All Things Trump: the story continues...

[Seabass]

[Sean Hayden]

That's uncomfortable.

[Brian Peacock]

That's okay, because the US has the separation of church and state.

[Sean Hayden]

We've come close before anyway...

[Brian Peacock]

You'd think from those clips that the Republican Party were donating to the big evangelical ministries rather than the other way around.

[JimC]

The Christian right probable envies the Taliban for their evident ability to become the state...

[L'Emmerdeur]

Always be fleecing the rubes. After all, it requires significant financial lubrication to Make America Great Again. I question the use of 'turning' in the headline. It's clear that the thing was built up as a cash-generating scheme. Sure it would be great if it got to the Supreme Court and they bowed down to Dear Leader's wishes, but meanwhile mo' money.

'Trump's Tech Lawsuit Already Turning Into Fundraising Scheme'

When ex-president Donald Trump held a press conference this week to announce his class-action lawsuit against social media companies, most people shrugged. One group, however, saw it as an opportunity.

Officials with the America First Policy Institute (AFPI), a so-called “dark money” nonprofit backing the lawsuit, joined the former president at the lectern, where they directed supporters to a website to sign on as co-plaintiffs.

That site won’t actually sign anyone on to the lawsuit though. The fine print on the landing page explicitly says entering a name does not make someone a plaintiff. Instead, it’s a fundraising effort for the nonprofit, which as a 501(c)(3) organization is not required to disclose its donors.

Brooke Rollins, a former Trump administration official who now heads up the organization, stood next to the former president on Thursday and said people could “join the lawsuit” by going to “take on big tech dot com.”

“We really are looking for the tens of thousands, hundreds of thousands of Americans,” she said.

But visitors to that website were redirected to a fundraising page for the Constitutional Leadership Partnership, an arm of AFPI headed up by former Florida Attorney General Pam Bondi.

On that page, visitors will find a form where they can enter their information and donate to the group, as well as this fine print: “Signing up as a supporter or donor does not make you a party to, or class member in, any lawsuit in which AFPI may or may not be engaged.”

[Tero]

[Brian Peacock]

[Tero]

Looks like GOP only has Trump
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/trump- ... straw-poll
if he will hold up to 2024

[Tero]

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Detroit judge attempting to punish Trump lawyers for fake case and its publicity stunt of spreading doubt.

[Tero]

TRUMP ALL BUT DARES HIS SUPPORTERS TO ATTACK THE U.S. CAPITOL AGAIN

"There was such love at that rally ... the love in the air, I've never seen anything like it" -- Trump has completely rewritten the history of the deadly January 6 insurrection he instigated.

...before suggesting that her being shot was an inside job by Democrats and possibly someone working for Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer. (Earlier in the interview, Trump also claimed that Nancy Pelosi was in part to blame for what transpired on January 6, having supposedly ignored his call to have 10,000 National Guardsmen standing by.)

[Trump] has slowly turned January 6 from a black mark that threatened to expunge him from Republican politics, to a regrettable episode that his allies preferred to leave behind, to a glorious uprising behind which he could rally his adherents.

The anti-anti-Trump right has dismissed the insurrection as overblown, a protest march gone bad, perhaps ill-considered but never posing any serious threat to the republic. The far right’s highlighting of Babbitt’s death sends a different message: The insurrection was good. Babbitt’s effort to penetrate the defensive barrier was brave, and the stopping of her charge a crime.

By throwing himself behind this message, Trump is endorsing the most radical interpretation of his presidency. January 6 was not a minor misstep after a successful era, as fans like Mike Pence and Lindsey Graham now say. It was the heroic culmination of a righteous uprising.

According to Politico, a source close to Trump said he “feels the energy around [January 6],” having seen “the growing sentiment among his supporters that the rioters and protesters were taking a patriotic stand.” With Trump dubbing their actions at the Capitol noble and good, it’s not hard to see a scenario in which his most rabid fans—like the ones who believe he is the true president— undertake another violent insurrection.

https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2021/07 ... k-patriots

[JimC]

One is reminded, perhaps obliquely, of the burning of the Reichstag...

[Tero]

Oklahoma is really excited! They want to recount the votes. Trump got 70% of the vote and carried every county. There must have been fraud, because Trump should have had at least 90%.

[Tero]

Trump lawyer disinformation campaign
https://twitter.com/TheLastWord/status/ ... 4006830083
"This cannot become the norm in our democracy": Michigan Secretary of State
@JocelynBenson
@Lawrence
that "there's a lot of accountability that needs to happen" to Trump lawyers who told dangerous lies in courts to try to overturn the election. https://on.msnbc.com/3egYs1M