Drumpf - Epstein Friend/ US Prez 47/ War Criminal*

Subject: RE: Drumpf - Epstein Friend/ US Prez 47/ War Criminal*
From: r.padgett
Date: 01 Apr 26 - 09:05 AM

That's interesting Lighter ~ down to the lawyers to argue

Ray

Subject: RE: Drumpf - Epstein Friend/ US Prez 47/ War Criminal*
From: Backwoodsman
Date: 01 Apr 26 - 09:25 AM

Lighter is correct, Ray. Under US constitutional rules, a Presidential Term ends at noon on the 20th January.

https://www.law.georgetown.edu/constitution-center/constitution/presidential-terms/

Subject: RE: Drumpf - Epstein Friend/ US Prez 47/ War Criminal*
From: r.padgett
Date: 01 Apr 26 - 11:14 AM

My original post above is a quote from a court case ~ the following is evidence to the contrary so it is as I say down to legal interpretation as to whether Big T was deemed President and thus had Presidential immunity of sorts or not ~imv

Ray

Subject: RE: Drumpf - Epstein Friend/ US Prez 47/ War Criminal*
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 01 Apr 26 - 11:24 AM

No, r.padgett, it isn't down to legal interpretation. The election is in November but the new president isn't sworn in until January 20 of the following year. Everything up until that point Trump owns. Full stop.

Subject: RE: Drumpf - Epstein Friend/ US Prez 47/ War Criminal*
From: Lighter
Date: 01 Apr 26 - 11:31 AM

There's no doubt he was still President. The question is whether he was acting in the performance of his official duties.

His argument will be that he was simply informing the crowd that, as President, he was thoroughly convinced the election was rigged and that they should walk "peacefully" (the word he used) to the Capitol to demonstrate. He will argue that he was carrying out his absolute duty to urge and influence Congress to reject the "fraudulent" results. He never exhorted anyone to storm the building, much less vandalize it, fight the police, and threaten Congress.

If the Trumpy Supreme Court buys that argument, he's home free.

Subject: RE: Drumpf - Epstein Friend/ US Prez 47/ War Criminal*
From: r.padgett
Date: 01 Apr 26 - 11:34 AM

“President Trump has not shown that the Speech reasonably can be understood as falling within the outer perimeter of his Presidential duties,” Mehta wrote. “The content of the Ellipse Speech confirms that it is not covered by official-acts immunity.”


The 79-page ruling, years in the making, follows numerous efforts by Trump to scuttle the lawsuit by claiming he is protected by presidential immunity from liability for his actions on the day of the Capitol Riot and in the weeks leading up to that event.

But the decision also portends years of additional litigation and appeals, likely ensuring that Trump will be contending with the lawsuits for the remainder of his presidency. It also prolongs the wait for a resolution to one of the last remaining efforts by that day‘s victims to pursue accountability. from an email from politico

Subject: RE: Drumpf - Epstein Friend/ US Prez 47/ War Criminal*
From: MaJoC the Filk
Date: 01 Apr 26 - 01:04 PM

BBC ticker, all Breaking News:

* Trump says there'll be an "important national address" this (Wednesday) evening.
* Trump claims on social media that Iran has asked for a ceasefire.
* Trump attends Supreme Court debate on birthright citizenship.

.... I was wondering which of them is the April fool's joke, but then I remembered the Eternal September Wikipedia entry (qv). Mesdames et messieurs: welcome to the Eternal April Fools' Day.

Subject: RE: Drumpf - Epstein Friend/ US Prez 47/ War Criminal*
From: Donuel
Date: 01 Apr 26 - 10:03 PM

Among the many lies in his address he said, "The new regime in Iran is much less radical and dangerous..."

The son of the murdered Ayatollah has also lost his wife and children.

Mojtaba Khamenei, the newly appointed Supreme Leader of Iran, has reportedly lost at least eight immediate family members in the Trump invasion, including his father, mother, wife, and son...

Do you think he may be as radical and extreme with a sense of retribution as humanly possible?

Subject: RE: Drumpf - Epstein Friend/ US Prez 47/ War Criminal*
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 01 Apr 26 - 10:05 PM

Consensus among those in the media with common sense is that Drumpf lit a match in the firework stand and now he's bailing out, leaving a lot more radical power structure in place in Iran.

Subject: RE: Drumpf - Epstein Friend/ US Prez 47/ War Criminal*
From: r.padgett
Date: 02 Apr 26 - 12:48 AM

The majority, in its decision in the case known as Learning Resources Inc. v. Trump, said on Feb. 20 that a president does not have the authority to unilaterally impose tariffs on imports from most countries under the International Emergency Economic Powers Act, as Trump had claimed.

“Based on two words separated by 16 others in Section 1702(a)(1)(B) of IEEPA —‘regulate’ and ‘importation’ — the President asserts the independent power to impose tariffs on imports from any country, of any product, at any rate, for any amount of time,” wrote Chief Justice John Roberts in the majority decision.

“Those words cannot bear such weight,” wrote Roberts, who, like Gorsuch and Barrett, is a conservative.~ Supreme Court ruling

Subject: RE: Drumpf - Epstein Friend/ US Prez 47/ War Criminal*
From: r.padgett
Date: 02 Apr 26 - 12:55 AM

Big T continues to show his propensity to act like a dictator ~he acted illegally and took US forces as a private army too

How can US allow and vote such a plonker in twice to be President ~he is a laughing stock ~or would have been had the legal errors and appointments not been so fundamentally wrong

Good that the judges followed the law including those he appointed

Good 'elp us

Ray

Subject: RE: Drumpf - Epstein Friend/ US Prez 47/ War Criminal*
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 02 Apr 26 - 02:16 PM

Another rat thrown overboard: Trump removes US attorney general Pam Bondi

Summary

• Pam Bondi has been removed as US attorney general in the Trump administration
  
  
• Trump posted on Truth Social that Bondi "will be transitioning to a much needed and important new job in the private sector"
  
  
• Todd Blanche will be acting attorney general, Trump confirmed
  
  
• Bondi and the justice department has faced criticism over its handling of the Epstein files, including failing to redact the names of victims
  
  
• Under Bondi's leadership, the justice department has pursued a number of criminal investigations into political opponents of the president, including New York Attorney General Letitia James and ex-FBI Director James Comey
  
  
• Bondi's departure as attorney general does not come as a surprise - although the timing seems sudden, writes White House reporter Bernd Debusmann Jr