NebraskaHarry Posted January 25, 2021 Share Posted January 25, 2021 Dominion files $1.3 Billion defamation suit against Rudy. Link to comment
RedDenver Posted January 29, 2021 Share Posted January 29, 2021 Arizona GOP literally trying to end democracy. 1 Link to comment
knapplc Posted February 1, 2021 Share Posted February 1, 2021 The old "a fool and his money are soon parted" comes back to strike trumpsters in their wallet. But really - who could have seen this coming? He's only bilked nearly everyone he's ever done business with. 3 Link to comment
knapplc Posted February 1, 2021 Share Posted February 1, 2021 Maybe if they had just voted? 2 Link to comment
knapplc Posted February 2, 2021 Share Posted February 2, 2021 One desperate night in the White House. Which only happens when a person so petulant, so narcissistic, who can't fathom that they got trounced in an election, seeks about desperately trying to find any way to stay in power. So much for accepting the loss gracefully. Inside the craziest meeting of the Trump presidency The hours to come would pit the insurgent conspiracists against a handful of White House lawyers and advisers determined to keep the president from giving in to temptation to invoke emergency national security powers, seize voting machines and disable the primary levers of American democracy. Herschmann took a seat in a yellow chair close to the doorway. Powell, Flynn, Newman and Byrne sat in a row before the Resolute Desk, facing the president. For weeks now, ever since Rudy Giuliani had commandeered Trump’s floundering campaign to overturn the election, outsiders had been coming out of the woodwork to feed the president wild allegations of voter fraud based on highly dubious sources. Trump was no longer focused on any semblance of a governing agenda, instead spending his days taking phone calls and meetings from anyone armed with conspiracy theories about the election. For the White House staff, it was an unending sea of garbage churned up by the bottom feeders. Powell began this meeting with the same baseless claim that now has her facing a $1.3 billion defamation lawsuit: She told the president that Dominion Voting Systems had rigged their machines to flip votes from Trump to Biden and that it was part of an international communist plot to steal the election for the Democrats. Link to comment
TGHusker Posted February 2, 2021 Author Share Posted February 2, 2021 Are we surprised by the below. No. Are we surprised that a guy who spent his life as a con man ended his presidency with one huge con. Trump believes that a sucker is born every minute and he got what he could & while the getting was there to get. So, he spends less than $10m on his legal fight to stop the 'greatest fraud in election history' while stuffing his pockets and the pockets of the RNC wt cash. To the trump cultists, the rioters on Jan 6, to those who believed all of the post election lies & those who gave money to this con man - you all got conned. While his post election claims had no merit, it makes the Jan 6 riot, that he inspired, even more grievous as it was all a part of a big con game. https://www.wionews.com/world/as-trump-raked-in-cash-denying-his-loss-little-went-to-actual-legal-fight-360674 Quote Former President Donald Trump and the Republican Party entered this year having stockpiled more than $175 million from fundraising in November and December based on his false claims of voter fraud, spending only a tiny fraction on lawyers and bills for his effort to overturn the presidential election, according to new campaign finance reports filed Sunday night. The picture that emerges in the new Federal Election Commission reports is of Trump mounting a furious public relations effort to spread the lie and keep generating money from it, rather than making a sustained legal push to try to support his conspiracy theories. His campaign’s single biggest expense in December was a nearly $5 million media buy paid to the firm that bought his television advertisements. His second-largest payment, $4.4 million, was for online advertising. And the Republican National Committee pocketed millions of dollars in donations — collecting 25 cents for every dollar Trump raised online — in the final weeks of the year as it spent relatively little on legal costs. All told, Trump’s campaign spent only $10 million on legal costs — about one-fifth of what it spent on advertising and fundraising, according to an analysis of Federal Election Commission filings from Nov. 4 through the end of the year. During that period, Trump’s conspiracy-fueled accusations that votes had been miscounted or misappropriated repeatedly fell flat in the courts. Joe Biden was elected president by voters on Nov. 3, confirmed by the Electoral College on Dec. 14 and ratified by Congress on Jan. 6 — the same day that Trump incited a mob that stormed the Capitol. But while Trump’s efforts to delegitimize the election did not keep him in power, they did spur millions in contributions from loyal supporters and provided both him and the party with an enormous infusion of cash. The Republican National Committee ended the year with more than $80 million in the bank after the fundraising blitz, and Trump had $31 million in the new political action committee he formed in November for his post-presidential political ventures. That accounts for just some of their haul. The party and the former president had roughly $63 million more in two shared accounts waiting to be distributed between them, with Trump’s PAC entitled to 75% of the money raised in December, giving him an estimated $70 million PAC war chest. Most of the money appears to have come online and from smaller contributors, with relatively few five- and six-figure checks, especially once the calendar turned to December. One $100,000 check in early December came from Elaine J. Wold, a major Republican donor in Florida. Though his race was over, Trump’s voracious online fundraising from Nov. 24 through the end of the year even outpaced that of the two Republican senators, Kelly Loeffler and David Perdue, who were competing in the Georgia runoff elections that would determine control of the chamber. During those 39 days, Trump and his shared committees with the RNC raised $80 million online; Loeffler and Perdue combined for closer to $75 million. Both lost. Trump did incur some legal costs from more than a dozen law firms. He paid $1.6 million to Kasowitz Benson Torres, more than $500,000 to Jones Day and about $600,000 to Dechert. The law firm of Kurt Hilbert, who was on Trump’s phone call pressuring the Republican secretary of state in Georgia, Brad Raffensperger, to “find” votes to overturn the election outcome, was paid more than $480,000. A $3 million payment went to the Wisconsin election commission to pay for a recount. One major Republican donor, C. Boyden Gray, who contributed more than $2 million to Republicans in the 2020 cycle, also provided legal consulting for Trump, earning $114,000. The man who made so many public appearances on behalf of Trump as his personal lawyer, Rudy Giuliani, reported no payments by the former president’s campaign. His firm was reimbursed for $63,423 in travel in mid-December. An associate of Giuliani’s had asked that he be paid $20,000 a day for his work for Trump, which Giuliani initially denied. He later acknowledged the request to The New York Times, but he has continued to publicly deny making money for his work, including in a radio appearance Sunday. “I haven’t made a penny on it,” Giuliani said. The Trump campaign also spent $20,130 in mid-December for what were described as travel reimbursements to the Kerik Group, led by former New York Police Commissioner Bernard B. Kerik, whom Trump pardoned last year for his 2010 conviction on eight felonies. Kerik is a close ally of Giuliani’s. The Trump operation continued to spend on fundraising, pouring millions more into a secretive limited liability company, American Made Media Consultants, for online and text-message advertising. Family members of Trump and Vice President Mike Pence once served on the board of that company, which had more than $700 million in spending flow through it during the 2020 campaign. One of Trump’s shared committees with the Republican National Committee spent $237,000 on books through a company, Reagan Investments, that has also done work for a PAC controlled by Sen. Ted Cruz of Texas. The Trump campaign offered signed copies of Cruz’s book last fall to donors who gave $75 or more. And, as they have since the beginning of his candidacy in 2015, Trump’s campaign accounts patronized his businesses in the postelection period. The Trump Victory committee paid $34,000 to the Trump Hotel Collection in its final 2020 filing. The same committee also paid a Trump-owned limited liability company that operates a private plane, DT Endeavor, $39,200 on Nov. 24. Another Trump campaign committee paid $75,000 in rent to the Trump Tower building in December. Link to comment
BigRedBuster Posted February 2, 2021 Share Posted February 2, 2021 34 minutes ago, TGHusker said: Are we surprised by the below. No. Are we surprised that a guy who spent his life as a con man ended his presidency with one huge con. Trump believes that a sucker is born every minute and he got what he could & while the getting was there to get. So, he spends less than $10m on his legal fight to stop the 'greatest fraud in election history' while stuffing his pockets and the pockets of the RNC wt cash. To the trump cultists, the rioters on Jan 6, to those who believed all of the post election lies & those who gave money to this con man - you all got conned. While his post election claims had no merit, it makes the Jan 6 riot, that he inspired, even more grievous as it was all a part of a big con game. https://www.wionews.com/world/as-trump-raked-in-cash-denying-his-loss-little-went-to-actual-legal-fight-360674 It is absolutely amazing to watch how so many people have been duped by a con man. When this is all said and done, it will be interesting to see how much of this is distributed amongst Trump and his children for personal use. At that point, if it can be proven, it would be fun if there was a class action lawsuit from people who donated to him. 1 1 Link to comment
TGHusker Posted February 2, 2021 Author Share Posted February 2, 2021 21 minutes ago, BigRedBuster said: It is absolutely amazing to watch how so many people have been duped by a con man. When this is all said and done, it will be interesting to see how much of this is distributed amongst Trump and his children for personal use. At that point, if it can be proven, it would be fun if there was a class action lawsuit from people who donated to him. Yes, not only that but I'm looking forward to the movie - done 5 years from now or so when all of the facts come out. I hope there can be a comprehensive, historical, non-political evaluation of the Era of Trump - while it could start in the 1980s as the Russians gain influence over him, it should start at a minimum with his 'Birther' charges and going forward. That is when he started stroking the fires of populist resentment on the right. It would then include his 'raping' his own for financial gain as we have seen these past 3 months. The Era of Trump, subtitled "The Big Con" Link to comment
Scarlet Posted February 20, 2021 Share Posted February 20, 2021 "A federal judge in Washington, D.C., ordered that an attorney who filed a long-shot lawsuit over the 2020 election results must face a grievance committee, finding the attorney “has not sufficiently allayed the court’s concerns regarding potential bad faith.” "Attorney Erick Kaardal filed the lawsuit in December on behalf of several Republican state lawmakers and groups, targeting then-Vice President Mike Pence, the Electoral College and other institutions and leaders in an apparent attempt to block President Joe Biden’s win in the 2020 election. U.S. District Judge James Boasberg of the District of Columbia in early January rejected the lawsuit, and suggested it was an act of gamesmanship or symbolic political gesture. Boasberg said in a four-page opinion issued Friday that Kaardal, special counsel for the Thomas More Society’s Amistad Project and an attorney with the Minneapolis-based firm Mohrman, Kaardal & Erickson, had not adequately addressed concerns about “the flimsiness of the underlying basis for the suit." “The only reason the court can see for the complaint to spend 70+ pages on irrelevant allegations of fraud, not one instance of which persuaded any court in any state to question the election’s outcome, is political grandstanding. The response never explains otherwise,” Boasberg wrote." "The judge said that leads him to “"conclude that they wished only to file a sweeping complaint filled with baseless fraud allegations and tenuous legal claims to undermine a legitimate presidential election.”" “The court ends by underlining that the relief requested in this lawsuit is staggering: to invalidate the election and prevent the electoral votes from being counted,” Boasberg wrote. “When any counsel seeks to target processes at the heart of our democracy, the committee may well conclude that they are required to act with far more diligence and good faith than existed here.” Yes!! Start holding these shysters accountable for their actions. Disbar them. The fact that they pushed our democracy to the brink, that's the minimum punishment in my book. 2 1 Link to comment
Scarlet Posted February 22, 2021 Share Posted February 22, 2021 https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.axios.com/dominion-mike-lindell-defamation-aed0d355-6eee-4a61-b3ca-2a5ecfeefb57.html The My Pillow Guy actually seems certifiably insane. I wonder if he can grasp now that what he was doing was defamation and that he is now up against it. Is it setting in with him that being a Trump mouthpiece wasn't worth $1.2 billion? Or maybe he is sane but he just wanted his seat at the big boy table of fascism and that was worth the risk. Link to comment
Scarlet Posted February 22, 2021 Share Posted February 22, 2021 I'm not sure it's physically possible to shoehorn in any more disinformation into one statement starting with "President Donald J. Trump. He sounds panicky. Like the reason he tried to cling to power and overturn a free and fair election is coming to light. 2 Link to comment
TGHusker Posted February 22, 2021 Author Share Posted February 22, 2021 12 minutes ago, Scarlet said: I'm not sure it's physically possible to shoehorn in any more disinformation into one statement starting with "President Donald J. Trump. He sounds panicky. Like the reason he tried to cling to power and overturn a free and fair election is coming to light. cry me a river 1 Link to comment
Ulty Posted February 22, 2021 Share Posted February 22, 2021 15 minutes ago, Scarlet said: I'm not sure it's physically possible to shoehorn in any more disinformation into one statement starting with "President Donald J. Trump. He sounds panicky. Like the reason he tried to cling to power and overturn a free and fair election is coming to light. Man, you guys gotta read this $h!t. Have you ever read a book, a professional document, a newspaper article? Have you ever had to submit a writing sample as part of a job application? Now read again what Trump just wrote. Hell, most of the posts on Huskerboard are more coherent than this gibberish, and that includes the gameday threads and the Woodshed. Anyone who thought Trump in any way was ever qualified for the presidency must be an absolute jacka$$. 4 Link to comment
BigRedBuster Posted February 22, 2021 Share Posted February 22, 2021 23 minutes ago, Scarlet said: I'm not sure it's physically possible to shoehorn in any more disinformation into one statement starting with "President Donald J. Trump. He sounds panicky. Like the reason he tried to cling to power and overturn a free and fair election is coming to light. It's fun reading a statement from him that clearly shows him as a whiny little petulant child. 1 Link to comment
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