When former President Donald Trump held a campaign event at Arlington National Cemetery last week, 1st Lt. Jimmy McCain says he viewed it as a “violation.” The youngest son of the late Sen. John McCain had already been moving away from the Republican Party — just weeks ago, he changed his voter registration to Democrat and plans to vote for Kamala Harris in November, he told CNN in an exclusive interview this week. But he is speaking out now for the first time about Trump because of the former president’s conduct at the hallowed ground where several generations of McCain’s family, including his grandfather and great grandfather, are buried. “It just blows me away,” McCain, who has served in the military for 17 years, told CNN. “These men and women that are laying in the ground there have no choice” of whether to be a backdrop for a political campaign, he said. “I just think that for anyone who’s done a lot of time in their uniform, they just understand that inherently — that it’s not about you there. It’s about these people who gave the ultimate sacrifice in the name of their country.”
Sure he will. 2000 pages of redactions. Or a Broadway play version. Get your VIP tix at Trumpdotorg. A double feature with Trump Tax Returns, the musical.
There is something seriously wrong with Trump. His thought process is sounding more and more messed up in the head. Just a few recent examples of hundreds.... “I don’t ramble. I’m a really smart guy, you know, really smart. I don’t ramble. But the other day, anytime I hit too hard, they say he was rambling, rambling,” “You take a look at bacon and some of these products. Some people don't eat bacon anymore. And we are going to get the energy prices down. When we get energy down — you know, this was caused by their horrible energy — wind, they want wind all over the place. But when it doesn't blow, we have a little problem.” "She destroyed the city of San Francisco, it’s — and I own a big building there — it’s no — I shouldn’t talk about this but that’s OK I don’t give a damn because this is what I’m doing. I should say it’s the finest city in the world — sell and get the hell out of there, right? But I can’t do that. I don’t care, you know? I lost billions of dollars, billions of dollars. You know, somebody said, ‘What do you think you lost?’ I said, ‘Probably two, three billion. That’s OK, I don’t care.’ They say, ‘You think you’d do it again?’ And that’s the least of it. Nobody. They always say, I don’t know if you know. Lincoln was horribly treated. Uh, Jefferson was pretty horribly. Andrew Jackson they say was the worst of all, that he was treated worse than any other president. I said, ‘Do that study again, because I think there’s nobody close to Trump.’ I even got shot! And who the hell knows where that came from, right?"
A fundraising event for Jan. 6 defendants, which had been scheduled to take place this week at Donald Trump’s golf club in Bedminster, New Jersey, has been postponed indefinitely. Dubbed the “J6 Awards Gala,” the event was initially scheduled for Thursday, but its websitenow lists the event as postponed and its location as “undetermined.” The event had been touted as a celebration of Jan. 6 defendants and a fundraiser for their legal fees. Tickets ranged from $1,500 per person for general admission to $50,000 for a “platinum table” for 12 at the VIP reception. Trump was listed as an “invited speaker” but was not expected to attend. The event’s featured guests had included some of the most notorious names in the MAGA world. Among them were former New York Mayor Rudy Giuliani, who has been indicted in Arizona and Georgia on charges of trying to help Trump steal the 2020 election (he has pleaded not guilty) and who is also dealing with the fallout from defaming two Georgia election workers; and Peter Navarro, who served a four-month sentence after being convicted of contempt of Congress for refusing to comply with a subpoena from the Jan. 6 House selectcommittee. The event website did not provide a reason for the postponement. Organizer L.J. Fino told Fox Business that it was because of “scheduling conflicts of invited guest speakers” and that they expect the event to take place after the November election. However, The New York Times reported Sunday that it had obtained text messages in which event planners cited “multiple issues outside of our control, the main one being safety concerns of attendees and staff.” (MSNBC has not verified the Times’ reporting.) looks like some advisor finally convinced his dumbass that this would be a horrible look for him and extremely bad optics
When will his campaign release the video they claim they have? That could easily clear everything up…
A New York federal court has denied Donald Trump's attempt at removing his New York state court case for a second time, finding that no good cause exists for the removal. Prior to this decision, the same New York court previously denied Trump's removal attempt because it was filed without leave of Justice Merchan or consent from New York prosecutors. Now, reviewing the matter for a second time, Judge Hellerstein found that the federal court's limited jurisdiction does not allow him to take the case from Justice Merchan based solely on the fact that Merchan allegedly is biased against Donald Trump. Significantly, Hellerstein went on to discuss the recent Supreme Court immunity decision and its impacts on the Trump case, stating that the acts charged in New York fell outside of Trump's purported executive authority. Specifically, Hellerstein stated: "Nothing in the Supreme Court's opinion affects my earlier conclusion that the hush money payments were private, unofficial acts, outside the bounds of executive authority." Donald Trump is now facing a likely sentencing in New York in just a matter of weeks. Prior to sentencing, Justice Merchan will decide whether or not to vacate his convictions, a decision that likely has been made easier by Judge Hellerstein's opinion released today.
Reading is flubber-mental. He hasn't read it, but Trump says Project 2025 has "policies everyone would like" A big, strong man came up to me with tears in his eyes and said "why can't we make women second class citizens?".
I doubt they filmed the assault. It's disgusting how Trump always calls everyone liars, when the guy can't ever tell the truth. Him calling the Army liars is pathetic. Then again, he's disrespected and called some of the highest military officers all kinds of disgusting things. He has no business being Commander in Chief of the military. I can see him get more and more brazen with using them upon our own people when he sees fit, and trying to get the power to fire Generals and Commanders not willing to be his personal vengeance soldiers to shoot protesters out of spite and hate.
Trump endorsed Mark Robinson. Sounds like a great guy. New York Magainze: Mark Robinson, the Republican candidate for governor in North Carolina, reportedly watched p*rn in private booths up to five days a week in the ’90s. He strenuously denies that as well as the Holocaust. If you’re familiar with Mark Robinson, the Republican candidate for governor in North Carolina, it’s probably for his hard-line stance on abortion and his outlandish claims on everything from Black Panther (made by “an agnostic Jew and put to film by satanic Marxists”) to the Holocaust (“hogwash”). But get ready for a new and slightly more fun reason: In the 1990s and early 2000s, the Evangelical Christian used to go to the p*rnography store a lot. Like, a lot. ...
A former conservative federal appellate judge is urging the Supreme Court to keep Donald Trump off the ballot, arguing the ex-president’s effort to cling to power after his 2020 election loss was “broader” than South Carolina’s secession from the US that triggered the Civil War. “Mr. Trump tried to prevent the newly-elected President Biden from governing anywhere in the United States. The South Carolina secession prevented the newly-elected President Lincoln from governing only in that State,” J. Michael Luttig, a former judge on the 4th US Circuit Court of Appeals, told the justices in a friend-of-the-court brief filed Monday. https://www.cnn.com/2024/01/29/politics/luttig-conway-supreme-court-trump-insurrection/index.html
Again if Trump had simply showed up, laid a wreath and was quiet and respectful this wouldn’t be an issue. It would be seen as a success by Trump. Instead he did a thumbs up pic over the graves of soldiers, released that pic and video on his campaign site, his staff shoved a cemetery staff and then instead of apologizing doubled down and called the cemetery staff mentally ill.
If I am reading the SCOTUS right, Colorado can not take him off their state ballot but the POTUS can sequester all Trump electoral college voters in Guantanamo as an official act of the office of the POTUS ... with zero consequences to himself.
My understanding which I admit is limited of the immunity is ruling is that theoretically a president could do that. They could also seek to pressure states during vote counting and certifications of elections. The only legal consequence would be impeachment but as we saw with the last impeachment a lame duck president could simply get congressional allies to stall impeachment and vote on conviction until they left office and then claim impeachment doesn’t apply.
