Trump's alleged crimes were basicaly the result of an expressly stated effort to find the man guilty of something, anything.
You may recall that in the Manhattan case, they had to use an elaborate legal argument to extend the statute of limitations, and then DA had to publicly explain that this prosecution was a one-off, that other developers had nothing to fear. If all they could find was that Trump once ripped off the mattress tags at a Trump Hotel back in 1987, we would be duly assured that this was the most heinous crime to be committed since the Foundation Of The Republic, or at least since the Assassination Of Lincoln.
Hunter's crimes were the opposite - Hunter's criminality is well known, but prosecutors wanted to keep up the charade of justice rather than investigate Young Hunter's extracurricular activities with regard to Ukraine.
Hunter's farcial prosecution is similar to the 2008 conviction of one Jeffrey Epstein (who didn't kill himself, BTW). Epstein got a sweetheart deal, because prosecutors had to be seen doing something, but at the same time, they most assuredly did not want to go there.
Dead serious, Jeanne. I can’t eat, can’t sleep- so troubled by a population so infected with moral entropy that natural progression is casual nihilism. Tearing off mattress tags. Brazenly picking a grape of a bunch in the produce department without paying and the recidivists who take 2 samples when the sign says one per customer- and a few minutes late they circle back for another. Where the hell is Chris Wray?
This requires militarization . The mattress tag removal has become a criminal enterprise that may lead to worse. Removing the electrocution warning tag on a hair hairdryer cord, swallowing mouthwash… eating an apple without first washing it. Call out the cavalry!
Fun game: when people bring up Trump as a "convicted felon" ask them to state what crime he was convicted of. About 5% of them get it right.
He was convicted of felony falsification of business records in furtherance of another (unspecified) crime (that, according to jury instructions, could be a different crime in the mind of every juror). The advantage gained by this purported falsification of internal business records never reviewed or used by anyone outside the companies was not stated.
Also, in Colangelo and Bragg's schema, the payments to Stormy Daniels were clearly a campaign expense and thus an unreported donation since his public reputation would benefit and thus his campaign. However, if he had originally spent campaign funds on paying this same amount, they certainly would have deemed that to be improper use of campaign funds for personal benefit.
IIR, there also was the horrific crime of trying to convince lenders that the buildings they were lending against were more valuable, which no developer would ever do, ever.
And the lenders testified in his defense. The loans were promptly paid off and the properties were appraised above the evaluation. I designed Derek Jeter’s 90th floor penthouse crib in the NYC Trump World Tower years ago . He purchased it at 16,5 million pre construction. It appraised at $21 million a week later. Can you name anybody selling a high end property who wants a lowball appraisal?
And the POS judge who valued Mar-A-Lago at an absurd price. I think 1.5 million. It’s worth a billion+ minimum. Closer to 2 in the current market. Such hatefulness doesn’t hurt solely Trump. It devalues the area in entirety and though each surrounding property is stellar, none are even a scintilla of Mar-A-Lago. It’s also in the historic registry,built for Marjorie Merriweather Post.
Trump didn’t have a ridiculous dalliance with the lunatic, E Jean Carroll. It was so an obvious grift But he had to give the attention seeking con 86,000,000 ,000. Crazier still she said it was consensual and “ he was so handsome”. I spend nearly 3 days a week over 2 years with Trump when I designed Derek’s crib . He never behaved like a pig, but he was hilarious and very friendly and curious. What has been done to him is a travesty. And Giuliani! Absolutely heartbreaking. Shameful.
I remember it well. The mattress tags have long been comedic fodder. It’s so absurd it seems they’ve not been removed to keep the joke going. Albeit, I’m surprised every Trump supporter’s home hasn’t been raided to check for missing mattress tags.
And worse still, there are enough miserable, corrupt, long past their expiration date Republicans to abet the Dimms. The UniParty is a duplicitous duopoly of “ Do Nothing But Harm”
I clearly remember in 2015, after Trump had beaten Hillary but not yet been inaugurated, hearing Nancy Pelosi say that they were going to find a reason to impeach him.
Yes it was literally 15 minutes after he won 🤣🤣🤣 you can’t make this stuff up. I wonder who’s writing the script because if you take the 40,000’ view it’s hilarious. Take Steele’s report the first thing that came out was the Russian hookers thing. Well if you even know a little tiny bit about Trump you know he’s a germaphobe and washes his hands constantly.
Kudos to Matt for the rapid-fire correction. Regarding Hunter Biden's pardon and the Biden crime family: a counter-narrative exists and is being promoted of a hero who worked undercover to advance US interests in the Ukraine, China, and elsewhere. Parts of this narrative may be true.
Sacrifice is in the eyes of the beholder. I for one wouldn't want to have been born into the Biden family; and the Biden family is not alone. Pelosi, most of the richest folks in government get rich by "putting the nation's interests first" in their telling of events.
The system has been curated to ensure that insiders can maximize their own incomes based on their insider knowledge. Few in Congress will be keen to pass legislation that prevents family members from trading in stocks and enriching the family from insider knowledge.
I remain astonished that so many seem to believe Trump, a man who dedicated his entire life to avarice and greed, is somehow going to convince others still committed to the mantra of endless More (see David Sacks, Elon, Vivek and the other billionaires) to put the nation first. These folks, like so many others who have stepped forward to serve the nation, will seek to serve their own interests in the process.
Remember how Democrats exploded with joy once Joe was gone? That's what MAGA and rest are going through now. Trump can't and won't be worse than the worst president in the last 50 years. But Trump and his fellow-travellers will pull some stuff.
The entire: "we need to rally around the president" mode seems to have kicked in big-time already among "MAGA loyalists" and their media allies.
We need to get our heads out of our asses quick because the incoming gang of a-holes are going to steal whatever is not nailed down given the chance. Of course, these 'angels' close to Trump might have found a new moral purpose. I doubt it. But that's me.
I'll take Trump any day. I don't particularly like being censored. Or having depravity shoved down my children's throats by social justice tyranny rainbow brigades.
You think Hunter looks happy with his lot in life in those snaps? Money and power can't buy happiness, no matter how hard Daddy tried. In the counter-narrative Hunter was supposedly engaged extra-double-secret stuff while lining Dad's pockets. Who knows whattf was going on. You figure Hunter had it easy, huh?
The only thing Joe denied his kid was a sense of self-respect, and this free pass will hang like an anvil round Hunter's neck. How'd you like Dad's pardon to be your mark in history. I sincerely hope he was doing more than just getting wasted. Perhaps not, but Hunter's far from the first name that belongs in the dock. He's just the bright shiny distraction to cover for all the scumbags who'll skate.
Hunter is now a hate doll for the incurious and guilty on both sides of the debate. You're unlikely to find receipts as he was allegedly one of the deep state's front men. Somebody pulls Joe's strings and whoever that is skates as long as people write a billionty words on Hunter and Joe's "crimes."
Nader was right - the US president is a corporation masked as an individual. That's why nobody noticed Joe was non-compos for his entire tenure. As long as we're talking about the Bidens the string-pullers purr.
Right, just like the last time he was in office? Let’s see now he donated his salary to injured veterans and lost over $2 Billion dollars of wealth. Please tell me again how a man can loose billions and take advantage of his political position. I do agree about pelosi and the other rockstars that have taken advantage of insider trading and some have been sucking off the teete of taxpayer money for nearly 50 years. We have two bills to grassroots behind do you agree?
Afroman's home was raided over the song. The cause on the warrant was testimony from an informant saying he had a torture chamber for woman in his basement, they didn't take 10 min to look into it. He doesn't even have a basement, now the police who raided his home are suing him, suing Afroman that is, for violation of privacy because he posted the security camera footage of the raid online, it's so fucking appalling, here, read my article on this https://open.substack.com/pub/jordanlee2liberty/p/f-the-adams-county-ohio-police?utm_source=share&utm_medium=android&r=iuq6q
That is insane. Its crazy enough how obviously politicized the treatment of Trump himself has gotten, but that there is like second and third order peripheral political punishments for people like Afroman when he was just trying to have a good time and enjoy some harmless parody for fun is totally off-the-rails gibbering madness and orders of magnitude more dangerously toxic and unbalanced than the direct lawfare against Trump.
There has to be repercussions for crap like this or its just going to keep happening. I hope Afroman wins all the relevant lawsuits and he has the tenacity to counter-sue and peruse proper justice with the legal system in retaliation. I would fully understand if he just wants to be done with it and move on instead -- goodness knows it would be an exhausting drag to be in his position so the desire to just move on would be overwhelming -- but if no one in a position to properly retaliate in the name of justice and decency, like he now is, does so, then the perpetrators of these types of things are just going to keep doing it. I.e. while he fully deserves to get justice for this on his own accord, this is now bigger than him and it helps all of society for him to make the extra effort -- as tiring and bothersome as it is -- to do so as things have apparently got so bad that we all need to fight back wherever we are being pressured unjustly or its going to get worse for all of society.
This is the most ass backwards event in modern history. “ a small minority of our police officers are bad apples” Why do I keep hearing this kind of shit weekly? I’m really beginning to wonder….
Because there are a lot of police officers. 1.3 Million. If 1% are bad, that is 13K. Enough for one of the knuckleheads to do something stupid daily. Which you can be sure is happening.
The readers of Racket are as awesome as Racket itself, I'm so happy everyone feels the same as I felt about this crazy story. I couldn't believe it when I found it. I wrote a story about it and very few people cared, I just didn't share it with the right readers, I try to write about stories like this. Subscribe to my Substack, it's free.
Seems like there's an argument to be made, everything on the laptop has been pardoned. It never should have been considered important. There was nothing to lie about.
Trump may have a civil damages case against each, but I think criminal prosecution is now gone.
Seems like there's an argument to be made, everything on the laptop has been pardoned. It never should have been considered important. There was nothing to lie about.
Trump may have a civil damages case against each, but I think criminal prosecution is now gone.
No apology necessary! It's a great song parody of his own music. I sang it for days after I first heard it. Could you imagine if Afroman had included a verse for pardons?
Hunters dad will pardon his ass , cause Hunter got high....
Trump's alleged crimes were basicaly the result of an expressly stated effort to find the man guilty of something, anything.
You may recall that in the Manhattan case, they had to use an elaborate legal argument to extend the statute of limitations, and then DA had to publicly explain that this prosecution was a one-off, that other developers had nothing to fear. If all they could find was that Trump once ripped off the mattress tags at a Trump Hotel back in 1987, we would be duly assured that this was the most heinous crime to be committed since the Foundation Of The Republic, or at least since the Assassination Of Lincoln.
Hunter's crimes were the opposite - Hunter's criminality is well known, but prosecutors wanted to keep up the charade of justice rather than investigate Young Hunter's extracurricular activities with regard to Ukraine.
Hunter's farcial prosecution is similar to the 2008 conviction of one Jeffrey Epstein (who didn't kill himself, BTW). Epstein got a sweetheart deal, because prosecutors had to be seen doing something, but at the same time, they most assuredly did not want to go there.
“You know those tags on mattresses that say so do not remove under penalty of law? I ripped a whole bunch of them off!”
I’m sending this info to Merrick Garland!
It’s from PeeWee’s Great Adventure. Tim Burton’s first film and a certified classic.
Large Marge sends her regards!
I’m a trucker, I absolutely Loved large Marge she played that character perfectly too.
I’d like to apologize for all the idiots that tailgate in your trailer’s blind spot. May they catch a rock in the windshield😇
I don’t see a laughing emoji Gail. Please tell me you’re joking 🙃
Dead serious, Jeanne. I can’t eat, can’t sleep- so troubled by a population so infected with moral entropy that natural progression is casual nihilism. Tearing off mattress tags. Brazenly picking a grape of a bunch in the produce department without paying and the recidivists who take 2 samples when the sign says one per customer- and a few minutes late they circle back for another. Where the hell is Chris Wray?
I’m turning you in.
This requires militarization . The mattress tag removal has become a criminal enterprise that may lead to worse. Removing the electrocution warning tag on a hair hairdryer cord, swallowing mouthwash… eating an apple without first washing it. Call out the cavalry!
Fun game: when people bring up Trump as a "convicted felon" ask them to state what crime he was convicted of. About 5% of them get it right.
He was convicted of felony falsification of business records in furtherance of another (unspecified) crime (that, according to jury instructions, could be a different crime in the mind of every juror). The advantage gained by this purported falsification of internal business records never reviewed or used by anyone outside the companies was not stated.
Also, in Colangelo and Bragg's schema, the payments to Stormy Daniels were clearly a campaign expense and thus an unreported donation since his public reputation would benefit and thus his campaign. However, if he had originally spent campaign funds on paying this same amount, they certainly would have deemed that to be improper use of campaign funds for personal benefit.
IIR, there also was the horrific crime of trying to convince lenders that the buildings they were lending against were more valuable, which no developer would ever do, ever.
And the lenders testified in his defense. The loans were promptly paid off and the properties were appraised above the evaluation. I designed Derek Jeter’s 90th floor penthouse crib in the NYC Trump World Tower years ago . He purchased it at 16,5 million pre construction. It appraised at $21 million a week later. Can you name anybody selling a high end property who wants a lowball appraisal?
And the POS judge who valued Mar-A-Lago at an absurd price. I think 1.5 million. It’s worth a billion+ minimum. Closer to 2 in the current market. Such hatefulness doesn’t hurt solely Trump. It devalues the area in entirety and though each surrounding property is stellar, none are even a scintilla of Mar-A-Lago. It’s also in the historic registry,built for Marjorie Merriweather Post.
Trump didn’t have a ridiculous dalliance with the lunatic, E Jean Carroll. It was so an obvious grift But he had to give the attention seeking con 86,000,000 ,000. Crazier still she said it was consensual and “ he was so handsome”. I spend nearly 3 days a week over 2 years with Trump when I designed Derek’s crib . He never behaved like a pig, but he was hilarious and very friendly and curious. What has been done to him is a travesty. And Giuliani! Absolutely heartbreaking. Shameful.
And yet it was paid after he won, right? And the FEC said there was no violation. Thank you for bringing this up it is exactly, perfectly correct.
And speaking of Lincoln, it was a crazed, radical Democrat actor who did the assassinating.
I remember it well. The mattress tags have long been comedic fodder. It’s so absurd it seems they’ve not been removed to keep the joke going. Albeit, I’m surprised every Trump supporter’s home hasn’t been raided to check for missing mattress tags.
have patience, it will happen
And worse still, there are enough miserable, corrupt, long past their expiration date Republicans to abet the Dimms. The UniParty is a duplicitous duopoly of “ Do Nothing But Harm”
Not for 4 years at least.
😂 😂😂🤣🤣
I clearly remember in 2015, after Trump had beaten Hillary but not yet been inaugurated, hearing Nancy Pelosi say that they were going to find a reason to impeach him.
Yes it was literally 15 minutes after he won 🤣🤣🤣 you can’t make this stuff up. I wonder who’s writing the script because if you take the 40,000’ view it’s hilarious. Take Steele’s report the first thing that came out was the Russian hookers thing. Well if you even know a little tiny bit about Trump you know he’s a germaphobe and washes his hands constantly.
Kudos to Matt for the rapid-fire correction. Regarding Hunter Biden's pardon and the Biden crime family: a counter-narrative exists and is being promoted of a hero who worked undercover to advance US interests in the Ukraine, China, and elsewhere. Parts of this narrative may be true.
Sacrifice is in the eyes of the beholder. I for one wouldn't want to have been born into the Biden family; and the Biden family is not alone. Pelosi, most of the richest folks in government get rich by "putting the nation's interests first" in their telling of events.
The system has been curated to ensure that insiders can maximize their own incomes based on their insider knowledge. Few in Congress will be keen to pass legislation that prevents family members from trading in stocks and enriching the family from insider knowledge.
I remain astonished that so many seem to believe Trump, a man who dedicated his entire life to avarice and greed, is somehow going to convince others still committed to the mantra of endless More (see David Sacks, Elon, Vivek and the other billionaires) to put the nation first. These folks, like so many others who have stepped forward to serve the nation, will seek to serve their own interests in the process.
Remember how Democrats exploded with joy once Joe was gone? That's what MAGA and rest are going through now. Trump can't and won't be worse than the worst president in the last 50 years. But Trump and his fellow-travellers will pull some stuff.
The entire: "we need to rally around the president" mode seems to have kicked in big-time already among "MAGA loyalists" and their media allies.
We need to get our heads out of our asses quick because the incoming gang of a-holes are going to steal whatever is not nailed down given the chance. Of course, these 'angels' close to Trump might have found a new moral purpose. I doubt it. But that's me.
I'll take Trump any day. I don't particularly like being censored. Or having depravity shoved down my children's throats by social justice tyranny rainbow brigades.
As to the heroism of a crackhead taking a lucrative no-show job that he only got because of his father, I'd need to see some receipts.
You think Hunter looks happy with his lot in life in those snaps? Money and power can't buy happiness, no matter how hard Daddy tried. In the counter-narrative Hunter was supposedly engaged extra-double-secret stuff while lining Dad's pockets. Who knows whattf was going on. You figure Hunter had it easy, huh?
The only thing Joe denied his kid was a sense of self-respect, and this free pass will hang like an anvil round Hunter's neck. How'd you like Dad's pardon to be your mark in history. I sincerely hope he was doing more than just getting wasted. Perhaps not, but Hunter's far from the first name that belongs in the dock. He's just the bright shiny distraction to cover for all the scumbags who'll skate.
Even if what you wrote were true, it's irrelevant. Although Hunter's criminality is of less public concern than his father's.
Hunter is now a hate doll for the incurious and guilty on both sides of the debate. You're unlikely to find receipts as he was allegedly one of the deep state's front men. Somebody pulls Joe's strings and whoever that is skates as long as people write a billionty words on Hunter and Joe's "crimes."
Nader was right - the US president is a corporation masked as an individual. That's why nobody noticed Joe was non-compos for his entire tenure. As long as we're talking about the Bidens the string-pullers purr.
Right, just like the last time he was in office? Let’s see now he donated his salary to injured veterans and lost over $2 Billion dollars of wealth. Please tell me again how a man can loose billions and take advantage of his political position. I do agree about pelosi and the other rockstars that have taken advantage of insider trading and some have been sucking off the teete of taxpayer money for nearly 50 years. We have two bills to grassroots behind do you agree?
1) Term Limits
2) No Insider Trading
Afroman's home was raided over the song. The cause on the warrant was testimony from an informant saying he had a torture chamber for woman in his basement, they didn't take 10 min to look into it. He doesn't even have a basement, now the police who raided his home are suing him, suing Afroman that is, for violation of privacy because he posted the security camera footage of the raid online, it's so fucking appalling, here, read my article on this https://open.substack.com/pub/jordanlee2liberty/p/f-the-adams-county-ohio-police?utm_source=share&utm_medium=android&r=iuq6q
It's enough to radicalize a motherfucker
Hah❗️
If that don't radicalize ya, this is bound to!
https://open.substack.com/pub/jordanlee2liberty/p/arabs-old-news-blacks-been-there?r=iuq6q&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=true
That is insane. Its crazy enough how obviously politicized the treatment of Trump himself has gotten, but that there is like second and third order peripheral political punishments for people like Afroman when he was just trying to have a good time and enjoy some harmless parody for fun is totally off-the-rails gibbering madness and orders of magnitude more dangerously toxic and unbalanced than the direct lawfare against Trump.
There has to be repercussions for crap like this or its just going to keep happening. I hope Afroman wins all the relevant lawsuits and he has the tenacity to counter-sue and peruse proper justice with the legal system in retaliation. I would fully understand if he just wants to be done with it and move on instead -- goodness knows it would be an exhausting drag to be in his position so the desire to just move on would be overwhelming -- but if no one in a position to properly retaliate in the name of justice and decency, like he now is, does so, then the perpetrators of these types of things are just going to keep doing it. I.e. while he fully deserves to get justice for this on his own accord, this is now bigger than him and it helps all of society for him to make the extra effort -- as tiring and bothersome as it is -- to do so as things have apparently got so bad that we all need to fight back wherever we are being pressured unjustly or its going to get worse for all of society.
Thanks for sharing this. Had no idea! This is clown world!
I think the timeline is off.
I may be mistaken but I belive pound cake came out before Hunter got high.
But Hunter would have liked to have some lemon pound cake (maybe a little double entendre there?) when he was high. I'm jonesing for some right now.
Weed is legal in Ohio now, so the judge will likely laugh the sheriff’s office out of court.
I’m just glad Afroman hasn’t lost his sense of humor.
I was gonna torture a woman, but then I got high.
This is the most ass backwards event in modern history. “ a small minority of our police officers are bad apples” Why do I keep hearing this kind of shit weekly? I’m really beginning to wonder….
Because there are a lot of police officers. 1.3 Million. If 1% are bad, that is 13K. Enough for one of the knuckleheads to do something stupid daily. Which you can be sure is happening.
With these criminals, including wray, is anyone really surprised?
The readers of Racket are as awesome as Racket itself, I'm so happy everyone feels the same as I felt about this crazy story. I couldn't believe it when I found it. I wrote a story about it and very few people cared, I just didn't share it with the right readers, I try to write about stories like this. Subscribe to my Substack, it's free.
This is so hysterical - thanks for sharing. I needed a good laugh - it's been a brutal week. We (hubby) are still cracking up!
wow, fuked up!
Any Woodward fans, here's a review of his most recent book.
https://open.substack.com/pub/jordanlee2liberty/p/review-of-bob-woodwards-latest-book?r=iuq6q&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=true
Back to Leigh McGowan…. So if I become a drug addict I can skip paying taxes?
Crazy how that woman supposedly wrote a book called "A Return to Common Sense".
For her, it's probably like an adventure thru Middle Earth
At 72, I still thank my parents for making me experience the consequences of my actions. This Age of Victimhood has been disastrous.
Of course, silly…
Dude even wrote a rap about how the police busted his door down. A true legend!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0bNy7XO-SCI
a lemon pound cake is in my oven
*stares at it like he's a police officer*
The tubby cop stopping at the lemon pound cake is the best
He looks like Newman from Seinfeld.
Lol! He does
wow!
The intersectionality of this moment in my life cannot be overstated.
Does anyone realize Biden just pardoned 51 spooks who committed election interference.
The laptop was real, so what !
Holy shit. That slid under my radar.
I would like to hear Matt's take on this theory.
Seriously? The bullshit consequences of this pardon is too heavy to shovel….. no one is above the law….
Really???
Seems like there's an argument to be made, everything on the laptop has been pardoned. It never should have been considered important. There was nothing to lie about.
Trump may have a civil damages case against each, but I think criminal prosecution is now gone.
Still should take their security clearances.
Not!!!!?
I do not understand your comment.
Care to explain?
I thot I missed it… wanted the news David
Roger
Seems like there's an argument to be made, everything on the laptop has been pardoned. It never should have been considered important. There was nothing to lie about.
Trump may have a civil damages case against each, but I think criminal prosecution is now gone.
Still should take their security clearances.
I LOVE Afroman!!! He’s rocking’ it. Such a GREAT character!!
What if Hunter is, in fact, the smartest guy Joe knows? Wouldn't that help explain what we've experienced the past four years?
Damn… you’re right
No apology necessary! It's a great song parody of his own music. I sang it for days after I first heard it. Could you imagine if Afroman had included a verse for pardons?
Hunters dad will pardon his ass , cause Hunter got high....
Afroman live show getting updated in 3...2...1...
What a delightful tune! And now I know who Afroman is. A delightful holiday gift. Thank you. 😊
Honestly I do not understand why an apology is in order. Great minds think alike. Your wish was fulfilled before you even made it.
Hunter Biden's alleged crimes also included human trafficking - or as we used to call it "pimping".
The next logical step in this saga would be for Trump to pardon Afroman.
$80K a month for doing nothing? I'll take that job!
No, you don’t. You would get bored……. LOL!
Boredom is underrated
THE REASON for the Chinese (?) blessing, "May you live in interesting times."
I totally agree. So is complacency.
"He's got more LLCs than John Gotti's ex-wife"
the things I learn here are worth every penny.. more LLC’s than Gottis wives. a classic
😭😂