Donald Trump is my hero

[Canoe]

TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 22, 2022
ORDERS IN PENDING CASES

21-932 TRUMP, DONALD J. V. THOMPSON, BENNIE G., ET AL.
The motion of States United Democracy Center, et al. for leave to file a brief as amici curiae is granted.
The petition for a writ of certiorari is denied.

https://www.supremecourt.gov/orders/cou ... r_bq7d.pdf

[Simon of the Playa]

YOU CAN'T MAKE THIS SHIT UP


oh wait, wrong thread?




no...



“I went in yesterday and there was a television screen, and I said, ‘This is genius.’ Putin declares a big portion of Ukraine — Putin declares it as independent. Oh, that’s wonderful,” Trump told a conservative podcaster in an interview published Tuesday.

https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/politi ... -rcna17259

[lucky420]

The most stupidest, self centered man in the world. ^^
I wish he’d just fucking disappear

[some seeing eye]

2 Prosecutors Leading N.Y. Trump Inquiry Resign, Clouding Case’s Future

The resignations came after the Manhattan district attorney, Alvin Bragg, was said to have expressed doubts about the case, and amid a monthlong pause in the presentation of evidence to a grand jury.

https://www.nytimes.com/2022/02/23/nyre ... ation.html

[Simon of the Playa]

"He was going to be satisfied with a peace, and now he sees the weakness and the incompetence and the stupidity of this administration, and as an American, I'm angry about it, and I'm saddened by it," he continued. "And it all happened because of a rigged election. This would have never happened."


https://www.businessinsider.com/trump-f ... deo-2022-2



oh wait, maybe we should just merge the "you can't make this shit up" and this thread...

seems to be a thing.

[lucky420]

Why is it taking a mountain to bury this piece of shit ^^
I wish he’d fucking die. He could go today
Serious

[Elorrum]

One felony. One little wind shear event at takeoff. C’mon, stroke, heart attack?

[some seeing eye]

Trump waffled on NATO Article 5, ultimately stepping back from that edge.

He is owned by Putin because of oligarchs laundering their money by lending on the Trump real estate empire through Deutsche Bank. In a second term, Mephisto Putin will call in that Faustian loan, and Trump will refuse to support Article 5. Kushner is owned by the Saudis in the same way, who knows how that will go.

"Donald Trump’s first major statement about NATO came in March 2016 in an interview with The New York Times. He said the alliance was obsolete for several reasons. The first was that Russia no longer posed the threat the Soviet Union did. The second is that NATO was not focused on counterterrorism. The third is the financial cost of NATO to the United States.

Trump’s failure to endorse Article 5 is not an oversight. Members of his cabinet have unsuccessfully tried to insert this language into his remarks, including at his meeting with Stoltenberg."

https://www.brookings.edu/blog/order-fr ... 5-problem/

Putin is going to pull the same sh*t in each NATO country as he successfully did in the US: trolls and disinformation to sow social dysfunction, tamper with elections and campaigns, and insert a leader sympathetic to Russia. What the countries need to do is find their proto-Trumps and call them out now.

And they have activated the Manchurian Broadcaster:

Russian state broadcaster RT just published Tucker Carlson’s rant to defend Putin with Russian subtitles

https://twitter.com/ragipsoylu/status/1 ... QwUgP1i2vQ

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[BBadger]

I was hoping for some embarrassing autoerotic asphyxiation incident, and was also hoping that Covid was going to clean out a lot of trash, but I'd settle for anything.

[lucky420]

Me too, I don’t really care how they get dead. Just want it to happen stat

[Simon of the Playa]

MEANWHILE, AT CPAC...

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[Simon of the Playa]

"The Select Committee had hoped she would do as dozens of other witnesses have done: participate in a voluntary transcribed interview with staff and committee members," Mulvey said. "Ms. Guilfoyle has now declined to do so, forcing the Select Committee to compel her testimony at an upcoming deposition."


https://www.cnn.com/2022/02/25/politics ... index.html

[Canoe]

Response to ________: Never trust anybody that leads with “Let’s Assume”
Response to response: Let's assume you're ... .ah dammit.

[Canoe]

I'm not sure most American voters realize the heroic Ukrainian president everyone is praising is the exact same guy Donald Trump was impeached for trying to extort.

On July 18, 2019, the Trump administration withheld $250 million of military aid to Ukraine.

7 days later, Trump held a phone call with President Zelensky and asked him to investigate former Vice President Joe Biden and his son Hunter.

ZELENSKY: we are almost ready to buy more Javelins from the United States for defense purposes.
TRUMP: I would like you to do us a favor though...

* Trump only demanded one change to the GOP platform at his nomination convention in 2016: stop arming Ukraine to defend itself from Russian invasion.
* And Trump’s campaign manager Manafort was previously the campaign manager for Putin’s candidate in the Ukrainian presidential election.
* Putin had narrowly failed a 2004 attempt to assassinate the other candidate with a chemical weapon. Manafort got Putin’s man elected in 2010.
* That was Manafort’s resume when Trump hired him. Getting Putin’s man elected President in an enemy nation. Using dirty politics and corruption to achieve what even assassination couldn’t.
* It worked again. Manafort was jailed for his crimes in the US. But Trump pardoned him.
* Zelensky ran as the anti-corruption candidate and Trump tried to corrupt him by trying to coerce political “favors” in exchange for the release of military equipment already approved by Congress.
* So this is the guy Trump thought he could blackmail into lying for him? Seriously, was never going to happen. This guy has more principles in his pinky than...
* And his pinky is probably bigger than…

[Canoe]

After 4 Years Of Helping Putin, Trump Claims He Was Tough On Russian Dictator
Trump praised Putin for four years, made excuses for his Crimea invasion, and tried to extort Ukraine’s president while holding hostage $391 million in aid.
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/trump-cp ... 388f15d68d

[Simon of the Playa]

Donald Trump, Speech @ CPAC 2022


The Menu At CPAC VIP

[Simon of the Playa]

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[some seeing eye]

^ Exactly!

Putin operates between his radical old-era generals and his hungry oligarchs.

One would imagine Putin is keeping the oligarchs from overthrowing him by dividing up the Ukraine economy among them in advance. He also has to use his KGB intelligence to keep the military under control.

Maybe the oligarchs will conclude Trump is no longer useful, let the bonds financing his properties go to the bankruptcy court or negotiate the same effect privately, and take title to his real estate physical assets? If that happens, maybe the Saudis will conclude that controlling Kushner through his family's real estate holdings is no longer useful.

https://www.youtube.com/c/VladVexler/ https://twitter.com/VladVexler is a Russian-Ukrainian observer in the UK. He has been doing interviews on Putin's psychology.

[Canoe]

A stunning number of Trump’s closest associates had deep ties to the Kremlin. The significance of this cannot be overstated

In 2014, the Putin regime invaded Ukraine’s Crimea. In 2016, the same regime invaded the United States. The former took place as a conventional military operation; the latter was a spectacular case of cyberwarfare, including disinformation that it was happening at all and promulgation of a lot of talking points still devoutly repeated by many. It was a vast social-media influencing project that took many forms as it sought to sow discord and confusion, even attempting to dissuade Black voters from voting.

Additionally, Russian intelligence targeted voter rolls in all 50 states, which is not thought to have had consequences, but demonstrated the reach and ambition of online interference. This weekend, British investigative journalist Carole Cadwalladr said on Twitter, “We failed to acknowledge Russia had staged a military attack on the West. We called it ’meddling.’ We used words like ‘interference.’ It wasn’t. It was warfare. We’ve been under military attack for eight years now.”

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfr ... in-network

[some seeing eye]

Craig Unger wrote a whole book American Kompromat. This article is the short version, continued.

Donald Trump Was Everything Vladimir Putin Could Have Wished For

From the days when the KGB sought to cultivate him 40 years ago to his term as president, Trump was a useful stooge. And if he gets another term, he still can be.

https://newrepublic.com/article/165553/ ... sian-asset

[Simon of the Playa]

During the hearing, James admitted that he and other members of the Oath Keepers had planned to storm the Capitol with the explicit goal of stopping the certification of the 2020 Electoral College vote.

"Do you agree that in taking such actions, you were trying to influence the conduct of the United States government or retaliate against the United States government?" federal Judge Amit Mehta asked during the hearing.

"Yes sir," James responded.

https://www.cnn.com/2022/03/02/politics ... index.html

[Canoe]

The House select committee investigating the January 6 Capitol attack said in a major filing on Wednesday that it believed that Donald Trump violated multiple federal laws to overturn the 2020 election, including obstructing Congress and defrauding the United States.

The revelations came as part of a filing that intended to force John Eastman, Trump’s former lawyer, to turn over thousands of emails and records since his participation in potential crimes destroyed his arguments for attorney-client privilege protections. House counsel Douglas Letter said in the 61-page filing that the select committee had a basis for concluding Trump violated the law by obstructing or attempting to obstruct an official proceeding and defrauded the United States by interfering with lawful government functions. The select committee’s findings came as part of a 16-part court submission to persuade a federal judge to force Eastman, a central figure in Trump’s scheme to return himself to office, to at least allow the panel to confidentially review his records.

Eastman helped lead a team of lawyers at a Trump “war room” at the Willard hotel in Washington DC, which Trump called from the White House the night before the Capitol attack to discuss ways to stop Biden’s certification from taking place, the Guardian has reported. He has so far turned over about 8,000 pages of emails and documents from 4-7 January to the panel, but has withheld an additional 11,000 documents on the basis that they are protected by attorney-client privilege or constitute confidential attorney work product. The panel also said in the filing that Eastman’s attorney-client privilege claims were undercut by his inability to show he had been formally retained as Trump’s lawyer. An ‘engagement letter’ that Eastman produced last week was unsigned. Through Letter’s submission, the select committee added Eastman could not claim to assert attorney-client privilege over emails he sent on his Chapman university email server, and those messages were not protected by the attorney work product protection.

House investigators said the evidence against Trump – and Eastman’s role in counselling Trump to engage in potentially criminal activity – meant that Eastman’s claims of attorney-client privilege were destroyed by the so-called “crime-fraud exception”, among other arguments. “The attorney-client privilege does not shield participants in a crime from an investigation into a crime,” select committee member Jamie Raskin told the Guardian. “If it did, then all you would have to do to rob a bank is bring a lawyer with you and be asking for advice.”

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/202 ... ump-lawyer

[some seeing eye]

Republican Accountability Project compiles Trump-Ukraine supercut

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qaMVIYqxEf4

They have their own channel https://www.youtube.com/c/RepublicanVot ... ump/videos

US Army Lt. Col. Alex Vindman warned us - Lincoln Project

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ca4j1Fr8gWA

https://www.youtube.com/c/TheLincolnProject/videos

[Simon of the Playa]

Eastman said granting the committee’s request would amount to a historic legal finding that Trump — when he was the sitting president — committed a crime.

“Were this Court to sustain the defendants’ claims, it may be the first formal finding of Presidential criminality by a federal court in United States history,” Eastman wrote.

https://www.politico.com/news/2022/03/0 ... s-00014320

[Simon of the Playa]

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[Canoe]

Donald Trump “admired” Vladimir Putin’s ability to kill anyone he wanted, according to his former White House press secretary Stephanie Grisham.

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/202 ... ie-grisham

[Canoe]

Judge blocks Donald Trump’s effort to countersue rape accuser E Jean Carroll

Donald Trump cannot countersue the US writer E Jean Carroll, who says he raped her in the mid-1990s, a federal judge ruled on Friday. The former president had argued that her defamation lawsuit against him violated a New York state law intended to protect free speech. US district judge Lewis Kaplan in Manhattan said a ruling for the one-term Republican would needlessly cause further delays for Carroll’s lawsuit, which began in November 2019.

He also accused Trump of engaging in “bad faith” to prevent Carroll, 78, from pursuing a case that could have been decided long ago. “The defendant’s litigation tactics, whatever their intent, have delayed the case to an extent that readily could have been far less,” Kaplan wrote. Letting Trump countersue “would make a regrettable situation worse”, he added.

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/202 ... ue-blocked

‘I accused Donald Trump of sexual assault. Now I sleep with a loaded gun’

Why are there six sunhats hanging above the kitchen sink? (“It’s a tiny house, 600 sq ft,” she replies. “Where else would you put them?”) More importantly, why is there a gun on her bedside table?

“It’s loaded,” Carroll says. She picks up the revolver, which has a fake pearl handle, and waves it around. “I’ve always had a gun,” she says. “When I’m doing Skype calls with my friends, I like to pull it out. But I’ve never had it loaded. Not until now.”

In hindsight, Carroll says, she didn’t fully anticipate the impact of a rape allegation against the president, compared with the accusations that preceded hers. “We didn’t weigh them or see it coming. I just wrote 11 pages about Trump. We don’t even mention him on the cover of the book. I thought there might be a little brouhaha, but that was it. I didn’t think it through.”

She has thought it through now, though. “I’m not stupid,” she says. “You saw what’s beside my bed.”

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/201 ... pilkington

[FIGJAM]

Sound like an episode of "Lard and Oder"!!!

[Canoe]

News Flash:
Ukrainian doctors report that there has not been a single case of bone spurs reported in all of Ukraine.

[Canoe]

[from 'Meadows makes claim in book']
So in a 24 hour or so period after testing positive for COVID, Trump knowingly exposed:
- Gold Star families
- the media
- his staff
- the Secret Service
- Joe Biden and everyone at the #DirtyDebate
Many people were infected by him during that period

https://twitter.com/VippusaO/status/1505042949108908033