Donald Trump

[gordondaviesmoustache]

I am really worried about ukraine if the orange **** gets elected, wasnt it zelenski he asked to do a stitch up on hunter biden but he said no ? Trump will cut off any support for them given his love for putin

Europe will need to accept lower living standards and step up.

 

[gordondaviesmoustache]

The ability to negotiate is one of the first life skills to go in old age. It’s all about reading the room, and that skill goes relatively quickly. Have seen it in my old man, lamentably.

Trump thinks he’s a good negotiator because he once was. At 78.

Ridiculous assumption.

 

[SebastianBlue]

The ability to negotiate is one of the first life skills to go in old age. It’s all about reading the room, and that skill goes relatively quickly. Have seen it in my old man, lamentably.

Trump thinks he’s a good negotiator because he once was. At 78.

Ridiculous assumption.

Narrator: Trump was never a good negotiator.

 

[Trevor Morley's Tache]

Narrator: Trump was never a good negotiator.

Very good at manipulation and bribery though, which is ironic because he's also very easy manipulated and bribed.

 

[SebastianBlue]

Very good at manipulation and bribery though, which is ironic because he's also very easy manipulated and bribed.

I am not sure he has ever been good at those things, either.

He has certainly had people—mostly fixers, attorneys, and contacts within organised crime—that were quite good at manipulation, intimidation, extortion, bribery, and blackmail. But he has very rarely ever been the one do any of it.

And he got setup with those people initially through his father, and then later through a series of connections and associations from that early arrangement. It was a chain of associates that intimidated, extorted, strong armed, bribed, and blackmailed the associates (and business partners) that came before.

His three true gifts are: self-promotion, grifting, and having absolutely no scruples.

He has always been good at those things. And that has helped him get out of quite a few massive holes he dug for himself over the course of his life, at various moments of near ruin. Mostly his personal brand and his willingness to do whatever is necessary (and I do mean literally whatever) has allowed him to stay afloat all this time, even as he squandered millions—perhaps billions—pumped in to his businesses.

Mary Trump has talked and written at length about those attributes allowing him to get where he is today, and how many people in the family saw (and see) him as a person that just kept failing up, with no discernible talent apart from being a sociopath that was exceedingly good at creating and maintaining the false persona, at any cost, we all know so well now.

That is ultimately why he is so easily manipulated and bribed: he is actually incredibly predictable. All you have to do is appeal to his personal brand—or threaten it—and you have power over him. You can very reliable forecast how he will respond to basically any provocation or suggestion.

He is the ultimate puppet: dumb but insatiably ambitious.

And now he is more desperate than he has every been before.

 

[SebastianBlue]

Smith and the independent prosecution must think it is vital for the public interest, particularly given Trump is up for election to the highest office in the nation, that much of what they discovered in the investigation be made available for everyone to see for themselves prior to election day.

Special counsel pushing for public release of key filing in Trump's Jan. 6 case
Jack Smith wants to file a public version of the sealed brief he filed Thursday.

A day after filing a sealed brief seeking to justify his superseding indictment against Donald Trump, special counsel Jack Smith is pushing to file a public version of the brief that includes "substantive" summaries of what investigators learned from witnesses in the former president's federal election interference case.

In his lengthy brief filed under seal on Thursday, Smith presented his case for how the Supreme Court's ruling on presidential immunity does not apply to Trump's criminal case, in which the former president is accused of seeking to overturn the results of the 2020 election.

In their filing Friday, prosecutors argued that releasing a version of the brief that removes the names of witnesses other than Vice President Mike Pence -- and also redacts nonpublic information sources -- would respect the court's orders and serve the public's interest in the case.

Special counsel pushing for public release of key filing in Trump's Jan. 6 case

Special counsel Jack Smith is pushing to file a public version of his recent court brief that summaries what witnesses told investigators in Donald Trump's Jan. 6 case.

abcnews.go.com

 

[Trevor Morley's Tache]

Smith and the independent prosecution must think it is vital for the public interest, particularly given Trump is up for election to the highest office in the nation, that much of what they discovered in the investigation be made available for everyone to see for themselves prior to election day.

Special counsel pushing for public release of key filing in Trump's Jan. 6 case
Jack Smith wants to file a public version of the sealed brief he filed Thursday.

A day after filing a sealed brief seeking to justify his superseding indictment against Donald Trump, special counsel Jack Smith is pushing to file a public version of the brief that includes "substantive" summaries of what investigators learned from witnesses in the former president's federal election interference case.

In his lengthy brief filed under seal on Thursday, Smith presented his case for how the Supreme Court's ruling on presidential immunity does not apply to Trump's criminal case, in which the former president is accused of seeking to overturn the results of the 2020 election.

In their filing Friday, prosecutors argued that releasing a version of the brief that removes the names of witnesses other than Vice President Mike Pence -- and also redacts nonpublic information sources -- would respect the court's orders and serve the public's interest in the case.

Special counsel pushing for public release of key filing in Trump's Jan. 6 case

Special counsel Jack Smith is pushing to file a public version of his recent court brief that summaries what witnesses told investigators in Donald Trump's Jan. 6 case.

abcnews.go.com

I'm willing to bet that Trump's lackeys at the Supreme Court will try to ensure this never see the light of day.

 

[SebastianBlue]

I'm willing to bet that Trump's lackeys at the Supreme Court will try to ensure this never see the light of day.

I am also fairly sure they will attempt to suppress it.

 

[Trevor Morley's Tache]

I am also fairly sure they will attempt to suppress it.

Well, at least Barr isn't AG these days. Having said that, Garland might go out of his way to appear non-partisan this close to any election, which is something a Trump appointment AG wouldn't give a fuck about.

 

[KS55]

I'm willing to bet that Trump's lackeys at the Supreme Court will try to ensure this never see the light of day.

That would conflict with SCOTUS’ own ruling that the immunity issue must be tried at trial court. If they agreed to hear a case, what possible ruling could they make that doesn’t junk their own previous ruling requiring a trial within a trial? I don’t think they will accept such an appeal but will rule that any appeal must be on the merits of the finding in a full trial, ie immunity plus substantive issue. Even then, the number of cases would overwhelm SCOTUS.