Donald Trump: Classic or Dud?

I'll save the valorization for after his straight-fire DJ set at Coachella.

DJT-Kicks

Strangely he is really into Helado Negro

Take Helado's name out of your mouth!

JUST NOW: "Staff in WH residence would periodically find the toilet clogged. The engineer would have to come and fix it. What the engineer would find would be wads of clumped up wet, printed paper." @maggieNYT on concerns of Trump flushing documents.pic.twitter.com/dertOPEXYm

— John Berman (@JohnBerman) February 10, 2022

Damn low flow toilets!

White House Plumbers always cleaning up messes

Of course he's denying he flushed papers down the toilet, but I'm not sure I saw a denial that he *ate* documents. Considering our own suspicions of what damage he did to the toilets and pipes through diet alone, I think they may both be right: staff did find documents clogging the toilets, but Asshole did not put them there. At least, not directly ...

to be fair, when COVID kicked off, there was a toilet paper shortage

Glad to learn Haberman saved this bit for her book.

oh no I have accidentally valorized Donald Trump by laughing at his DJ set

is this why he used to complain about toilets needing 10-15 flushes

well that plus a diet of aspartame, evil, and ketchup on well-done steak, but mostly evil

"This plumbing is from the 19th Century! Please put only toilet paper in the toilet, not wipes or confidential documents!"

- handwritten sign in the Coolidge Lavatory

he stole the goddamn sharpied hurricane pic.twitter.com/c4iZ8iL1xY

— kilgore trout, cryptopolice chief (@KT_So_It_Goes) February 10, 2022

Don Jr. probably planned to sell the purloined papers later on.

Don Jr. flushed the papers and told everybody it was his stash.

Oh shit nft

Gonna guess this ... is not normal.

News - Mazars has effectively fired the Trump Organization, citing a non-waivable conflict, and determined that Trump's financial statements from 2011-20 should not be relied on, per a letter to Alan Garten filed in court today. pic.twitter.com/UmC1nVe4ZP

— southpaw (@nycsouthpaw) February 14, 2022

Deeply un-normal. Mazars is pretty clearly saying:

"Wow the money you reported isn't the case."
"That apartment thing really looks fucking illegal."
"We don't want to get sued or prosecuted, pretty please."
"Attention any other firms on our general level: we don't recommend them as a client."

Rhetorical question cause I know “elite impunity”. Again, how the fuck has he been allowed to flout the law his whole life?

"When you're famous ... "

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

*show all messages*

ctrl+f "urban meyer" =0

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