Trump claims "thousands of [his supporters] were turned away from the courthouse" He claims the courthouse is an "armed camp." Witnesses on scene say otherwise. So do the pictures and the livestream. Far from an armed camp, the place appears to be just another day in Lower Manhattan. But let's say it was. Let's say it WAS an armed camp with militarized cops armed with heavy weapons, SWAT teams, the National Guard, attack dogs, barbed wire, riot control vehicles, tanks, armed drones, military helicopters, reinforced fighting positions, walls, fences, barricades... Let's say it was an armed camp. Isn't THAT exactly what Trump promised America? Isn't that exactly what MAGAs wanted, what they demanded, how they want to live? Surrounded by walls. Guns. Guards. Dogs. Minefields. Drones. Barbed wired The army. You know, to keep them safe, to keep the criminals away from decent Americans? That's what they wanted, wasn't it? Yes, it was. Funny, though, how it turned out TRUMP was the criminal all along, how HE was the rapist, the thief, the thug, the liar, the enemy come to destroy America. Funny indeed. LOL. It seems the Evangelicals' god is an iron.
Trump Media CEO Devin Nunes sent a letter to allies on Capitol Hill to press them to investigate potential manipulation of his companyâs stock.
Nunes asked Republican lawmakers to probe âanomalous tradingâ of the stock, which trades under the ticker DJT on the Nasdaq.
The stock price has lost more than half of its value since its trading debut, but the volatile stock shot up more than 9% on Wednesday.
The company, which created the Truth Social app, is majority-owned by former President Donald Trump.
I can't wait for the day when The GOP complains that Democrats are looking at who is pumping up the stock in the days leading to Trump getting more shares, and for them to start crying that the government is weaponized, overstepping, and involving themselves in issues they don't belong in.
How about the cult of virtue signalers ? All talk and no walk.
I got chosen to lead my department a long time ago. I still have the congratulations card where they wrote, ânow you can get in there and get some of this fixedâ and, of course, it was much harder than it looked. First thereâs âitâs the way weâve always done thingsâ (the conservative position) and then there are the ones willing to change - but they all have different ideas how, and a lot of them are short sighted or impossible in the real world. And then thereâs the inertia of, once approved, getting a team of people to change what theyâre doing. Maybe even displacing them to another job as they become redundant. (After all, arenât you supposed to move to efficiency?) And then, frequently, perfect becomes the enemy of good enough.
Upshot: in the real world, itâs not virtue signaling; itâs having a worthy goal and slowly, even using switchbacks, trying to advance towards that goal - in the face of a lot of opposition who want things to stay the same or even go backwards. You know, when things were great.
Trump's lawyer, Todd Blanche, tried to claim Trump is taking "great pains" to comply with the gag order.
The Judge literally looked at Blanche in utter disbelief and then said "You're losing all credibility. I have to tell you right now, you're losing all credibility with the Court."
Now, I'm not a lawyer and I don't pretend to be one, but if you ARE a lawyer and the judge in your most important case says to you in PUBLIC "you're losing all credibility with the court," well, it seems to me that would be BAD, lawyering wise, and maybe you should think about a career in something else. Like dog walker or donut maker or just moving to a remote island without internet and spending the rest of your days eating raw coconut meat and thinking about your life choices.