This week, Deposed Donald Trump (DDT) showed his worship for another fellow dictator when he hosted far-right Hungarian autocratic president Viktor Orbán at Mar-a-Lago. They have similar philosophies: hostility toward immigrants, disdain for press freedom, exclusion of LGBTQ+ people, and ways to permanently stay as president. To his audience at Mar-a-Lago, DDT exclaimed:
“There’s nobody that’s better, smarter or a better leader than Viktor Orbán, he’s fantastic… He says, ‘This is the way it’s gonna be,’ and that’s the end of it. He’s the boss.”
Campaigning in Georgia this weekend, DDT again accused E. Jean Carroll of lying, which could take him back to court; described the press as “criminals”: and made fun of President Joe Biden’s stutter while again attacking immigrants.
As measles broke out in 15 states and people still die of Covid, DDT joined the anti-vaccine movement, promising he “will not give one penny to any school that has a vaccine mandate or a mask mandate.” DDT’s administration started Operation Warp Speed to promote two effective and safe Covid vaccines and took credit last week for the Covid vaccine on Truth Social.
In a Fox interview, DDT said that he wants Israel to “finish the problem” in Gaza, approving srael’s genocide thus far killing over 30,000 people in five months and creating one of the worst humanitarian catastrophes in the 21st century.
Facing a serious cash problem, DDT met with wealthy Elon Musk and a few wealthy GOP donors with the hopes that he’s get an infusion for his 2024 campaign. After the meeting was made public, Musk Xed to over 100 million followers that he was “not donating money to either candidate for US President” but didn’t specify who he meant. Musk’s views are, however, definitely anti-Biden.
In his 2016 campaign, DDT said, “No puppet. No puppet. You’re the puppet” after Hillary Clinton accused him of being Russian President Vladimir Putin’s puppet. He continues blaming his opposition for his own characteristics, accusing Biden of a “conspiracy to overthrow the United States of America.” Criticizing Biden’s southern border policies, DDT said:
“Biden and his accomplices want to collapse the American system, nullify the will of the actual American voters and establish a new base of power that gives them control for generations.”
Former Fox host Tucker Carlson and other far-right extremists copied DDT’s position on immigration, declaring Democrats want migrants to vote for them as part of their “election fraud” myth. Yet Biden endorsed the conservative package of border reforms that DDT killed, and naturalization requires many years.
Accused of racism, DDT calls his critics racist. Then-House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) said he had a “meltdown” in negotiations, and DDT said Pelosi had a “meltdown.” Called out for his political operation cooperating with Russian operatives, DDT charges Democrats with colluding with Russia. When DDT is told that Russia supported his candidacy, DDT said Russia supports Democrats. Prosecutors who declare DDT committed crimes are blamed by DDT of committing crimes.
According to AI photos from MAGAites, DDT has lots of Black friends A sample created by Mark Kaye.
Another image shows him on a porch with Black men and the caption with the falsehood that he stopped his motorcade to pose.
Joan Brickner, columnist for the Fargo (ND) Forum newspaper, wrote about DDT’s fake award for being a “champion of Black America” at a South Carolina event with a “mostly white audience of the Black Conservative Foundation.” She wrote:
“This is a man sued for failing to rent to Black people. This is a man who took out a full-page ad in The New York Times to promote executing the Central Park Five, Black and Latino men who had been convicted of raping a white woman—men later cleared, having nothing to do with it, after years of imprisonment. This is a man who has said neo-Nazis and KKK members in Charlottesville included ‘fine people.'”
Brickner listed more recent insults against the Black community, including his enthusiastic endorsement of Mark Robinson, the Black GOP North Carolina candidate who denigrated minorities and said that Blacks should pay reparations to whites for fighting for them in the Civil War.
Other Legal Issues:
DDT lost—again. A British judge ordered DDT to pay $382,000 in legal fees to a company he unsuccessfully sued about the “Steele Dossier” which reported on his activities in Russia including sex parties. Orbis Business Intelligence is asking for $760,000, and DDT still owes The New York Times another $400,000.
Another three lawsuits have been approved in relationship with January 6 attack. The plea of immunity could cause them to be overturned, depending on the Supreme Court decision about whether DDT could do anything he wanted in the White House with no impunity.
E. Jean Carroll – Sexual Assault/Defamation:
After failing to obtain a delay from the judge and still owing Carroll $5 million from the first court settlement, DDT posted a $91.63 million bond paid to Carroll if DDT loses his appeal. Chubb Group LLC Switzerland-based insurance company worth $225 billion is the parent company of Federal Insurance Company posting the bond, but court records aren’t clear what collateral DDT used. According to the environmental non-profit group Rainforest Action Network (RAN), Chubb’s business in 54 countries, includes several major U.S. adversaries, “insur[es] oil and gas extraction and transport in Russia, fueling Russia’s war on Ukraine.” DDT appointed Chubb’s CEO Evan Greenberg to his committee for trade policy and negotiations in 2018.
Judge Lewis Kaplan offered Carroll the opportunity to object to DDT’s method of paying the bond through a third party. After DDT accused Carroll of lying in a weekend campaign speech, she could sue him again.
New York – Business Fraud Costs:
Former CFO for the Trump Organization Allen Weisselberg pled guilty to two counts of perjury which may cause problems for DDT’s lawyers by violating professional ethics for their silence while their witness lied in court. Their licenses may be at risk.
New York – Business Fraud/Hush Money to Stormy Daniels to Interfere with 2016 Election:
DDT is appealing the judge’s gag orders although he has complied with others and arguing about whether the Access Hollywood tape about DDT grabbing “p*ssy” is submissible. He calls it “inflammatory”; the prosecution calls it the “catalyst” to the case. DDT’s lawyers may also be afraid of testimony from his former lawyer/fixer Michael Cohen because they adamantly rejected him as a witness, threatening Manhattan DA Alvin Bragg with “serious legal and ethical consequences.” Other DDT objections are prosecutors arguing that he tried to improperly “influence” the 2016 election by paying Stormy Daniels and presenting DDT’s work with David Pecker and American Media, Inc. in 2015 and 2016 to pay off other women. Details here.
Georgia – RICO Conspiracy to Overturn Election:
The Fulton County Board of Ethics has dropped complaints against DA Fani Willis, determining it did not have jurisdiction over her as a state constitutional officer. A GOP-led state Senate committee, however, is investigating Willis’ relationship with Nathan Wade regarding whether Willis misused taxpayer funds. Legal proceedings are on hold until the judge rules about the alleged conflict of interest. The state Supreme Court has removed the committee’s ability to disqualify Willis.
Florida – DDT’s Taking Classified Documents:
Judge Aileen Cannon has set March 14 for a hearing to address DDT’s motion”to dismiss counts 1-32 on unconstitutional vagueness claims” and his former aide Walt Nauta’s motion to “dismiss superseding indictment on the Presidential Records Act [PRA].” The hearing also considers special counsel Jack Smith’s filing against DDT’s argument that classified documents are his “personal” records and his presidential immunity. She accepted two amicus briefs from DDT’s allies, Stephen Miller’s anti-immigrant organization America First Legal defending “personal” records and Ed Meese, Ronald Reagan’s AG who helped cover up the Iran-Contra scandal. Meese argues that Smith was not appropriately appointed because he wasn’t confirmed by the Senate. Recently, three different special counsels have led probes without confirmation by the Senate.
Supreme Court Decisions for DDT:
Hopefully, the Supreme Court will deliver a decision about the question of immunity by the time they leave at the end of June.
A week ago, DDT rejected everyone who doesn’t agree with him in claiming that the MAGA movement is “96% maybe 100%” of the GOP. He added:
“We’re getting rid of the Romneys of the world. We wanna get Romneys and those out.”
Within three days, DDT declared he was going “to unify this country and unify this party.”
A classic performance by Seth Meyers describing DDT in his segment, “A Closer Look.” He begins:
“Well, here we are, you guys. Donald Trump is now the presumptive GOP nominee for president again for a third time, despite the fact that he’s a twice-impeached, four-time criminal indictee and racist, who’s been found liable for fraud and sexual abuse, banned from doing business in the state of New York for three years, owes over half a billion dollars in fine, took millions from foreign governments while he was president, tried to extort a foreign country to interfere in an election in 2020, and encouraged another to help him win in 2016.”
DDT is rejecting the bill making TikTok illegal in the U.S. after a meeting with conservative hedge fund owner Jeff Yass, who has a $33 billion stake in the social platform. Republicans strongly support the bill, and DDT’s “adviser” Steve Bannon has said that DDT has been bought. My questions: can DDT expect a big donation from Yass and will DDT’s rejection sink the bill?
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