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Trump: Set to declare 2024 presidential bid tonight; will indictments follow soon?
Just like Yasser Arafat was after he assassinated the Israeli Olympic team.
Crazy to think that those on Trump's defense team ... those on the Prosecutor's team ... the Judge ... the Jury ... including all of you CTers who troll Trump so whimsically ... can HONESTLY thank their very lives for Trump's life saving presidential leadership, ha!
Just where do you think that that mRNA tech, coursing through your veins this very minute, came from???
President Donald J. Trump helped save how many lives?
Yes, Nobel Peace Prize.
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Last edited by Neil Frarey; Tuesday, 21st March, 2023, 03:04 AM.
Trump should have been assassinated long ago. They hit two Kennedy's, Martin Luther King and Malcolm X back in the 1960's, all of them much better men than Trump. America could end up paying seriously for not taking Trump off. Jan 6 may simply have been the beginning. We will see what happens.
So being responsible for the deaths of millions is no big deal in your world.
Is that what I said? Twisting people's words, straw man arguments, etc., that's not your usual style, Tom. I'm wondering if you're on vacation and you've given Neil Frarey permission to post on your behalf. But, whatever! Let me turn your new style right back at ya: are you saying that, in your world, a (former) President should get a free ride on any felony unless it rises to the level of being responsible for millions of deaths?
The site cnn.com is reporting today that Trump says he expects to be arrested and indicted as soon as Tuesday, March 21, three days away. He is calling for nationwide protests against this. Security arrangements are apparently in preparation with prosecutors and law enforcement personnel in both New York State and Florida. If it happens, it would be an all-time first; no American president has ever been indicted and / or arrested before. Look for the National Guard to be placed on high alert throughout the U.S., in the days leading up to an indictment.
My opinion is that the more Trump makes preparations to seek the Republican nomination for 2024, the further the indictments will proceed. That is, more indictments, across a wider range of charges, across a greater range of legal authorities (federal and state), as more witnesses continue talking to prosecutors, across the avalanche of investigations in progress. If he backs off on running again, there may be a slight or significant easement.
And I also believe that several would-be challengers to the Republican nomination are awaiting Trump-related legal developments, in preparation for announcing their own bids, within the next few weeks. These include big names such as Mike Pence, Mike Pompeo, and especially Ron DeSantis. It is going to get ultra-crazy again down South, quite soon!
A number of major media outlets have been carrying coverage that indictment (s) of former U.S. President Donald Trump may be imminent.
As to which one of some two dozen possible major cases may be first, that is a guess for those more informed than I am. Many think it will be the election coverup affair bribery case from 2016, involving Trump's liaison with adult film star Stormy Daniels, for which former Trump lawyer Michael Cohen has already pled guilty to, served prison time for, and been disbarred as a lawyer. Cohen paid hush money in six figures to Daniels, on Trump's order, just before the 2016 election, for which he was later reimbursed, with a bonus. That is also a state crime, as opposed to a federal crime, so it COULD NOT BE PARDONED AWAY later for Trump by a possible future president, since the presidential pardon privilege covers only federal crimes.
If you're one of those who believe COVID-19 vaccines are a good thing, which helped saved billions ... not millions ... billions of lives then you can directly credit Donald J. Trump's presidency for all of that goodness!
President Trump's creation of Operation Warp Speed did just that, ha!
So all of that mRNA tech coursing through your veins right now ... you can personally thank Donald J. Trump.
"No doubt, Operation Warp Speed is a huge success," said Tinglong Dai, associate professor of Operations Management and Business Analytics at Johns Hopkins University Carey Business School in Baltimore.
"You can like or hate the Trump administration, but no doubt, it's a huge success — unprecedented success."
Um, add to that Nobel Prize worthy achievement ...
Trump's booming Economy, no major War(s), secure Borders, etcetera.
Actually, a list of significant successes in just 4our years.
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