Monday, March 18, 2024

SCOTUS decision akin to the 14th amendment disqualification


How interesting that they wouldn't let Colorado keep Trump off the ballot for the same reason.
In their decision, the justices ruled that states should not have unilateral power to disqualify candidates for federal office — but that state offices are another matter.

  Politico
Whatever.

Begging for big money




Somebody will come through.  Jared has a lot of money.  Putin can funnel some in some way.  

...but hey, do what you want...you will anyway.

Of course


...but hey, do what you want...you will anyway.

Supreme Court won't keep Peter Navarro out of prison

He goes in tomorrow.
[U.S. Chief Justice John] Roberts said Monday that he will not pause Navarro’s four-month prison sentence as his appeal moves forward.

Navarro has been ordered to report to a Miami prison Tuesday afternoon to begin his sentence, which will make him the first key adviser to former President Trump to serve jail time over efforts to overturn the 2020 election.

[...]

Navarro, 74, was found guilty last year of two counts for refusing to comply with a congressional investigation into the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the Capitol — one for failing to produce documents related to the probe and another for skipping his deposition.

U.S. District Judge Amit Mehta barred Navarro from using executive privilege as part of his defense after finding that he failed to prove privilege was ever invoked by Trump.

The judge declined to allow Navarro to stay out of prison while appealing, contending his appeal does not raise a “substantial question of law” and therefore doesn’t warrant his release.

[...]

In their request to the Supreme Court to put Navarro’s imprisonment on hold, Navarro’s attorneys argued executive privilege should have protected the onetime Trump economic adviser from facing charges for swerving the House Jan. 6 committee’s probe.

[...]

Ex-White House adviser Steve Bannon was also convicted on two counts of contempt of Congress last year and sentenced to four months in prison, but a different judge said he could remain free pending appeal. Bannon argued his case before a federal appeals court in November and still has not served any time.

  The Hill
...but hey, do what you want...you will anyway.

Losing democracy

And the Republic.



It takes one to know one


Trump 2024: Crook Central

Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump is expected to include Paul Manafort, the former campaign manager he pardoned, as a campaign adviser later this year, the Washington Post reported on Monday, citing four people familiar with the talks.

The job discussions have largely centered around the 2024 Republican convention in Milwaukee in July and could include Manafort playing a role in fundraising for Trump's campaign, the report said.

Trump pardoned Manafort in 2020, seven months after he was released to home confinement, sparing the long-time Republican operative from serving the bulk of his 7-1/2-year prison term for federal tax evasion and bank fraud.

  MSN
And don't forget Manafort's long history of working with (for?) Russia, including in 2016 giving Trump campaign data to the Russians. 

Coincidentally, reports have recently been revived that Trump asked his Defense Secretary Mark Esper if we couldn't just shoot protesters.  Well...
Ukrainian prosecutors investigating [2014] protests have said that [then-president Viktor] Yanukovych [a strongman and a prominent figure in Ukraine's pro-Russia party] ordered security forces to open fire on protesters, and some are looking into whether Manafort had a hand in encouraging Yanukovych.

  Business Insider
...but hey, do what you want...you will anyway.

Saturday, March 16, 2024

The list grows


Not yet, anyway.

Of course they were the best people when he hired them until they weren't.