Trump 55: The Bronze Baron Of Bedminster Wants Back On Twitter And the Forbes 400

[onekidanddone]

1 hour ago, GreyhoundFan said:

Is he calling for the deaths of American citizens? He keeps tossing matches on a gas leak. 
And reparations? For who exactly?
 

Orange puss ball won the damn election and the Russia investigation flopped like a lead balloon. 

 

[fraurosena]

2 hours ago, GreyhoundFan said:

Note how Trump always manages to incorporate exactly what is said about him in the media (this time it’s ‘a scandal bigger than Watergate’)and projects it onto someone else. And isn’t it funny how he’s desperately  attempting to dredge up the animosity towards Hillary— someone who has been a private citizen for over six years now! — because he knows he can’t turn people against the affable and very able Biden?

@onekidanddone, the calling for the death penalty is also echoing statements in the media, pointing out that treason is still punishable by death. Plus, killing your political enemies has become part of the accepted Republican rhetoric, so it serves a dual purpose here.

Edited February 14, 2022 by fraurosena

[Audrey2]

Trump knows that there are three names that he can mention that will send his supporters over the edge- Hillary Clinton, Nancy Pelosi, and AOC.

[fraurosena]

6 minutes ago, Audrey2 said:

Trump knows that there are three names that he can mention that will send his supporters over the edge- Hillary Clinton, Nancy Pelosi, and AOC.

All of them strong women. Weird, isn’t it, that the mere mention of their names sends the Magats into a mouth-frothing frenzy?

[Jana814]

I think Trump has a big issue when it comes to strong women. They can see through his crap & he doesn’t like that. 

[church_of_dog]

3 hours ago, GreyhoundFan said:

He got the name of the Special Counsel wrong, it's John Durham, not Robert.  He's got Robert Mueller on the brain, apparently...

[fraurosena]

My level of surprise at the news Melania ignores Trump’s calls is astoundingly underwhelming.

 

[47of74]

Oh dear 

 

[clueliss]

It is never a good thing when your accounting firm fires you.

[Dandruff]

Wonder whether he'll skip the insults this time, and whether amended returns will be needed.  I'm assuming (hopefully correctly) that the IRS is paying attention and in the loop.

[GreyhoundFan]

Good grief:

 

Gee, you have to pay to have an account on TFG's newest grifting opportunity:

[GreyhoundFan]

This echoes my sentiment exactly:

[church_of_dog]

 

 

[GreyhoundFan]

"Valentine’s Day Really Sucked for the Trump Organization"

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The Trump Organization on Monday was dragged back into a District of Columbia court case that seeks to hold it accountable for its role in more than a million dollars of misspent funds during former President Donald Trump’s 2017 inauguration.

The development marked the second whopping punch against the ex-president’s corporate empire on Valentine’s Day, following news that the company’s own accounting firm accused Trump of cooking up misleading financial statements.

The Trump Organization is now fighting a full-on multi-front war with prosecutors in Manhattan investigating tax fraud, in New York State investigating bank fraud, and in D.C. suing over alleged corrupt self-dealing with nonprofit money.

What caused the sudden shift in D.C.? A new judge who saw through a previous judge’s confounding error.

Jose Pagliery

Mon, February 14, 2022, 9:43 PM

In this article:

Donald Trump

45th President of the United States

Eric Trump

American businessman and philanthropist

Mandel Ngan/AFP via Getty

The Trump Organization on Monday was dragged back into a District of Columbia court case that seeks to hold it accountable for its role in more than a million dollars of misspent funds during former President Donald Trump’s 2017 inauguration.

The development marked the second whopping punch against the ex-president’s corporate empire on Valentine’s Day, following news that the company’s own accounting firm accused Trump of cooking up misleading financial statements.

The Trump Organization is now fighting a full-on multi-front war with prosecutors in Manhattan investigating tax fraud, in New York State investigating bank fraud, and in D.C. suing over alleged corrupt self-dealing with nonprofit money.

What caused the sudden shift in D.C.? A new judge who saw through a previous judge’s confounding error.

The Trump Org Stiffed a Hotel. His Kids May Pay the Price.

In November, D.C. Superior Court Judge José M. López appeared to ruin the local attorney general’s investigation when he decided the case could proceed—but dropped the Trump Organization from the lawsuit. His odd reasoning was that Donald Trump Jr.’s financier friend, Gentry Beach, had made a deal on behalf of the Trump Organization without the company’s permission and therefore the company wasn’t really at fault. In reality, Don Jr., Ivanka, and other staffers at the company’s New York office were on a ton of the paperwork.

In that jaw-dropping decision, López ignored D.C. Attorney General Karl Racine’s request to get to the bottom of Gentry’s role by subjecting him to sworn testimony and instead put the Trump Organization on an escape boat.

As The Daily Beast reported last month, the Trump kids’ close involvement and the assignment of a new judge on the case offered a glimmer of hope to reverse that.

Indeed, Judge Yvonne Williams on Monday issued a ruling that zeroed in on the previous judge’s Catch-22.

“It was erroneous for the court to rule against the district based on the district’s failure to depose… Mr. Beach… when the Court had [withheld] ruling on the district’s request to conduct that very discovery,” Williams wrote.

The Trump Organization did not immediately respond to a request for comment.

“Our lawsuit is moving forward fully intact & full steam ahead. We sued the inaugural committee for misusing funds to enrich the Trump family. Now we’re going to trial,” Racine wrote on Twitter shortly after the ruling.

Racine seeks to have the Trump Hotel D.C. pay back nearly $1 million in funds that were spent on what local government investigators describe as self-dealing by the incoming president’s adult kids—Don Jr., Ivanka, and Eric Trump—to personally benefit themselves using money meant to celebrate the nation’s peaceful transfer of power. His idea is to set up a trust fund that would be diverted to another nonprofit actually engaging in charitable community work.

At the crux of that alleged scheme is an episode in which the Trump Organization reserved a block of rooms at the Loews Madison Hotel, only to stiff the hotel when more than a dozen expected guests didn’t show up. The company managed to dodge a credit collection agency and pushed off the $49,358 bill to the nonprofit presidential inaugural committee, the PIC.

 

[Dandruff]

1 hour ago, GreyhoundFan said:

Gee, you have to pay to have an account on TFG's newest grifting opportunity:

So these geniuses get to pay for the privilege of stirring each other up on his behalf.  I imagine they'll stir extra to feel that they're getting their money's worth.  It does seem a clever ploy.

[Cartmann99]

 

[Cartmann99]

'He's just a bad guy': Judge destroys lawyer claiming Trump is part of 'protected class'

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Attorney Alina Habba was scolded by a judge on Thursday after she claimed that her client, former President Donald Trump, is part of a "protected class" because of his Republican ideology.

During a court hearing in New York, Trump attorneys tried to convince state Supreme Court Judge Arthur F. Engoron that members of the Trump family could not be subpoenaed in connection with allegations that their company illegally manipulated property valuations.

Habba told Engoron that Attorney General Letitia James is conducting an improper investigation into Trump because she does not like him.

"She has such disdain for this person because he was president, because he is Donald Trump and he could probably win again in '24," Habba said. "He has First Amendment rights. He's allowed to be a Republican."

The Trump attorney demanded to know if James is going to "go after" Hillary Clinton, citing claims that the former president was "spied" on.

"There's no viewpoint discrimination," Engoron said. "I'm just saying there is none."

"He's a protected class," Habba insisted.

"Ah!" the judge reacted. "What protected class is he a member of?"

"His political speech," Habba replied. "If he was not sitting as a Republican and was not a former president who might run again, this would not be happening. So she is discriminating against him for that."

The judge's clerk stopped Habbo to point out that the term "protected class" is usually reserved for race, religion and sex discrimination.

"The traditional protected classes are race, religion, etc.," Engoron agreed. "Donald Trump doesn't fit that model. He's not being discriminated against based on race, is he? Or religion, is he? He's not a protected class. If Ms. James has a thing against him, OK, that's not in my understanding unlawful discrimination. He's just a bad guy she should go after as the chief law enforcement officer of the state."

Judge Engoron is expected to issue his ruling in the case by 3pm eastern.

[Cartmann99]

Spoiler

[fraurosena]

16 hours ago, Cartmann99 said:

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March is going to be an interesting month... 

[AmazonGrace]

On 2/17/2022 at 9:41 PM, Cartmann99 said:

'He's just a bad guy': Judge destroys lawyer claiming Trump is part of 'protected class'

Judge Engoron is expected to issue his ruling in the case by 3pm eastern.

Seriously, was their argument that protected classes  should not be investigated?  Race,  religion, sex discrimination? so, they wanted minorities to get away with crime?

Previously they wanted them deported.

[Audrey2]

33 minutes ago, AmazonGrace said:

Seriously, was their argument that protected classes  should not be investigated?  Race,  religion, sex discrimination? so, they wanted minorities to get away with crime?

Previously they wanted them deported.

No we are talking the most protected and persecuted class of all... The white man especially the wealthy white man.

[fraurosena]

Not surprised, but good grief...

With all his financial woes, this makes you wonder if he was going to use this information as collateral. 

[Ozlsn]

26 minutes ago, fraurosena said:

Not surprised, but good grief...

With all his financial woes, this makes you wonder if he was going to use this information as collateral. 

Of course they did. How else could he look at selling it? Also this tweet made me laugh out loud:

 

Edited February 18, 2022 by Ozlsn

[GreyhoundFan]

22 minutes ago, fraurosena said:

With all his financial woes, this makes you wonder if he was going to use this information as collateral. 

I agree, but I think there's another reason. He wants to look like Mr. Big Shot to the people in his orbit and at his disgusting club. I can see him pulling out some classified documents at dinner with people to impress them.

[Cartmann99]