BOOM! The Second Circuit refuses to rehear Trump's appeal of the $83 million Carroll verdict. The jury said he defamed her. Two courts said the jury was right. The cavalry is not coming. He owes her the money.
“Give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses yearning to breathe free, but only if they pay me 5 million dollars for my instant-citizenship Gold Card.💰” -Comrade Krasnov
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We did not have a FAA administrator to respond to the tragic crash last night in DC. Why? Because Elon Musk pushed the head appointed under Biden to resign after he fined SpaceX for failing to follow safety license requirements. www.theverge.com/news/603113/...
The thing with Trump saying something outrageous is the media completely loses sight of anything else. Focus is completely on “DEI,” no mention of FAA director getting sacked and downgrading of aviation safety committee, etc. It’s a win for him, every time
There is no such actual thing as presidential immunity.
It's NOWHERE in the Constitution.
DOJ made it up in 1973 and 2000 to protect their bosses.
SCOTUS made it up more in 2024 to protect *their* boss and benefactor, Trump.
It is a cancerous, monarchical monstrosity.
There it is, MAGA.
Your deranged, dilapidated dullard Donald trump won't receive ANY prison time, but he's now officially a CONVICTED FELON.
He's the ONLY so-called President to enter office as an adjudicated rapist and a convicted felon.
Congratulations.
🚨FUN FACT: Donald Trump's felony conviction would most likely keep him from enlisting in the military, which has high standards. Troops now have to serve under someone who lied his way out of military service and now couldn't even join if he wanted to! What an embarrassment!
It's not just that it failed, it was based on doctored evidence, and they knew it. They put the health and lives of people like my mother at risk to turn a profit on a scam.
Vivek Ramaswamy bought an Alzheimer’s drug that failed clinical trials 4 times, rebranded it, took it public, then dumped his stock before it failed again. Vivek Ramaswamy is a con artist and a ghoul, and as such should fit right in in the Musk administration
www.forbes.com/sites/nathan...
Worth noting that McConnell refusing to whip votes to convict Trump at his impeachment trial (or vote himself to convict) is *why* we’re in this position right now. If McConnell is looking for the person at fault, he might want to consult a mirror.
Leonard Leo, Harlan Crow, Ginni Thomas, Martha Alito, John Roberts, Sam Alito, and Clarence Thomas love it when you blame Garland and Biden for the fact that the Supreme Court stopped the cases against Trump.
Regular people to their kids: "This is America. If you work hard you can be anything you want. Even the President."
Billionaires to their kids: "This is America. If you stay rich you can buy anything you want. Even the President."
It is absolutely unacceptable to have a person who supports convicted war criminals lead the United States military. This is before we talk credible rape accusations. Documented serial adultery which literally violates the UCMJ. Christian Nationalist ties. Rabid Islamophobia. Calls for a civil war.
Even MacArthur “personally signed the order to hang an American soldier convicted of murdering civilians during World War II. In all, there were more than 140 such executions for violations of the Articles of War — rape, murder, or both — from 1941 to 1945.”
www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...
Maybe it’s me, maybe I’m old fashioned, but if a bank teller were under an ethics investigation for having sex with minors, but then quit right before the boss could see the report, they probably wouldn’t hire the guy back and put him in charge of the entire fucking bank.
Right?
You don’t bury an ethics report that would exonerate Trump’s pick.
You don’t skip FBI background checks unless his nominees have something to hide.
See what they’re doing? Please tell me you see what they’re doing.
The same people who’ve spent the last several years decrying “unqualified DEI hires” are now shoehorning through Cabinet nominations who can’t even pass a basic background test.
I'm old enough to have had the measles before there was a reliable vaccine, the mumps before there was a reliable vaccine, and chicken pox before there was a reliable vaccine. why the fuck would anybody voluntarily want to go back to that, it fucking sucked
We have to remember that, traditionally, an incoming administration awards the various constituencies that got it elected with some sort of representation.
So the tech bros get Elon, anti-vax freaks get RFK Jr, dog killers get Noem, white nationalists get Hegseth, pedophiles get Gaetz...
It's just a fact that if a Dem president nominated a guy with this background to be Sec Def it would be a major scandal and controversy. But because GOP immorality is completely normalized at this point I would be shocked if it makes any difference. (The article is from 2018.)