"The Kremlin told reporters on Friday that Donald Trump’s guilty verdict was proof that all legal and illegal means were being used in the United States to get rid of political rivals”, Reuters is reporting.
Putin commenting about "getting rid of political rivals" in other countries?! 🤣 🤣 🤣
I had a student who was chewed up by the justice system in NYC— he was in my calc III class at the CC — and he could have gone on to a 4 year school with a scholarship— but that was not to be it’s a very nasty and remorseless system and I have no sympathy for someone who has only seen the concierge in kid gloves version.
Our justice system screws up with the innocent.
Our justice system abuses the guilty far beyond that which they are ostensibly sentenced.
And so my patience is rather thin for those whom it has gone out of its way, far beyond any standards of decency or justice, who can only now cry foul.
US Official Who Resigned Over Gaza Says Report Absolving Israel 'Patently False'
Stacy Gilbert described reading the report in shock bcz of how it contradicted expert consensus.
She immediately decided to resign.
The report, "among other contentious findings, determined that Israel wasn't restricting the transport or delivery of U.S. humanitarian assistance—an assessment that allowed the Biden administration to continue providing arms to Israel."
Trump’s campaign donation page tonight after Donald J. Trump was found guilty of 34 felonies by a jury of random citizens chosen by both Trump and prosecution lawyers.
Numerology wise a new entry in the very exclusive two digit number special meaning clan joining the likes of 13, 21, 42, 88, and 99 please give a warm welcome to a freshly minted orange colored 34!
US Official Who Resigned Over Gaza Says Report Absolving Israel 'Patently False'
Stacy Gilbert described reading the report in shock bcz of how it contradicted expert consensus.
She immediately decided to resign.
The report, "among other contentious findings, determined that Israel wasn't restricting the transport or delivery of U.S. humanitarian assistance—an assessment that allowed the Biden administration to continue providing arms to Israel."
"Donald Trump Found Guilty on All Counts in Hush-Money Trial"
"The historic verdict makes him the first ex-president ever convicted of a crime...guilty on all 34 felony counts related to his 2016 hush-money payment."
All of the charges were for the falsification of business records, which stemmed from the payment to suppress stories about alleged extra-marital affairs Trump had in the years before he ran for president.
The far right has thrown a wrench in the old way of doing news.
"They plot dangerous initiatives …sometimes fifty years in advance … to overturn Roe v. Wade, destroy diversity initiatives, & rewrite the Constitution, & then they actually go ahead & do them."
By the time journalists tell readers what the Radical Right has done, it just walks them back through all the steps we didn’t report on.
To anyone (rightly) criticizing the US:
Americans - as individuals - can do the right thing. Any one of these jurors could have hung the jury, gone public, and been set for life as a right-wing media darling. Book deals, speaking circuit, position in a future Trump admin, whatever they wanted. But all 12 put public service over personal gain. #USpol (From David Litt)
Thirty-four to zero
I’m shocked. I’m not shocked that he is guilty. I’m shocked that today is the day he is finally held accountable. I’m shocked that we made it.
“Go on home, get a nice hot bath. Rest up... 15 minutes. Then get your asses back in gear.”
This quote from “All The President’s Men” goes out to all the #journalists I follow for their coverage of the #trial and to @Nonilex and @GottaLaff for their play by play.