A story about a pathetic man's downfall [34 Felony Convictions]

[Gil Bang 25,946]

Just now, chainsaw said:

I wish someone would have asked him to name a single book in the Bible. Just one.

That was done earlier, and the response was "that's very personal, and I'm not gonna answer that.  It's very private" or some such.

[bolverk 29,671]

32 minutes ago, Mdhorn said:

Republicans take the House and Senate and vote to change the law.  

Trump shouldn't have been able to run the first time since he was compromised comprised and paid off prostitutes, was bankrolled by a foreign bank, and had foreign help spreading disinformation.  He breaks decorum, rules, and laws and Republicans shield him.  Why would this be any different? 

Fixed for Boobert

[chainsaw 9,866]

3 minutes ago, Gil Bang said:

That was done earlier, and the response was "that's very personal, and I'm not gonna answer that.  It's very private" or some such.

Maybe the question was "which is your favorite" but surely "name one book" implicates no such privacy concerns

[Satchel 6,938]

16 minutes ago, Biff Tannen said:

Two Corinthians 

II Opinions

[RomaVicta 29,907]

21 minutes ago, Biff Tannen said:

Weirdest moment of his tenure

I was just looking at it with fresh eyes and wondering, "what the hell is he trying to convey?" 

This was another weird moment: Trump getting fired up before a 9/11 memorial.

[henrygandorf 29,189]

43 minutes ago, brakeman said:

just like if the contents of the warrant made him look good, he would’ve already disclosed it. there’s a reason he hasn’t. 

and it sounds like there’s nothing in place to stop him from running/holding office again. 

[Eskimohorn 5,635]

The qualifications are set by the constitution; congress can’t change that part of the constitution just like it can’t change any other per of the constitution. If you want to change something set by the constitution, you have to amend the constitution.

You mean like declaring war, setting tariffs, paying all debts, things like that?

[TwiceHorn 31,453]

1 hour ago, CTC2 said:

A lot of reputable people think the provision is unconstitutional because the Constitution dictates eligibility requirements for federal office.

Unfortunately, that seems like a really pretty good argument as applied to those whose eligibility is addressed by the Constitution.

[TwiceHorn 31,453]

46 minutes ago, Pato del Muerto said:

Just noticed how he awkwardly grabs the Bible as if he’s figuring out contemporaneously how to hold it, and then holds it thumb forward like an idiot.  

Well, you'd hold it funny too if it was burning you.  Because it was burning him.

[BehoId, The Underminer! 11,669]

Textually reads like a minimum requirement not a maximum requirement.  “No person shall hold office unless [whatever]”. Different from “every person who has [whatever] can hold office.”

[TwiceHorn 31,453]

1 hour ago, SaucyJack said:

No, the magistrate was appointed by the Federal Judges of the Southern district of Florida.

 

https://www.flsd.uscourts.gov/district-judgesorida

 

https://www.flsd.uscourts.gov/magistrate-judges

I had said earlier that I thought a district judge could sign a search warrant.  Apparently not.

Magistrates are like "assistant judges."  There's almost nothing they can do that a District Judge can't do (but there's a lot DJs can do that magistrates can't in most circumstances).  However, hearing and signing/granting search warrants is apparently one of them.  https://www.law.cornell.edu/rules/frcrmp/rule_41

[Dutchrudder 11,138]

Representative Scott Perry says the F.B.I. seized his cellphone today.  It might be related, or it could be related to the 1/6 investigation. 

Quote

WASHINGTON — The F.B.I. on Tuesday seized the cellphone of Representative Scott Perry, Republican of Pennsylvania and the chairman of the ultraconservative House Freedom Caucus, according to the congressman’s office.

Mr. Perry, who has been issued a subpoena by the House committee investigating the Jan. 6 attack on the Capitol, said three F.B.I. agents seized his phone Tuesday morning while he was traveling with family.

“They made no attempt to contact my lawyer, who would have made arrangements for them to have my phone if that was their wish,” Mr. Perry said in a statement. “I’m outraged — though not surprised — that the F.B.I., under the direction of Merrick Garland’s D.O.J., would seize the phone of a sitting member of Congress.”

His statement was reported earlier by Fox News.

Mr. Perry compared the seizure of his cellphone to the F.B.I.’s search of former President Donald J. Trump’s Mar-a-Lago property Monday, in which agents took out boxes of materials after an all-day search related to an investigation into the mishandling of White House documents.

“My phone contains info about my legislative and political activities, and personal/private discussions with my wife, family, constituents and friends. None of this is the government’s business,” Mr. Perry said. “As with President Trump last night, D.O.J. chose this unnecessary and aggressive action instead of simply contacting my attorneys. These kinds of banana republic tactics should concern every citizen.”

It was not immediately clear why the F.B.I. had seized Mr. Perry’s phone. A spokeswoman for the congressman did not respond right away to a follow-up question, and the Justice Department did not immediately respond to a request for comment.

Mr. Perry has refused to appear before the Jan. 6 committee, and his lawyer has argued that there was “nothing improper” about his actions during the buildup to the attack on the Capitol.

In the weeks after the 2020 election, Mr. Perry was among at least 11 members of Congress who were involved in discussions with White House officials about overturning the election, including plans to pressure Vice President Mike Pence to throw out electoral votes from states won by President Biden, according to the committee. Mr. Perry also endorsed the idea of encouraging supporters to march to the Capitol, the committee has said.

A member of Congress since 2013, Mr. Perry also compiled a dossier of voter fraud allegations and coordinated a plan to try to replace the acting attorney general, who was resisting Mr. Trump’s attempts to overturn the election, with a more compliant official.

Mr. Perry is not the only ally of Mr. Trump whose phone has been seized in recent weeks. In June, federal agents seized the phone of John Eastman, the conservative lawyer who advised Mr. Trump on strategies to overturn the election.

The seizure of Mr. Eastman’s phone was carried out by F.B.I. agents acting on behalf of the Justice Department’s Office of the Inspector General. It came the same day that federal agents raided the home and seized the electronic devices of Jeffrey Clark, a former Justice Department official who was central to Mr. Trump’s attempts to coerce the department’s leaders into backing his false claims of fraud in the election.

The inspector general’s office, which has jurisdiction over investigations of Justice Department employees, also issued the warrant in the search of Mr. Clark’s home. The warrant indicated that prosecutors are investigating Mr. Clark for charges that include conspiracy to obstruct the certification of the presidential election.

Mr. Perry was instrumental in introducing Mr. Clark to Mr. Trump, and pushing for Mr. Clark to be installed as acting attorney general.

https://www.nytimes.com/2022/08/09/us/scott-perry-cellphone-fbi.html

 

Edited August 10, 2022 by Dutchrudder

[David Dennison 18,856]

50 minutes ago, RomaVicta said:

I was just looking at it with fresh eyes and wondering, "what the hell is he trying to convey?" 

This was another weird moment: Trump getting fired up before a 9/11 memorial.

[tx 3 putt 76,926]

1 hour ago, Biff Tannen said:

Weirdest moment of his tenure

 

[Hagbard Celine 10,854]

7 hours ago, BrickHorn said:

Anastasiastic

we need a companion to aggypedia...

 

surlypedia.com

with entries like "bigboy", "sitting", "preacher boy", "porta-potty-girl", and with hundreds of others, likely the first entry alphabetically, this word, you have so masterfully crafted....

 

Anastasiastic

 

[Hagbard Celine 10,854]

5 hours ago, Js1 said:

Gotta be way more than just classified docs 

tonight woodward said it's stuff that's classification is classified

that's way beyond sources, methods, or bluffdale

we're in to capabilities, technologies, real heavy shit

 

you can try to steal the election

you can try to overthrow the government

but the one thing you absolutely positively never do is fuck with the boys

 

[atomheartbevo 89,656]

[atomheartbevo 89,656]

 

[henrygandorf 29,189]

13 minutes ago, atomheartbevo said:

 

biden didn’t send anyone and 10k names won’t stop anything. i am digging the infighting though. 

[Underdog 28,617]

7 hours ago, brakeman said:

the irony fucking is rich, like a biscuit and gravy smoothie.

bawabawahaahaaha.

 

[956 Worldwide 34,706]

11 hours ago, TexasEd said:

With the exception of twitter and text Trump is a luddite or technophobe.  He had everything printed for him to read. 

The people who printed it had to mark it, put a cover sheet on it, put it in an appropriately labeled and color coded envelope and it had to be securely stored and tracked until it was destroyed and then it would be taken off the printed inventory list.

 

The President’s daily brief was a hard doc till Obama’s second term. Would not surprise me at all if Trump preferred a hard copy, lots of senior people do.

There are other reasons to have hard copies, for instance someone needs to be read in and they have clearance but not systems access.  There are cover sheets and handling instructions for exactly these reasons. 

[Dnaguy 11,948]

6 hours ago, chainsaw said:

I wish someone would have asked him to name a single book in the Bible. Just one.

 

[AnTiM 1,666]

10 minutes ago, Dnaguy said:

 

Ask him to name his favorite con job, he should have no problem with that.

[RPM 26,318]

7 hours ago, Pato del Muerto said:

Just noticed how he awkwardly grabs the Bible as if he’s figuring out contemporaneously how to hold it, and then holds it thumb forward like an idiot.  

Because his hand was burning like a motherfucker.

[gmr548 16,576]

I’m not a ledge guy but the back and forth over if material civil strife could be instigated by some flashpoint moment in all this did get me thinking. 
 
if you are a country hostile to us…aren’t you gameplanning assassinating Trump and making it look like the dirty libs did it?
 

No, I’d be trying to get him back in office.

[PenelopeWitherspoon 19,101]

Well, this is fun.  Eric Trump is an idiot.

 

So, yeah, that is not how that is supposed to work at all.  Not a shock to any of us, but still to have it said so blatently.

Also, fuck Andrew Cuomo. Criminals obviously stick together.

 

 

[Mrs Whiggins 13,050]

24 minutes ago, PenelopeWitherspoon said:

Well, this is fun.  Eric Trump is an idiot.

 

So, yeah, that is not how that is supposed to work at all.  Not a shock to any of us, but still to have it said so blatently.

In light of the murder and dismemberment of Jamal Khashoggi, I wonder if the Trump family would like to revise his statement about knowledge and approval?

[Post Oak 20,211]

26 minutes ago, PenelopeWitherspoon said:

Well, this is fun.  Eric Trump is an idiot.

 

 

What's impressive is he's actually the smart brother.

[TwiceHorn 31,453]

31 minutes ago, PenelopeWitherspoon said:

Well, this is fun.  Eric Trump is an idiot.

 

So, yeah, that is not how that is supposed to work at all.  Not a shock to any of us, but still to have it said so blatently.

Also, fuck Andrew Cuomo. Criminals obviously stick together.

 

 

I think the most likely answer is that ET does not, in fact, know what he's talking about.

But the next mostly likely answer is that the Trump White House was, in fact, all up in the DOJ's business like no other.

[TwiceHorn 31,453]

So, apparently Trump is giving his deposition to the NY AG today.  I'm kind of digging that he's probably agitated af.

I'm digging all of this.  While Trump is a veteran of civil cases, many or most of which he initiated, I'm relatively certain he's never been under the gun like this before.  His insecurity and ego have to be absolutely wilding out about now.

Edited August 10, 2022 by TwiceHorn

[TXSG8R 3,362]

5 minutes ago, TwiceHorn said:

I think the most likely answer is that ET does not, in fact, know what he's talking about.

But the next mostly likely answer is that the Trump White House was, in fact, all up in the DOJ's business like no other.

Barr right now.

 

[TexArcher 37,774]

Yeah, the GOP playbook here is obvious.

1. This is Joe Biden and/or Nancy Pelosi weaponizing the Justice Department to settle personal political scores.

2. Any evidence obtained from the search was planted by the FBI.  They protected Hillary and they're framing Trump.

3. They are trying to steal the next election from Trump by making him ineligible, just like they stole the last one.  [Surprised I haven't heard this one yet, but they'll get to it]

There are a lot of problems with this reasoning, but it will make perfect sense to their heavily armed horde.

The GOP is dog whistling for violence.  And I'm afraid it's gonna work.

Edited August 10, 2022 by TexArcher

[RPM 26,318]

21 minutes ago, TwiceHorn said:

So, apparently Trump is giving his deposition to the NY AG today.  I'm kind of digging that he's probably agitated af.

I'm digging all of this.  While Trump is a veteran of civil cases, many or most of which he initiated, I'm relatively certain he's never been under the gun like this before.  His insecurity and ego have to be absolutely wilding out about now.

Has he ever actually been in a courthouse? I wonder how he going to like going through security.

[Ted Lange 16,084]

30 minutes ago, Post Oak said:

What's impressive is he's actually the smart brother.

*least dumb 

[Eskimohorn 5,635]

Thread title really nailed it

[DefinitelyNotHollywoodColt 12,301]

Saw this pic of his living room.

 

He’s just like us!

[immamac 42,843]

31 minutes ago, TexArcher said:

Yeah, the GOP playbook here is obvious.

1. This is Joe Biden and/or Nancy Pelosi weaponizing the Justice Department to settle personal political scores.

2. Any evidence obtained from the search was planted by the FBI.  They protected Hillary and they're framing Trump.

3. They are trying to steal the next election from Trump by making him ineligible, just like they stole the last one.  [Surprised I haven't heard this one yet, but they'll get to it]

There are a lot of problems with this reasoning, but it will make perfect sense to their heavily armed horde.

The GOP is dog whistling for violence.  And I'm afraid it's gonna work.

Good. Let them get violent. 

[PenelopeWitherspoon 19,101]

47 minutes ago, TwiceHorn said:

So, apparently Trump is giving his deposition to the NY AG today.  I'm kind of digging that he's probably agitated af.

I'm digging all of this.  While Trump is a veteran of civil cases, many or most of which he initiated, I'm relatively certain he's never been under the gun like this before.  His insecurity and ego have to be absolutely wilding out about now.

I figured that was why he was in NYC.  Fuck him.  If I were not so busy this week, I would totally have gone down with a sarcastic sign and protested his continued existence.  I heard there were actually MAGA folks supporting him on 5th.  I should go have lunch at Bergdorf's sidewalk cafe and look down my nose at them. Cult members.

[Pig Bellmont 8,715]

11 hours ago, TXSG8R said:

This is amazing. 

[PenelopeWitherspoon 19,101]

13 minutes ago, DefinitelyNotHollywoodColt said:

Saw this pic of his living room.

 

He’s just like us!

No fucking taste.

[Js1 85,316]

1 minute ago, Pig Bellmont said:

More proof of their sheer hubris that this would somehow ensnare Hillary and not any of the bumbling yokels and hacks that ran the executive branch for 4 years instead 

[Pig Bellmont 8,715]

27 minutes ago, RPM said:

Has he ever actually been in a courthouse? I wonder how he going to like going through security.

Depositions happen in conference rooms just about anywhere. Although I’m sure he will have to go to court at some point for the defamation/rape case against him 

[Mrs Whiggins 13,050]

50 minutes ago, TwiceHorn said:

So, apparently Trump is giving his deposition to the NY AG today. 

That is Letitia James, correct? Oh that is not going to trouble him at all, at all. An intelligent African-American female attorney who has called him on the carpet to face consequences.....

very glad he has no twitter....

[DefinitelyNotHollywoodColt 12,301]

9 minutes ago, immamac said:

Good. Let them get violent. 

You want political violence?

[PenelopeWitherspoon 19,101]

4 minutes ago, DefinitelyNotHollywoodColt said:

You want political violence?

I think he believes if there is some violence by the extreme right, a lot of the folks who are following along (i.e. the Fatties of the world who are one issue voters) will be so disgusted that they start realizing how fucked up Trump and his supporters really are.  At least that is what I think he meant.

[immamac 42,843]

Just now, PenelopeWitherspoon said:

I think he believes if there is some violence by the extreme right, a lot of the folks who are following along (i.e. the Fatties of the world who are one issue voters) will be so disgusted that they start realizing how fucked up Trump and his supporters really are.  At least that is what I think he meant.

Exactly correct. 

[chainsaw 9,866]

Just now, PenelopeWitherspoon said:

I think he believes if there is some violence by the extreme right, a lot of the folks who are following along (i.e. the Fatties of the world who are one issue voters) will be so disgusted that they start realizing how fucked up Trump and his supporters really are.  At least that is what I think he meant.

That and because they will get arrested, fucked up, or both.

[DigglerontheHoof 21,194]

What makes you think that would disgust the fatties of the world?  I imagine they’re all in.

[RPM 26,318]

I think they will recoil as soon as they realize there is no extra lives when they get shot like in the video game.

[Js1 85,316]

6 minutes ago, PenelopeWitherspoon said:

I think he believes if there is some violence by the extreme right, a lot of the folks who are following along (i.e. the Fatties of the world who are one issue voters) will be so disgusted that they start realizing how fucked up Trump and his supporters really are.  At least that is what I think he meant.

 

5 minutes ago, immamac said:

Exactly correct.