Cont: The Trump Presidency: Part 23

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Trebuchet said:
More than one member of this very forum seems to have believed that at first.
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And I'm sure some still believe it.
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They would certainly need to have a lot of faith in his powers of precognition, since he would have needed to know at some time before last November that that particular one of the over 1,600 garage stalls across 29 NASCAR tracks was going to be assigned to him this spring.

No wonder he's been doing so well on the racecourse.
 
Captain_Swoop said:
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If you want your 401k’s and Stocks, which are getting close to an all time high (NASDAQ is already there), to disintegrate and disappear, vote for the Radical Left Do Nothing Democrats and Corrupt Joe Biden. Massive Tax Hikes - They will make you very poor, FAST!
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On a related note... at least one financial institution has basically came out and said that the Democrats may not be that bad for the stock market.

From: Marketwatch
JPMorgan strategists say that, contrary to that view, a Biden win in November would be “neutral to slight positive” for equities.... The Democrat’s major economic policies include lifting the corporate tax rate... they said the corporate tax hike...would also be offset by the softening of tariffs, infrastructure spending and higher wages. “Further, a more diplomatic approach to domestic/foreign policy will likely result in lower equity volatility and risk premia,”...

Frankly that should be seen as no-brainer. Stock markets performed relatively well under Obama. And while they may have gotten a boost by the Republican tax giveaway to millionaires, Trump's poor handling of Covid19 and the Trade wars have probably negated whatever benefit was received.

Also of note: Trump keeps bragging about how much the stock market has increased... but polls show Biden is in the lead. Hmmm... you would figure if Biden were really going to be such a disaster, stocks would be falling if the Democrats were going to win the whitehouse.
 
I'm pretty sure total economic and social collapse due to a virus would be pretty bad for the stock market.
 
Some more information on the book by Mary Trump:

From: CNBC
The publisher of a forthcoming tell-all book about President Donald Trump and his family by his niece Mary Trump on Monday said it was advancing the date of the book’s publication by two weeks, to July 14....The publisher’s change in release date comes days after a New York state appeals division court lifted a temporary legal restraint...Simon & Schuster in a statement cited “high demand and extraordinary interest in this book”

So we will get to see it a little earlier. (Hopefully it will take some of the publicity from douchebag walrus...)

I do have to wonder how they got around the whole 'non-disclosure agreement' thing, but Mary Trump is claiming there was some fraud involved when reporting the value of assets, which might negate the NDA.

From: Law and Crime.com
The legal battle between the president’s niece and members of the Trump family heated up yet again late Thursday night, with Mary L. Trump claiming that the confidentiality agreement she signed with much of the rest of her family...was procured via fraud.... Mary L. Trump alleged that the president and his siblings of engaging in systematic fraud by devaluing assets. The alleged fraud thereby voided the contract... Mary L. Trump relies heavily on the New York Times‘ 2018 Pulitzer-prize winning article “Trump Engaged in Suspect Tax Schemes as He Reaped Riches From His Father”
 
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Segnosaur said:
Some more information on the book by Mary Trump:

From: CNBC
The publisher of a forthcoming tell-all book about President Donald Trump and his family by his niece Mary Trump on Monday said it was advancing the date of the book’s publication by two weeks, to July 14....The publisher’s change in release date comes days after a New York state appeals division court lifted a temporary legal restraint...Simon & Schuster in a statement cited “high demand and extraordinary interest in this book”

So we will get to see it a little earlier. (Hopefully it will take some of the publicity from douchebag walrus...)

I do have to wonder how they got around the whole 'non-disclosure agreement' thing, but Mary Trump is claiming there was some fraud involved when reporting the value of assets, which might negate the NDA.

From: Law and Crime.com
The legal battle between the president’s niece and members of the Trump family heated up yet again late Thursday night, with Mary L. Trump claiming that the confidentiality agreement she signed with much of the rest of her family...was procured via fraud.... Mary L. Trump alleged that the president and his siblings of engaging in systematic fraud by devaluing assets. The alleged fraud thereby voided the contract... Mary L. Trump relies heavily on the New York Times‘ 2018 Pulitzer-prize winning article “Trump Engaged in Suspect Tax Schemes as He Reaped Riches From His Father”
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The NDA was never enforceable. Especially after Trump became President. Robert Trump, Donnie's brother asked for an order enforcing a restriction on freedom of speech and speech that is political. This is "prior restraint". Something that has almost never ever been enforced. This is why Robert challenged the book instead of Donnie. It was an attempt to give off the impression that it wasn't political.

But even then, courts take a dim view of prior restraint. That doesn't mean that the NDA is not enforceable, just that the plaintiffs can only get damages, they can't keep someone from talking.

Last I heard, the court said the NDA didn't apply to the publisher. They lifted the temporay restraining against Simon and Schuster

That the TRO would remain in place against Mary until a hearing later this month. Almost every legal expert I've heard discussing this has said that should be lifted too.
 
JoeMorgue said:
And their entire argument was "But Justin Smollet...."
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You called it!

Kayleigh McEnany Invokes Jussie Smollett to Defend Trump’s Bubba Wallace Attack


White House Press Secretary Kayleigh McEnany on Monday justified President Donald Trump’s tweet falsely accusing Black NASCAR driver Bubba Wallace of a hate-crime “hoax,” invoking Jussie Smollett to claim the president was merely making a “broader point” about rushing to judgment without facts.
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Interviewing McEnany on Fox News’ America’s Newsroom, co-anchor Sandra Smith brought up the president’s tweet, noting that that noose was “never determined to be a hoax” while wondering aloud if it was “helpful” for Trump to go after Wallace and accuse him of being behind a “hoax.”

“So NASCAR would note, their statement says that this garage pull rope was there since last fall,” McEnany replied. “And they also said definitively, the FBI investigation determined it, that there was no hate crime versus Bubba [that was] committed.”

“The president is making a broader point that this rush to judgment, before the facts are out, is not acceptable,” she continued. “We saw it with the Covington kids and saw it with Jussie Smollett, and now we saw it in this case.”

Smith, for her part, jumped in to point out that many would say “that comparison was unfair,” considering Smollett allegedly staged a hate crime against himself while Wallace wasn’t involved in reporting the noose found in his garage and was informed about it by NASCAR leadership.

“He truly believes that’s what it was,” Smith added, referencing Wallace’s later statements pointing out that the rope was fashioned into a noose.

“Well, the Federal Bureau of Investigation does not stand by that assessment,” the White House flack responded. “The president is merely pointing out that we have to let the facts come out before we rush to judgment and there was no hate crime committed against Bubba Wallace as determined by the FBI and as noted in the NASCAR statement.”
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Trump did NOT say there was no hate crime committed! He said it was a HOAX! A ******* HOAX, Kayleigh, you stupid lying worthless ******!!
 
Keep draining that swamp...

From: Yahoo
Forty lobbyists with ties to President Donald Trump helped clients secure more than $10 billion in federal coronavirus aid, among them five former administration officials whose work potentially violates Trump's own ethics policy, according to a report.

At other times, this might be seen as a significant scandal. With Trump it barely warrants a mention.
 
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Segnosaur said:
Some more information on the book by Mary Trump...
I do have to wonder how they got around the whole 'non-disclosure agreement' thing, but Mary Trump is claiming there was some fraud involved when reporting the value of assets, which might negate the NDA.
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Not a lawyer, but I think the repercussions for violating an NDA come after a work is released. To do it before is "prior restraint", and I think courts have frowned on that concept in the past. That's assuming for the sake of argument that this NDA is valid in the first place.

Regardless, I think I'll listen to the audiobook when available.
 
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