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Trump's Second Term

AmyStrange said:
OMFG! Tell me you don't see what I see?

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Even if it's not a type of thrush, it should be made an honorary member of the genus Turdus.
 
“Why the ◊◊◊◊ are you talking to the president about me? ◊◊◊◊ you. I’m gonna punch you in your ◊◊◊◊◊◊◊ face.”
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That's what Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent reportedly said to Bill Pulte, who is the director of the Federal Housing Finance Agency (FHFA).

Bill Pulte is the fellow who accused Federal Reserve governor Lisa Cook of mortgage fraud in the form of describing two different homes, in different states, as primary residences. That accusation is the pretext cause for which President Donald Trump is attempting to fire her. Pulte has also accused California Senator Adam Schiff and New York Attorney General Letitia James of exactly the same form of mortgage fraud.

It should perhaps be noted that Bill Pulte's father and stepmother have claimed homestead exemptions for both of their two alleged primary residences in Michigan and Florida. While we're at it, we might as well note that Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy, Labor Secretary Lori Chavez-DeRemer, and EPA Administrator Lee Zeldin have also claimed two distinct primary residences. I'm sure Pulte will get around to referring those Republicans for prosecution as soon as he can get around to it.

Scott Bessent is of course the Treasury Secretary who, testifying under oath before a subcommittee of the House of Representatives, was unable to say who pays tariffs. Three months later, with a great deal of help from MSNBC interviewer Eugene Robinson, Bessent finally figured out that Americans pay Trump's tariffs.

It seems Bessent is pissed because Pulte's efforts to ingratiate himself with Trump encroached upon matters Bessent regards as his exclusive turf. Bessent, Pulte, and the White House chose not to comment on the incident.
 
Below is a photo from last Wednesday when trump was meeting with Polish President Karol Nawrocki at the White House. trump's hair does look...strange. Even for trump. :(

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Next, when trump met two weeks ago with South Korean President Lee Jae-myung.
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President Jae-myung: "Mr. President, can you hear me?"
trump: "They brought it over. Everyone was far."
President Jae-myung: "Mr. President, Sir, are you okay?"
trump: "Covfefe."
 
Trump, Miller, and Homan all got erections hearing about this.

KATHMANDU, Sept 8 (Reuters) - At least 19 people in two cities died on Monday in Nepal's worst unrest in decades, authorities said, as police in the capital fired tear gas and rubber bullets at protesters trying to storm parliament in anger at a social media shutdown and corruption.
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Well, maybe not Trump. But he wanted to.
 
Does anyone remember the $10 billion lawsuit Donald Trump was going to file against the Wall Street Journal for alleging Trump had given Jeffrey Epstein a birthday card whose text was enclosed by an outline suggesting a naked woman?

Well, a copy of that birthday card was made public just a short time ago.

Trump toadies are already saying Trump's distinctive Sharpie signature at the bottom of the card doesn't look anything like Trump's distinctive Sharpie signature.
 
Assaulting your wife is a 'fake crime' apparently

Trump claims crime is down to "virtually nothing" in DC and adds the crimes that are happening are "much lesser things. Things that take place in the home they call crime. You know, they'll do anything they can to find something. If a man has a little fight with the wife they say, 'this is a crime. See?'"

https://twitter.com/x/status/1965071970342461924
 
Hmm. It seems like Trump might actually have ended up being an informant on Epstein. Details matter, though.

But the details of why Trump appears to have turned on Epstein are key too. Wolff lays out the details starting just after minute 32 in this interview, which you can watch on Youtube. There’s a lot going on here. So I’ll try to walk you through the key points. (For more detail and flavor, I strongly recommend watching that five or six minute part of the interview.)

Epstein was trying to buy a South Florida estate. He brought Trump along to see it one time. A short time later Epstein found out that Trump had gone behind his back and placed a higher and ultimately successful bid on the property. He’d snatched it out from under him with a much higher bid. The problem was that Trump’s entire empire in 2004 was teetering on the edge of bankruptcy. It made no sense that Trump was coming up with $41 million to buy this property. Epstein suspected that Trump was acting as a front for a Russian oligarch as a money-laundering scheme. And in fact Trump did purchase and flip the estate two years later to a Russian oligarch named Dmitry Rybolovlev for $95 million, or a profit of over $50 million dollars. ✂️

Two of these points are well-known. The transaction with the Russian oligarch has been written about extensively and was the subject of criminal probes. Of course, Trump denies it was money-laundering. But that part of this story is well-known. It’s also well-known that Trump and Epstein fell out over this real estate transaction. Those two parts of what I’m explaining are established parts of the Trump story. What’s new is the idea that Trump was either the key source who started the Epstein investigation or one of them and that he did this to retaliate against Epstein’s threats and protect himself from being exposed in a money laundering scheme.

I can’t stress this point enough: You can’t tell what you don’t know. This isn’t an accusation. It’s formal logic. So even if we accept the idea that Trump played a role in Epstein’s downfall, it’s not exonerating. It shows what we’ve long suspected: that Trump had known about Epstein’s operation for years and was fine with it. (That’s assuming for the moment he wasn’t a direct participant — it’s the weekend, I’m being generous.) He only made a call when Epstein was threatening to expose a money laundering scheme.
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Trump finally betrayed Epstein to the cops to protect himself from Epstein exposing his Russian money laundering after Trump betrayed him in a more private financial way? It's at least plausible. It's not like Trump seems to have have any problem at all with Epstein's crimes.
 
In brighter news, the 'red-green' side (the democratic socialists and the environmentalists) won the parliamentary election in here in Norway, and MdG, the hardcore environmentalist party, got over the election treshold of 4% for the first time ever.

The fascists aren't winning everywhere. Then again, FrP, the populist and strongly anti-immigration party, did their best election ever, too, so it's not all sunshine and roses here, either, of course.
 
Aridas said:
Hmm. It seems like Trump might actually have ended up being an informant on Epstein. Details matter, though.



Trump finally betrayed Epstein to the cops to protect himself from Epstein exposing his Russian money laundering after Trump betrayed him in a more private financial way? It's at least plausible. It's not like Trump seems to have have any problem at all with Epstein's crimes.
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As I said earlier, if he did inform on Epstein, it was under condition that he would not be charged in any way related to Epstein's sex ring--that detail is probably hidden deep in the files, but more to the point if all of these specific details that Trump knew about illegal activities are exposed, people will want to know how he knew so much about them. That is what Trump does not want to be made public.[
 
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