The Great American Comeback Festival - Not (Trump Thread #102)

[TheNorthWestPawsage]

President Trump: "Two things have never changed: a wall and a wheel" Yuma, AZ. 23/06/20

Neither have ramps...

Previous thread:
www.mumsnet.com/Talk/am_i_being_unreasonable/3919820-Trump-101-How-not-to-President-TrumpThread-101

2017:

www.justsecurity.org/71279/trump-pushed-cia-to-give-intelligence-to-kremlin-while-taking-no-action-against-russia-arming-taliban/

Tax day.

www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-07-09/trump-s-tax-returns-face-judgment-day-at-u-s-supreme-court

www.pbs.org/newshour/politics/supreme-court-rules-manhattan-da-can-obtain-trump-taxes

From the story...

Supreme Court rules Manhattan DA can obtain Trump taxes

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court on Thursday upheld a prosecutor’s demand for President Donald Trump’s tax returns as part of a criminal investigation that includes hush-money payments to women who claim they had affairs with Trump.

The court ruled 7-2 in a case in which it heard arguments by telephone in May because of the coronavirus pandemic.

The records are held by Trump’s longtime accounting firm, Mazars USA, which has said it would comply with a court order.

It probably will be at least several weeks before the court issues a formal judgment that would trigger the turnover of the records.

It probably will be at least several weeks before the court issues a formal judgment that would trigger the turnover of the records.

God, their shredding machine will be working overtime.
Can you shred computer documents?

Golly. If we have any doubt how this decision has affected ole Trumpy, we just have to look at his tweets. All within last hour. Complete with spelling mistakes

Donald J. Trump
@realDonaldTrump
We have a totally corrupt previous Administration, including a President and Vice President who spied on my campaign, AND GOT CAIGHT...and nothing happens to them. This crime was taking place even before my election, everyone knows it, and yet all are frozen stiff with fear....
....No Republican Senate Judiciary response, NO “JUSTICE”, NO FBI, NO NOTHING. Major horror show REPORTS on Comey & McCabe, guilty as hell, nothing happens. Catch Obama & Biden cold, nothing. A 3 year, $45,000,000 Mueller HOAX, failed - investigated everything....

WOW.
There were two more rambling bonkers tweets, that were deleted as I tried to copy and paste.

Managed to catch them before deletion!

Donald J. Trump

....Won all against the Federal Government and the Democrats send everything to politically corrupt New York, which is falling apart with everyone leaving, to give it a second, third and fourth try. Now the Supreme Court gives a delay ruling that they would never have given...
....for another President. This is about PROSECUTORIAL MISCONDUCT. We catch the other side SPYING on my campaign, the biggest political crime and scandal in U.S. history, and NOTHING HAPPENS. But despite this, I have done more than any President in history in first 3 1/2 years!
The Supreme Court sends case back to Lower Court, arguments to continue. This is all a political prosecution. I won the Mueller Witch Hunt, and others, and now I have to keep fighting in a politically corrupt New York. Not fair to this Presidency or Administration!

Something tells me he's rattled!

Dear me! He does seem unhappy!

I h̶a̶v̶e̶ haven't done m̶o̶r̶e̶ much compared to any President in history in first 3 1/2 years!

Fixed it for you DT!

hope his indigestion is giving him gyp right now.

Unhappy.

news.bloomberglaw.com/us-law-week/supreme-court-says-n-y-grand-jury-can-get-trumps-tax-returns?context=search&index=0&campaign=1B1B9942-C1EF-11EA-9FF1-BFEB4F017A06&utm_source=twitter&utm_medium=lawdesk

'The U.S. Supreme Court upheld a New York grand jury subpoena for President Donald Trump’s tax returns and other financial records, rejecting his call to give presidents complete immunity from criminal investigation while in office.

The vote was 7-2. The court could rule in a matter of minutes in another Trump subpoena case, involving congressional authority.'

Painting has begun.

NYC to start painting Black Lives Matter mural in front of Trump Tower Thursday despite pushback from Trump.
www.forbes.com/sites/suzannerowankelleher/2020/07/09/photos-black-lives-matter-street-mural-in-front-of-trump-tower-becomes-newest-nyc-attraction/amp/

www.politico.com/news/2020/07/09/geoffrey-berman-testimony-william-barr-355196

It never rains but it pours...

U.S. first lady Melania Trump statue set on fire in Slovenia
www.reuters.com/article/us-slovenia-melania-trump-sculpture-idUSKBN24933K

• A wooden sculpture of U.S. first lady Melania Trump was torched near her hometown of Sevnica, Slovenia, on the night of July Fourth, as Americans celebrated U.S. Independence Day, said the artist who commissioned the sculpture.

Brad Downey, a Berlin-based American artist, told Reuters he had the life-sized blackened, disfigured sculpture removed as soon as police informed him on July 5th of the incident.

"I want to know why they did it," said Downey, who had hoped the statue would foster a dialogue about the political situation in the United States, highlighting Melania Trump's status as an immigrant married to a president sworn to reduce immigration.

In Washington, the office of Melania Trump did not immediately respond to a request for comment.

Said statue... before fire.

Didn't that statue get a makeover before?

It's an eyesore, and being burned would definitely improve it, if only by getting rid of the colour.

The really awful thing is that it was carved from a living tree, so as well as being ugly, it caused death.

That is the Trump admin in a nutshell.

That statue!

Why someone burned it down is not the only question I have about it...

It doesn't look like Melania at all

A wooden sculpture of U.S. first lady Melania Trump

Good thing they didn't torch the wrong wooden Melania.

Meanwhile, Tulsa reports a surge in covid cases.

www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2020/07/09/trump-tulsa-rally-coronavirus/

Neal Katyal:

www.washingtonpost.com/outlook/2020/07/09/trump-loses-supreme-court/

'Presidents sometimes lose at the Supreme Court. But rarely do they lose as fundamentally — or as personally — as President Trump lost Thursday. In deciding cases involving access to Trump’s personal financial records, the Supreme Court unambiguously rejected the core Trumpian view of the presidency as a complete shield from outside scrutiny. And the way forward looks even worse for Trump: The financial records Trump has long been so desperately fighting to hide are coming out, sooner or later — and indeed possibly before the election.'

Somehow, the face on the wooden Melania (oxymoron) reminds me of that fresco of Jesus in Italy who had its face 'repaired'.

Scrotus must be shitting plaid rabbits at the SCOTUS decisions. His assertion of 'absolute immunity' has been shot down hard! I doubt, however, that we (The People) will see any of his financial records before the election.

and not just shot down hard... shot down by people that he thought were in his corner 😲
Where you gonna run to now Donny boy 🙂

It must be very disconcerting for a person who has never kept his word to anyone in his life when other people don't keep their words to him.

But if you look at it right, once someone has been made a Supreme Court judge why would they need his patronage any more?