- Donald Trump 04/13/24 -

"Just last week it was reported that an illegal adlinthin-- and you just look at this, what's happening," he said Saturday.

Journalist Bill Grueskin chimed in on that one.

"Hmm. That sounded more like 'adledirthin' than 'adlinthin' which if true kind of changes everything," he wrote.

 

Yeah. I'd hate to be an illegal whatchamajigger too. Just look at what's happening.

Steve Thomas

New 'red flags' raised over Trump's bond money after link to Grand Caymans revealed

by Tom Boggioni April 12, 2024

https://www.rawstory.com/trump-fraud-bond-2667753290/

 

It’s impossible to know if the insurance company backing Trump’s bond actually has the money, and if Trump loses on appeal, New York State may never be able to recover it.

 

In the words of one industry expert, “This whole bond issue stinks to high heaven”.

 

Steve Thomas

Not to be outdone by Arizona's 1864 law on abortion, Wisconsin is trying to restore a law that goes back to 1849.

I personally am in favor of bringing back stoning people to death and burning witches at the stake.

Steve Thomas

- Donald Trump -

"On Monday I will be forced to sit, GAGGED, before a HIGHLY CONFLICTED & CORRUPT JUDGE, whose hatred for me has no bounds," Trump posted. "All of these New York and D.C. 'Judges' and Prosecutors have the same MINDSET. Nobody but this Soros Prosecutor, Alvin Bragg, wanted to take this ridiculous case. All legal scholars say it is a sham. BIDEN’S DOJ IS RUNNING THE CASE. Just think of it, these animals want to put the former President of the United States (who got more votes than any sitting President!), & the PARTY’S REPUBLICAN CANDIDATE, IN JAIL, for doing absolutely nothing wrong. It is a RUSH TO THE FINISH. SO UNFAIR!"

 

My, oh my. Getting a little testy are we?

Animals.

Steve Thomas

"Bloomberg reported this week that TMTG (Trump Media and Technology Group - the one that owns Truth Social) said in recent filings that it will keep the BF Borgers accounting firm as its auditor."

https://www.rawstory.com/trump-auditor-100-percent-deficiency/

"Bloomberg said this Colorado-based firm has a history of being flagged for failures in its auditing, including a "100% deficiency rate" in audits reviewed by the U.S. watchdog, the Public Company Accounting Oversight Board (PCAOB) in the past two years."

 

Well, of course they're going to keep them.

 

Steve Thomas

Georgia Woman Goes On Highway Shooting Spree, Says God Told Her To Because Of Eclipse: Police

A 22-year-old woman was arrested by Florida Highway Patrol after shooting two drivers on Monday.

AP Apr 8, 2024,

https://www.huffpost.com/entry/woman-says-god-told-her-eclipse-shooting-spree-police_n_66147707e4b0743395c2f12d

 

BONIFAY, Fla. (AP) — “A woman checked out of a Florida hotel and told staff that she was going on a God-directed shooting spree because of the solar eclipse, then shot two drivers on Interstate 10 before being arrested and charged with attempted murder Monday, according to the Florida Highway Patrol. “

 

“Troopers stopped the woman after she drove for about 16 miles (26 kilometers) and found her with an AR-15 rifle and 9mm handgun.”

 

I don't know why they stopped her. MTG told everybody that God was talking to us through the eclipse.

 

Steve Thomas

Smith delivered a 66-page condemnation of the former president's claim that his actions between the 2020 presidential election and U.S. Capitol riots on Jan. 6, 2021, are beyond the reach of prosecution in the special counsel's federal election interference case.

https://www.supremecourt.gov/DocketPDF/23/23-939/306999/20240408191803801_United States v. Trump final for filing.pdf

Steve Thomas

'Set things straight': Chilling poll shows how far Republicans are willing to go

by D. Earl Stephens

April 7, 2024

https://www.rawstory.com/violence-gop/

 

"A majority of Republicans believe the country needs a leader to break some rules to get it back on track, and some 3 in 10 Republicans go so far as to say Americans may have to resort to violence in order to set things straight.

 

If 3 and (sic) 10 Republicans believe Americans may have to resort to violence “to set things straight” we are talking about roughly 20 million Americans who feel this way.

 

Trump got slightly more than 74,000,000 votes in 2020. Thirty percent of that number would roughly work out to 20+ million.

Twenty million-plus people who think we need violence “to set things straight ...”

And what does “set things straight” even mean? I’ll let you decide that, but besides sounding thuggish, in my mind we are talking about returning to a time when white men ran every single bit of everything in this country, and by extreme force.

How many of these Republicans who see violence as a way “to set things straight” are cops? How many of these Republicans who see violence as a way “to set things straight” are in our military? How many of these Republicans who see violence as a way “to set things straight” are in our Congress? How many of these Republicans who see violence as a way “to set things straight” are moms and dads?

Have we become so gaslit and desensitized by the past eight years that we are willing to brush away terror like this as if it were just some pesky gnat buzzing around our heads?

Do we still somehow think we are immune from the lawlessness and violence that has destroyed other countries right in front of our eyes?

Tens of millions of Americans, many of whom have stockpiled a significant portion of the 450 million guns in this country, believe violence is a way “to set things straight” if things don’t work out for them in November.

God help us"

Steve Thomas.

So, have you repented yet?

 

- Marjorie Taylor Greene -

House Democrats have introduced a bill to name a federal prison in Florida after Donald Trump.

The say he has earned the right.

He worked so hard to get there.

Steve Thomas

In an effort to quell the naysayers, and offer proof of his divinity, Donald Trump ha said that he will blot out the sun on Monday.

Steve Thomas 

13,000 people sign a petition asking that Donald Trump be investigated for fraud in the Truth Social stock scandal.

 

Ya think?

Truth Social had a $50 milion profit in 2022 and  $58 million loss in 2023. Where did the $100 million go?

Steve Thomas

This could get real interesting.

Donald Trump's $175 million bond paperwork in the NY fraud case was returned to him.

He hadn't submitted a current financial statement, and his lawyer hadn't signed the paperwork.

 

Would you want to put your name on anything attesting to the truthfulness of anything Donald Trump said about his finances?

Trump may forced to publicly reveal the true state of his finances.

Steve Thomas

Investors plead guilty to insider trading in Trump Media deal

by Brad Reed April 3, 2024

https://www.rawstory.com/trump-media-2667675059/

 

"Michael and Gerald Shvartsman admitted in court that they received confidential, inside information about an upcoming merger between DWAC and Trump Media and used that information to make profitable, but illegal, open-market trades,"

 

"According to the United States Attorney's Office for the Southern District of New York, the two men "bought millions of dollars of DWAC securities on the open market before the news of the Trump Media business combination was public" and even "tipped others about the upcoming merger, inducing further trades in DWAC securities on the basis of the MNPI they had obtained subject to their non-disclosure agreement and through their associate’s board seat."

 

"Trump Media first went public last week and sparked a wave of speculative investment that saw the firm's market cap rise to over $8 billion before its shares crashed on Monday when it released a financial report showing that the company lost $58 million over the last fiscal year on revenues of just over $4 million."

 

I'm shocked, I tell you.

Just shocked.

Steve Thomas

Illegal aliens:

"They're in your kitchen cupboards", Sen Katie Britt

"They're hiding in your schools", Congressman, Jim Jordan

"They're crawling in your windows". Donald Trump

 

Good Lord. They're everywhere.

Steve Thomas

 

- Donald Trump -

"Because Joe Biden has brought the carnage, chaos and killing from all over the world and dumped it straight into our backyards."

He vowed to stop the "plunder, rape, slaughter and destruction of our American suburbs, cities and towns," comments he reiterated in Wisconsin.

 

Excuse me for a moment, while I go look out the window.

Huh. Didn't see much carnage and slaughter and bloodbath going on outside. Must be happening down the street.

Steve Thomas

 

Donald Trump has paid the $175 million to secure his assets from being seized in the fraud case while he appeals the verdict.

The money was fronted by Knight Specialty Insurance Co., which is owned by Don Hankey, the "so-called king of sub-prime car loans", i.e. a used car salesman.

Don Hankey is believed to be the largest shareholder of Axos Bank.

Axos Bank holds the mortgage on Trump Tower and Trump National Doral.

$100 million for Trump Tower and $125 million for Doral.

Table of Trump's liabilities:

https://twitter.com/lawofruby/status/1774961969574871069?s=20

 

Steve Thomas

Judge expands Trump's gag order.

Family members are off limits.

"The threat is very real."

https://www.nycourts.gov/LegacyPDFS/press/PDFs/PeopleDJT-DecOrderExtrajudicial.pdf

Steve Thomas

 

1 hour ago, W. Niederhut said:

My question.

How did Trump get away with concealing the $58 million Truth Social annual loss (from 2022-23) before the company went public last week?

Aren't there SEC regulations to prevent these kind of stock scams?

W.,

It primarily has to do with the merger with this Digital Acquisitions Group.

Tharre's a good explanation in this AP story:

Get a load of that Board of Directors.

https://apnews.com/article/trump-media-truth-social-spac-vote-841820869418c37ad7eed04f2af42854
Shareholders of Digital World Acquisition Corp., a publicly traded shell company, approved a deal to merge with the Trump’s media business in a Friday vote. 
'Many of Digital World’s investors are small-time investors who are either fans of Trump or trying to cash in on the mania, instead of big institutional and professional investors. Those shareholders helped the stock more than double this year in anticipation of the merger going through. But on Friday, the shares lost almost 14%."

"Ahead of Friday’s approval, Digital World’s regulatory filings listed many of the risks its investors face, as well as those of the Truth Social owner once Trump Media also goes public."
"When a publicly traded shell company agrees to buy a private company, the target company takes its place on a stock exchange once the combination is approved by shareholders."

"DWA’s shareholders also voted Friday to approve a slate of seven people, including the former president’s son, Donald Trump Jr., to hold seats on Trump Media’s board. Among the others are former Republican Rep. Devin Nunes, who would also be the company’s CEO; Robert Lighthizer, who served as Trump’s U.S. trade representative; Linda McMahon, who ran the Small Business Administration under Trump; and, Kashyap “Kash” Patel, a White House national security aide during the Trump administration."

A plunge into the public market means Trump’s social media business will soon have to disclose more details.
Private companies are accountable to their owners, while public ones are accountable to the shareholders who own the company’s stock. Once public, Trump Media will be required to report its quarterly finances as well as other material news to federal regulators.

 

The shareholders said, "Go ahead. We don't care."

Now, when they lose their life's savings, and a small group of investors make a killing short selling, they might.

Steve Thomas

Internet erupts over Truth Social's stock plunge: 'This is what a bloodbath looks like'

by Sky Palma April 1, 2024

https://www.rawstory.com/trump-truth-social-2667648014/

 

Steve Thomas

Truth Social shares go into freefall after investors learn how much money it really makes

by Brad Reed April 1, 2024

https://www.rawstory.com/truth-social-stock-price/

“Investors on Monday got their first peak at the financials of the Trump Media & Technology Group, the owner of the Truth Social platform — and they did not like what they saw.

Shares in the firm plummeted by more than 15 percent in the hours after it released its financial statement, thus shaving billions of dollars off its market cap.

As of noon on Monday, the shares were trading in the $51 range, after having closed at just under $62 the previous trading day.”

“Given that Trump Media reported a net loss of $58 million last year on revenues of just over $4 million, the firm's current price-earnings ratio is in negative territory,…”

“The Trump Media & Technology Group, the owner of the Truth Social platform, released new financial data on Monday showing that the company lost $58 million over the last year while posting revenues totaling just $4 million.”

 

That took less than a week.

All those Maga patriots who wanted to prove their loyalty and devotion are now losing their shirts.

Steve Thomas

 

- This is how Donald Trump spent Easter Sunday -

And it's only the middle of the day.

From Raw Story:

"Trump, who literally directed one "happy Easter" post to those he "despises" such as "corrupt" prosecutors and judges in his criminal cases, wrote dozens of posts earlier in the day. One report on Sunday stated that the ex-president spent "Easter Morning on a Social Media Bender — With Whopping 43 POSTS About Judge Engoron, Jon Stewart and More."

Political onlookers were also quick to point out the spree on social media."

Steve Thomas

David Harold Byrd, one of the founders of the Civil Air Patrol:

 

Monroe Morning World, Monroe, LA May 19, 1956

 

OBITUARY of Frances Whitmeyer:

Whitmeyer, Frances Raby was born February 21, 1922 and passed away April 4, 2009. Frances was born in Athens, Alabama to S.W. and Donna Raby. She graduated from Alabama Women's College in Athens. She moved to New Orleans and worked for the Lykes Steamship Co. and also for the City of New Orleans helping to translate French law into English. She later married George Whitmeyer and they moved to Germany where he was stationed after the war. They moved to Fort Worth in 1961 and then to Dallas in 1963.

 

The Monroe News-Star from Monroe, Louisiana · Page 7

April 13, 1954

https://www.newspapers.com/newspage/90448363/

 

Captain George L. Whitmeyer, local project officer for Armed Forces Day, said today that plans are already well advanced for Monroe participation in the annual observance honoring our young men and women in uniform. All veterans’ organizations, civic clubs, and other patriotic groups are invited to take part in the Armed Forces Day program. Representatives of organizations who wish to participate may contact Captain George L. Whitmever at building T-39-2 Selman Field or telephone 9960.

 

Monroe News-Star, March 15, 1954. page 13

https://www.newspapers.com/newspage/90445615/

COMPLETES COURSE — Capt. George L. Whit never, whose wife, Frances Whitmeyer, resides here at 217 Pargoud Drive, has recently completed a 17-week Associate Infantry Office Advanced Course in Fort Penning, Ga., which is given to company and field grade officers to enable them to return to their units with a more thorough understanding of their command positions* ('apt. Whilmeyer. in service for 12 years, has served in Hawaii, Europe, Korea, and Japan, and been awarded the Silver Star, Bronze Star, Purple Heart and the Combat Infantry Badge.

 

The Monroe News-Star from Monroe, Louisiana · Page 5

March 25, 1955

https://newspaperarchive.com/monroe-news-star-mar-25-1955-p-5/

 

Army Aviation Flight Training Men Are Lacking The commanding general, Fourth army, has announced that .there is a critical shortage of applicants for Army aviation flight training which has resulted in serious programming difficulties for the Army aviation program. The scope of the present Army aviation program and the increased emphasis toward combat employment of Army aviation re|quire maximum command support of this vital program. All company grade officers are eligible to participate in this program. The Army primary flight training course is conducted at Gary Air Force base, San Marcos, I I Texas and the Army aviation tactics course at Camp Rucker. Ala. Those reserve officers interested in this program are urged to contact Major George L. Whitmeyer at the office of the unit advisor, United States Army Reserve, building T-39-2, Selman Field, or phone 9960.

 

Who were these "Advisors" and what unit was Whitmeyer "advising" in Louisiana?

The Monroe News-Star from Monroe, Louisiana · Page 5

March 25, 1955

https://newspaperarchive.com/monroe-news-star-mar-25-1955-p-5/

 

“Those reserve officers interested in this program are urged to contact Major George L. Whitmeyer at the office of the unit advisor, United States Army Reserve, building T-39-2, Selman Field...:

The Monroe News-Star from Monroe, Louisiana · Page 3

September 21, 1955

https://www.newspapers.com/newspage/89404823/

“Vacancies in the high school student draft deferment group still exist in the reserve army, Major George L. Whitmeyer, army reserve advisor, said Wednesday.

 

The Monroe News-Star from Monroe, Louisiana · Page 3

October 23, 1956

https://www.newspapers.com/newspage/84343273/

“Looking on as Capt. Pipes reads his new commission is Major George L. Whitmeyer, unit advisor.”

 

Training and Organization of the US Army Reserve Components: A Reference Text for Total Force Trainers and a Guide to Other US Military Services 1988-1989. published 1991

page 53

https://apps.dtic.mil/dtic/tr/fulltext/u2/a236572.pdf

 

9. (3)(D) “The Army has assigned AC (Active Component) personnel to advise full-time,specific RC units on all aspects of unit operation. These AC personnel are called dedicated advisors. Brigade-level units,divisions, separate GOCOMs, ARCOMs, and State headquarters have dedicated advisors; however, some selected battalion-size units, by virtue of their unique nature, mobilization priority,or geographical isolation, continue to have battalion advisors assigned. The AC end strength reductions mandated by Congress have resulted in the elimination of many dedicated advisor positions.

(E). In addition to the AC personnel assigned to advise specific units, there are organizations that assist units on a regional USATB (United States Army Training Board) basis.”

 

Whitmeyer is referred to in combined Batchelor, Lumpkin, and Stevenson, report to Curry as, “ Lt. Colonel George Whitmeyer, U.S. Army, Dallas Sub-section Commander.”
DPD Archives Box 14, Folder# 14, Item# 10 p. 20.
http://jfk.ci.dallas.tx.us/box14.htm

On April 22, 1964 Police Chief, Jesse Curry told the Warren Commission, “I had Deputy Chief Lumpkin, and he had two Secret Service men with him, I believe, out of Washington, and a Colonel Wiedemeyer who is the East Texas Section Commander of the Army Reserve in the area, he was with him.
Testimony of Jesse Curry. Warren Commission Hearings and Exhibits, volume IV, p. 170, as cited in the History Matters Archive, http://history-matte..._Vol4_0089b.htm

 

It’s also possible that Whitmeyer taught Army Intelligence at the 5^th USAR Forces Intelligence School at Camp Bullis at Fort Sam Houston outside of San Antonio.

 

https://books.google.com/books?id=kB83DwAAQBAJ&printsec=frontcover&dq=%22Camp+Bullis%22&hl=en&newbks=1&newbks_redir=0&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwiL8e-Wj5TmAhXGneAKHWqjBOsQ6AEwAXoECAYQAg#v=onepage&q=%22Camp%20Bullis%22&f=false

 

 

 

Boring's Interesting ARRB Interview

By Vince Palamara

http://mcadams.posc.mu.edu/palamara/boring_arrb.html

Lt. Col. George Whitmeyer (rode in pilot car)--- "Mr. Lawson acknowledged
that Lt. Col. George Whitmeyer, who was part of the Dallas District U.S. Army
Command, who Lawson said "taught Army Intelligence" and who rode in the pilot
car, "wasn't scheduled" to be in the motorcade. [as 17 H 615, Lawson's
scheduled motorcade list, bears out]. Mr. Lawson denied that the presence of
Col. Whitmeyer had anything to do with Lawson's prior service in the CIC, Army
Counter Intelligence Corps."77;

 

It’s also possible that George Whitmeyer taught Army intelligence at the 4150^th US Army Reserve Training School, of which Deputy Chief George Lumpkin was the Commandant and Boise Smith was on the faculty

 

B.B. (Boise) Smith. Director, Civil Defense and Disaster Commission. Dallas Police Department, Deputy Chief of Police.

Reported directly to Chief Curry.

Batchelor Exhibit 5002

https://www.aarclibrary.org/publib/jfk/wc/wcvols/wh19/pdf/WH19_Batchelor_Ex_5002.pdf

It looks like the 4150^th was housed at Love Field up until the City donated property to it in 1956.

 

What are the chances that George Whitmeyer knew David Ferrie, and possibly Lee Harvey Oswald?

Steve Thomas

Donald Trump, while on his way to the funeral of a New York Policeman,  shared a video of a pickup truck flying Back the Blue flags, traveling down the highway with a mural of a kidnapped Joe Biden lying on his side bound with ropes.

Has anybody picked up on the irony here?

Is that what the police do in this country?

Kidnap people and thrown them in the back of pickup trucks?

Sounds like some kind of third-world dictatorship.

Steve Thomas

From the Associated Press

https://apnews.com/article/trump-god-bless-usa-bible-greenwood-2713fda3efdfa297d0f024efb1ca3003

"GodBlessTheUSABible.com is not owned, managed or controlled by Donald J. Trump, The Trump Organization, CIC Ventures LLC or any of their respective principals or affiliates,” it says.

Instead, it says, “GodBlessTheUSABible.com uses Donald J. Trump’s name, likeness and image under paid license from CIC Ventures LLC, which license may be terminated or revoked according to its terms.”

CIC Ventures LLC, a company that Trump reported owning in his 2023 financial disclosure, has a similar arrangement with 45Footwear, which also says it uses Trump’s “name, likeness and image under paid license from CIC Ventures LLC, which license may be terminated or revoked according to its terms.”

A Trump spokesperson and God Bless the USA Bible did not immediately respond to questions about how much Trump was paid for the licensing deal or stands to make from each book sale."

You can get a $60 Bible and a $400 pair of sneakers, oh boy!

Steve Thomas