October 20, 20232 yr I'm not a legal scholar, so I'm gonna need a bit of help with this question: If I'm a defendant in a criminal case, and my own lawyers come into court and testify under oath as witnesses for the prosecution ..... is that a big problem? Would I need to be packing extra underwear? How much would I need to pay off a judge/juror to get an acquittal?
October 22, 20232 yr Looks like Pratt is going to be a witness for Jack Smith. The disclosure is much worse than imagined. Listen: Billionaire Brags About Trump Sharing Secret Information With Him Nearly two weeks ago, media reported that Donald Trump reportedly revealed information about U.S. nuclear submarine capabilities to Australian billionaire Anthony Pratt. And on Sunday, 60 Minutes Australia played recordings of secret tapes where Pratt disclosed other non-public information Trump shared with him, including information about U.S. military operations in Iraq and Trump’s conversations with the presidents of Iraq and Ukraine. According to Pratt, Trump shared a lot with him, such as information about U.S. bombings in Iraq before they were publicly reported. "I hadn’t even heard it, it hadn’t even been on the news yet, and he said, ‘I just bombed Iraq today,'” Pratt said Trump told him. "He’s outrageous. He just says whatever the F he wants, and he loves to shock people,” Pratt, a businessman with a reported net worth of $9 billion, said of Trump. Pratt is listed as a potential witness to testify against Trump in a case brought by special counsel Jack Smith regarding his mishandling of classified information, and he reportedly shared information with prosecutors about Trump revealing to him sensitive intelligence regarding U.S. nuclear submarines, including how many warheads the subs usually carry and how close they could get to Russian submarines before they are detected. Pratt also bragged on tape that Trump shared with him some of the contents of a private conversation with then-president of Iraq Barham Salih. According to Pratt: “[Trump] said, ‘I just bombed Iraq today, and the president of Iraq called me up and said, ‘You just leveled my city.’ And I said to him, ‘OK, what are you going to do about it?'” Former National Security Advisor John Bolton told 60 Minutes Australia that the conversations Pratt described are "typical Trump behavior” and said that announcements of military operations are usually delayed "so that we can be sure that those who carried it out are back safe home.” According to the tapes, Pratt said that Trump also discussed his phone call to Ukraine President Volodymyr Zelensky in which Trump attempted to blackmail Zelensky into manufacturing dirt on Joe Biden’s son, Hunter, which ultimately led to Trump’s impeachment. "He said, ‘That Ukraine phone call, that’s nothing compared to what we usually talk about,” Pratt said on the recording. The billionaire said of Trump, "He knows exactly what to say and what not to say so that he avoids jail, but gets so close to it that it looks to everyone like he’s breaking the law. Like he won’t go up to someone and say, ‘I want you to kill someone.’ He’ll say, he’ll send someone, to tell someone, to kill someone.” Pratt also revealed information Trump shared about demeaning behavior toward his wife, Melania. In the recordings, Pratt said Trump told him, "I asked Melania to walk around the pool in a bikini so all the other guys could get a look at what they were missing.” But Melania fired back, according to Pratt. "Then Melania said back to him, ‘I’ll do that when you walk around with me in your bikini.'” Pratt, a member of Trump’s Mar-a-Lago club, courted Trump to garner influence, even paying an inflated cost of $1 million on tickets to a the Palm Beach club’s New Year’s Eve gala — far above the actual $50,000 cost per ticket, a witness told prosecutors, according to The New York Times. Pratt also tried to get close to Trump’s personal lawyer, Rudy Guiliani, paying him almost a million dollars to attend Pratt’s 60th birthday. The appearance was later cancelled due to Covid, but Pratt said on the recording that Guiliani calls him regularly. "Now he rings me once a week,” the Times reported Pratt as saying on the recordings. "Rudy is someone that I hope will be useful one day,” Pratt said on tape. "Plus I just think he’s cool. It’s not all just sort of like seat of the pants crap. I think that [Trump] and Rudy are like that, and they’re plotting all this out.” Pratt continued, explaining his reasoning for cozying up to the then-president and his allies: "All of these guys are like the mafia. Trump, Rupert [Murdoch], Rudy. You want to be a customer, not a competitor.” Bolton agreed that Trump "talks like a mafioso,” giving the example of an indirect kind of threat that Trump or a mafia boss might make: "That’s a nice little business you’ve got there, it’d be a shame if anything happened to it.”
October 22, 20232 yr Imagine how mentally ill you have to be to still support and vote for someone like this.
October 22, 20232 yr Well, the stable genius just desroyed his advice of counsel defense. I look forward to her testimony broadcast live on T.V.
October 23, 20232 yr 4 hours ago, Toastrel said: Trump says she was never his lawyer. Curious. Oh wait, he's a lying sack. She was just the covfefe girl, hardly knew her
October 23, 20232 yr 1 hour ago, vikas83 said: Yep, this is definitely going ot happen if he gets re-elected. All sanctions against Russia and N Korea will be removed as well. The damage he will do if he gets back in is terrifying.
October 23, 20232 yr 2 hours ago, vikas83 said: Illustrating exactly why the timing of Ukraine was what it was
October 23, 20232 yr 3 hours ago, Gannan said: Yep, this is definitely going ot happen if he gets re-elected. All sanctions against Russia and N Korea will be removed as well. The damage he will do if he gets back in is terrifying. Pretty confusing because we're told so often how tough Trump was on Russia.
October 24, 20232 yr 12 minutes ago, mr_hunt said: And now claiming he's not been indicted....and telling people not to worry about voting....and confuisng Turkeys president just like he confused Obama and Biden. He's lost what little marbles he had to begin with. Kz though -thats my guy! Trump Falsely Claims He 'Was Never Indicted' Despite Being Indicted 4 Times "I was never indicted. You practically never heard the word,” the former president said. Another strange quote occurred during Trump’s rally when he told his supporters to watch other voters, but not to "worry about voting” themselves. The former U.S. president also apparently confused Viktor Orbán, Hungary’s authoritarian prime minister, with Turkey’s authoritarian president, Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, while praising Orbán as "one of the strongest leaders anywhere in the world.”
October 24, 20232 yr 22 hours ago, mr_hunt said: I would say Trump can kiss the union vote goodbye .... but, most union workers are uneducated Trumpers, so it'll be quite the dilemma for them at the polls.
October 24, 20232 yr A candidate telling people not to worry about voting. Seems weird to me, unless like last time, their plan to win involved cheating.You don't need real votes if you cheat.
October 24, 20232 yr Union workers are going to Hell and his cult doesn't have to vote, is an excellent winning strategy to broaden the base and win the election.
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