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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?

 

[Optimus Prime]

Eric Trump, former President Donald Trump' second son, warned of an "all-out war on God" in the United States while appearing on Newsmax on Wednesday.

Trump's two eldest sons, Donald Jr. and Eric, have been by their father's side as he campaigns for a run at the White House for the third time. The former president is the GOP frontrunner in the 2024 nomination race, winning the Iowa Republican caucus with 51% of voter support on January 15 and then coming out on top in the New Hampshire primary on Tuesday.

As voters in New Hampshire were casting their primary ballots on Tuesday, Eric went on Newsmax's American Agenda, where he shared his views on the state of people's First Amendment rights in America.

"There's an all-out war on family in this country. There's an all-out war on God and religious freedom in this country. There's certainly an all-out war on freedom of speech and [the] First Amendment in this nation," Eric said.

He added: "[People] want to be able to worship God and speak freely and not be censored and not be deplatformed. And not have war waged against them and their quality of life every single day. People are sick and tired of the games and they want to be able to live the American dream, and that's what my father did."..........

MSN

 

[Optimus Prime]

Truth Social is a weird place.

The social media site started by Donald Trump (or, really, by tech-savvy people working for him) is not formally oriented around Trump, but it is in practice. It is largely populated by Trump fans and allies who use the site to orbit Trump like asteroids circling the sun. Trump uses it differently, injecting rhetoric and framing into the national conversation.

Nearly every one of his posts triggers the same response from the site’s users: a flurry of pro-Trump, anti-Biden memes tacked on to Trump’s missive. It’s feudalistic; when the king emerges from the castle, the serfs compete to offer him their wares in the hopes that — glory be! — he might lackadaisically bless them with a reshare.

All of that, the context for the site, offers insight into how Trump approaches power. But one post in particular, offered up by Trump on Wednesday evening, was even more revealing.

What grabbed the most attention was Trump’s announcement that he was excommunicating donors to former U.N. ambassador Nikki Haley’s campaign from his political circle.

“Anybody that makes a ‘Contribution’ to [Haley], from this moment forth, will be permanently barred from the MAGA camp,” he wrote with his idiosyncratic punctuation and capitalization. “We don’t want them, and will not accept them, because we Put America First, and ALWAYS WILL!”

It wasn’t hard to see this coming. Trump wants to be done with the primaries and understands that Haley, his only remaining opponent, needs financial contributions to press on. So he imposes what costs he can on doing so, a “permanent bar” from “MAGA camp.”

Such promises are often illusory in Trumpworld; Haley herself went from criticizing him forcefully in 2016 to being tapped to serve as his ambassador to the United Nations. It’s also an easy threat to issue when you’re running out the clock in a primary. When the general election campaign begins and Trump is trying to raise nine figures to defeat President Biden, the apostasy of giving cash to Haley will be easy to forgive.

But step back a bit. This is Trump attempting to impose a penalty on those who defy him, to make democratic expression something for which one can be punished. He could simply wait for Haley’s inevitable concession. Instead, he’s lashing out at the insolence of not falling in line.

If you think he wouldn’t be happy to scale this up, you haven’t been paying attention.

Again, though, that was just part of the social media post.

Haley, he declared at the outset, “is very bad for the Republican Party and, indeed, our Country.”

Why?

Because, the former president wrote, “Her False Statements, Derogatory Comments, and Humiliating Public Loss, is demeaning to True American Patriots.”

If there is one thing Donald Trump will not abide, it is false statements, disparaging people or refusing to accept a humiliating public loss. When one thinks of the things that are least Trump-like, it’s dishonesty, rudeness and a failure to concede elections.............

MSN

https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2024/01/25/trump-haley-donors/

 

[MT15]

Ask Trump about the Russian money that flows into Truth Social, just like every other Trump enterprise.

 

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[Taurus]

And the entire viewing public of Faux News has no freakin' clue this is happening. None.

They live in an alternate reality where Trump does no wrong and Biden does no right. It won't change until Cheato Jesus actually melts, like the Wicked Witch, live onstage.

 

[Optimus Prime]

The criminal charges against Donald Trump have fueled increased radical support for the former president while his efforts to paint the government and Democrats as a threat to democracy have convinced more people to distrust democratic institutions.

New survey results from the University of Chicago’s Chicago Project on Security & Threats (CPOST) shows increased violent support for Trump aligns with the indictments, as did the erosion of support for democratic norms. Court cases using the 14th amendment to try to keep Trump off the ballot could further erode confidence in the political system, regardless of how the supreme court rules on the issue, the survey found.

Support for democratic norms has gone from “bad to worse”, said Robert Pape, a professor at the University of Chicago who directs CPOST. The two ideas are connected: The more a person believes the system is corrupt or rigged, the more likely they are to support using violence instead of the political system.

“Once you think you live in a corrupt political system, then you give up on politics as a solution and you go for violence,” Pape said.

While 50% of survey respondents said Trump was a threat to democracy, now 36% said the same of Democratic president Joe Biden. That means Trump’s attempt to twist messaging is working: the former president has repeatedly attacked Biden in recent months as Biden warns of the threat Trump poses to democracy after Trump’s efforts to overturn the 2020 election results. Trump has called Biden a “threat to democracy” and a “destroyer” of democracy.

Effectively, Trump has turned a losing issue for himself, the future of democracy, into much less of a liability, particularly among Republicans.

“His new argument … is that the institutions of government are unfairly targeting him,” Pape said. “And what this data is showing is that he is actually persuading significant numbers of people on this issue.”…….

Indictments fueled extremists’ support for Trump, survey finds

Support for democratic norms has gone from ‘bad to worse’ as Trump’s attempt to twist messaging is working

www.theguardian.com

 

[MT15]

This should be a bigger story. Do we want to go back to this level of corruption?

 

[efil4]

This should be a bigger story. Do we want to go back to this level of corruption?

the pertinent findings.

"Without oversight from qualified pharmacy staff, the White House Medical Unit’s pharmaceutical management practices may have been subject to prescribing errors and inadequate medication management, increasing the risk to the health and safety of patients treated within the unit. Additionally, the White House Medical Unit’s pharmaceutical management practices ineffectively used DoD funds by obtaining brand‑name medications instead of generic equivalents and increased the risk for the diversion of controlled substances.1 We found that the White House Medical Unit provided a wide range of health care and pharmaceutical services to ineligible White House staff in violation of Federal law and regulation and DoD policy.

Additionally, the White House Medical Unit dispensed prescription medications, including controlled substances, to ineligible White House staff. In analyzing the testimonies of former White House Military Office employees, we found that White House Medical Unit senior leaders directed eligibility practices that did not comply with DoD guidance. This analysis also found that several former White House Medical Unit military medical providers stated that they were unable to act outside of the White House Medical Unit’s historical practices and that they were not empowered to deny requests from senior 1 Diversion is the unlawful distribution or use of prescription medications in any manner not intended by the prescriber. White House Medical Unit leaders.

Additionally, we found that the White House Medical Unit did not follow DoD guidelines for verifying patient eligibility, and the Defense Health Agency and Service Surgeons General did not oversee the White House Medical Unit’s eligibility practices, as required by Public Law 114‑328, “National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2017,” section 702. As a result, the Military Health System did not bill non‑DoD beneficiaries for services rendered, and we found that the DoD funded and resourced care for an average of 6 to 20 non‑DoD beneficiary patients per week. Multiple former White House Medical Unit medical providers stated that they requested an early departure from the unit due to the unit’s practices. Furthermore, we found that the National Capital Region Medical Directorate executive medicine facilities did not have consistent eligibility criteria for determining eligibility or access to care. This occurred because of a lack of oversight of executive medicine services. As a result, medical care was prioritized by seniority rather than medical need, which increased the risk to the health and safety of non‑executive medicine patients."

 

[CoolBrees]

He's a drug dealer too!

 

[MT15]

 

[bird]

When they tell you and show you who they are, believe them.

 

[UriUT]

It's well documented how often Trump stiffed the contractors. But this story of a real life devastation caused by Trump that I have not come across before.

 

[Booker]

It's well documented how often Trump stiffed the contractors. But this story of a real life devastation caused by Trump that I have not come across before.

I have an old friend that moved out to DC a while back that did some carpentry work for one of the Trump properties -- and got stiffed.

 

[efil4]

I have an old friend that moved out to DC a while back that did some carpentry work for one of the Trump properties -- and got stiffed.

Yall, in 1996, while at UNO, i had to do a story on someone for my Finance class. I got Donald Trump. It was a short essay type paper, but the main theme was how did this person attain their wealth.

My conclusion was simply- " stiff the contractors, make them hire attorney, delay for as long as possible, then offer to settle ( if they never drop the suit ) for pennies on the dollar "

Thats how DJT became DJT. Ive known this since 1996. He was, is and always will be a con man.

 

[LA - L.A.]

He's a drug dealer too!

He prefers to referred to as Donny Feelgood.

 

[LA - L.A.]

Yall, in 1996, while at UNO, i had to do a story on someone for my Finance class. I got Donald Trump. It was a short essay type paper, but the main theme was how did this person attain their wealth.

My conclusion was simply- " stiff the contractors, make them hire attorney, delay for as long as possible, then offer to settle ( if they never drop the suit ) for pennies on the dollar "

Thats how DJT became DJT. Ive known this since 1996. He was, is and always will be a con man.

I learned all I needed to know about Trump from his selfish destruction of the mid-1980's USFL. A jury ruling in his favor and then only giving $1.00 in damages is still the ultimate troll and it was before trolling was a thing.

 

[Optimus Prime]

Donald Trump’s former lawyer Rudy Giuliani has listed a claim against the one-term president over unpaid legal fees in a new bankruptcy filing.

The ex-New York City mayor includes a “possible claim for unpaid legal fees against Donald J Trump.” in the 26 January filing, which states that the amount is “undetermined.”……

Rudy Giuliani targets Trump for ‘unpaid legal fees’ in new filing

Mr Giuliani filed for bankruptcy last month after he was ordered to pay $148m to Georgia election workers he defamed

www.independent.co.uk

 

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