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1 minute ago, WhatTheBuck said:

Seems like Getty Images dropped the ball. 

Can't.

Since they were taken by a federal government employee, they are public domain.  The photos in question were taken by the official White House photographer.

Trump is a shitstain, and no one should be surprised he fucked over someone.  But fair is fair; nothing is stopping me from taking a batch of photos off the Flickr account of the White House and publishing my own book, similar to what he has done here.  Trump doing this just makes him look even more petty and small than he really is.

 

 

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1 minute ago, Francisco 2.0 said:

Can't.

Since they were taken by a federal government employee, they are public domain.  The photos in question were taken by the official White House photographer.

Trump is a shitstain, and no one should be surprised he fucked over someone.  But fair is fair; nothing is stopping me from taking a batch of photos off the Flickr account of the White House and publishing my own book, similar to what he has done here.  Trump doing this just makes him look even more petty and small than he really is.

I didn’t really think Getty Images had any rights to the pics.

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I bet they know where those missing phone logs from 1/6 are though.  Probably have a recording of every call.

Well, being that Trump made most of his calls and texts FROM FUCKING UNSECURED PERSONAL CELLPHONES......then, yeah, Russia has it all.  Every fucking word.

Notice how the world is mocking the Russian military for its pathetic opsec in its invasion, conducting military conversations, discussing troop movements and attacks, over unsecured lines including fucking cellphones?  Yeah.....the Commander-in-Chief of the entire fucking United States did that for FOUR FUCKING YEARS.

Dumbest.

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Timeline.

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Turns out, in addition to being a blowhard and a crook, Avenatti was a pretty shitty lawyer.  The main reason she lost is that he blew an appeal deadline.

Many people are saying that Trump paid Avenatti off to miss the deadline.

 

Cucker: News reports out today are that the former president, TC Trump, won a procedural ruling in the case Stormy Daniels brought against him where she asserts he keeps a tiny cocker spaniel in his pants.  This was a completely winnable case for Daniels but for some reason her attorney did not file the correct motions before the deadline which leads to the question:  "Did Trump pay off Stormy's lawyer the way he paid off Stormy not to tell people about their extramarital affair while his whore wife, Melania, was pregnant and to keep the details of his tiny cocker a secret?  and if the answer is yes, that Trump paid off Stormy's lawyer then isn't that an admission that he has a tiny cocker and had sex with her?  Why else would you do it?  No need to pay off the lawyer to miss the deadline if you were innocent so we can only assume that he has a tiny cocker.  And if we need proof I think we must logically look to the briefcase Giuliani carried with him when he filmed that famous scene from Borat, the same one he keeps his electric razor in while shaving at the airport Applebee's.  Where is that briefcase, and does it also have Trumps DNA and poop stained briefs from the hotel rendezvous with Stormy?  If so I'll bet we also find her urine on them from the golden shower Trump requested.

Here to join me to talk about this is Trump's former lawyer, Michael Cohen...

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so you're saying you think Trump has Billions, are you?

When telling a woman you wanna bang how much you’re worth, you always exaggerate by one or two zeroes.  
 

however, the situation can be Made more awkward by the fact the object of his affection is also the executor of his estate and thus knows the financial specifics.  

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https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2022/04/01/truth-social-trump-network-propaganda/

 

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There is almost nothing I wouldn’t do for you, dear reader, and this week, in your behalf, I made a painful sacrifice: I joined Truth Social so you don’t have to.

I endured weeks on the waiting list for the Donald Trump-created, Devin Nunes-run attempt at a Twitter killer, and I suffered through a series of technical glitches. But eventually I gained access. As a result, I have come to be in possession of the following new pieces of information about the war in Ukraine:

 

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Hunter Biden is involved in building and running biolabs in the country.

The CIA and National Institutes of Health are both “deeply involved” in the Ukrainian biolabs.

Russia’s invasion of Ukraine was set in motion by a CIA false-flag operation that was funded by George Soros.

The covid-19 pathogen originated not in China but in Shpyl’chyna, a village in Ukraine.

The bioweapons developed in Ukraine specifically target the “Abrahamic Bloodline.”

Neo-Nazis from Ukraine joined with the FBI to infiltrate the Capitol on Jan. 6 and participated in the insurrection.

Ukraine was planning to use drones to attack Russia with pathogens from the U.S.-funded bioweapons labs.

President Biden has been using Ukraine to launder money.

Ukrainian neo-Nazis controlled the Ukrainian city of Mariupol before Russians invaded.

Russia’s alleged war crimes were staged.

I also found many posts calling President Biden a pedophile (or a “groomer” in the new parlance of QAnon). I found badly photoshopped images of Vice President Harris in sexualized situations. I found ceaseless attacks on trans people, an edited video of a cat attacking House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, attacks on Disney for opposing Florida’s “Don’t Say Gay” legislation, references to satanic sacrifice by the “deep state,” a few racist epithets and endless accusations about Hunter Biden’s laptop and drug abuse.

I signed up for Truth Social, which launched its attack on Twitter soon after Vladimir Putin launched his attack on Ukraine, on March 3. “Due to high demand,” my “waitlist number” was 986,565.

I promptly forgot about Truth Social. Apparently, so did everybody else. The Wrap, an entertainment news website, reported this week that the app has seen a 93 percent drop in sign-ups (weekly installs on the Apple App Store have fallen from 872,000 at launch to just 60,000, according to analytics firm Sensor Tower) and a “similarly steep decline in traffic.” Truth Social had almost 1 million daily visits at launch, but that has fallen to fewer than 300,000 — well below Gab, a social media site that attracts white supremacists, according to SimilarWeb, another analytics firm.

Seems Trump’s social media venture is headed the way of Trump University, Trump’s Atlantic City casinos, Trump’s charities, Trump mattresses, Trump steaks, Trump clothing, Trump perfume, Trump lighting, Trump floor coverings, Trump eyewear, the Trump presidency and American democracy.

But this week, I got the coveted email welcoming me to Truth Social, with the caveat that “we are still fixing many bugs.” Sure enough, I clicked on the provided link to my profile — and got an error message. Eventually, I followed all the accounts Truth suggested for me, including Kyle Rittenhouse, Maria Bartiromo, the Epoch Times, Hot Chicks Golfing, Dr. Fauci Sucks, Sean Hannity, Eric Trump, Fake Hunter Biden, Dan Bongino, Breitbart News, Donald Trump Jr. and Donald Trump. House Republican leaders are on the platform, with red checkmarks instead of Twitter’s blue. In fact, the whole thing looks similar to Twitter, with “Truths” instead of tweets; the only differences are the lack of functionality and users.

I searched for the hashtag #Ukraine, hopped into the rabbit hole and was quickly swimming in a cesspool.

There were posts from Russian state propaganda. There was a doctored image of Trump holding a sign saying “Zelensky is the Avenatti of leaders.” There was a doctored video of Putin saying “Let’s go, Brandon.” There were posts about Ukrainian leaders being corrupt. There was a claim that Ukraine is “defending the NWO” — New World Order.

I scrolled on: Ukrainian soldiers are “white supremacists and neo-Nazis,” the “globalists” are backing Ukraine, the United States has “no business in this fraternal conflict,” a U.S. undersecretary of state paid $5 million to elect Volodymyr Zelensky, sanctions on Russia are hurting the U.S. dollar, Ukraine attacked Russia. Oh, and the Democrats (“Demon Rats”) “did not want Trump to know that they were creating a CIA colony in Ukraine,” so “they paralyzed his administration with two fake ‘impeachment’s and ultimately stole the election.”

Busted!

I did find the occasional pro-Ukraine “Truth.” And — who knows? — if I searched long enough, I might have found something accurate. But I didn’t. Instead, I found a small clump of angry people shouting into a void. And that’s the sad truth.

 

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So when does Devin Nunes get fired?  Because you know this shit is something Trump cannot stand.  I mean, we all knew it would just be the next in a long, long line of Trump failures, but somehow Donald and his bootlickers knew this would be a hit.

 

https://www.thedailybeast.com/trumps-truth-social-is-doing-even-worse-than-you-thought?ref=home

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The app that Donald Trump once hoped would avenge his exile from social media and make him a MAGA Mark Zuckerberg has instead plummeted to the 28th most popular social media platform in Apple’s App Store, lagging behind the likes of more obscure social networks like “Wizz,” “BeReal,” and “Bloomer-random video chat.”

Soon after the start of the “soft launch” of his social media company Truth Social in late February, Donald Trump grew deeply annoyed with the anemic growth and the lackluster rollout of the website. Though Trump and his team were expecting the new app to be a huge hit with his political base, the site was handily trounced in recent weeks by competitor MAGA social networks, including one that caters primarily to neo-Nazis.

 

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But this month, the situation has only gotten worse for Trump’s latest large-scale business venture, according to data analyses reviewed by The Daily Beast, and sources close to Trump say he has recently complained about the low-energy activity on the app and appears disengaged from trying to turn the platform around, much less post on it.

Download data shared by the analytics firm Apptopia shows that downloads of the app have plummeted from a peak of 170,000 downloads a day to just 8,000 now. The app is now just the 355th most popular app on Apple devices overall. And those who have downloaded it don’t seem to be using it that much.

 

 

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Daily active users—a metric that social media and tech companies use to measure how many engaged users an app has—stood at just 513,000 as of last week. By contrast, daily active users at Twitter—Trump’s erstwhile and beloved social media home—were around 217 million, according to the company’s last quarterly earnings report.

Trump and Truth Social officials have presented the launch of the platform with plenty of caveats. In a speech at a Conservative Political Action Committee event, Trump himself said the company is rolling out the app “very slowly”—the app has been only available via a waiting list and even then only in Apple’s AppStore.

 

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But that soft launch has come with a series of technical glitches and user complaints. Former Rep. Devin Nunes, who retired from Congress to take a job as the leader of Trump Media and Technology Group, Truth Social’s parent company, had promised in February that the app would be fully up and running by the end of March.

But users have repeatedly complained about error messages and a convoluted registration process that has left even diehard MAGA fans frustrated. “I’ve been waiting for this. It’s finally released, and it doesn’t work,” one user wrote in an AppStore review.

Spokespeople for Trump and Truth Social did not provide comment for this story.

As The Daily Beast reported early last month, the twice-impeached former president has in the past several weeks privately fumed about the blisteringly negative media coverage of the app’s rollout and number of users and visitors. “What the fuck is going on?” Trump was repeatedly heard snapping into his phone, demanding to know why Truth Social wasn’t a runaway success.

The former president had wished the website, which was backed by big money and significant partnerships, would be another tool for bringing in revenue, and yet another way to help keep Trump relevant and constantly in the national conversation. Trump also hoped Truth Social would help him achieve his fully realized vengeance against his supposedly Trump-hating, Big Tech adversaries.

Instead, less than two months into the launch, Trump has all but given up on his own high-profile MAGA app, and has barely even touched his personal account on Truth Social. According to people familiar with the matter, Trump continued throughout the rest of March to sporadically complain about how poorly his website was performing.

One person who’s known the ex-president for years said that when Truth Social was recently brought up with Trump in a relaxed social setting, the former president instead kept rambling on about Hunter Biden’s laptop.

In a statement accompanying the announcement of TruthSocial in October 2021, Trump declared himself “excited” for the opportunity “to send out my first TRUTH on TRUTH Social very soo” and “begin sharing my thoughts on TRUTH Social and to fight back against Big Tech.” So far, however, Trump has only posted once on the app with yet another tease that "Your favorite President will see you soon!"

Asked by The Daily Beast why the ex-president wasn’t prolifically using the app himself these days, another source—who has spoken to Trump about his floundering social-media company in the past few weeks—simply replied, “He wants it to be a hit first.”

It is not, currently, a hit by reasonable and objective metrics.

 

 

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So it begins.

 

https://www.reuters.com/technology/exclusive-two-key-tech-execs-quit-truth-social-after-troubled-app-launch-2022-04-04/

 

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The two Southern tech entrepreneurs had the two qualities that Donald Trump’s Truth Social startup needed: tech-industry expertise and a politically conservative worldview aligned with the former president, a rare combination in the liberal-leaning industry centered in San Francisco.

Josh Adams and Billy Boozer - the company’s chiefs of technology and product development - joined the venture last year and quickly became central players in its bid to build a social-media empire, backed by Trump’s powerful brand, to counter what many conservatives deride as “cancel culture” censorship from the left.

 

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Less than a year later, both have resigned their senior posts at a critical juncture for the company’s smartphone-app release plans, according to two sources familiar with the venture.

The departures followed the troubled launch of the company’s iPhone app on Feb. 20. Weeks later, many users remain on a waiting list, unable to access the platform. Trump Media & Technology Group (TMTG) Chief Executive Devin Nunes, a former Republican congressman, said publicly that the company aimed to make the app fully operational within the United States by the end of March.

The company has an app for iPhones but no app for Android phones, which comprise more than 40% of the U.S. market, though the company has advertised seeking an engineer to build one.

 

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Boozer declined to comment and Adams did not respond to a request. Representatives for TMTG and Trump did not respond to requests for comment.

This account is based on Reuters interviews with eight people with knowledge of Truth Social’s activities, all of whom spoke on condition of anonymity.

Truth Social is part of a growing sector of tech firms catering to conservatives and marketing themselves as free-speech champions. The platform promised to give Trump unfettered communication with the American public more than a year after he was kicked off Twitter, Facebook and YouTube for allegedly inciting or glorifying violence during the Jan. 6, 2021, riots at the U.S. Capitol.

The exit of two executives critical to the app-launch efforts could imperil the company’s progress as it tries to prove it can compete with mainstream platforms such as Twitter, said two people familiar with the company. Like Twitter, Trump’s platform offers users the chance to connect and share their thoughts.

“If Josh has left… all bets are off,” one of those sources said of tech chief Adams, calling him the “brains” behind Truth Social’s technology.

Another source familiar with the venture said that Boozer also had a major leadership role as product chief, running management across technology infrastructure, design and development teams.

Reuters could not determine the specific circumstances behind the executives’ resignations, or whether they have been replaced or their duties reassigned. It also remains unclear whether Adams and Boozer still work on the venture in a different capacity after quitting their executive posts.

Their resignations came before their key roles in the closely watched company were even publicly known outside of Truth Social’s secretive culture.

Adams and Boozer worked at a level just below Wes Moss and Andy Litinsky, both former castmates on “The Apprentice,” Trump’s hit reality TV show, according to a source familiar with the venture.

Moss and Litinsky have been the “senior, day-to-day leadership” running the company since it started last summer, the source said. The two men had pitched Trump on the social-media venture in January of 2021, according to a person familiar with the company’s founding.

Reuters could not determine the specific job titles or responsibilities of Moss and Litinsky, neither of whom responded to requests for comment. TMTG has released little information about its executive leadership team outside of CEO Nunes, who joined in December.

Another open question is how TMTG is funding its current growth. The company is planning to go public through a merger with blank-check firm Digital World Acquisition Corp (DWAC) . The deal is under scrutiny by the Securities and Exchange Commission and is likely months away from being finalized.

DWAC disclosed in a regulatory filing last December that the SEC was probing the deal. The SEC has not addressed the nature of the inquiry and did not respond to a request for comment on Sunday.

Investors have pledged $1 billion to TMTG but they won’t hand over that money until the DWAC deal closes.

Trump’s level of involvement with his namesake company and the Truth Social platform also remains unclear. The former president so far has written only one post - or “truth” - on the platform, writing on Feb. 14: “Get Ready! Your favorite President will see you soon!”

Downloads of the Truth Social app have declined precipitously, from 866,000 installations the week of its launch to 60,000 the week of March 14, according to estimates from data analytics firm Sensor Tower. The firm estimates the Truth Social app has been downloaded 1.2 million times in all, trailing far behind rival conservative apps Parler and Gettr at 11.3 million and 6.8 million installations, respectively.

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When they joined the company last year, Adams and Boozer embraced the vision for a social-media company with an “anti-cancel culture” mission, according to one of the sources familiar with the venture. The executives believed deeply in creating an “open platform, where as long as you don’t say anything that is criminal,” the person said, “you can be entitled to your own opinion.”

Reuters could not determine the exact date the two executives joined the firm, but they were working on the Truth Social app by the fall, according to two sources familiar with the venture.

As the company sought engineers that had both the requisite skills and compatible politics, Adams and Boozer fit the bill, another person familiar with the company said. To gauge whether potential recruits were a good fit, hiring managers explored candidates’ political ideology, in at least one case by scanning their social media profiles and listening to their appearances on podcasts, that person said.

The company’s political bent limited its hiring pool. At least one candidate rebuffed a recruitment overture, saying he couldn’t stomach working for Trump, the person familiar with the company said. Others who rejected the company's outreach said they were concerned about job security and feared the company and its employees might be prime targets for hackers, according to two people with knowledge of the firm's recruiting efforts.

Adams joined Trump’s company after building a career as a software developer from his native Alabama. He co-founded Daring Bit Assembly, a product and software development consultancy whose clients have included the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office, the Federal Bureau of Investigation and e-commerce startup Shipt, according to Daring Bit Assembly’s website.

Adams is a “constitutionalist” who believes in strict interpretation of the authors’ original intent for the foundational U.S. document, said one of the people familiar with company operations. In May 2021, Adams filed a lawsuit in federal court in Alabama against the state’s governor, a Republican, and its health officer, alleging that the state’s mask mandate during the coronavirus pandemic violated the U.S. and Alabama Constitutions. The case was dismissed in June 2021.

Boozer, also a political conservative who previously lived in Alabama, had collaborated frequently with Adams before joining Truth Social, according to the source. With Adams in place to steer the back-end infrastructure of the app, Boozer brought a strong command of the front-end technology that touches users, according to that source.

The pair kept a low profile despite holding high-ranking positions at the closely watched venture.

Neither Adams nor Boozer disclosed their work at Truth Social on their LinkedIn profiles, which list numerous other jobs and ventures from their past. The company did not publicly announce their hiring.

Adams’ and Boozer’s roles were listed in a November investor presentation as the TMTG technology team’s chief technology officer and chief product officer - but without their last names. When Truth Social launched, they posted frequently on the platform, but again presenting themselves to the public only as “Josh A.” and “Billy B.”

 

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4 hours ago, Francisco 2.0 said:

So when does Devin Nunes get fired?  Because you know this shit is something Trump cannot stand.  I mean, we all knew it would just be the next in a long, long line of Trump failures, but somehow Donald and his bootlickers knew this would be a hit.

 

https://www.thedailybeast.com/trumps-truth-social-is-doing-even-worse-than-you-thought?ref=home

 

 

 

 

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But that soft launch has come with a series of technical glitches and user complaints. Former Rep. Devin Nunes, who retired from Congress to take a job as the leader of Trump Media and Technology Group, Truth Social’s parent company, had promised in February that the app would be fully up and running by the end of March.

But users have repeatedly complained about error messages and a convoluted registration process that has left even diehard MAGA fans frustrated. “I’ve been waiting for this. It’s finally released, and it doesn’t work,” one user wrote in an AppStore review.

Spokespeople for Trump and Truth Social did not provide comment for this story.

As The Daily Beast reported early last month, the twice-impeached former president has in the past several weeks privately fumed about the blisteringly negative media coverage of the app’s rollout and number of users and visitors. “What the fuck is going on?” Trump was repeatedly heard snapping into his phone, demanding to know why Truth Social wasn’t a runaway success.

The former president had wished the website, which was backed by big money and significant partnerships, would be another tool for bringing in revenue, and yet another way to help keep Trump relevant and constantly in the national conversation. Trump also hoped Truth Social would help him achieve his fully realized vengeance against his supposedly Trump-hating, Big Tech adversaries.

Instead, less than two months into the launch, Trump has all but given up on his own high-profile MAGA app, and has barely even touched his personal account on Truth Social. According to people familiar with the matter, Trump continued throughout the rest of March to sporadically complain about how poorly his website was performing.

One person who’s known the ex-president for years said that when Truth Social was recently brought up with Trump in a relaxed social setting, the former president instead kept rambling on about Hunter Biden’s laptop.

In a statement accompanying the announcement of TruthSocial in October 2021, Trump declared himself “excited” for the opportunity “to send out my first TRUTH on TRUTH Social very soo” and “begin sharing my thoughts on TRUTH Social and to fight back against Big Tech.” So far, however, Trump has only posted once on the app with yet another tease that "Your favorite President will see you soon!"

Asked by The Daily Beast why the ex-president wasn’t prolifically using the app himself these days, another source—who has spoken to Trump about his floundering social-media company in the past few weeks—simply replied, “He wants it to be a hit first.”

It is not, currently, a hit by reasonable and objective metrics.

 

 

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The app that Donald Trump once hoped would avenge his exile from social media and make him a MAGA Mark Zuckerberg has instead plummeted to the 28th most popular social media platform in Apple’s App Store, lagging behind the likes of more obscure social networks like “Wizz,” “BeReal,” and “Bloomer-random video chat.”

Did Trump start that one too?

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Of all of the stupid self destructive things he's ever done, disparaging McCain has to be near the top.  As close as the AZ vote turned out (the real vote), if he had just even remained neutral on one of its favorite sons, he could've quite conceivably legitimately won the state.

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So it begins.

 

https://www.reuters.com/technology/exclusive-two-key-tech-execs-quit-truth-social-after-troubled-app-launch-2022-04-04/

 

 

 

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Boozer declined to comment and Adams did not respond to a request. Representatives for TMTG and Trump did not respond to requests for comment.

This account is based on Reuters interviews with eight people with knowledge of Truth Social’s activities, all of whom spoke on condition of anonymity.

Truth Social is part of a growing sector of tech firms catering to conservatives and marketing themselves as free-speech champions. The platform promised to give Trump unfettered communication with the American public more than a year after he was kicked off Twitter, Facebook and YouTube for allegedly inciting or glorifying violence during the Jan. 6, 2021, riots at the U.S. Capitol.

The exit of two executives critical to the app-launch efforts could imperil the company’s progress as it tries to prove it can compete with mainstream platforms such as Twitter, said two people familiar with the company. Like Twitter, Trump’s platform offers users the chance to connect and share their thoughts.

“If Josh has left… all bets are off,” one of those sources said of tech chief Adams, calling him the “brains” behind Truth Social’s technology.

Another source familiar with the venture said that Boozer also had a major leadership role as product chief, running management across technology infrastructure, design and development teams.

Reuters could not determine the specific circumstances behind the executives’ resignations, or whether they have been replaced or their duties reassigned. It also remains unclear whether Adams and Boozer still work on the venture in a different capacity after quitting their executive posts.

Their resignations came before their key roles in the closely watched company were even publicly known outside of Truth Social’s secretive culture.

Adams and Boozer worked at a level just below Wes Moss and Andy Litinsky, both former castmates on “The Apprentice,” Trump’s hit reality TV show, according to a source familiar with the venture.

Moss and Litinsky have been the “senior, day-to-day leadership” running the company since it started last summer, the source said. The two men had pitched Trump on the social-media venture in January of 2021, according to a person familiar with the company’s founding.

Reuters could not determine the specific job titles or responsibilities of Moss and Litinsky, neither of whom responded to requests for comment. TMTG has released little information about its executive leadership team outside of CEO Nunes, who joined in December.

Another open question is how TMTG is funding its current growth. The company is planning to go public through a merger with blank-check firm Digital World Acquisition Corp (DWAC) . The deal is under scrutiny by the Securities and Exchange Commission and is likely months away from being finalized.

DWAC disclosed in a regulatory filing last December that the SEC was probing the deal. The SEC has not addressed the nature of the inquiry and did not respond to a request for comment on Sunday.

Investors have pledged $1 billion to TMTG but they won’t hand over that money until the DWAC deal closes.

Trump’s level of involvement with his namesake company and the Truth Social platform also remains unclear. The former president so far has written only one post - or “truth” - on the platform, writing on Feb. 14: “Get Ready! Your favorite President will see you soon!”

Downloads of the Truth Social app have declined precipitously, from 866,000 installations the week of its launch to 60,000 the week of March 14, according to estimates from data analytics firm Sensor Tower. The firm estimates the Truth Social app has been downloaded 1.2 million times in all, trailing far behind rival conservative apps Parler and Gettr at 11.3 million and 6.8 million installations, respectively.

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When they joined the company last year, Adams and Boozer embraced the vision for a social-media company with an “anti-cancel culture” mission, according to one of the sources familiar with the venture. The executives believed deeply in creating an “open platform, where as long as you don’t say anything that is criminal,” the person said, “you can be entitled to your own opinion.”

Reuters could not determine the exact date the two executives joined the firm, but they were working on the Truth Social app by the fall, according to two sources familiar with the venture.

As the company sought engineers that had both the requisite skills and compatible politics, Adams and Boozer fit the bill, another person familiar with the company said. To gauge whether potential recruits were a good fit, hiring managers explored candidates’ political ideology, in at least one case by scanning their social media profiles and listening to their appearances on podcasts, that person said.

The company’s political bent limited its hiring pool. At least one candidate rebuffed a recruitment overture, saying he couldn’t stomach working for Trump, the person familiar with the company said. Others who rejected the company's outreach said they were concerned about job security and feared the company and its employees might be prime targets for hackers, according to two people with knowledge of the firm's recruiting efforts.

Adams joined Trump’s company after building a career as a software developer from his native Alabama. He co-founded Daring Bit Assembly, a product and software development consultancy whose clients have included the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office, the Federal Bureau of Investigation and e-commerce startup Shipt, according to Daring Bit Assembly’s website.

Adams is a “constitutionalist” who believes in strict interpretation of the authors’ original intent for the foundational U.S. document, said one of the people familiar with company operations. In May 2021, Adams filed a lawsuit in federal court in Alabama against the state’s governor, a Republican, and its health officer, alleging that the state’s mask mandate during the coronavirus pandemic violated the U.S. and Alabama Constitutions. The case was dismissed in June 2021.

Boozer, also a political conservative who previously lived in Alabama, had collaborated frequently with Adams before joining Truth Social, according to the source. With Adams in place to steer the back-end infrastructure of the app, Boozer brought a strong command of the front-end technology that touches users, according to that source.

The pair kept a low profile despite holding high-ranking positions at the closely watched venture.

Neither Adams nor Boozer disclosed their work at Truth Social on their LinkedIn profiles, which list numerous other jobs and ventures from their past. The company did not publicly announce their hiring.

Adams’ and Boozer’s roles were listed in a November investor presentation as the TMTG technology team’s chief technology officer and chief product officer - but without their last names. When Truth Social launched, they posted frequently on the platform, but again presenting themselves to the public only as “Josh A.” and “Billy B.”

 

And Trump won't post on it, because he doesn't want to be associated with a loser.  Which is his.

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What's the higher attrition rate, people who work with Trump (either as President or post-Presidency) or the conscripted infantry of the Soviet army in 1943?  

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1 hour ago, Horn Under a Bad Sign said:

BBC:  Truth Social has been a disaster.

https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-60922717

The man who can't run a social media platform (despite once having had 50 million+ followers on another social media platform) wants to run the country. 

He doesn’t want to run the country. He wants to take over the country. 

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4 hours ago, Macanudo said:

Maybe she's not really his and that's how he rationalizes his lust.

I have been saying this re: Ivanka for a while.  She is the result of a cuckhold relationship Ivana had.  Maybe he was Ukrainian and that explains that whole deal, maybe it was John McCain.

Anyone with a Truth account feel free to post this there.

 

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I have been saying this re: Ivanka for a while.  She is the result of a cuckhold relationship Ivana had.  Maybe he was Ukrainian and that explains that whole deal, maybe it was John McCain.

Anyone with a Truth account feel free to post this there.

Ivanka has had some work done. She’s not a natural blonde, she has fake tits, and a nose job.

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I’ll quote a passage from A Very Stable Genius by Philip Rucker and Carol Leonnig, chapter 6, “Suiting Up For Battle.” There’s more about the difficulties presented by letting Jared and Ivanka roam free in Trump’s White House. But this bit about Ivanka stands out as a sort of, “Well, duh!” morsel. As if we needed to be told.

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Others who interacted with Ivanka found her to be a spoiled princess who had absorbed her father’s worst narcissistic, superficial, and self-promoting qualities. “As a twelve-year-old, she was put on the phone with CEOs, and her father told her she was the most amazing thing in the world and her opinion was valued,” one administration official explained. “She is a product of her environment.”

I think it was in Fire and Fury by Michael Wolff where she was described as “dumb as a brick.” Just hearing her talk is like nails on a chalkboard with her robotic manner of speaking cultivated to fit into high society. She’s a vapid, pampered little daddy’s girl who isn’t qualified to do anything more than pick out the drapes and the carpet (which don’t match) in a Trump-branded property. And yet she was given a title, an office, a budget, and a staff. We were told that she would rein in her father’s worst impulses but there’s no evidence that ever happened. And how many trademarks did China grant her while she was “Senior Advisor to the President of the United States?” I lost count.

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1 hour ago, TexasEd said:

I have been saying this re: Ivanka for a while.  She is the result of a cuckhold relationship Ivana had.  Maybe he was Ukrainian and that explains that whole deal, maybe it was John McCain.

Anyone with a Truth account feel free to post this there.

 

They’d better hurry. “Truth Social” plummets to the 28th most popular social network available with no signs of possible rebound.

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8 minutes ago, Fudge Nuggets said:

I'd be willing to bet she's sporting hard wood floors.

Only if she’s hired a personal groomer to do the job. Which I would doubt. The Trump’s are all about appearance and if the public isn’t going to see it, what the fuck do they care? My money is on big brown beaver. 

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9 hours ago, Francisco 2.0 said:

So it begins.  Josh Adams and Billy Boozer - the company’s chiefs of technology and product development - joined the venture last year and quickly became central players in its bid to build a social-media empire, backed by Trump’s powerful brand, to counter what many conservatives deride as “cancel culture” censorship from the left.

Less than a year later, both have resigned their senior posts at a critical juncture for the company’s smartphone-app release plans, according to two sources familiar with the venture.

A year working on Trump's social media platform?  I bet that motherfucker Boozer's last name checks the fuck out.

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Only if she’s hired a personal groomer to do the job. Which I would doubt. The Trump’s are all about appearance and if the public isn’t going to see it, what the fuck do they care? My money is on big brown beaver. 
Daddy paid for Lazer Hair Removal. Not for Jared, for her cute OBYN.
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Meh, who cares she's had some work done?  She's a self-absorbed, somewhat-rich, New York socialite.  It'd have been weird had she not gotten any work done.  The disturbing thing is that Dad went with her to the pre-surgery meetings where they circle the shit on the body they're gonna "enhance."  And he went there saying "I'm her advocate, just wanna make sure there's no funny business..." 

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1 hour ago, WhatTheBuck said:
Only if she’s hired a personal groomer to do the job. Which I would doubt. The Trump’s are all about appearance and if the public isn’t going to see it, what the fuck do they care? My money is on big brown beaver. 

Daddy paid for Lazer Hair Removal. Not for Jared, for her cute OBYN.

This is the only shaved pussy in that family other than Melania:

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