All Things Trump: Is it over yet?

[Hermit]

What the fuck is up with 40+% of the USA's population?

They have below average intelligence.

Is it genetic?

"I am, somehow, less interested in the weight and convolutions of Einstein’s brain than in the near certainty that people of equal talent have lived and died in cotton fields and sweatshops." - Stephen Jay Gould

[Tero]

I moved the line to May 18 where Trump had a small peak. He is now at 42.9 and Biden at 50.4.

It has almost nothing to do with Trump any more. It has to do with the voters. They can't admit they were wrong, so most will proudly declare to family that "I've never voted for a Democrat." Answers to polls will be according to how they voted. A small number, if they can do it so undetected (such as saying they voted by mail) will say they voted for Trump again, but will just not vote at all.

[rainbow]

What the fuck is up with 40+% of the USA's population?

They have below average intelligence.

Is it genetic?

The bell-end curve applies.

[Hermit]

What the fuck is up with 40+% of the USA's population?

They have below average intelligence.

Is it genetic?

The bell-end curve applies.

Genetic then. That's the thesis of these racist fucks.

Please tell me you are joking.

[rainbow]

What the fuck is up with 40+% of the USA's population?

They have below average intelligence.

Is it genetic?

The bell-end curve applies.

Genetic then. That's the thesis of these racist fucks.

Please tell me you are joking.

The bell-end curve is steeper and has a knob on top.

[Tero]

So far, in the first couple of chapters of the Cohen book, cohen catches on to what Trump is about. He wanted to make a buck ln every deal, but in deals gone bad it was a strategy to pull out and still look good that was needed. Trump pulls out of casino that he had lent his name to, by license agreement. The real owners and board are left to deal with the bankruptcy after Cohen charges that they defaulted on the casino license deal by letting it run down. No money gained, but Trump saves face and transfers blame.

[Joe]

Classy guy, that Trump. I'll be interested to see if Cohen goes into his treatment of his tenants in the 80's. If there was ever a sign this guy can't be trusted with power, that was it.

[Tero]

That won't be there, just 2005-2016. Cohen replaced previous legal strongman, who died of Aids. So the book covers Apprentice and Obama etas.

[Tero]

Roy Cohn, Trump's previous fixer:
At death, the IRS seized almost everything he had.[64] One of the things that the IRS did not seize was a pair of diamond cuff links, given to him by client and friend, Donald Trump.[65] The diamond cuff links were later declared to be fake by an appraiser. According to Roger Stone, Cohn's "absolute goal was to die completely broke and owing millions to the IRS. He succeeded in that."

[L'Emmerdeur]

His current fixer is more effective than any he's employed before.

'Bill Barr’s New Fix: Trump Smeared His Rape Accuser, E. Jean Carroll, in his "Official Capacity"'

Donald Trump has repeatedly called for "opening up" libel laws and eliminating constitutional limits the Supreme Court has imposed on defamation suits brought by public figures, “so when they write purposely negative and horrible and false articles, we can sue them and win lots of money.”

But Trump’s attorney general, William Barr, just declared that nobody can sue the president for knowingly lying about them—even someone who says that Trump raped her before he was in office.

And Trump and Barr just might have the law on their side here; at the very least, the fixer’s move has bought our creep in chief valuable time, ensuring he won’t face any reckoning with his accuser before November.

...

Following Trump’s denials and attacks on her character, [alleged rape victim of Trump] Carroll filed a defamation action against Trump in New York state court. On August 3, Trump, represented by his private counsel, lost a motion to dismiss or stay the case. The court cited a recent Supreme Court decision rejecting Trump’s effort to categorically prohibit the Manhattan District Attorney from subpoenaing Trump’s financial records from his accounting firm in connection with a criminal investigation.

Central to the court’s reasoning was that “‘the presidency and the President are indeed separable’ and thus, ‘the President is presumptively subject to civil liability for conduct that has taken place in his private capacity,’" such as allegedly lying about his own alleged sexual misconduct. With the New York court’s decision, the stage was set for Trump to be ordered to comply with a demand to provide a sample of his DNA; a similar mandate proved critical in the criminal investigation of President Bill Clinton.

But as has occurred so many times, Donald Trump was rescued by his fixer at the Department of Justice, William Barr. On Tuesday, Department of Justice lawyers filed a notice of removal, transferring Carroll’s case to a New York City federal court, and a motion seeking the substitution of Trump as a defendant with the United States. The DOJ’s action was premised on the DOJ’s “certification” that Trump allegedly defamed Carroll in his “official capacity” as an employee of the federal government.

[JimC]

The lead Biden has in the polls means nothing, because the popular vote means fuck all in comparison with the shambolic version of democracy which is the electoral college...

[Sean Hayden]

Maybe the focus should be on the DOJ rather than just Barr. If what he's asking them to do is unethical, and they do it anyway, then the place is rotten.

[Sean Hayden]

An unethical DOJ --I kill me.

[JimC]

Ethics and lawyers are like celibacy and catholic priests...

[Tero]

The Cohen book, aside from the Trump half, reminds me a lot of Allen Klein
https://www.amazon.com/Allen-Klein-Bail ... 666&sr=8-3
Except Cohen had a much happier normal childhood.