Summary?
Catching up on a TV show, and the toaster oven just dinged; so I can’t watch YouTube.
Color Vance as orange as incompetent as his boss.
The G1 (Grift One) phone screwed up the flag.
I don’t know why, but I feel moved to mention this nifty fact: the flag of Liberia has 11 stripes.
Now the felon thinks he’s Benjamin Button.
That could explain why he’s such a baby at his age.
He’s certainly regressed mentally to childhood.
It’s not a settlement. The whole thing is an illegal grift. And no, the judge noted quite explicitly that there was no settlement, because she anticipated exactly this kind of shenanigan.
OK, that somehow confuses me about this mess more than clears it up, which is probably a problem on my end.
Nah. I’m not following either.
@fachverwirrt , can you clarify or cite a source, because my interpretation of your post is at odds with my understanding of the implication of what recently occurred:
Judge dismisses Trump’s IRS lawsuit, paving the way for a settlement - NPR
My understanding of what recently occurred is captured in the headline of this article.
The case was dismissed with prejudice. You can’t settle a dismissed case (as far as I know).
After the dismissal, the DOJ (read Todd Blanche) framed the $1.8 billion slush fund and “all Trumps can cheat on their taxes in perpetuity” as a “settlement”, but no settlement has been filed with the court.
If you read the whole article, you’ll see a statement by the judge indicating that fact.
Mainly, my point was to answer Monty’s question about whether the judge was a Trump toady.
It was basically extortion. “I’ll drop the $10b lawsuit, it you give me $1.8b, and agree to never look into my familys taxes.”
It’s crimes all the way down.
I think for it to be extortion, you need two distinct parties: an extorter and an extortee. “I’ll drop the lawsuit, if I give me 1.8b”, is just fraud.
Right, the thing that virtually ALL media (NPR? you jerks) is calling a “settlement” is actually only an agreement------an agreement between Trump and his own Department of Justice.
Now a Congress with a spine would object to handing over money on so flimsy a pretext as this.
But…
I would think that Trump would have a fiduciary duty to the citizens and taxpayers. This so-called deal or agreement is a complete violation of every fiduciary duty he might have.
MAGA counterpoint: the literal words “fiduciary duty” do not appear in the Constitution, so this is some kind of made up woke requirement. Once God-King Trump has the billions, he will shower us in gold…funny smelling and kind of wet though it may be
It is to laugh.
Again, for the people in the back: the only thing that Donald Trump cares about is Donald Trump. He does not care a whit for the citizens, the taxpayers, or the country, except for how they can benefit him.
The only way that he would obey any “fiduciary duty” is if Congress or the courts forced him to. He’s getting away with this crap because he can. Results in Republican primaries in the last few weeks, in which sitting members of Congress were defeated by Trump’s handpicked candidates, have demonstrated that he has Congress (at least, the Republicans) under his complete control.
When has Trump ever cared about “Duty”? He dodged the draft, cheated on every wife he’s ever had, failed to raise his kids, screwed over everyone he ever owed money, and that was all before he started comprehensively screwing up his duties as president.
Trump is the center of the universe and his profit and glorification is the only reason for its existence. He has no duty towards anyone or anything; the citizens and taxpayers have a duty to hand him everything in return for nothing and praise him for it. That is the only purpose of their existence.
[/malignant narcissism]
My point was that it should give Congress and the Courts plenty of justification to use every legal avenue to put a stop to Trump’s criminal behavior.
“Things will happen maybe for the best, hopefully for the best, but I believe for the best, but things will happen that you can’t even imagine and it’s going to be very exciting, but the way that’s going to happen is through thinking big. Nothing great was ever built. Think of that. Nothing great was ever built without the word momentum at your side.”
I don’t see how they can force him to do anything.
They certainly have not shown a great deal of inclination to even attempt to do so, especially in this term.
Seriously, what CAN a court do to force trump to do anything? He just ignores laws, directives, orders. Short of an armed guard circling him on the golf course and hauling him off to jail, there is no way to force trump to do anything.
Civilized society functions because people obey laws. If not at first, then eventually, when threats come from the courts or law enforcement, they give in. But trump has ignored his felony convictions in a way that no private citizen would even try.
I’m really curious: is there any way for a court to force him to do anything?
ETA: So we have lawsuits flying through the air like a plague of locusts. People against trump and trump against everyone. But he keeps on truckin’.