Today in Trump

[NoSavingByTheBell]

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[TitoFan]

Here ya go... I'll give you a hand with that.

[Beanz]

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Wrong acronymn.

Right Wing Death Squad.

Your hero Trump the c*nt is the one blaming pot smoking trans people for mass shootings and here you are convinced that anyone noticing this in his long list of idiotic reasoning is 'deranged'.

You are in a cult mate.

[TitoFan]

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Wrong acronymn.

Right Wing Death Squad.

Your hero Trump the c*nt is the one blaming pot smoking trans people for mass shootings and here you are convinced that anyone noticing this in his long list of idiotic reasoning is 'deranged'.

You are in a cult mate.

He's also totally responsible (let's not kid ourselves) for the mob that attacked the Capitol on January 6th, a previously unthinkable act. Unthinkable, that is, until Trump came along and created the hateful divide among the people. People, who unfortunately include the hordes of puppets who are apparently born with a nose ring, ready to be led by someone like Trump.

The funny thing is... he incites the brainless mob... then distances himself after they're all caught and brought to justice. We have a saying for someone like that in Spanish. It translates into someone who throws the first rock and then hides his hand behind his back. The morons being prosecuted must be crying about how they thought Trump had their back. LOL.

[Kirkland Laing]

Conservative judicial activist Leonard Leo arranged forthe wife of Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas to be paid tens of thousands of dollars for consulting work just over a decade ago, specifying that her name be left off billing paperwork, according to documents reviewed by The Washington Post.


In January 2012, Leo instructed the GOP pollster Kellyanne Conway to bill a nonprofit group he advises and use that money to pay Virginia “Ginni” Thomas, the documents show. The same year, the nonprofit, the Judicial Education Project, filed a brief to the Supreme Court in a landmarkvoting rights case.



Leo, a key figure in a network of nonprofits that has worked to support the nominations of conservative judges, told Conwaythat he wanted her to “give” Ginni Thomas “another $25K,” the documents show. He emphasized that the paperwork should have “No mention of Ginni, of course.”



Conway’s firm, the Polling Company, sent the Judicial Education Project a $25,000 bill that day. Per Leo’s instructions, it listed the purpose as “Supplement for Constitution Polling and Opinion Consulting,” the documents show.

In all, according to the documents, the Polling Company paid Thomas’s firm, Liberty Consulting, $80,000 between June 2011 and June2012, and it expected to pay $20,000 more before the end of 2012. The documents reviewed by The Post do not indicate the precise nature of any work Thomas did for the Judicial Education Project or the Polling Company.



https://wapo.st/3LRAH01





Imagine the GOP reaction and conservative media coverage if the liberal justices were doing this stuff. You'd be hearing about the end of America, tyranny, corrupt judicial dictatorship and so on and so on. Here's the Democratic response on the actual liberal cable news channel:

https://twitter.com/allinwithchris/s...86441839579137



They just have no idea how to do politics do they. And judging by the state of the country that's probably not a bad thing. But all this "both sides" commentary is a load of bullshit. This is asymmetric. The bullshit, the bad faith politics and media coverage, the manufactured outrage and the vast majority of the corruption and criminality is all on one side here. And when shit like this is made public the sneering condescension to act all upset and outraged at the media for making this public and the other side for saying it's a bad thing. How dare anybody see this as corruption. Fucking shameful.

Oh and this is the nutcase earning hundreds of thousands of dollars for consultancy work:

Virginia Thomas, a conservative activist married to Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas, repeatedly pressed White House Chief of Staff Mark Meadows to pursue unrelenting efforts to overturn the 2020 presidential election in a series of urgent text exchanges in the critical weeks after the vote, according to copies of the messages obtained by The Washington Post and CBS News.

[...]


The first of the 29 messages between Ginni Thomas and Meadows was sent on Nov. 5, two days after the election. She sent him a link to a YouTube video labeled “TRUMP STING w CIA Director Steve Pieczenik, The Biggest Election Story in History, QFS-BLOCKCHAIN.”



Pieczenik, a former State Department official, is a far-right commentator who has falsely claimed that the 2012 massacre at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Conn., was a “false-flag” operation to push a gun-control agenda.

The video Thomas shared with Meadows is no longer available on YouTube. But Thomas wrote to Meadows, “I hope this is true; never heard anything like this before, or even a hint of it. Possible”

“Watermarked ballots in over 12 states have been part of a huge Trump & military white hat sting operation in 12 key battleground states,” she wrote.

During that period, supporters of the QAnon extremist ideology embraced a false theory that Trump had watermarked mail-in ballots so he could track potential fraud. “Watch the water” was a refrain in QAnon circles at the time.

In the Nov. 5 message to Meadows, Thomas went on to quote a passage that had circulated on right-wing websites: “Biden crime family & ballot fraud co-conspirators (elected officials, bureaucrats, social media censorship mongers, fake stream media reporters, etc) are being arrested & detained for ballot fraud right now & over coming days, & will be living in barges off GITMO to face military tribunals for sedition.”


https://wapo.st/41m4mEu

Qanon Consultants Inc.





To some, he is “Ron DeSoros,” a puppet of the Democratic megadonor George Soros.
To others, he is “Ron DeSatan,” a vaccine-supporting evildoer. And to still others, he is “Ron DePLANTis,” a “plant” of the so-called Deep State.
As the governor of Florida — real name Ron DeSantis — explores a bid for the Republican presidential nomination, he has made overtures to supporters of former President Donald J. Trump. But he is finding that the conspiracy theories and outlandish attacks that Mr. Trump and his allies have aimed at rivals for years are coming for him as well.
The attacks often nod to one of the many unfounded conspiracy theories floating around in far-right circles: election fraud, vaccine dangers, Mr. Soros and even QAnon, the online conspiracy movement that believes, among other things, in the existence of a fictional cult that preys on children.
The attacks underscore the power that conspiracy theories continue to hold over Republican politics heading into the 2024 presidential election. To win the party’s nomination, Mr. DeSantis would probably need support from a Republican base that has produced many of the attacks against him. And while Mr. DeSantis enjoys broad support among Republicans, soaring to re-election victory just six months ago, the latest primary polls show Mr. Trump gaining a sizable lead.



“It’s a tug of war over who is going to grab the all-important conspiracy constituency,” said Bond Benton, an associate professor at Montclair State University who has studied QAnon.


https://www.nytimes.com/2023/05/05/t...theorists.html





You have to laugh. At least this collection of crazy fuckers and fascists have no chance at taking the White House in 2024. Oh. Hang on a minute:



A stunning new ABC News/Washington Post poll out Sunday contains nothing but bad news for President Joe Biden, and good news for his potential 2024 opponent Donald Trump.
According to the survey, the president trails his predecessor by 7 points in a hypothetical 2024 general election matchup. Respondents were asked whether they would “definitely” vote for Trump or Biden, “probably” vote for Trump or Biden, or vote for someone else or not vote at all. Among those who “definitely” prefer one candidate over the other, Trump leads Biden 36-32. But when those “probably” voting are added to the tally, Trump’s margin balloons to 7 points — as he holds a 45-38 advantage over Biden.



https://www.mediaite.com/news/shock-...n-post-survey/



I know Biden is old and all but look at the alternative guy. This can only be inflation. Economically everything else is good, it's just that inflation hasn't been seen anywhere near a significant level for forty years and it affects everybody. When you get a recession you get a few points of unemployment but that affects only a few percentage of voters, the least employment worthy people in the economy to a large extent and to another large extent those people don't vote. All voters are getting hit by inflation and it's showing up in the polling. Biden is the president so he's getting the blame.

Luckily there's a way for Biden to explain the issue to Americans so they all learn that he's not responsible for pretty much all the inflation they're seeing and it's down to factors outside presidential control. All he needs is a quick few minutes on the networks for a national tv address to Americans, a well written script and a couple of well produced clear and informative charts in the background to visually confirm Biden's words.

Hahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha ha. That's not going to work is it. Trying to explain anything at all to the population of any country is dicey at best and anything involving numbers forget it, you might as well try and teach your dog quantum mechanics. He's going to get back in isn't he. Well there was all that business with his supporters storming the Capitol and he does seem a little crazy and maybe we'll never get to vote in a fair election again but the economy was really good when he was president the last time so how bad could it really be if he gets in again. Fuck me.

[Master]

Jury finds Trump sexually abused writer in NY department store.

A jury in a civil case has found former President Donald Trump sexually abused a magazine columnist in a New York department store in the 1990s.

But Mr Trump was found not liable for raping E Jean Carroll in the dressing room of Bergdorf Goodman.

The jury also found Mr Trump liable for defamation for calling the writer's accusations "a hoax and a lie".

It is the first time Mr Trump has been found legally responsible for a sexual assault.

The Manhattan jury ordered Mr Trump to pay her about $5m (£4m) in damages.

The jury of six men and three women reached their decision after less than three hours of deliberations on Tuesday.

"Today, the world finally knows the truth," Ms Carroll said in a written statement following the verdict. "This victory is not just for me but for every woman who has suffered because she was not believed."

Mr Trump's lawyer said the former president plans to appeal against the decision.

Because the trial was in civil court rather than criminal, Mr Trump will not be required to register as a sex offender.

The former president - who has denied Ms Carroll's accusations - did not attend the two-week civil trial in the Manhattan federal court.

Ms Carroll, 79, held the hands of both her lawyers as the verdict was read in court and smiled as she was awarded damages by the jury.

Mr Trump's lawyer, Joe Tacopina, shook her hand as the trial ended, telling her: "Congratulations and good luck."

Roberta Kaplan, a lawyer for the plaintiff said in a statement: "This is a victory not only for E Jean Carroll, but for democracy itself, and for all survivors everywhere."

After the verdict, Mr Trump, 76, posted on his social media platform Truth Social in all capital letters: "I have absolutely no idea who this woman is.

"This verdict is a disgrace - a continuation of the greatest witch hunt of all time!"

The standard of proof in civil cases is lower than in criminal cases, meaning that jurors were only required to find that it was more likely than not that Mr Trump assaulted Ms Carroll.

While the jury found Mr Trump liable for sexual battery and defamation of Ms Carroll, they did not find Mr Trump liable of raping her. To do so, the jury would have needed to have been convinced that Mr Trump had engaged in non-consensual sexual intercourse with Ms Carroll.

The trial saw a tense cross-examination between Ms Carroll and Mr Trump's attorneys.

Her legal team called 11 witnesses to corroborate her claims that Mr Trump had assaulted her in the lingerie department of the luxury store in 1995 or 1996.

They included two women who also say they were sexually assaulted by Mr Trump decades ago. One woman told jurors that Mr Trump groped her during a flight in the 1970s. Another woman said that Mr Trump had forcibly kissed her while she was interviewing him for an article she was writing in 2005.

Two long-time friends of Ms Carroll testified that she told them about the encounter shortly after it occurred.

On the stand, Ms Carroll described in graphic detail what she alleges happened in the store and the trauma she says she has endured as a result.

"I'm here because Donald Trump raped me and when I wrote about it, he lied and said it didn't happen," she told the court.

Mr Trump called no witnesses and appeared only in a video of a deposition that was played for jurors in which he denied rape.

"It's the most ridiculous, disgusting story," Mr Trump said in the footage. "It's just made up."

Ms Carroll's lawsuit also argued that Mr Trump had defamed her in an October 2022 post on his social media site in which he called her claims a "complete con job" and "a Hoax and a lie".

Her legal team argued Mr Trump had acted as a "witness against himself" during the deposition when he doubled down on comments he made in a 2005 recording.

In the audio, known as the Access Hollywood tape and leaked in 2016, Mr Trump suggested women let stars "do anything" to them, including grabbing their genitals.

That's what he did to Ms Carroll, her lawyer argued.

In the recorded video deposition, Mr Trump at one point confused Ms Carroll for his ex-wife, Marla Maples, which Ms Carroll's lawyers argued undermined his claim that she was "not his type".

Mr Tacopina sought to cast doubt on Ms Carroll's story, which he called "a work of fiction".

He questioned why Ms Carroll could not specify the date of the attack, arguing that it stripped Mr Trump of the chance to provide an alibi.

"With no date, no month, no year, you can't present an alibi, you can't call witnesses," Mr Tacopina said. "What they want is for you to hate him enough to ignore the facts."

Mr Tacopina also pressed her on why she did not report a crime to police or scream while it occurred.

The former Elle magazine columnist was able to bring the civil case against Mr Trump after New York passed the Adult Survivors Act in 2022.

The law allowed a one-year period for victims to file sexual assault lawsuits in the state involving claims that would have normally exceeded statute limitations.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-65531098

[Spicoli]

My god what an embarrassment. I am watching a distorted toddler throw a live tantrum. The republican party is atrocious for any support still standing for this grifting bitter liar. The Constitution, principle and facts are not a comedy act. Complete shit show.

[Kirkland Laing]

Some reaction to the Trump rape verdict from GOP Senators. The party of law and order responds to the guilty verdict. Keep scrolling with this one, multiple profiles in courage here:

https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1...399986688.html


also:

https://twitter.com/therecount/statu...36118968582147

https://twitter.com/LindseyGrahamSC/...69333200650244

https://twitter.com/JohnJHarwood/sta...69533420584962

Definitely running for vice prez. Spends all her time attacking DeSoros:

https://www.mediaite.com/politics/ni...tivity-behind/


Pence:

https://twitter.com/JohnJHarwood/sta...74180814372864


Turtle:

https://www.mediaite.com/politics/mc...the-primaries/



Finally:

https://twitter.com/piper4missouri/s...78768481189888



GOP voters:

https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/ar...groups/673995/

[Kirkland Laing]

Meatball Ron:

https://twitter.com/zacjanderson/sta...36200863567872



Imagine this fucker and the rest of the no hopers on stage with Trump. It'll be horrific. Trump may be so far ahead in the polls that he doesn't even bother turning up for the debates anyway.



I haven't watched a minute of the CNN thing. Loads of clips out there but I read a couple of the descriptions and that's enough for me. Lots of clips here if you want to watch:

https://twitter.com/atrupar/status/1656441717665538051

[NoSavingByTheBell]

[TitoFan]

Hahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha ha. That's not going to work is it. Trying to explain anything at all to the population of any country is dicey at best and anything involving numbers forget it, you might as well try and teach your dog quantum mechanics. He's going to get back in isn't he. Well there was all that business with his supporters storming the Capitol and he does seem a little crazy and maybe we'll never get to vote in a fair election again but the economy was really good when he was president the last time so how bad could it really be if he gets in again. Fuck me.

Kindly bite your tongue, Kirk.

Seriously... I know you're kidding.

[NoSavingByTheBell]

Fucking savage 🤣 😂

[TitoFan]

When a person is reduced to cheering for/ supporting a politician based on how he "owns" a network, an interviewer, a political opponent... especially by lobbing insults and coming up with snazzy nicknames... I know we've come full circle on the debasing of mankind.

[Beanz]

When a person is reduced to cheering for/ supporting a politician based on how he "owns" a network, an interviewer, a political opponent... especially by lobbing insults and coming up with snazzy nicknames... I know we've come full circle on the debasing of mankind.

That is the point.

Cruelty.

Trump allows them to feel good about the worse part of themselves. It's all he has. His motto could just as easily be 'Embrace The Hate' rather than MAGA.

[Beanz]

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