Donald Trump: Classic or Dud?

CALLING IT NOW: TRUMP/MEYER 2024

urban meyer’s latest stop in his incredible journey to cartoon supervillain pic.twitter.com/2larhNPPx5

— kilgore trout, cryptopolice chief (@KT_So_It_Goes) February 14, 2022

can’t stop laughing at this centerpiece of a mangled espn football and the helmet of the worst nfl team this decade containing a sad 99 cent pennant pic.twitter.com/s3GWg2wNqc

— kilgore trout, cryptopolice chief (@KT_So_It_Goes) February 14, 2022

I'm hoping one of the Trump access journalists will tell us whether Don Jr's screed last night came after pre-notice from Mazars.

— emptywheel (@emptywheel) February 14, 2022

In the screed (which is in the comments and which I listened to 3 seconds of) he sounds exactly like Rush Limbaugh. Also, I guess the Mazars letter went out a few days ago, so DJTJ has I imagine been stewing. Though we already know he's stewed. Stewed, screwed and tattooed.

Re: the Mazars letter to Trump, that's as loud a withdrawal as you are ever going to see.

didn't pull out in time

CALLING IT NOW: TRUMP/MEYER 2024

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HE'S IN THE TWEET, SHOWN ATTENDING A SUPERBOWL PARTY SEATED IN CLOSE QUARTERS TO TWO-SCOOPS AND ENJOYING HIS COMPANY.

CALLING IT NOW: TRUMP/MEYER 2024

I've assumed the next non-Trump GOP President would be a footbaw coach, my money was on Saban but then he backed voting rights and I guess is a Democrat.

who the fuck is urban meyer

Flat bottom, a conical body, cylindrical neck?

Running with Urban Meyer seems to be a great move if you want to lose Michigan.

lol pic.twitter.com/0a16jjVoRw

— Ken Klippenstein (@kenklippenstein) February 15, 2022

who the fuck is urban meyer

Abusive former College & NFL coach.

https://apnews.com/article/nfl-sports-business-florida-jacksonville-jaguars-4cded3f50853c703e1876c8e0150ba33

what a miserable looking superbowl party! Those chairs look so uncomfortable even

Running with Urban Meyer seems to be a great move if you want to lose Michigan.

― removing bookmarks never felt so good (PBKR), Tuesday, February 15, 2022 6:12 AM (two hours ago) bookmarkflaglink

he's none too well-liked in Florida either

Ohio, too, afaik.

https://aaronrupar.substack.com/p/ignoring-trump?r=ex4o

Talk about a conflict of interest.

A Manhattan judge refused to quash civil subpoenas and depositions for former President Donald Trump and his children in a blistering ruling on Thursday, writing that it would have been “blatant dereliction of duty” not to investigate them.

“For OAG not to have investigated the original respondents, and not to have subpoenaed the new Trump respondents, would have been a blatant dereliction of duty (and would have broken an oft repeated campaign promise). Indeed, the impetus for the investigation was not personal animus, not racial or ethnic or other discrimination, not campaign promises, but was sworn congressional testimony by former Trump associate Michael Cohen that respondents were ‘cooking the books,'” Manhattan Supreme Court Justice Arthur Engoron wrote in a 8-page ruling.

Trump and his children Ivanka Trump and Donald Trump Jr. have 21 days from the date of his order to sit for a deposition, Engoron ruled.

...

Attorney Alan Futerfas, arguing for the president’s children, argued that the civil investigation could put his clients in criminal jeopardy. During criminal proceedings, one can assert a Fifth Amendment right against self-incrimination without any adverse inference being drawn, but that is not true of a civil investigation. He argued that the what he described as dual nature of James’s investigation stripped his clients of that constitutional right.

Engoron skewered that argument in his ruling.

“The target of a hybrid civil/criminal investigation cannot use the Fifth Amendment as both a sword and a shield; a shield against questions and a sword against the investigation itself,” he wrote. “When they are deposed, the New Trump Respondents will have the right to refuse to answer any questions that they claim might incriminate them, and that refusal may not be commented on or used against them in a criminal prosecution. However, there is no unfairness in allowing the jurors in a civil case to know these refusals and to draw their own conclusions.”

Classic.

Is this gonna be televised

I don't know, but if you're patient I bet someone will write a book.

Be cool if Trump and the kids made a suicide pact rather than testify.

this defecation will definitely be televised

“them duke boys…” etc.

incite a riot. or invite a cavalcade of truckers in their rigs. both, maybe. nothing surprises.

Abusive former College & NFL coach.

lol ty grisso

Other issues for Meyer:

— He hired strength coach Chris Doyle in February despite accusations of racist behavior and then had to let him go a day later because of a pending lawsuit.

the "POTUS Trump NFT Collection" is ... objectively hideous, a spinning 3d plaque with spinning stars, a 3d flag, protruding text, and on the reverse, a 45 set atop a background of 45s, some of them upside-down, plus a tiny photo that's probably Trump but can you really tell? pic.twitter.com/ijClu9NTWm

— Stuart A. Thompson (@stuartathompson) February 22, 2022

There is nothing Donald Trump cannot turn cheap and gaudy.

The prospect of receiving payment while providing nothing of any value likely appeals to him

The value of that NFT is incredible, it’s huge. Everybody is saying it’s the greatest NFT of all time, which says a lot. The best people, who really know NFTs.

Noxious Flatulent Token

Never Failing Trump

Breaking News: The prosecutors leading the Manhattan district attorney’s inquiry into Donald Trump have resigned. The D.A. is said to have doubts about the case. https://t.co/n6W30FopJw

— The New York Times (@nytimes) February 23, 2022

Depressingly predictable. This fuckin' guy will never, ever face a single consequence.

did they give a reason??

The two prosecutors leading the Manhattan district attorney’s investigation into former President Donald J. Trump and his business practices abruptly resigned on Wednesday amid a monthlong pause in their presentation of evidence to a grand jury, according to people with knowledge of the matter, throwing the future of the high-stakes inquiry into serious doubt.

The prosecutors, Carey R. Dunne and Mark F. Pomerantz, submitted their resignations after the new Manhattan district attorney, Alvin Bragg, indicated to them that he had doubts about moving forward with a case against Mr. Trump, the people said.

Mr. Pomerantz confirmed in a brief interview that he had resigned, but declined to elaborate. Mr. Dunne declined to comment.

Good old fashioned bribery? His threats still carry weight in NYC? They really had nothing? Who knows. The crowing about this will be insufferable.

My reading is that the two prosecutors actually want to pursue it, but this new DA is a wet blanket

Aside from Cruz being too try hard at being a normie bro, WTF IS GOING ON WITH THAT PAINTING!?!?!?

Culty https://t.co/64MpXWdBhB

— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) February 23, 2022

trump has long had one of the tackiest sense of style in the celebrity culture. it's what makes is especially pathetic for his supporters.

i do wonder about the origin of the maga red hat and if they were, in fact, playing first dimensional chess by making it so awful

"Yes sir, that is correct, his exact instructions were indeed to 'paint me like one of your '80s movie villains trying to shut down the upstart tennis academy'".

pic.twitter.com/e4eMrfFosd

— ghow (@ghow) February 23, 2022

Are they priming Walker for a political career? VP candidate?

Walker's running for US Senate (Warnock's seat) in Georgia.

A former football player who probably has CTE is a perfect Republican nominee.

Walker's son is a chasm of horribleness, I can't imagine hating myself that much.

The Story Behind Donald Trump's Epic Mar-A-Lago Portrait

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— Old Donald Trump posts (not affiliated w/Trump) (@oldTrumpTweetz) March 7, 2022

classic

I am very obviously biased because not only do I know the Manhattan DA from college but he also might be my distant cousin, but there was more to what happened to the case than just "the Manhattan DA didn't want to pursue it":

https://www.nytimes.com/2022/03/05/nyregion/trump-investigation-manhattan-da-alvin-bragg.html

Mr. Bragg was not the only one to question the strength of the case, the interviews show. Late last year, three career prosecutors in the district attorney’s office opted to leave the investigation, uncomfortable with the speed at which it was proceeding and with what they maintained were gaps in the evidence. The tension spilled into the new administration, with some career prosecutors raising concerns directly to the new district attorney’s team.

Mr. Bragg, whose office is conducting the investigation along with lawyers working for New York’s attorney general, Letitia James, had not taken issue with Mr. Dunne and Mr. Pomerantz presenting evidence to the grand jury in his first days as district attorney. But as the weeks passed, he developed concerns about the challenge of showing Mr. Trump’s intent — a requirement for proving that he criminally falsified his business records — and about the risks of relying on the former president’s onetime fixer, Michael D. Cohen, as a key witness.

the risks of relying on the former president’s onetime fixer, Michael D. Cohen, as a key witness.

This is only a risk if you consider the possibility of **gasp** losing a high-profile case as a greater risk than than letting gross criminal misconduct, for which you have plentiful evidence, go unchallenged in court.

I think if you stopped to process what you were reading before acting like a sanctimonious prick, you would have realized that the assertion here is that proving gross criminal misconduct hinged largely on the testimony of one witness without solid corroborating evidence due to Trump's penchant for avoiding email communication