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Donald J. Trump

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All of the competitors to TRUTH SOCIAL, especially those in the Radical Left Democrats Party who are failing at every level, like to use their vaunted “disinformation machine” to try and convince people, and it is not easy to do, that TRUTH is not such a big deal and doesn’t “get the word out” as well as various others, which they know to be false. I THINK TRUTH IS AMAZING! First of all, it is very solid, having over $200,000,000 in CASH and ZERO DEBT. More importantly, it is the primary way I get the word out and, for better or worse, people want to hear what I have to say, perhaps, according to experts, more than anyone else in the World. My TV ratings are by far the highest, and my Rallies are not equaled, even close, anywhere or by anyone. Look, I had hundreds of millions of followers on various platforms, and could have them back again, but was cancelled for largely political reasons. Those platforms all want me back…They need me back! On Truth I have 7,000,000 followers……

As of late April 2022, MarketWatch reported Truth Social had around 513,000 active daily users, compared to Twitter's reported active daily userbase of 217 million.

Niegs wrote: ↑Mon Apr 08, 2024 4:52 am One of the comments nails this… he’s bringing the darkness but thankfully it’s only momentary.

TB63 wrote: ↑Mon Apr 08, 2024 1:37 pm Imagine being so fucking dumb, you'd believe this shit...

An appellate bond normally says that the underwriter will pay the judgment if the defendant loses the appeal and cannot or will not pay.Trump's appellate bond says that the underwriter will not pay anything.Trump's appellate bond is not a real appellate bond.It's a sham.

An insurance company will not be permitted to post a $175 million bond for Donald Trump while he appeals a fraud judgment, a former federal prosecutor has said.

Eric Lisann was reacting to a separate comment by another lawyer, Dave Kingman, who wrote that Knight Specialty Insurance will not be able to post the bond for Trump.

Kingman wrote that, as a result, New York Attorney General Letitia James will be able to begin enforcement proceedings on Donald Trump's properties.

A New York court has rejected Knight Specialty's paperwork and said it wanted to see more information on its financial backing. The company filed new paperwork on April

A state appeals court judge Monday denied Donald Trump's bid for an emergency delay of his impending criminal trial in New York.

Justice Lizbeth González of the state Appellate Division issued the ruling after attorneys for the former president argued the trial needed to be halted because "an impartial jury cannot be selected right now based on prejudicial pretrial publicity." González rejected the request in a one-line ruling late Monday afternoon with no explanation.

Trump's attorneys had filed the eleventh-hour motion in an attempt to delay a trial that centers on charges that Trump falsified business records related to hush money payments. The long-shot legal maneuver came exactly one week before the first criminal trial of a former president is scheduled to start.

González's ruling affects only Trump's request for a delay, not his underlying change-of-venue motion. Trump's attorneys are also fighting the partial gag order that Judge Juan Merchan handed down against him last month, which the appeals court is expected to hear Tuesday.

Trump attorney Emil Bove argued at the hearing on the venue challenge Monday afternoon that the gag order is unconstitutional and that jury selection can't proceed in a fair manner because of all the publicity surrounding the case.

Steven Wu of the district attorney's office countered that the publicity isn't confined to Manhattan, arguing it's worldwide, in part because of Trump's frequent commentary about the case. He suggested Trump was "trying to have it both ways" by complaining about the publicity while stoking it.

Trump's attorneys filed the challenge as a lawsuit invoking a provision of New York law known as Article 78. An Article 78 challenge allows litigants, whether in ongoing litigation or otherwise, to seek relief from allegedly unlawful state or local government action.

Trump tried a similar move before the same appeals court last year, when he challenged a partial gag order issued by Judge Arthur Engoron in the civil fraud case brought against him and his company by New York Attorney General Letitia James.

Slick wrote: ↑Mon Apr 08, 2024 1:59 pm

Niegs wrote: ↑Mon Apr 08, 2024 4:52 am One of the comments nails this… he’s bringing the darkness but thankfully it’s only momentary.

I’d forgotten about that Covid video he made when he left hospital which is genuinely the maddest thing I’ve seen in politics

Flockwitt wrote: ↑Tue Apr 09, 2024 7:24 pm The joke the RNC has become - Lara Trump proudly touting her new ‘Election Integrity Division’ advised by a QAnon head honcho.

Niegs wrote: ↑Wed Apr 10, 2024 12:33 am

Flockwitt wrote: ↑Tue Apr 09, 2024 7:24 pm The joke the RNC has become - Lara Trump proudly touting her new ‘Election Integrity Division’ advised by a QAnon head honcho.

I've been listening to this https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m00132 ... des/player Looking at QAnon and US politics. Series 3 should be coming out soon.

There's always been loons and conspiracies, but we're in fascinating times where large swathes of people believe utter nonsense or are willing to align themselves with nonsense to obtain/retain power. And they're more easily talking to each other in echo chambers.

One thing he doesn't really go into, but jumped out at me in one of the interviews, is something I've wondered for a short while now... lots of people see a political party as their 'team' and either stick by them no matter what or, when things are pretty bad, still never consider voting for the other guy because that's the rival team they hate.

A fella casually admitted he was a Dem in the old days, didn't like Carter for a reason he couldn't explain, became a die-hard Reganite Rep and hasn't looked back even though he was being challenged for his role (forget what he was, but local gov't) by MAGA nutbars after QAnon pushed their people to flood local govs and school boards. He seemed (and a consistently Rep voting woman I saw on telly last week who said she's pro choice) to be someone who could flip sides or float between issues, but nope, it's my team forever.

I wonder if there ever comes a point where the right splits, esp if they get hammered in the next election? I feel like the (centre) left could split as well, but with two parties so evenly matched the camps know that the first to split will pretty much guarantee a loss next round.

Sinkers wrote: ↑Wed Apr 10, 2024 1:22 am What kind of thought process does somebody need to go through to want to reinstate any law from 1864, let alone an abortion law?

Sandstorm wrote: ↑Wed Apr 10, 2024 7:48 am

Sinkers wrote: ↑Wed Apr 10, 2024 1:22 am What kind of thought process does somebody need to go through to want to reinstate any law from 1864, let alone an abortion law?

Votes and money. These people don’t give a fuck about anything or anyone else.

The White House Thugs should not be allowed to have these dangerous and unfair Biden Trials during my campaign for President. All of them, civil and criminal, could have been brought more than three years ago. It is an illegal attack on a Political Opponent. It is Communism at its worst, and Election Interference at its Best. No such thing has ever happened in our Country before. On Monday I will be forced to sit, GAGGED, before a HIGHLY CONFLICTED & CORRUPT JUDGE, whose hatred for me has no bounds. All of these New York and D.C. “Judges” and Prosecutors have the same MINDSET. Nobody but this Soros Prosecutor, Alvin Bragg, wanted to take this ridiculous case. All legal scholars say it is a sham. BIDEN’S DOJ IS RUNNING THE CASE. Just think of it, these animals want to put the former President of the United States (who got more votes than any sitting President!), & the PARTY’S REPUBLICAN CANDIDATE, IN JAIL, for doing absolutely nothing wrong. It is a RUSH TO THE FINISH. SO UNFAIR!

TB63 wrote: ↑Wed Apr 10, 2024 4:38 pm

The White House Thugs should not be allowed to have these dangerous and unfair Biden Trials during my campaign for President. All of them, civil and criminal, could have been brought more than three years ago. It is an illegal attack on a Political Opponent. It is Communism at its worst, and Election Interference at its Best. No such thing has ever happened in our Country before. On Monday I will be forced to sit, GAGGED, before a HIGHLY CONFLICTED & CORRUPT JUDGE, whose hatred for me has no bounds. All of these New York and D.C. “Judges” and Prosecutors have the same MINDSET. Nobody but this Soros Prosecutor, Alvin Bragg, wanted to take this ridiculous case. All legal scholars say it is a sham. BIDEN’S DOJ IS RUNNING THE CASE. Just think of it, these animals want to put the former President of the United States (who got more votes than any sitting President!), & the PARTY’S REPUBLICAN CANDIDATE, IN JAIL, for doing absolutely nothing wrong. It is a RUSH TO THE FINISH. SO UNFAIR!

Cry harder....

Slick wrote: ↑Wed Apr 10, 2024 4:57 pm

TB63 wrote: ↑Wed Apr 10, 2024 4:38 pm

The White House Thugs should not be allowed to have these dangerous and unfair Biden Trials during my campaign for President. All of them, civil and criminal, could have been brought more than three years ago. It is an illegal attack on a Political Opponent. It is Communism at its worst, and Election Interference at its Best. No such thing has ever happened in our Country before. On Monday I will be forced to sit, GAGGED, before a HIGHLY CONFLICTED & CORRUPT JUDGE, whose hatred for me has no bounds. All of these New York and D.C. “Judges” and Prosecutors have the same MINDSET. Nobody but this Soros Prosecutor, Alvin Bragg, wanted to take this ridiculous case. All legal scholars say it is a sham. BIDEN’S DOJ IS RUNNING THE CASE. Just think of it, these animals want to put the former President of the United States (who got more votes than any sitting President!), & the PARTY’S REPUBLICAN CANDIDATE, IN JAIL, for doing absolutely nothing wrong. It is a RUSH TO THE FINISH. SO UNFAIR!

Cry harder....

Happily, he’s definitely getting worried

TB63 wrote: ↑Wed Apr 10, 2024 4:38 pm

The White House Thugs should not be allowed to have these dangerous and unfair Biden Trials during my campaign for President. All of them, civil and criminal, could have been brought more than three years ago. It is an illegal attack on a Political Opponent. It is Communism at its worst, and Election Interference at its Best. No such thing has ever happened in our Country before. On Monday I will be forced to sit, GAGGED, before a HIGHLY CONFLICTED & CORRUPT JUDGE, whose hatred for me has no bounds. All of these New York and D.C. “Judges” and Prosecutors have the same MINDSET. Nobody but this Soros Prosecutor, Alvin Bragg, wanted to take this ridiculous case. All legal scholars say it is a sham. BIDEN’S DOJ IS RUNNING THE CASE. Just think of it, these animals want to put the former President of the United States (who got more votes than any sitting President!), & the PARTY’S REPUBLICAN CANDIDATE, IN JAIL, for doing absolutely nothing wrong. It is a RUSH TO THE FINISH. SO UNFAIR!

Cry harder....

geordie_6 wrote: ↑Mon Apr 08, 2024 5:02 pm

TB63 wrote: ↑Mon Apr 08, 2024 1:37 pm Imagine being so fucking dumb, you'd believe this shit...

How is nobody calling this out consistently and ridiculing the shitstained moron...

Sinkers wrote: ↑Thu Apr 11, 2024 1:32 am What’s the latest? Trump feels the Arizona ban is too strict. So leave it to the states but don’t leave it to the states.

Dog that caught the car and too dumb to let go.

TB63 wrote: ↑Thu Apr 11, 2024 10:02 am

Let’s do a little FACT CHECK!

Trump posted a letter from 2018 of Stormy Daniels saying she did not have an affair with him. Trump claimed that the letter was “JUST FOUND”. Trump also claimed that the media won’t report on it:

FACT: The Letter was not “Just found”.

FACT: The media reported on the letter, literally on the day it was written in 2018.

FACT: Yahoo, The Atlantic, The Guardian and Jimmy Kimmel reported on it 6 years ago.

FACT: Stormy Daniels, well over a year ago explained that she felt that she had to lie about the affair because of an NDA and she was made to think she had no choice.

FACT: Michael Cohen was literally CONVICTED for paying her off with Trump’s money to keep the affair secret.

FACT: Stormy Daniels Testified UNDER OATH that she had an affair with Trump, well after the letter was written,

FACTS MATTER. Trump’s LIES don’t.