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I'm having trouble keeping up - the clouds are gathering around so many of his nominees........he's going to need 'til Jan. 20 to get the list stabilized/finalized!
When must Trump present his cabinet/Officer nominees to the Senate for confirmation?
Bob A (Hunkered down in Helms Deep for the foreseeable future)
The only one which seemed a stretch was Matt Gaetz who was busy burning down the house when Democrats were in disarray. Fortunately push back from Senate Republicans yielded a much better candidate in Pam Bondy. If you want to get something done, put a woman in charge.
I hear that Trump is bullying Republican Senators to go into recess, so that he can get his whole team in place without Senate approval.
It is called a recess appointment. He can get his whole team in place without Senate approval for 2 years.
The outcome of the potential sentencing for Donald Trump's 34 felony convictions in New York remains undecided, as of now. One thing that is certain: Trump will NOT be sentenced anytime soon on this matter. Further conferences involving the judge, prosecutors, and Trump's lawyers are scheduled for next week, with the judge conceding that the situation is unprecedented in American legal praxis and history.
I hear that Trump is bullying Republican Senators to go into recess, so that he can get his whole team in place without Senate approval.
It is called a recess appointment. He can get his whole team in place without Senate approval for 2 years.
Sounds like an abuse of power to me.
You may also have heard that Big Pharma is planning to bribe the senators big-time to prevent RFK Jr.'s appointment! Politics is rotten, whichever way you look at it...
Prosecutor: Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg, under New York Attorney General, Letitia James. Senior Counsel to the DA is Matthew Colangelo, with Ms. Susan Hoffinger.
34 counts of falsification of New York business records in an attempt to cover up hush-money payments to Stephanie A. Gregory Clifford, known professionally as Stormy Daniels, an American pornographic film actress, director and former stripper. Stephanie claims she had an extramarital affair with Trump, which he vehemently denies.
Mr. Bragg further accuses Mr. Trump of trying to hide “damaging information and unlawful activity from American voters before and after the 2016 election". Public disclosure of this could have derailed Trump's stunning victory in the 2016 presidential election.
Note: Mr. Bragg seeks a "felony" conviction for what would normally be a "misdemeanor".
Judge Marchan has given Trump's lawyers 2 weeks to submit an application for dismissal of the case!!
The Prosecutor is given 1 week to file its response.
Will this case just go away, even though a conviction is already registered, with sentencing indefinitely delayed?
Mr. Bragg further accuses Mr. Trump of trying to hide “damaging information and unlawful activity from American voters
Bob A (Interested legal beagle)
That is not accurate, Mr. Legal Beagle. The accurate statement is:
Mr. Bragg accuses Mr. Trump of using unlawful activity of being inaccurate in tax returns (which was otherwise a time-elapsed misdemeanor, already deemed so immaterial as to not worth pursuing legally by tax authorities) to call the politically damaging information of "handsomely paying a porn star" a "legal expense". Neither "handsomely paying a porn star", nor simply calling it a "legal expense" are in themselves illegal, but using the unlawful activity to do so is a felony...
The twisted nature of this accusation was very apparent to the majority of American citizens! Correct me if I am wrong, Mr. Legal Beagle.
You may also have heard that Big Pharma is planning to bribe the senators big-time to prevent RFK Jr.'s appointment! Politics is rotten, whichever way you look at it...
I had not heard that, but I am not surprised.
Sure, politics is rotten when you allow unlimited money to corrupt the system. I still believe at least a minority of politicians want to serve honourably, but hard to buck a corrupt system.
I am hearing that Trump is not allowing the FBI to do background checks on his cabinet picks. I wonder why?
Sure, politics is rotten when you allow unlimited money to corrupt the system. I still believe at least a minority of politicians want to serve honourably, but hard to buck a corrupt system.
I am hearing that Trump is not allowing the FBI to do background checks on his cabinet picks. I wonder why?
Probably because of the efforts of the FBI to frame his 2016 cabinet picks using the Steele Dossier which was totally made up and paid for by Hillary Clinton. There has already been a fairly deep dive into what happened over his last term as president and it is understandable that he wouldn't trust the FBI at this point. It is a bit weird that they were rifling through Melania's underwear drawer.
It seems that this aspect of the Steele dossier is forgotten (from Wikipedia)
"Two research operations and confusion between them
The opposition research conducted by Fusion GPS on Donald Trump was in two distinct operations, each with a different client. First were the Republicans, funded by The Washington Free Beacon. Then came the Democrats, funded by the DNC and the Clinton campaign.
The Republican operation, from October 2015 to May 2016, focused on Trump's domestic business and entertainment activities; was performed by Fusion GPS; and used Wayne Barrett's files and public sources. Immediately after the publication of the dossier, the media sometimes falsely assumed that the dossier started as a product of this research, so the Free Beacon released this statement: "none of the work product that the Free Beacon received appears in the Steele dossier".[35][36]
The Democratic operation, from April 2016 to December 2016, was focused on Trump's Russian connections; was subcontracted to Steele/Orbis; and used Steele's own source network and public sources. Only this second operation produced the dossier.[37][38]
Very disingenuous, but not unexpected, of you to always overlook the first operation and focus only on the democrat operation.
As for 'rifling' through her underwear drawer, perhaps if her spouse had returned government property after multiple reasonable legal requests over far too many months, they wouldn't have needed a valid and necessary search warrant to 'rifle' through her undergarments. If he stores them in a bathroom, what would prevent him from storing them in her bedroom?
.... It is a bit weird that they were rifling through Melania's underwear drawer.
Why the hell would Melania care? She has nude pics plastered all over the internet. Maybe she likes thinking about FBI agents riffling through her underwear drawer.
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