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1 hour ago, gamewatcher63 said:

Gee….where has this happened before???? Kangaroo courts…”Trumped” up charges….lying prosecutors….Bragg would fit right in at 1950’s Soviet Union prosecution of innocent people….to the Gulag you go!!!!!

 I was about to post something about this. Good thing I checked first!

Proving the contents of the letter is going to be interesting.

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This country is so divided and politics are so toxic that I do not trust anyone to just speak the facts (The facts...not "their' facts). No one should be above the law...even a former POTUS...but no one should be subjected to a witch hunt either. When you have a guy so polarizing that 40% of people think he is evil incarnate...and 40%think he can walk on water...it is impossible to know what is true. With that said...I do not expect anything to come of all this.

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13 minutes ago, EnjoyLife said:

This country is so divided and politics are so toxic that I do not trust anyone to just speak the facts (The facts...not "their' facts). No one should be above the law...even a former POTUS...but no one should be subjected to a witch hunt either. When you have a guy so polarizing that 40% of people think he is evil incarnate...and 40%think he can walk on water...it is impossible to know what is true. With that said...I do not expect anything to come of all this.

And this is a lot of why I take a skeptical, cynical approach to most politicians.

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2 hours ago, EnjoyLife said:

This country is so divided and politics are so toxic that I do not trust anyone to just speak the facts (The facts...not "their' facts). No one should be above the law...even a former POTUS...but no one should be subjected to a witch hunt either. When you have a guy so polarizing that 40% of people think he is evil incarnate...and 40%think he can walk on water...it is impossible to know what is true. With that said...I do not expect anything to come of all this.

I don’t think Trump walks on water….but I believe he would have been better suited to lead the country out of the pandemic and have the economy running back to as normal as possible….Biden and Kammy’s Kabal have messed up the economy with all the free money….inflation is not abating and the Fed reserve is having to raise interest rates which hurts the banking situation with the failure of these mid sized banks….what does Biden and Kammy want to do???? Give out more free money?????

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18 minutes ago, gamewatcher63 said:

So if Horse face Daniels denied that it ever happened…how can you prosecute???? Oh wait…. I forgot…we have a two tiered justice system that allows demo’s to get away with anything and prosecutors from demo districts get to indict the POTUS without evidence….got it

Bragg will be hit with a huge lawsuit

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59 minutes ago, gamewatcher63 said:

So if Horse face Daniels denied that it ever happened…how can you prosecute???? Oh wait…. I forgot…we have a two tiered justice system that allows demo’s to get away with anything and prosecutors from demo districts get to indict the POTUS without evidence….got it

Wouldn't she have done that under her legal name, not her "stage name"?

But if it never happened, that seems to lead us to this question:

What did "Mickey Da Rat" (i.e. Mickey Cohen) pay her $130,000 for?

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Dance, puppets, dance! He has the power to make all of you in the cult do his bidding. Sad! 

(Washington Post) 

 Trump makes suckers of House Republicans. Again.

By Dana Milbank
Columnist
|
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March 24, 2023 at 7:30 a.m. EDT


Be honest: Who among us has not had an extramarital affair with a porn star?

It is the rare person who can truthfully say he or she has not. And that is why I admonish you: Let he who has not lied about using campaign funds to pay hush money cast the first stone!

In the race by MAGA World to circle the wagons around Donald Trump in the Stormy Daniels case, a special prize must go to those who not only attack those investigating the former president but also defend his behavior with the adult-film actress as totally and completely normal.

“Settlements like this, whatever you think of them, are common both among famous people, celebrities and in corporate America,” one of our winners, Fox News’s Tucker Carlson, misinformed his viewers. “Paying people not to talk about things, hush money, is ordinary in modern America.”

 

A couple of weeks ago, old text messages came out in which Carlson called Trump “a demonic force, a destroyer” and said “I hate him passionately.” Now he’s back to defending some of Trump’s seediest behavior as utterly routine.


It would never be just Carlson, of course. Elected Republican officials also collectively decided this week that it was in their interest to bring Trump back from the political dead. Once again, Trump used a fabrication to revive his flagging standing. And once again, congressional Republicans fell for it.


Just a week ago, leading Republicans were daring to hope that Trump’s sway was ebbing, as Ron DeSantis and Mike Pence took him on directly. Then Trump changed all that with just one post on his social media site Saturday morning. He announced his expectation that he “WILL BE ARRESTED ON TUESDAY.” He wrote: “PROTEST, TAKE OUR NATION BACK!”


In reality, he wasn’t arrested Tuesday. Or Wednesday. Or the rest of the week. Maybe he’ll yet be indicted in New York, Georgia or Washington. Maybe he won’t. Regardless, he already notched a significant victory. House Republicans didn’t wait to see whether Trump was speaking the truth about his imminent arrest. They did as he commanded, leaping to his defense — and, in the process, returning him to his previous place of dominance atop the Republican Party. It’s all about Donald Trump — again.


Within just a few hours of Trump’s claim that he was about to be arrested, House Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) announced that House Republicans were launching investigations into the “outrageous abuse of power” by Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg and his attempt “to subvert our democracy by interfering in elections with politically motivated prosecutions.”

On Monday, three House committee chairmen fired off a letter to Bragg summoning him to testify before Congress and demanding that he produce six years’ worth of documents — all because he was “reportedly about to engage” in “the indictment of a former president.” Never mind that Bragg hadn’t (yet) done so.

Things only deteriorated from there.

By the dozen, House lawmakers and their Fox News allies denounced Bragg by calling him “a hired hit man by George Soros” (Rep. Eric Burlison, R-Mo.) or by saying Bragg, who is Black, is “listening to his master, George Soros” (Fox host Rachel Campos-Duffy).


Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-Fla.) called on DeSantis to “stop any sort of extradition of President Trump from the state of Florida.”

Mark Green (R-Tenn.), chairman of the House Homeland Security committee, apparently mistook Bragg’s criminal investigation of state law for a federal case. “Daniel Ortega arrested his opposition in Nicaragua and we called that a horrible thing,” he said. “Mr. Biden, Mr. President, think about that.”

Marc A. Thiessen: An indictment would help Trump. Maybe that’s what Democrats want.

House GOP conference chief Elise Stefanik (N.Y.) likewise called the investigation by a county D.A. “the epitome of the weaponizing of the federal government.”

Inevitably, Republicans found themselves not only denouncing the prosecutor but also defending Trump’s behavior. McCarthy vouched for Trump by saying that the hush money paid to Daniels “was personal money” and that Trump “wasn’t trying to hide” it — claims that are challenged by the available facts. (Fox News host Jesse Watters did McCarthy one better in Trump’s defense, telling viewers: “There’s no proof Trump slept with Stormy. There’s no baby.”)


Even Senate Republicans voiced public concern that their House counterparts had gone too far in their prosecutorial meddling. “I would hope they would stick to the agenda they ran on,” said Sen. John Cornyn (Tex.). He might offer the same advice to Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ky.), who called for Bragg to “be put in jail” for unspecified offenses.

Sen. Shelley Moore Capito (R-W.Va.) put it best when she told Punchbowl News: “The House is gonna do what the House is gonna do.”

And what it did this week was to put Trump back in unquestioned command of the Republican Party.

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26 minutes ago, BarryLaverty said:

Dance, puppets, dance! He has the power to make all of you in the cult do his bidding. Sad! 

(Washington Post) 

 Trump makes suckers of House Republicans. Again.

By Dana Milbank
Columnist
|
Follow
March 24, 2023 at 7:30 a.m. EDT


Be honest: Who among us has not had an extramarital affair with a porn star?

It is the rare person who can truthfully say he or she has not. And that is why I admonish you: Let he who has not lied about using campaign funds to pay hush money cast the first stone!

In the race by MAGA World to circle the wagons around Donald Trump in the Stormy Daniels case, a special prize must go to those who not only attack those investigating the former president but also defend his behavior with the adult-film actress as totally and completely normal.

“Settlements like this, whatever you think of them, are common both among famous people, celebrities and in corporate America,” one of our winners, Fox News’s Tucker Carlson, misinformed his viewers. “Paying people not to talk about things, hush money, is ordinary in modern America.”

 

A couple of weeks ago, old text messages came out in which Carlson called Trump “a demonic force, a destroyer” and said “I hate him passionately.” Now he’s back to defending some of Trump’s seediest behavior as utterly routine.


It would never be just Carlson, of course. Elected Republican officials also collectively decided this week that it was in their interest to bring Trump back from the political dead. Once again, Trump used a fabrication to revive his flagging standing. And once again, congressional Republicans fell for it.


Just a week ago, leading Republicans were daring to hope that Trump’s sway was ebbing, as Ron DeSantis and Mike Pence took him on directly. Then Trump changed all that with just one post on his social media site Saturday morning. He announced his expectation that he “WILL BE ARRESTED ON TUESDAY.” He wrote: “PROTEST, TAKE OUR NATION BACK!”


In reality, he wasn’t arrested Tuesday. Or Wednesday. Or the rest of the week. Maybe he’ll yet be indicted in New York, Georgia or Washington. Maybe he won’t. Regardless, he already notched a significant victory. House Republicans didn’t wait to see whether Trump was speaking the truth about his imminent arrest. They did as he commanded, leaping to his defense — and, in the process, returning him to his previous place of dominance atop the Republican Party. It’s all about Donald Trump — again.


Within just a few hours of Trump’s claim that he was about to be arrested, House Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) announced that House Republicans were launching investigations into the “outrageous abuse of power” by Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg and his attempt “to subvert our democracy by interfering in elections with politically motivated prosecutions.”

On Monday, three House committee chairmen fired off a letter to Bragg summoning him to testify before Congress and demanding that he produce six years’ worth of documents — all because he was “reportedly about to engage” in “the indictment of a former president.” Never mind that Bragg hadn’t (yet) done so.

Things only deteriorated from there.

By the dozen, House lawmakers and their Fox News allies denounced Bragg by calling him “a hired hit man by George Soros” (Rep. Eric Burlison, R-Mo.) or by saying Bragg, who is Black, is “listening to his master, George Soros” (Fox host Rachel Campos-Duffy).


Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-Fla.) called on DeSantis to “stop any sort of extradition of President Trump from the state of Florida.”

Mark Green (R-Tenn.), chairman of the House Homeland Security committee, apparently mistook Bragg’s criminal investigation of state law for a federal case. “Daniel Ortega arrested his opposition in Nicaragua and we called that a horrible thing,” he said. “Mr. Biden, Mr. President, think about that.”

Marc A. Thiessen: An indictment would help Trump. Maybe that’s what Democrats want.

House GOP conference chief Elise Stefanik (N.Y.) likewise called the investigation by a county D.A. “the epitome of the weaponizing of the federal government.”

Inevitably, Republicans found themselves not only denouncing the prosecutor but also defending Trump’s behavior. McCarthy vouched for Trump by saying that the hush money paid to Daniels “was personal money” and that Trump “wasn’t trying to hide” it — claims that are challenged by the available facts. (Fox News host Jesse Watters did McCarthy one better in Trump’s defense, telling viewers: “There’s no proof Trump slept with Stormy. There’s no baby.”)


Even Senate Republicans voiced public concern that their House counterparts had gone too far in their prosecutorial meddling. “I would hope they would stick to the agenda they ran on,” said Sen. John Cornyn (Tex.). He might offer the same advice to Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ky.), who called for Bragg to “be put in jail” for unspecified offenses.

Sen. Shelley Moore Capito (R-W.Va.) put it best when she told Punchbowl News: “The House is gonna do what the House is gonna do.”

And what it did this week was to put Trump back in unquestioned command of the Republican Party.

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6 hours ago, BarryLaverty said:

See you in Waco! Let's get there at 10 to get the best standing spot in the airport hangar!!! :rofl:

 

Hey Barry, if we called your brain an APP would you start using it...for a change? Nah, guess not...you'd get kicked out of the dumbocratic party if that happened!!! LOLOL!!!

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1 hour ago, blesseddaily said:

 

Hey Barry, if we called your brain an APP would you start using it...for a change? Nah, guess not...you'd get kicked out of the dumbocratic party if that happened!!! LOLOL!!!

Will save you a big round spot for you to fawn over your orange idol. Maybe if you wear a kooky hat or do a dance, he will call you on stage!!! :rofl:

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