All Things Trump: the story continues...

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Weisselberg arrested, booked, released

[Brian Peacock]

Mobsters!

[Hermit]

Donald Trump will probably never see the inside of a prison cell. There are plenty of fall guys who will do that on his behalf. But according to Kurt Eichenwald he may go comprehensively broke before the prosecutors in New York are through with their examination of his business practices. In a series of tweets Eichenwald explains why and how this will happen.

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"The great irony here is that Trump has been so successful at remaking the GOP in his own image that the party doesn't really need him anymore. Sure, they'll try to avoid provoking his wrath. But every viable candidate for president in 2024 is going to be following Trump's lead on immigration, trade, and waging a rhetorically ferocious culture war against the left — and most of them will be doing it without Trump's own considerable personal liabilities, including the hatred of a large swath of the electorate."

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From The Week by:
Damon Linker is a senior correspondent at TheWeek.com. He is also a former contributing editor at The New Republic and the author of The Theocons and The Religious Test.

[Brian Peacock]

Apparent Don Jnr, Eric, and Ivanka have been doing exactly what Weisselberg was doing - selling their services as consultants to the company they were already employed by.

[Tero]

I wonder what these viable candidates are. Because no candidate other than Trump will get past 45% of votes.

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Trump has blessed a site with his brand. Not sure who pays for it
https://www.politico.com/news/2021/07/0 ... orm-497606


Trump’s former spokesman, Jason Miller, is leading the platform, he confirmed via text. Former Trump campaign spokesperson Tim Murtaugh is involved as a consultant on the app.

Trump’s involvement with the project is unclear as is whether or not he will set up an account on GETTR and use it.

[Tero]

It would actually be good if Trump ran, as he won't win the 2024 election. His spirit will hover over the party in 2022 and 2024. A loss in 2024 would be the thing that would finally terminate his personal involvement in politics. The Trumpian politics will get some local wins for GOP and will let them hang on to all seats in red states they have now.

"It's not that I want to," Trump added later. "The country needs it. We have to take care of this country. It isn't fun, fighting constantly, fighting always."

Polling conducted by Quinnipiac University from May 18 to 24 found that two-thirds (66 percent) of Republicans would like to see Trump run for president again. Just 30 percent said they were against the idea. An even greater majority (85 percent) of GOP voters said that they wanted Republican candidates for elected office to agree with Trump on policy issues. However, the polling showed that two-thirds (66 percent) of Americans overall do not want the former president to seek the White House again.

https://www.newsweek.com/absolutely-no- ... on-1606640

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Trump has blessed a site with his brand. Not sure who pays for it
https://www.politico.com/news/2021/07/0 ... orm-497606


Trump’s former spokesman, Jason Miller, is leading the platform, he confirmed via text. Former Trump campaign spokesperson Tim Murtaugh is involved as a consultant on the app.

Trump’s involvement with the project is unclear as is whether or not he will set up an account on GETTR and use it.

Maybe Cunt can give us a review.

[Brian Peacock]

Bender book:

On a visit to Europe to mark the 100th anniversary of the end of the first world war, Donald Trump insisted to his then chief of staff, John Kelly: “Well, Hitler did a lot of good things.”

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/202 ... ender-book
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But of course he did.

[L'Emmerdeur]

The incorrigibly litigious one-term disgrace is intent on trying to turn the 1st Amendment inside out. The suit doesn't seem likely to succeed but with appeals, the fat shitbird could get it to the US Supreme Court. It in turn would have to reverse a clear precedent and crap all over the 1st Amendment, but hey, that's the sort of thing the current 'conservative' majority might just go ahead and do. Never mind that Justice Kavanaugh recently wrote a decision that rejected the same claims the big loser is trying to make. After all, 'freedom of speech' for Dear Leader may be a special circumstance.

'Trump’s Social Media Lawsuits Are Full Of Arguments Courts Have Repeatedly Rejected'

Former president Donald Trump’s latest attempt at getting back on mainstream social media platforms came in the form of lawsuits on Wednesday against Twitter, Facebook, and YouTube — each featuring a series of claims that multiple courts, including the US Supreme Court, have rebuffed.

Trump was suspended from Facebook and Twitter in the immediate aftermath of the Jan. 6 riots at the US Capitol and blocked from YouTube a few days later; all three companies cited posts that encouraged or supported the violence. He’d previously had messages that promoted baseless claims of voter fraud flagged as misleading or in violation of platform rules. He remains banned from posting on all three sites for now.

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Trump isn’t the first person to try to apply the First Amendment — which deals with government regulation of speech — to a private company or even the first conservative to go after these specific social media companies. But similar efforts have failed to gain traction in court. Caitlin Vogus, deputy director of the Free Expression Project at the Center for Democracy & Technology, said she wasn’t aware of any court that had found the First Amendment applied to the editorial judgments of private companies.

“The lawsuits are claiming that the former president’s First Amendment rights were violated by the decision to suspend his account, when in fact that is exactly backwards,” Vogus said. “The First Amendment strongly protects the decision by these companies to make content moderation decisions.”

The US Supreme Court and federal appeals and district courts have repeatedly rejected efforts to classify social media platforms as state actors whose decisions to restrict speech would fall under the First Amendment. Trump’s lawsuits refer to Twitter, Facebook, and YouTube each as a “public forum,” and one of his main arguments is that the efforts to restrict participation in those spaces violate the First Amendment.

The Supreme Court rejected a similar argument in 2019. In an opinion by Justice Brett Kavanaugh — one of Trump’s nominees — the court found that the First Amendment didn’t apply to the operator of public access channels that had suspended producers over content. Kavanaugh wrote that opening up a media platform to the public did not transform a private company into a state actor. He cited a line of cases upholding the right of private entities that function as spaces for public speech to “exercise editorial discretion” and warned that trying to apply the First Amendment would run up against the constitutional protections that private property owners enjoy.

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Besides the “public forum” claim, Trump’s lawsuits allege that the social media companies are state actors in part because they acted in coordination with federal officials. The suits state that those federal actors included the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and President Joe Biden’s postelection transition team.

He’s also claiming, without evidence, that the companies were coerced by Democrats in Congress who threatened to strip them of Section 230 immunity if they didn’t restrict conservative speech and that Section 230 itself represents a government endorsement of unconstitutional censorship. (Trump repeatedly called to repeal Section 230 while president and signed an executive order — which Biden has rescinded — with the goal of chipping away at the law’s protections.)

Trump was banned from Twitter, Facebook, and YouTube while he was still president, which means the CDC was acting as part of his administration, and Biden’s transition team had no authority at that point. The cases try to stretch out the timeline by arguing the decisions to deplatform Trump have remained in effect since he left office and that other users have been suspended or banned since the new administration came in.

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Trump, Giuliani et al fail to find 3 billion from China on Hunter Biden laptop
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news ... -fake-data
but Trump has seen it. Even thought Rudy has only a "copy" of the hard drive
https://news.yahoo.com/trump-claims-hes ... 00484.html

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Diddums, poor Trumpy feels his first amendment rights are being ignored.

The very same twat that refused to allow questions from non-arsecreeping reporters.