America is coming back, and America is coming back strong

[drjohncarpenter]

And again.

[Mike C]

Oh man, the hits just keep on coming!! Now Biden has lost Cenk Uygur of The Young Turks!!! He is seriously considering RFK, Jr. And, he even admits that the Democrats "love to rig elections."



Shall we send you two some smelling salts?

[Mike C]

Good lord, no wonder why the Biden camp is losing their minds. The following chart from a recent Bloomberg article explains why the Trump train is gaining steam daily.

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Here's the link to the Bloomberg article from where the chart comes from: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2024-04-01/election-2024-young-voters-economic-concerns-give-trump-edge-over-biden

Young Voters Are More Concerned With the Economy. That’s Bad for Biden
* Young voters are more worried about economy than older adults
* Trump leads Biden with swing-state voters under age 35 in poll

As James Carville famously noted in 1992: "It's the economy, stupid!"

[BrianTCB]

Our forum Trumpers are going to be so upset when they lose. Lose. Lose LOSE the 2024 election. Badly.

And when Trump (Hitler) is in prison.

Good.

[drjohncarpenter]

Always remember the fascist attempt to overturn democracy on January 6th.

And the guy who orchestrated it.







A dark, dark day in American history.

[drjohncarpenter]

This appears to be a trend.











Investors have been fleeced.

Ouch.

[BrianTCB]

Oopsie. Oopsie. Oopsie. Trumpty Dumpty sat on a never-completed wall. Trumpty Dumpty had a great fall...

LOL.

New York appeals judge rejects Donald Trump’s request to delay his April 15 hush money trial

https://abcnews.go.com/US/wireStory/donald-trump-asks-appeals-court-intervene-minute-bid-109004416

A New York appeals court judge has rejected former President Donald Trump’s request to delay his April 15 hush money criminal trial while he fights to move the case out of Manhattan

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NEW YORK -- A New York appeals court judge on Monday rejected Donald Trump's bid to delay his April 15 hush money criminal trial while he fights to move the case out of Manhattan — foiling the former president’s latest attempt to put off the historic trial.

Justice Lizbeth González of the state’s mid-level appeals court made her ruling after an emergency hearing where Trump's lawyers asked to postpone the trial indefinitely while they seek a change of venue. Trump was seeking an emergency stay, a court order that would prevent the trial from starting on time.

The hush money trial is the first of Trump's his four criminal indictments slated to go to trial and would be the first criminal trial ever of a former president.

Trump lawyer Emil Bove argued that the presumptive Republican nominee faces “real potential prejudice” as a defendant in heavily Democratic Manhattan. Citing defense surveys and a review of media coverage, Bove argued that jury selection, scheduled to start next Monday, “cannot proceed in a fair manner.”

Trump has suggested on social media that the trial should be moved to Staten Island, the only New York City borough he won in 2016 and 2020.

Steven Wu, appellate chief for the Manhattan district attorney's office, noted that trial Judge Juan M. Merchan had already rejected Trump's requests to move or delay the trial as untimely.

“The question in this case is not whether a random poll of New Yorkers from whatever neighborhood are able to be impartial, it’s about whether a trial court is able to select a jury of 12 impartial jurors,” Wu said. He blamed Trump for stoking pretrial publicity with "countless media appearances talking about the facts of this case, the witnesses, and so on.”

In a separate appellate matter, Trump's lawyers are also challenging a gag order imposed on him in the case, which Merchan recently expanded to prohibit Trump from making comments about the judge’s family. The appeals court signaled it would take up that matter at a later date.

Paperwork relating to Trump's appeals were placed under seal and not publicly available.

Trump had pledged to appeal after Merchan ruled last month that the trial would begin April 15. His lawyers had pleaded to delay the trial at least until summer to give them more time to review late-arriving evidence from a prior federal investigation into the matter.

Merchan, who had already moved the trial from its original March 25 start date because of the evidence issue, said no further delays were warranted.

Trump's lawyers filed their appeals Monday on two separate court dockets. One was styled as a lawsuit against Merchan, a legal mechanism allowing them to challenge his rulings.

In New York, judges can be sued over some judicial decisions under a state law known as Article 78. Trump has used the tactic before, including against the judge in his civil fraud case in an unsuccessful last-minute bid to delay that case last fall.

In this case, he is accused of falsifying his company’s records to hide the nature of payments to his former lawyer and fixer Michael Cohen, who helped him bury negative stories during his 2016 campaign. Cohen’s activities included paying porn actor Stormy Daniels $130,000 to suppress her claims of an extramarital sexual encounter with Trump years earlier.

Trump pleaded not guilty last year to 34 felony counts of falsifying business records. He has denied having a sexual encounter with Daniels. His lawyers argue the payments to Cohen were legitimate legal expenses.

Trump's move Monday is the latest escalation in his battles with Merchan.

Trump assailed the judge on social media after he imposed a gag order last month barring Trump from making public statements about jurors, witnesses and others connected the case. After Trump's complaints, Merchan expanded the gag order to include members of his own family.

Last week, Trump renewed his request for the judge to step aside from the case, citing Merchan's daughter's work as the head of a firm whose clients have included his rival President Joe Biden, Vice President Kamala Harris and other Democrats.

The former president alleges the judge is biased against him and has a conflict of interest because of his daughter’s work. The judge rejected a similar request last August.

Trump has also made numerous other attempts to get the trial postponed, echoing a strategy he's deployed in his other criminal cases. “We want delays,” Trump proclaimed to TV cameras outside a February pretrial hearing in his hush money case.

Merchan last week rejected his request to delay the trial until the U.S. Supreme Court rules on presidential immunity claims he raised in another of his criminal cases.

Trump also filed an eve-of-trial lawsuit against the judge in his New York civil fraud case, accusing the jurist of repeatedly abusing his authority. Among other issues, Trump’s lawyers in that case complained that Judge Arthur Engoron had refused their request to delay the trial. Their suit was filed about three weeks before the trial was slated to begin.

A state appeals court rejected Trump’s claims, and the trial started as scheduled Oct. 2.

During the civil trial, Trump sued Engoron again, this time over a gag order he’d issued after Trump smeared the judge’s principal law clerk in a social media post. The gag order barred parties in the case — and, later, their lawyers as well — from commenting publicly on court staffers, though not on the judge himself.

A sole appeals judge lifted the gag order, but a four-judge appellate panel ultimately restored it two weeks later. The panel said Trump’s lawyers should have followed a normal appeals process instead of suing the judge. Trump’s attorneys said they had been trying to move quickly.

Engoron, who decided that case without a jury, ruled that Trump, his company and key executives defrauded bankers and insurers by overstating his wealth in documents used to get loans and coverage. Trump denied any wrongdoing and is appealing the finding and over $454 million in penalties and interest.

[Mike C]

Have to wonder if those are a couple of the informants the FBI had in the crowd on Jan. 6th. No wonder why Director Chris Wray refuses to answers questions from Congress about which FBI agents and informations were there on that day.

There were so many informants in the crowd that day that the FBI, according to former agent Steven D’Antuono, lost track of how many were there that day.

The FBI had so many paid informants at the Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021, that it lost track of the number and had to perform a later audit to determine exactly how many “Confidential Human Sources” run by different FBI field offices were present that day, a former assistant director of the bureau has told lawmakers.

At least one informant was communicating with his FBI handler as he entered the Capitol, according to Steven D’Antuono, formerly in charge of the bureau’s Washington field office.

D’Antuono has testified behind closed doors to the House Judiciary Committee that his office was aware before the riot that some of their informants would attend a “Stop the Steal” rally thrown by former President Donald Trump, but he only learned after the fact that informants run by other field offices also were present, along with others who had participated of their own accord.

The Washington field office had to ask FBI headquarters “to do a poll or put out something to people saying w[ere] any CHSs involved,” he said, so they could get a handle on the scale of the FBI’s spying operations at the Capitol that day.

https://nypost.com/2023/09/19/fbi-lost-count-of-number-of-informants-at-capitol-on-jan-6-ex-official/

[BrianTCB]

Those must be the plants the FBI had in the crowd on Jan. 6th. No wonder why Director Chris Wray refuses to answers questions from Congress about which FBI agents and informations were there on that day.

There were so many informants in the crowd that day that the FBI, according to former agent Steven D’Antuono, lost track of how many were there that day.

The FBI had so many paid informants at the Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021, that it lost track of the number and had to perform a later audit to determine exactly how many “Confidential Human Sources” run by different FBI field offices were present that day, a former assistant director of the bureau has told lawmakers.

At least one informant was communicating with his FBI handler as he entered the Capitol, according to Steven D’Antuono, formerly in charge of the bureau’s Washington field office.

D’Antuono has testified behind closed doors to the House Judiciary Committee that his office was aware before the riot that some of their informants would attend a “Stop the Steal” rally thrown by former President Donald Trump, but he only learned after the fact that informants run by other field offices also were present, along with others who had participated of their own accord.

The Washington field office had to ask FBI headquarters “to do a poll or put out something to people saying w[ere] any CHSs involved,” he said, so they could get a handle on the scale of the FBI’s spying operations at the Capitol that day.

https://nypost.com/2023/09/19/fbi-lost-count-of-number-of-informants-at-capitol-on-jan-6-ex-official/

Some of the most insane statements I have ever read on these threads.

I think the Weekly World News is calling for some of your input, Mike C.

[Mike C]

Amazing how 6 months passes so quickly these days!

So, you are doubting the testimony of the former agent? Check out Steven D’Antuono CV -- he's no Trump guy that's for sure.

What really amazes me is why you and Doc continue to read and post on this thread if many of the comments in the thread are "insane" and contrary to what MSNBC is telling you. Seems a waste of your time, no?

[Mike C]

This is slightly different than the solar eclipse I witnessed today. But it is always great to make the media look like fools!



I wonder if they used the 2001 theme from an Elvis cd.

[BrianTCB]

LMAO.

"We interrupt your eclipse preparation for news of a crater. 🥲🥲🥲
(and people bought this stock at $79 plus 2 weeks ago). #ETTD"

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[Mike C]

That is one good ad!

[drjohncarpenter]

And now a plea for euthanasia . . .











Ouch.

[drjohncarpenter]

Have to wonder if those are a couple of the informants the FBI had in the crowd . . .

"have to wonder"

Um, no.

Forum fascist shares Russian propaganda about Jan. 6th.

Truth? Not so much.

[BrianTCB]

An excellent move, Mr. Hamill.

[Mike C]

Have to wonder if those are a couple of the informants the FBI had in the crowd . . .

"have to wonder"

Um, no.

[He] shares Russian propaganda about Jan. 6th.

Truth? Not so much.

Says the guy who has a thread entirely based on Russian propaganda passed off as a "dossier" from UK intelligence office Christopher Steele. And which was paid for by the Clinton campaign using attorney Marc Elias!

The news that Christopher Steele’s primary subsource of information for the Steele dossier has been identified shed new light on the role of sources in high-profile FBI investigations and what confidentiality means to them. On July 25, the New York Times reported, based on information from his attorney, that Russia-trained attorney Igor Danchenko was this source for Steele. Danchenko said he provided Steele with information from his own network of sources about then-candidate Donald Trump’s alleged contact with Russians in the run-up to the 2016 election.

https://thehill.com/opinion/white-house/509645-unmasking-steele-dossier-source-was-confidentiality-ever-part-of-the-deal/

Do you have the names of the guys raising the flag in the picture you posted? Have they been arrested and charged?

The New York Time confirmed years ago that there were FBI informants in the crowd that day. Is the Times now a right wing news source?

https://www.nytimes.com/2021/09/25/us/politics/capitol-riot-fbi-informant.html

[BrianTCB]

Have to wonder if those are a couple of the informants the FBI had in the crowd . . .

"have to wonder"

Um, no.

[He] shares Russian propaganda about Jan. 6th.

Truth? Not so much.

Says the guys who has a thread entirely based on Russian propaganda passed off as a "dossier" from UK intelligence office Christopher Steele. And which was paid for by the Clinton campaign using attorney Marc Elias!

The news that Christopher Steele’s primary subsource of information for the Steele dossier has been identified shed new light on the role of sources in high-profile FBI investigations and what confidentiality means to them. On July 25, the New York Times reported, based on information from his attorney, that Russia-trained attorney Igor Danchenko was this source for Steele. Danchenko said he provided Steele with information from his own network of sources about then-candidate Donald Trump’s alleged contact with Russians in the run-up to the 2016 election.

https://thehill.com/opinion/white-house/509645-unmasking-steele-dossier-source-was-confidentiality-ever-part-of-the-deal/

Do you have the names of the guys raising the flag in the picture you posted? Have they been arrested and charged?

The New York Time confirmed years ago that there were FBI informants in the crowd that day. Is the Times now a right wing news source?

https://www.nytimes.com/2021/09/25/us/politics/capitol-riot-fbi-informant.html

I guess you don't like the bipartisan Senate intelligence committee report either - you know - the one that backs up the Mueller report and says that Russia colluded with the Trump campaign in 2016?



Bipartisan Senate report backs intel community assessment that Russia interfered to help Trump in 2016 election

https://www.cnn.com/2020/04/21/politics/senate-report-russia-interference/index.html

Washington CNN — A bipartisan report from the Senate Intelligence Committee released on Tuesday has backed the US intelligence community’s conclusion that Russia interfered in the 2016 presidential election to help then-candidate Donald Trump.

The committee’s findings are a rebuke to Trump’s frequent claims of a “hoax” that Russia was trying to help him win and the President’s attacks on the intelligence community. The panel concluded that the Obama administration’s assessment on Russian election interference was crafted without political bias, undercutting the President’s claims that officials like former CIA Director John Brennan and Director of National Intelligence James Clapper were using the intelligence community to attack him.

Senate Intelligence Chairman Richard Burr said in a statement that the assessment reflected “strong tradecraft” and “sound analytical reasoning.”

“The Committee found no reason to dispute the Intelligence Community’s conclusions,” the North Carolina Republican said.

The committee has previously summarized its finding that the intelligence assessment was supported, but the 156-page report included new details – and a lot of redactions – on how the committee reached that conclusion. The report pushed back against the findings of House Intelligence Committee Republicans, who raised issues in 2018 with how the intelligence assessment was reached that Russian President Vladimir Putin was trying to help Trump.

The committee’s bipartisan investigation into Russian election interference began more than three years ago. The committee has released four volumes and is finishing work on the final chapter, which will include the committee’s investigation into contacts between members of Trump’s team and Russian officials.

That volume is in its final editing stages, according to a source familiar with the matter, and is currently around 950 pages, including footnotes but not appendices.

Trump has distrusted the intelligence community since he took office, and the intelligence community assessment released days before he was sworn in is a major factor.

But the committee defended the intelligence community’s work. It warned Russia was likely to try to interfere again in 2020, saying that the ICA provided an important conclusion that “Russia’s aggressive interference efforts should be considered ‘the new normal.’”

“There is certainly no reason to doubt that the Russians’ success in 2016 is leading them to try again in 2020, and we must not be caught unprepared,” Sen. Mark Warner of Virginia, the panel’s top Democrat, said in a statement.

The committee also addressed the allegations contained in the opposition research dossier written by ex-British intelligence agent Christopher Steele, which Republicans have pointed to in an effort to discredit the FBI and special counsel investigations into Trump and Russia. The panel found that the “information provided by Christopher Steele to FBI was not used in the body of the intelligence community assessment or to support any of its analytic judgments.”

The report explains there was a debate over what to do with the Steele material, which the FBI had been provided. The decision was made to include a two-page annex to the classified version of the assessment, which was briefed to the President-elect by FBI Director James Comey in January 2017.

The committee interviewed senior officials in the Obama administration involved with the assessment, as well as the officials who helped put it together. Every witness interviewed, the committee said, saw “no attempts or pressure to politicize the findings.”

[drjohncarpenter]

Says the guys . . .

Forum fascist rants and raves just like his hero, making a lot of noise while saying nothing.

VOTE BLUE.

Support our precious democracy.

[Mike C]

The only guys who rant and rave are you and Brian -- and it is on daily basis. The Orange Man lives rent free in both of your heads.

If you want to end democracy and install authoritarian government, vote Blue. Their leader announced yesterday he will once again defy the ruling of the Supreme Court and "cancel" student loan debt even though he has no Constitutional Authority to do so!

Gee, inflation is raging hot once again.



It is only a surprise if you watch MSNBC and don't understand basic economics! Vote Blue if you want a weak dollar (those FTD releases will costs even more) and more inflation.

[Mike C]

Brian, did you actually read the CNN report or the Mueller Report itself? The CNN reports does not say that Trump colluded with the Russians in 2016. And this is exactly what the Mueller Report concludes on pages 1-2 of the report.

Although the investigation established that the Russian government perceived it would benefit from a Trump presidency and worked to secure that outcome, and that the Campaign expected it would benefit electorally from information stolen and released through Russian efforts, the investigation did not establish that members of the Trump Campaign conspired or coordinated with the Russian government in its election interference activities.

https://www.justice.gov/storage/report.pdf

Game, set, match!!

P.S. -- How did you manage to get out of the penalty box? Did you hack your way out?

[BrianTCB]

Brian, did you actually read the CNN report or the Mueller Report itself? The CNN reports does not say that Trump colluded with the Russians in 2016. And this is exactly what the Mueller Report concludes on pages 1-2 of the report.

Although the investigation established that the Russian government perceived it would benefit from a Trump presidency and worked to secure that outcome, and that the Campaign expected it would benefit electorally from information stolen and released through Russian efforts, the investigation did not establish that members of the Trump Campaign conspired or coordinated with the Russian government in its election interference activities.

Game, set, match!!

P.S. -- How did you manage to get out of the penalty box? Did you hack your way out?

I couldn't leave my favorite forum poster alone now, could I? You know I love ya. ***mwaahhhh***

[drjohncarpenter]

If you want to end democracy and install authoritarian government, vote Blue.

Forum fascist, like most of the GOP and right-wing nutcases in the US, brings out a Putin talking point.

This is not a surprise.

VOTE BLUE.

[BrianTCB]

[Mike C]

If you want to end democracy and install authoritarian government, vote Blue.

This is not a surprise.

VOTE BLUE.

So, you are okay with Biden openly and willingly defying the Supreme Court's ruling? How exactly is that preserving democracy?