Hope she continues to go all out. What does she have to lose? Not like she would have ever been a VP pick. All she's got is waiting on Trump to cognitively fold. Or, land in jail. Or be financially destroyed.
Trump's mental state is deteriorating fast. There was glaring evidence at the end of his term. The amount of angry Tweets spiked in the last year. This isn't my opinion, it's verifiable fact.
At this point, I'm not sure he knows where he is or who is who. I'll let the Sioux City/Falls thing slide, any of could have made that mistake while tired and blown out on the campaign trail. But full-on ranting about Haley as if she were Pelosi?!
And that's only the latest news. If you're paying close attention, and I am, he's been getting worse by the month, with a sudden acceleration lately. Trump's within a year of not being able to communicate or be seen in public.
And financially? This man is done and done. Between Carol's case and NY's case, he's tanked. And it just keeps coming.
Y'all can joke about his poor supporters pumping their Social Security and life savings into his campaign, but his "real" supporters are neither poor nor stupid. Look at the 01/06 insurrectionists. Middle-class or better, by a vast majority. Bob, with his successful plumbing business in Alabama, ain't going to continue throwing money at a lost cause.
They've chosen party over country every single step of the way. Wake the fuck up, White House: You're dealing with domestic terrorists, not a political party.
Is there any of it really left? It hasn't been that many years ago that a single-income family could easily afford a house, car(s), vacation(s), college for the kids, etc.
They're only just now figuring this out? In CA the GOP party is toxic. Only very limited areas vote for them in any meaningful way any more. No GOP candidate has held a state-wide office for years.
My hope is that this will become a national trend.
There have been many government officials who have possessed classified documents after the ends of their terms in office—often inadvertently, sometimes negligently, and very occasionally willfully. There have also been a very small number of cases in which former government officials who have been found in possession of classified documents have briefly resisted the government’s lawful efforts to recover them. But there has never been a case in American history in which a former official has engaged in conduct remotely similar to Trump’s. He intentionally took possession of a vast trove of some of the nation’s most sensitive documents—documents so sensitive that they were presented to the President—and stored them in unsecured locations at his heavily trafficked social club. When the National Archives and Records Administration (“NARA”) initially sought their return (before learning that they contained classified national defense information), Trump delayed, obfuscated, and dissembled. Faced with the possibility of legal action, he ostensibly agreed to comply with NARA’s requests but in fact engaged in additional deception, returning only a fraction of the documents in his possession while claiming that his production was complete. Then, when presented with a grand jury subpoena demanding the return of the remaining documents bearing classification markings, Trump attempted to enlist his own attorney in the corrupt endeavor, suggesting that he falsely tell the FBI and grand jury that Trump did not have any documents, and suggesting that his attorney hide or destroy documents rather than produce them to the government. Failing in his effort to corrupt the attorney, Trump enlisted his trusted body man, codefendant Waltine Nauta, in a scheme to deceive the attorney by moving boxes to conceal his (Trump’s) continued possession of classified documents. As a result, Trump, through his attorney, again returned only a portion of the classified documents in his possession while falsely claiming that his production was complete. The obstructive conduct even persisted from there. In June 2022, knowing that he had arranged for Nauta to move boxes to conceal them from Trump’s attorney, and knowing that the government had subpoenaed the security video footage that would reveal that surreptitious box movement, Trump, now joined by not only Nauta but also codefendant Carlos De Oliveira, attempted to have the information-technology manager at Mar-a-Lago delete the video footage that would show the movement of boxes.
It’s certainly easy to see why the GQP would back him for predisent and also demand to pay his enormous legal bills with their campaign money. Obviously they’re super geniuses with excellent ideas for making everything just so swell.
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