The Official Former President Trump thread

[StellarHibee]

6 minutes ago, RiG said:

How on earth do these utterly batshit mental folk like Ellis and Powell ascend to roles that, presumably, require quite a bit of brain power?

It's not what you know but who you know. They all have a single digit IQ between them.

[Soapy FFC]

5 minutes ago, RiG said:

How on earth do these utterly batshit mental folk like Ellis and Powell ascend to roles that, presumably, require quite a bit of brain power?

It may be that they don't actually believe any of the crap they spout, but think that since it appeals to certain people, they can use it to make money. A bit like all these tv evangelists. But, there is always the chance they are a wee bit deluded.

[Granny Danger]

15 hours ago, Soapy FFC said:

It may be that they don't actually believe any of the crap they spout, but think that since it appeals to certain people, they can use it to make money. A bit like all these tv evangelists. But, there is always the chance they are a wee bit deluded.

This is spot on.  They are all grifters who realised that grifting at the highest level was doable because of Trump.

Regardless of political allegiance if you go back to the pre-Trump era I don’t think many Americans would believe a charlatan like Trump could get away with what he’s done.  It may well be the worst of it, like Kushner’s Saudi billions, will never be fully exposed.

 

Edited August 16, 2023 by Granny Danger

[Mark Connolly]

9 hours ago, saint dave said:

Guiliani getting prosecuted under the RICO statute is heavily ironic considering he was an early pioneer of using it to break up The Five Families in the mid eighties during his stint as a prosecutor in Manhattan. 

Harvey Dent used it to get Sal Maroni and his crew off the streets as well

[Cheese]

2 hours ago, Mark Connolly said:

Harvey Dent used it to get Sal Maroni and his crew off the streets as well

He really should have turned the other cheek though.

[Salt n Vinegar]

Trump posing yesterday with his "Playboy" front page. Still, American women love the creep. Imagine if Obama did it? The Christian-fascist right would have had his guts for garters.

[TxRover]

So Monday’s news release/study could well be the grounds for additional charges or jury tampering charges. There’s already action to try to move these charges to Federal Court, but it’s viewed as extremely unlikely. All the charges carry jail terms in Georgia, so probation would be an unlikely result for any guilty finding, and as other have noted, these charges cannot be washed away with a Presidential Pardon, as that only covers Federal crimes.

[Granny Danger]

Poor little Rudy; he’s financially fucked and that’s before some of the big defamation cases.

https://edition.cnn.com/2023/08/15/politics/giuliani-money-lawsuits-trump/index.html
 

Dying in prison a pauper would be fitting.

 

[BFTD]

17 hours ago, welshbairn said:

The must-read of the year. Can't imagine why it's taken him so long to produce this evidence. Or any evidence at all.

After more than two years it should be a pretty explosive expose, more damning than even Mike Lindell's $5m infodump of random garbage and PDFs of Ikea furniture assembly guides.

[AyrshireTon]

7 hours ago, BTFD said:

The must-read of the year. Can't imagine why it's taken him so long to produce this evidence. Or any evidence at all.

After more than two years it should be a pretty explosive expose, more damning than even Mike Lindell's $5m infodump of random garbage and PDFs of Ikea furniture assembly guides.

Maybe, just maybe, we're going to get something like this at the press conference...

[Zen Archer (Raconteur)]

 

 

[TxRover]

12 minutes ago, Zen Archer (Raconteur) said:

 

 

Meh…the Arizona case alone would take about two years to get to an indictment from ground zero…not gonna happen.

[Granny Danger]

On 15/08/2023 at 16:11, welshbairn said:

Sadly this is no longer going to happen.  I am disappointed as I would love to have seen this conclusive CONCLUSIVE report.

Meanwhile Georgia grand jury names (which are public record) published on extremism right-wing websites together with some home addresses (which are not public record) accompanied by threats.

 

[Joey Jo Jo Junior Shabadoo]

2 hours ago, Granny Danger said:

Meanwhile Georgia grand jury names (which are public record) published on extremism right-wing websites together with some home addresses (which are not public record) accompanied by threats.

 

Daily Mail?

[Granny Danger]

We need a better calibre of would be assassin.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-66539458
 

 

[DrewDon]

[TxRover]

Trump’s legal team filed a response to Smith’s request for a trial in January, requesting the trial be scheduled in April…2026…

You really can’t make this up.

[carpetmonster]

Poor boy Jan 6th trials coming to a head: 
 

[Sortmeout]

On 25/12/2016 at 15:48, Peppino Impastato said:

Our next president, Donald Trump, is not modest about his prowess on the links. He once said: “There’s very few people that can beat me in golf.”

 

Maybe that’s true. But in his visits to Northern California for the AT&T Pebble Beach National Pro-Am, that hasn’t been the case. The event, which pairs celebrities with PGA Tour professionals in two-man teams, takes place every February on the Monterey Peninsula.

 

Trump has accepted invitations to the tournament seven times, beginning in 1993 and most recently in 2006.  His team has never made the cut after 36 holes, although technically Trump is 0-for-6 because the 1998 third round was washed out by bad weather and never replayed. It is also difficult to break down how much Trump was responsible for those results because amateurs do not submit their own individual scorecards. Only their team score is recorded. The pro also keeps his own card. If the two-man team does not make the cut on Saturday night, the pro plays the final round on his own.

 

Yet this much, we can glean from the Pebble Beach record book: None of Trump’s seven professional partners over the years has been helped much by the partnership. The top finisher of the seven was Brian Claar in 2003. He ended the tournament in a tie for 42nd place. Davis Love III won that year.

 

Three of the other six pros failed to make the individual cut while playing with Trump. Fulton Allem was the second best Trump pro-am partner with a 45th place finish in 1998. Jim McGovern tied for 63rd in 2001 and John Cook tied for 53rd in 2006.

 

For all that mediocrity, The Donald has had one moment of sublime glory at the AT&T, which is played on three different Peninsula courses. In 1993, he made a hole-in-one on the 12th hole at Spyglass Hill, using a 5-iron when he overrode pro Paul Goydos’ suggestion of a 6-iron and instead followed the advice of a local caddie, “Rocket” Lytle.

 

My own memories of Trump at Pebble are that he was his usual Trump-ish self, hamming it up to the crowds and enjoying himself. One amateur participant told me that Trump was very cordial when being introduced to the player’s relatives. Another golfer just rolled his eyes when I asked what it was like being in his group.  In other words, a mixed reaction, sort of like the American electorate.

 

Will Trump ever return to play at Pebble? It’s unclear why he stopped coming after 2006, because the invitation committee’s ways and means are confidential and mysterious. Trump also carries controversial baggage on the fairways, good-natured or otherwise.  Samuel L. Jackson, the actor, once said that Trump cheats at golf. Rock star Alice Cooper and author Rick Reilly’s similar insinuations were cited in a 2015 Washington Post “investigative” story on the topic.

 

In fairness, no one I’ve spoken with at Pebble has ever accused Trump of shaving strokes or other nefarious activities. Also, he is hardly the only high-profile politician who has been linked to fudging his scores. Former president Bill Clinton’s penchant for taking extra mulligans has been well-documented.

 

If I’m making a guess, though? Trump’s company has developed or operates 18 resorts or courses around the world–“the greatest golf portfolio ever assembled by one man,” according to the Trump Golf website–so it’s a fairly strong business hunch that he will be back in the Pebble Pro-Am field one day. Just probably not in the next four years.

 

 

Loved Pep.

[TxRover]

Won't be back until Pebble Beach allows the foot wedge, IMO.