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MsDaisy wrote: ↑Fri Feb 18, 2022 5:45 pm

Kendra wrote: ↑Fri Feb 18, 2022 4:36 pm BUT HER EMAILS!!!!

Volkonski wrote: ↑Fri Feb 18, 2022 4:01 pm Robert J. DeNault
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Donald Trump, under criminal investigation for his finances, potentially facing desperate need of funding to help save his empire, stealing classified national security information from the White House and stashing it in Florida. What could’ve gone wrong?

A federal judge ruled that Trump can be held civilly liable for the Capitol riot.
He also said Trump does not have absolute immunity from civil suits.
"The court well understands the gravity of its decision," the ruling said. "But the alleged facts of this case are without precedent."

A federal judge ruled on Friday that former President Donald Trump can be held civilly liable for the deadly Capitol riot on January 6, 2021.

Phoenix520 wrote: ↑Fri Feb 18, 2022 3:17 pm

I figure it won't take much more than a phone booth …

Mr520 thinks it will be a neighborhood tiny library in front of Mar-a-Lardass.

Ben-Prime wrote: ↑Sat Feb 19, 2022 5:12 am

Phoenix520 wrote: ↑Fri Feb 18, 2022 3:17 pm

I figure it won't take much more than a phone booth …

Mr520 thinks it will be a neighborhood tiny library in front of Mar-a-Lardass.

I mean, I was waiting for the deal for some big donor to buy the place from him and turn it INTO his Presidential Library, with the deal including his right to continue acting like he ran the joint government, but yeah, that works.

RTH10260 wrote: ↑Fri Feb 18, 2022 4:22 pm as mentioned upthread

Mr. Ferriero also wrote that “some White House staff conducted official business using nonofficial electronic messaging accounts that were not copied or forwarded into their official electronic messaging accounts.” The archives said it was in the process of obtaining some of those records.

https://www.nytimes.com/2022/02/18/us/p ... ation.html

Former president Donald Trump’s company is angling to host events at his golf courses for the controversial Saudi golf league, according to three people familiar with the matter, potentially handing Trump a lucrative business partnership with an oppressive regime he defended as president.

At least two of Trump’s courses in Bedminster, N.J., and Doral, Fla., could be named as sites for the nascent tour, according to the people familiar with the talks, who like others spoke on the condition of anonymity to discuss internal deliberations. Officials from LIV Golf Investments, the apparatus funded by the Saudis to host the tour, have held conversations with the Trump Organization, these people said.

One of the people familiar with the matter said Trump had spoken to Greg Norman, the head of LIV Golf Investments, about having his properties involved in the tour.

raison de arizona wrote: ↑Sun Feb 20, 2022 11:08 am comically dangerous

Trump is trying to sell his lease on D.C. hotel, but lying to his accountant may cost him $375M

Now that Donald Trump is no longer able to use the hotel at the Old Post Office in Washington, D.C., as a means of exploiting extra dollars from those who wanted a fast track to the Oval Office or a quick pencil line through environmental regulations, he’s trying to let the whole thing go. Last November, Trump let it be known that his D.C. namesake Trump International Hotel was up for sale, with an asking price for the ongoing federal lease to the historic building set at $375 million.

For some, the sign that Trump was willing to give up the home of the worst cocktails in Washington was a good indicator that he wasn’t serious about coming back to town in 2024. For others, it was just an admission of how, under Trump’s management, the hotel managed to lose over $70 million in four years—in spite of having a Saudi lobbyist rent 500 rooms and Trump’s inaugural committee paying for rooms and event space that was never used.

Now it seems that Trump may lose both the hotel and his walking-away money, because his breakup with accounting firm Mazars means that the entire deal he made with the federal government was always based on false reporting.
With the word that Trump’s financial data cannot be trusted, the House Oversight Committee has asked the General Services Administration to consider simply terminating Trump’s deal for the D.C. hotel—no lease, no $375 million.

House Oversight Committee chair Rep. Carolyn Maloney made the position clear in a letter to the GSA. “We request that you consider terminating the Old Post Office Building lease to former President Trump and the Trump Organization under the authority provided in Article 27 of the lease, and end, once-and-for-all, the grave damage this inappropriate lease has done to presidential ethics and integrity in government contracting.”

noblepa wrote: ↑Sun Feb 20, 2022 12:33 pm But then, his cult followers are easily manipulated by deliberately confusing the meaning of words and sentences.

The Federal Election Commission let Trump off the hook for allegedly using $2.8 million in charitable donations to veterans for political purposes

The Federal Election Commission let former President Donald Trump off the hook even after the body's legal counsel said he violated federal campaign finance laws with a fundraiser for Iowa veterans in 2016, according to documents made public this week.

At stake was whether Trump violated laws prohibiting "soft money" spending — using unregulated, non-campaign funds for political purposes — in connection with his 2016 presidential campaign. Specifically, Trump funneled roughly half of the $5.8 million he raised at the Des Moines veterans event on January 28, 2016 to his now-defunct Donald J. Trump Foundation. The Trump campaign then steered how the foundation, a separate entity, spent $2.8 million in charitable funds just ahead of the Iowa Republican caucuses.

Last month, the FEC voted along partisan lines to close the case. The Campaign Legal Center, an ethics and government watchdog, slammed the commission in a statement to Insider.

"The FEC failing to enforce campaign finance laws is nothing new, but the latest deadlock may be a new low," said Erin Chlopak, senior director for campaign finance at Campaign Legal Center. "The Commission's non-partisan, career attorneys found reason to believe the Foundation was illegally used to benefit Trump's presidential campaign. The Republican Commissioners voted not to pursue the matter. It is time for the FEC to do its job."