The Bulwark: George Conway Explains: ‘Donald Trump’s Legal Stall FAILS Miserably! Trial Starts in 3 Weeks & $175M POORER!’

The Bulwark: George Conway Explains_ Trump's Legal Stall FAILS Miserably! Trial Starts in 3 Weeks & $175M POORER!Source:The Bulwark talking about Donald Trump’s small victory that he had on Monday in New York.

Source:The New Democrat

“George and Sarah take on the upcoming New York trial, including Trump’s $175 million bond. George offers a few (highly critical!) insights into Judge Cannon’s handling of the case in Florida.”

From The Bulwark

I want to talk about George Conway’s point about Donald Trump’s lack of quality legal help, because my colleague Kire Schneider already wrote about this last November when he was talking about Donald Trump’s Manhattan civil attorney Alina Habba:

“When you are the President of the United States, regardless of the POTUS, you have access to be the best of legal profession in this country. Any lawyer just about would be honored to either work in your White House, or work as your personal attorney to address any personal legal issues that you might have when you are President. At least access to the best lawyers in your own party.

But when you leave The White House, especially in disgrace, when you’ve just lost reelection and only managed 46% of the popular vote and 232 out of 574 electoral votes, in a two-way race, you’ve been impeached twice in just 4 years, you have all the legal issues that are now in front of you because of your illegal conduct as President of the United States, you are very unpopular, at least outside of your own party, you have mounting financial debt in front of you because of all the money that you lost when you were President, you have access to whatever is left.”

From The New Democrat

I think the lesson here for career criminals in the future, is if you make a lot of money off of other people’s backs and manage to keep a lot of it, put some of that away to cover your legal bills. That way get much better legal representation, because your potential lawyers will know that they’ll at the very least get paid, even if they lose in court.

But, if you are Donald J. Trump, you live in your own world mentally. Not physically or legally, but you see yourself as King Donald of the Trump Kingdom, where the laws of mere mortals, simply don’t apply to you. But not just that, you don’t even have to pay your own legal bills. So King Donald gets all this legal help representation, but doesn’t pay for it. Which costs him quality lawyers, because your average successful lawyer in America, is not a charity worker, at least not professionally. And they expect to get paid, especially when they’re working 60-70 hours a week on behalf of their clients.

As far as Donald Trump’s bond getting reduced yesterday: I’m not a lawyer. (Also in the news: I’m also not Jesus Christ) But I don’t have a problem with it.

I guess there’s a side of me as an American who loves liberal democracy and the rule of law and would love to see someone like Donald J. Trump get punished as much as possible, at least financially. (Perhaps not physically) Especially since Donald J. Trump represents everything that America is supposed to stand against and hates everything that America stands for, like equal rights, equal justice, the rule of law, etc.

There’s a side of me that says I would like to see Trump get the most financial punishment as humanly possible, as far as I’m concern. But he lives in the same world as every other American and therefor has the same rights as everyone else. And 175 million is still a helluva lot of money. And he might be only be worth 200 million tops, as far as what he actually has in all his bank accounts right now, anyway.

As far as this club that “populist” activist Mark Levin would like to put together for Donald Trump, I guess he would call it: “Real Billionaires For Donald J. Trump”, that would be in the business of paying the bills of a fake billionaire like Donald J. Trump: I think George Conway had the perfect response to Mr. Levin Here:

Mark Levin: “Why are there no Republican multi-billionaires offering to lend President Trump the funds to file his appeal in the outrageous case in NY state? Are none of them liquid enough to help or join with others to help? This is an outrage.”

George Conway: “Maybe because Trump is a terrible credit risk who someday soon will probably spend the rest of his life in prison?”

From George Conway

I guess my only responses here are: why would someone claiming to be a billionaire, worth as much as perhaps 6 billions dollars (according to Donald J. Trump. So take that for what it’s worth.) need other billionaires to pay his bills for him?

And why would a multi-millionaire like Mark Levin, be going out-of-his-way to back a professional deadbeat like Donald J. Trump?

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CSPAN: Former President Trump: ‘This Is All About Election Interference’

CSPAN_ Former President Trump_ _This is all about election interferenceSource:CSPAN covering Defendant Don’s statement after Judge Juan Merchan set his trial date for April 15th.

Source:The New Democrat

“Former President Donald Trump called his legal woes “election interference” and blamed President Biden for charges against him in remarks to reporters in New York City. His comments came after New York Judge Juan Merchan set an April 15, 2024 date to start the former president’s criminal trial related to payments to adult film star Stormy Daniels. Full video here:C-SPAN

From CSPAN

“Former President Donald Trump called his legal woes “election interference” and blamed President Biden for charges against him in remarks to reporters in New York City. His comments came after New York Judge Juan Merchan set an April 15, 2024 date to start the former president’s criminal trial related to payments to adult film star Stormy Daniels. Two of Mr. Trump’s lawyers in the case, also briefly spoke to reporters.”

From CSPAN

Asking Donald Trump to keep a secret, is like asking a goldfish to go without water, or asking a dolphin (not the Miami Dolphins) to run the New York Marathon. He’s not what you would call a poker player. At least not a successful poker player. He just laid out his entire defense for his upcoming Manhattan trial. And that’s assuming Judge Juan Merchan will allow a defense that actually has nothing to do with the case at hand.

Do I doubt whether or not District Attorney Alvin Bragg and his prosecution team wants Donald Trump to be President of the United States or not? Of course they don’t want him to be President again. But they’re acting completely within the law here.

Manhattan DA has solid evidence that Donald J. Trump violated New York campaign finance laws back in 2016, when he failed to report the hush money payment that he made to Stormy Daniels, to prevent her from disclosing the adulterous affair that she had with him, while he was not only married to Melania back in 2006, but she was carrying his baby, who turned out to be his son Barron.

Had the Manhattan hush money story broke in October 2016 when the hush money payment was made, it’s very likely that would’ve hurt Donald Trump with Independents. Which is why he paid her off. The hush money payment is not illegal. The failure to disclose it, which was a campaign contribution to his political campaign, is illegal. At least in New York City.

The Manhattan District Attorney is just enforcing the laws of New York, in Manhattan. And it just so happens that Donald Trump is still a resident of Manhattan. And he was a full-time resident back in 2016. he’s also still running for President, and the Manhattan District Attorney doesn’t like him, and they’re legally doing what they can to prevent him from ever becoming President of the United States again.

And anyone who still believes in American liberal democracy and the rule of law in this country, (and hopefully that’s a solid majority) should be thanking the Manhattan District Attorney for what they[re doing here.

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ABC News: Judge in Donald Trump’s Hush Money Case Sets April 15 Trial Date

ABC News: Judge in Donald Trump's hush money case sets April 15 trial dateSource:ABC News with a look at Donald Trump’s Manhattan, New York hush money case involving Stormy Daniels.

Source:The New Democrat

“Judge Juan Merchan ruled that former President Donald Trump will stand trial over a hush money payment to Stormy Daniels, beginning with jury selection on April 15.”

From ABC News

I think most people who are following these two cases, the Manhattan hush money case and the New York State fraud case against Donald Trump, before they went to bed last night, thought Monday would be Black Monday for Donald J. Trump. He would not only be looking at bankruptcy in New York, which might have been his biggest problem here, as well as Manhattan criminal case getting a start date today.

Well, half of that is right. DJT won his appeal with the New York Court of Appeals and got his bond cut by almost 2/3 to 175 million and now has 10 days to post that bond.

But Mr. Trump is now going to trial and will be stuck in Manhattan for probably a month dealing with his trial there. And not only that, but he’ll probably be convicted in Manhattan because the evidence there against him is overwhelming. With the only witness there that could even make an attempt to try to contradict that evidence and the witness testimony, is Donald J. Trump himself.

But Donald Trump testifying for himself, is a like football team at the Super Bowl that forfeits the game, during the pregame show. Nothing good can happen for Donald Trump when he tries to testify for himself. Donald Trump testifying for himself is like a serial liar on trial, whose on truth serum, but doesn’t know it, who takes the stand for himself. He ends up incriminating himself almost every time he tries to defend himself.

So DJT’s NYC criminal trial should be real-life, reality TV, where Donald Trump will be like an alien visiting another planet for the very first time.

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ABC News: Representative Marjorie T. Greene Files Motion To Vacate Speaker Mike Johnson

ABC News: Representative Marjorie T. Greene Files Motion To Vacate Speaker Mike JohnsonSource:ABC News looking at U.S. Representative Marjorie T. Greene’s (MAGA, Georgia) motion to put Speaker of the House Mike Johnson (MAGA, Louisiana) “on notice”.

Source:The New Democrat

“Georgia Republican Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene filed a motion to vacate the speaker’s chair, threatening to oust Speaker Mike Johnson just months after he ascended to the speakership.”

From ABC News

Just for the record: Me giving Representative Marjorie Taylor Greene (whose one of the leaders of the Escaped Mental Patients Caucus in the House) is like the police detective, who credits the arsonist (or in this case political arsonist) credit for trying to put out the fire that the arsonist just started. It just doesn’t feel right.

But having said that: I’m going to sort of give Representative credit for one thing. I think she might be politically smart enough to know that if she actually filed a privileged motion here in the House and she lost, because maybe 200 House Democrats, or even just 100 House Democrats, along with most of the House Republicans, including a lot, if not most of the MAGA members (who are fellow members of the Escaped Mental Patients Caucus) she would look very weak and perhaps even dumber and crazier than she actually is.

As the ABC News Congressional reporter said in the video: when you file a privileged motion to vacate the Speaker of the House, the House has to vote on that motion within two days, regardless of who files the motion and whether they’re a majority or minority member of the House.

The Greene motion is not a privileged motion. So, she might just be putting Speaker Mike Johnson “on notice here”, or she might done her own whip count and can count high enough to see that most of the House Republicans would vote against it and a lot of House Democrats as well. And she doesn’t want to look even dumber and crazier than she already does. But that’s just my theory.

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Piers Morgan: ‘You Want To Destroy Western Civilization’: Reza Aslan VS Dennis Prager

Piers Morgan Uncensored: 'You Want To Destroy Western Civilisation' _ Piers Morgan v Dennis Prager And Reza AslanSource:Piers Morgan Uncensored trying to moderate a “debate” between Reza Aslan & Dennis Prager.

Source:The New Democrat

“Piers Morgan is joined by American talk show host Dennis Prager and Iranian-American scholar Reza Aslan for an epic clash over the conflict between Israel and Hamas.

Dennis Prager’s views on the conflict have remained steadfast, with a focus on attributing civilian deaths to Hamas and advocating for a peace agreement based on Hamas’s acceptance of the Jewish state.

Reza Aslan emphasises the need to address the underlying grievances fuelling terrorism and criticized Netanyahu’s reluctance to engage in meaningful political dialogue with the Palestinian territories.

Dennis Prager told Piers Morgan the only difference between Hamas and Nazis was that “Hamas publicised its butchery, and the Nazis hid it”, adding that if Israel didn’t have a way to stop rocket attacks, “millions of Israelis would be dead”, and the left wishes “to destroy western civilization”.

Reza Aslan said American taxpayers were paying for Israel’s war in Gaza, “buying the bombs and the bullets that have thus far killed 30,000 Palestinian non combatants in Gaza.”

From Piers Morgan Uncensored

“Dennis Mark Prager (/ˈpreɪɡər/; born August 2, 1948)[1] is an American conservative radio talk show host and writer. He is the host of the nationally syndicated radio talk show The Dennis Prager Show. In 2009, he co-founded PragerU, which primarily creates five-minute videos from an American conservative perspective, among other content.

His initial political work starting in 1969 concerned Refuseniks, the Soviet Jews who were unable to emigrate.[2] He gradually began offering more and broader commentary on politics.”

From Wikipedia

“Reza Aslan (Persian: رضا اصلان, IPA: [ˈɾezɒː æsˈlɒːn]; born May 3, 1972) is an Iranian-American scholar of sociology of religion, writer, and television host. A convert to evangelical Christianity from Shia Islam as a youth, Aslan eventually reverted to Islam but continued to write about Christianity. He has written four books on religion: No God but God: The Origins, Evolution, and Future of Islam, Beyond Fundamentalism: Confronting Religious Extremism in the Age of Globalization, Zealot: The Life and Times of Jesus of Nazareth, God: A Human History and in 2022 An American Martyr in Persia: The Epic Life and Tragic Death of Howard Baskerville.

Aslan has worked for television, including a documentary series exploring world religions on CNN called Believer, and serving as an executive producer on the HBO drama series The Leftovers. Aslan is a member of the American Academy of Religion and the International Qur’anic Studies Association. He is a professor of creative writing at University of California, Riverside, and a board member of the National Iranian American Council (NIAC).”

From Wikipedia

I probably agree with Dennis Prager more than Reza Aslan when it comes to the Israeli war on Hamas, But Mr. Prager saying to Reza Aslan: “You want to destroy western civilization”, even though he was born in Iran and emigrated along with his family to America, right after the Islamist, theocratic, revolution in 1979, I find that pretty interesting, if not hilarious.Perhaps not laugh out loud (or LOL, as the young people say) hilarious. More like: “This guy can’t be that stupid. Can he?”

I find Mr. Prager’s comment about Reza Aslan interesting, because Dennis Prager backs Donald J. Trump most of the time, perhaps not 100%. But damn near 100%. I mean you could see 100% support for Donald Trump, by Mr. Prager, from where he stands in relationship to Mr. Trump.

Donald J. Trump of course is the leader of the political movement MAGA, which is really just a political cult, that wants to take America back to the 1950s, if not further back, culturally, politically and everything else. Which would destroy modern western civilization, or at least modern American civilization. So I find Mr. Prager’s comment here about Reza Aslan, interesting, if not comical. Again, not laugh out loud (or LOL) comical. But more like: “This guy can’t be that stupid. Can he?”

What I also find comical, is American leftists (who I agree with Dennis Prager) are not Liberals) who claim to be in favor of minority rights, women’s rights, gay rights, etc, any group that represents a minority or a group of people that have been oppressed in America, except when it comes to Jews. Which is like someone claiming to be a vegan, because the only meat that they eat is chicken. The person who says that they never drink alcohol because they only drink beer, etc.

Leftists, or at least militant leftists, seem to have no issues with ethnicism, when it comes to Jews. But if you hate African-Americans because they’re African-American, or any other non-European racial group, or you hate Arabs and other Middle Easterners, simply because they’re Arab or from some other Middle Eastern ethnic group, you hate Asian-Americans, simply because they’re Asian, or Latinos because they’re Latino, you are a racist or ethnicist.

But, in the Pluto size world of the Far-Left, it’s perfectly acceptable to hate Jews. Someone who claims that they’re not a racist or ethnicist, simply because they only hate Jews and Europeans, is like someone who claims to be an Atheist, while saying that Jesus Christ is the son of God. I mean you are, begging people to laugh at you, when you make statements like that.

If you call Hamas freedom fighters, then you don’t believe in women’s rights, gay rights, minority rights, etc. But instead you probably just hate Jews, simply because they’re Jewish, because you support Hamas.

As I said about the Far-Left’s support of Hamas back in November:

“I guess the two biggest stories, or two to biggest stories this week, (I don’t have a list of the all the big stories this week) have to do not with Hamas so much, as they’re getting their asses handed to them in Gaza by the Israeli military, but the fact that these 15th Century, murderous assholes, who have no respect for women, gays, minorities of all kinds, have an actual base of support from people in America and Europe, by people who claim that they care about women, gays, and minorities.”

From The New Democrat 

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Ben Meiselas: ‘Donald Trump Lawyer DOES NOT RULE OUT Foreign BAIL OUT of DONALD TRUMP’

Meidas Touch: Donald Trump Lawyer DOES NOT RULE OUT Foreign BAIL OUT of TRUMPSource:Meidas Touch talking about Trump University graduate & Connecticut strip mall (no offense to Connecticut strip malls) lawyer Alina Habba. (Ha, ha)

Source:The New Democrat

“MeidasTouch host Ben Meiselas reports on Donald Trump lawyer Alina Habba’s outrageous interview where she refused to answer if Donald Trump was going to accept money from Russia and Saudi Arabia to pay for the $464 million bond in the NY civil fraud case.”

From the Meidas Touch

“Speaking with Fox News’ Martha MacCallum on Wednesday afternoon, Habba, Trump’s lead defense counsel in the case, said that the $454 million in penalties is “completely ridiculous,” and condemned the ruling by New York State Supreme Court Justice Arthur Engoron, who found Trump, his two adult sons and others associated with The Trump Organization liable of misleading lenders and insurance companies for better terms.

“It is intentionally to interfere in the election, to hurt President Trump, to try and ruin his company, and ruin a person and a family whose private company, not public company, has made the skyline of New York changed forever,” Habba added.

Trump maintains that he is innocent and has said that he intends to appeal the ruling, which would require an additional $10 million to his total bond amount. The former president is also the presumptive GOP nominee for the 2024 presidential election.

MacCallum also asked Habba if there was “any effort” on Trump’s defense team to try to secure the total bond amount “through another country,” such as Saudi Arabia or Russia.

“There’s rules and regulations that are public,” Habba responded. “I can’t speak about strategy. That requires certain things, and we have to follow those rules.”

Some critics of the former president have raised concerns that Trump’s growing debt among his legal cases could pose a national security risk depending on who or what entities agree to post the bond. According to a court filing from Trump’s lawyers on Monday, the defense team has asked over 30 companies to cover the bond: All of such requests have been denied.

National security lawyer Mary McCord told MSNBC over the weekend that there are “certainly plenty of people who might want to bail him out,” suggesting that some entities could be “foreign, some of those might be Russian oligarchs,” or people and companies within the U.S.”

From Newsweek

From what I wrote about Alina Habba back in November:

“Alina Habba is not really a trial lawyer. She can barely afford to do whatever she does as a lawyer right now. She’s more of a public relations lawyer, if anything at all, who makes her living trying her client’s cases on TV and on social media. But she’s officially Donald Trump’s civil lawyer right now because she’s about the best of what’s left to try to defend him, because of his own financial situation and all the evidence that’s against him right now, in multiple cases.

Perhaps one of the reasons right now that Alina Habba owes millions of dollars, is because her own client is not paying her. But she’s trying to work for him anyway, perhaps banking on the fact that defending a former President of the United States, would lead to clients who can and would pay her very well for her legal advice and actions in the future. But that career strategy is obviously not working out for her right now.”

From The New Democrat

I’m glad Ben Meiselas is talking about this today, because this is the next potential scam that Donald Trump and company are going to pull, if they can’t get a billionaire to bail him out by Monday and he decides not to file for bankruptcy, to cover his 500 million dollar bond in New York State.

If the only choice that DJT INC. has is either bankruptcy, or getting a foreign bailout, they might take the 500 million from Russia or Saudi Arabia and one of those countries will own Donald J. Trump for the rest of his life and perhaps the U.S. Government for as long as he’s President, if Trump wins the election in November.

And if New York State Attorney General Letitia James can’t get a record of that payment to Trump legally, then it would be up to some excellent investigative journalists or private investigators, to get that paperwork and release it to the public, before the November election.

Because American voters, I would say especially Independents because Democrats and Never-Trump Republicans have already made up their minds whether Donald Trump has been bought by foreign powers already. But this is something that Independents need to know, because they’ll probably decide who the next President of the United States will be.

And as far as Ben Meiselas’s 2nd point about he would love for America to return to a day when we get back to a place where we are just debating policy again and not whether one of the two major party leaders in the country is an authoritarian and crook, I completely agree with him.

But as long as the Republican Party is just the RPINO (Republican Party in Name Only) and is really just the MAGA Party, those debates won’t be possible. We have to defeat MAGA first. The real Conservatives and the real Republicans need to come back and reclaim the Republican Party.

This is what I said about that on Monday:

“Oh, how I miss the days of those great political debates in Washington about how best to cut the Federal deficit, save Social Security and Medicare, tax reform, immigration policy, Welfare To Work, etc. You know, those old school policy debates that could put the average insomniac to sleep for weeks. Hell, those debates could put an insomniacs convention to sleep. And they only meet to have people to talk to, when everyone else is asleep. But those old debates, could keep the average current affairs junky such as myself, awake for years straight.”

From The New Democrat 

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Forbes Magazine: ‘This Is Why Donald Trump Will Need A Lot More Than $540 Million’

Forbes Magazine: This Is Why Donald Trump Will Need A Lot More Than $540 MillionSource:Forbes Magazine with a look at the self-proclaimed King of Debt, Donald J. Trump.

Source:The New Democrat

“Even if former President Donald Trump figures out how to pay his mounting legal fees, he’s still going to be scrambling for cash for years to come. Forbes staff writer Zach Everson joins “Forbes Talks” with Brittany Lewis to discuss.”

From Forbes Magazine

“I’m a New Yorker, and New Yorkers know a con when we see one,” he said to cheers from the audience.

“We’ve heard a lot of talk in this campaign about needing a leader who understands business. I couldn’t agree more. I’ve built a business, and I didn’t start it with a million-dollar check from my father,” he said in a slam to the real estate mogul’s background.

“Throughout his career, Trump has left behind a well-documented record of bankruptcies, thousands of lawsuits, angry shareholders and contractors who feel cheated, and disillusioned customers who feel ripped off,” Bloomberg said. “Trump says he wants to run the nation like he’s run his business. God help us.”

From CNN

From what I wrote about Donald Trump from back in October:

“4-5 years ago, longtime Republican strategist and now political filmmaker Mark McKinnon, who served for both President George W. Bush and then Senator John McCain, was on CNN Tonight with Don Lemon. And they were talking about the current investigations into Donald Trump dealing with the 2016 presidential campaign and potential investigations that could be facing then President Trump, once he’s no longer President, whether he’s not reelected in 2020, or leaves office after his 2nd term would’ve been over in 2025.

Mark McKinnon told Don Lemon that the biggest personal mistake that Donald Trump ever made in his life, was getting elected President of the United States. The 2nd biggest mistake that he made, according to Mark McKinnon, was running for President of the United States. Why? Because now that Mr. Trump is in the public eye full-time, all these new investigations not just about his presidency, his business career, or personal life, but how his business and personal affairs affect his presidency, will be under public scrutiny.”

From The New Democrat

Just for the record: Michael Bloomberg is a real-life billionaire, unlike Donald J. Trump. Mr. Bloomberg has the financial statements to prove that. And he’s a lifelong New Yorker. Again unlike Donald J. Trump, who now makes his home in primary in Florida.

I think that Mark McKinnon quote or paraphrase is critical here. Had Donald Trump never even ran for President of the United States, maybe he is an actual billionaire today because he wouldn’t be so buried in debt. And maybe Manhattan, New York is still is main home today.

But, with Mr. Trump’s business background, combined with his own political philosophy, that’s really just completely centered around himself and obtaining as much political and governmental power for himself, he’s pissed off so many people, in so many different jurisdictions, including a lot of very smart and well-accomplished prosecutors, like New York Attorney General Letitia James, (just to name one) his whole political and business background, are now not just in the spotlight, he can’t make a move, or say a word without bringing public scrutiny to himself.

And Mr. Trump is going to be paying for all his bad business and political decisions for the rest of his life. Unless he can pardon himself and get someone else to bail him out financially.

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Jesse Dollemore: ‘Fox News Hosts Are GROVELING & BEGGING Rich People to Loan Donald Trump Money!!!’

Jesse Dollemore: Fox News Hosts are GROVELING & BEGGING Rich People to Loan Trump Money!!!Source:Jesse Dollemore talking about right-wing beggars for Donald J. Trump.

Source:The New Democrat

“Jesse talks about the latest shameful and embarrassing behavior from Fox News as their hosts have resorted to begging rich guests to help Donald Trump by loaning him money that he almost certainly has no way of paying back.”

From Jesse Dollemore

“Fox News host Mark Levin has called out billionaires for not paying Donald Trump’s legal bills after the former president’s legal team said paying his $400 million New York civil fraud penalty would be “a practical impossibility.”

Writing on X, formerly Twitter, Levin suggested Republican billionaires lend Trump funds to appeal “the outrageous case.”

“Why are there no Republican multi-billionaires offering to lend President Trump the funds to file his appeal in the outrageous case in NY state?” he questioned. “Are none of them liquid enough to help or join with others to help? This is an outrage.”

From Newsweek

“Kudlow somewhat jokingly asking O’Leary to put up Trump’s bond comes hours after fellow Fox star Mark Levin fumed that no GOP billionaires were coming to Trump’s aid.

Fox Business Network host Larry Kudlow asked Shark Tank star Kevin O’Leary point-blank on Tuesday if he’d loan Donald Trump nearly a half-billion dollars in order to appeal the ex-president’s New York bank fraud case, saying it would “protect America’s name.”

O’Leary essentially ignored Kudlow’s plea, despite saying hours earlier that the penalty against Trump was an “attack on America.”

“But Kevin O’Leary, I think this is where it’s gonna go,” Kudlow said during Tuesday’s broadcast of his eponymous Fox Business show. “I was wondering if he can’t get to the Supreme Court, would you loan him the $460 million?”

The Canadian investor quickly laughed at Kudlow’s apparent joke only for the Fox host to finish his request. “Just to help—in order to protect America’s name, think of it that way,” Kudlow added with a chuckle.

O’Leary, who has declared he’ll never again invest in “loser” New York due to his disgust over the Trump ruling, dodged Kudlow’s entreaty and instead called for the Supreme Court to intervene.

“The terminology of seizing assets, that’s foreign language to an American investor,” O’Leary said. “They want due process. They want the appeal. That sounds like Venezuela, that sounds like Cuba. It’s a really bad look for New York.”

He added: “Bipartisan participants and financial services managers are not okay with this and are getting very uncomfortable. And I think whether it’s the Supreme Court that provides the adult supervision, whether it’s somebody else, we desperately need for this kid’s party for the adults to get home.”

Kudlow, meanwhile, is not the only sycophantic Fox host demanding rich conservatives chip in and help the ex-president. Fox News weekend host Mark Levin took to social media to grumble about the lack of wealthy Republicans stepping up to the plate to cover Trump’s bond.

“Why are there no Republican multi-billionaires offering to lend President Trump the funds to file his appeal in the outrageous case in NY state?” Levin tweeted. “Are none of them liquid enough to help or join with others to help? This is an outrage.”

From The Daily Beast

As my colleague Fred Schneider wrote about this yesterday:

“As far as Mark Levin: to pick up on what Michael Cohen said about him: Mark Levin should be one of the first people to try to help raise the money for Donald Trump. But he’s not going to do that, because when Mr. Levin is being honest, (even if it’s just in private and with himself) he knows that Trump is not worth the financial risk. And Mark Levin is not a billionaire anyway. Maybe in the 10s of millions of dollars. And besides, it’s Donald J. Trump who claims to be a billionaire. So why does he need other wealthy people to bail him out?”

From The New Democrat

I think Fred covered this yesterday. I guess the thing that I would add is when pride, self-respect, personal responsibility, accountability, the rule of law, are just partisan talking points that the modern Republican Party (not the Grand Ole Party) just throws around to hit the other side with. Which really gives them permission (outside of the real world) to stick their heads in the toilet and see how far they can get, before they run out of air, or get their heads stuck down there and can’t get out.

I mean just think of the homeless person whose desperate for food, clothing, water, a place to stay, etc, those folks can’t afford to be embarrassed. If they let their pride get in the way, they go hungry, they freeze to death, they walk around the streets completely naked. Think of these MAGA media tools for Donald Trump, the exact same way. Except most of these folks are multi-millionaires. Actually, in Kevin O’Leary’s case, he’s a real-life billionaire. He doesn’t play one on TV like Donald J. Trump.

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Michael Smerconish: Nigel Farage & Donald Trump On Prince Harry

Michael Smerconish:  Deported_  Donald Trump, Prince HarrySource:Michael Smerconish talking about Nigel Farage’s interview for former U.S. President Donald J. Trump.

Source:The New Democrat

“Deported? Donald Trump, Prince Harry”

From Michael Smerconish

“Donald Trump has warned Prince Harry could be kicked out of America in a stunning world exclusive interview.

Speaking with GB News’ Nigel Farage, Trump warned that Prince Harry faces an uncertain future in America if he is elected as the next President.

Donald Trump has warned Prince Harry could be kicked out of America in a stunning world exclusive interview.

Speaking with GB News’ Nigel Farage, Trump warned that Prince Harry faces an uncertain future in America if he is elected as the next President.

Asked by Farage if Harry should have “special privileges” if the authorities find that he’d lied on his Visa application, Trump said: “No. We’ll have to see if they know something about the drugs, and if he lied they’ll have to take appropriate action.”

Farage questioned: “Appropriate action? Which might mean…not staying in America?”

To which Trump said: “Oh I don’t know. You’ll have to tell me. You just have to tell me. You would have thought they would have known this a long time ago.”

His comments came in a wide-ranging 30-minute interview with Farage at his Mar-A-Lago resort which will be broadcast tomorrow (Tuesday) from 7pm on GB News.

In it, Trump also leaps to the defence of the Princess Of Wales in her photoshop row, talks about the King’s cancer battle and blasts the way Meghan and Harry treated the late Queen.

Trump also reveals how he’d respond if Poland was invaded, and explains why he thinks Joe Biden is unfit to lead America.

His comments are likely to concern Prince Harry who may be deported from the US, where he currently resides in a nine-bedroom mansion with his wife and two children, after revealing in his autobiography ‘Spare’ that he took drugs.”

From GB News

“Nigel Paul Farage (/ˈfærɑːʒ/;[c] born 3 April 1964)[3] is a British broadcaster and former politician who was Leader of the UK Independence Party (UKIP) from 2006 to 2009 and 2010 to 2016 and Leader of the Brexit Party (renamed Reform UK in 2021) from 2019 to 2021. Farage is currently the Honorary President of Reform UK and a presenter for GB News.[4] He served as Member of the European Parliament (MEP) for South East England from 1999 until the United Kingdom’s exit from the European Union in 2020.

Known as a prominent Eurosceptic since the early 1990s, Farage campaigned for the United Kingdom’s withdrawal from the European Union. Farage was a founding member of UKIP, having left the Conservative Party in 1992 after the signing of the Maastricht Treaty,[5] which furthered European integration and founded the European Union. After campaigning unsuccessfully in European and Westminster parliamentary elections from 1994, he was elected MEP for South East England in the 1999 European Parliament election. He was re-elected in the 2004, 2009, 2014 and 2019 European Parliament elections. In the European Parliament, he was the president of Europe of Freedom and Direct Democracy (EFDD)[d][6] where he was noted for his speeches,[7][8] and as a vocal critic of the euro currency.”

From Wikipedia

I agree with Michael Smerconish that Donald Trump didn’t actually say that Prince Harry (from the United Kingdom) should be deported from America. However, the fact that someone like Nigel Farage, whose basically the Donald Trump, or Pat Buchanan of Britain, ideologically, but even less popular than Donald Trump, could use Mr. Trump this way, just feeds into the whole theory of how U.S. National Security Council and other American national security and intelligence professionals, that Donald Trump is just a useful tool (or useful idiot) for the authoritarian world. As well as wannabe authoritarians in the developed world, like British Nationalist leader Nigel Farage.

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The Bulwark: Tim Miller: ‘Donald Trump Wants Cassidy Hutchinson & Liz Cheney Jailed!’

The Bulwark: Donald Trump Wants Cassidy Hutchinson and Liz Cheney Jailed! _ Tim's TakeSource:The Bulwark talking about what Donald J. Trump would like to do to former U.S. Representative Liz Cheney (Republican, Wyoming) who was Vice Chairman of the House January 6. Committee.

Source:The New Democrat

“Tim Miller reacts to Donald Trump’s unhinged bleat suggesting Cassidy Hutchinson and January 6th Committee should be prosecuted.”

From The Bulwark

To try to give you some idea (as small as it might be) about how politically, historically, and constitutionally ignorant Donald J. Trump is when it comes to the United State of America and our form of government: he simply ran for President of the wrong country back in 2016.

Donald Trump had only been President for less than a month when he said that NBC News should get their Federal Communications License repealed, simply because they were producing stories about him that were negative.

That same month of March in 2017, his first Attorney General Jeff Sessions, who was one of the first Congressional Republicans to endorse Mr. Trump for President in 2016 and the first U.S. Senator as well, recuses himself from the Department of Justice Russian interference investigation of the 2016 presidential election. Why? Because then Senator Sessions was a member for the Trump Campaign and working to see that Mr. trump gets elected President of the United States.

So then President Trump then responds by saying that his Attorney General shouldn’t have recused himself, because the Attorney General is supposed to be his own lawyer, that DOJ is like his personal law firm and that he can order DOJ to do whatever he wants to do.

Donald Trump sees himself as a dictator. He’s not, yet. But that’s the kind of power that he believes that he has. He thinks he has the same power in America, as any third world or somewhat developed world dictator, like the King of Saudi Arabia, or the Vladimir Putin has in Russia, the President of Turkey, etc. And when someone stands up to him and says no to him, or tries to hold them accountable simply for doing their jobs, which hurt him and make him look bad, he treats them like traitors to Donald J. Trump, who should be locked up.

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