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ponchi101 wrote: Wed May 10, 2023 2:53 pm Needless to say, I have no professional expertise on this. I can only compare with what happened in Venezuela with Chavez.
People got hooked on the guy and from then on, every and all biases kick in. Confirmation bias kicks in and every "positive" sign is taken as a sign of greatness by the leader. Every negative sign is a plot from "the others". Recency bias is dialed to the max: no historical assessment (meaning the track record by the leader) is analyzed.
It is truly a limbic response. When you point out the faults of the leader, the followers get angry and simply label you a traitor. A detractor that is fixated on bringing the leader down. NO amount of data o evidence can be analyzed in front of them, because the response is violent and automatic.
How it starts? I always wonder about that too.
I have never understood the need some have to be led. Why give yourself a headache using the wonderful brains we have to apply critical thinking to a situation or a fellow human. It's so much easier to let the leader do your thinking for you and you don't have to worry about how incoherent the thoughts are or what their real world application will mean. It's why when people disagree with POTUS on an issue but will still vote for him the media, looking for simple takes, gets "confused" by something that is normal. No one is 100% right all the time but here we are.
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He can't die soon enough.
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But he is walking proof that an improper diet means nothing against longevity.
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“I do not believe for a moment that I am here to assist a genuine effort to enact legislation or conduct legislative ‘oversight,'” Pomerantz said in a three-page statement. “We are gathered here because Donald Trump’s supporters would like to use these proceedings to attempt to obstruct and undermine the criminal case pending against him, and to harass, intimidate, and discredit anyone who investigates or charges him.”
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Fun to watch those whiney republicans hypocritically crying about him pleading the 5th, though.
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Palmer Report @PalmerReport

Bedminster is still 0% of this story. The DOJ concluded with certainty that there were no documents at Bedminster, or it would have raided the place.

We’re supposed to believe the DOJ raided Trump’s primary home but was too timid or clueless to search his vacation home?

Morons.

And don’t get me started over this stupid (expletive) about Ivana’s casket. That’s one of the most absurd conspiracy theories of all time. It’s Qanon level nonsense. I automatically unfollow anyone who even posts about Ivana’s casket, because it’s just idiots trying by sound clever.

We’re supposed to believe that the Department of Justice, the FBI, the Attorney General, and Jack Smith are all oblivious morons who didn’t think to search Bedminster or Ivana’s casket, but *some clowns on Twitter* outsmarted them all by putting it together?

Just so, so absurd.

Yet because the Dumb People of Twitter are all chanting “search Bedminster, everyone please look at how smart we are for suggesting Bedminster be searched” in unison, the real story here is being lost.

Trump’s departing attorney is not only quitting ahead of Trump’s indictment, he’s publicly accusing Trump’s other attorney of having incompetently led path down a path of self incrimination.

Trump’s departing lawyer expects the Trump indictment to reveal that Trump had the most inept legal representation of all time, and he’s trying to protect his own professional reputation by blaming another Trump lawyer for screwing it all up.

Attorneys don’t quit simply because they expect their client to be indicted, or even convicted. They quit because they expect their client to go down in such embarrassing fashion, the client’s legal team ends up being seen as too inept to ever find work again.
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E. Jean Carroll Seeks New Damages From Trump for Comments on CNN
The former president’s repeated denials that he sexually abused Ms. Carroll “show the depth of his malice” and merit heavy damages, her lawyer wrote.


By Benjamin Weiser
May 22, 2023, 5:21 p.m. ET

E. Jean Carroll, who this month won $5 million in damages from former President Donald J. Trump, is now seeking a “very substantial” additional amount in response to his insults on a CNN program just a day after she won her sexual abuse and defamation case.

Ms. Carroll’s filing Monday in Manhattan federal court seeks to intensify the financial pain for Mr. Trump. The jury in her civil case found him liable on May 9 for sexual abuse and defamation. It ordered him to pay Ms. Carroll, a former advice columnist and fixture in Manhattan’s media circles, $2 million for the sexual abuse and $3 million for the defamation.

Monday’s filing came in a separate defamation lawsuit that Ms. Carroll had filed in 2019 against Mr. Trump, 76, which is before the same judge who presided in the civil trial but had been sidetracked by appeals. The older case stemmed from comments Mr. Trump made that year, shortly after she said that he had raped her in a Manhattan department store dressing room in the mid-1990s. That lawsuit is still pending.

On May 10, Mr. Trump went on CNN and echoed his earlier denials about the episode, calling her account “fake” and a “made-up story.” Despite a photograph showing them together, he claimed again that he had never met Ms. Carroll, 79, called her a “wack job” and said the recent civil trial was “a rigged deal.”

The court filing on Monday argues Mr. Trump’s defamatory statements following the verdict “show the depth of his malice toward Carroll, since it is hard to imagine defamatory conduct that could possibly be more motivated by hatred, ill will or spite.”

“This conduct supports a very substantial punitive damages award in Carroll’s favor both to punish Trump, to deter him from engaging in further defamation, and to deter others from doing the same,” the filing says.

Mr. Trump continues to fight the jury’s decision. After the verdict, his lawyer Joseph Tacopina filed a notice of appeal.

Ms. Carroll’s lawyer, Roberta A. Kaplan, said in a brief interview Monday that Mr. Trump’s statements on CNN, “literally the day after the verdict,” made it all the more important for Ms. Carroll to pursue the pending defamation lawsuit.


https://www.nytimes.com/2023/05/22/nyre ... ation.html
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It's a holiday weekend here in the States. I wonder if they've filed a request to exhume the former Mrs. Trump's grave yet?
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Worth paying attention, Coley worked directly for AG Garland and ran the press operation.
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Trump says he has been summoned to appear Tuesday in Miami.

(He added that he is innocent and never thought this would happen to a former president who got so many votes.)

The last time he told us he'd be arrested on a Tuesday, he wasn't arrested on a Tuesday. But this time he used a legal term "summoned" so maybe it's true.

See post #1017 above and take this with a lot of salt...
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:bananas: :yahoo: :bananas:
ti-amie wrote: Thu Jun 08, 2023 11:40 pm Teri Kanefield
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Trump says he has been summoned to appear Tuesday in Miami.

(He added that he is innocent and never thought this would happen to a former president who got so many votes.)

The last time he told us he'd be arrested on a Tuesday, he wasn't arrested on a Tuesday. But this time he used a legal term "summoned" so maybe it's true.

See post #1017 above and take this with a lot of salt...
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There were some who were blindsided that there was a Grand Jury in Florida. It was kept really quiet.
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