I say YES. YOU say NO....Numero Tre! Enjoy!
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Asshole, bar none:
BREAKING: Trumper Congressman Jim Jordan is hit with devastating news as a prominent former U.S. Military prosecutor demands that Jordan be criminally charged as “an accessory after the fact” for helping cover up Trump’s January 6 insurrection.
But it gets worse for Jordan…
The former U.S. Military prosecutor, Glenn Kirschner, was asked to comment on Jim Jordan being the front runner to replace Kevin McCarthy as Speaker of the House — and Kirschner didn’t hold back, declaring:
“I’m quite sure that Special Counsel Jack Smith has been investigating the insurrectionists in Congress. Remember that six of them asked for pardons because they knew that they had committed crimes on and around January 6th — and they wanted to get away with those crimes. Jack Smith can’t turn a blind eye to all of that. The other thing that Jim Jordan has absolutely been doing is trying to cover up and prevent Donald Trump from being held accountable for his crimes. In a very real sense, he’s been an accessory after the fact to Donald Trump’s crimes by creating this Mickey Mouse committee on the “weaponization of government.” There are a number of crimes that Jim Jordan may have committed — and I hope Special Counsel Jack Smith is going scorched earth after those crimes.”
Very well said. There is a mountain of evidence that Jim Jordan not only helped Trump orchestrate the deadly January 6 insurrection — but has also been working furiously to help himself and Trump cover up their crimes by shamelessly abusing his power.
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If only wishes were true: Missing a whole lot of marbles fat boy.
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The End of Trump Inc.
The courts are finally catching up to a man who has long behaved as though there would never be any consequences for his deceptions.
Mario Anzuoni / ReutersSEPTEMBER 27, 2023SHARESAVED STORIESSAVE
“That is a fantasy world, not the real world.”
So wrote Arthur Engoron, a New York State judge, in an unexpected ruling late yesterday that threatens the heart of Donald Trump’s business empire. Engoron was referring in particular to arguments offered by the former president’s attorneys in the case, but his words describe many of the details of the case—such as the valuations of Trump’s properties and even the square footage he claimed they contained, both of which the court found were “clearly” fraudulent. Much of the reputation Trump cultivated as a business mogul was built on lies.
The surprise is not that Trump and his co-defendants, including his sons Donald Jr. and Eric, committed fraud. What is surprising is that he could finally be punished for it—and quite harshly. The scheme that New York Attorney General Letitia James alleged last year was simple. When Trump wanted to lower his taxes, he’d claim a low valuation for a property. When he wanted to get cheap loans, he would inflate the valuation. This allowed him to inflate his claimed net worth each year, which let him obtain loans on better terms by personally guaranteeing them. Evidence of this pattern had already turned up in reporting, especially by WNYC and ProPublica, and James’s case offered much more.
David A. Graham: It’s just fraud all the way down
Trump’s lawyers argued, in effect, that because there was no harm, there was no foul: The banks that loaned Trump money ended up making a profit (in part because they could charge higher fees to a customer whose companies had repeatedly gone bankrupt). To Engoron’s fury, Trump’s lawyers kept offering the same defenses even after they’d been thrown out in court. “Defendants’ conduct in reiterating these frivolous arguments is egregious,” he wrote, and fined the attorneys.
More consequentially, he also granted the attorney general’s request to cancel business certificates for Trump and his family. If the ruling stands, Trump could lose control of some of his marquee propertiesincluding Trump Tower and 40 Wall Street, a prized downtown-Manhattan building. “The decision seeks to nationalize one of the most successful corporate empires in the United States and seize control of private property,” Trump’s attorney Christopher M. Kise complained. The ruling doesn’t actually amount to expropriation, as Trump would still own the buildings; he just couldn’t make financial decisions about them. The ruling also wouldn’t spell the end of Trump’s business, but it could force it to stop operating in New York State. (Trump’s properties sprawl across a range of different entities.)
Engoron’s ruling does not close the case out. Instead, it resolves some of the issues and narrows the questions for an upcoming trial, which will determine whether Trump has to pay a fine for overvaluing the properties. James has sought $250 million. This is a very large sum, though easily within Trump’s means if he is the billionaire he says he is.
David A. Graham: This is not great news for Donald Trump
The greatest blow to Trump may be reputational and psychological. He has claimed that the case against him is political persecution, and some of his supporters will find that compelling, but being found to be a fraud is no more an advantage than being indicted is. Because Trump has gotten away with this way of operating for decades, his fantasy world came to seem almost real. The idea that a judge might actually punish him seemed remote—both to Trump and to his detractors.
Though the civil case in New York has no direct connection to Trump’s other legal troubles, Engoron’s ruling suggests that the courts are now catching up to a man who has long behaved as though there would never be any consequences for his deceptions. Trump has tried to convince Americans that he won more votes than Joe Biden, that the 2020 election was stolen from him, that he had every right to abscond with classified documents and obstruct the federal government from recovering them, and that he was the greatest president in American history. This is a fantasy world, but the real world has ways of intruding on it.
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I would never agree with a person like Putin, but he has such a STRONG point here.
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Perfect MAGA
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Thank someone for something. Go out of your way today to acknowledge the generosity of a person you know. It doesn’t matter if you have known this man or woman your entire life, or have just met him or her and don’t know if you will ever see the person again. Thanking them for a service rendered, or a favor given, or for help of some kind will enlarge your personal community to include yet another person. Thanking someone builds community as well as friendship. It makes even the most insignificant encounters, like a stranger holding the door for you at the deli, all the more meaningful. It’s a way for two people who will probably never know each other’s names to connect, even for a moment. -Alan Epstein
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Always nice when two really stupid people marry each other instead of ruining an otherwise good one.
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Loon sure never noticed:
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Continues to boggle the mind as to how anyone can still feel ANY allegiance to the orange lunatic.
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At one time I paid scant attention to Liz Cheney. Now she has had and so far continues to command attention from me.
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