“[Letitia James] decided to investigate my husband’s charity despite the fact that it had one of the lowest expense ratios of any private charity in America, and unfortunately, guess who was hurt by that?  It wasn’t my husband,” Lara Trump’s husband being Ewic Trump, the guy who was ostensibly running the corrupt Trump Organization.  “It’s the kids of St. Jude. Who knows have died unnecessarily thanks to her investigation and her, uh, uh, vitriol for anyone with the last name Trump.”

This is obviously a lie, but let’s review why:  Eric Trump’s foundation was under scrutiny for a number of things, but Lara’s biggest lie is that Letitia James headed, directed or ordered the investigation.  See, the investigation happened in 2018, when Barbara Underwood was New York’s Attorney General; it had started under Eric Schneiderman in 2017.

The NRCC have dropped all their ad buys for shaved gorilla Ohio US House candidate JR Majewski after on Wednesday it was reported he lied about serving in Afghanistan while in the Air Force.

Maybe many Russian military and energy industry leaders have inner ear problems that make them unsteady.  Or maybe they should just stop going near windows and stairs.  Regardless, those cautions aren’t going to help 72-year-old Anatoly Gerashchenko, who reportedly died after falling down “several flights of stairs.”

“Gerashchenko fell from a great height, [falling down] several flights of stairs,” the Russian news site Izvestia, owned by Russian fossil fuel giant Gazprom, reported.  “Medics arrived at the scene of the incident and pronounced him dead.”  Gerashchenko was an advisor to the rector, or director, of the Moscow Aviation Institute and had been a key Kremlin military advisor.

Gerashchenko’s death is the latest in a string of–shall we say–unusual deaths in recent months for people involved in Russia’s military industrial complex or political operations.  Last week, Ivan Pechorin, the Aviation Director for Russia’s Far East and Arctic Development Corporation (FEADC), fell off a boat, only to have his body floating found 100 miles away two days later.

In Trump Mar-a-Lago docs Special Master Judge Raymond Dearie’s “Case Management Plan” posted Thursday are a few declarations and affidavits he requires the government and Trump’s lawyers to hand in to his court before the end of the month, the first item of which is a “list of any specific items set forth in the Detailed Property Inventory that Plaintiff asserts were not seized from the Premises on August 8, 2022,” meaning it’s time for the fat bastard to put up or shut up if he thinks the FBI are lying about what they found in the raid on his Floridian redoubt.

This will probably go the pretty much same way as the classification non-argument, and the lawyers will be unwilling and unable to assert in court what the Orange Warlord and his buddies say on Fox News and on social media because that’s how you get disbarred and/or arrested.

“Plaintiffs Michael Lindell and MyPillow, Inc., have filed a Complaint for Return of Property and for Declaratory and Equitable Relief and a Motion for Temporary Restraining Order and for Return of Property Pursuant to Fed. R. Crim. P. 41. The Motion requests the return of property illegally seized from Plaintiffs by the Government. Plaintiffs submit this memorandum in support of their Motion.”

“Plaintiffs further request that the Court preserve the status quo by immediately ordering that Defendants refrain from accessing or taking any action with respect to the seized cell phone at least until a hearing is held in this matter, at which time the Court can determine whether or not to extend maintenance of the status quo. To the extent that the Government is allowed free rein as it relates to Plaintiffs’ cell phone and information, 2 including privileged and confidential information, the damage to Plaintiffs’ rights will be irremediable, whereas a delay of a few days or even weeks in the Government’s review will have little or no adverse impacts,” says the motion from Lindell to get his phone back. It’s not clear why Lindell didn’t ask for a Special Master too.

A DC federal judge on Thursday sentenced Hitler-loving MAGA terrorist Timothy Hale-Cusanelli to four years in prison his participation in the January 6th, 2021 Capitol riot, NBC’s Ryan Reilley reports. At his trial Hale-Cusanelli tried to argue shit like “I thought there were several buildings called ‘Capitol building,'” “I did not realize that Congress met in the Capitol,” and “I’m from New Jersey” in his testimony. The Hitler fanboy was the fifth Capitol rioter to be convicted by a jury.

Far-right gadfly and January 6th “Stop the Steal” organizer Ali Alexander posted on Trump’s failing Tut Scotia Twat Slinker Truth Social that he wants to cancel George Washington by destroying the monument to him from the National Mall like ISIS destroyed works of art in Afghanistan, as Newsweek reports.

While his conservative brethren yip and scream about the removal of monuments to the losers of the Civil War, not one significant GOP figure has defended our nation’s Founding Father from the conservative cancel culture or the attack equating Washington to “false god Baal,” nor have they chided Alexander’s celebration of acts like ISIS’s destruction of ancient works of art in the name of religion.

“Looks like the far left attacked and defaced Washington’s Obelisk Monument tonight,” Alexander posted. “To be clear, I think the Obelisk should be removed so I don’t care. Like when ISIS jihadists destroyed ancient false god Baal temples.”

Florida federal Judge Aileen Cannon on Thursday responded to the 11th Circuit Court of Appeals’ Wednesday night ruling against her client, disgraced former President Trump, by striking down sections of her own order adding a Special Master to the case.

‘The term ‘seized material’ in the Court’s Order Appointing Special Master [ECF No. 91] is modified to include all materials seized on August 8, 2022, except the approximately one-hundred documents bearing classification markings,” Cannon wrote, also striking two other sections, and while we’re no lawyers, we’re pretty sure this is bad for the Orange God Emperor going forward

The woman who called police on a Black birdwatcher in Central Park, falsely claiming that he was stalking and threatening her in the call that the man recorded, lost the defamation suit she filed against her previous employer who fired her after the video went viral, the New York Post reports.

Amy Cooper, better known as “Central Park Karen,” approached birdwatcher Christian Cooper (no relation) and called the police claiming the man was threatening her and moving toward her even though Christian Cooper’s video showed him standing still and Amy Cooper acting eratically, including jerking her small dog around by its leash after Christian Cooper told her that dogs in Central Park needed to be on a leash.

Amy Cooper was fired by her employer, financial services firm Franklin Templeton, after the May 2020 confrontation.  Amy Cooper claimed in her lawsuit that the company’s public statement about her firing perpetuated the disparaging characterization of her as “Central Park Karen.”

Stephen Ayres, the misdemeanor defendant Ohio Capitol rioter who testified to the House January 6th Select Committee during a July hearing, was sentenced Thursday to two years probation for his non-violent/non-destructive role in the riot, CBS’s Scott MacFarlane reports.

One thing we did not note at the time of his testimony was that Ayres was listed as a co-defendant with another rioter we’ve covered – Matthew Perna, a Pennsylvania rioter who committed suicide back in February. It’s not clear why Perna faced 20 years in prison when he killed himself after pleading guilty, or how they came to be associated with each other in the DOJ’s investigation.

An Indiana judge blocked enforcement of the state’s new abortion ban Thursday morning, siding with pro-choice advocates who argued that the right to seek an abortion is enshrined in the state’s constitution, the Associated Press reports.

Indiana’s law, which went into effect exactly one week ago, was passed the Republican state legislature passed the law August 5th and Republican Governor Eric Holcomb signed it into law, becoming the first state to enact new legislation banning abortion since the conservative-packed Supreme Court reversed the Constitutional protections enshrined in the nearly 50-year-old Roe decision.

The GOP Indiana law wasn’t an outright ban on abortion, but it prohibited most abortions after the 10th week of gestation, before many pregnancies are confirmed.  After the 10th week, a patient would have needed to obtain a declaration from a doctor that the pregnancy would result in the death of the patient or that the fetus had a severe lethal abnormality that would result in a stillbirth.  Basically, if the birthed child could take one breath after traveling through the birth canal, Indiana Republicans required the patient to carry the pregnancy, no matter the likely death and suffering of the newborn baby. 

Dem Senator Mark Kelly leads pro-ChiCom Reptilian humanoid Blake Masters 50% to 42% in a new AARP-Fabrizio-Ward survey of Arizona voters. The same pollster also puts Dem Secretary of State Katie Hobbs in a tight race against female drag queen Kari Lake, with Hobbs leading 49% to 48%.

Leftist murders a teenager because he was a Republican.

Then, he’s promptly released on bail.

Twisted. Dems’ hateful rhetoric continues to bear toxic fruit. https://t.co/YxT34gyeri

— Ted Cruz (@tedcruz) September 22, 2022

Trump-backed candidate John Gibbs, who defeated pro-impeachment Michigan Republican Peter Meijer in a primary last month, in the early 2000s praised a group favoring repealing the 19th Amendment, saying women’s suffrage had turned the US into a “totalitarian state,” CNN reports.

While at Stanford University, Gibbs founded a so-called “think tank” called the “Society for the Critique of Feminism,” arguing that women did not “posess (sic) the characteristics necessary to govern,” and that men are superior because they “think logically about broad and abstract ideas in order to deduce a suitable conclusion, without relying upon emotional reasoning.”

That last bit of course describes what MAGA Republicans, both men and women, lack these days.

The case against the attempted assassin of former New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani was adjourned in contemplation of dismissal on Wednesday, meaning the charge will be completely dropped against radical leftist Staten Island ShopRite terrorist Daniel Gill if he stays out of trouble for another six months, the Associated Press reports. Rudy, who said Gill’s backslap had felt “like somebody shot me,” did not require hospitalization after the June incident.

I’m going to be honest here:  I don’t know what to make of this.  It’s truly bizarre.  Not in a funny “ha ha” kinda bizarre way, but in a “Why is there a sacraficial altar suddenly in my backyard?” way.  In the crazy interview with his advisor Sean Hannity, Donald Trump appears to claim the FBI searched Mar-a-Lago for “the Hillary Clinton emails” or the “spying on Trump” or “Russia Russia Russia.” (This snippet of the rant starts around 1:20, but keeping the whole clip here to maintain context.). Just a bit:

We can all agree that there was much schadenfreude on this site today.  From watching New York Attorney General Leticia James recite scam after scam after scam while announcing a quarter billion dollar (minimum!) civil suit against Donald Trump to the stay issued by the 11th Circuit upholding national security concerns to E. Jean Carroll announcing she’s filing a civil suit against Trump for a 1990s rape (alleged), today was a very, very bad day from the legal perspective for Donald Trump.  Arrows were flying at him from every direction.

Save some of the schadenfreude for poor Aileen Cannon, the staff attorney at a federal prosecutor’s office turned federal judge with a lifetime appointment.  Don’t get me wrong:  I don’t want you to feel sorry for her.  I truly want you to savor the fact that the decision means that every future session she has on the bench will be hell for her.

The decision issued by the 11th Circuit didn’t just overrule her widely-mocked opinion, it eviscerated her legal reasoning.  Not one of the points Cannon outlined in her decision to deny the stay was recognized as a rational legal point by the three judges–including two appointed by Donald Trump–who heard the Justice Department’s appeal.

“If you’re the President of the United States, you can declassify by saying I- it’s declassified, even by thinking about it, because you’re sending it to Merg-a-Lago [sic] or to where ever yerthey’re [sic] sending it.  And there doesn’t have to be a process–there can be a process but there doesn’t have to be,” really bad filer Donald Trump incorrectly tells one of his administration’s advisors, Sean Hannity, on his Fox show.

First–and you already know this–a President cannot just think something’s declassified and voila! it’s declassified.  In fact, Trump’s own legal team cited Executive Order 13526, put in place by the Obama Administration, as the process to declassify material.  And yes, there must be a process otherwise scads of additional classified material–including the identities of vulnerable human assets–could incidentally be disclosed.

We’re going to assume Sean Hannity had a massive head injury.  (Not like a catastrophic injury.  An injury to his massive Mr. Potato-like head.).  He obviously doesn’t remember all those times he cheered on the “Lock ‘er Up” chants from Trump rallies in 2016 on.  Now, Hannity threatens an ominous outcome if authorities don’t let Donald Trump skate on various crimes he committed.  Hannity–a Trump advisor who apparently thing everyone of any importance watches his show still watches his show–called on leaders to obey him:

Evil harridan Ginni Thomas has agreed to meet with the House January 6th Select Committee in the next few weeks, CNBC reports. The Committee have been asking for a meeting with the psychotic wife of far right extremist Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas for months as numerous instances of her contacts with former Trump Chief of Staff Mark Meadows and GOP legislators in Wisconsin and Arizona in the aftermath of the 2020 election have surfaced in the last year.