President Biden: The NEW one and only politics thread

EVEN WORSE, apparently, Biden's been shipping the Ukrainians money for nearly two years, and he JUST started sending money to Hawaii!!!!! Can you believe it!???!?!?


... the troubling thing isn't that some disingenuous asshole thought this video was clever, it's that ~20,000 reposted it and most of them surely didn't realize how stupid this argument is.

 

I figured the righties would be pro-fire in the Maui thing given their track record.

 

https://www.ajc.com/news/charges-ag...fulton-court-site/LW7C3IMYNJB2TN7HOGTODPJBAQ/

 

Georgia court posts then removes document detailing charges against Trump — POLITICO

 

Don't cry for them

Argentine peso plunges after rightist who admires Trump comes first in primary vote

 

Fulton County Clerk’s office posts a statement calling the document “fictitious.”

“While there have been no documents filed today regarding such, all members of the media should be reminded that documents that do not bear an official case number, filing date and the name of the Clerk of Courts, in concert, are not considered official filings and should not be treated as such.”

 

They Nelson Mandela’d it.

 

Trump tried to get the NY trial over the Stormy Daniels hush money moved to Federal Court, presumably hoping to draw a more favorable to him judge. That judge not only denied Trump's motion and batted it back to Alvin Bragg, he has had things to say about the case. It looks like it goes back to NY a stronger case.

https://www.thedailybeast.com/trump...lvin-braggs-case-has-already-made-it-stronger


"But at a hearing in June, an irascible U.S. District Judge Alvin K. Hellerstein rebuffed Trump’s plans, with the judge becoming increasingly exasperated the more he detailed the weird business arrangement between Trump and Cohen. In court, Hellerstein described how Cohen apparently had some sort of typical attorney retainer agreement—except it didn’t exist. And on the stand, Trump Organization corporate lawyer Alan Garten bizarrely explained how there wasn’t any official paperwork to back that up.

“He testified that he was not aware of any retainer agreement with Cohen, that Cohen's invoices did not contain descriptions of the work he did, and that the ledger entries for Cohen similarly did not describe his work,” the judge later wrote incredulously. “Garten testified that he did not know if Cohen actually worked on any matters referred to him by the Trump Organization.”

The more significant findings in Hellerstein’s July 19 order, however, relate to the way he stated, in no uncertain terms, that the DA’s case is solid—and that Trump can’t hide behind the presidential seal.

As it turns out, paying off a porn star like Stormy Daniels (privately known as Stephanie Clifford) isn’t a president’s job.

“Whatever the standard, and whether it is high or low, Trump fails to satisfy it,” Hellerstein wrote. “Trump has not explained how hiring and making payments to a personal attorney to handle personal affairs carries out a constitutional duty. Reimbursing Cohen for advancing hush money to Stephanie Clifford cannot be considered the performance of a constitutional duty.

“Falsifying business records to hide such reimbursement, and to transform the reimbursement into a business expense for Trump and income to Cohen, likewise does not relate to a presidential duty. Trump is not immune from the People’s prosecution in New York Supreme Court.”


The real kicker is in here though, assuming that the judge's assessment holds up in court.


"But in kicking the case back to state court, Hellerstein went much further than just saying that federal laws here don’t preempt New York state laws. He actually emphasized that the DA doesn’t even need to prove the underlying crimes that bump it up to felony status—like tax dodging or election fraud.

“The only elements are the falsification of business records, an intent to defraud, and an intent to commit or conceal another crime. The People need not establish that Trump or any other person actually violated [New York or federal election laws,]” Hellerstein wrote. “Trump can be convicted of a felony even if he did not commit any crime beyond the falsification, so long as he intended to do so or to conceal such a crime.”

When wasn't Trump trying to conceal a crime or obstruct a possible investigation? So much for "Bragg stretched the charges to reach felony status, then added obstruction".

 

If I pay 23K can I then sue for false advertising since the President is named Joe Biden?

 

What really intrigues me about this, and I'm probably missing something, what are the chances Reuters would be in the right place at the right time to capture that screenshot? It's an incredible stroke of good fortune for a news org.