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Government Corruption
Judge rules Nathan Wade's attorney must take the stand again in Trump election case: Sources
[ABC News] "Perjury! Can you spell it?"
A Fulton County judge has ruled that special prosecutor Nathan Wade's former law partner and divorce attorney, Terrence Bradley, must retake the stand in former President Donald Trump's Georgia election interference case to testify on topics not covered by attorney-client privilege, sources familiar with the matter confirmed to ABC News.

Following a meeting with Bradley on Monday, Judge Scott McAfee notified attorneys in the case via email that some communications between Wade and Bradley do not fall under attorney-client confidentiality, the sources said.

Michael Roman and several other co-defendants in Trump's election case are seeking Willis' disqualification from the case on the grounds that she benefited financially from a "personal, romantic relationship" with Wade, who she hired for the case.

Willis and Wade have admitted to the relationship but said it "does not amount to a disqualifying conflict of interest" and that the relationship "has never involved direct or indirect financial benefit to District Attorney Willis."

The defense contends that Bradley has evidence that Wade and Willis' relationship began before Wade was hired, which would contradict what Willis and Wade told the court. Bradley largely declined to answer questions from the defense during a Feb. 15 hearing on the matter, citing attorney-client privilege.

His return to the stand could potentially lead to significant revelations as the defense continues its effort to disqualify Willis from the election case and have the charges dismissed.
Posted by: Frank G || 02/27/2024 09:13 || Comments || Link || [43 views] Top|| File under: Tin Hat Dictators, Presidents for Life, & Kleptocrats

#1  This stuff is getting weirder than Johnnie Depp and Amber Heard.
Posted by: Super Hose || 02/27/2024 11:39 Comments || Top||

#2  This is about "un-ringing" the perjury bell. A do-over you or I would not get.
Posted by: M. Murcek || 02/27/2024 11:42 Comments || Top||


Trump may lose his famous skyscraper
Direct Translation via Google Translate. Edited.
by Malek Dudakov

[REGNUM] Against the backdrop of international crises, party primaries in the United States have faded into the background. But they are taking their course - now Republicans in South Carolina have voted. This is their fourth state in the primaries. However, judges and prosecutors interfere in the election race. As in the three previous rounds of primary voting, Donald Trump won in South Carolina. The primaries themselves are quite easy for him. But at the same time, Trump has to wage a political battle in many dimensions at once, while simultaneously trying to win the election and avoid going to prison.

Continued on Page 49
Posted by: badanov || 02/27/2024 00:00 || Comments || Link || [34 views] Top|| File under:

#1  It could be renamed Haman’s Tree.
Posted by: Super Hose || 02/27/2024 11:30 Comments || Top||

#2  Add another empty building. No revenue. Put migrants in and rundown the property value. NY will then also do their claw back game.
Posted by: Dale || 02/27/2024 12:29 Comments || Top||

#3  I never heard it brought up, but what assessed value was Trump being taxed on for these properties? It's not the same as collateral value, but it isn't completely divorced from it either. The state tells you what the assessed value is, you don't get to tell them (though you can appeal their determination.)
Posted by: M. Murcek || 02/27/2024 13:01 Comments || Top||

#4  Okey dokie. Donald Trump, for all of his purported wealth, did not take cash out of his pocket for that building. Somebody put up loans for it. It's their building, and Trump pays the note to use it.
I'm thinking that the leinholders will have something to say about a change of ownership.
If NYC says they're 'taking' the building, does that mean that they're assuming the note, or do they feel that Trump should continue to pay for it?
Posted by: ed in texas || 02/27/2024 16:06 Comments || Top||

#5  and the rocks might melt and the sea may burn 🔥

The Donald has already learned to fly. It's been his whole life.
Posted by: Cured Romantic || 02/27/2024 19:00 Comments || Top||


Trump files to overturn 'egregious' $454M civil fraud judgment that found he inflated wealth to fool banks
[NYPOST] Donald Trump
...The tack in the backside of the Democratic Party...
filed a notice of appeal of his $454 million civil fraud judgment, which found him guilty of inflating his wealth by billions to dupe banks and investors into helping him grow his real estate empire.

Trump, 77, filed the notice Monday with New York state requesting to overturn Justice Arthur Engoron’s Feb. 16 verdict by looking into whether the judge "committed errors of law and/or fact" and "acted in excess" of his jurisdiction.

"We trust that the Appellate Division will overturn this egregious fine and take the necessary steps to restore the public faith in New York’s legal system," Trump attorney Alina Habba said in statement.

The former president has railed against the case brought by New York Attorney General Letitia James, calling it a political "witch hunt" since it was first brought against him in 2020.

After the verdict earlier in February, the president doubled down by calling the decision "election interference," claiming the justice system had been made into "weaponization against a political opponent."

James’ office declined to comment on the notice of appeal, which had been expected since the verdict was handed down.

Posted by: Fred || 02/27/2024 00:00 || Comments || Link || [22 views] Top|| File under:

#1  This legal has damaged the business prospects for the entire state of New York. We will now see whether they insist on lighting the wreck on fire.
Posted by: Super Hose || 02/27/2024 11:21 Comments || Top||

#2  Every time someone inflates an value to get a loan, the bank is a willing participant. You get the money that they have to lend out to make profit, and they get to book your debt as an asset.
Posted by: ed in texas || 02/27/2024 12:29 Comments || Top||

#3  Seems like a bank would love to loan out more money on a guaranteed payback.

Like when The Fed backstops 'certain high risk loans', or when Hunter overdraws.

Hey, you know who else does this? Property Tax evaluators. Then you get it again with Value Gained Tax. I'd bet there are some real 'gems' of property in New York which are, politely, way over valued according to the tax man.
Posted by: swksvolFF || 02/27/2024 12:41 Comments || Top||

#4  I'm a former federal bank examiner. It doesn't matter what a loan applicant values his assets at--no competent lender will loan on that. Instead they make THEIR OWN independent analysis, usually involving an independent or semi-independent appraisal process.
Posted by: Crusader || 02/27/2024 13:02 Comments || Top||


Home Front: Politix
Michelle Obama tops Kamala Harris, Hillary Clinton and Gavin Newsom as a replacement for Joe Biden, 81, if he drops out: New poll reveals who Democrats would want on the ticket and how likely they feel he WON'T run
[DM]
  • Survey finds nearly half of voters believe Biden will be replaced on Dem ticket

  • Michelle Obama is top choice to replacement Biden, VP Harris comes in second

  • Speculation over Biden remaining on the ticket went into overdrive following the special counsel report

Sixty-year-old Michelle Obama has said multiple times she isn't interested in running for office and has admitted she is 'terrified' of the outcome of this year's election. But she still hasn't addressed recent theories that her name could be on the Democratic ticket if Biden were to leave the race.
Posted by: Skidmark || 02/27/2024 01:58 || Comments || Link || [34 views] Top|| File under:

#1  All is proceeding as I have foreseen.
Posted by: Rex Mundi || 02/27/2024 9:07 Comments || Top||

#2  Alternate headline: Michelle Obama tops list of candidates even more unlikable than she is.

As we peer into the crystal ball, we see that not only is Michelle Obama the candidate, but 'she' has come out as trans. Vote for the first Black Trans President or you're all a bunch of raciss' bastiges!
Posted by: SteveS || 02/27/2024 9:50 Comments || Top||

#3  A contested convention will look like the GOP speaker competitions. I am looking forward to seeing which folks decide to give Hillary a thumbs down. That’s got to impact your insurance policy rates.
Posted by: Super Hose || 02/27/2024 11:34 Comments || Top||

#4  She's an unknown commodity. She has never campaigned on her own. She has never really experienced the heat of the kitchen but if she does she'll be just as much a puppet as Biden. It might be interesting to watch if she ever goes off-script and tries to speak without a teleprompter. People might get to see just how ugly she is.
Posted by: Abu Uluque || 02/27/2024 12:43 Comments || Top||

#5  Biden is the ideal candidate for the bureaucracy both in the federal government and in the Democrat party. He is unable to interfere with them at all, and so they have free rein to indulge all thier megalomaniacal projects. They will fight tooth and nail to keep him.
Posted by: Tom || 02/27/2024 13:45 Comments || Top||

#6  My sense is she has lived far too soft a life now to be willing to actually undergo the rigors of even the most sheltered campaign. The unknown is what coercion factors might exist to overcome that!
Posted by: NoMoreBS || 02/27/2024 13:48 Comments || Top||

#7  Why do people keep bringing up Chewbacca's b!tch love child as the Dem savoir? She's more averse to hard work than Bernie Sanders is, and even that withered ol' commie got out there and managed a Presidential run for a few months. Ain't gonna happen, evah!
Posted by: Raj || 02/27/2024 14:37 Comments || Top||

#8  ^ Please move to the head of the class Tom.
Posted by: Besoeker || 02/27/2024 14:41 Comments || Top||

#9  And, "Dr." Jill is a fly in the ointment. Will she let herself be bought off, or will she have to take the Ron Brown plane ride?
Posted by: M. Murcek || 02/27/2024 14:50 Comments || Top||

#10  The media will eagerly support whatever solution the Dems go forward with. Qualifications do not matter, work ethic does not matter.
Posted by: Crusader || 02/27/2024 15:11 Comments || Top||

#11  ^Kamala is the bigger problem for them. Joe can’t do an SRA assignment even at the aqua level at this point. They can take Joe out at any time. To Tom’s point, Joe is a compliant sack of potatoes. Kamala is incompetent and not compliant. If McCarthy was still speaker, the Dems would likely roll the dice on the replacement VP process, but Johnson will block anything outrageous.
Posted by: Super Hose || 02/27/2024 15:18 Comments || Top||

#12  The news flash is there are three people more unlikable.

Mr. Potato Head turning to mush was a considered feature back in 2020; we just didn't think the medical technology was up to rolling him past 2022, nevermind today. Ladies and Gentlemen, you are looking for medical miracles, we bring you Kamala Harris.
Posted by: swksvolFF || 02/27/2024 18:27 Comments || Top||

#13  Mike always struck me as a top.
Posted by: Cured Romantic || 02/27/2024 19:04 Comments || Top||

#14  Sundance ar CTH has a piece today that focuses on Obama’s minions talking about Jojo being too old and unfit. The article says such undermining of the Puppet Show can only be green lit if a plan has been approved by the real powers behind the rapidly crumbling facade.

The article closes with a picture hint. Newsom and Susan Rice!
Posted by: NoMoreBS || 02/27/2024 19:51 Comments || Top||

#15  Yes, it is important to note they have had two real years of Oh Shit to game a plan.
Posted by: swksvolFF || 02/27/2024 20:08 Comments || Top||

#16  Just checked Sportsbet in Oz. Newsome for the Dem nomination is 8/1. Tempting.
Posted by: Ululating Platypus || 02/27/2024 20:27 Comments || Top||


Trump whomps Nikki in her home state by 20 percent

Success=failure; War=peace; Ignorance=bliss; Drudge=a reporter!!
Posted by: Fred || 02/27/2024 00:00 || Comments || Link || [33 views] Top|| File under:

#1  That 40% included a lot of Democratic party voters.
Posted by: Procopius2k || 02/27/2024 8:33 Comments || Top||

#2  I don't think Matt Drudge has anything to do with his "Report" any more
Posted by: Frank G || 02/27/2024 9:18 Comments || Top||

#3  It is a skin suit although Matt Drudge does hate Trump, he hates him in absentia.
Posted by: Super Hose || 02/27/2024 11:26 Comments || Top||

#4  I'd almost forgotten about Drudge. Too bad you had to remind me.
Posted by: Abu Uluque || 02/27/2024 12:47 Comments || Top||

#5  Well, we in SC do know Nikki better than others.
Posted by: Tom || 02/27/2024 13:46 Comments || Top||

#6  I'll support Frank G and tell you that about 2018 Drudge's Twitter bio stated: former owner of Drudge Report. I have a screen shot, but it's saved to my other machine.
Posted by: mossomo || 02/27/2024 15:48 Comments || Top||

#7  ^ Why I switched to Rantingly, which although it doesn't update nearly as much/often, is less Left-Wing Dem Crazee
Posted by: Frank G || 02/27/2024 21:12 Comments || Top||

#8  @#4 - My feelings EXACTLY, Abu U.
Posted by: DooDahMan || 02/27/2024 21:29 Comments || Top||


Nikki Haley bets it all on Super Tuesday after dismal primary night down south
[FOXNEWS] Nikki Haley
...Trump administration's former ambassador to the UN. First woman to serve as Governor of South Carolina, and the second Indian-American governor in the country, after Bobby Jindal of Louisiana. At the age of 39, Haley was the youngest governor in the U.S., a distinction formerly held by Jindal. She is a Republican, which really grates on the Dems...
isn't giving up.

Despite a dismal primary performance in her own home state of South Carolina, the former U.N. ambassador is making good on her promise to stay in the GOP presidential primary race and is placing her bets on next month's Super Tuesday contests when 15 states — or just over a third of all delegates — are up for grabs.

"America will come apart if we make the wrong choices. This has never been about me or my political future. We need to beat Joe The Big Guy Biden
...46th president of the U.S. I'm not working for you. Don't be such a horse's ass....
in November. I don’t believe Donald Trump
...The man who was so stupid he beat fourteen professional politicians, a former tech CEO, and a brain surgeon for the Republican nomination in 2016, then beat The Smartest Woman in the World in the general election...
can beat Joe Biden," Haley told a crowd of supporters gathered at her election night watch party in Charleston, South Carolina on Saturday.

"I said earlier this week that no matter what happens in South Carolina, I would continue to run for President. I’m a woman of my word. I’m not giving up this fight when a majority of Americans disapprove of both Donald Trump and Joe Biden," she said, arguing voters in Michigan and the Super Tuesday states deserved to have a choice as they head to the polls over the next 10 days.
Posted by: Fred || 02/27/2024 00:00 || Comments || Link || [33 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Nakita will be in Minnesota today. Should be interesting to see what our hard leftist news does with the coverage.

Embracing this deep state ant-Trump RINO while covering up her democrate supporters or?
Posted by: Woodrow || 02/27/2024 1:08 Comments || Top||

#2  The hard leftists are encouraging the electorate to not participate in Operation Chaos in the GOP primary for the purposes of sending a message of non-support to Biden or his support for Israel.
Posted by: Super Hose || 02/27/2024 11:24 Comments || Top||

#3  Might as well. Not like its her money.
Posted by: swksvolFF || 02/27/2024 13:01 Comments || Top||

#4  How bout we collapse this primary process to 30 days before the election and cap the amount the candidates can spend? Limit the amount of clout big money outfits have by limiting the overall amount of money sloshing around.
Posted by: M. Murcek || 02/27/2024 13:04 Comments || Top||

#5  ^ Citizen's United killed that $$ limit. Of course, Unions and Dark Money weren't affected before
Posted by: Frank G || 02/27/2024 13:15 Comments || Top||

#6  Just about every Republican vs. Democrat race in SC is 60-40. So the numbers here were about right.
Posted by: Tom || 02/27/2024 13:47 Comments || Top||

#7  Given that about three fourths of the funds donated to political races turns out to have been wasted, I would strongly encourage the rich and very rich to spend as much as they can to support their favourite losing candidates. Reducing their assets in this way will take them to an income/asset level better suited to their abilities.
Posted by: trailing wife || 02/27/2024 14:06 Comments || Top||


Home Front: WoT
Pro-Palestinian protesters storm into 30 Rock as Biden films interview with talk show host Seth Meyers: Demonstrators say they will NOT vote for Joe until there's a ceasefire in Gaza and call for an end to the 'genocide'
[Daily Mail, where America gets its news]
  • Pro-Palestinian protesters stormed into the lobby of New York City's Rockefeller Center where President Joe Biden was taping Late Night with Seth Meyers

  • Demonstrators held up signs including 'Jews to Biden: End Israel's Siege of Gaza' and chanted, 'End the siege of Gaza now!'

  • Biden was a surprise guest for Meyers' 10th anniversary of the show and appeared alongside comedian Amy P

Seinfeld heckled, accused of supporting ‘genocide’ while attending NYC Jewish event

[IsraelTimes] Pro-Paleostinian demonstrators heckled comedian Jerry Seinfeld as he left a Jewish event in New York City, accusing him of supporting "genocide" over his backing for Israel in its war against Hamas
...not a terrorist organization, even though it kidnaps people, holds hostages, and tries to negotiate by executing them,...
Video shows Seinfeld smiling and waving, apparently unperturbed as he left the event at the 92 Y community center where former New York Times

...which still proudly displays Walter Duranty's Pulitzer prize...

columnist Bari Weiss was giving the Y’s annual State of the World Jewry address.

Demonstrators chanted "genocide supporter" as Seinfeld was escorted out by a heavy police presence. They also called him "Nazi scum."

The New York Police Department says two demonstrators were arrested.

Following the October 7 Hamas attack on southern Israel that killed some 1,200 people and saw another 253 kidnapped, Seinfeld visited Israel in a show of support, traveling to see the evidence of the massacre in a ravaged kibbutz.
Posted by: Skidmark || 02/27/2024 02:01 || Comments || Link || [48 views] Top|| File under:

#1  "they will NOT vote for Joe until there's a ceasefire..."

Aw, how nice, then everything will be forgotten, and they can go back to being friends and vote for Joe.
Posted by: DooDahMan || 02/27/2024 4:39 Comments || Top||

#2  Charlie is in the wire.
Posted by: Procopius2k || 02/27/2024 8:32 Comments || Top||

#3  Maybe they won't quite as many times, but they'll vote.
Posted by: M. Murcek || 02/27/2024 9:54 Comments || Top||

#4  In an effort to solidify her base, I expect that Hillary will be distributing rings of power like the ones that were given of old.
Posted by: Super Hose || 02/27/2024 11:37 Comments || Top||

#5  Yes they will.
Posted by: Crusader || 02/27/2024 12:56 Comments || Top||

#6  I just saw this while wandering the internet: That “active duty airman” had the Antifa emblem on his last tweet:

Posted by: trailing wife || 02/27/2024 13:18 Comments || Top||

#7  Wikipedia now has a page for him. They report he grew up in the Community of Jesus cult compound.
Posted by: trailing wife || 02/27/2024 13:28 Comments || Top||

#8  Well at least Alec Baldwin didn't show up.
Posted by: swksvolFF || 02/27/2024 20:21 Comments || Top||



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  Another 10 kilometer long terror tunnel in Gaza revealed by the IDF
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