Maybe a pillow with a gun-shaped indentation in it, making it a combination pillow/holster to sleep with a gun under your head. So that if you’re awakened by a strange sound at night you can whip it out instantly and shoot at the noise prior to investigating.
It looks like the “Grifting the Trump Rubes” strategy is starting to come up dry. Perhaps the idiots are getting tired of it. Or they’ve run out of money, given the huge number of Trump-Associated-Grifters out there.
Uh. Sorry honey.
Didn’t that wake you up? Honey?
As I read the news, the McCloskey couple had to surrender the guns that they waved around that day. Nothing about them surrendering ALL their guns. I’m sure they have plenty more.
Run out of money seems likely, after all those deceptive donation ads with the pre-checked boxes for “make this a recurring weekly donation” and “double that” until their bank accounts run dry.
See: Nearby thread about Phone Scams that suck up people’s bank account (or credit card) numbers and suck their accounts dry. Same sort of thing.
One of the links in the Riverfront Times article on the gun-happy attorney couple has this St. Louis Post Dispatch story about how much they enjoy the courts. It reads like something out of…well…words fail. If you have the time and in the mood for just basking in the sordid, pathetic, interminable 
slog that is their worthless, petty, laughably litigious life, then, well, fill your masochistic boots. Lotta squirm-laughs!
Fun tone in the (going back to) RFT article - I like that headline and how the beginning of the lede neatly hammers it home.
You know, shortly after those news stories about the Republican campaign organizations and their deceptive use of the pre-filled checkboxes broke- some of them added stuff like “The Failing Radical Left Media Wants You To Uncheck This Box” to that wall of text over the pre-filled checkboxes. They’re completely shameless.
Theists have some weird fantasies.
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Indeed. But even if Calamari, or the real prize, Weisselbert, sing, Trump’s attorneys* will just say ‘it’s that guy’s word against my guy’s word, and that guy is lying.’
That’s part of the reason I’ve been searching for cases in which crime bosses were successfully prosecuted even if they’d put nothing in writing and were never taped. Was it all due to testimony of associates? Or does the law permit inferences about the probability of ignorance of lawbreaking by said crime boss?
(Possibly I need to go to law school in order to learn this…)
*assuming some attorney or attorneys will actually choose to represent Deadbeat Donald. What odds he ends up with a public defender???
Can’t. You only get a public defender if you’re indigent. The Donald would never admit to being indigent, even if he was forced to live out of the wreck of his 757.
But they have many more witnesses than just Weisselberg and Calamari (Matthew Calamari… does a name get more mobster than that?). They have Michael Cohen; Jennifer Weisselberg, who is Allen Weisselberg’s ex-daughter-in-law who is already cooperating with prosecutors; Comptroller Jeff McConney, who has already gone before the Grand Jury and who knows who else.
That’s why these first-hand witnesses are so important. They’re the ones who can say, “No, he never put it in writing, but he told me what to do. Nothing ever happened without Donald’s knowledge and personal direction. Nothing.” One witness after another testifies to this, and there you go.
Take all that testimony together with the documents that provide indisputable proof of the fraud, and… well, Trump has an uphill row to hoe.
Even his own attorney – who seems to command some respect in the NY legal community – has said that Trump is not being charged “right now.” Or words to that effect. He acknowledges that charges against Trump are likely in the offing.
ETA: As for the weight of testimony from multiple witnesses v. Trump himself, do you think for a moment that any competent attorney is going to let Trump anywhere near a witness stand? I don’t. 
(As you know, IANAL.)
Watching CNN for a while this afternoon, and Wolf Blitzer had on a friendly legal tax expert whose evaluation of this case was not encouraging. He said that a charge of attempting to avoid taxes through using bogus fringe benefits is virtually always a civil case (for back taxes and penalties) and it would never generate any jail time even if prosecuted as a criminal case. Sorry I don’t remember the expert’s name, but Blitzer seemed a little nonplussed at this opinion and quickly moved on to something else. I was a little nonplussed myself.
I’m okay with Trump not serving any actual time so long as he’s financially ruined to the point that he can never recover, and neither can his family.
I heard reporting that the news that the Trump Organization might soon be charged was leaked by the Trump Organization in an attempt to get ahead of the story.
I suspect that the characterization of “fringe benefit fraud” is part of the spin. Some of the expenses the organization was paying on behalf of its employees just aren’t anything close to normal “fringe benefits”. If he was giving his employees free apartments and 6 figure payments on bogus consulting contracts - I’m not sure I’d classify that as benefits fraud.
It’s still going to be hard to tie this to Trump because it’s my understanding that Trump seldom, if ever, directly instructed anyone - he just surrounded himself with people that understood him. And I suspect Calamari and Weisselberg are the two most loyal human beings on the planet, it’ll be hard to turn them unless……………….
they somehow involved their wives or families in their crimes, no matter how peripherally. IIRC, when Michael “I’ll take a bullet for Mr. Trump” Cohen flipped, it had to do with the fact that his wife had affixed her signature to the paperwork on at least one shady transaction and the prosecutors were threatening to go after her.
Maybe, but if so this particular commentator was totally falling for it, and CNN wasn’t offering any rebuttal at that time. Not what I would have expected from CNN if they had anything handy to rebut with. (disclaimer, I rarely watch CNN so I don’t know if it came up at other times when someone more prepared was available to point out something useful.)
<Frodo Baggins steps forward: What the hell. Give me the Ring. Anybody else have a Quest that needs doing, as long as I’m up?>
Trump sends out one of his missives, targeting two local GOP nobodies.
One responds in a letter which will be used in textbooks as a perfect example of self-inflicted Stockholm syndrome:
For those blocked by paywall:
So we can all have a ‘single solitary giggle’
In a tweet, the New York Republican party said: “Our county chairs and committee members gathered in Albany just participated in a straw poll on their favored gubernatorial candidate in 2022.
“Congressman Lee Zeldin [got] 85%, former Westchester county executive Rob Astorino [got] 5% and Abstain [got] 10% #cuomosgottago.”
Michael Carpinelli, the Lewis county sheriff, joined Giuliani in getting no votes.
So, as other articles said, more people abstained than voted for A.G. Which seems about right. After all, if you can’t say something good about someone, don’t say anything at all…
“Thank you, sir. May I have another?”
This is running into Poe’s Law for me. Part of me feels this has to be sarcasm but…I’m afraid that it’s not.
His tweet about this has one retweet, 11 quote tweets, 6 likes and a bunch of replies. Low N yet, but quite the ratio so far.
Off topic tangent: Lindell is running commercials now for sheets that he calls “Giza Dreams”. We’ve all heard of Egyptian cotton, right? Well…Lindell says his cotton comes from an area “between the Sahara Desert, the Mediterranean Sea, and the Nile River.” In other words: Egypt. But he doesn’t want to use the word, for some reason.