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In a year where there's been little to laugh about, I enjoyed that. Thank youCpt.Jericho wrote: ↑Fri, 25. Dec 20, 00:19 I think Axeface is right. This is merely to make sure he's got his paladins out of jail when trying to run again for president. If he really wanted to annoy people he would pardon Chelsea Manning, Edward Snowden and Julian Assange.
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Innocent until proven guilty? Are we already waiting for the judges to decide on the punishment?
Trump is guilty of many things. His obstruction of justice for one. His released tax returns are also quite telling. And there are at least 70 plus lawsuits filed against him in New York alone. (and they can't be pardoned)
So he losing huge amounts of money. So in that respect, what is keeping him afloat? Russia is possible one answer, considering he will owe $400 million is the next 4 years. But yeah, he losing loads.His three courses in Europe — two in Scotland and one in Ireland — have reported a combined $63.6 million in losses.
Over all, since 2000, Mr. Trump has reported losses of $315.6 million at the golf courses that are his prized possessions.
For all of its Trumpworld allure, his Washington hotel, opened in 2016, has not fared much better. Its tax records show losses through 2018 of $55.5 million.
So on top of everything else, Trump is in real trouble here too.Andrew Weissmann, the lead prosecutor for former Special Counsel Robert Mueller, said that President Donald Trump could face charges over his recent pardons.
On Monday morning’s edition of MSNBC’s Morning Joe, Willie Geist asked Weissmann about Trump’s recent pardons, particularly of associates like Paul Manafort and Roger Stone.
Asked his reaction to the Manafort pardon, Weissman said “the big picture here is really not related just to Manafort or Stone or Kushner, it’s really to look at the abuse of the rule of law here,” and added that Trump “is really a president who’s has a zero allegiance to the rule of law.”
“How clear are you that a pardon was dangled to Paul Manafort and to Roger Stone, that if they waited it out until the end, the end being yesterday, they would be pardoned?” Geist asked.
“That’s laid out in our report, that there were pardons that were dangled,” Weissman replied, and described the effects those potential pardons had on the two men’s cooperation.
“And what we saw yesterday was essentially the president carrying out the final act of an obstruction of justice,” Weissman said, and added “So to your point about can the president currently be prosecuted for obstruction of justice, I think the answer is yes. There is substantial evidence of that. And what he did yesterday is going to be proof of that obstruction because it’s really the final act that fulfills the promise of the dangled pardons.”
Also, I think that bill that didn't have one of his daughter's pet projects. And also, if this bill doesn't get signed soon, then parts of the US will go into shutdown.Our $740 defense bill is a gift to China, Russia & Big Tech. It fails to terminate the internationally dangerous Section 230, won’t allow us to bring our troops back home (where they belong), renames & destroys our forts & National Monuments, & makes 5G almost impossible!
And that is where he will fail, as a private entity cannot censor someone, only a government or government agency can censor something, and Twitter, Facebook and the like are private entities. Censorship is where you are not allowed to do, post, or say certain things, when a private entity stops you from posting or saying something on their platform, that is not censorship, as you can always go somewhere else and make that post or say what was removed from the other platform. That is their prerogative, it's their house they can do as they please but they cannot stop you from saying what ever you want, just not in their house. Censorship is where a Government or Government agency say you cannot say that or post that, which means you cannot post it online in any form or even in a paper, book on television or anywhere else, that is censorship, when you stop something from happening altogether. A private entity cannot do that, they can only stop it from appearing in their forum which is perfectly okay.
Am I right in thinking one other very serious consequence of this unsigned bill is those behind on their rent lose protection against eviction as a result?
Yes, extension on eviction and foreclosure protection is part of the bill. So without this being signed into law, the risk goes from hungry and jobless people to homeless, hungry, and jobless people, in the dead of winter no less.Gavrushka wrote: ↑Sun, 27. Dec 20, 18:25Am I right in thinking one other very serious consequence of this unsigned bill is those behind on their rent lose protection against eviction as a result?
It beggars belief that the plethora of malignant decisions he's made won't going to lead to a successful prosecution from one angle or other. He'll be treated as any other private citizen after January 20th, yes? Money and influential friends can't give him immunity, can it?
Apparently he was put under intense pressure from the entire political spectrum, and his own party made it clear they wouldn't sign up for his USD 2000 'stunt.'
To be honest I'd feel pretty sanguine about things if Trump was tossed out on the street.