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    Anxiety surges as Donald Trump may be indicted soon: Why 2024 is 'the final battle' and 'the big one'​

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    Anxiety surges as Donald Trump may be indicted soon: Why 2024 is 'the final battle' and 'the big one'

    Donald Trump's many legal problems – and calls for protests – have generated new fears of political violence and anxiety about the 2024 election.
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    WASHINGTON – It looks like American politics is entering a new age of anxiety, triggered by an unprecedented legal development: The potential indictment of a former president and current presidential candidate.

    Donald Trump's many legal problems – and calls for protests by his followers – have generated new fears of political violence and anxiety about the unknowable impact all this will have on the already-tense 2024 presidential election

    I’ll reframe this is a more accurate way, Are Presidents above the law? This new age was spurred into existence when home grown dummies elected a corrupt, mentally ill, anti-democratic, would be dictator as President and don’t bother to hold him responsible for his crimes, don’t want to because in the ensuing mayhem and destruction, they think they will be better off. The man is actually advocating violence (not the first time). And btw, screw democracy too. If this feeling spreads, we are In deep shirt.

    This goes beyond one treasonous Peice of work and out to all his minions. This is on you or should we be sympathetic to the idea of they can’t help being selfish suckers to the Nation’s detriment? Donald Trump is the single largest individual threat to our democracy and it‘s all going to boil down to will the majority of the GOP return to his embrace and start slinging his excrement to support him?
     
    Donald Trump was pictured with family members on Christmas Day at his Florida residence, Mar-A-Lago, but no sign of wife Melania.

    In fact the former first lady is so rarely sighted at Mar-a-Lago that members of the Palm Beachprivate club are openly speculating about her whereabouts, according to a local author.

    “Nobody knows where she is,” Laurence Leamer, author of Mar-A-Lago: Inside the Gates of Power at Donald Trump‘s Presidential Palace, told the Telegraph. “It’s like a mystery. It’s certainly talked about.”

    In November, Ms Trump made a rare public appearance when she joined the other former first ladies at Rosalynn Carter’s memorial service in Atlanta.……

    www.independent.co.uk

    Trump poses with family as Melania’s whereabouts remain a ‘mystery’: Live

    Mr Trump juggling four criminal trials with a total of 91 felony counts
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    NEW YORK (AP) — Donald Trump has centered his unlikely rise from reality television star to onetime — and potentially future — president on the idea that he’s wiser than Washington’s bumbling political class, once going so far as to label himself a “very stable genius.”

    But when it comes to one of history’s darkest moments, Trump is professing ignorance.

    Facing criticism for repeatedly harnessing rhetoric once used by Adolf Hitler to argue that immigrants entering the U.S. illegally are “poisoning the blood of our country,” Trump insisted he had no idea that one of the world’s most reviled and infamous figures once used similar words. The Nazi dictator spoke of impure Jewish blood “poisoning” Aryan German blood to dehumanize Jews and justify the systemic murder of millions during the Holocaust.

    “I never knew that Hitler said it,” Trump told conservative radio host Hugh Hewitt on Friday, volunteering once again that he never read Hitler’s biographical manifesto, “Mein Kampf.”

    “I know nothing about Hitler,” he insisted. “I have no idea what Hitler said other than (what) I’ve seen on the news. And that’s a very, entirely different thing than what I’m saying.”

    Trump’s assertion that he knows so little about one of the 20th century’s most documented figures is notable for someone seeking the presidency, a role steeped in and shaped by history. But claiming ignorance, particularly when it comes to people who espouse racist or antisemitic rhetoric, is a tactic Trump has repeatedly deployed when aiming to distance himself from uncomfortable storylines.

    After he was endorsed by former Ku Klux Klan grand wizard David Duke during his winning 2016 campaign, Trump insisted he had no knowledge of the white supremacist who had run for office numerous times and is described by the Anti-Defamation League as “perhaps America’s most well-known racist and anti-Semite.”

    “Just so you understand, I don’t know anything about David Duke, OK?" he told CNN’s Jake Tapper in February 2016. “I don’t know anything about what you’re even talking about with white supremacy or white supremacists.”

    Asked if he would condemn the white supremacists supporting him, Trump said he would “have to look at the group. I mean, I don’t know what group you’re talking about.” He continued to repeat that assertion even after Tapper said he was referring to the KKK.

    OTHER CASES
    Trump has also pleaded ignorance in other cases. As he ran for reelection in 2020, Trump said he didn’t know much about QAnon, the convoluted conspiracy that alleges Democrats are involved in a satanic pedophilia ring and casts Trump as the nation’s savior — even as he retweeted accounts promoting the conspiracy.

    “I know nothing about it,” he said during an NBC town hall. Nonetheless, he refused to rule it out as false. “I don’t know that and neither do you,” he said.

    It was the same when Trump was asked to condemn the Proud Boys militia group, which was key in organizing the assault on the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021. Enrique Tarrio and other members of the far-right extremist group have been found guilty of seditious conspiracy and other crimes for their part in the attack, which was part of a desperate bid to keep Trump in power after he lost the 2020 election to Joe Biden.

    “I don’t know who the Proud Boys are," Trump told reporters after instructing the group, during a presidential debate, to “Stand back and stand by."

    “I mean, you'll have to give me a definition ‘cause I don’t really know who they are,” Trump said of the group, which was drawing headlines at the time.

    Trump has also suggested he was unaware of some of the most consequential periods of American history. At a recent rally in Reno, Nevada, Trump said he had to ask Texas Gov. Greg Abbott to define the post-Civil War era known as Reconstruction as he boasted about his growing popularity with Hispanic voters and Republican wins along the border.

    “They say the first time since Reconstruction. You know what Reconstruction means? That means the Civil War," Trump told the audience. “I said, ‘Give me a definition, governor, of Reconstruction. You said I’m the first one to win all of these towns since Reconstruction.' He said, ‘Well, Reconstruction: since the Civil War.’ That’s a long time ago. That’s pretty good.”............

    apnews.com

    Trump says he didn't know his immigration rhetoric echoes Hitler. That's part of a broader pattern

    Donald Trump is facing criticism for repeatedly harnessing rhetoric once used by Adolf Hitler to argue that immigrants entering the U.S. illegally are “poisoning the blood of our country."
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    MT15 said:
    He has made more than one of these unhinged Christmas posts today.

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    this won't move the needle at all
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    The social media outburst by Trump on Christmas Day is unholy and offensive to Democratic strategist Paul Begala.

    The former president, defending against two criminal fronts brought by special counsel Jack Smith, leveled harsh sentiments toward him, complicit "World Leaders, both good and bad," and unnamed "THUGS" living stateside.

    "Merry Christmas to all, including Crooked Joe Biden’s ONLY HOPE, Deranged Jack Smith, the out of control Lunatic who just hired outside attorneys, fresh from the SWAMP (unprecedented!), to help him with his poorly executed WITCH HUNT against 'TRUMP' and 'MAGA'... MAY THEY ROT IN HELL. AGAIN, MERRY CHRISTMAS!"" Trump posted on his Truth Social site on the religious holiday.

    Begala, appearing on CNN on Tuesday, was aghast.

    "...telling people to rot in hell," he paused. "I'm a Christian. That's blasphemy."

    He then went on to be convinced that this kind of rhetoric on such a special day on the Christian calendar is going to dagger many faith-based leaders of various denominations.

    "A lot of people will say, 'This is our holy day,' Begala said. "'Our savior, the light of the world!', 'The prince of peace!' He is using that to [commit] blasphemy? And he's saying 'rot in hell?'"

    The strategist said he plans to take inventory of faith-based leaders who come out against this brand of rhetoric.

    "I'm going to wait," he said, before admitting "and I'll probably be disappointed."

    "I want to see church leaders on this. I want to see my cardinals speak out on this. I want to see my bishops. I want to see evangelical leaders speak out.

    "It can have an effect if people of good faith and my faith will stand up and say 'There's nothing Christian about telling people to rot in hell on Christmas Day.'"..........

     
    His former aide has been making bank off his name for years and he wants his cut, right now. At least that's how former President Donald Trump sees it.

    "It's my f****** money!" the 2024 Republican presidential frontrunner privately vented in October, referring to an alleged sum in the tens of millions of dollars, a source with direct knowledge of the matter tells Rolling Stone.

    Trump wasn't talking about a business deal. Rather, he's been grumbling about money donated to a think tank his former staffers and allies founded in 2021 to "advance the America First agenda."

    For several months now, according to three people with knowledge of the situation, the former president has complained to an array of confidants and Republicans about the millions raised by the America First Policy Institute, a MAGAfied think tank launched near the start of his post-presidency. The nonprofit is populated by several former high-ranking Trump administration officials, including Larry Kudlow, Rick Perry, and Linda McMahon, and it's led by Brooke Rollins, who served as a top White House domestic policy aide to Trump. AFPI is one of several Trump-aligned organizations and think tanks working to craft an intellectual framework for hardline policies, ranging from voter crackdowns to potentially invading Mexico.

    In the ex-president's mind, Rollins was making a "killing" off of his name, sources recount, and was stiffing Trump. "It's not right," the former president has groused in recent months.

    Doing what Trump has privately suggested would raise several legal issues, four experts told Rolling Stone. AFPI is a tax-exempt, educational nonprofit and is expressly barred under IRS rules from spending money on elections or donating to a political candidate like Trump. Given that Trump is a candidate for office, paying him personally could be seen as attempting to aid a political campaign. One of the experts pointed out that tax-exempt nonprofits must also operate for public benefit, and they cannot disproportionately benefit private individuals or pay them more than fair market value for their services.

    "I don't even know if she would legally be allowed to give him all that money, to be honest with you," says a person close to the former president. "It's not like [Rollins] got caught selling a bunch of knockoff Trump ties." ....................


    www.rollingstone.com

    Trump Demands MAGA Group Give Him 'Millions.' That's Not Legal, Experts Say

    The former president thinks he should get a cut of a pro-Trump think tank’s cash, despite what IRS nonprofit rules and his advisers say.
    www.rollingstone.com www.rollingstone.com
     
    Donald Trump has attacked Michigan Democrat Representative Debbie Dingell for criticising his Christmas Day rants, claiming he gave her late husband “the absolute highest US honors for his funeral”.

    Ms Dingell criticized the former president on CNN on Tuesday over Christmas Day messages he made on the Truth Social platform. Mr Trump had claimed that his political opponents “are looking to destroy our once great USA”, adding “may they rot in hell”.

    Ms Dingell called Mr Trump’s message “one of the most pathetic Christmas greetings I’ve heard – when a former President of the United States who wants to return tells people on Christmas Day that they can ‘rot in hell’”.
    She added that Mr Trump was adding to the “divisiveness” and “division” across the United States.

    The former president was quick to respond to the criticism, calling her a “LOSER, who is helping Crooked Joe Biden, and his Merry Band of Thugs...” on Truth Social.
    Mr Trump continued: “When I gave, as President, her long serving husband, the absolute highest US honors for his funeral, a really big deal, she called me, crying almost uncontrollably, to say that she couldn’t believe I was willing to do that for a Democrat. She thanked me profusely.........

     
    Optimus Prime said:
    Donald Trump has attacked Michigan Democrat Representative Debbie Dingell for criticising his Christmas Day rants, claiming he gave her late husband “the absolute highest US honors for his funeral”.

    Ms Dingell criticized the former president on CNN on Tuesday over Christmas Day messages he made on the Truth Social platform. Mr Trump had claimed that his political opponents “are looking to destroy our once great USA”, adding “may they rot in hell”.

    Ms Dingell called Mr Trump’s message “one of the most pathetic Christmas greetings I’ve heard – when a former President of the United States who wants to return tells people on Christmas Day that they can ‘rot in hell’”.
    She added that Mr Trump was adding to the “divisiveness” and “division” across the United States.

    The former president was quick to respond to the criticism, calling her a “LOSER, who is helping Crooked Joe Biden, and his Merry Band of Thugs...” on Truth Social.
    Mr Trump continued: “When I gave, as President, her long serving husband, the absolute highest US honors for his funeral, a really big deal, she called me, crying almost uncontrollably, to say that she couldn’t believe I was willing to do that for a Democrat. She thanked me profusely.........

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    Proving there is nobody this weasel won’t betray and no one who is safe from his evil tongue.
     
    efil4 said:
    thats exactly what it is for. He is over-weight, especially top-heavy, so they have him stand on that to keep his posture and weight over heels vs toes.
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    maybe strap one of those Iv poles with wheels to his back. wait I thought he was the healthiest man alive?
     

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