Dr. Flowers @AlliFlowers@talkedabout.social

I will put a marker here and say he will not testify in his criminal trials. He is a doddering, petty, vindictive old man who lies and cries.

https://crooksandliars.com/2023/11/trumps-day-stand-bad-very-bad

@marcelias

From Nov 2021 about #Trump followers threatening #election workers.

"In Vermont, a man who says he works in construction told workers at the state election office and at Dominion Voting Systems that they were about to die.

“This might be a good time to put a f‑‑‑‑‑‑ pistol in your f‑‑‑‑‑‑ mouth and pull the trigger,” the man shouted at Vermont officials... “Your days are f‑‑‑‑‑‑ numbered.”"
https://www.reuters.com/investigates/special-report/usa-election-threats/

#MAGA #Threats #Violence
#Politics #USPol #USA #News

I don't believe Sphincter Johnson and his wife have no bank accounts, nor do I believe they're low-balance accounts.

What I suspect is that he has "Christian-lawyered" himself a clever means of keeping his money out of government's view.

https://www.thedailybeast.com/does-new-speaker-of-the-house-mike-johnson-have-a-bank-account

Delores dazzled in her screwdriver costume at the company Halloween party — turning more than a few heads.

'Patience is wearing thin': 5 key takeaways from Trump’s civil fraud trial

(1) "The Trump family's strategy: blame game," (2) "Trump's elder sons signed multiple documents saying the company was giving fair and accurate information in its financial statements," (3) "The paper trail is thicker for Eric Trump," (4) "#Trump #Organization lenders lost out on an estimated $168m because of fudged financial statements," and (5) "Patience is wearing thin in the courtroom."

https://www.alternet.org/Frontpage-feature/arthur-engoron-2666164404/

@GottaLaff

They're laughing at him in the spillover room:

"12:09 p.m.: The audience watching the proceedings on screens in the spillover room is actively laughing at Trump as he testifies, especially when he starts railing against the attorney general’s office and the presiding judge…"
–– via Dan Alexander of Forbes
https://www.forbes.com/sites/danalexander/2023/11/06/inside-the-courtroom-donald-trump-slated-to-testify-in-fraud-case/?sh=7a4b1c136269

It's quite something listening to experienced journos being *shocked* that Trump is being a bloviating asshole while on the stand.

As if his former behavior all these years was simply an ACT.

As if bloviating asshole isn't who Trump really is.

As if he hasn't been rewarded his whole life for being exactly WHO he is (a bloviating asshole).

As if him being a bloviating asshole isn't why so many GOPers LIKE him.

Dear lord. Our media people need to get their shit squared away. This ain't it.

And on the 8th day #God decided to plant evidence of the Earth being billions of years old just to fuck with people -@dyrbert

#atheism
Tooted by a #bot!
SN# 4345

After migrant parent pressure, Anne Frank daycare center to be renamed - report

Parents in Saxony-Anhalt German State promoted the decision to rename the "Anne Frank" daycare center in Tangerhütte, a small town in the state, according to reports in German media.

The move was driven by parents who found it difficult to explain Frank's significance to their children. According to Apollo News, a German news site, in a small town in Saxony-Anhalt, a daycare center has become the center of a local scandal.
https://www.jpost.com/diaspora/antisemitism/article-771852

@GottaLaff

Interesting comment... but trump is clueless...

"ruled against me before he knew anything about me. He called me a fraud, and he didn’t know anything about me"

so trump AGREES the judge ruled strictly on the merit and facts of the case and not the person....

66/ Klasfeld:

Habba objects: "Asked and answered."

Engoron: "No, it hasn't been asked and answered. It's been asked. It hasn't been answered."

Trump monologues on the disclaimer clause.

Judge: If you want to learn about the disclaimer clause, read my opinion — for the first time.

Trump: You’re wrong about the opinion.

Trump: "I think it’s fraudulent the decision. The fraud is on the court."

64/ [Me: Wow... SO wanting headlines, SO wanting to distract from his guilt, SO playing to his violent base]

👉🏼Trump yells moments later that Engoron "ruled against me before he knew anything about me. He called me a fraud, and he didn’t know anything about me. ... The fraud is on the court; not on me."

Trump is equally furious about Wallace’s questions, which are exploring why Mar-a-Lago is assessed differently for tax purposes than it is valued in Trump’s statements of financial condition.

63/ Rubin, cont'd... Trump's playing to his base bigly here.

“I think she is a political hack; she used this case to try to become governor…. this is a disgrace. All you have to do is read the legal papers and the scholars. This is a political witch hunt, and I think you should be ashamed of herself.”

The question was solely about whether he agreed with the AG office's position that “the statements of financial condition were overstated."

#Engoron: "I beseech you to control him, if you can,” he warned he will control #Trump if the lawyers don’t.

#Kise & #lHabba jumped up to defend Trump, calling his answers “responsive”.

Habba said Engoron's here to "hear what he has to say.”

Engoron: "I'm not here to hear what he has to say. HE’s here to ANSWER questions!"
He ordered them to sit down.
Kise said the judge should want to hear EVERYTHING Trump has to say.

Engoron: “No I do not want to hear ‘everything’ this witness has to say.”

@AlliFlowers @MJmusicinears With their phony baseless clown show in infantile retaliation for Trump's impeachment double-Burger today's confederate "Republicans" are putting all their contempt for the dignity of United States Congress on display.

Besides simple math telling that their infamous abuse of congressional power will be going to crash-land in the Senate, where they're also lacking a two-thirds majority.

#RuleOfLaw #AccountabilityMatters #JusticeMatters #DefendTheConstitution #DefendDemocracy #DefendTheUnion #BanTheGOP #TakeGOPOffTheBallots #Insurrection #Rebellion #EnemiesOfTheLaw #EnemiesOfDemocracy #EnemiesOfTheConstitution #DisqualifyALLRebels

Kids, I've just seen an image of a Russian-made Sukhoi attacking a Syrian position misidentified as an IDF aircraft bombing Gaza. I know it's tempting to think a plane is a plane and an oppressor is an oppressor, but please, please be extra-careful in reposting these images.

54/ [Me: So much for Trump getting more succinct after the break. Nope. We knew that could never last]

Klasfeld:

Trump returns to the "disclaimer clause" and "worthless statement clause," in a lengthy monologue — again, an issue decided against him before trial and brought up apropos of nothing.

@rbreich
#NoBillionaires
#TaxBillionaires

39/ Klasfeld:

Asked whether he now believes Mar-a-Lago is worth $1.5 billion, Trump responds: "I think between a billion and a billion-five."🙄

Back to Rubin:

State attorney Kevin Wallace asks Trump about his involvement in the 2021 statement of financial condition. Trump says his focus at that time was on China and Russia and "keeping our country safe," 👉🏼drawing some laughs from the courtroom.👈🏼

Wallace reminds him he wasn't president in 2021. (Trump left office on Jan. 20, 2021.)