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Ex-Trump Organization CFO negotiating 'unexpectedly favorable' plea deal with Manhattan DA Former Trump Organization CFO Allen Weisselberg, who worked for the Trump family since 1970, is nearing a plea deal with Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg in his case, according to The New York Times. Charges include conspiracy, grand larceny, criminal tax fraud, and falsifying business records. Weisselberg, who is 75, could walk away with a minor prison sentence of just five months, the Times reports, calling it “an unexpectedly favorable outcome for him.” The plea deal would not include any cooperation on broader issues related to Donald Trump. Legal experts have said Weisselberg knows nearly everything that the Trump Organization has done. “His plea deal, if finalized, would bring prosecutors no closer to indicting the former president but would nonetheless brand one of his most trusted lieutenants a felon.” Earlier this year Manhattan D.A. Bragg came under intense criticism after he seemingly halted his office’s longtime investigation into Donald Trump. One of the prosecutors who worked 0n the Trump case but quit when Bragg ended it called it a “grave failure of justice,” and said Trump was “guilty of numerous felonies.” “Prosecutors accuse Weisselberg of a 15-year scheme to defraud federal, New York State, and New York City tax authorities of $1.76 million in ‘off-the-books’ compensation,” Law & Crime reported. “These included $359,058 in tuition expenses for multiple family members, $196,245 for leases on his Mercedes Benz automobiles, $29,400 in unreported cash, and an unspecified amount in ad hoc personal expenses, according to his indictment.” In 2018 The New Yorker reported “Allen Weisselberg, the firm’s longtime chief financial officer, is the center, the person in the company who knows more than anyone.” https://www.alternet.org/2022/08/allen-weisselberg-negotiating-plea-deal (Weisselberg must have offered a treasure trove of information to get such a sweetheart deal)

I thin he was referring to his flatulence. Or loose bowels.

Win or lose, those uniforms were so ugly I would bet dogs would not pee on them.

Trump World urges Republicans to cool fiery rhetoric because more bad news is coming: report Allies of former President Donald Trump have advised members of the Republican Party to cool down their inflammatory rhetoric toward the United States Department of Justice and the Federal Bureau of Investigation following the execution of a search warrant at Trump's Mar-a-Lago estate in Palm Beach, Florida on Monday. Trump supporters, right-wing pundits, and lawmakers have been whipped into a frenzy over what Trump called a "raid" by federal agents in pursuit of classified documents removed from the White House during Trump's departure from office. Indications are growing of an ongoing criminal investigation into how, why, and by whom those items ended up inside Trump's property. But according to New York Times correspondents Maggie Haberman, Ben Protess, and Glenn Thrush on Thursday, "some senior Republicans have been warned by allies of Mr. Trump not to continue to be aggressive in criticizing the Justice Department and the F.B.I. over the matter because it is possible that more damaging information about Mr. Trump related to the search will eventually become public." That report was published shortly after CNN learned that in June "the FBI served an earlier grand jury subpoena and took away sensitive national security documents." https://www.alternet.org/2022/08/trump-world-republicans-fiery-rhetoric/

Then, it doesn't count, does it?

It was speculated in this forum that Harris would not last the season and would be lucky to last until mid-season, and so it has come to pass. A torn pectoral muscle is recoverable but at his age, likely a season/career ender.

Will Cain Cites Richard Nixon To Defend Trump: 'If A President Does It, Then It Is Not Illegal' In an effort to bolster a Fox News report of “sources” saying that the documents seized were covered by attorney-client privilege and that Trump’s lawyers previously certified that no classified documents were at the property, Cain cited a declaration from Nixon. Several sets of classified documents were removed from Mar-a-Lago, including those marked top secret and mandated to remain at a secure government facility, according to the search warrant inventory list. Trump has asserted, without evidence, that he personally declassified the documents before leaving office. In an interview with William Bennett, who served as education secretary under Ronald Reagan and drug czar under George H.W. Bush, Fox News host Cain said: “When it comes to classified documents, famously, President Nixon said, that if the president does it, that it is not illegal. Is that not truly the standard when it comes to classified documents? The president has the ability to at any time declassify anything.” Bennett agreed, but said “there’s a procedure that the president must follow.” He hewed to GOP claims of federal subterfuge, saying “the FBI is not what the FBI should be,” and hoped the search warrant affidavit might clarify the reason for the raid.

Don't know whether to laugh or feel revulsed at this display of idiocy.

The FBI agents sneaked them in under their jackets. Sooo obvious now.

We live in interesting times.

Trump Doubles Down On Vicious FBI Attacks Over Mar-A-Lago Search Former President Donald Trump intensified his bashing of the FBI on social media over the weekend with his own comments and those of QAnon followers calling the bureau a “criminal enterprise,” “corrupt,” seditious and abusive. Trump, in likely the ugliest public attack on federal law enforcers by any president or former president in American history, launched a fresh tirade on his Truth Social platform late Saturday into Sunday to blast the FBI’s search last week of his Mar-a-Lago resort to collect boxes of White House documents that should have been surrendered to the National Archives when he left office. Trump insisted that the FBI has a “long and unrelenting history of being corrupt.” He also called the search a “sneak attack on democracy,” and referred in a post to “great simmering anger” over the action, which he characterized as a “break in.” Trump also reposted messages from others that included references to QAnon conspiracy theories. One message reposted by Trump last week was written by user “We The Pepe,” referring to the white supremacist icon Pepe the frog, which has been branded a racist, anti-Semitic hate symbol by the Anti-Defamation League. Another user Trump reported was “WWG1WGA,” an abbreviation for “where we go one, we go all,” a well known QAnon slogan. https://www.huffpost.com/entry/trump-truth-social-fbi-mar-a-lago_n_62f9b6fde4b0288b61a5a911

Trump Floats Yet Another Excuse: The Mar-a-Lago Docs Were Privileged! Former President Donald Trump just cannot stop talking about the FBI raid at Mar-a-Lago, acknowledging on Sunday that the FBI did take stacks of boxes but demanding the documents be returned because they were protected by either executive or attorney-client privilege. The claim added two new excuses to his and his supporters’ ever-evolving list of reasons as to why the raid was unlawful, inappropriate, fruitless, overly intrusive, no big deal, or a mix of all five. “Oh great! It has just been learned that the FBI, in its now famous raid of Mar-a-Lago, took boxes of privileged ‘attorney-client’ material, and also ‘executive’ privileged material, which they knowingly should not have taken,” Trump wrote on Truth Social Sunday morning, almost a week after the raid. “By copy of this TRUTH, I respectfully request that these documents be immediately returned to the location from which they were taken. Thank you!” Trump and his acolytes have offered a Rolodex of reasons to prove the president’s supposed innocence, many of which were increasingly less rooted in reality as they tried to blame President Joe Biden and the Department of Justice for a political attack. “I sort of like the fact that he’s continuing to talk,” former U.S. Attorney Joyce Vance told MSNBC on Sunday. “I bet the people at DOJ do too because he’s going through a shifting array of potential defenses and as soon as one fails, he’s on to something new.” Trump’s children initially stated the FBI wouldn’t find anything, and that Trump returned everything he was supposed to earlier this year. Once news broke that the National Archives knew of additional material still at his Florida estate, Trump claimed officials only needed to ask for them back and he would have happily complied (despite Trump being issued a subpoena). Trump lawyers then began to float ideas that the FBI planted evidence at the compound, only to turn around and claim that Trump probably declassified—or could have declassified—the material. https://ca.movies.yahoo.com/trump-floats-yet-another-excuse-184253953.html

From Mary Trump, psychologist and Donnie's aunt:

Team Putin Airs Insane Offer to ‘Help’ America and ‘Save’ Trump The gracious proposals include placing Donald Trump under the protection of Moscow’s security agency—and moving homeless American children to Russia.

Many have speculated over the past few years that the GOP nutbars and Trump would be willing to resort to literally any measures to hold onto power and reshape America into the dystopian image their diseased minds hold. Now it has become crystal clear that this has come to pass. America is teetering on edge of becoming a fascist dictatorship to the thunderous applause of the right wing and the of the naiveté center-left.

Trump Has A Post-Midnight Mega Meltdown Attacking The FBI It is clear now that Trump fully realizes how much trouble he faces. Perhaps it was the New York Times article published yesterday late in the afternoon that referenced his attorney signing off on a declaration that all materials had been returned and the seriousness with which the intelligence community was taking the security breach that launched Trump into a panic that was palpably more intense than any before. Trump not only lashed out at the FBI itself but reposted Q-anon accounts and conspiracy theories as he did. He also crossed himself up in defense by saying that he declassified everything but then suggested evidence had been planted. Pick one, Ace. https://www.politicususa.com/2022/08/14/trump-fbi-meltdown.html

Cornelius may or may not be the QB of the future for the Elks, but with all those screwups and penalties, its really hard to tell. Neither team looked good enough to be in the league and neither look better than a couple of the eastern teams, but one will likely be the crossover.

Considering how inept both offences have been, that TD might just be enough to win the game.

The only keeping Fajardo in the game is the Elks rushing only 3. If/when they start blitzing, Fajardo is done like dinner.

Neither of these two teams are gonna keep opposing coaches up late at night preparing to play them. Embarrassing. The incompetent vs the inept.

Correction: Elks' stupidity will not allow them to win, but one or two more hits on Fajardo and he's done, even if he finishes the game.

God does not want the Elks to win.

Fajardo is turtling whenever any Elk gets close- he's traumatized. He may last the game, but his effectiveness is compromised.