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The 11th Circuit to Donald Trump:

People who are under criminal investigation often feel uncomfortable and embarrassed.

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Sep 22, 2022·edited Sep 23, 2022

“Require the Trump Organization to prepare, on an annual basis for the next five years, a GAAP-compliant, audited statement of financial condition showing Mr. Trump’s net worth,”

Generally Accepted Accounting Principles are to TFG as crucifixes are to Dracula.

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Trump v DeSantis...it's ON!!!

‘These Are Human Beings’: Jared Kushner Hits Ron DeSantis For Using Migrants as ‘Political Pawns’

https://www.mediaite.com/tv/jared-kushner-criticizes-ron-desantis-move-on-migrants-them-being-used-as-political-pawns-is-very-troubling-to-me/

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So Stephanie Slade is the voice of the radical libertarian centre? Her argument is bothsidesism dressed up in academic speak. She cleverly skips over the part about one side wanting to overthrow democracy. I agree that I sometimes have trouble sympathizing with the ACLU and shutting down free speech on campus is like hitting yourself on the head with a hammer. But it still comes down to one side being an immediate threat to democracy and the other side needing another 10 years to grow up. There’s a very big difference.

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Regarding those attack ads on Mandela Barnes, they sound as if they simply lay out the facts that you, Charlie, laid out for us in these pages.

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I thought back in 2015 that Trump was probably guilty of tax, insurance and bank fraud from what I had read about him over the years. It was pretty obvious that he has been gaming the system for decades and its all just caught up with him. It doesn't speak well of the authorities in New York that he has gotten away with it for so long.

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I have to object that equating the far left with the far right, moderate rght or what we thought was the "normal" right is BS. The left is not remotely equal in courting authoritarianism. Yes, some try to cancel people that do not use pronouns correctly or other ridiculous stuff, but nowhere do they do anything close or in the same universe as the MAGA's or their enablers, the spineless GOP.

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Isn't it about time to remove the redactions in the Mueller Report?

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“On the left, a new crop of socialists hope to overthrow the liberal economic order, while the rise of intersectional identity politics has supplanted longstanding commitments to civil liberties. On the right, support for free markets and free trade are more and more often derided as relics of a bygone century, while quasi-theocratic ideas are gathering support.“

If I am missing something here, please let me know, but I find this false equivalence infuriating. This article quotes Jacobin repeatedly. Jacobin does not have any influence I can discern on the Democratic Party platform. Yes, there is a left wing in the Democratic Party, and the pronoun crowd is obnoxious and overbearing. There are real problems with the demands of the transgender activists, and they need to be countered. But Joe Biden was the Democratic nominee, not Bernie Sanders. According to Axios, in 26 Democratic primaries with endorsements by Sanders, Warren and AOC, the progressives won only 15 and lost 11. Meanwhile, where Trump endorsed, he won 21 and lost 5. And whatever policy disagreements one has with Sanders, Warren and AOC, they are not supporting coups or violence when they don’t get their way.

There is nothing on the left that is equivalent to the right’s refusal to accept the results of elections they lose, of attempting a coup, or attacking and threatening violence against anyone who tries to hold Trump accountable for his crimes. There is one party that values democracy and is fighting to preserve it and that is the Democratic Party. In these dire times it doesn’t help that effort when one chooses to engage in fictitious false equivalence.

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Although we may enjoy the juicy details of the NY AG's civil suit, the Orange Menace will likely be long dead by the time this litigation reaches conclusion. Every legal trick and maneuver will be employed to elongate this litigation for as many years as possible.

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It has been a comfort that not all of the judges appointed by the Federalist Society are as incompetent as District Judge Cannon.

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Sep 22, 2022·edited Sep 22, 2022

The answer to Michael Beschloss's question is simple: Reaganism & a culture of decadent wealth-worship that started in the 80's and continues through present times.

Once we embraced rich people as the best people in the world to aspire to be, we set ourselves up for failure. Low taxes instead of high taxes, TV flattery instead of shame, praise instead of blame. It didn't matter HOW they got rich, only that they were rich and needed to be protected financially, because hey, you could be rich someday yourself too right? We're a silly decadent little nation who thought that billionaires at the top of rent-seeking industries were "job creators" rather than people who made it to the top in the worst ways possible just to live their best decadent lives in lavish high rises with golden fucking toilets and what not.

What the fuck is wrong with this country? Why did we ever think Reaganism was a good fucking idea? If Reaganism and wealth-worshipping was the Boomer generation's failure then the failure of Millennials to fix the inequality after Occupy Wall Street is just as bad. This country is going to economically fuck itself into anocracy and so many people can't see the writing on the wall because they just don't fucking understand how people stop caring about democracy when the economy is unfair as shit. We reap what we sow people. This is the America we refuse to stop building. "America: come for the wealth inequality, stay for the coming anocracy."

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First...any time I see "MAL", my brain thinks "Mid Atlantic Leather"....blast from the past.

On Trumpity-Trump, I personally would not be the slightest bit surprised if SDNY & the IRS hop on the Tish James posse. The All County scheme showed a solid history of tax cheatery on Trumpity-Trump's part...and regardless of marital cheatery (looking at you, Hegseth) or tax cheatery, you know it is an ongoing thing with that person. If he thought his audit was bad, just wait until the IRS runs a criminal probe...

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Barnes & others should do counter-ads AGREEING that our country is descending into crime & anarchy, while showing Jan 6 at Capitol & state capitols, headlines of Whitmer abduction plot, unruly crowds outside vote counting facilities, screenshots of the anarchists' social media threats, ending with 'a vote for Republicans is a vote to downplay & ignore crime.' Another option is an ad on Repub operatives that have been arrested for child porn and the like. Another option is to portray GOP as soft on white crime but hard on non-white crime.

In this era, Democrats cannot win by explaining their positions. They must turn the Republicans' words, actions, and lack of actions against them. They must take the actions of a few and make the GOP own them. And as Sarah says, why are these candidates not working abortion rights???

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"The New York lawsuit raises a legitimate question: how did our American political system allow someone who had for so long committed such offenses, if he is guilty, to be elected President in 2016?"

-- Michael Beschloss, 9/21/2022

I have to say I've been wondering about this since 2016. Why do our election laws allow an unrepentant criminal like Donald Trump to even be on a ballot???

I've worked for two financial institutions during my career and both times I was fingerprinted and background-checked. I highly doubt I would have been hired if those investigations uncovered any financial chicanery, and neither of my positions were anywhere close to upper management.

Also, during yesterday's press conference, AG James was asked a question along the lines of how Trump was allowed to get away with his financial crimes for so long. I asked the same question when I was following Paul Manafort's financial fraud trial in 2018. There was some major-league crimin' going on with him too!

It all re-enforces the notion that Donald Trump, and white-collar criminals in general, are "living proof that [no one is above the law] is objectively not true."

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The best!

Andrew Weissmann 🌻

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LATEST TRUMP DEFENSE: he clicked his heels together three times while thinking about the docs: and said there’s no place like MAL, there’s no place like….and next thing he knew the docs were in MAL.

8:11 PM · Sep 21, 2022

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