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A new poll of experts on the American presidency reveals several intriguing new findings, including a shakeup among the top-ranked presidents and an early assessment of where President Joe Biden stands.

This is the third survey conducted by co-directors of the Presidential Greatness Project, University of Houston political science professor Brandon Rottinghaus and Coastal Carolina University political science professor Justin Vaughn. Results are based on nearly 200 responses from scholars across multiple disciplines whose work engages presidential politics.

The survey shows that while presidential scholars continue to consider Abraham Lincoln the nation’s greatest president, Franklin Delano Roosevelt has passed George Washington as the second-greatest president. President Biden enters the rankings at #14, behind recent Democrats Barack Obama (#7) and Bill Clinton (#12), but ahead of recent Republicans Ronald Reagan (#16), George H.W. Bush (#19), George W. Bush (#32) and Donald Trump (#45).

John Thomas8 wrote: ↑Sun Feb 18, 2024 8:18 pm I never expected to live through a worse prezinut than schrubya, but here we are.

MN-Skeptic wrote: ↑Sun Feb 18, 2024 7:58 pm

And no, that's not the fact that Trump was the 45th president. It's that he is dead LAST in the rankings.

Slim Cognito wrote: ↑Sun Feb 18, 2024 10:15 pm Don’t have the link, but I was reading that the shoes are a pre-order and at this time there’s no date for delivery. I wonder how many people will actually get their hands on a pair.

Lani wrote: ↑Mon Feb 19, 2024 4:47 am

Slim Cognito wrote: ↑Sun Feb 18, 2024 10:15 pm Don’t have the link, but I was reading that the shoes are a pre-order and at this time there’s no date for delivery. I wonder how many people will actually get their hands on a pair.

I looked at eBay last night, and the shoes aren't available yet. Some people claim you have to pay for thousands of dollars, but that's an eBay joke - no one has the shoes.

Suranis wrote: ↑Mon Feb 19, 2024 6:36 am Trump Ties are nothing new. He has been flogging those for years.

Signs saying "everything must go," "loser" and "going out of business" were paraded by dozens of people outside Trump Tower in New York. There were also accompanying chants of "we got 'em" when referring to various items people joked were up for sale, including the tower's famous golden escalator.

Protesters gathered after a New York judge ordered he must pay $354.9 million in penalties after being found liable for business fraud. New York Attorney General Letitia James brought a suit that said Trump and his two adult sons, Donald Jr. and Eric, The Trump Organization and two firm executives, Allen Weisselberg and Jeff McConney, fraudulently overstated the value of assets to deceive lenders.

Donald Jr. and Eric must pay $4 million each and are barred from doing business in New York for two years. Weisselberg was ordered to pay $1 million. The Trump Organization is prevented from applying for loans in New York for three years.

Trump was banned from taking out bank loans in New York and serving as a company director for three years.

Newsweek approached a Trump spokesperson for comment via email outside of normal working hours.

The Trump Tower is a well-known part of the Manhattan skyline and Trump's former main residence. The 45th president now has 30 days from the entry of the judgment to pay the fine ordered by Manhattan Supreme Court Justice Arthur Engoron.

Trump Compares Himself to Navalny in Bizarre Presidents’ Day Rant
On Truth Social, Trump groused about his expensive court losses and compared himself to the Russian dissident who died in an arctic penal colony

BY TIM DICKINSON
FEBRUARY 19, 2024

IT’S PRESIDENTS’ DAY, and America’s 45th is having a real one.

Donald Trump spent the morning of the Monday holiday railing against the nearly half-billion-dollar court judgment levied against him for fraud in New York state, and grotesquely comparing himself to the Russian political dissident Alexei Navalny, who died last week in an Russian arctic penal colony.

Trump started shitposting not long after dawn on his Truth Social network. Stinging from his massive court defeat, Trump seemed determined to keep litigating his fraud case in the court of public opinion. In seething ALL CAPS, Trump railed against the court finding that he and his family business had fraudulently and systematically overstated the value of real estate assets — including by inflating the square footage of Donald’s own Trump Tower penthouse apartment.


In his next post Trump, then compared himself to Navalny, the jailed Russian opposition leader who is widely believed to have been murdered last week by the government of Vladimir Putin. Never mind that Trump maintained chummy relations with the Russian dictator as president. (Reflecting on that friendship in 2021, Trump remarked: “I got along great with President Putin. I liked him. He liked me.”)

Right-wing talking points demand little intellectual integrity. And in the wake of Navalny’s suspicious death, conservatives have been painting Trump as though he were the persecuted “opposition leader” of a brave dissident party.

On Sunday Trump drew out this false parallel explicitly in a Truth post in which he wrote: “Biden:Trump::Putin:Navalny”. In his Presidents’ Day post, Trump elaborated that “the sudden death of Alexei Navalny has made me more and more aware of what is happening in our country.” He warned that “a slow, steady progression, with CROOKED, Radical Left Politicians, Prosecutors, and Judges” is “leading us down a path to destruction.” He insisted that, “Grossly Unfair Courtroom Decisions are DESTROYING AMERICA.”



https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/p ... 234970832/

John Thomas8 wrote: ↑Sun Feb 18, 2024 8:18 pm I never expected to live through a worse prezinut than schrubya, but here we are.

Frater I*I wrote: ↑Sun Feb 18, 2024 9:59 pm

MN-Skeptic wrote: ↑Sun Feb 18, 2024 7:58 pm

And no, that's not the fact that Trump was the 45th president. It's that he is dead LAST in the rankings.

How in the hell did that happen? Yes he was horrible, but try as he might, he didn't lead us into civil war like Buchanan did....

Trump Golf Club Tricked Server Into Signing Sex Abuse Settlement, Lawsuit Says

Erik Larson, Bloomberg News

(Bloomberg) -- Donald Trump’s country club in Bedminster, New Jersey, was sued by an ex-server who claims one of the former president’s top lawyers tricked her into accepting a “paltry” settlement with an illegal nondisclosure provision after she accused her manager of sexual assault.

Alice Bianco alleges the abuse started with a forced kiss by her boss shortly after she began working at the Trump National Golf Club in May 2021. She claims it quickly escalated into a quid pro quo sexual relationship required for job “protection,” according to her lawsuit, filed Thursday in state court.

Alleging discrimination and fraud, Bianco is asking the court to void the settlement and bar the golf club from trying to enforce it. If she succeeds, she could file a suit over the alleged acts that seeks more money, and she wouldn’t be exposed to legal action for publicly discussing her claims. She is also seeking disciplinary action against the lawyer, Alina Habba.

Neither Habba nor Trump is named as a defendant in the complaint, which doesn’t accuse Trump of wrongdoing. But it comes as the former president faces multiple trials amid his campaign to return to the White House, and it alleges misconduct by Habba in the midst of her defense of Trump in New York state’s civil fraud trial now underway in Manhattan.

Bianco, 24, says she hired her own attorney in July 2021 after ending the coerced relationship and making her claims known to the club’s human resources department.



https://www.bnnbloomberg.ca/trump-golf- ... -1.2005613

Decoding Fox News @DecodingFoxNews wrote: David Brooks sums up Trump's civil fraud case in about 15 seconds.

A set of books for the bankers
A set of books for the IRS
A set of books with the real numbers.

It's just fraud. He's a con artist.