Despite months and months of claiming that all his prosecutions are politically motivated, Trump's lawyers today argued - in court and apparently with a straight face - that the special counsel is actually TOO independent of DOJ leadership.

You can't make this shit up.

DmtDusty wrote:

BorderCount wrote:

Despite months and months of claiming that all his prosecutions are politically motivated, Trump's lawyers today argued - in court and apparently with a straight face - that the special counsel is actually TOO independent of DOJ leadership.
You can't make this shit up.

Oh yes you can and they do. The Judge is not impartial, and this is pure fuckwittery.

Yeah, but she has to hate this because Citizens United can fill all the Amicus Briefs they want, but she knows the law and knows the prosecution does too.  Were she to rule incorrectly, that's grounds to set her aside.  She does get to add to main tactic which is "delay, delay, delay".  When Donald doesn't win this year, that blueprint for 2025 is going to be a roman candle up his ass.

Fat chance of that. Round about now Thomas needs new treads for his motorcoach and those rubbers don't grow on trees you know. Alito, well, keeping all those flags, and his wife's tongue, snapping bravely in the wind can't come cheap.

Johnny_Rotten wrote:

Fat chance of that. Round about now Thomas needs new treads for his motorcoach and those rubbers don't grow on trees you know. Alito, well, keeping all those flags, and his wife's tongue, snapping bravely in the wind can't come cheap.

All Thomas has to do is pick up the phone and call John Oliver.

This was so on target, I almost missed the point.  I thought it was some kind of logic problem, turns out it's another kind of logic problem.

Oh, goody. The Republic is fucked.

Trump Media & Technology Group on Tuesday said it took in more than $105 million through the cash exercise of warrants between June 20 and Monday, July 1. The company had previously said it expected to raise just $69.4 million from the warrants. If all the warrants covered by its registration statement are exercised for cash, Trump Media could eventually receive as much as $247 million.

Trump Media also revealed in April that it “lacks the financial resources it needs to sustain operations for a reasonable period of time,” raising “substantial doubt” as to its ability to continue operations. The company also expects to continue suffering operating losses and negative cash flow “for the foreseeable future.” In June, Trump Media confirmed it lost $58 million in 2023, according to regulatory filings.

The exercise of warrants and registration of additional shares are popular ways for public companies to receive a cash infusion, but these actions also dilute stockholders by increasing the number of shares freely tradable. The former president is a majority shareholder of Trump Media, holding almost 65% of outstanding common stock in the company as of June 10.

Although Trump Media & Technology Group stock spiked Friday after Trump came off strong in a debate with Democratic rival and incumbent President Joe Biden, the stock has since shed those gains. Trump Media stock was down more than 1% in Tuesday morning trading.

Johnny_Rotten wrote:

One step over the line

Trump wrote in a post on his Truth Social network: “I know nothing about Project 2025. I have no idea who is behind it. I disagree with some of the things they’re saying and some of the things they’re saying are absolutely ridiculous and abysmal. Anything they do, I wish them luck, but I have nothing to do with them.”

Donald Trump attempting to claim to ‘know nothing’ about Project 2025

See, I just have to assume he's lying because that's just what he does.

You know how there are "tells" in poker that lets you know how your opponents feel about their hands?  Donald's tell for lies is his mouth is open and words are coming out.

EDIT: Although, at 900 pages, I'm willing to believe he's never read it.  But never heard of, please!

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Look, no need to wait, the time is now, people get ready.
Can you pass the acid test?

Take it now! Don't be the last on your block.


Project 2025 Presidential Transition Project
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Presidential Administration Academy participants are professionals at all career levels from across the country and in our nation’s capital who want to learn, engage, get credentialed, and BE PREPARED to serve the next President and the American people by advancing conservative policy at the federal level. Applicants ranging from new college grads to experienced professionals in all career fields are encouraged to apply.

(college education required)

Heritage Foundation Makes Plans to Staff Next G.O.P. Administration
No matter the Republican, the effort has set a goal of up to 20,000 potential officials in a database akin to a right-wing LinkedIn

I Raise You:

The official platform of the Republican Party reads like glorified Truth Social post:

https://www.cnn.com/interactive/2024/07 … otated-dg/

So it looks like Trump survived an assassination attempt. He's going to be even more insufferable, now.

And I'm on record saying this was a setup until proven differently.

Baywolfe wrote:

And I'm on record saying this was a setup until proven differently.

"Crisis Actors"

Well who's minding the store? How hard is it to monitor the sight lines?

The eyewitness account BBC interview

"We noticed the guy bear-crawling up the roof of the building beside us, 50ft away," he said. "He had a rifle, we could clearly see a rifle.

"We're pointing at him, the police are down there running around on the ground, we're like 'Hey man, there's a guy on the roof with a rifle'... and the police did not know what was going on."
Mr Smith said he tried to alert the authorities for three to four minutes, but thought they probably could not see the gunman because of the slope of the roof.

"Why is there not Secret Service on all of these roofs here?" he asked. "This is not a big place. "[It's a] security failure, 100% security failure."
He said he later saw the agents shoot the gunman: "They crawled up on the roof, they had their guns pointed at him, made sure he was dead. He was dead, and that was it - it was over."

Chickens coming home to roost. When you revel in Stochastic Terrorism, one shouldn't be shocked at the results.

DmtDusty wrote:

Chickens coming home to roost. When you revel in Stochastic Terrorism, one shouldn't be shocked at the results.

https://i.imgur.com/TZFsCaV.png

He won't. This is only going to make him worse.

Baywolfe wrote:

BorderCount wrote:

He won't. This is only going to make him worse.

Not humanly possible, he would need an actual dark spirit possession to go next level.  And I'm assuming that this, has already happened somewhere between 2019 and 2021.

I'll start researching recipes for crow - one of us will be eating it next week.

"LOL, I'm just not exactly sure how he could be worse without actual demonic powers.  Sure, he could order the death of everyone on "the left" but hasn't he basically done that already?  I'm hoping that now he has some alone time he becomes a full-on paranoid psychotic.  Gonna see AR-15s everywhere he goes now (if he goes anywhere), wonders which members of his staff were in on it including the Secret Service, doesn't know who to trust now (was it a called hit by Bannon from jail?).  His eating habits, drug addiction, and mass psychosis are our best friends."

Oh, be still my beating heart!

https://tenor.com/view/be-still-my-beat … f-25645498

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And, now we're back to (not) normal...

An unusually reflective Trump suggests divine intervention in aftermath of rally shooting

By Kristen Holmes, Alayna Treene and Steve Contorno, CNN
Updated: 1:45 PM EDT, Mon July 15, 2024
Source: CNN

Former President Donald Trump has responded to the assassination attempt against him in a manner unfamiliar to some of those around him: with a calm and seemingly methodic resolve.

Since being pulled off a Butler, Pennsylvania, stage bloodied and defiant by Secret Service agents, Trump has spent the past two days sharing his harrowing experience with close allies and advisers. In conversations both public and private, Trump has said he is lucky to be alive after Saturday’s rally.

To some, Trump has even suggested divine intervention spared his life.

“It was God alone who prevented the unthinkable from happening,” Trump wrote in a Truth Social post in the immediate aftermath of the shooting. “We will FEAR NOT, but instead remain resilient in our Faith and Defiant in the face of Wickedness.”

That sentiment is one Trump has truly internalized, according to some of those who have spoken to him in recent days, and one Trump, who is not an especially religious or spiritual man, has reiterated during the aftermath of Saturday’s traumatic event.

“I’m not supposed to be here, I’m supposed to be dead,” Trump said during an interview with the New York Post Sunday. “By luck or by God, many people are saying it’s by God, I’m still here.”

It’s a conviction that will certainly reinforce the messianic imagery of Trump long promoted by his most ardent supporters and the evangelical communities that have stood by him for years. Indeed, outside the venue Saturday, as rallygoers were evacuated, they passed a truck emblazoned with images of Trump seated in front of Jesus, whose hands rested on the former president’s shoulders.

“God Bless President Trump,” the billboard said.

Trump, who has long believed he could be a target of political violence, has responded to Saturday’s harrowing events by calling for the country to come together. In a series of interviews on Sunday with conservative media, Trump said he threw out the searing speech he intended to deliver when he accepts the Republican Party’s nomination at the convention in Milwaukee.

“The speech I was going to give was a real humdinger,” Trump told the Washington Examiner. “Honestly, it’s going to be a whole different speech now.”

On Sunday, Trump wrote “Unite America!” on his Truth Social as he looked ahead to the convention. By Monday, though, Trump had expanded his definition of harmony to include dropping all of the legal cases against him.

“The Democrat Justice Department coordinated ALL of these Political Attacks, which are an Election Interference conspiracy against Joe Biden’s Political Opponent, ME,” Trump posted to Truth Social shortly after Judge Aileen Cannon dismissed the federal case over Trump’s handling of classified documents.

The events of the weekend rattled Trump’s family and close advisers, some of whom have spent most days with the former president since he announced his campaign for reelection in late 2022.

In conversations with more than a dozen aides, allies and advisers, they described a campaign that remains resolved to march ahead, taking cues from their boss, who popped up after being injured in the rally shooting to thrust a fist in the air and yell, “Fight.”

“Everyone’s just feeling very grateful and very relieved that, whether it’s divine intervention or luck, or whatever it is, just super grateful,” one senior adviser said. “I mean, it could have turned out really, really bad.”

A person close to Trump said the family is feeling “spiritual, in a way” as they take stock of nearly losing their patriarch. In a Sunday Instagram, Eric Trump shared a picture of his mother and Trump’s ex-wife Ivana shaking hands with Ronald Reagan, who had also survived an assassination attempt while president in 1981.

“Two years ago today, we lost this incredible woman!” Eric Trump wrote. “I have no doubt she was watching down on my father last night – it was nothing short of divine intervention…”

Some of Trump’s children have made similar remarks in private tying the anniversary of their mother’s death to Trump avoiding disaster, the person said.

Saturday was not the first time Trump averted disaster since entering presidential politics a decade ago. In 2016, Secret Service agents sprinted to surround then-candidate Trump when a protester rushed the stage. At the end of that campaign, Trump was again whisked away by his secret service detail when authorities suspected someone in his audience was armed.

In his final year as president, Trump also battled a Covid-19 case that marked the most serious known health threat to a sitting American president in decades. Then, a visibly diminished Trump nevertheless defiantly said upon leaving Walter Reed National Military Medical Center, “Don’t be afraid of Covid. Don’t let it dominate your life,” even as he struggled to recover from a virus had killed tens of thousands of Americans, including his friend, Herman Cain.

None of those run-ins with disaster, though, elicited quite a response like the one from Trump in the past 48 hours.

The Onion: "Trump Shot But Unharmed: Doctors Say Bullet Went In One Ear And Came Out The Other"

BorderCount wrote:

DmtDusty wrote:

The Onion: "Trump Shot But Unharmed: Doctors Say Bullet Went In One Ear And Came Out The Other"

If. Only.

I mean, I would prefer that he had NOT been shot at in the first place. But if you had to take the shot, fucking do it right.

Just talked to a neighbor, a union guy for 4 decades, has some 57 rifles... He was like, "You hit his ear, and then didn't take another shot that did the job? How does that work?"

Baywolfe wrote:

BorderCount wrote:

I told you he's going to be more insufferable.

You don't find it a little unusual that the whole fam seems to have these ready for television quotes at hand?  I'm not saying they had anything to do with it but something stinks here.

Don sees everything in the lens of TV presentation and ratings, and the only product he's ever been able to sell successfully is his own brand image. If there's one thing he's good at, it's spinning shit into gold.