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Miami Herald: I’m done trying to understand Trump supporters. Why don’t they try to understand me?


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11 hours ago, Cooked Crack said:

 

 

 

Went to the Rams game in December and visited my LA friend. He used a term I had not heard before, The Orange Curtain, referring to the conservatives who live in Orange County. Didn’t realize that was a thing.

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Trump PAC Paid to Investigate Stupidity of Trump’s Own Lawyers

 

As Donald Trump fights off four criminal indictments and a host of other costly civil cases, his political money machine is once again footing the bill for his lawyers. But in a new filing with the Federal Election Committee this week, one particular line item stuck out: payments to private investigators.

 

Using private investigators—or, more broadly, the research work they do—is standard fare on a political campaign. Candidates want to dig up dirt on their enemies, and they want to know their own vulnerabilities. But Trump wasn’t looking into himself or his political enemies. In fact, Trump wasn’t doing anything explicitly political.

 

He was looking into the actions of his own lawyers.

 

According to a source familiar with the situation, the private investigators were commissioned to look into missteps by Trump’s legal team in the early stages of his rape defamation case against E. Jean Carroll.

 

Specifically, this source said, the private eye looked into who Trump’s lawyers had interviewed—and who they hadn’t.

 

In the last six months of 2023, Trump’s Save America PAC paid $238,100 to CTS Research, a private investigation firm in Brooklyn staffed by two former cops from the New York Police Department, former NYPD captain Sean Crowley and undercover cop Craig Taylor. The firm had previously received $152,285 from Save America earlier in the year, as CBS reported in August.

 

What’s been unknown until now is what exactly Crowley and Craig’s firm was snooping around on. According to the person familiar with the matter, the private detective discovered that an early iteration of Trump’s legal team failed to interview several witnesses in the Carroll case—something that should have been a basic step in defending the former president. But the private investigator expense is an extraordinarily unusual one to place on a PAC.

 

At this point, it’s clear prosecutors aren’t the only ones causing Trump’s legal headaches; his own lawyers, and his suspicions of ineptitude, seem to be in his head too.

 

Save America alone spent $24.8 million on lawyers and lawsuits in the second half of 2023, according to the latest FEC filing released this week. But many of the 166 line items were logged for cases that aren’t remotely related to the official job he did at the White House or his current run for president.

 

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A Defense of Continuing to Fact-Check Trump’s Bogus Claims One by One

 

On Thursday, PolitiFact published its 1,000th fact check of a claim made by Donald Trump. The publication, which usually refrains from wading into political discussions or weighing in on a politician’s overall character, took the opportunity to release an analysis of those years of work. Its finding? Trump lies a lot.

 

“American fact-checkers have never encountered a politician who shares Trump’s disregard for factual accuracy,” the authors wrote. “Ever since he descended the escalator at Trump Tower in 2015, we have encountered a firehose of claims.”

 

The analysis found in particular that Trump’s immigration-related claims tended toward inflammatory falsehoods and that more than 70 percent of PolitiFact’s checks on immigration, foreign policy, crime, COVID, and health care were largely false. It concluded, also, that “Trump’s falsehoods have fueled threats to democracy.”

 

And yet, the article made it clear PolitiFact’s ambitions are limited. “Readers sometimes ask us what our endgame is with a politician like Trump. They say our fact-checks don’t keep Trump from repeating his false claims, including lies about the 2020 election,” the authors wrote. “It’s not our job to silence Trump or force him to change his rhetoric.”

 

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Gaetz, Stefanik offer resolution declaring Trump ‘did not engage in insurrection’

 

Reps. Matt Gaetz (R-Fla.) and Elise Stefanik (R-N.Y.) unveiled a resolution Tuesday that declares former President Trump “did not engage in insurrection or rebellion against the United States.”

 

The resolution — which spans one page and has more than 60 GOP co-sponsors — comes as groups across the country try to disqualify Trump from appearing on their 2024 presidential election ballots on claims that he engaged in an insurrection during the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the Capitol.

 

The efforts point to language in the 14th Amendment that bars from office those that have engaged in an insurrection.

 

In December, the Colorado Supreme Court knocked Trump off the state’s Republican Party ballot, a decision that will come before the Supreme Court on Thursday. Gaetz referenced it Tuesday during a press conference surrounded by more than 10 co-sponsors.

 

“We are here today to authoritatively express that President Trump did not commit an insurrection, and we believe Congress has a unique role in making that declaration,” Gaetz said. “It’s not the job of the states and especially not the job of some bureaucrats in Colorado to make this assessment and interfere with the right of voters to cast their vote for the candidate of their choice.”

 

“As President Donald Trump continues to dominate in the polls, extreme Democrats will stop at nothing in attempt to prevent President Donald Trump from returning to the White House,” Stefanik said.

 

The resolution, which is nonbinding, would declare that it is “the sense of the House of Representatives” that Trump “did not engage in insurrection or rebellion against the United States, or give aid or comfort to the enemies thereof.”

 

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Well, that oughta do it.  Time to turn off the lights and go home, no need for the Supreme Court to rule now.  

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Just like all those intrepid journalist rushing to interview Hitler in 1939.  God bless Tucker Carlson.

 

Make sure you ask them if this video is legit, or part of some type of SNL comedy sketch...

 

 

 

Sure, you could just play what Putin has told his own citizens. Translate it to English. Don't forget that Tucker has been floated as a VP pick. 

 

 

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7 hours ago, GhostofSparta said:

Great 2 parter from Behind the ****s about this idiot.

 

Spicy language, NSFW but very funny.

 

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Honest question, has Oprah ever addressed that she is the one that released those two onto the masses?

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4 hours ago, TheGreatBuzz said:

 

Honest question, has Oprah ever addressed that she is the one that released those two onto the masses?

I don't know, but I highly doubt it. Obscenely rich people aren't really known for admitting they made mistakes.

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