What does a TRUMP presidency look like?

[grumbler]

So, apparently the last straw was that Noem awarded a $65 million non-compete contract for something like "information services" to a company formed 8 days before the award.  The company's owner? Her husband.  She claimed that Trump approved the deal, but he denied it and that was the end of Noem. Some details might be a bit off: I was listening to this on the radio.

[DGuller]

So, apparently the last straw was that Noem awarded a $65 million non-compete contract for something like "information services" to a company formed 8 days before the award.  The company's owner? Her husband.  She claimed that Trump approved the deal, but he denied it and that was the end of Noem. Some details might be a bit off: I was listening to this on the radio.

They're not even trying to hide anything.  I hope there will be Nuremberg trials after this administration falls.

[Sophie Scholl]

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[Duque de Bragança]

So, apparently the last straw was that Noem awarded a $65 million non-compete contract for something like "information services" to a company formed 8 days before the award.  The company's owner? Her husband.  She claimed that Trump approved the deal, but he denied it and that was the end of Noem. Some details might be a bit off: I was listening to this on the radio.

They're not even trying to hide anything.  I hope there will be Nuremberg trials after this administration falls.

Trump did not receive his usual cut? 

[Baron von Schtinkenbutt]

Trump did not receive his usual cut? 

Independently-ambitious lieutenants are a threat to the family business.  It starts with a side hustle, but before you know it they amass enough power to challenge the don.  Can't have that.

[The Minsky Moment]

https://www.justice.gov/epstein/files/DataSet%209/EFTA01245620.pdf

The above is a victim statement given in 2019 by the FBI from a victim who was abused by Epstein in the 1980s.  It is in the Epstein files produced by the DOJ. During the interview when shown a picture that had Epstein and Trump on it, she asked that the Trump picture be redacted because she feared "retaliation." 

Follow-up interviews were scheduled for this witness, identified as 3501.045 and three additional interviews occurred: https://www.justice.gov/epstein/files/DataSet%209/EFTA00095751.pdf   (page 8)

However, none of the notes from the other three interviews were produced by the DOJ. They appear to have been removed prior to the production, leaving non-sequential stamped numbers.

DOJ quietly released some (but not all) of the documents from this witness yesterday, during the middle of this entirely coincidental war, along with some other material that had been removed without explanation. In addition to multiple documents implicating Trump in various ways (including the sexual assault claim from a then 13-15 y.o.), I saw one document in which an older woman (approx 29) accused George Mitchell.

Some interesting detail:

EPSTEIN talked about blackmailing people in front of [REDACT]. [REDACT ]was confident TRUMP knew EPSTEIN blackmailed people because she heard EPSTEIN and TRUMP talking about it. [REDACT] stated she knew TRUMP had illegal building permits. She heard him (TRUMP) talking about washing money through casinos. Number 6 is Donald Trump's favorite number. was not sure how she knew that, but she had heard it at one point. [REDACT] stated that EPSTEIN's blackmailing of her mother, "ruined my family".

[The Minsky Moment]

I hope there will be Nuremberg trials after this administration falls.

Straight up RICO case would do the job.  But we are kidding ourselves.  All federal charges will be pardoned for everyone before that could ever happen.

[The Minsky Moment]

I understand that we live in a world where facts don't matter but the witness 3501.045 testimony is really bad for Trump. For those that don't know - the core allegation is that she was forced to have oral sex with Trump at age 13-15, she bit him, and he hit her.

It's clear that the FBI viewed her as a credible witness.  She gave a lot of details about Epstein and his movements and environment and his interactions with other people. The witness did not come forward on her own. She mentioned something to a friend about Trump and Epstein and the friend tipped off the FBI.  The witness was very reluctant to talk about Trump at all and did not discuss the incident until the second interview. She mentioned two other incidents involving Trump but then clammed up saying "what the point would be of providing the information at this point in her life when there was a strong possibility nothing could be done about it."

I can see why DJT wanted to suppress this.  If the same claims were made in the same way about say Hunter Biden, we would literally never hear the end of it from Fox News, etc.  It would go in their permanent rant file with Benghazi etc.

[Razgovory]

I understand that we live in a world where facts don't matter but the witness 3501.045 testimony is really bad for Trump. For those that don't know - the core allegation is that she was forced to have oral sex with Trump at age 13-15, she bit him, and he hit her.

It's clear that the FBI viewed her as a credible witness.  She gave a lot of details about Epstein and his movements and environment and his interactions with other people. The witness did not come forward on her own. She mentioned something to a friend about Trump and Epstein and the friend tipped off the FBI.  The witness was very reluctant to talk about Trump at all and did not discuss the incident until the second interview. She mentioned two other incidents involving Trump but then clammed up saying "what the point would be of providing the information at this point in her life when there was a strong possibility nothing could be done about it."

I can see why DJT wanted to suppress this.  If the same claims were made in the same way about say Hunter Biden, we would literally never hear the end of it from Fox News, etc.  It would go in their permanent rant file with Benghazi etc.

The biggest problem I see with the testimony is that she claims to have met Trump and Epstein before Trump met Epstein.

[The Minsky Moment]

Trump said in the 2002 New York Magazine article that he had known Epstein for 15 years, which puts it back into the 1980s.  The guy who ran the operations of Trump's casino in Jersey stated that he saw the two together there during his tenure starting in 1987.

People focus on period when they were neighbors in Palm Beach, but Epstein and Trump were both active "men about the town" in NYC during the 1980s.  Epstein was named "bachelor of the month" by Cosmo in 1980. 

[Syt]

I hope there will be Nuremberg trials after this administration falls.

Straight up RICO case would do the job.  But we are kidding ourselves.  All federal charges will be pardoned for everyone before that could ever happen.

Speaking of pardons.

https://apnews.com/article/capito-riot-trump-pardon-child-molestation-f2690d4574a30afdec82edac04c2f4b9

Capitol rioter who was pardoned by Trump gets a life sentence for molesting 2 children in Florida

[...]

Johnson told one of his victims that he expected to be compensated for being a pardoned Jan. 6 defendant and would be putting the child in his will to inherit any leftover money, according a sheriff's office report.

"This tactic was believed to be used to keep (the child) from exposing what Andrew had done," the report said.

[...]

[Razgovory]

Trump said in the 2002 New York Magazine article that he had known Epstein for 15 years, which puts it back into the 1980s.  The guy who ran the operations of Trump's casino in Jersey stated that he saw the two together there during his tenure starting in 1987.

People focus on period when they were neighbors in Palm Beach, but Epstein and Trump were both active "men about the town" in NYC during the 1980s.  Epstein was named "bachelor of the month" by Cosmo in 1980. 

Yeah, but I thought this witness says it was around '83.  The FBI thought it was important enough for follow up interviews, but I am skeptical of something being there.