Donald Trump: Classic or Dud?

I thought she just switched districts, from the one where she won by like half a percent to a safer, redder district.

After Donald Trump lost the 2020 election, Mnuchin established an investment fund, Liberty Strategic Capital. The fund obtained funds from the Saudis, Emirati and Qatari sovereign wealth funds. According to the New York Times, "The scale of Mr. Mnuchin’s fund and its investments from countries where he traveled as Treasury secretary have raised questions about whether he used his government role to enrich himself."

Hmm.

Boebert will continue to prosper as long as she annoys people like me.

Owning the libs is way more important to her base than proper theater and restaurant etiquette.

Peter @notalawyer.bsky.social · 51m
funniest outcome of the Trump immunity case is the court finds that the President has complete immunity and then Biden immediately kills Trump

Her old district included the town where I went to high school. I mean, hasn't Pueblo suffered enough?

stephen miller was quoted at length in https://www.nytimes.com/2023/11/11/us/politics/trump-2025-immigration-agenda.html. he'll be in the administration again if trump wins, unlike mnuchin, sessions, tillerson, etc.

Miller is The Boy Who Lived

You can't kill that which does not have a heart

I think we can legit expect MyPillow in the cabinet somewhere ... probably on top of the sheets

Secretary of Pillow Fights

every time i read the stories associated with the reality of yesterday's proceedings i like literally cannot believe this is the reality of this shit. like, the fact that people are just arguing what they are arguing, and not being pelted with feces and stones.

Plus the whole thing where it's like someone who's actively feasting on an infant slinging baseless accusations about someone else just having shoplifted from a CVS and a distressing number of people are all like '(gasp) not a CVS!!!' rather than 'please stop ceaselessly prevaricating as a means of distracting us from the fact that we need to drive you out of society, you baby-gobbling monster'.

Today the NYT push alerted a headline "I'm Rubber, You're Glue" in reference to Trump and these very concerns and I had a similar "what in god's name happened to everything" moment

Yeah - every now and again the sheer deranged nature of modern American political life does smack one about the head and face

The deepest of roffles: per Joshua Friedman on Bluesky, "Please enjoy the full 10-page correspondence of Trump's attorney trying to negotiate his court appearance tomorrow"

https://iapps.courts.state.ny.us/nyscef/ViewDocument?docIndex=_PLUS_cASZsP0hNiBQOHYbw_PLUS_TPQ==

The Atlanta Journal-Constitution today had extensive coverage on the Willis allegations and how they might affect the Trump indictment. I do not remember a single line questioning whether the allegations were true. There was, however, a front-page story on her supposed paramour.

The deepest of roffles: per Joshua Friedman on Bluesky, "Please enjoy the full 10-page correspondence of Trump's attorney trying to negotiate his court appearance tomorrow"

https://iapps.courts.state.ny.us/nyscef/ViewDocument?docIndex=_PLUS_cASZsP0hNiBQOHYbw_PLUS_TPQ==

― Ned Raggett, Wednesday, January 10, 2024 10:13 AM bookmarkflaglink

That link didn't seem to work but the bluesky one does

https://bsky.app/profile/joshuajfriedman.com/post/3king6b7qav22

Incredible stuff, and would be very funny if it weren't so tragic.

Continuing deep thanks to those credulous media outlets still, here in the year of our lord two thousand and twenty four, just taking any shit he spouts at face value.

oh cool Chris Kise's email address isn't redacted ,time 2 start trolling

The link works as long as the two equal signs at the end of it are included.

Experience - Commitment - Results
Appellate
Complex Litigation
White-Collar Defense

emails the court in lower case
as if e.e. cummings went to law school

The judge went out of his way to accommodate Trump, and of course it wasn't enough.

The denial of the request for Trump to speak was classic.

as if e.e. cummings went to law school

nobody, not even the rain, has such small hands

After explicitly being told 'these are the conditions. they are not negotiable. take it or leave it', I like how Trump's lawyer shows the judge who's really the boss here by writing "Mr. Trump will speak tomorrow". When you represent Trump you set a torch to your professional standing and then trample the ashes in case there's anything left of it.

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fwiw ned i feel like now bsky posts are public you may was well just link the post rather than manually c+p

scuse me as I kiss Chris Kise

When someone holding a bible talks about how he is voting for Trump because of Trump's "principles"...to paraphrase ICP: "Fucking Trump voters, how do they work?"

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/01/11/us/politics/iowa-voters.html

Trump reflects the eschatologically dwindling evangelical Xtian population's certainty that everyone else around them is evil?

he probably still would have appealed to a lot of those voters in the 90s, feel like the big difference with his forward trajectory is that he started appealing to a significantly greater percentage of people who really should fucking know better.

"I just want people to follow the law"

https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/donald-trump/bomb-threat-targeted-home-judge-trumps-civil-fraud-trial-rcna133416

Kise probably called it in himself

So there was just a courtroom meltdown?

lol he said "it's a fraud on me"

lol Engoran said "please control your client" to Kise at one point

Trump says AG James is the reason why Exxon left New York and moved to Texas. Exxon moved to Texas in 1989 pic.twitter.com/EmBfetgznM

— Acyn (@Acyn) January 11, 2024

lol

the lawyer nodding her head in agreement!

'other companies are gonna be moving out of NY as well'

Including yours, idiot

it's a circus that never ends. here's hoping Trump's DC trial on the Jan 6 conspiracy doesn't devolve into Trump spouting nonsense as badly as this one has.

It hasnt really been that bad imo! Judge may have been a trifle too clever at times but all his nonsense has been outside the courtroom bc when he’s in court he has to shut the fuck up

So he just started ranting and couldn't be stopped huh

out of character tbh

Hopefully he’ll come back, do it again, and be held in contempt of court

^ rejected Steely Dan lyric

After a few minutes, Justice Arthur Engoron — who had earlier denied Trump permission to give a closing statement at the trial — cut him off and recessed for lunch.

Chef's kiss

Trump later threw his lunch plate at the wall.

RIP Tyson chicken nuggies

Trump telling senior citizens to risk their lives braving subzero temps for him in the Iowa caucuses: "you can't sit home," Trump said. "if you're sick as a dog... Even if you vote and then pass away, it's worth it."