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Post by aj2hall on Apr 2, 2024 0:53:19 GMT
most unethical AmericanBrian Tyler Cohen @briantylercohen
Does she not know anyone else?
in reply to
Alina Habba on Donald Trump: “He is the most ethical American I know.
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Post by aj2hall on Apr 2, 2024 0:55:04 GMT
classmateJo @jojofromjerz
Well played @potus
in reply to
Roker: In 1878, the Easter Egg Roll started with Rutherford B Hayes...
President Biden: He was a classmate of mine!
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Post by aj2hall on Apr 2, 2024 22:37:24 GMT
I think Jan 6 was worse but Trump's recent comments about suspending the Constitution, being a dictator for one day etc. are alarming, too. He is most definitely unfit for any office. Trump's former advisors refusing to support him should be a huge red flag for anyone thinking about voting for him. But, I think MAGA just dismisses the long list as establishment Republicans and don't care that they are speaking out against Trump. If Republicans speaking out against Trump can't get through to Trump supporters, I don't think anyone can. John BoltonFormer Trump national security adviser John Bolton on Trump:
“Even worse, in my view, than Jan. 6 was at one point in the past year. He said the Constitution should be suspended...That is so far out of bounds that I think almost alone that statement is disqualifying.” |
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Post by aj2hall on Apr 2, 2024 22:55:52 GMT
nothing subtle. @ronbrownstein: People will hear Trump's violent rhetoric the same way they did leading up to January 6. There is nothing subtle about the way Trump has encouraged violence as part of his political strategy. It's striking how few Republicans are willing to speak up against this
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Post by aj2hall on Apr 2, 2024 22:59:40 GMT
Stephen Miller linesYou can always tell the lines that Stephen Miller writes.
reply to
Trump vows to stop the "plunder, rape, slaughter, and destruction of our American suburbs, cities, and towns"
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Post by aj2hall on Apr 2, 2024 23:03:48 GMT
Trump is a danger and threat to democracy. He shows us every time he speaks, he's not even subtle about it. autocratic playbookRemember: Trump is trying to keep people in a state of existential dread so they can be emotionally manipulated and do whatever he asks, à la Jan 6. Right out of the autocratic playbook.
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Trump: If we don’t win on November 5th, I think our country is going to cease to exist. It could be the last election we ever have. I actually mean that. If we don’t win, I think this could be the last election we ever have |
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Post by aj2hall on Apr 3, 2024 0:30:37 GMT
Trump is using the word bloodbath to describe more than the auto industry. He's now talking about a border bloodbath and his campaign created a Biden bloodbath website. Trump's language when he refers to migrants is dehumanizing and violent. www.nytimes.com/live/2024/04/02/us/biden-trump-election-primaryFormer President Donald J. Trump again cast President Biden’s immigration record in violent and ominous terms on Tuesday, accusing him in two speeches in battleground states of creating a “border blood bath” and once more using dehumanizing language to describe some migrants entering the country illegally.
In a speech in Grand Rapids, Mich., Mr. Trump, flanked by law enforcement officers, reiterated his baseless claim that other countries were sending “prisoners, murderers, drug dealers, mental patients and terrorists, the worst they have” to the United States. Immigration officials have said that most of the people crossing the border are members of vulnerable families escaping poverty and violence.
Mr. Trump also used his speech, which lasted roughly 45 minutes, to defend his use of dehumanizing language to refer to immigrants accused of crimes. After referring to the man who the authorities say killed a 22-year-old nursing student in Georgia in February, Mr. Trump said: “Democrats said please don’t call them ‘animals.’ I said, no, they’re not humans, they’re animals.”
Mr. Trump drew attention last month when, while discussing the U.S. auto industry, he predicted a “blood bath for the country” should he lose in November. After critics accused him of stoking violence, Mr. Trump and his allies pointed back to Mr. Biden, insisting he was responsible for a “blood bath” because of his immigration policies.
The former president has repeatedly criticized Mr. Biden, accusing him of maintaining lax border security that he blames for violent crime, though available data does not support the idea that migrants are contributing to increases in crime.
Mr. Trump’s campaign appears to be trying to turn “blood bath” into a catchphrase, essentially trolling his critics and shifting the focus to Mr. Biden. On Tuesday, the Republican National Committee, which the Trump campaign now effectively controls, introduced a website, BidenBloodbath.com, that mirrors Mr. Trump’s argument that Mr. Biden is responsible for an “invasion” at the United States’ border with Mexico. The site highlights a number of violent crimes in which undocumented immigrants have been accused.
But his remarks in Michigan and at a rally later in Green Bay, Wis., also demonstrated how the former president has tried to stoke fears around immigration and border security in the 2024 election, a tactic he used effectively in 2016. Republicans have been eager to keep the issue at the top of voters’ minds in a bid to chip away at Mr. Biden’s support.
“This is country-changing, it’s country-threatening, and it’s country-wrecking,” Mr. Trump said in Michigan of migrants crossing the southern border. “They have wrecked our country.”
Democrats have pushed back against that framing. Ahead of Mr. Trump’s visit, the Democratic National Committee put up billboards near Grand Rapids referring to a bipartisan border bill that fell apart in the Senate after Mr. Trump pressed Republicans to block it. The billboards claimed that “Donald Trump broke the border” and that the former president wanted only “chaos, not solutions.”
Mr. Trump’s speeches in both states were his first campaign events after a weekslong break from the trail, during which he raised money, contended with legal issues and blasted his political and legal opponents on social media.
Mr. Trump has seized on high-profile crimes involving immigrants to try to make inroads in key battleground states, including Michigan and Wisconsin, connecting the influx of migrants at the southern border to states hundreds of miles away.
On Tuesday, he said that “once peaceful suburban Michigan” was coming “under an invasion” and spoke of the recent killing of Ruby Garcia, who was found dead on the side of a highway in Grand Rapids last month. The authorities have said that Ms. Garcia was dating the man accused of killing her, who entered the country illegally as a child and was deported to Mexico in 2020.
Michigan Democrats blasted Mr. Trump’s references to Ms. Garcia in remarks before his appearance. Senator Debbie Stabenow, Democrat of Michigan, said Mr. Trump was “exploiting” Ms. Garcia’s death and called his response “shameful.” And while Mr. Trump said in Michigan that he had spoken with some of Ms. Garcia’s family, her sister told a local television station that Mr. Trump “did not speak with us.”
Ahead of Mr. Trump’s speech in Michigan, his campaign handed out packets to reporters that highlighted other people who the campaign said had been affected by crimes involving undocumented immigrants. They included Laken Riley, the Georgia nursing student whose death has become a flashpoint among Republicans. The authorities say Ms. Riley was killed by a Venezuelan migrant who had entered the country illegally.
Pete Hoekstra, the chair of the Michigan Republican Party, said that “it’s clear immigration and the economy are going to dominate the debate here in Michigan.” He added that he believed voters in the state “look at what’s happening on the border, and it’s hard for them to believe exactly what they’re seeing, that there’s no rule of law.”
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Post by morecowbell on Apr 3, 2024 0:49:53 GMT
When you hear only one side of anything it sounds convincing. The beauty of conversation is a back and forth that lets the truth/best ideas rise to the top. Not by sheer overwhelming aggression and piles ons, but a genuine back and forth, devoid of personal attacks. All of us are better off if we're around different perspectives. The only way we're going to get to the truth of an issue is by understanding ALL sides of an argument. And ALL of the facts. Ok, good point. So what are your thoughts on this? Lindy Li…. “Where is Garland as Trump delays all his trials? I'm not sure of the point being made here. Is Trump delaying them within the confines of the law? Is Garland supposed to stop him? When did Trump threaten biden’s life? What EXACTLY did he say? What EXACTLY did he say? Link? Sounds like nothing more than hyperbole. If it's not, then please clarify what specifically you're talking about. I'm not sure of what specifically you're speaking of here on several of your questions. Although, much of it sounds like it could be a bunch of hyperbole. You obviously know the specifics of what you're referring to. I do not. Clarification is being asked of you before I can respond to your questions. |
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Post by morecowbell on Apr 3, 2024 1:00:27 GMT
Project 2025's vision is really alarming and something we should all be worried about Biden's censorship and silencing of dissent is really alarming and something we should all be worried about. But Joy and her Trump hairdo was silent about that, now wasn't she. |
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Post by Merge on Apr 3, 2024 1:15:18 GMT
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Post by aj2hall on Apr 3, 2024 1:41:25 GMT
The connection between Trump's assaults on the Justice Department, FBI, judges, prosecutors etc and surges in threats against the same individuals is not a coincidence. www.reuters.com/investigates/special-report/usa-election-judges-threats/As the frontrunner for the 2024 Republican presidential nomination – and a defendant in four criminal cases alleging 91 felonies – Trump has fused the roles of candidate and defendant. He attacks judges as political foes, demonizes prosecutors and casts the judicial system as biased against him and his supporters.
These broadsides frequently trigger surges in threats against the judges, prosecutors and other court officials he targets, Reuters found. Since Trump launched his first presidential campaign in June 2015, the average number of threats and hostile communications directed at judges, federal prosecutors, judicial staff and court buildings has more than tripled, according to the Reuters review of data from the Marshals Service, which is responsible for protecting federal court personnel.
Since late 2020, Trump has ramped up his criticism of the judiciary dramatically, first amid his dozens of failed lawsuits seeking to overturn his election loss and, more recently, amid a cascade of criminal and civil litigation. In that time, serious threats against federal judges alone have more than doubled, from 220 in 2020 to 457 in 2023, as Reuters reported on Feb. 13.
“Donald Trump set the stage,” retired Ohio Supreme Court Chief Justice Maureen O’Connor, a Republican who stepped down at the end of 2022, said in an interview. Trump “gave permission by his actions and words for others to come forward and talk about judges in terms not just criticizing their decisions, but disparaging them and the entire judiciary.”
Trump and his spokespeople did not respond to requests for comment. He has appeared defiant in public comments on the judiciary, saying in January that if the criminal cases against him hurt his election prospects, “it’ll be bedlam in the country.”
Many of the threats against judges examined by Reuters echo Trump’s statements in social media posts and speeches, where he has attacked judges as “totally biased,” “crooked,” “partisan” and “hostile,” dismissed courts as “rigged” and called prosecutors “corrupt.” Threatening messages on pro-Trump online forums often repeat those terms or cast the former president as a heroic figure besieged by corrupt judges in secret “Democrat” plots.
“Hanging judges for treason is soon to be on the menu boys!” said one anonymous January post on the pro-Trump forum Patriots.Win. The post referred to federal judge Lewis Kaplan, who presided over writer E. Jean Carroll’s successful defamation suit against Trump in New York.
Judges at every level of the U.S. legal system have voiced alarm, saying the rising tide of threats jeopardizes the judicial independence that underpins America’s democratic constitutional order. Judges not only rule on criminal and civil cases, but also act as a check on the power of the U.S. president, Congress and state governments.
“We can’t have a situation where judges are in fear that a ruling, an unpopular ruling, can lead to reprisals,” U.S. Court of Appeals Judge Richard Sullivan, who chairs a federal judiciary committee that oversees security for court personnel, said in an interview.
In a Feb. 26 court filing, Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg blamed Trump’s “inflammatory remarks” for a series of death threats he received while prosecuting a case alleging Trump paid hush money to cover up an affair with a porn star. One letter contained white powder and a note: “Alvin: I am going to kill you.” Another warned he would “get assassinated” if he didn’t “leave Trump alone.” Citing a surge in threats to 89 in 2023 from one the year before, Bragg sought a judge’s order to limit Trump’s public statements.
Another frequent Trump target is New York Justice Arthur Engoron, who ordered the ex-president this month to pay $454 million in penalties for fraudulently overstating his net worth to dupe lenders to his real-estate business. A security officer in Engoron’s court testified in a November filing that the judge and his staff had received “hundreds of threats, disparaging and harassing comments and antisemitic messages” linked to the case. “Trust me when I say this. I will come for you,” one message promised. “Trump owns you,” another warned. No one has been arrested.
Tanya Chutkan, a federal judge in Washington assigned to Special Counsel Jack Smith’s criminal election-subversion case against Trump, also has been targeted. On Trump’s social media platform, Truth Social, the ex-president has called her a “biased, Trump-hating judge” incapable of giving him a fair trial.
On Aug. 4, the day after Trump was formally charged in the case, Trump posted on Truth Social: “If you go after me, I’m coming after you!” The next day, Chutkan, who is Black, received an alarming voicemail. “You stupid slave n—” a woman’s voice said, using a racist slur, according to an affidavit filed by prosecutors in court. “If Trump doesn’t get elected in 2024, we are coming to kill you. So tread lightly, bitch.”
In Colorado, after the state’s seven supreme court justices ruled in December to disqualify Trump from the state’s 2024 presidential ballot, the ex-president blasted the court in speeches and social media posts. The judges faced multiple incidents of threats and harassment, including four “swatting” attempts, or hoax calls intended to draw police to their homes, said the Denver Police Department. The department tightened security for the justices. No one has been arrested, a police spokesperson said.
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Post by aj2hall on Apr 3, 2024 1:52:27 GMT
www.nbcnews.com/politics/donald-trump/trump-trials-attacks-judges-rcna131916Former President Donald Trump’s unprecedented attacks on the judicial system are frequently tied to developments in his court cases, an NBC News analysis of his social media platform shows, and at times they've outnumbered his posts about his re-election bid.
The attacks on the court system have come as Trump finds himself in dire legal jeopardy. He is facing up to four criminal trials, a multimillion-dollar defamation case and a civil verdict all in the next 12 months. The results of those trials could potentially devastate his business, maim his re-election hopes and cost him his freedom. He's denied any wrongdoing and has criticized the prosecutors, plaintiffs and almost all of the judges involved, and his attacks have often led to threats and vitriol from his supporters.
“These vicious attacks on the judiciary and the federal court and even on individual judges are unprecedented in American history by anyone, let alone a president of the United States. They represent a grave threat to the judiciary and the independence of the courts,” said J. Michael Luttig, a retired federal appeals court judge.
According to the NBC News review, the biggest target of Trump’s Truth Social attacks has been special counsel Jack Smith, whose office is prosecuting the federal election case and a second criminal case in Florida alleging Trump mishandled and tried to hide sensitive national security documents after he left the White House. Trump has posted about Smith — calling him “deranged,” a “nut job” and a “thug” — over 175 times. James, the New York AG, has been singled out close to 100 times.
He’s posted about Alvin Bragg, the Manhattan DA, almost 70 times, and over two dozen times about Fulton County DA Fani Willis, who brought racketeering charges against Trump for allegedly trying to overturn the result of Georgia’s 2020 election. He’s repeatedly referred to the two DAs, who are Black, as “racist.” Both also reported receiving a large number of threats from Trump supporters.
NBC News legal analyst Barbara McQuade, a former U.S. attorney, said Trump’s repeated attacks on judges and prosecutors pose two dangers. “First, Trump‘s false baseless claims of an unfair process could taint the jury pool and result in a hung jury if even one juror falls for his lies,” she said. “Second, and perhaps, even more concerning, his constant drumbeat, targeting prosecutors and judges, could result in political violence against them or their families.”
In addition to trying to foment distrust in the court system, the avalanche of attacks "is intended to intimidate the judges and the courts — federal and state — who will preside over his cases," Luttig said.
Glenn Kirschner, a former federal prosecutor and current NBC News legal analyst, said the attacks are “a political strategy, not a legal strategy” and part of a “transparent” pattern of Trump trying to delegitimize any person or institution seeking to hold him to account.
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Post by morecowbell on Apr 3, 2024 1:54:01 GMT
morecowbell . here is another topic I would like your thoughts on. You want a discussion so let’s have one about this from Speaker Mike Johnson. “The Biden White House has betrayed the central tenet of Easter — which is the resurrection of Jesus Christ. Banning sacred truth and tradition—while at the same time proclaiming Easter Sunday as “Transgender Day”—is outrageous and abhorrent. The American people are taking note.” x.com/speakerjohnson/status/1774147658841493617?s=61&t=j45uMgNk1i8O0YllKF58nwHere is some information in case you want to have a discussion about what Speaker Johnson said. Acyn…. “We should note that this day, the Transgender Day of Visibility, always falls on March 31. It just so happens that this year, Easter is going to be on the same day. Easter, of course, often changes year by year.” x.com/acyn/status/1774196999350301153?s=61&t=j45uMgNk1i8O0YllKF58nwAnd… Elisabeth Alexander “Fyi on all the misleading swirl re White House and Easter: the American Egg Board flyer’s standard non-discrimination language requesting artwork has been used for the last 45 years, across all Dem & Republican Admins—for all WH Easter Egg Rolls —incl previous Administration’s.” x.com/ealexander46/status/1774171002684993579?s=61&t=j45uMgNk1i8O0YllKF58nwOne wonders if this guy knows that not using religious symbols on eggs has been in place for decades? That it was accepted by both Democratic and Republican Administrations, including the newest bible salesman trump. Aaron Rupar… “GOP Rep. Mike Turner on Trump selling $60 bibles: "You know, I haven't really seen that. I think I'm more concerned about the White House restricting the ability of children to put religious symbols on Easter eggs."” x.com/atrupar/status/1774450885579395230?s=61&t=j45uMgNk1i8O0YllKF58nwKyle Griffin… ”The President and CEO of the American Egg Board debunks a conservative non-controversy: "The American Egg Board has been a supporter of the White House Easter Egg Roll for over 45 years and the guideline language referenced in recent news reports has consistently applied to the board since its founding, across administrations." A random response…. “Well Mr. American Egg Board President speaks up a little too late. Mr, @realdonaldtrump & his minions already flooded the masses with the lie. The campaign for @joebiden must do a better job of anticipating these false social narratives moving forward & get out in front of them” It sounds the same as the time the Left lost their mind over Trump speaking about the national day of patriotism, as if it was some new evil that Trump had created himself. And yet it had been spoken about by every single other president since Eisenhower, including Obama. |
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Post by aj2hall on Apr 3, 2024 1:56:26 GMT
Trump doesn't have to use language that overtly threatens judges. He knows that if he frames his statements in a certain way, his followers will threaten the judges and maybe cause them harm. What he's doing is deliberate, intentional and dangerous. www.washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/2024/03/29/trump-judge-attacks-violence/A Republican-appointed judge denounced Donald Trump’s social media attacks against the judge presiding over the former president’s hush money trial in Manhattan and his daughter, calling them assaults on the rule of law that could lead to violence and tyranny.
“When judges are threatened, and particularly when their family is threatened, it’s something that’s wrong and should not happen,” U.S. District Judge Reggie B. Walton, told CNN’s Kaitlan Collins in a live interview Thursday. He added, “It is very troubling because I think it is an attack on the rule of law.”Since late 2020, as Trump began escalating his attacks on the judiciary, serious investigated threats against federal judges have more than doubled, from 224 in 2021 to 457 in 2023, according to the U.S. Marshals Service, as first reported by Reuters. F ederal judges in Washington say at least half of trial judges handling cases arising from the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the Capitol have received a surge in threats and harassment, including death threats to their homes, with Trump’s election obstruction trial judge, Tanya S. Chutkan, placed under 24-hour protection.www.lawfaremedia.org/article/with-the-trump-gag-orders-courts-confront-harassmentTrump is generally canny enough to maintain some level of distance from this harassment. He hasn’t, for example, explicitly directed his supporters to harass Judge Chutkan; rather, he posts complaints about Chutkan and then disclaims any responsibility for whatever follows. Chutkan, though, has seemed unimpressed by Trump’s “Who, me?” posture. During the Oct. 16 hearing on the proposed gag order, the judge compared Trump’s posts attacking Smith to King Henry II’s famous complaint about Archbishop Thomas Becket—“Will no one rid me of this meddlesome priest?”—which led to Becket’s murder at the hands of overeager knights. “If you call certain people ‘thugs’ enough times,” Chutkan asked Trump’s counsel John Lauro, “doesn’t that suggest, Mr. Lauro, that someone should get them off the streets?”Issuing her gag order on Oct. 17, Chutkan ruled that Trump’s continued attacks “pose a significant and immediate risk” of intimidating witnesses with the threat of harassment and of harassing “attorneys, public servants, and other court staff.” She likewise voiced concern during the hearing about potential attacks on family members of prosecutors—pointing to Trump’s past criticism of Smith’s wife. Similarly, in Engoron’s written order fining Trump $5,000 after Trump’s first violation of the New York gag order, the justice warns, “In the current overheated climate, incendiary untruths can, and in some cases already have, led to physical harm, and worse.” As Engoron later made clear, this risk is not hypothetical: “Since the commencement of this bench trial,” he wrote, “my chambers have been inundated with hundreds of harassing and threatening phone calls, voicemails, emails, letters, and packages.”
Trump will surely keep pushing the limits of what is acceptable over the course of his several upcoming trials. In the meantime, though, his tactic of encouraging harassment has spread widely enough that he doesn’t even need to be directly involved for fear to take hold.
When Georgia released the names of the grand jurors who voted to indict Trump in Fulton County—as state law requires—the jurors immediately faced death threats and doxing from users of far-right pro-Trump internet forums.
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Post by morecowbell on Apr 3, 2024 2:04:16 GMT
Oh look, it's Biden lying again and making every tragedy about himself. |
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Post by aj2hall on Apr 3, 2024 2:28:31 GMT
Democrats don't have a problem with presidents declaring a national day. Democrats don't have a problem with patriotism either. Liberals do have a problem when patriotism is presented in a dictatorial/ authoritarian way. Trump chose his inauguration as the "National Day of Patriotic Devotion". One of the objections was how Trump framed it, talking about a national destiny and patriotic duty, similar to Hitler's day of awakening on his election in 1933. Trump's words also echoed Kim Jong-un. www.washingtonpost.com/news/act-four/wp/2017/01/25/how-to-celebrate-trumps-grotesque-national-day-of-patriotic-devotion/Trump isn’t the first president to celebrate his inauguration with a proclamation, though the one Trump issued has little in common with, for example, President Obama’s 2009 acknowledgment that “I am humbled by the responsibility placed upon my shoulders” and his admonition that “on this Inauguration Day, we are reminded that we are heirs to over two centuries of American democracy, and that this legacy is not simply a birthright — it is a glorious burden.”President Obama declared a patriot day on September 11. Not the same thing. Despite problematic framing, Trump's declaration came 4 days after of his Inauguration Day and didn't get a lot of attention. I would hardly call that the left losing their minds. Democrats' reactions to Trump's day are not the same as conservatives' false anger over their invented controversy about transgender day. Another false comparison and false equivalency. |
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Post by aj2hall on Apr 3, 2024 2:32:18 GMT
Trump's bibles, Democrats destroying the bridge in Baltimore and Ronna McDaniel Trae Crowder |
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Post by aj2hall on Apr 3, 2024 2:33:55 GMT
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Post by revirdsuba99 on Apr 3, 2024 2:35:16 GMT
Soooo....
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Post by aj2hall on Apr 3, 2024 2:40:53 GMT
No, we most decidedly do not want 4 more years. His 4 years in office were a complete disaster that we're still trying to recover from. 4 more years?Do people really want four more years of this?
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I’ve just posted a 175 Million Dollar Bond with the sadly failing and very troubled State of New York, based on a Corrupt Judge and Attorney General who used a Statute that was never used for this before, where no Jury was allowed, my financial statements were conservative and had a 100% perfect caution/non-reliance clause, there were no victims (except me!), there was no crime or damage, there was only success and HAPPY BANKS. The case was a fabricated ELECTION INTERFERENCE con job, so bad for New York, where businesses are fleeing & violent crime is flourishing. The Crooked Judge, to suit his narrative, valued Mar-a-Lago, in Palm Beach, Florida, at $18,000,000, when it is worth 50 to 100 times that amount. He ruled I was guilty before he ever saw the case. He should be disbarred, and Letitia James, who campaigned on getting TRUMP, Impeached. Also posted a 91 Million Dollar Bond on another New York Fake Case, money I can’t use on my campaign. Just what Crooked Joe wanted. WITCH HUNT!
Donald Trump Social 11:08 PM EST 04/01/24 |
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Post by aj2hall on Apr 3, 2024 2:45:11 GMT
Too bad Trump and the RNC are broke from paying Trump's legal bills and can't afford ads. abortion adBiden Hits Trump on Abortion in New Swing State Ad
President Joe Biden’s reelection campaign dropped a new ad this week, hitting Donald Trump for bragging about overturning Roe v. Wade and promising to protect women’s rights.
In the 30-second ad, Trump is seen boasting about overturning the landmark abortion ruling.
“Because for 54 years, they were trying to get Roe v. Wade terminated, and I did it,” Trump said. “And I’m proud of it.”
Biden accuses Trump of wanting to go further and enact a national abortion ban, something Trump has repeatedly signaled an openness to though he has been vague on the details.
“I’m running to make Roe v. Wade the law of the land again so women have a federal guarantee to the right to choose,” Biden says in the ad. “Donald Trump doesn’t trust women. I do.” lamag.com/politics/biden-hits-trump-on-abortion-in-new-swing-state-ad |
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Post by aj2hall on Apr 3, 2024 2:48:05 GMT
Trump, running unopposed still lost 21% of the Republican vote in NY. And he thinks he's going to win NY in November? Republicans who voted against TrumpRepublicans Who Voted Against Trump Tonight in Primary Even Though He Was Unopposed:
CT - 23%
WI - 22%
NY - 21% |
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Post by aj2hall on Apr 3, 2024 2:52:09 GMT
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Post by onelasttime on Apr 3, 2024 3:04:19 GMT
Oh look, it's Biden lying again and making every tragedy about himself. Exactly how is he making this tragedy about himself? For decades I crossed the Golden Gate Bridge in my commute to and from work. If something should happen to the bridge I don’t see how it would make the tragedy about me if I reminisced about crossing the bridge or told the story how one late afternoon the wind was blowing so hard the “right” way it cause the bridge to sway and they had to close it right at the beginning of the commute traffic going north. There were cars and buses stuck on the approach to the bridge with no way of urning around. Lucky for me my bus was still on Lombard St so the bus driver pulled into a vacant parking spot and we sat there able to get off the bus if we wanted to while we waited for the bridge to reopened which it finally did about 8 o’clock that night. As far as saying there were trains on the bridge when there aren’t, I would rather he say something like that then what trump said tonight.. Like this “They're not humans. They're animals ... I'll use the word 'animal,' because that's what they are" -- Trump” x.com/atrupar/status/1775237818769436843?s=61&t=j45uMgNk1i8O0YllKF58nwOr this…. ”Trump: If we don’t win on November 5th, I think our country is going to cease to exist. It could be the last election we ever have. I actually mean that. If we don’t win, I think this could be the last election we ever have” x.com/acyn/status/1775246640896774152?s=61&t=j45uMgNk1i8O0YllKF58nwI have to say this last one really bothered me because of the outright lies and the fear mongering it represents. |
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Post by aj2hall on Apr 3, 2024 3:05:14 GMT
binary choiceGriffin: This is very quickly becoming a binary choice between Donald Trump and Joe Biden. Donald Trump would not rule out leveling Gaza if he thought that that was the politically savvy thing to do…
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Post by aj2hall on Apr 3, 2024 3:07:33 GMT
TrumpTrump: "Biden can't put two sentences together."
Also Trump:
Trump: If you have illegal aliens invading your home, we will deport you
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Post by aj2hall on Apr 3, 2024 3:16:27 GMT
Project 2025's vision is really alarming and something we should all be worried about Biden's censorship and silencing of dissent is really alarming and something we should all be worried about. But Joy and her Trump hairdo was silent about that, now wasn't she. When President Biden or his advisors have written and published plans to consolidate executive powers, take away civil rights from the LGBTQ community, reverse FDA approval for abortion pills, pass a nationwide abortion ban, withdraw funding and restrict clinics that provide STD testing and birth control, remake the FBI and Department of Justice to benefit a conservative strongman, eliminate the Department of Commerce, eliminate the Department of Education, get rid of teachers' unions, decimate the federal government and replace civil service employees with people whose only qualification is their loyalty, eliminate environmental protections, delay climate action, impose a massive crackdown on undocumented immigrants and restrict legal immigration, then I'll worry. Clearly you haven't read Project 2025 or anything written about it. Another false comparison and false equivalency. |
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Post by sideways on Apr 3, 2024 3:22:01 GMT
aj2hall, I’m going to start calling you St. aj2hall. Or maybe just St. aj. Because you have the fucking patience of one.
A saint, that is.
I forgot how to tag, otherwise I would have done it. Or my gummy is working so well that I just can’t remember temporarily.
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Post by aj2hall on Apr 3, 2024 4:13:27 GMT
heathercoxrichardson.substack.com/p/april-1-2024On Tuesday, March 26, Judge Juan Merchan, who is presiding over Trump’s election interference case, put Trump under a gag order to stop his attacks on court staff, prosecutors, jurors, and witnesses. On Wednesday, Trump renewed his attacks on the judge and the judge’s daughter. On Thursday, U.S. District Judge Reggie Walton took the unusual step of talking publicly about what threats of violence meant to the rule of law. Walton, who was appointed to the federal bench by President George W. Bush, told Kaitlan Collins of CNN that threats, especially threats to a judge’s family, undermine the ability of judges to carry out their duties. “I think it’s important in order to preserve our democracy that we maintain the rule of law,” Walton said. “And the rule of law can only be maintained if we have independent judicial officers who are able to do their job and ensure that the laws are, in fact, enforced and that the laws are applied equally to everybody who appears in our courthouse.” On Friday, former president Trump shared on social media a video of a truck with a decal showing President Joe Biden tied up and seemingly in the bed of the truck, in a position suggesting he was being kidnapped. A threat of violence has always been part of Trump’s political performance. In 2016 he urged rallygoers to “knock the crap out of” protesters, and they did. They also turned on people who weren’t protesters. Political scientists Ayal Feinberg, Regina Branton, and Valerie Martinez-Ebers studied the effects of Trump’s 2016 campaign rhetoric against marginalized Americans and found that counties where Trump held rallies had a significant increase in hate incidents in the month after that rally. Trump’s stoking of violence became an embrace when he declared there were “very fine people, on both sides,” after protesters stood up against racists, antisemites, white nationalists, Ku Klux Klan members, neo-Nazis, and other alt-right groups when they met in August 2017 in Charlottesville, Virginia, where they shouted Nazi slogans and left 19 people injured and one protester, Heather Heyer, dead. In October 2020, Trump refused to denounce the far-right Proud Boys organization, instead telling its members to “stand back and stand by.” The Proud Boys turned out for the attack on the U.S. Capitol on January 6, 2021, where they helped to lead those rioters fired up by Trump’s speech at The Ellipse, where he told them: “You'll never take back our country with weakness. You have to show strength and you have to be strong. We have come to demand that Congress do the right thing…. And we fight. We fight like hell. And if you don't fight like hell, you're not going to have a country anymore.” Trump’s appeals to violence have gotten even more overt since the events of January 6.
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Post by onelasttime on Apr 3, 2024 4:15:52 GMT
Oh look, it's Biden lying again and making every tragedy about himself. Talk about telling lies. In Michigan trump claimed he talked to members of the woman Ruby Garcia who was killed by a migrant and her body was dumped by a freeway. A member of the slain girls family has said, no trump did not talk to any member of their family. Ron Filipkowski…. ”Here is Trump claiming in a speech today that he spoke to the family of Ruby Garcia and what they supposedly told him. Then Ruby Garcia’s sister who says Trump is lying about this entire thing and never spoke to a single family member.” x.com/ronfilipkowski/status/1775314460929937815?s=61&t=j45uMgNk1i8O0YllKF58nw |
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