Trump this.

[TX-Beau]

(Bloomberg) -- Donald Trump is suing Michigan’s top election official to block an effort to disqualify him from appearing on state ballots in the 2024 presidential race...

MSN

www.msn.com

This is really slippery ground. If the Supremes assert jurisdiction and allow Toad to run even though it's a traitor, they will be asserting that the FED has ultimate jurisdiction in matters electoral, which is a direct violation of the Constitution.

If Michigan does bar Toad, and it stands, Toad has no route to victory. That's an automatic loss.

 

[rareboy]

Hasn't the Court already established a ruling that makes them the arbiter in some election matter? I can't see this court hesitating for one minute to take this up and rule in Trump's favour at this point...although doesn't it require consent of all justices to take up a case?

 

[Riverrick]

TRUMP

Season 1: Trumps runs for the Presidency
Season 2: Trump wins it and chaos ensues.
Season 3: Trump loses the re-election and denies it
Season 4: Trumps legal issues mount as he runs again for the Presidency

Season 5: If you wanted the ratings, how would you write this season? Does he win and repeat the chaos? Does he lose and then we get to see the aftermath? Does he not even get to run? What would be the more interesting story?

I only ask because you can't make this stuff up. If this were a real show, the critics would call it high drama and unrealistic but addictive tv. We call it real life. In some parallel world, Hillary had 2 terms in the office and probably a one term Republican is now serving. And they're watching this series and shaking their heads.

 

[TX-Beau]

Hasn't the Court already established a ruling that makes them the arbiter in some election matter? I can't see this court hesitating for one minute to take this up and rule in Trump's favour at this point...although doesn't it require consent of all justices to take up a case?

There's a big difference in asserting jurisdiction over the interpretation of FED voting rights rules - voting rights are Federal. Choosing candidates who may or may not be allowed to compete in any given state is a direct violation of the Constitution. I don't know if they'd do that for Toad, they don't love him either. It wouldn't be the first time they knifed him in the back.

Put it this way, the right to vote is in the Constitution, and the right of States to conduct their own elections without Federal intrusion is also in the Constitution.

 

[TX-Beau]

TRUMP

Season 1: Trumps runs for the Presidency
Season 2: Trump wins it and chaos ensues.
Season 3: Trump loses the re-election and denies it
Season 4: Trumps legal issues mount as he runs again for the Presidency

Season 5: If you wanted the ratings, how would you write this season? Does he win and repeat the chaos? Does he lose and then we get to see the aftermath? Does he not even get to run? What would be the more interesting story?

I only ask because you can't make this stuff up. If this were a real show, the critics would call it high drama and unrealistic but addictive tv. We call it real life. In some parallel world, Hillary had 2 terms in the office and probably a one term Republican is now serving. And they're watching this series and shaking their heads.

The only thing scripting this is entropy.

 

[rareboy]

Season 5: If you wanted the ratings, how would you write this season? Does he win and repeat the chaos? Does he lose and then we get to see the aftermath? Does he not even get to run? What would be the more interesting story?

I only ask because you can't make this stuff up. If this were a real show, the critics would call it high drama and unrealistic but addictive tv. We call it real life. In some parallel world, Hillary had 2 terms in the office and probably a one term Republican is now serving. And they're watching this series and shaking their heads.

How it plays out is largely going to be how the MSM plays this. If ALL of the media gives Trump all the oxygen in the room like they did in 2016, they will wipe all the other candidates off the maps and help him get his ugly, hateful messaging into every living room in America again. Even now...none of the coverage is about his dangerous policies...it is about personalities...America is still engrossed with this scripted 'reality' show and the cult of stardom.

 

[smokeshadow]

AAAAAWWWWWWWWWWWW. . .poor baby

'Leave My Children Alone': Trump Launches Tirade Attacking Judge and Attorney General

Just hours before the start of a days-long series of witness stand appearances by three of his adult children, Donald Trump launched an overnight tirade attacking the judge and attorney general in his $250 million civil fraud trial, demanding the judge “leave my children alone.” Trump, already...

www.thenewcivilrightsmovement.com

 

[KaraBulut]

Donald Trump Jr (BS-Economics UPenn '00) tries the Sgt Schultz defense, claiming that he doesn't know anything about accounting. Don Jr founded the ill-fated Trump Mortgage Corporation which apparently didn't require knowing anything about Generally Accepted Accounting Principles (GAAP), either?

Trump Jr. on accounting practices at the Trump Organization: "I leave it to my accountants"

The New York attorney general’s office began the questioning of Donald Trump Jr. in the civil fraud trial by asking if he was familiar with accounting standards, such as the generally accepted accounting principles (GAAP).

Trump Jr. responded that his knowledge of GAAP was limited to what he learned in “Accounting 101” during college in the 1990s.

 

[rareboy]

"I leave it to my accountants" is the mob boss defense as well.

But I for one would not be the least bit surprised that Trump Jr. knows nothing about GAAP.

Like he didn't know anything about running a charity.

 

[KaraBulut]

"I leave it to my accountants" is the mob boss defense as well.

But I for one would not be the least bit surprised that Trump Jr. knows nothing about GAAP.

Like he didn't know anything about running a charity.

Don Jr said that he only knows GAAP from entry-level accounting classes. From my personal experience, having taken an entry-level accounting classes, GAAP is what is taught in those classes.

While I wouldn't expect Don Jr to be able to be able to book a general ledger transaction and to know which accounts he was debiting and crediting, it doesn't take a CPA certification to know that you can't put different monetary values or different square footages for the same real estate on your loan applications, financial statements and property tax records. I don't think this judge is going to buy any of it.

Admitting you're a dim bulb doesn't him much in a civil lawsuit. It might be a defense in a criminal trial and most financial documents have an attestation that is signed "under penalty of law".

 

[rareboy]

Jesus. I didn't even take accounting, but I needed to have some understanding of GAAP in my professional life and having set up a few corporations and it isn't rocket science.

Don the Con Jr. definitely knew enough about the rules in order to always be looking at ways to bend them.

And that is the problem with all the low level shysters like the Trumps.

They don't know ENOUGH about all of it to make their crimes invisible.

Instead, more often than not, they hire the lower tier ham fisted shysters that would try to fiddle the books.

I can't imagine for one minute that the Judge is going to be swayed by this and I think that so much of this is just to make the horrible Trump sprog do this in public...before he nails TrumpCo.

 

[rareboy]

This stood out.

Michiel McCarty, an expert witness for the prosecution, told the court the Trump Organization’s lenders lost just over $168m due to fudged financial statements. Trump’s lawyers have been arguing through cross examination that the lenders had good relationships with the Trump Organization and had profited off their loans.

Donald Trump Jr tells court ‘I don’t recall’ in response to questions at Trump family fraud trial – as it happened

Ex-US president’s son testifies in family’s trial; state’s expert witness calculated banks lost out on $168m because of Trump Organization

www.theguardian.com

 

[TX-Beau]

Don't be assuming they didn't just pay someone else to take his classes just like Daddy.

 

[gsdx]

Don Jr said that he only knows GAAP from entry-level accounting classes. From my personal experience, having taken an entry-level accounting classes, GAAP is what is taught in those classes.

I wouldn't be surprised that none of the 3 guys can count to 21 without taking off all their clothes.

(Think about it)

 

[KaraBulut]

I wouldn't be surprised that none of the 3 guys can count to 21 without taking off all their clothes.

(Think about it)

It's pretty sad that none of them could do simple multiplication in their head.

 

[gsdx]

^ Well, to be fair, they DID have to deal with evens and odds at the same time. Maybe they should have channelled Bud Abbott and Lou Costello.

 

[KaraBulut]

^ Well, to be fair, they DID have to deal with evens and odds at the same time. Maybe they should have channelled Bud Abbott and Lou Costello.

I suppose that it was already unlikely that any of the Trumps would ever be used in a recruiting video for the Wharton School of Business at UPenn....

 

[gsdx]

^ I wonder if the Wharton school website now has a disclaimer on its Home Page: "Donald Trump Jr. never attended the Wharton School of Business. We Don't Know Him!"

 

[Thad1527]

Hello from the University of Pennsylvania campus, where you-know-who is never mentioned.

 

[rareboy]

More on the Schultz defense front....

Eric Trump testified, at one point, that he had "never worked" on the Trump Org's statement of financial condition.

Later, he was then shown an email sent to him by a Trump employee from 2013 telling him the employee needed information from Eric Trump to help put together his father's statement of financial condition.

Asked by the AG again if he knew about the statement, Eric Trump said, "It appears that way."