| Yes, the people who testified against Trump at his Manhattan trail were sleeze and low-lifes. That's because Trump swims in a pool of sleeze and low-lifes. Because Trump himself is sleeze and low-life. That's his world. |
| It's important to remember that when we elect a president, we're not just electing a president. Along with that individual comes an entire cabinet and staff of hundreds of high level officials who set the stage for thousands of lower level officials, all of whom are either directly appointed by the president or hired by his appointees. All of those executive department personnel represent the presidents vision of leadership.
If Trump is elected in 2024, he has promised to eliminate the "deep state." He is not eliminating anything. He will simply stock what he refers to as the "deep state" with a cadre of felons, mobsters and con artists. What he means is that he will staff the executive branch with people from his cesspool. Mr. Trump’s former campaign manager (Paul Manafort), his former chief strategist (Steve Bannon), and his longtime adviser and friend (Roger Stone) are all convicted felons. For Mr. Trump, “felon” was just a word, at least when it came to his own associates: he gave all three men presidential pardons. Source: "A Mark of Shame for 900 Years. Until Now?" By Mattathias Schwartz - NY Times - July 6, 2024 The list of Trump’s former team members who’ve been convicted of a crime is expansive. Among them: Trump’s former campaign chairman, Paul Manafort, and former campaign vice chairman, Rick Gates; his former fixer, Michael Cohen; his former chief strategist, Steve Bannon; his former national security advisor, Michael Flynn; his former trade advisor, Peter Navarro; and his former foreign policy adviser, George Papadopoulos. “If everybody in your social circle is a felon, I don’t think it’s ‘rigged,’” Cowherd added. Source: "Top Sports Talk Host Tears Into Trump For 'Trying To Sell Me An America That Doesn't Exist'" by Marco Margaritoff quoting Colin Cowherd of Fox Sports 1 via HuffPost - 6/1/24 Even as they proclaim Trump’s innocence, Trump and his allies revel in the frisson of criminality. At his rally in the Bronx last month, for example, Trump invited onto the stage two rappers, Sheff G and Sleepy Hallow, who are currently facing charges of conspiracy to commit murder and weapons possession. (They’ve pleaded not guilty.) During Trump’s recent criminal trial, his courtroom entourage included Chuck Zito, who helped found the New York chapter of the Hells Angels motorcycle gang and spent six years in prison on drug conspiracy charges. (The Justice Department has linked his Hells Angels chapter to the Gambino crime family.) Trump, who has his own history of mafia ties, has repeatedly compared himself to Al Capone. MAGA merchants sell T-shirts — and, weirdly, hot sauce — showing Trump as either Vito or Michael Corleone from “The Godfather” movies, with the caption “The Donfather.” Source: "Donald Trump’s Mob Rule" by MICHELLE GOLDBERG - NY Times - 6/7/24 Since leaving the Trump administration under an ethical cloud, Michael Flynn has converted his Trump-world celebrity into a lucrative and sprawling family business. He and his relatives have marketed the retired general as a martyr, raising hundreds of thousands of dollars for a legal-defense fund and then pocketing leftover money. Through a network of nonprofit and for-profit ventures, they have sold far-right conspiracy theories, ranging from lies about the 2020 election to warnings, embraced by followers of QAnon, about cabals of pedophiles and child traffickers. A New York Times investigation found Flynn family members had made at least $2.2 million monetizing Michael Flynn’s right-wing stardom in recent years, with more than half of that going to Mr. Flynn directly. That total includes several payments not previously reported, but it is still a low estimate, since not all financial records are public. The Times’s reporting also raised questions about whether America’s Future had properly disclosed its payments to Mr. Flynn’s relatives. Mr. Flynn’s reinvention could lead to resurrection: In the last year, Mr. Trump has alluded several times to his intention to bring the retired general back into his administration should Mr. Trump win the White House in November. By the end of its second year, his nonprofit group, America’s Future Inc., was running in the red, burning through reserves — and still paying $518,000, or 29 percent of its budget, to Flynns. America’s Future then embraced a new cause: protecting children from sexual abuse and human trafficking. In doing so, the group began to amplify a false conspiracy theory, similar to the one at the heart of the QAnon movement: that a global cabal of pedophiles controls the media and politics. In a video on its website, members of the group’s board and advisory board echoed the false “Pizzagate” conspiracy theory, a QAnon precursor alleging that prominent Democrats were trafficking children at a Washington pizza parlor. Ms. Flynn O’Neill warned of an organized effort to use children’s body parts. “They have organ harvesting,” she says in a video. “They have also found a way to take the blood, and use the blood, to make themselves youthful.” Source: "Michael Flynn Has Turned His Trump-World Celebrity Into a Family Business" By David A. Fahrenthold and Alexandra Berzon - NY Times - 6/23/24 |
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