- Dave Columbo reports, as only he can, on mr Trump’s financial travails:
- Vixen Strangely at Strangely Blogged has questions about Trump money. Like Where did it all go? Where will it come from now?
Key talent:
He’s a magician–he makes money disappear. It’s like making money go POOF was his whole ass job.
Key worry about bringing on already convicted Russian asset Manafort:
Does that mean he’s opening the window to Russian influence again?
- Andy Borowitz has one possibility:
- So mr Trump’s attorneys argue that the legal requirement of a bond in order to appeal his convictions should be waived, since he can’t afford to post it.
Our favorite Earth-Bound Misfit finds it of interest that mr Trump’s argument is taken seriously by anyone.
Key equivalence:
I’d like to know whether or not non-rich folks who can’t afford an appeal bond in civil cases get to have the bond waived. I’ll hazard a guess that the answer is “no”.
Also, shamelessly stolen from Comrade Misfit:
- M. Bouffant at Web of Evil does a ton of homework with links to every side, all of them wondering how Trump can get a half a billion dollar bond.
- Iron Knee at Political Irony points to the former president’s intense financial problems as an obvious national security risk.
- A writer for The Bulwark asks us to imagine how much Trump would owe in defamation damages if his routine defamations were held to the strict legal standards he applies to others
Julian Sanchez finds it an easy task:Post by @normativeView on Threads - Green Eagle watches US District Judge Aileen Cannon stun a cross section of the legal community by weirdly agreeing to listen to strange document/theft arguments by Trump lawyers on whether the Presidential Records Act means the opposite of what it says it means.
Basic fact:
You do not have to be a lawyer to see that this claim is utter rubbish
My thought:
- In Hackwhackers Donald Trump got weirdly creative during many years of tax fraud.
Key pattern:
…one of the things we know from the Donald Trump returns we finally got, is he created 60 fictitious businesses, took tax deductions for a number of them that reduced his overall tax bill, even though they had no revenue, and in other cases the revenue and expense matched to the dollar…
- News Corpse thinks it pointless for mr Trump to sue ABC News and George Stephanoloulos for defamation over the question of whether he is, for real, a rapist or just a creepy sexual predator.
I have to agree:
- In Happiness Between Tails da-AL writes a bit about experiencing cultural differences while growing up. She celebrates love that finds its way beyond, around, and through political, national, and ethnic borders. She suggests intermarriage is becoming more common.
Which is pretty much what poison our blood is about, isn’t it?
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