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

Allegedly this is what he thinks about the USSC decision: "Why would anyone be surprised that the Supreme Court has ruled against me?" the former president has questioned with irony through his profile on Truth Social, the social network that he himself promoted after being expelled from Twitter and where he now seems to have been readmitted.

IMO the latest damaging Mar-A-Lago episode can only be seen as something Trump had nothing to do with if people believe that he has no hand, act or part in choosing who his dinner guests are, that he never knew what type of personal character-baggage his guests had, that he never knew one of his invited guests would be accompanied by uninvited persons and that once more Trump did not know the persons in question, either the holocaust-denier or the other presidential hopeful. Gullibility has its limits.

It's the effect the presence of both dinner guests by personal invite of Trump at his home will have on his campaign funding that will tell the truth of his ability to continue to hijack the US political scene. If the NY Post and other media outlets has the guest-list as headline material for two or more days and Jewish funders of the GOP say it's the either he goes or their funding goes moment has arrived. If the Israeli Govt condemns Trump for daring to have two well-known anti-Jewish speakers as personal dinner guests, I can see the anti-defamation league in the US joining the other US Jewish group in condemning Trump for his choice of guests.

It seems Trump will not be joining with Herschel Walker in his Georgia run-off election campaign.

CNN is saying they are not expected to be made public yet......Yet?

I thought they were not supposed to be made public at all even if the House gets(as it has) access to them.

Of course leaking is another question.

I wonder how many people outside the House will have already seen them?

It will also show who he's indebted to, and thus can be controlled by, it will also put to bed his claimed wealth

No doubt, but the time for that to make a difference was before the 2016 election. Nothing in the tax returns is going to make a difference at this point. Everyone knows exactly who Trump is, they don't need tax returns, which will be too complicated for the vast amount of people to understand, to tell them who he is.

From what I can gather, Kanye was invited to it and Milo was able to get himself invited through people he knew and brought along Feuntes.

I do think Trump was clueless about Kanye's guests to be fair as both Milo and Feuntes outside the internet are not that well known.

From all accounts Milo and Kanye knew the meeting would leak and look bad for Trump with Feuntes their.

I think the three of them wanted to embarrass Trump get some spotlight and that's what happened.

Does Trump deserve a pass? Nope he was stupid enough to be set up like this and his pushback since the meeting was leaked has been really weak.

He hasn't had a great few weeks, the fallout since the midterms, lifeless announcement run, the attacks on Youngkin and RDS haven't connected and now this. Its early days obviously but his 2024 run really does feel like a revenge tour, that may be enough to get through a crowded primary, but winning a national election? Doubtful.

Yet again you want to give Trump the benefit of the doubt. From what you can gather? Gather from where? What sources are you using for this claim?

The man seemingly knows nothing, is unaware of anything and is a best-a-stooge wheeled out to anyone who wants to pop along.

This is nothing new I assume, so all the time he had the classified documents in Mar-A-Lago anybody could have rocked up.

How big a security risk is that? And how big a security risk is it having a ex-POTUS can sit down to dinner with anyone?

Of course, the whole "he didn't know them' falls flat since he has learnt who they were he hasn't even tried to disassociate himself, he has come out to disclaim Fuentues of Kanye, or state that had he known of their views he certainly wouldn't have met them.

One thing that amuses me is that, according to the MSNBC news item on the appeals court ruling dismissing the use of the special master appointed by Judge Cannon, that Trump did not any entitlement to a protection that other citizens would not have in court, is that in Florida, if Trump appealed the ruling, it would likely be heard there by a judge familiar with the issue. This would include Judge Cannon, according to the MSNBC item.

To cap, if that's possible, the GOP's problem list is Mike Lindell announcing that he is: SIC [probably/possibly]; going to run for the chair of the RNC. Ronna McDaniels, the present chair [original chosen one of Trump some years ago] has said she will run for the chair again.

From late yesterday, Colorado's election officials have ordered a recount of the results in it's 3rd district between Lauren Boebert [incumbent and leader in the numbers to date with Adam Frisch as the vote result is close, 0.5% between the candidates.

Being ultra MAGA didn't work either, as we've seen in the Governors races. I think the Republican Party is in big trouble for 2024 if they don't manage to ditch Trump and start talking about issues that voters actually care about. Even with the economy over there not doing too well and inflation being very high, voters rejected Trump candidates all over the country.