Donald Trump

Halifax2TheMax

In case your news source doesn't report on the feeding frenzy:

Trump attacks McConnell in lengthy statement, calls him ‘dour, sullen, and unsmiling political hack’

By Colby Itkowitz

Trump unleashed a torrent of insults at McConnell, who just a few days ago voted to acquit Trump but also said the former president bore responsibility for inciting the Jan. 6 attack on the Capitol.

In a lengthy statement, Trump eviscerates McConnell, claiming the Kentucky Republican “begged” Trump for his support in his 2020 reelection bid and threatening to back primary challengers to lawmakers who aren’t aligned with Trump.

“Where necessary and appropriate, I will back primary rivals who espouse Making America Great Again and our policy of America First. We want brilliant, strong, thoughtful, and compassionate leadership,” Trump warns.

On Saturday, after the Senate fell 10 votes short of convicting Trump on a charge of incitement of insurrection, McConnell delivered a blistering attack on the former president though he had joined Republicans in saying the president was not guilty.

The former president is “practically and morally responsible” for provoking the Jan. 6 attack on the Capitol, McConnell said — but the Senate was upholding the Constitution by acquitting him.

“The Senate’s decision today does not condone anything that happened on or before that terrible day,” McConnell said. “It simply shows that senators did what the former president failed to do: We put our constitutional duty first.”

McConnell’s office did not immediately respond to request for comment.

Trump hits McConnell on everything from his intellect to his looks, saying the leader lacks “political insight, wisdom, skill, and personality” and describing him as a “dour, sullen, and unsmiling political hack.”

The former president says he “regrets” giving McConnell his endorsement last year and claims the veteran politician would have lost had it not been for Trump. McConnell won another term by nearly 20 percentage points over Democrat Amy McGrath.

Trump then blames McConnell for Republicans losing two Senate seats in Georgia, where Trump continued to perpetuate unfounded claims that the presidential election was rigged.

“He doesn’t have what it takes, never did, and never will,” Trump says in the statement, hinting at his role going forward.

“This is a big moment for our country," Trump says, in closing, "and we cannot let it pass by using third rate ‘leaders’ to dictate our future!”

The Juggler

Poor guy can't unleash via twitter anymore. Sad.

Edved82

Trump will end up running again in 2024. It's inevitable. He'll campaign against Harris in a flurry of racism and xenophobia and end up winning.

Poncier

The Juggler said:

Poor guy can't unleash via twitter anymore. Sad.

If a rant falls in the virtual forest but nobody is able to read it, does it make any noise?

Gern Blansten

This GA shit is amazing.  THe GA legislature is trying to make changes so that tRump can't be charged.  Crazy cult shit.

HughFreakingDillon

Edved82 said:

Trump will end up running again in 2024. It's inevitable. He'll campaign against Harris in a flurry of racism and xenophobia and end up winning.

his health could easily go downhill before then. 3-4 years is a long time at his age and McWeight. it's also a lifetime in politics. 

mickeyrat

Gern Blansten said:

This GA shit is amazing.  THe GA legislature is trying to make changes so that tRump can't be charged.  Crazy cult shit.

link?

Halifax2TheMax

So much winning and so fitting.

The former Trump Plaza casino in Atlantic City was imploded Wednesday, marking the end of an era on the city’s boardwalk.

Upon its opening in 1984, it was the largest hotel and casino in Atlantic City. During its heyday, the venue hosted concerts, marquee boxing matches and WrestleMania events.

OnWis97

HughFreakingDillon said:

Edved82 said:

Trump will end up running again in 2024. It's inevitable. He'll campaign against Harris in a flurry of racism and xenophobia and end up winning.

his health could easily go downhill before then. 3-4 years is a long time at his age and McWeight. it's also a lifetime in politics. 

Also, if some people (Bannon, among others, I think) are correct, he had dementia for most/all of his term. If so, it's likely to progress noticeably. (Not that that would destroy his chances...)

static111

OnWis97 said:

HughFreakingDillon said:

Edved82 said:

Trump will end up running again in 2024. It's inevitable. He'll campaign against Harris in a flurry of racism and xenophobia and end up winning.

his health could easily go downhill before then. 3-4 years is a long time at his age and McWeight. it's also a lifetime in politics. 

Also, if some people (Bannon, among others, I think) are correct, he had dementia for most/all of his term. If so, it's likely to progress noticeably. (Not that that would destroy his chances...)

It got Reagan a second term

HughFreakingDillon

static111 said:

OnWis97 said:

HughFreakingDillon said:

Edved82 said:

Trump will end up running again in 2024. It's inevitable. He'll campaign against Harris in a flurry of racism and xenophobia and end up winning.

his health could easily go downhill before then. 3-4 years is a long time at his age and McWeight. it's also a lifetime in politics. 

Also, if some people (Bannon, among others, I think) are correct, he had dementia for most/all of his term. If so, it's likely to progress noticeably. (Not that that would destroy his chances...)

It got Reagan a second term

true, but back then the president wasn't accessible like they are now. from what I recall, you heard about the president's activities, but didn't necessarily see them or hear from them that often. I think it's much harder to pass it off as nothing with how visible they are now. 

mickeyrat

 

Manhattan D.A. Recruits Top Prosecutor for Trump Inquiry

The Manhattan district attorney has enlisted a former federal prosecutor who is an expert on white-collar crime to join the team investigating the Trump family business.

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Donald J. Trump, seen here on the last day of his presidency, is the focus of at least two state criminal investigations. Credit...Pete Marovich for The New York Times

By William K. Rashbaum, Ben Protess and Jonah E. Bromwich

• Feb. 18, 2021
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As the Manhattan district attorney’s office steps up the criminal investigation of Donald J. Trump, it has reached outside its ranks to enlist a prominent former federal prosecutor to help scrutinize financial dealings at the former president’s company, according to several people with knowledge of the matter.

The former prosecutor, Mark F. Pomerantz, has deep experience investigating and defending white-collar and organized crime cases, bolstering the team under District Attorney Cyrus R. Vance Jr. that is examining Mr. Trump and his family business, the Trump Organization.

The investigation by Mr. Vance, a Democrat, is focused on possible tax and bank-related fraud, including whether the Trump Organization misled its lenders or local tax authorities about the value of his properties to obtain loans and tax benefits, the people with knowledge of the matter said, requesting anonymity because of the sensitive nature of the investigation. Mr. Trump has maintained he did nothing improper and has long railed against the inquiry, calling it a politically motivated “witch hunt.”

In recent months, Mr. Vance’s office has broadened the long-running investigation to include an array of financial transactions and Trump properties — including Trump Tower on Fifth Avenue in Manhattan, various Trump hotels and the Seven Springs estate in Westchester County — as prosecutors await a ruling from the United States Supreme Court that could give them access to Mr. Trump’s tax returns.

The prosecutors have also interviewed a number of witnesses and have issued more than a dozen new subpoenas, including to one of Mr. Trump’s top lenders, Ladder Capital, the people with knowledge of the matter said.

In addition, investigators subpoenaed a company hired by Mr. Trump’s other main lender, Deutsche Bank, to assess the value of certain Trump properties, one of the people with knowledge of the previously unreported subpoenas said.

Months earlier, Mr. Vance’s office had subpoenaed records from Deutsche Bank itself, The New York Times previously reported. More recently, Deutsche Bank employees provided testimony to Mr. Vance’s office about the bank’s relationship with the Trump Organization, a person briefed on the matter said.

Still, despite the burst of investigative activity, prosecutors have said the tax returns and other financial records are vital to their inquiry — and the Supreme Court has delayed a final decision for months.

Manhattan prosecutors have also subpoenaed the Trump Organization for records related to tax deductions on millions of dollars in consulting fees, some of which appear to have gone to the former president’s daughter Ivanka Trump.

The Trump Organization turned over some of those records last month, though the prosecutors have questioned whether the company has fully responded to the subpoena, the people with knowledge of the matter said.

Mr. Trump won an acquittal in his second impeachment trial last week, but remains the focus of at least two state criminal investigations. Besides the inquiry in Manhattan, prosecutors in Georgia are scrutinizing Mr. Trump’s effort to persuade local officials to undo the election results there. His departure from office has left him without the shield from indictment that the presidency provided.

The Manhattan district attorney’s office has not accused Mr. Trump of wrongdoing and it remains unclear whether Mr. Vance, whose term ends in January, will ultimately bring charges against Mr. Trump or any Trump Organization employees.

The Trump Organization declined to comment, but in the past, lawyers for the company have said that its practices complied with the law and have called the investigation a “fishing expedition.”

Mr. Pomerantz, 69, was sworn in earlier this month to serve as a special assistant district attorney, according to Danny Frost, a spokesman for the district attorney, who otherwise declined to comment on the inquiry. Mr. Pomerantz will work solely on the Trump investigation.

The hiring of an outsider is a highly unusual move for a prosecutor’s office, but the two-and-a-half-year investigation of the former president and his family business is unusually complex. And Mr. Vance, whose office has had a few missteps in other white-collar cases, had already hired FTI, a large consulting company, to help analyze Mr. Trump’s financial records.

Prosecutors are scrutinizing whether the Trump Organization artificially inflated the value of some of his signature properties to obtain the best possible loans, while simultaneously lowballing the property values to reduce property taxes, the people with knowledge of the matter said. The prosecutors are also looking at the Trump Organization’s statements to insurance companies about the value of various assets.

The Trump Organization’s lawyers are likely to argue to prosecutors that it could not have duped sophisticated financial institutions that did their own analysis of Mr. Trump’s properties without relying on what Mr. Trump’s company told them. The company’s lawyers are also likely to emphasize that the practice of providing such differing valuations is widespread in New York’s real estate industry.

Deutsche Bank has said it is cooperating with the investigation. A spokesman for Ladder Capital, which securitized the loans years ago and thus no longer owns them, declined to comment.

Mr. Pomerantz, who has been helping with the case informally for months, has taken a temporary leave from the law firm Paul Weiss to join Mr. Vance’s office. Among other tasks, he will likely handle interactions with key witnesses.

Mr. Vance also retained veteran constitutional lawyers to work on the briefs filed in the 18-month legal battle over the office’s subpoena for Mr. Trump’s tax returns and other financial records, which has twice reached the U.S. Supreme Court. The case was argued by Mr. Vance’s general counsel, Carey Dunne, who is helping to lead the investigation.

The court could rule for a second time on the matter soon, potentially putting eight years of Mr. Trump’s personal and corporate tax records and other documents in the hands of prosecutors for the first time, a development that Mr. Vance’s office has called central to its investigation.

Mr. Pomerantz, a leading figure in the New York legal circles, clerked for Judge Edward Weinfeld in Manhattan and Justice Potter Stewart on the Supreme Court. He then became a federal prosecutor in the United States attorney’s office in Manhattan, where he rose to lead the appellate unit before leaving in 1982.

In private practice, he developed a specialty in organized crime and was involved in a 1988 case that helped determine the legal definition of racketeering. His former law partner, Ronald P. Fischetti, estimated they tried nearly 25 cases that involved organized crime in some form or another.

Mr. Pomerantz returned to the Manhattan U.S. attorney’s office to head the criminal division between 1997 and 1999, overseeing major securities fraud and organized crime cases, perhaps most prominently against John A. Gotti, the Gambino boss.

He later joined Paul Weiss, one of the best-known law firms in New York, where he defended Robert Torricelli, the New Jersey senator accused of campaign finance violations.

“He worked both sides of the street, so he’s not going to be biased by virtue of temperament,” said Robert S. Litt, a former general counsel for the Director of National Intelligence, who has known Mr. Pomerantz since 1976.

David Enrich contributed reporting.

The Trump Investigation

Manhattan D.A. Intensifies Investigation of Trump

Dec. 11, 2020

William K. Rashbaum is a senior writer on the Metro desk, where he covers political and municipal corruption, courts, terrorism and broader law enforcement topics. He was a part of the team awarded the 2009 Pulitzer Prize for breaking news. @WRashbaum • Facebook

Ben Protess covers the Trump administration, including its overhaul of Obama-era regulations and potential conflicts of interest arising out of the president's personal business dealings. He previously covered white-collar crime, Wall Street lobbying and the private equity industry. @benprotess

Jonah Engel Bromwich is a courts reporter for The New York Times metro desk. @jonesieman

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DewieCox

Where’s Emperor Trump? You’d think he’d be leading the charge to get aid to Texas since he cares so deeply for the American people.

ikiT

DewieCox said:

Where’s Emperor Trump? You’d think he’d be leading the charge to get aid to Texas since he cares so deeply for the American people.

Or making sure Rs come out in support of a big CV19 relief package, including the bigger stimmy checks he whined about not being in the last piece of legislation he tried to torpedo before trying to OVERTHROW the US government on his way out the door.

That bill will not garner ONE R vote in the House OR Senate, you know, because of the sham impeachment.  So predictable.

By the way, the United States Capitol is STILL a fucking armed fortress closed off to the public some six weeks later.  Perhaps Don can chip in on the security costs from some of that fundraising he did to "Save America".  What a fucking douchebag.

ikiT

YO 

https://cpac.conservative.org/speakers/

Mo Brooks will be there, along with Andy Biggs, Paul Gosar, and Matt Gaetz, Pam Bondi,  and "big lie" promoters extraordinaire Josh Hawley and Teddy Cruz (R-Cancun).  Lauren Boebert and ACU Election Integrity Attorney Denise Cohen will also address the washed. 

The list is extensive.  America Uncanceled = Save America 2.0.

ikiT

ikiT said:

This MFer is DANGEROUS

I went back to my Jan 6th post as Trumpito took the stage, before shit got real.  The Dance of the Clairvoyants is a real thing. 

ikiT

page 1711

ikiT

Cliffy6745 said:

Someone is gonna get killed today

Also Jan 6, page 1713

Out of My Mind and Time

Lol. You gooners can stop thinking about this guy. Bunch of scorned girlfriends.  Everyday. You think.  Trump 

Out of My Mind and Time

now this one cracked me up