Even more: Pam Bondi, the replacement nominee for AG, at least has legal experience as a state attorney general, but she may have accepted a bribe in return for not prosecuting Don the Con for his Trump University seminar scam. Bondi's political action committee received a $25,000 contribution from the Trump Foundation in 2013 when her office was reviewing complaints against Trump U.. At the time the donation was made both Bondi and Trump denied any donation or link between them. Tax-exempt foundations (§501c3)s like Trump's are prohibited from making political contributions. Despite 22 citizens' complaints filed with her office, she did not take any action against Trump, telling reporters she was "unaware of the complaints". New York's AG in contrast took legal action leading to Don the Con shutting down the seminar operation. Trump's foundation paid a $2500 fine for the illegal campaign contribution.
Latest: Matt Gaetz quits under an avalanche of evidence that he payed for drug-fueled, underaged sex. CNN uncovered a second instance of a sexual encounter with a minor. The House was set to vote on releasing the Ethics Committee report Friday. Gaetz's withdrawal under fire proves Don Olde is not invincible, and his judgement of moral character sorely lacking! Unqualified defense secretary nominee Pete Hegseth is also under a cloud of sexual misbehavior allegations.
Judge Lyman in DC has ordered Rudy Giuliani to show cause on December 12th for violating the consent order stopping him from further defamation of the plaintiffs. The arrogant former mayor is apparently a glutton for punishment. He has turned over his jewelry, sports memorabilia, and Mercedes convertible (once owned by Lauren Bacall NOT John Voigt) in partial satisfaction of the $150 million judgement against him. Disposition of his Florida condo remains to be decided due to Florida's generous homestead exemption rules.
Update: The House Ethics Committee is split evenly between the parties, 5-5. Consequently it is no surprise that it deadlocked in a vote to release its ethics report on Matt Gaetz according to Susan Wild, ranking member of the committee. They are scheduled to meet again on December 5th. This does not mean that the Senate will be unable to obtain information relating to Gaetz's activities. A New Congress convenes on January 3rd. Presumably confirmation hearings will begin shortly thereafter. A Democratic representative has asked for a vote of the whole House on releasing the Ethics Committee report. Its contents are generally known to the public by now.
Daddy Don Olde on the Senate's constitutional duty to vet nominees:
This is what the Radical Left Lunatics do to people. They dirty them up, they destroy them, and then they spit them out. They are trying that right now with some great American Patriots who are only trying to fix the mess that the Democrats have made of our Country. WE WILL WIN!!! MAGA
What the dangerous autocrat does not understand is that real Patriots support the Constitution, not seek ways to undermine it! The receipts on Gaetz criminal behavior are in, dooming his nomination for Attorney General. Senate Judiciary Chairman Dick Durban (D) has asked the FBI for its investigatory file on Gaetz. Does this make room for the infamous handmaiden, Aileen Canon, to assume the role? She is on the short list for the job.
{20.11.2024} Don the Con has nearly completed his total political victory over the US justice system with two latest developments in his state criminal case. The New York DA has agreed to suspend further proceedings in the fraud case in which Don Olde was convicted of 34 felony counts for filing false financial records. He was scheduled to be sentenced in a few days. The DA wrote Judge Merchan, that it would be unlikely he would be sentenced “until after the end of Defendant’s upcoming presidential term...given the need to balance competing constitutional interests.” But the DA says Trump’s felony conviction should stand. The defense intends to file a motion for dismissal of the convictions entirely because he will be President. In a familiar tactic the defense lawyers want a whole month to file a brief, putting off a decision until after the inauguration. If that motion succeeds he will have entirely escaped any accountability for his financial crimes. The Georgia Court of Appeals was scheduled to hear oral arguments on the dismissal of Fani Willis as Fulton County DA next month. The latest order to come down cancelled the December 5th hearing "until further notice". It appears that it is becoming less and less likely that the RICO prosecution of Trumpillini and his enablers will ever go to trial.Federal prosecutions by Special Counsel Jack Smith are also dead in the water as he begins wrapping up the cases and filing a report on the outcomes as required by law. Trumpilini's weaponization of the flawed electoral voting system to defeat his criminal liability is unprecedented in US history, The justice system was clearly unprepared for his asymmetrical assault on the rule of law. Attorney General Merritt Garland bears a large responsibility for this disastrous outcome. His extreme delay in investigating and appointing a special prosecutor allowed the Gang of Trump to successfully delay proceedings until the election, aided by a corrupt Florida federal judge and a MAGA friendly Supreme Court. Of course his decisive victory over the Democrat presidential candidate sealed the deal, causing the legal process to grind to a halt.
Approval of his disgusting choices for Attorney General, Secretary of Defense, and Secretary of HHS by the Senate, or without the Senate's constitutional consent through recess appointments, will signal the end of American democracy and the beginning of autocracy. Two of his defense lawyers have been named for the #2 and #3 executive positions at the Department of Justice, practically guaranteeing that agency will be employed for political retribution during his second term of office.
