Jesse Dollemore: Fox News Clown REJECTS DONALD TRUMP JUROR for Saying "NO ONE IS ABOVE THE LAW!"

Source:Jesse Dollemore talking about one of Fox News's DJT "boot lickers" Jesse Watters.

"Jesse talks about remarks made by Fox News's Jesse Watters last night, where he called into question the qualifications of Trump juror #2 for saying she thinks no one is above the law." 

From Jesse Dollemore

This is what I said about Jesse Watters just 2 weeks ago: 

"Donald Trump could sell the Communist Manifesto and argue that the Communist vision of government is what America needs. That business venture would also go bankrupt, not because it's a Communist Manifesto so much, (even though communism is still very unpopular in America) but because this is one of DJT's business ventures. And the public knows this man would literally try to sell anything to make money. But at least his base would buy the DJT Communist Manifestos. " 

From The New Democrat

I have no doubt that if MAGA World had it's way and even if Donald Trump's porn chick hush money trial had to go on anyway, that they would simply just get the trial the hell out of Manhattan and at the very least take it up to Binghamton (if they couldn't afford the bus fair to West Virginia) and hold the trial there. Because anyone who has a college degree, whose not part of the MAGA Cult, whose even aware that there are more cable talk networks than Fox News Channel, let alone watch MSNBC or CNN, who also believes in the rule of law, is simply not qualified to sit and judge their cult leader Donald J. Trump. 

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The Daily Show: John Leguizamo: Will Donald Trump Get the Latino Vote?

Source:The Daily Show with John Leguizamo.

"John Leguizamo is fired up about the Latino vote and their surprising sway toward Donald Trump, despite Biden’s outreach and policies on immigration. In the latest In My Opinion, he breaks down the priority issues of inflation, and Trump’s deceptions on how much he truly cares about the Latino community." 

From The Daily Show

First of all and on a personal note first and I excuse my fucking language, but I need it to make this point: What's John Leguizamo fucking problem? All he does is talk about fucking people? Can this guy even get though a fucking sentence without fucking cussing? (I also excuse my hypocrisy)

I guess John Leguizamo getting through a sentence without cussing, would be like Donald Trump getting through a court session without falling asleep. Or getting through a sentence without lying. Or actually speaking to the questions that he's asked. And it's way too early for Christmas, so I guess I would be asking for too much here.  

On a more serious note: I'm not Latino myself. My German name I think is a pretty good clue there. But it depends on what you mean by Latinos. Because similar with Slavs, Scandinavians, Orientals, (are we still allowed to say Oriental, or will the Political Correctness Police arrest me for that?) Latino is not a race or ethnicity in of itself. 

There are Spanish Latinos who are primarily, or at least partially of Spanish heritage, even if their families migrated to Latin America before coming to America, like in John Leguizano's case to Puerto Rico. 

There are Afro-Latinos, Latinos who are of at least of some African descent. 

Peru has a Japanese population, as well as a Spanish, and Peruvian-Indian population.  

Mexico has Germans and Jews, as well as Arabs and Africans, and a lot of Spaniards. And of course Mexican-Indians, Aztecs, Yucas and other Mexican Indians.

And of course there are a lot of Latinos who are of West Indian descent, who also have at least some Spanish ancestry descent, which is the ethnic and racial background of a lot of Latino Americans.

My point here is that Latino or if you prefer Hispanic, in of itself is not a race or ethnicity.

But to go to John Leguizamo's serious point about why some Latinos are supporting Donald Trump and inflation: inflation affects Latinos the same way it affects every other group in America. And I'm sure they're tired of inflation as much as everyone else. 

But the question that Latinos have to ask themselves, is the same question that every other voting bloc in America has to ask themselves: who has the better plan for America when it comes to inflation, as well as to address every other issue that America faces. 

And to pick up on Mr. Leguizamo's point about Donald Trump and inflation, Mr. Trump doesn't have a plan either. It's as if he didn't even hear or understand the question that was asked to him. He was given a point blank question about inflation and his answer was: "drill, baby, drill." Which is about energy policy, not inflation. And apparently he's unaware that gas prices have come down since Joe Biden has been President. And we became an energy independent country under President Biden, not President Trump. We now produce more oil than we import.  

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The Bulwark: Tim Miller & Ross Douthat: Could a Brave GOP Have Kicked Donald Trump To The Curb?

Source:The Bulwark discussing whether the Republican Party could've stopped Donald J. Trump.

"Trump wins voters who don't read The New York Times or listen to The Bulwark Podcast, and elite opposition may not be enough to defeat him. Ross Douthat joins Tim Miller for a spirited debate about what the conservative movement gave away in sacrifice to Trump on world leadership, abortion, and democracy." 

From The Bulwark

I guess what New York Times conservative columnist Ross Douthat's point here about let's say the populist-right (if not far-right) of the Republican Party is, if Liberals (I guess he means real Liberals and not the so-called Squad) are in favor of... then the MAGA wing of the Republican Party is against it. 

So to sum this up: if the Joe Biden wing of the Democratic Party, which was once the Henry Jackson/John F. Kennedy wing of the Democratic Party, is against Russia and Russia's invasion of Ukraine, (which is now a democratic republic, unlike Russia) then MAGA is pro-Vladimir Putin and the Russian Nationalists. 

If Joe Biden and the rest of the Liberal Democrats are in favor of the rule of law, then MAGA is opposed to it. 

If Joe Biden and the Liberal Democrats support limited government, checks and balances, American democracy, free trade, then MAGA is against all these American liberal values, that so-called Conservative Republicans once supported, then MAGA is against it. 

Imagine a political candidate announcing on the campaign trail that they're against everything that their opponent is in favor of, without even knowing what their opponent supports or opposes and what the consequences of those positions are: "I'm against it because he's in favor of it and I want to beat him." That's what Ross Douthat is basically saying here. 

What Ross Douthat is basically saying here is that MAGA wants to beat the Liberal Democrats so badly and take a stand against New Haven, Manhattan, the Hampton Islands, etc, all those great liberal democratic places in America, where freedom and wealth run rampant, even if their opposition hurts America. And wile they're doing that, they're raising their campaign money in New Haven, Manhattan, the Hamptons, because there's only so much campaign money to go around in West Virginia, Kentucky, Southern Ohio, and all of these MAGA enclaves. 

When Olivia Nuzzi from New York Magazine, when Tim Miller from The Bulwark, and other center-right, Never-Trump Republicans call MAGA members political nihilists, they know what they're talking about. Because it's not about political values and what they would do if they were ever in power. But instead simply about beating the Liberals, getting into power and keeping that power indefinitely.

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Michael Smerconish: Robert F. Kennedy JR. As Donald Trump's Running Mate

Source:Michael Smerconish- DJT/RFKJR 2024? Why not. They're both professional MAGA men who don't seem to believe in the rule of law or American democracy.

"TRUMP/RFK JR. 2024?" 

From Michael Smerconish

"Robert F. Kennedy Jr. chose tech attorney and entrepreneur Nicole Shanahan to be his running mate.

Shanahan, who has never run for office before, donated the maximum amount to Kennedy’s campaign and $4 million to the chief super PAC backing his bid to air a retro-themed Super Bowl commercial. In addition to backing American Values 2024, she also gave $500,000 to another super PAC backing Kennedy, Common Sense PAC. Both donations were made through an LLC, Planeta Management.

Kennedy said he was searching for a running mate who understood technology, government agencies’ vulnerability to corruption, the need for secure borders and an athlete.

“So that is why I’m so proud to introduce to you the next vice president of the United States, my fellow lawyer, a brilliant scientist, technologist, a fierce warrior mom, Nicole Shanahan,” Kennedy said in Oakland, California.

Shanahan was raised in Oakland by a mother who was a Chinese immigrant and a white American father who suffered from mental illness. Tickets for the announcement event were sold for $2, $24 or $500.

Kennedy has been searching for a vice presidential candidate to join his independent bid since quitting the Democratic Party primary last October. The short list was wide-ranging, including NFL quarterback Aaron Rodgers, motivational speaker Tony Robbins, Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ky.) and ex-Democratic Hawaii Rep. Tulsi Gabbard.

Now that he’s named the 38-year-old Shanahan as his running mate, the campaign can begin collecting ballot access signatures in about 20 more states.

Shanahan said she’s passionate about fighting chronic disease in the U.S. by eliminating toxins in food and water and electromagnetic pollution as well as doing different studies on pharmaceuticals and vaccines.

“There is only one candidate who takes the chronic disease epidemic seriously, and it is Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and I will be his ally,” Shanahan said.

Shanahan said Kennedy will be focused on corruption in government agencies while she applies her skills as a technologist to the issue. 

Shanahan, who is also a fellow at the Stanford Center for Legal Informatics, has a long history of political giving, backing progressive California Rep. Ro Khanna’s campaigns as well as making a contribution to President Joe Biden and a five-figure donation to the Democratic National Committee in 2020 after supporting Marianne Williamson’s long-shot bid during the primary. The tech entrepreneur also donated to Hillary Clinton’s campaign in 2016.

Kennedy said Shanahan has also now left the Democratic Party. As independents, they will face Biden and former President Donald Trump, the presumptive major party nominees, in the November general election.

But since Kennedy and Shanahan are both California residents, they will now be unable to accept California’s 54 electoral college votes should they win the state in November unless one of them moves his or her residency to another state, according to the Constitution’s 12th Amendment.

As Kennedy’s team was announcing his running mate, Democrats and allied groups also seized on Kennedy’s big day.

The DNC paid for a mobile billboard highlighting a mega donor, Tim Mellon, who has donated to both the super PACs supporting Kennedy and Trump. Protesters handed out fliers across the street featuring a QR code that went to a website that read, “Kennedy for Measles,” pointing out the dangers of his anti-vaccine positions. And Clear Cho ice PAC, a newly formed group to oppose third party candidates, launched a negative website that calls Kennedy’s candidacy “dangerous” and asks voters to “Reject RFK. Stop Donald Trump.”

“RFK Jr. has no path to victory, and his vice presidential selection does nothing to change that,” Pete Kavanaugh, co-founder of Clear Choice PAC, said in a statement.

Shanahan’s wealth and ability to financially support the campaign’s operations — including gathering petition signatures to get on the ballot and potential litigation — are advantageous to the Kennedy ticket. Kennedy denied in a News Nation interview that Shanahan’s wealth was a factor in his decision making.

Shanahan was last in national headlines when The Wall Street Journal reported that she had an affair with Elon Musk, the founder of Tesla who was also being courted for a donation by American Values. Both she and Musk denied the affair, which allegedly took place in 2021. She and her then-husband, Google co-founder Sergey Brin, divorced. The Journal reported that Brin also asked his advisers to sell his personal investments in Musk’s companies.

In 2019, Shanahan founded Bia-Echo, a nonprofit foundation. Its mission includes “reproductive longevity & equality, criminal justice reform and a healthy & livable planet,” according to its website.

Bia-Echo Foundation has only ever had one donor, according to three years of financial disclosure forms: Brin. The forms disclosed that Brin made his eight-figure donation through shares of Alphabet, the parent company of Google, in 2020. The following year, his contribution came as Tesla shares valued at about $25 million. Brin did not make a donation in 2022.

In a lengthy profile with People Magazine, Shanahan again denied the affair with Musk and said the two instead talked about autism treatments for Shanahan and Brin’s young daughter, Echo. Shanahan said she frequently has conversations like this in the tech world. “Elon was another person in this group of people. There’s almost this generational ecosystem and it’s a community. You run ideas past each other and you ask questions,” she told the magazine.

Shanahan added finding a cure to autism to Bia-Echo’s work, in the People interview. She said she spends 60 percent of her time researching autism.

“I am hopeful of helping my daughter overcome her autism, whatever that might look like, whether it be in five years not having a diagnosis anymore, or having all of the tools to navigate the challenges that her diagnosis has produced in her life,” Shanahan said.

In addition to scientists and doctors, Shanahan said she learns about autism interventions “with greater accuracy than any published medical paper” from mothers raising autistic children. Kennedy has shared a similar sentiment about mothers when describing how he became skeptical of vaccine safety.

Kennedy has falsely claimed that there is a link between mercury content in vaccines and disease, including autism, publishing a book on the subject and starting a nonprofit that engages in litigation on behalf of people who believe they’ve been injured by a vaccine.

Advocacy against vaccines and vaccine mandates following the Covid-19 pandemic have bolstered Kennedy’s public profile in recent years and given a boost to his grassroots campaign strategy.

“I want her to represent the mothers who struggle to protect their children from the bad chemicals, the pharmaceuticals and bad food,” Kennedy said of Shanahan to great applause from the crowd. “As vice president, she will stand between them and Big Ag, Big Pharma, the chemical industry, the processed food industry, and the government regulators who are colluding to poison our kids for profit.”

Despite Bia-Echo’s mission statement, its financial disclosures show the foundation has invested more in financial assets than in grant giving.

In 2022, the latest available year in online records, Bia-Echo reported owning $13.7 million in U.S. and state government securities and $12.2 million in corporate stocks and bonds. It reported $0 in grants, gifts or contributions to other organizations." 

Source:POLITICO- Independent MAGA presidential candidate Nicole Shanahan.

From POLITICO 

As I wrote about this back in March: 

"As an at best Independent Democrat at this point, whose not in love with the Democratic Party politically, or really anything else, for that matter, I would love to see Robert F. Kennedy JR. run for President as a Libertarian. Why? Because it would just confirm what I, what this blog, and what a lot of other Democrats believe about RFK JR. that he's simply a MAGA man, who at the very least doesn't want Joe Biden to be reelected and perhaps even wants Donald Trump back in The White House, where all their MAGA conspiracy theories and avenues to financially profit for them, would open up." 

From The New Democrat 

If Bob Kennedy JR. was anti-Trump, he wouldn't spend all of his opposition campaigning against President Joe Biden. U.S. Representative Dean Phillips ran against the President in the Democratic primaries. Former Democrat and 2020 presidential candidate Andrew Yang said that the Democratic Party needed to nominate someone other than Joe Biden for President in 2024. But there's a big difference here. Both Representative Phillips and Mr. Yang are going to vote for the President in the fall. And would probably speak in favor of him, if they were called to do that. 

Unlike Bob Kennedy, who once said that he would be honored to be Donald Trump's vice presidential nominee and has flirted with running for President of the Libertarian Party, which are now filled with Libertarian populists, who are least are leaning towards Donald Trump because they share the same conspiracy theories and hatred for the "deep state." Kennedy is simply running for President to take votes away from President Biden and make it easier for Mr. Trump to win the election in November. 

So if you are the Democratic National Committee, the Biden Campaign, and the Never-Trump wing of the Republican Party, who are establishment Conservative Republicans, like The Bulwark, The Lincoln Project, groups like that, your mission (if you choose to accept it) is to define Bob Kennedy, before Kennedy can define himself. 

The Democrats and what's left of the center-right of the Republican Party, need to define Kennedy as the man whose opposed to all vaccines, who thinks the Jan 6. rioters are American patriots and are now political hostages, that Russia is really our friend and not enemy, etc. Before Kennedy can run like left-winger whose so far-left, that he can make Bernie Sanders, Elizabeth Warren, and Jill Stein, as well as "The Squad" in the House, look like flaming moderates. And he would run that far-left-wing campaign, if he even got on enough ballots, just to hurt President Biden and get Donald Trump back in The White House. 

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Yahoo News: Judge Warns Donald Trump: Show Up To Manhattan Hush Money Trial Each Day or There Will Be An Arrest

Source:NBC News showing Defendant Don in the courtroom.

"Former President Donald Trump can continue showing up for his criminal trial in Manhattan -- or, potentially, go straight to jail.

That was Judge Juan Merchan's warning to the Republican candidate on Monday, NBC News reported, as jury selection continues in a case where prosecutors allege Trump conspired to falsify business records, covering up a $130,000 payment to adult film star Stormy Daniels on the eve of the 2016 election.

As NBC News noted, the warning is a standard reminder for criminal defendants. But it is the first time the warning has ever been delivered to a former U.S. president.

Katie Phang, a legal analyst with MSNBC, reported that Trump acknowledged his right and responsibility to attend the trial in an exchange with Merchan (who he has repeatedly attacked on Truth Social). Trump also promised to behave himself.

"If you disrupt the proceedings, you can be excluded from the courtroom and committed to jail based on your conduct and the trial will continue on in your absence," Merchan told Trump, per a transcript that Phang posted on X. "If you do not show up, there will be an arrest," the judge continued. "Do you understand?"

"I do," Trump responded." 

From Yahoo News 

"Merchan is talking about Trump's right to be present in court — known as Parker admonitions.

Merchan is talking directly to the former president for the first time all day, issuing a stark warning that if he fails to show up for trial without a reason a warrant will be issued for his arrest.

The N.Y. courts provide a script for these which is below:

SHOW" 

From NBC News 

As my colleague Fred Schneider mentioned earlier today: 

"This might sound harsh. Well, perhaps just to supporters of Donald J. Trump. And I don't want to compare Mr. Trump to any real-life dictator, because that might actually be too harsh. But imagine a dictator whose been in power for 20 years for all sorts of reasons. And the new democratically elected government that comes to power decides to prosecute the former dictator of their country. I don't pretend to be a mindreader and I've never even met Donald J. Trump in real-life. But I'm guessing from everything that I know about this man, that must be how he's feeling right now and what he's going through." 

From The New Democrat

I think we now know what's going to happen if Donald Trump consistently violates Judge Juan Merchan's gag order. DJT will be sent to jail, if he doesn't behave himself and act like an adult about this case, in and outside of the courtroom. Because if Judge Merchan doesn't enforce his own orders and rules here, he's going to look like a complete weakling and look like that weakling in front of a live, national audience. 

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CNN: ‘Biting His Lower Lip’: CNN Reporter Describes Donald Trump’s Demeanor in Court

Source:CNN inside Donald J. Trump's courtroom. Don't worry. He doesn't actually own this room either.

"CNN’s Kara Scannell describes Donald Trump’s demeanor in court as his criminal hush money trial gets underway." 

From CNN

This might sound harsh. Well, perhaps just to supporters of Donald J. Trump. And I don't want to compare Mr. Trump to any real-life dictator, because that might actually be too harsh. But imagine a dictator whose been in power for 20 years for all sorts of reasons. And the new democratically elected government that comes to power decides to prosecute the former dictator of their country. I don't pretend to be a mindreader and I've never even met Donald J. Trump in real-life. But I'm guessing from everything that I know about this man, that must be how he's feeling right now and what he's going through. 

When Donald Trump because President of the United States in 2017, he must have felt he would be untouchable for the rest of his life. He even flirted with the idea of running for President a 3rd time, at least if he was reelected in 2020. And just staying on as President after his lost in 2020 and his term expired in January 2021. And the only reason that didn't happen, is because the government simply wouldn't allow for it. Once your term expires in our government, you are out of office. And you either leave your office and the building voluntarily, or you are escorted out by Federal officials. 

But because of our great, federal, liberal democratic, constitutional system that we have in America, no one man or woman is above the law in this country. You commit felonies in this country, you get charged and prosecuted for them and then later brought to trial. Unless you work out a plea bargain with the prosecution or plead guilty. 

So right now in that Manhattan court room, Donald J. Trump even though he was once President of the United States, is now being treated like any other criminal defendant in New York. And it must be a real humanizing experience for him. 

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Karen F. Agnifilo: 'Donald Trump GETS STUNNED by Latest Development in CRIMINAL TRIAL'

Source:Medias Touch- left to right: Manhattan, New York criminal Judge Juan Merchan & Defendant Don.

"Michael Popok and Karen Friedman Agnifilo break down all the recent developments with just a few days to go before Trump is On Trial in NY next week, including a key Trump witness being sent off to prison already; and Trump losing 3X this week in his efforts to stop the trial from starting." 

From the Meidas Touch

"CNN legal analyst Karen Friedman Agnifilo describes the prosecution team inside the courtroom where former President Trump is being arraigned." 

From CNN

The Meidas Touch video was filmed yesterday. It's obviously Friday right now (for anyone who doesn't have a calendar on them) and Donald J. Trump hasn't even filed an appeal to the New York State Court of Appeals or U.S. Supreme Court about his so-called presidential immunity claim. And again, I'm not a lawyer, but it really looks like Donald Trump is going to trial in 3 days starting with jury selection, which will probably take all of next week and perhaps the following week as well. 

I'm going to respond to Karen Friedman Agnifilo's argument about this case being the most serious of the 4 criminal cases against DJT and then I'm going to give you my theory about what his defense might be. 

She makes a good point. Without the hush money payment and attempt to cover that payment off to prevent Independent voters and urban and suburban Republican voters who may have voted for him in 2016, but not in 2020 (and I doubt they'll vote for him in 2024 as well, I think we're already seeing evidence of that with Nikki Haley's voters. But that's a different discussion) but without the hush money payment to Stormy Daniels, I think that affair gets out. And you could argue that would've cost Donald Trump the 2016 election, because those female voters that would've voted for him, at the very least wouldn't vote for anyone that year. Or perhaps write someone in instead. 

The Stormy Daniels affair getting out right before the 2016 election, alone could've save the United States of America, from Donald Trump, quite frankly. And these last 8 years would be a lot different and you wouldn't see all of these trials against them, with one of the reasons being that all of these lawyers and prosecutors are simply trying to defend America, against Donald Trump and keep him out of The White House all together. 

Now here's my theory for DJT's possible strategy to get past the Manhattan trial: 

He pleads guilty, even to the felonies, in exchange for probation and perhaps a large fine. And he does that before all the evidence about the affair that he had, his attempt to cover it up, and interfere with the 2016 election, simply to save his political and legal tail. (To put it mildly) 

If he puts admission of guilt on the table, Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg and Judge Juan Merchan, would have to at least consider that offer. I would take it, but only if Donald Trump allocutes to all the felonies that he's being charged with. At least the business fraud and the campaign finance violations and explains under oath why he committed these crimes. But that's just my theory and again, I'm not a lawyer. 

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