All Things Trump: the story continues...

[pErvinalia]

Orange man is the subject of this thread. Cuomo isn't.

[Cunt]

Cuomo (D-NY) is the one coming after Trump.

I'll drop it though. It seems to upset tHe local pErv.

[Brian Peacock]

Start a thread on it if you like.

[rainbow]

'One of those crimes'.

Yeah, you know, like tax evasion, or trying to pervert the course of justice via that phone call to the official from Georgia. The list of potential law suits and criminal charges is a long one, by all accounts...

None of those have been proven, other than it the fever-dreams of his opponents.

The Dems hate him more than even anyone here does. With that hate driving them, they haven't exactly been holding back - they've tried everything they have.

There is a reason Trump refused to release his tax records.

...so is it tax evasion, fraud, or both?

[Tero]

[Cunt]

'One of those crimes'.

Yeah, you know, like tax evasion, or trying to pervert the course of justice via that phone call to the official from Georgia. The list of potential law suits and criminal charges is a long one, by all accounts...

None of those have been proven, other than it the fever-dreams of his opponents.

The Dems hate him more than even anyone here does. With that hate driving them, they haven't exactly been holding back - they've tried everything they have.

There is a reason Trump refused to release his tax records.

...so is it tax evasion, fraud, or both?

If it was fraud, it is the only fraud near him. The Dems have been focused on ONLY Trump and ruining him, for about 5 years now. If there was fraud, they must be incompetent or in on it.

[L'Emmerdeur]

Yeah, the Democrats haven't laid a finger on 'im. His well-documented history of defrauding marks at his bogus 'university' and defrauding contractors who've worked for him, the shell-game with fraudulent 'vendors' which were actually just conduits for cash to family members, none of that would indicate any persistent long term habit of fraud. No fraud around him, no siree. Just a very smart businessman, you betcha. Getting the American taxpayer to pay for travel by Trump family members on Trump corporation business isn't defrauding them--they were happy to pay for stuff for the Trumps, just ask 'em.

About half way through the Trump administration:

'501 Days in Swampland'

[January 5, 2017] Eric Trump jets to Uruguay to check on an unfinished Trump condo tower. The trip costs taxpayers $97,830.

[February 5, 2017] Eric Trump spends $200,000 in taxpayer money to jet to the Dominican Republic to push for a Trump-branded project. The deal — which would put Trump’s name on 17 high-rises — violates a Dominican height limit for new resorts. It also breaks Trump’s vow not to seek overseas deals during his presidency. The Dominican president personally approves the high-rises. “Here in the palace, the president’s thoughts are that this U.S. president is angry and we better not get in his way,” a former Dominican ambassador explains. “We don’t want to cross him.”

[Cunt]

If he's so dumb, how is it that neither 'very serious' impeachment stuck?

Maybe the third one will...

[Brian Peacock]

I don't think his intelligence was a factor in his party backing him at the conclusion of the impeachment process. Neither, I suspect, do you.

[Cunt]

Both were dismissed as soon as the political theatre was overwith.

Pelosi waited for custom signature pens, for the first one. That is how seriously we should take it.

[JimC]

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2021-02-24/ ... s/13183168

Donald Trump's battle to hide his tax returns took a big hit this week, with the Supreme Court allowing a New York prosecutor access to the files.

While he lost this round of his fight over taxes, he also chalked up a win this week, as former porn star Stormy Daniels' defamation case against him was blocked.

But they aren't the only lawsuits the former president is facing. And since losing the protections of office, the playing field has certainly changed.

So what are the legal obstacles facing Mr Trump in his post-White House life?

Right now, there's at least one case Mr Trump is facing following the violence in Washington DC on January 6.

Democratic congressman Bennie Thompson has used a provision of the Ku Klux Klan Act to sue Mr Trump and his lawyer Rudy Giuliani for conspiring to incite the riot.

The law was originally passed in a response to KKK violence at the time, and prohibits violence or intimidation meant to prevent Congress from carrying out its constitutional duties.

Some of Mr Trump's actions following his election loss could crop up in a courtroom.

According to leaked audio obtained by the Washington Post in January, he told the Georgia Secretary of State there was "nothing wrong with saying … you've recalculated" votes in the state.

Two weeks ago, prosecutors there opened a criminal investigation into the call.

Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis, who is a Democrat, wrote in a letter that the investigation included "potential violations of Georgia law prohibiting the solicitation of election fraud, the making of false statements… conspiracy, racketeering, violation of oath of office and any involvement in violence or threats related to the election's administration."

The probe will look into a phone call Mr Trump made to senior Georgia official, Republican Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger.

But author and journalist E. Jean Carroll's Advice columnist accuses Trump of rape could be mentioned in a courtroom this year.
Her lawyers are seeking to depose Mr Trump in a defamation lawsuit that Ms Carroll filed against the former president in November 2019, after he denied her accusation that he raped her at a Manhattan department store in the mid-1990s.

Mr Trump said he never knew Ms Carroll and accused her of lying to sell her new book, adding: "She's not my type."

Summer Zervos, a former contestant on his reality television show The Apprentice, accused Mr Trump of sexual misconduct in 2016, saying that he kissed her against her will at a 2007 meeting in New York and later groped her at a California hotel as the two met to discuss job opportunities.

Mr Trump denied the allegations and called Ms Zervos a liar, prompting her to sue him for defamation in 2017, seeking damages and a retraction.

Mr Trump tried unsuccessfully to have the case dismissed, arguing that as president he was immune from suits filed in state courts.

His lawyers appealed to the New York Court of Appeals, which is still considering the case.

Ms Zervos filed a motion in early February asking the court to resume the case now that Mr Trump is no longer president.

They are among more than two dozen women who have publicly accused Mr Trump of sexual misconduct that they say occurred in the years before he became president.

Other accusers include a former model, who claims Mr Trump sexually assaulted her at the 1997 US Open tennis tournament; a former Miss Universe pageant contestant who said he groped her in 2006; and a reporter who alleges he forcibly kissed her without her consent in 2005 at his Mar-a-Lago resort.

Mr Trump has denied the allegations.

[L'Emmerdeur]

When you have a jury (the US Senate) half filled with bootlickers and arsekissers, acquittal is a foregone conclusion. That outcome has no relation to an actual determination of guilt or innocence, except to other bootlickers.

[Sean Hayden]

One-term loser.

[Brian Peacock]

I doubt his own words will haunt him as long as he has enough energy to maintain that he didn't lose fairly

[Sean Hayden]

It's more about the peace of mind they bring me.