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Trump Administration Says It’s Too Soon To Say If Safe To Hold RNC In Florida

We will have to see how this unfolds in Florida and elsewhere around the country,” Stephen Hahn told CNN.

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A top Trump administration health official said on Sunday it was not clear whether it will be safe to hold the Republican National Convention in Jacksonville next month, as Florida sees record numbers of coronavirus cases.

Stephen Hahn, the Food and Drug Administration commissioner, also refused to confirm President Donald Trump’s claim that 99% of coronavirus cases were harmless and called the situation a “serious problem.”

This is funny. Jacksonville started requiring masks for all indoor events as of June 29th.

How will Trump get out of it? If he defies the local authorities, how will that look for the Law and Order President?

The RNC is screwed.

 

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Abbott and Costello's famous story - "Who's on 1st".  Trump will just re-state the obvious.  If the president (IF HE IS NAMED TRUMP) does it, it's legal.  His enablers and supporters will accept it, that's all he cares about.  PS:  I know normally president is capitalized, but i refuse to do so considering the current title holder.

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On 7/5/2020 at 3:59 PM, Richard Price said:

Abbott and Costello's famous story - "Who's on 1st".  Trump will just re-state the obvious.  If the president (IF HE IS NAMED TRUMP) does it, it's legal.  His enablers and supporters will accept it, that's all he cares about.  PS:  I know normally president is capitalized, but i refuse to do so considering the current title holder.

I just refer to him as the current prez out of a personal refusal to give him the acknowledgement of his name, however little that means or how childish it is on my part.  He didn't win the popular vote of the people at large.  Billary did, bad as that presidency might have been I don't think it would have been worse than this.  jmo

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3 hours ago, Douglas Caddy said:

Mary Trump's book-- scheduled for release on July 14th-- is already #1 at Amazon.

Nothing too surprising, thus far, in the preliminary reports.

I'm shocked, shocked to hear that Trump has sociopathic traits and a learning disability.

Who'd have thunk?

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Alan Dershowitz Writes Essay Defending Longtime Jeffrey Epstein Associate Ghislaine Maxwell, Assails Netflix Documentary Allegations

 

From the article: As for Maxwell, Dershowitz writes in his essay that he never saw her do anything untoward and assumed she was simply Epstein’s girlfriend.

My wife and I were introduced to Ghislaine Maxwell by Sir Evelyn and Lady Lynne de Rothschild, and we subsequently met her on several occasions — generally in the presence of prominent people such as Bill and Hillary Clinton, Nobel Prize-winning scientists, presidents of universities, and prominent academic and business people. We never saw her do anything inappropriate. We knew her only as Jeffrey Epstein’s thirty-something girlfriend.

https://deadline.com/2020/07/alan-dershowitz-defending-ghislaine-maxwell-attacking-netflix-1202977312/

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Tough-Guy Things I Can Do Because I Don’t Wear a Face Mask

Spit anywhere I want. Got that, Mask Boy?

Smoke big-ass cigars.

Smooch bodacious babes

Grit my teeth to show that I’m not exactly happy with how close you’re getting to my PT Cruiser.

Speak freely and clearly without any stupid fabric silencing my words.

Hang a toothpick from my lip

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by Alex Watt. The New Yorker

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3 hours ago, Steve Thomas said:

Tough-Guy Things I Can Do Because I Don’t Wear a Face Mask

Spit anywhere I want. Got that, Mask Boy?

Smoke big-ass cigars.

Smooch bodacious babes

Grit my teeth to show that I’m not exactly happy with how close you’re getting to my PT Cruiser.

Speak freely and clearly without any stupid fabric silencing my words.

Hang a toothpick from my lip

-more-

by Alex Watt. The New Yorker

Steve Thomas

Stick your tongue out a all those wimpy mask Boy's, or,

Suck, on a big ole, popsicle.

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William Barr’s Private Army

 

"“Operation Legend” is specifically going to focus on a federal effort to increase law enforcement effort in the city. Barr has directed agents from the Department of Justices, law enforcement agencies, the FBI, U.S. Marshal, DEA and ATF to be on the ground in Kansas City within the next 10 days and to help state and local officials fight the surge of violent crime.

 

WASHINGTON — White House Press Secretary Kayleigh McEnany announced the federal government is stepping in to help stop the surge of violent crime in Kansas City, Missouri with a program named after a 4-year-old boy lost to gun violence. “Operation Legend,” named after 4-year-old LeGend Tallifero, will lead to increased law enforcement presence in the next 10 days.

 

(Kansas City Mayor Quinton Lucas) said he learned on Twitter Wednesday afternoon that the Department of Justice plans to send federal investigators to Kansas City as support for unsolved homicide and non-fatal shooting investigations.

 

“As I understand the department’s plan, any outside help will not be used for regular policing or patrol activities—and solely to clear unsolved murders and shootings,” Lucas said in a statement."

 

https://fox4kc.com/news/attorney-general-barr-launching-operation-legend-to-help-stop-violent-crime-in-kansas-city/

 

We all know how that goes.

 

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Supreme Court rules 7-2 that Manhattan District Attorney can subpoena Trump's business records:

From the Washington Post:

The Supreme Court ruled Thursday that a New York prosecutor is entitled to see President Trump’s private and business financial records, ending an intense legal battle waged by the president to keep them secret.

The court said Manhattan District Attorney Cyrus R. Vance Jr. had the authority to subpoena the records from Trump’s private accounting firm. Trump had claimed an immunity from criminal investigations while in office.

Vance is investigating whether the Trump Organization falsified business records to conceal hush payments to two women, including pornographic film actress Stormy Daniels, who claimed they had sex with Trump before he took office. Trump has denied those claims.

Vance is seeking, Trump’s tax returns, among other records. The president has refused to make them public, unlike previous modern presidents. Because the records are for a grand jury investigation, they would not likely be disclosed before the election.

The court will rule later Thursday on subpoenas issues by congressional committees for a broader range of Trump’s financial records.

This is a developing story and will be updated.

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By MARK SHERMANJuly 9, 2020 GMT
 

The 7-2 outcome is at least a short-term victory for Trump, who has strenuously sought to keep his financial records private.

The decision came after the court upheld a prosecutor’s demand for Trump’s tax returns as part of a criminal investigation that includes hush-money payments to women who claim they had affairs with Trump.

The court ruled 7-2 in a case in which it heard arguments by telephone in May because of the coronavirus pandemic.

The records are held by Trump’s longtime accounting firm, Mazars USA, which has said it would comply with a court order.

It probably will be at least several weeks before the court issues a formal judgment that would trigger the turnover of the records.

The court rejected arguments by Trump’s lawyers and the Justice Department that the president is immune from investigation while he holds office or that a prosecutor must show a greater need than normal to obtain the records.

Trump’s two high court appointees, Justices Neil Gorsuch and Brett Kavanaugh, joined the majority.

THIS IS A BREAKING NEWS UPDATE. AP’s earlier story follows below.

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21 hours ago, Douglas Caddy said:

Alan Dershowitz Writes Essay Defending Longtime Jeffrey Epstein Associate Ghislaine Maxwell, Assails Netflix Documentary Allegations

 

From the article: As for Maxwell, Dershowitz writes in his essay that he never saw her do anything untoward and assumed she was simply Epstein’s girlfriend.

My wife and I were introduced to Ghislaine Maxwell by Sir Evelyn and Lady Lynne de Rothschild, and we subsequently met her on several occasions — generally in the presence of prominent people such as Bill and Hillary Clinton, Nobel Prize-winning scientists, presidents of universities, and prominent academic and business people. We never saw her do anything inappropriate. We knew her only as Jeffrey Epstein’s thirty-something girlfriend.

https://deadline.com/2020/07/alan-dershowitz-defending-ghislaine-maxwell-attacking-netflix-1202977312/

If Maxwell didn't do anything remotely illegal, why would Dershowitz even have to negotiate an immunity agreement for her ?

If she was innocent of any crime doing, why take up super expensive lawyer fee time and government prosecutor time protecting her from prosecution or lawsuits by victims of Epstein's sexual abuse?

Dershowitz admitted he had a massage in Epstein's sex den N.Y. mansion.

He downplays it by saying he kept his underwear on and his masseuse was an older women with a Germanic name of "Olga."

One gets the image of a typical, big boned, stern faced, tough body slapping German discipline type person.

There are so many suspiciously contradictory elements to Dershowitz's Epstein sex  mansion massage story.

Dershowitz says he had the strip down to his undies massage even though he doesn't really like massages? Then what would compel him to do something this out of the ordinary for him, and to disrobe for it to boot?

Epstein says he wasn't really friends with Epstein.

Sharing a business lunch or dinner with a client is one thing, but having a full body rub down massage at a legal client's private home ( paid for by the client ) sounds laughably more of a personal relationship than a legal business one.

Epstein remembered the masseuse's actual first name from many years ago ... Olga?

Did she wear a name tag? If not, he must have been socially bantering with her enough to ask her name and such. And yet, the whole experience was unpleasant for him?

Epstein says he called his wife right after he received the massage? Why? Guilty conscience perhaps?  What did he say to her? Honey, I just had a full body massage in my underwear by a woman named Olga..and let me tell you, it was very unpleasant. ?

I would think just the masseuse's Germanic name "Olga" might have been a turn off to Dershowitz and he might have immediately stopped such an intimate hand rubbing and squeezing on bare flesh encounter like this.

Dershowitz claims he didn't know if other young women were in another part of Epstein's N.Y. mansion while he got a rub down from Olga?

He wasn't sure either way? He can't say there weren't? Typical clear answer avoiding legalese.

Also, one would think someone as experienced with nefarious characters like Epstein would know that having an undies body massage in their private residence might be surripticiously taped. Dershowitz didn't even think of this? Was he that naive?

And, Dershowitz had not one fleeting thought or pondering about Epstein's other nefarious activities such as his involvement with the majorly reported Tower Financial/ Steve Hoffenburg 450 million dollar ponzi fraud scheme ( Hoffenburg was sent to prison for long stretch) that went on for years before the Epstein underage sex abuse charges? No sense of distancing himself from such closely involved person in this big time criminal scheme?

And why is it that Dershowitz's deep sense of righteousness in defending the indefensible mostly involves the most famous and wealthy?

Now he is a good character promoting publicity person for the poor, unfairly maligned G. Maxwell?

Please.

It doesn't make common and especially moral sense.

 

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