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Manhattan federal Judge Lewis Kaplan on Thursday tossed disgraced former President Trump’s bid for a stay of the execution of the $83.3 million judgment a jury awarded to writer EJ Carroll for defaming her by calling her a liar after she went public with the time that her raped her circa 1995.

“Mr Trump’s current situation is a result of his own dilatory actions. He has had since January 26 to organize his finances with the knowledge that he might need to bond this judgment, yet he waited until 25 days after the jury verdict – and only shortly before the expiration of Rule 62’s automatic 30-day stay of judgment – to file his prior motion for an unsecured or partially secured stay pending resolution of post-trial motions. The Court ordered expedited briefing and assured the parties that the motion would be decided as promptly as was reasonably appropriate, but due to the delay in its filing, the Court notified that it could not render any decision as quickly as Mr Trump requested. Dkt 307. That remains true today,” Kaplan wrote, twisting the knife on the fat bastard.

Special Counsel Jack Smith’s office filed its responses to a series of Trump lawyers’ attempts to get the federal documents case in Florida thrown out, citing things like

• the Presidential Records Act (which explicitly does not give a former president permission to retain classified documents as personal records);
• the appointment and funding of the Special Counsel (a real long shot that, should Judge Aileen Cannon accept the argument, would undermine every investigation of a Special Counsel in recent history);
  Read More ▶ “Special Counsel responds to Trump’s attempt to dismiss documents case: “Even if it had merit (which it does not)””

Michigan MAGA lawyer Stefanie Lambert, the far right scumbag charged last year with tampering with a Dominion ballot tabulator she and several co-conspirators stole from a township clerk, is now a fugitive from justice as the Detroit News’s Craig Mauger reports that, as of 4:10 PM EDT on Thursday, Lambert had not shown up to her 3 PM pretrial hearing, prompting the the judge to issue a bench warrant. They should check Mike Lindell’s safe house first when they start looking for her.

The Florida state senate, surprisingly including the Republicans, removed the co-founder of the sexual adventurers’ club Moms for Libertines Liberty, a nominee of returning Florida Republican Governor and guest garden gnome Ron DeSantis from a list of nominees for the state ethics commission after it received a complaint from a citizen that she’s a lobbyist and barred from such a position, the Orlando Sentinel reports.

Tina Descovich was removed from a list of DeSantis nominees after the slate had been approved on Party lines by the senate’s Ethics and Elections Committee, but she was later removed from the roster after a political consultant noted to the commission that her actions for Moms for Liberty clearly amounted to lobbying, an activity disqualifying for nominees to the Commission on Ethics.

Her removal comes just a few months after the Commission’s former chairman, Glen Gilzean, was forced to resign from the panel because he had the $400,000-per-year position given to him by DeSantis to oversee the land Disney previously operated; state rules bar someone on state government salary from sitting on the Ethics Commission. Gilzean was also been named by DeSantis to oversee Orange County elections, a job that comes with a $200,000 per year salary; it’s unclear if the Ethics Commission would condone one person simultaneously holding these two positions.

With the perfunctory 2024 GOP primary over and done with, US officials are planning to resume briefing fat former President Trump with classified intel, a tradition going back to 1952 for all major-party presidential nominees and the first time that one currently facing trial on federal felony charges for violating the Espionage Act will be given them, Politico reports.

We maintain that it’s perfectly fine to give Trump classified info so long as it’s made-up bullshit designed specifically to expose his treason. For example, if officials could tell him that a Russian cabinet official is secretly a Ukrainian spy and that official gets thrown out a window two days later then Trump can be prosecuted again for mishandling classified information. It’s a win-win.

Fresh off winning her primary, Republican California Congresswoman Michelle Steel on Thursday told the House she does “not support federal restrictions on IVF” and she’s removing herself from her sponsorship of the Life at Conception Act, NBC News reports.

“I’m removing myself from the bill because it could create confusion about my support for the blessings of having children through IVF. I hereby remove my name as cosponsor,” Steel said after catching a lot of shit for conceiving it and then coming up with a lame, non-binding resolution to affirm support for protecting IVF. Her likely Dem opponent Derek Tran kept the pressure up.

“Michelle Steel just admitted she’s been lying to every one of her constituents about her abortion-banning, IVF-restricting legislation,” Tran told NBC in a written statement. “She can try to explain this away all she wants, but Californians see her exactly for who she is – a reproductive right-dismantling extremist who has no business representing the interests of California’s 45th District.”

Donald Trump’s legal woes don’t stop at American shores:  the British high court ordered him to pay Christopher Steele’s firm, Orbis Business Intelligence, more than £600,000 (roughly $770,000) to cover the company’s legal fees incurred in defending itself against a defamation suit Trump filed, the BBC reports.

Apparently knowing Trump’s character, High Court Judge Karen Steyn ordered Trump to pay half, £300,000, while the Court auditors determine the final amount due.  Trump sued Orbis for creating the “Steele dossier” which assembled unconfirmed opposition research reports about Trump’s activities in Russia, including a claim that he hired prostitutes to urinate on a hotel bed once used by the Obamas.  Trump denies the accusation.  Last month, Steyn determined that the suit was “bound to fail” in the courts, halting the suit.

Here go the Democrats trying to gaslight Americans into overlooking Biden’s record!

Biden caused this crisis:

➡️ Mortgages up 90% under Biden.
➡️ Interest rates sky-high.
➡️ First-time homebuyers struggling to make down payment because of Bidenflation! https://t.co/OxvWBpzi61

— Jason Miller (@JasonMillerinDC) March 7, 2024

Emerson College fucked up in a new national survey of registered voters, finding President Joe Biden tied with disgraced former President Trump at 45 percent each, but increased to a 51 to 49 percent Biden lead when “undecided voters are asked which candidate they lean toward.”

It’s absolute disaster for the fake mainstream pollster and the horserace circlejerkers who fondle themselves to the Boston-based college pollster’s constant stream of numbers portending general election doom for American democracy as, when you account for the typical 4 to 6 percent padding Emerson gives Republican candidates in their findings, it puts Biden well within the margin necessary to neutralize the GOP’s electoral college advantage. Expect Emerson to conduct a serious retooling of their weighting algorithms so that Trump is leading by 15 percent next month.

“Haley primary voters break for Biden in the general election, 63 percent to 27 percent, with 10 percent undecided. In 2020 these voters broke for Biden 52 percent to 36 percent. Independent voters break for Trump 42 percent to 39 percent, with 19 percent undecided. With the undecided push, Biden’s support increases to 52 percent and Trump to 48 percent. Those who did not vote in 2020 break for Trump 46 percent to 17 percent, with 36 percent undecided,” Emerson wrote in their release and man are they going to catch a LOT of shit from their MAGA masters for this mess.

President Joe Biden will use his State of The Union speech Thursday to announce that the US military will be deploying to Gaza to set up a temporary seaport to facilitate the delivery of aid to the innocent Palestinian people suffering under the IDF’s constant assault, Politico reports.

You may’ve heard I’ve got a big speech coming up.

So, I thought I would hear from some folks who have done the job before – sort of. pic.twitter.com/7wFYVQm7Xm

— President Biden (@POTUS) March 7, 2024

Missing from that Zoom call were Danny Glover, Meryl Streep, Nick Offerman, Jamie Foxx, Gene Hackman, Kiefer Sutherland, Harrison Ford, Martin Sheen, and a whole bunch of others who probably should’ve been invited. Also what the hell is with Morgan Freeman saying all he had to deal with was a meteor in Deep Impact? Did he forget about the coup attempt in Angel Has Fallen?

“Voters in the Commonwealth and across the country have spoken loudly for President Donald J Trump and I endorse him for President of the United States. His record on border security, restoring American leadership around the world, reducing taxes and lowering the cost of living for all Americans stands in stark contrast to the open borders, failed leadership on the global stage, rampant inflation and higher costs of today. It’s time to unite around strong leadership and policies that grow our great nation, not four more years of President Biden,” – Virginia Governor Glenn Youngkin, about 16 months after the Orange God Emperor wrote “Young Kin (now that’s an interesting take. Sounds Chinese, doesn’t it?) in Virginia couldn’t have won without me. I Endorsed him, did a very big Trump Rally for him telephonically, got MAGA to Vote for him – or he couldn’t have come close to winning. But he knows that, and admits it,” in a Truth Social post.

“Joe Biden has been a disaster for our country. Higher prices, inflation, an open border, crime, and the destruction of America’s image on the world stage. I will do everything to defeat him and elect Donald J Trump for President of the United States! 🇺🇸” – Iowa Governor Kim Reynolds, about four months after the Orange God Emperor wrote “Kim Reynolds of Iowa has gone from a popular Governor to the MOST UNPOPULAR GOVERNOR IN THE UNITED STATES, not an easy feat. Her Endorsement of Ron DeSanctimonious, who is 50 Points down to me in the Polls, has given him exactly ZERO ‘Bounce.’ He is a wounded bird falling violently from the sky. I wonder what position Kim was promised in order to back someone who is sooo far down?” in a Truth Social post.

“Per the protective order issued in this case (ECF No 27), the Government has provided thirteen prior productions of unclassified discovery to Defendants Donald J Trump, Waltine Nauta, and Carlos De Oliveira. On March 7, 2024, the Government provided a fourteenth production of unclassified discovery to counsel for Defendants (‘Production 14’). Production 14 consists of nine pages and includes the memorialization of an interview conducted on March 6, 2024,” writes Justice Department special counsel Jack Smith’s team in a motion filed Thursday, emphasis ours.

No further details were made available in the filing, all it shows is that the investigation is still ongoing and Smith should start leaking some of this stuff because there’s no chance of this going to trial before the election given MAGA Judge Aileen Cannon’s non-stop courtroom fuckery.

“The Select Subcommittee on the Weaponization of the Federal Government will hold a hearing on Thursday, March 7, 2024, at 10:00 am ET. The hearing will examine how Big Government has colluded with Big Banks to surveil Americans’ private financial data. The financial surveillance uncovered by the Committee was not predicated on any specific evidence of particularized criminal conduct and it focused on terms and specific transactions that concerned core political and religious expression protected by the Constitution,” says a statement from Jim Jordan’s “Weaponization” subcommittee claiming douchebag anti-woman influencer Jordan Peterson and some other right wing eggheads are supposed to be testifying this morning, but watching now it seems like the original reporting on it being about the financial aspects of the Justice Department’s January 6th investigations is also true as former DC Metro Police Officer Mike Fanone is being sworn in.

Texas MAGA Congressman and former Navy Rear Admiral Ronny Jackson is actually a former Navy Captain after the Department of Defense retroactively demoted him in 2022 following an inspector general’s report on his boozing, free distribution of controlled substances, and general assclownery while serving as the Trump White House’s chief physician, the Washington Post reports.

Jackson, who officially retired from the Navy in December 2019 ahead of his successful run for Texas’s 13th District, now earns $15,000 less per year in pension as a result of the demotion. Navy spokesman Lt Cmdr Joe Keiley confirmed to the Post the demotion without specifying how far down Jackson had been busted down. “The substantiated allegations in the DoDIG investigation of Rear Adm (lower half) Ronny Jackson are not in keeping with the standards the Navy requires of its leaders and, as such, the Secretary of the Navy took administrative action in July 2022,” Keily wrote.

Jackson of course continues to lie on his official House and campaign websites that he’s a retired rear admiral, but that’s a smaller issue than the overall context in which it occurs, as Jackson had held the position during the Obama Administration. Which makes him the go-to for the right wing media on his “inside knowledge” of both Joe Biden and Donald Trump’s health histories.

Meaning it seems like this reporting and last week’s Rolling Stone story on Jackson handing out speed and Xanax like they were candy to Trump White House staffers is meant to undermine his credibility when he’s supposed to be spewing all sorts of bullshit about how Biden is demented while Trump has the mind and body of a 22 year old Olympian skier/MIT grad student. Good on the Biden White House for getting aggressive with this son of a bitch. It’s not really a “hit job” when it’s true.

Additional notes by Jack: Texas’s “stolen valor” law punishes individuals who lie or exaggerate about their military record, barring false claims to “obtain a promotion, compensation, or other benefit, or an increase in compensation or other benefit, in employment or in the practice of a trade, profession, or occupation.” Jackson’s website continues to knowingly promote his false rank as a rear admiral, which should put him in line for charges, but indicted Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton’s office will never seek charges.

The frontwoman of top Korean pop act Aespa, Yu “Karina” Ji-min, apologized to fans on Wednesday after a Seoul-based entertainment news site last month broke that she was dating actor Lee Jae-wook, which is a big no-no for fans in Korea and Japan who demand that the extremely remote possibility they can eff their idols be left open, otherwise the is magic gone, Sky News reports.

Seriously. Aespa fans last week rented an electronic billboard and parked it outside of her record label SM Entertainment, with a message reading “Is the love to you by your fans not enough? Why did you choose to betray the fans? Please apologize directly. Otherwise, you will see a decrease in album sales and empty concert seats,” which led “Karina” to apologize on Instagram.

“I apologize for surprising you greatly. I know very well how disappointed [my fans] who have supported me are and how upset you’re thinking about the memories we shared together. I want to make up for my hurt fans from now on. I have always been sincere to you, and still each and every one of you are truly precious to me,” she hand-wrote in very bubbly Korean letters.

Obviously she didn’t say she was actually ending it with Jae-wook or otherwise commit to again becoming “available” to her fans so give her some points for that. Maybe it’s too much to expect a 23 year-old under no doubt a lot of control from her label’s executives to speak out against this mass delusion of incel-dom and tell people to fuck off, let her have her own life, but this is some weird shit and pretty embarrassing to witness even from a distance. Hopefully whatever Western fanbase she has could push the Koreans and Japanese to let go of their fantasy-based demands.

Welcome 2Pres Biden’s America where the fed govt chooses energy dependence over energy DOMINANCE AND INDEPENDENCE

— Chuck Grassley (@ChuckGrassley) March 6, 2024

The state of Texas this year will be overwhelmed with an invasion of trillions of dark-colored, disgusting vermin and there’s nothing Governor Low Energy Greg Abbott or Picasso-faced Attorney General Ken Paxton can do about it, as the Austin American-Statesman reports two overlapping broods of cicadas are set to emerge from the ground to terrorize and annoy white Texans.

“What makes this rather unusual is that both broods are emerging during the same year,” said Mount St Joseph University biology Professor Dr Gene Kritsky. “Now the last time these two particular broods emerged together was in 1803. To give people some historical perspective, that’s when Thomas Jefferson was president of the United States,” Kritsky added about the inferior, darkly-colored filth that no law can stop from replacing normal-sized, quieter bugs during an election year.

Former D-list WWE pro wrestler and Trump-endorsed 2020 Nevada 3rd District Congressional candidate Dan Rodimer surrendered to cops Wednesday on murder charges in connection with the October 29th, 2023 beating death of another man in a Las Vegas hotel room, Fox News reports.

Alabama Republican Governor Kay Ivey signed a bill Wednesday protecting IVF treatments from the state Supreme Court’s broad decision saying fertilized embryos are people and thereby exposing fertility clinics to possible charges of abuse and manslaughter, CNN reports.

The new law, however, doesn’t address the central issue of the court’s decision, the legal issue of personhood for fetuses, something sought by conservative anti-choice activists.  The legislation flew through both the state house and Senate on Wednesday before landing on Ivey’s desk.  Speed became an issue because fertility treatments are limited to the patients’ individual needs.