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[Zapp Brannigan]

What on earth is Cameron hoping to achieve here? Not a good look at all imo:

It's electioneering. A reminder to the British electorate that America might have a fascist wannabe dictator in charge, so the best way for us to ride their coat-tails is to vote for the fascist wannabe dictators over here. Vote Conservative.

 

[two sheds]

Oooh oooh oooh Letitia James making a late run in the outside lane

Letitia James nears green light to start taking Donald Trump's assets

Trump has until Monday to post a $175 million bond.

www.newsweek.com

The New York Attorney General may start collecting Trump assets if he fails to post a bond by next Monday, a leading real estate lawyer has said.
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Paul Golden, author of Litigating Constructive Trusts and a partner at New York law firm Coffey Modica, told Newsweek that either Trump or a bond company must file a motion by Monday stating they have a $175 million bond in place.

"Presumably, if the motion fails, the Attorney General will take the position that the bond is without effect and that the Attorney General may start to take collection efforts," Golden said.
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The bond was then rejected by the court's filing system shortly after it was posted due to missing paperwork, including a "current financial statement." James, whose office led the fraud case against Trump, later raised questions about the "sufficiency" of the bond and noted that the surety backing it, Knight Specialty Insurance Company (KSIC), is not admitted in New York, meaning it's ineligible to obtain a certificate of qualification from the Department of Financial Services. KSIC has refiled its paperwork as a result in an effort to get the process moving again.

 

[Raheem]

Ensuring he doesn't bail out on Ukraine when Trump gains control?

Talking to the one person who can decide that the House is going to stop blocking aid to Ukraine.

 

[Bahnhof Strasse]

Oooh oooh oooh Letitia James making a late run in the outside lane

Letitia James nears green light to start taking Donald Trump's assets

Trump has until Monday to post a $175 million bond.

www.newsweek.com

Got to admire the way he’s trying to defraud the bond business.

 

[stavros]

What on earth is Cameron hoping to achieve here? Not a good look at all imo:

Disgraced, unelected ex-leader of a country that's seriously fucked up goes to meet...

 

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Oh dear, oh dear oh dear ...

Letitia James is not done with Donald Trump. Now she wants to know if he withheld evidence in her fraud case.

New York's attorney general now wants to know if Donald Trump withheld evidence in his fraud case.

www.businessinsider.com

The integrity of the fraud trial may be at stake, she argued in a letter Tuesday night.

The AG is looking at three internal Trump Organization email chains from 2016 that were never turned over to her office during her five years of pursuing Trump for tricking banks into thinking he's worth more than he is.

James knows the emails exist.

Manhattan prosecutors used them as evidence in sending former Trump CFO Allen Weisselberg to jail for perjury on Monday.

But the emails — in which Weisselberg and his Trump Org underlings responded to Forbes magazine questions about the value of Trump's Manhattan triplex penthouse — were not among the 900,000 documents Trump Org turned over to James' fraud probe.

 

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It never rains ...

Truth Social Losses Deal Humiliating Blow to Trump’s Biggest Brag

Donald Trump has been kicked off an index of global billionaires.

newrepublic.com

Donald Trump’s financial house of cards is beginning to collapse.

The Republican presidential nominee, who’s made his personal wealth central to his candidacy since 2016, has fallen off the Bloomberg Billionaires Index. The list is a daily ranking of the 500 richest people in the world, and as of Tuesday, Trump no longer qualifies.

The blow comes just days after the price of Trump Media stock plummeted and two main investors behind the merger between Trump Media and Technology, the parent company of Truth Social, and Digital World Acquisition Corporation, a shell company, were charged with insider trading.

Trump has already been struggling to prove his wealth following the revelation that the surety firm backing the $175 million bond in his civil fraud trial is insolvent, unlicensed in New York, and may not have actually agreed to pay the penalty if Trump cannot come up with the money.

Originally valued at $8 billion, Trump Media has lost half its value since it debuted in March. The drop in value does little to dispel allegations that the stock is a potential pump-and-dump scheme concocted by Trump to funnel credulous supporters’ money toward his mounting legal debts. He cannot sell or borrow against his shares in Trump Media for six months, so while this latest embarrassment is mostly a cosmetic hit to his net worth, it’s still possible that he’ll have suckered enough of his voters into paying off a chunk of the judgments against him when all is said and done.

 

[Zapp Brannigan]

Oh dear, oh dear oh dear ...

Letitia James is not done with Donald Trump. Now she wants to know if he withheld evidence in her fraud case.

New York's attorney general now wants to know if Donald Trump withheld evidence in his fraud case.

www.businessinsider.com

Is there a potential to escalate this from a civil case with fines (big ones) at stake into criminal perjury?

Please let it be so, these would be state charges so even if Trump were elected Pres, he couldn't pardon himself.

 

[Jeff Robinson]

Are Americans finally realising that rape, pedophilia and dictatorship are bad?

Biden Has All But Caught Up With Trump in Polls

There are many variables at play, including RFK Jr. and whose voters turn out.

nymag.com

 

[petee]

Are Americans finally realising that rape, pedophilia and dictatorship are bad?

Biden Has All But Caught Up With Trump in Polls

There are many variables at play, including RFK Jr. and whose voters turn out.

nymag.com

i would dispute "catching up". this is from a week ago. full disclosure, the guy's a party pro, but isn't working for the biden campaign.

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[moochedit]

He wants to ban non citizens voting which is already illegal

Trump and Johnson push for ban on non-US citizens voting. It is already illegal

The House speaker is to visit Mar-a-Lago and step up false claims that immigrants are coming to the US and casting votes en masse

www.independent.co.uk

 

[Raheem]

He wants to ban non citizens voting which is already illegal

Wait til you see the new definition of "citizen", though.

 

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He's on his way to the Court room

 

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www.reddit.com

Trump stock tanks after announcing tens millions of new shares

Today's date apparently - anyone seen share prices?

 

[bcuster]

He was counting on raising cash from that

 

[Raheem]

Sprightly Don has apparently been falling asleep in court today. No cameras, sadly.

 

[spring-peeper]

https://i.redd.it/cii03rxuznuc1.png

www.reddit.com

Today's date apparently - anyone seen share prices?

https://www.cnn.com/2024/04/15/investing/trump-stock-new-shares/index.html

Shares of TMTG (DJT) fell more than 18% Monday afternoon. The stock had rocketed higher in recent months in anticipation of merging a blank-check acquisition company with Trump’s media business. But it has lost more than 60% of its value from its peak on March 26, the day after the merger was completed and it started trading publicly as TMTG.

Still, the stock’s move lower based on this latest update will likely be temporary, says Tuttle.

 

[spitfire]

Trump Media shares tank after company reveals plan to sell more stock

Shares of Truth Social parent company have fallen 60% since March market debut as ex-president under financial pressure

www.theguardian.com

 

[spring-peeper]

Trump trial updates: Over half of potential jurors dismissed for saying they can't be impartial

Here are the latest updates as Trump arrives at court in New York for the start of jury selection in hush money trial

nationalpost.com

Judge Juan M. Merchan on Monday declined a request from Donald Trump’s lawyers to take April 25 off from the hush money trial to allow the former president to attend U.S. Supreme Court arguments on his claim of presidential immunity in another of his four criminal cases.

Defense lawyer Todd Blanche said Trump’s situation deserved accommodation. “It’s not very often that you have someone who has multiple criminal indictments at the same time,” he added.

Merchan said that as a criminal defendant, Trump “is required to be here. He is not required to be at the Supreme Court.”

In response, Trump rolled his eyes, scowled and stood up to leave, as court was adjourning for the day.

 

[cupid_stunt]

Trump Media shares tank after company reveals plan to sell more stock

Shares of Truth Social parent company have fallen 60% since March market debut as ex-president under financial pressure

www.theguardian.com

Earlier this month, several Democratic-aligned groups called on Congress to investigate Trump Media amid a flurry of news about the firm’s dubious hangers-on. Two Florida brothers pleaded guilty at the beginning of April to insider trading related to the ex-president’s social media company. Meanwhile, the Guardian reported that the company was kept afloat by loans from a Russian-American businessman who is under federal investigation for money laundering and insider trading.

Oh, another possible investigation.

 

[Yossarian]

Sprightly Don has apparently been falling asleep in court today. No cameras, sadly.

And this was Day 1, when things were relatively interesting, compared to the days of jury selection and weeks of largely tedious finance-related testimony ahead - he's going to be required to sit through every day of this trial, four days a week for what the judge estimates will be at least six weeks, with no storming out and no taking days off when he decides he'd rather be golfing.

I don't think Trump has been under these kinds of limitations since he was in military academy in the '60s and I don't think he's mentally or physically up to it - I wouldn't be totally surprised if there was some kind of plea deal soon with a fine but no prison time, which Trump would portray as a necessity evil to get back on the campaign trail and save America from blah blah blah. Though there would still be three other criminal trials to deal with.

 

[Monkeygrinder's Organ]

I wouldn't be totally surprised if there was some kind of plea deal soon with a fine but no prison time, which Trump would portray as a necessity evil to get back on the campaign trail and save America from blah blah blah. Though there would still be three other criminal trials to deal with.

And accept the felony conviction? That's massively risky politically isn't it - I know it seems like nothing can shift his support but I think a lot of Republican voters have said in polls they wouldn't vote for a felon. That might not come through in reality but would he risk it?

 

[Yossarian]

And accept the felony conviction? That's massively risky politically isn't it - I know it seems like nothing can shift his support but I think a lot of Republican voters have said in polls they wouldn't vote for a felon. That might not come through in reality but would he risk it?

A felony conviction in the FASCIST COMMUNIST DICTATORSHIP FORMERLY KNOWN AS THE GREAT STATE OF NEW YORK - maybe it won't come to pass, but Trump has definitely laid the groundwork for portraying a plea deal of the lesser of two evils when faced with an illegitimate and unwinnable case of ELECTION INTERFERENCE

 

[Pickman's model]

Sprightly Don has apparently been falling asleep in court today. No cameras, sadly.

to be fair i've fallen asleep while having my hair cut and at the dentists while having a root canal done. sure i've nodded off while watching a court case. so i have some sympathy for djt on this occasion.

 

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I saw at least one Trumpy telling prospective Trumpy jurors to say they're impartial, get on the jury, and then find him innocent whatever the evidence.

Or jury tampering as it's otherwise called

 

[krtek a houby]

I saw at least one Trumpy telling prospective Trumpy jurors to say they're impartial, get on the jury, and then find him innocent whatever the evidence.

Or jury tampering as it's otherwise called

Can't remember if it was BBC or NHK, but in the vox pops outside the court interviews with pro and anti folk, one woman said if he's found guilty there's going to be guns and a civil war in response.


They are so open about it now, compared to a few years ago where such a thing might be hinted at but not as blatant as now.

 

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If it's going to happen it needs to happen before Trump gains power. If he's got the army and police behind (even more behind for some of them) his neo-nazi mates ...

 

[krtek a houby]

If it's going to happen it needs to happen before Trump gains power. If he's got the army and police behind (even more behind for some of them) his neo-nazi mates ...

Win or lose the election, you can expect something very unpleasant to unfold.

As has been noted since his rise to power over the years, he's a symptom of US ills, not the cause.

It's not a case of fringe Nazis and Christian hard right anymore, they are in the ascendent and not going away anytime soon.

 

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I think there's no doubt from this image that Trump does indeed wear a nappy - even in court

 

[krtek a houby]

I think there's no doubt from this image that Trump does indeed wear a nappy - even in court

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In fairness, incontinence is an awful ailment and perhaps it is time for him to retire, if this is the case. But vanity and entitled apparently keep him motivated.