#TrumpCorrupt He can’t make up his mind and his dummies don’t seem to care. All he had to do was say sorry, my mistake, take them, but now after his inditement,, reports are besides claiming the classified documents were planted, they are his to keep. He is basically trying to rewite the laws on the power of his populism. How much will stick? He is going for broke and if he can prevail, we as a Nation WILL KEEP SLIDING DOWN.

https://www.aol.com/trump-now-claims-classified-documents-145215249.html

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/donald-trump-first-public-comments-since-arraignment-federal-charges-classified-documents-bedminster/

Trump and his kids will say anything to cover their asses or get what they want. They have no integrity and are shamelessly sociopathic and narcissistic. Yet one political party thinks they are viable candidates and role models. In other words, The GOP is the party of liars, grifters, fascists, sociopaths, racists, fundamentalists, the greedy and power hungry, and the brainwashed. No party like that should ever play a prominent role in any democracy that wants to survive!

N.Y. AG's office: Trump and kids 'falsely deny facts they have admitted'
Both the former president his children “falsely deny facts they have admitted in other proceedings.
https://www.politico.com/news/2023/01/31/new-york-attorney-generals-office-says-trump-and-his-children-falsely-deny-facts-they-have-admitted-in-250-million-lawsuit-00080417

#TrumpLies
#TrumpGuilty
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#TrumpGrifts
#GOPIsUnworthyOfOffice

"The office of New York Attorney General Letitia James says former President Donald Trump and three of his adult children lied in the answers they submitted to the court in response to James’ $250 million lawsuit accusing them and the Trump Organization of large-scale financial fraud.

Both the former president his children “falsely deny facts they have admitted in other proceedings,” deny knowing things “ that are plainly within their knowledge,” and use defenses “repeatedly rejected by this Court as frivolous and without merit,” Kevin Wallace, senior enforcement counsel in the Attorney General’s office, said in a letter to New York Supreme Court Justice Arthur Engoron.

James’ office is seeking a pre-trial conference to work out fact from fiction and to “sanction Defendants and their counsel,” for the false claims, according to the letter.

'Greatest witch hunt': Trump deposition released in New York fraud case

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Some of those claims include Trump’s denial that he served as the inactive president of the Trump Organization while in the White House, despite Trump’s own sworn testimony that he did so; an argument from from Donald Trump Jr. and Eric Trump that “they are being improperly targeted for investigation,” despite the court previously rejecting the “witch-hunt” argument; and Ivanka Trump’s inability to confirm the contents of her own emails, according the letter from James’ office.

The new accusations against Trump and his children are the latest in what has been a series of legal tiffs between the prominent New York attorney and the former president. Earlier this month, Trump’s attorneys withdrew a lawsuit filed against James in Florida that sought to block her access to a trust that holds a number of his business assets."

Well of course MBS is paying Trump off. Trump let him off the hook for murder and this is chump change to MBS. And of course, Trump is accepting the bribe! Trump is all about Trump and money!

Mohammed bin Salman 'has been paying Donald Trump unknown millions for the past two years' https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2023/1/18/2147876/--Mohammed-bin-Salman-has-been-paying-Donald-Trump-unknown-millions-for-the-past-two-years

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#TrumpTreason

"However, all those concerns could turn out to be minor. That’s because a court case in California, where LIV has filed an antitrust suit against the PGA, has gone in a direction that LIV definitely, definitely did not want. While fighting back against this suit, the PGA has sought to compel discovery about the real sources behind the fund picking up the ticket on LIV’s considerable expenses. As it happens, a slip of the tongue from a LIV attorney during the trial revealed that the fund owns 93% of LIV Golf and covers all of its expenses.

The chairman and controlling officer of that fund is Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman. Its bin Salman paying all the bills and taking all the risks for LIV Golf. But who is making a profit?

[LIV Golf] has paid Trump-owned golf resorts unknown millions of dollars to hold its events there, and former President Trump has publicly championed the new league, made prominent appearances at its events, and urged PGA players to sign on with LIV Golf.

Exactly how many millions is bin Salman funneling to Donald Trump through LIV? We don’t know.

That LIV Golf was at least partially owned by Saudi sources was never a secret and has been a concern since the tour began. However, as a private company, its internal ownership and funding was obscured until the unfolding court case opened up the details of just how little involvement there is from anyone else. It’s not just that bin Salman owns 93% of the tour on paper. He’s picking up 100% of the bill.

In response to the effort to compel discovery on LIV’s finances, the Saudi Arabian Public Investment Fund (PIF) insisted that it could not be forced to reveal anything. They don’t have to talk, because they are an “organ of the Saudi state” and protected by “foreign sovereign immunity.”

That doesn’t exactly make things better.

According to Sarah Leah Whitson, Executive Director of Democracy for the Arab World Now, “The revelation that a fund controlled by Crown Prince MBS actually 100% funds LIV Golf means that MBS has been paying Donald Trump unknown millions for the past two years, via their mutual corporate covers.” She also stresses that this has implications that go way beyond golf and beyond Trump fattening his wallet. “The national security implications of payments from a grotesquely abusive foreign dictator to a president of the United States who provided extraordinary favors to him are as dangerous as they are shocking," said Whitson.

In 2018, Trump son-in-law Jared Kushner paid a visit to bin Salman at a time when he was seeking $1.8 billion to bail his company out of a devastatingly bad real estate investment. At the time, there was great suspicion that Kushner, who later received his rescue in the form of a secret bailout, may have been selling bin Salman national security secrets, including the names of U.S. sources and dissidents in Saudi Arabia.

Also in 2018, bin Salman had Washington Post columnist Jamal Khashoggi lured into a Saudi embassy, bound, tortured, dissected, killed, and burned. In that order. Later reports showed that, while he would not admit it, Trump was aware of bin Salman’s role in the journalist’s horrific death.

In 2022, the classified documents found in Trump’s private office in Mar-a-Lago reportedly included nuclear secrets from a foreign nation. Many reports have indicated that this information related to the Iranian nuclear program — information that would certainly be of direct interest to bin Salman.

Still, Donald Trump is being paid millions by Mohammed bin Salman. How many millions? We don’t know. What did bin Salman get from Trump in return? We don’t know."

Over the course of Trump's presidency, he received payments from at least 22 foreign countries including China & Brazil. https://therecount.com/watch/over-the-course-of-trumps/2645887829

#TrumpGrifts
#TrumpCorrupt

Who requested that Trump’s tax returns not be audited? Who stopped the "mandatory" audits from happening? Mnuchin? One of the other ever-willing minions? They were able to successfully stall real oversight for years. Obviously we need to install much better "guardrails" to protect our democracy moving forward!

Article: IRS didn't start auditing Trump's presidential-era taxes until day House Democrats asked for records in 2019

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"Committee Democrats focused Tuesday night on the IRS's mandatory audits of Trump during his presidency. They found them lacking. Trump filed his 2015 and 2016 tax returns in 2017, the year he took office, but the IRS did not select any of his presidential-era returns for an audit until April 3, 2019 — the same day committee chairman Rep. Richard Neal (D-Mass.) requested access to Trump's taxes and any associated audits, the committee's report said. "

Check out this compelling video outlining how corrupt, deceitful and seditious Trump was and still is.

Video Jan. 6 committee outline lengths Trump went to promote 'the big lie' - ABC News https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/video/jan-6-committee-outline-lengths-trump-promote-big-95554730

Former President Donald Trump's false claim was purposeful to increase distrust in the electoral process, the committee claims.

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From nickkundsenus birdsite. #trumpfascist #trumpinsurrection #gopdecline #gop #trumpcorrupt

Trump play fast and loose with the truth and the law. It illustrates how slanted our justice system is that wealthy people like him get away with so much. He managed to escape consequences for decades that any of the rest of us would have been nailed on. He pushed it too far. If he hadn't become president, he would have likely avoided all of this reckoning. The comeuppance couldn't have happened to a more deserving slimeball, though there are many as least as deserving!

DOJ Gets Real On Trump And Seeks Contempt Charges https://politicususa.substack.com/p/doj-gets-real-on-trump-and-seeks?publication_id=2114&post_id=89496537&isFreemail=true
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#WealthyGetFreePass

"The DOJ is showing signs that they have had enough of Trump and his games. The Justice Department has been lied to, seen promises broken, and has had to deal with chaos and dysfunction from Trump’s side.

Finally, it seems that enough is enough.

Via: The Washington Post:

In recent days, Justice Department lawyers have asked U.S. District Judge Beryl A. Howell to hold Trump’s office in contempt, according to the people, who spoke on the condition of anonymity to describe sealed court proceedings. But the judge has not yet held a hearing or ruled on the request, they said.

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One of the key areas of disagreement centers on the Trump legal team’s repeated refusal to designate a custodian of records to sign a document attesting that all classified materials have been returned to the federal government, according to two of these people. The Justice Department has repeatedly sought an unequivocal sworn written assurance from Trump’s team that all such documents have been returned, and Trump’s team has been unwilling to designate a custodian of records to sign such a statement while also giving assurances that they have handed documents back.

No One In Trump’s Office Wants To Take Responsibility For The Documents
It doesn’t take an FBI agent to understand why nobody in Trump’s office wants to take responsibility for assuring that all of the classified materials have been turned over.

Donald Trump is a liar. He already lied to his legal team about turning over classified materials in the past. Only a fool would put themselves in legal jeopardy for Trump especially when he continues to contend that the classified materials belong to him.

More classified materials were already found in a Florida storage unit that Trump uses, so there are probably lots more classified materials illegally in Trump’s possession.

The contempt order if granted would impose daily fines on Trump and his office until they are in compliance.

The DOJ isn’t playing around anymore. A major consequence of Donald Trump’s decision to announce his 2024 candidacy early is that the Special Counsel is in place and not tolerating obstruction of his investigation."