The DA charged Trump with election crimes. If he didn’t make hush money payoffs to influence an election, falsifying business records to hide those payments would be misdemeanors under New York law. Let’s start by quoting what Trump said after his arraignment: “Former President Don[...]
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April 4th, 2023 - 7:23 pm § in Democrats, Donald Trump, Law and Courts, Politics, Racism, Republicans
Sizing up the case against Trump
What a Trump supporter thinks of truthful reporting
It may pass as First Amendent-protected free speech, but it’s not responsible or grownup speech. See tweet here and read story here. Return to The-Ave.US Home Page[...]
Trump election lawyer censured
Colorado lawyer Jenna Ellis was a member of the “elite strike force team” of lawyers led by Rudy Giuliani (details here) that tried to overturn Trump’s 2020 election loss with dodgy legal tactics. In her home state, Ellis was accused of violating professional ethics by participatin[...]
March 5th, 2023 - 5:51 pm § in America, Biden, China, Democrats, Donald Trump, Economics, Europe, Foreign Affairs, Hypocrisy, News Media, Politics, Republicans, Russia
Fact-checking Trump’s CPAC lies
Journalist, pesky creatures they are, like to fact-check political speeches. CNN says Trump delivered a “doozy” at the Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) in Washington D.C. on Saturday, March 4, 2023 (see story here). By now, his M.O. is familiar: Portray America as a post-a[...]
March 4th, 2023 - 7:28 pm § in Donald Trump
Trump proposes “freedom cities” in the desert
Trump unveiled “utopian ideas for the future” in a campaign video released on Friday, March 4, 2023, coinciding with his speaking appearance at a Conservative Political Action Committee (CPAC) gathering. The Hill reported (here) those ideas include building “freedom cities” o[...]
Trumper gets 9 years for bomb plot
A judged locked up Ian Benjamin Rogers (photo, left), 46, of Sacramento, California, for 9 years for plotting to bomb the Democratic Party headquarters in downtown Sacramento “as revenge for what they falsely believed was a stolen election,” the Sacramento Bee reported on Wednesday, Marc[...]
Trump warns pink-haired teachers are coming for your kids
Republicans have a new target: Public schools. They’re turning K-12 education into a culture war battleground. While Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis gets the most attention for his book banning, criminalizing the teaching of black history, and efforts to impose conservative ideology on his state[...]
January 20th, 2023 - 1:43 am § in Donald Trump, Law and Courts
Trump and lawyer hit with sanctions for frivolous lawsuit
A federal judge in Florida sanctioned Trump and one of his attorneys, Alina Habba (photo, left), for a frivolous lawsuit against Hillary Clinton and others, Politico reported on Thursday, January 19, 2023 (read story here). The order (read it here) by Judge Donald Middlebrooks, a Bill Clinton appoin[...]
Classified docs: Biden vs. Trump
A CNN op-ed (here) says: “Classified documents were found in an office at Biden’s former think tank and a garage at his Wilmington, Delaware, home, leading Attorney General Merrick Garland to appoint a special counsel to investigate, just as he has for Trump. “’Republicans will try t[...]
Trump’s Supreme Court is a hanging court
The Supreme Court is no longer a place you can go to stop the execution of an innocent person, or of someone whose sentencing was influenced by racial bias. Since 2019, when Trump put his first two appointees on the court, the new conservative court majority hasn’t accepted a single death pena[...]