Fani Willis Has Notched 3 Guilty Pleas And She Ain’t Done Yet

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Mar-a-Lago member and Australian billionaire Anthony Pratt said Donald Trump told him about his private calls with the leaders of Ukraine and Iraq, according to reports published yesterday about private recordings of Pratt, a key prosecution witness in Trump’s classified documents case. Via CNN:

In the tapes, Pratt says Trump shared insider details about his phone calls with world leaders during his presidency. Pratt also offers searing critiques of Trump’s personal ethics.

“It hadn’t even been on the news yet, and he said, ‘I just bombed Iraq today,’” Pratt said in one recording that was made public Sunday, recalling a conversation with Trump.

Pratt then recalled Trump’s description of his December 2019 call with Iraqi President Barham Salih. According to Pratt, Trump said, “The president of Iraq called me up and said, ‘You just leveled my city. … I said to him, ‘OK, what are you going to do about it?’”

The recordings also indicate that Trump spoke with Pratt about his now-infamous September 2019 call with Ukrainian President Volodymyr > Zelensky, in which Trump pressured Zelensky to help him win the 2020 election by publicly launching unfounded corruption probes into Joe Biden. That phone call formed the basis of Trump’s first impeachment.

Here’s the part that was most informative and will undoubtably draw the attention of Jack Smith’s prosecutors:

The new recordings also shed light on Pratt’s candid, private thoughts about Trump’s behavior. It’s unclear who Pratt was speaking to, but Pratt said in one tape that Trump “says outrageous things nonstop,” and compared his business practices to “the mafia.”

“He knows exactly what to say — and what not to say — so that he avoids jail. But gets so close to it that it looks to everyone like he’s breaking the law,” Pratt said in one tape.

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Liz also said that the hasty withdrawal from Afghanistan was the biggest mistake the US has made following the attacks of 9/11/2001. I shouldn’t really be disappointed. What did I expect from daddy’s girl on that topic? :face_with_raised_eyebrow:

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They know each other and know that they can not be trusted. It is each man for himself.

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In the case of revealing classified things he is breaking the law.

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Love this via PoliticalWire:
Australian billionaire Anthony Pratt once claimed that Donald Trump, while he was president, asked his wife Melania to walk around Mar-a-Lago in a bikini “so all the other guys could get a look at what they were missing,” according to covertly recorded conversations aired by 60 Minutes Australia.

The former First Lady responded: “I’ll do that when you walk around with me in your bikini.”

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Does Elmo even have a $1 billion dollars? I mean American money, not that foreign stuff.

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Cannon’s dilatory handling of the conflicts of interest issue wasted time and resources.

Which is the reason Trump appointed her. Delay, sand in the gears. She’s doing her job as he expected.

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Then why blabber like he does? It only hurts himself after all. But then donnie does not give a shit about consequences since he believes he is beyond any law.

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It seems when the guy at the top is urging it and saying ‘it’s okay. Who’s going to say we can’t?’ a lot of people will go along with it.

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The grift goes on…The grift goes on…

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Mob Boss!

The Democratic congressman Jamie Raskin, who taught constitutional law for more than 25 years, sees Trump’s tactics as consistent with his past disdain for legal and democratic norms.

“Trump’s relationship to the law and the justice system is straight out of the autocrat’s playbook,” said Raskin. “He’s incapable of seeing judges acting in anything other than completely personal and political ways.

“The law and justice system are just a favor bank in Trump world. He’s like a mob boss. For him, a judge is either a lackey in his pocket or his sworn enemy. Trump’s legal and political agendas are fused at this point. His whole strategy is to avoid a reckoning with justice before the election.”

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“I think that Trump’s comments about the judges are designed for one thing, to create a story that overshadows the allegations,” said Michael Moore, a former Georgia US attorney. “Trump is trying to delegitimize any adverse outcome. It’s remarkably similar to his efforts to delegitimize the election before the votes were even counted.”

In Raskin’s eyes, “Recapturing the presidency in 2024 is Donald Trump’s ultimate safe haven from the legal consequences of his prior crimes. He believes it will give him all the immunity he needs for the rest of his life. He’s convinced he can pardon himself for all federal crimes he’s charged with and avoid all state and civil cases because of his pressing state business.

“And if you think he ever plans to leave office and let the justice system come near him again, you’re too innocent to be let out of the house by yourself.”

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Morning Joe busts Trump over his big lie about Sidney Powell

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As my grandmother used to say “expect nothing but childishness form a childish person”…

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Haha. Good zinger by Melania.

More like so Donald can see what HE is missing.

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They should take the money.
And then say “we lied, sue us.”
And then change their name to “W”

Because “W” comes before “X”.

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Well, Trump negotiated a deal for his then wife Marla to appear nude in playboy, but she refused. Trump is a misogynism for whom women are just objects of pleasure and wives are just trophies to be shown off like fancy cars. I have trouble understanding why so many women vote for the SOB.

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Thanks for flagging this – very helpful.

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Some Muslim Americans in Michigan feel betrayed by President Biden

Muslim Americans are being betrayed by a terrorist organization.

And since there’s no peace in the Middle East, it is going to be just as hard to satisfy both sides here and everywhere else.

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