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Saturday, May 25, 2024
He had his chance
So why didn't he take the stand in his own defense and plead his case?“When the Disgraceful District Attorney and his Thugs, WITH FULL APPROVAL, I assume, by the Highly Conflicted Judge, Juan Merchan, and the Crooked Joe Biden Administration, who are leading the Trial for ELECTION INTERFERENCE purpose, keep talking about the ‘bookkeeping error’ or ‘crime,’ they are referring to the fact that a bookkeeper, with zero influence from or discussion with me, correctly called the payment of a Legal Expense to a lawyer — a Legal Expense,” Trump continued in his Friday rant.
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Trump wrote on Truth Social, referring to the payment he made to ex-fixer Michael Cohen
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“In other words, I am being prosecuted because a bookkeeper, who I had no contact with, marked down, from a dropdown menu in the ledger, a Legal Expense to a lawyer as ‘Legal Expense,’” he added.
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“WHAT THE HELL ELSE WOULD YOU CALL IT?” he asked. “A [President Biden] INSPIRED ELECTION INTERFERENCE HOAX!!!”
The Hill
*Uhhhh, but not more than the Democrat who ran against him when he was that "sitting president".“….For this ridiculous charge, Millions of Dollars have been spent on the PERSECUTION of a Popular President (Got more Votes than any sitting President in History!)*, and the current Leader in the Polls against his Democrat Opponent, Crooked Joe Biden, without whom NO CASE WOULD HAVE BEEN CHARGED,” Trump wrote Friday in a separate post.
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About Covid inflation
It was largely price fixing.
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It won't happen with a Republican Congress, and I'm skeptical it would even happen with a Democratic one.For years, there has been a debate between macro-economists [...] about the source of post-Covid inflation. Many economists chalked up price hikes to workers demanding more money and saw the way to address it as scaring workers into accepting less money by throwing a bunch of them out of work. “We need five years of unemployment above 5% to contain inflation,” said Larry Summers.
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By contrast, [...] CEOs were routinely telling investors that they were raising prices to increase margins, not to meet wage demands. Or it might have been because they experienced large and unexplained price increases in meat, rent, hotels, groceries and restaurants.
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One software and consulting pricing firm for landlords, RealPage, specialized in telling its clients to hike rents more than they otherwise might. As of December of 2020, RealPage had nearly 32,000 clients, including “10 largest multifamily property management companies in the United States”. There are multiple antitrust suits accusing the private equity-owned firm of organizing a massive price-fixing conspiracy to inflate rents across the board.
Beyond rent, the Biden administration or private plaintiffs now have credible antitrust claims against firms engaged in price-fixing in meat, hotels and large online sellers like Amazon.
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Rent, meat, oil and hotels are big sectors, so criminal activity in the form of price-fixing to boost profits should bust through the illusions economists have about how our markets really work. There are also a number of concrete steps policymakers can take to respond to this price-fixing.
The first is to arrest or sue the offending executives for criminal activity.
The second is to strengthen price-fixing and merger laws, allow more private class-action suits, force judges to speed up cases and increase the budget of antitrust enforcers to make collusion more difficult.
Guardian
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Friday, May 24, 2024
A little pressure on SCOTUS
Requesting, not demanding, not requiring.
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UPDATE :
Special counsel files a new motion
Following Trump's incredible and outrageous claim that the FBI (at Biden's behest) tried to assassinate him.
...but hey, do what you want...you will anyway.Jack Smith opens with The Government moves to modify defendant Donald J. Trump’s conditions of release, to make clear that he may not make statements that pose a significant, imminent, and foreseeable danger to law enforcement agents participating in the investigation and prosecution of this case.
He then informs the court that he met and conferred with Trump’s lawyers, who oppose his motion, and also said they object to the timing - seeing as it’s a holiday weekend.
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Jack Smith goes on to say Those statements create a grossly misleading impression about the intentions and conduct of federal law enforcement agents—falsely suggesting that they were complicit in a plot to assassinate him—and expose those agents, some of whom will be witnesses at trial, to the risk of threats, violence, and harassment. The Court has an “independent obligation to protect the integrity of this judicial proceeding,” ECF No. 101, and should take steps immediately to halt this dangerous campaign to smear law enforcement.
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As Trump is well aware, the FBI took extraordinary care to execute the search warrant unobtrusively and without needless confrontation: they scheduled the search of Mar-a-Lago for a time when he and his family would be away; they planned to coordinate with Trump’s attorney, Secret Service agents, and Mar-a-Lago staff before and during the execution of the warrant; and they planned for contingencies—which, in fact, never came to pass—about with whom to communicate if Trump were to arrive on the scene.
As part of this planning, the FBI used a form that contains standard and unobjectionable language setting out the Department of Justice’s use-of-force policy, which prohibits the use of deadly force except “when the officer has a reasonable belief that the subject of such force poses an imminent danger of death or serious physical injury to the officer or to another person.” The inclusion of that policy is routine practice to restrict the use of force, and it is attached to countless warrants across the country.
Trump, however, has distorted the standard inclusion of the policy limiting the use of deadly force by mischaracterizing it as a claim that the FBI “WAS AUTHORIZED TO SHOOT ME,” was “just itching to do the unthinkable,” and was “locked & loaded ready to take me out & put my family in danger.”
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A condition of release that prohibits the defendant from making statements posing a significant, imminent, and foreseeable danger to law enforcement agents participating in the investigation and prosecution of this case is warranted and necessary here. Such a prohibition will also minimize further prejudice caused by the defendant directing false and inflammatory messages regarding the facts of this case to potential jurors who may be summoned by the Court for jury service in this matter.
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On February 22, 2024, Trump filed under seal a motion to suppress evidence obtained through the search of Mar-a-Lago. In setting forth what he described as the relevant facts, Trump stated that the Operations Form “contained a ‘Policy Statement’ regarding ‘Use Of Deadly Force,’ which stated, for example, ‘Law enforcement officers of the Department of Justice may use deadly force when necessary [sic] . . . .’” Although Trump included the warrant and Operations Form as exhibits to his motion, the motion misquoted the Operations Form by omitting the crucial word “only” before “when necessary,” without any ellipsis reflecting the omission.
Mueller, She Wrote
Ooops
Donald Trump posted on Truth Social today that he can free the Wall Street Journal reporter Evan Gershkovich from his unjust detainment in Russia—but only after he is elected president.Evan Gershkovich, the Reporter from The Wall Street Journal, who is being held by Russia, will be released almost immediately after the Election, but definitely before I assume Office. He will be HOME, SAFE, AND WITH HIS FAMILY. Vladimir Putin, President of Russia, will do that for me, but not for anyone else, and WE WILL BE PAYING NOTHING!The Atlantic
Is Putin less than convinced Trump will win? Or is he just letting Trump know who's in charge here?Russia poured cold water on the comments almost immediately, when Kremlin spokesman, Dmitry Peskov, refuted the baseless claim, saying "There aren’t any contacts with Donald Trump."
He added, "Regarding [US-Russian] contacts on the matter of incarcerated and convicted individuals, we can say that these contacts must be carried out in total secrecy. This is the only way they can be effective."
Really American
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American mullahs at work in Louisiana
It will be challenged, and I expect go eventually to the Supreme Court where Louisiana's legislators may expect a favorable ruling.
And it won't stop with Louisiana.
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Speaking of "only the rich"
Fine, but I think this is mostly for show. You need an abortion? Can you pay for you and your doctor to fly to California and rent space and equipment? Don't forget to add extra money for the opportunity cost your doctor will face by being gone from his normal practice.
Also, can they go back to Arizona and not be arrested?
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