Rep Connolly re-"Trump Airport": If Repubs want to name something after him, I'd suggest they find a federal prison"

Rep. Connolly issues a scathing response to the House GOP proposal to rename Dulles Airport after Trump: "Donald Trump is facing 91 felony charges. If Republicans want to name something after him, I'd suggest they find a federal prison.
"https://twitter.com/MeidasTouch/status/1775193015470223784

The Totally Dodgy Backstory of the Bank that Just Refinanced Trump Tower

BREAKING NEWS: Don Hankey, the Insurance Carrier CEO Apparently Behind the $175 Million Trump Bond, Is a Trump Mega-Donor Who Has Already Been Written Up As Connected to a Shady Trump-Adjacent Financial Operation

1/ Hankey is a major investor in Axos, a shady “internet bank” that has bailed out Trump before *under extremely suspicious circumstances* and whose wealth is... from unknown sources, it seems.
https://twitter.com/SethAbramson/status/1774960748113891819

2/ ROLLING STONE: “Axos is an unusual lender, steeped in controversy. Its CEO and top investors have strong financial ties to the GOP. And Axos appears to be solidifying its position as the Trump-family banker, having previously stepped in as a financier for the Kushner Company.”
https://twitter.com/SethAbramson/status/1774961088880079076

3/ The New York Times-bestselling Proof Trilogy previously established, in Proof of Conspiracy (Macmillan, 2019), that there’s a history of hostile foreign nations seeming to try to get money to Trump through Kushner.
https://twitter.com/SethAbramson/status/1774961450278133760

That there’s an Axos connection to this bond is *terrifying*.

4/ The fact that Hankey is connected to an obscure, dodgy, politically connected online bank that manages to participate in *huge* Trump-salvation projects despite having an *under $3 billion market cap* is raising red flags everywhere. This is less than Trump claims to be worth.
https://twitter.com/SethAbramson/status/1774962098503606543
https://twitter.com/SethAbramson/status/1774962474548163025
https://twitter.com/SethAbramson/status/1774962860948361263
https://twitter.com/SethAbramson/status/1774962860948361263
https://twitter.com/SethAbramson/status/1774963589465444848
https://twitter.com/SethAbramson/status/1774964451399061592
https://twitter.com/SethAbramson/status/1774964996188885195
https://twitter.com/SethAbramson/status/1774964996188885195
https://twitter.com/SethAbramson/status/1774965767093551375
https://twitter.com/SethAbramson/status/1774966792454090997
https://twitter.com/SethAbramson/status/1774967659924262973
https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-news/axos-bank-trump-tower-donald-trump-1320670/

Auditor Warns Trump's Truth Social May Go Bankrupt

Auditor Warns Trump’s Truth Social May Go Bankrupt

April 1, 2024 at 2:55 pm EDT By Taegan Goddard 138 Comments

“An auditor has raised doubts about the ability of Donald Trump’s publicly traded company to stay in business, according to a new regulatory filing,” CNBC reports

https://www.nbcnews.com/business/business-news/trump-media-auditor-warns-losses-raise-doubt-company-rcna145831?taid=660ada27e74b2800019077fa

Lieberman's legacy -by Tom Tomorrow

The north star here is truth.

The truth is that Donald Trump undermined faith in our elections in his false bid to retain the presidency. He sparked an insurrection intended to overthrow our government and keep himself in power. No president in our history has done worse.

This is not subjective. We all saw it. Plenty of leaders today try to convince the masses we did not see what we saw, but our eyes don’t deceive. (If leaders began a yearslong campaign today to convince us that the Baltimore bridge did not collapse Tuesday morning, would you ever believe them?) Trust your eyes. Trump on Jan. 6 launched the most serious threat to our system of government since the Civil War. You know that. You saw it.

The facts involving Trump are crystal clear, and as news people, we cannot pretend otherwise, as unpopular as that might be with a segment of our readers. There aren’t two sides to facts. People who say the earth is flat don’t get space on our platforms. If that offends them, so be it.

More:
https://digbysblog.net/2024/03/31/bravo/

dupe

Wait until they find out that Easter falls on my birthday on 4/20 next year and Joe Biden, as the reelected president, proclaims it George Takei and Legalized Pot Day.
https://twitter.com/GeorgeTakei/status/1774186063625359822

BIDEN: "Donald, my offer to play golf still stands. I'll let you take 3 strokes off your game if you carry your own bag"

— President Biden, on X.
https://politicalwire.com/2024/03/30/bonus-quote-of-the-day-1975/
https://twitter.com/JoeBiden/status/1774168075631210841

"Every day that Trump does something crazy, the door to voting for Biden opens a little bit more"

“There’s no way I’ll vote for Trump, but every day that Trump does something crazy, the door to voting for Biden opens a little bit more, and that’s where I’m at.”

— Former Defense Secretary Mark Esper, quoted by the Daily Beast.

https://politicalwire.com/2024/03/30/quote-of-the-day-3794/
https://www.thedailybeast.com/former-trump-defense-secretary-mark-esper-tells-bill-maher-he-wont-vote-for-ex-boss?ref=home

This is a beautiful illustration of how warped the coverage of the two candidates has been.

Side by side in the New York Times, as though they’re equally important—one about felony criminal charges of Trump trying to overthrow democracy. The other about…Biden not wearing a tie.
https://twitter.com/brianklaas/status/1774110142419620124

Politico considers that Trump is losing more than the suburbs

Perhaps Trump fatigue finally is setting in. He can still sucker the press into covering his daily outrages. He can still draw eyeballs and clicks. MAGA politicians who rode in on his coattails still genuflect before his image. But can he win a presidential election?

Politico considers that Trump is losing more than the suburbs:

The analysis of GOP presidential primary results from more than 1,000 counties shows warning signs for Trump, especially as Republican voters continued to vote against him in closed primaries after he clinched the nomination. And it makes clear that, while independents and crossover voters may have boosted former U.N. Ambassador Nikki Haley in some primaries, a chunk of true Republican voters still wished for someone else to be the party’s nominee.

“You hear a lot of moderate Republicans now who say that they’ll never vote for Trump again,” said Parker Fairbairn, county GOP chair in Emmet County, Michigan, on the northern end of the state’s Lower Peninsula, where Trump won 55 percent of the vote in the 2020 general election. In last month’s primary, he got two-thirds of the vote there.

What distinguishes Emmet County and similar geographies from the other suburban ones is their broader politics. These aren’t the kinds of suburbs on the outskirts of major cities, where wealthy, educated professionals have already fled the Republican Party.

They’re farther away from urban areas. They’re less densely populated, and they have fewer voters with college degrees. These places — which include North Carolina’s Republican-leaning exurbs, and conservative but less Trump-inclined counties several hours north of Michigan’s major cities — still vote predominantly for Republicans, both at the presidential and local levels. In 2016, when both parties held contested primaries, the Republican voters in these counties backed candidates like Sen. Marco Rubio (R-Fla.) over Trump, and in the general election they voted for Trump at lower rates than the deep-red rural areas.
https://www.politico.com/news/2024/03/30/trump-gop-primary-voters-exurbs-00149822