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Has anyone seen Melanie at court? Why isn’t she supporting her husband through this difficult time? Especially if the case is a witch hunt and the allegations are false?
 
She's been MIA during his entire campaign and legal troubles.

She didn't sign up for this ****, she signed up to be the trophy wife of a billionaire.
To be fair, if you sign up to be a trophy wife of a billionaire then you can't be too shocked when your husband cheats on you with a pornstar and playboy model

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To be fair, if you sign up to be a trophy wife of a billionaire then you can't be too shocked when your husband cheats on you with a pornstar and playboy model

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I don't think she was. But I bet she didn't like how sloppy he was about all this.
 
I feel bad for Karen personally. Trump cheated on his mistress with a porn star and with his pregnant wife. Won’t anything think of Karen McDougal?!

Anyone else remember when Mike Lee compared Trump to the Book of Mormon leader Capt Moroni? Oof
 

Late Friday, a law firm that has long defended Donald Trump’s campaign and businesses asked a federal magistrate judge to allow it to withdraw from a suit filed by a former campaign surrogate, A.J. Delgado, who says she was sidelined by the campaign in 2016 after revealing she was pregnant. The timing of the motion was notable, just two days after the same federal court had ordered the campaign to turn over in discovery all complaints of sexual harassment and gender or pregnancy discrimination from the 2016 and 2020 campaigns — materials that the defendants have long resisted handing over.

The apparent rupture with a long-trusted firm comes at a busy time, legally speaking, for the former president.

But such a break would hardly be new. In January, one of Trump’s defense lawyers, Joe Tacopina, said he would no longer represent him. Last year, at least four of his other lawyers, representing him in a variety of civil and criminal cases, stepped aside.

The firm has represented Trump’s business interests for at least a decade, defending Trump Model Management in a wage case filed in 2014, for example. It also represented the campaign in both of Trump’s previous runs for the White House and was paid $1.8 million between September 2016 and December 2020, Federal Election Commission records show. Since then, the former president’s super political action committee, Make America Great Again Inc., has paid LaRocca Hornik an additional $990,000, including a payment of $15,103.90 as recently as March 25.

In addition to the case filed by Delgado, the firm is still representing the campaign in a sexual discrimination and abuse lawsuit filed by Jessica Denson, a former Hispanic outreach coordinator for the 2016 campaign.

Delgado brought her suit against the campaign, as well as against former advisers Reince Priebus and Sean Spicer, in 2019, claiming sex and pregnancy discrimination.

While working for the campaign, she became pregnant by her supervisor, Jason Miller, a senior communications adviser and spokesperson. When she revealed her pregnancy shortly after the 2016 election, her complaint said, she was relieved of most of her duties and “immediately and inexplicably stopped receiving emails and other communications.”
 
You aren't in trumps orbit if you aren't griftin and/or committing crimes:


The auditing firm for Trump Media and the auditor’s owner were charged Friday with “massive fraud” by the Securities and Exchange Commission for work that affected more than 1,500 SEC filings, the federal regulator announced.
 
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Agreed. We would’ve all been better off had the AG acted with much more aggression and speed in upholding the law. Had Trump’s *** been prosecuted years ago instead of now, we could’ve avoided this mess.

But let’s also not let Republican Senators off the hook here. They could’ve ended Trump not once but twice. They could’ve had the same policies and judges had they dumped him after the first impeachment. And then they could’ve set themselves up nicely in 2024 had they done what many of them admitted in private was the right thing to do. Instead, they wanted to keep the anger and kooks alive for 2022 without killing off politically the catalyst for all the anger.
 
Agreed. We would’ve all been better off had the AG acted with much more aggression and speed in upholding the law. Had Trump’s *** been prosecuted years ago instead of now, we could’ve avoided this mess.

But let’s also not let Republican Senators off the hook here. They could’ve ended Trump not once but twice. They could’ve had the same policies and judges had they dumped him after the first impeachment. And then they could’ve set themselves up nicely in 2024 had they done what many of them admitted in private was the right thing to do. Instead, they wanted to keep the anger and kooks alive for 2022 without killing off politically the catalyst for all the anger.
We'll I never expect the core politicians to act with integrity. Fool me once, shame on me, fool me 3,475 times and counting, and all that you know. But I hold out hope the judiciary will come around in some way.
 
Well I never expect the core politicians to act with integrity. Fool me once, shame on me, fool me 3,475 times and counting, and all that you know. But I hold out hope the judiciary will come around in some way.
I don’t disagree, however, one didn’t need to have integrity to impeach Trump for Jan 6. One merely needed to act with politics in mind to impeach and convict. It was a golden opportunity to put pure political aspirations to good use. McConnell, who has been masterful in his Machiavellian leadership of the senate, could have exorcised the Trump cancer from his GOP. Instead, he thought Trump was going to stay away or that the AG would take care of Trump for him. It was a complete misstep. After Republicans underperform this fall, I think we’ll see books written about how the GOP would’ve been far better served in 22 and 24 had Republicans in Jan 21 ended Trump when they had the chance. We’d probably be talking about President Nikki Haley in 25 instead of 4 more years of Biden.
 
I don’t disagree, however, one didn’t need to have integrity to impeach Trump for Jan 6. One merely needed to act with politics in mind to impeach and convict. It was a golden opportunity to put pure political aspirations to good use. McConnell, who has been masterful in his Machiavellian leadership of the senate, could have exorcised the Trump cancer from his GOP. Instead, he thought Trump was going to stay away or that the AG would take care of Trump for him. It was a complete misstep. After Republicans underperform this fall, I think we’ll see books written about how the GOP would’ve been far better served in 22 and 24 had Republicans in Jan 21 ended Trump when they had the chance. We’d probably be talking about President Nikki Haley in 25 instead of 4 more years of Biden.
Completely agree. They could have been working with Pence in the White House, who is a creep imho, but he's a professional politician and would have actually known how the government works. Instead they had to beat their heads against the wall over and over trying to teach Grandpa Trump how to work the office of the POTUS.
 

Trump, the presumptive Republican presidential nominee, made at least 32 false claims in the two April interviews that Time released this week. His serial inaccuracy spanned a wide range of subjects, including the economy, abortion, the NATO military alliance, the January 6, 2021, attack on the US Capitol, his legal cases, his record as president and the 2020 election he has relentlessly lied about for more than three years.

Trump claimed that, during his presidency, “there was very little terrorism. We had none. I had four years of — we had no terrorism.
Facts First: Trump’s own Justice Department alleged that a mass murder in New York City in 2017, which killed eight people and injured others, was a terrorist attack carried out in support of ISIS; Trump repeatedly lamented this attack during his presidency. Trump’s Justice Department also alleged that a 2019 attack by an extremist member of Saudi Arabia’s military, which killed three US servicemembers and injured others at a military base in Florida, “was motivated by jihadist ideology” and was carried out by a longtime “associate” of al Qaeda.
There were various additional terrorist attacks during Trump’s presidency. Notably, Trump’s Justice Department said it was a “domestic terrorist attack” when one of Trump’s supporters mailed improvised explosive devices to CNN, prominent Democratic officials and other people in 2018. In 2019, a White supremacist pleaded guilty to multiple charges in New York, including first-degree murder in furtherance of an act of terrorism, for killing a Black man in March 2017 to try to start a race war. And Trump’s Justice Department described a 2019 shooting massacre at a Walmart in Texas as an act of domestic terrorism; the gunman who killed 23 people was targeting Latinos.

Talking about his wall on the border with Mexico, Trump said, “I completed what I said I was going to do, much more than I said I was going to do.”
Facts First: Trump repeatedly said in 2015 and 2016 that “we need” 1,000 miles of wall to protect the southern border, with another 1,000 miles already protected by natural barriers. But not even close to 1,000 miles were built during his presidency; official federal statistics put the total construction at 458 miles, and only 52 miles of that total was new “primary” wall built where no barriers had previously existed.



Asked why voters should trust him with a second term when many of the people who worked closely with him during his first term now say he doesn’t deserve another term, Trump said, “Well, they don’t because I didn’t like them.
Some of those people I fired. Bill Barr, I fired Bill Barr. I didn’t want him.”
Facts First: This is false. Barr resigned as attorney general in December 2020; he was not fired, as a White House official confirmed to CNN at the time. Trump had been frustrated with Barr over Barr’s public rejection of his lies about mass election fraud and had been seriously considering firing Barr the same month, but Trump did not do so — and he made a positive public statement about Barr upon the resignation, writing on social media: “Just had a very nice meeting with Attorney General Bill Barr at the White House. Our relationship has been a very good one, he has done an outstanding job! As per letter, Bill will be leaving just before Christmas to spend the holidays with his family.”



Trump claimed that, before he negotiated a better deal, South Korea was paying far too little “for 40,000 troops that we had there.”
Facts First: Trump’s “40,000” number is inaccurate. As of December 31, 2016, less than a month before Trump took office, the US had 26,878 military personnel in South Korea, including 23,468 on active duty, according to official statistics from the Pentagon’s Defense Manpower Data Center. As of December 31, 2018, less than two months before the Trump administration signed a new deal with South Korea, the total was 29,389 US military personnel in South Korea, including 26,311 on active duty.


Trump claimed that he got South Korea to agree to pay the US “billions of dollars” for its military presence there, but “now probably now that I’m gone, they’re paying very little.” He continued, “I don’t know if you know that they renegotiated the deal I made. And they’re paying very little. But they paid us billions, many billions of dollars, for us having troops there. From what I’m hearing, they were able to renegotiate with the Biden Administration and bring that number way, way down to what it was before, which was almost nothing.”

Facts First: Trump made two false claims here. First, it’s not even close to true that the Biden administration permitted South Korea to pay “almost nothing” for the US military presence there. In fact, as Time noted in its own fact check, South Korea agreed under President Joe Biden to pay more than it had been paying during the Trump era. Completing negotiations that began under Trump, South Korea agreed in March 2021 to a 2021 payment increase of 13.9% — meaning its payment that year would be about $1 billion — and then additional increases in 2022 through 2025 tied to increases in South Korea’s defense budget.
Second, it’s also not true that South Korea paid “almost nothing” for the US troop presence before Trump came along. South Korea agreed to pay the US about $867 million in 2014 and, through 2018, to increase the payments annually based on the rate of inflation. The Congressional Research Service wrote in a 2023 report: “In the past, South Korea generally paid for 40%-50% (over $800 million annually) of the total non-personnel costs of maintaining the U.S. troop presence in South Korea.”


After boasting about what he did for Israel during his presidency, Trump said, “The people of Israel appreciate it. I have like a 98% — I have the highest approval numbers.”
Facts First:
A 2018 poll found that 59% of Jewish Israelis had a favorable view of Trump. A poll late in the 2020 presidential election found that 70% of Jewish Israelis thought a Trump victory would be best for Israel’s interests (versus 13% who chose Biden). A poll released this March found that 44% of Israeli adults wanted Trump elected in 2024, 30% wanted Biden and 26% were unsure.
Hermann said President Bill Clinton was more popular in Israel during his presidency than Trump was during his, and that “Trump has lost much of his popularity here after leaving the White House because of his hectic/sometimes antagonistic statements.”




Ok this goes on for quite a while so im going to stop there cause it would take forever to put everything here. He lips were moving during these interviews so he was lying about everything of course.
 

Donald Trump is no Lee Yick. And yet, in a motion filed Thursday in Florida, his lawyers argue that Yick’s case provides a precedent for throwing out the charges in the Mar-a-Lago classified documents prosecution. They say federal prosecutors are engaged in unconstitutional “selective prosecution” of Trump.

A claim for selective prosecution is, in essence, a claim that the government chose to prosecute a defendant for the exact same conduct for which it chose not to prosecute a different individual. The argument is not that the defendant is innocent; it’s that the government’s misconduct in singling out the defendant ought to be punished — by barring the prosecution of even a guilty defendant.

Trump would need to produce examples of government officials who, when specifically asked to return classified information wrongfully in their possession, not only lied about having that information but took steps to obstruct the government’s attempt to recover that information.

In this regard, Trump’s uniqueness hurts him, for try as his brief might, it doesn’t identify any other cases with similar claims about affirmative misrepresentations concerning the suspect’s retention of classified information. Because there aren’t any. Indeed, the reason Trump’s selective prosecution claim should fail is because of how much worse the conduct alleged in the Mar-a-Lago case is than that of the other officials his brief invokes as the relevant exemplars.

Trump isn’t the poster child for these reforms; he’s the anti-poster-child. Indeed, he’s in the position he’s in entirely because his behavior went so far beyond the limits of that of any of his predecessors.
 



 
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