Donald Trump discussion Thread IX (threadbanned users listed in OP)

So Trump endorsed candidates did well in the primaries?

Is that good news or bad for the Dems in a purely upcoming electoral sense ,would you say?

Is the current seeming anti abortion- ban sentiment likely to have a big part to play?

Might it jeopardise a GOP takeover of the Houses?

In Missouri at least, there's a chance that Trump may have been a factor in the nomination as Eric Schmitt seems to believe in Trump and the GOP MAGA.

I cant answer Q2 - is it good or bad news for the Dems - as it's unclear [for now] who will control the senate and house candidates for the GOP later this year or whether sanity will return to the GOP from it's present state of un-normality.

YES: The anti-abortion people will push and threaten candidates and the party [which says it likes righteous people] to get their way of blocking other people having abortion rights set in law.

Ref abortion, it may that those mostly concerned [females] with the loss of rights in the state constitutions may have woke-n up and decided to use their votes to their advantage and not to the advantage of people who want to deprive people of their rights in law.

Hopefully so. If women and their friends seriously believe in the right to abortion [and other rights OK'd by USSC mandate to the present] being written into/under State or other law have really woke up to what the GOP fellow-kind plan to deprive them of in the near future, they will turn out en masse on voting day and get their retaliation in first, having learned to use their vote for themselves and not for a freeloader like Trump.

Schmidt getting the nomination is good news for the GOP as the alternative Eric Greitens was very dodgy, stories of domestic abuse and the likes of Hawley came out strongly against him. Schmidt is MAGA but not as corny as some of the bootlickers and tbf in MO its not a bad play.

I seen a tweet the other day saying their are 3 parties in Kansas, the dems, social conservatives, and pro choice conservatives.

I don't expect all those voted no last night to vote Dem but its a wake up call for the GOP that they are going to have stare down the noisy activists because when it comes to abortion the harsher you go unless its a really red state you are in bother.

Arizona was a weird one for the GOP, a very weak candidate for governor Lake won but the turnout was really good. Swings and roundabouts.

So does it look like only a very few States will be able to "succeed" where Kansas failed-and can the pro-choice movement live with such a States-wide result?

Would that take the heat out of the issue except in those very few States?

Not possible to organize a referendum with enough signatures to overturn some egregious restrictions on abortion ? (in any State blue or red )

I'd hazard a guess that states minded to ban the provision of abortion services at state and private medical service level will have sat up on notice of the Kansas amendment failure and introduce catch-22 clauses for the moment when anyone tries to move against a state ban on abortion.

It's worth recalling that the move to successfully block the provision of abortion services didn't start with the present USSC bench but with state authorities giving new health and safety building requirements to long existing clinics to successfully force closure of the clinics in the past 4 or so years.

Unfortunately he saw the train coming down the tracks and put his company into administration last week in an apparent attempt to avoid paying restitution to both his living and dead victims. If he or his lawyer used his public statements as defence testimony while knowing it to be false, it'd be good if years in jail is the result.

Anyone online today from the US side of the Atlantic to say if this is still in play or just a Silly Season story? I'm reading two articles in the NYT concerning Wisconsin that: A. Wisconsin GOP voters want the 2020 election result [presumably from that state] decertified so that Trump can be declared to be [still] the President AND that the only reason it hasn't happened is that Wisconsin's GOP speaker of the house, Robin Vos, doesn't want to do so. It's possible that the Vos part of the storyline is dated but some of Wisconsin's GOP state legislature members are still pushing for it to happen.

One other report in the NYT is that 4 GOP state legislatures are still using electoral map that their own state supreme courts declared were illegal gerrymandering maps. According to the report, this continued usage is down to a shift in electoral law philosophy at the USSC giving the GOP an electoral advantage in Nov 2022. The NYT is on pay for use basis so I don't know the names of the 4 states.

Of course he does. That's what people with something to hide usually say.

Merrick Garland has been criticised for many months for perceived inaction. In fact, during all that time, he may have been putting together a highly focused, highly effective and leak free investigation, which is feeding the Jan 6th Cmttee evidence into the mix.

And if the time has arrived to begin executing search warrants and making arrests, with a view to federal charges of the utmost seriousness, there should be quite a few Trump acolytes filling their pants tonight, including his family.

Classified documents. According to a CNN reporter, officials were in the house a number of weeks ago and Trumps lawyers showed them where the documents were kept.

The officials subsequently sent a letter requesting that better security be provided for the documents.

So it would appear that probable cause was more than met.

Why they required a search warrant rather than Trump simply handing them over is a question.

But they didn't do this lightly, the FBI and anyone connected with this, would be well aware of the potential backlash so it appears that this action would be a last resort.

Why would Trump continue to hold onto classified documents when he has been informed it was illegal and the US wanted them back ? What did he expect to gain from holding onto them?

Re your ?,s in your last para, the mindset of a "privileged" person used to thinking "its all mine and no one else's", then, in his dotage, gifted with the presidency.