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Democrats long lost the game Republican gerrymander and voter suppression means Dems wont win in 2024.
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Democrats long lost the game Republican gerrymander and voter suppression means Dems wont win in 2024.
"Voter suppression" is a bs term. It's literally to stop fraudulent votes from ballot harvesting mail ins. Dems want less id restrictions or safety measures.
We don't need it here because in general we don't like politicians anyway. But the dems and Republicans hate one another to the point that they are close to civil war.
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Very interesting point regarding Voter ID moXJO.
It can be done easily, just look at the Covid QR check in and Covid ID's going around the world we have been doing the last year or so.
It can be done easily, just look at the Covid QR check in and Covid ID's going around the world we have been doing the last year or so.
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Michigan Republicans could face federal charges for fake electoral certificates
Nearly identical fake electoral college certificates from several swing states appear to be evidence of a coordinated plot among state Republican parties, according to Michigan Attorney General Dana Nessel
www.independent.co.uk
Video: GOP Lawmaker Runs From Questions About Forged Document Saying Trump Won
Arizona state Rep. Jake Hoffman signed the forgery, but is in no mood to explain his actions.
www.thedailybeast.com
US voting system from the bottom to the top is a cesspool.
Stewart Rhodes and several associated sedition -conspiracy charges seem a little hard to swallow at the Murdoch end of the media spectum.
Are they working on the theory that if you pretend not to see it ... 'it' doesn't exsist....(Murdoch may have put something up in the last day or so but I watched the void for the first 24 hours)
Rhodes's ex? or estranged ? wife makes an interesting point on his behaviour post his self inflicted gun shot to the face in his distinct behavioural change .... Those familar with Oliver Sacks 'The man Who Mistook his wife for a hat' may see a few dots to connect...
Frontal lobe damage and right wing views ? who would have thought??
Are they working on the theory that if you pretend not to see it ... 'it' doesn't exsist....(Murdoch may have put something up in the last day or so but I watched the void for the first 24 hours)
Rhodes's ex? or estranged ? wife makes an interesting point on his behaviour post his self inflicted gun shot to the face in his distinct behavioural change .... Those familar with Oliver Sacks 'The man Who Mistook his wife for a hat' may see a few dots to connect...
Frontal lobe damage and right wing views ? who would have thought??
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Nah voter suppression is real having said that its gerrymander that keeps the Repubs in the game
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Why did Trump need to win enough public votes to become President when the Republician Party can simply forge a document that says they are the duly elected representatives to vote for the new President regardless of the actual voting results?
January 14, 2022
President Donald Trump at Trump National Golf Club Bedminster (screengrab)
Sixteen Michigan Republicans who submitted a certificate falsely claiming that Donald Trump won the state's electoral votes in 2020 are now facing a potential federal investigation.
Michigan Attorney General Dana Nessel revealed Thursday night that after a year-long probe into the matter, her office has opted to refer the case to the U.S. Attorney's Office for the Western District of Michigan.
... "On Dec. 14, 2020, Michigan's 16 presidential electors met inside the state Capitol to officially cast their ballots for Biden. A group of Republicans, including some of the GOP electors, attempted to enter the building, after meeting at party headquarters, but were blocked by the Michigan State Police," the newspaper reported. "According to a Dec. 14, 2020, memorandum, obtained by The Detroit News, Kathy Berden, a Republican national committeewoman from Michigan, sent the GOP electors certificate to the U.S. Senate, the U.S. archivist, Benson's office and Robert Jonker, the chief judge of U.S. District Court for Michigan's Western District. The 16 Michigan Republicans who signed the certificate inaccurately claimed they were the 'duly elected and qualified electors' for Michigan. They also stated that they 'convened and organized' in the state Capitol, which they did not."
Michigan is one of at least five states where Republicans submitted fake electoral certificates declaring Trump the winner, Maddow reported Wednesday night.
www.rawstory.com
Michigan Republicans who signed fake Trump electoral certificate could face federal charges: report
John WrightJanuary 14, 2022
President Donald Trump at Trump National Golf Club Bedminster (screengrab)
Sixteen Michigan Republicans who submitted a certificate falsely claiming that Donald Trump won the state's electoral votes in 2020 are now facing a potential federal investigation.
Michigan Attorney General Dana Nessel revealed Thursday night that after a year-long probe into the matter, her office has opted to refer the case to the U.S. Attorney's Office for the Western District of Michigan.
... "On Dec. 14, 2020, Michigan's 16 presidential electors met inside the state Capitol to officially cast their ballots for Biden. A group of Republicans, including some of the GOP electors, attempted to enter the building, after meeting at party headquarters, but were blocked by the Michigan State Police," the newspaper reported. "According to a Dec. 14, 2020, memorandum, obtained by The Detroit News, Kathy Berden, a Republican national committeewoman from Michigan, sent the GOP electors certificate to the U.S. Senate, the U.S. archivist, Benson's office and Robert Jonker, the chief judge of U.S. District Court for Michigan's Western District. The 16 Michigan Republicans who signed the certificate inaccurately claimed they were the 'duly elected and qualified electors' for Michigan. They also stated that they 'convened and organized' in the state Capitol, which they did not."
Michigan is one of at least five states where Republicans submitted fake electoral certificates declaring Trump the winner, Maddow reported Wednesday night.
Michigan Republicans who signed fake Trump electoral certificate could face federal charges: report
Sixteen Michigan Republicans who submitted a certificate falsely claiming that Donald Trump won the state's electoral votes in 2020 are now facing a potential federal investigation. Michigan Attorney General Dana Nessel revealed Thursday night that after a year-long probe into the matter, her...
www.rawstory.com
Blue states have their own grift going on. Reality is I think the US vote system is bonkers.
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True, voting on a Tuesday tells you that.
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VIVA LA LIBERTAD, CARAJO!
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There, fixed it for you.
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Back to Trumps business fairy tales. 
Former US president Donald Trump's company has misrepresented the value of its assets by millions of dollars to get loans, insurance and tax breaks, according to documents filed by the New York attorney general.
Attorney General Letitia James said her investigators uncovered evidence that Mr Trump's company used "fraudulent or misleading" valuations of its golf clubs, skyscrapers and other property to get loans and tax benefits.
In a court filing late on Tuesday, lawyers for Ms James told a judge they have not decided whether to bring a lawsuit in connection with the allegations, but that investigators should be allowed to question Mr Trump and his two eldest children under oath as part of the civil probe.
In the court papers, James' office said evidence shows that Mr Trump's company:
www.abc.net.au
New York attorney general says Donald Trump's company misled banks, tax officials
Former US president Donald Trump's company has misrepresented the value of its assets by millions of dollars to get loans, insurance and tax breaks, according to documents filed by the New York attorney general.
Key points:
- The Trump Organization called the investigation "baseless" and politically motivated (surprise, surprise, surprise..)
- It is accused of overstating the value of land donations for tax deductions
- The attorney's office can revoke business licenses, order the removal of company officers and seek restitution
Attorney General Letitia James said her investigators uncovered evidence that Mr Trump's company used "fraudulent or misleading" valuations of its golf clubs, skyscrapers and other property to get loans and tax benefits.
In a court filing late on Tuesday, lawyers for Ms James told a judge they have not decided whether to bring a lawsuit in connection with the allegations, but that investigators should be allowed to question Mr Trump and his two eldest children under oath as part of the civil probe.
In the court papers, James' office said evidence shows that Mr Trump's company:
- Listed his Seven Springs estate north of New York City as being worth $291 million, based on a dubious assumption that it could reap $161 million from building nine luxury homes
- Added a "brand premium" of 15 to 30 per cent to the value of some properties because they carried the Trump name, despite financial statements explicitly stating they did not incorporate brand value
- Inflated the value of a suburban New York golf club by millions of dollars by counting fees for memberships that were not sold or were never paid
- Valued a Park Avenue condominium tower at $350 million, based on proceeds it could reap from unsold units, even though many of those apartments were likely to sell for less because they were covered by rent stabilisation laws
- Valued an apartment being rented to Ivanka Trump at as high as $25 million, even though she had an option to buy it for $8.5 million
- Said in documents that its stake in an office building, 40 Wall Street, was worth $525 million to $602 million — two to three times the estimate made by appraisers working for the lender Capital One
New York attorney-general says Donald Trump's company overstated asset values by millions
Former US president Donald Trump's company misrepresented the value of its assets by millions of dollars to get loans, insurance and tax breaks, the New York attorney-general says.
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Meanwhile back at the Supreme Court more bad news for Trumps efforts at hiding his role in organising the attempted insurrection on 6th Janury 2021.
Donald Trump at the rally that preceded the Capitol attack on 6 January 2021. Photograph: Jim Bourg/Reuters
Hugo Lowell
Thu 20 Jan 2022 10.38 AEDT
First published on Thu 20 Jan 2022 10.30 AEDT
In a rebuff to Donald Trump, the supreme court is allowing the release of presidential documents sought by the congressional committee investigating the January 6 insurrection.
The justices on Wednesday rejected a bid by Trump to withhold the documents from the committee until the issue is finally resolved by the courts.
Following the high court’s action, there is no legal impediment to turning over the documents, which are held by the National Archives and Records Administration.
They include presidential diaries, visitor logs, speech drafts and handwritten notes dealing with January 6 from the files of the former chief of staff Mark Meadows.
www.theguardian.com
Supreme court rejects Trump bid to shield documents from January 6 panel
Court’s move leaves no legal impediment to turning National Archives documents over to congressional committeeDonald Trump at the rally that preceded the Capitol attack on 6 January 2021. Photograph: Jim Bourg/Reuters
Hugo Lowell
Thu 20 Jan 2022 10.38 AEDT
First published on Thu 20 Jan 2022 10.30 AEDT
In a rebuff to Donald Trump, the supreme court is allowing the release of presidential documents sought by the congressional committee investigating the January 6 insurrection.
The justices on Wednesday rejected a bid by Trump to withhold the documents from the committee until the issue is finally resolved by the courts.
Following the high court’s action, there is no legal impediment to turning over the documents, which are held by the National Archives and Records Administration.
They include presidential diaries, visitor logs, speech drafts and handwritten notes dealing with January 6 from the files of the former chief of staff Mark Meadows.
Supreme court rejects Trump bid to shield documents from January 6 panel
Court’s move leaves no legal impediment to turning National Archives documents over to congressional committee
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How did this get onto MSN?
Biden collapse
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Biden collapse
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The fantastical stories that Donald Trump wove around his business empires are coming back to haunt him.
There have been a number of investigations into the valuations of Trumps business activities.
New York Attorony General Leitica James is pulling together a case of corporate fraud on a Trumpesque scale.
Donald Trump speaks at a rally on 15 January 2022 in Florence, Arizona. Photograph: Mario Tama/Getty Images
Some Trumpland observers are convinced that he is in serious legal trouble as New York’s AG investigation of Trump Organizations’s finances intensifies
Ed Pilkington in New York
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Sat 22 Jan 2022 18.00 AEDT
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When Donald Trump announced plans in 2006 to build a golf complex on ancient sand dunes on the Aberdeenshire coast in Scotland he told reporters it was love at first sight. “As soon as I saw it there was no question about it,” he said. It would be the world’s “greatest golf course”.
This week Trump International Scotland became a central element of a case that looks poised to dominate his post-presidential life, and could even put him behind bars.
Local fishermen denounced Trump as a “loudmouth bully” during construction of the course. Environmentalists warned the development would destroy the natural habitat, and sure enough it did inflict such damage that the site was stripped of its protected status.
But none of this deflected Trump from his goal. Today, the Scottish complex stands as a “premier luxury golf” experience replete with five-star hotel and helicopter landing pad, at a bargain membership of £2,595 ($3,518) a year.
Fifteen years on, the property has done wonders for its owner. That is, if you measure success according to the idiosyncratic accounting style of Donald Trump.
He bought the 2,000 acres (809 hectares) site at Menie in 2006 for $12.6m. Within five short years it was valued by the Trump Organization in its financial statements at $161m, an increase of almost 13 times.
By 2014, the windswept Scottish holding was put at $436m.
The hike caught the attention of Letitia James, New York state’s progressive attorney general known for her relentless pursuit of the rich and powerful. How the Scottish property came to rise meteorically in value is one of the matters she is exploring in her continuing investigation into Trump Organization finances.
www.theguardian.com
There have been a number of investigations into the valuations of Trumps business activities.
New York Attorony General Leitica James is pulling together a case of corporate fraud on a Trumpesque scale.
‘House of Trump is crumbling’: why ex-president’s legal net is tightening
Donald Trump speaks at a rally on 15 January 2022 in Florence, Arizona. Photograph: Mario Tama/Getty Images
Some Trumpland observers are convinced that he is in serious legal trouble as New York’s AG investigation of Trump Organizations’s finances intensifies
Ed Pilkington in New York
@edpilkington
Sat 22 Jan 2022 18.00 AEDT
Last modified on Sun 23 Jan 2022 03.03 AEDT
When Donald Trump announced plans in 2006 to build a golf complex on ancient sand dunes on the Aberdeenshire coast in Scotland he told reporters it was love at first sight. “As soon as I saw it there was no question about it,” he said. It would be the world’s “greatest golf course”.
This week Trump International Scotland became a central element of a case that looks poised to dominate his post-presidential life, and could even put him behind bars.
Local fishermen denounced Trump as a “loudmouth bully” during construction of the course. Environmentalists warned the development would destroy the natural habitat, and sure enough it did inflict such damage that the site was stripped of its protected status.
But none of this deflected Trump from his goal. Today, the Scottish complex stands as a “premier luxury golf” experience replete with five-star hotel and helicopter landing pad, at a bargain membership of £2,595 ($3,518) a year.
Fifteen years on, the property has done wonders for its owner. That is, if you measure success according to the idiosyncratic accounting style of Donald Trump.
He bought the 2,000 acres (809 hectares) site at Menie in 2006 for $12.6m. Within five short years it was valued by the Trump Organization in its financial statements at $161m, an increase of almost 13 times.
By 2014, the windswept Scottish holding was put at $436m.
The hike caught the attention of Letitia James, New York state’s progressive attorney general known for her relentless pursuit of the rich and powerful. How the Scottish property came to rise meteorically in value is one of the matters she is exploring in her continuing investigation into Trump Organization finances.
‘House of Trump is crumbling’: why ex-president’s legal net is tightening
Some Trumpland observers are convinced that he is in serious legal trouble as New York’s AG investigation of Trump Organization’s finances intensifies
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And on the political front the noose is tightening around Trumps efforts to overturn the Georgian election results.
The Fulton county district attorney, Fani Willis, called Georgia’s secretary of state, Brad Raffensperger, an ‘essential witness’. Photograph: Alyssa Pointer/AP
Reuters
Fri 21 Jan 2022 08.04 AEDT
Last modified on Fri 21 Jan 2022 08.48 AEDT
The prosecutor for Georgia’s biggest county on Thursday requested a special grand jury with subpoena power to aid her investigation into former US president Donald Trump’s efforts to influence the state’s 2020 election results.
In a letter to Fulton county’s chief judge, first reported by the Atlanta Journal-Constitution newspaper, district attorney Fani Willis wrote that multiple witnesses have refused to cooperate without a subpoena requiring their testimony.
“Therefore, I am hereby requesting … that a special purpose grand jury be impaneled for the purpose of investigating the facts and circumstances relating directly or indirectly to possible attempts to disrupt the lawful administration of the 2020 elections in the State of Georgia,” Willis wrote.
The investigation by Willis, a Democrat, is the most serious inquiry facing Trump in Georgia after he was recorded in a phone call pressuring Georgia’s secretary of state, Brad Raffensperger, to overturn the states election results based on unfounded claims of voter fraud.
Criminal inquiry into Trump’s Georgia election interference gathers steam
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The prosecutor specifically mentioned that Raffensperger, whom she described as an “essential witness”, had indicated he would only take part in an interview once presented with a subpoena.
www.theguardian.com
Georgia prosecutor seeks special grand jury into Trump’s election interference
DA requests subpoena power to compel testimony from witnesses, such as Brad Raffensperger, who Trump asked to ‘find’ 11,780 votesThe Fulton county district attorney, Fani Willis, called Georgia’s secretary of state, Brad Raffensperger, an ‘essential witness’. Photograph: Alyssa Pointer/AP
Reuters
Fri 21 Jan 2022 08.04 AEDT
Last modified on Fri 21 Jan 2022 08.48 AEDT
The prosecutor for Georgia’s biggest county on Thursday requested a special grand jury with subpoena power to aid her investigation into former US president Donald Trump’s efforts to influence the state’s 2020 election results.
In a letter to Fulton county’s chief judge, first reported by the Atlanta Journal-Constitution newspaper, district attorney Fani Willis wrote that multiple witnesses have refused to cooperate without a subpoena requiring their testimony.
“Therefore, I am hereby requesting … that a special purpose grand jury be impaneled for the purpose of investigating the facts and circumstances relating directly or indirectly to possible attempts to disrupt the lawful administration of the 2020 elections in the State of Georgia,” Willis wrote.
The investigation by Willis, a Democrat, is the most serious inquiry facing Trump in Georgia after he was recorded in a phone call pressuring Georgia’s secretary of state, Brad Raffensperger, to overturn the states election results based on unfounded claims of voter fraud.
Criminal inquiry into Trump’s Georgia election interference gathers steam
Read more
The prosecutor specifically mentioned that Raffensperger, whom she described as an “essential witness”, had indicated he would only take part in an interview once presented with a subpoena.
Georgia prosecutor seeks special grand jury into Trump’s election interference
DA requests subpoena power to compel testimony from witnesses, such as Brad Raffensperger, who Trump asked to ‘find’ 11,780 votes
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Yep and six years of Moxy refusing, refusing refusing to recogise the criminality of Donald Trump and the danger he poses to democracy in the US.
Moxjo you never engage with the Trump criminal business dealings or the out and out lies he sprouts about stolen elections.
I already said he was one.
So are the rest of them.
"Danger to democracy" What a load of crap.
I'm still waiting for him to be arrested from the stuff 4 years ago.
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Some of that "stuff" relates to the tax fraud investigation that is now getting underway by the New York attorney general. The wheels of justice move slowly.
Trump, Ivanka and Don jnr subpoenaed by NY Attorney-General in tax case
Lawyers for the family have asked a judge to quash James’ “unprecedented and unconstitutional” bid for their testimony.
