Merged So what's next for Trump?

[Elixir]

The crazies will start seeing Trump as part of the problem or compromised in some way.

From your fingers to God’s iPhone!

 

[ZiprHead]

'He's a terrorist -- his wife hates Trump!' Former president spits new venom at special counsel

During an appearance on Mark Levin's show, Trump demanded that Smith resign from the case and accused him of being unfairly biased against him.

"The prosecutor should resign, he's got a conflict," Trump complained. "He is a terrorist. He is a Trump hater. His best friends are [former Mueller prosecutor Andrew] Weissmann and all of these characters, Lisa Monaco at the Justice Department, one of the top officials. This is a disgraceful situation. He should resign!"

As further evidence of Smith's purported corruption, Trump then launched attacks against the special counsel's wife.

"His wife hates Trump, probably even beyond him!" he fumed. "And his wife has a sister who openly hates, like a level that you can't even believe."

Trump has routinely attacked the integrity of attorneys who are investigating him, as he referred to former special counsel Robert Mueller's probe of his campaign's contacts with Russian agents during the 2016 presidential campaign as a "witch hunt."

 

[Ford]

Sounds like somebody's scared. It seems like he's had someone do at least a little research on Smith, and the fact that he's coming after him so hard (rather than...I dunno...campaigning?) makes me think he's seen what he's up against and has decided to go "full Trump" on attack. Throwing all the ketchup at the wall.

 

[Elixir]

Throwing all the ketchup at the wall.

EXCELLENT!
That should become the new metaphor, replacing "going all in".

 

[Patooka]

Throwing all the ketchup at the wall.

EXCELLENT!
That should become the new metaphor, replacing "going all in".

Maybe use it as a verb? "Today it was reported that Trump ketchupped at the news that *insert whatever criminal shit he did* is now being investigated".

 

[Cheerful Charlie]

Slobbering and shrieking! Slobbering and shrieking! It is going to be a weird spectacle to watch all of this pave a way to a federal prison.

 

[Elixir]

Throwing all the ketchup at the wall.

EXCELLENT!
That should become the new metaphor, replacing "going all in".

Maybe use it as a verb? "Today it was reported that Trump ketchupped at the news that *insert whatever criminal shit he did* is now being investigated".

I was picturing John Madden exhorting the Raiders before a playoff game -
"Let's get out there now and throw ALL the ketchup at the wall!"

 

[Ford]

Throwing all the ketchup at the wall.

EXCELLENT!
That should become the new metaphor, replacing "going all in".

Maybe use it as a verb? "Today it was reported that Trump ketchupped at the news that *insert whatever criminal shit he did* is now being investigated".

I was picturing John Madden exhorting the Raiders before a playoff game -
"Let's get out there now and throw ALL the ketchup at the wall!"

I suspect that Trump staffers have long since replaced the phrase "the shit hit the fan."

How bad did he take the news?

"Let's just say, the ketchup really hit the wall."

 

[Cheerful Charlie]

From Raw Story
....
Trump's attorney Alina Habba was served the 220-page New York lawsuit from Attorney General Letitia James after Trump Organization leaders Donald Trump Jr. and Eric Trump dodged process servers, wrote Business Insider.

The lawsuit is part of a years-long fraud investigation claiming that the Trump Org. had a practice of exaggerating the sizes of assets and artificially inflating their value to score capital and deflating them for tax breaks or refunds.
....

Oh noes! Another lawsuit! Trump dodged the subpeona servers for weeks. Letita James got permission from a judge to email that to Trum's lawyers. He is now served.

 

[ZiprHead]

Mohammed bin Salman 'has been paying Donald Trump unknown millions for the past two years'

It’s not often that an article in Golfweek sets the tone for the actual week, but on Saturday the premier journal of hitting small balls with sticks noted continuing problems for the nascent LIV Golf tour. The schedule of tournaments isn’t full. The...

www.dailykos.com

It’s not often that an article in Golfweek sets the tone for the actual week, but on Saturday the premier journal of hitting small balls with sticks noted continuing problems for the nascent LIV Golf tour. The schedule of tournaments isn’t full. The roster of big name players that LIV needs to make itself seem a legit competitor to the 93-year-old PGA Tour have failed to materialize. The team-based structure of LIV has failed to create the kind of rivalries that the creators suggested would help raise interest in the new offering.
However, all those concerns could turn out to be minor. That’s because a court case in California, where LIV has filed an antitrust suit against the PGA, has gone in a direction that LIV definitely, definitely did not want. While fighting back against this suit, the PGA has sought to compel discovery about the real sources behind the fund picking up the ticket on LIV’s considerable expenses. As it happens, a slip of the tongue from a LIV attorney during the trial revealed that the fund owns 93% of LIV Golf and covers all of its expenses.
The chairman and controlling officer of that fund is Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman. Its bin Salman paying all the bills and taking all the risks for LIV Golf. But who is making a profit?

[LIV Golf] has paid Trump-owned golf resorts unknown millions of dollars to hold its events there, and former President Trump has publicly championed the new league, made prominent appearances at its events, and urged PGA players to sign on with LIV Golf.

Exactly how many millions is bin Salman funneling to Donald Trump through LIV? We don’t know.

 

[lpetrich]

A look at some of the key numbers from Trump's tax returns - The Washington Post

While Trump endured sizable financial losses in the two years before entering the White House, he had an adjusted gross income of $15.8 million during his first three years as president when he paid $1.1 million in federal income tax.

In his final year in office, 2020, he paid no income tax, according to his tax returns that were released Friday by the House Ways and Means Committee. Democrats spent years pursuing the financial documents that previous presidents and White House candidates voluntarily released.

What did we find out?

1. Trump’s fortunes rose and fell, as he aggressively reported losses.

Throughout his campaign and presidency, Trump earned money from a wide variety of sources, including real estate, his earlier career as a TV personality, and a multitude of businesses such as golf clubs and wine. His gross income ran into the hundreds of millions of dollars. But he reported deductions to reduce that income — and the taxes he would owe on it. From 2015 to 2020, he reported a negative adjusted gross income in four out of six years. His reported income ranged from negative $32 million to $24 million.

He is far from alone in using  Panama Papers and  Paradise Papers and  Pandora Papers

 

[lpetrich]

2. The Trumps contributed inconsistently to charity.

Trump’s charitable contributions declined over the course of his presidency. He donated $1.8 million in 2017 and about half a million dollars in each of the next two years. In 2020, as many nonprofits intensified their calls for donations as they scrambled to help victims of the coronavirus pandemic and the associated unemployment, the Trumps reported giving no money to charity.

Trump repeatedly promised that he would donate his $400,000 annual salary for each year that he served as president, and he generally contributed his salary to federal agencies. IRS rules say that taxpayers who give money to government agencies “solely for public purposes” can deduct those gifts as charitable contributions on their tax returns. Trump’s failure to take any charitable deduction in 2020 suggests that he didn’t donate his presidential salary that year — and that if he donated his salary in the two prior years, that represented most of his charitable giving each year.

Trumpies often brag about how virtuous he supposedly is for supposedly giving away his salary. But he only did that for some of his Presidency, and that mainly to gov't agencies.

3. Trump has bank accounts in several foreign countries and earned money in many nations while he was president.

4. Why did Trump pay any taxes at all? Thank the Alternative Minimum Tax.

5. The Trumps supported the Presidential Election Campaign Fund.

 

[lpetrich]

Trump taxes show foreign income from more than a dozen countries - POLITICO

Trump’s returns, which were made public by House Democrats on Friday after a lengthy legal fight, disclosed income from 2015 to 2020 from a wide range of foreign countries, including Canada, Panama, the Caribbean island of Saint Martin, the Philippines, the United Arab Emirates and the United Kingdom, among others.

While the documents did not provide details on the money flows, Trump owns golf courses in Scotland and Ireland, and his name has adorned luxury hotels from Panama to Canada.

...
The six years of tax returns disclosed Friday show that Trump received extensive income from Canada, Ireland and the United Kingdom — including gross business income of at least $35.3 million from Canada in 2017, the year he entered office.

That year, Trump also brought in $6.5 million from China, $5.8 million from Indonesia and $5.7 million from India.

By 2020, his last full year in office, Trump reported $8.8 million in income from the U.K. and another $3.9 million in Ireland.

Read Trump’s unsealed tax returns - POLITICO for 2015 to 2020

Has copies of his tax-return documents.

 

[ZiprHead]

From Trump's E Jean Carroll case depostion:

Trump mistook rape accuser E Jean Carroll for ex-wife, deposition shows

Excerpts show former president was corrected by lawyer when shown picture of himself with Carroll in the 1990s

www.theguardian.com

Donald Trump mistook E Jean Carroll, the writer who accuses him of rape, for his ex-wife Marla Maples during a deposition in the case last year, excerpts released in US district court on Wednesday showed.

“That’s Marla, yeah,” Trump said, when shown a photograph. “That’s my wife.”

The mistake was corrected by a lawyer for the 76-year-old former president. But observers said it could undermine Trump’s claim he could not have attacked Carroll because she is not his “type”.

Could also add to the claim he has dementia.

 

[ZiprHead]

Trump fined nearly $1 million for what judge calls 'frivolous' lawsuit

A Florida judge sanctioned former U.S. president Donald Trump and one of his attorneys on Thursday, ordering them to pay nearly $1 million US for filing what he said was a bogus lawsuit against Trump's 2016 rival Hillary Clinton and others.

In a blistering filing, U.S. District Judge Donald M. Middlebrooks accused Trump of a "pattern of abuse of the courts" for filing frivolous lawsuits for political purposes, which he said "undermines the rule of law" and "amounts to obstruction of justice."

"Here, we are confronted with a lawsuit that should never have been filed, which was completely frivolous, both factually and legally, and which was brought in bad faith for an improper purpose," he wrote.

Citing Trump's recent, separate legal action against the Pulitzer Prize board, New York Attorney General Letitia James, big tech companies and CNN, he described Trump as "a prolific and sophisticated litigant" who uses the courts "to seek revenge on political adversaries."

"He is the mastermind of strategic abuse of the judicial process," he wrote.

The ruling required Trump and his attorney, Alina Habba, to pay nearly $938,000 to the defendants in the case.

 

[Cheerful Charlie]

Trump just dropped his frivolous suit against Letitia James. I guess judges getting tired of frivolous suits and handing out almost million dollar sanctions has has that judge's desired effect.

Trump drops Florida lawsuit against New York attorney general

The case was being heard before the same federal judge who sanctioned the former president on Thursday for having filed a different "frivolous" lawsuit.

www.nbcnews.com

 

[Shadowy Man]

One can only hope that after enough lawyers get sanctioned, lose their law licenses, and/or get arrested that Trump will run out of lawyers willing to work for him.

MAGA = making attorneys get attorneys.

 

[Cheerful Charlie]

Well, how about that! Trump is loudly warning the GOP House to not cut SS, Medicare et al. I am surprised Trump finally took a position I agree with. Kevin McCarthy still seems willing to lead the GOP lemmings over that political cliff. It would be so amusing to see Trump reinvent himself as a true champion of working Americans.

 

[Loren Pechtel]

It's about cutting Democrat spending, not about cutting spending.

 

[starwater]

Trump is allowed back on Facebook and Instagram Meta needs the revenue Trump brings, big surprise.

Trump back on FB

I believe he is not allowed to post on FB with his contract on Truth Social

Let's see how long this lasts.