President Trump and the House Oversight Committee not surprisingly have very different ideas for what should happen next in his lawsuit challenging the lawmakers’ subpoena for his financial documents.
The NYT’s exposé about the Trump family’s repeated and decades long tax evasion/fraud schemes and other recent dubious financial dealings…is reason enough to grant Congress access to Trump’s financial records. Period.
Cliched but so true with all the trumpian delay in bad faith = Justice delayed is justice denied!
“If this Court does not resolve this case now, the Trump Plaintiffs will almost certainly have succeeded in blocking the 116th Congress from obtaining any documents pursuant to its subpoena,” the filing said.
To cut to the chase, could we just have an actual duel?
Fat Nixon and Adam Schiff at 10 paces with golf putters?
“I take no responsibility.”
WASHINGTON (The Borowitz Report)—Pushing back against attempts to brand the United States of 2020 as “Trump’s America,” Donald Trump said that he deserves no blame for the state of the country, because he has not actually done any work for the past four years.
“I could understand people blaming me for things if I had actually been doing my job, but, quite frankly, I haven’t,” he said. “Anybody who claims otherwise is a terrible person.”
“CNN, which is a disgrace, says that it’s the White House’s fault for this and the White House’s fault for that,” he added. “Well, I’ve hardly been at the White House, so, once again, they’re wrong.”
Attempting to answer the question of whose America it is, if not his, Trump said, “The last President who actually worked at the White House was Barack Obama. So if this is anybody’s America it’s his and Sleepy Joe’s. People are saying that. They’re sick of living in Biden’s America, and we cannot give Joe Biden another four years.”
He rejected any suggestion that, as President, he must own the current conditions in America, asserting, “I know what I own and what I don’t own. I own Bill Barr. I own Mitch McConnell. I don’t own America.”
Fat Nixon with a putter and Adam Schiff armed with lines from The Big Lebowski, “Shut the fuck up, Donny.”
And Putin owns Donnie, so…
ETA. Borowitz is a national treasure.
No one entirely knows why Poot owns PP but it’s likely to be about real estate, specifically the promise to get a chunk of Moscow with Poot’s permission and baksheesh thrown in and build a trumptower. Complete with listening devices in each room.
As to Borowitz, I signed up for daily newsletters from him, and I’m always tempted to copy them over here. I try to limit it to the really choice ones.
Meanwhile, over at the Lincoln Project, operation “Get Inside Donald’s Head” continues.
That is like opening a septic tank.
Trump has sh*t where his brain should be.
On Tuesday morning, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 2nd Circuit heard arguments over whether to put on hold a new district court ruling ordering that Trump’s financial firms comply with the subpoenas while Trump appeals the ruling on the basis of arguments he didn’t present yet to the Supreme Court.
A key detail the article omitted: this court indicated they would issue their decision by end of day Tuesday, today. Not weeks or months from now.
How long would Schiff need to run from him before he stroked out?
O good. So glad to hear that and so not surprised. hahaha
At least 10 or 12 inches.
Are you both thinking of the prosecution by Vance in NY?
That’s a different case. This one is brought by the House.
Both cases are in federal court at the moment.
Both casees are discussed in the article, the second one halfway down, which I quoted.
I saw no quotation – I may have missed it – but if you meant that the 2nd Circuit indicated we’ll hear something today in the NY case (as opposed to the House case), I agree.
Why anyone would wanna do that is beyond me: living with what he does is enough of a nightmare.
I don’t know how effective that Lincoln Project ad will prove but if the goal is to drive the Trumps further up the wall … well, I took “Get Inside Donald’s Head” as being synonymous with “Get Under Trump’s Skin” – which sounds good but may have (additional) catastrophic consequences.
Which, come to think of it, may be what you meant!
Some of their ads, or at least certain lines in some of their ads, are clearly intended to wind him up. I’m kind of curious about why.
