Michael Smerconish: David Pecker Exposes The National Enquirer

Posted on April 24, 2024 by FredSchneiderUS

Michael Smerconish_ Enquiring MindsSource:Michael Smerconish with a look at Donald Trump’s tabloid political world.

“Enquiring Minds….

From Michael Smerconish

“David Pecker, the former publisher of the National Enquirer, testified at Donald Trump’s trial Tuesday that the tabloid completely manufactured a negative story in 2016 about the father of Sen. Ted Cruz, of Texas, who was then Trump’s rival for the GOP presidential nomination.

The paper had published a photo allegedly showing Cruz’s father, Rafael Cruz, with Lee Harvey Oswald handing out pro-Fidel Castro pamphlets in New Orleans in 1963, not long before Oswald assassinated President John F. Kennedy.

Trump repeatedly referred to the story on the campaign trail and in interviews.

“I mean, what was he doing — what was he doing with Lee Harvey Oswald shortly before the death? Before the shooting?” Trump said in an interview with Fox News in May 2016. “It’s horrible.”

Manhattan prosecutor Joshua Steinglass asked Pecker about the story’s origins during the trial Tuesday in Manhattan. Pecker said that then-National Enquirer editor-in-chief Dylan Howard and the tabloid’s research department got involved, and Pecker indicated that they faked the photo that was the foundation for the story.

“We mashed the photos and the different picture with Lee Harvey Oswald. And mashed the two together. And that’s how that story was prepared — created I would say,” Pecker said on the witness stand.

Asked by Steinglass whether Cruz had gained popularity in the presidential race at the time, Pecker said, “I believe so.”

The revelation came up as the prosecution focused on negative articles that were published by the tabloid about Trump’s Republican opponents at the time. Pecker explained that it was Michael Cohen, Trump’s personal lawyer, who would orchestrate the planting of these stories.

Pecker said Cohen would call and say they’d like his publication to run an article on a certain candidate, adding that Cohen would then send him a piece about Cruz, for example, and the National Enquirer “would embellish it from there.”

Pecker suggested that Trump was directly involved in the process, too. He said that the negative stories about Trump’s opponents were published as part of an arrangement that was struck in 2015 at a Trump Tower meeting that also included a directive to write positive stories about the real estate mogul.”

From NBC News

Sorry for the tabloid title of this post. Actually, that’s a lie. I’m definitely not sorry for the title. But what’s a little lie anyway when you are talking about a tabloid publication anyway? Lies for tabloids are what food are for restaurants, gas is for cars, lawyers, politicians, fundamentalist preachers even for prostitutes, it’s how they stay in business.

I think the David Pecker revelations (I’m still having a hard time writing his last name without laughing and I’m 47 years old) is a perfect example of why American voters are stereotyped as stupid. At least gullible because here you had this well-known, national tabloid magazine, that promoted stories about Donald J. Trump back in 2015-16, to get him into The White House and you had 10s of millions of American voters, who simply bought all of those garbage stories.

10s of millions of American voters. probably mostly Independents, as well as some blue-collar Democrats, who perhaps weren’t ready for a female President of the United States, bought those garbage stories, as if they were buying an 1985 Ford Escort, thinking that car was as good as a Mercedes SEL, or a Jaguar sedan, etc. Without doing any of their homework: “Hey, if The National Enquirer says that Ted Cruz’s father was involved in the JFK assassination, it must be true.”

And so yesterday, you have the Manhattan prosecutors laying out exactly what The National Enquirer was doing in partnership with Donald J. Trump, with the man who was in charge of this entire scheme, their publisher at the time David Pecker, exposing (pun in intended) this whole operation. And they have all the texts, the emails, the phone calls even, to back up all of Mr. Pecker’s claims here on what they were doing for Mr. Trump.

You can also see this post on Blogger.

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Michael Popok: ‘Donald Trump Co-Conspirator SCREWS HIM To HIS FACE At Trial’

Posted on April 23, 2024 by kireschneider

Meidas Touch_ Donald Trump Co-Conspirator SCREWS HIM to HIS FACE At TrialSource:Meidas Touch– left to right- David (don’t call me Richard) Pecker & Defendant Don.

Source:The New Democrat

“David Pecker the lead road map witness for the Manhattan DA is absolutely killing Trump with his testimony today, as he “cashes all the checks” that the prosecution wrote to the jury in their opening statement yesterday. Michael Popok explains the impact of Pecker’s testimony on the jury of him confessing that he entered into a criminal conspiracy with Trump and Michael Cohen to help the 2016 Trump campaign by buying negative “women stories” against Trump.”

From the Meidas Touch

I think Michael Popok laid this out very well. The thing that I would add to this is to remind people exactly why Donald J. Trump is being prosecuted here.

Donald Trump is not being prosecuted for adultery in Manhattan. I mean think about it, this is Manhattan, if anything adultery is encouraged here. If you are not rich and divorce by the time you are 40, if you are a man who doesn’t have kids with multiple women, by the time you are 40, you are considered to be some outsider, who should go move to Cleveland or some place. You are not considered a real Manhattanite, certainly not a real New Yorker.

Donald Trump is not being prosecuted for paying off a porn chick, who he was having an affair with, when his wife Melania was pregnant with his son Barron. Hell, Defendant Don is not even being charged with cheating on his wife, while she was pregnant with their son. Again, this is Manhattan, they’re not looking for saints and for people who are playing to make it to Heaven. I’m having a little fun with this, but you get the idea.

What Donald J. Trump is being prosecuted here for, is for falsifying his business records and his campaign contributions that he made to himself, that he didn’t report during the 2016 election campaign season. Specifically the payment that he made to Stormy Daniels on behalf of his campaign.

As well as the catch and kill scheme, this “checkbook journalism” (as David Pecker called it) that Pecker and Trump were involved with together, to get DJT into The White House. And Pecker has all the goods on Defendant Don. I guess you could say that David is exposing Defendant Don with his Pecker and screwing him over “bigly”. But only to stay out of prison himself.

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Harry Litman: ‘Judge Merchan EVISCERATES Donald Trump in Gag Order Hearing’

Posted on April 23, 2024 by FredSchneiderUS

Harry Litman_ Judge Merchan EVISCERATES Donald Trump in Gag Order HearingSource:Harry Litman– Not that I’m a psychic, but I’m thinking Judge Juan Merchan is not a fan of Defendant Don.

Source:The New Democrat

“Judge Merchan held a hearing this morning in which prosecutors argued that Trump is in violation of his gag order due to several of his Truth Social posts. Merchan did not yet rule on the issue.”

From Harry Litman

I’m willing to bet this is not a great reference, I doubt it’s even a good reference, but when I’m watching courtroom dramas, which at times can seem more like courtroom soap operas and even courtroom comedies, you see out-of-control defendants all the time. And the judge will say something like: “Mr. Jones (or whatever the name of the lawyer is) please get your client under control, or I’ll hold him in contempt. And if these outbursts continue, I’ll hold you in contempt as well.”

Now, other than falling asleep in court and perhaps badly in need of some under armour, perhaps even taking a shower before showing up in court, perhaps even issues with flatulence, (and that’s as nice as I’ll be about this) Donald Trump hasn’t yet been in violation of Judge Juan Merchan’s rules in court yet. It’s outside the court where Defendant Don has been in clear violation of the Judge’s gag order.

But I’m wondering if Defendant Don keeps violating the gag order, could the Judge take that out on his lawyer and do that first, before he holds the defendant in contempt and throws him in a holding tank.

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Michael Popok: ‘Judge QUICKLY Makes Move On Donald Trump Bond’

Posted on April 22, 2024 by kireschneider

Meidas Touch_ Judge QUICKLY Makes Move On Donald Trump BondSource:Meidas Touch– left to right: New York State Judge Arthur Engoron & Defendant Don.

Source:The New Democrat

“Judge Engoron has successfully brokered a deal to keep Trump’s $175 million dollar bond in place in the $456 million dollar civil fraud case, with Trump agreeing to keep $175 million cash in a locked account to secure the bond. Michael Popok is joined by former NY State Supreme Court Justice Barbara Jaffe, a colleague, and friend of the judge’s, for her observations having had a ring side seat in court today for the hearing.”

From the Meidas Touch

“Former President Donald Trump agreed on Monday to additional restrictions on the $175 million bond in the former U.S. president’s New York civil fraud case, resolving concerns by the state attorney general that the funds were not secure.
The bond issued by Knight Specialty Insurance is meant to secure Trump’s compliance with a $454.2 million judgment won by state Attorney General Letitia James if he does not succeed in an appeal.

Justice Arthur Engoron imposed the penalty after finding that Trump, the Republican presidential candidate to face President Joe Biden in the Nov. 5 election, fraudulently inflated his net worth and real estate assets to deceive banks and insurers into providing better terms.
James, a Democrat, had challenged the bond this month, saying Trump still had access to the Charles Schwab account pledged to the insurer as collateral.

But at a hearing on Monday, down the block from where jurors heard opening arguments in Trump’s criminal hush money trial, lawyers for Trump and Knight agreed that the funds would remain as cash and not be traded for securities.
They also agreed that Knight would have exclusive control of the account and not withdraw funds, and to provide James with monthly statements to assure that the cash isn’t going anywhere.

The agreement was reached after Engoron questioned the security of the collateral.
“You keep using the word agreement, what if they break the agreement?” he asked Trump’s lawyer Christopher Kise. “It all seems like a house of cards.”
Knight is owned by billionaire Trump supporter Don Hankey.
Earlier on Monday, Trump defended the bond outside the courtroom at the criminal trial.
“We put up cash and the number is 175,” Trump said. “She shouldn’t be complaining about the bonding company. The bonding company would be good for it because I put up the money. I have plenty of money to put up.”

James had argued in court papers that a Trump-owned trust still controlled the account, and Knight’s own financial arrangements appear insufficient to cover the bond.
Hankey previously said in an interview that he charged Trump a low fee as he did not anticipate problems.
“We thought it would be an easy procedure that wouldn’t involve other legal problems and it’s not turning out that way,” he said. “We probably didn’t charge enough.”
Hankey made his fortune in subprime car loans, with some regulators criticizing his companies’ debt collection tactics. He is worth $7.4 billion, according to Forbes magazine.
Trump was originally required to obtain a guarantee for the entire verdict while he appeals, but a state appeals court let him post a smaller bond.
With much attention now focused on Trump’s criminal trial, Engoron noticed the relative paucity of courtroom attendees compared with when he oversaw the civil fraud trial.
“Where is everyone?” he joked at the beginning of the hearing.”

From Reuters

Not that Chinese, Greek, Arabic, Russian, (whatever foreign language you want to name) are my first languages, (generally just English is hard enough for me) I’m going to translate here.

To put this in plain English: Don Hankey and company (and that name is hard to say with a straight face because it sounds like the name of a West Hollywood pimp or pornographer) is on the hook for Donald Trump’s bond.

Knight Speciality Insurance put up the 175 million for Donald J. Trump. And if he doesn’t pay that, assuming he loses his appeal here in the New York fraud case, KSI is on the hook and out 175 million. And then probably would have to sue a Bankrupt Don, whose now just out 500 million dollars, but at severe risks of losing his business properties, if he hasn’t lost those properties already.

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CNN: David Pecker Took The Stand As The First Witness

Posted on April 22, 2024 by FredSchneiderUS

CNN_ David Pecker Took The Stand As The First WitnessSource:CNN– left to right: National Enquirer publisher David Pecker & and his long time business ally Donald J. Trump, who is now Defendant Don.

Source:The New Democrat

“The first witness took the stand in former President Donald Trump’s hush money trial after both sides laid out parts of their cases to the jury in opening statements. During his testimony, David Pecker described his job at the time as the former chairman of the National Enquirer’s parent company.”

From CNN

Just on a personal note first and I don’t mean to be overly insulting, but since we’re talking about the publisher of The National Enquirer, who also happens to be one of Donald J. Trump’s longest and closest former allies, I feel a little liberty to be insulting first.

If your name was David Pecker, wouldn’t just at least change your last name? I mean imagine if your last name was Balls or even Balz and your parents decided to name you Harold and called you Harry, because of course they hated you as soon as you were born. Perhaps they stuck a kick me sign on your rear end without you knowing about everyday before you went to school.

David Pecker has the perfect last name for a guy who runs The National Enquirer. Whose business is to reveal the very private sex lives and affairs of some of the most famous people, at least in New York City, if not all of America. Who also just happens to be a former, longtime, very close ally, who had affairs with pornstars, while his wife was carrying his 3rd son.

The Pecker-Trump relationship almost sounds like an arraigned marriage. Hard to imagine two people who are better suited for each other, perhaps especially in Manhattan, but they would perfect for Hollywood as well.

Now having said all of that and I really don’t want to sound like Donald J. Trump’s defense attorney because I like getting paid for my work, but The National Enquirer, probably especially David Pecker, knows all about the affairs that Donald Trump had with Stormy Daniels and perhaps Karen McDougal as well. And because of that, he’s going to tell the jury how the Enquirer covered up those affairs for Donald Trump back in 2015-16. So he’s a very important witness for the Manhattan prosecutors.

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CSPAN: House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries On Motion To Vacate

Posted on April 19, 2024 by kireschneider

CSPAN_ House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries On Motion To VacateSource:CSPAN showing House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (Democrat, New York) weekly press conference. Leader Jeffries is perhaps the only responsible, adult, leader, in the House right now. (I mean party leader) And perhaps Speaker Mike Johnson is jealous of that. Or he just wants to save his job and he wants the Minority Leader to save it for him.

Source:The New Democrat

“House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries on possible motion to vacate the chair against Speaker Johnson: “Moscow Marjorie Taylor Greene, Massie and Gosar are quite a group…and I’m sure that will play some role in our conversation. But, central to the conversation…is to make sure that the national security legislation in totality is passed by the House…” Full video here…

From CSPAN

“House Democratic Leader Hakeem Jeffries (NY) told reporters he was pleased the House was moving forward on bills providing military aid to Ukraine, Israel and Taiwan, saying House Democrats had wanted action for weeks. He also answered questions on moves by some House Republicans to push a motion to vacate that would oust Rep. Mike Johnson (R-LA) as House speaker, saying he wanted to get the bills past the finish line before deciding with his conference what they would do.”

From CSPAN

Just a few side points first and then I’ll get into what the House Minority Leader is saying here.

Hakeem Jeffries has an excellent, pretty quick, sense of humor. At least political wit. And if you follow him on social media, you really see that everyday. He called House Republicans “Moscow Marjorie Taylor Greene”, Matt Gaetz, and Paul Gosar “quite a group” and did that with a smirk on his face. Meaning, that wasn’t a complement. “Quite a group” is a step down from “distinguished gentleman” or “distinguished gentlelady”. But 2, he was also holding back.

Imagine visiting a mental hospital, or a criminal forensic hospital, where the criminally insane inmates are sent. And you are in the day room (hopefully with excellent security) and there are like 3 out of like 20 mental patients there that really stand out from all the rest. And you are thinking something to the effect: “They’re a different level of crazy.”

Representatives Matt Gaetz and Paul Gosar, just might completely stupid and simply not qualified and too irresponsible to be serving in government at all, let alone the U.S. House of Representatives. But Moscow Marg (referring to Marjorie Taylor Greene) I think is that different level of crazy. Or, she could just be a complete idiot. I’ll let you make that call on that one.

As far as Leader Jeffries statement on Speaker Mike Johnson and what looks like a motion to vacate the Speaker after the national security bill passes on Saturday: Congressional politics is a poker game. I would be surprised if Leader Jeffries would publicly announce: “That if Speaker Johnson brings the Ukraine aid bill to the floor and it passes, I’ll deliver the votes to save his job for him.” That would be like a QB on a football team announcing to the defense what play they’ll be running before they run it. But that’s what he’s saying here, if you read between the political lines here. Pass the Ukraine aid bill and all the other must-passed bills, no more chaos in the House this year and Mike Johnson can remain Speaker.

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Don Lemon: Sleepy Donald Trump & His Jurors

Posted on April 19, 2024 by FredSchneiderUS

Don Lemon: BREAKING! Donald Trump Jurors FEAR SAFETYSource:Don Lemon hosting a discussion about Defendant Don & his Manhattan, New York trial.

Source:The New Democrat

“Don lemon sits down with Attorney and Legal Analyst Areva Martin along with Legal Analyst Dina Doll to dive into the latest updates in Trump’s trial.”

From Don Lemon

As far as Donald J. Trump’s let’s say stamina in court: ever since he’s been running for political office, which is since the summer of 2015, one of the main talking points against his opponents, including Republican opponents, is talk about what he sees as their lack of energy and stamina.

DJT called Jeb Bush low energy and questioned whether Hillary Clinton had the stamina to be President of the United States. And almost 10 years later when he’s older than his past opponents and just 3 years younger than the current President of the United States, the 77 year old, 2 months away from 78, can’t stay awake in his own criminal trial, even though his personal, as well as financial freedom are both at stake.

As someone whose young enough to be Donald Trump’s son, if my personal freedom and financial security were at stake in a criminal trial and if Rikers Island Jail was almost in my future if, I kept violating the rules of the court, safe bet that alone would keep me awake during the trial. But that’s me.

I’m sure DJT is freaking out at home back at Trump Tower every night, because he knows what he did during the 2016 hush money scheme:

he knows he paid off Stormy Daniels, and he failed to report that and didn’t want the voters to know about his affair with Stormy, just before the 2016 election.

And he knows that the prosecution has the witnesses, bank records, text messages, to prove the affair and the coverup about it. It’s just a matter of the prosecutors proving that in court.

So Donald Trump is under a helluva lot of pressure right now and probably can’t relax. Especially since he’s currently being deprived of his daily six pack of Diet Cokes everyday. But if he thinks that’s bad, wait till he goes to Rikers Island, where he might be lucky just to get clean water and hot coffee while he’s there.

But the falling asleep in court goes to other issues about Donald J. Trump. It’s just another example that this man is not just not morally fit to be President of the United States again, but he simply doesn’t have the energy, the strength, the mental capacity as well. Which is not surprising when you are talking about man whose almost 78 years old, who has a poor diet and rarely if ever exercises, who struggles to get any sleep at night. But again, if he can’t sleep now, wait till he gets to Rikers Island. He might has better luck sleeping at a NASCAR race.

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The Bulwark: ‘BREAKING: GOP Speaker Cornered by ANGRY Freedom Caucus Over Ukraine Aid!’

Posted on April 18, 2024 by kireschneider

The Bulwark: BREAKING: GOP Speaker Cornered by ANGRY Freedom Caucus Over Ukraine Aid! The Bulwark ExplainsSource:The Bulwark talking about the MAGA House. That’s right: MAGA is in the House and almost no one is happy about that. Except for perhaps 100-431 members, who are all MAGA.

Source:The New Democrat

“Joe Perticone breaks down to Sonny Bunch the dramatic scene from the House of Representatives today, where Speaker Mike Johnson was surrounded by MAGA Republicans furious over his foreign aid bills!”

From The Bulwark

As my colleague Fred Schneider wrote about this earlier today: 

“The reason why Speaker Johnson is now in trouble with House MAGA, is because he’s doing his job. MAGA is not there to govern. This blog has made that point several times this year alone. They are there to knock off (one way or another) as many as the real Republicans that they can and simply just take over what’s left of the Republican Party all together.

And the question is will House Democrats led by Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries, will they give the Speaker a lifeline so he can keep doing his job, just as long as he continues to work with them. Or, will Leader Jeffries just allow for the House that they could very well be running in the next Congress, get thrown back into chaos and be ungovernable again.”

From The New Democrat

If you were looking at this from a completely objective and nonpartisan perspective and you were looking at Speaker Mike Johnson (Republican, Louisiana) literally fighting for his political survival and was dong all of that by actually trying to do his freakin job, which is to govern and get must-passed legislation passed and you were looking at what is the role of the House Democrats (led by Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries) was here, I think the answer is obvious.

As Fred Schneider already got to this earlier today and I’m just going to make the case for why House Democrats should back the Speaker, just as long as the Speaker actually governs and works with them. And as Joe Perticone already mentioned on The Bulwark today, there’s a lot of stuff that Congress has get done, even before the elections in November. And you simply can’t do that without a Speaker of the House, even if the Senate is passing all their must-passed legislation.

So if you just a regular House Democrat, or a committee ranking member, or some other senior member on Appropriations, or Foreign Affairs, Armed Services, etc, or the House Minority Leader, you have a real question here to ask yourself and to decide on it fairly quickly:

vote for the Ukraine aid bill this Saturday. But once Moscow Marg (also known as Marjorie Taylor Greene) files her motion to vacate Speaker Mike Johnson perhaps as early as Monday, do you vote for that and send the House back into chaos and allow for some politically escape mental patient or secret operative for the Russian Federation, (or both) to be Speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives and therefor be 3rd inline to the Presidency, or do you go with the devil that you know and say:

“You know what, we don’t like Mike Johnson either. But at least he’s not trying to shut down the government, or allow for one of our allies to be taken over by Russia, simply because they like Vladimir Putin.”

There’s going to be elections in November and you have to think with all of this House MAGA chaos, the fact that Donald Trump will be a convicted felon, as well as the Republican nominee for President and with House Republicans having no room to operate by themselves, the 20-30 House Republican seats in districts that Joe Biden won in 2020, that will be up for election, that House Democrats are probably a solid favorite to win back the House anyway right now.

I think the choice here is obvious. House Democrats would take no political heat, other than perhaps from the so-called “Squad” that represents the militant far-left of the Democratic Party. And they would be seen as responsible adults who know how to govern to everyone else.

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Rick Wilson: Donald Trump’s Trial & Speaker Mike Johnson

Posted on April 18, 2024 by FredSchneiderUS

Rick Wilson_ Donald Trump's Trial & Speaker Mike JohnsonSource:The Rick Wilson is a former Republican political strategist, who divorced himself from the party when MAGA took over the asylum and kicked the staff and the rest of the adults out. Generally when mental patients take over the asylum, they escape. (Not that I know from personal experience) But in this case, MAGA decided to just stay as close to home for them as possible.

Source:The New Democrat

“Given my gimpy paw and the limits of voice recognition, here’s a quick video note on Trump’s misery in the legal system and Mike Johnson’s misery in the MAGA caucus: Donald Trump is in the system…and it sucks for him. Mike Johnson is in trouble. 4/16/24”

From The Rick Wilson

This is what I said about then new Speaker of the House Mike Johnson back in October:

“I’m not saying that Speaker Mike Johnson is not MAGA Mike, because he could very well be MAGA Mike, which is what Representative Matt Gaetz (whose not as politically braindead, as he seems to want people to believe) calls him. I’m just saying that there are other things and possibilities that people need to think about here and also take a lesson from fairly recent political history and at least consider this before making up their minds on the new Speaker.”

From The New Democrat

My only point about Mike Johnson back in October is, as much as the mainstream media, especially the partisan Democratic media were talking about Speaker Johnson being “MAGA Mike”, we didn’t know then what kind of Speaker of the House he would be.

Yes, up until February you could argue that he was MAGA Mike. (As Representative Matt Gaetz coined him) But then he was basically forced to govern:

Speaker Johnson had to work not just with The White House, but House Democrats, otherwise the government would shut down. And he had to work with Democrats again on the debt ceiling, or the U.S. Government would default.

Representative George (I can be bought at any price, as long as I stay fabulous) Santos, is not just expelled but replaced by a Democrat.

Donald Trump became the nominee of the Republican Party (not official yet, but he is) and he’s still very unpopular outside of MAGA and House Republicans are going to have to run with him one way or another in 2024.

And I think now the Speaker is looking for some independence from Donald Trump and perhaps MAGA all together. Being a human puppet can be really bad for you. (Not that I know from personal experience) Not just for your head and back going up and down all the time, like you are on a school bus all the time. But it must be mentally draining as well.

Two Republican representatives not just immediately retiring, but waiting until they couldn’t be replaced until next year, Ken Buck and Mike Gallagher.

And of course Ukraine being in danger of being taken over by Russia, if America doesn’t act and help them out.

And all these things especially as they relate to the governing part and avoiding shutdowns and defaults, House Republicans would’ve taken the blame for that, especially if they simply let those things happen, because they couldn’t even pass their own damn bills to deal with those issues.

The reason why Speaker Johnson is now in trouble with House MAGA, is because he’s doing his job. MAGA is not there to govern. This blog has made that point several times this year alone. They are there to knock off (one way or another) as many as the real Republicans that they can and simply just take over what’s left of the Republican Party all together.

And the question is will House Democrats led by Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries, will they give the Speaker a lifeline so he can keep doing his job, just as long as he continues to work with them. Or, will Leader Jeffries just allow for the House that they could very well be running in the next Congress, get thrown back into chaos and be ungovernable again.

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Jesse Dollemore: Fox News Clown REJECTS DONALD TRUMP JUROR for Saying “NO ONE IS ABOVE THE LAW!”

Posted on April 17, 2024 by kireschneider

Jesse Dollemore: Fox News Clown REJECTS DONALD TRUMP JUROR for Saying _NO ONE IS ABOVE THE LAW!Source:Jesse Dollemore talking about one of Fox News’s DJT “boot lickers” Jesse Watters.

Source:The New Democrat

“Jesse talks about remarks made by Fox News’s Jesse Watters last night, where he called into question the qualifications of Trump juror #2 for saying she thinks no one is above the law.”

From Jesse Dollemore

This is what I said about Jesse Watters just 2 weeks ago:

“Donald Trump could sell the Communist Manifesto and argue that the Communist vision of government is what America needs. That business venture would also go bankrupt, not because it’s a Communist Manifesto so much, (even though communism is still very unpopular in America) but because this is one of DJT’s business ventures. And the public knows this man would literally try to sell anything to make money. But at least his base would buy the DJT Communist Manifestos. ”

From The New Democrat

I have no doubt that if MAGA World had it’s way and even if Donald Trump’s porn chick hush money trial had to go on anyway, that they would simply just get the trial the hell out of Manhattan and at the very least take it up to Binghamton (if they couldn’t afford the bus fair to West Virginia) and hold the trial there. Because anyone who has a college degree, whose not part of the MAGA Cult, whose even aware that there are more cable talk networks than Fox News Channel, let alone watch MSNBC or CNN, who also believes in the rule of law, is simply not qualified to sit and judge their cult leader Donald J. Trump.

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