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THE MAGA PARTY!,,, the GOP is dead, republicans are going down with the dems,, get ready for THE MAGA PARTY lefty's
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2021-05-21 at 4:59 PM UTC
Originally posted by ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ Well, you're getting your steady stream of fake news somewhere, aren't you?
OK, let's talk about fake, why don't we?
Who has fake hair?
Who has fake orange skin?
Who wears his ties too long to make himself look fake taller?
Who wears shoes with lifts and tall heels to make himself look fake taller?
Who claims to only weigh 239 lbs. to try to make his fat ass look fake smaller?
Who cheats at golf to give himself a fake lower golf score?
Who was a Democrat before he converted to being a fake Republican?
Who used over 60 fake lawsuits to fakely claim he won a Presidential election when he actually lost by over seven million votes? -
2021-05-21 at 5:50 PM UTCnaw, lets talk about Hunters lap top
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2021-05-21 at 6:18 PM UTCWhat about it?
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2021-05-21 at 7:57 PM UTCI thought we were going to talk about Hunter's laptop?
What do you think, Skunk?
Over a Billy beer maybe? -
2021-05-21 at 8:17 PM UTCBusiness Insider
Trump 'acts like a mafioso': Why NY's AG may treat the Trump Organization like a mob racket in its criminal inquiry, according to legal experts
tsonnemaker@insider.com (Tyler Sonnemaker,Jacob Shamsian)
The Trump Org and CFO Allen Weisselberg are facing criminal probes from New York's attorney general.
As part of those investigations, prosecutors could pursue racketeering charges under RICO laws.
Legal experts told Insider about how RICO laws could come into play.
The New York attorney general's office announced this week that it was conducting criminal investigations into the Trump Organization and its chief financial officer, Allen Weisselberg.
A spokesperson for New York Attorney General Letitia James said her office was coordinating with the Manhattan District Attorney's Office, which has been running a separate investigation into Trump's and the Trump Organization's finances.
Trump responded to the news of the investigation by issuing a 909-word statement in which he said he was the victim of "political persecution."
Legal experts told Insider's Jacob Shamsian that the unusual announcement could be a strategy to get more witnesses to cooperate, but the move also reignited speculation about which types of charges, if any, prosecutors may pursue.
One route prosecutors could take is to treat the Trump Organization like an organized-crime operation and seek charges under Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organization (RICO) laws.
Insider spoke with University of Notre Dame law professor G. Robert Blakey, who helped draft the 1970 federal RICO Act and similar legislation in 22 states, and Jeffrey Robbins, a white-collar attorney and former federal prosecutor, about how such laws could come into play.
What are RICO laws and how could they apply to the Trump Organization?
The federal RICO Act was enacted as a way to combat organized crime, and a majority of states have since passed similar laws.
But even though they've come to be associated with cases involving the mafia, Robbins said RICO laws could apply to any situations where organizations engage in criminal activity for the benefit of their officers or owners.
"The RICO statute is brought all the time in cases which do not involve physical violence, but which involve financial criminality, so it doesn't surprise me in the slightest that, among the things, that prosecutors are looking at whether there's a basis to charge the organization with racketeering," Robbins said, adding that it was too early to predict prosecutors' plans.
While they're complex and vary by state, RICO laws typically involve a person engaging in a "pattern of criminal behavior" through an "enterprise" over a certain period of time for their financial gain, according to Blakey.
Prosecutors could look at criminal activity involving not just the Trump Organization but also Trump's use of the US government for his personal gain, Blakey added.
Read more: Georgia prosecutor calls Giuliani's election claims 'various overt acts for an illegal purpose' that could warrant a racketeering charge
"You think he didn't make money off the government and the way he ran the hotel?" Blakey said, referring to the Trump International Hotel in Washington, DC, which created scrutiny over whether there were conflicts of interest for Trump while he was in office.
RICO charges can be brought in civil or criminal cases, Blakey said. But, he added, as a state prosecutor, James would be able to bring charges only under New York's state law, not the federal RICO Act.
Why might prosecutors pursue RICO charges?
Compared with conspiracy or other charges prosecutors could pursue, racketeering charges carry much longer sentences and larger financial penalties.
"A five-year issue would become a 20-year issue," Blakey said.
Also, instead of having to pay a (relatively) small fine, he said, the convicted person must forfeit assets and profits they gained because of their criminal activity, based on the value of the illegal transactions.
"It's flexible in amount, but it's mandatory," he added.
Blakey said that could make a huge difference in practice: "You're a dope dealer, you made $1 million - you owe [the government] $1 million. You make $2 million - you owe [the government] $2 million. If it was just a fine for doing the dope, it would be $10,000."
There are also considerations around the narrative prosecutors might try to create to persuade a jury if a case against Trump or the Trump Organization went to trial.
"He talks like a mafioso. He acts like a mafioso," Blakey said, adding: "His legal campaign was actually taking over a legitimate organization to run it criminally."
What are hurdles to pursuing RICO charges?
Given the political nature of any case involving Trump, prosecutors will need to be strategic about the type of case they pursue if they do charge Trump or his affiliates, Blakey said.
"If you're going to mess around with the president of the United States, you best have the simplest case alive and overwhelming evidence," he said.
The simplest case would be a civil case without racketeering charges, which would be the easiest to win and could at least help prosecutors prove a symbolic point that "nobody is above the law," Blakey said.
Going the criminal route, with or without RICO charges, would be much harder because jury verdicts in criminal cases must be unanimous. He added: "You always run the risk of a die-hard Trump supporter who will vote against you no matter what your evidence is."
Seeking racketeering charges in either a criminal or civil case would add yet another layer of difficulty for prosecutors.
"You have to show a pattern" of crimes, Blakey said. "More than a few, over a substantial period of time." -
2021-05-21 at 8:31 PM UTC
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2021-05-21 at 9:30 PM UTCA quick review of the last 5 pages show I used 10 separate sources for my posted articles.
They are:
Newsweek
ABC News
Washington Post
Salon
Politico
Tribune Content
Business Insider
The Hill
NBC News
Mediaite
How do they stack up to your single Faux News source? -
2021-05-21 at 11:02 PM UTC
Originally posted by stl1 A quick review of the last 5 pages show I used 10 separate sources for my posted articles.
They are:
Newsweek
ABC News
Washington Post
Salon
Politico
Tribune Content
Business Insider
The Hill
NBC News
Mediaite
How do they stack up to your single Faux News source?
That's a lot of fake news sources. -
2021-05-21 at 11:25 PM UTChe has the narrative down pat.
I get my news and information from Dave Jose, salty cracker, Alex Jones, Tore says, MOON PERSON Milli, Candis Owens and various hearings
project veritas, judicial watch and a few other sources.
If I catch them in a lie I drop them like hot shit and never look back,, Ive already stopped watching over 100 other channels alt and mane stream news for not reporting on stuff or reporting it wrong intentionally -
2021-05-21 at 11:26 PM UTCyesterday I spent 5 hrs studying my state constitution and other states also.
in the last week Ive learned more about our country then most of you ever willThe following users say it would be alright if the author of this post didn't die in a fire! -
2021-05-22 at 12:27 AM UTC
Originally posted by stl1 A quick review of the last 5 pages show I used 10 separate sources for my posted articles.
They are:
Newsweek
ABC News
Washington Post
Salon
Politico
Tribune Content
Business Insider
The Hill
NBC News
Mediaite
How do they stack up to your single Faux News source?
all of those including fox news are huge faggots fake news retards like you. No wonder you like your mainstream shit fag articles so much, you probably read the entire thing too. What a retard.
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2021-05-22 at 12:32 AM UTC
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2021-05-22 at 4:26 AM UTCThe Hill
Republicans lose patience with Arizona election audit
Reid Wilson
PHOENIX - A growing chorus of Arizona Republicans is calling on the GOP-controlled state Senate to end an audit into Maricopa County's 2020 election results that is increasingly relying on disproven conspiracy theories to challenge President Biden's victory here.
The audit, ordered by a state Senate majority that has bought into former President Trump's big lie about the results of the election he lost handily, is on hold until Monday. It has already dragged on well past the estimated time auditors said it would take to recount the county's ballots.
But some Republicans say they hope it does not continue after embarrassing revelations that supposedly bombshell allegations by auditors who have perpetuated Trump's lies were in fact errors made by the auditors themselves.
"I think they should maybe just call it quits. I don't think that it's going to serve any purpose. It's not going to change the election," former Arizona Gov. Jan Brewer (R), who has administered elections when she served as secretary of state, said this week on "The Gaydos and Chad Show." "The votes have been certified. Biden is the president. It's not changing. I say move on."
In the latest salvo, the Maricopa County Board of Supervisors urged Senate President Karen Fann (R) to end the recount after what they termed "false" and "defamatory" statements.
The Republican Senate majority last week accused the county of deleting a directory of computer files. Trump cited the accusation twice in statements from his political action committee. The Florida-based firm overseeing the audit, Cyber Ninjas, is led by a businessman who spread Trump's election lies after November.
Auditors later walked back that accusation after the Board of Supervisors issued a blistering letter illustrating exactly where the files were, and accusing the Senate of "a serious lack of understanding of election law."
"We express our united view that your 'audit,' no matter what your intentions were in the beginning, has become a spectacle that is harming all of us. Our state has become a laughingstock. Worse, this 'audit' is encouraging our citizens to distrust elections, which weakens our democratic republic," the supervisors wrote.
Maricopa County Recorder Stephen Richer (R), who won the job overseeing county elections in November, called the auditor's false claims "unhinged."
"We can't indulge these insane lies any longer. As a party. As a state. As a country," Richer wrote on Twitter, citing Trump's statements.
Even one of the Republicans who initially backed the audit has now changed his mind. In an interview Thursday, just blocks from the coliseum where the audit is scheduled to resume Monday, state Sen. Paul Boyer (R) told The Hill he believed the audit had become an albatross for his party.
"Who wouldn't support an audit? But the way they're doing it, it's embarrassing," Boyer said. "It makes me embarrassed to be a state senator at this point."
"I feel like we're in this fantasy land," Boyer said. "I still have yet to see any evidence [of fraud], and I don't think it's coming."
Fann seemed to distance herself at least marginally from the audit earlier this week, after auditors acknowledged their baseless charge against the Board of Supervisors.
"I have said from the get-go I am relatively sure [we] weren't going to find anything of any magnitude that would imply that any intentional wrongdoing was going on," Fann said at a closed-door meeting that excluded Senate Democrats, held earlier this week. "I believe that we were going to find what we've known all along and some of the things is we could do a better job."
Biden won Arizona's 11 electoral votes by a margin of just over 10,000 votes in 2020, the first Democrat to carry the state since former President Clinton in 1996. He won Maricopa County by 45,000 votes, a margin of more than 2 percentage points. Sen. Mark Kelly (D) beat then-Sen. Martha McSally (R) in Maricopa County by nearly 4 points, or 80,000 votes.
At the same time, Republicans won four of five seats on the county Board of Supervisors, the race for assessor, county attorney, county recorder, county school superintendent and county treasurer.
The fight over the audit, and the state Senate's move earlier this year to hold the county Board of Supervisors in contempt, has become clouded by Republican lies about the election results. Talk radio stations in Phoenix are packed with conservative hosts and callers alleging unspecified coverups without offering evidence.
After Boyer voted against holding board members in contempt, a pro-Trump political opponent doxxed him on Parler and Gab, unleashing a torrent of death threats. Police protected Boyer, his wife and young child for a week afterward.
Trump supporters are circulating petitions to recall Boyer from office. Anthony Kern, who lost his seat in the state legislature in 2020 and who tweeted photos from the Capitol grounds during the Jan. 6 insurrection, has filed to challenge Boyer in the 2022 elections.
"That may be motive enough to run again," Boyer said of Kern's challenge.
But the fallout from the audit is only beginning to mount. In a letter to Maricopa County supervisors this week, Arizona Secretary of State Katie Hobbs (D) said the county may have to purchase hundreds of new voting machines after auditors took control of the machines. Handing over those machines broke a chain of custody, so Hobbs's and Richer's offices have no way of knowing if Cyber Ninjas or another auditor tampered with them.
The state Senate subpoena that required Maricopa County to turn over the machines will likely cost taxpayers about $3.3 million in leasing costs, plus additional costs to purchase new machines.
Boyer said he feared the aftermath of the 2020 elections and the continued Republican fealty to Trump could threaten the party's hold on the legislature, where Republicans hold only the slimmest majorities in both chambers.
"I don't know how it turns out well for us," Boyer said. "If I was to think of a way to destroy the Republican Party, it would be this audit." -
2021-05-22 at 4:32 AM UTC
Originally posted by Ghost all of those including fox news are huge faggots fake news retards like you. No wonder you like your mainstream shit fag articles so much, you probably read the entire thing too. What a retard.
TRUMP
Why yes, yes I do. I read each article in its entirety before deciding if it is something I feel comfortable posting. Then I copy it and take out any mention of photos, charts or such that didn't transfer so as not to confuse the reader. -
2021-05-22 at 4:35 AM UTCThis is the article before I clean it up:
The Hill
Republicans lose patience with Arizona election audit
Reid Wilson 4 hrs ago
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PHOENIX - A growing chorus of Arizona Republicans is calling on the GOP-controlled state Senate to end an audit into Maricopa County's 2020 election results that is increasingly relying on disproven conspiracy theories to challenge President Biden's victory here.
a group of people holding a sign posing for the camera: Republicans lose patience with Arizona election audit© The Hill Republicans lose patience with Arizona election audit
The audit, ordered by a state Senate majority that has bought into former President Trump's big lie about the results of the election he lost handily, is on hold until Monday. It has already dragged on well past the estimated time auditors said it would take to recount the county's ballots.
But some Republicans say they hope it does not continue after embarrassing revelations that supposedly bombshell allegations by auditors who have perpetuated Trump's lies were in fact errors made by the auditors themselves.
"I think they should maybe just call it quits. I don't think that it's going to serve any purpose. It's not going to change the election," former Arizona Gov. Jan Brewer (R), who has administered elections when she served as secretary of state, said this week on "The Gaydos and Chad Show." "The votes have been certified. Biden is the president. It's not changing. I say move on."
In the latest salvo, the Maricopa County Board of Supervisors urged Senate President Karen Fann (R) to end the recount after what they termed "false" and "defamatory" statements.
The Republican Senate majority last week accused the county of deleting a directory of computer files. Trump cited the accusation twice in statements from his political action committee. The Florida-based firm overseeing the audit, Cyber Ninjas, is led by a businessman who spread Trump's election lies after November.
Auditors later walked back that accusation after the Board of Supervisors issued a blistering letter illustrating exactly where the files were, and accusing the Senate of "a serious lack of understanding of election law."
"We express our united view that your 'audit,' no matter what your intentions were in the beginning, has become a spectacle that is harming all of us. Our state has become a laughingstock. Worse, this 'audit' is encouraging our citizens to distrust elections, which weakens our democratic republic," the supervisors wrote.
Maricopa County Recorder Stephen Richer (R), who won the job overseeing county elections in November, called the auditor's false claims "unhinged."
"We can't indulge these insane lies any longer. As a party. As a state. As a country," Richer wrote on Twitter, citing Trump's statements.
Even one of the Republicans who initially backed the audit has now changed his mind. In an interview Thursday, just blocks from the coliseum where the audit is scheduled to resume Monday, state Sen. Paul Boyer (R) told The Hill he believed the audit had become an albatross for his party.
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"Who wouldn't support an audit? But the way they're doing it, it's embarrassing," Boyer said. "It makes me embarrassed to be a state senator at this point."
"I feel like we're in this fantasy land," Boyer said. "I still have yet to see any evidence [of fraud], and I don't think it's coming."
Fann seemed to distance herself at least marginally from the audit earlier this week, after auditors acknowledged their baseless charge against the Board of Supervisors.
"I have said from the get-go I am relatively sure [we] weren't going to find anything of any magnitude that would imply that any intentional wrongdoing was going on," Fann said at a closed-door meeting that excluded Senate Democrats, held earlier this week. "I believe that we were going to find what we've known all along and some of the things is we could do a better job."
Biden won Arizona's 11 electoral votes by a margin of just over 10,000 votes in 2020, the first Democrat to carry the state since former President Clinton in 1996. He won Maricopa County by 45,000 votes, a margin of more than 2 percentage points. Sen. Mark Kelly (D) beat then-Sen. Martha McSally (R) in Maricopa County by nearly 4 points, or 80,000 votes.
At the same time, Republicans won four of five seats on the county Board of Supervisors, the race for assessor, county attorney, county recorder, county school superintendent and county treasurer.
The fight over the audit, and the state Senate's move earlier this year to hold the county Board of Supervisors in contempt, has become clouded by Republican lies about the election results. Talk radio stations in Phoenix are packed with conservative hosts and callers alleging unspecified coverups without offering evidence.
After Boyer voted against holding board members in contempt, a pro-Trump political opponent doxxed him on Parler and Gab, unleashing a torrent of death threats. Police protected Boyer, his wife and young child for a week afterward.
Trump supporters are circulating petitions to recall Boyer from office. Anthony Kern, who lost his seat in the state legislature in 2020 and who tweeted photos from the Capitol grounds during the Jan. 6 insurrection, has filed to challenge Boyer in the 2022 elections.
"That may be motive enough to run again," Boyer said of Kern's challenge.
But the fallout from the audit is only beginning to mount. In a letter to Maricopa County supervisors this week, Arizona Secretary of State Katie Hobbs (D) said the county may have to purchase hundreds of new voting machines after auditors took control of the machines. Handing over those machines broke a chain of custody, so Hobbs's and Richer's offices have no way of knowing if Cyber Ninjas or another auditor tampered with them.
The state Senate subpoena that required Maricopa County to turn over the machines will likely cost taxpayers about $3.3 million in leasing costs, plus additional costs to purchase new machines.
Boyer said he feared the aftermath of the 2020 elections and the continued Republican fealty to Trump could threaten the party's hold on the legislature, where Republicans hold only the slimmest majorities in both chambers.
"I don't know how it turns out well for us," Boyer said. "If I was to think of a way to destroy the Republican Party, it would be this audit." -
2021-05-22 at 4:58 AM UTC
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2021-05-22 at 5:01 AM UTCHave you ever considered that representatives from both parties give 0 fucks about you?
That they represent the same elites that are leeching off of you?
That Trump or Biden doesn't matter and it's just another theatre show? While the beneficiaries of the status quo continue to consolidate and extend their influence?The following users say it would be alright if the author of this post didn't die in a fire! -
2021-05-22 at 1:55 PM UTCThey sure are terrified of that audit. I wonder why!
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2021-05-22 at 3:05 PM UTC
Originally posted by Nile Have you ever considered that representatives from both parties give 0 fucks about you?
That they represent the same elites that are leeching off of you?
That Trump or Biden doesn't matter and it's just another theatre show? While the beneficiaries of the status quo continue to consolidate and extend their influence?
That's very cynical.
What if I am the real good guy? -
2021-05-22 at 3:11 PM UTCAudit Coming to Fulton County, Georgia. Judge Rules Thousands of Potential Counterfeit Ballots Be Scrutinized.
tick... tock...
