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They were trying to confirm it wasn't just some idiot up on the roof. Security detail should have had someone posted over where the shooter was. It's possible security just got lax. I think Trump’s SS was recently reduced. Some big failures though. Trump literally should be dead at this moment. It was the ultimate luck that he survived.

Remember when democrats were threatening to get rid of it altogether a few weeks back?
That would have been a certain death sentence.
 
Remember how Trump was charged and fined for inflating the price of Mar-a-Lago?

Well it got thrown out. Not just "thrown out" but the prosecution was threatened with sanctions as it should never have made it to court in the first place. Also that it borders on election interference.

The usual suspects here bleating how it had any credibility were so wrong they need to reassess their tds levels and how it affects their judgement.
 
moXJO said:
Remember how Trump was charged and fined for inflating the price of Mar-a-Lago?

Well it got thrown out. Not just "thrown out" but the prosecution was threatened with sanctions as it should never have made it to court in the first place. Also that it borders on election interference.

The usual suspects here bleating how it had any credibility were so wrong they need to reassess their tds levels and how it affects their judgement.
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Yo Moxjo, I did not think the appeal verdict had been announced yet.
Do have a link>?
Mick
 
FYI, this is Donald Trump.
Is there an Anthony Pratt Thread?
Mick
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Knobby22 said:
Anthony Pratt moving to the USA.
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Searched for it and found this... inspirational.

"The announcement comes after Australia’s richest woman, Gina Rinehart of Hancock Prospecting, lauded Mr Trump’s policies and travelled to the US to show her support for the US president-elect.

Mrs Rinehart attended Mr Trump’s election night party and told WA Today the Australian government could learn from his victory about the importance of cutting red tape and lowering taxes.

“[Mr Trump] stood armed with conviction, huge courage, incredible untiring effort, and a real love of the USA and the American people,” she said."

www.afr.com

Pratt announces move to the US

One of Australia’s richest men is a member of Donald Trump’s private Florida club, Mar-a-Lago, and has previously voiced admiration for the US president-elect.
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The Big Shakedown
Friends,

According to a report submitted to Trump by several of his attorneys, Trump adviser Boris Epshteyn — the man who coordinated legal defenses in Trump’s criminal cases and has been a powerful figure in the Mar-a-Lago palace intrigue transition — asked potential appointees to pay him in order for him to promote them for jobs in the new administration.

Epshteyn’s shakedowns included Scott Bessent, from whom Epshteyn sought $30,000 to $40,000 a month to “promote” him for treasury secretary.

Another whom Epshteyn shook down was a defense contractor, from whom Epshteyn sought $100,000 a month, telling him that the payments would be “do or die” for the defense contractor’s prospects. The contractor did not hire Epshteyn and is fearful of retaliation.

The report concluded that Epshteyn’s proximity to Trump should be “terminated.”

Trump’s response to the report was “I suppose every president has people around them who try to make money off them on the outside. It’s a shame, but it happens. But no one working for me in any capacity should be looking to make money.”

Epshteyn is currently under indictment in Arizona in connection with trying to overturn the 2020 election results.

Epshteyn has been at Mar-a-Lago since Trump’s election, and Trump has repeatedly sought his counsel on appointments. One of Epshteyn’s strong recommendations, The New York Times has reported, was Matt Gaetz for attorney general.


Epshteyn was only doing what Trump himself has done — shaking down just about anyone who wants anything from him.

During the 2024 campaign, Trump shook down every one of his current appointees, seeking large donations with the understanding that they’d be in line for big jobs in the Trump administration. Elon Musk’s tab was $200 million. Stephen Bessent’s hedge fund donated at least $6 million.

This isn’t a new practice. Seeking to curry Trump’s favor, representatives of foreign governments have stayed at Trump hotels and played on Trump golf courses.

During the 2024 campaign, Trump proposed to Big Oil executives that they come up with $1 billion for his campaign, in return for which he’d roll back environmental regulations.

In his first term, Trump asked Ukraine’s President Zelensky to come up with dirt on Biden, in return for which Trump would release military aide to Ukraine.

Everything in Trumpworld is transactional. In his very first presidential debate, Trump boasted of paying politicians so they would do whatever he wanted. “When they call, I give. And you know what, when I need something from them two years later, three years later, I call them. They are there for me.”

Making money through connections with Trump is common. Trump son-in-law Jared Kushner has made a bundle in deals with the Arab petro-states to which he was Trump’s de facto emissary.

In Trumpworld, Epshteyn’s real mistake was not that he shook down prospective Trump appointees. It was that he failed to share the proceeds of his shakedowns with Trump.

Indeed, as Epshteyn faces the prospect of being bounced from Mar-a-Lago’s hallowed halls, he could say in his defense that he was only doing what Trump himself has long been doing. He might cite Trump’s meeting last May with Big Oil executives, in which he asked them for a nice $1 billion campaign contribution in return for which he’d let them drill on every square inch of American soil. It was this kind of transactionalism, Epshteyn might argue, that he was just seeking to emulate.

Robert Reich

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