All Things Trump: the story continues...

[Animavore]

Trump? Yawn.

That's old news.

[Tero]

If we get to the impeachment, will we get to the Trump fart? he says excuse me right after it. He is shopping for the 11 00 votes there.
https://defector.com/did-donald-trump-f ... ion-fraud/

[Joe]

Trump made official what has always been obvious: He’s Florida Man

Donald Trump has flown off to Florida, which is, after all, what New Yorkers of a certain age tend to do. But it was long overdue, even when his mailing address was on Fifth Avenue: With his candied-yam tan, his commitment to year-round golfing and his inability to distinguish between reality and fantasy, Trump’s always been more Florida Man than Manhattan sophisticate.

Taking up full-time residence at Mar-a-Lago — assuming the town council of Palm Beach decides not to enforce the 1993 agreement he signed barring anyone from making the club a permanent residence — the twice-impeached Trump joins a long list of shady characters who found a refuge, even if only fleeting, in sunny South Florida. What with its paradisal weather and a certain ethical looseness when it comes to the rich and famous, Florida has always been a desirable location for the well-heeled disreputable. Richard Nixon ruminated over the Watergate break-in at his Key Biscayne compound. O.J. Simpson lived in Kendall until he was convicted of armed robbery in 2008. In 1928, Al Capone bought a Palm Island mansion from brewery heir Clarence Busch, and in 1929, he threw a lavish party there the same night that hit men killed rival mobsters in the Saint Valentine’s Day Massacre, giving himself a copper-bottomed alibi. Former despots have also aimed for soft landings in South Florida over the years: Fulgencio Batista, overthrown by Fidel Castro’s Cuban revolution, bought a vacation home in Daytona Beach and a house in Miami’s Spring Garden, and Nicaragua’s Anastasio Somoza Debayle (who was kicked out by U.S. authorities) and Haiti’s Prosper Avril (who wasn’t) both made their way there after fleeing their countries.

[laklak]

The Donald is the new Murf the Surf.

[Joe]

I have this picture of a gaunt, decrepit Trump, driven out of business by his enemies and abandoned by his wife and kids, living in a trailer and wandering the Everglades. Somewhere along the line, folks start calling him The Skink.

[Tero]

elsewhere:

The Justice Department’s top leaders listened in stunned silence this month: One of their peers, they were told, had devised a plan with President Donald J. Trump to oust Jeffrey A. Rosen as acting attorney general and wield the department’s power to force Georgia state lawmakers to overturn its presidential election results.

Mr. Trump was about to decide whether to fire Mr. Rosen and replace him with Mr. Clark.

The department officials, convened on a conference call, then asked each other: What will you do if Mr. Rosen is dismissed?

The answer was unanimous. They would resign.

my response there:

I get that Trump was trying that, as to him all branches of government were reporting to him in some way. Or manipulatable. I don't quite understand what was the plan with Georgia. How would the US justice department be able to manipulate the Georgia legislature? They have no reason to respond, as the justice department only deals with federal courts and not state courts of legislatures.

[Scot Dutchy]

He wont have much time to think of much else:

Courtrooms and creditors likely to loom large in Trump's post-presidency life

Carter campaigned for human rights, Bush painted … but Trump faces several criminal investigations and a mountain of debt

Each US president has charted a unique course after leaving the White House, taking up vocations from philanthropy to human rights to oil painting.

Donald Trump’s post-presidency appears likely to be taken up by meetings with lawyers and creditors, possible sworn depositions about tax practices or sexual assault allegations and, in some long-tail scenarios, fines, criminal charges, bankruptcy or other legal sanction.

With Trump gone from Washington, and now lacking the immunity protections of the presidency, prosecutors in at least three jurisdictions are either weighing or actively pursuing criminal cases against him, and a fourth prosecutor is investigating allegedly fraudulent business practices inside the Trump Organization.

Trump’s daughter, Ivanka Trump, is reportedly a major figure in two of the investigations, over more than $700,000 in “consulting fees” she allegedly received from the Trump Organization, which then allegedly claimed those fees as tax-deductible business expenses.

“This is harassment pure and simple,” Ivanka Trump tweeted in November, denying the allegations.

Donald Trump has long conducted himself, as a businessman and as president, as if the law did not apply to him or his cronies, dozens of whom he pardoned for crimes on the eve of his departure from office.

But criminal investigations now under way mean that the law might finally catch up to Trump in his post-presidency life, just as a $300m avalanche of debt coming due over four years that Trump has personally guaranteed threatens to sink him financially, according to a New York Times analysis of his tax records,

Trump has denied all wrongdoing, and his son Eric Trump has boasted that the Trump empire is healthy, with liquid real estate assets and branding opportunities overseas.

[Brian Peacock]

Smart people don't pay taxes.

[Joe]

Trump will be fine. He may have been a terrible President to most people, but his wealthiest patron probably feels differently. I don't think he will have any problems getting loans.

[Tero]

Mar a Lago members find it was a crappy place all along:
It's a very dispirited place," Laurence Leamer, historian and author of "Mar-a-Lago: Inside the Gates of Power at Donald Trump's Presidential Palace," told MSNBC host Alex Witt on "Weekends with Alex Witt" Saturday. He said members are "not concerned about politics and they said the food is no good."

Mar-a-Lago has long been ridiculed by critics as a stodgy, stuffy club filled with Trump memorabilia -- some of it fake. Late-night host Jimmy Kimmel on Friday recounted a visit to the resort just before Trump became president.

(Kimmel)He described the Mar-a-Lago attendees as "hunched-over people who are eating soft food" and he said the place is covered in Trump photos.

https://amp.cnn.com/cnn/2021/01/24/busi ... index.html

[Tero]

Something good from Trump? He is going to ruin several Republicans:
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/202 ... mney-rubio

[rainbow]

Trump? Yawn.

That's old news.

Didn't he have a television show once?

[Seabass]

Trump? Yawn.

That's old news.

Didn't he have a television show once?

[Tero]

The Insurrection Rally was an official Trump campaign event. Trump is 100% culpable and this makes Trump vulnerable for a boatload of civil lawsuits risin' from it.
https://twitter.com/TeaPainUSA/status/1 ... 7536496641
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles ... -7-million

Megan Powers, listed as one of two operations managers on the permit, was paid $290,000 by the Trump campaign from February 2019 through the most recent filing period. She served as director of operations for Trump’s campaign.

[Tero]

Dailywire (contains no facts on Biden, only opinions) is another Breitbart. But they report no new party.

President Donald Trump has reportedly dropped an idea to start a third political party, which was briefly floated last week, and is now focused on helping the Republican Party win back the House and the Senate in 2022.

“In last 24 hours, after floating through a few folks that he was considering creating a third-party as a way to keep Senate Rs in line ahead of impeachment, Trump has been talked out of that and is making clear to people he isn’t pursuing it,” NYT reporter Maggie Haberman wrote. “Trump has started to believe there are fewer votes to convict than there would have been if the vote had been held almost immediately after Jan. 6.”
The Wall Street Journal reported last week that Trump had discussed with several aides the prospect of creating a third political party, which he said that he would call the “Patriot Party.”

“Top pro-Trump Republicans close to the Trump administration told The Daily Wire that they thought it was a ‘bad idea’ and that it would split enough support away from the Republican Party that it would ensure Democrats stay in the majority for quite some time into the future,” The Daily Wire reported. “Online, Democrats and leftists in the media cheered the idea for that exact reason.”

https://www.dailywire.com/news/trump-ha ... hird-party