All Things Trump: the story continues...

[Tero]

And numerous others said Trump should be booed by the Ohio rallygoers for even "bringing up the word 'vaccine,'" specifically because they believe COVID-19 was entirely a hoax.

But a majority of the top QAnon user comments simply expressed their outright boredom with Trump's post-election stump speech.

[JimC]

"Trump is not insane enough to truly be our president"

[Tero]

Trump mistakes the moon for a planet. Only he says plant. Or so it seemed.
https://twitter.com/aravosis/status/1409268167126536199

He was talking about the moon landing:

he was supposed to say, “A young man was sent to plant the stars and stripes on the moon.” However, once he said “was sent to A PLANT” he had to stick to it

[Seabass]

Trump too fascist for generals.


https://www.axios.com/trump-mark-milley ... 07881.html

Gen. Mark Milley, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, repeatedly blew up at President Trump over how to handle last summer's racial-justice protests, The Wall Street Journal's Michael Bender writes in his forthcoming book, "Frankly, We Did Win This Election."

The backdrop: Trump wanted to invoke the Insurrection Act and put Milley in charge of a scorched-earth military campaign to suppress protests that had spiraled into riots in several cities.

Milley — now a GOP villain for his testimony last week on critical race theory — pushed back, Bender writes in a passage Axios is reporting for the first time:

Seated in the Situation Room with [Attorney General Bill] Barr, Milley, and [Secretary of Defense Mark] Esper, Trump exaggerated claims about the violence and alarmed officials ... by announcing he’d just put Milley "in charge."
Privately, Milley confronted Trump about his role. He was an adviser, and not in command. But Trump had had enough.
"I said you're in f---ing charge!" Trump shouted at him.
"Well, I'm not in charge!" Milley yelled back.
"You can't f---ing talk to me like that!" Trump said. ...
"Goddamnit," Milley said to others. "There's a room full of lawyers here. Will someone inform him of my legal responsibilities?"
"He's right, Mr. President," Barr said. "The general is right."
Asked for a response, Trump told Axios through an aide: "This is totally fake news, it never ever happened. I'm not a fan of Gen. Milley, but I never had an argument with him and the whole thing is false. He never talked back to me. Michael Bender never asked me about it and it's totally fake news."

Trump later added: "If Gen. Milley had yelled at me, I would have fired him."
Bender then told Axios: "This exchange was confirmed by multiple senior administration officials during the course of hundreds of hours of interviews with dozens of top Trump World aides for this book."

"Contrary to Mr. Trump’s assertion, I asked the former president for his side of this particular argument in a written question — as he requested — along with other queries included in my thorough fact-checking process. He did not reply.”
A spokesman for Milley declined to comment.

P.S. At Trump's Ohio rally on Saturday night, he attacked Milley without naming him: "You see these generals lately on television? They are woke."

[Tero]

Weisselverg won't flip now, because a new DA is being elected:
Manhattan prosecutors have gone to great lengths to pressure Weisselberg into cooperating. They've subpoenaed his grandchildren's school and are investigating his son Barry, who also works at the Trump Organization and whose finances are comingled with the executive's, according to Jennifer Weisselberg, Barry's ex-wife.

https://www.businessinsider.com/why-all ... 2021-6?amp

[Brian Peacock]

Mobsters!

[Tero]

WSJ

The Manhattan district attorney’s office is expected to charge the Trump Organization and its chief financial officer with tax-related crimes on Thursday, people familiar with the matter said, which would mark the first criminal charges against the former president’s company since prosecutors began investigating it three years ago.

The charges against the Trump Organization and Allen Weisselberg, the company’s longtime chief financial officer, are a blow to former President Donald Trump, who has fended off multiple criminal and civil probes during and after his presidency. Mr. Trump himself isn’t expected to be charged, his lawyer said. Mr. Weisselberg has rejected prosecutors’ attempts at gaining his cooperation, according to people familiar with the matter.

The defendants are expected to appear in court on Thursday afternoon, the people said.

The Trump Organization and Mr. Weisselberg are expected to face charges related to allegedly evading taxes on fringe benefits, the people said. For months, the Manhattan district attorney’s office and New York state attorney general’s office have been investigating whether Mr. Weisselberg and other employees illegally avoided paying taxes on perks—such as cars, apartments and private-school tuition—that they received from the Trump Organization.

If prosecutors could show the Trump Organization and its executives systematically avoided paying taxes, they could file more serious charges alleging a scheme, lawyers said.

[Tero]

Bull Cosby and Trump, alas, will never be cell mates.

[Tero]

One Donald down. One to go.

Washington — Donald Rumsfeld, the two-time defense secretary and one-time presidential candidate whose reputation as a skilled bureaucrat and visionary of a modern U.S. military was soiled by the long and costly Iraq War, has died, his family said in a statement. He was 88.

[Joe]

I often wondered if he had PTSD after the 9/11 attack on the Pentagon. He was batty after that.

[Joe]

I guess historians don't like the last President's job performance. He came in just under William Henry Harrison, who only held the office for a month before dying, in a C-Span survey of Presidential historians.

He tied with Franklin Pierce for third worst with a score of 312. For context, the lowest rated President was James Buchanan at 227, and the highest was Abraham Lincoln at 897.

[Tero]

NYT documentary
https://www.nytimes.com/video/us/politi ... ffe108c63e

[Tero]

That was on the insurrection.

Trump wall/fence needs paint already
https://twitter.com/atrupar/status/1410406321946611717

[Tero]

while at "wall" today.
While there, CNN host Jim Acosta shouted out whether Trump would ever apologize for his role in instigating the Jan. 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol. He was booed by the pro-Trump audience there.
While Acosta's comments weren't likely to get a response from the former president, it did prompt many online to celebrate the bravery of shouting out such a question in an audience that could be hostile.

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Reverend Aiden
@SweetFnLucifer 4h
I've never seen a dude more game than Jim Acosta. He's just always charging head first into Trump's horde of undead skanks and screaming out every damn question capable of triggering their bloated orange messiah. This ballsy motherfucker almost dares them to tear off his limbs.

[Tero]

Trump's Mensa test
"Person, woman, man, camera, TV."
https://twitter.com/11thHour/status/1410453121533366272