Donald Trump: Classic or Dud?

Yes, Newsweek is now a right-wing trash fire squatting on a once-worthwhile domain, but this is still pretty funny:

Donald Trump Wants to Negotiate with Judge Engoron

Donald Trump's attorney requested to propose a new judgment on Wednesday in the former president's civil fraud trial ruling, in which Judge Arthur Engoron ruled that Trump will be fined roughly $355 million.

Context:
In a lawsuit filed in September 2022, New York Attorney General Letitia James accused Trump, his two adult sons Donald Jr. and Eric, The Trump Organization and two firm executives, Allen Weisselberg and Jeff McConney, of fraudulently overvaluing assets to secure more favorable bank loans and taxation deals.

On Friday, Engoron ruled that Trump will be fined roughly $355 million and barred from doing business in New York for three years after a monthslong civil trial from late last year into early January. The trial was to decide the damages Trump would face after Engoron found that he committed fraud by inflating the value of his assets. The other defendants in the case have also faced financial penalties and been barred from doing business in New York for periods of time.

Trump, the current GOP frontrunner in the 2024 presidential election, has maintained his innocence in the case and claimed it was politically motivated.

On Wednesday, Clifford Robert filed a letter in the New York City civil court addressed to Engoron which argues Trump was "deprived" of the chance to speak out against the ruling before it was filed.

According to court records, Roberts requested the chance to propose a "counter-judgment" to Engoron's ruling, adding that it would be "contrary to fundamental fairness" if not allowed to submit a counter-judgment.

"Defendants therefore request that the Court set a return date for the Proposed Judgment that affords Defendants sufficient time to submit a proposed counter-judgment. To deprive Defendants of the opportunity to submit a proposed counter-judgment would be contrary to fundamental fairness and due process."

^^ wtf is that?!?

― tobo73, Wednesday, February 21, 2024 3:32 PM (twenty-two minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink

Authorities in Argentina this week raided a cultural center named after Kyle Rittenhouse—the American teen known for shooting three people, two fatally, during a Black Lives Matter protest.

Police confiscated an 83-millimeter mortar shell from the center’s building in La Plata, about an hour outside of Buenos Aires, La Nacion reported, adding that the police planned to destroy the shell. It’s unclear if Rittenhouse is aware of the cultural center or has any ties to it. Attempts to reach him through social media and his former attorney were unsuccessful.

the clips in this monologue are all completely bonkers.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=52xuwD_xx0s

all completely bonkers and just meh-average for the man who suggested drinking bleach or exposing the inside of the human body to the sun would make good covid cures.

What about the woman at 10:00? Even Trump looked a little perplexed for a few seconds.

ok I admit Eric on the verge of tears saying "My father built the NYC skyline...and this is how they repay him??" was very funny

Calling this guy energon per transformers law.

https://bsky.app/profile/mtsw.bsky.social/post/3klzk5txou22f

xp - who can forget that iconic photo of a young Donny sitting next to his lunch pail on the steel beam 40 stories up?

I don't believe this, but sometimes I'm tempted to think Trump's all-time biggest sin was naming his son Eric

Trump was probably a CHIPS fan

Pres K, with much respect... Erik.

It is true that he should’ve gone with “ponch“, but I think that might have been a bridge too far

I love that the guy that won this challenge is a two-time Trump voter:

A federal judge has told MyPillow CEO Mike Lindell to hand over $5 million to a man who took up his challenge to debunk his election interference claim — and succeeded.

In the Wednesday ruling, U.S. District Judge John Tunheim ordered Lindell to pay Robert Zeidman, a computer forensics expert, the $5 million award he had promised (plus interest) within 30 days.

The yearslong saga first began at a three-day symposium in 2021 that Lindell organized to promote lies about voter fraud in the 2020 presidential election. Lindell claimed he had data that showed the Chinese government had interfered in the election and offered a prize of $5 million to anyone who could prove his data wrong. He called it the "Prove Mike Wrong" challenge.

He should pay him with $5 million in pillows.

I expect we'll see Lindell file Chapter 11 any day now, if he hasn't already

Of course this happened! Of course it did.

So the crap you spout off at a conference is legally binding?

Offer, acceptance, contract.

Lindell's challenge appeared to have a set of written rules, complete with arbitration clause.

https://www.cnn.com/2024/02/21/politics/mike-lindell-lawsuit-payment/index.html

lol guy needs help

https://scontent-bos5-1.xx.fbcdn.net/v/t39.30808-6/428657977_10224667612909630_7215587487606878242_n.jpg?_nc_cat=109&ccb=1-7&_nc_sid=dd5e9f&_nc_ohc=L7D1c5ZnDrsAX9z9SAv&_nc_oc=AQnsuG0xqDcL1Af3NCC9shb0HnR9HsJR1q3Mh4QwLz-y4mj0xh46_ww4hPl-GUJCWfah2zEHYtuxzhNnK7UqFQCS&_nc_ht=scontent-bos5-1.xx&oh=00_AfAcw3Cik0qG4l0SXx8-JShbqxmQ-YvAlH1OfRBFjJgJGA&oe=65DC2258

Add it to the list

MADISON, Wis. — Bipartisan ethics regulators in Wisconsin have recommended felony charges against one of Donald Trump’s fundraising arms and other Republicans in a scheme that they say was meant to circumvent campaign finance laws to take out a powerful GOP lawmaker who has turned against Trump.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2024/02/23/wisconsin-ethics-trump-fundraising-charges/

Seeing Robin Vos get it from all sides there is kinda satisfying.

Meantime, Engoron has officially filed the fraud judgment so Trump has 30 days from now to either put up the cash or a bond for it or else the NYAG office can start merrily collecting, regardless of when Trump files his appeal. 31 days from now is when Trump's criminal trial begins. Timing!

love it

Fox cuts coverage of Trump’s rally: Even though he’s entitled to his opinion, he’s not entitled to his own set of facts. The market has indeed been going up but it has nothing to do with Trump. There was also no evidence of a rigged election pic.twitter.com/cwj8YIc1Xo

— Acyn (@Acyn) February 23, 2024

and so the trump worm continues a wrigglin' inside the mill in which turn them wheels of justice. the lore says they grind exceeding small--yet still they have never quite reached him. wriggle wriggle worm.

Love these disclaimers, though

Newsmax adds a disclaimer at the end of Trump’s rally: The president mentioned in his speech, the 2020 elections. Newsmax as a network believes the results were legal and final. pic.twitter.com/SFD2ChXWcQ

— Acyn (@Acyn) February 23, 2024

lol

“Rigged election? We here at Newsmax don’t throw that phrase around, that would be irresponsible and anti-civic, not us no sir”

There is a phrase used in rhetoric to mention something by saying you will not mention it. Apophasis? Paralipsis?

if I posted that praeteritio is also a term you could use for this, it would just be showing off so I won't

Who are we to speak of such things?

I’m getting my own show on newsmax. Tune in monday at 8pm

use the “don’t sue me” disclaimer is my non-legal advice. i use a “i’m so uncollectable” codicil, too.

Thiiiis fuuuuuucking guuuuuuy

COLUMBIA, S.C. — Former President Trump sought to appeal to Black voters on Friday night in South Carolina by repeatedly citing the 91 felony charges he faces and comparing them to unfair treatment from the criminal justice system toward minorities in America.

“A lot of people said that’s why the Black people liked me, because they had been hurt so badly and discriminated against. And they actually viewed me as I’m being discriminated against … Maybe there’s something to it,” he said, right after talking about the charges.

He also cited his mug shot in Georgia — taken last summer after he was charged for trying to overturn the state’s election results — as a reason that Black voters would gravitate toward him in November. Trump said he now saw Black Americans wearing mug shots on their T-shirts.

“When I did the mug shot in Atlanta, that mug shot is number one,” Trump said. He added that the Black population “embraced it more than anyone else.”

He also said: “I’m being indicted for you, the Black population.”

https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2024/02/24/trump-black-voters-indicted-mug-shot/

stay woke donnie

Orangebone

As if there’s some compendium of “best selling mug shots” broken down by demographics.

"Maybe there's something to it."

"I just made it up on the spot, but - hey - anything's possible."

https://bsky.app/profile/kleinman.bsky.social/post/3km2dthtdyk23

One of the replies shows Spike Lee holding up a pair of 'gold' shoes superficially similar to Trump's, but when you compare the two Trump's pair looks like embarrassingly cheap crap knocked off by the low bidder and designed by somebody's alcoholic brother-in-law, while Spike's look both stylish and wearable, like something a person who was really into shoes might covet.

“For hard-working Americans, Nov. 5 will be our new Liberation Day,” Trump said in an address at the Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC). “But for the liars, and cheaters, and fraudsters, and censors and imposters who have commandeered our government, it will be their Judgment Day.”

sounds fair.

“These are the stakes of this election: Our country is being destroyed and the only thing standing between you and its obliteration is me,” he declared, casting Biden’s leadership as “an express train barreling toward servitude and to ruin.”

”A vote for Trump is your ticket back to freedom, it’s your passport out of tyranny and it’s your only escape from Joe Biden and his gang’s fast track to hell. And in many ways, we’re living in hell right now,” he said, adding that: “the unprecedented success of the United States of America will be my ultimate and absolute revenge.”

He's high on his own supply.

...and said supply is just gas station dick pills.

Next band name, thanks C.

the unprecedented success of the United States of America is on my ultimate and absolute revenge vision board too!