Donald Trump the Megathread part II - threadbans and mod warnings in OP

The mad thing is, Trump honestly sees nothing wrong with this at all. To him, everything IS transactional.

And a lot of followers believe him and believe that as well.

Civics isn't a thing anymore

MEANT is doing an awful lot of work there.

The fact is, it isn't independent as it should be, as the corruption and refusing to recuse yourself from cases that involve your family are showing.

I don't see a problem with the 18 year limit. I can see issues with an enforceable ethics code though. Ethics vary, depending on what side of the coin you are.

If there was a new way to enforce ethics on a supreme court judge, it should involve a citizens assembly of 100 people.

If that's how you're brought up though, it's understandable in a way. They're incredibly insular, many just just consume their own national media so haven't a breeze what's going on outside the states. For all their 'freedom', they're a bit North Korea/Russia.

So trump is annoyed that project 2025 could hurt his campaign.

Ellis seems to be genuine in her apology to the judge hearing her case. I had wondered if she was a a lawyer for Trump or for his campaign, on the lines of the argument made in relation to the White House lawyers: were they counsel for the president or for all those in the White House. I'm damn sure Trump will try to claim she has client/lawyer obligations reference what she can say about their dealings.

She delivered a tearful statement to the judge while pleading guilty last year, disavowing her participation in Trump’s unprecedented attempts to overturn the 2020 election in the Georgia State case.

Ellis said she initially believed election challenges from Trump’s team were being made “in good faith” but was overzealous and took her colleagues’ lies at face value, fuelling the public’s belief in false claims about the election. “If I knew then what I knew now, I would have declined to represent Donald Trump in these post-election challenges. I look back on this experience with deep remorse,” Ellis said. An apology was also made by her to the Colorado State judge who suspended her law licence for three years in that state.

I edited part of the 1st Para's wording and added in the rider about who the W/H counsel represented.

The import of the decision yesterday by SCOTUS to refuse an application from Andrew Bailey, Missouri State AG, to remove the gag order on Trump and to delay the sentencing for Trump's criminal conviction in New York until after the 05th Nov election cannot be overstated.

Justices denied that challenge in a brief order on Monday. The order also noted that Justices Samuel Alito and Clarence Thomas would have allowed Bailey to at least file the suit, but would not have granted him his requested emergency relief. Both justices would have broken with the decisions of the other justices.

The long-shot petition sought to inject Missouri into Trump's criminal case in New York by claiming that rulings by Judge Juan Merchan interfered with Trump's ability to freely campaign.

Bailey's lawsuit, which framed the request to the Supreme Court as a dispute between two states, contends that the gag order imposed by Judge Merchan limited Trump's stump speeches.

The lawsuit complained that Trump can't attack the judge's family, which means he can't raise his complaint about the judge's daughter working at a firm that previously helped Democratic campaigns.

What he's said: "When President Trump is tethered to a courtroom in New York due to a rogue prosecutor in a collusive judiciary, then Missourians are denied access to that candidate," Bailey told Axios.

"Our First Amendment right to hear from that candidate was additionally violated by the gag order that was put in place," Bailey added.

“New York is working to hijack our national election and jail President Trump. Missourians absolutely have an interest in ensuring that does not happen,” Bailey wrote on X. “The fight is not over.”

I'd believe that. He's as ignorant as they come.

What's with "Kamabla"? Second time I've seen him spell it like that.

Are you ok, Donald?