https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2022/10/15/truth-social-trump-animosity-whistleblower/
Love to see the true believers get caught in the grift.
― DPRK in Cincinnati (WmC), Sunday, 16 October 2022 01:49 (one year ago) link
Will Wilkerson, then an executive at former president Donald Trump’s start-up Trump Media & Technology Group, was at a Fort Lauderdale, Fla., coffee shop with company co-founder Andy Litinsky last October when Trump called Litinsky with a question: Would he give up some of his shares to Trump’s wife, Melania?
Trump Media, the owner of the fledgling social network Truth Social, had just been boosted by a huge merger agreement and a flood of investment that had made the stake worth millions of dollars. Trump had already been given 90 percent of the company’s shares in exchange for the use of his name and some minor involvement, leaving everyone else to split the rest.
Litinsky tried to brush it off, telling Trump “the gift would have meant a huge tax bill he couldn’t pay,” Wilkerson said in an interview. “Trump didn’t care. He said, ‘Do whatever you need to do.’ ”
Five months later, Litinsky, who first met Trump in 2004 as a contestant on the TV show “The Apprentice,” was abruptly removed from the company’s board. Wilkerson said he believes it was payback for his refusal to turn over a small fortune to the former president’s wife. Litinsky thought so, too, according to an email Wilkerson and his attorneys shared with The Washington Post and the Securities and Exchange Commission. In that email, Litinsky complained that Trump was “retaliating against me” by threatening to “ ‘blow up the company’ if his demands are not met.”
― DPRK in Cincinnati (WmC), Sunday, 16 October 2022 01:50 (one year ago) link
Something off about this Trump guy
― “uhh”—like, this is an insane oatmeal raisin cookie “uhh” (President Keyes), Sunday, 16 October 2022 01:55 (one year ago) link
just an update on bannon's sentencing for refusing to show up for the jan 6 committee subpoena, since it might provide a rough timeline of how long it would might possibly take for trump to face consequences for not showing up for his own subpoena. bannon is the only other guy to get charged with this in 50+ years. after the sentencing, he will appeal, and it'll take until next summer at the earliest. so, about a year and a half after refusing to show up?
Before I get into DOJ's Steve Bannon's sentencing memo, keep in mind that Bannon's sentence will be appealed. Bannon is HIGHLY unlikely to go to jail until next summer, at the earlier. And this is being written for Carl Nichols, who favors the appeal. https://t.co/bNpfHgjGAs— emptywheel (@emptywheel) October 17, 2022
assuming trump refuses to show up this fall, the miracle that he is actually held accountable for this and is punished for the same thing any of us would be punished for, and that it is appealed and the appealing judge isn't corrupt, that puts trump's 30 day sentence in jail (lol, it seems so impossible that it would ever, ever happen as i type this) some time in late spring/early summer 2024? this sounds incredibly plausible, can't wait to see him go to jail in the middle of his campaign to openly steal the election
― Karl Malone, Monday, 17 October 2022 14:32 (one year ago) link
I feel like this timing would help his campaign. Mandela vibes.
― treeship., Monday, 17 October 2022 15:05 (one year ago) link
a judge will probably rule that the subpoena is going to be dropped in January anyway
― “uhh”—like, this is an insane oatmeal raisin cookie “uhh” (President Keyes), Monday, 17 October 2022 15:14 (one year ago) link
yeah. and even if the democrats keep the house, no one will ever give a fuck about this subpoena that he'll never show up to. the only way it will be remembered is if it stands as the last action of the jan 6 committee, if nothing else comes out of it. and then it will be remembered as a complete fucking joke
― Karl Malone, Monday, 17 October 2022 15:16 (one year ago) link
Trump’s company charged Secret Service ‘exorbitant’ hotel rates to protect the first family, House committee report says
https://www.cnn.com/2022/10/17/politics/trump-secret-service-hotel-rates/index.html
"One thing about us wise guys, the hustle never ends."
― immodesty blaise (jimbeaux), Monday, 17 October 2022 17:40 (one year ago) link
"Muh tax dollars!"
― an icon of a worried-looking, long-haired, bespectacled man (C. Grisso/McCain), Monday, 17 October 2022 17:49 (one year ago) link
"He sold us $350,000 screwdrivers because he's smart!"
― “uhh”—like, this is an insane oatmeal raisin cookie “uhh” (President Keyes), Monday, 17 October 2022 18:12 (one year ago) link
may have resulted in a taxpayer-funded windfall for former President Trump’s struggling businesses
weren't they also forcing air force planes to refuel at some obscure base in Scotland so the crews would be forced to stay at one of his golf courses?
― Andy the Grasshopper, Monday, 17 October 2022 19:04 (one year ago) link
That was in reference to Trump implying there was a secretive weapons system he controlled. “I have built a weapons system that nobody’s ever had in this country before,” Trump said in an interview, before referring to Russian President Vladimir Putin and Chinese President Xi Jinping. “We have stuff that you haven’t even seen or heard about. We have stuff that Putin and Xi have never heard about before.”Trump’s long obsessions with strongmen leaders — and Kim in particular — comes through in the interviews. Throughout their conversations, Trump repeats the false claim that former president Barack Obama tried 11 times to reach Kim with no success.Woodward points out that Trump’s own military advisers have warned him that Kim “lies through his teeth to you,” and that Obama made no attempts to speak with Kim himself.“Kim Jong Un gave you bad information on that,” Woodward tells Trump at one point. “I don’t think that’s true.”But Trump is not persuaded, choosing to believe Kim over his own advisers.“Obama called 11 times,” Trump insists. “They showed me the records in Korea. I’m very close to this man. Very close.”In a later interview, Trump boasts that he averted a war with North Korea, again repeating his false claim about Obama and choosing to believe Kim over his own military team: “Obama wanted, 11 times he tried,” Trump says. “Kim Jong Un told me. Eleven times.”
Trump’s long obsessions with strongmen leaders — and Kim in particular — comes through in the interviews. Throughout their conversations, Trump repeats the false claim that former president Barack Obama tried 11 times to reach Kim with no success.
Woodward points out that Trump’s own military advisers have warned him that Kim “lies through his teeth to you,” and that Obama made no attempts to speak with Kim himself.
“Kim Jong Un gave you bad information on that,” Woodward tells Trump at one point. “I don’t think that’s true.”
But Trump is not persuaded, choosing to believe Kim over his own advisers.
“Obama called 11 times,” Trump insists. “They showed me the records in Korea. I’m very close to this man. Very close.”
In a later interview, Trump boasts that he averted a war with North Korea, again repeating his false claim about Obama and choosing to believe Kim over his own military team: “Obama wanted, 11 times he tried,” Trump says. “Kim Jong Un told me. Eleven times.”
11 times, kim jong un told him
― Karl Malone, Wednesday, 19 October 2022 15:11 (one year ago) link
1. Kim was washing his hair;2. Took his sister to brunch, couldn't take the call3. Busy with missile test4. Murdering uncle with anti-aircraft gun, try back later5: Playing Xbox, not a good time6. etc. etc.
― Andy the Grasshopper, Wednesday, 19 October 2022 16:30 (one year ago) link
Breaking:NEW YORK (AP) — Former President Donald Trump has been deposed in defamation suit filed by rape accuser E. Jean Carroll, her lawyers say.— Kyle Griffin (@kylegriffin1) October 19, 2022
― Karl Malone, Wednesday, 19 October 2022 23:44 (one year ago) link
it's crazy how many times people have mistakenly thought he did something horrible
― Karl Malone, Wednesday, 19 October 2022 23:45 (one year ago) link
https://talkingpointsmemo.com/news/ca-judge-finds-trump-likely-lied-to-court-in-georgia-big-lie-case
President Trump knew that data supposedly showing voter fraud in the 2020 election was false, but signed a court document attesting to it regardless, a federal judge said on Wednesday.U.S. District Judge David Carter for the Central District of California found that Trump likely lied to a Georgia federal court in December 2020, when he claimed that Fulton County had counted the votes of the dead, convicted felons, and unregistered voters.Trump had already filed a lawsuit making the claims in Georgia state court.But when the former President’s legal team began to consider moving the state court case to federal court, Trump attorney John Eastman realized that the data was flawed, Carter found.“Although the President signed a verification for [the state court filing] back on Dec. 1, he has since been made aware that some of the allegations (and evidence proffered by the experts) has been inaccurate,” Eastman wrote in a Dec. 5, 2020 email cited by Carter. “For him to sign a new verification with that knowledge (and incorporation by reference) would not be accurate.”Trump and his lawyers ended up filing the federal lawsuit with the faulty information anyway, Carter said. The judge remarked that the federal lawsuit was filed “without rectifying, clarifying, or otherwise changing” the incorrect data.
U.S. District Judge David Carter for the Central District of California found that Trump likely lied to a Georgia federal court in December 2020, when he claimed that Fulton County had counted the votes of the dead, convicted felons, and unregistered voters.
Trump had already filed a lawsuit making the claims in Georgia state court.
But when the former President’s legal team began to consider moving the state court case to federal court, Trump attorney John Eastman realized that the data was flawed, Carter found.
“Although the President signed a verification for [the state court filing] back on Dec. 1, he has since been made aware that some of the allegations (and evidence proffered by the experts) has been inaccurate,” Eastman wrote in a Dec. 5, 2020 email cited by Carter. “For him to sign a new verification with that knowledge (and incorporation by reference) would not be accurate.”
Trump and his lawyers ended up filing the federal lawsuit with the faulty information anyway, Carter said. The judge remarked that the federal lawsuit was filed “without rectifying, clarifying, or otherwise changing” the incorrect data.
how does he keep getting blamed for this stuff? get a life, people!!
― Karl Malone, Wednesday, 19 October 2022 23:53 (one year ago) link
"deposed" as in deposition... boring
I was hoping it was more deposed like Ceaușescu
― Andy the Grasshopper, Wednesday, 19 October 2022 23:53 (one year ago) link
disposed
― treeship., Thursday, 20 October 2022 00:17 (one year ago) link
I really think he made a deal with Morgoth that he can get away with anything an then when he dies his soul becomes a giant tarantula for eternity
― | (Latham Green), Thursday, 20 October 2022 00:26 (one year ago) link
Trump's legendary sense of humorhttps://www.businessinsider.com/trump-joked-scotus-leaker-threat-be-bride-of-a-prisoner-2022-10
― StanM, Wednesday, 26 October 2022 11:55 (one year ago) link
I didn't know they made glasses in this shade of rose-tinted:
https://www.newsweek.com/2022/11/04/sweet-revenge-what-trump-would-do-second-term-1754654.html
Bolton, too, can envision Trump trying to hang on past a second term. But he also suggests an alternative, far more benign vision of how Trump might cope with the hard stop that in principle awaits him at the end of that term. "In a second term, Trump will start thinking about his legacy," he says. "He doesn't want to go down in history as a loser. And because his supporters can't vote for him anymore, he won't care what they think."Liberated from having to play to his base, says Bolton, Trump may attempt to establish himself as someone who can restore balance to a deeply polarized America, putting behind him the fact that he himself is responsible for much of that polarization. "People think Trump is a conservative, but he's not," says Bolton. "Jared [Kushner, his son-in-law and former advisor] and Ivanka [Trump, his daughter and former advisor] are basically Manhattan liberals. If they said to him his next Supreme Court nomination should be a liberal, he might listen."The notion that Trump has been playing at being an arch-conservative to fire up his base isn't that fantastic; he was a registered Democrat for eight years until 2009. A Trump 47 who dropped his flamethrower to pick up a fire extinguisher might be a possibility. He showed hints of being a bridge-builder early in his first term.Bolton is quick to hedge that bet. "In the Trump universe," he says, "you can't rule anything out."
Liberated from having to play to his base, says Bolton, Trump may attempt to establish himself as someone who can restore balance to a deeply polarized America, putting behind him the fact that he himself is responsible for much of that polarization. "People think Trump is a conservative, but he's not," says Bolton. "Jared [Kushner, his son-in-law and former advisor] and Ivanka [Trump, his daughter and former advisor] are basically Manhattan liberals. If they said to him his next Supreme Court nomination should be a liberal, he might listen."
The notion that Trump has been playing at being an arch-conservative to fire up his base isn't that fantastic; he was a registered Democrat for eight years until 2009. A Trump 47 who dropped his flamethrower to pick up a fire extinguisher might be a possibility. He showed hints of being a bridge-builder early in his first term.
Bolton is quick to hedge that bet. "In the Trump universe," he says, "you can't rule anything out."
― Eric H., Wednesday, 26 October 2022 18:36 (one year ago) link
He showed hints of being a bridge-builder early in his first term.
was that before or after the muslim ban
― Karl Malone, Wednesday, 26 October 2022 18:42 (one year ago) link
I think it's when he said the words "infrastructure week"
― rob, Wednesday, 26 October 2022 18:54 (one year ago) link
Maybe when he evoked the specter of "American carnage" in his inauguration speech. That was a real moment of coming together.
― immodesty blaise (jimbeaux), Wednesday, 26 October 2022 18:54 (one year ago) link
Pretty sure was willing to ogle, grab, assault, and/or demean women from BOTH parties.
― blissfully unawarewolf (Ye Mad Puffin), Wednesday, 26 October 2022 19:03 (one year ago) link
I think he spoke for all Americans when he told the 7 year-old kid that at his age it was "marginal" to still believe in Santa Claus.
― henry s, Wednesday, 26 October 2022 19:06 (one year ago) link
when he’s right, he’s right
― Vance Vance Devolution (sic), Wednesday, 26 October 2022 20:41 (one year ago) link
The one hilarious thing from Trump’s insane inauguration speech was George W Bush allegedly saying to his companions when it was over:”Well THAT was fucked up”.
― Lord Pickles (Boring, Maryland), Wednesday, 26 October 2022 21:40 (one year ago) link
the day george w bush finally became president
― Karl Malone, Wednesday, 26 October 2022 21:43 (one year ago) link
I think it was, "That was some weird shit," which somehow is even funnier.
― immodesty blaise (jimbeaux), Wednesday, 26 October 2022 21:53 (one year ago) link
Roy Cohn taught him well.. when threatened, counter-attack:
In the latest lawsuit - which was filed to the Florida State Circuit Court - Mr Trump accused Ms James of "a relentless, pernicious, public and unapologetic crusade" against him and the Trump Organization.
He also alleges that the attorney general's own case against him is a "plot" to obtain control of his business that began as a "cartoonish, thinly-veiled effort to publicly malign" the former president.
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-63501157
― Andy the Grasshopper, Thursday, 3 November 2022 19:27 (one year ago) link
As a counter attack that's not worth a bucket of warm piss in regards the court system. it only works when the media picks it up, makes a story out of it, and his bogus claims get quoted as serious litigation.
― more difficult than I look (Aimless), Thursday, 3 November 2022 19:29 (one year ago) link
which the media obligingly does for him, bcz their interests overlap.
― more difficult than I look (Aimless), Thursday, 3 November 2022 19:30 (one year ago) link
It's wild seeing someone tweeting from a fake verified Trump account, openly question why they hadn't gotten suspended yet, and then continue going for another full day. pic.twitter.com/FdTcpF0J8l— Parker Molloy (@ParkerMolloy) November 12, 2022
― an icon of a worried-looking, long-haired, bespectacled man (C. Grisso/McCain), Saturday, 12 November 2022 23:21 (one year ago) link
"I call him king" -- Trump on President Xi pic.twitter.com/lPJqGGsEED— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) November 16, 2022
― the pinefox, Wednesday, 16 November 2022 09:44 (one year ago) link
Pivot! https://t.co/13LKY8bQwK— Roy Edroso (@edroso) November 16, 2022
― ex-McKinsey wonk who looks like a human version of a rat (Eric H.), Wednesday, 16 November 2022 15:43 (one year ago) link
Some people tried to leave his speech last night partway through and apparently security wouldn't let them leave, they were locked in until the end.
― a superficial sheeb of intelligence (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Wednesday, 16 November 2022 16:00 (one year ago) link
Welcome to the Hotel Maralago
― “uhh”—like, this is an insane oatmeal raisin cookie “uhh” (President Keyes), Wednesday, 16 November 2022 16:14 (one year ago) link
At what point does that count as kidnapping?
― jmm, Wednesday, 16 November 2022 16:17 (one year ago) link
Flashing onto Carrie closing the doors on those two suckers at the prom.
― ex-McKinsey wonk who looks like a human version of a rat (Eric H.), Wednesday, 16 November 2022 16:17 (one year ago) link
lol President Keyes!
― Three Rings for the Elven Bishop (Dan Peterson), Wednesday, 16 November 2022 16:18 (one year ago) link
― a superficial sheeb of intelligence (jon /via/ chi 2.0),
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9r70KNoEFLc
― Malevolent Arugula (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Wednesday, 16 November 2022 16:19 (one year ago) link
the fact that he is even able to run at all is a sad sign for America and the world
― | (Latham Green), Wednesday, 16 November 2022 16:20 (one year ago) link
I turned on his speech last night and he was talking about the Carters. I was like wtf?
― “uhh”—like, this is an insane oatmeal raisin cookie “uhh” (President Keyes), Wednesday, 16 November 2022 16:22 (one year ago) link
Trump goes on strange riff about taking back the "carters of power". pic.twitter.com/DJndyCAq4B— Josh Marshall (@joshtpm) November 16, 2022
Bien sûr, Soto's movie reference is classier than mine
― ex-McKinsey wonk who looks like a human version of a rat (Eric H.), Wednesday, 16 November 2022 16:22 (one year ago) link
― “uhh”—like, this is an insane oatmeal raisin cookie “uhh” (President Keyes
idk it's a courteous gesture considering how Aaron died
― Malevolent Arugula (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Wednesday, 16 November 2022 16:23 (one year ago) link
I was expecting him to diss Jimmy Carter for not having the balls to run against Reagan in 1984.
― “uhh”—like, this is an insane oatmeal raisin cookie “uhh” (President Keyes), Wednesday, 16 November 2022 16:24 (one year ago) link
Hotel Maralago forever and ever now. Damnation.
― i'm right back on my shit (Hunt3r), Wednesday, 16 November 2022 16:28 (one year ago) link
Maybe it's another landscaping thing
https://carterspower.com/
― peace, man, Wednesday, 16 November 2022 16:29 (one year ago) link