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Tennessee Hillbilly

(589 posts)
Tue Apr 23, 2024, 12:31 PM Apr 23

Article: Trump Furious Over No-Show Supporters At His Trial

from an article by Susie Madrak — April 23, 2024
Link:
https://crooksandliars.com/2024/04/trump-furious-over-no-show-supporters-his

Quotes:
"As The New York Times puts it, the former president is not getting the circus he wanted," Mika Brzezinski said.

"The paper reports there were only a handful of Trump supporters outside yesterday morning, and they were outnumbered by the Trump detractors, who had signs about his alleged affair with an adult film actress. The former president tried to rally his followers with a long post on his social media site just before 7:00 yesterday morning. He'd post later that the courthouse is completely closed down, which it is not, suggesting the poor turnout was a plot against his supporters."

"He's just going crazy and, to add insult to injury, of course, he's been outnumbered by people that are having, you know -- his supporters are outnumbered by people that are holding up signs about porn stars."

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Article: Trump Furious Over No-Show Supporters At His Trial (Original Post) Tennessee Hillbilly Apr 23 OP
BWAHAHAHAHAHAAAA spanone Apr 23 #1
I am Nelson Mandela Muntz and I approve this message. alterfurz Apr 23 #10
His cult members are like a drug to him. Irish_Dem Apr 23 #2
Trump might have shot his wad with the J 6th attempted coup Botany Apr 23 #3
Deluded and demented is no way to go through life, moron. Kid Berwyn Apr 23 #4
Putin had been working Trump since the 1980s Botany Apr 23 #6
Unger prolly is old news to you, Botany... Kid Berwyn Apr 23 #8
Putin commented bdamomma Apr 23 #9
He shouldn't think of it as a "No-Show of Supporters" whopis01 Apr 23 #5
Oh the poor baby. Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin Apr 23 #7
Ha! Quite an underwhelming turnout of Trump supporters showing up for his criminal trial. 🤣🤣 LetMyPeopleVote Apr 23 #11

Botany

(70,627 posts)
3. Trump might have shot his wad with the J 6th attempted coup
Tue Apr 23, 2024, 12:50 PM
Apr 23
https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/3-years-jan-6-numbers-1200-charged-460/story?id=106140326

1,200 arrested, 460 in prison now, and 780 guilty pleas. Only so many meth head bikers to go
around or only so many who are willing to go to prison for him and Btw the NYC PD is in no mood
to put up with their shit.

Kid Berwyn

(15,018 posts)
4. Deluded and demented is no way to go through life, moron.
Tue Apr 23, 2024, 12:57 PM
Apr 23

Should have thought about what your life would become when you took money from Putin and his crooked chums.

Botany

(70,627 posts)
6. Putin had been working Trump since the 1980s
Tue Apr 23, 2024, 01:27 PM
Apr 23

Trump was an easy mark for a smart and ruthless KGB man like Vlad. Trump was a narcissist,
who wasn’t too smart, always in need of money, and easy to kompromat on such as the 2013
pee pee tapes (the Steele Dossier).

Kid Berwyn

(15,018 posts)
8. Unger prolly is old news to you, Botany...
Tue Apr 23, 2024, 01:35 PM
Apr 23

It seems Trump was the top target, but it seems many, many others around lardass also became part of the operation. And why wasn't the FBI all up and down the participating Americans?



Did the FBI’s Charles McGonigal Help Throw the 2016 Election to Trump?

The shocking indictments against the former head of counterintelligence for the FBI in New York raise many dark questions.


By Craig Unger
The National Review, February 1, 2023

In the course of writing two books on Donald Trump’s ties to Russia, the same question occurred to me again and again: How is it possible that I knew all sorts of stuff about Donald Trump, and the FBI didn’t seem to have a clue? Or if they did, why weren’t they doing anything with it?

Specifically, I knew that:


* Starting in 1980, an alleged “spotter agent” for the KGB began cultivating Trump as a new asset for Soviet intelligence.

* The Russian mafia laundered millions of dollars through Donald Trump’s real estate by purchasing condos in all-cash transactions through anonymous corporations that did not disclose real ownership.

* Trump Tower was a home away from home for Vyacheslav Ivankov, one of the most brutal leaders of the Russian mafia, and at least 13 people with known or alleged links to the mafia held the deeds to, lived in, or ran alleged criminal operations out of Trump Tower in New York or other Trump properties.

* Trump was some $4 billion in debt when the Russians came to bail him out via the Bayrock Group, a real estate firm that was largely staffed, owned, and financed by Soviet émigrés who had ties to Russian intelligence and/or organized crime.


Much of my material came from FBI documents. A lot came from open-source databases. It made no sense. There was an astounding amount of data on the public record. The FBI had launched enormous investigations of the Russian mafia in the 1980s. They had staked out a New York electronics store that was a haven for KGB officers. They knew that’s where the Trump Organization bought hundreds of TV sets. They had their eyes on Ivankov and other Russian mobsters who were denizens of Trump’s casinos and bought and sold his condos through shell companies. They had to know that Trump laundered money for and provided a base of operations for the Russian mafia, which was, after all, a de facto state actor tied to Russian intelligence. They had to know that the Russians repeatedly bailed Trump out when he was bankrupt. They had to know that Russia owned him.

Snip…

As FBI director, Freeh had warned that Russian organized crime posed a grave threat to the United States that far transcended mere criminality. It is not clear how much he was paid by Prevezon after he switched sides, but Freeh later bought a $9.38 million mansion in Palm Beach, Florida, just a 10-minute drive from Trump’s Mar-a-Lago.

Then there was the late James Kallstrom, who ran the FBI’s New York office in the mid-’90s and oversaw successful investigations into both the Italian Mafia and later the Russian mob. Kallstrom had developed close friendships with two key players in the Trump-Russia saga. He worked closely with then–U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of New York Rudy Giuliani in the investigation of the Cosa Nostra network that led to the famed Mafia Commission Trial of 1985–1986. Going even further back, Kallstrom had also been friends with Donald Trump since around 1973, when Kallstrom was putting together a Trump-funded parade in New York to honor Vietnam veterans.

Continues…

https://newrepublic.com/article/170328/charles-mcgonigal-throw-2016-election

Old news to you and Unger, Botany. A shocker to America's press corpse. And DU's been on to the the BFEE gangsters since they were in business with the bin Laden clan.
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