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Post by SSHoya on Jul 20, 2023 19:13:33 GMT -5
Shocking! Trump’s Truth Social partner lied to investors, SEC says in settlement The top financial partner of former president Donald Trump’s media company violated antifraud provisions and misled investors about its initial plans to take the owner of Trump’s Truth Social website public, the Securities and Exchange Commission said Thursday. Digital World Acquisition — the special-purpose acquisition company, or SPAC, that had planned to merge with Trump’s company — agreed to pay $18 million if its merger concludes and revise its false filings to comply with securities laws, SEC officials said in a statement. Though that penalty will cap a long-running investigation, the SPAC’s proposed merger with Trump Media & Technology Group remains stalled. The blank-check company could be forced to liquidate if the merger does not conclude before a Sept. 8 deadline, returning to investors roughly $300 million that Trump’s company has long hoped to unlock. www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2023/07/20/trump-truth-social-merger-sec/
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Post by SSHoya on Jul 23, 2023 13:08:22 GMT -5
Biggest LOSER! Trump’s made-for-MAGA arguments keep losing in court The twice-indicted Donald Trump has a perfect record: He has lost every important challenge in the multiple, major legal cases swirling around him. Sometimes, this has happened at the trial court level; sometimes, it’s been on appeal. But eventually, he has lost on every significant issue, civil or criminal, to come up. That ought to tell us something about the former president’s ability to navigate the rough legal waters ahead of him — and how dramatically the excuses his team serves up for the right-wing media zombies fall short in courts of law. Let’s take E. Jean Carroll’s civil claims against Trump. In the so-called E. Jean Carroll I case concerning his defamation of her while president, Trump initially persuaded the Justice Department to follow former attorney general William P. Barr’s position that his statements during his presidency were within the scope of his official duties. This would have obliged the department to defend him. But a federal court judge rejected that position. Trump later repeated his defamatory statements after leaving the presidency, most recently at a CNN town hall. The judge allowed Carroll to amend her complaint. Meanwhile, Trump lost all attempts to stall and dismiss what’s known as E. Jean Carroll II, the case brought for defamation after Trump’s presidency and for sexual assault under the Adult Survivors Act. The jury decided that Trump defamed Carroll and sexually assaulted her, awarding her $5 million. Judge Lewis A. Kaplan denied a new trial, finding Trump’s claims “frivolous.” www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2023/07/23/trump-court-cases-documents-insurrection-legal-challenges/
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Post by SSHoya on Jul 31, 2023 6:02:28 GMT -5
More grifting in the offing. Moron MAGA GOPers just keep sending your $$$ to the grifter. Former President Donald Trump’s team is creating a legal defense fund to help offset some of the enormous bills incurred as his legal troubles mount, two sources familiar with the planning told CNN. The fund is expected to cover the bills of some of Trump’s current and former aides and employees who have been wrapped up in various investigations into the former president. Trump’s political action committee, Save America, spent more than $40 million on legal fees for him and many of his associates since the start of 2023. www.cnn.com/2023/07/30/politics/trump-legal-defense-fund/index.html
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Post by SSHoya on Aug 4, 2023 7:01:44 GMT -5
The "leader" of the MAGA GOP cult. Makes ya feel great about your cult/party, doesn't it? Smith gives us mendacious Trump, utterly contemptuous of the truth, in the weeks between his Election Day loss in November 2020 and his pre-riot rally on Jan. 6, 2021. He gives us selfish Trump, pressuring others to sacrifice their reputations merely to tickle his personal fancies. He gives us heedless Trump, with nary a care for future havoc should he prove successful in destroying the orderly transfer of presidential power. Trump was grandiose in expecting the world to assume the shape of his fevered imagination. Trump was mercurial, turning on former comrades while elevating crackpots as momentary whims and rages swept over him. Trump was reckless, allowing himself to be recorded as he pressured a Georgia official to “find” — translation: steal — enough votes to tip that state’s election to him. Trump was gullible, falling for kooky conspiracies and crackpot legal theories peddled by pillow salesmen, attention addicts and washed-up politicians with cheap dye jobs. The list goes on, a reverse image of the Boy Scout Law. You know: A Scout is trustworthy, loyal, helpful, friendly, etc., etc., etc. Trump is mendacious, selfish, heedless, grandiose and all the rest. Always has been, always will be. www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2023/08/03/trump-jan-6-arraignment-jack-smith/
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Post by hoyajinx on Aug 4, 2023 7:24:51 GMT -5
The "leader" of the MAGA GOP cult. Makes ya feel great about your cult/party, doesn't it? Smith gives us mendacious Trump, utterly contemptuous of the truth, in the weeks between his Election Day loss in November 2020 and his pre-riot rally on Jan. 6, 2021. He gives us selfish Trump, pressuring others to sacrifice their reputations merely to tickle his personal fancies. He gives us heedless Trump, with nary a care for future havoc should he prove successful in destroying the orderly transfer of presidential power. Trump was grandiose in expecting the world to assume the shape of his fevered imagination. Trump was mercurial, turning on former comrades while elevating crackpots as momentary whims and rages swept over him. Trump was reckless, allowing himself to be recorded as he pressured a Georgia official to “find” — translation: steal — enough votes to tip that state’s election to him. Trump was gullible, falling for kooky conspiracies and crackpot legal theories peddled by pillow salesmen, attention addicts and washed-up politicians with cheap dye jobs. The list goes on, a reverse image of the Boy Scout Law. You know: A Scout is trustworthy, loyal, helpful, friendly, etc., etc., etc. Trump is mendacious, selfish, heedless, grandiose and all the rest. Always has been, always will be. www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2023/08/03/trump-jan-6-arraignment-jack-smith/I’ve read a bunch of articles from right wing publications, and it’s amazing to me how many mischaracterize the basis of this indictment as either an attack on free speech or focus on Trumps’s lack of culpability in inciting the J6 insurrection. I’m not sure if they don’t understand the indictment, or they understand it but know their poorly-educated, easily misled audience doesn’t (and probably doesn’t even care what the truth is), so the right wing media just keeps spewing its garbage. I guess dealing in dishonesty, stoking fears, and enraging audiences is highly lucrative despite being morally repugnant.
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Post by tashoya on Aug 4, 2023 7:29:05 GMT -5
The "leader" of the MAGA GOP cult. Makes ya feel great about your cult/party, doesn't it? Smith gives us mendacious Trump, utterly contemptuous of the truth, in the weeks between his Election Day loss in November 2020 and his pre-riot rally on Jan. 6, 2021. He gives us selfish Trump, pressuring others to sacrifice their reputations merely to tickle his personal fancies. He gives us heedless Trump, with nary a care for future havoc should he prove successful in destroying the orderly transfer of presidential power. Trump was grandiose in expecting the world to assume the shape of his fevered imagination. Trump was mercurial, turning on former comrades while elevating crackpots as momentary whims and rages swept over him. Trump was reckless, allowing himself to be recorded as he pressured a Georgia official to “find” — translation: steal — enough votes to tip that state’s election to him. Trump was gullible, falling for kooky conspiracies and crackpot legal theories peddled by pillow salesmen, attention addicts and washed-up politicians with cheap dye jobs. The list goes on, a reverse image of the Boy Scout Law. You know: A Scout is trustworthy, loyal, helpful, friendly, etc., etc., etc. Trump is mendacious, selfish, heedless, grandiose and all the rest. Always has been, always will be. www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2023/08/03/trump-jan-6-arraignment-jack-smith/I’ve read a bunch of articles from right wing publications, and it’s amazing to me how many mischaracterize the basis of this indictment as either an attack on free speech or focus on Trumps’s lack of culpability in inciting the J6 insurrection. I’m not sure if they don’t understand the indictment, or they understand it but know their poorly-educated, easily misled audience doesn’t (and probably doesn’t even care what the truth is), so the right wing media just keeps spewing its garbage. I guess dealing in dishonesty, stoking fears, and enraging audiences is highly lucrative despite being morally repugnant. I've seen the same. They're taking the stance that it's entirely fine that Trump "believed" that he had won even though there was no evidence of the fraud he believed existed and it'll be "nearly impossible" to prove that Trump didn't believe that the election was stolen. I'm not an attorney but I wasn't aware that generalized stupidity or ignorance of the law was available as a defense.
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Post by SSHoya on Aug 4, 2023 17:28:53 GMT -5
But let's talk about Hunter Biden who never held a position in his father's administration. Moron MAGA GOPers have limited bandwidth. Jared and Ivanka are slinking back to Gomorrah Both spawns of excessive wealth and privilege, Ivanka and Jared are reason enough to cast Donald Trump into the outer darkness. Their presence in the White House from 2017 to 2021 was a frequent embarrassment, as they convinced themselves that their value amounted to more than the family name. For a while after the 2020 election, they distanced themselves from Trump, which meant we were all spared their spectral visages. But those days are nigh gone, as the pair appears to be back in search of the family ring. (Run, Gollum, run.) Their timing is undoubtedly connected to recent polling showing Trump leading his competitors by nearly 40 points. Family loyalty apparently is a lot like reality TV; it’s all about the ratings. www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2023/08/04/ivanka-trump-jared-kushner-corruption-return/
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Post by hoyarooter on Aug 4, 2023 19:03:30 GMT -5
The "leader" of the MAGA GOP cult. Makes ya feel great about your cult/party, doesn't it? Smith gives us mendacious Trump, utterly contemptuous of the truth, in the weeks between his Election Day loss in November 2020 and his pre-riot rally on Jan. 6, 2021. He gives us selfish Trump, pressuring others to sacrifice their reputations merely to tickle his personal fancies. He gives us heedless Trump, with nary a care for future havoc should he prove successful in destroying the orderly transfer of presidential power. Trump was grandiose in expecting the world to assume the shape of his fevered imagination. Trump was mercurial, turning on former comrades while elevating crackpots as momentary whims and rages swept over him. Trump was reckless, allowing himself to be recorded as he pressured a Georgia official to “find” — translation: steal — enough votes to tip that state’s election to him. Trump was gullible, falling for kooky conspiracies and crackpot legal theories peddled by pillow salesmen, attention addicts and washed-up politicians with cheap dye jobs. The list goes on, a reverse image of the Boy Scout Law. You know: A Scout is trustworthy, loyal, helpful, friendly, etc., etc., etc. Trump is mendacious, selfish, heedless, grandiose and all the rest. Always has been, always will be. www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2023/08/03/trump-jan-6-arraignment-jack-smith/I’ve read a bunch of articles from right wing publications, and it’s amazing to me how many mischaracterize the basis of this indictment as either an attack on free speech or focus on Trumps’s lack of culpability in inciting the J6 insurrection. I’m not sure if they don’t understand the indictment, or they understand it but know their poorly-educated, easily misled audience doesn’t (and probably doesn’t even care what the truth is), so the right wing media just keeps spewing its garbage. I guess dealing in dishonesty, stoking fears, and enraging audiences is highly lucrative despite being morally repugnant. I don't know any of these people, so I can't say for sure, but I think the latter is highly likely. These people (certain Congressmen and women aside) are not fools. You have the freedom to say what you like, but when those words are followed by taking actions that are illegal, your freedom of speech doesn't absolve you from the crime. The fact is, though, that the pundits could say nothing, and the 30% or so of the American public who are members of the Trump Cult will not believe any of the charges anyway.
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Post by SSHoya on Aug 4, 2023 19:49:49 GMT -5
The best people? Just an unqualified Federalist . . . WASHINGTON — The judge in former President Donald Trump’s upcoming trial over his handling of classified documents made two key errors in a June trial, one of which violated a fundamental constitutional right of the defendant and could have invalidated the proceedings, according to legal experts and a court transcript. Florida-based U.S. District Judge Aileen Cannon closed jury selection for the trial of an Alabama man — accused by federal prosecutors of running a website with images of child sex abuse — to the defendant’s family and the general public, a trial transcript obtained by Reuters showed. A defendant’s right to a public trial is enshrined in the U.S. Constitution’s Sixth Amendment. www.nbcnews.com/politics/donald-trump/aileen-cannon-judge-trump-documents-case-made-multiple-errors-earlier-rcna98207
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Post by hoyarooter on Aug 7, 2023 17:34:57 GMT -5
zzzzzzz The first part is totally correct, as many of us have been saying for years that he has no bottom, but in the greater scheme of things, quotes like this one and the gem he laid out there about the women's national soccer team are just petty and contemptible and show what a clown he is, as opposed to other beauties that represent threats to our democracy, national security and the rule of law. i guess you have to pick your poisons.
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