Former Trump White House Economic something and failed board game entrepreneur Peter Navarro on Tuesday turned himself in to a Florida federal prison to begin serving his four month sentence after being convicted of criminal contempt of Congress last year, CBS’s Scott MacFarlane reports.
House Oversight Democrats have landed “Fraud Guarantee” guy and former Rudy Giuliani pal Lev Parnas as their minority witness for Chairbilly James Comer’s big Wednesday “impeachment” hearing, also starring square-headed Hunter Biden “whistleblower” Tony Bobulinski and another guy who will be literally testifying via Zoom from federal prison, Jamie Raskin tells CNN.
“Lev Parnas can debunk the bogus claims at the heart of the impeachment probe and, in the process, explain how the GOP ended up in this degraded and embarrassing place,” Raskin said.
Parnas, a Ukrainian immigrant who worked with Rudy to fabricate the false claims about the Bidens that led to Trump’s first impeachment, was first indicted during the 2019 inquiry and ultimately did 20 months in the clink for campaign finance fraud, wire fraud, and false statements. Since then Parnas appears, sincerely or not, to have “turned heel” on MAGA and last year wrote a letter to Comer saying “the narrative you are seeking for this investigation has been proven false many times over, by a wide array of respected sources. There is simply no merit to investigating this matter any further.” Parnas’s son Aaron is now a lib influencer with a very large Twitter following.
A source told CNN that Dems had considered bringing in Michael Cohen, but decided to go with Parnas as “Cohen could have spoken directly to how Trump used the White House to enrich himself, but Parnas can speak directly to how Trump used sketchy sources to fabricate dirt on Biden.” We were already looking forward to this hearing but goddamn that just went from a 10 to a 14 or 15.
A new $120 million pledge announced Tuesday by the League of Conservation Voters pushes the total outside spending plans to reelect President Biden to over $1 billion, the New York Times reports on the Avengers assembling once more to take on the forces of white nationalist tyranny.
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— Fox News (@FoxNews) March 19, 2024
The Brazilian Supreme Court on Tuesday unsealed an indictment against disgraced former President Jair Bolsonaro and 16 accomplices for faking his COVID-19 vaccination record, the AP reports on the first but probably not the last criminal case the “Trump of the Tropics” will have to face.
Brazil’s justice system leaves the prosecutor-general’s with the final say on whether or not to actually bring the charges, so it’s not like Bolsonaro and his goons – accused of tampering with the vax records during his post-defeat lame duck period in 2022 – is definitely facing trial as of this moment, though it’s hard to see how the leftist Lula government isn’t going to put a hurting on Jair.
Donald Trump the corrupt piece of shit failure businessman and Donald Trump the corrupt piece of shit failure politician are both very much seriously fucked when it comes to money these days.
On the business side, barring a reprieve from the courts, as of Tuesday Trump has just six days until both his option for an appeal is closed off and New York State Attorney General Letitia James can begin collecting the $464 million the fat fuck owes for his fraud. No fewer than 30 potential suretors turned him down for the bond – including the scumbags at Chubb who covered the $91 million for the EJ Carroll defamation case. Reportedly they were the only ones who even entertained it and only with real estate put up as collateral, a condition rapey Donald obviously balked at.
“Judge Engoron actually wants me to put up Hundreds of Millions of Dollars for the Right to Appeal his ridiculous decision. In other words, he is trying to take my Appellate Rights away from me when I have already won at the Appellate Division, but he refuses to accept their already made decision. Nobody has ever heard of anything like this before. I would be forced to mortgage or sell Great Assets, perhaps at Fire Sale prices, and if and when I win the Appeal, they would be gone. Does that make sense? WITCH HUNT. ELECTION INTERFERENCE!” Trump posted Tuesday morning during an hours-long meltdown at Engoron, still bizarrely lying about the “I have already won at the Appellate Division” part. He then added “I shouldn’t have to put up any money, being forced by the Corrupt Judge and AG, until the end of the appeal. That’s the way system works!” which is just lol.
Nebraska state Senator Steve Halloran on Monday decided to mock a Dem colleague’s opposition to his “obscenity” bill by inserting her name into a passage about rape during debate, leading to tripartisan calls for the sick son of a bitch to resign immediately, the Washington Post reports.
The Post tries to give Halloran a small shred of deniability because when he read a rape scene from Alice Sebold’s memoir Lucky – one of the books he’s trying to get banned from schools – it wasn’t clear that he was definitely referring to Dem state Senator Machaela Cavanaugh or her brother, state Senator John Cavanaugh (also a Democrat), when he replaced the rape victim character’s name with “Senator Cavanaugh.” Problem is that the character is female and it was still perfectly on-brand MAGA fucking twisted even if Halloran was describing John as the one being raped.
“I have done nothing but try to have a respectful debate with [Republican bill author] Senator Albrecht about her bill that impacts my children,” Cavanaugh said afterward. “That was so out of line and unnecessary and disgusting to say my name over and over again like that.”
U.S. Marshals arrest pro-Trump lawyer after D.C. hearing | Just The News https://t.co/zDx0qJEibM
— John Solomon (@jsolomonReports) March 19, 2024
The headline “US Marshals arrest pro-Trump lawyer after DC hearing” sure sounds ominous when you leave out that the fucker was wanted on a bench warrant for skipping a court hearing, which John Solomon did to elicit reactions like “Two-tiered justice system aka lawfare” in the replies.
A lawyer for Hunter Biden’s buddy Devon Archer on Monday informed House Oversight Chairbilly James Comer his client will not be testifying at Wednesday’s hearing as “it is not remotely reasonable to ask an important witness in what is sure to be a closely watched public hearing that the Committee has provocatively entitled ‘Influence Peddling: Examining Joe Biden’s Abuse of Public Office’ to prepare witness testimony in one business day, and to prepare to give public testimony in less than three days – particularly when he is traveling,” NBC News reports.
“Plaintiff President Donald J Trump, by and through his counsel, sues Defendants, American Broadcasting Companies, Inc, ABC News, Inc and George Stephanopoulos, and alleges as follows:”
“NATURE OF THE ACTION 1. This is an action arising from Defendants’ transmission and publication of intentionally false and defamatory statements made to numerous third parties about Plaintiff President Donald J Trump. More specifically, and as set forth in greater detail below, on Sunday, March 10, 2024, Defendant George Stephanopoulos, during the airing of his weekly television show, This Week With George Stephanopoulos, falsely stated on several occasions that Plaintiff had been found liable by multiple juries for the rape of Ms E Jean Carroll. These statements were and remain false, and were made by Defendant Stephanopoulos with actual malice or with a reckless disregard for the truth given that Defendant Stephanopoulos knows that these statements are patently and demonstrably false. Indeed, the jury expressly found that Plaintiff did not commit rape and, as demonstrated below, Defendant George Stephanopoulos was aware of the jury’s finding in this regard yet still falsely stated otherwise,” write fat former President Trump’s lawyers in a pointless new complaint over Congressmoron Nancy Mace’s train wreck of an interview from last week.
So this is how Trump plans to come up with the $464 million he owes to the state of New York, suing ABC News and George Stephanopoulos because a jury find him liable for sexual abuse, not rape.
“To everybody around the world watching this,” Shark Tank character Kevin O’Leary shouts into the camera. “Absolutely horrific. This case goes way past Trump….” And then the situation devolves into the host, Laura Coates, trying to be heard over a rambling O’Leary as another guest just shakes her head. “This is not America!” yells O’Leary, a Trump-supporting Canadian, as he finishes… although adhering to court decisions and following the law is about as Constitutional (and American) as you can get.
“The only FRAUD in the Peekaboo James case, our failed and disgusting New York State Attorney General, was her convincing ‘Judge’ Arthur Engoron to put a value on Mar-a-Lago, in Palm Beach, Florida, of just $18,000,000, when it is worth 50 to 100 times that amount. This was fraudulently and illegally done, working closely together in a corrupt Communist system, to set their NARRATIVE after learning that their Values and Facts were completely wrong. Businesses will flee the State as Migrant Crime and Violence continues to flourish. I paid $300,000,000 in Taxes, and this is what I get. WITCH HUNT!!!” —Donald Trump on Truth Social, Monday, March 18th.
Fact check (from an actual fact checker): Neither James nor Engoron put the $18 million value on Mar-a-Lago; a Palm Beach County real estate appraiser did, and Trump representatives noted with the county they agreed with the appraisal. And since when does how much one (allegedly) paid in taxes means one isn’t guilty of fraud?
“They’re gonna force us in, they’re gonna force people into cars they don’t want, tell ’em they can’t eat meat, take away their gas stove that they themselves use, their refrigerators, their air conditionings [sic], and their…y’know… washers and dryers…” Trump adviser and blockish hobgoblin Sean Hannity rants with no evidence of anything at all being banned.
After a hearing in the DC defamation lawsuit brought by Dominion Voting Systems, the pro-Trump lawyer representing former Overstock CEO and Trump ally Patrick Byrne was arrested on a bench warrant issued after she failed to appear for a hearing on four Michigan felonies she’s facing for tampering with voting machines, the Detroit News reports.
Stefanie Lambert failed to emerge from the courtroom at the end of the hearing Monday afternoon, leading reporters to speculate she was detained on the warrant for skipping the March 7th hearing on charges of undue possession of a voting machine, conspiracy to commit unauthorized access to a computer system, conspiracy to commit undue possession of a voting machine and willfully damaging a voting machine. Each charge has a maximum five-year prison sentence.
In an order issued by Judge Aileen Cannon in the federal documents case against Donald Trump instructed the lawyers for each side to submit proposed jury instructions for the 32 various counts Donald Trump faces, but proposed two very different scenarios for the issue of Trump’s “unauthorized possession” of the documents.
After putting forth a scenario in which a jury can review documents to determine if they are, in fact, the individual’s personal records and not government records, Cannon then proposes a second option that would allow the President–Trump, in this case–the authority to declare any government information or documents to be his personal record: “A president has sole authority under the PRA to categorize records as personal or presidential during his/her presidency. Neither a court nor a jury is permitted to make or review such a categorization decision. Although there is no formal means in the PRA by which a president is to make that categorization, an outgoing president’s decision to exclude what he/she considers to be personal records from presidential records transmitted to the National Archives and Records Administration constitutes a president’s categorization of those records as personal under the PRA.”
Essentially, she’s asking the lawyers to put together jury instructions in which the President gets sole authority to determine what records produced by the entire government and military of the United States are his personal records, and that decision cannot be reversed or reviewed by anyone, not even the courts or other government agencies. In Cannon’s scenario, if Trump wanted to say the schematics of the new Ford-class aircraft carrier were his, and he could give them to, say, Putin for his birthday, he could.
Donald Trump and a number of co-defendants in the Fulton County RICO case filed an appeal of Fulton County Superior Court Judge Scott McAfee to allow District Attorney Fani Willis to remain on the case, the Washington Post reports. Trump and eight co-conspirators defendants requested McAfee grant a “certificate of immediate review,” something needed in Georgia’s unique court system to allow the defendants to appeal the decision to the state Court of Appeals.
“The Court found that District Attorney Willis’ actions had created an appearance of impropriety and an ‘odor of mendacity’ that lingers in this case, as well as the continuing possibility that ‘an outsider could reasonably think that District Attorney Willis is not exercising her independent professional judgment totally free of any compromising influences,’” the defense motion stated, arguing that McAfee’s order to have either Willis or special prosecutor Nathan Wade resign was an insufficient remedy.
Just minutes after being told by Chief Justice John Roberts to shut up and go to prison at 2pm sharp on Tuesday, former Trump White House Economic something and failed board game entrepreneur Peter Navarro will spend a small but significant enough fraction of the few waking hours that remain before his four month sentence talking to Donald Trump Jr on his stupid show.
The Supreme Court denied former Trump advisor Peter Navarro’s last ditch effort to avoid serving time in jail for his contempt of Congress convictions, and Navarro will report to a minimum-security federal Bureau of Prisons satellite camp in Miami on Tuesday at 2 p.m., per Politico.
Manhattan Judge Juan Merchan on Monday denied disgraced former President Trump’s motion to block his former premature ejaculation partner/pornstar Stormy Daniels and ex-lawyer Michael Cohen from taking the stand in his upcoming trial on charges of committing fraud by secretly paying Daniels $130,000 in hush money to stay quiet starting just days before his win in the 2016 election.
In the same order Merchan also prohibited the fat fuck from arguing any of his “victimhood” song and dance in front of jury, writing “Defendant is precluded from: (1) Arguing that the Indictment is novel, unusual, or unprecedented, (2) Making arguments about pre-indictment delay, (3) Making arguments and introducing evidence regarding the purported motivations or personal and professional backgrounds of the District Attorney, or counsel for the People in this case, (4) Making arguments and introducing evidence regarding any potential punishment or other consequences to the Defendant as a result of these proceedings, (5) Making arguments or introducing evidence regarding the alleged bias of the court and court staff, and (6) Arguing or introducing evidence regarding Pomerantz’s purported views on the instant prosecution as expressed in his book.”
“These issues are not relevant and will only serve to confuse or mislead the jury. Indeed, many of these issues were already decided in this Court’s February 15, 2024, Omnibus Decision. The Court also reiterates that this decision does not limit either side’s ability to impeach witnesses during cross-examination or to argue to the Court, at sidebar, that opposing counsel has ‘opened the door’ to the introduction of previously precluded evidence,” Merchan continued.
You are a disgusting/evil crew of liars and thieves. Every clip of Trump you cut into this is selectively edited to strip context and make it look like Trump wants political violence when in reality it’s you new age communists who want it. You know it’s your only path to power.
— Robby Starbuck (@robbystarbuck) March 18, 2024
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