Harry Litman: ‘Donald Trump DESPERATE To Avoid $454 Million Fine, FILES APPEAL’

Posted on February 27, 2024 by FredSchneiderUS

Harry Litman_ Donald Trump DESPERATE To Avoid $454 Million Fine, FILES APPEALSource:Harry Litman talking about Defendant Don.

Source:The New Democrat

“Only a few days after Justice Arthur Engoron issued the $464 million verdict in the civil fraud case, Trump appealed it asking an appeals court to determine whether Engoron “committed errors of law and/or fact, and whether he abused his discretion and/or acted in excess of his jurisdiction.”

From Harry Litman

“MeidasTouch host Ben Meiselas and Harry Litman report on what’s going on behind the scenes with the Supreme Court as it prepares to make its decision on Donald Trump’s application for a stay pending certiorari related to his claim of presidential immunity.”

From the Meidas Touch

From what my colleague Kire Schneider wrote yesterday.

“So the bottomline here, is Donald Trump has 25 days to come with 450 million, perhaps 500 million by then, or he goes bankrupt, just as he’s trying to run for President again, just as he’s facing two felony convictions, in separate jurisdictions, by the end of this summer.”

From The New Democrat

No offense to Harry Litman: but there’s only one interesting story here, because the rest of these stories are fairly well-known as far as Donald Trump’s potential bankruptcy, if he can’t meet the bond payment on his New York State judgment against him. As well as what’s going in Atlanta, Georgia right now, with Trump’s lawyers trying to get the District Attorney there, Fani Willis, removed from the case, for having an adulterous affair with her lead prosecutor in that case and being inaccurate about the timeline there.

The interesting story here, the newsworthy story here, is Harry Litman’s theory for why the Supreme Court is taking so long to either grant or deny Donald Trump’s stay on his immunity claim. Litman believes that they’ve already decided this case, but the Chief Justice, John Roberts, is simply waiting for the dissent opinion from either Justice Clarence Thomas or Samuel Alito. Meaning the Supreme Court will deny Trump’s request for a stay. But they’re simply waiting on the dissenting opinion from Justice Thomas or Justice Alito, perhaps they’ll write a joint dissent in this case.

I have my own theory here. Justice Thomas seems even more partisan than Justice Alito. We saw that during Donald Trump’s appeals to deny Joe Biden the election back in late 2020. He simply turned away a big case that then President Trump had and simply didn’t take that case and let the lower court ruling stand. Also, Justice Thomas’s wife Ginni, is all in when it comes to MAGA. She was part of the “stop the steal movement” in late 2020 and perhaps one of the organizers 2021 insurrection attempt.

My theory is that the Court has already ruled against Donald Trump. But they’re waiting on whether Justice Thomas will either vote no and go down 8-1 in one of the biggest cases in the history of the Court and be remembered as the one U.S. Justice who believes Donald Trump is above the law. And risk looking pretty bad, perhaps even corrupt and looking like a partisan politician, instead of a judge. Or, will he just recuse himself and not vote at all and save himself from a little historical embarrassment. But that’s my theory as an outsider in this case, whose not even a lawyer.

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Ben Meiselas: ‘Donald Trump RUSHES NY Appeal, But WITH NO BOND’

Posted on February 26, 2024 by kireschneider

Meidas Touch: Donald Trump RUSHES NY Appeal, But WITH NO BONDSource:Meidas Touch looking at Defendant Don’s lack of cash.

Source:The New Democrat

“Ben Meiselas reports on Donald Trump filing a notice of appeal in the NY civil fraud case despite not posting bond.”

From the Meidas Touch

“Donald Trump could be at risk of losing some of his prized properties if he cannot pay his staggering New York civil fraud penalty. With interest, he owes the state nearly $454 million — and the amount is going up $87,502 each day until he pays.

New York Attorney General Letitia James told ABC News that she will seek to seize some of the former president’s assets if he is unable to cover the bill from Judge Arthur Engoron’s Feb. 16 ruling.

Engoron concluded that Trump lied for years about his wealth as he built the real estate empire that vaulted him to stardom and the White House. Trump denies wrongdoing and has vowed to appeal.”

From the Massachusetts Lawyers Weekly

No offense to Ben Meiselas’s statement here, but I think NY Attorney General Letitia James statement here is the key. I don’t believe she would make a statement like that, if she were expecting Donald Trump to be able to come up with the cash, or has the cash, to even come up with the bond that he has to have first, to even be eligible for 450 plus and growing, million dollar judgement against him in New York State.

The reason why I say this, is because the NY Attorney General probably not only has Mr. Trump’s business records and his Trump Organization’s business records, but she probably also has his personal financial records as well. She knows how much money this man is worth. And I”m not just talking about how much he’s personally worth. Not his properties, but how much money Donald J. Trump has in his personal bank accounts.

So it would be very foolish on Attorney General James part, to say that she’s ready to start seizing Trump properties, to pay off the judgement against him, if she believed that he could personally financially do this. She’s too good of a lawyer for that to make such a foolish statement like that. Mr. Trump, hasn’t even posted a bond in the E. Jean Carrol case, which is 83 million. That’s a lot money as well, but it’s not even a 5th of what he owes New York State.

So the bottomline here, is Donald Trump has 25 days to come with 450 million, perhaps 500 million by then, or he goes bankrupt, just as he’s trying to run for President again, just as he’s facing two felony convictions, in separate jurisdictions, by the end of this summer.

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CNN: ‘Donald Trump’s Plan To Use Judge Cannon to Block Judge Chutkan & Avoid Trial’

Posted on February 26, 2024 by FredSchneiderUS

CNN: Donald Trump’s Plan To Use Judge Aileen Cannon To Block Judge Tanya Chutkan & Avoid TrialSource:CNN looking at Defendant Don’s latest legal strategy.

“Former President Donald Trump’s lawyers see a major opportunity this week to use his criminal document mishandling case in Florida to create an impasse on his calendar for the two federal judges overseeing his major criminal cases.

Juggling his campaign and court calendar and playing his cases off one another is a key part of Trump’s legal strategy. The ultimate goal, his team has said openly, is to prevent Trump from being tried in federal court before voters cast their ballots in the 2024 general election.

A primary aim for Trump’s legal team, according to people familiar with the strategy, is to put the judge in DC overseeing the 2020 federal election obstruction case, Tanya Chutkan, in a position where she can’t start a trial before Election Day.

“Meaning, ice her,” said a person familiar with Trump’s trial schedule strategy. “Making it impossible for her to jam a trial down before the election, by things that are out of her control.”

Chutkan set an initial trial date for March 4, which has been delayed indefinitely because of appeals. Yet if the Supreme Court returns the case to Chutkan, that trial could be back on the calendar within a month or two.

One way to hamper Chutkan is to convince the judge in Florida, Aileen Cannon, to move Trump’s Mar-a-Lago document mishandling trial from late May until the summer.

Then, as summer approaches, the Mar-a-Lago case may require Cannon to push the trial back again and again because of the legal complexities around classified documents that still have to be worked out, according to people familiar with the case.

Then, as summer approaches, the Mar-a-Lago case may require Cannon to push the trial back again and again because of the legal complexities around classified documents that still have to be worked out, according to people familiar with the case.

Trump has already asked the federal judges and a state judge in a third criminal case he faces, the Georgia election subversion case, to delay any trials until after the November election. Both federal judges, Chutkan and Cannon, have said no. But a gradually shifting calendar could be just as effective at shielding Trump from other trials through the summer, multiple sources familiar with the former president’s legal strategy told CNN.

Cannon has signaled a willingness in recent months to considering pushing back the date. And the prosecutors and defense teams are engaged in protracted court fights over access to evidence – classified records and information from far corners of the federal government – that Cannon still has to resolve. Cannon is a Trump appointee in an area of Florida with many Trump voters in a potential jury pool. She drew bipartisan criticism in the legal world for how she handled an earlier part of the case and has moved slowly to resolve the pretrial issues.

Chutkan’s court is an entirely different profile – where the Washington, DC, jury pool leans liberal and has convicted many January 6, 2021, rioters at trials. Chutkan is a Barack Obama appointee who ruled against Trump on the key issue of the case – presidential immunity – and also issued a limited gag order against the former president.”

From CNN

“Former President Donald Trump’s lawyers see a major opportunity to use his criminal document mishandling case in Florida to create an impasse on his calendar for the two federal judges overseeing his major criminal cases. Juggling his campaign and court calendar and playing his cases off one another is a key part of Trump’s legal strategy.”

From CNN

“CNN analyst Elie Honig reacts to Former President Donald Trump’s legal team is trying to use his mishandling of criminal documents in Florida to cause a scheduling conflict with the federal judges handling his major cases.”

From CNN

I can’t repeat this enough, but I’m not a lawyer. But what Donald Trump wants is his friendly judge in Miami, Judge Aileen Cannon, to go first and then delay that trial as much as possible, so he’s not only not convicted there before November, but Judge Tanya Chutkan’s trial in Washington wouldn’t even be able to get started before the election.

But there’s one glaring weakness to this latest Trump strategy. If the Supreme Court throws out both Donald Trump’s stay when it comes to his presidential immunity claim, then the Washington case goes back to Judge Chutkan and then she can put that trial back on her calendar and it could be ready by let’s say May, but the time the Manhattan trial with Donald Trump should be over.

So if everything goes the way it should here, Donald Trump is tried and convicted probably by late April, or early May in Manhattan, New York and then he goes back to Washington to be tried there in May, maybe June and that case is finish by the end of the summer.

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Newsmax: Robert Finnerty – Alina Habba Interview: ‘Working For Donald Trump Has Left Her Worried About ‘Seemingly’ Promising Career?’

Posted on February 23, 2024 by kireschneider

Farron Balanced: Alina Habba Was Shocked To Learn That Representing Donald Trump Ruined Her ReputationSource:Farron Balanced– with a look at Donald Trump’s Manhattan, New York civil attorney Alina Habba.

Source:The New Democrat

“During an interview on Newsmax this week, Alina Habba was asked about her future as a lawyer due to the damage that she could incur to her reputation for representing Donald Trump. It took Habba a moment to digest that thought, and it clearly made her realize that her future isn’t looking very bright at this point. Her entire demeanor changed after this question, and it was evident that she knows she’s not going to go on to bigger and better things. Farron Cousins discusses this.”

From Farron Cousins

“Rob Finnerty then asked, “Since you hooked on with the former president, and started representing him. Your career has has skyrocketed. I think Alina Habba is now it’s a household name. Really? But you’re young. You’re young in your career. How concerned are you about what this could mean for your reputation down the road?”

“In terms of what?” Habba questioned.

“Well, there are a lot of attorneys out there that no longer want to represent the former president. Right or wrong. I’m not casting judgment right or wrong because of what it, the implications it has for their careers. And you’ve got a bright future seemingly,” Finnerty added.

“I have to tell you the truth, I wouldn’t do anything differently,” Habba replied, adding:

I’m so proud of the work that I’ve done. And any attorney who actually reads transcripts and looks at the rulings that we got before we got into court, evidentiary rulings, things like that, losses that have happened. And we’ve had wins, many wins, but nobody reports them. But the losses that have happened are not a result of the facts not being on our side or bad lawyering.

They are a result of the fact that he is the leading candidate, for the Republican Party and frankly, for president in general. So I can say that, look, trolls will be trolls and I would never change a thing. I am proud of the work I’ve done, and it is truly an honor to work for a sitting, a former president and, future president again. So as for anybody else that has an issue with that, that can’t see through that, you’re just you’re you’re not looking at the big picture here. We’re changing the country and fixing the country, and I’m proud to be part of that mission.”

From Meidate

As far as Rob Finnerty’s key question of Alina Habba here: she basically dodged it, after he rephrased it. She sort of acted like she didn’t understand it and then just went into: “The media only reports about our losses (meaning her losses) and not about her wins.” The obvious being there: what wins?

And before that, Alina basically putting the blame for all these cases and her horrible losses trying to defend Donald Trump, on the fact that she believes the media thinks that Donald Trump is unbeatable in the 2024 presidential election.

So again, to go to my original point about Alina Habba that I made back in November, she’s not a real trial lawyer. At best, she’s a legal spokesperson, or partisan political lawyer, who argues her cases through friendly media like Newsmax, not on court where all these cases are actually tried and decided. (She would’ve learned that in law school) It’s as if she went to journalism school, or majored in political science, thinking that’s where you become a lawyer.

“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

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CPAC 2024: Crazy People At a Convention

Posted on February 23, 2024 by FredSchneiderUS

CNN: SE Cupp Says This Moment At CPAC Made Her Want To Light Her Hair On FireSource:CNN– far-right, Christian Nationalist speaker Jack Posobiec. Apparently the woman behind him can’t even take him seriously.

“CNN’s SE Cupp reacts to far-right conspiracy theorist, Jack Posobiec, speaking at CPAC, the Conservative Political Action Conference, to “replace” democracy.”

From CNN

“Republican former congressman Charlie Dent shares his thoughts on the Conservative Political Action Conference in Dallas, where former President Donald Trump won the conference’s informal straw poll to be the Republican nominee in 2024.”

From CNN

“Clips on social media show activist Jack Posobiec talking about the “end of democracy” at the Conservative Political Action Conference and saying, “We are here to overthrow it completely.”

Posobiec was speaking at the CPAC event, which was a panel session hosted by former White House strategist Steve Bannon.

Newsweek has approached CPAC for comment via an email outside of normal working hours. A direct contact for Posobiec could not be found, but an out of normal hours approach was made to the online publication Human Events via Instagram and an online form.

“Welcome to the end of democracy,” Posobiec said, also referring to the Capitol riots. “We are here to overthrow it completely. We didn’t get all the way there on January 6, but we will endeavor to get rid of it and replace it with this right here.”

Posobiec then held up his fist, and added: “All glory is not to government. All glory to God.” Some people in the crowd responded with applause.

On the social media site X, formerly Twitter, Posobiec responded to comments reacting to what he said, with some speculating he was being sarcastic.

Newsweek has approached CPAC for comment via an email outside of normal working hours. A direct contact for Posobiec could not be found, but an out of normal hours approach was made to the online publication Human Events via Instagram and an online form.

“Welcome to the end of democracy,” Posobiec said, also referring to the Capitol riots. “We are here to overthrow it completely. We didn’t get all the way there on January 6, but we will endeavor to get rid of it and replace it with this right here.”

Posobiec then held up his fist, and added: “All glory is not to government. All glory to God.” Some people in the crowd responded with applause.

On the social media site X, formerly Twitter, Posobiec responded to comments reacting to what he said, with some speculating he was being sarcastic.

Posobiec posted a clip of him saying, “no, that’s a right-wing conspiracy theory” to a post that said: “They are telling us exactly what they will do. Believe them. Vote against them.”

From Newsweek

Former U.S. Representative Charlie Dent (Republican, Pennsylvania) talking to Brianna Keilar and John Berman on CNN:

“CPAC has always been an odd gathering. But now it’s been taken over by radicals, anti-vaxers. It’s a land of misfits, toys, it’s a political freaks show. It’s the Star Wars bar, it’s bizarre… Serious people are not showing up to this thing. They had their stupid straw poll, its rank choice now. They’re not serious and one doesn’t know if they should laugh or they should cry about what they’re watching and witnessing at these CPAC gatherings.”

I’m well aware that CPAC stands for: “Conservative Political Action Conference”, but come on, is this really a conservative event anymore?

If you look at the American political spectrum as far as where Americans are politically as far as which party that they’re registered with: Democrats are at around 30%, Republicans are at around 30% and then you have that 40% that aren’t either and in many cases are registered Independents.

There’s always been a hardcore, far-right in America, as well as far-left, that doesn’t register with either party, for the simple reason that they don’t believe either party is radical enough for them.

The so-called Republican Party today, has what’s left of the center-right in that party, the Adam Kinzinger’s, the Liz Cheney’s, the S.E Cupp’s, the Charlie Dent’s, the Nikki Haley’s. But their far-right is the party now primarily, because those far-right Independents and former far-right 3rd party people, who again always believed that that the Republican party was too establishment, too mainstream for them, are now also members of the Republican Party. Or as I like to call the Republican Party today: Republicans in Name Only. Why? Because they don’t even believe in the concept of the republic, let alone Republicanism.

You think Jack Posobiec is a far-right radical? Well, he is, but not in the modern Republican Party, that’s more willing to believe Russian political and intelligence operates, than own country’s intelligence community. And that’s not just today. That was back in the Trump Administration as well.

Russia didn’t interfere into the 2016 presidential election, because Vladimir Putin said so. (According to these far-right RINOS) Even though the entire American intelligence community said that of course Russia interfered into the 2016 elections. Including people that President Donald Trump appointed, like Mike Pompeo, Chris Wray, Nikki Haley, Marx Esper, Jeff Sessions, Bill Barr, and many others. But Russia said no, so that’s who these RINOS believe.

CPAC today is really just: Crazy People At a Convention. And I mean that in a political sense. Before these escaped political mental patients accuse me of slander or defamation. As Charlie Dent said, this is not a serious group. Or as I would like to put it, they’re the American political version of a Star Trek Convention, except that these folks aren’t loyal to Star Trek. They’re loyal to Donald J. Trump.

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Michael Popok: ‘PANICKED Donald Trump Tries to FLEE Court Ruling’

Posted on February 22, 2024 by kireschneider

Meidas Touch: PANICKED Donald Trump Tries to FLEE Court RulingSource:Meidas Touch– left to right: New York Attorney General Letitia James & Defendant Don.

Source:The New Democrat

“Trump’s lawyers want to convince the voting public that Judge Engoron was wrong in his decision that Trump committed 6 more counts of fraud, and should be banned from NY business as well as cough up almost $500 million plus interest. Michael Popok of Legal AF is joined by an expert on NY judgment procedures, who explains how it is more likely that the Judge and his law clerk (whom Trump despises) will draft the actual written judgment which will be used to go after his assets.”

From the Meidas Touch

“The judge in former President Donald Trump’s civil fraud case has rejected a request from the defense to delay the enforcement of the penalties in the case.

The defendants had asked Judge Arthur Engoron to delay the enforcement of the penalties by 30 days to allow for an “orderly post-judgment process.”

“You have failed to explain, much less justify, any basis for a stay,” Engoron wrote in an email posted Thursday to the court docket. “I am confident that the Appellate Division will protect your appellate rights.

Trump last week was ordered to pay a $354.8 million fine plus interest and was barred from leading any New York company for three years. His sons Donald Trump Jr. and Eric Trump were also fined $4 million apiece and barred for two years.

The defense’s request for a delay in the penalties stemmed from a dispute about the case’s judgment order, the court document that, at the end of a trial, starts the clock for the penalties in a case. Lawyers for New York Attorney General Letitia James submitted a draft judgment on Tuesday, prompting criticism from Trump’s defense lawyer Clifford Robert.

“To deprive Defendants of the opportunity to submit a proposed counter-judgment would be contrary to fundamental fairness and due process,” Robert wrote in a letter to the court Wednesday morning.

Later that morning, Engoron requested that Robert submit a written response articulating what would make the defense’s judgment different from the proposed order. Robert replied Wednesday afternoon by arguing that the attorney general’s judgment broke with standard practice and included at least two errors.

“The Attorney General has not filed any motion on notice, nor moved to settle the proposed Judgment,” Robert said in the filing. “Her unseemly rush to memorialize a ‘judgment’ violates all accepted practice in New York state court.”

Citing the “magnitude” of the penalties in the case, Robert requested a stay of penalties by 30 days if Engoron opts to sign the attorney general’s proposed judgment.

“Given that the court-appointed monitor continues to be in place, there is no prejudice to the Attorney General in briefly staying enforcement to allow for an orderly post-judgment process, particularly given the magnitude of Judgment,” Robert wrote.

In a short letter to Engoron Thursday, state attorney Andrew Amer opposed the request, arguing that Robert failed to justify why an additional delay of 30 days would be necessary and writing that Engoron’s decision in the case left “no room for further debate” about the judgment.

“Nor do Defendants provide any basis for staying enforcement of the judgment; indeed, they requested such relief in their post-trial brief, which the Court declined to grant,” Amer wrote.

Amer also objected to a change proposed by Robert to move the address of six of Trump’s businesses — which are defendants in the case — from New York to Florida.”

From ABC News

With all due respect to Michael Popok here and perhaps he did this video before Judge Arthur Engoron’s ruling denying Donald Trump’s lawyer Cliff Robert motion to delay the penalties against his client: it’s the ABC News story that counts here.

The Trump lawyers are simply trying to buy time here. Popok is right about that. But any competent, responsible, professional judge in the country, whose not just on the bench because they want to play golf in the afternoon, poker at the country club, get loaded at the local bar, check out the shows at the strip club, (you know, whatever their afternoon hobbies are) who also isn’t blind and illiterate, is going to see exactly what Cliff Robert and company are trying to do here.

Donald Trump doesn’t have the money to even cover the premium for his appeal. The so-called billionaire, has at last count, under 500 thousand-dollars in his Go Fund Me account and they only have 25 days to come up with the rest of the 500 or so million dollars. And the Judge Engoron has already denied Cliff Robert’s motion here.

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The Daily Show: Desi Lydic: ‘Fox News Reacts to FBI Informant Arrest & Donald Trump Fishes For a VP’

Posted on February 22, 2024 by FredSchneiderUS

The Daily Show: Fox News Reacts to FBI Informant Arrest & Trump Fishes For a VP _ The Daily ShowSource:The Daily Show anchor Desi Lydic talking about Fox News MAGA propagandist Jesse Walters. Perhaps you can tell for yourself who is who.

Source:The New Democrat

“Desi Lydic dives into Trump’s Laura Ingraham Town Hall, and how Biden’s impeachment case is falling apart after informant Alexander Smirnov was revealed to be lying to the FBI. Plus, Jordan Klepper weighs in with some political analysis on Biden’s ability to be both a doddering old man and a criminal mastermind simultaneously.”

From The Daily Show

To look at the MAGA House investigation of President Biden and his son Hunter, I think the best way I can do that is through a hypothetical:

Imagine if there was a crooked DA, who only has his law license, because he was the hottest man in law school, who banged every women there (especially the female law professors) over and over, getting incredible reviews about his performances in bed. Whose father is an alum at that university and law school, who also happens to be a billionaire, who can personally finance that law school all by himself, or put it out of business.

Now, this hotshot, (pun intended) cooked lawyer, is now a municipal prosecutor, who hates the current Mayor of this town, because he put his father in prison for embezzlement. And now sees it as is number one priority to put the Mayor in prison, as retribution for what the Mayor did to his father when he was the DA.

To get into the crooked DA’s case against the Mayor: the only witness that this DA has, is a pathological liar, whose done time in prison for perjury. Who also happens to be a major political operative in the Mayor’s main opponent in the upcoming Mayor’s race for this city. That’s what House Judiciary Republicans were relying on here. A known liar, a known Russian government operative, who hates Joe Biden, as their key witness to take down the President of the United States.

So all this comes out and the chief media opponent of the Mayor’s goes on his local TV show, who previously was relying on known perjurers to make their case against the Mayor, not even bothering to try to offer even any additional witnesses against the Mayor, let alone any documents that backs up this professional liar’s claims against the Mayor. So what does this TV host do? Of course he doesn’t apologize, even to himself. He just makes up from the top of his head, new garbage claiming that the Mayor is simply locking up his political opponents, to stay in power. That’s Fox News host Jesse Walters.

As far as Senator Tim Scott: I guess when your future, your credibility, your integrity, is worth as much to you, as week’s old bread found by the local homeless person, in a dumpster, you have the freedom to make a complete asshole out of yourself and treat Donald J. Trump as God, or at least the son of God. Because he and his followers are all you care about anyway.

DJT was actually caught being honest (which happens as often Iceland gets heatwaves) in this Laure Ingraham, Fox News townhall when he was talking about Tim Scott: “He’s been much better for me than he has for himself.” DJT perfectly summed up Tim Scott right there.

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CSPAN: Representative Jim Jordan: On Indictment of Ex-FBI Informant: ‘Doesn’t Change The Fundamental Facts’

Posted on February 21, 2024 by kireschneider

CSPAN_ Representative Jim Jordan_ On Indictment of Ex-FBI Informant_ 'Doesn't Change The Fundamental Facts'Source:CSPAN– U.S. Representative Jim Jordan (Republican, Ohio) Chairman of the Judiciary Committee (118th Congress)

Source:The New Democrat

“House Judiciary Chair Jim Jordan (R-OH) says that the indictment of ex-FBI informant Alexander Smirnov “doesn’t change the fundamental facts” about the Bidens. Mr. Smirnov is charged with lying about the Bidens’ business dealings, and the former informant has said that he received his information from Russian intelligence officials.”

From CSPAN

At risk of getting really personal and even sounding insulting: doesn’t Representative Jim Jordan look and sound like the guy who was forced to do other guys homework in high school? As well as give them his lunch money? And yet, he’s Chairman of the House Judiciary Committee, one of the most powerful members of the entire U.S. Congress. Along with the Chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee, Chairman of the Ways and Means Committee, Finance Committee, Appropriations Committees, Oversight Committees, and that’s before you even get into the party leaderships in the House and Senate.

Jim Jordan doesn’t even have a law degree, but that’s the state of the MAGA movement in the Republican Party. They’re basically relying on very inexperienced and unaccomplished people, do to their political dirty work, which is to try to hurt as many Democrats as they possibly can. Speaker Mike Johnson, was basically a House backbencher, before he became Speaker of the House. And his lack of experience and accomplishments in the House, really shows in his speakership right now.

Having said all that; the fact that House Republicans main witness against Hunter Biden (who just happens to be President Joe Biden’s son) is currently under investigation for committing perjury by the U.S. Justice Department, as well as other felonies and that House Judiciary Republicans are relying on Russian Nationalist propagandists, who obviously hate Joe Biden for multiple reasons and want him to lose in November (one way or another) and that’s all they have against Hunter and company, just shows you how unqualified that these MAGA members are.

I mean Chairman Jordan can say that the indictment of their key informant Alexander Smirov: “Doesn’t change the fundamental facts.” all he wants. But I guess when you are not even a professional investigator, let alone a lawyer and your whole career in Congress up to this point, has been trying to dig up dirt on Democrats that you don’t like and leading government shutdowns, you wouldn’t just say that, but you might actually might be dumb enough to believe that as well.

Jim Jordan, Mike Johnson, and company, are qualified to be leading MAGA super pacs and MAGA political action committees and doing their own MAGA radios shows and podcasts. But that alone, doesn’t make you qualified to lead Congressional investigations and serve in government more broadly.

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Piers Morgan: Coleman Hughes: ‘I Don’t See Myself As Any Kind Of Race Traitor’

Posted on February 21, 2024 by FredSchneiderUS

Piers Morgan Uncensored: Piers Morgan vs Coleman Hughes - _I Don't See Myself As Any Kind Of Race Traitor_Source:Piers Morgan Uncensored talking to conservative writer Coleman Hughes.

Source:The New Democrat

“Piers Morgan Uncensored is joined by one of the world’s most incisive commentators, Coleman Hughes, to talk about the controversy his theories on race have created in the black community.

Accused of being radical and even racist, Coleman joins Piers Morgan to explain why he thinks the world should be ‘colour blind’ and more.”

From Piers Morgan Uncensored

“An exciting new voice makes the case for a colorblind approach to politics and culture, warning that the so-called ‘anti-racist’ movement is driving us—ironically—toward a new kind of racism.

As one of the few black students in his philosophy program at Columbia University years ago, Coleman Hughes wondered why his peers seemed more pessimistic about the state of American race relations than his own grandparents–who lived through segregation. The End of Race Politics is the culmination of his years-long search for an answer.

Contemplative yet audacious, The End of Race Politics is necessary reading for anyone who questions the race orthodoxies of our time. Hughes argues for a return to the ideals that inspired the American Civil Rights movement, showing how our departure from the colorblind ideal has ushered in a new era of fear, paranoia, and resentment marked by draconian interpersonal etiquette, failed corporate diversity and inclusion efforts, and poisonous race-based policies that hurt the very people they intend to help. Hughes exposes the harmful side effects of Kendi-DiAngelo style antiracism, from programs that distribute emergency aid on the basis of race to revisionist versions of American history that hide the truth from the public.

Through careful argument, Hughes dismantles harmful beliefs about race, proving that reverse racism will not atone for past wrongs and showing why race-based policies will lead only to the illusion of racial equity. By fixating on race, we lose sight of what it really means to be anti-racist. A racially just, colorblind society is possible. Hughes gives us the intellectual tools to make it happen.”

From Amazon

What I wrote about the Supreme Court ruling on affirmative action back in June, 2023:

“If the Equal Protection Clause, equality, equal justice, equal rights, if every American regardless of racial, ethnic, gender, has the same individual rights and responsibilities as everyone else, then affirmative action had to be thrown out, because it violates all of those great, American, liberal values, that most Americans believe in, but too many of take for granted.

I understand the importance of building a society where everyone can succeed. Not only do I understand that, but I actually believe in that as a Liberal. (Meaning real Liberal) But you don’t create that free society for everybody by denying people access in America, like with education, simply because too many members of their race or ethnicity, are already doing well in America.

What a lot of supporters of so-called affirmative action laws have never understood, is that affirmative action just doesn’t hurt European-Americans, especially European-American men, (which affirmative action supporters don’t seem to have a problem with) but it hurts Asian-Americans as well, it hurts Latino-Americans who are primarily of Spanish or other European descent, it hurts Middle Eastern-Americans, it hurts Jewish-Americans. Why? Because these folks are already doing well in America and aren’t from the right racial or ethnic background, according to supporters of affirmative action.”

From The New Democrat

I haven’t read Coleman Hughes book, yet, but based on this interview with Piers Morgan and what he’s saying here, I completely agree with him as a Liberal. (Meaning someone who believes in liberal democracy, not total equality at all costs)

We would literally have to be physically blind to ever have a totally, colorblind, or race blind, or ethnic blind country. I see race, ethnicity, and color, in every person I’ve ever seen, as well as when I look in the mirror. But as Coleman Hughes said, that’s not the point.

What people like myself and others believe when we’re talking about a non-racial and non-ethnic America, has to do with law and how we treat each others as human beings. Not to act like we don’t see European, African, American-Indian, Middle Eastern-American, or Asian-Americans. But that we instead look and treat each other as human beings, as individuals. Instead of treating each other as members of teams or groups.

The only team that each of us as American citizens should be cheering for and promoting when it comes to America, is America itself as one country. Not our particular race or ethnicity.

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Ben Meiselas: ‘Donald Trump’s Lawyer CLOWNS HERSELF Again During Interview’

Posted on February 20, 2024 by kireschneider

Meidas Touch: Donald Trump’s Lawyer CLOWNS HERSELF Again During InterviewSource:Meidas Touch looking at Defendant Don’s lawyer & perhaps Trump University graduate Alina Habba.

Source:The New Democrat

“MeidasTouch host Ben Meiselas reports on yet another embarrassing television appearance by Donald Trump’s lawyer Alina Habba.”

From the Meidas Touch

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

Alina Habba talking to Fox News anchor Martha McCallum yesterday:

“Look, it’s no coincidence they know by looking at his (meaning Donald Trump’s) statement of financial conditions that this guy (meaning Donald Trump) is worth a lot of money, billions and billions and billions of dollars. And that even doesn’t include his brand, Martha. But what they’re trying to do with this case and my case (both cases where Alina Habba lost a lot of Donald Trump’s money) is put him out of business. It’s not going to work, number 1…

Look and at risk of giving Alina Habba lesson on financial disclosure: if Donald J. Trump was a billionaire, we would already know that. This is an old story, but back in 2014, Donald Trump tried to buy he Buffalo Bills of the NFL. They obviously asked for his financial records to make it clear or not, that Mr. Trump could afford to buy the Bills. He didn’t show him his records. But what instead he did was give them an article from Forbes Magazine that claimed he was a billionaire. He’s also said in the past that his name alone, makes him worth a billion dollars.

In the MAGA world, it’s not about facts and evidence. It’s about political marketing. It’s about what they can sell their followers about themselves and their opponents and the mainstream media (whether it’s true or not) and if they need to try to prove their claims later on, they’ll claim fake news, or act as if they never claimed they said and did what they did, or simply move on to their next story.

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