Trump deeds and misdeeds VI

[JDCrimson]

This article highlights the problem within the Republican Party. Tom Cole (R-OK) thinks Trump is speaking in hyperbole when he talks of being dictator for a day not concerned about Trump's true intentions. But then follows that up, the same interview, with Trump is trying to test the bounds of his authority as prior Presidents did.

There are still a too many legislators and citizens who view Trump through a traditional lens of politics.

How the Republicans Embraced the Chaos

 

[NationalTitles18]

Donald Trump’s Company Has Diversity And Inclusion Policy While He Rages Against It - Yahoo News Singapore

Trump Media & Technology Group says it embraces “a culture of diversity and inclusion” for “gender identity and expression” and race.

sg.news.yahoo.com

Donald Trump’s company behind his Truth Social platform features “diversity and inclusion” policies, while the former president vows to eliminate them across the land if re-elected.

Trump, the presumptive GOP presidential nominee, has criticized DEI policies as “un-American” for years. But the language in the Trump Media & Technology Group was adopted on March 25, 2024, according to company documents on its website. That was the day before the company went public following a merger with a shell company. Its stock has plummeted repeatedly in the weeks since.

The anti-Trump group MeidasTouch reported its DEI discovery on Tuesday while highlighting Trump’s numerous attacks on such initiatives.

Under Trump Media’s “Corporate Governance Guidelines,” a section headlined in bold “Commitment to Diversity and Inclusion” displays terminology you won’t find the criminally indicted candidate using on the campaign trail.

“The Board is committed to creating and maintaining a culture of diversity and inclusion,” the document reads. “The Company will be better able to grow and improve with a diverse Board, management, and team of employees. Such commitment is and will be a factor in identifying and nominating director candidates.”

The pledge “encourages management to embrace the unique contributions an employee or candidate can bring to the Company and its culture in terms of their education, opinions, culture, ethnicity, race, sex, gender identity and expression, sexual orientation, nationality, color, religion, veteran’s status, disability and other life experience.”

Again, Benedict and Co are full of it.

 

[Chukker Veteran]

Both candidates are “terrible”…

my Trumper brother-in-law recenttly got a speeding ticket. He said the experience was downright terrible.
A week later he wrecked his car and learned what terrible actually looks like.

if Biden is terrible I would say Trump is catastrophic. Saying both are terrible is weak tea.

 

[Chukker Veteran]

No just trying to get a clearer understanding of your viewpoint. Do you think one candidate is preferable over the other? Why or why not?

I think he said neither candidate is acceptable to him and he will find a third party candidate to vote for. Because both Biden and Trump are terrible.

I’ve voted against Trump every chance I’ve had and I’m damn glad I have. I will always be proud of that.

 

[mdb-tpet]

Both candidates are “terrible”…

my Trumper brother-in-law recenttly got a speeding ticket. He said the experience was downright terrible.
A week later he wrecked his car and learned what terrible actually looks like.

if Biden is terrible I would say Trump is catastrophic. Saying both are terrible is weak tea.

One candidate does things you don't like, is weak in areas you want strength like the border or Israel, likes taxes you hate, doesn't project the strength you want when speaking or decisions, is slow and cautious to fix the broken economy suffering from high inflation, is accused repeatedly of getting foreign money through corruption but is shown no such thing happened. The other stokes mobs to attack the capital because he cannot stand to lose, is feckless in the middle of a pandemic and chooses to ignore it rather than contain it before it's far too late causing a complete shutdown of the country and economy, pushes hard for a vaccine only to secretly take the vaccine and push against that same vaccine when it comes out, says he won't take a tax cut then taxes a massive tax cut for himself, takes money from foreign investors for his properties even when in office, etc.

Are both really terrible, or is an actual comparison just too depressing that you'll have to support the guy you don't WANT to choose?

 

[Jon]

this is funny

 

[TexasBama]

I guess it’s fitting that the first witness called in Trump’s Stormy Daniel’s trial is named Pecker.

 

[Chukker Veteran]

I guess it’s fitting that the first witness called in Trump’s Stormy Daniel’s trial is named Pecker.

I wonder if people give him a hard time about his name.

Stormy’s testimony has the potential to be special. There’s no telling what she might say, or Trump in response.

I also wonder if Bill Clinton feels a little vindicated somehow.

 

[NationalTitles18]

https://www.cnn.com/2024/04/22/politics/nauta-classified-documents-trump-pardon-second-term/index.html

Donald Trump’s valet Walt Nauta was told that if he was charged with lying to the FBI, the former president would pardon him when he won a second term in 2024, according to notes from an interview with a witness in the federal classified documents investigation.

Looks like obstruction.

 

[TexasBama]

I guess it’s fitting that the first witness called in Trump’s Stormy Daniel’s trial is named Pecker.

Testimony continues into day two. Said differently, Pecker is up again.

 

[Crimson1967]

 

[JDCrimson]

If he is up for more than 4 hours will someone need to call a doctor?

Testimony continues into day two. Said differently, Pecker is up again.

 

[Huckleberry]

https://twitter.com/x/status/1783534520773353562

Justice Sotomayor: If a president says a rival is corrupt and orders their assassination, "is that within his official acts for which he can get immunity?"
Trump lawyer D. John Sauer: "It would depend on the hypothetical, but we can see that could well be an official act."

 

[Huckleberry]

https://twitter.com/x/status/1783507760224628757

Kagan: How about if the president orders the military to stage a coup?
Sauer: If one adopted the test we advanced, that might well be an official act.

 

[Huckleberry]

https://twitter.com/x/status/1783506703390040236

Kagan: If a president sells nuclear secrets to a foreign adversary, is that immune?
Sauer: If it's structured as an official act, he would have to be impeached and convicted first.

 

[NationalTitles18]

This is the question the justices should be asking themselves:

And if he orders all the justices assassinated?

 

[CrimsonNagus]

My head just cannot wrap itself around the idea that even this court will side with Trump on this. It’s not just about him but all presidents. They can’t just say it only applies to Trump. A president has never been above the law in this country, but that’s what they will be deciding. If one man is above all other persons and laws. That’s essentially a king. They side with Trump and they elevate the presidency to being a king.

It also would apply to Biden and I don’t see this court doing anything that could help Biden.

 

[92tide]

My head just cannot wrap itself around the idea that even this court will side with Trump on this. It’s not just about him but all presidents. They can’t just say it only applies to Trump. A president has never been above the law in this country, but that’s what they will be deciding. If one man is above all other persons and laws. That’s essentially a king. They side with Trump and they elevate the presidency to being a king.

It also would apply to Biden and I don’t see this court doing anything that could help Biden.

the fanatics on the court say hold my beer

 

[JDCrimson]

They said we need to time deliberate this question because it would apply to all future presidents... There is a hidden meaning in that statement. Their guy currently isn't in office, they would like to wait to decide to see if their guy is back in office. Their ruling would not apply to all future presidents because in fact Trump would be the last president we have. With his immunity granted he would eliminate most I'd not all semblance of representative and judicial government.

People say no he wouldn't. What world are you living in he his lawyer arguing in SCOTUS right now to have that power!

People need to wake up and see what is being attempted with our nation and our rights and safety.

My head just cannot wrap itself around the idea that even this court will side with Trump on this. It’s not just about him but all presidents. They can’t just say it only applies to Trump. A president has never been above the law in this country, but that’s what they will be deciding. If one man is above all other persons and laws. That’s essentially a king. They side with Trump and they elevate the presidency to being a king.

It also would apply to Biden and I don’t see this court doing anything that could help Biden.

 

[92tide]

They said we need to time deliberate this question because it would apply to all future presidents... There is a hidden meaning in that statement. Their guy currently isn't in office, they would like to wait to decide to see if their guy is back in office. Their ruling would not apply to all future presidents because in fact Trump would be the last president we have. With his immunity granted he would eliminate most I'd not all semblance of representative and judicial government.

People say no he wouldn't. What world are you living in he his lawyer arguing in SCOTUS right now to have that power!

People need to wake up and see what is being attempted with our nation and our rights and safety.

and it is surprising how many "limited government" types have no real problem with it