What does a TRUMP presidency look like?

[viper37]

Two things:

Staff at Walter Reed were forced to sign a confidentially agreement last year when Trump visited the hospital last year.

Trump has been pressuring Bill Barr to indict Biden.

Don't you need a grand jury to indict somebody?

You got it wrong.

Step 1: Indict.
Step 2: Find a reason to indict.
Step 3: Find a loophole that let's you indict and prosecute.

[FunkMonk]

Two things:

Staff at Walter Reed were forced to sign a confidentially agreement last year when Trump visited the hospital last year.

Trump has been pressuring Bill Barr to indict Biden.

Don't you need a grand jury to indict somebody?

You got it wrong.

Step 1: Indict.
Step 2: Find a reason to indict.
Step 3: Find a loophole that let's you indict and prosecute.

This is a Nothing Matters election, except unlike 2016, Donald Trump is not the beneficiary.

Joe Biden could shoot someone in the middle of 5th Avenue in NYC and he'd still win by 10 points.

[The Minsky Moment]

Technically you need a grand jury to indict, however in the US a criminal case can be commenced without an indictment using a criminal information. In the federal system felony charges require a grand jury, that is not necessarily true in the states,

[Syt]

Donald Trump calling in on Rush Limbaugh:

https://twitter.com/atrupar/status/1314627983471239168?s=20

"And Iran knows that if you fuck around with us, if you do something bad to us, we are gonna do things to you that have never been done before."

[Valmy]

Do they though?

[DGuller]

I had no idea Bob Dole was still alive.

[Valmy]

I had no idea Bob Dole was still alive.

Really Bob? You come out of retirement to attack Republicans who aren't Trump sycophants?

You broke my heart man.

[The Larch]

I shudder to think what kind of medical examination it will be... 

[PDH]

Wait, if Tucker's legal defense was that people shouldn't believe anything on his show...

[The Minsky Moment]

The debate thing is tricky.  You have to find a moderator who is a credible and competent journalist, that is fair and with a backbone, that can ask intelligent questions, and yet also has favorable views about Donald Trump.  That's a Venn diagram that doesn't intersect.

[Syt]

https://news.yahoo.com/donald-trump-reportedly-owes-tens-164121571.html

Donald Trump reportedly owes tens of millions to the Bank of China

Donald Trump is reported to owe tens of millions of dollars to China, through a real estate debt which falls due in 2022, offering "astonishing leverage" to Beijing.

The debt derives from a 30% share the US president owns in a billion-dollar building on the Avenue of the Americas in Manhattan, which was refinanced in 2012, with $211m of the funding coming from the state-owned Bank of China, Politico reported on Friday.

The Chinese debt complicates Trump's emerging election strategy of portraying his Democratic opponent, Joe Biden, as being soft on China. In a briefing on Saturday, Trump said that "China will own the United States" if Biden was elected in November.

But China is heavily involved in the Trump business empire. A Chinese state-owned construction company is helping build the Trump World Golf Club in Dubai, and Beijing has awarded trademarks to the president's daughter, Ivanka. In the past, Ivanka's husband (and a White House adviser), Jared Kushner, has sought Chinese finance for at least one major real estate deal.

The president is a passive minority investor in the 1290 Avenue of the Americas office tower. The main investor is Vornado Realty Trust, which owns 70%.

Neither the White House nor the Trump Organization responded to requests for comment. Trump has officially handed over the day-to-day running of his business empire to his sons, but he benefits financially from its profits, producing multiple conflicts of interest. The Trump Organization has recently applied for coronavirus compensation from the government.

Trump's approach to China has alternated between combative and unctuous, particularly in relation to the Chinese president, Xi Jinping, with whom Trump has consistently claimed to have an excellent personal relationship.

Trump tweeted on 24 January, in the early stages of the pandemic: "China has been working very hard to contain the Coronavirus. The United States greatly appreciates their efforts and transparency. It will all work out well. In particular, on behalf of the American People, I want to thank President Xi!"

"I study Beijing's influence on America, and this is the most problematic conflict of interest I've seen," Isaac Stone Fish, a senior fellow at the Asia Society, wrote on Twitter. "The Bank of China is a state-owned bank, controlled by China's State Council, the country's major administrative body, chaired by the Premier Li Keqiang.

"The leverage this presents is astonishing. What if the Bank of China cancels the loan, or requires Trump to pay it back earlier?" Fish asked. "Is this why Trump often praises Chinese Chairman Xi Jinping? Does this cause him to temper his policies or his public remarks? This raises so many questions."

[The Brain]

Does he owe many millions to North Korea? Non-rhetorical.

I don't think Chinese loans make a difference. A normal president's behavior might be influenced by Chinese leverage, but Trump will drink the ass juice of any authoritarian figure completely on his own accord.

[The Larch]

In several phone calls last weekend from the presidential suite at Walter Reed National Military Medical Center, Mr. Trump shared an idea he was considering: When he left the hospital, he wanted to appear frail at first when people saw him, according to people with knowledge of the conversations. But underneath his button-down dress shirt, he would wear a Superman T-shirt, which he would reveal as a symbol of strength when he ripped open the top layer. He ultimately did not go ahead with the stunt.

[Admiral Yi]

And then it turns out the referee is Hillary Clinton, and he picks up a folding chair and smashes her, then throws her out of the ring!

[Caliga]

In several phone calls last weekend from the presidential suite at Walter Reed National Military Medical Center, Mr. Trump shared an idea he was considering: When he left the hospital, he wanted to appear frail at first when people saw him, according to people with knowledge of the conversations. But underneath his button-down dress shirt, he would wear a Superman T-shirt, which he would reveal as a symbol of strength when he ripped open the top layer. He ultimately did not go ahead with the stunt.

I really wish he had done that.