While Saturday’s GOP presidential primary in South Carolina was a big victory for failed one-term former president Donald Trump, it wound up being a very public humiliation for Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC).
During a victory celebration in the Palmetto State, Mediaite reports, Trump called Graham to the podium to make some remarks.
He introduced Lindsey Graham as “a little bit further left than some people on this stage.” Loud boos broke out in the room and kept up as Trump tried to calm them down.
“No, no. Remember,” Trump said, but the boos continued. “I love him, he’s a good man. Come up here Lindsey,” Trump said.
Wow Lindsey Graham is being booed relentlessly at the Trump victory speech in South Carolina pic.twitter.com/IhAUEmQhfe
Oh, Lindsey. When you were preening for the cameras in front of the crowd during the Clinton impeachment in 1999, did you ever think you'd see a day when South Carolina Republicans would think of you as "too far left"??
As he and his attorneys continue to seek a delay in the payment of a $454 million civil fraud trial award to the state of New York, failed former president Donald Trump must have been shaken by comments made by the state’s Attorney General, Letitia James, according to “The Weekend” co-host Alicia Menendez.
During a segment this morning with former Justice Department official Mary McCord, Menedez played a video clip of James remarking, “If he [Trump] does not have funds to pay off the judgment, then we will seek in judgment enforcement mechanism in court and we will ask the judge to seize his assets.”
James added, “We are prepared to make sure the judgment is paid to New Yorkers. Yes, I look at 40 Wall Street each and every day.”
40 Wall Street, it should be noted, is the address of Trump Tower, perhaps the most cherished property the disgraced ex-president owns.
That led Menendez to remark, “Two important pieces. Make sure the judgment is paid to New Yorkers because often one of the things you heard from Trump’s team is this is a victimless crime. So the idea that there are actually citizens who need to be repaid is one piece of this. And then the comment that must haunt Trump’s dreams now is, ‘Yes, I look at 40 Wall Street each and every day.'”
Donald Trump probably thinks he can continue to kick the proverbial can down the road when it comes to paying the millions he owes both the state of New York for fraud and writer E. Jean Carroll for defamation. But if he’s under the illusion that Letitia James will let him get away with that, he clearly hasn’t been paying attention.
Speaking at a rally in South Carolina on Friday, failed one-term, twice-impeached, and multiply-indicted former president Donald Trump once again demonstrated that his mental acuity is seriously diminished as he was unable to pronounce even the simplest of words, leading many on social media to suggest that he may be headed for a complete mental breakdown.
Consider the following examples of Trump’s inability to say words and phrases that would be simple for even a child. Also included are reactions from social media
This absolutely seems like it could be dementia related. Sometimes almost sounding drunk, other times words mismatched, or words starting out fine then becoming just a sound halfway through. it matches some of the things I've seen as a caregiver.
Now that he’s on the hook for over $450 million in fines, failed former president Donald Trump is facing one of three options when it comes to raising the cash he needs: Sell properties, find a wealthy benefactor who will pay the tab for him, or wind up having to file bankruptcy.
That’s the bottom line, according to attorney and NBC legal analyst Lisa Rubin, who told MSNBC host Alex Wagner, “It could also prompt him to file for personal bankruptcy because, again, in this order, Donald Trump and the business entities that were found liable, are jointly and severally liable. That means that any one of them can be liable for the whole of the judgment attributed to them and that also means that Donald Trump can’t escape this just by plunging those business entities themselves into bankruptcy, because that would leave him individually on the hook for the totality of it.”
“The only way to escape it altogether would be to file for personal bankruptcy, which would place an automatic stay on further litigation, including judgment execution,” Rubin added.
Rubin also noted that Trump can’t borrow his way out of judgments against him because he’s also banned from obtaining loans from any financial institution chartered in New York.
The shame of filing personal bankruptcy would be the perfect karma for Donald Trump.
Speaking Thursday at the Conservative Political Action Committee (CPAC) convention in Washington, D.C., Lara Trump, the daughter-in-law of failed one-term president Donald Trump, tried desperately to get some sort of applause or approval from attendees.
At one point during her speech, Mrs. Trump proudly declared, “Now, some of you may know, Eric and I are blessed to have two beautiful children, our son Luke and our daughter, named after my home state, Carolina. Every night, Eric and I have a tradition. We stop whatever we have going on, and we go do bedtime with the kids.”
“And while they say their prayers and the Pledge of Allegiance, of course, I often think to myself, what kind of country will they live in in 10, 20, or 30 years?” she added. “What kind of country are we creating for our children and our grandchildren?”
Lara Trump says her kids says the Pledge of Allegiance before they go to sleep pic.twitter.com/fNNbMPTfCA
WTF?! Despite the crowd being hardcore Trump supporters whose political leanings are just to the right of Atilla the Hun, Lara’s recitation of her family’s bedtime routine was greeted with silence. You could almost hear crickets chirping.
Twitter/X users had some thoughts on Lara Trump’s comments, too.
