Thread: Today in Trump

You didn’t vote for him last time, and you probably won’t vote for him this time either.

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elon is just another actor. he is not for free speech

Originally Posted by TIC

elon is just another actor. he is not for free speech

this. cOULD be (4) true, b[ut] better ~than~ previous Vijaya Gadde und Parag Agrawal

Originally Posted by NoSavingByTheBell

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fake news

Originally Posted by TitoFan

Originally Posted by NoSavingByTheBell

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fake news

Real tweets but surrounded by lies from Trump the 'victim' and his 'victim' supporters. They love to pretend things shared by newspapers and other MSM the world over was censored because they are compulsive liars. Sound familiar? 😁

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Originally Posted by Beanz

Originally Posted by TitoFan

Originally Posted by NoSavingByTheBell

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fake news

Real tweets but surrounded by lies from Trump the 'victim' and his 'victim' supporters. They love to pretend things shared by newspapers and other MSM the world over was censored because they are compulsive liars. Sound familiar? 😁

True. But consider...

A POTUS depends on a Tweet to stop a pro-Trump mob from attacking the Capitol... and then uses that Tweet as a defense that he (cough) did his due diligence??

I'm old school.

An old school POTUS would've gone on every media outlet available to him, AND... mobilized the National Guard quickly and as necessary to protect what is probably the greatest bastion of democracy in the United States.

Originally Posted by Beanz

Originally Posted by TitoFan

Originally Posted by NoSavingByTheBell

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fake news

Real tweets but surrounded by lies from Trump the 'victim' and his 'victim' supporters. They love to pretend things shared by newspapers and other MSM the world over was censored because they are compulsive liars. Sound familiar? 😁

Props to you for saying it was real tweets. Others, not so much.

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Supreme Court clears Democrats to see returns

The US Supreme Court has cleared the way for ex-President Donald Trump's tax forms to be released to a Democratic-controlled congressional committee.

The justices rejected Mr Trump's bid in October to block a lower court's ruling that granted the panel's request for his financial records.

The move is a blow to Mr Trump, who has for years kept his returns sealed.

He criticised the decision on Wednesday and said the Supreme Court had "lost its honour".

Mr Trump became the first president in 40 years not to release his taxes after announcing his first presidential run.

The House of Representatives Ways and Means Committee has been seeking access to his records since 2019.

Mr Trump, who launched his third campaign for the White House last week, is facing several investigations related to his business practices. He denies any wrongdoing.

The Supreme Court's brief response on Tuesday did not note dissent from any of the judges.

The decision means the US treasury department can deliver the tax returns from 2015-20 for Mr Trump and some of his businesses to the Democratic-controlled committee.

It comes just before the Republicans take control of the House after this month's midterm elections.

Mr Trump hit out at the Supreme Court on Wednesday and said it had "become nothing more than a political body".

"Why would anybody be surprised that the Supreme Court has ruled against me, they always do!" he wrote in a post on his social media platform Truth Social.

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Writer E Jean Carroll has sued Donald Trump in the US state of New York for allegedly raping her in the 1990s.

Ms Carroll, 78, is among the first to sue under the Adult Survivors Act, which came into effect on Thursday.

The state law allows a one-year period for victims to file sexual assault lawsuits in New York over claims that would have otherwise exceeded statute limitations.

The former president has denied the allegations against him.

Ms Carroll alleges the attack took place in a New York luxury department store dressing room 27 years ago.

The Adult Survivors Act allows victims to come forward if the sexual assault occurred when they were over the age of 18 and took place on a date that exceeds time limits that exists on most felonies.

It is modelled after the state's recent Child Abuse Act, which applied to victims who were abused as minors.

The Child Abuse Act, which came into effect in 2019, allowed a two-year period for victims to come forward. Around 11,000 lawsuits were filed in New York against churches, hospitals, schools, camps and other institutions under that law.

Ms Carroll has also sued former President Trump for defamation after he accused her of lying when she first made her allegations public in 2019. Mr Trump has called Ms Carroll's claims "fiction". A civil trial for that case is scheduled for 6 February.

In a statement, Ms Carroll's attorney, Roberta Kaplan, said the new lawsuit filed on Thursday is intended to hold Mr Trump accountable for the alleged assault.

Alina Habba, a lawyer for Mr Trump, told US media that, while she respects and admires individuals that come forward "this case is unfortunately an abuse of the purpose of this Act" and "runs the risk of delegitimising the credibility of actual victims".

Others are also planning to file lawsuits under the new law.

This includes a planned class action lawsuit against Robert Hadden, a former gynaecologist at hospitals tied to New York-Presbyterian and Columbia University, who has been accused by dozens of patients of sexual abuse.

Mr Hadden was convicted in 2016 on sex-related charges in state court, but has pleaded not guilty to federal charges of abusing female patients over two decades.

Advocates for survivors of sex abuse believe the legislation provides an opportunity for people to come forward who may not have done so previously due to trauma or fear of retaliation.

Several other states have also extended or temporarily eliminated their statues of limitation on sex crimes in the wake of the #MeToo movement in 2018, including New Jersey, California, Arizona and Montana.

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Originally Posted by Master

Supreme Court clears Democrats to see returns

The US Supreme Court has cleared the way for ex-President Donald Trump's tax forms to be released to a Democratic-controlled congressional committee.

The justices rejected Mr Trump's bid in October to block a lower court's ruling that granted the panel's request for his financial records.

The move is a blow to Mr Trump, who has for years kept his returns sealed.

He criticised the decision on Wednesday and said the Supreme Court had "lost its honour".

Mr Trump became the first president in 40 years not to release his taxes after announcing his first presidential run.

The House of Representatives Ways and Means Committee has been seeking access to his records since 2019.

Mr Trump, who launched his third campaign for the White House last week, is facing several investigations related to his business practices. He denies any wrongdoing.

The Supreme Court's brief response on Tuesday did not note dissent from any of the judges.

The decision means the US treasury department can deliver the tax returns from 2015-20 for Mr Trump and some of his businesses to the Democratic-controlled committee.

It comes just before the Republicans take control of the House after this month's midterm elections.

Mr Trump hit out at the Supreme Court on Wednesday and said it had "become nothing more than a political body".

"Why would anybody be surprised that the Supreme Court has ruled against me, they always do!" he wrote in a post on his social media platform Truth Social.

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It really is a full court press from the GOP. About a week before the midterms the Supreme Court which had been sitting on the case kicked it into the long grass and the legal world's opinion was that's it, no chance his tax returns come out now once the GOP win the House and shut the investigation down. But the midterms reflect badly on Trump and all of a sudden Roberts decides to bring it up and every GOP judge rules to release the returns. How about that.

And Trump is complaining about a 6-3 court that he appointed three of the six. Fuckhead.

There are serious problems with elections in America and millions of people even over recent decades have been disenfranchised:

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This is in a minority part of Georgia. In the white parts it takes no time at all to vote. Having vastly more voting places and facilities in white areas over black areas is perfectly legal in Georgia. You may remember the people running elections there stood up to Trump who asked them to find 10500 votes for him. But after the 2020 election they brought in a bunch of new laws to make it even harder for those people to vote. They won't break the law but they're happy to write new laws to bend democracy out of shape further and further. The current runoff wouldn't even happen in most states, it's a Jim Crow era artifact to prevent black people from ever being elected. Shameful.