Cont: The Trump Presidency: Part 22

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Some people may be familiar with Legal Eagle. (This is a youtube channel where an acting lawyer discusses various topics... legal realism in movies, significant legal cases, etc. Occasionally he talks about current political/legal events (such as Trump's impeachment or the sentencing of Flynn).

His latest video was regarding Trump's photo stunt at the church (and the government's actions to clear out protestors). And he really goes after Trump and his enablers. A very well thought out monologue that covers many of the points here (even the "2nd amendment people are concerned about government tyranny... why aren't they protesting now?")

Well worth watching.



Youtube (Legal Eagle channel)
 
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blutoski said:
All those millions of dollars he's getting from foreign diplomats, laundered through Trump Hotel DC... a year from now his accountants will be saying, "Yeah, yeah, but... we were spending so much on advertising that all it did was slow down the bleeding a bit. We're still down a half billion, we're just paying interest now, we should really consider selling before we have to go Chapter 11."
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Biden should offer to pardon any accountants caught embezzling from Trump. It's in the public interest for that whole family to be impoverished.
 
dmaker said:
Because we haven't seen crazy Rudy in a while:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j17XLCh1w-Q
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I can't stand Piers Morgan but Giuliani was, as PM said, "barking mad".

Two things I noticed about RG were that 1) he tried to control the narrative by constantly talking over both interviewers. He never shut up and 2) he is so far up Trump's ass that an enema couldn't dislodge him.
 
blutoski said:
This is my one consolation from the whole experience. He's probably not even looting the treasury competently.

All those millions of dollars he's getting from foreign diplomats, laundered through Trump Hotel DC... a year from now his accountants will be saying, "Yeah, yeah, but... we were spending so much on advertising that all it did was slow down the bleeding a bit. We're still down a half billion, we're just paying interest now, we should really consider selling before we have to go Chapter 11."
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Nah. He just uses the non-profitability of the hotel as evidence towards a lower property value, which he can use to 1)Pay less in property taxes and/or 2)sell/transfer the building to a holding company/family trust at a loss, which will allow him to write off that loss from his taxes.
 
Meadmaker said:
In an odd way, recent events have heartened me on that front. I always thought the idea that there would be no election at all was a bit paranoid, but I confess to some nagging doubts that had crept in. I think with this situation, seeing people like George W. Bush with subtle criticism, and Mad Dog Mattis with overt criticism, and National Review articles that are intensely critical in a way they haven't been since the 2016 Republican primaries, has shown that there are lines that cannot be crossed.
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I disagree about your interpretation, though... these are reactions to him actually crossing the line in the first place, they aren't *preventing* anything. If he suspends elections, they'll react to that as well.

Grammatically correct, well outlined editorials saying the new President-for-life is a bad egg!
 
The ongoing postponement of the swearing in of new citizens could prevent thousands from voting in November. We've already seen the difference that a few thousand votes can make.

Citizenship ceremonies across the United States have become yet another casualty of the coronavirus pandemic.
The system for swearing in new Americans screeched to a virtual standstill for months. And it's only just starting to get going again.

Seattle-based Boundless Immigration warns that because of the large number of ceremonies that were postponed, thousands of would-be citizens might not make the cut in time to cast ballots in November -- unless officials take significant steps to push through the backlog.

About 765,000 people become US citizens every year -- averaging out to 2,100 new citizens a day, according to a Boundless analysis of government data. That, Boundless says, means more than 120,000 immigrants who would have taken citizenship oaths over the past few months are in limbo -- waiting for word on when their ceremonies will be rescheduled. And the number grows with each passing day.
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Obviously, the solution is to have them vote illegally, like the Democrats would have had them do anyway. They just need lots of hats.
 
Meadmaker said:
Been to Drudge lately? They are no longer friends of Trump. I actually saw a Townhall column a few weeks ago titled something like "What happened to Drudge?" (It may have even been "What the hell happened to Drudge?" I don't remember exactly.) It was on the Drudge Report that I found the George Will column I mentioned earlier, and there's another one tonight. However, the center headline in the big font has three different stories about General Mattis calling Trump a threat to the constitution.
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Obviously, it's a libtard website now...

But seriously, I checked it out and thought I had the wrong site for a minute.
 
Dragon said:
Are we, at last, at the tipping point where the Republicans who were holding their noses are going to turn on Trump?
It is remarkable that it was the killing of one black man by police officers that triggered this situation.
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This is another situation that Trump could have turned into a sure election victory, like the covid-19 situation was. All he had to do with covid was to listen to his experts and take appropriate actions, he'd be a hero and win the election, not that everyone would instantly love him but a semblance of competence is all he needed. In this situation, it's the same, all he had to do with call the nation together, admit that there is a huge problem, and have empathy with the protesters.

Of course, because he's mentally ill, he did the exact opposite of what was needed.
 
Wow, another day and the Trumpanzees are still avoiding this thread like Trump avoids exercise.
 
Segnosaur said:


Youtube (Legal Eagle channel)
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If you've been watching him for a while, you can see in previous videos how much he has been trying to hold back his personal opinion on the Trump administration. Yeah, he has alluded to his opinion on it, but he's tried to keep the actual discussion on point and fact based as possible.

Lafayette Square just broke him. His rant is a good summation of my feelings.
 
thaiboxerken said:
This is another situation that Trump could have turned into a sure election victory, like the covid-19 situation was. All he had to do with covid was to listen to his experts and take appropriate actions, he'd be a hero and win the election, not that everyone would instantly love him but a semblance of competence is all he needed. In this situation, it's the same, all he had to do with call the nation together, admit that there is a huge problem, and have empathy with the protesters.

Of course, because he's mentally ill, he did the exact opposite of what was needed.
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Yes, that's the worst part about Trump; he's incapable of doing the right thing even when it would be in his own best interests to do it, it seems largely because doing the right thing requires him to admit that he isn't perfect in every regard.

This was perfectly encapsulated when, in talking about his COVID test results, he couldn't just say "I tested negative", because it used the word "negative" as an adjective to describe himself.
 
Beelzebuddy said:
And here comes the song and dance: Lisa Murkowski is "struggling" to support Trump

https://www.cnn.com/2020/06/04/politics/lisa-murkowski-mattis-trump-reaction/index.html

Somehow I think she will manage it, as she has so many times in the past.
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Hey, just because she voted against impeaching Trump, and despite her voting in favor of the Tax cuts (that are helping to dismantle Obamacare), and despite her voting to confirm many questionable Cabinet selections (including Bill Barr, who is turning the DoJ into Trump's legal defense team), does not mean that she is hypocritical when she criticizes Trump.

Hey, her and Susan Collins actually share the same 'concerned' face. They exchange it every time one of them wants to distance themselves from Trump.
 
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Trump reminds me more and more of Homer Simpson. Not in personality, but in the strange fate that he makes every single situation he is in worse. There is nothing, from saying hello to signing a bill, that this man cannot and does not **** sky high. Sometimes without even meaning to.
 
Segnosaur said:
Hey, just because she voted against impeaching Trump, and despite her voting in favor of the Tax cuts (that are helping to dismantle Obamacare), and despite her voting to confirm many questionable Cabinet selections (including Bill Barr, who is turning the DoJ into Trump's legal defense team), does not mean that she is hypocritical when she criticizes Trump.

Hey, her and Susan Collins actually share the same 'concerned' face. They exchange it every time one of them wants to distance themselves from Trump.
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Yea, between the two of them pearls will be clutched so tightly they'll turn into diamonds. And they will both have blisters from all the hand-wringing.
 
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