Bitch, you peeked ahead didn't you??
Move the UN ti Jerusalem to the cheers if all nations. What role does the USA have on the global stage when the IAF is 'hired to protect NATO members in the EU.
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Move the UN ti Jerusalem to the cheers if all nations. What role does the USA have on the global stage when the IAF is 'hired to protect NATO members in the EU.
Go, . . .
CLEARLY it is NOT google controlling the internet that is the major problem!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Rather it is the scale and scope of LIE-beral Fake News that is POISONING every aspect of our society!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Consider the LIE-beral influence on education::::::::
Here is yet another article illustrating poisoned LIE-beral influence on our school system. With some comments of my own in brackets):
Racial disparities in school discipline
By Walter E. Williams, Special to Postmedia Network. Published: October 1, 2018
Updated: October 1, 2018 4:32 PM EDT
Filed Under: Toronto SUN/ Opinion/ Columnists
U.S. President Barack Obama’s first education secretary, Arne Duncan, gave a speech on the 45th anniversary of “Bloody Sunday” at the Edmund Pettus Bridge in Selma, Ala., where, in 1965, state troopers beat and tear-gassed hundreds of peaceful civil rights marchers who were demanding voting rights. Later that year, as a result of widespread support across the nation, the U.S. Congress passed the Voting Rights Act. Secretary Duncan titled his speech “Crossing the Next Bridge.” Duncan told the crowd that black students “are more than three times as likely to be expelled as their white peers,” adding that Martin Luther King would be “dismayed.”
(Yes! King would be dismayed by the stupid, anti white bias of modern black kids who see success in school as “selling out” to hated white society! King wanted blacks to JOIN society- NOT tear it down!)
Gail Heriot, a law professor at the University of San Diego and a member of the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights, and her special assistant and counsellor, Alison Somin, have written an important article in the Texas Review of Law & Politics, titled “The Department of Education’s Obama-Era Initiative on Racial Disparities in School Discipline” (Spring 2018). The article is about the departments of Education and Justice’s “disparate impact” vision, wherein they see racial discrimination as the factor that explains why black male students face suspension and expulsion more often than other students.
(LIE-berals are following the Socialist path that dictates that all social problems are the result of white bad behaviour! Socialism is NEVER WRONG- so LIE-berals MISTAKENLY CLAIM!)
Faced with threats from the Department of Education’s Office for Civil Rights, schools have instituted new disciplinary policies. For example, after the public school district in Oklahoma City was investigated by the OCR, there was a 42.5% decrease in the number of suspensions. According to an article in The Oklahoman, one teacher said, “Students are yelling, cursing, hitting and screaming at teachers and nothing is being done but teachers are being told to teach and ignore the behaviours.” According to Chalkbeat, new high school teachers left one school because they didn’t feel safe. There have been cases in which students have assaulted teachers and returned to school the next day.
(What it comes down to is LIE-beral mandated racism of the most extreme sort! Blacks and others such as Cdn natives have successfully persuaded LIE-berals that they may only punish or jail the same number of black criminals and trouble makers as WHITES! And it is NOT RELEVANT in the eyes of LIE-berals- desperate to buy votes at any price- that misguided blacks and natives commit MORE CRIMES than white people!)
(This is affirmative action run AMOK! Turns out that the LIE-beral narrative that allows blacks and natives and others to think of themselves as oppressed minorities- in spite of current social conditions has led them to seek REVENGE!
LIE-berals encourage minorities to act out in stupid and destructive ways!)
Many of the complaints about black student behaviour are coming from black teachers. I doubt whether they could be accused of racial discrimination against black students. The first vice president of the St. Paul, Minn., chapter of the NAACP said it’s “very disturbing” that the school district would retaliate against a black teacher “for simply voicing the concern” that when black students are not held accountable for misbehaving, they are set up for failure in life.
(Oh- LIE-beral values are now so utterly twisted that a black teacher with harsh words for some students is dismissed as a TRAITOR and SELLOUT!)
An article in Education Week earlier this year discusses the widespread assaults of teachers across the country: “In the 2015-16 school year, 5.8 percent of the nation’s 3.8 million teachers were physically attacked by a student. Almost 10 percent were threatened with injury, according to federal education data.”
(And such violent ideas begin at home- where either parents are absent or are actually feeding the kids stupid ideas! LIE-berals have launched a civil war under the guise of buying votes!))
Measures that propose harsh punishment for students who assault teachers have not been successful. In North Carolina, a bill was introduced that proposed that students 16 or older could be charged with a felony if they assaulted a teacher. It was opposed by children’s advocacy and disability rights groups. In Minnesota, a 2016 bill would have required school boards to automatically expel a student who threatened or inflicted bodily harm on a teacher for up to a year. It, too, was opposed, even in light of the fact that teachers have suffered serious bodily harm, such as the case in which a high school student slammed a teacher into a concrete wall and then squeezed his throat. That teacher ended up with a traumatic brain injury.
(LIE-berals are so wedded to their image of ethnic minority as victim that any and all attacks are EXCUSED as the result of LIE-beral JUSTIFIED RACIAL FRUSTRATION- REGARDLESS OF LOGIC OR REALITY!)
There are plenty of visuals of assaults on teachers. Here’s a tiny sample: Florida’s Seminole Middle School, Pennsylvania’s Cheltenham High School, Illinois’ Rich Central High School. Byongook Moon, a professor in the criminal justice department at the University of Texas at San Antonio, says that according to his study of 1,600 teachers, about 44% of teachers who had been victims of physical assault said that being attacked had a negative impact on their job performance. Nearly 30% said they could no longer trust the student who had attacked them, and 27% said they thought of quitting their teaching career afterwards.
(These sort of numbers are also common in Canada and are- in part- the result of the public frustration with teachers who are Lords of the working world- thanks to their fine salaries, solid gold pensions, their endless holidays and constant refusal to tell us honestly how POORLY our kids are really performing in school!)
(If you want to do as teachers do and dismiss any critic of our school system as a dim witted AMATEUR- then you cannot then turn around- as our teachers have tried to do- and make excuses when your professional “successes” are revealed to be FALSE by literacy testing and endless lists of outrageous behaviour by students running wild in class! Public contempt for our “professional” educators and their endless excuses is rising- and the kids are catching that mood!)
My question is: Is there any reason whatsoever for adults to tolerate this kind of behaviour from our young people?
(No! People trying to do their jobs honestly should not risk being attacked by pea brained thugs! But it all comes back to LIE-berals! It is teachers and their civil service union Hog allies along with a cabal of BIGOTS from groups like Black Lives Matter and natives from Idle No More and American Indian Movement that have put those vile, hypocrite LIE-berals into power in the first place! And it is LIE-berals who are tying the hands of teachers and cops who are trying to restore some sense of order! LIE-berals consider that buying votes is more important than a few terrorized teachers! After all - they are well paid, with lots of holidays and generous pensions!)
Walter E. Williams is a professor of economics at George Mason University.
‘You Have to Pay With Your Body’: The Hidden Nightmare of Sexual Violence on the Border
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/03/03/us/border-rapes-migrant-women.html
Just like Trump said on June 16, 2015.
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/03/03/us/border-rapes-migrant-women.html
Just like Trump said on June 16, 2015.
POOR STUPID LIE-berals!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
They keep hoping our attention span will be SHORTER than theirs!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Here is an article illustrating much that is wrong with creating so called “sanctuary cities’ where any idiot can come and live without the bother of immigration or customs clearance! With some comments of my own in brackets):
He hit sanctuary city -- then he murdered three: say Cops.
By Brad Hunter
Published: November 12, 2018. Updated: November 12, 2018 6:56 PM EST
Filed Under: Toronto SUN/ News/ World
One more chance... Luis Rodrigo Perez has been charged in a gruesome triple murder. A New Jersey sanctuary city refused to turn him over for deportation. SPRINGFIELD POLICE
(Just how POISONED does your world view have to become before it sounds like a good idea to shield an accused criminal from the law?)
Luis Rodrigo Perez got a free pass courtesy of a “sanctuary city” county in New Jersey.
Last week, Perez was charged with a triple homicide in Missouri.
The illegal immigrant was sprung after being arrested on domestic violence charges in Middlesex County, N.J., last year.
(Sounds like Yankee immigration folks KNEW WHAT THEY WERE DOING by denying this guy legal entry to the country!)
At the time, U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement wanted to deport Perez back to his native Mexico following his arrest.
Unfortunately, Middlesex has a non-cooperation policy with ICE and wouldn’t let the feds know when Perez was being released in February.
(And some people really want to allow more people of this sort into the country?)
Cops say Perez got the gun from gal pal Sabrina Starr. The next day, he allegedly murdered her too.
(The guy seems to have a HARD TIME making and keeping friends?)
“Had ICE’s detainer request in December 2017 been honoured by Middlesex County Jail, Luis Rodrigo Perez would have been placed in deportation proceedings and likely sent home to his country — and three innocent people might be alive today,” Corey Price, acting ICE executive associate director, told the Washington Times.
Perez — who has a long criminal history packed with violence — somehow made his way to Springfield, Missouri.
And when he was kicked out of the home he shared with two other men, he went on a shooting rampage in two different homes.
His victims were Steven Marler, 38, Aaron Hampton, 23, and Sabrina Starr, 21, according to NJ.com.
According to cops, the terrified victims were heard “begging for their lives” when Perez allegedly pulled the trigger. Aaron Anderson, 19, was charged as an accomplice.
John Tsoukaris, ICE’s deportation operations field director in Newark, N.J., called Middlesex County’s policy reckless.
(No kidding! Perez sounds like the absolute scum of the earth! Nobody can tolerate his presence - in their home or in their country either!)
“We hope that this tragic turn of events forces Middlesex to reconsider its policy and that the local elected officials stop protecting criminal aliens,” Tsoukaris said.
Middlesex officials have passed the buck and are fingering ICE for dropping the ball. They didn’t think Perez was violent.
(Oh that is RICH! Socialist minded LIE-berals NEVER make mistakes! That is an axiom of the socialist movement! Anything that goes wrong is ALWAYS the result of sabotage from outsiders!)
(It is for this reason that Our idiot Boy Justin can call us “racists” when we complain about his FAILED policies! Our idiot Boy did not fail- so he insists- it is all the fault of others who do not judge him fairly - such as Conservatives who he says distort his immigration policy- the one he is so often defending with Fake News!)
(Socialists are so convinced that all failings are the result of sabotage that after NDPer Bob Rae became Ontari-owe premier and tried to make us rich with borrowed money- and failed so badly- he blamed the banks for sabotaging him and not loaning him as much money as he needed!)
(And now Our idiot Boy is involved in an even bigger- country wide borrowed money- NDP style scam! And it is all the fault of Fake News on the internet that LIE-beral fortunes are falling- so say the socialist HYPOCRITES!)
The county added that the feds sat on their hands for 51 days.
(So the county blames the feds for NOT KNOWING when Perez was going to be released- because the county did not think Perez was dangerous and therefore did not notify the feds!!!!! Then the county conveniently forgot about the “please detain” request by ICE! And the county blames ICE for the entire mess! This is classic socialist reasoning!!!!!!!!!!!!!)
“Instead ICE officials chose to do nothing, which places all responsibility of Mr. Perez’s actions squarely upon ICE,” the county government said in its statement.
(And how fast would ICE have acted if the county HAD BOTHERED to notify ICE of Perez whereabouts and release date? As it is- the county was trying to hide Perez from ICE in its MISS- GUIDED immigrant vote buying Sanctuary!!!!!!!!!!!)
(People advocating the creation of sanctuary cities should be regarded as potential criminals and accessories to crime! Certainly in this case the county aided Perez to escape deportation- and let him lose to KILL THREE PEOPLE!!!!!!!)
With logic like yours its no wonder you LIE-berals
have not managed to pin ANYTHING ON TRUMP
IN THREE YEARS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
AS I predicted a year ago.................it is more likely he
will die of old age before you morons get anything on him!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
’Apprentice’ contestant’s Trump defamation suit can proceed
Associated Press
Published:
March 14, 2019
Updated:
March 14, 2019 1:59 PM EDT
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NEW YORK — A New York appeals court ruled Thursday that President Donald Trump isn’t immune from a defamation lawsuit filed by a former “Apprentice” contestant who accused him of unwanted kissing and groping.
A panel of judges on the Supreme Court Appellate Division said in their ruling, in a case brought by Summer Zervos, that the Supremacy Clause of the U.S. Constitution doesn’t require trials in state court to be delayed until the president is out of office.
Citing a U.S. Supreme Court ruling two decades ago in a case involving alleged sexual misconduct by President Bill Clinton, a majority of judges on the panel said presidents can be sued in state courts over things they did that aren’t related to their official duties.
“The current sitting President attempts to shield himself from consequences for his alleged unofficial misconduct by relying upon the constitutional protection of the Presidency,” the judges said in an opinion written by Justice Dianne T. Renwick. “We reject defendant President Trump’s argument that the Supremacy Clause of the United States Constitution prevents a New York State court — and every other state court in the country — from exercising its authority under its state constitution. Instead, we find that the Supremacy Clause was never intended to deprive a state court of its authority to decide cases and controversies under the state’s constitution.”
The decision, which increases the prospect that Trump could have to sit for sworn questioning in the lawsuit, was not unanimous.
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Two of the five justices on the panel, Peter Tom and Angela M. Mazzarelli, said in a dissent, written by Mazzarelli, that subjecting the president to a state trial court’s jurisdiction “interferes with his ability to carry out his constitutional duty of executing the laws of the United States.”
Trump’s lawyer, Marc Kasowitz, said he planned to respond to the ruling Thursday afternoon.
Zervos was among over a dozen women who came forward during Trump’s 2016 campaign with allegations of sexual misconduct years earlier.
He called the women “liars” trying to harm his campaign with “100 per cent fabricated” stories, and he retweeted a message specifically calling Zervos’ claim “a hoax.” He also issued a statement denying it.
Trump’s lawyers have said the case shouldn’t go forward while he is in office. They also say his remarks were opinions that he had a free-speech right to express in the course of a heated campaign.
Zervos’ lawyers said Trump’s words were factual falsehoods that subjected her to threats and cost her business at her Southern California restaurant.
Zervos appeared on “The Apprentice” in 2006, when Trump was the reality show’s host. She says he made the unwanted advances the next year during get-togethers she hoped would yield career advice.
She says she didn’t go public with her allegations for almost a decade because she admired Trump as a businessman and thought he had had just a couple of episodes of bad behaviour with her. Both Trump and Zervos are Republicans. Her resolve to stay quiet changed, she said, after an “Access Hollywood” recording emerged in October 2016 of Trump boasting about groping women.
Zervos is seeking a retraction, an apology, and compensatory and punitive damages.
Both sides have continued gathering evidence while awaiting the appeals court’s decision. They face a June 28 deadline for any depositions — pretrial questioning under oath — of Trump and Zervos by each other’s lawyers.
http://torontosun.com/entertainment...contestants-trump-defamation-suit-can-proceed
Associated Press
Published:
March 14, 2019
Updated:
March 14, 2019 1:59 PM EDT
What Is trump's Plan For The 2020 Election?
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NEW YORK — A New York appeals court ruled Thursday that President Donald Trump isn’t immune from a defamation lawsuit filed by a former “Apprentice” contestant who accused him of unwanted kissing and groping.
A panel of judges on the Supreme Court Appellate Division said in their ruling, in a case brought by Summer Zervos, that the Supremacy Clause of the U.S. Constitution doesn’t require trials in state court to be delayed until the president is out of office.
Citing a U.S. Supreme Court ruling two decades ago in a case involving alleged sexual misconduct by President Bill Clinton, a majority of judges on the panel said presidents can be sued in state courts over things they did that aren’t related to their official duties.
“The current sitting President attempts to shield himself from consequences for his alleged unofficial misconduct by relying upon the constitutional protection of the Presidency,” the judges said in an opinion written by Justice Dianne T. Renwick. “We reject defendant President Trump’s argument that the Supremacy Clause of the United States Constitution prevents a New York State court — and every other state court in the country — from exercising its authority under its state constitution. Instead, we find that the Supremacy Clause was never intended to deprive a state court of its authority to decide cases and controversies under the state’s constitution.”
The decision, which increases the prospect that Trump could have to sit for sworn questioning in the lawsuit, was not unanimous.
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Two of the five justices on the panel, Peter Tom and Angela M. Mazzarelli, said in a dissent, written by Mazzarelli, that subjecting the president to a state trial court’s jurisdiction “interferes with his ability to carry out his constitutional duty of executing the laws of the United States.”
Trump’s lawyer, Marc Kasowitz, said he planned to respond to the ruling Thursday afternoon.
Zervos was among over a dozen women who came forward during Trump’s 2016 campaign with allegations of sexual misconduct years earlier.
He called the women “liars” trying to harm his campaign with “100 per cent fabricated” stories, and he retweeted a message specifically calling Zervos’ claim “a hoax.” He also issued a statement denying it.
Trump’s lawyers have said the case shouldn’t go forward while he is in office. They also say his remarks were opinions that he had a free-speech right to express in the course of a heated campaign.
Zervos’ lawyers said Trump’s words were factual falsehoods that subjected her to threats and cost her business at her Southern California restaurant.
Zervos appeared on “The Apprentice” in 2006, when Trump was the reality show’s host. She says he made the unwanted advances the next year during get-togethers she hoped would yield career advice.
She says she didn’t go public with her allegations for almost a decade because she admired Trump as a businessman and thought he had had just a couple of episodes of bad behaviour with her. Both Trump and Zervos are Republicans. Her resolve to stay quiet changed, she said, after an “Access Hollywood” recording emerged in October 2016 of Trump boasting about groping women.
Zervos is seeking a retraction, an apology, and compensatory and punitive damages.
Both sides have continued gathering evidence while awaiting the appeals court’s decision. They face a June 28 deadline for any depositions — pretrial questioning under oath — of Trump and Zervos by each other’s lawyers.
http://torontosun.com/entertainment...contestants-trump-defamation-suit-can-proceed
This is what happens when there are to many lawyers in a country.....................
and they cannot find enough honest work to do!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
"I can tell you I have the support of the police, the support of the military, the support of the Bikers for Trump – I have the tough people, but they don’t play it tough — until they go to a certain point, and then it would be very bad, very bad."
I can't remember a bigger freak than Trump on the stage in recent times other than, say, Charlie Mandon.
I can't remember a bigger freak than Trump on the stage in recent times other than, say, Charlie Mandon.
OH CURIOUS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Our idiot Boy Justin is MUCH WORSE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
The idiot Boy is A whole lot closer to the Cdn equivalent of being IMPEACHED................................................
than Trump ever will be!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
As usual you are off base and out of line!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
BONOKOSKI: Donald Trump and his 'amoral grifters and groveling sycophants'
Mark Bonokoski
Published:
March 16, 2019
Updated:
March 16, 2019 6:51 PM EDT
Michael Cohen (L), former personal lawyer for US President Donald Trump, US President Donald Trump [copy] and former Trump campaign Manager Paul Manafort. (Don Emmert,Nicholas Kamm,Mandel Ngan/AFP/Getty Images)
The LavScam scandal has burned up so much oxygen here on the home front that U.S. President Donald Trump must think Canadian pundits have demoted him to a mere curiosity piece.
That is hardly possible, of course.
Trump’s as unpredictable as any loose cannon created, and therefore impossible to ignore.
Last week, however, was not the best of days for the president, as former confidantes prepared for jail but prayed for pardons.
Las Vegas bookmakers, who had previously given ridiculous 6-4 odds that Trump would either resign or be impeached before the end of his first term, had the chances of Trump’s ex-campaign manager, Paul Manafort, getting a presidential pardon increase from 3-1 odds to 2-1 odds.
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All realistic bets were off, however, of the same being granted to his former personal lawyer, Michael Cohen, who eviscerated his boss when he voluntarily testified before a congressional committee and called him a lying, racist crook.
That was the end of that bromance.
Even before his conviction for a wide variety of illegal acts — violating campaign finance laws, paying off Trump’s mistress for silence, perjury and blackmail — Cohen was already a 33-1 long shot for a pardon.
Now the bookies were giving him the same odds as Major League Baseball’s worst team the Baltimore Orioles winning next year’s World Series.
In other words, stratospheric odds, Odds that only a fool would lay serious money on.
Indeed, Cohen, the one-time Trump fixer and dirty-trickster who once proudly said he’d “take a bullet” for his former client, had turned the figurative gun around and shot the president squarely between his peepers.
And it simultaneously killed any chance of a presidential pardon, even as Cohen was swearing that he’d never wanted nor would accept one.
Michael Cohen, former attorney and fixer for U.S. President Donald Trump, testifies before the House Oversight Committee on Capitol Hill February 27, 2019 in Washington, DC. (Photo by Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images)
Paul Manafort, however, is a different kettle of fish.
Trump, after all, has repeatedly called him a “good man.”
On Wednesday, U.S. District Judge Amy Berman Jackson sentenced this “good man” to three-and-a-half years in prison for misleading the U.S. government about his foreign lobbying and encouraging witnesses to back him up with lies.
That’s on top of the roughly four-year sentence he received the previous week in a separate case in Virginia for tax evasion and other financial fiddles.
Trump can use his power as president to pardon Manafort because all his convictions thus far involved federal crimes, which put them in Trump’s bailiwick.
But then the New York State stepped up and charged Manafort with 16 of its jurisdictional felonies which, if Manafort is convicted, are beyond Trump’s power to pardon.
In this April 4, 2018 file photo, Paul Manafort, President Donald Trump’s former campaign chairman, leaves the federal courthouse in Washington.(AP Photo/Andrew Harnik) Andrew Harnik / AP
So, the show ain’t over yet, As one editorial in a Georgia newspaper vividly described the entire scenario, “Americans saw up close the kind of amoral grifters and groveling sycophants that Trump has long surrounded himself with. Cohen, Manafort, Gates, Flynn, Papadopoulos, Stone-all Trump loyalists who have been indicted, or are facing prison time.”
“Let’s be honest: They’re all rats, a den of thieves,” the editorial earnestly continued. “But it was Trump who brought that group of lowlifes into his orbit. He was the Don, the Godfather of a gang of petty crooks and kooks. Trump’s universe is the Sopranos of hucksters, a cartel of egos and eccentrics.”
It was one fine piece of descriptive writing, no question about it.
And a little too tough to top.
markbonokoski@gmail.com
http://torontosun.com/opinion/colum...-his-amoral-grifters-and-groveling-sycophants
Mark Bonokoski
Published:
March 16, 2019
Updated:
March 16, 2019 6:51 PM EDT
Michael Cohen (L), former personal lawyer for US President Donald Trump, US President Donald Trump [copy] and former Trump campaign Manager Paul Manafort. (Don Emmert,Nicholas Kamm,Mandel Ngan/AFP/Getty Images)
The LavScam scandal has burned up so much oxygen here on the home front that U.S. President Donald Trump must think Canadian pundits have demoted him to a mere curiosity piece.
That is hardly possible, of course.
Trump’s as unpredictable as any loose cannon created, and therefore impossible to ignore.
Last week, however, was not the best of days for the president, as former confidantes prepared for jail but prayed for pardons.
Las Vegas bookmakers, who had previously given ridiculous 6-4 odds that Trump would either resign or be impeached before the end of his first term, had the chances of Trump’s ex-campaign manager, Paul Manafort, getting a presidential pardon increase from 3-1 odds to 2-1 odds.
Story continues below
All realistic bets were off, however, of the same being granted to his former personal lawyer, Michael Cohen, who eviscerated his boss when he voluntarily testified before a congressional committee and called him a lying, racist crook.
That was the end of that bromance.
Even before his conviction for a wide variety of illegal acts — violating campaign finance laws, paying off Trump’s mistress for silence, perjury and blackmail — Cohen was already a 33-1 long shot for a pardon.
Now the bookies were giving him the same odds as Major League Baseball’s worst team the Baltimore Orioles winning next year’s World Series.
In other words, stratospheric odds, Odds that only a fool would lay serious money on.
Indeed, Cohen, the one-time Trump fixer and dirty-trickster who once proudly said he’d “take a bullet” for his former client, had turned the figurative gun around and shot the president squarely between his peepers.
And it simultaneously killed any chance of a presidential pardon, even as Cohen was swearing that he’d never wanted nor would accept one.
Michael Cohen, former attorney and fixer for U.S. President Donald Trump, testifies before the House Oversight Committee on Capitol Hill February 27, 2019 in Washington, DC. (Photo by Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images)
Paul Manafort, however, is a different kettle of fish.
Trump, after all, has repeatedly called him a “good man.”
On Wednesday, U.S. District Judge Amy Berman Jackson sentenced this “good man” to three-and-a-half years in prison for misleading the U.S. government about his foreign lobbying and encouraging witnesses to back him up with lies.
That’s on top of the roughly four-year sentence he received the previous week in a separate case in Virginia for tax evasion and other financial fiddles.
Trump can use his power as president to pardon Manafort because all his convictions thus far involved federal crimes, which put them in Trump’s bailiwick.
But then the New York State stepped up and charged Manafort with 16 of its jurisdictional felonies which, if Manafort is convicted, are beyond Trump’s power to pardon.
In this April 4, 2018 file photo, Paul Manafort, President Donald Trump’s former campaign chairman, leaves the federal courthouse in Washington.(AP Photo/Andrew Harnik) Andrew Harnik / AP
So, the show ain’t over yet, As one editorial in a Georgia newspaper vividly described the entire scenario, “Americans saw up close the kind of amoral grifters and groveling sycophants that Trump has long surrounded himself with. Cohen, Manafort, Gates, Flynn, Papadopoulos, Stone-all Trump loyalists who have been indicted, or are facing prison time.”
“Let’s be honest: They’re all rats, a den of thieves,” the editorial earnestly continued. “But it was Trump who brought that group of lowlifes into his orbit. He was the Don, the Godfather of a gang of petty crooks and kooks. Trump’s universe is the Sopranos of hucksters, a cartel of egos and eccentrics.”
It was one fine piece of descriptive writing, no question about it.
And a little too tough to top.
markbonokoski@gmail.com
http://torontosun.com/opinion/colum...-his-amoral-grifters-and-groveling-sycophants
As silly as Justin is, he has not) has never advocated for violence of any kind nor did his predecessor nor all of the Canadian Prime Minister before him. Trump is a criminal thug and a danger to us all. That you'd even attempt a comparison is whacko and bizarre.
Well to be fair one PM declared Marshall law and another invented the Cretien handshake ..