Month: November 2023

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Crime Donald Trump Jr. Social Media

Don Jr. Gets Trolled On Social Media After Urging Courtroom Sketch Artist To ‘Make Me Look Sexy’

At the end of his testimony Thursday in the New York fraud trial brought by state Attorney General Letitia James, Donald Trump Jr. made a request of the courtroom sketch artist that has set off a flurry of mockery and trolling on social media.

HuffPost reports:

After Donald Trump’s oldest son concluded his testimony, he asked artist Jane Rosenberg to “make me look sexy,” according to Reuters, which hired her to cover the Trump family trial.

He even suggested an example he thought might inspire her: A flattering courtroom portrait Rosenberg did of Sam Bankman-Fried that Don Jr. said made the former cryptocurrency mogul look like a “superstar.”

Make him look sexy, huh? There’s a better chance of making a wildebeest look like a peacock.

Reaction to Junior’s comments on social media were on-point.

If Don Jr. wants a way to look better than he does, perhaps he should try putting a bag over his head.

 

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Crime Donald Trump The Trump Organization

Eric Trump Snaps During Thursday Testimony And Lets A Key Piece Of Evidence Slip Out

During his testimony in the New York fraud trial Thursday, Eric Trump got extremely agitated by questions asked of him by prosecutor Andrew Amer, especially when Amer showed him emails that suggested he was aware that incorrect financial statements were filed on behalf of the Trump Organization.

MSNBC legal analyst Lisa Rubin noted that Eric’s demeanor was markedly different from his brother, Don Jr., who testified Wednesday, telling host Chris Jansing:

“It was sort of the tale of two brothers, because we think of Don Jr. and Eric as a pair, but really both temperamentally and otherwise, they would not be more different in their approaches to testimony today.”

“You noted earlier that Don Jr. on the stand principally deflected, denied responsibility, and put it all on the accountants and lawyers who guided him; he is a person who over the course of his life has been used to outsourcing things to other people,” Rubin continued. “But the problem is, as an officer of the company and particularly as a trustee of his father’s trust, there has to be a place where the buck stopped, and when his father was president, the buck stopped with he and Allen Weisselberg as the co co-trustees of the trust in which all the Trump Organization assets were put.”

Contrast that with Eric’s outburst, Rubin added:

“Eric on the other hand, when he took the stand, has been combative from the start,” she continued. “He doesn’t want to give an inch. He didn’t even want to admit that in 2012 he understood his father even had statements of financial condition. And so the attorney general is really working hard to establish that Eric understood that they sent their financial statements to other people outside the company who relied upon them, whether that’s members of a golf club in North Carolina that the Trumps purchased in 2012 or to banks and others.

“When Eric was about to get off the stand, he finally showed a flash of Trumpian anger and basically said, ‘Of course we have financial statements, we’re a major corporation!’ But he’s been generally calm and collected if not particularly generous in his testimony so far.”

Rubin explained on Twitter that Eric’s remarks are damaging for his father and the family company.

That testimony makes it clear that Donald Trump was indeed part of manipulating those financial statements (which were inflated for the purpose of obtaining bank loans and then decreased to reduce the company’s tax bill). It also proves that Eric’s father personally requested “help” with them. That completely undermines the Trump defense that they had no idea fraud was taking place.

In other words, Eric destroyed his father’s key defense plank and gave prosecutors everything they need to impose a financial death penalty on the Trump Organization.

 

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Crime Donald Trump Elections

Ben Carson Faceplants When He Tries To Defend Trump By Comparing Him To Al Capone

Former Secretary of Housing and Urban Development Ben Carson managed to condemn his former boss, Donald Trump, and humiliate himself during a Wednesday evening appearance on CNN.

Speaking with host Abby Phillip, Carson was asked why he still supports Trump for the 2024 GOP presidential nomination at a time when some Republicans are saying it would be a mistake to nominate the ex-president again.

“What are they seeing that you’re not seeing?” Phillip asked.

Carson responded, “I think the better question is, what are they not seeing. If we allow our Justice Department to be weaponized, we will have lost something very precious and important.”

The CNN host countered, “But what evidence do you have that the Justice Department has been weaponized against Trump specifically? There’s no evidence of that.”

And that’s when Carson made the Trump-Capone comparison that set off a wave of laughter and mockery on social media.

“Well, let’s put it this way. Al Capone, who was a notorious killer, had one indictment, and Donald Trump has four indictments. That would tell you something right there.”

That led Phillip to note, “I don’t think that’s evidence of anything except that Donald Trump has allegedly committed conduct that has resulted in indictments.”

Carson, however, doubled down:

“I don’t think that’s evidence of anything except that Donald Trump has allegedly committed conduct that has resulted in indictments.”

As the old saying goes, There are none so blind as those who refuse to see, as Twitter users reminded the misguided Dr. Carson.