Trump's world....

[DBP66]

8 minutes ago, Warrior said:

 

is he in today's headlines Champ??.....once again...😉

[DBP66]

Yet another headline today....for the misinformed here.

Supreme Court Trump Personally Stocked Rejects His Effort to Stymie Mar-a-Lago Probe

 

 

Nikki McCann Ramirez

Thu, October 13, 2022 at 3:33 PM

 

 

 

Donald Trump Holds Rally With Ohio Candidates In Youngstown - Credit: Jeff Swensen/Getty Images

The Supreme Court on Thursday denied former President Donald Trump’s request to prevent the Justice Department from reviewing classified documents seized from his Mar-a-Lago residence.

“The application to vacate the stay entered by the United States Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit on September 21, 2022, presented to Justice Thomas and by him referred to the Court is denied,” the filing read.

More from Rolling Stone

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The ruling rejects an emergency request, filed by Trump’s legal team earlier this month, arguing that the 11th Circuit Court lacked authority to reverse a restraining order barring the DOJ from reviewing classified documents recovered from Trump’s Mar-a-Lago estate in an August raid by the FBI.

 

Trump has made various attempts to prevent the DOJ from accessing the trove of documents, including demanding the appointment of a “special master” to review the recovered documents and arbitrate claims of executive and attorney privilege. Judge Raymond Dearie, whom a Trump-appointed judge selected for the role, took a torch to the former president’s claims that his retention of the documents was lawful because he had covertly declassified them before leaving office. “If the government gives me prima facia evidence that they are classified documents,” Dearie said, “and you don’t advance any claim of declassification, I’m left with a prima facia case of classified documents,” Dearie said, “and as far as I’m concerned, that’s the end of it.”

Nevertheless, Trump hoped the Supreme Court would allow Dearie to renewed access to a trove of classified documents that the 11th Circuit Court ruled the DOJ could review.

Trump, of course, appointed three of the nine justices on the court, which is now dominated by conservatives.

[Warrior]

2 hours ago, DBP66 said:

is he in today's headlines Champ??.....once again...😉

He’ll be in the headlines everyday through the election, ask me how I know?

[Warrior]

3 hours ago, DBP66 said:

"Well, Kevin, I guess these people are more upset about the election than you are,” Trump said to McCarthy, according to an upcoming book by Robert Draper.

You love to pass hearsay as facts. Probably why your always on the wrong side. 

[DBP66]

It's all about $$ in Trump's world.......the King Grifter....

Trump solicits cash right after the January 6 committee votes to subpoena him and tells supporters he's fighting for their 'heritage'

 

 

Eliza Relman

Thu, October 13, 2022 at 5:07 PM

 

 

 

Former President Donald Trump arrives to speak to supporters from The Ellipse near the White House on January 6, 2021, in Washington, DC.BRENDAN SMIALOWSKI/AFP via Getty Images

• Trump made a fundraising ask just after the House's January 6 committee wrapped its 9th hearing.

• The ex-president told his supporters he's fighting for their "heritage" and praised the "MAGA movement."

• The nine-member committee unanimously voted to subpoena Trump for testimony.

Former President Donald Trump emailed out a fundraising ask just minutes after the House January 6 committee wrapped its 9th day of hearings, during which committee members laid out a damning case against Trump as the central instigator of the deadly Capitol riot.

Capitalizing on his "MAGA movement" being in the news, the ex-president told his supporters he's fighting for their "heritage."

"Our MAGA movement is, by far, the greatest political movement in the history of our Country, because I am fighting for YOU, YOUR home, YOUR heritage, and YOUR freedom," Trump wrote in the fundraising email.

After filling out a survey with questions such as "Are you concerned about the Radical Left's effect on this country?", Trump prompts supporters to donate at least $45 to the Save America Joint Fundraising Committee, which is composed of two of his post-presidential political committees: Save America and Make America Great Again PAC.

Trump, who has openly flirted with a another presidential run in 2024 but hasn't yet formally registered a presidential campaign committee, is using his PACs to fund a variety of expenses, from staging rallies to paying staffers to covering legal bills.

 

A fundraising email sent by one of former President Donald Trump's political committees on October 13, 2022.Save America

 

The nine-member committee unanimously voted to subpoena Trump for testimony concerning the riot at the close of the hearing on Thursday.

"It is our obligation to seek Donald Trump's testimony," Democratic Rep Bennie Thompson, the chairman of the committee, said on Thursday. "He is required to answer to those police officers who put their lives and bodies on the line to defend our democracy."

Trump is expected to refuse the subpoena and a potential legal process to enforce it would likely take years. In a Thursday afternoon statement, he called the committee a "total 'BUST'" and a "laughing stock."

The committee is planning to release a report prior to the midterm elections on its one-and-a-half year-long investigation into the January 6 attacks. While the committee has made clear that it has more work to do, it faces being dissolved if Republicans regain the House majority in November.

In the subject line of his fundraising email, Trump made a dubious claim he's made many times before: that his approval rating among Republicans sits at 96%.

A New York Times/Siena College poll published in July found that just 49% of Republican voters said they would cast their ballot for Trump in the 2024 GOP presidential primary. A quarter of GOP voters said they'd support Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis instead. An NBC poll last month found Trump's approvals have sunk to their lowest point since he left office.

Still, the ex-president has managed to rake in cash through his various fundraising efforts, which have included numerous worthless incentives, a Mar-a-Lago-centric missive in the midst of a Florida hurricane, and aggressive scare tactics targeting his loyal supporters.

As of August 31, Save America alone reported about $92.8 million in reserve, according to a filing with the Federal Election Commission.

[Warrior]

1 hour ago, DBP66 said:

It's all about $$ in Trump's world.......the King Grifter....

Trump solicits cash right after the January 6 committee votes to subpoena him and tells supporters he's fighting for their 'heritage'

 

 

Eliza Relman

Thu, October 13, 2022 at 5:07 PM

 

 

 

Former President Donald Trump arrives to speak to supporters from The Ellipse near the White House on January 6, 2021, in Washington, DC.BRENDAN SMIALOWSKI/AFP via Getty Images

• Trump made a fundraising ask just after the House's January 6 committee wrapped its 9th hearing.

• The ex-president told his supporters he's fighting for their "heritage" and praised the "MAGA movement."

• The nine-member committee unanimously voted to subpoena Trump for testimony.

Former President Donald Trump emailed out a fundraising ask just minutes after the House January 6 committee wrapped its 9th day of hearings, during which committee members laid out a damning case against Trump as the central instigator of the deadly Capitol riot.

Capitalizing on his "MAGA movement" being in the news, the ex-president told his supporters he's fighting for their "heritage."

"Our MAGA movement is, by far, the greatest political movement in the history of our Country, because I am fighting for YOU, YOUR home, YOUR heritage, and YOUR freedom," Trump wrote in the fundraising email.

After filling out a survey with questions such as "Are you concerned about the Radical Left's effect on this country?", Trump prompts supporters to donate at least $45 to the Save America Joint Fundraising Committee, which is composed of two of his post-presidential political committees: Save America and Make America Great Again PAC.

Trump, who has openly flirted with a another presidential run in 2024 but hasn't yet formally registered a presidential campaign committee, is using his PACs to fund a variety of expenses, from staging rallies to paying staffers to covering legal bills.

 

A fundraising email sent by one of former President Donald Trump's political committees on October 13, 2022.Save America

 

The nine-member committee unanimously voted to subpoena Trump for testimony concerning the riot at the close of the hearing on Thursday.

"It is our obligation to seek Donald Trump's testimony," Democratic Rep Bennie Thompson, the chairman of the committee, said on Thursday. "He is required to answer to those police officers who put their lives and bodies on the line to defend our democracy."

Trump is expected to refuse the subpoena and a potential legal process to enforce it would likely take years. In a Thursday afternoon statement, he called the committee a "total 'BUST'" and a "laughing stock."

The committee is planning to release a report prior to the midterm elections on its one-and-a-half year-long investigation into the January 6 attacks. While the committee has made clear that it has more work to do, it faces being dissolved if Republicans regain the House majority in November.

In the subject line of his fundraising email, Trump made a dubious claim he's made many times before: that his approval rating among Republicans sits at 96%.

A New York Times/Siena College poll published in July found that just 49% of Republican voters said they would cast their ballot for Trump in the 2024 GOP presidential primary. A quarter of GOP voters said they'd support Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis instead. An NBC poll last month found Trump's approvals have sunk to their lowest point since he left office.

Still, the ex-president has managed to rake in cash through his various fundraising efforts, which have included numerous worthless incentives, a Mar-a-Lago-centric missive in the midst of a Florida hurricane, and aggressive scare tactics targeting his loyal supporters.

As of August 31, Save America alone reported about $92.8 million in reserve, according to a filing with the Federal Election Commission.

 

Any politician would use this attack as a fundraising opportunity. R's take the house and the senate next month and if they don't pee down their leg the presidency in 2024' in a landslide. 

[DBP66]

5 hours ago, Warrior said:

 

Any politician would use this attack as a fundraising opportunity. R's take the house and the senate next month and if they don't pee down their leg the presidency in 2024' in a landslide. 

he fundraises when the weather changes...and his minions comply...😪

[DBP66]

The rants of a mad-man.....the history books are going to have fun with him and his minions...what a f*in NUT!

Trump releases letter to Jan. 6 committee ranting about its investigation

Dylan Stableford

·Senior Writer

Fri, October 14, 2022 at 11:10 AM

 

 

Former President Donald Trump on Friday released a letter to Rep. Bennie Thompson, D-Miss., chairman of the House select committee investigating the Capitol riot of Jan. 6, 2021, after the panel voted to subpoena Trump over his role in the insurrection.

In the 14-page letter — which includes a 10-page appendix and photos of the crowd at his rally that preceded the attack — Trump rants about the committee’s investigation and repeats false claims about the 2020 election. But the former president did not say whether he would comply with a subpoena.

“Dear Chairman Thompson, THE PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION OF 2020 WAS RIGGED AND STOLEN!” the letter begins, before launching into a litany of complaints and grievances.

Referring to the bipartisan panel as a “Committee of highly partisan political Hacks and Thugs whose sole function is to destroy the lives of many hard-working American Patriots,” Trump explains that the point of his letter is to express his “anger, disappointment, and complaint that with [sic] all of the hundreds of millions of dollars spent on what many consider to be a Charade and Witch Hunt. ...

 

Former President Donald Trump speaks at a campaign rally in Mesa, Ariz., on Oct. 9. (Mario Tama/Getty Images)

“Despite strong and powerful requests, you have not spent even a short moment on examining the massive Election Fraud that took place during the 2020 Presidential Election, and have targeted only those who were, as concerned American Citizens, protesting the Fraud itself,” Trump writes. “Those who committed the Fraud, thereby having created the Crime of the Century, go unblemished and untouched, but those who fought the Crime have suffered a fate that was unthinkable just a short time ago. ...

“The Unselect Committee has perpetuated a Show Trial the likes of which this Country has never seen before,” Trump adds. “It is a Witch Hunt of the highest level, a continuation of what has been going on for years. You have not gone after the people that created the Fraud, but rather great American Patriots who questioned it, as is their Constitutional right. These people have had their lives ruined as your Committee sits back and basks in the glow.”

The letter, which was released a day after the committee’s 10th and potentially final public hearing, did not directly address Thursday’s presentation, including the dramatic video showing congressional leaders — including House Speaker Nancy Pelosi — sheltering in an undisclosed location as a violent mob of Trump’s supporters stormed through the halls of the Capitol.

 

Rep. Bennie Thompson, D-Miss., chair of the House Jan. 6 committee, speaks to the media on Thursday after the committee voted to subpoena Trump. (Tasos Katopodis/Getty Images)

In the footage, Pelosi and then-Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., are seen at the height of the violence, calling various Trump administration officials to ask for help from federal law enforcement and requesting that they deploy the National Guard.

In his letter, Trump claims that he “fully authorized” National Guard troops to be present at the Capitol before Jan. 6, but that Democrats, including Pelosi, refused the authorization.

 

A video of Trump plays at the committee's hearing on Thursday. (Alex Wong/Getty Images)

However, there is no record of Trump authorizing National Guard troops to be at the Capitol before the attack, and no evidence that Democrats denied such a request.

Christopher Miller, who was serving as acting defense secretary on the day of the insurrection, testified to the committee that Trump never gave an order to have National Guard troops ready.

[Warrior]

40 minutes ago, DBP66 said:

he fundraises when the weather changes...and his minions comply...😪

 

Or when you idiots spoon feed him layups

[DBP66]

4 minutes ago, Warrior said:

 

Or when you idiots spoon feed him layups

and the $$ keeps flowing....as he plays his minions like little sheep....😪

[Warrior]

1 hour ago, DBP66 said:

and the $$ keeps flowing....as he plays his minions like little sheep....😪

 

You left out supporting a President that puts America 1st vs what we have today. 

[I AM IRONMAN]

57 minutes ago, Warrior said:

 

You left out supporting a President that puts America 1st vs what we have today. 

It’s lost on folks like 66.  The TDS is THAT strong!

[DBP66]

 

‘I’m Sorry ... Mr. Snowflake’: Trump Gets Stark Reality Check From Rep. Jamie Raskin

Lee Moran

Sat, October 15, 2022 at 4:22 AM

 

 

Rep. Jamie Raskin (D-Md.) on Friday dismantled former President Donald Trump’s 14-page response to a subpoena from the House select committee investigating the deadly U.S. Capitol riot.

Raskin, a member of the committee, told MSNBC’s Chris Hayes that Trump was already “playing his silly games” with his reply.

“I mean, that letter, including the use of the royal ‘we,’ which was pretty jarring, is just an outrageous distraction from the reality to the extent that there’s anything substance or substantive there,” he continued.

Raskin reality-checked Trump over his claim that Republicans “feel” the election was rigged, saying MAGA Republicans have as yet been unable to pinpoint to him how the vote was actually stolen.

“They can’t say. They just have a feeling. And in fact, Trump uses that too in this enormously revealing letter, where he says lots of people ‘feel’ that there was fraud,” he added. “I’m sorry. Your feelings, Mr. Snowflake, cannot dictate the course of the future of the republic. No, your feelings cannot dictate our elections.”

[Slotback Right]

Anybody else notice that the ravings of the loony left, are getting easier and easier and easier to take, the closer they get to the monumental ass-whooping that's in store for them.

 

[DBP66]

Trump Spent 91 Cents to Raise Each Dollar as Troubles Mounted

 

Bill Allison

Sat, October 15, 2022 at 9:07 PM

 

 

(Bloomberg) -- Former President Donald Trump raised $24 million in the third quarter, a 41% increase over the previous quarter, but he spent $22 million to do it.

Trump spent 91 cents to raise every dollar, according to the latest filings with the Federal Election Commission.

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The high-cost, low-margin fundraising came as Trump’s legal problems mounted following revelations from the House Select Committee investigating his role in the Jan. 6, 2021, riot of his supporters in the Capitol.

In August, agents from the Federal Bureau of Investigation raided his Mar-a-Lago residence, recovering classified documents that are the subject of an ongoing legal battle. In September, New York Attorney General Letitia James, a Democrat, filed a $250 million civil lawsuit alleging business fraud against Trump and his three adult children.

Trump capitalized on the legal battles with fundraising appeals.

Following the FBI raid, Save America Joint Fundraising Committee, the part of his political operation that solicits his small-dollar donors, sent emails that read in part: “The lawlessness, political persecution, and Witch Hunt, must be exposed and stopped.”

After James filed the lawsuit, supporters received emails with the subject line “Radical Democrats campaigned on SUING ME.” Both emails asked for donations.

Small Donations

How much those appeals raised can’t be calculated from Trump’s filings, since he doesn’t have to itemize contributions for donors who give less than $200, and they accounted for $9.8 million of Trump’s third-quarter haul. To reach them, Trump spent $7.3 million on SMS appeals and a little less than $7.3 million on online ads. His third-biggest expense went to rentals of donor lists, which cost $2.8 million.

It’s not the first time that Trump’s small-dollar fundraising operation has had low returns for its spending. In the third quarter of 2020, Trump Make America Great Again, the small-dollar donor arm of his re-election effort, spent 77 cents to raise each dollar.

Still, the money he’s brought in is unprecedented for a former president. Since losing the 2020 election, Trump has raised $387 million and, despite the low rate of return in the third quarter, is flush with cash at a time when many of his party’s candidates are being outraised in the midterms.

Save America, his leadership PAC, had $93 million cash on hand at the end of August, according to FEC filings. It received another $3.3 million from the joint fundraising committee in September.

Trump has endorsed more than 280 candidates in federal, state, local and international elections since leaving office, but Save America has given only $910,500, spread among 181 candidates, through the end of August. That’s a fraction of the money he’s raised. By law, his PAC can give no more than $5,000 per election to a federal campaign.

Key Races

Some Trump-endorsed candidates running for key seats that will help decide control of Congress, including in the US Senate races in Ohio and Arizona, are being outraised and outspent by Democrats.

To offset that, Trump’s allies launched a super PAC, Make America Great Again Inc., to back his endorsed candidates. It has spent $5 million so far to support GOP Senate candidates in Arizona, Georgia, Ohio, Pennsylvania and Nevada. The super PAC, which launched on Sept. 23, reported no receipts to the FEC during the third quarter. It only started booking air time in October.

Save America has donated $4.1 million to a handful of federal Super PACs that backed candidates he endorsed, and $2.8 million to Take Back Georgia, which supported former Senator David Perdue’s unsuccessful challenge to Governor Brian Kemp.

It also gave $1 million donations to America First Policy Institute, a think tank staffed with officials from Trump’s administration, and to the Conservative Partnership Institute, which is led by Mark Meadows, his former chief of staff.

[DBP66]

Whistleblower Trump Media executive says firm violated federal securities laws

Nina Lakhani in New York - 40m ago

The co-founder of Donald Trump’s beleaguered social media company has turned whistleblower, alleging the firm violated federal securities laws and that the former president pressured executives to hand over lucrative shares to his wife.

Photograph: Dado Ruvić/Reuters© Provided by The Guardian

Will Wilkerson, a former Trump Media and Technology Group executive, has told the US government’s financial watchdog that the company’s bid to raise more than $1bn via an investment vehicle known as a special purpose acquisition company (Spac), relied on “fraudulent misrepresentations … in violation of federal securities laws.”

Trump Media and Technology Group is the company that launched Trump’s Truth Social platform after Twitter and Facebook banned the ex-president for his role in the deadly January 6 attack on the Capitol.

Wilkerson, who was sacked from his role as senior vice-president for operations last week after speaking to the Washington Post, filed a whistleblower complaint to the US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) in August. He backed his complaint with a cache of emails, documents, messages and audio recordings which detail a pattern of rancorous infighting, technical incompetence and power struggles inside Trump Media since its launch last year.

Among the emails is an exchange between Wilkerson and fellow co-founder Andy Litinsky, who was allegedly fired as payback for refusing to hand over some of his shares, worth millions of dollars, to former first lady Melania Trump, according to the Post. Trump had already been given 90% of the company’s shares in exchange for the use of his name and some minor involvement.

 

In the email provided to the SEC, Litinsky, who first met Trump in 2004 as a contestant on the TV show The Apprentice, said that Trump was “retaliating against me” by threatening to “‘blow up the company’ if his demands are not met”.

The SEC was already investigating the merger between Trump media and the Spac, Digital World Acquisition Corp, which has been on hold since last October due to civil and criminal investigations as well as lacklustre investor backing.

Wilkerson’s lawyers have said that he is cooperating with investigators at the SEC, and New York-based federal prosecutors are also looking into alleged criminality at Trump Media in relation to the merger which would have led to a $1.3bn cash injection. Digital World’s share price dived to under $18 on Friday from a high of $175.

Investors were promised more than 50 million users by 2024, but so far Trump, the main attraction on the platform, has less than 5 million followers – just a fraction of the 88 million he had on Twitter.

The whistleblower complaint was first reported by the Miami Herald, but Trump Media fired Wilkerson last Thursday, citing his “unauthorized disclosures” to the Post. His lawyer Phil Brewster described the move as “patent retaliation against a SEC whistleblower of the worst kind”.

Trump’s and the company’s legal woes – and desperate actions – are mounting as he contends with federal and state investigations in New York, Georgia and Washington DC over his business practices and his lies about being robbed victory during the 2020 presidential race.

Last month, New York attorney general Letitia James’s office sent a criminal referral to federal prosecutors in Manhattan and the IRS regarding multiple possible crimes including bank fraud uncovered. In a separate civil suit, the attorney general is seeking $250m in damages, alleging that Trump, three of his adult children, his business organization and others of submitting years of fraudulent financial statements.

[I AM IRONMAN]

31 minutes ago, DBP66 said:

Whistleblower Trump Media executive says firm violated federal securities laws

Nina Lakhani in New York - 40m ago

The co-founder of Donald Trump’s beleaguered social media company has turned whistleblower, alleging the firm violated federal securities laws and that the former president pressured executives to hand over lucrative shares to his wife.

Photograph: Dado Ruvić/Reuters© Provided by The Guardian

Will Wilkerson, a former Trump Media and Technology Group executive, has told the US government’s financial watchdog that the company’s bid to raise more than $1bn via an investment vehicle known as a special purpose acquisition company (Spac), relied on “fraudulent misrepresentations … in violation of federal securities laws.”

Trump Media and Technology Group is the company that launched Trump’s Truth Social platform after Twitter and Facebook banned the ex-president for his role in the deadly January 6 attack on the Capitol.

Wilkerson, who was sacked from his role as senior vice-president for operations last week after speaking to the Washington Post, filed a whistleblower complaint to the US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) in August. He backed his complaint with a cache of emails, documents, messages and audio recordings which detail a pattern of rancorous infighting, technical incompetence and power struggles inside Trump Media since its launch last year.

Among the emails is an exchange between Wilkerson and fellow co-founder Andy Litinsky, who was allegedly fired as payback for refusing to hand over some of his shares, worth millions of dollars, to former first lady Melania Trump, according to the Post. Trump had already been given 90% of the company’s shares in exchange for the use of his name and some minor involvement.

 

In the email provided to the SEC, Litinsky, who first met Trump in 2004 as a contestant on the TV show The Apprentice, said that Trump was “retaliating against me” by threatening to “‘blow up the company’ if his demands are not met”.

The SEC was already investigating the merger between Trump media and the Spac, Digital World Acquisition Corp, which has been on hold since last October due to civil and criminal investigations as well as lacklustre investor backing.

Wilkerson’s lawyers have said that he is cooperating with investigators at the SEC, and New York-based federal prosecutors are also looking into alleged criminality at Trump Media in relation to the merger which would have led to a $1.3bn cash injection. Digital World’s share price dived to under $18 on Friday from a high of $175.

Investors were promised more than 50 million users by 2024, but so far Trump, the main attraction on the platform, has less than 5 million followers – just a fraction of the 88 million he had on Twitter.

The whistleblower complaint was first reported by the Miami Herald, but Trump Media fired Wilkerson last Thursday, citing his “unauthorized disclosures” to the Post. His lawyer Phil Brewster described the move as “patent retaliation against a SEC whistleblower of the worst kind”.

Trump’s and the company’s legal woes – and desperate actions – are mounting as he contends with federal and state investigations in New York, Georgia and Washington DC over his business practices and his lies about being robbed victory during the 2020 presidential race.

Last month, New York attorney general Letitia James’s office sent a criminal referral to federal prosecutors in Manhattan and the IRS regarding multiple possible crimes including bank fraud uncovered. In a separate civil suit, the attorney general is seeking $250m in damages, alleging that Trump, three of his adult children, his business organization and others of submitting years of fraudulent financial statements.

THIS TIME! That will then be 1/185!

[DBP66]

A Trump Political Committee Bought $131,000 Worth Of Books. Four Days Later, Jared Kushner’s Hit The Best-Seller List

Zach Everson, Forbes Staff - 1h ago

One of Donald Trump’s political committees spent $158,000 on books just weeks after the release of Jared Kushner’s memoir.

Jared Kushner looks on as then-President Donald Trump speaks before signing the United States-Mexico-Canada Trade Agreement during a ceremony on the South Lawn of the White House on January 29, 2020. (Photo by Drew Angerer/Getty Images) Getty Images© Provided by Forbes

“Breaking History: A White House Memoir” hit book shelves on Aug. 23. Two weeks later, the Save America Joint Fundraising Committee, which raises money for two Trump PACs, paid retailer Books-A-Million $131,000 for “collateral:books,” according to a campaign filing made Saturday with the Federal Election Commission.

 

On Sept. 11, four days after that bulk purchase, Kushner’s book appeared for the first time on the New York Times best sellers list.

On Sept. 22, Save America purchased another $27,000 worth of books. “Breaking History” spent five weeks on the best-seller list before falling off.

Spokespeople for Save America did not immediately respond to questions about whether the book purchases covered Kushner’s memoir. But it seems likely that they did. Save America Joint Fundraising Committee is currently offering copies of Kusher’s book in exchange for donations of $75 or more.

[I AM IRONMAN]

1 hour ago, DBP66 said:

A Trump Political Committee Bought $131,000 Worth Of Books. Four Days Later, Jared Kushner’s Hit The Best-Seller List

Zach Everson, Forbes Staff - 1h ago

One of Donald Trump’s political committees spent $158,000 on books just weeks after the release of Jared Kushner’s memoir.

Jared Kushner looks on as then-President Donald Trump speaks before signing the United States-Mexico-Canada Trade Agreement during a ceremony on the South Lawn of the White House on January 29, 2020. (Photo by Drew Angerer/Getty Images) Getty Images© Provided by Forbes

“Breaking History: A White House Memoir” hit book shelves on Aug. 23. Two weeks later, the Save America Joint Fundraising Committee, which raises money for two Trump PACs, paid retailer Books-A-Million $131,000 for “collateral:books,” according to a campaign filing made Saturday with the Federal Election Commission.

 

On Sept. 11, four days after that bulk purchase, Kushner’s book appeared for the first time on the New York Times best sellers list.

On Sept. 22, Save America purchased another $27,000 worth of books. “Breaking History” spent five weeks on the best-seller list before falling off.

Spokespeople for Save America did not immediately respond to questions about whether the book purchases covered Kushner’s memoir. But it seems likely that they did. Save America Joint Fundraising Committee is currently offering copies of Kusher’s book in exchange for donations of $75 or more.

Oh no….this HAS to be the time.  TDS is strong with you!😂😂

[concha]

[DBP66]

DOJ seeks 6 months in prison, $200K fine for Steve Bannon over contempt conviction

ALEXANDER MALLIN

Mon, October 17, 2022 at 9:09 AM

 

 

The Justice Department is asking a federal judge to sentence Steve Bannon, adviser to former President Donald Trump, to six months in prison and make him pay a $200,000 fine for his conviction on two counts of criminal contempt of Congress, according to a new court filing.

"From the moment that the Defendant, Stephen K. Bannon, accepted service of a subpoena from the House Select Committee to Investigate the January 6th Attack on the United States Capitol, he has pursued a bad-faith strategy of defiance and contempt," prosecutors said Monday. "The Committee sought documents and testimony from the Defendant relevant to a matter of national importance: the circumstances that led to a violent attack on the Capitol and disruption of the peaceful transfer of power. In response, the Defendant flouted the Committee's authority and ignored the subpoena's demands."

The statement continued, "For his sustained, bad-faith contempt of Congress, the Defendant should be sentenced to six months' imprisonment—the top end of the Sentencing Guidelines' range—and fined $200,000—based on his insistence on paying the maximum fine rather than cooperate with the Probation Office's routine pre-sentencing financial investigation."

 

PHOTO: Former President Donald Trump's longtime ally Steve Bannon arrives in Manhattan Supreme Court, Tuesday, Oct. 4, 2022. (Curtis Means/DailyMail via AP, Pool)

Bannon was found guilty in July of defying a subpoena from the House select committee investigating the Jan. 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol.

He had been subpoenaed by the Jan. 6 panel for records and testimony in September 2021.

Bannon is set to be sentenced on Friday at the D.C. courthouse by federal judge Carl Nichols at 9 a.m. His lawyers are expected to submit their own sentencing memo Monday before noon.

In their sentencing recommendation, prosecutors outline in detail Bannon and his attorneys' months-long campaign to resist cooperating with the Jan. 6 select committee's investigation of the assault on the Capitol.

"From the time he was initially subpoenaed, the Defendant has shown that his true reasons for total noncompliance have nothing to do with his purported respect for the Constitution, the rule of law, or executive privilege, and everything to do with his personal disdain for the members of Congress sitting on the Committee and their effort to investigate the attack on our country's peaceful transfer of power," they say. "[Bannon's] abject refusal to heed the Committee's subpoena, under the circumstances with which this country is confronted, could not be more serious."

They argue Bannon's last-minute offer on the eve of his trial claiming he was prepared to cooperate with the committee, was merely an attempt "to leverage the information he had unlawfully withheld from the Committee to engineer dismissal of his criminal prosecution."

"When his quid pro quo attempt failed, the Defendant made no further attempt at cooperation with the Committee -- speaking volumes about his bad faith," prosecutors said.

In its filing, the department reveals that in July, after Bannon's attorneys failed in their final attempt to have the case dismissed, his lawyer Evan Corcoran (who also represented former President Donald Trump and is a key figure in the Mar-a-Lago documents probe) contacted the Jan. 6 committee and said outright that Bannon would only to agree to cooperate with the committee if they urged DOJ to drop its charges.

The committee counsel Tim Heaphy declined, and prosecutors note Corcoran "never contacted the Government—perhaps because the Government had made clear through its pleadings and at argument that it understood the Defendant's actions to be a stunt and would not consider dismissing the case." Heaphy was interviewed by the FBI just last week on that interaction with Corcoran, prosecutors say, and he characterized it as problematic.

They also argue Bannon "exploited his notoriety -- through courthouse press conferences and his War Room podcast -- to display to the public the source of his bad-faith refusal to comply with the Committee's subpoena: a total disregard for government processes and the law," and used "hyperbolic and sometimes violent rhetoric to disparage the Committee's investigation, personally attack the Committee's members, and ridicule the criminal justice system."

"[Bannon's] statements prove that his contempt was not aimed at protecting executive privilege or the Constitution, rather it was aimed at undermining the Committee's efforts to investigate an historic attack on government," the filing says.

As part of the court's presentence investigation, prosecutors say Bannon was interviewed and provided limited details about his family, personal life and health but refused to disclose any information about his finances. They say Bannon instead insisted "that he is willing and able to pay any fine imposed, including the maximum fine on each count of conviction."

On his way out of the courtroom after being found guilty in July, Bannon again blasted members of the Jan. 6 committee for not appearing as witnesses at his trial.

"I only have one disappointment, and that is the gutless members of that show-trial committee, that [Jan. 6] committee, didn't have the guts to come down here and testify," Bannon said.

"We may have lost a battle here today, but we're not going to lose this war," he said. "[The jury] came to their conclusion about what was put on in the in that courtroom. But listen, in the closing argument, the prosecutor missed one very important phrase, right? 'I stand with Trump and the Constitution, and I will never back off that, ever.'"

Bannon attorney David Schoen said then that Bannon's defense team will appeal the case, saying, "This is just Round One."

[tommygun58]

[DBP66]

I almost typed "unbelievable"....but this is all too believable unfortunately....what a POS Trump is...the guy "who put America first"...🥲

Trump Organization charged Secret Service as much as $1,185 per night to stay at Trump D.C. hotel

 

Bill O'Leary

 

Anna Schecter and Julia Ainsley

Mon, October 17, 2022 at 2:15 PM

 

 

During Donald Trump’s presidency, Trump hotels charged the Secret Service as much as $1,185 per night, more than five times the recommended government rate, and the high rates continued after he left office, according to an investigation released Monday by the House Committee on Oversight and Reform.

Beginning in January 2017 through Sept. 15, 2021, the Secret Service received at least 40 waivers to let it spend more than the recommended per diem rates to stay at Trump properties to protect Trump as a president and former president, and also to protect those around him, the investigation found.

In one ledger obtained by the Oversight Committee and published in the report, the Secret Service was charged $1,160 for a room at the Trump International Hotel in Washington, D.C. for agents protecting Eric Trump on March 8, 2017. The government rate for D.C. on that night was $242. On Nov. 8, 2017, another ledger shows that the Secret Service was charged $1,185 to lodge agents protecting Donald Trump Jr. The government rate was $201.

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In a statement on behalf of the Trump Organization, Eric Trump said, "Any services rendered to the United States Secret Service or other government agencies at Trump owned properties were at their request and were either provided at cost, heavily discounted or for free. The company would have been substantially better off if hospitality services were sold to full-paying guests, however, the company did whatever it took to accommodate the agencies to ensure they were able to do their jobs at the highest levels — they are amazing men and women.”

The Secret Service did not immediately respond to a request for comment.

Trump Organization properties overall charged the Secret Service more than $1.4 million for agents’ accommodations when traveling to protect former President Trump, according to figures first reported by The Washington Post.

But it was previously unknown that a single night’s stay for the agents could cost the government agency, and therefore taxpayers, as much as $1,185.

House Oversight Committee Chairwoman Carolyn Maloney detailed the new findings in a letter to Secret Service Director Kimberly Cheatle on Monday, noting that then-President Trump said federal employees traveling with him would be able to stay in his company’s properties for free or at cost.

“The exorbitant rates charged to the Secret Service and agents’ frequent stays at Trump-owned properties raise significant concerns about the former President’s self-dealing and may have resulted in a taxpayer-funded windfall for former President Trump’s struggling businesses,” Maloney said.

During his presidency, Trump visited his properties 547 times, including 145 visits to his Mar-a-Lago Club in Florida, the investigation found, citing a study by Citizens for Ethics and Responsibility in Washington. Agents were required to stay at Trump Organization properties in order to protect the president as well as other dignitaries and foreign leaders.

The per diem for Secret Service is usually based on a formula that accounts for the season and location, the committee said, and higher rates are generally scrutinized by the agency.

“The Secret Service received authorization for additional flexibility for expenses during protective missions, including per diem expenses above the government rate,” Maloney said in her letter to the Secret Service.

Maloney said the committee is continuing to seek a full account of Secret Service spending at Trump Organization properties and believes the figure may be larger than the $1.4 million previously reported.

[concha]

[Warrior]

3 hours ago, concha said:

Mean tweets…..and now we’ve got this sh$t show. Thanks Dems!