Trump = Winning

[LurkerNoMore]

So you respect Barr's opinion?

Why shouldn't I?

He wouldn't be dishonest would he?

[Dos Equis]

Why shouldn't I?

He wouldn't be dishonest would he?

You accept his opinions about the Russian Manchurian Candidate investigation? 

[LurkerNoMore]

You accept his opinions about the Russian Manchurian Candidate investigation?

You gotta take the bad along with the good right?  I never believe in the Russian investigation so why wouldn't I?

[Dos Equis]

You gotta take the bad along with the good right?  I never believe in the Russian investigation so why wouldn't I?

Good.

[jude2]

Compared to Biden, they all are genius.

[LurkerNoMore]

The #winning just never seems to stop.  Trumpy promised "so much winning that you will be sick of it".   And here we are!   

His attorney is confident the case will be dismissed.......   how many times have we heard that one before?   

The funny thing is that Trumpy and his team got all upset because the courts rejected an offer of his DNA to match against what was found on her clothes.  He only had YEARS to do so.  He could have submitted his DNA, won his case, sued her to the moon and back and been done with it by this time.  Unless he had something to hide.

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No shield for Trump in rape accuser's case as court declines to rule

A Washington, D.C., appeals court on Thursday declined to shield Donald Trump from the first of two civil defamation lawsuits by E. Jean Carroll, a writer who said the former U.S. president raped her nearly three decades ago.

The district's highest local court, the Court of Appeals, said it did not have enough facts to decide whether Trump deserved immunity, after he accused the former Elle magazine columnist in June 2019 of lying about the alleged encounter.

A ruling that Trump was acting as president, and not in his personal capacity, would have immunized him and doomed Carroll's first lawsuit because the government could substitute itself as the defendant, and the government cannot be sued for defamation.

The court sent the case back to the 2nd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in Manhattan, which had last September asked the Washington court for guidance on local law.

Thursday's decision does not affect Carroll's second lawsuit, where an April 25 trial is scheduled in Manhattan federal court.

That case also includes a battery claim under a New York law that lets sexual abuse survivors sue their alleged attackers even if statutes of limitations have run out.

Trump wants to postpone that trial at least until May 23, saying "prejudicial media coverage" of Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg's recent criminal case against him would leave that case "top of mind" for most prospective jurors.
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[Agnostic007]

Mr Trump - at his  rally in Oshkosh Wisconsin in August of 2020:

    “We are going to win four more years, And then after that, we’ll go for another four years because they spied on my campaign. We should get a redo of four years.”

Pretty much sums up his knowledge of politics

[LurkerNoMore]

Why so worried?

“cherished and massive MAGA vote” lol. Obviously not massive enough to win an election.   

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Freshly indicted Trump has gone from mocking DeSantis to begging him not to run. SAD!

Remember in 2015 when then-candidate Donald Trump unfairly blasted Republican Sen. John McCain?

“He’s not a war hero,” Trump said. “He was a war hero because he was captured. I like people that weren’t captured.”

Republicans should take a cue from the former president and send him the following message: They like presidential candidates who haven’t been indicted (and throw in lying about losing an election).

Following Trump’s recent New York charges on allegedly falsifying business records in conjunction with a 2016 hush money payout to a porn star, he has been acting extra defensive.

Despite the nonstop news coverage and the drama which Trump thrives on, the publicity doesn’t seem to be rallying Republicans to him like some had predicted.

While Trump is mired in his legal troubles, Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis is traveling to key states around the country, boasting about what he has accomplished as governor and how Florida could serve as a model for the country. He was in my state of Michigan last week.

For the most part, DeSantis has ignored Trump – and Trump’s incessant attacks against him. It’s driving the former president nuts.

This week, Trump seems to have shifted his messaging about his likely GOP presidential competition. Rather than lobbing lazy name-calling DeSantis’ way, he’s outright pleading for the governor not to run. At least that’s what it sounds like.

“Ron DeSantis is a young man who is not doing well against me in the polls, to put it mildly,” Trump wrote Monday on Truth Social. “I believe that if he decides to run for President, which will only hurt and somewhat divide the Republican Party, he will lose the cherished and massive MAGA vote, and never be able to successfully run for office again. If he remains Governor, which is what Florida voters assumed, it would be a whole different story…JUST SAYIN’ – But who knows?”

Later that day, Trump sent out a news release doubling down on previous accusations that DeSantis should resign as governor if he runs for president.
Trump's looking nervous

Trump’s doing everything he can think of to dissuade DeSantis from getting in the race.

Why? Because Trump obviously realizes DeSantis poses the biggest threat to him. And nothing scares Trump more than the prospect of losing (2020 anyone?).

Several recent polls point to troubles ahead for Trump. One from ABC/Ipsos found Trump's favorability rating at only 25%.

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And while Trump still has a fairly consistent lead over DeSantis (who still hasn’t declared his candidacy) in national polls, that advantage appears to be shrinking. In some individual states, DeSantis is leading.

Trump wants you to think he's the victim: Maybe he's just a bad dude
DeSantis doesn't have the baggage

A recent survey from Issues & Insights and the pollster TIPP found that in the past month, Trump has lost support among Republicans and right-leaning independents. He still has a healthy lead among GOP presidential contenders with 47%, but that has dropped from 51%. During the same timeframe, support for DeSantis grew to 23% from 22%.

No other declared or likely GOP candidate is even close at this point. That’s clearly enough to make Trump fret about his fellow Floridian.

With other indictments possible on the horizon for Trump, it’s hard to know how this will all play out with the Republican base.

Regardless of how politicized most of these investigations have been, it seems voters on the right are increasingly ready for a fresh candidate – and one who hasn’t been indicted.
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https://www.google.com/search?client=firefox-b-1-d&q=Freshly+indicted+Trump+has+gone+from+mocking+DeSantis+to+begging+him+not+to+run.+SAD%21

[Wayne Tracker.]

Pretty much sums up his knowledge of politics

Biden has more knowledge and thus better policies ? name one ??

[LurkerNoMore]

Oh no.... sounds like a really outstanding defense tactic.  I'm sure it will lead to a complete acquittal, total exoneration, and damages of millions awarded to Trumpy.

Or it's just another signal things are going so bigly for the orange guy and this attorney decided to tell the truth and/or decided he won't be taking a fall for the cult leader.   

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Trump lawyer recuses himself from classified documents case: report

Evan Corcoran, a key member of former President Trump’s legal team, has recused himself from the investigation into Trump’s handling of classified documents after he was questioned by a grand jury last month, according to The Washington Post.

Trump is under investigation by Special Counsel Jack Smith over allegations that he intentionally mishandled classified documents during and after he left office, including storing documents at his Mar-a-Lago home in Florida and hiding them from federal investigators.

Corcoran will still represent Trump in other cases, including Smith’s investigation into the former president’s role in the Jan. 6 insurrection.

He spoke to a grand jury last month after a court ruled that his communications with the former president did not fall under attorney-client privilege.
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[LurkerNoMore]

Why does he want their names?  Judge pimp slapped him instead.

"...Trump's renewed effort to require that prospective jurors provide their names, employment and 38 other pieces of information on written questionnaires."

Trump wants any potential juror in his trial to provide more personal information than he did to run for president.   

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Judge rejects Trump's bid to learn juror names at defamation trial

Donald Trump will not learn the identities of jurors expected to decide at an upcoming civil trial whether the former president defamed the writer E. Jean Carroll, who also claims Trump raped her.

U.S. District Judge Lewis Kaplan in Manhattan on Friday rejected Trump's renewed effort to require that prospective jurors provide their names, employment and 38 other pieces of information on written questionnaires.

Kaplan said the law was "abundantly clear" it was his choice whether to use questionnaires, and nothing has changed his decision to seat an anonymous jury at the April 25 trial, reflecting the threat of juror harassment.
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https://www.google.com/search?client=firefox-b-1-d&q=Judge+rejects+Trump%27s+bid+to+learn+juror+names+at+defamation+trial

[LurkerNoMore]

WHY is this whiner so scared of what Pence may say?   You would think he would want his second in charge talking up for him since he didn't do anything wrong.   Why is he so scared?   

I’ve never seen a supposedly innocent person fight so hard and spend so much of other people’s money to block people from testifying or stall cases he is innocent in from proceeding to trial. It’s truly remarkable.   


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Trump Asks Appeals Court to Immediately Block Pence Grand Jury Testimony

Donald Trump has asked a federal appeals court in Washington to immediately block a subpoena for grand jury testimony from former Vice President Mike Pence. 

The former president’s lawyers filed the request on Friday under seal, but the public docket shows they asked the court to vacate the underlying order or at least stop prosecutors from enforcing the subpoena while they pursue a full appeal. The appeal, which is largely under seal but previously confirmed by Bloomberg News, was filed on April 10.

The US Court of Appeals for the DC Circuit has rebuffed Trump’s earlier efforts to halt grand jury subpoenas from Justice Department Special Counsel Jack Smith’s office in its investigation into efforts to undermine the 2020 presidential election.

Pence had originally lodged a separate challenge to the subpoena but decided not to appeal the ruling on that from a federal district judge. The order is under seal, but Pence’s team described it as an overall win on the constitutional privilege he argued should apply to the role he played on Jan. 6, 2021, as the president of the Senate.
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https://www.google.com/search?client=firefox-b-1-d&q=Trump+Asks+Appeals+Court+to+Immediately+Block+Pence+Grand+Jury+Testimony

[Primemuscle]

WHY is this whiner so scared of what Pence may say?   You would think he would want his second in charge talking up for him since he didn't do anything wrong.   Why is he so scared?   

I’ve never seen a supposedly innocent person fight so hard and spend so much of other people’s money to block people from testifying or stall cases he is innocent in from proceeding to trial. It’s truly remarkable.   

My thoughts exactly.

[Agnostic007]

Biden has more knowledge and thus better policies ? name one ??

Im fairly certain Biden Understands a president has a maximum of 8 years or 2 terms. Trump on the other hand believes he has earned an additional 4 years/ 12 years total. Is that sufficient?   

[LurkerNoMore]

Im fairly certain Biden Understands a president has a maximum of 8 years or 2 terms. Trump on the other hand believes he has earned an additional 4 years/ 12 years total. Is that sufficient?

The policy Trumpy had of nuking hurricanes, raking the forest, and water bombing burning cathedrals is pretty hard to beat.

[LurkerNoMore]

How is that #fraud #winning coming along?  Out of all the bonehead attempts to overturn the election, this just *HAS* to be the stupidest.  I mean, the real electors were probably listed somewhere as, you know.... being the real electors.  And it wasn't these idiots.

All these Trumpturds want to talk about election fraud, but don't want to address the real fraud attempts.  Why is that?

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Trump’s Fake Georgia Electors Are Now Ratting on Each Other

The fake GOP electors in Georgia that former President Donald Trump recruited as part of his failed attempt to stay in power are starting to point fingers at each other, court documents revealed on Tuesday.

Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis, the Atlanta-area prosecutor who’s investigating Trump’s effort to upend American democracy there, laid out the details in a legal memo to a state judge—one that hints at criminal indictments to come.

According to the memo, prosecutors in July last year dangled immunity deals for “alternate electors” who were willing to cooperate with the investigation—but their defense lawyer is now accused of never telling them about the potential deal.

Following a special purpose grand jury recommendation in December that the DA seek indictments against some people involved in the fraudulent scheme, investigators have turned up the pressure.

It turns out, these Republican officials and political operatives are now starting to squirm, identifying illegal behavior by their colleagues while trying to save their own skin—a sudden pivot that came when Willis’ investigators met with these fake electors last week.

Wednesday and Friday, “some of the electors stated that another elector… committed acts that are violations of Georgia law and that they were not party to these additional acts,” Willis explained in her court filing.

10 More Fake Georgia Electors Warned They Could Face Criminal Charges

That description means that certain Republicans are now identifying crimes committed by a colleague while distancing themselves from that criminal behavior.

But that situation has created what Willis calls “an impracticable and ethical mess,” because 10 of these fake electors are being represented by a single Atlanta defense lawyer—who can’t possibly advocate for clients who are simultaneously ratting each other out. The DA’s office is using those details to make the case that the judge should intervene and disqualify that defense lawyer, Kimberly Bourroughs Debrow, citing a conflict of interest.

The DA also accused Debrow of highly unethical behavior, noting how several fake electors interviewed last week revealed that they’d never been told about the potential immunity deals—because Debrow never conveyed the message. The DA said that failure “is in direct conflict” with what Debrow’s fellow defense lawyer, Holly A. Pierson, told the judge in August last year.

Debrow, a former local prosecutor in a neighboring county, did not immediately respond to a request for comment.

Pierson, a former federal prosecutor, called the allegations “entirely false” and said the court has documents that undermine the DA’s previous attempts to disqualify the defense lawyers.

“Sadly, the DA's office continues to seem more interested in media attention, trampling on the constitutional rights of presumptively innocent citizens, and recklessly defaming its perceived opponents than in the facts, the law, or the truth,” Pierson said in a statement.

The DA’s filing on Tuesday is the first indication of who exactly will get hit with criminal charges when Willis seeks an indictment through an Atlanta grand jury—which is expected in the coming weeks.

Debrow represents 10 of the 11 fake electors in question. That list includes Mark Amick, Joseph Brannan, Brad Carver, Vikki Consiglio, John Downey, Carolyn Fish, Kay Godwin, Cathy Latham, Shawn Still and Chandra “C.B.” Yadav.

Fulton County DA Wants to Hear From Mark Meadows and Sidney Powell Over 2020 Election Interference

The list is a “who’s who” of Georgia politics. Amick, Consiglio, and Still have been members of the Georgia Republican Foundation, a fundraising group that attends VIP dinners and touts connections to Trump and his associates. Carver is a lobbyist who serves as the GOP’s chairman in Georgia's 11th congressional district. Brannan is the state’s GOP treasurer. Fisher is the state GOP’s first vice chairwoman. Godwin is an activist who founded Georgia Conservatives in Action. Yadav worked on Kelly Loeffler’s failed Senate bid.

Meanwhile, Latham was previously the top GOP official in a rural Georgia County who coordinated a secret operation to have conspiracy theorists examine local election system computers in early 2021—one that was exposed by The Daily Beast and is now under investigation.

During an hour-long interview last year, she lied repeatedly about her role in putting together the covert mission, which involved having computer forensics experts charter a private plane to the small town and enter a county building to tap into government servers. But text messages and public records revealed she was central to orchestrating the plan.

Now that some of these Republicans seem willing to expose their colleagues’ roles in the fake elector scheme, Debrow’s connections to them “poses a serious risk to the fundamental principle of confidentiality of information,” the DA argued. Willis asked Judge Robert C.I. McBurney to block Debrow “from any further participation” in the case, given that she knows too much already about what others have done.

Willis is leading what is widely considered the most clear-cut criminal investigation of Trump’s Big Lie in 2020, when he used his presidential campaign and lawyers to conduct an all-out assault on the nation’s elections system. Her investigation initially focused on Trump’s menacing Jan. 2, 2021 phone call to Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger, where he pressured the elections official to “find 11,780 votes.” That investigation has since expanded to review the actions across the state to undermine the 2020 elections there.

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[LurkerNoMore]

If it works the first time, hit the idiots with it again.  The good news is that these cards will look good in the Trumpy Presidential Library.  Next to the coloring books and Sharpie markers.

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“I am pleased to inform you that, due to the great success of my previously launched DIGITAL TRADING CARDS, we are doing it again, SERIES 2, AVAILABLE RIGHT NOW,” he announced Tuesday on Truth Social.

Series 2 is no less embarrassing than the first NFT batch. It includes images of Trump as a bow hunter decked out in camouflage, as an Elvis-inspired rock star, as Washington crossing the Delaware, as a guy in an American flag apron grilling hot dogs next to a black lab, and more.

The cards are on sale for $99, and Trump has preemptively attacked the media for failing to praise him as a “nice guy” for not jacking up the price after the first set sold out. “I hope everyone notices, & I’m sure the Fake News won’t, that I’m leaving the price of the Trading Cards the same as last time, even though they are selling for MANY TIMES MORE (It’s called the MARKET!), & sold out almost immediately, because I want my fans & supporters to make money, & have fun doing it,” the former president griped. “I could have raised the price MUCH HIGHER, & I believe it still would have sold well, with a lot more money coming to me, but I didn’t choose to do so. I WILL BE GIVEN NO ‘NICE GUY’ CREDIT?”

Trump is running to be the 47th president of the United States, and so is promising to have dinner with anyone who buys 47 cards. The whole enterprise, like most of Trump’s enterprises, reeks of grift — especially considering Trump has a long history of teasing potential small-dollar donors with similar meals and then not appearing to deliver.

The second series of tacky digital trading cards will probably sell out like the first one did given that Trump has cultivated a cult out of millions of Americans ready to give their money to the wealthy con artist they’ve been duped into thinking gives a shit about them. He’s a man who is also running for president despite multiple criminal cases over his potentially illegal financial dealings, and who has convinced his followers that this legal peril somehow makes him even more qualified to represent their interests. He wants them to vote him into the White House for a second time, but first — and perhaps even more — he wants them to spend $99 for a digital image of himself wearing American-flag chaps as he plays an electric guitar atop a motorcycle.

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[LurkerNoMore]

So much winning whining.

https://www.google.com/search?client=firefox-b-1-d&q=Donald+Trump+Throws+Hissy+Fit+Over+Elon+Musk+Revelation

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Donald Trump raged after Elon Musk revealed he voted for President Joe Biden in the 2020 election.

The former president claimed Twitter’s billionaire owner told him he’d voted for him, then petulantly said he actually “didn’t care” either way.

“I didn’t vote for Donald Trump,” Musk told Fox News personality Tucker Carlson in an interview that aired Monday. “I actually voted for Biden. I’m not saying I’m a huge fan of Biden, since that would probably be inaccurate. But, you know, we have difficult choices to make in these presidential elections.”

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Lee Moran
Wed, April 19, 2023 at 4:28 AM EDT

Donald Trump raged after Elon Musk revealed he voted for President Joe Biden in the 2020 election.

The former president claimed Twitter’s billionaire owner told him he’d voted for him, then petulantly said he actually “didn’t care” either way.

“I didn’t vote for Donald Trump,” Musk told Fox News personality Tucker Carlson in an interview that aired Monday. “I actually voted for Biden. I’m not saying I’m a huge fan of Biden, since that would probably be inaccurate. But, you know, we have difficult choices to make in these presidential elections.”

Musk said he’d prefer “just a normal person as president, a normal person with common sense and whose values are smack in the middle of the country.”

Trump appeared displeased.

“I don’t believe Elon Musk voted for Biden, not for a minute!” he wrote on his Truth Social platform. “He told me that he voted for me, but who knows about that, and who cares?”

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[Agnostic007]

“I didn’t vote for Donald Trump,” Musk told Fox News personality Tucker Carlson in an interview that aired Monday. “I actually voted for Biden. I’m not saying I’m a huge fan of Biden, since that would probably be inaccurate. But, you know, we have difficult choices to make in these presidential elections.”

feel exactly the same

[Primemuscle]

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More sour grapes! LOL.

[Moontrane]

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I think it's a head-fake; he loves being confrontational on stage.

[LurkerNoMore]

I think it's a head-fake; he loves being confrontational on stage.

Really?  All I can remember is that he loves to talk tough and talk shit (judges, feds, etc..) about someone from a distance but then in their presence he turns meek as shit. 

[Moontrane]

Really?  All I can remember is that he loves to talk tough and talk shit (judges, feds, etc..) about someone from a distance but then in their presence he turns meek as shit.

We shall see.  I was surprised at how better he did than 16 others in the debates of 15/16 (high floor, low ceiling, as they called it), seemingly out of nowhere. 

[Grape Ape]

We shall see.  I was surprised at how better he did than 16 others in the debates of 15/16 (high floor, low ceiling, as they called it), seemingly out of nowhere.

At least the Rs are having debates.

[Dos Equis]

Really?  All I can remember is that he loves to talk tough and talk shit (judges, feds, etc..) about someone from a distance but then in their presence he turns meek as shit.

Bad memory.