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Traumatizing, Bewildered and Shaking
The story that Trump never wanted the public to hear: the sad and disturbing details of Trump's one night stand with a pornstar.
Adult film actress Stormy Daniels testified in court how Trump pressured her into sex with promises of helping her career with a possible appearance on “The Apprentice.” Over dinner in Trump’s hotel room, Daniels described how Trump dismissed concerns about his wife and even compared her to his daughter. Daniels said sex with the future president was “traumatizing” and left her feeling “bewildered and shaking.”
Abandon All Logic, Ye Who Enter
It was shocking, it was without legal precedent it was the Supreme Court dominated by MAGA conservatives who abandoned all logic to support Trump’s Hail Mary pass of “absolute executive immunity.”
For three hours the MAGA majority on the Supreme Court discarded any pretense of jurisprudence and instead went down a dark rabbit hole of rightwing conspiracy theories and bizarre hypotheticals to avoid discussing the Constitution, legal precedent, or Trump's attempted coup. Michael Dreeben, speaking for the Government, correctly pointed out that "There is no immunity that is in the Constitution unless this court creates it today." Instead Justice Kavanaugh proudly stated that "I’m not concerned about the here and now" and Justice Alito declared that he didn’t want to talk about the “particular facts.”
Trump Jury Selected
The wild first week of Trump's New York criminal trial produced a full Jury, accusations of Jury tampering, and a man setting himself on fire outside the courthouse.
It only took one week to select 12 jurists and 6 alternatives in Trump’s NY criminal hush money trial. Apparently the strain of hearing average New Yorkers describe their often unflattering opinions of Trump was too much for the former President, who has been accused of violating the gag order to prevent jury tampering. At one point, the Judge felt the need to admonish Trump’s bad behavior saying, “I will not have any jurors intimidated in this courtroom.”
Fundamentally Flawed Legal Premise
Donald Trump selling bibles should be a joke, except it speaks directly to his Evangelical base that embraces Trump as the savior of White Christian Nationalism.
Two days after expanding Trump's gag order to include family members of the court, the judge overseeing the hush money case denied Trump's attempt to delay the trial, saying the timing raised “real questions about the sincerity and actual purpose of the motion.” Meanwhile, the prosecutor in the classified documents case threatens to appeal to higher court for Judge Aileen Cannon's strange legal decisions and delays that give credence to Trump's “fundamentally flawed legal premise.”
Threatening, Inflammatory, Denigrating
To avoid criminal and civil legal accountability, Trump has spent over $100 million donated by his supporters to his Save America and MAGA PACs, only to use that money for his legal strategy of lies, attacks and delays.
Donald Trump's legal strategy is to delay his criminal trials past the election with an avalanche of motions based on unsubstantiated claims of political persecution, dubious constitutional theories, and personal attacks against judges, prosecutors, court personnel, and their families. Pushing Trump's lies of election fraud, some of his attorneys are now facing legal repercussions, including pleading guilty in Georgia and facing disbarment for conspiring with President Trump to "disrupt the electoral count." The Manhattan criminal trial Judge had enough of Trump's attacks and issued a gag order writing that Trump's “extrajudicial statements went far beyond defending himself" and are “threatening, inflammatory, denigrating.”
See You All on the 15th
At the 11th hour, an appeals court threw Trump a lifeline by reducing his business fraud bond by almost $300 million, but then minutes later a second court rejected Trump's attempt to delay his criminal hush money trial scheduled to start on April 15.
You win some and lose some. On the very last day that Trump was required to post a nearly half-billion dollar bond for business fraud, the appeals court granted him a 10-day extension and lowered his bond by 68%. But before Trump could celebrate his surprising legal victory, a second court denied Trump's attempt to delay his criminal hush money trial just "because he’s running for president." An irritated Judge Merchan rejected Trump's questionable legal arguments saying, “It’s odd that we’re even here" and "See you all on the 15th."
Trump Judges "Split the Baby"
To avoid the perception of bias, judges have allowed Trump to delay justice with frivolous motions and make unsubstantiated accusations against his prosecutors.
In the Georgia RICO case Trump-appointed Judge Aileen Cannon tossed some of the charges on technical grounds, despite there being "ample evidence." She also denied a motion to disqualify DA Fani Willis for "lack of evidence," but then criticized her for the "appearance" of misconduct. In the Florida classified documents case, the Judge ruled against Trump's frivolous claims that the law is unconstitutionally vague, but strangely said Trump's arguments warrant “serious consideration.” She has also failed to rule on Trump's outrageous claims of absolute immunity that have indefinitely delayed his election interference trial. Trump has effectively delayed criminal accountability by exploiting judges fearful of appearing biased and therefore willing to legally "split the baby" for Trump.
Make the RNC White Again
Trump's purge at the RNC has been described as an "absolute bloodbath" and "a harbinger of things to come" of how Trump is planning to take over the federal government.
Just days after Trump successfully installed his daughter-in-law as co-chair of the RNC, the new leadership gutted the existing staff and leadership to make room for Trump loyalists. Former Trump lawyer Christina Bobb has been hired to lead the RNC's new deceptively named "election integrity division'' described by Democratic election lawyer Marc Eliasas as "an all out assault on voting rights and free and fair elections." The RNC also closed their minority outreach program in what one insider labelled “Make the RNC White Again.”
Breathless Horror and Disgust
In the same way Dr. Frankenstein's monster turned against his creator, Mitch McConnell is defeated by the anti-government, christian nationalist movement he helped create.
Mitch McConnell cynically empowered a rightwing Evangelical movement to push through corporate tax cuts and appoint fundamentalist judges to overturn decades of legal protections. After the January 6th Insurrection, McConnell lacked the courage to convict Trump and instead called on the legal system to prosecute him. In the ultimate tragic irony, on the very same day McConnell publicly surrenders his leadership to Trump's MAGA movement, the Supreme Court—that he helped create—indefinitely delays Trump's criminal trial! Victor Frankenstein's words on seeing his creation, "the beauty of the dream vanished, and breathless horror and disgust filled my heart.”
Trump's Pathological Fraud
Trump is fined $355 Million and banned from doing business for 3 years for "repeatedly falsified business records with the intent to defraud."
In his 92 page blistering ruling against Trump and his co-defendants, Judge Arthur Engoron writes, “In order to borrow more and at lower rates, defendants submitted blatantly false financial data to the accountants, resulting in fraudulent financial statements. When confronted at trial with the statements, defendants’ fact and expert witnesses simply denied reality, and defendants failed to accept responsibility or to impose internal controls to prevent future recurrences.” The Judge said of Trump and his co-defendants that “their complete lack of contrition and remorse borders on pathological.”
False Derogatory Information
The heart of the House Republicans' case to impeach President Biden is based on an informant arrested for lying to the FBI and fabricating a story about the Bidens' taking bribes from a Ukrainian oligarch.
Republicans and right wing media are desperate to indict President Biden to distract voters from Donald Trump's multiple criminal and civil legal problems. Unfortunately, their star witness against Biden has just been arrested by the FBI. The 37 page indictment charges Alexander Smirnov for making false statements and creating a false and fictitious record. "Despite repeated admonishments that he must provide truthful information to the FBI and that he must not fabricate evidence, the Defendant provided false derogatory information.”
Citizen Trump Is Not Immune
Fearful that Taylor Swift will endorse Biden, Trump World has promised a "holy war" and has started spreading hateful, misogynistic conspiracy theories.
The detailed 57 page court ruling made it clear that "former President Trump is not immune from prosecution," and that "Trump's alleged efforts to remain in power despite losing the 2020 election were, if proven, an unprecedented assault on the structure of our government." The court warned that "Trump's stance would collapse our system of separation of powers by placing the President beyond the reach of all three Branches." They rejected Trump's claim of "absolute presidential immunity", and the Court ruled "for the purpose of this criminal case, former President Trump has become citizen Trump.”
The Emperor Without Clothes
Trump tried to bully the judge, the jury and his rape victim. Now, he must pay $83.3 million for defaming E. Jean Carroll.
After a jury ordered Trump to pay $83.3 million for defamation, E. Jean Carroll vows to donate the money to “something Donald Trump hates” such as “a fund for the women who have been sexually assaulted by Donald Trump.” Carroll accused Trump of using the courtroom as a “campaign stop… using the woman he sexually assaulted to get votes.” Seeing Trump in the courtroom Carroll described Trump as “nothing” with “no power.” She added, “it’s just the people around him who give him the power. It’s the emperor without clothes.”
Trump's Temper Tantrums
Trump goes into a public rage after the New Hampture primary, so the RNC is considering a meaningless motion to declare Trump the "presumptive nominee".
Donald Trump is a bully who goes into a tsge when confronted by strong women. Trump testifies in court to bully and belittle E. Jean Carroll, the woman who already proved in federal court that Trump raped her. Then, Trump throws a temper tantrum against GOP rival Nikki Halley who called Trump “insecure”, as retaliation of course Trump threatened her donors that they were “permanently barred from the MAGA camp.” He even attacked his former press secretary, Keyleigh McEnany as a RINO (Republican in Name Only) after she commented on Fox News that New Hampshire was a “good night for Joe Biden.”
We'll Take Care of That
Within 30 minutes of Wayne County Board of Canvassers voting to certify the 2020 election, Donald Trump called the two Republican members promising them attorneys if they refused to sign the official documents.
16 people have already been charged in Michigan for signing paperwork falsely asserting that Trump had won the state in 2020. Now a tape has surfaced of Trump pressuring two Republican members of the Wayne County Board of Canvassers to not sign the official documents as is required by law. Also on the call, Republican National Committee Chairwoman Ronna McDaniel is heard saying they would look ""terrible"" if they signed the papers and that ""we will get you attorneys."" To which Trump added: ""We'll take care of that."
Colorado Disqualifies Trump for Insurrection
The Colorado Supreme Court determined that the “undisputed” evidence “established that President Trump engaged in insurrection,” and therefore “is disqualified from holding the office of the President.”
Ignore the GOP spin and read the Colorado Supreme Court decision: "We concluded that the foregoing evidence, the great bulk of which was undisputed at trial, established that President Trump engaged in insurrection." As result the Court ruled that, "Trump is disqualified from holding the office of Present under Section Three of the Fourteenth Amendment to the United States. Because he is disqualified, it would be a wrongful act under the Election Code for the Colorado Secretary of State to list him as a candidate on the presidential primary ballot.”
Trump and Putin Sitting in a Tree
GOP leaders defend Donald Trump who continues his very public bromance with the most ruthless, hateful dictators around the world.
Trump continues to blame immigrants for "poisoning the blood of our country" and in the same breath praises ruthless dictators such as Vladamir Putin, Xi Jinping and Kim Jong Un as ""brilliant"" and "strong leaders" who are "very fond" of him. Former GOP Gov. Chris Christie blasts Republicans for their silence and called Trump "Disgusting," adding “He’s becoming crazier. And now he’s citing Vladimir Putin as a character witness.”
Justice Delayed is Justice Denied
Donald Trump's legal strategy is to delay criminal and civil responsibility beyond the 2024 elections by dragging out lower court rulings that have rejected his dubious claims of presidential immunity.
Special Prosecutor Jack Smith has asked the Supreme Court to follow their own precedent established 50 years ago in an 8-0 ruling on United States v. Nixon (1974) and grant an expedited hearing on Trump’s claim of ""absolute immunity."" Unfortunately, this is the same Supreme Court that ignored 50 years of precedent when they overturned Roe v. Wade. As MLK wrote 60 years ago in his landmark Letter from Birmingham Jail, ""justice too long delayed is justice denied.
Trump's Early Christmas Present
To appease a vengeful Trump, every Republican in the House voted along party lines and approved a politically motivated impeachment inquiry that lacks either evidence or charges.
Before going home for the holidays, House Republicans gave Trump what he wanted most for Christmas, unanimously voting to open a formal impeachment inquiry into Joe Bidden. Even Fox & Friends co-anchor Steve Doocy blamed Republicans for acting without evidence saying, "they have not shown where Joe Biden did anything illegally.” President Biden called out Republicans for failing to do "anything to help make Americans’ lives better" and for wasting taxpayer's time and money on a "baseless political stunt that even Republicans in Congress admit is not supported by facts.”
No Heart, No Courage, No Brains
After his humiliating ousting as Speaker, Kevin McCathy is resigning from Congress because he lacked the heart, courage, or brains to stand up to the Wizard of Lies in Mar-a-Lago.
NO HEART: Former GOP Congressman Joe Walsh said of McCarthy, “He’s a hollow man. His only reason for being is the pursuit of power, his only guide is his personal ambition.”
NO COURAGE: Even the ultra conservative National Review blasted McCarthy for failing to stand up to Donald Trump with the headline “Where Is the Courage?”
NO BRAINS: McCarthy lacked the brains to realize what former congressman and MAGA loyalist Mo Brooks learned the hard way, “Donald Trump has no loyalty to anyone or anything but himself.”