Farron Cousins: ‘Donald Trump Claims He Was TORTURED In Georgia Prison’

Posted on June 26, 2024 by kireschneider

Farron Balanced_ Donald Trump Claims He Was TORTURED In Georgia PrisonSource:Farron Balanced talking about Defendant Don’s time in the Fulton County, Georgia Jail.

Source:The New Democrat

“In a campaign email to his supporters this week, Donald Trump claimed that he was “tortured” in a Georgia prison. The only problem with this claim is that it is completely untrue, as Trump only spent enough time in Fulton County jail to get a mugshot and have his fingerprints taken – a process that he said was pleasant at the time. He even said at the time that some of the jail workers were crying as they processed him. Farron Cousins explains what actually happened.”

From Farron Balanced

Just on a personal note first: if you are going to read back what someone else said live on air, as if you are speaking for the person, you might want to actually sound like the person that you are trying to impersonate.

Even though Donald Trump represents a lot of Americans who have claimed to have seen flying mushrooms and spaceships from other planets, who claimed to have lost their fast food jobs to illegal immigrants, Donald J. Trump is actually from Queens, New York and has lived in Manhattan for most of his life. He’s not some redneck from rural Georgia, or wherever Farron Cousins is from.

As far as Donald J. Trump claiming to have been tortured at the Atlanta Fulton County Jail: if you’ve never been in jail before, you might feel like that’s torture. I remember when he was indicted last summer in Atlanta and had to report to that jail to be officially arrested and arraigned, the former Mayor of Atlanta Keisha Lance Bottoms, was on MSNBC talking about the smell of that place. And saying that it smells like stale food, dirty laundry, body odor, etc. Maybe there’s an ounce of truth in what DJT is saying here. But an ounce is about all the credit that I’m willing to give him at this point.

DJT was at this jail for 30 minutes maybe. All they did was arrest him an arraign him. It’s not like he was even given a jailhouse baloney sandwich and cup of coffee to wash down the sandwich, let alone a cell. He wasn’t interrogated by the Atlanta detectives or anything like that. He wasn’t even given a tour of the facility. He was just there to get his photo taken and be fingerprinted.

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Kurt Bardella & Joe Walsh: The Squad & MAGA

Posted on June 26, 2024 by Rik Schneider

Kurt Bardella_ What Everyone Is Getting Wrong About Jamaal Bowman's Loss in NY-16Source:Kurt Bardella talking about The Squad’s bad night.

Source:The New Democrat

“What Everyone Is Getting Wrong About Jamaal Bowman’s Loss in NY-16”

From Kurt Bardella

“Both parties have extremes. And both parties have members who go too far. But there’s a big, big, big difference in what “going too far” means in the Democratic Party and what it means in the Republican Party.”

White Flag With Joe Walsh_ MAGA and The Far Left_ There's a BIG DifferenceSource:White Flag With Joe Walsh talking about MAGA & The Squad.

From White Flag With Joe Walsh

I disagree a little bit with Joe Walsh on one point. Just look at Utah where John Curtis a Mitt Romney backed, center-right, Republican, defeated the Donald Trump backed MAGA candidate. And might just be 1 exception to a much larger rule. But I take his broader point.

I think the real difference between the so-called Squad in the Democratic Party and MAGA in the Republican Party, is the Squad really represents the Green Party, the Democratic Socialists of America, perhaps even Communist USA wing of the Democratic Party. But that’s at most maybe 10-15% of the entire Democratic Party right now. Out of 213 House Democrats, the Squad only has 9 members.

The mainstream left-wing of the Democratic Party, is mostly represented by the so-called Congressional Progressive Caucus, who are Democratic Socialists ideologically, mostly representing heavily, left-wing, Democratic seats in the House of Representatives. Who ideologically aren’t that much different from the Squad, if they had the power to anything that they wanted. But who are more likely to vote with Hakeem Jeffries and the House Democratic Leadership, support the Democratic President, when they need the CPC’s votes on major legislation. And the CPC has around 80 seats, maybe more in the House alone, maybe a few in the Senate as well.

But then you go over to the fringe of the far-right, not just in the Republican Party, but in America as well and MAGA is 35-40% of the Republican Party. And we’re talking about people who not only oppose free trade and immigration, at least non-Northern European immigration, but multiculturalism as a whole, who thinks the rule of law doesn’t apply to them, elections don’t matter when they lose, cops are criminals when they arrest their members, etc. I mean MAGA is what you see at Neo-Nazi rallies, perhaps even Ku Klux Klan rallies. At least the militant wing of this far-right movement.

The other difference between MAGA and the Squad: you run a far-left, whacked-out, politician or candidate, in a mainstream Democratic district, which is what Representative Jamaal Bowman’s district is, half of it, or more, is white-collar Westchester, New York, which also has a large Jewish population, you are not going to lose the general election, because you’ll get primaried and lose the primary to a mainstream Democrat instead. Unlike with the MAGA members in the House who routinely win their primaries and get reelected in the fall.

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Anderson Cooper 360: ‘Maggie Haberman Predicts How Donald Trump Will Act Towards Joe Biden in Debate’

Posted on June 25, 2024 by FredSchneiderUS

CNN_ Maggie Haberman Predicts How Donald Trump Will Act Towards Joe Biden in DebateSource:CNN political analyst & New York Times national political correspondent Maggie Haberman.

Source:The New Democrat

“New York Times senior political correspondent Maggie Haberman discusses Trump’s potential behavior toward Biden during the 2024 CNN Presidential Debate.”

From CNN

Anderson Cooper had a panel last week on CNN talking this upcoming debate as well. And Democratic political analyst Paul Begala had the perfect point here when he said Joe Biden should say: “I’m in it for you. Donald Trump is in it for himself.”

And what I believe that means is Donald Trump is simply running for President again, to stay out of prison. He doesn’t get his immunity from the U.S. Supreme Court, he loses the presidential election, he’ll become the political and legal version of the goldfish out of water, right in front of hungry kitty cat. He’ll be completely exposed and there won’t be anything that anyone can do about that to bail him out, until he’s convicted again, at least once, probably in 2025.

While President Biden is making this point, he can also say: “This is the situation when I became President of the United States…This is what I’ve done about it… And this is where we are now…”

President Biden inherited a freakin pandemic and recession, that wrecked the supply chain in the economy and the U.S. Government, starting first with then President Trump and that Congress, and then with President Biden in the next Congress in 2021-2022, and today where the inflation is now at 3%. But that’s a 3rd of where it was just 2 years ago. And wages, incomes, job growth, economic growth, the budget deficit has come down by more than a trillion dollars from where it was in 2021. Housing and savings are worth a lot more than they were 3 years ago as well.

And to Shermichael Singleton’s point: I’m sure that’s exactly how every center-right, establishment, Republican in America, wants Donald Trump and Joe Biden to debate each other. Except for of course the center-right, establishment Republicans, who’ll be voting for President Biden in November.

But Donald Trump doesn’t want to talk about the issues and policy simply because he doesn’t understand them and is not interested in them. And quite frankly, neither are most of the voters who’ll be watching this debate.

I think with President Biden, you’ll hear him talk about what a 2nd term will look like for him. But he also has to talk about what Donald Trump’s 2nd term would look like (God help us, if that happens) and that he’s only running for President again because as the Biden Campaign has already said: “He’s only in it for himself. Not you.” He accomplishes these 2 things, his vision and contrasting Donald Trump, he wins this debate going away.

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Crime Time Stories: ‘Casino: The REAL Sam ‘Ace’ Rothstein/Frank ‘Lefty’ Rosenthal’

Posted on June 25, 2024 by kireschneider

Crime Time Stories_ Casino_ The REAL Sam 'Ace' Rothstein_Frank 'Lefty' RosenthalSource:Crime Time Stories talking about the Frank Lefty Rosenthal Story. Actor Robert De Niro played him in Martin Scorsese’s Casino, from 1995.

Source:The New Democrat

“Frank “Lefty” Rosenthal was a professional sports bettor who was the mob’s man in Vegas and ran their casino operations alongside his friend Tony “The Ant” Spilotro. The 1995 Martin Scorsese film Casino is based on his career in Las Vegas.”

From Crime Time Stories

You know it’s a slow news day when I’m blogging about anything to do with true crime, including organized crime. Not that I don’t enjoy blogging about these issues, because I’m fascinated by them as a true crime enthusiast, but it’s a small part of this blog. That’s all.

If you are familiar with Martin Scorsese’s Casino from 1995, you know about the Frank Lefty Rosenthal story fairly well. This is about the Chicago gambling/organized crime faction of the modern Las Vegas that you see today, perhaps minus the organized crime.

In the 1970s you had a group of Chicago Italian mobsters, as well as gamblers of multiple ethnic backgrounds, deciding to go to Las Vegas, after essentially being kicked out of other major cities like Chicago, Miami, etc, because these gamblers were either mobsters themselves, like Anthony Spilotro, as well as professional gamblers like Frank Rosenthal, who had organized crime connections.

And whatever you think of organized gambling and organized crime in general, the fact is Las Vegas is not the entertainment mecca that it is today, has been since the 1970s, at least, without the Ben Siegels’s, Jimmy Hoffa’s, Frank Rosenthal’s, as well as all the other legitimate businesspeople and entertainers that it’s had over the years.

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Tim Miller: Governor Jared Polis On The State of Colorado Politics & Donald Trump

Posted on June 25, 2024 by Rik Schneider

The Bulwark_ HUGE TURN OFF! GOP Too Radical For Swing States (LIVE w_ Jared Polis)Source:The Bulwark talking about the State of Colorado. (No pun intended, this time)

Source:The New Democrat

“Gov. Jared Polis says Biden should focus on what he’ll do for the American people in his campaign, rather than getting caught up in the crazy of Trump. Plus, guns, weed, the value of talking across party lines, and how Colorado is trying to avoid California’s housing and growth problems. Tim Miller was live with Polis on Friday.”

From The Bulwark

Just to go on the record here and to lay out that that I’m pretty biased when it comes to Governor Jared Polis: he’s one of my favorite politicians and Democrats in the country right now. His politics is very similar with mine and I think that might be because he’s from Colorado and I’m from Maryland. Two states that don’t want government interfering with how people live, short of hurting innocent people with what they’re doing.

But Maryland and Colorado are also two states that both believe in progress and believe that government has a limited, but a real role in helping to create that progress, so the most people as possible, have the ability to live in freedom in America.

And because Jared Polis is a real, center-right, Liberal Democrat, (meaning someone who believes in liberal democracy. Not that Communists are cool and socialism is for everyone everywhere.) he probably doesn’t have much of a future in the Democratic Party, at least as a presidential candidate. Unless he first becomes the Vice President and serves under a popular Democratic President.

Because the Socialist-Left in and outside of the Democratic Party, is now a major faction of that party, it might be too strong and it could bring Governor Polis down, if he were to run for President on his own, because he does believe in both personal and economic freedom, he’s pro-business, supports gun rights, along with sensible gun regulations, fiscal responsibility, etc. Not big government can do everything for everyone, if we only just gave it most of our money. Or try to borrow our way to prosperity for all.

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Boris Sanchez & Brianna Keilar: Van Jones On The Anti-Jewish Protests in Los Angeles

Posted on June 24, 2024 by FredSchneiderUS

CNN_ 'You Protest a Policy, You Don't Protest a People'_ Van Jones On Violence At Pro-PalestinianSource:CNN political analyst Van Jones.

Source:The New Democrat

“CNN political commentator Van Jones joins Boris Sanchez and Brianna Keilar to discuss recent protests in Los Angeles.”

From CNN

This is somewhat ironic, because Joe Walsh on Threads today was complaining about the lack of coverage from the mainstream media of these anti-Semetic protests in Los Angeles today:

“It is Jew-hatred. It’s not anti-Zionism. It’s not anti-Israel. It’s antisemitism. It’s Jew-hatred. And it’s on the rise here in America & around the world. And it must be defeated. And all us non-Jews must stand with our Jewish brothers & sisters arm and arm to defeat it.”

From Joe Walsh

And I get the fact that if there were Neo-Nazis who were physically going after Arabs, in an Arab-American community, that most of the mainstream media would be all over that. But Jews are also an ethnic minority in America and at least CNN thought enough about that, to bring 1 of their left-wing Democratic analysts, Van Jones, to criticize these left-wing, anti-Semetic protestors, against these Jewish-Americans in Los Angeles. –

I completely agree with Van Jones here. 20-30 years ago, he would’ve been 1 of those young, hipster, left-wing, political revolutionaries, whose trying to take down “The Man”. (I’m having some fun with this) But he’s in his mid-50s now and I guess what comes with age, comes experience and wisdom.

I don’t agree with everything that the State of Israel is doing in Gaza right now either. Yes, they need to take down Hamas and at least get them out of the Gazan Government. But they have to let the everyday Palestinians there flee from the violence and get to a safe territory, while they’re taking down Hamas.

As Van Jones said: “You protest the policy. Not the people.” Jewish-Americans have the same right to life and right to exist as every other ethnic group in America. And therefor have the same right to life and right to exist as everyone else.

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Ben Meiselas: ‘Donald Trump Spokesperson KICKED OFF CNN on LIVE TV for ANTICS’

Posted on June 24, 2024 by kireschneider

Meidas Touch_ Donald Trump Spokesperson KICKED OFF CNN on LIVE TV for ANTICSSource:Meidas Touch talking about the lack of exchange between CNN anchor Kasie Hunt & MAGA spokeswoman Karoline Leavitt.

Source:The New Democrat

“MeidasTouch host Ben Meiselas reports on CNN host Kasie Hunt ending her interview with Donald Trump spokesperson Karoline Leavitt who refused to answer the questions on the debate and spent the interview attacking the moderators.”

From the Meidas Touch

I guess I have just a couple points here about this interview and then I’ll get into the upcoming debate between Convicted Felon Don and President Joe Biden.

I guess my point about this exchange (I guess) between CNN anchor Kasie Hunt and MAGA spokeswoman Karoline Leavitt, is really 1 of my criticisms about CNN. I mean bringing anyone over from the MAGA movement to talk about anything serious and give to give serious political thoughts and facts about anything, is like trying to start your car after the engine has already been removed. And then sitting there half an hour later, not even bothering to open the hood yet, perhaps just trying to kick your tires, freaking out about why the car won’t start. Maybe you break your foot from kicking your tires, before you bother to look under your hood. Perhaps CNN simply has too much air time and doesn’t know what to do with it.

And again my 2nd point here is about Kasie Hunt. I guess you could give her credit for the way she handled Karoline Leavitt. Who was simply just there to attack the CNN anchors, or at least Jake Tapper, who’ll be one of the moderators at the debate. And try to plant an excuse for why Donald Trump will lose Thursday night, if he loses at all, that it will be CNN that was there to help Joe Biden.

But it’s safe to assume that Kasie Hunt is not just the anchor of her program. That she also has also has a lot of say in who exactly goes on her show to talk to her, like a managing editor. And she had on Karoline Leavitt on her program. And you see the early moments of this segment and it’s clear why she wanted Leavitt on there and what she was expecting could happen instead.

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Larry Hogan: U.S. Representative Larry Hogan SR. Watergate Committee Statement

Posted on June 24, 2024 by Rik Schneider

Larry Hogan: Congressman Larry Hogan, Sr_ Watergate TestimonySource:Larry Hogan showing his father U.S. Representative Larry Hogan SR. (Republican, Maryland) statement to the House Judiciary Committee, arguing in favor of the impeachment of President Richard M. Nixon (Republican, California)

Source:The New Democrat

“Congressman Larry Hogan, Sr. of Maryland’s 5th Congressional District was the first and only Republican to vote for all three articles of impeachment against President Richard Nixon following the Watergate Scandal.”

From Larry Hogan

The fact that Representative Larry Hogan lost reelection in 1974 in a year when House Republicans lost over 30 seats, should give you an idea that Representative Hogan actually believed in what he was doing here. Because it didn’t help him politically.

And you could argue that Representative Hogan was going to lose anyway, because he represented a very Democratic district, where President Richard Nixon wasn’t very popular. You would have to think that voting for the impeachment of President Nixon, who even during the impeachment debate, was still very popular in the Republican Party, couldn’t have helped Representative Hogan, because doing that cost him Republican votes in his own district.

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Boris Sanchez: ‘Steve Bannon Makes Longshot Request to Supreme Court to Avoid Prison’

Posted on June 21, 2024 by FredSchneiderUS

CNN_ Steve Bannon Makes longshot Request to Supreme Court to Avoid PrisonSource:CNN talking about convicted felon & soon to be prison inmate Steve Bannon.

Source:The New Democrat

“Steve Bannon, a conservative podcast host and former strategist for Donald Trump, asked the Supreme Court to pause his prison sentence while he appeals his conviction for contempt of Congress. Bannon’s former attorney David Schoen weighs in.”

From CNN

“Who can use executive privilege?

Executive privilege must be invoked by the President but can be used to cover the President, Vice President, and other members of the executive branch. Members of the executive branch can include advisors to the President, cabinet members, and perhaps executive agencies.

What are the limitations of executive privilege?
The right to use executive privilege is not absolute. The privilege is qualified and once it is claimed there is a presumption of privilege. Congress or the party in court seeking the documents must show that the material is essential to justice in the case.”

From Constitution Find Law

As my colleague Rik Schneider wrote a couple weeks ago:

“So Steve Bannon’s defense here is basically: “President Donald Trump claimed executive privilege on the conversations that I had with him about Jan. 6. That’s why I din’t comply with the House subpoena to speak in front of their Jan. 6 committee.”

The big problem that he has here (and I’m not a lawyer) and you can see why he keeps losing his appeals, is that Steve Bannon in January, 2021, didn’t work for The White House or any part of the Trump Administration. Donald Trump fired him in the summer of 2017.

Mr. Bannon was just a private citizen during the entire presidential election season of 2020 and the transition period from November, 2020 when Joe Biden was elected President of the United States, defeating President Trump, till the day that President Trump’s term expired and Joe Biden becomes President Joe Biden. And the Jan. 6 insurrection attempt happened 2 weeks before Mr. Biden is sworn in as the 46th President of the United States, succeeding President Trump.”

From The New Democrat

I think perhaps the other major, character flaw that Donald Trump has, other than being a dictatorial narcissist who believes that he’s above the law, is that he had a bad habit of talking about illegal acts and perhaps committing illegal acts, or having people commit illegal acts for him, with people who didn’t actually work for him. Meaning people who don’t have executive privilege. And that’s probably because most of the people he hired as President of the United States, weren’t willing to go to prison for him. I guess Peter Navarro is the exception to that.

Once again, I’m not a lawyer, but if you look at the Steve Bannon case here, that’s why he keeps losing. He was subpoenaed by the U.S. House of Representatives to testify in front of the January 6 Committee and refused to even show up. As former Trump White House advisor Sarah Matthews told CNN a couple weeks ago, had he just shown up and plead the 5th to everything that they asked him, he’s not looking at prison right now.

His case has 2 weaknesses:

He was a private citizen when the conversations that he had with President Trump happened, that the House was interested in.

And executive privilege doesn’t apply to criminal acts. The House wasn’t interested in what Mr. Bannon was telling the President about economic policy or anything else relating to government policy. But their discussions relating to their attempts to overthrow the 2020 presidential election. He has no privilege here.

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Jesse Dollemore: ‘Republicans Send Out Their MOST IMMORAL to Defend 10 Commandments in Classrooms!!!’

Posted on June 21, 2024 by kireschneider

Jesse Dollemore_ Republicans Send Out Their MOST IMMORAL to Defend 10 Commandments in Classrooms!!!Source:Jesse Dollemore talking about MAGA and the 10 Commandments. They really should actually learn about the TTC (as Donald J. Trump calls them) before they preach about them. Just to make sure (if for no other reason) that they actually believe what they’re saying. Because 1 of the 10 Commandants is:”Thou shall not bear false witness against your neighbor”

Source:The New Democrat

“Jesse talks about the hilarious hypocrisy of sending Donald Trump and Lauren Boebert, of all people, to defend the law in Louisiana, which requires that the King James version of the Ten Commandments be placed in clear view of all students in every public school across the state.”

From Jesse Dollemore

1. You shall have no other gods before Me.
2. You shall not make idols.
3. You shall not take the name of the LORD your God in vain.
4. Remember the Sabbath day, to keep it holy.
5. Honor your father and your mother.
6. You shall not murder.
7. You shall not commit adultery.
8. You shall not steal.
9. You shall not bear false witness against your neighbor.
10. You shall not covet.

From Life Hope & Truth

As my colleague Rik Schneider pointed out on Threads today:

“Name 1 of the 10 Commandants that Real Donald Trump actually believes in. You have the rest of his life to come up with 1.”

From Rik Schneider

As a lot of the opposition to MAGA has pointed out going back to 2017, including a lot of people on the center-right in America, like this blog, but The Bulwark, and a lot of of center-right commentators, Donald Trump’s MAGA movement is a political cult.

MAGA is not a political faction, or a religious movement, or even a theocratic political movement, this is a political cult. They get up everyday (even when they’re hungover, which I’m sure is not a rare occurrence) dreaming up new lies, new trash, that they can dump on their own movement and he country, just to advance their cult. And sell it like they’re testifying under oath, or to Jesus Christ himself.

And MAGA sends out the Lauren Boebert’s of the world to talk about and promote genuine, Christian values, that they don’t believe in.

Lauren Boebert’s son is about to become a convicted felon because apparently he broke the 8th Commandment by becoming a thief. I guess his parents didn’t teach them that Commandment.

Their cult leader breaks most of the 10 Commandments everyday.

Steve Bannon is headed to prison in 3 weeks because he’s in contempt of Congress, because he refused to even sit down with the House January 6 Committee in 2022.

And these are the folks that they have going out there on TV and on their podcasts preaching about the need for morality in America. It’s like hearing a pro-life speech from a serial murderer who is about to be executed: “I found Jesus on Death Row”

And not to take another shot at Louisiana, but they put themselves in the national MAGA spotlight with this. I mean a state that ranks 47th in education, feels the need to post the 10 Commandments in all of their schools. I mean a lot of their own students probably can’t even read the 10 Commandments. So what could they possibly learn from them?

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