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tristansnell, 2 days ago to random

Who could possibly be opposed to an $8 cap on credit card fees?

Other than credit card companies.

Trump Republicans, that's who -- because the credit card companies have paid them $8,000,000 to oppose the cap.

tristansnell, 2 days ago to random

BIG NEWS -- Big cities' murder rates are down 19% compared with last year -- this comes directly from police data from 236 major cities.

tristansnell, 3 days ago to random

No, Donald Trump does not sign a lot of checks.

Historically, Allen Weisselberg signed 99.99% of the checks from the Trump Organization.

The fact that TRUMP personally signed the Cohen checks is highly unusual. It shows he wanted to handle his dirty business himself.

tristansnell, 3 days ago to random

Donald Trump seems to have a weird confessional tell -- he signs checks personally, precisely when he knows he's doing something wrong.

He personally signed the checks to Michael Cohen.

Just like he personally signed the checks he wrote to himself in the Trump University scam.

tristansnell, 3 days ago to random

All of the steps of the Trump cover-up — list keeps growing as trial continues:

1. Shell company
2. Fake names
3. Fake invoices
4. Trump paid from slush fund
5. Invoice amount was “grossed up” as though it would be taxed
6. Invoices were chopped up into 11 monthly payments

tristansnell, 3 days ago to random

Trump by the numbers:

2 divorces
6 bankruptcies
2 impeachments
4 major legal losses in NY
26 sexual assault accusers
88 criminal counts in 4 cases
10 findings of criminal contempt of court

tristansnell, 3 days ago to random

Trump claims the payments to Michael Cohen was for legal fees

But Cohen was IN-HOUSE! He was the general counsel of the Trump Organization. He had a salary.

You don’t pay “fees” to your salaried in-house counsel.

One more reason Trump’s excuse is garbage.

tristansnell, 4 days ago to random

May the 5th be something you never have to plead — unlike the Trumps.

tristansnell, 7 days ago to random

BREAKING: Oil industry players worked to fix prices at artificially high levels by coordinating limitations on how much oil they would drill — per new complaint from the Federal Trade Commission

FTC alleges that oil execs used texts and WhatsApp to jack up the price of gasoline

tristansnell, 7 days ago to random

Number of pro-Trump protesters at courthouse in NYC today:

2

tristansnell, 9 days ago to random

BREAKING -- the DEA is reclassifying cannabis from a Schedule I to a Schedule III drug

Major move from the Biden Administration that will allow cannabis companies to have easier access to banking, investment, and tax credits -- and it opens the door to more medical research

tristansnell, 9 days ago to random

To pay Stormy, Donald ordered his team

• to create a shell company
• to come up with fake names for the agreement
• to come up with fake invoices for repaying Cohen

NOT to hide it from Melania.

This was to hide it from campaign finance regulators, journalists, and all of us.

tristansnell, 9 days ago to random

Why aren't fines scaled with a rulebreaker's wealth?

$9,000 is NOTHING to Trump. It's not a proportional punishment. He's intimidating witnesses and jurors. And now he'll just keep doing it.

He says he's worth $5 billion - so a fine of $90,000 sounds more appropriate, no?

tristansnell, 10 days ago to random

Not sure if there’s such a thing as an untrainable dog — but I do know there’s such a thing as unthinkable evil.

tristansnell, 12 days ago to random

Michael Vick went to prison for what Kristi Noem did.

tristansnell, 13 days ago to random

TODAY in the Trump trial

During the David Pecker testimony, jurors were on the edge of their seats, leaning forward, paying close attention, and taking notes.

Prosecution definitely won the week and got the trial off to a very good start.

tristansnell, 13 days ago to random

TODAY: Trump’s ex-assistant Rhona Graff confirmed that Stormy Daniels visited Trump Tower — and that Trump had cell phone numbers for both Stormy and for Karen McDougal.

Brick by brick by brick. That’s how to win a case.

tristansnell, 13 days ago to random

Melania is NOT the reason Trump covered up the hush money.

To hide from Melania, ZERO need to paper it as fake legal fees.

Melania has never had access to Trump’s business finances. They could’ve paid Stormy Daniels directly.

They were hiding it because of the ELECTION.

tristansnell, 13 days ago to random

George Santos stole puppies.

Kristi Noem, not to be outdone, shot and killed her puppy.

The brutality of MAGA is not a bug — it’s a feature.

tristansnell, 13 days ago to random

Again - STOP calling it "the hush money case"

It is the CAMPAIGN COVER-UP CASE.

THAT is the crime here: Donald Trump's coordinated cover-up of campaign finance violations -- over $400,000 in unreported contributions to his presidential campaign.

tristansnell, 13 days ago to random

UPDATE — Donald Trump claims he wants to debate Joe Biden TONIGHT, then returns to court after lunch break at his NY criminal trial, where he will very shortly fall asleep.

tristansnell, 13 days ago to random

Now we see why the NY trial for Trump is so important.

And why the Florida case still matters.

They concern Trump’s actions before and after his presidential term, respectively.

They may be all that’s left after the Supreme Court rules in favor of unaccountable dictatorship.

tristansnell, 14 days ago to random

Trump and his lawyers KNOW that the immunity argument is going to fail.

They don’t care — because the WHOLE point of the argument is to cause delay.

tristansnell, 14 days ago to random

As Arizona issues an indictment of the Trump Conspiracy, it's a good time to remember that Ginni Thomas pressured 29 different Arizona state legislators, urging them to approve the fake electors.

tristansnell, 14 days ago to random

Fun fact -- Mike Roman, the Trump co-defendant in Georgia who lobbed the disgusting smear campaign against Fani Willis, has now just been indicted AGAIN, this time in Arizona. FAFO.