@raphjd said in Trump sued for "staggering fraud" against lenders/banks:
BTW, do you not realize that when you take out a loan, BOTH SIDES, do a valuation on the property that secures the loan?
So you think laws which prohibit lying to banks and lenders don't come into play if the bank or lender catches you lying to them? It's only a crime if you don't get caught?
@raphjd Just looks to me like the Secret Service or his handlers are signaling to him that they're ready to escort him away from the event. He's clearly communicating with someone off camera.
But keep trying. At least he's not as bad as Reagan, whose handlers would turn the lights off in a room to signal him to stop talking like he was a damn parakeet being put under a blanket.
@raphjd said in Trump sued for "staggering fraud" against lenders/banks:
all she could come up with was a stupid civil lawsuit.
She doesn't have the power as NY's Attorney General to bring a criminal prosecution of Trump; she can only bring a civil suit. Do you not understand what a state's Attorney General is?
She's transmitted her investigation to the Federal US Attorneys for the Southern District of New York for them to see if they want to bring a federal criminal action against Trump. We will see what the US Attorneys decide to do.
https://www.nytimes.com/2022/09/21/nyregion/trump-fraud-lawsuit-ny.html
Trump reaped hundreds of millions of dollars in benefit by overvaluing his assets by billions of dollars. It will be interesting to see if the US Attorneys investigate for violations of Federal law based on the evidence transmitted to them by the NY AG's office.
@raphjd said in Senate to hold off on marriage vote until after mid-term election:
For 52 years, Dems have claimed they support us, but they keep stabbing us in the back.
And the GOP stabs us in the chest, yet you love them for some reason.
@raphjd Again, I don't understand why, after you can list out all of those facts of Republicans voting for the laws, that you still act like they're the (and I'm quoting my original comment here) "sole fault of the Democrats."
You'd think, if you didn't have a diseased brain, that you'd hate the GOP just as much as the Democrats for such laws.
@raphjd said in Senate to hold off on marriage vote until after mid-term election:
Except for during Clinton when they passed the most homophobic laws the US ever had
Only a diseased brain like yours would think something like the Defense of Marriage Act, authored by GOP Senator Bob Barr and proposed to the House by GOP Rep. Don Nickles, and voted for by every single GOP member of both Houses of Congress (except openly gay GOP Rep. Steve Gunderson) is the sole fault of the Democrats.
Armed man in wig and yellow vest seizes a Dairy Queen with his handguns in his campaign to restore Donald Trump as the President King of the United States, promising to kill all Democrats. This is the stage that we're at now, apparently, in America.
@raphjd Do you come here just to spout random nonsense because Tucker Carlson can't hear you talking to him thru the television?
Nope, the science doesn't back you up.
@blablarg18 As I said above, the recording of the phone calls doesn't answer the question whether the calls were genuine swatting calls or staged. It could have been a crazy person on the line, or it could have been a person pretending to be a crazy person on the line. As I've said before, I'm going to wait until the investigation is over and we know who was the actual caller before I trust anything related to MTG.
As for her being suicidal, um, there's very little risk of police accidentally shooting MTG. Affluent white women don't fear police shooting them by mistake. Anyway, didn't the security footage that was released show that her people met the cops at the entrance of the property? I don't think there was any room for a mistake to have occurred. She knew the cops were responding before they got there because they likely called the residence while officers were in route, especially on the second swatting.
MTG chose to be a hack and a troll and pulled shenanigans in the past. Along with that comes a distrust from the public when shit happens to her.
@blablarg18 As far as I've seen, the only thing released recently was MTG's security footage of the police arriving. However, I don't think we "deniers" were denying that the police were called or came to her house. We were questioning whether or not it was actually one of her political opponents doing the calling. Even a recording released from the police wouldn't answer that question. If she was responsible for swatting herself, I'm sure she'd have the caller say something similar to what was said.
I'll reserve my judgment one way or the other until the investigation, if any, is concluded to discover the actual culprit.
I'll wait until the dust settles before I believe this isn't just her own doing to gain publicity for her anti-trans bill. It is very strange that a "swatting" perpetrator would so willing give the police so much detail about why they were doing it. That's suspicious, is all I'm saying.
It just keeps getting worse for Trump, and this time it's his own fault. In an attempt to tie Joe Biden to Trump's claims of a witch hunt, Trump's camp released a copy of the letter received from the National Archives, related to the documents turned over by the Trump camp from his private residence back in January. (NOTE: The only tie to Biden is that Biden refused to assert his executive privilege to prevent release of the boxes of documents from the National Archives over to the Justice Department; the National Archive refused to recognize Trump having executive privilege after leaving office).
We now know that it was the 100 classified documents (comprising 700 pages of classified, top-secret information) and the willy-nilly, cavalier way in which those documents were handled/stored by the former president, that lit a fire under the executive agencies to raid Trump's Mar-A-Lago resident this month.
Interestingly, neither the National Archives nor Trump's representatives at that time made any mention of the alleged claim that Trump de-classified the documents prior to leaving office. That legal argument is currently being alleged by Trump's lawyers in the court in Florida; however, they have not, and apparently cannot, produce any actual documentary evidence to support that de-classification order. If it existed, this order would be easily obtainable by Trump's attorneys.
Doesn't look like ya boi Trump is doing so hot right now @raphjd
Who gives a fuck what "philosopher" Sam Harris thinks? Sam Harris is a hack author who only sells books by saying outlandish things. He's a nobody. You're quoting a nobody to prop up your conspiracy? Wow, you're dumb.
@raphjd Imagine if you also got outraged at the inequitable policies that led to 23% of last year's layoffs (layoffs, not for-cause firings) being minority employees, despite minorities only making up 18% of the school's workforce.
@raphjd I hate to break it to you anti-woke zealots, but Disney's already reimagined Robin Hood as a red-furred fox.
@raphjd Your statement displays that you've never participated in a seizure of evidence under warrant or subpoena.
For example, a warrant will tell law enforcement to seize specific documents, but it will also include language that tells LE to seize any documents within the same container or containers stored similar to those containing named documents. This catch-all language is almost always included in warrants, and excess property is routinely seized. This is why the owner is given a receipt for all of the property seized, which Trump did, in fact, receive.
Were you under the impression that the FBI were going to pop a squat in the middle of the room and go thru each box of voluminous materials before removing them from the premises? Not even back at headquarters are the agents going thru the boxes. That's a task that some poor document review attorney had to do.
I'm sure you thought this was something, but you've got nothing here.
@raphjd As an attorney myself who realizes that every American, even the Devil himself, has a fundamental right to representation and that lawyers representing clients don't necessarily agree with their clients....
...I can imagine my reaction and I don't think it would be what you think it would be.
@raphjd To each of your points:
(1) The warrant was only necessary because Trump ignored and/or failed to comply with the subpoena.
(2) Whether all of the documents were declassified while Trump was still President is yet to be determined. Trump doesn't retain the power to classify or declassify documents after he's left office, and it isn't something he can just say, "If I brought it home, then ipso facto I declassified it." He will have to have done the official act.
(3) As far as I am aware, the only "documents" being returned are the three passports that were seized amongst the other documents.
And the thing which must be stated is that the potential crimes which may or may not be brought against Trump don't require the documents to have been classified. The fact that he has documents in his possession that belong to the People (i.e., the National Archives), then he's still committed a felony. A felony, by the way, that he strengthen while in office during his "Lock Her Up" frenzy.