US politics - fried (part 5)

I reckon that’s a double edged sword these days.

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True. Mostly.

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It’s pretty good. NSW Cali probably a bit off but I can’t think of something better.

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Northern Coastal NSW has a decent hippies claim to Oregon too… but I guess the cold wet bit swings that title to Tassie.

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Johnson is dealing with all the big issues on the house floor.
Ukraine? Crickets.

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I thought this was a pisstake, but it seems these are actual bills.

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I always had Queensland as Australia’s Florida. Crocs, humidity, rednecks, old people retire there.

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Yep. NT more like Pine Ridge with a couple of bits of Florida that floated up the coast and jagged on some pipeline

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Not a doctor*

Is Trump just selling his own stock in pieces on the market until he doesn’t have any share at all, because no entrepreneur/business would buy it?

He can’t sell it yet, he just has to watch in horror as his paper fortune (the only real fortune he had as the rest is just a debt mountain house of cards) burns down to zero

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This guy up on the stand could be interesting. As usual, he didn’t get paid by Trump.

  • but Blitz is blocking his name… :skull: hahaha

This is a small extract from a Politico article.

"…the allegations (against Trump) are widely known, some of the people most intimately involved in them have never spoken about them publicly.

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David Peck3r

■■■■■■ is the former CEO of American Media, Inc., which published the National Enquirer during the period when it executed so-called “catch and kill” schemes to bury negative stories about Trump.

One of the prosecution’s central goals will be to persuade jurors that Trump orchestrated the cover-up — and falsified his company’s records — as part of a scheme to influence the 2016 election, rather than merely to avoid personal embarrassment. Connecting the conduct to the election will help prosecutors maintain the charges against Trump as felonies, rather than misdemeanors. And ■■■■■■ may be a key witness on that point.

He is expected to testify about his efforts to aid Trump by brokering these deals, including any conversations he had with Trump or Cohen, as well as any communication he had with those being silenced — namely Daniels, or her representatives.

According to state prosecutors, ■■■■■■, at the time a close friend and ally of Trump, met with Trump and his then-lawyer Michael Cohen in August 2015 at Trump Tower. ■■■■■■, the prosecution says, agreed to help Trump’s presidential campaign by acting “as the ‘eyes and ears’ for the campaign by looking out for negative stories” about Trump and flagging them for Cohen before they were published. ■■■■■■ “also agreed to publish negative stories about [Trump’s] competitors for the election.”

That fall, according to prosecutors, ■■■■■■ directed AMI to pay $30,000 to a former Trump Tower doorman, Dino Sajudin, who was attempting to shop a story about a “love child” Trump had fathered. ■■■■■■ did so “because of his agreement” with Trump and Cohen, prosecutors have said. After AMI concluded the story wasn’t true, Cohen instructed ■■■■■■ to keep the agreement with the doorman in place until after the presidential election, according to prosecutors.

In June 2016, according to prosecutors, ■■■■■■, after consultation with Trump and Cohen, again came to Trump’s rescue. He directed AMI to pay $150,000 to a former Playboy Playmate, Karen McDougal, to keep her quiet about claims she had a sexual encounter with Trump. ■■■■■■ expected, based on his conversations with Cohen, that AMI would be reimbursed for the payment by either Trump or the Trump Organization, but that never happened.

In October 2016, ■■■■■■ aided Trump yet again, this time telling the National Enquirer editor-in-chief to alert Cohen to the fact that Daniels was claiming to have had a sexual encounter with Trump. Trump’s campaign had just been roiled by the release of the infamous Access Hollywood tape, in which Trump boasted about sexual assault, and a potential sex scandal involving Daniels’ account would have further damaged the campaign. Cohen then struck the $130,000 deal with Daniels.

■■■■■■ may also be questioned about a non-prosecution agreement that AMI signed with Manhattan federal prosecutors in August 2018 in conjunction with their prosecution of Cohen. In that agreement, the company admitted that it paid $150,000 to McDougal to ensure that she “did not publicize damaging allegations” about Trump “before the 2016 presidential election and thereby influence that election.”…"

■■■■■■’s testimony will likely prove important because he can corroborate much of what Cohen is expected to testify about, and ■■■■■■ will come to the witness stand with far fewer credibility issues than Cohen.

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First name Wood

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Has Trump ever followed the rules

He has options in a publicly listed company. The options don’t convert to tradeable shares for a few months yet and can’t be sold. He is trying to sue the guys who incorporated it and most likely will not pay the lawyers :joy:

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Lel. I lived on King Island for a while and I’m pretty satisfied it’s been compared to Guam.

Honestly, just ecstatic it’s even acknowledged

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Grifters attract other grifters.

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