November 28, 2022: 676 Days, King-Hell Rat, The Awful Truth

 

It is day 676 of the Biden Administration.  For 676 days, nearly two years, the King-Hell rat, Donald J. tRUMP has been allowed to gnaw at the foundations of this republic.  For 676 days he has been allowed to roam the landscape spewing his venom and spreading the cancer that is tRUMPism threating this government’s very legitimacy.  For 676 days no subpoenas have been issued, no indictments have been handed down.

 Where is justice?

 It has taken over 1,300 days for the courts to finally rule that Disgustus must comply, and the Internal Revenue Service must submit tRUMP’s tax records to Congress.  The law is crystal clear on this matter reading that these records MUST be, not perhaps, maybe, handed over upon request.  Still, it has taken nearly 4 years, for the judicial system to enforce the law of the land. 

 It has taken nearly two years for the Attorney General to appoint a Special Counsel to investigate Disgustus for his attempted coup d’état, still referred to as an attempt to overturn the election.  It was more than that.  It was an unconstitutional attempt to overthrow the government of the United States.  It was sedition, domestic treason, and he has yet to be held to account. 

 The awful truth is that Garland, as his predecessor William Barr, knows that Disgustus is guilty, but he is loathe to charge a former “president” with his demonstrably serial crimes.  The awful truth is that Garland had no intention of bringing action against tRUMP but he has been shamed by the January 6 Committee into finally taking some action.  The awful truth is that this appointment of Jack Smith as Special Counsel is 18 months too late, and the damage done to this republic is incalculable. 

 Disgustus should have never been allowed to leave Washington.  Citing mechanical delay, the plane should have been held at the airport awaiting the swearing in of Biden on inauguration day.  At high noon, Disgustus should have been immediately placed under arrest and brought before a magistrate, charged with 10 counts of obstruction of justice (as cited by Robert Mueller’s report) and with conspiring with Michael Cohen to violate campaign finance law, declared a flight risk and held for trial.  Then, as these cases were being adjudicated begin the investigations into Disgustus and his immediate underlings in relation to the attempted coup only a few days before. 

 It has been nearly a year since the House sent a criminal referral to Garland for the failure of former White House Chief of Staff Mark Meadows to testify before the January 6 Committee and for his failure to provide documents relating to same.  It has yet to issue subpoenas to either Disgustus or Mike Pence.  With the Scum about to retake control of the House and close the investigations Pence, breathing a sigh of relief, declared with a straight face that Congress has no right to his testimony.  The arrogance of these bastards.

 Disgustus has been allowed to roam free, taunting and stalking this administration, almost daily committing crimes and openly begging to be incarcerated.  Clearly, this administration had no intention of bringing Disgustus to justice. That is, until the appointment of Special Counsel Smith. 

 Disgustus cannot be shamed.  What he hasn’t calculated is that this isn’t true of everyone.

 An’ Br’er Putin, he jus’ laugh and laugh

 Indict. Prosecute. Convict. Imprison.  

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

November 26, 2022: Gagging the Maggot, Seeking the Exits, Containing the Exodus

 

On the evening of November 15, Caesar Disgustus made the announcement that he had been telegraphing for weeks, that he would once again mount an assault upon the republic of the United States.   Unlike 2015, when he first smeared the national political stage, there were no paid actors assembled to feign adoration.  Instead, Disgustus took to the podium and addressed a crowd largely composed of old white folk, members of his ‘club’ down at Mar-a-Lago, who greeted the bloviating idiot with all the enthusiasm of an upcoming root canal.

 It was, to put it mildly, a tepid performance.  Disgustus, a parasite, feeds from whatever his host can give him, be it money or adoration.  This audience was not up to the task, having heard his bullshit for seven years, now finding itself trapped in a ballroom and forced to listen were soon overpowered by the stench.  Indeed, shortly after delivering the line that he was again running for president of the United States, many of the assembled quickly sought the exits.   Finding them blocked by tRUMP’s ‘security’ detail they were recorded returning to their assigned seats in clear disgust.  tRUMP was gagging the maggot.

 With no ‘energy’ in the room, either real or imagined, Disgustus fell into a soft, ‘low energy’ sing-song cadence repeating for the millionth time his long list of grievances in a transparent attempt to convince the audience that his travails were theirs as well.   The assembled, all well-heeled country club ReSCUMlickans, were having none of it. This wasn’t the adoring crowds of the rural countryside, the Qanon wackos or the Jesus Junkies worshiping their anointed ‘messiah’.  This was a crowd of rock-ribbed conservatives who are world-wise and know that if he succeeds in gaining the nomination the ReSCUMlickan Party will take a beating. 

 Disgustus, in foreshadowing his grand entrance—billing it as the greatest announcement since Moses announce the departure for the Promised Land—thought that having led the Scum to landslide victory with the great ‘Red Wave’ he would have the wind at his back.  Moreover, he convinced himself that his hand-picked cabal of seditionists running for office in swing states would win offices that, whatever the outcome of the 2024 popular vote, would aid and abet his next attempt at a coup d’état.

 But something happened on his way to the Forum. The people had spoken and every one of the scums he foisted upon the party, with the lone exception of J.D. Vance in Ohio’s senate race, lost.  Down went Dr. Oz and Mastriano in Pennsylvania, tRUMP’s handpicked candidates for the U.S. Senate and Governor in the state. Down went the ReSCUMlickan candidate for governor of Wisconsin who openly declared that, if elected, the Scum would never lose another election in the state again. “If”

 Down went Kari Lake in Arizona along with his handpicked candidates for Secretary of State and Attorney General.  Down went Tudor Dixon in Michigan, along with his handpicked candidates for Secretary of State and Attorney general.  In fact, such was the beating in the ‘swing’ state of Michigan that the Scums lost control, for the first time since 1982 of both houses of the state legislature.  Now only Herschel Walker, facing a run-off against incumbent Raphael Warnock remains standing.  Instead of gaining 40-60 house seats and retaking the U.S. Senate, the Scums will emerge with a 5 or 6 seat majority in the House and have lost the Senate.

 So, there he was addressing a crowd that knew how to read the tea leaves, knew much more about politics than he does. In any case they sat upon their hands through most of the event giving Disgustus only halting applause. They were too old and, being people of property and standing, had too much self-respect to fall upon their knees and worship the golden swine.  

 Greeted with only a smattering of polite applause he droned on for over 40 minutes.  Even Murdoch’s Maggots at Faux News couldn’t stomach it as tRUMP acolyte Seen Hannity cut away shortly after Disgustus declared that once again he was bringing the circus back to town. 

 Speaking of Murdoch, his New York Post coverage of the event consisted of a banner on the bottom of Page One reading simply “Florida Man Makes Announcement” see page 26.  Turning to page 26, tRUMP was nowhere in the headline. 

 Today Farron Cousins of “The Ring of Fire’ podcast quoted a poll taken late last week showing Disgustus has hemorrhaged 9 percent of his support among Republicans since he made his announcement.  Many have grown tired of the Drama Queen.  Many have grown weary of the constant whining and name calling.  Many are sick of the chaos and incompetence. Many are seeking the exits.

 Disgustus took the podium and delivered not a rousing clarion call to action but the welp of a beaten cur; a miserable bitch nursing its wounds. 

 To use another metaphor, Pepe LePew is back in the arena and the stench is gagging the maggots sending them and their contributors scurrying for the exits.  It remains to be seen how long Disgustus can contain the exodus or how long they stay away.

Indict. Prosecute. Convict. Imprison.

 

November 14, 2022: At the Trough, Pay to Play, Disgusting Swine

 

It is no wonder our disgraced, twice-impeached and twice rejected Caesar Disgustus clung to tenaciously to his ill-gotten political office.  He was making money hand-over-fist while pretending to be the ‘stable genius’ at the helm of the nation.  It was all about grift, how he could line his pockets using the Oval Office if not as an extortion racket then at least an ATM machine.

MSN just published an article by Anna Schecter of NBC about a report issued by the House Oversight Committee on the uses Caesar Disgustus put to the property leased to his company by the Federal Government while he stank up the oval office.  I’m referring here to tRUMP International Hotel in Washington D.C. which his company operated during his maladministration.  The following is the article in its entirety:

 Trump D.C. hotel receipts reveal $10,500-a-night rooms for foreign officials seeking to influence U.S. policy

 Anna Schecter

During Donald Trump’s presidency, the governments of Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates, Qatar, Turkey, China and Malaysia spent hundreds of thousands of dollars at the Trump International Hotel in Washington at the same time they were trying to influence U.S. foreign policy, according to investigative findings released Monday by the House Committee on Oversight and Reform.

Hotel receipts obtained by the Oversight Committee show that the then-prime minister of Malaysia and his delegation spent $259,724 at the hotel during a one-week stay in September 2017, including a $10,000 room and $1,500 “Personal Trainer” for embattled Prime Minister Najib Razak, and $9,229 for “Coffee Break[s].” At the time, Razak was unsuccessfully lobbying the Trump administration to drop an investigation into a Malaysian sovereign wealth fund he had co-founded.

 The Saudi Ministry of Defense spent $85,961 during a one-week stay in March 2018, including renting several $10,500 suites, according to the Oversight Committee findings. The Saudi revenues for the Trump hotel came during a period when Saudi Arabia and the UAE were lobbying the Trump administration to support them during their blockade against economic rival Qatar.

 For their part Qatari officials and connected companies spent at least $307,941 at the Trump hotel from late 2017 through mid-2018, according to the Oversight Committee’s findings. actually spends, meaning it saves a fortune because if they were to Trump hotels charged Secret Service more than five times recommended government rate.

 The hotel ledgers were released to the Oversight Committee by the Trump Organization’s former accounting firm Mazars USA as part of the committee’s ongoing investigation into the former president's businesses and potential conflicts of interest. The bulk of the ledgers released Monday show line-item charges for rooms, room service, laundry, restaurant meals and banquets incurred during the fall of 2017 through the spring of 2018.

 The House Oversight Committee chair, Rep. Carolyn Maloney, D.-N.Y., detailed the new findings in a letter Monday to acting Archivist Debra Steidel Wall of the National Archives and Records Administration (NARA).

 “These documents sharply call into question the extent to which President Trump was guided by his personal financial interest while in office rather than the best interests of the American people,” Maloney said.

 In the letter she requests presidential records from NARA that could be related to attempts by foreign governments and lobbyists working on their behalf to influence the Trump administration by spending money at the Trump Hotel. A spokesperson for NARA said, "We are in receipt of the letter and will respond in accordance with the Presidential Records Act (PRA)."

 Trump handed over day-to-day control of the D.C. hotel to his sons during his presidency. In a statement, Eric Trump said, “As a company, we went to tremendous lengths to avoid even the appearance of a conflict of interest, not due to any legal requirement, but because of the respect we have towards the office of the presidency. We walked away from billions of dollars in new deals, ceased all international expansion, engaged with an outside ethics advisor to review any material transactions and furthermore, have voluntarily donated all profits from foreign government patronage at our properties back to the United States Treasury on an annual basis. Moreover, my father is the first president in history to donate his annual salary back to the United States government. No president has made a greater financial sacrifice for the benefit of the country.”

 The Malaysian expenditures at the Trump Hotel were the most extensive in a one-week period found by the Oversight Committee to date.  The Malaysian sovereign wealth fund 1Malaysia Development Berhad (1MDB) was under investigation by the Justice Department for embezzling billions in funds and laundering them through American financial institutions to buy exclusive properties in the U.S., a yacht, and fine art by Monet and van Gogh.

 The Justice Department proceeded with its civil forfeiture and returned hundreds of millions of dollars to the Malaysian people in 2021. Razak was voted out of office in 2018 and in August of this year a Malaysian court ordered him to begin a 12-year prison sentence for his conduct related to 1MDB. A spokesperson for the Malaysian Embassy did not immediately respond to a request for comment.

 Elliott Broidy, a Republican fundraiser and Trump ally who was later convicted of acting as an unregistered foreign agent for Malaysia and other countries, also spent more than $5,000 at the hotel during the week the Malaysian delegation stayed there, according to hotel receipts obtained by the Oversight Committee. As part of his plea, Broidy admitted to illegally lobbying Trump and then-Attorney General Jeff Sessions to drop the civil forfeiture proceedings against 1MBD

 Broidy spent another $2,970 at the Trump International Hotel in October 2017 while lobbying on behalf of the UAE during the Qatar blockade, according to the Oversight Committee. In January 2021, Broidy was pardoned by Trump. Broidy did not immediately respond to a request for comment.

 In total, Saudi Arabia and the UAE spent at least $164,929 at the Trump Hotel from the latter part of 2017 through the middle of 2018. Spokespeople for the embassies of Saudi Arabia, the UAE and Qatar did not immediately respond to requests for comment.

 In May of 2017, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan visited Washington. According to the Oversight Committee, documents from Mazars show the Turkish Embassy sponsored two stays at the Trump hotel around the time of Erdoğan’s visit. Hotel records show an account for the “Embassy of Turkey Delegation” was closed on May 9, 2017, and an account for the “Embassy of Turkey” was closed on May 23, 2017, according to the Oversight Committee. The documentation obtained did not show how much the embassy spent at the hotel during either of these stays.

 The documents did show that a lobbyist for Turkey, Trump donor Brian Ballard, spent $21,209 over 37 nights at the Trump hotel from September 2017 to April 2018, according to the Oversight Committee.

 In a statement, Ballard said, “Prior to purchasing a residence in Washington in 2018, I stayed at a number of hotels in Washington, including the Trump Hotel, and paid fair market rates for those nights. There is nothing unusual, newsworthy or noteworthy about that fact.”

 The Turkish Embassy did not immediately respond to a request for comment.

 In August 2017, the Embassy of China delegation spent $19,391 at the Trump International Hotel, less than three months before Trump’s visit to Beijing, according to the committee’s findings.

 The committee noted that the casino magnate Steve Wynn, a Trump friend who had significant business interests in China, stayed at the Trump hotel twice in the fall of 2017, spending $9,370. The Justice Department sued Wynn seeking to compel him to retroactively register as an agent of China. Last month a judge dismissed the lawsuit. Spokespeople for the Chinese Embassy and Wynn did not immediately respond to requests for comment.

 Maloney said Mazars continues to share Trump hotel-related ledgers with the Oversight Committee.

 In a statement, Mazars said, “Due to our industry’s professional obligations Mazars cannot discuss any clients — current or former, the status of our relationships, or the nature of our services in a public forum without client consent or as required by law. We remain committed to fulfilling all of our professional and legal obligations."

 This article was originally published on NBCNews.com

 Here are yet more examples of foreign governments, foreign nationals, and more than a few domestic interests meeting the extortionist price for access.  Grift and Graft.  As tRUMP observer David Kay Johnston has observed from when tRUMP and larvae stepped out of their limousines during the Inaugural Parade back from the swearing-in at the Capitol to the White House and stood before their newly minted hotel, the message was clear.  It was pay to play. 

 This underscores the outrage of Robert Mueller accepting the prohibition imposed by Rosenstein that investigating tRUMP’s finances were off limits to the special counsel.  It has always been about the money.  Bailing tRUMP out of his financial collapse in the late 80’s is how the Rooskies got their clutches into him.  Failure to follow the money, including Manhattan D.A  Alvin Bragg’s complete dereliction of duty constitutes a monumental failure of justice.   

 Why it has taken six years and we still don’t have his tax returns strains the bounds of justice.  The wheels of justice turn much too slow, especially for our Orange Mussolini for justice delayed is justice denied.

 Indict. Prosecute. Convict. Imprison.

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1.      https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/trump-d-c-hotel-receipts-reveal-10-500-a-night-rooms-for-foreign-officials-seeking-to-influence-u-s-policy