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calguy's JournalWell, Donald... This sure didn't age very well...
"Thank you to the Special Grand Jury in the Great State of Georgia for your Patriotism & Courage. Total exoneration. The USA is very proud of you!!"
--Donald Trump on Truth Social, February 16, 2023
Trump's 'Co-Conspirators' Are Already Starting to Turn on Each Other
Jack Smith’s latest indictment of Donald Trump isn’t yet two weeks old, but the alleged “co-conspirators” it identifies are already beginning to turn on each other — and some of them aren’t even being subtle about it.
A number of the ex-president’s chief lieutenants and alleged co-conspirators in the plot to overturn the election, such as conservative attorney John Eastman, have insisted the effort was perfectly legal and based on sound evidence. Others, however, have recently sought to distance themselves from the efforts of others, implicitly heaping the blame for any potential criminal conduct onto fellow participants in Trump’s attempted coup.
“It is the ‘please don’t put me in jail, put that other guy in jail’ strategy that was sure to come up at some point or another,” says one attorney working in Trump’s legal orbit.
Attorneys for veterans of Trump’s post-election activities like Rudy Giuliani and Kenneth Chesebro — both of whom have been identified as among the six unnamed “co-conspirators” in the most recent federal indictment of Trump — are now casting blame toward others on the campaign’s legal team or people close to the then-president. Giuliani and his lawyer are now openly trashing and blaming the “crackpot” alleged activities of Sidney Powell, another lawyer who worked on Trump’s post-election efforts. On top of that, Chesebro, the key architect of Trump’s fake-electors ploy, is now trying to downplay his involvement in the effort, spreading the possible blame and criminal exposure elsewhere.
https://www.yahoo.com/news/trump-co-conspirators-already-starting-000743609.html
Melania Trump Is Reportedly 'Terrified' That a Certain Email She Sent Could Incriminate Donald Trump
In one of several potential indictments against Donald Trump, evidence from his own wife may seal his fate, according to reports. Trump is set to defend himself in courtrooms in New York, Washington, Georgia, and Florida related to alleged illegal activities during his presidency and his involvement in the January 6 Capitol insurrection. And in the New York iteration of his legal battles, uncovering Melania Trump’s emails is allegedly a main goal for district attorney Alvin Bragg and his staff.
The felony indictment against the former president, 77, accuses him of faking business records to hide a $130,000 payment to adult film star Stormy Daniels during his 2016 presidential campaign. Trump has denied Daniels’ claim that she had an affair with him in 2006 while Melania was pregnant with their son, Barron. She also alleges that she was paid to keep quiet about the alleged fling.
A source tells Radar Online that emails sent by Melania in the aftermath of the alleged affair becoming public could be a smoking gun in the trial as the former model allegedly did not hold back in displaying her heartbreak and plans to divorce Trump. “She’s likely written multiple emails to counsel asking for guidance on her rights if her husband is convicted on all these charges, and if she should use whatever she knows to squeeze him in divorce court,” a source close to the Trump family told Radar Online.
In July, a judge denied requests to view Melania’s emails but the pursuit is allegedly not over for Bragg. “Those emails could make Melania relive the entire betrayal again in the public eye,” an insider alleges. “It also would reveal what she knew about the affair along with many other humiliating aspects of her husband’s business and personal life.
The last thing she wants is for people to know how much her husband put her through and her fraught relationships with Donald’s children,” the source continued. “There’s no way the family could survive that kind of public humiliation! The emails hang the ex-president out to dry.” The source claims Melania’s emails could add to growing speculation that her relationship with Ivanka Trump and Jared Kushner is fraught.
https://www.yahoo.com/entertainment/melania-trump-reportedly-terrified-certain-172445111.html?.tsrc=daily_mail&uh_test=0_00
'What a joke': Gavin Newsom's team slams Ron DeSantis' debate proposal
It looks like the possibility of a debate between California's Gavin Newsom and Florida's Ron DeSantis — two governors on the opposite ends of the political spectrum — may still be a ways off.
Newsom's team on Saturday slammed DeSantis' proposed rules for their debate on Fox News.
“What a joke," Newsom spokesman Nathan Click said in a statement in response to the proposal that DeSantis' team sent Fox News host Sean Hannity a day earlier.
"Desantis’ counterproposal is littered with crutches to hide his insecurity and ineptitude — swapping opening statements with a hype video, cutting down the time he needs to be on stage, adding cheat notes and a cheering section," Click said. "Ron should be able to stand on his own two feet. It’s no wonder Trump is kicking his ass.”
https://news.yahoo.com/joke-gavin-newsoms-team-slams-231715974.html?.tsrc=daily_mail&uh_test=0_00
I'm becoming more of a Gavin Newsome fan every time I see what he's doing. He's showing that aggressive, frontal attacks are what the Dems have to do to kick Republican ass. Confront the bullies face-to-face with intelligence and facts, and they roll over or run away.
Trump and the Pope
The Pope and trump are on stage in front of a large crowd.
The Pope says to Trump, “Do you know that with one little wave of my hand I can make every person in this crowd go wild with joy? This joy will not be a momentary display, like that of your followers, but go deep into their hearts and for the rest of their lives whenever they speak of this day, they will rejoice!”
Trump replies, “I seriously doubt that, with one wave of your hand? Show me!”
So the Pope slapped him.
Here we go... Trump blames the lawyers
Trump Telegraphs Plans To Blame His Lawyers For Coup Plot
Is there a German word for this? Rechtsanwaltunterbuserrung?
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https://abovethelaw.com/2023/08/trump-t ...
It was always going to be this way.
Donald Trump was always going to wind up blaming the lawyers.
Trump plans to claim that he only tried to overthrow the government because Rudy Giuliani, Sidney Powell, John Eastman, and the rest of the weirdos he surrounded himself with said it was very cool and very legal. Because who wouldn’t be led astray by a guy leaking hair dye, a woman ranting about dead Hugo Chávez, and a lawyer who bombed out of traffic court swearing that the vice president has the unilateral authority to toss out electoral votes?
Trump's indictments are having diminishing returns for his political fundraising
Donald Trump’s legal troubles have created windfalls for his political fundraising in the past. And his team has not been shy about using various investigations, indictments and court appearances to turbocharge his donor base.
But new data filed with the Federal Election Commission by WinRed, the premiere GOP donation processor used by Trump and most other Republican candidates, shows that trend may be ebbing.
The former president’s fundraising did not spike as high after his second indictment in June compared to his first one in the spring.
All told, Trump raised nearly $4 million via WinRed from nearly 80,000 distinct donors April 4, the day he pleaded not guilty in a Manhattan court on charges of falsification of business records related to payouts to porn star Stormy Daniels. It was his best online fundraising day of the year.
By contrast, when Trump appeared in Miami court June 13 to plead not guilty to his second indictment on charges related to classified documents found at his Mar-a-Lago, he raised only $1.3 million from just over 35,0000 donors, according to WinRed data.
Trump’s joint fundraising committee is outperforming his rivals among small-dollar donors. But the new data is a warning sign that further legal jeopardy for Trump may not be the fundraising savior it once was as his committees burn through cash.
More at link:
https://www.politico.com/news/2023/08/01/trump-indictments-political-fundraising-00109192
The Top 10 benefits of slavery to slaves in the United States:
The Top 10 benefits of slavery to slaves in the United States:
1. Free Vitamin D
All that outdoor labor in the fields provided lots of Vitamin D, an essential vitamin that wards off cancer growth, controls infections, reduces inflammation and helps the body retain calcium and phosphorous, important for building strong bones. You’re welcome, slaves.
2. Daily choir practice
Long days of monotonous labor meant plenty of time to work on the harmonies to spirituals. More reasonable working hours would have hurt the quality of the music.
3. Job security
Lots of available work. No need to worry about unemployment or to harbor feelings of uselessness when you were needed sunup to sundown from childhood to old age.
4. Free lodging
Slaves got to live rent-free on the plantation.
5. Physical fitness opportunities galore
No need for gym memberships, pilates classes, or step aerobics. Slaves got plenty of daily exercise, especially those trying to run away.
6. Networking for young Black women
Cynics may characterize the nocturnal visits of the white plantation owners as “rape,” but I’m sure the Florida Board of Education can come up with a more upbeat term, perhaps “involuntary sudden-courtship opportunity sessions.”
7. Participation in an efficient criminal-justice system
White students will just feel bad if we call them thousands of “lynchings.” It’s better to cast this fast-moving form of trial and sentencing as a marvel of jurisprudence that stands today as a benchmark of speedy-trial scheduling.
8. Opportunities to make new friends
With many slave families being split up on different plantations, spouses and children frequently were kept from each other. This opened the door to new relationships.
9. Black lives mattered
They certainly mattered to the cotton industry, which relied on unpaid Black slaves in the United States to pick more than 2 billion pounds of cotton per year — two-thirds of the global supply — by 1860.
10. Juneteenth
If it weren’t for slavery, we wouldn’t have the day that celebrates the end of slavery, Juneteenth, as a federal holiday on June 19 every year.
https://news.yahoo.com/helping-desantis-ease-white-student-120710589.html?.tsrc=daily_mail&uh_test=0_00
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