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Attorney General Garland seems to have his work cut out for him.
Besides the entire T**** Crime Family, I’d really like to see Navarro busted into tiny little pieces…
One big stinky piece is fine with me, as long as it’s in a jail cell.
Swamp draining - Trump style.
Do these types ever STOP the grift?
The grift Is the point.
more than $36 billion the federal government has awarded, much of it without traditional bidding and with little scrutiny, to address the COVID-19 pandemic.
So sad. Twin Peaches’ second term was supposed to eat up most of that 5 year statute of limitations.
I’d settle for his head exploding, as referenced in the article. Can we reward him an indictment?
This can’t be true! Sleazy dealing by the trump administration, never!
First, you add alligators.
I’m shocked, SHOCKED, I tell you, to find that there was graft and corruption during the previous Administration. Someone fetch my salts and escort me to the fainting couch, please.
Great minds think alike…
Easter reading assignment: David Graeber’s book Debt: The last 5,000 years.
Early on he notes that sometimes one group manages to fob liability for debt repayment on some other group. We acknowledge this game modernly in such necessary structures as bankruptcy law. Notably, when society takes on debt, it’s cool with it when people are asked what they want. Parisians want their metro, Japanese love their bullet trains, Finns love their motorways, Danes their bike paths. I applaud Biden for at least listening to what kind of infrastructure we want. Sometimes we rebuild out of nostalgia, and sometimes we build for the future. I, for one, like the push for safer and healthier bike paths.
A federal judge ruled Tuesday that a broad non-disclosure agreement that Donald Trump’s 2016 presidential campaign required employees to sign is unenforceable.
U.S. District Court Judge Paul Gardephe’s ruling generally steered clear of the constitutional issues presented by such agreements in the context of political campaigns. Instead, the judge — an appointee of President George W. Bush — said the sweeping, boilerplate language the campaign compelled employees to sign was so vague that the agreement was invalid under New York contract law.
“As to the scope of the provision, it is — as a practical matter —unlimited. … Accordingly, Campaign employees are not free to speak about anything concerning the Campaign,” wrote Gardephe. “The non-disclosure provision is thus much broader than what the Campaign asserts is necessary to protect its legitimate interests, and, therefore, is not reasonable.”
Absolutely throw the book at him. Who doubts he got kickbacks or other “benefits.”
Ah yes, there’s that familiar mix again of outrage and unsurprise. After a few months of Biden-Harris competence and integrity, I’d started to forget.
It always circles back to “follow the money”
So what’s the contract law like in Florida? What about NDAs signed for the 2020 campaign?
