Trump 59: The Walls Are Closing In, So Naturally He's Running Another Grifting Scheme

[GreyhoundFan]

Lol

[Howl]

Esper  (SecDef #2 under Trump) claims not to have ever been informed about Chinese spy balloons transiting the US and said he'd certainly remember if he'd been told! 

No mention of what Mattis (SecDef #1) knew, but Mattis is notoriously silent about most things. 

Irrelevant what Trump toady  SecDef #3* says or doesn't say -- that's the  guy Trump appointed at the end to facilitate Jan 6th.   

*He may have been acting SecDef - not sure if he was Senate confirmed. 

 

[libgirl2]

On 2/3/2023 at 5:13 PM, GreyhoundFan said:

 

Ashli Babbitt was a traitor. Play stupid games, win stupid prizes. 

[Ozlsn]

3 hours ago, GreyhoundFan said:

Lol

Oh that's going to go down well.

[AnywhereButHere]

6 hours ago, GreyhoundFan said:

Lol

Does he remember he has grandkids?

[onekidanddone]

1 hour ago, AnywhereButHere said:

Does he remember he has grandkids?

Yea one of them brought him some Covfefe once. 

[GreyhoundFan]

 

[47of74]

Jesus hide your ketchup bottles

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The Club for Growth, a conservative anti-tax group that spent nearly $150 million in the past two election cycles, has invited a half-dozen potential Republican presidential candidates to its annual donor retreat next month — but not Donald Trump.

In a meeting with reporters Monday, David McIntosh, president of the group, said that Republican chances of winning back the White House next year would be diminished if Trump were again at the top of the ticket and that he hoped to introduce Republican donors to other possibilities.

“The party should be open to another candidate,” McIntosh said, suggesting that Republicans had lost too many elections with Trump as the face of the party.

Trump and the Club for Growth, which is based in Washington, were frequent foils during the 2022 midterms, backing opposing candidates in some high-profile primary contests, including Senate races in Ohio and Pennsylvania. When the group started campaigning last year against J.D. Vance, Trump’s pick in Ohio, the former president ordered an aide to text McIntosh a vulgar message.

 

On 2/6/2023 at 9:52 PM, GreyhoundFan said:

 

His ghost writer find enough one syllable words to fill a book?

[fraurosena]

34 minutes ago, 47of74 said:

His ghost writer find enough one syllable words to fill a book?

Well, "Trump" only has one syllable...

[fraurosena]

I’m sure Anderson Cooper will be so pleased to be included on Trump’s list of witnesses. /s

 

[GreyhoundFan]

Oh, for fuck’s sake:

[fraurosena]

26 minutes ago, GreyhoundFan said:

Oh, for fuck’s sake:

I need a puke emoji. 

[fraurosena]

Who is surprised he had electronically copied files?

Trump team turns over item marked classified to DOJ, sources say

Spoiler

Former President Donald Trump's legal team turned over a folder with classification markings found last month at his Mar-a-Lago resort to federal agents, multiple sources familiar with the matter tell ABC News.

It is unclear what type of classification markings the folder had or what material had previously been inside.

Additionally, sources tell ABC News that a laptop belonging to a current aide of the former president was also provided to federal agents.

Sources said the discovery occurred in mid-January as Trump's team was searching through additional boxes amid the Department of Justice's ongoing efforts to have Trump's attorneys verify that Trump no longer still has classified documents in his possession.

The material was discovered in the Mar-a-Lago complex, and not in a storage facility within the complex that housed hundreds of classified documents prior to them being seized in August 2022, the sources said.

During the August search, investigators seized 46 folders with classified banners that were empty.

Trump attorney James Trusty turned over the folder with classification markings to federal investigators, and also informed agents that it had been electronically copied to a laptop of a current Trump aide, the sources said.

ABC News has also learned that after the information was recovered, federal agents retrieved the laptop from the aide. The laptop was not retrieved on the Mar-a-Lago grounds, the sources said.

"It is customary in circumstances such as this for investigators to search the computer to see if classified material is still on that computer," said John Cohen, former acting undersecretary for intelligence at the Department of Homeland Security and now an ABC News contributor. "They will also seek to determine if classified material was transmitted electronically to other computers or devices via that computer."

In a statement to ABC News, a spokesperson for Trump called the government's ongoing probe "nothing more than a targeted, politically motivated witch hunt against President Trump, concocted to try and prevent the American people from returning him to the White House."

"Just like all the other fake hoaxes thrown at President Trump, this corrupt effort will also fail," the spokesperson said. "The weaponized Department of Injustice [sic] has shown no regard for common decency and key rules that govern the legal system."

Neither Trusty nor the special counsel's office immediately responded to a request for comment from ABC News.

The development comes as a separate special counsel is probing the handling of classified materials by President Joe Biden after he left the vice presidency. There have subsequently been multiple recoveries of documents from various locations tied to Trump, Biden and former Vice President Mike Pence.

Federal investigators have reported mounting frustration with Trump, who some believe could still be unlawfully holding on to classified documents even after the FBI's unprecedented August search of his Mar-a-Lago estate.

ABC News reported in December that Trump had an outside team conduct a deeper search for any government documents at four properties, which turned up at least two more documents marked classified.

As ABC News previously reported, the Justice Department sought to hold Trump in contempt for not complying with their initial June subpoena for all documents with classification markings that were in his possession.

In December, a federal judge in Washington declined to hold Trump or his legal team in contempt of court and instead urged the Justice Department and Trump's legal team to resolve the dispute themselves, sources told ABC News at the time.

Chief Judge Beryl Howell did not rule out the possibility that Trump could be held in contempt if their talks broke down further.

 

Edited February 11, 2023 by fraurosena

[Ozlsn]

14 minutes ago, fraurosena said:

In December, a federal judge in Washington declined to hold Trump or his legal team in contempt of court and instead urged the Justice Department and Trump's legal team to resolve the dispute themselves, sources told ABC News at the time.

Chief Judge Beryl Howell did not rule out the possibility that Trump could be held in contempt if their talks broke down further.

At which bloody point is the judiciary going to decide that he is in contempt? He ignored requests, subpoenas and would ignore warrants too if he could. He's undoubtedly got more stuff, either originals or copies, stashed. 

I seriously wish they would do a simultaneous no knock raid on all his residences and holdings, plus his children's residences.

[GreyhoundFan]

1 hour ago, fraurosena said:

Who is surprised he had electronically copied files?

Trump team turns over item marked classified to DOJ, sources say

  Reveal hidden contents

Former President Donald Trump's legal team turned over a folder with classification markings found last month at his Mar-a-Lago resort to federal agents, multiple sources familiar with the matter tell ABC News.

It is unclear what type of classification markings the folder had or what material had previously been inside.

Additionally, sources tell ABC News that a laptop belonging to a current aide of the former president was also provided to federal agents.

Sources said the discovery occurred in mid-January as Trump's team was searching through additional boxes amid the Department of Justice's ongoing efforts to have Trump's attorneys verify that Trump no longer still has classified documents in his possession.

The material was discovered in the Mar-a-Lago complex, and not in a storage facility within the complex that housed hundreds of classified documents prior to them being seized in August 2022, the sources said.

During the August search, investigators seized 46 folders with classified banners that were empty.

Trump attorney James Trusty turned over the folder with classification markings to federal investigators, and also informed agents that it had been electronically copied to a laptop of a current Trump aide, the sources said.

ABC News has also learned that after the information was recovered, federal agents retrieved the laptop from the aide. The laptop was not retrieved on the Mar-a-Lago grounds, the sources said.

"It is customary in circumstances such as this for investigators to search the computer to see if classified material is still on that computer," said John Cohen, former acting undersecretary for intelligence at the Department of Homeland Security and now an ABC News contributor. "They will also seek to determine if classified material was transmitted electronically to other computers or devices via that computer."

In a statement to ABC News, a spokesperson for Trump called the government's ongoing probe "nothing more than a targeted, politically motivated witch hunt against President Trump, concocted to try and prevent the American people from returning him to the White House."

"Just like all the other fake hoaxes thrown at President Trump, this corrupt effort will also fail," the spokesperson said. "The weaponized Department of Injustice [sic] has shown no regard for common decency and key rules that govern the legal system."

Neither Trusty nor the special counsel's office immediately responded to a request for comment from ABC News.

The development comes as a separate special counsel is probing the handling of classified materials by President Joe Biden after he left the vice presidency. There have subsequently been multiple recoveries of documents from various locations tied to Trump, Biden and former Vice President Mike Pence.

Federal investigators have reported mounting frustration with Trump, who some believe could still be unlawfully holding on to classified documents even after the FBI's unprecedented August search of his Mar-a-Lago estate.

ABC News reported in December that Trump had an outside team conduct a deeper search for any government documents at four properties, which turned up at least two more documents marked classified.

As ABC News previously reported, the Justice Department sought to hold Trump in contempt for not complying with their initial June subpoena for all documents with classification markings that were in his possession.

In December, a federal judge in Washington declined to hold Trump or his legal team in contempt of court and instead urged the Justice Department and Trump's legal team to resolve the dispute themselves, sources told ABC News at the time.

Chief Judge Beryl Howell did not rule out the possibility that Trump could be held in contempt if their talks broke down further.

 

I love these reactions:

[GreyhoundFan]

World War Stupid. Yeah, that sounds about right:

 

[fraurosena]

Of course it comes with a catch...

Donald Trump suddenly offers to provide DNA in E. Jean Carroll rape case

Spoiler

Former President Donald Trump is willing to provide his DNA to see whether it matches the sample found on E. Jean Carroll’s dress, his new lawyer claimed on Friday.

The about-face falls nearly three years after Carroll’s original request — and comes with a couple of conditions.

“Mr. Trump is indeed willing to provide a DNA sample for the sole purpose of comparing it to the DNA found on the dress at issue, so long as the missing pages of the DNA Report are promptly produced prior to our client producing his DNA,” Trump’s new attorney Joseph Tacopina wrote in a blockbuster three-page motion.

Carroll’s lawyer Roberta Kaplan responded Friday, calling it a “frivolous delay tactic” and belated effort to taint the jury pool.

“Carroll sought Trump’s DNA early in the case and he refused to provide it,” she said. “He persisted in that refusal for well over a year and in both state and federal court. Carroll therefore chose to prove her case using alternative evidence — and has amassed powerful proof that Trump sexually assaulted her. Now that discovery has closed, Carroll is at long last entitled to present her proof to a jury at trial.”

On Feb. 18, 2020, Carroll’s legal team first made the demand shortly after her litigation began in Manhattan Supreme Court, asking the then-president to “submit to a physical examination” in order to provide a “buccal, blood or skin cell sample.” Carroll has argued that such a sample would help prove her claims that Trump raped her in the dressing room of a Bergdorf Goodman store in the mid-1990s.

“Notably, this filing garnered substantial media attention,” Tacopina wrote. “In fact, Plaintiff has stated publically that she already has DNA from Mr. Trump, which necessarily implies that his DNA is on the dress in question.”

Tacopina quotes her taunting the then-president on Twitter, a little more than a year after the filing.

 

Trump’s lawyers say that Carroll is “using the DNA Report to litigate this case in public and imply that Mr. Trump’s DNA is on the dress.”

“Therefore, Plaintiff’s expert was not merely hired by Plaintiff to consult, but was hired to publically state in a court filing that Plaintiff has DNA evidence against Mr. Trump,” Tacopina wrote. “Or at the very least, Plaintiff has waived such protection by affirmatively using the DNA Report to seek DNA from Mr. Trump and then making public comments about it.”

Tacopina claims that there are missing pages to the DNA report attached to Carroll’s original demand, and he offered to have his client supply the DNA if he receives those pages.

“Mr. Trump’s DNA is either on the dress or it is not,” Tacopina wrote. “Why is Plaintiff now hiding from this reality? We surmise that the answer to that question is that she knows his DNA is not on the dress because the alleged sexual assault never occurred.”

Carroll’s attorney did not immediately respond to an email requesting comment.

 

[onekidanddone]

1 hour ago, fraurosena said:

Of course it comes with a catch...

Donald Trump suddenly offers to provide DNA in E. Jean Carroll rape case

  Hide contents

Former President Donald Trump is willing to provide his DNA to see whether it matches the sample found on E. Jean Carroll’s dress, his new lawyer claimed on Friday.

The about-face falls nearly three years after Carroll’s original request — and comes with a couple of conditions.

“Mr. Trump is indeed willing to provide a DNA sample for the sole purpose of comparing it to the DNA found on the dress at issue, so long as the missing pages of the DNA Report are promptly produced prior to our client producing his DNA,” Trump’s new attorney Joseph Tacopina wrote in a blockbuster three-page motion.

Carroll’s lawyer Roberta Kaplan responded Friday, calling it a “frivolous delay tactic” and belated effort to taint the jury pool.

“Carroll sought Trump’s DNA early in the case and he refused to provide it,” she said. “He persisted in that refusal for well over a year and in both state and federal court. Carroll therefore chose to prove her case using alternative evidence — and has amassed powerful proof that Trump sexually assaulted her. Now that discovery has closed, Carroll is at long last entitled to present her proof to a jury at trial.”

On Feb. 18, 2020, Carroll’s legal team first made the demand shortly after her litigation began in Manhattan Supreme Court, asking the then-president to “submit to a physical examination” in order to provide a “buccal, blood or skin cell sample.” Carroll has argued that such a sample would help prove her claims that Trump raped her in the dressing room of a Bergdorf Goodman store in the mid-1990s.

“Notably, this filing garnered substantial media attention,” Tacopina wrote. “In fact, Plaintiff has stated publically that she already has DNA from Mr. Trump, which necessarily implies that his DNA is on the dress in question.”

Tacopina quotes her taunting the then-president on Twitter, a little more than a year after the filing.

 

Trump’s lawyers say that Carroll is “using the DNA Report to litigate this case in public and imply that Mr. Trump’s DNA is on the dress.”

“Therefore, Plaintiff’s expert was not merely hired by Plaintiff to consult, but was hired to publically state in a court filing that Plaintiff has DNA evidence against Mr. Trump,” Tacopina wrote. “Or at the very least, Plaintiff has waived such protection by affirmatively using the DNA Report to seek DNA from Mr. Trump and then making public comments about it.”

Tacopina claims that there are missing pages to the DNA report attached to Carroll’s original demand, and he offered to have his client supply the DNA if he receives those pages.

“Mr. Trump’s DNA is either on the dress or it is not,” Tacopina wrote. “Why is Plaintiff now hiding from this reality? We surmise that the answer to that question is that she knows his DNA is not on the dress because the alleged sexual assault never occurred.”

Carroll’s attorney did not immediately respond to an email requesting comment.

 

Can’t they just fish a Diet Coke can from the trash or scrape some ketchup from the wall?

Edited February 11, 2023 by onekidanddone

[fraurosena]

The delay is the point.

[formergothardite]

9 hours ago, fraurosena said:

Of course it comes with a catch...

Donald Trump suddenly offers to provide DNA in E. Jean Carroll rape case

  Reveal hidden contents

Former President Donald Trump is willing to provide his DNA to see whether it matches the sample found on E. Jean Carroll’s dress, his new lawyer claimed on Friday.

The about-face falls nearly three years after Carroll’s original request — and comes with a couple of conditions.

“Mr. Trump is indeed willing to provide a DNA sample for the sole purpose of comparing it to the DNA found on the dress at issue, so long as the missing pages of the DNA Report are promptly produced prior to our client producing his DNA,” Trump’s new attorney Joseph Tacopina wrote in a blockbuster three-page motion.

Carroll’s lawyer Roberta Kaplan responded Friday, calling it a “frivolous delay tactic” and belated effort to taint the jury pool.

“Carroll sought Trump’s DNA early in the case and he refused to provide it,” she said. “He persisted in that refusal for well over a year and in both state and federal court. Carroll therefore chose to prove her case using alternative evidence — and has amassed powerful proof that Trump sexually assaulted her. Now that discovery has closed, Carroll is at long last entitled to present her proof to a jury at trial.”

On Feb. 18, 2020, Carroll’s legal team first made the demand shortly after her litigation began in Manhattan Supreme Court, asking the then-president to “submit to a physical examination” in order to provide a “buccal, blood or skin cell sample.” Carroll has argued that such a sample would help prove her claims that Trump raped her in the dressing room of a Bergdorf Goodman store in the mid-1990s.

“Notably, this filing garnered substantial media attention,” Tacopina wrote. “In fact, Plaintiff has stated publically that she already has DNA from Mr. Trump, which necessarily implies that his DNA is on the dress in question.”

Tacopina quotes her taunting the then-president on Twitter, a little more than a year after the filing.

 

Trump’s lawyers say that Carroll is “using the DNA Report to litigate this case in public and imply that Mr. Trump’s DNA is on the dress.”

“Therefore, Plaintiff’s expert was not merely hired by Plaintiff to consult, but was hired to publically state in a court filing that Plaintiff has DNA evidence against Mr. Trump,” Tacopina wrote. “Or at the very least, Plaintiff has waived such protection by affirmatively using the DNA Report to seek DNA from Mr. Trump and then making public comments about it.”

Tacopina claims that there are missing pages to the DNA report attached to Carroll’s original demand, and he offered to have his client supply the DNA if he receives those pages.

“Mr. Trump’s DNA is either on the dress or it is not,” Tacopina wrote. “Why is Plaintiff now hiding from this reality? We surmise that the answer to that question is that she knows his DNA is not on the dress because the alleged sexual assault never occurred.”

Carroll’s attorney did not immediately respond to an email requesting comment.

 

I’m trying to figure out what Trump’s plan is with this case. He puts himself down as a witness which seems like an exceptionally dumb thing to do. And now he offers DNA but only if he can first get a copy of the DNA she has. What is the point of that? Does he have a plan? 

[GreyhoundFan]

 

[thoughtful]

8 hours ago, formergothardite said:

And now he offers DNA but only if he can first get a copy of the DNA she has. What is the point of that? Does he have a plan? 

Maybe he thinks he can pull a Shneeberger (well, I guess he'd call it a Schneeberder).

John Schneeberger, a dentist who raped a patient, used a tube inserted in his arm with someone else's blood in it, to try to avoid prosecution.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Schneeberger

ETA - he didn't get away with it.

Edited February 11, 2023 by thoughtful

[GreyhoundFan]

 

[noseybutt]

1 hour ago, GreyhoundFan said:

 

What’s in the pockets???

[formergothardite]

So that is some massive editing onTrump, but I wonder if he also got some work done. His hair is some else. Has he moved to a wig now?