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Damn weaponized justice system: https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/crim...1&cvid=b679117a4c91467ab940c61cce0960a2&ei=51

Also, it sure seems like judges (some even appointed by trump) in some of trumps other cases are dragging things out as slowly as possible for some reason............
Yes, weaponized justice system. If Hunter Biden were not as politically connected as he is, he'd have been serving prison time for years now.

As far as the delays go, blame Jack Smith's team for planting evidence, lying about it, and then recently admitting to the courts they lied about planting evidence. If the defendant were anyone other than Trump, this case would have been thrown out for prosecutorial misconduct.
 
This is a good reminder about the threat to our democracy that will define this fall:

We just don’t have a similar conceptualization for the end of democracy in America. I have not seen the film Civil War, but I’m not worried about another civil war—at least not the kind we had before. Rather, I’m worried about the gray fog of authoritarianism settling, in patches and pieces, across the United States. In 2021, my colleague George Packer tried to present a realistic scenario of democratic collapse; the next year, I wrote about what such a process might look like. But looking back, I see the limits of my imagination.
I can't help but think about this song when people talk about a modern civil war. Warning: Contains harsh language, including but not limited to the N-word,


View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fabi8nyjsYc
 
From Jordan Klepper lol:

“I will say, for the past few years, I have been wondering how far is too far for the right-wing MAGA crowd. And now we know: It’s shooting your dog in a gravel pit. That is not acceptable,” Klepper said, before adding an important caveat: “Until Trump does it. Then every Republican has to shoot their dog just to stay in the party.”

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After pleading guilty to money laundering and obstruction of justice, Paul Manafort, the globe-trotting political consultant and former campaign chairman for Donald Trump, asked for leniency in his sentencing, telling a federal judge five years ago that he was nearly 70 years old, struggling with health concerns and remorseful for his actions.

The judge rejected his entreaties in the spring of 2019, ordering Manafort to remain behind bars for more than seven years. Less than two years later, however, Manafort’s criminal record was wiped clean when Trump pardoned him. He was among the dozens of allies, extended family members and former campaign staffers allowed to walk free.

With his freedom, Manafort hardly retired to a quiet home life. Manafort has been assisting an effort to launch a Netflix-like mobile streaming and entertainment platform in China that, according to corporate documents, has the endorsement of the Chinese government.

Manafort, now 75, also sought to advise political figures in Japan and South Korea.

Advisers say Trump is determined to hire Manafort, likely handing him a substantial role at the Republican National Convention in Milwaukee, because he appreciates that his onetime campaign chairman has remained loyal to him even while serving in prison.

Manafort’s activities also illustrate the enduring effects of Trump’s brazen use of presidential pardons. With the stroke of a pen, Trump erased consequences for loyalists convicted of crimes, allowing them to reenter business or politics and helping to preserve their professional standing.

Across two federal prosecutions, one in Northern Virginia and one in Washington, Manafort was convicted by a jury of some charges and pleaded guilty to others. Jurors couldn’t reach a verdict on all charges in Northern Virginia, and prosecutors in Washington discarded certain counts in reaching a plea deal with the defendant.

His lucrative consulting business, whose other partners included longtime Trump adviser Roger Stone, rose to prominence during Ronald Reagan’s presidency and soon gave him access to custom-made suits and luxury real estate, including an apartment in Trump Tower in Manhattan.

Manafort’s work spanned continents. Among the foreign strongmen he took on as clients was Viktor Yanukovych, the Russia-aligned president of Ukraine who was toppled in pro-Western demonstrations in 2014 and later convicted of treason in absentia after fleeing to Russia.


Only the best people for Trump
 
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I'd like to invite everyone in this thread to go to lunch one day together. Get to know each other. Any takers please PM me. I think it's important to reach across the aisle and bridge the gaps that separate us all. This is not a joke by the way, even if it's just me and fish it'll be a good time. I'm living in Utah now so obviously it'd need to be folks in Utah or folks who might be here and available some time. But literally everyone in this thread is invited, on my dime. We can take over the upper section of a crown burger somewhere or something. Have a good discussion and a few laughs.
 
I'd like to invite everyone in this thread to go to lunch one day together. Get to know each other. Any takers please PM me. I think it's important to reach across the aisle and bridge the gaps that separate us all. This is not a joke by the way, even if it's just me and fish it'll be a good time. I'm living in Utah now so obviously it'd need to be folks in Utah or folks who might be here and available some time. But literally everyone in this thread is invited, on my dime. We can take over the upper section of a crown burger somewhere or something. Have a good discussion and a few laughs.
Let me know.
 
Let me know.
Awesome! Once we see who is interested I'll try to suggest some times. I'll give it until later this week then set up a thread for it and we can discuss location/city, venue, date, etc.
 
I'd like to invite everyone in this thread to go to lunch one day together. Get to know each other. Any takers please PM me. I think it's important to reach across the aisle and bridge the gaps that separate us all. This is not a joke by the way, even if it's just me and fish it'll be a good time. I'm living in Utah now so obviously it'd need to be folks in Utah or folks who might be here and available some time. But literally everyone in this thread is invited, on my dime. We can take over the upper section of a crown burger somewhere or something. Have a good discussion and a few laughs.
I’ll have to skip that, being far removed from Utah. Hope you guys have a good time. And I’m not the least surprised that you are making this offer. I’m a good judge of character, or so I’d like to believe, and you have a good heart, LogGrad98.
 
I’ll have to skip that, being far removed from Utah. Hope you guys have a good time. And I’m not the least surprised that you are making this offer. I’m a good judge of character, or so I’d like to believe, and you have a good heart, LogGrad98.
Thank you sir. Wish you could join us.
 
I'd like to invite everyone in this thread to go to lunch one day together. Get to know each other. Any takers please PM me. I think it's important to reach across the aisle and bridge the gaps that separate us all. This is not a joke by the way, even if it's just me and fish it'll be a good time. I'm living in Utah now so obviously it'd need to be folks in Utah or folks who might be here and available some time. But literally everyone in this thread is invited, on my dime. We can take over the upper section of a crown burger somewhere or something. Have a good discussion and a few laughs.
This is an awesome idea!
 
I'd like to invite everyone in this thread to go to lunch one day together. Get to know each other. Any takers please PM me. I think it's important to reach across the aisle and bridge the gaps that separate us all. This is not a joke by the way, even if it's just me and fish it'll be a good time. I'm living in Utah now so obviously it'd need to be folks in Utah or folks who might be here and available some time. But literally everyone in this thread is invited, on my dime. We can take over the upper section of a crown burger somewhere or something. Have a good discussion and a few laughs.
I’m in if it’s in July, I should be in Utah most of the month. Either way I will help fund this meal.

Hopefully we can wipe the slate clean, bury the hatchet or squash the beef with each other.


View: https://youtu.be/3UvZAnfTHxM?si=wSqeLWSq3XSl3Xnr
 
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