
Here’s ’Against All Enemies’ podcaster Ken Harbaugh speaking about the implications with a retired member of law enforcement;
Former Officer SLAMS GOP For NEW ATTACK On Law Enforcement [Meidas Touch;3.16.24]
We know that mike johnson has been playing as t——‘s lackey. He recently made a trip to mar-a-lago to ‘kiss the ring’. He blocked a bipartisan immigration bill, crafted in the Senate, from reaching the House floor for a vote, where there were enough votes for it to pass. He blocked it at the former guy‘s specific request, not b/c it was a bad bill for republicans but because t—— wants the immigration issue to run his campaign on.
Is this latest move to make cuts to law enforcement mike’s own idea? Do you wonder about the motivation? I do. Could it be the gop want more violent crime? Less oversight? Who knows? But have a listen to this former officer discuss the implications.
Here’s a video with content I hadn’t heard / read about in any other news media. It’s mike johnson, fragile majority leader in the U.S. Congress, suggesting funding cuts to law enforcement, the FBI, Dept of Justice, the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives [ATF], and more. The party that likes to tout itself as the party of law and order, which blows its stack about the stupid catch-phrase ‘defund the police’, is proposing cuts to law enforcement. Yup. It’s ‘opposite day’ again at the gop.
Here’s ’Against All Enemies’ podcaster Ken Harbaugh speaking about the implications with a retired member of law enforcement;
Former Officer SLAMS GOP For NEW ATTACK On Law Enforcement [Meidas Touch;3.16.24]
We know that mike johnson has been playing as t——‘s lackey. He recently made a trip to mar-a-lago to ‘kiss the ring’. He blocked a bipartisan immigration bill, crafted in the Senate, from reaching the House floor for a vote, where there were enough votes for it to pass. He blocked it at the former guy‘s specific request, not b/c it was a bad bill for republicans but because t—— wants the immigration issue to run his campaign on.
Is this latest move to make cuts to law enforcement mike’s own idea? Do you wonder about the motivation? I do. Could it be the gop want more violent crime? Less oversight? Who knows? But have a listen to this former officer discuss the implications.
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barnswallow
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Judge Juan Merchan is presiding over the criminal fraud case brought by NY DA Alvin Bragg against d——- t——. The one involving hush money payments. t—— has just verbally attacked the judge’s daughter.
Judge Quickly STRIKES BACK at Trump with EXPANDED Gag Order [Meidas Touch;4.1.24]
Judge Quickly STRIKES BACK at Trump with EXPANDED Gag Order [Meidas Touch;4.1.24]