Rather than rising to the moment, our courts seem to be succumbing to the uncertainty of it all, delaying justice again and again rather than demonstrating the power of our judicial system to operate responsibly. In the current context, should such failure continue, justice delayed could all too easily become democracy denied.
Source: Trump Justice Delayed Is Democracy Denied | The Smirking Chimp
Trump echoes Hitler’s ‘final solution’ rhetoric in his latest speeches over the weekend.
“Give me a break—I mean, it’s Trump,” said Lindsey Graham.
“I have zero concern,” said Marco Rubio.
“I don’t think it’s encouragement at all,” said retired Gen. Keith Kellogg. “We know what he means when he says it.”
The press must find this very familiar. The dismissive attitude that Republicans claim to have toward Trump’s expressed intent to turn his back on Europe is the same mindset the national media shows toward Trump flat-out proclaiming that he’s going to rid the nation of political opponents and conduct a purge of “globalists” and “communists.”
It’s just Trump. It’s not like he actually means what he says. And says again. And again.
Now, let’s check in to see if Biden made an error in grammar. That’s worth a headline.
Source: Here We Go: Trump’s Got A ‘Final Solution’ | Crooks and Liars
Words from the world’s largest delinquent debtor to the UN
US allies have criticised Donald Trump for saying he would “encourage” Russia to do “whatever the hell they want” to any NATO country that doesn’t meet his spending guidelines.
Source: ‘Unhinged’: Trump alarms allies with Russia encouragement
The federal government will not be operating on behalf of the people of the United States during a prospective second Trump term; it will be operating on behalf of Trump.
Source: Trump’s Second Term Plans: Wildest Proposals if He Wins 2024 Election
The former president’s bid for absolute immunity is an attempt not only to get the case brought against him by special prosecutor Jack Smith tossed, but to delay the trial as long as possible during his 2024 presidential campaign.
Source: Trump’s Federal Trial On Jan. 6 Charges Delayed By Judge | HuffPost Latest News
There’s been a change in the narrative.
As the New Hampshire results rolled in last Tuesday night, veteran political journalist John Harwood tweeted, “We’re in early stages of massive analytic shift from ‘Biden’s in big trouble’ to ‘Trump’s in big trouble.’”
Source: Oh Yes, Candidate Trump Is In Big Trouble | Crooks and Liars
“He is under a dozen investigations for crimes ranging from espionage to seditious conspiracy to defraud the U.S. and is going to prison.
He committed treason, sedition, and incited a deadly insurrection.
He lost in 2016 by 3 million votes. Lost the GOP the House in 2018, lost them the Presidency (by 9 million votes) and the senate in 2020 and lost them the senate (again) and prevented their red wave in 2022.
He’s a 76 year old malignantly narcissistic morbidly obese drug addicted dementia-ridden abomination who doesn’t believe in exercise.
Accomplishments of his administration, nepotism Barbie. Just crimes, disgraces, embarrassments, impeachable offenses, abuses of power, abrogations of oath, and violations of the U.S. constitution.”
Source: American psycho – » The Australian Independent Media Network
When he looked into the audience, his gaze fell upon two oligarchs—one an accused sexual assaulter; the other, a wheeler-dealer who cashed in on a deal that led to one of the biggest penalties in Wall Street history. These are Trump’s people. This is his world. This is his crowd.
Source: Trump Shares His New Hampshire Victory With an Accused Sexual Predator – Mother Jones
Trump will of course be the Republican nominee. But he’s likely to be an extraordinarily weak candidate in the general election, given that almost half the entire U.S. electorate is independent, while only 25 percent are Republican (and 25 percent are Democrats).
Trump’s base adores him. Most of the rest of America is justifiably afraid of what he might do with a second term.
Source: Trump’s Poor Showing in New Hampshire | The Smirking Chimp
Trump goes full fascist. Russia, Israel & Nth Koreans are there to back him in and we’ll witness a third-world collapse live and not just in Africa. Think about it.
“Last night, it was amazing,” Trump said, referring to what was actually an underwhelming victory in the sparsely attended Iowa caucuses. “NBC and CNN refused to air my victory speech—think of it—because they are crooked, they’re dishonest, and, frankly, they should have their licenses, or whatever they have, taken away.”
Source: Trump Demands Networks Lose Licenses for “Ignoring” His Victory Speech | The Smirking Chimp
Donald Trump is a psychopathic criminal. He is a racist, fascist cult leader determined to destroy American democracy.
Those facts must be repeated over and over this year, because so many Americans appear willing to re-elect him president.
Source: Don’t Normalize Donald Trump
Weren’t they paid? If they were was it from Trump’s Charity or Campaign Funds? Will they be suing Trump?
Donald Trump lost three of his lawyers in one day when attorney Joe Tacopina filed a declaration requesting the withdrawal of his firm’s representation of the former president in multiple lawsuits.
Data for 2023 shows gun violence increasing as former president Donald Trump campaigns for the top job again. Alan Austin reports.
Source: America’s political killings surge as Trump’s hate speech intensifies
Case for immunity
Williams, lawyer John Sauer blew his case when he told the judges that Trump could order the military assassination of a political opponent, and that wouldn’t be a prosecutable offense unless he was already impeached for it.
Former President Donald Trump’s attorney crashed and burned trying to convince the D.C. Circuit appellate judges that former President Donald Trump has absolute immunity from being prosecuted in the federal election conspiracy case, former federal prosecutor and CNN legal analyst Elliot Williams said during a panel on Tuesday.
Trump was sooo bad even Mossad didn’t want anything to do with him
During an interview with Piers Morgan this Tuesday, Mark Epstein, the brother of disgraced financier Jeffrey Epstein, says the billionaire sex trafficker’s death was likely orchestrated by someone who wanted him to keep quiet. “Do you think that one of those people who may have had a vested interest…
Source: Trump was such a ‘crook’ that Jeffrey Epstein cut ties with him: Epstein’s brother – Raw Story
Trump attorney Alina Habba on Thursday suggested that Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh would “step up” and rule in favor of the former president because he “fought for” him.
Hitler’s advice ” if your going to lie mak it big.” If your going to commit a crime make it big. Trump has been doing that his whole life. He’s a psychopath and publicity whore.
Former President Donald Trump is trying to quash his indictment for the attempt to steal the 2020 election by arguing before a federal appeals court that presidents have an “absolute immunity” from criminal prosecution, even after leaving office.
Source: Donald Trump’s Bid For ‘Absolute Immunity’ Is His Most Dangerous Argument Yet | HuffPost Latest News
The democratic experiment on this planet is only 250 years old, more or less, and this would signal a return to the way the world had been ruled for the 7,000 years prior to that: by kings, popes, mullahs, strongman warlords, and the morbidly rich.
Between Agenda 47 and Project 2025, Donald Trump and the rightwing billionaires who own the GOP have big plans for this nation, regardless of which Republican takes the White House next. They’re dead serious and far more well-funded than any of the groups that fight for and advocate democracy.
Trump Says He Graduated ‘First in His Class From Wharton’ and Therefore Shouldn’t Be Indicted — Wharton Drops Humiliating Truth
Source: National Times – Trump Says He Graduated ‘First in His Class From… | Facebook
If Biden’s age is fair game, why aren’t Trump’s age and apparent mental decline? Biden may appear frail at times, but he’s rational.
The growing evidence of Trump’s dementia and paranoia, on the other hand, poses a potential danger to the future of America — if he’s reelected. At the least, the media should be investigating and reporting on it.
Donald Trump, the US Republican presidential frontrunner, said that undocumented immigrants were “poisoning the blood of our country,” repeating language that has previously drawn criticism as xenophobic and echoing of Nazi rhetoric.
Source: Donald Trump says migrants ‘poisoning the blood’ of America’
Sue Coe’s drawing, published here for the first time, exposes the internal contradictions of the word “vermin” as applied to either humans or animals. It shows the former president squatting on a toadstool, throwing a tantrum, observed by thoughtful and sensitive animals (so-called vermin!) in a forest clearing. The rats, mice, rabbit, snail, and moth (holding a lantern) watch the performance with a combination of amusement and alarm. They know that the only creature acting like a beast – like vermin — is the bawling human. The phantom above who sternly presides over the scene is Hitler.
Source: Vermin – CounterPunch.org
“It would be the end of American democracy. America would become a leading autocratic nation in the world and we would be, therefore, emboldening countries like some of those you mentioned earlier, North Korea, China, but also the pro-autocratic tendencies of countries that haven’t entirely lost their way, but are well on their way to, like Hungary and Turkey,” she said.
Source: Mary Trump Issues Dire Prediction About Second Donald Trump Term
For vice president, Trump is considering Ohio Sen. JD Vance, Arkansas Gov. Sarah Huckabee Sanders, MAGA superstar Kari Lake, South Dakota Gov. Kristi Noem and Georgia Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene. Byron Donalds, R-Fl., is also on the list as is fellow Floridian Matt Gaetz. Melania Trump is reportedly pushing for Tucker Carlson. Seriously. (Nobody thinks he would be a good fit, however, because “he can’t be controlled,” which is hilarious.)
Carlson and Trump are on the horn regularly, however, and he is apparently advocating for the odious Stephen Miller, the mastermind of Trump’s heinous immigration program, for, wait for it, attorney general because he’s “a serious person.” It’s not a bad guess that this is being considered since Miller is currently working on the recruitment of an army of right-wing lawyers to staff a MAGA-dominated executive branch.
Source: Donald Trump’s dream team looks like an American nightmare | Salon.com
Trump is flagrant about his goals because he knows the only people who are paying attention are already either fierce supporters or people who were going to vote against him anyway.
Source: Trump is hiding his fascist plans in plain sight | Salon.com
The Fact that Trump has incited Insurrection has been proven. Whether or whether not and under which law it applies to the role of President is to be tested. Donald Trump has however been proven to be an insurrectionist
Trump bragged about his Colorado court win but longtime appeals lawyer warns he faces “extreme headwinds.”
“If it wasn’t already clear, our democracy is in very serious danger.”
Source: Warnings Grow That US Media Again Failing to Accurately Cover Trump’s Fascist Threat
Words from the man who proudly said he was conceived in Germany
Former U.S. President Donald Trump pledged during a Veterans Day speech on Saturday to “root out” those he described as “radical left thugs that live like vermin within the confines of our country” if he’s elected in 2024, an openly fascistic threat that drew comparisons to Nazi rhetoric.
Source: Trump Issues Sinister Threat to ‘Root Out’ Leftists If Elected in 2024
If he wins the 2024 election, Donald Trump will be America’s first dictator. This plan of retribution is advancing rapidly in preparation for Trump’s return to the White House – an outcome that seems increasingly likely given early polls which show him leading President Biden in key swing states. Trump’s MAGA supporters and tens of millions of other Republican voters support the traitor ex-president and his attempt to end multiracial democracy and to replace it with a new form of American apartheid. The Republican Party is in Trump’s thrall.
Source: The secret to Trump’s revenge plot: He’s making his plans for vengeance public | Salon.com
And, of course, by tightly controlling Trump’s public image, Fox News is doing its level best to protect him legally. These days, Trump can’t open his mouth without undermining his legal defense in the 4 separate criminal trials he’s facing. Just this week, for instance, he claimed Sidney Powell, the lawyer most closely identified with Trump’s attack on the 2020 election, “WAS NOT MY ATTORNEY, AND NEVER WAS” after she took an eleventh-hour plea deal with prosecutors in Georgia. Within minutes, this claim was immediately debunked by journalists posting clips of Trump claiming otherwise in 2020.
Morrison is just so out of his depth when not the central performer. He looks in so awe of Trump
Pratt, who has faced questioning by special counsel Jack Smith in one of two federal investigations against the former president, recounted his private discussions with Trump and described his business practices as being “like the mafia,” according to a recording obtained by 60 Minutes.
In Pratt’s interviews with Smith, he allegedly divulged the submarine discussion they had post-presidency, a discussion that Trump denies ever happened. Another witness told prosecutors about Pratt spending $1 million for tickets to a Mar-a-Lago New Year’s Eve gala and volunteering to pay the club a sizable markup for the tickets that actually run about $50,000 per entry, two people familiar with the matter told the New York Times.
Donald Trump has publicly announced his plans to become America’s first de facto dictator if he wins the 2024 election. Using Orwellian Newspeak and other lies, Trump and his spokespeople are presenting their fascist agenda as “taking back the country” for “real Americans.” In reality, Trump’s Agenda 47 and Project 2025 (both created by right-wing think tanks and interest groups) are no such thing. If imposed on the American people, these political projects will attempt to end the First Amendment, make White Christianity the official religion, fire government employees who are not personally loyal to Trump, use the military to occupy cities, invoke the Alien Enemies Act to deport undocumented immigrants, and take away the civil and human rights of other targeted groups.
Grifters are just smarter just play golf with one. Trump signed documents on his apartment, and on Mar-a-Lago that factually prove none of those assets are worth what he claims they are. However, he genuinely believes a Big Mac cheeseburger in his hand is worth 1000 times more simply because he’s DJ Trump. He’ll even try to sell it on even if his mark doesn’t want to buy it. However, it’s a crime for which he can be sued if he made any prior agreements with Macas. According to Trump the MAGA way is to outsmart, outwit, and even break the law just get the deal done if the profit is greater than the fine, and if caught always yes always deny it. A sucker will only bring you to justice once in a 100 times so you can even afford a lawyer you only pay if you win.
The attachment was a 1994 document, signed by Trump, that pegged his Trump Tower triplex at 10,996 square feet — not the 30,000 square feet later claimed for years on financial statements that were given to banks, insurers and others to make deals and secure loans.
Source: Trump reveals New York penthouse true size is smaller than claimed | Fortune
Chaos is the same strategy being applied by the opposition LNP to this referendum, Chaos has been based on the avoidance of truth of any kind in order to fragment the minds of the nation. They have the money, the media, and have forgone any obligation to history, context, and truth. It’s the Trump/ Bannon strategy of “flooding the zone with shit”. Since Morrison left the nation in a shambles Albanese has been getting no media credit for doing the job he was appointed to do. To repair the damage done and make Australia a fairer place by returning this country and moving forward once again to the notion of the Common Good rather than protecting the interests of a limited few. Winning isn’t their only priority
Biden is not getting credit — that the public sees and reads mostly about dysfunction and crises, created largely by Republicans and fomented by Trump — is not just politically disadvantageous for Biden and the Democrats.
It is part of an increasingly effective strategy by Trump and his allies to foment public disgust with our democratic system of government. It is an essential component of Trump’s authoritarian agenda.
His lawyers asked federal judge Tanya Chutkan to dismiss the four-count felony indictment because Trump’s actions are protected by “presidential immunity.”
Source: Trump Requests Jan. 6 Charges Be Dismissed | HuffPost Latest News
Former U.S. Attorney Joyce Vance, a professor of law and frequent MSNBC contributor,
says Hall “was in the thick of things with Sidney Powell on Jan 7 for the Coffee County scheme involving voting machines. If he’s cooperating, it’s a bad sign for her.”
Hall’s plea deal “spells bad news for, among others, Sidney Powell,”
says former Dept. of Defense Special Counsel Ryan Goodman, an NYU Law professor of law. Goodman posted a graphic showing the overlap in charges against Hall and Powell, which he called “alleged joint actions.”
“Trump’s campaign machine is bleeding cash for legal expenses,” Reuters reports. From interviews and a review of court records and campaign finance reports, Reuters has identified 13 potential witnesses or co-defendants who were represented by law firms that received payments from Trump’s Save America super PAC. Those payments were disclosed in the finance reports as general payments to entities rather than specific compensation to individuals.
Source: National Times – Trump crowd members with union signs revealed to… | Facebook
A judge ruling that the former president defrauded banks and investors for decades should, in theory, be a crushing blow against Trump’s profile as a successful business genius and serve as fodder for his Republican primary opponents. Yet right-wing media have already begun sweeping the ruling under the rug, following the Trump family’s lead in downplaying the alleged fraud and raging against the judge and prosecutor.
GUILTY AS CHARGED
Engoron also ordered the cancellation of certificates that let some of Trump’s businesses including the Trump Organization operate in New York, and ordered the appointment of a receiver to manage the businesses’ dissolution. The judge described how Trump, his adult sons Donald Jr. and Eric, the Trump Organization and other defendants made up valuations and inflated Trump’s net worth to suit their business needs.
Source: Donald Trump is found liable for fraud in New York civil case | Reuters
Mary Trump knows her uncle only too well and could go head-to-head with him in any interview. ” Call me Doctor Mr Trump”
Instead of embracing real pro-democracy journalism and consistently warning the American people about the proven dangers of Donald Trump and the larger neofascist movement, the country’s news media continues to normalize him. The most recent prominent example of this type of media malpractice is NBC’s decision to give the ex-president a platform on last Sunday’s edition of the venerable TV news program “Meet the Press.”
They still line up to do his work in hope
On Tuesday, Rudy Giuliani’s lawyer, Robert Costello, sued the former New York mayor for more than $1.3 million in allegedly unpaid legal fees dating back to 2019. That lawsuit, Costello says, is a consequence of Trump’s own refusal to pay Giuliani for years of work as Trump’s personal attorney.
Costello, whose biography touts his 40-plus year of litigation experience, told me Tuesday that Bannon was the first client “I’ve ever had to sue for fees.” Giuliani was the second.
Bannon and a Trump spokesperson did not respond to requests for comment.
Lawyers for Trump have landed in legal jeopardy due to his lies. They’ve been forced to testify against him, sanctioned, fined, stripped of law licenses, sued, and indicted.
Source: Trumpworld Lawyers Keep Getting Stiffed on Fees – Mother Jones
MAGA is unapologetically white as not everyone in a Red, Blue, or even Purple State is racist. Trump however appeals to those that are with absolute bullshit promises and looking for $10 donations.
Donald Trump is a type of fascist political preacher and MAGA is his congregation. His sermons are of violence and destruction.
Source: Experts warn that “accountability” for Donald Trump could come at a cost to democracy | Salon.com
In asking for a lighter sentence, Tarrio’s lawyers pointed out that he has a history of working undercover with law enforcement.
Source: Proud Boys Leader Enrique Tarrio Sentenced In Jan. 6 Attack | HuffPost Latest News
Has this rooster finally become a Feather Duster?
The arrogance that Trump and his acolytes bring to lying to the public is not the superpower they think it is. Trump fanboys like “Dilbert” creator Scott Adams may call him a “Master Persuader,” but in reality, a majority of Americans have always disliked Trump and his overall popularity has declined over time. And that’s in the world of politics, where lies have more power and “debate” is an unstructured mess that often privileges disinformation. In court, the rules of evidence and argument restrain Trump and other Big Liars more. So much so that Giuliani’s lies about Moss and Freeman, which were so popular among the MAGA right, were too stupid to even bother arguing about it at trial. The only question left is how much money the two will get from the sale of that Manhattan apartment.
Trump tries to make out he has billions squirreled away at the expense of America
Former President Donald Trump unleashed a rant on Truth Social after New York Attorney General Letitia James revealed that the one-term clown fraudulently overvalued his assets. Further, Trump and some people working for him (allegedly!) fraudulently inflated his net worth by $812 million to $2.2 billion yearly since 2011.
Source: Trump: Letitia James Is Defaming Me. I’m Worth Billions. I Swear! | Crooks and Liars
They Stood Down and Stood By until Trump called them to Act Out
Biggs, an Army veteran and former Infowars correspondent, was sentenced to 17 years for seditious conspiracy. Rehl was sentenced to 15 years.
Source: Proud Boys Joe Biggs, Zachary Rehl Sentenced For Jan. 6 Plot | HuffPost Latest News
I’m sure the boogeyman white supremacists exist somewhere in America. I have just never met him. Never seen one. Never met one in my life, right? Maybe I will meet a — maybe I will meet a unicorn sooner. And maybe those exist too.
He added that in Georgia, “it’s a ‘prisoner’s dilemma’ situation.” While It’s best for all of the defendants to collectively stick together with none of them flipping, individually, it’s better for each person to cooperate. And “usually, the ones who cooperate first get the best deal.”
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