If #Trump is allowed back in the #WhiteHouse, he and his team of pariahs and lunatics are planning to devalue the Dollar in some insane and misguided effort to boost American exports. But the move would send the US #inflation rate through the roof, and destabilize the #globalEconomy. It's a plan supported by #PeterNavarro, so you know it's the exact wrong thing to do. Please consider the damage a Trump presidency would do, and commit to #VoteBlue.
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Entertaining as it may be, I'm not sure Trump's narcissistic injuries should really be a central focus of the first of his trials on dozens of felony charges. #TrumpIndicment #media #trump #maga
#TrumpTrial #legal #Trump I have to share this one! Via Tyler McBrien: 1/âŚ
Juror starts by jumping to Q14-19, saying she's disqualified because she served time. Tearing up she says, "I wrote down all my crimes, it was over 10 years ago, and you guys keep calling me back for jury, and I'm pretty sure I'm not supposed to be here."
Via Ben Wikler:
Absorb this graphâbut note that the final year is 2018, the year of Trumpâs tax cuts. Thatâs #Trumpâs big goal, always has been: to rip off working people and hand huge bags of cash to the ultra-wealthy, like himself and his Mar-a-Lago buddies.
Rutger Bregman:
Stunning graph: the plummeting tax rates of the richest Americans. For the first time in history, billionaires have a lower effective tax rate than working-class Americans.
"Americaâs mainstream news media and its pundits have, for the most part, actively avoided the ethical and moral dimensions of the countryâs #democracy crisis and the Age of #Trump." https://www.salon.com/2024/04/19/first-criminal-trial-is-a-test-run/
"#Trump's article manipulation posts appear to be screenshots of actual articles, but they have been changed. These altered articles share a news organizationâs logo, title, and byline, but scrub out all the unfavorable content that Trump doesn't like. It's truly egregious."
Via Lisa Rubin:
As NBCNews has reported, each side gets a NEW allotment of peremptory challenges once the remaining 5 jurors are selected and we move to alternates. Then, each side gets 2 per alternate. (This is under NY statute; I donât make the rules. đ¤ˇââď¸) #TrumpTrial #Trump #legal
âAmong the ideas that advisers have presented to #Trump is a cut to the federal payroll tax, said one of those people, a move that could đđźlower the flow of money into the Social Security and Medicare trust funds and open Trump to criticism from Democrats that he is torpedoing the safety net for elderly Americans.đđź Trump has signaled he is open to the idea.â
https://www.reuters.com/world/us/donald-trump-mulls-middle-class-tax-cut-he-eyes-return-office-2024-04-17/
đ¤˘Oh geez. Sorry for TMI, but Meiselas is reporting this:
Meiselas: What Iâm hearing from credible sources is that Donald #Trump is actually farting in the courtroom⌠Iâm hearing it from actual credible people that as heâs kind of falling asleep, heâs actually passing gas and that his lawyers are really struggling with the smell. #TrumpTrial
A man set himself on fire on Friday afternoon near the Lower Manhattan #courthouse where #JurySelection continued in the #criminal #trial of #Trump.
The man doused himself w/a liquid around 1:35PM ET in Collect Pond Park, across the street from the courthouse. Onlookers screamed as bright orange flames engulfed the man. It was unclear what motivated his action.
#extremism #radicalization #law
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/04/19/nyregion/man-on-fire-trump.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare&sgrp=c-cb
Klasfeld:
News #TrumpTrial #legal
In #Trump's NY criminal case, prosecutors file so-called "Sandoval" noticeâdisclosing unchged prior bad acts they intend to use at trial to impeach his credibility.
The list in rattles off NYAG civil fraud case, # EJeanCarroll case, & more.
"If the defendant chooses to testify, the People intend to inquire regarding the following"
Full list of litigation prosecutors intend to confront Trump w, if given the green light by judge: https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/24554324-peoples-sandoval-notice-filed
Griftology.
PoliticoâThe #Trump campaign is asking for down-ballot candidates who use his name, image and likeness in fundraising appeals to give at least 5 percent of the proceeds to the campaign.
Snapshot from Decision Desk HQ. I'm only posting this because of the #RFKJr part, which pisses me off.
#Michigan Presidential
Donald #Trump (R): 37% (+3)
Joe #Biden (D): 34%
Robert F. Kennedy Jr. (I): 13%
https://elections2024.thehill.com/michigan/biden-trump-michigan/
#TrumpTrial #legal #Trump Not sure how much I can post. Now my iPhone is slow. Via McBrien:
âŚwaiting for the Sandoval hearing to begin, despite the tragedy that unfolded earlier this afternoon just outside the courtroom.
As Merchan said earlier, "We've come too far in this trial to jeopardize it now."
đâ#Trumpâs political operation said Thursday that it plans to deploy more than 100,000 attorneys and volunteers across battleground states to monitor â and potentially challenge â vote counting in November.â
https://www.politico.com/news/2024/04/19/trump-campaign-election-monitoring-00153217
Via Kyle Griffin:
Breaking: *Another* appeals court has denied #Trump's request to delay the criminal hush money trial.
Trump's lawyers had filed another appeal of the decision to not move the trial out of Manhattan. It failed.
Oh? đ
Via Kyle Griffin:
Newly unsealed filings:
A #Trump associate told the FBI of advising Trump to return classified #documents to the National Archives nearly a year before agents searched Mar-a-Lago.
The associate said to Trump: "Whatever you have, give everything back. Let them come here and get everything. Don't give them a noble reason to indict you, because they will." https://www.axios.com/2024/04/23/trump-classified-documents-fbi-plasmic-echo-investigation
Via Roger Parloff:
#Trump jurors' news sources. (More watch BBC than Fox. Not one reads NY Daily News--ouch.) From
nytimes:
https://bit.ly/3xKEg4L
đđťSecret Service prepares for if #Trump is jailed for contempt in hush money case - ABC News https://abcnews.go.com/US/secret-services-prepares-potential-trump-contempt-order-hush/story?id=109542824
Trumpâs determined to get someone killed.
Via Kyle Griffin:
A California man has been indicted by an Atlanta grand jury on charges of threatening Fulton County DA #FaniWillis over her prosecution of #Trump.
The man, Marc Shultz, suggested Willis "will be killed like a dog" in one of several comments he posted under two separate YouTube live streams, according to the U.S. Attorney's Office for the northern district of Georgia.
Via Kyle Cheney:
JUST IN: #Trump tells Judge #Cannon his New York trial is moving "expeditiously" and encourages her to postpone some filing deadlines while his lead attorneys are largely stuck in NY. #legal
https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.flsd.648653/gov.uscourts.flsd.648653.458.0.pdf
REMINDER: I canât always reply/answer questions. Use NFL (Not For Laffy)
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Pagliery:
Trump is sitting at the defense table, with Todd Blanche at his right and Emil Bove at his left, plus Susan Necheles at the far left.
Blanche is explaining something, waving his right hand around while Trump nods in approval.
Dozens called for jury duty are downstairs and going through metal detectors.
The judge just sat down. We begin.
Stupid, yes, but also, willfully gaslighting/lying, propping up their loser #DefendantSleepyFlopSweatMcBrainspurs
Brad Moss:
& then he falsified the biz records in furtherance of effort to viol campaign finance laws.
Are these folks really this stupid?
Bash: We actually have the reimbursement checks⌠Are you comfortable with this?
#Noem: #MichaelCohen worked for #Trump. Pres Trump paid his legal fees, he paid his Michael Cohen legal fees & bills & that's what this trial will bringing fwd
Via the #DailyBeast
#DonaldTrumpâs #legal payroll is easily the largest and most diverse of any political figure in modern U.S. #history. But while most of the attorneys that #Trumpâs various fundraising committees have paid over the years are a matter of public record, one of the top recipients still poses a mysteryâwith more than $8 million in legal costs going to an unknown firm, or firms, through what appears to be a corporate intermediary.
https://www.thedailybeast.com/trumps-new-legal-bills-are-hiding-an-dollar8-million-mystery