Doesn’t alter my point. I’m not trying to take any blame off Trump. I’m simply saying that the idea that asking for three days was a pointless exercise is not necessarily true.
If Trump’ lawyers had provided at least a smidgen of evidence that anyone had been doing ANYthing in the past 25 days to work towards organizing financing, that would have been beneficial to his case.
They did not provide anything like that. At all.
For that matter, what all of us (and the judge, and the lawyers I believe) are thinking REAL loud, but not saying:
You know, almost anyone with your reported wealth and income could and should be able to effortlessly get a bond you know.
The fact that YOU can’t speaks volumes about your financial and contractual honesty.
Sorry, not sorry.
Delay, delay, delay. Wait until the eleventh hour, file a motion, and have the delay granted on the grounds of the motion stating something-something-something.
Except this time, it’s not working. I think that Kaplan is on to typical Trumpian tactics (love the alliteration), and has had enough. Trump had time to arrange things, it appears that he did not, that he did not even make an attempt to, and if he couldn’t make a start in thirty days, why would he now? If a delay was granted, what’s to suggest that he will not file yet another motion asking for a delay at the next deadline?
With his decision, Kaplan strikes me as one who has had it with Trump and his lawyers. I haven’t read the decision, but I’m sure that in this matter, Judge Kaplan thinks to himself, “Shit or get off the pot, Donnie.”
I suspect the quality of his financial staff ‘rivals’ that of his trial lawyers.Trump’s longtime accountant, Allen Weisselberg, has pleaded guilty to even more crimes—this time, perjuring himself and frustrating the bank fraud case.
Quality people/firms expect to be paid for services and not get dragged into a fraudulent enterprise crime family. I don’t think Eric or Donnie Jr. have the acumen to handle a 1040ez let alone a hundred plus LLCs.
No, “REar Admiral” and “Commodore” are distinct and still-existing ranks
REgarding “Captain” and “Lieutentant”, plenty of Lieutenants have been Captains of their ships, both in the UK and the American navies. Possibly the most famous was Captain Bligh, of Mutiny on the Bounty fame, whose nominal rank was lieutenant.
I’m researching US submarines right now in the 1920s through the 1940s. All the sub captains appear to have been lieutenants or commodores. Post captains got big surface ships, for the most part.
Slight nick-pick. While there are a few officers of O-7 rank in the US Navy who are Commodores (I think three?), the rest are titled Rear Admiral (Lower Half).
In my time in the Navy (almost twenty years ago now), “Commodore” was NOT a rank, but an informal title for naval squadron commanders (i.e. commanding officers of a group of submarines or surface ships). Submarine commodores were generally O-6 (Captain).
EDIT: Just googled, and Commodore is indeed NOT a rank in the US Navy today.
The judge in the E. Jean Caroll case will not allow Trump to have extra time to secure his bond, since he asked for the time 25 days into his 30-day period. Poor fellow! /s
Emphasis added. I presume you mean commanders (and lieutenant commanders).
Heheheh.
I’m a little surprised Republicans have enough self awareness to realize how bad it was. It’s a slippery slope. First, you think the party’s official speaker might be a little off. Next thing you know, you’re questioning the mental state of the party’s candidate.
I don’t see an American flag pin on her lapel.
Burn her!
AOL is still a thing?
That was “Good Day, Mr. Kubrick”-level bad audition tape.
I mean, I can see what they were going for. Like, “yes, I’m a senator, but also I’m a wife and mother who probably just made dinner for my kids, so I totally have traditional values”. In another political environment it might have played better.
Ouch.
My grandmother was a member of the Saskatchewan legislature in the '50s and '60s when female MLAs were rare. When a press photographer came to her house, he said he wanted a picture of her taking a pie out of her oven.
She sternly replied that he would take a picture of her working at her desk.
I don’t know that I’d want the nation to see inside my home.
I’m also remembering the episode of “The Crown” that showed Margaret Thatcher still cooking her family dinner while being prime minister. The point is, even if the set up is getting mocked online, there is a constituency that eats this kind of thing up.