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Trump Grifts, Loans, and Investigations

Discussion in 'BBS Hangout: Debate & Discussion' started by deb4rockets, Aug 22, 2020.

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    Bu-Bu-Burissssmmmmaaaaa!!!!
     
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    Donald J is not having a good week.
     
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    Judge throws out trump countersuit and reaffirms trump is a rapist.

     
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    ex-President "substantially true rapist" Trump

    That stain won't go away like it would on a blue dress.
     
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    Trump lawyers' bid to delay trial over "pyramid scheme" lawsuit just backfired on his 2024 campaign


    A federal lawsuit accusing former President Donald Trump and his family of promoting a pyramid scheme will finally go to trial on Jan. 29, 2024 – at the start of a presidential election year.

    The lawsuit, which was anonymously filed in Oct. 2018, alleges that the Trump Corporation promoted a multi-level marketing scheme — or a pyramid scheme — through the company ACN Opportunity, LLC,
    which operates under the name American Communications Network, Law & Crime reports.

    The four plaintiffs claim that Trump should be held liable for lending his and his children Donald Trump Jr, Eric Trump and Ivanka Trump's names to a pyramid scheme that broke state and federal laws
    around "racketeering and conspiracy to racketeer."

    The Trump family falsely endorsed and promoted ACN by insisting that the enterprise "offered a reasonable probability of commercial success" and even embedded advertisements on the show,
    The Celebrity Apprentice. In exchange, they allegedly received millions of dollars in secret payments.

    U.S. District Judge Lorna Schofield warned that there would be no further delay in her Tuesday order.

    "The trial date is firm," Schofield wrote, "as the trial is scheduled far advance to accommodate the parties' stated availability in their letters."
     
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    So is there defense going to be there intent was that they believed it was going to be commercially successful and the First Amendment allows them to endorse ACN?
     
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    And that might happen as soon as tomorrow...


    And to be honest, I don't think he will have a mug shot...
     
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    To be honest, at this point I would be shocked if a judge came back and said...............Looks legit donny. From the top down these folks are crooked AF, it's not just one or two but his whole dam company. This is why it's scary, to think about him in the white house......crooks and thieves learn from past mistakes and boy oh boy, he has lost biggly...........the next time around he will surround himself with yes man and do things behind closed doors that we won't find out about for years to come, not to mention he will go scorched earth on everyone who said a bad word about him..........emperor trump will never leave the white house again
     
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    From where this is heading, Trump will either be ex-President for Life or President for Life by the end of the next year...
     
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    ...if there IS any God...

    ...let alone a righteous or benevolent one...

    ... the Donald won't have a good rest of his life...;)
     
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    That KFC, McDonalds, [insert random fast food joint] diet has to catch up to him eventually right?
     
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    [AP] Special counsel got a search warrant for Twitter to turn over info on Trump's account

    Special counsel Jack Smith's team obtained a search warrant in January for records related to former President Donald Trump's Twitter account, and a judge levied a $350,000 fine on the company for a delay in complying, according to court documents released Wednesday.

    The details were included in a decision from the federal appeals court in Washington rejecting Twitter's claim that it should not have been held in contempt or sanctioned.

    X, the platform formerly known as Twitter, sent an automated reply to a request for comment, saying it would respond soon.

    The filing says prosecutors got the search warrant directing Twitter to produce information on Trump's account after a court "found probable cause to search the Twitter account for evidence of criminal offenses." The government also obtained a nondisclosure agreement prohibiting Twitter from disclosing the search warrant, the filing says.

    The court found that disclosing the warrant could risk that Trump would “would seriously jeopardize the ongoing investigation” by giving him “an opportunity to destroy evidence, change patterns of behavior," the filing says.

    Twitter objected to the nondisclosure agreement, saying four days after the compliance deadline that it would not produce any of the account information, according to the ruling. The judges write that Twitter “did not question the validity of the search warrant” but argued that the nondisclosure agreement was a violation of the First Amendment and wanted the court to assess the legality of the agreement before it handed any information over.

    Smith has charged Trump, in an indictment unsealed last week, with conspiring to subvert the will of voters and cling to power after he lost the 2020 election to Democrat Joe Biden. Trump, a Republican, has pleaded not guilty to charges including conspiracy to defraud the United States and obstruction of Congress' certification of Biden's win.

    Trump says he is innocent and has portrayed the investigation as political motivated. His legal team has indicated it will argue that Trump was relying on the advice of lawyers around him in 2020 and had the right to challenge an election he believed was rigged.

    Trump’s campaign did not immediately respond to a message seeking comment.

    A spokesman for the special counsel’s office declined to comment on the warrant or what it sought.
     
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    Scratching my head trying to fathom what a twitter search warrant would show you that just reading twitter wouldn't. Maybe would show tweets that Trump read but didn't respond to, but don't see why that would be interesting.
     
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    Also drafts and DMs?
     
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    Shouldn't they give our legal system a break and lump all of these indictments into a class action for one hundred brazillion dollars?
     
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