tashoya
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Post by tashoya on Sept 1, 2022 19:52:22 GMT -5
MAGA GOP still claiming to be the party of law and order? It's as laughable as it proclaiming itself pro-life. Every "Republican" running for office should be asked whether they agree or disagree with mango on this. Former president Donald Trump said he would issue full pardons and a government apology to rioters who stormed the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021, and violently attacked law enforcement to stop the democratic transfer of power. “I mean full pardons with an apology to many,” he told conservative radio host Wendy Bell on Thursday morning. Such a move would be contingent on Trump running and winning the 2024 presidential election. Supporters of the former president attacked the Capitol as Congress was certifying Joe Biden’s electoral college win in the 2020 election, the worst attack on the seat of democracy in more than two centuries. The insurrection left four people dead and an officer who had been sprayed with a powerful chemical irritant, Brian D. Sicknick, suffered a stroke and died the next day. Some 140 members of law enforcement were injured as rioters attacked them with flagpoles, baseball bats, stun guns, bear spray and pepper spray. Trump, during his conversation with Bell on Thursday morning, also said he met with some Jan. 6 defendants in his office this week and that he is helping some financially. “I am financially supporting people that are incredible and they were in my office actually two days ago, so they’re very much in my mind,” Trump said. “It’s a disgrace what they’ve done to them. What they’ve done to these people is disgraceful.” www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/2022/09/01/trump-jan-6-rioters-pardon/This is just how stupid his followers are. He's still blaming antifa and everyone but his supporters. Yet, he'd offer full pardons? Why? Because he's magnanimous? Also, there's a zero percent chance he's helping ANYONE financially. He's been supported by others for the entirety of his life. He's never supported anyone outside of his immediate family.
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Post by SSHoya on Sept 6, 2022 15:08:12 GMT -5
This is what happens when you have moron Devin Nunes as CEO and his flunky poseur Kash Patel on its board. Former president Donald Trump’s website Truth Social is barreling toward a financial cliff that could see its main lifeline disappear. A Trump-allied investment company, Digital World Acquisition Corp., asked shareholders this week to approve a one-year extension for its merger with Trump’s company while it fends off multiple federal investigations. But at a special meeting Tuesday, the company’s leader, Patrick Orlando, abruptly postponed the announcement of the vote until Thursday, saying he wanted to give shareholders more time to respond. Reuters first reported Tuesday that the company didn’t have the votes. If 65 percent of the company’s shareholders don’t approve the extension by Thursday, the company could be forced to liquidate, a potentially devastating blow that would leave Truth Social with nothing. The company can postpone the merger for six months without shareholder approval, but its executives would need to invest millions to keep the company afloat. Some investment analysts have said they doubt that extension would give the company enough time to resolve all of the outstanding concerns of the merger. Digital World, a special-purpose acquisition company, or SPAC, debuted to massive attention last year. But federal scrutiny, the Trump site’s lackluster launch and other issues have sapped much of the market’s excitement. www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2022/09/06/truth-social-trump-finances-space/
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Post by SSHoya on Sept 7, 2022 4:57:58 GMT -5
Lock him up! Lock him up! Lock him up! NEW YORK — Stephen K. Bannon is expected to surrender to state prosecutors on Thursday to face a new criminal indictment, people familiar with the matter said, weeks after he was convicted of contempt of Congress and nearly two years after he received a federal pardon from President Donald Trump in a federal fraud case. The precise details of the state case could not be confirmed Tuesday evening. But people familiar with the situation, speaking on the condition of anonymity to discuss a sealed indictment, suggested the prosecution will likely mirror aspects of the federal case in which Bannon was pardoned. In that indictment, prosecutors alleged that Bannon and several others defrauded contributors to a private, $25 million fundraising effort, called “We Build the Wall,” taking funds that donors were told would support construction of a barrier along the U.S.-Mexico border. The new state indictment comes less than two months after Bannon, 68, was convicted of contempt of Congress for refusing to cooperate with the House committee probing the Jan. 6 insurrection. ww.washingtonpost.com/national-security/2022/09/06/bannon-border-wall-indictment/
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Post by hoyarooter on Sept 7, 2022 20:04:15 GMT -5
Lock him up! Lock him up! Lock him up! NEW YORK — Stephen K. Bannon is expected to surrender to state prosecutors on Thursday to face a new criminal indictment, people familiar with the matter said, weeks after he was convicted of contempt of Congress and nearly two years after he received a federal pardon from President Donald Trump in a federal fraud case. The precise details of the state case could not be confirmed Tuesday evening. But people familiar with the situation, speaking on the condition of anonymity to discuss a sealed indictment, suggested the prosecution will likely mirror aspects of the federal case in which Bannon was pardoned. In that indictment, prosecutors alleged that Bannon and several others defrauded contributors to a private, $25 million fundraising effort, called “We Build the Wall,” taking funds that donors were told would support construction of a barrier along the U.S.-Mexico border. The new state indictment comes less than two months after Bannon, 68, was convicted of contempt of Congress for refusing to cooperate with the House committee probing the Jan. 6 insurrection. ww.washingtonpost.com/national-security/2022/09/06/bannon-border-wall-indictment/Hopefully they can save a spot for Mango Mussolini next door.
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Post by SSHoya on Sept 8, 2022 10:23:06 GMT -5
Lock him up! Lock him up! Lock him up! IIRC, everyone of mango's campaign managers except for Skeletor Conway have been indicted, found guilty. or pardoned. To paraphrase Mark Twain, "There is no native American criminal class except for the MAGA GOP." NEW YORK — Stephen K. Bannon has been charged with money laundering, fraud and conspiracy in connection with the “We Build the Wall” fundraising scheme, for which he received a federal pardon during Donald Trump’s final days in the White House. Bannon, 68, was convicted this summer of contempt of Congress and is awaiting sentencing in that matter. He surrendered to prosecutors in Manhattan Thursday morning on the charges outlined in a newly unsealed state indictment and is expected to appear in court in the afternoon. Arriving at the Manhattan district attorney’s office in a black SUV shortly after 9 a.m., Bannon stopped to shake hands with his attorneys before speaking briefly to a horde of journalists. In his remarks, he echoed past declarations that he was being prosecuted for political reasons, including in an effort to influence November’s upcoming midterm congressional elections. www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/2022/09/08/bannon-surrender-ny-prosecutors-border-wall-fund-fraud/
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Post by DanMcQ on Sept 9, 2022 0:17:29 GMT -5
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Post by SSHoya on Sept 9, 2022 10:43:17 GMT -5
Berman's book will be a blow to Barr's attempted reputation rehabilitation tour. (As a DOJ alum with about 20+ years in tbe Civil Division, going from being the US Attorney in SDNY to AAG Civil Division is NOT a step up). When former Attorney General William Barr bungled the firing of Manhattan U.S. Attorney Geoffrey Berman in 2020, we all knew there was more to the story. Now, in his new book, “Holding the Line: Inside the Nation’s Preeminent US Attorney’s Office and Its Battle with the Trump Justice Department,” Berman dishes on that clumsy episode and on a range of conflicts he encountered with the Department of Justice during his tenure leading the Southern District of New York. Berman names the former DOJ officials who exerted political pressure that he found inappropriate, including Edward O’Callaghan and Jeffrey Rosen. Ultimately, Berman was ousted for the sin of refusing to obey what he believed to be partisan DOJ leadership. “The Department of Justice was not a private law firm dedicated to the president’s personal interests,” Berman writes, “and it was shameful when they operated as if they were.” With the storytelling skills of a trial lawyer, Berman describes the episode in which Barr summoned him to Manhattan’s Pierre hotel, “a swanky place where even standard rooms can cost a thousand bucks a night or more.” Barr told Berman that he wanted to replace him at the Southern District of New York with Jay Clayton, the chairman of the Securities and Exchange Commission. Barr even offered Berman a job he apparently thought would be an enticing sweetener — head of the DOJ’s Civil Division, which represents the United States in all civil lawsuits, a big job, but far from the criminal fray. With that job, Barr told Berman, he could “attract clients and build a book of business” for whenever Berman left the DOJ for the private sector. Only after offering him the job did Barr ask whether Berman had any experience in civil law, revealing that the attorney general was not always concerned with the best interests of the department he was entrusted to lead. www.washingtonpost.com/outlook/2022/09/09/former-us-attorney-dishes-how-he-held-line-against-trump-white-house/
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Post by SSHoya on Sept 9, 2022 11:24:58 GMT -5
Another courtroom loss for mango. The judge should have sanctioned both mango and his shysters for frivolous litigation. I wonder if mango's shysters sought to have the case filed before Judge Cannon? [EDIT: Apparently, mango tried] A federal judge in Florida dismissed Donald Trump’s lawsuit against former secretary of state Hillary Clinton, saying there was no basis for the former president to claim that Clinton and her allies harmed him with an orchestrated plan to spread false information that Trump’s campaign colluded with Russia during the 2016 presidential race. Trump “is seeking to flaunt a two-hundred-page political manifesto outlining his grievances against those that have opposed him, and this Court is not the appropriate forum,” Judge Donald M. Middlebrooks of the Southern District of Florida wrote in a scathing 65-page ruling released Friday. The judge also wrote about “the audacity of Plaintiff’s legal theories and the manner in which they clearly contravene binding case law.” Middlebrooks also wrote there are “glaring structural deficiencies in the plaintiff’s argument” and that, “Such pleadings waste judicial resources and are an unacceptable form of establishing a claim for relief.” Trump’s lawsuit, filed in March, took aim at Clinton and a coterie of Democratic allies, including Christopher Steele, a former British spy who was hired by an opposition research firm working for the Clinton campaign, who authored a now-infamous dossier alleging ties between Trump and Russia. Trump’s lawsuit claimed that he had incurred expenses of more than $24 million defending himself against the accusations and sought damages equivalent to three times that amount. www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2022/09/09/trump-hillary-clinton-lawsuit-2016-election/When Donald Trump filed a lawsuit against Hillary Clinton accusing her of spreading false information about his 2016 campaign and Russia, the former president tried to get the case heard by a judge that he himself had appointed to the bench. That news was revealed Friday by a different judge who dismissed Trump’s lawsuit in a scathing decision, saying that his claims “are not only unsupported by any legal authority but plainly foreclosed by binding precedent.” “I note that Plaintiff filed this lawsuit in the Fort Pierce division of this District, where only one federal judge sits: Judge Aileen Cannon, who Plaintiff appointed in 2020,” Judge Donald M. Middlebrooks of the Southern District of Florida wrote in a footnote on a separate, motion. “Despite the odds, this case landed with me instead,” Middlebrooks wrote. www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2022/09/09/trump-clinton-cannon-special-master/
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Post by SSHoya on Sept 9, 2022 12:22:29 GMT -5
The Biggest Loser - mango. Truth Social careening towards oblivion. . . NEW YORK — A key decision over whether Donald Trump’s social media platform Truth Social will merge with a cash-rich company and get $1.3 billion to take on Twitter has been put off for another month. The potential partner, Digital World Acquisition Corp., on Thursday postponed a shareholder vote to extend by a year a deadline to close its merger with Trump’s company and release funds to pay its bills. At least 65% of shareholders need to approve the extension, a threshold not reached in tallies earlier in the day. Shares of Miami-based Digital World, which have been generally falling after small-pocketed investors pushed them over $100 last year, closed Thursday up 1% to $23.35. If a new deal deadline isn’t approved at a shareholder meeting on Oct. 10, Digital World can still play for time. It can delay the deadline by three months if sponsors backing its company pay nearly $3 million into a trust account, then delay again for another three months for the same payment. The company has said previously it would chose to delay three months if necessary. If the deal is not closed by the new deadlines, Digital World must liquidate and Truth Social’s parent, Trump Media & Technology Group, will have to find other sources of cash. It could do that by borrowing, finding private investors, or having Trump himself contribute the money, something he has avoided in many of his business ventures but has hinted he might do. “I don’t need financing, ‘I’m really rich,’” Trump posted on Truth Social earlier this month. “Private company anyone???” www.washingtonpost.com/politics/trump-partner-in-truth-social-delays-key-vote-on-merger/2022/09/08/e4d4c768-2fde-11ed-bcc6-0874b26ae296_story.html
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Post by SSHoya on Sept 13, 2022 10:22:56 GMT -5
NEW YORK (Reuters) - The New York judge overseeing a tax fraud case against the Trump Organization on Monday rejected any effort to delay next month's trial, acknowledging concern that former President Donald Trump's company might be trying to "stall" the criminal case.
At a pre-trial hearing in a New York state court in Manhattan, Justice Juan Merchan warned against delaying tactics, even as a Trump Organization lawyer said the decision by longtime chief financial officer Allen Weisselberg to plead guilty changed how the defense will present its case.
"One of the accusations is the defense is trying to stall," Merchan said. "It's starting to feel that way a little bit. ... I am repeating. We are not delaying this trial. It's starting Oct. 24th and we're going forward."
Prosecutors charged Trump's company and Weisselberg in July 2021 with scheming to defraud, tax fraud and falsifying business records for awarding "off-the-books" perks to senior executives.
The Trump Organization, which manages golf clubs, hotels and other real estate around the world, has pleaded not guilty and faces possible fines and other penalties if convicted.
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Post by hoyarooter on Sept 14, 2022 20:39:26 GMT -5
NEW YORK (Reuters) - The New York judge overseeing a tax fraud case against the Trump Organization on Monday rejected any effort to delay next month's trial, acknowledging concern that former President Donald Trump's company might be trying to "stall" the criminal case. At a pre-trial hearing in a New York state court in Manhattan, Justice Juan Merchan warned against delaying tactics, even as a Trump Organization lawyer said the decision by longtime chief financial officer Allen Weisselberg to plead guilty changed how the defense will present its case. "One of the accusations is the defense is trying to stall," Merchan said. "It's starting to feel that way a little bit. ... I am repeating. We are not delaying this trial. It's starting Oct. 24th and we're going forward." Prosecutors charged Trump's company and Weisselberg in July 2021 with scheming to defraud, tax fraud and falsifying business records for awarding "off-the-books" perks to senior executives. The Trump Organization, which manages golf clubs, hotels and other real estate around the world, has pleaded not guilty and faces possible fines and other penalties if convicted. Stalling is the Trump Way. He can't get away with it everywhere, even if it appears at the moment that he may be successful in connection with his pilfering of governmental documents.
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Post by DanMcQ on Sept 20, 2022 2:48:31 GMT -5
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Post by DanMcQ on Sept 21, 2022 10:34:52 GMT -5
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SSHoya
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Post by SSHoya on Sept 21, 2022 11:20:23 GMT -5
Basically an organized crime family.
I wonder how it feels to have supported a grifter for President? 🤔
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Post by DanMcQ on Sept 21, 2022 12:28:09 GMT -5
"The art of the steal"
...this should be a well-received defense in court:
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Post by DanMcQ on Sept 21, 2022 12:30:33 GMT -5
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Post by DanMcQ on Sept 21, 2022 12:34:30 GMT -5
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Post by DanMcQ on Sept 21, 2022 20:52:07 GMT -5
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Post by tashoya on Sept 21, 2022 21:09:14 GMT -5
Demeaning him by telling the truth about him? I'm not sure he's seeing the real problem.
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Post by DanMcQ on Sept 21, 2022 22:27:39 GMT -5
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