An RNC member is trying to stop the party from paying Donald Trump's legal bills excerpt: "COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — At least one member of the Republican National Committee is working to slow Donald Trump’s attempted takeover of the organization by pushing to keep the committee neutral until Trump is officially the presidential nominee and avoid picking up his legal bills. Two draft resolutions are being circulated by Henry Barbour, a national committeeman from Mississippi, for consideration at the RNC’s upcoming March meeting in Houston. Barbour said support for the resolutions among RNC members is growing but he does not yet have the needed cosponsors, and any resolutions would ultimately be nonbinding."
Analysis: America has never had a presumptive nominee like Donald Trump | CNN Politics excerpt: "The triumph of the once and possibly future president – an incredible comeback given his attempt to steal the 2020 election and a crush of criminal and civil trials threatening his liberty and fortune – sets up one of the most fateful elections in American history. His demonstrated record of contempt for democratic institutions means that the country’s political, legal and constitutional guardrails are facing a severe new test from a GOP candidate who could be a convicted felon by Election Day and who may see restored executive power as a tool to thwart federal prosecutions. And Trump’s return to the threshold of the presidency will send shockwaves around a world still recovering from his volatile leadership and affinity for autocrats and send a warning to Ukraine, a nation fighting for its survival."
Analysis: America has never had a presumptive nominee like Donald Trump | CNN Politics excerpt: “We are a nation that has lost its confidence, its willpower and its strength. We are a nation that has lost its way,” Trump went on. “2024 is our final battle. We will demolish the deep state, we will expel the warmongers from our government – we will drive out the globalists, we will cast out the Marxists, the communists and fascists. We will rout the fake news media, we will drain the swamp. … We will be a liberated country again.”
Analysis: America has never had a presumptive nominee like Donald Trump | CNN Politics excerpt: "Simply put, Trump is running on the most extreme platform in modern history. He has called for the termination of the Constitution. He wants the Supreme Court to grant unchecked power to the presidency, which he plans to use in a personal quest for “retribution” against his enemies. He is pledging to gut the civil service in government departments and to fill posts with political operatives. He’s signaled he’d use the Justice Department not as a quasi-independent arbiter of the rule of law but as a personal political enforcement machine. Many of Trump’s former officials fear he’d pull out of NATO, trash the post-World War II international system and side with dictators."
Some of Trump's supporters would say that everyone has their little faults. Others would say that those are assets, not liabilities. Still others might say, "Is trashing American democracy really such a big price to pay for the desire to have $2 per gallon gasoline?"
Mitch McConnell cites his accomplishments with Trump: corporate tax cuts that raised the national debt and taking away from women the federal rights to abortion. McConnell endorses Trump for president. He once blamed Trump for 'disgraceful' Jan. 6, 2021, attack excerpt: "McConnell, of Kentucky, said he and Trump “worked together to accomplish great things for the American people.” He noted in particular policies that “supercharged our economy and a generational change of our federal judiciary — most importantly, the Supreme Court.” Trump signed a GOP tax cuts package into law and, with McConnell leading the Senate, was able to confirm three justices to the nine-member Supreme Court and fulfill conservatives’ long-term goal of overturning Roe v. Wade and the constitutional right to an abortion."
Add McConnell to the senators in the SNL sketch who are praising Trump after he insulted them (Scott, Risch, Graham, and Rubio). YouTube video:
So, Donnie is going to do a play by play co-narration of Biden's SOTU tonight...I wonder what theatrics Large Marge and Loosie Lauren are going to pull this time...
I'm watching and waiting for Trumplestiltskin to implode with a complete breakdown in public. It will be his undoing. As if someone slipped him a bad psychedelic. A public psychotic episode may be in his future. It just seems the normal progression of his overwhelmed, perverted, paranoid narcissist fascism. Think Hitler in his bunker with the allies knocking on the door....
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What people were hoping wouldn't happen. It's Biden and Trump again. The Biden-Trump election that voters said they didn't want is now here excerpt: "The results of last night’s Super Tuesday contests cemented what we have known for some time now: Donald Trump limps into the general election as a wounded, dangerous and unpopular candidate. The Republican nominee ... is running on an extreme agenda that is already proving to be a significant liability for key voting blocs that are critical to the pathway to 270 electoral votes," Biden's campaign wrote in a Wednesday memo. Trump has spoken just as bluntly. "It's the fascists and the communists that surround him, they're making the calls," he claimed on Fox News on Tuesday, suggesting Biden is not up for his current or another term. "They're calling the shots. He's not calling the shots."
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The Biden-Trump election that voters said they didn't want is now here excerpt: "And critics of Israel's war against Hamas have pushed for people to vote "uncommitted" to register their dissatisfaction with Biden's handling of the conflict. Yet, again, nothing seemed to work. Williamson suspended her campaign -- and then unsuspended it. "Uncommitted" drew more than 100,000 voters in Michigan -- a number high enough to draw eyeballs but not high enough to seriously impede Biden's progress in winning delegates to clinch the nomination. And as if to put a point on it, Phillips, who spent millions of his own fortune on his campaign, ended it after painfully poor showings on Tuesday. "Congratulations to Joe Biden, Uncommitted, Marianne Williamson, and Nikki Haley for demonstrating more appeal to Democratic Party loyalists than me," he posted on X on Tuesday night."
https://www.politico.com/news/2024/03/06/haley-trump-weakness-00145472 excerpt: "Republicans need to win back those “independent moms, those suburban moms, those younger voters,” New Hampshire Gov. Chris Sununu, a prominent Republican critic of Trump who had backed Haley, told POLITICO ahead of her exit from the race. “They’re just not going to do it with Trump as the standard-bearer,” he said."
Trump ordered to pay legal fees for company he sued. Trump forced to pay legal fees for company he sued over Russian sex party allegations excerpt: "And in an order obtained by the PA news agency on Thursday, the judge also said the Republican front-runner will pay Orbis’s costs “of the entire claim”. Mrs Justice Steyn said Orbis has estimated its costs to be more than £600,000. She ordered that £300,000 should be paid by Mr Trump before the total costs are decided by a specialist judge. The order, from early February, also said Mr Trump has made no attempt to bring an appeal."
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Indictments in AZ would follow the ones that have already happened in GA and MI to Trump's people. Trump himself was indicted in GA along with 18 of his cohorts. WI is another state that could potentially indict Trump's people for trying to overthrow the 2020 election. A civil suit in WI was settled that sheds more light on the fake electors scheme. Newly Released Messages Detail Roots of the ‘Fake Electors’ Scheme excerpt: "Chesebro and Troupis didn't admit any wrongdoing or liability, but they have promised never to participate in similar efforts. Troupis must also pay an undisclosed amount. Text messages between the two in the final months of 2020 show how they looked for ways to draft false certificates for the fake electors, among other things. There are no communications directly from Trump, but there are glimpses into an Oval Office meeting and White House communications. When Chesebro shares a memo on strategies, Troupis responds with: "I have sent it to the White House this afternoon. The real decision-makers.""
Regretful Wisconsin fake elector says he was tricked into signing phony document claiming Trump won in 2020 excerpt: "Anderson Cooper: You personally don't believe that legitimate votes by Wisconsin residents should be tossed out. And yet, you are signing a document in support of a lawsuit which is alleging just that. Andrew Hitt: And if I didn't do that, and the court did throw out those votes, it would have been solely my fault that Trump wouldn't have won Wisconsin. Andrew Hitt: Can you imagine the repercussions on myself, my family, if it was me, Andrew Hitt, who prevented Donald Trump from winning Wisconsin. Anderson Cooper: You're saying you were scared? Andrew Hitt: Absolutely. Anderson Cooper: Scared of Trump supporters in your state? Andrew Hitt: It was not a safe time. If my lawyer is right, and the whole reason Trump loses Wisconsin is because of me, I would be scared to death."
Trump has been ordered to pay th $83 million to Carroll or post bond by Monday. Trump ordered to pay $83.3 million to E Jean Carroll by Monday or post bond: judge excerpt: "Kaplan also said Trump has not "made any showing of what expenses he might incur if required to post a bond or other security, on what terms (if any) he could obtain a conventional bond, or post cash or other assets to secure payment of the judgment, or any other circumstances relevant to the situation." Kaplan added: "Accordingly, his present application for a temporary administrative stay is denied." Trump campaign communications director Steven Cheung blasted the ruling Thursday night, telling Fox News Digital that "this is a continuation of a totally lawless Witch Hunt.""