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[DocMack]

'He's lying': Conway Reacts to Trump Calling Justice System Rigged








See Michael Cohen's First Reaction to Trump's Historic Guilty Verdict








Michael Cohen: Anybody that goes into Trump's orbit loses everything








Michael Cohen on Trump: ‘He believed destroying me would exonerate him from his crimes’








Trump Melts Down Over Conviction








Prosecutor on Supreme Court Overturning Trump Verdict

[dueda]

I guess Nixon once said "when the President does, it's not illegal."

[CaptButler]

I guess Nixon once said "when the President does, it's not illegal."

 . . . he did indeed, and The Orange Menace was stupid enough to believe it.  More specifically, TOM assumed that God Almighty had "endowed" him with "very stable genius" and a superior "abrain", meaning that he would always be the smartest person in any room he happened to be in and would always be able to get away with his grifts and other shenanigans without any criminal liability.  The ever growing evidence and indicators to the contrary in the years before the hush money case was filed were completely ignored.

TOM has always been lacking in any kind of a filter regarding his capers, which is why he is forever "saying the quiet part out loud" and rejecting out of hand all legal advice that conflicts with his cupidity and narcissistic self image.  It is not much unlike the lack of filter shown by the late Michael Jackson regarding his relationships with children, the only significant distinction being that TOM prefers his victims to be post-pubescent females with large breasts and buttocks.

[CaptButler]

The first video mentions the 1989 helicopter crash that killed three Trump casino executives and two crew members.

Trump lied about that also...

Feh.  Just another one of the many, many self-mythologizing lies The Orange Menace puts out about himself.  He's a Very Special Being Anointed By God Himself doncha know? 

Incidentally, the film didn't pick up any prizes at Cannes.  I guess even the French are getting sick of stories about TOM.

[DocMack]

Feh.  Just another one of the many, many self-mythologizing lies The Orange Menace puts out about himself.  He's a Very Special Being Anointed By God Himself doncha know?

There may be more to the crash than what has been revealed. There have been calls to reinvestigate the matter.

Incidentally, the film didn't pick up any prizes at Cannes.  I guess even the French are getting sick of stories about TOM.

Trump Biopic ‘The Apprentice’ Gets 8-Minute Cannes Standing Ovation


“The Apprentice,” the story of the 45th and possibly 47th president’s early years as a real estate developer, earned a eight-minute standing ovation on Monday.


https://variety.com/2024/film/markets-fe...236009678/

[DocMack]

[dueda]

Horrible. But famous people are watched closely, while thousands of low profile wrongdoing go around. One good thing in publicity, I guess.

[DocMack]

(2023)


Donald Trump made sexual comments about his daughter Ivanka to aides working in his administration, a former Department of Homeland Security official reportedly claims in an upcoming book.

Miles Taylor, a DHS chief of staff under Trump, described the alleged remarks from the former president as part of a wider pattern of sexism and inappropriate behavior toward women in his administration, according to Newsweek, which obtained an excerpt from the book.

“Aides said he talked about Ivanka Trump’s breasts, her backside, and what it might be like to have sex with her, remarks that once led John Kelly to remind the president that Ivanka was his daughter,” Taylor wrote, recalling an alleged exchange with Kelly, who served as Trump’s chief of staff between 2017 and 2019.

“Afterward, Kelly retold that story to me in visible disgust. Trump, he said, was ‘a very, very evil man.’”

Taylor said he also witnessed Trump’s sexist behavior in meetings with Kirstjen Nielsen, who was secretary of homeland security from 2017 to 2019.

He said Trump would refer to Nielsen as “sweetie” and “honey” and critique the way she was dressed.

Representatives for Trump did not immediately respond to a request for comment.

Taylor left the Republican Party last year, saying the institution is “poisoning” Americans’ minds and “going after the foundations of democracy itself.”

He said in 2020 that he was voting for Joe Biden, publicly accusing Trump of trying to “exploit the Department of Homeland Security for his own political purposes and to fuel his own agenda.” He has also admitted to authoring an anonymous 2018 op-ed in The New York Times, where he claimed he was part of a group of staffers working against Trump from inside his own administration.

His book “Blowback: A Warning to Save Democracy from the Next Trump” is set for release on July 18.

Donald Trump has a history of making inappropriate comments about his daughter Ivanka Trump, who worked as a senior adviser in his White House.

Trump has repeatedly been accused of sexual misconduct in the workplace and beyond. Earlier this year, after a Manhattan jury found Trump liable for sexually abusing and defaming writer E. Jean Carroll in the 1990s, several women from his administration came forward to allege the former president behaved inappropriately toward women in the White House.

He famously boasted that he could grab women “by the pussy” in a 2005 exchange caught on tape, claiming that “when you’re a star, they let you do it. You can do anything.”

He also has a troubling record of making sexualized comments about Ivanka Trump. He’s described her as “voluptuous,” said he might date her if she wasn’t his daughter, and once told radio host Howard Stern it was OK to call her a “piece of ass.”


https://www.yahoo.com/news/trump-made-di...29834.html

[DocMack]

If local Republicans knew what was good for them, they would now move to drop Donald Trump from Washington’s fall ballot.

I know, they won’t. They’re in too deep. Trump won 76% of our state’s GOP presidential primary vote. It’s become like a cult, as the party seems eager to debase itself by shedding all its longstanding talk about the rule of law and personal responsibility — as well as any chances of winning here in Washington — to sink ever deeper into the muck of Trump.

So here’s another reason to dump Trump from the Washington ballot. If Republicans don’t do it, somebody else probably will.

It turns out Washington has a law on the books against convicted felons running for office.

It was first established back when Washington was a territory, in 1865, that anyone convicted of “infamous crimes” could be blocked from holding elected office. That was modified in 1959, and then again more recently, to the scheme we have today.

Any registered voter can “challenge the right of a candidate to appear on the general election ballot” for any of five causes, state law says. One of those causes is flashing in bold neon lights today: “Because the person whose right is being contested was, previous to the election, convicted of a felony by a court of competent jurisdiction, the conviction not having been reversed nor the person’s civil rights restored after the conviction.”

Washington law says a voter can file a challenge once candidates are certified to appear on the fall ballot, which for presidential races typically occurs after the parties’ national nominating conventions in late summer. That voter challenge goes to “any justice of the supreme court, judge of the court of appeals, or judge of the superior court in the proper county,” who, according to state statute, can potentially strip a candidate’s name from ballots prior to the election if they have a felony conviction.


https://www.seattletimes.com/seattle-new...or-office/

[stts2]

If local Republicans knew what was good for them, they would now move to drop Donald Trump from Washington’s fall ballot.

I know, they won’t. They’re in too deep. Trump won 76% of our state’s GOP presidential primary vote. It’s become like a cult, as the party seems eager to debase itself by shedding all its longstanding talk about the rule of law and personal responsibility — as well as any chances of winning here in Washington — to sink ever deeper into the muck of Trump.

So here’s another reason to dump Trump from the Washington ballot. If Republicans don’t do it, somebody else probably will.

It turns out Washington has a law on the books against convicted felons running for office.

It was first established back when Washington was a territory, in 1865, that anyone convicted of “infamous crimes” could be blocked from holding elected office. That was modified in 1959, and then again more recently, to the scheme we have today.

Any registered voter can “challenge the right of a candidate to appear on the general election ballot” for any of five causes, state law says. One of those causes is flashing in bold neon lights today: “Because the person whose right is being contested was, previous to the election, convicted of a felony by a court of competent jurisdiction, the conviction not having been reversed nor the person’s civil rights restored after the conviction.”

Washington law says a voter can file a challenge once candidates are certified to appear on the fall ballot, which for presidential races typically occurs after the parties’ national nominating conventions in late summer. That voter challenge goes to “any justice of the supreme court, judge of the court of appeals, or judge of the superior court in the proper county,” who, according to state statute, can potentially strip a candidate’s name from ballots prior to the election if they have a felony conviction.


https://www.seattletimes.com/seattle-new...or-office/

I hear a symphony of crickets in the air. Crickets, crickets, everywhere crickets. Geez, Haters never quit. Must be that free money welfare check they are afraid Trump will cancel. First off, Washington has never voted Trump, being a Blue state. So what's Trump loosing now? Absolutely nothin. Next, we already had all this ballot denying BS. And the Supreme Court already ruled it BS. No state can bar it's citizens from voting any candidate on the ballot of a Federal election. That is the same as secession.

When that ballot denying insanity first started to sweep from state to state, this forced the Supreme Court to stop what they were doing and rule that no state could remove Trump from the Federal ballot.

So, "If local" Democraps "knew what was good for them, they would now" Leave Trumps ballot just as it is. As already ordered by the Supreme Court.

And if that aint it, then look at the deed. "Infamous crime". What is that?  "well known for some bad quality or deed". Trump was charged with a "novel" crime nobody else was ever charged with. So by definition it's not "well known" and CAN'T be infamous.

So if Washington attempts more ballot meddling shenanigans, the Federal Courts will be ordered to do the smack down to comply with Supreme Court orders.

And if other states attempt more ballot shenanigans, these actions of election interference will incite the Supreme Court to simply vacate the convictions based on flawed applications of untested laws to interfere with elections. There are too many challenges to these convictions that have yet to be tested to allow them to influence a Federal election. The same goes with jailing Trump now to miss his RNC Convention. If Democraps actually do it, the Supreme Court will be forced to rush in and order his release immediately. And the Supreme Court will be very angry at the Democraps with all of the consequences of the Supreme Courts anger. I would love to see those fire works go off.