It’s not entirely accurate to say Whiskey Pete is “anti-DEI.” He’s an open racist and misogynist.
DOJ Trumpets That It Will 'Abide by' Slush Fund Court Order After GOP Balks At Funding ICE, Ballroom
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Please stop calling the $1.776B pot of money a “slush fund.”
It’s a “thug fund.”
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Not to mention the unmentionable that’s screaming at us. There’s no mention of the immunity granted the Trump family and businesses from IRS audit or liability. Why is nobody mentioning that, I wonder.
The court investigation into whether the deal was a ‘fraud on the court’ needs to proceed with full force and speed.
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I guess Peters has decided that she still has a job selling the vote-flipping story, at least until the midterms. Polis could have waited just four months to commute Peters sentence and she would have come out of jail unemployable. Joe Oltmann, who has dropped out of the CO governor’s race, is instilled with a sense of purpose.
Here in Colorado, MAGA activist Joe Oltmann took to X on November 27 to call Governor Jared Polis, Attorney General Phil Weiser, Secretary of State Jena Griswold, and others part of a “synagogue of Satan Jews” who are “traitors.” Oltmann followed his grotesquely slanderous and antisemitic commentary by saying that “rotted judges” involved with Tina Peters’ trial for election security breaches “deserve to be tried for treason in military tribunals and hang.”
Polis’ failure to at least wait a few months could reflect pressure from an impending resentencing of Peters. From early April.
An appeals court decided that election denier Tina Peters, currently incarcerated in a Colorado prison for her part in a voting machine tampering plot, will be resentenced. The court cited its belief that the original sentence wrongly included Peters’ protected free speech. The decision noted, “[I]t is apparent that the court imposed the lengthy sentence it did because Peters continued to espouse the views that led her to commit these crimes.” Her resentencing will be in the same district court and by the same judge that originally sentenced her.
To be less charitable to Polis, this could also be a matter of stupidity on his part. He seems to have focused on protected speech, only a narrow issue in the case. Peters committed crimes that had nothing to do with protected speech. Also Colorado has nearly three dozen far-right white supremacist groups. And there are fringy people. The cops certainly remember the Planned Parenthood Shooting in Colorado Springs in 2015, when Robert Dear, who was worked up about “baby parts”, shot and killed a university police officer, a mother of two and an Iraqi war vet, as well as wounding five police and four civilians.
The district attorney who took Peters to trial said Polis “misunderstood” key facts, and Colorado’s attorney general said the governor’s rationale was “mind-boggling and wrong as a matter of basic justice.”
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The NYT has it in the subhead this morning at the the top of the web home page, under the headline about “Trump backs off plan…”
A plan to pay people who President Trump has said were victimized by Democrats drew wide opposition. Mr. Trump has not abandoned his immunity from audits.
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No surprise if T abandons the fund, because the $$ wasn’t going to him. But the immunity bit is the bigger prize, and the court sure needs to look at that. The corruption is there for all to see. “I’ll sue me, then settle with me on terms that put all the past behind me.” Sweet!
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Does this mean that Trump will just get to pocket the whole 1.8B instead of setting up a fund? Have we all just gotten snookered into accepting the way he openly looted the treasury?
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Are they still on recess? [/s]
Is a new recess imminent? [not so /s]
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