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May 24, 2023

Trump Attorney Warned Him Against Defying Secret Documents Subpoena

Former President Donald Trump was warned last year that holding onto classified documents after he was subpoenaed by the Department of Justice (DOJ) for their return to the National Archives could amount to obstruction of justice, according to records shared exclusively with The Guardian over the weekend.

"The previously unreported warning conveyed to Trump by his lawyer Evan Corcoran could be significant in the criminal investigation surrounding Trump's handling of classified materials given it shows he knew about his subpoena obligations," the outlet reports.

Noting special counsel Jack Smith's probe into why "Trump World" failed to return the requested materials, "prosecutors have fixated on Trump's valet Walt Nauta, after he told the Justice Department that Trump told him to move boxes out of the storage room before and after the subpoena. The activity was captured on subpoenaed surveillance footage, though there were gaps in the tapes," The Guardian reveals.

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"The notes revealed how Trump and Nauta had unusually detailed knowledge of the botched subpoena response, including where Corcoran intended to search and not search for classified documents at Mar-a-Lago, as well as when Corcoran was actually doing his search," Lowell continues, adding that "the notes ended up before the grand jury in Washington hearing evidence in the case after a US appeals court allowed attorney-client privilege to be pierced because judges believed Trump might have used Corcoran's legal advice in furtherance of a crime."



https://www.nationalmemo.com/trump-subpoena

May 23, 2023

Yesterday was one of if not the worst day of Trump's life and it will just get worse.

* Neal Katyal: Trump DOJ spied electronically on Congressional enemies

https://www.democraticunderground.com/1017830399

What laws didn't he break?
Cattle Rustling or maybe illegal gill net fishing for salmon?

And was he trying to cover up his work for and with Russia/Putin?

Did Bill Barr know about this? And who did this work for him? Where are the warrants for the alleged wire tapping?



If Garland and the DoJ have proof of this illegal spying by TFG on people like Adam Schiff Trump, needs
to brought in for questioning ASAP.

* E. Jean Carroll moves to amend defamation lawsuit to include Trump's statements to CNN
E. Jean Carrol is going to sue Trump for another $10 million for the shit he said on his CNN Townhall

https://www.democraticunderground.com/100217935690

* Did Trump start selling out America and America's secrets from the moment he got into the White House?
"Prosecutors Sought Records on Trump's Foreign Business Deals Since 2017"

https://www.democraticunderground.com/10143077645

"The subpoena — drafted by the office of the special counsel, Jack Smith — sought details on the Trump Organization’s real estate licensing and development dealings in seven countries: China, France, Turkey, Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, the United Arab Emirates and Oman, according to the people familiar with the matter. The subpoena sought the records for deals reached since 2017, when Mr. Trump was sworn in as president."

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I will take mid July in the pool as to when TFG flees America.

May 22, 2023

Drunk Trumpers: 200 ARRESTED and 40 people taken to hospital as unruly 'Go Topless Weekend'

Lone Star state gone wild! More than 200 ARRESTED and 40 people taken to hospital as unruly 'Go Topless' Jeep celebration at Texas beach spirals out of control

The Jeep Weekend in Galveston is also known as 'Go Topless Weekend'
It brings thousands of people to a beach in Texas and is known for wild parties along the beach
Over 230 have been arrested and at least 30 were injured at this year's event

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-12109587/More-200-ARRESTED-drunken-disorderly-conduct-unruly-Jeep-celebration-Texas.html









May 20, 2023

Please spare me the "both sides do it" and that Democrats are the same as Republicans.



BTW how many indictments and prison sentences will TFG have? And I think the one prison
sentence under Clinton was for somebody who wouldn't give testimony in the great Whitewater/BJ
hunt. (Susan McDougal)
May 20, 2023

This has to be some kind of joke. "Manhood The Masculine Virtues America Needs." by Josh Hawley



Attn Josh

Real men are not mean to LGBT folk.

Real men do not try to take away a women's right to health care.

Real Americans do not try to overthrow our Constitutionally driven election outcomes.

Real men do not spread misinformation about medical science.

Real men do not pull shit like this:

May 19, 2023

Rudy Giuliani Called Noelle Dunphy 'Daughter' During Sex, Lawsuit Alleges

Rudy Giuliani faces a sexual assault lawsuit from a former employee and an extract from the suit has accused him of referring to the alleged victim as his daughter prior to and during sexual activity.

The extract of the complaint has begun to circulate on social media following the announcement of the lawsuit.

Noelle Dunphy, a former Giuliani associate, filed the lawsuit in New York Court on Monday. The lawsuit accused Giuliani of "sexual assault and harassment, wage theft, and other misconduct." Giuliani served as the mayor of New York City from 1994 to 2001 and more recently worked as a personal attorney to former President Donald Trump.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/rudy-giuliani-called-noelle-dunphy-daughter-during-sex-lawsuit-alleges/ar-AA1bfwvi

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Does Ms. Dunphy have this on tape?

“I dated Noelle for approximately 2 months in early 2019. I found out she was kicked out of several luxury hotels for suspicion of prostitution. I also found out that she scammed, elderly men by claiming rape. I broke up with her, and she continued to try to reach out to me. Even following me to several events and asking to take pictures.

She was absolutely never employed. She illegally taped me and illegally went in my email.” – Rudy Giuliani

https://www.democraticunderground.com/100217928937

May 19, 2023

Ted Cruz says he's opening an investigation into Bud Light

Source: MSNBC

Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) opened and called for an investigation into Anheuser-Busch over its collaboration with transgender influencer Dylan Mulvaney, saying that the company was potentially marketing its products to a younger audience through the partnership.

To briefly summarize, as part of a promotional campaign tied to the NCAA March Madness basketball tournament, Bud Light partnered with Dylan Mulvaney, a trans woman with a prominent social media profile. She posted a harmless and lighthearted Instagram video, which led to conservative apoplexy because ... well, it’s not altogether clear why. Apparently, much of the right doesn’t believe trans people should be involved in promotional campaigns with beer companies.

According to a letter Cruz and Republican Sen. Marsha Blackburn of Tennessee sent to Brendan Whitworth, the Anheuser-Busch CEO and chairman of the Beer Institute, Bud Light might have violated existing guidelines that prevent beer companies from promoting their products to younger audiences.

“We would urge you, in your capacity at Anheuser-Busch, to avoid a lengthy investigation by the Beer Institute by instead having Anheuser-Busch publicly sever its relationship with Dylan Mulvaney, publicly apologize to the American people for marketing alcoholic beverages to minors, and direct Dylan Mulvaney to remove any Anheuser-Busch content from his social media platforms,” the far-right senators wrote.



Read more: https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow-show/maddowblog/ted-cruz-says-s-opening-investigation-bud-light-rcna85237



"For marketing alcoholic beverages to minors."



Have Cruz and Blackburn heard about the laws that are already on the books that make
it illegal to see alcohol to minors?
May 19, 2023

Plant a Figwort!

The flowers are not so much but the display of
pollinators is awesome. Plant both an Early &
Late Figwort and you will skip going to work, bathing,
or eating because you will get a chair just to watch
the bees, wasps, hornets, butterflies, humming birds,
syriphid flies, and other critters who vist these plants.

Btw in the fall it is a really handsome plant.

No home is complete without a figwort.

May 15, 2023

Tiedrich for the win

How fucked up is this: Donald Trump's tax cuts for the obscenely wealthy are responsible for a QUARTER OF OUR NATION'S ENTIRE DEBT and Republicans want to cut YOUR social security to pay for it, and that's what this debt ceiling bullshit is all about. fucking unacceptable

https://twitter.com/itsJeffTiedrich/status/1657778597883420677

BTW Read a republican response to Tiedrich's tweet blaming the democrats for running up
the debt in 2020 w/the C-19 relief checks.

https://twitter.com/PBSlade/status/1657782202300526597

May 15, 2023

Durham was very good @ the job Barr wanted him to do and that was to stop the talk about all ...

... the links between the Trump Campaign and Putin's Alfa Bank. I'm willing to bet that less than
5% of the American people know about Alfa Bank and Trump. From March 2016 to October of
2016 a computer server @ Alfa Bank in Russia had more than 2,000 D.N.S searches (domain
name searches) to establish contact with a computer server in Lititiz, PA that was working for
the Trump Campaign. Alfa Bank also had > 300 contacts with Betsy DeVoss' computer in MI
during the same time and that would have most likely brought in Betsy's brother Erik (backwater)
Prince too.

Durham's mission was kamikaze mission from the jump. Barr knew their was nothing there in
investigating the Trump Russia investigators and he also knew that the Trump Campaign was up
to its eyeball in working with Russia so he had Durham stir up some shit that Fox and the GOP
could spread around their right wing media echo chambers.

@ least this is what I think.

Time to release the whole Mueller Report.

https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2018/10/15/was-there-a-connection-between-a-russian-bank-and-the-trump-campaign

P.s. The New York Office of the FBI was well aware of the connections between Trump and Russia in 2016

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