Good fucking luck with that. Trump doesn't even pay his own legal bills. But on the plus side information can be very valuable.

Trump aides 'considering legal action' to force him to help pay their January 6-related legal bills: report

Matthew Chapman
January 06, 2022



Donald Trump. (Screenshot)


On Thursday, Maggie Haberman of The New York Times reported that associates of former President Donald Trump are considering "legal action" to force the former president to cover legal expenses related to the January 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol, as he has indicated he is unwilling to do so voluntarily.


Maggie Haberman
@maggieNYT
As Trump has signaled to some of his current and former staff that he won't cover legal bills related to Jan. 6, some are considering taking legal action to force him to, according to one former senior Trump adviser.
3:58 PM · Jan 6, 2022


Numerous current and former aides to Trump are being targeted by House investigators for information relating to their activities, or knowledge of Trump's activities, on January 6.



This comes, ironically, as the Republican National Committee is ponying up $1.6 million to pay for Trump's personal legal expenses relating to the New York State investigation into his business practices — an arrangement that has drawn furious criticism from at least one Republican donor.

The former president has a lengthy pattern of refusing to pay legal expenses for allies, even when their legal problems are related to their association with him. For the past several months, Trump has spurned pleas from Rudy Giuliani to help his legal expenses as he faces investigations and threats of disbarment.

https://www.rawstory.com/trump-capitol-riot-2656247866/

 

Fluff.

 

It will take years to finally find and remove all the corrupt incompetent Trump campaign donors he placed in our government. But I sure as fuck hope it doesn't take that long for this one.

Postal employees rail against Louis DeJoy's 'disastrous' new changes

Travis Gettys
January 12, 2022



Louis DeJoy (YouTube/screen grab)

Postal advocates are still calling for the removal of postmaster general Louis DeJoy over his plans to essentially privatize the U.S. Postal Service.

The Donald Trump appointee has drawn criticism for changes he called for that resulted in delays, cuts and other upheavals, as well as his conflicts of interest, and postal employees unions are fighting plans to consolidate 18 processing facilities into regional centers, reported The Guardian.

“All of these consolidations, they weren’t anywhere near as successful as what they would say," said Greg Davidson, president of American Postal Workers Union (APWU) Local 4088. "I would say they were actually disastrous. The mail has slowed down. They reduced the service standards.”

Postal advocates warn that DeJoy's changes are already hurting low-income and rural Americans, as well as small businesses, after the postmaster general released a 10-year austerity plan that called for longer delivery windows, cuts to branch hours, postage rate increases and other changes intended to improve financial sustainability.



“The 10-year plan is a plan for privatization -- it just doesn’t use the ‘p’ word,” said Porter McConnell, co-founder of the Save the Post Office Coalition. “It’s already happening. I think what they’ve discovered is that you can privatize without talking about it.”

Prices have risen as service declines, and additional increases were imposed for priority mail last week, drawing criticism from union leaders who complain the postal service has moved toward operating as a business instead of a public service.

“This is the closest that we’ve ever come to actually being privatized,” said Kimberly Karol, president of the APWU in Iowa. “We do everything we possibly can to make sure people get the mail in the way that they are expecting. The plans and the rules that are being put in place are making that nearly impossible for us to do any more and it’s heartbreaking. I’ve been with the postal service for 30 years. That’s a hard thing for us to come to terms with.”


https://www.rawstory.com/louis-dejoy-postmaster-general-2656385291/

 

A privatized postal service sounds like a good idea.

 

I like it...private owned companies are much more efficient than what the federal fucking government will ever be.

Hell, offer almost the same thing that they get working for the federal fucking government...all is good.

 

Never happen, but hey we can dream, can't we?

 

Again we can clearly see that treasonous conservative/Republicans actually despise the Constitution and everything in it including the United States Postal Service.

The only thing treasonous conservative/Republicans believe in is Trump. And as I have pointed out many times Trump did not drain the swamp. He turned the swamp into The Blob that corrupts and devours everything it touches leaving nothing but a stinking gutter slime in its wake.

I worked on both the 2000 and 2010 census and there is nothing more simple in the world. There is actually just one task. Just count everyone in they country no matter who or what they are. And Trump even managed to fuck that up.

And do you know who is really paying the point for that now? None other than the Trump supporters in rural America where they have been seriously under counted,

Trump set off revolt at Census Bureau with attempt to manipulate the numbers for political advantage

Tom Boggioni
January 15, 2022



Donald Trump AFP Photo

According to a report from the New York Times, former president Donald Trump engaged in what was termed "unprecedented" attempts to influence the national census which led to a revolt by senior executives who were upset with his meddling.

The report notes that the twice-impeached president and his aides were attempting to rush the results of the census in September of 2020 so that, should he lose to now President Joe Biden, he could create havoc within the House of Representatives.

As the Times' Michael Wines wrote, Ron S. Jarmin, the deputy director and the Census Bureau's day-to-day head was one of three senior execs who pushed back at White House influence.

"The memo laid out a string of instances of political interference that senior census officials planned to raise with Wilbur Ross, who was then the secretary of the Commerce Department, which oversees the bureau," Wines wrote. "The issues involved crucial technical aspects of the count, including the privacy of census respondents, the use of estimates to fill in missing population data, pressure to take shortcuts to produce population totals quickly and political pressure on a crash program that was seeking to identify and count unauthorized immigrants."



According to the report, officials believe that Trump was going to use the inaccurate numbers to reapportion the House -- which could have implications for years in the balance of power.

Former Census Bureau head Kenneth Prewitt, now at Columbia University indicated the memo exhibited "extraordinary pushback against political interference."

“This was a very, very strong commitment to independence on their part,” Prewitt explained. “They said, ‘We’re going to run the technical matters in the way we think we ought to.’”

According to the Times' Wines, "The Trump administration had long been open about its intention to change the formula for divvying up House seats among the states by excluding noncitizens from the population counts. That would leave an older and whiter population base in states with large immigrant populations, something that was presumed to work to Republican advantage."

You can read more here.


https://www.rawstory.com/donald-trump-census/

 

Is that why biden is importing illegals to bring up the numbers?

 

Differential privacy, something the hack fucks cherish so they can hide the illegals from real categorization, in which is equivalent to plausible deniability.

The Census has been used to politicize and disincentivize the original ideals of the founding of this Nation.

 

Unconstitutional?

 

I think your right, they just do what they want and makes excuses they are right,

 

Geez...you 2 sure are expressing the glass is half empty...keep the faith in the people.

Crime Boss Biden and the Ho (half cracker 3.0) Administration approval is at 33%...the people see what's going on.

 

it,s up to the people to see and act, or vote out clowns,

 

I had to crowd source this headline jut to see where it goes. It's Trump's former staffers creating their own support group and going after him.

More ex-staff participated in anti-Trump meeting than expected — and a former official says they're all worried

Sarah K. Burris
January 16, 2022



President Donald Trump pouts while listening to criticism of his plan to arm teachers (Screen cap).


Former Homeland Security adviser Olivia Troye revealed to CNN that the meeting of former officials in the Donald Trump administration had more attendees than anticipated.

Speaking to Jim Acosta on Sunday, Troye explained that the discussions were in the early stages, but were about how they could work together to combat the firmer president's lies.

"It's the first time we've all come together as a group," she said. "This is a group of people that have worked across the Trump administration at varying levels, whether it be national security or more on the political side of the White House, and in different departments. I did find it encouraging that it was a much larger number of people who participated in this meeting than I actually expected it to be. And it was very clear that there is grave concern amongst these circles about what is happening, about the fact that Trump continues to play such a significant role in influencing our U.S. politics, and also what it means for this movement that continues to follow him and the movement that he continues to enable."

He also asked her about the op-ed in the Washington Post by former President Mike Pence, who Troye advised. She said that Pence is clearly giving credence to Trump's election lies.

"I read that op-ed, and while I was, like, okay, finally, you're actually publicly acknowledging that this was an angry mob and it was a dangerous situation that day," said Troye. "But then he doubles back on the claims of election integrity, which is basically code for the big lie. So when he does that, he's by de facto enabling it. That's what he's doing. You're enabling the big lie that almost led to your death. And I think he's doing that because he really has no other choice. He is right now scrambling to figure out where his political home is in the Republican Party."

She explained that if Pence decides that the GOP is the party of Trumpism then his chance at anything in 2024 is "an extreme long shot."

See the conversation below:



https://www.rawstory.com/trump-staff-readies-oppose-him/

 

Maybe Trump should have paid his good lawyers while he had them. And before ht committed treason.,

Trump is being brought down by bad lawyers: impeachment attorney

Sarah K. Burris
January 20, 2022



(AFP Photo/Kena Betancur)


Speaking to CNN "New Day" Thursday morning, former impeachment lawyer Norm Eisen explained that Donald Trump is slowly being defeated, in part, due to really bad lawyering.

Over the past several months, the former president has fought the demand for the National Archives to hand over any documents or details submitted from his administration. According to Eisen, he hasn't done so very effectively.

Legal analysts have said that the likelihood of the court agreeing to hide the documents is slim because the exiting executive has waged executive privilege on anything involving the Jan. 6 attack. At the same time, the requests are coming from Congress, which has a constitutional responsibility to serve as a check on the other branch of government.

"He's failed at every level," Eisen said of Trump's efforts. "And the reason he has failed the Supreme Court road last night is because he simply did not make the showing that he needed to make in order to have these documents held back. It's a balancing test when you're talking about executive privilege, the right of a president to hold back documents. And you've got to show an overwhelming, compelling need for each individual document. And sometimes even a paragraph for a line on a document to be held back, and he just failed to do it. So, once again, Trump was brought down by lousy lawyering."



Trump has struggled to find legal help after years of attorneys only partially being paid or being stiffed entirely. Another reason, according to Joe Scarborough, is that Trump makes for a terrible client because "he lies all the time." That makes him very difficult to defend.

Author and lawyer James Zirin penned the book Plaintiff in Chief: A Portrait of Donald Trump in 3,500 Lawsuits in which documented Trump's refusal to pay his bills.

"People often ask me: 'how can he bring 3,500 lawsuits or be involved in 3,500 lawsuits?'" the author said in 2019. "The answer is he didn't pay most of his lawyers ... He doesn't pay his lawyers. He doesn't pay his architects, doesn't pay his creditors, goes into bankruptcy."

Well-known lawyers have even turned down the former president. That then results in an inexperienced legal team to litigate executive privilege and other constitutional issues.

Now that the decision has been made, Eisen explained that there will likely be a trove of documents that Americans can see. The Jan. 6 probe isn't from a grand jury, so most of the documents should be public.

"I think, are going to provide further depth to the mosaic" of Jan. 6, Eisen continued. "They're putting together all the pieces of this terrible falsehood. One of the worst in American history — that that election was stolen and we saw the violence of Jan. 6 erupt as a result. Now they'll have call logs, they'll have memos, they'll have speech drafts, they'll have emails and other material from the core people in the White House who were talking to the president about this big lie. I think it will help them to advance the narrative."

He went on to say that the information will help go deeper into the president's inner circle with phone records to and from the White House and how all roads lead to the president.

"What he knew, what he did and didn't do.," said Eisen "These documents will help them very likely make the case and lead to dramatic televised hearings and a report that may very well have a criminal referral or referrals, including against the former president. These documents are absolutely critical inside information."

See the discussion below:

https://www.rawstory.com/trumps-inexperienced-lawyers-cause-damage/

 

And we're going to elect him again. Just look at what you put in office! I'd be damned embarrassed if I were you.

 

Ain't that the truth. Treasonous conservative/Republicans prove that every day on this forum. Not even treason against the United States of America is too far for them.

 

Donald Trump and the terrible, horrible, no good, very bad week

Sarah K. Burris
January 20, 2022





Donald Trump didn't have a very good Wednesday, but by Thursday it became clear that this is potentially the worst week of the ex-president's life.

If he thought losing the election was bad, now it turns out there are a slew of investigations that all seem to be converging like a bowling ball to a pin.

This week, New York Attorney General Letitia James revealed in a 115-page court filing that the Trump Organization gave "misleading" statements on official IRS documents and loans. The effort appears to have coordinated with appraisers, geologists and others to help Trump either score a massive tax refund or score loans with exaggerated collateral like his own apartment.

She linked not only Trump but his children -- Donald Trump Jr., Eric Trump and Ivanka Trump -- to the misleading statements. Eric Trump has already spoken to prosecutors and over the course of the six-hour deposition, he refused to answer over 500 times on the grounds that he may incriminate himself.

"Mr. Trump's actual knowledge of — and intention to make — the numerous misstatements and omissions made by him or on his behalf are essential components to resolving [the Office of the Attorney General's] investigation in an appropriate and just manner," the documents say. "Likewise, Donald Trump, Jr. and Ivanka Trump worked as agents of Mr. Trump, acted on their own behalves, and supervised others in connection with the transactions at issue here; their testimony is necessary for appropriate resolution of OAG's investigation as well."

Next, Trump lost a Supreme Court case attempting to hide his administration's documents about the attempt to stop the federal certification of the 2020 election and the subsequent riot that ensued the same day.

In previous cases, Trump has had a difficult time accepting that the judges that he put on the Supreme Court would vote against him. All of the three Trump appointees did in the case, with an 8-1 ruling.

In Dec. 2020, just after the election, Trump raged at the Court for refusing to hear his election challenge.

He tweeted then that the justices have "a chance to save our Country from the greatest Election abuse in the history of the United States." After they rejected him, he complained, "The Supreme Court really let us down. No Wisdom, No Courage!"

The Court made it clear that the National Archives must hand over 700 documents requested by the House Select Committee investigation Jan. 6 and the lead up to it. They could prove that Trump attempted to obstruct an official government process, which is a felony.

"The documents include activity logs, schedules, speech notes and three pages of handwritten notes from then-White House chief of staff Mark Meadows -- paperwork that could reveal goings-on inside the West Wing as Trump supporters gathered in Washington and then overran the Capitol, disrupting the certification of the 2020 vote," the list said.

There is also an indication that the Secret Service could have documents to prove Trump's movements that day.

On Thursday, things got worse.

Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis announced that a grand jury was being impaneled to consider the evidence that Trump committed a crime when he called Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensberger and demanded the Republican official "find" the votes necessary for him to win the state. Trump also sent chief of staff Mark Meadows down to Georgia to "observe" those checking ballot signatures against records.

While there, Meadows met with Deputy Secretary of State Jordan Fuchs, according to the Atlanta Journal-Constitution, "in a hallway to inquire about the signature audit and what it would find. He wasn’t permitted inside the room where investigators were examining ballot envelopes."

He was given a 45-minute notice that Meadows arrived in Cobb County. On the day before, Trump whined that the signature audit was moving too slowly. He then falsely claimed that the signatures were rife with fraud.

That visit was the first in a "series of meetings and conversations in a pressure campaign by Trump and his allies that culminated in a Jan. 2 phone call in which Trump told Georgia’s secretary of state to 'find' the votes he needed to win," said Reuters.

Meadows was also on the call where Trump demanded the votes be found.


Also on Thursday, the House Select Committee investigating Jan. 6 called on Ivanka Trump to answer their questions and provide documents involving what she witnessed during the attack. The letter also contained little hints that lead back to possible Justice Department questions about her father's efforts to persuade Vice President Mike Pence, and whether that could be a felony charge of obstruction of an official government process.

In Washington, D.C., Trump's children might be on the hook for a block of rooms they booked at the Loews Madison Hotel after 13 people didn't show up. The bill was sent to collections. It only added to existing questions about the Trump kids using the Presidential Inauguration Committee on their own lavish parties.

Stephanie Winston Wolkoff, a former friend of the first lady Melania Trump came out this week saying that the Trumps tried to blame her for misuse of funds on the Inaugural Committee after she refused to go along with their "grifting."

"It was their friends. It should never have been sent to the PIC. That's misuse of funding. The Trump Organization being involved in any way and getting the PIC to pay any sort of balance anywhere on their behalf? It just doesn’t seem legitimate," said Wolkoff, who did inaugural events.

The incidents this week add to a number of personal lawsuits for and from various people, Just Security is tracking.

https://www.rawstory.com/trump-week-of-lawsuit-failures/