Trump's world....

[Warrior]

[I AM IRONMAN]

1 hour ago, Warrior said:

He’s a terrific president!

[RedZone]

The donald has been playing this game his entire pathetic life.

Let us pray for donald.

 

[I AM IRONMAN]

11 minutes ago, RedZone said:

The donald has been playing this game his entire pathetic life.

Let us pray for donald.

 

Zip it ya chinless wonder 🖕🏻🫵

[RedZone]

1 hour ago, RedZone said:

The donald has been playing this game his entire pathetic life.

Let us pray for donald.

 

From the 1970s until he was elected president in 2016, Donald Trump and his businesses were involved in over 4,000 legal cases in United States federal and state courts, including battles with casino patrons, million-dollar real estate lawsuits, personal defamation lawsuits, and over 100 business tax disputes

[I AM IRONMAN]

Hey ferret face.  Why do always reply to your own posts?  Why don’t you just jot down all your thoughts and put them in one long post that most people won’t give a shit about. Ya chinless racist 🖕🏻🫵🤣

[DBP66]

Looks like crazy Margie has something up her sleeve.....stay tuned...more chaos on the way....🙄

House returns with Johnson's speakership under threat

SARAH BETH HENSLEY

Tue, April 9, 2024 at 5:00 AM EDT·4 min read

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The House is back in session Tuesday after a two-week-long Easter recess, and Speaker Mike Johnson is returning with his speakership under threat after fellow Republican Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene filed a motion to oust him just months after he ascended to the position.

The Georgia Republican filed a motion to vacate Johnson just before the chamber broke for recess. She made the move after a vote to fund the government to prevent a shutdown -- which Johnson needed Democratic votes to pass.

Greene called her motion to vacate a "warning," adding that "it's time for our conference to choose a new speaker."

In the last few weeks, Greene's criticism of Johnson has only grown -- accusing him of working closely with Democrats and shifting away from Republican ideals when it comes to providing aid to Ukraine.

On Monday, she called him a "Democratic Speaker" because of his propensity to lean on Democrats to pass legislation.

 

PHOTO: House Speaker Mike Johnson walks to the House Chamber, ahead of U.S. President Joe Biden's State of The Union Address on Capitol Hill in Washington, March 7, 2024. (Tom Brenner/Reuters)

"Our Republican Speaker of the House is upsetting many of our members by relying on Democrats to pass major bills and working with Dems by giving them everything they want," Greene wrote on X. "That makes him the Democrat Speaker of the House not our Republican Speaker of the House."

Last week, Greene said Johnson had changed, saying he worked more with Democrats than Republicans.

"Mike Johnson has completely changed his character in a matter of about five months after he has become speaker of the House," Greene said to Tucker Carlson on his program on April 3. "…He called himself a conservative, always has been, he's a Republican member, but yet here we are …"

MORE: With razor-thin GOP margin, could House control flip to Democrats?

She added that Johnson "has made a complete departure of who he is and what he stands for."

"And to the point where people are literally asking, 'is he blackmailed? What is wrong with him?' Because he's completely disconnected with what we want,"

Asked if she though Johnson was, in fact, being blackmailed, Greene responded, "I have no idea. I can't comprehend, Tucker."

 

PHOTO: Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene is followed by reporters after speaking outside of the U.S. Capitol Building following a vote on a funding bill that would avert a government shutdown on March 22, 2024 in Washington, DC. (Anna Moneymaker/Getty Images)

Reliance on Democrats' votes led to the ouster of Johnson's predecessor, Kevin McCarthy. He was removed from the post by Republican hard-liners who were similarly upset that he worked with Democrats to pass legislation, including an eleventh-hour deal to keep the government open last fall.

Johnson has held the position since October.

Johnson has said Greene is a friend and he is just as frustrated as she is over the GOP's razor-thin majority and need to rely on Democrats.

"...With the smallest margin in U.S. history, we're sometimes going to get legislation that we don't like," Johnson said in a interview on Fox News. "And the Democrats know that when we don't all stand together, with our razor-thin majority, then they have a better negotiation position, and that's why we've got some of the things we didn't like."

Greene has threatened to work to push Johnson out of the speakership if he brings Ukraine aid to the floor. Johnson has pledged to act on Ukraine aid when the House returns, as the country's war rages on with Russia.

In the Fox News interview, Johnson said he expects to move a package including aid for Ukraine with "some important innovations" when the House returns. The speaker's office has not shared a specific timeline for any supplemental package.

"...when it comes to the supplemental, we've been working to build that consensus. We've been talking to all the members, especially now over the district work period. When we return after this work period, we'll be moving a product, but it's going to I think, have some important innovations," Johnson said.

Republicans are looking at the "loan" idea floated by former President Donald Trump, which would make aid available to Ukraine as a loan that is waivable with no interest.

Another option would be to allow for natural gas exports to continue after the Biden administration paused approvals of new liquefied natural gas export permits earlier this year to examine climate impacts. Climate advocacy groups and local activists called the move a major win after lobbying Biden to block new liquefied natural gas export terminals, saying the U.S. should not build new fossil fuel infrastructure. Johnson called Biden's decision on natural gas exports "outrageous" and that blocking export terminals "prevents America's economic growth."

The Senate passed a $95 billion aid bill for Ukraine, Israel and Taiwan in February but Johnson has refused to take up the legislation and is not expected to do so.

It's not clear when and if Greene will activate her resolution to oust Johnson, which would then force the House to vote on it within two legislative days.

The two were set to speak last Friday, but the details of that conversation have not yet been made public.

[Nolebull813]

1 hour ago, DBP66 said:

Looks like crazy Margie has something up her sleeve.....stay tuned...more chaos on the way....🙄

House returns with Johnson's speakership under threat

SARAH BETH HENSLEY

Tue, April 9, 2024 at 5:00 AM EDT·4 min read

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The House is back in session Tuesday after a two-week-long Easter recess, and Speaker Mike Johnson is returning with his speakership under threat after fellow Republican Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene filed a motion to oust him just months after he ascended to the position.

The Georgia Republican filed a motion to vacate Johnson just before the chamber broke for recess. She made the move after a vote to fund the government to prevent a shutdown -- which Johnson needed Democratic votes to pass.

Greene called her motion to vacate a "warning," adding that "it's time for our conference to choose a new speaker."

In the last few weeks, Greene's criticism of Johnson has only grown -- accusing him of working closely with Democrats and shifting away from Republican ideals when it comes to providing aid to Ukraine.

On Monday, she called him a "Democratic Speaker" because of his propensity to lean on Democrats to pass legislation.

 

PHOTO: House Speaker Mike Johnson walks to the House Chamber, ahead of U.S. President Joe Biden's State of The Union Address on Capitol Hill in Washington, March 7, 2024. (Tom Brenner/Reuters)

"Our Republican Speaker of the House is upsetting many of our members by relying on Democrats to pass major bills and working with Dems by giving them everything they want," Greene wrote on X. "That makes him the Democrat Speaker of the House not our Republican Speaker of the House."

Last week, Greene said Johnson had changed, saying he worked more with Democrats than Republicans.

"Mike Johnson has completely changed his character in a matter of about five months after he has become speaker of the House," Greene said to Tucker Carlson on his program on April 3. "…He called himself a conservative, always has been, he's a Republican member, but yet here we are …"

MORE: With razor-thin GOP margin, could House control flip to Democrats?

She added that Johnson "has made a complete departure of who he is and what he stands for."

"And to the point where people are literally asking, 'is he blackmailed? What is wrong with him?' Because he's completely disconnected with what we want,"

Asked if she though Johnson was, in fact, being blackmailed, Greene responded, "I have no idea. I can't comprehend, Tucker."

 

PHOTO: Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene is followed by reporters after speaking outside of the U.S. Capitol Building following a vote on a funding bill that would avert a government shutdown on March 22, 2024 in Washington, DC. (Anna Moneymaker/Getty Images)

Reliance on Democrats' votes led to the ouster of Johnson's predecessor, Kevin McCarthy. He was removed from the post by Republican hard-liners who were similarly upset that he worked with Democrats to pass legislation, including an eleventh-hour deal to keep the government open last fall.

Johnson has held the position since October.

Johnson has said Greene is a friend and he is just as frustrated as she is over the GOP's razor-thin majority and need to rely on Democrats.

"...With the smallest margin in U.S. history, we're sometimes going to get legislation that we don't like," Johnson said in a interview on Fox News. "And the Democrats know that when we don't all stand together, with our razor-thin majority, then they have a better negotiation position, and that's why we've got some of the things we didn't like."

Greene has threatened to work to push Johnson out of the speakership if he brings Ukraine aid to the floor. Johnson has pledged to act on Ukraine aid when the House returns, as the country's war rages on with Russia.

In the Fox News interview, Johnson said he expects to move a package including aid for Ukraine with "some important innovations" when the House returns. The speaker's office has not shared a specific timeline for any supplemental package.

"...when it comes to the supplemental, we've been working to build that consensus. We've been talking to all the members, especially now over the district work period. When we return after this work period, we'll be moving a product, but it's going to I think, have some important innovations," Johnson said.

Republicans are looking at the "loan" idea floated by former President Donald Trump, which would make aid available to Ukraine as a loan that is waivable with no interest.

Another option would be to allow for natural gas exports to continue after the Biden administration paused approvals of new liquefied natural gas export permits earlier this year to examine climate impacts. Climate advocacy groups and local activists called the move a major win after lobbying Biden to block new liquefied natural gas export terminals, saying the U.S. should not build new fossil fuel infrastructure. Johnson called Biden's decision on natural gas exports "outrageous" and that blocking export terminals "prevents America's economic growth."

The Senate passed a $95 billion aid bill for Ukraine, Israel and Taiwan in February but Johnson has refused to take up the legislation and is not expected to do so.

It's not clear when and if Greene will activate her resolution to oust Johnson, which would then force the House to vote on it within two legislative days.

The two were set to speak last Friday, but the details of that conversation have not yet been made public.

Sad time when giving unlimited unchecked unaccounted money to some foreign country that we have no relation or ties to other than Biden’s crooked dealings is the top priority for the American government 

[Atticus Finch]

6 minutes ago, Nolebull813 said:

Sad time when giving unlimited unchecked unaccounted money to some foreign country that we have no relation or ties to other than Biden’s crooked dealings is the top priority for the American government 

I think I can say, unequivocally, that every word of this post is untrue.

That's quite an accomplishment for such a dedicated toady.

[DBP66]

5 hours ago, Nolebull813 said:

Sad time when giving unlimited unchecked unaccounted money to some foreign country that we have no relation or ties to other than Biden’s crooked dealings is the top priority for the American government 

such little understanding of the world....Putin is not our friend amigo....despite what Trump tells you...the left seems to understand that more than the righties these days.....how sad things have gotten....😪

[Slotback Right]

On 4/8/2024 at 7:40 AM, Nolebull813 said:

Haha. I bet the cops who beat Rodney King are innocent in your mind. Same with Amadou Diallo. Justified killing. 
 

I don’t know if there was any voting machines tampered with but I do know that people on voting day were posting videos of really sketchy and bizarre things that could only be described as cheating. 3am drops at poll locations, ballot harvesting, mail in ballots to dead people, Republican poll watchers not being allowed to watch. And the craziest thing was there was only huge controversy in the 4 swing states that decided the election. And the biggest city in those states are run by democrats down the line who are in control of everything. 
 

The problem is you don’t count things like this as a stolen election. It was ALOT of little things 

My nomination for Post of the year! 👍

[Slotback Right]

On 4/8/2024 at 7:47 AM, DBP66 said:

this is why you're a Kool-Aid drinker...."I do know that people on voting day were posting videos of really sketchy and bizarre things that could only be described as cheating. 3am drops at poll locations, ballot harvesting, mail in ballots to dead people, Republican poll watchers not being allowed to watch. "......ALL BULLSHIT...100%.....😪...repent...before it's too late!...😉

[Slotback Right]

On 4/8/2024 at 2:30 PM, Atticus Finch said:

Were GOP poll watchers sidelined or prevented from observing vote counting?

This is false

There have been no reports of systematic irregularities with poll watchers anywhere in the US. There is no evidence supporting the President's claims that GOP poll watchers were shut out of the process, and Trump's campaign still hasn't backed up this broad claim in court.

 

No, it's not false, but you lefty Demonrats keep trying to gaslight the country over issues like this.

I was watching it all live, and the people outside the counting room, when interviewed, stated that the top official in the room yelled that he wanted all GOP poll watchers out of the room , "NOW!" All the Democrap poll watchers were allowed to stay and began cheering when the GOP poll watchers were marched out of the room.

Next they began to cover all the windows with poster board, and when they ran out of poster board, they used political signs and empty used pizza boxes.

Again, I watched it live, and no matter how often your side says otherwise, and no matter what phony excuse they try to use, all the gaslighting in the world won't make us forget what we saw and heard. 

[DBP66]

53 minutes ago, Slotback Right said:

No, it's not false, but you lefty Demonrats keep trying to gaslight the country over issues like this.

I was watching it all live, and the people outside the counting room, when interviewed, stated that the top official in the room yelled that he wanted all GOP poll watchers out of the room , "NOW!" All the Democrap poll watchers were allowed to stay and began cheering when the GOP poll watchers were marched out of the room.

Next they began to cover all the windows with poster board, and when they ran out of poster board, they used political signs and empty used pizza boxes.

Again, I watched it live, and no matter how often your side says otherwise, and no matter what phony excuse they try to use, all the gaslighting in the world won't make us forget what we saw and heard. 

 This photo is showing a bunch of nutty Trumpers trying to access an area they were not allowed to access...just a bunch of Trump clowns causing a ruckus...🙄

[I AM IRONMAN]

1 hour ago, Slotback Right said:

No, it's not false, but you lefty Demonrats keep trying to gaslight the country over issues like this.

I was watching it all live, and the people outside the counting room, when interviewed, stated that the top official in the room yelled that he wanted all GOP poll watchers out of the room , "NOW!" All the Democrap poll watchers were allowed to stay and began cheering when the GOP poll watchers were marched out of the room.

Next they began to cover all the windows with poster board, and when they ran out of poster board, they used political signs and empty used pizza boxes.

Again, I watched it live, and no matter how often your side says otherwise, and no matter what phony excuse they try to use, all the gaslighting in the world won't make us forget what we saw and heard. 

Why am I not surprised the biggest 🐑 here disagrees with you!

[I AM IRONMAN]

7 minutes ago, DBP66 said:

 This photo is showing a bunch of nutty Trumpers trying to access an area they were not allowed to access...just a bunch of Trump clowns causing a ruckus...🙄

Yeah they sure look nutty and causing a ruckus 🤔

[Atticus Finch]

4 hours ago, Slotback Right said:

I was watching it all live,

Yeah, but you're an idiot.

This isn't some "demonrat" plot. There's zero evidence in existence that any Republican poll watchers were blocked from viewing any vote counts.

[DBP66]

Former Trump executive Allen Weisselberg sentenced to 5 months in jail for lying

MICHAEL R. SISAK and PHILIP MARCELO

Updated Wed, April 10, 2024 at 12:06 PM EDT·5 min read

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Former Trump executive Allen Weisselberg is taken into custody after sentencing in court on Wednesday, April 10, 2024 in New York. Weisselberg was sentenced to five months in jail for lying under oath during his testimony in the civil fraud lawsuit brought against the former president by New York’s attorney general. (Curtis Means/Daily Mail via AP, Pool)

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NEW YORK (AP) — Allen Weisselberg, a retired executive in Donald Trump’s real estate empire, was sentenced Wednesday to five months in jail for lying under oath during his testimony in the civil fraud lawsuit brought against the former president by New York’s attorney general.

Weisselberg, 76, was escorted out of the courtroom in handcuffs following the sentencing, which lasted less than five minutes.

Asked if he wanted to address the court, Weisselberg, wearing a black windbreaker and a face mask, responded, “No, your honor.”

It is Weisselberg’s second time behind bars. The former Trump Organization chief financial officer served 100 days last year for dodging taxes on $1.7 million in company perks, including a rent-free Manhattan apartment and luxury cars.

Now, he’s again trading life as a Florida retiree for a stay at New York City’s notorious Rikers Island jail complex, though he's also getting something in return.

When Weisselberg pleaded guilty last month to two counts of perjury, the office of Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg made a legally binding promise not to prosecute him for any other crimes he might have committed in connection with his longtime employment by the Trump Organization.

Weisselberg's plea agreement also does not require him to testify at Trump’s hush money criminal trial, which is scheduled to start with jury selection Monday.

“Allen Weisselberg accepted responsibility for his conduct and now looks forward to the end of this life-altering experience and to returning to his family and his retirement,” his attorney, Seth Rosenberg, said in a statement after the court hearing.

Prosecutors with Bragg's office declined to address the court during the brief sentencing hearing. As part of his guilty plea, Weisselberg admitted lying when he testified he had little knowledge of how Trump’s Manhattan penthouse came to be valued on his financial statements at nearly three times its actual size.

The two cases highlighted Weisselberg's unflinching loyalty to Trump, the presumptive Republican presidential nominee.

Trump’s family employed Weisselberg for nearly 50 years, then gave him a $2 million severance deal when the tax charges prompted him to retire. The company continues to pay his legal bills.

Weisselberg testified twice in trials that went badly for Trump, but each time he took pains to suggest that his boss hadn't committed any serious wrongdoing.

In agreeing to a five-month sentence, prosecutors cited Weisselberg’s age and willingness to admit wrongdoing. In New York, perjury is a felony punishable by up to seven years in prison.

Weisselberg's sentence mirrors his previous case, in which he was ordered to serve five months in jail but was eligible for release after little more than three months with good behavior. Prior to that, he had no criminal record.

Trump's lawyers took issue with Weisselberg's perjury prosecution, accusing the Manhattan district attorney's office of deploying “unethical, strong-armed tactics against an innocent man in his late 70s” while turning “a blind eye” to perjury allegations against Michael Cohen, the former Trump lawyer who is now a key prosecution witness in the hush money case.

Weisselberg pleaded guilty March 4. He admitted lying under oath on three occasions while testifying in New York Attorney General Letitia James' lawsuit against Trump: in depositions in July 2020 and May 2023 and on the witness stand at the trial last October. To avoid violating his tax case probation, however, he agreed to plead guilty only to charges related to his 2020 deposition testimony.

The size of Trump's penthouse was a key issue in the civil fraud case.

Trump valued the apartment on his financial statements from at least 2012 to 2016 as though it measured 30,000 square feet (2,800 square meters). A former Trump real estate executive testified that Weisselberg provided the figure. The former executive said that when he asked for the apartment's size in 2012, Weisselberg replied: “It’s quite large. I think it’s around 30,000 square feet.”

However, state lawyers noted, Weisselberg got an email early in that year with a 1994 document attached that pegged Trump’s apartment at 10,996 square feet (1,022 square meters). Weisselberg testified that he remembered the email but not the attachment and that he didn’t “walk around knowing the size” of the apartment.

After Forbes magazine published an article in 2017 disputing the size of Trump’s penthouse, its estimated value on his financial statement was cut from $327 million to about $117 million.

As Weisselberg was testifying last October, Forbes published an article with the headline “Trump’s Longtime CFO Lied, Under Oath, About Trump Tower Penthouse.”

The civil fraud trial ended with Judge Arthur Engoron ruling that Trump and some of his executives had schemed to deceive banks, insurers and others by lying about his wealth on financial statements used to make deals and secure loans. The judge penalized Trump $455 million and ordered Weisselberg to pay $1 million. They are both appealing.

In his decision, Engoron said he found Weisselberg’s testimony “intentionally evasive" and “highly unreliable.”

Weisselberg is likely to factor into Trump's hush money trial — even if he's in jail and not on the witness stand while it's happening.

Trump is accused of falsifying his company's records to cover up payments during his 2016 campaign to bury stories of marital infidelity. It is the first of Trump's four criminal cases scheduled to go to trial. Trump has pleaded not guilty and denies wrongdoing.

Cohen has said Weisselberg had a role in orchestrating the payments. Weisselberg, who lives in Boynton Beach, Florida, has not been charged in that case, and neither prosecutors nor Trump’s lawyers have indicated they will call him as a witness.

[DBP66]

The lie that they NEVER want to die....how f*in crazy....4 years later and the BIG lie still lives??....😪

RNC under Lara Trump spreads ‘massive fraud’ claims about 2020 election

Andrew Kaczynski and Em Steck, CNN

Wed, April 10, 2024 at 2:09 PM EDT·6 min read

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The Republican National Committee last week sent out a scripted call to voters’ phones on behalf of new co-chair Lara Trump saying Democrats committed “massive fraud” in the 2020 election.

It’s the latest example of how the RNC under the former president’s daughter-in-law is perpetuating lies about the 2020 election, even as prominent Republicans say the party needs to look forward to win in 2024.

“We all know the problems. No photo IDs, unsecured ballot drop boxes, mass mailing of ballots, and voter rolls chock full of deceased people and non-citizens are just a few examples of the massive fraud that took place,” the RNC call said. “If Democrats have their way, your vote could be canceled out by someone who isn’t even an American citizen.”

 

The claim of “massive fraud” in the 2020 election marks a significant shift in messaging for the RNC because lies about the 2020 election had not been a consistent theme in its messaging since Donald Trump left office.

But the call’s message is largely consistent with the views publicly espoused over the past four years by Lara Trump, who was elected as co-chair in early March as part of Donald Trump’s takeover of the GOP. Lara Trump has a long history of echoing his election fraud claims, according to a CNN KFile analysis of her past statements as a commentator and surrogate for the former president.

“I’m sure you agree with co-chair Trump that we cannot allow the chaos and questions of the 2020 election to ever happen again,” said the call, which was obtained by CNN’s KFile from the anti-robocall application Nomorobo, which estimated 145,000 calls were sent with the message from April 1-7.

It comes amid previous CNN reporting about the RNC asking employees who are reapplying for their jobs whether they believe the 2020 election was stolen in an apparent litmus test for hiring. The RNC denied any such litmus test existed. Lara Trump and new chair Michael Whatley succeeded Drew McKissick and Ronna McDaniel, who had earned the ire of the former president because of his dissatisfaction with how the RNC handled claims of fraud around the 2020 election, CNN previously reported.

There is no evidence of widespread fraud in the 2020 election, as even some state GOP election officials and former Trump Attorney General William Barr have acknowledged. The former president and his supporters filed more than 60 court cases in six key battleground states following the election and lost every one of them. And, they have still not brought forth any evidence of the rampant cheating they continue to talk about on the campaign trail.

But in the years since the 2020 election, Lara Trump has continued to push claims of fraud. Her comments have been in line with those of her father-in-law, who’s successfully reshaped the GOP in his image and easily secured his third-straight GOP nomination this year.

Polling, for example, shows that a majority of GOP voters think the 2020 election result was illegitimate. A CNN poll released last September found that 71% of Republicans said President Joe Biden’s “did not legitimately win enough votes to win the presidency.”

From November 2020 to February 2024, Lara Trump propagated the narrative of Democratic cheating in the 2020 presidential election. And even after she was elected co-chair and said claims of a stolen election are “in the past,” she didn’t repudiate those baseless accusations.

“Well, I think we’re past that. I think that’s in the past. We learned a lot. Certainly, we took a lot of notes,” Trump said in an NBC interview when asked whether claims of a stolen 2020 election would be the official position of the RNC in 2024. She went on to tout lawsuits across 23 states “to ensure that it is harder to cheat and easier to vote,” while raising questions about pandemic-era voting procedures during the 2020 election.

In the same interview, Trump also added the GOP needed to “trust mail-in voting.”

Neither the RNC nor Lara Trump responded to multiple requests for comment.

 

Lara Trump speaks at the Republican National Committee spring meeting on March 8, in Houston. - Cecile Clocheret/AFP/Getty Images

A long history of spreading election lies

As recently as February 2024, Lara Trump said she did not believe Biden received 81 million votes in the 2020 election.

“Does anyone actually believe that in 2020, 81 million people were so inspired by a guy who could only get 10 people (to attended events) …that he had the most massive turnout in the history of elections?” she said at a Trump event in South Carolina just days before she announced her campaign for RNC co-chair. “No, we don’t believe that.”

On her internet show and podcast, and in public events, she often spread outlandish and nonsensical claims about the 2020 election.

On an episode of her show that aired on December 30, 2020, Trump agreed with her co-hosts that the election did not pass the “smell test” and falsely suggested that dead voters helped Biden win.

“Now, I don’t know if this is true, but somebody sent me this. Donald Trump got 74 million votes. There are 133 million registered voters in the United States. If every single registered voter went out and voted, which we know is basically impossible, doesn’t happen, there would only be 59 million votes left for Joe Biden. So how the heck did he get 81 million votes?” she said.

The comments cite a widely debunked analysis that misrepresents the number of people eligible to vote.

“You’re discriminating against all the dead people, Lara. How dare you!” said one co-host.

“Oh yeah, that’s right. That’s true,” she responded.

A CNN analysis previously found no evidence to support this claim, debunking the misinformation spread by Trump supporters online in the aftermath of the 2020 results.

The 2020 election saw a record-breaking turnout, with 155 million people casting their votes, as reported by the US Census Bureau. This marked the highest voter participation of the 21st century, with 66.8% of eligible citizens aged 18 and older voting.

Later in the episode, Trump said, “I think that [Democrats] know that the Republicans are not gonna let it stand. They’re not gonna certify votes for Joe Biden. And it is likely that they will be voting for Donald Trump for a second term.”

In an episode of her podcast weeks earlier, she claimed the odds of Biden winning in swing states were “one in one quadrillion to the fourth power,” as mail-in ballots were counted, failing to cite a statistical analysis.

Though Biden narrowly lost with in-person voters, 46% of voters voted by mail in 2020. As votes were counted, Biden pulled ahead, according to an analysis from Pew Research.

Though nothing was abnormal or illegal about the process, Lara Trump has also referred to the counting of votes nefariously.

“We gotta make up so much for all the cheating,” Trump said on her podcast in September 2023. “We know the Democrats love to do that. We need to go into this thing with such a big lead that they’re like, ‘oh my God, we can’t do a 3:00 a.m. spike with this. We’re never gonna make it.”

[DBP66]

[DBP66]

Those "tricky" Republicons....🙄

 

Republican operatives to pay $1.25 million for robocalls threatening Black voters, NY prosecutor says

Doina Chiacu

Tue, April 9, 2024 at 1:05 PM EDT·2 min read

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Jack Burkman, a lawyer and Republican operative, and Jacob Wohl, speak during a news conference to address their allegations against Special Counsel Robert Mueller in Arlington, VirginiaBy Doina Chiacu

WASHINGTON (Reuters) -Two conservative operatives who launched a robocall campaign designed to prevent Black New Yorkers from voting by mail in the 2020 U.S. election will pay $1.25 million in a settlement, New York state Attorney General Letitia James said on Tuesday.

Jacob Wohl and Jack Burkman were found liable by a federal judge in New York in March 2023 for targeting Black voters and sending false and threatening messages intended to discourage voting.

 

"Wohl and Burkman orchestrated a depraved and disinformation-ridden campaign to intimidate Black voters in an attempt to sway the election in favor of their preferred candidate," James said in a statement.

During the summer of 2020, the automated calls claimed that mail-in voting would allow the voter to be tracked for outstanding warrants, credit card debt and mandatory vaccines, James said.

The National Coalition on Black Civic Participation, which was a plaintiff in the lawsuit, was forced to redirect considerable resources to address the false claims made in the call, James said.

During the 2020 presidential campaign that he lost to Democrat Joe Biden, Republican President Donald Trump and his allies repeatedly made false claims that mail-in voting would lead to fraud. Trump, who is challenging Biden in the Nov. 5 presidential election, has continued to repeat the claims.

The 2020 robocall also was distributed in Cleveland, Ohio; Minneapolis, Minnesota; Chicago, the Pennsylvania cities of Pittsburgh and Philadelphia; Detroit; and Arlington, Virginia, according to filing in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York.

A New York lawyer for Burkman and Wohl, David Schwartz, said his clients were pleased to have a settlement and put this case behind them so they can focus on their families and careers.

Burkman, a Washington lawyer and Republican operative, was stripped of his law license in March by the District of Columbia Court of Appeals.

He and Wohl pleaded guilty in October 2022 to telecommunications fraud in Ohio after using robocalls to intimidate people from voting by mail during the 2020 presidential election. They were sentenced to two years of probation, each fined $2,500 and ordered to do 500 hours of community service.

In June 2023, the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) fined Burkman and Wohl $5.1 million for making more than 1,100 unlawful robocalls in August and September 2020.

Burkman is perhaps best known for keeping the 2016 killing of Democratic National Committee staffer Seth Rich in Washington in the news. Rich's murder became fodder for a conspiracy theory in conservative media, though Washington police have said the slaying was part of a robbery gone wrong.

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4 minutes ago, DBP66 said:

Those "tricky" Republicons....🙄

 

Republican operatives to pay $1.25 million for robocalls threatening Black voters, NY prosecutor says

Doina Chiacu

Tue, April 9, 2024 at 1:05 PM EDT·2 min read

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Jack Burkman, a lawyer and Republican operative, and Jacob Wohl, speak during a news conference to address their allegations against Special Counsel Robert Mueller in Arlington, VirginiaBy Doina Chiacu

WASHINGTON (Reuters) -Two conservative operatives who launched a robocall campaign designed to prevent Black New Yorkers from voting by mail in the 2020 U.S. election will pay $1.25 million in a settlement, New York state Attorney General Letitia James said on Tuesday.

Jacob Wohl and Jack Burkman were found liable by a federal judge in New York in March 2023 for targeting Black voters and sending false and threatening messages intended to discourage voting.

 

"Wohl and Burkman orchestrated a depraved and disinformation-ridden campaign to intimidate Black voters in an attempt to sway the election in favor of their preferred candidate," James said in a statement.

During the summer of 2020, the automated calls claimed that mail-in voting would allow the voter to be tracked for outstanding warrants, credit card debt and mandatory vaccines, James said.

The National Coalition on Black Civic Participation, which was a plaintiff in the lawsuit, was forced to redirect considerable resources to address the false claims made in the call, James said.

During the 2020 presidential campaign that he lost to Democrat Joe Biden, Republican President Donald Trump and his allies repeatedly made false claims that mail-in voting would lead to fraud. Trump, who is challenging Biden in the Nov. 5 presidential election, has continued to repeat the claims.

The 2020 robocall also was distributed in Cleveland, Ohio; Minneapolis, Minnesota; Chicago, the Pennsylvania cities of Pittsburgh and Philadelphia; Detroit; and Arlington, Virginia, according to filing in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York.

A New York lawyer for Burkman and Wohl, David Schwartz, said his clients were pleased to have a settlement and put this case behind them so they can focus on their families and careers.

Burkman, a Washington lawyer and Republican operative, was stripped of his law license in March by the District of Columbia Court of Appeals.

He and Wohl pleaded guilty in October 2022 to telecommunications fraud in Ohio after using robocalls to intimidate people from voting by mail during the 2020 presidential election. They were sentenced to two years of probation, each fined $2,500 and ordered to do 500 hours of community service.

In June 2023, the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) fined Burkman and Wohl $5.1 million for making more than 1,100 unlawful robocalls in August and September 2020.

Burkman is perhaps best known for keeping the 2016 killing of Democratic National Committee staffer Seth Rich in Washington in the news. Rich's murder became fodder for a conspiracy theory in conservative media, though Washington police have said the slaying was part of a robbery gone wrong.

Lol you already posted this. Scared someone might not see it. 

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11 minutes ago, DBP66 said:

Mitt Romney is a BLM toady. So I think he lost all credibility a long time ago 

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1 minute ago, Nolebull813 said:

Lol you already posted this. Scared someone might not see it. 

on another post...just spreading the word...did you repent yet??...for believing in the BIG lie....😉

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2 minutes ago, Nolebull813 said:

Mitt Romney is a BLM toady. So I think he lost all credibility a long time ago 

Mitt is the real deal...a Republican who knows Putin is bad...we need to help Ukraine...there was NO election fraud exc...he's too smart to be a Republican these days...how sad....😪