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Former Republican Congressmen–we don’t know if they’ve left the Party, but they’re not with the Party–Denver Riggleman and Adam Kinzinger got to the heart of a political Party that supports sexual assaulters and claims to be for Christian values.

Five women and seven men were selected to sit on the jury for Donald Trump’s first criminal trial, the election interference hush money case in Manhattan that involves the lovely salaciousness of a porn star, a Playboy model, scandal sheets and a small penis.  As the Guardian notes, the jury will include two native West Coasters, one person who avoids social media, and surprising number of people who proclaim they “don’t follow the news.”

While there were a couple who seemed awed by Trump, the description of one’s response to a question is noted:  “Asked if he had any strong opinions about Trump, he paused for a moment before answering yes.”  The judge included him.

Half of the karaoke influencer duo Autotune and Trump, and the co-chair of the Republican National Committee Lara Trump acknowledges that Democrats are currently enjoying an odd selection of unicorn-like things because they’re pulling the strings, but if “the shoe [is] on the other foot” and Republicans regain control, “then we lose our country.”  The leader of the Republican Party just admitted the GOP will destroy America.

This is the precedent we are setting right now.  We’re saying, hey, we’re just gonna change the law whenever it’s convenient for us and whenever we can attack a political opponent with it, then think about what that means for the future of this country.  Yeah, it’s sunshine, lollipops and rainbows for the Democrats because they’re the ones in charge and they’re the ones pulling the strings and it’s Donald Trump forced to sit in a courtroom right now, but it could turn around very quickly and the shoe could be on the other foot and then we lose our country, Rob.  This is not how America was designed to operate.

Of course, Lara’s prophecy of doom is only accurate if a person who announced he’ll use his renewed government authority and absolute immunity to punish those who opposed him, like her father-in-law proclaims, doesn’t get elected.  “When someone shows you who they are, believe them the first time.”

Two-term Republican Congressman Jake LaTurner from Kansas’s 2nd District announced he will not seek reelection saying he wants to “pursue other opportunities and have the benefit of spending more time with my family,” the Kansas City Star reports.  He becomes the 14th Republican House member to not seek reelection, but he will serve out the rest of his term to keep the GOP’s thin majority.  No hopes for a Democratic pickup:  the Cook Political Report puts the district at R+11.

“Why is the border not in this package?” current House gavel holder Mike Johnson tells downgraded propagandist Greta van Susteren.  “Because, Greta, we didn’t have the votes to do it.  A handful of my Republicans at least will not advance a rule to bring that to the floor to combine it with the Ukraine and Israel funding.  They won’t do it.  So if I don’t have Republican votes, it means we have to have Democrat votes, yeah.”

Trump Trump Trump Trump Trump Trump Trump Trump Trump Trump Trump Trump Trump Trump Trump Trump Trump Trump Trump Trump Trump Trump Trump Trump Trump Trump Trump Trump Trump Trump Trump Trump Trump Trump Trump Trump Trump Trump Trump Trump Trump Trump Trump Trump Trump, the media reported on Thursday, Wednesday, Tuesday, Monday, Sunday, Saturday, Friday, last Thursday, and so on for much of the 461 or so the prior weeks.

Various outlets, National Zero included, produced voluminous articles that said “Trump Trump Trump Trump Trump Trump Trump Trump Trump Trump Trump Trump Trump Trump Trump Trump Trump Trump Trump Trump Trump Trump Trump Trump Trump Trump Trump,” and followed up with “Trump Trump Trump Trump Trump Trump Trump Trump Trump” and “Trump Trump Trump Trump Trump Trump Trump Trump Trump Trump Trump Trump Trump Trump Trump Trump Trump Trump Trump Trump Trump Trump Trump Trump Trump Trump Trump Trump Trump Trump Trump Trump.”

Several sources also said “Trump Trump Trump Trump Trump Trump Trump Trump Trump Trump Trump Trump Trump Trump Trump Trump Trump Trump Trump Trump Trump Trump Trump Trump Trump Trump Trump” and “Trump Trump Trump.” Jack wrote “Trump Trump Trump Trump Trump Trump Trump Trump Trump.” Spartan wrote “Trump Trump Trump Trump Trump Trump Trump Trump Trump.” John Solomon wrote “Trump Trump Trump Trump Trump Trump Trump Trump Trump.” CNN’s Kaitlan Collins wrote “Trump Trump Trump Trump Trump Trump Trump Trump Trump.” Joe Concha wrote “Trump Trump Trump Trump Trump Trump Trump.” MSNBC’s Katie Phang wrote “Trump Trump Trump Trump Trump Trump Trump Trump Trump.” Substacker Aaron Rupar wrote “Trump Trump Trump Trump Trump Trump,” far right psychopath Laura Loomer wrote “Trump Trump Trump Trump Trump Trump Trump.” Legal scholar Laurence Tribe wrote “Trump Trump Trump Trump Trump Trump Trump Trump Trump Trump Trump Trump.” Marcy Wheeler wrote “Trump Trump Trump Trump.”

Many others working in media also wrote “Trump Trump Trump Trump Trump Trump Trump Trump Trump,” and then when they were like “fuck this” and tried to pick up a story about something, anything else, like Joe Biden campaigning on his many accomplishments in office. Then they saw all their clicks go down down down down down down down down down down and they were like “fuck this. We need more rump Trump Trump Trump Trump Trump Trump Trump Trump Trump Trump.”

In a shockingly competent move, Florida federal court Judge Aileen Cannon has rejected the motions to dismiss the case filed by Trump co-defendants Walt Nauta and Carlos De Oliveira.  De Oliveira sought to have his charges of obstruction and making false statements removed, or as an alternative, he sought a “bill of particulars” to further spell out the alleged criminal acts.  Cannon found no basis for those claims, saying the charges were backed by evidence presented by Special Counsel Jack Smith and that there was sufficient detail for De Oliveira’s defense.

While Cannon also dismissed Nauta’s claims, she seemed a bit snarky in her response saying, “The above summary, not exhaustive in scope, lends support to Nauta’s observation that the term ‘corruptly’ in § 1512 is subject to different, somewhat amorphous formulations about ‘wrongfulness” and ‘unlawfulness’—the net effect of which is to engender legitimate questions (some might say even confusion) about the definition of the term in the realm of obstruction and related crimes.

“Notwithstanding these reasonable questions about the definition of the term ‘corruptly,’ ” she continued, “Nauta’s as-applied vagueness challenge fails under existing law. First, the Eleventh Circuit rejected a vagueness challenge to the term ‘corruptly’ in § 1512(b), having little trouble concluding that the term ‘corrupt’ provides adequate notice so long as it is defined as being
‘motivated by an improper purpose.'”

More than one in eight of Trump Media’s outstanding shares are being held by short-sellers, people banking on the stock dropping in price, more than three times the typical percentage of traders shorting the stock, Yahoo Finance reports.

According to securities analytics firm S3 Partners, about 13% of Trump Media shares are held by “short interest” traders, while the average short position on a publicly traded stock is 3- to 4 percent.  Shorting a stock means you’re essentially “selling” a stock from your broker’s portfolio while the stock is high, and then “buying” the same stock to refill your broker’s portfolio; if you “buy” at a lower price, you make a profit.

While the stock has risen over the past two days, corporate officials still fear the impact of being overleveraged by shareholders hoping for another Trump failure.  The company included guidance in its website advising shareholders how to prevent their shares from being used by short-sellers:  “To prevent shares from being loaned for a short interest position, contact your brokerage to place restrictions on the lending of your shares to short sellers.”

“In the underlying disciplinary proceeding, the trial court granted Sidney Powell’s no-evidence and traditional motions for summary judgment on the Commission for Lawyer Discipline’s (the ‘Bar’s’) claims that Powell violated certain Texas Disciplinary Rules of Professional Conduct (‘DR’s’). On appeal, the Bar argues the trial court erred in sustaining Powell’s objections to its summary judgment evidence and in granting summary judgment in favor of Powell. Concluding the Bar’s arguments are without merit, we affirm the trial court’s judgment,” ruled the Texas Fifth District Court of Appeals.

For those keeping score at home: John Eastman’s California law license was doomed well before he got charged with a felony in Atlanta. Rudy Giuliani was completely screwed in DC too. Jeffrey Clark same story. All of them were already in serious trouble with those two Bars before the various civil and criminal repercussions of their post-2020 election coup attempt began coming down on them, with Eastman disbarred all but permanently and the other two well on their way.

The Kraken meanwhile fucking pleaded guilty to six misdemeanors in Georgia, is facing literally in the billions of dollars worth of lawsuits from Dominion and Smartmatic, and was hit with $175,000 worth of sanctions by a Michigan federal court for “a historic and profound abuse of the judicial process.” And somehow either the Texas State Bar investigators were too incompetent to make their case, the MAGA judges let her go because LMAO cry more libtards, or both. Probably both.

Jury selection finished up sort of surprisingly quickly in disgraced former President Trump’s first criminal trial in Manhattan on Thursday, as the 12 New Yorkers who will decide the fat fuck’s fate were seated, Just Security’s Adam Klasfeld reports. It’s not completely over yet, however, as six alternates are still needed to be picked but the pace at which the main panel went from seven to five to 12 between Tuesday and Thursday leaves vanishingly little doubt they can wrap this up by the end of the day Friday and have opening arguments begin first thing Monday morning.

The Nevada state Supreme Court on Thursday struck down a lower court ruling blocking a state constitutional amendment from appearing on the ballot in November. Probably not going to light as hot of a fire under voters’ asses at least relative to Arizona and Florida since the Silver State does not currently have any real restrictions on the books – the Center for Reproductive Rights lists it as “protected” since a 1990 referendum – but still good news for democratic turnout.

DC Circuit Court Judge Amit Mehta on Thursday denied fat former President Trump’s bid – joined by co-defendant and former Proud Boys leader Enrique Tarrio – for an indefinite stay of the federal lawsuits brought by Capitol police officers and members of Congress like Dems Eric Swalwell and Bennie Thompson over the fat fuck’s incitement of the January 6th, 2021 insurrection.

Donald had sought to delay the cases while the Supreme Court decides his criminal immunity, to which Mehta said “sorry, tough shit,” and setting the schedule for next steps, writing “As a starting point for discovery, by May 1, 2024, Defendant Trump shall provide Plaintiffs with a detailed description of the basis for his immunity defense, with identities of witnesses and documents presently known to his counsel, and what limited discovery he will require. This directive is without prejudice to future discovery requests by either side. By April 26, 2024, the parties shall submit a proposed protective order that, at a minimum, ensures that any discovery responses from Defendant Trump shall remain under seal until further order of the court. The parties shall also submit a Joint Status Report that proposes a schedule for completing discovery, including from third parties, relating to the immunity inquiry,” which means there’s probably still a ways to go before a trial.

President Trump is right.

We need his strength to regain peace!

I oppose this insulting, America Last bill as well! https://t.co/xvN99BLWvT

— Lauren Boebert (@laurenboebert) April 18, 2024

These dipshits got their orders a long, long, long time before the flabby rapist they still refer to as “president” told them not to send money to a rival under attack by a tyrant.

President Joe Biden’s administration is pushing hard for a massive deal between Israel and Saudi Arabia that see Mohammed Bonesaw’s petro-dictatorship formally diplomatically recognize Bibi Netanyahu’s quasi-theocratic-apartheid dictatorship, the Wall Street Journal reports.

The deal, the first reports of which surfaced in 2022, which was assumed to be dead or set back dramatically after the October 7th attacks, provides for a stronger defense agreement for the Saudis from Iranian aggression (which obviously helps Israel too), provides them with civilian nuclear power tech, and forces some kind of condition for Israel to recognize a Palestinian state.

The Journal still colors it as a “long-shot,” but that it would obviously be a significant diplomatic achievement in an election year, much bigger than the “Abraham Accords” that nobody really gave a shit about and obviously did not bring actual peace to the Middle East as a certain habitual liar egomaniac pornstar fucker tax cheat insurrectionist false messiah has claimed.

“Why isn’t Europe giving more money to help Ukraine? Why is it that the United States is over $100 Billion Dollars into the Ukraine War more than Europe, and we have an Ocean between us as separation! Why can’t Europe equalize or match the money put in by the United States of America in order to help a Country in desperate need? As everyone agrees, Ukrainian Survival and Strength should be much more important to Europe than to us, but it is also important to us!”

“GET MOVING EUROPE! In addition, I am the only one who speaks for ‘ME’ and, while it is a total mess caused by Crooked Joe Biden and the Incompetent Democrats, if I were President, this War would have never started!” posted fat former President Trump on Thursday, squeezing some work in for his boss while on a break from jury selection in his 2016 election interference criminal trial.

Yeah there’s Bobby Jr’s sister up there going out of her way to endorse her big bro’s “opponent” in the 2024 election. Could do worse for the all out effort to squash the last significant third party threat to Joe – or at least turn him into more of a liability for Trump – now that No Labels is no mas.

“Donald Trump should be investigated for knowingly and willfully making false statements about debts owed to his Chicago business on his public financial disclosure reports, according to a complaint filed today by Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington with the FBI and Justice Department. Between 2015 and 2023, Trump disclosed owing more than $50,000,000 to his Chicago business, a claim he signed to be ‘true, complete and correct to the best of his knowledge.'”

“However, a court appointed monitor revealed that she was told by the Trump Organization that this Chicago loan ‘never existed.’ A false claim of being owed tens of millions of dollars could be part of a tax avoidance scheme known as debt parking or could conceal a hidden debt to another party. The purpose of public financial disclosures is to ensure public confidence in the integrity of the federal government by demonstrating that high-level government officials are able to carry out their duties without conflicts of interest. If Trump knowingly and intentionally falsified his disclosures, he will have undermined the public trust that these laws are designed to protect,” says a statement from Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington on their new complaint to the FBI/DOJ.

CREW isn’t the kind of crackerjack operation that gives non-profit watchdogs a bad name, like Stephen Miller’s “America First Legal Foundation” or “Protect the Public’s Trust,” as in CREW actually makes shit happen – like getting the “Cowboys for Trump” asshole booted from office and disqualified for life under the 14th Amendment, taking it all the way to the Supreme Court in their attempt to do the same to Trump, forcing Postmaster fuckface Louis DeJoy to cough up documents exposing his corruption, revealing Jared and Ivanka’s graft, taking down Trump’s appointee to Architect of the Capitol, etc – rather than jerking themselves off publicly to get coverage in right wing media and then nothing actually happens because courts and inspectors general just throw their bullshit in the shredder. So the Orange God Emperor just might want to keep an eye on this.

“Several days ago I was notified that a lawsuit had been filed, alleging fraud on my petitions for office. The odd part of the story was that the fraud was being alleged by two Democrat activists who were officers in the District 29 Democratic organization. It seemed ludicrous because Republicans trying to get on the ballot don’t seek Democrat signatures and would have no reason to forge Democrat signatures, since they don’t count. Nevertheless, it was something I took seriously because the coordinated attack included press releases and social media activity and other things that made it clear that this was a well-organized effort,” writes Republican Arizona state Representative/Turning Point USA director Austin Smith and this bullshit goes on for a while.

“I’ve never been involved in a lawsuit so I will confess to that initial adrenaline rush, but after talking with people in the political world, and recognizing that the claim was silly on its face, I felt better.”

As you might have already guessed from the headline, it didn’t actually get better.

Florida MAGA Congressman Rapey McForehead tells The Daily Beast’s Reese Gorman that he “didn’t support the motion to vacate” against Speaker Mike Johnson when he “woke up this morning.”

Buuuut… “My hope was that the motion to vacate would be an elixir that only required one dose for effectiveness. But sometimes there are some therapies that require more than one dose and I hope that’s not the case with the motion to vacate, but we’ll administer the elixir as many times as is necessary to save the country,” Gaetz continued. So yeah it sounds like this is happening.

Dems reportedly are in a holding pattern and are keeping their cards close to maximize the pounds of flesh they can get out of Johnson. Supposedly the play to not undermine Jesus Dork’s simulacrum of “legitimacy” among Republican voters and not tar him as a “Democrat-supported Speaker” is to simply walk out in sufficient numbers when the vacate motion hits the floor, thereby giving Johnson enough room within the House GOP to reach the majority of members present required to squash the motion. So not a vote for or against so much as just enough non-votes.