Plus, if he tries to wangle a Musk bailout to pay his fines, surely the court will step in and start demanding lots of paperwork to assess the legality thereof?

Taxes are for poor people and infinite paperwork can be generated by lawyers (even shit ones) and used to delay, delay, delay.

I don't think either of these would be an issue if Musk/Bezos/Putin or anyone else with a billion or so to spare decided he wanted to buy the USA.

TBH I think the trusting Trump issue is the only thing stopping this from happening.

True, the continued parade of people that near-surgically attach themselves to his orange arse and expect not to be added to that big pile under the bus is a source of bemusement for me.

It would appear, at least from what SO has seen on Shitter just now, is that Chubb has put up the bond money for Rapey McFascist. From the division in Russia too [what are they still doing in Russia?]

That's a $91 million bond for the E. Jean Carroll case. No mention of him securing similar backing for the NY State fraud case.

Plus, in order to persuade Chubb to post the bond, Omango-Tan has had to provide financial guarantees in the form of liquid assets. Methinks the judge in the NY State fraud trial will be asking some pressing questions about his failure to pony up $454 million in that case on the back of this.

I'm thinking that he knows he's fucked, and that he can't fuck around with the authorities in the NY State fraud trial, so he's decided he's going to fuck over Carroll again as a parting shot out of sheer spite. Then there's the little matter of the classified documents trial, where he's facing de facto espionage charges. The evidence available thus far suggests that one is going to be the doom hammer for him once it's underway.

It's blatantly obvious that all his delaying is aimed at becoming America's first king in November 2024, whereupon he'll act in vindictively criminal fashion to an extent even surpassing his past antics.

A long time ago, I said that once he'd mainlined the drug of power in the White House, nothing else would match that high, and it's now obvious that he's desperate for another hit. If the USA is stupid enough to let him have it, it's bye bye democracy and hello Trumpenführer.

Of course, the wingnuts among the Christian Nationalists will back him to the hilt, because they're indulging in wet dreams about making Gilead a nightmare reality for everyone else, and launching their own anachronistic Inquisition. But with someone as unhinged as Trump in the WH, that could turn sour for them quickly. Possibly to the point where they have to arrange his, er, clumsiness on a handy balcony. Followed by an unctuous show funeral, then the use of said balcony episode as a pretext for whatever version of Kristallnacht they're cooking up.

I'd suggest that the shitfest unfolding is bad enough for the rest of the world to start planning to wear its mushroom with pride. We could be entering a new age as a species shortly - the Stone Age.

Now come on. there's no way the US electorate are going to vote for a rapist, fraudster, serial liar and blatant fascist to the most powerful position in the free world.

That would require a lot of people to do something very stupid.

It's inconceivable.

There's no way they'd be that stupid.

We're fucked, aren't we?

Don't usually bother with TikTok videos, but this one is telling:

Chubb bails out Trump, but tried to dodge paying NY Catholic child abuse victims even after the court ordered them to

Might be fascinating to be a fly on the wall eavesdropping on Chubb boardroom conversations ...

If I believed in hell I'd say there's a special place there for scumfuckers like these.

Here's a photo of Trump with Laken Riley's immediate family. Note how gleeful they all are. After all of the quips from Trump about how Biden mispronounced her name, he then goes on to hold up a photo with her name misspelled on the signed photo.

This is reminiscent of the El Paso shooting photo op: Trump with the same pathological grin, a thumbs up, and Melania holding a baby orphaned by a Trump-enraged shooter. I surprised he didn't hold the baby up himself ike a Super Bowl trophy.

He's a psychopath. It's as bad as wishing everyone a "happy" memorial day. That's not how the world works.

So the appeals court swoops in and cuts the damn bond down to just over $100 million but denies a stay or some such that would have allowed him to get the money from NY financial institutions. No real reason given for the reduction too it seems.

Hush money case still moving ahead for now, April 15th.

Alan C wrote:So the appeals court swoops in and cuts the damn bond down to just over $100 million but denies a stay or some such that would have allowed him to get the money from NY financial institutions. No real reason given for the reduction too it seems.

Hush money case still moving ahead for now, April 15th.

If that April 15th date holds, he and his loaded diaper will have to sit for 8-9 hours each day the trial is underway, which is something like 4 days a week for several weeks.

Since it's a criminal trial, there's no option for him not to appear. This is a stress test that's very much needed.

And now: "We must make America pray again:" Trump now selling Bibles (Axion)

Former President Trump is now selling Bibles for $59.99.

The big picture: The presumptive GOP nominee is encouraging supporters to buy the "God Bless the USA Bible," which draws inspiration from country singer Lee Greenwood's patriotic anthem, "God Bless the USA."

GodBlessTheUSABible.com licensed Trump's image from CIC Ventures LLC — the same company that owns the trademark to "The Never Surrender High-Top Sneaker" debuted in February.

Very Presidential I'm sure...

Perhaps he sees himself in a more managerial role. Perhaps organising the catering and the latrines etc. Defenders still gotta eat and poop.

In what should be a surprise to no one, Trumps sleazy bible grift turns out to be even more sleazy than at first sight:



MTN, so they go on a bit.

TLDW version:

The bibles were printed for Lee Greenwood back in 2021 to "commemorate" (I don't think that word means what he thinks it means) the 20th anniversary of the 911 attacks.

Massive numbers of 1-star reviews as orders weren't fulfilled and returns weren't honoured (the quality of them was questionable).

Greenwood filmed himself selling them out the back of his pickup.

And the price has gone up by $10.

Grifters got to grift I suppose - but the GOP want to make this "billionaire" president of the USA...

Someone on Faecesbook also pointed out, that this latest Omango-Tan scam also provides a means for Christian Nationalist churches to slip him money, in a manner calculated to try and evade prohibitions on political donations by religious groups, and if operated in this manner, constitutes de facto money laundering.

Meanwhile, who watched that video clip, and howled with laughter at the "sticky pages" part?

Threatening judges, again.

Pre-trial fucking detention, why isn't he in that.

Think you Americans are going to have to start practicing saying nice things about Dear Leader, the most potent, the most handsome, and the smartest president the US has ever known.