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Down went the lids. (Thud.) At first glance, he looked to be praying for stronger Bible sales. But then he wobbled. Began to swoon. And caught himself just before his chins hit the table. Courthouse News Services reporter Erik Uebelacker resolves “His...
by Inspector Clueso
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on Tue Apr 16, 2024 at 09:04 AM PDT
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Most people know that twice-impeached former president Donald Trump spent Monday in a New York courthouse for the first day of his criminal trial for allegedly falsifying business records in connection to hush money payments to adult film actress...
by Walter Einenkel
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on Mon Apr 15, 2024 at 02:30 PM PDT
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Even if he gets on a chair and barks like a dog he is, we won’t get to see this because the trial won’t be televised. That to me is a shame. He can come out and lie lie lie and it will only take one juror to say, Not guilty. I really wanted to see him...
by Vetwife
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on Sun Apr 14, 2024 at 03:07 PM PDT
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House Democrats filed a bill Friday that would put Donald J. Trump’s name on a building. Congratulations!� Introduced by Gerry Connolly of Virginia, Jared Moskowitz of Florida, and John Garamendi ...
by Walter Einenkel
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on Fri Apr 05, 2024 at 03:00 PM PDT
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So, let’s hypothetically say that you owe $464 million, and you just don’t have that much liquid. But, you DO have some white banker’s boxes hidden in undisclosed places. And, those MIGHT have something interesting in them. And, you have already...
by ultrageek
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on Wed Mar 20, 2024 at 08:13 AM PDT
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This seems a ‘fair’ question given the top effort of the entire GOP party structure is to conspire to delay all legal actions allowing Donald Trump to skate on the vast majority of the 92 criminal counts he faces. There appears to be an unspoken quid...
by neomaxcom
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on Thu Mar 07, 2024 at 10:15 AM PST
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The Trump shoe thing didn’t make sense to me. 1,000 pairs at $400 each? So I thought a minute and figured it was a way to launder money and who is to know how many shoes were made? Sure enough, there are completed sales of the shoes for all different...
by bookcrazzzy
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on Wed Feb 21, 2024 at 02:56 PM PST
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I had to write FOUR in all-caps because, Jesus Christ, a former president has been indicted for four separate incidents for a grand total of 91 counts. That is four more trials and 91 counts more than every other US president combined. Good job...
by satanicpanic
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on Thu Feb 08, 2024 at 01:16 PM PST
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Six out of nine candidates running for the CO-4 house seat have been arrested. When this information came out during a debate, the audience cheered and three candidates high-fived. Were they arrested because they were in a civil rights protest? Of...
by OddWing
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on Fri Jan 26, 2024 at 12:19 PM PST
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YES! That’s what his attorney said this morning in his Washington appeal hearing. Actually, although some media outlets reported it that way, it was a (tiny) bit more nuanced than that — ... JUDGE PAN: And so, in your view, could a president sell...
by hughwill
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on Tue Jan 09, 2024 at 08:32 AM PST
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Yet Another Man arrested and held for Threatening Biden This 28 year old, still living with his parents, has got some real problems! Turns out you can’t just type anything you want into Twitter “X”. This guy is being held without bail. Read the article...
by LarryCurlyMoe
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on Fri Feb 09, 2024 at 02:17 PM PST
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December 20th. Files briefs on the issue by December 20th. Of this year. This can only be good news. SCOTUS will respond to the request of the people of the Inited States and the DOJ’s Jack Smith to make a ruling to have Trump rightfully, like any...
by CReade
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on Mon Dec 11, 2023 at 03:27 PM PST
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Dear Republicans, After the corruption of the Coolidge and Hoover administrations crashed the world economy, kicking off the Republican Great Depression in 1929, it took your party decades to rid itself of the stink. After Nixon extended the Vietnam...
by thomhartmann
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on Thu Dec 07, 2023 at 07:57 AM PST
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Of course, I’m not a lawyer but like everyone else I got “the google” to edumacate me in lawyering. I was curious what types of plea deals there are and “the google” informed me that: The types of pleas in court are: * Guilty: A complete admission of...
by lvn
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on Fri Oct 20, 2023 at 11:39 AM PDT
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On Friday, Fulton County Judge Robert McBurney released a report that showed the same special grand jury that indicted Donald Trump and 19 others on RICO charges related to the fake electors scheme also recommended charges against Sen. Lindsey Graham...
by Walter Einenkel
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on Fri Sep 08, 2023 at 02:29 PM PDT
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Que surprise. This Orland Park, IL Pastor, the newly indicted Rev. Stephen Cliffgard Lee, was not accused of: child abuse (at least five Orland Park priests and pastors are in the newly updated list of confirmed child abusers); I scanned the list, but...
by agnostic
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on Fri Aug 25, 2023 at 10:33 AM PDT
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Donald Trump's tangle of legal challenges may not be affecting Republicans much, but it is moving a critical group of voters: Independents. New Navigator Research polling shows independents now believe by a 2-1 margin that Trump is a criminal (i.e., he...
by Kerry Eleveld
177 comments
on Fri Aug 25, 2023 at 10:00 AM PDT
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It would be the perfect end to his “legacy”
by The Boss Gomez
29 comments
on Thu Aug 24, 2023 at 01:06 PM PDT
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Defendant Donald Trump faces charges of conspiring to defraud the United States, among other felonies relating to Trump’s efforts to overturn the results of the 2020 presidential election. One aspect of the case that drew headlines recently was special...
by RO37
207 comments
on Fri Aug 18, 2023 at 12:50 PM PDT
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As we watch TFG experience the FO part of FAFO, he continues to flail about as if this is a regular civil lawsuit that he has bought/intimidated his way out of for decades. Whether it was just outspending defendants or literally buying off wrist slaps,...
by Sarkazein
20 comments
on Sun Aug 06, 2023 at 01:17 PM PDT
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