Pornoskandal, Aktenaffre, Wahlbetrug: Donald Trump wurde in diesem Jahr gleich viermal angeklagt. Doch der Ex-Prsident nutzt den rger mit der Justiz als Wahlkampfhilfe in seinem Ringen ums Weie Haus.
Trump repeats 'poisoning the blood' anti-immigrant remark
"Jason Stanley, a Yale professor and author of a book on fascism, said Trump's repeated use of that language was dangerous. He said Trump's words echoed the rhetoric of Nazi leader Adolf Hitler, who warned against German blood being poisoned by Jews in his political treatise "Mein Kampf"."
Onko kohta jokapuolella putineita vallassa
"Donald Trump kanavoi roolimallejaan matkiessaan Adolf Hitleri, ylistessn Kim Jong-unia ja siteeratessaan Vladimir Putinia. Presidenttin hn on luvannut hallitsevansa diktaattorina ja olisi uhka Yhdysvaltain demokratialle"
Ovatko ihmiset Trumpin mielest loisia
"Trumpin puheet muistuttavat yh enemmn 1930-luvun Euroopassa demokratian kaataneiden diktaattoreiden puheita. Syplisvertaus on kuin kaiku suoraan Natsi-Saksasta."
Der Verteidigungsminister ist der beliebteste Politiker Deutschlands. Vielleicht liegt das daran, dass er so entschlossen klingt, whrend er uns die Welt schn redet.Trump puolusti itsen toistamalla Vladimir Putinin sanoja
Trump kehui puheessaan Pohjois-Korean johtajaa Kim Jong-unia ja Unkarin pministeri Viktor Orbnia. Bidenin kampanja vertasi Trumpia Hitleriin.
Pornoskandal, Aktenaffre, Wahlbetrug: Donald Trump wurde in diesem Jahr gleich viermal angeklagt. Doch der Ex-Prsident nutzt den rger mit der Justiz als Wahlkampfhilfe in seinem Ringen ums Weie Haus.Ymgyrch Trump: rhethreg ddadleuol a strategaethau newid chwaraeon
Trump's incendiary rhetoric raises controversy on campaign trail
SNL Cold Open Hits A Comedic Snowbank With Christmas Awards & No Giuliani From Kate McKinnon
Egwyddorion dadleuol Trump: Cysylltiadau rhethreg hanesyddol a'r effeithiau ar wleidyddiaeth Americanaidd
Trumps inflammatory rhetoric draws historical Nazi parallels
Perhaps Miller has something to do with it, but I'm quite sure most of it is coming from himself.
According to a 1990 interview, once told her lawyer that her husband... ... kept a book of 's speeches near his bed.
Honiadau Trump am dwyll etholiadol yn codi tawelwch yn y GOP
Geiriau llosgi Donald Trump yn codi cwestiynau am retorig gwleidyddol
DeSantis predicts Trump's 'stolen election' claims if defeated in primaries
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Donald TrumpTrump's incendiary rhetoric fuels concerns of extremist ideology resurgence
La carrera presidencial republicana se intensifica con tcticas y retrica controvertida
Fierce rhetoric heats up the road to 2024 US Presidential Election
THE BINDER THE TRUMP WHITE HOUSE LOST ..... OR WORSE
MSNBC
'Just devastating': U.S. searching for stack of intelligence on Russia missing under Trump: reports
This video, hosted by MSNBC's Alex Wagner, starts with a clip from the Rachel Maddow Show. Check out the September 25 date - long before the public knew a thing about this very large binder filled with thousands of pages of highly sensitive national security information.
Everyone should watch this video.
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Trump's Doral golf course to host LIV tournament amidst golf's evolving landscape
Melania Trump speaks at naturalization ceremony amid her husband's legal troubles
On the last full day of the Trump administration, a binder full of US raw intelligence about Russian interference in the 2016 presidential election mysteriously went missing and has yet to be located.
Good Morning!!
Two hundred and fifty years ago today, a bunch of protesters in Boston staged a demonstration in our countrys a long fight for democracy. From WCVB Boston: .
When history asked Boston in 1773 if we were willing to do what it takes to defend our liberties, we took tea leaves for ink and made the ocean our page, Boston Mayor Michelle Wu said.
Earlier Saturday, a series of other are planned:
- 4 p.m. to 5 p.m.: An outdoor screening at Faneuil Hall plaza of Faneuil Hall and the Boston Tea Party: A protest in principle. A retrospective on revolution. Free tickets to this event are sold out.
- 6 p.m. to 7 p.m.: Reenactors portraying citizens of colonial Boston will present news of the tea crisis at Downtown Crossing, Readers Plaza at Milk St. and Washington St.
- 6:15 p.m. to 7:30 p.m.: Reenactors will recreate a vigorous debate inside Old South Meeting House, which hosted several meetings about the tea crisis, including the final meeting before Samuel Adams gave the signal that started the Boston Tea Party. Tickets for this event are sold out.
- 7:30 p.m. to 8 p.m.: A fife and drum corps will lead a rolling rally from Old South Meeting House to the Harborwalk for the tea party reenactment.
From The Los Angeles Times Editorial Board:
In the 250 years since members of the Sons of Liberty boarded ships in Boston Harbor to dump their cargo of imported tea overboard on Dec. 16, 1773 the right to protest over inadequate representation has been a central liberty of Americans.
But the British government had a far more limited view of what constitutes actual representation than the Colonists did. Parliament asserted that it represented the people in Britains American colonies even if they had no role in electing it.
After the Sons of Liberty action, Americans began to feel differently. A mercantile protest against tax breaks and corporate welfare for a private but influential monopoly (the British East India Co.) became a blow against the entire panoply of legislation and taxation adopted to coerce loyalty to the crown and Parliament.
The principle of no taxation without representation became increasingly about the definition of representation.
In the ensuing two and a half centuries, the American republic has moved in fits and starts toward perfecting democratic representation. It has had a very long way to go. Enslaved Africans and their descendants, Native Americans on reservations and women were represented in government in name only until recently, without voting power, the same way British Parliament once claimed to represent people who had no ability to say yes or no to their supposed delegates. In a sense, American democracy did not actually come into being until 1965, when the Voting Rights Act finally guaranteed Black voters equal rights to elect their government officials.
The fight isnt over. Court rulings have permitted racial and partisan gerrymandering that undermine the Voting Rights Act and weaken the principle of one-person, one-vote itself a fairly recent principle in American democracy. Residents of the District of Columbia will tell you, accurately, that they are taxed without representation. In many states, people who have served time for felonies cannot regain their right to vote, at least not without re-enfranchisement procedures so cumbersome as to be practically impossible.
In observing the semiquincentennial of the Boston Tea Party, its important to recall that although it began as an anti-tax protest, it was ultimately about the true meaning of representative government. The people of Boston in 1773 were unwilling to support a government in which they had no say. The Tea Partys proper legacy is the continuing fight for fuller, more representative voting rights.
If youd like a longer read about the Boston Tea Party, the long struggle for democracy in the U.S. and the unique dangers to liberty we face today, check out this interesting piece in The New York Times by Jennifer Schluessler:
Yesterday was a very bad day for Rudy Giuliani. Eileen Sullivan at The New York Times:
A jury on Friday ordered Rudolph W. Giuliani to pay $148 million to two former Georgia election workers who said he had destroyed their reputations with lies that they tried to steal the 2020 election from Donald J. Trump.
The jury awarded Ms. Freeman and Ms. Moss a combined $75 million in punitive damages. It also ordered Mr. Giuliani to pay compensatory damages of $16.2 million to Ms. Freeman and $16.9 million to Ms. Moss, as well as $20 million to each of them for emotional suffering.
Mr. Giuliani, who helped lead Mr. Trumps effort to remain in office after his defeat in the 2020 election but has endured a string of legal and financial setbacks since then, was defiant after the proceeding.
I dont regret a damn thing, he said outside the courthouse, suggesting that he would appeal and that he stood by his assertions about the two women.
He said that the torrent of attacks and threats the women received from Trump supporters were abominable and deplorable, but that he was not responsible for them.
His lawyer, Joseph Sibley IV, had also argued that Mr. Giuliani, the former New York mayor and federal prosecutor, should not be held responsible for abuse directed to Ms. Freeman and Ms. Moss by others.
Mr. Sibley had warned that an award of the scale being sought by the women would be the civil equivalent of the death penalty for his client. Outside the courthouse on Friday, Mr. Giuliani called the amount absurd.
Break out the tiny violin. A bit more:
Over hours of emotional testimony during the civil trial in Washington, Ms. Freeman and Ms. Moss described how their lives had been completely upended after Dec. 3, 2020, when Mr. Giuliani first suggested that they had engaged in election fraud to tilt the result against Mr. Trump in Georgia, a critical swing state.
The women, who are Black and are mother and daughter, were soon flooded with expletive-laden phone calls and messages, threats, and racist attacks, they testified. People said they should be hanged for treason or lynched others told them they fantasized about hearing the sound of their necks snapping.
They showed up at Ms. Freemans home. They tried to execute a citizens arrest of Ms. Moss at her grandmothers house. They called Ms. Mosss 14-year-old sons cellphone so much that it interfered with his virtual classes, and he finished his first year of high school with failing grades.
This all started with one tweet, Ms. Freeman told the jury, referring to a social media post from Mr. Giuliani saying, WATCH: Video footage from Georgia shows suitcases filled with ballots pulled from under a table AFTER supervisors told poll workers to leave room and 4 people stayed behind to keep counting votes.
All lies, of course.
No one knows how much Rudy is worth these days, because he refused to provide information on his assets to the court. But its highly unlikely he has anything like the millions hes been ordered to pay. Of course, hes planning to appeal.
From CBS News:
Rudy Giuliani followed his time in public service with a lucrative career in the private sector that turned him into a multimillionaire. But the former New York mayor now faces legal in a defamation case filed by two Georgia election workers.
A jury of eight Washington, D.C., residents ruled Giuliani must pay $148 million to the election workers, Ruby Freeman and her daughter, Wandrea Shaye Moss. Their attorneys had asked the jurors to award . Giuliani was earlier found liable for several defamation claims against them.
The jury on Friday said the former mayor must pay $16.2 million to Freeman and $17 million to Freeman, as well as $20 million to each for emotional distress and an additional $75 million in punitive damages.
So how much is he worth today
Giulianis current net worth could be worth less than $50 million, based on his attorneys comment that the damages sought by Moss and Freeman would be the end of him.
About 15 years ago, Giulianis net worth was more than $50 million, with $15 million of that total from his business activities, including his work with lobbying firm Giuliani Partners, to CNN. At the time, he earned about $17 million a year, the news outlet reported.
How much has Giulianis net worth changed over the years
Giuliani faces considerable expenses, hurt by a third divorce and pricey lawsuits, and signs suggest they have taken a financial toll. To generate cash, hes sold 9/11 shirts for $911 and pitched sandals sold by Donald Trump ally Mike Lindell. He also started selling video messages on Cameo for $325 a pop, although his page on the site says Giuliani is no longer available.
Giuliani owes about $3 million in legal fees, to The New York Times. He earns about $400,00 a year from a radio show and also receives some income from a podcast, but its not enough to cover his debts, the newspaper reported. Earlier this year, Giulianis long-term attorney , alleging that the former mayor owes him almost $1.4 million in legal fees.
Meanwhile, Giuliani in July listed his Manhattan apartment for $6.5 million, and it was still available in mid-December, to Sothebys. The 3-bedroom, 3-bathroom co-op includes a library with a wood-burning fireplace and a butlers pantry.
Unfortunately, Trump is still in the news. Heres whats happening with the narcissistic wannabe dictator.
From The Wall Street Journal:
When Donald Trump sat down in the office of his Bedminster, N.J., golf club late this summer to flesh out his trade and border policy, familiar faces were across from him: Robert Lighthizer and Russell Vought, two of the architects of the former presidents populist first-term record.
aggressive and controversial second-term agenda
They are likely to take key administration roles should Trump win the election, according to the campaign, which has worked to counter speculation over Trumps inner circle and policy-formulation process.
Importantly for Trump, these figures have stuck by him following his loss to President Biden in 2020, unlike the many past cabinet officials and other top aides who now oppose him. Trumps first term was marked by dissension, with policy disagreements and personality clashes leading to heated Oval Office arguments and damaging leaks to reporters.
In contrast, aides say, the current group of Trump confidantes is on the same page. Whether such harmony could be preserved in an actual second Trump administrationwhich would include hundreds more aides and a full cabinetis less clear.
This is pretty much the same agenda that and have described recently.
Trumps policy development, like much of what he has brought to government, is unorthodoxa mix of his gut instincts and working style. He eschews traditional meetings and flowcharts, aides say, and instead draws on his experience in business and direct conversations with an extended network of contacts of longtime friends, CEOs and people he has met in politics. He often pits one viewpoint against another, a hallmark of his first tenure in office.
His policy agenda has excited core supporters while alarming Democrats and some Republicans.
Hes been pretty clear in saying he will use the levers of government to go after his political opponents, which is anathema to conservatives, said Marc Short, who served in the Trump administration and was a top adviser to former Vice President Mike Pences presidential campaign. Short said Trumps 2016 platform appealed to the party in part by focusing on appointing conservative judges and cutting taxes.
Other key people Trump and his team are in regular communication with over policy ideasand who could take important administration rolesinclude the following:
- Kevin Hassett, former chairman of the Council of Economic Advisers and a leading champion of Trumps 2017 tax-cut package
- Tom Homan, former acting director of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement, who advocated for Trumps hard-line policies
- Brandon Judd, president of the National Border Patrol Council, the union representing border agents
- Keith Kellogg, former national security adviser to Pence, who this summer threw his support behind Trump
- Matt Whitaker, former acting attorney general, who took over after Jeff Sessions was forced out of the job
Theres more at the link. I got in by clicking the link at
Another article about Trumps plans at Politico:
Among a small but influential group of young conservative activists and intellectuals, Tricky Dick is making a quiet but notable comeback. Long condemned by both Democrats and Republicans as the crook that he infamously swore not to be, Nixon is reemerging in some conservative circles as a paragon of populist power, a noble warrior who was unjustly consigned to the black list of American history.
Across the right-of-center media sphere, examples of Nixonmania abound. Online, popular conservative activists are studying the history of Nixons presidency as a blueprint for counter-revolution in the 21st century. In the pages of small conservative magazines, readers can meet the New Nixonians who are studying up on Nixons foreign policy prowess. On TikTok, users can scroll through meme-ified homages to Nixon. And in the weirdest (and most irony laden) corners of the internet, Nixon stans are even swooning over the former presidents swarthy good looks.
Ive always been pretty fascinated with him, said Curt Mills, a conservative journalist and self-professed Nixon fan. (Mills has contributed to POLITICO Magazine.) I think the Nixon story is really an American story. He really is this guy who is from nowhere, and hes just absolutely reviled but I do think he has this charisma thats sort of underrated.
The Nixon renaissance is being driven in part by young conservatives genuine interest in Nixon, whom Mills colorfully described as our Shakespearean president. But when pressed about their pro-Nixon views, even his most sincere supporters readily admit that the Nixon-mania isnt being driven solely or even primarily by academic interest in Nixon. Instead, the populist rights ongoing effort to rehabilitate Nixon, which is unfolding against the backdrop of the 2024 Republican primary, is really about another divisive former Republican president: Donald Trump.
In the topsy-turvy historical tableau of 2023, to defend Nixon is to back Trump and to rescue the former from historical ignominy is, according to the thinking of some young conservatives, to save the latter from the same fate.
If we can rehabilitate Richard Nixon in a balanced and fair manner or even if we can just create questions in the public discourse about Nixon and about Nixons presidency then I think, by way of analogy, it will provoke similar questions about Donald Trump, said the conservative activist Christopher Rufo, who published a lengthy defense of Nixon earlier this year for City Journal. It will give us the kind of template, it will give us the precedents, it will give us the skills, where we can more effectively defend a conservative president against these kinds of attacks.
Read the rest at Politico, if you can handle it.
Time Magazine has a piece about Texas abortion laws and Kate Cox, the woman who fled the state in order to get abortion care after learning she was carrying a non-viable fetus and faced the prospect of losing her ability to have children in the future:
So much of the national conversation this week has been about , the 31-year-old mom who had to Texas to have an abortion to end a doomed pregnancy as the states Supreme Court slowly decided to substitute its judgment for her doctors advice.
But whats been missing from most of the talk about this case is this reality: Texas has at least three separate on the designed to make getting an abortion nearly impossible. Those overlapping, vague statutes not only create one of the most restrictive environments in the country for reproductive rights, but shaped Coxs case in ways that many following her ordeal likely missed. It also shows how even minor details can matter, especially when judges have political bents and time is an urgent component.
To understand the lay of the land that Cox, her family, and her doctor were facing, we need to look at what Texas lawmakers put in place before Dobbs, the 2022 case that a half-century of protections enshrined in Roe v. Wade. A year earlier, Texas a so-called that would outlaw abortions should the Supreme Court overturn Roe. Well call this Ban A. It up a felony life sentence for health care providers who perform abortions and a $100,000 fine.
A second 2021 lets call it Ban Bwas a novel attempt at effectively banning most abortions in Texas without waiting for the Supreme Court to give permission, and it largely succeeded. That law runs along civil lines by deputizing neighbors and strangers to enforce it through lawsuits. Under Ban B (also known as S.B. 8), even an Uber driver who ferries a customer to a place where abortions are performed can be civilly charged. Critics have it a . Yet unlike Ban A, Ban B isnt a complete ban, though it functions as one in practice. It blocks most pregnant individuals from seeking an abortion after about six weeks, or when lawmakers decided there exists a beating fetal hearta term doctors do not use, a fetus at that point does not yet have a heart. (What abortion opponents describe as a heartbeat at that stage is actually the electrical impulses developing cells start to emit.)
Finally, there is Ban C, which are the pre-Roe in Texas, dating back to the states first criminal code of 1857. At that time, the state had a ban on abortionincluding the funding of itexcept in cases when the pregnant persons life was at risk. The penalty Five years in prison for those providing the care. Texas officials have asserted that those laws snapped back into effect when Roe fell.
All three abortion bans include that provides exceptions when the health of the pregnant person is in question, although the specific definitions and conditions are different and vague. (None, it also should be noted, holds the pregnant party criminally liable.)
This all created a legal and medical minefield for Kate Cox, the Dallas-area mother of two who has been about wanting, in her , a large family. When Cox and her family learned the fetus she was carrying had tested positive for a genetic condition that almost always results in a miscarriage or stillbirth, she took action. She had already been to the hospital four times in two weeks seeking emergency attention and worried what this troubled pregnancy would mean for her future potential her doctor agreed that an abortion would leave her with the greatest potential for a pregnancy at a future date.
Theres much more at the link.
Youve probably heard about the latest horror story in Israels war with Hamas. The IDF accidentally killed three Israeli hostages. From the Guardian:
Three in Gaza were bare chested and carrying a white flag when they were shot, according to an initial military investigation.
One of the men was carrying a stick with a white cloth tied to it and all had removed their shirts. Spotting the three, an Israeli soldier on a rooftop, however, opened fire on the men, shouting Terrorists!.
While two of the hostages fell to the ground immediately, the third fled into a nearby building. When a commander arrived on the scene, the unit was ordered into the building where it killed the third hostage despite his pleas for help in Hebrew.
It emerged too that the IDF had identified a nearby building marked with SOS and Help! Three hostages two days earlier but had believed it might be a trap.
As the first details of the killing were released by the IDF on Friday night, after most Israelis had begun to mark Shabbat, the Jewish day of rest, a hastily called demonstration converged on the Kirya, Israels sprawling military headquarters compound in Tel Aviv.
Chanting Shame, Theres no time and Deal now! the last a demand for a new ceasefire agreement with Hamas and a hostage exchange the protesters represent a growing thread of anger in Israel at the way in which the war is being prosecuted, as the situation of the remaining hostages in Gaza has taken a series of dark of turns in the past week.
Theres much more at the link.
Thats all I have for you today. I hope you all have a terrific weekend!
#BostonTeaPartyAnniversary #DonaldTrump #fightingForDemocracy #IDF #IsraeliHostages #KateCox #RichardNixon #RubyFreeman #RudyGiuliani #ShayeMoss
Prawf twyll Trump yn agosu at derfyniad pwysig ym Manhattan
Giuliani, ex-advogado de Trump, condenado a pagar US$ 148 milhes por difamao
Confira!
Der ehemalige New Yorker Brgermeister wird wegen Verleumdung zu Zahlungen in Hhe von mehr als 148 Millionen Dollar verurteilt seiner Meinung nach zu Unrecht.
I watched and discuss the Powell Chesebro apology letters to the people of Georgia. It's a legal take, but I think something quite obvious is missing and nobody is talking about. In the context of who is a --the "apologies" are clear signs of of and even Bard is obscuring it.
A binder given to the Trump White House contained details that intelligence agencies believe could reveal secret sources and methods.
Die ehemalige First Lady Melania Trump zeigt sich nach ihrer Zeit im Weien Haus nur ungern bei ffentlichen Veranstaltungen.Post On the US House of Representatives having voted to impeach President Biden
Post On Rudy Giuliani being ordered by a US federal court to pay $140m to two Georgian election workers for falsely accusing them of election fraud
Newsweek: Michael Cohen Refuses to Leave Trump Building
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Well this seems like the fucking pig was singing a whole different song entirely.
Take everything from the criminal.
Imagine all the gorgeous meals the crooked bastards ate 3 x a day, everday, for decades because of their lies
How will that money be recovered The assets that were eaten and shit out.
$250 millie is a low ball rate.
Right. This year Finland joined NATO, Sweden is right behind, and Poland now has a government that is more anti-totalitarian and pro-EU than the previous one.
Putin is betting on his corrupt pawn Trump returning to power. If that doesn't happen then Putin will fail regardless of Orbn's drama. Being anti-Trump is being pro-Ukraine there is no middle ground.
Maybe the great tRumpkin could pay his bills
Naaaaahhh... doesn't do that.
A U.S. jury has ordered Rudy Giuliani to pay more than $148 million in damages to two former Georgia election workers he defamed through false accusations that they helped rig the 2020 election against Donald Trump.