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

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.

www.yahoo.com

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?

 

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Former President Trump boasted about his commanding grip on the Republican Party, pointing to his ability to garner endorsements even from tough holdouts within the party, according to new reporting Thursday from The New York Times.

“They always bend the knee,” Trump said of securing the endorsement of House Majority Whip Tom Emmer (R-Minn.) for his presidential bid Wednesday, according to the Times, which attributed the comment to a person who spoke to Trump.

On Wednesday, Emmer became the final member of House GOP leadership to publicly endorse Trump. Emmer joins Speaker Mike Johnson (La.), House Majority Leader Steve Scalise (La.), House Republican Conference Chair Elise Stefanik (N.Y.) and National Republican Congressional Committee Chair Richard Hudson (N.C.).

Emmer’s endorsement is significant, particularly since he is the only Republican leader who did not vote against certifying the 2020 election results. His endorsement bolsters Trump’s already commanding lead.

The endorsement also comes after Trump tanked Emmer’s bid to become Speaker, in the three weeks during which the House was without a leader and House Republicans repeatedly failed to find a replacement to ousted Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.).............

MSN

 

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Former President Trump boasted about his commanding grip on the Republican Party, pointing to his ability to garner endorsements even from tough holdouts within the party, according to new reporting Thursday from The New York Times.

man trump is the best surgeon. He can remove the spine and balls of the best men and they will beg him to do it.

 

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I have no doubt that was pre-planned and not in fact random. Random, unknown and/or uncontrolled and American television very rarely ever actually coexist. Nearly nothing anyone sees on American TV is unintentional, uncontrolled and/or unplanned. Even "reality" show outcomes are written in advanced. Game shows are pre-recorded and edited.

 

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In the history of self-defeating euphemisms, Jonathan Chait’s characterization of Donald Trump’s failed coup as an attempt to “secure an unelected second term in office” belongs in the hall of fame, alongside George W. Bush’s “weapons of mass destruction–related program activities” or Kellyanne Conway’s “alternative facts.”

“Alternative facts” clearly meant lies. “Weapons of mass destruction–related program activities” merely reinforced the absence of the very weapons of mass destruction that the U.S. had invoked to justify invading Iraq. And another way of saying “secure an unelected second term in office” is “coup.”

When writing that line, Chait, like many other liberal writers, was alarmed by the Colorado Supreme Court’s decision disqualifying Trump from the ballot based on Section 3 of the Fourteenth Amendment, which bars from political office those who have sworn an oath to the Constitution and subsequently engaged in “insurrection or rebellion.” Although Chait curiously insisted that he wouldn’t “comment on the legal merits of the case,” he managed to somehow zero in on one of the main legal points at issue, which is whether Trump’s behavior “constitutes ‘insurrection.’”

Among the definitions explored by the Colorado Supreme Court is one from an 1860 dictionary that describes insurrection as “a rising against civil or political authority; the open and active opposition of a number of persons to the execution of law in a city or state.” A law-review article by the conservative law professors William Baude and Michael Paulsen, which the Colorado Supreme Court cited heavily, noted that insurrection involves “an affirmative contest with, and active resistance to, the authority of the government. It is in that sense more than just organized resistance to the laws—more than just a protest, even one involving civil disobedience.”

There are many compelling political reasons not to disqualify Trump under the Fourteenth Amendment, among them the potential implications of removing the immense decision of who gets to be president from the electorate’s control. But to oppose his removal on legal, not political, grounds is to, in a circuitous way, make the same argument as Trump himself: that he is above the law—that the constraints of the Constitution apply to others but, for some reason, not to him............

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Who’s Afraid of Calling Donald Trump an Insurrectionist?

An anti-coup provision is not much use with a loophole for self-coups.

www.theatlantic.com

 

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Two things - I don’t believe they turned over 1 dime. And secondly, constitutionally it doesn’t matter. The Constitution is quite clear and turning the money over isn’t a thing.

 

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Straight up delusional. Another “sir” story.

 

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I know the Hitler comparisons are scoffed at. But only by those who don’t know history. This threa details 10 similarities. It’s pretty damning for MAGA.

 

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Another good thread. It defines fascism, and points out the elements present in MAGA. I will only copy a few tweets, but it’s worth the read, IMO. This guy has been traveling around the country documenting it for years.

 

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Oversight? I doubt it.

 

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This is another just evil thing to say. How can anyone support this cretin?

 

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More lies.

 

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Every accusation is a confession.

 

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