The Crane Pool Forum

Sports reference coming up, prepare to Google as needed. It is Happy Hour in the Gehenna Bar and Grille. Eddie Cicotte and Chick Gandil watch the news on the TV above the bar, nod knowingly, and they buy Jack Molinas another drink. From the Washington Post:

[In other words, "the fix was in]".

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And there we have it. Judge Cannon has divined the identity of…The Real Victim. He’s down there in Florida, deeply a’skeered that his alleged crimes are coming to light and deeply worried about the effect this will have in the future on his various bunco schem—er…enterprises.

And to hell with you, National Archives, you bunch of reckless barbarians.

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I would like to ban the use of the word “unprecedented” from further discussion. It is a preposterous word in this context and is becoming more so almost by the hour. Saying anything that has occurred in national politics since the fall of 2015 is “unprecedented” is like standing in the foothills of the Himalayas and talking about the “unprecedented” size of Mt. Everest. While admittedly the inevitable product of 40 years of increasingly virulent Republican vandalism, El Caudillo del Mar-A-Lago nonetheless was a creature of the unprecedented, at least among presidents of the United States: A bigger liar than Nixon. More inept than Harding. More devious than LBJ. And, oh, that he were as forgettable as Buchanan or Pierce. But we can’t have everything, now, can we?

I hope Jared can clear his calendar for the next few months because being special master is going to be a full-time gig.

The highest level of our government has been rendered an unconvincing puppet show with no mystery left in it at all.

Willets Point wrote: ↑Tue Sep 20, 2022 11:29 pm I don't see the Tweet when it's in Tweet code. That's why I deleted the Tweet code.

Edgy MD wrote: ↑Wed Sep 21, 2022 9:13 am

Willets Point wrote: ↑Tue Sep 20, 2022 11:29 pm I don't see the Tweet when it's in Tweet code. That's why I deleted the Tweet code.

It's totally there for me. Shining and bright.

kcmets wrote: ↑Wed Sep 21, 2022 12:11 pmThis will go on for ten years.

Team Trump wrote:“Today’s filing is neither focused on the facts nor the law – rather, it is solely focused on advancing the Attorney General’s political agenda. It is abundantly clear that the Attorney General’s Office has exceeded its statutory authority by prying into transactions where absolutely no wrongdoing has taken place.”

“I am announcing today that we are filing a lawsuit against Donald Trump for violating the law as part of his efforts to generate profits for himself, his family and his company,” James said. “The complaint demonstrates that Donald Trump falsely inflated his net worth by billions of dollars to unjustly enrich himself and to cheat the system, thereby cheating all of us.”

The civil lawsuit seeks at least $250 million in damages.

“Mr. Trump and the Trump Organization repeatedly and persistently manipulated the value of assets to induce banks to lend money to the Trump Organization on more favorable terms than would otherwise have been available to the company, to pay lower taxes, to satisfy continuing loan agreements and to induce insurance companies to provide insurance coverage for higher limits and at lower premiums,”

Edgy MD wrote: ↑Wed Sep 21, 2022 10:34 pm The 11th US Circuit Court of Appeal makes a ruling overturning Judge Cannon's order that the investigation cease and the government not be allowed to review the designated "classified" documents they seized.

So the investigation is back on and it's been a very rough day for people named Trump.