Month: December 2023

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Crime Donald Trump The Trump Organization

Trump Canceled Monday Testimony For Fear Of Committing Perjury: Report

Former president Donald Trump’s scheduled testimony in the New York fraud trail that could lead to the collapse of the Trump Organization was abruptly canceled on Sunday, with the ex-president announcing on social media that he wouldn’t be offering any defense of the charges against him.

On his failing Truth Social site, Trump wrote:

“I have already testified to everything & have nothing more to say other than this is a complete & total election interference (Biden campaign!) witch hunt,” so “I will not be testifying on Monday.”

The actual reason, according to Forbes reporter Dan Alexander can be explained with one word: Perjury.

Trump and his attorneys are terrified that any testimony he gives would open him to additional charges of lying under oath, which led to the reversal.

“Trump blamed others for getting it wrong,” Alexander noted on Twitter. “Then, after Trump testified, we at Forbes released an audio clip–which had not previously been made public–showing him personally lying about the square footage of his penthouse, claiming it was 33,000 square feet.”

Alexander gave another example of how prosecutors working for New York Attorney General Letitia James would have tried to get the ex-president to commit perjury.

“Take 40 Wall Street. In his earlier testimony, the state asked Trump: ‘Have you ever inflated the operating income of 40 Wall Street?’ Trump, when asked if he had ever inflated the operating income at 40 Wall Street, replied: ‘Not that I know of.’ But he has, by egregious amounts. We have that on tape, too.”

Trump has already lost the civil case brought by AG James. All that remains is for Judge Arthur Engoron to attach a monetary penalty for the bank, insurance, and tax fraud he allegedly committed. James is asking the court for a judgement of $250 million.

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Congress GOP Kevin McCarthy

McCarthy’s Constituents Trash Him As He Retires: ‘Don’t Let The Door Hit You On The Way Out’

As he prepares to leave Congress and head back to the California district he’s represented since 2007, Former House Speaker Kevin McCarthy may be anticipating that he’ll be well-received by his constituents.

But based on a fascinating report from Andrew Gumbel of The Guardian, many residents of the district — the largest city of which is Bakersfield — aren’t exactly eager to see McCarthy back in in their midst.

“If you went through the wringer he went through, I suspect there’s a little humiliation, a little embarrassment. Maybe he’s licking his wounds and wants to go off into the sunset,” said Greg Perrone, president of the Greater Bakersfield Republican Assembly, an activist group that hews to McCarthy’s right. “Still, I’m a little disappointed that he didn’t finish the term that he was elected to serve. That’s not what we expect from our elected leaders.”

Consider some of the letters to the editor of The Bakersfield Californian, many of which are filled with stinging rebukes of McCarthy, including calling him quitter for retiring early.

“Don’t let the door hit you on the way out, Kevin,” two of them wrote last week. One added: “You haven’t represented us in a very long time.”

Even Bakersfield mayor Karen Goh gave McCarthy the back of her hand, saying she was “too busy” to provide even a brief quote regarding the former speaker.

Some in the district complain that McCarthy has never been interested in their needs and has instead spent most of his time in other parts of California in an effort to raise fundraising dollars for himself and the GOP, which doesn’t exactly do them any good.

McCarthy’s district, California’s 20th, extends well beyond Bakersfield into the farmlands of Kern and Tulare counties and into the suburbs of Fresno, the largest city in the Central Valley. It was redrawn before the last election to make it more solidly Republican, relieving McCarthy of any significant pressure to fight for his own congressional seat. He scarcely visited during last year’s campaign, focusing instead on raising hundreds of millions of dollars for more competitive districts in California and the rest of the country.

For his part, McCarthy is making it clear he’s still interested in politics on a national level, especially if a future Republican president has a cabinet post that needs to be filled by an insider who has lots of contacts in Congress and can always be counted when it comes time to ask donors to write a check or two for the GOP effort.

Historically, McCarthy will go down as a lesson in the personal greed for power that drove both his rise to the top and the crash that left him as little more than a historical footnote who is only interested in what he can do for himself.

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Donald Trump Elections Social Media Trump Supporters

Trump Supporters Have An Online Meltdown After Taylor Swift Is Named Time’s Person Of The Year

On Wednesday, Time Magazine announced its 2023 Person of the Year: Singer-songwriter Taylor Swift, who is arguably one of the biggest stars in the world at the moment.

In an essay that accompanied the announcement, Time reporter Sam Lansky writes:

Swift’s accomplishments as an artist—culturally, critically, and commercially—are so legion that to recount them seems almost beside the point. As a pop star, she sits in rarefied company, alongside Elvis Presley, Michael Jackson, and Madonna; as a songwriter, she has been compared to Bob Dylan, Paul McCartney, and Joni Mitchell. As a businesswoman, she has built an empire worth, by some estimates, over $1 billion. And as a celebrity—who by dint of being a woman is scrutinized for everything from whom she dates to what she wears—she has long commanded constant attention and knows how to use it. (“I don’t give Taylor advice about being famous,” Stevie Nicks tells me. “She doesn’t need it.”) But this year, something shifted. To discuss her movements felt like discussing politics or the weather—a language spoken so widely it needed no context. She became the main character of the world.

Swift, it should be noted, is also politically involved, and that doesn’t exactly sit well with many on the political right, mainly because she’s a strong, successful woman who just so happens to believe that more freedom for everyone is a good thing.

So perhaps it should come as no surprise that the Time Person of the Year honor rubbed so many Trump supporters the wrong way

According to online comments made by several Trump acolytes, Swift represents everything that’s wrong with the United States.

Here’s a sampling of those right-wing attacks:

“From her hand-selected vaccine shill boyfriend to her DINK lifestyle to her upcoming 2024 voter operation for Democrats on abortion rights It’s all coming.” Right-wing gadfly and failed podcaster Jack Posobiec

“This is what happens when we cede culture to the Left. Brainless youth raising themselves on Taylor Swift’s saccharine bland music and that washing over into the serious world of politics. If we reach the point where Dwayne The Rock Johnson and Taylor Swift run for office together we will have truly reached full-on Idiocracy where Mike Judge imagined “President Dwayne Elizondo Mountain Dew Herbert Camacho.” Former Trump Justice Department Official and current criminal defendant Jeffrey Clark

“What’s happening with Taylor Swift is not organic.” Former Trump administration senior adviser Stephen Miller

Wow! A bunch of repressed white guys are afraid of a strong woman. Imagine that!

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Donald Trump Jr. Social Media WTF?!

Don Jr. And Kimberly Guilfoyle Celebrate Christmas With Photo Of Themselves Holding Animal Body Parts

For Christmas this year, Donald Trump Jr. and his fiancée, disgraced former Fox News host Kimberly Guilfoyle, thought it would be a cool idea to post photos of themselves on social media with the genitalia of animals in their hands.

Yes, you read that correctly: Animal genitals are apparently the new MAGA way of celebrating the birth of Jesus Christ.

According to OK Magazine:

The couple was all smiles as they posed while holding several bones that came from animal genitalia — known as a baculum — that a hunter pal of theirs from Alaska gave them at the annual holiday get-together.

Guilfoyle had one hand on her hip and used her other hand to hold the slim bone between two fingers while sporting a short, black dress. Trump Jr. grinned for the camera as he stood on the opposite site of two of their friends and held up a second, larger bone.

In another photo, Trump Jr. stood with his arm around his friend while the other man showed off a third bone. He later took to Instagram to share the Christmas party pics, describing Guilfoyle and Trump Jr. as “genuine, down to Earth, considerate, awesome people who love hunting as much as we do.”

The posting drew harsh reaction on Twitter, with one user noting, “Four d—- in one pic. Nice.”

Another person added, “An exercise in class and sophistication, Trump style.”

But perhaps the best online clapback was this one:

“There’s a real question here. Not ‘why are you idiots holding d— bones’ but ‘why are you idiots holding *walrus* bones?’ Walruses are a protected species. Which means his ‘hunter friends’ are quite possibly poachers. Not the first time baby Trump’s bragged about poaching.”

This also isn’t the first time Don Jr. has decided to discuss the subject of male body parts, which sort of makes you wonder exactly what sort of fantasies are ricocheting around inside his otherwise empty skull.

In 2007, during an interview with Adam Corolla, Junior had this to say:

“You know, and I will get fired for this, but I’m never going to say that I don’t. I will get fired for that. By the way, they’re both pretty substantial I think.”

Knowing the Trump penchant for exaggeration, it’s safe to assume that Don Jr. and his old man think four inches is “substantial.” No wonder neither of them can manage to stay married: They can’t satisfy their wives.

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Congress GOP Viral Video

WATCH: James Comer Gets His A*s Handed To Him In Less Than 2 Minutes By An NBC Reporter

NBC News Capitol Hill correspondent Ryan Nobles made House Oversight Committee Chairman James Comer (R-KY) look like a complete fool in what may well be record time during an interview on the topic of Comer’s efforts to impeach President Joe Biden.

Nobles began by telling Comer:

“So sir, there were the two checks: The $40,000 check and the $200,000 check that came from the president’s son and into the President’s bank account. There was also subsequent bank records, which were provided through the [Oversight] Committee, that demonstrate that there were also subsequent pieces of information that went from the President to the president’s son.”

Comer: “That is not true.”

Nobles then inquired, “So that you’re saying that that information has been made up then? Where did that information come from? That came from the Committee.”

“I don’t know,” Comer claimed. “We haven’t seen that information.”

“That is Committee information that is collected from the bank records that your committee has obtained,” Nobles added.

“Just show the check,” Comer insisted.

Nobles asked Comer if he had “a canceled check for every wire transfer that’s ever come into your account?”

“Yes,” Comer replied.

Nobles confronted the chairman with more facts.

“And that’s what has been shown, there is bank records that demonstrate an exact same amount of money. Are you saying, okay, sir, are you saying those bank records do not exist? That show the money leaving the President’s account and into his son’s?”

Comer: “They were money laundering. You see wires going all over the –”

Nobles pressed further:

“Sir, answer this specific question: Is there a bank record that demonstrates the exact amount of money that came from the President’s account into his son’s account that matches the checks that then went back to him? Does that exist? Yes or no?”

“No, no!” Comer raged “There’s money coming from a law firm.”

“That doesn’t exist? That doesn’t exist, sir?” Nobles noted.

Getting angrier, Comer said, “It does not exist. It’s coming from a law firm. Who put who put the money in the law firm? How do you know the money came from Joe Biden? It could have come from one of Hunter shell companies. You have no idea.”

Nobles: “Okay. So you are saying that that money that that money exists?That transfer does exist there in the bank records that you and your committee –”

“No!” Comer again shouted “You don’t know what that transfer is.”

Afterwards, Adam Cohen of Lawyers for Good Government, wrote on Twitter, “James Comer goes from checks that confirm harmless transactions between Joe and Hunter Biden ‘do not exist’ To ‘they exist, but we claim they might be suspicious.'”

House Republicans are the Keystone Cops of the political world, and James Comer is one of the biggest buffoons of them all.