Trump 60: Haul Out The Popcorn, It Is Finally Indictment Week!

[fraurosena]

Oh, Mother!

 

[GreyhoundFan]

 

[GreyhoundFan]

 

[GreyhoundFan]

I just laughed myself silly:

 

[Xan]

3 hours ago, GreyhoundFan said:

 

The funny part is that Hannity tried to save him.  He tried to deflect him but Trump kept saying that he had the right to keep stuff.

And he does not have tapes of the raid.  No one believes that.  If he had it and it was damaging, he would have already released it.

[GreyhoundFan]

It always comes down to size with tiny:

 

[GreyhoundFan]

 

[Xan]

Among the latest posts on Truth Social, Donny posted one by Wayne Allen Root saying that if the Democrats want war, the Republicans ought to give it to them.  It's a disgusting piece.  He actually starts out saying:

"The Democrats are evil, radical, nasty, vile, low-down, dirty skunks. If this was a street fight, they'd kick you in the groin and then shoot you in the back. They play for keeps. They have no rules. As their hero Saul Alinsky said, "The ends justify the means."

Dirty Democrats will do anything to destroy this country, economy, military and the great American middle class. They can't wait to introduce socialism mixed with communism (the use of banning, silencing, false arrests, FBI raids, brainwashing and propaganda) and turn us into a Third World craphole."

Root thinks that rightwing DAs around the country ought to be arresting Hillary Clinton, Obama, Soros, and all of their other boogeymen for spying on or otherwise saying anything bad about Trump.  He thinks that's the way to pay the liberals back for persecuting Donny.  Root thinks that the Republicans haven't been fighting dirty enough.

This is the crap that Donny is pushing to his followers.  He will do anything and everything to get back in power and to avoid facing legal consequences of his actions.  I'm afraid it's only going to get worse.

 

[libgirl2]

3 hours ago, Xan said:

Among the latest posts on Truth Social, Donny posted one by Wayne Allen Root saying that if the Democrats want war, the Republicans ought to give it to them.  It's a disgusting piece.  He actually starts out saying:

"The Democrats are evil, radical, nasty, vile, low-down, dirty skunks. If this was a street fight, they'd kick you in the groin and then shoot you in the back. They play for keeps. They have no rules. As their hero Saul Alinsky said, "The ends justify the means."

Dirty Democrats will do anything to destroy this country, economy, military and the great American middle class. They can't wait to introduce socialism mixed with communism (the use of banning, silencing, false arrests, FBI raids, brainwashing and propaganda) and turn us into a Third World craphole."

Root thinks that rightwing DAs around the country ought to be arresting Hillary Clinton, Obama, Soros, and all of their other boogeymen for spying on or otherwise saying anything bad about Trump.  He thinks that's the way to pay the liberals back for persecuting Donny.  Root thinks that the Republicans haven't been fighting dirty enough.

This is the crap that Donny is pushing to his followers.  He will do anything and everything to get back in power and to avoid facing legal consequences of his actions.  I'm afraid it's only going to get worse.

 

And we wonder why this country has gotten so violent? 

[fraurosena]

He probably believes if he wishes hard enough, it'll magically become true.

 

[GreyhoundFan]

From the WaPo: "Donald Trump is promising the apocalypse"

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If there is one thing that is becoming increasingly clear about Donald Trump’s 2024 bid for the presidency, it is that this campaign is going to be a far darker endeavor than even the two that came before it.

In his public appearances and fundraising appeals, the former president lately employs language familiar to his evangelical Christian base through biblical prophecies of the apocalypse. One such phrase, “final battle,” evokes the epic clash foretold to take place on the plains of Armageddon and heralding the second coming of Jesus Christ.

“This is the final battle,” Trump said at the Conservative Political Action Conference this month. “They know it, I know it, you know it, everybody knows it. This is it.” And at his first campaign rally on Saturday, in Waco, Tex.: “2024 is the final battle. It’s going to be the big one.”

True, dystopian imagery is not exactly new to Trump, given that his inaugural address is most remembered for its reference to “American carnage.” But when he ran in 2016, Trump promised to be the miracle worker who “alone can fix it.” This time around, he asks voters to think of him as “your retribution.”

As Yale University sociologist Philip Gorski, co-author of the 2022 book “The Flag and the Cross: White Christian Nationalism and the Threat to American Democracy,” told me: “He’s positing himself as the long arm of the Lord, the long arm of divine vengeance.”

Nor is Trump’s rhetoric necessarily landing only with a religious audience. It meshes well with QAnon conspiracy theories. And apocalyptic story lines are having something of a secular, post-pandemic cultural moment as well — including in hit shows such as HBO’s “The Last of Us.”

Even so, that a leading presidential contender is framing a campaign around end-of-the-world scenarios is not only weird, but more than a little dangerous, given that, for those who take Trump seriously, it has the potential to create a permission structure for violence. The presumption fostered by apocalyptic pronouncements is that “everything is permitted if those are the stakes,” Gorski said.

Last week, Trump directly stoked that fire, along with what turned out to be false rumors of his imminent indictment by a New York grand jury.

In a posting on his social media platform, Truth Social, Trump called Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg (D) a “degenerate psychopath,” and posted an image of himself with a baseball bat next to Bragg — something his own lawyer called, in an understatement, “ill-advised.”

Taking aim at Bragg in another social media missive, Trump wrote: “What kind of person can charge another person, in this case a former President of the United States, who got more votes than any sitting President in history, and leading candidate (by far!) for the Republican Party nomination, with a Crime, when it is known by all that NO Crime has been committed, & also known that potential death & destruction in such a false charge could be catastrophic for our Country?”

Trump’s campaign says that he picked Waco for his first campaign rally because it is a relatively easy drive from several metropolitan centers in a state that is solidly in his camp. But he also chose to hold the event during the 30th anniversary of a weeks-long siege of the Branch Davidian compound near there by federal law enforcement agents. The cult was led by David Koresh, who promised his followers that he would break the “seventh seal” and bring about the end of the world.

Nearly 80 Branch Davidians died at the compound outside Waco as it was consumed by fire during a standoff with federal agents, in what many on the far right have come to regard as a touchstone, one that has reverberations in Trump’s own claims of being victimized by an overreaching government.

Charles Pace, pastor at a chapel which stands where the Branch Davidian compound once did, told the New York Times that Trump is “the anointed of God” and “the battering ram that God is using to bring down the Deep State of Babylon.” It is not unusual to hear Trump described in similarly messianic terms by his most devoted followers.

Yet, beyond rallying Trump’s own core of supporters, doomsday is not a political message that is likely to have much appeal. Americans — with Trump’s own election being a notable exception — tend to go with the candidate who offers the more optimistic vision of the future. Ronald Reagan’s “Morning in America.” Bill Clinton’s place called Hope. Barack Obama’s “hope and change.”

But what’s also true is that, as early as it is in the election season, Trump stands at the forefront of the Republican field. And alas, the end — at least as the presidential season goes — is nowhere near.

 

[fraurosena]

Oh, I am so surprised, you could simply knock me over with a feather... not.

Ivana Trump, Donald Trump’s first wife, was under FBI investigation, documents show

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Ivana Trump was under an FBI counterintelligence inquiry on allegations surrounding her ties to her home country Czechoslovakia, a trove of secret documents has revealed.

The FBI “recommended a preliminary inquiry be opened on Ivana Trump” based on information received from a confidential source in 1989, according to 190 pages of classified documents released by the law enforcement agency on Monday as part of a Freedom of Information Act lawsuit from Bloomberg News.

One passage in the trove of documents noted that it was “unknown” whether the allegations against her “stem[med] from jealousies of her wealth and fame” but said the probe was nonetheless “continuing”.

Born Ivana Zelníčková in 1949 in what was then Czechoslovakia, she left the then-communist country in 1971 after marrying an Austrian ski instructor who she divorced a year later after obtaining Austrian citizenship, eventually making her way to California, then New York, where she earned a living as a model.

She met the future president in 1976 in New York City, and the couple married in April 1977. Their first child, Donald Trump Jr, was born just over eight months later. Her daughter, whose full name is also Ivana Trump (Ivanka is a diminutive form of the name, literally “little Ivana”) was born in 1981, with their third child, Eric Trump, following three years after that.

The couple was a mainstay of New York City popular culture in the 1980s, but by the end of the decade they would divorce after his affair with his future second wife – Marla Maples – became public.

The divorce was contentious and provided front-page tabloid fodder for months. According to the newly-released documents, it also provided at least some information to FBI agents who looked into court records pertaining to the couple’s divorce proceedings.

The ex-president does not frequently appear in the now-public tranche of his late ex-wife’s FBI file, but he is mentioned in one passage that references a 16 January 1989 Time magazine article headlined “Trump”.

Despite the contentious divorce, Ivana kept the Trump name and continued to remain friendly with her first husband. According to the New York Post, she claimed to speak with him “before and after” his campaign appearances. She later told the Post that her ex-husband offered her the post of Ambassador to the Czech Republic after he won the presidency, but she turned it down.

She died from a fall in her New York home in July 2022, aged 73.

 

[fraurosena]

As Ace Ventura so eloquently put it: "Le-hoo-ser-her".

Spoiler

 

 

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[Xan]

Weisselberg just fired his Trump attorneys!  Is he about to flip?

Spoiler

https://www.rawstory.com/allen-weisselberg-trump-lawyer/

 

[fraurosena]

1 hour ago, Xan said:

Weisselberg just fired his Trump attorneys!  Is he about to flip?

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https://www.rawstory.com/allen-weisselberg-trump-lawyer/

 

Is anyone checking Trump’s social media posts? We’ll know for certain Weisselberg flipped when Trump starts attacking him. 

[Xan]

7 hours ago, fraurosena said:

Is anyone checking Trump’s social media posts? We’ll know for certain Weisselberg flipped when Trump starts attacking him. 

Nothing yet.  He's just posting about his poll numbers and reposting stuff.  I don't know if his staff has warned him about saying anything or whether he's just trying to distract everyone.  Squirrel!

[Xan]

I'm lurking over on Truth Social off and on today to see if Trump ever mentions Weisselberg's new lawyers.  So far nothing.  He has gone into his absurd savior-of-the-country BS today:

And he manages to get in another racist post -- this time about Charles Blow, whom I just love.  I do hope that Blow talks or tweets about this later.

[GreyhoundFan]

 

[Dandruff]

3 hours ago, GreyhoundFan said:

 

I imagine he wishes he could say it in Russian.

[AnywhereButHere]

https://apple.news/AmIkIbH77Ro-a3NGEnkxWUg

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NY grand jury votes to indict Donald Trump, sources tell CNN

5:29 PM EDT March 30, 2023

A grand jury in Manhattan has voted to indict Donald Trump — the first time in American history that a current or former president has faced criminal charges, according to three sources familiar with the matter.

The Manhattan district attorney's office has been investigating the former president in connection with his alleged role in a hush money payment scheme and cover-up involving adult film star Stormy Daniels that dates to the 2016 presidential election.

Developing story indeed! 😳😳🧨🎇

https://www.nytimes.com/live/2023/03/30/nyregion/trump-indictment-news

The NYT link may have more information…

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Grand Jury Votes to Indict Donald Trump in New York: Live Updates

Mr. Trump will be the first former president to face criminal charges. The precise charges are not yet known, but the case is focused on a hush-money payment to a porn star during his 2016 campaign.

 

A Manhattan grand jury voted to indict Donald J. Trump on Thursday for his role in paying hush money to a porn star, according to four people with knowledge of the matter, a historic development that will shake up the 2024 presidential race and forever mark him as the nation’s first former president to face criminal charges.

The felony indictment, filed under seal by the Manhattan district attorney’s office, will likely be announced in the coming days. By then, prosecutors working for the district attorney, Alvin L. Bragg, will have asked Mr. Trump to surrender and to face arraignment on charges that remain unknown for now.

 

 

 

Edited March 30, 2023 by AnywhereButHere

[Xan]

MSNBC just reported that the charges are indeed felony charges.  It's also possible that the payments to Karen McDougal were investigated along with the Stormy Daniels hush money.

No response yet from Donny.  I guess he's still in shock.  It's the first time anyone has ever held him accountable for his crimes.

[Jana814]

I’m so happy he’s being indicated. If I could do back flips I would. 

Edited March 30, 2023 by Jana814

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[formergothardite]

I’m in shock. After all this time it is actually happening.