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Former Trump critic turned Trump lover plans to run for Ohio U.S. Senate seat.


Ex-Trump critic J.D. Vance is running for Senate after meeting with Trump and Silicon Valley billionaire Peter Thiel at Mar-a-Lago, according to new report
Eliza Relman
Thu, April 15, 2021, 1:15 PM·

Ex-Trump critic J.D. Vance is running for Senate after meeting with Trump and Silicon Valley billionaire Peter Thiel at Mar-a-Lago, according to new report

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"Vance, who made a name for himself with his bestselling 2016 memoir "Hillbilly Elegy," recently met with former President Donald Trump and conservative Silicon Valley billionaire Peter Thiel at Trump's Mar-a-Lago resort in Florida, Axios reported.

The 36-year-old Marine veteran and Yale Law School graduate was highly critical of Trump before he was elected president.

"I can't stomach Trump. I think that he's noxious and is leading the white working class to a very dark place," Vance told NPR's Terry Gross before Trump's win in 2016. He also told conservative commentator Mona Charen, "If Trump wins it would be terrible for the country, but good for book sales.""

 

Perfect description of Trump

“The evidence is overwhelming that there is a delusional leader who believes himself to be omnipotent with followers who are delusional and believe he’s omnipotent. And that’s a problem.”

 

^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

When the SDNY completes their investigation into the Trump organization....................

 

We can only hope. I'll believe it when it happens.

 

Compilation of remarks made on Fox about the outcome of the 2016 and 2020 presidential elections.

Personalities on Fox said that the left's mob-like tactics after the 2016 election were backfiring.

After the 2020 election, Fox personalities made apologetic remarks about Trump's mob violently storming the Capitol.


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Madison Cawthorn Wants To Protect Trump’s Half-Finished Wall As A Monument
The freshman GOP congressman says he’s “proud” to introduce the “Donument Act”(sigh) to “protect the southern border wall from alteration.”
By Chris D’Angelo

Madison Cawthorn Wants To Protect Trump's Half-Finished Wall As A Monument | HuffPost

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"During his tenure, Trump dismantled or desecrated four federally protected land and water sites with significant cultural, archeological and natural resources. He carved more than 2 million acres from a pair of national monuments in Utah — Bears Ears and Grand Staircase-Escalante ― in December 2017, arguing that their establishment and size were an “egregious abuse of federal power.” And to make way for the border wall, the Trump administration bulldozed and blew up Indigenous cultural and burial sites within Organ Pipe Cactus National Monument.

By contrast, Trump threatened sentences of up to 10 years in prison for anyone who destroyed or dismantled a monument to a slave-owning president or a leader of the Confederacy."

 

Thank God almighty, lord have mercy, thank you president trump. . . . Stock market news live updates: S&P 500, Dow set fresh record highs amid strong earnings, economic data

 

"The stock market is going to crash when Biden becomes president" ~ Trump Supporters everywhere.

 

A member of the Oath Keepers pleads guilty and will cooperate with prosecutors in the Jan. 6 riot inquiry.
By Alan Feuer and Katie Benner
April 16, 2021, 12:12 p.m. ET

Oath Keeper Pleads Guilty and Will Cooperate in Jan. 6 Riot Inquiry

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"A member of the Oath Keepers militia who was charged in connection with the riot at the Capitol pleaded guilty on Friday and agreed to cooperate with the government — potentially against other members of the far-right group.

The guilty plea by the Oath Keeper, Jon Ryan Schaffer, 53, of Indiana, was the first to be entered publicly by any of the more than 400 people who have been charged so far in the Jan. 6 riot. News of the plea emerged last week after secret documents in Mr. Schaffer’s case were briefly unsealed by accident on a federal court database.

Mr. Schaffer’s cooperation with the government could prove instrumental in helping prosecutors pursue much broader conspiracy charges against 12 other members of the Oath Keepers who stand accused of the some of the most serious crimes in the sprawling investigation."

 

Trump loves to point to the stock market as a sign of his success. But since the election it's become clear: the market prefers Biden.

Trump said the stock market would crash if Biden won. The Dow just had its best month since 1987. - KVIA

 

Oath Keeper Pleads Guilty and Will Cooperate in Jan. 6 Riot Inquiry

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"The Oath Keepers conspiracy case is one of two large cases in which prosecutors have charged rioters with hatching plans to commit violence at the Capitol after President Donald J. Trump lost the election in November. In the other case, prosecutors have charged four leaders of the far-right nationalist group the Proud Boys with planning an attack well in advance of Jan. 6 and then leading a mob of about 100 members and supporters past police barricades.

As part of the Oath Keepers case, the authorities have said they are investigating Stewart Rhodes, the founder of the group, who was at the Capitol on Jan. 6 but did not appear to have entered the building. Prosecutors have noted in court filings that Mr. Rhodes, a former paratrooper and a graduate of Yale Law School, was in close communication with his militia members throughout the day of the attack."

 

https://www.nytimes.com/2021/04/16/us/politics/oath-keeper-guilty-plea.html

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"The Oath Keepers conspiracy case is one of two large cases in which prosecutors have charged rioters with hatching plans to commit violence at the Capitol after President Donald J. Trump lost the election in November. In the other case, prosecutors have charged four leaders of the far-right nationalist group the Proud Boys with planning an attack well in advance of Jan. 6 and then leading a mob of about 100 members and supporters past police barricades."

 

Trump dragged the big corporate entities into the culture wars that he concocted, such as the fight over kneeling during the national anthem.

Akin to the Meidas touch, it scored some cheap points for Trump in the short run by rousing his voter base but created longer term problems. Now he and the GOP are upset that some of the corporate world isn't aligning itself with their brand of politics and is expressing its view with dollar votes, such as pulling the All-Star game out of Georgia.



Culture wars strain once unshakeable bond between Republicans, corporate America
"Talking about corporate tax cuts and reducing burdensome regulations doesn't do it for our new voters," one Republican lobbyist said.
By Allan Smith
April 4, 2021, 4:30 AM EDT

Culture wars strain once unshakeable bond between Republicans, corporate America

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"Such public dust-ups between businesses and members of the GOP are becoming more frequent, though the divide — possibly one of the most consequential in U.S. politics and society — is years in the making. The shift is the product of a Republican Party increasingly driven by "culture war" issues that animate a base invigorated by Trump and corporate powerhouses that are under more pressure than ever to align themselves with the left on voting rights, LGBTQ rights and anti-racist efforts.

The result is a fraying in relations between a GOP that has for years advocated for the kinds of libertarian economic policies that have widely benefited these businesses and companies that are using their might to help advance racial and social justice causes.

"We have long thought and still think of the big institutional drivers of this culture war as more in academia, the arts, the media, and corporate America has mostly sat it out until recently," retiring Sen. Pat Toomey, R-Pa., told NBC News in an interview. He added that while he does not think of corporate America "as the biggest player yet," companies coming off the sidelines "can change the dynamic.""

 

Justice Department sues Trump ally Roger Stone, alleging millions in unpaid taxes

 

Roger Stone Sued For $2 Million In Unpaid Taxes

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"WASHINGTON — Donald Trump pardoned his longtime ally Roger Stone in the final weeks of his presidency, wiping away the Republican political operative's convictions for lying to Congress, obstructing investigators, and tampering with witnesses during the Russia investigation.

But that wasn’t the end of Stone’s legal troubles. On Friday, federal tax prosecutors filed a civil lawsuit against him in Florida claiming nearly $2 million in unpaid taxes. The government is alleging that Stone and his wife, Nydia Stone, owe more than $1.5 million in federal income taxes from 2007 to 2011 — an amount that includes hundreds of thousands of dollars in late penalties and interest — plus an additional $400,000 in unpaid income taxes and penalties from 2018 alone.

Prosecutors are also accusing the Stones of placing more than $1 million into a corporate entity that their family controlled, Drake Ventures LLC, in 2018 and 2019 in order to keep it out of the hands of the IRS. The complaint alleges that the Stones used money from Drake Ventures to pay for personal expenses — “groceries, dentist bills, spas, salons, clothing and restaurant expenses,” according to the government — as well as make a down payment on a home, resolve some of their tax debt, and pay wages to relatives and other individuals without filing the required paperwork."

 

Capitol riot: Prosecutors get first guilty plea 100 days after attack

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How many arrests so far?

The suspects in the Capitol riot are a varied group: they include an ousted West Virginia lawmaker, several police officers and a left-wing activist from Utah.

Most of the rioters were allowed to leave the crime scene, forcing investigators to conduct a national manhunt for the pro-Trump crowd that stormed the halls of Congress.

Investigators for the District of Columbia says they have identified over 540 suspects and charged some 400 people in connection with the Capitol siege.

Just weeks after the rampage in January, FBI officials said they had already been inundated with 140,000 videos and photos from members of the public.

Officials say they are considering filing serious charges of seditious activity against some individuals who were involved in the siege on the Capitol.

According to federal criminal code, seditious conspiracy means an effort to conspire to overthrow the US government. The punishment is severe: up to 20 years in prison.

 

My impression is that at least since the 1990s and the Clintonization of the Democratic Party, that Corporate America/Wall Street supports Democrats as much as Republicans but it is small business/Main Street that overwhelmingly supports Republicans over Democrats. Corporate America has the money, the clout and the army of lobbyists to get what it wants/stop what it doesn't want from Congress no matter which party controls Congress. Small Business America doesn't have any of that. Look at how many of the biggest corporations essentially pay zero taxes, something small businesses find almost impossible do. Populists/Liberals complain about the flat standard of living since the 1970s but the federal govt has been under nominally liberal Democratic administrations for 20 of the last 44 years, under Republican administrations 24 of those 44 years. I guess my point is that both established political parties are almost equally responsible for what has happened over the past few decades. Biden, Pelosi & Schumer may tweak around the edges of things like raising the corporate tax rate from 21% to 28% (but the same corporate tax lawyers will still be able to find ways to see that many of their clients continue to pay zero or near-zero taxes) and I am highly skeptical that any fundamental structural changes will be made to our current economic & corporate system.

 

Trump’s post-presidency makeover: Former president losing weight, cutting back on M&Ms and ditching spray tan, report says

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"It’s been three months since Donald Trump left the White House in disgrace, and he’s never looked better, his advisors say.

The twice-impeached ex-president has lost about 15 pounds, quit his M&M habit, and replaced his spray-tanning with natural Florida sun, according to interviews Insider conducted with some of his confidantes.

“When I saw him, he looked healthier and in better physical condition than I had seen him in a long time,” an advisor told Insider."