lincolnman comments

can't figure out why MAGA-world loves a guy that builds cars that Trump said are "hoaxes" and made in China with the support of the CCP...

Lol, here come the Trump / MAGA obsessed needing to somehow connect every article to the orange hair menace, lol.

Thanks - glad to see you think he's a "orange-haired menace" too...

Care to defend him building Teslas in China which Trump said clearly "steals US jobs"?

https://thehill.com/business/4219775-trump-claims-bidens-ridiculous-all-electric-car-hoax-partially-to-blame-for-uaw-strike/

https://www.autoevolution.com/news/tesla-exporting-china-made-evs-to-north-america-reveals-a-major-problem-215971.html

For a businessman who wants folks to buy his cars, Musk sure does his best to insult people and turn prospective customers off...

Still can't figure out why MAGA-world loves a guy that builds cars that Trump said are "hoaxes" and made in China with the support of the CCP...

Flippity-floppity....the new Trump campaign slogan...

Hate to break it to you lincoln, but if Biden signs off on this, he would be responsible.

Hate to break it to you but your guy was for the same thing in 2020, before he flipped and was against it in 2024...

And flip-flop on abortion? Trump gave the power back to the states. Are you making this statement as someone who is pro-abortion but is upset because Trump didn't tell pro-lifers what they wanted to hear?

Trump in 2020: "Life begins at conception - no ifs, ands or buts"....

Trump in 2024: "Abortion should be legal until a certain time, maybe 15 weeks"....

That's a Mega-MAGA-flip and fold...

Attacking Trump for abortion in this way is as absurd as people who are angry at Biden because he isn't anti-Israel enough.

The people attacking Trump are the evangelicals who now see he's for "murdering children" until the 15th week...

Aso and Trump meet....

Trump: "So, Taro, what have you been up to?"

Aso: "Not much, paying a little golf, watching a little kabuki. How about you?

Trump: "Been rage-tweeting at 3:00AM, flipping on abortion, Ukraine aid, and Tic-Tok. Also been dozing off at my first of four criminal trials facing 88 felonies."

Aso: "And I thought Kishida had it rough"...

Trump: "Ding!"

It's getting dizzy in MAGA-world...

First the Mega-MAGA-flip on abortion...

Then the huge flip on Ukraine aid....

Now the backflip on Tick-Tock...

Then? "On August 6, Trump signed an executive order banning the platform in 45 days if it were not sold by ByteDance"...

Now? "Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump said on Monday that President Joe Biden was "pushing" for a ban on TikTok and would be the one responsible if a ban were imposed, urging voters to take notice."

Flippity-floppity....the new Trump campaign slogan...

Asp must know that there will be a change coming…

Indeed, he knows Trump is headed to jail...

Prosecutors doing a great job so far of telling us about things that happened that….aren’t crimes.

More daily MAGA-delusion...you show them they're wrong each day and they come back with the same old tired tropes...

It really just shows how desperate and dejected they are...

Isn’t this a criminal trial?

Ask that question when he's sentenced to jail...

As John Stewart said last night, it sure seems strange that a guy already judged to have committed a "sexual assault", is on trial for fraudulently paying off a "porn star", with the first witness being a "Mr Pecker"...

Welcome to sleaze is as sleaze does MAGA-world...

I always thought this trial was the weakest in terms of evidence...not any more...

"Pecker back on the witness stand: In what amounted to incredibly damning testimony, Pecker laid out the 2015 deal he reached with Trump “to help the campaign.” Pecker called the arrangement to publish stories to make Trump look good — and to smear his political rivals — “highly, highly confidential.” Trump’s then lawyer Michael Cohen fed the tabloid negative stories about rivals like Sen. Ted Cruz when they sensed him gaining momentum on Trump in the GOP primary, Pecker testified. Steve Bannon also pitched negative stories about Hillary Clinton to Pecker that the Enquirer published.

“Catch and kill”: Pecker also testified about the Enquirer’s efforts regarding “catch and kill,” the practice of buying the exclusive rights to a story only to make sure it would never be published. The Enquirer paid $30,000 to a Trump Tower doorman named Dino Sajudin for a story about Trump fathering an out-of-wedlock child. Though the story turned out not to be true, Pecker said, “I made the decision to buy the story because of the potential embarrassment it would have to the campaign and Mr. Trump.” A second catch-and-kill example involved former Playboy model Karen McDougal, who was shopping a story about a sexual relationship she said she had with Trump. “I think you should buy it,” Pecker said he told Trump, who was married at the time, during the 2016 campaign."

https://www.yahoo.com/news/trump-trial-updates-former-national-enquirer-publisher-david-pecker-details-efforts-to-help-trumps-2016-campaign-183916839.html

And this is just the first witness....

No wonder Trump is freaking out and wetting his pants...he better hide his golf clubs so Melania can't find them...

With this level of clumsiness and stupidity, I'm guessing two things;

This lawyer has figured out Trump is going to stiff him just like he did Giuliani and is throwing the case on purpose...

Trump and he determined his only way to avoid a guilty sentence is to appeal by saying his lawyer was incompetent...

Still can't wait until Trump takes the stand - he'll either doze off or will treat us to a series of unhinged "Bings!, Bangs!, and Dings!"....

That's what you call a flip-flop.

Call it whatever you want, someone willing to change their opinion about a topic in light of becoming more informed on it is a good thing. 

You know, like saying "life begins at conception" is sacrosanct...then flipping and saying killing babies until the 15th week is fine...

Nice to see Johnson, Jeffries, Schumer, McConnell, and Biden all agree and get this bill passed...

Even Trump had to flip in the end going from "not one taxpayer dime to Ukraine" to "well, its election season"...

Trump's backbone is as loose as his zipper...

And this bill sticks it to Moscow Marjorie and her handlers in the Kremlin...

Get ready for strike three...and he's out...of weak, pathetic excuses...

He doesn’t need to, the Dems are doing the work for the GOP going forward.

What?

Even if he wins here, which he won't,

Harry Reid thought that as well…meanwhile 3 conservative justices later.

Who?

he's still going to jail for violating a subpoena, lying in writing to the FBI, and destroying evidence...

Not going to happen.

ROFL...

And he'll go broke defaming E Jean Carroll, then paying our millions, then defame her again, and pay out more millions, etc., etc...

She won’t get a dime, crumbs perhaps.

Why?

"Bing, Bam, Boom"....

Hall&Oats

Indeed...

"Absolute" as in on Jan 6th, Pence comes back to the White House after refusing to indorse the fake slates of electors, and Trump tells his aides to bring out the noose, then proceeds to "hang Mike Pence" in the Oval Office....

Who?

And?

Trump’s lawyers, by contrast, say former presidents are entitled to absolute immunity. 

"Absolute" as in on Jan 6th, Pence comes back to the White House after refusing to indorse the fake slates of electors, and Trump tells his aides to bring out the noose, then proceeds to "hang Mike Pence" in the Oval Office....

No crime there - he's "immune"....

Welcome to MAGA-law-and-order-world...

The judge squarely rejected Trump’s claims of absolute immunity, saying in December that the office of the presidency does not confer a “lifelong ‘get-out-of-jail-free’ pass.”

An appeals court in February held the same, with a three-judge panel saying that for the purposes of this case, “former President Trump has become citizen Trump, with all of the defenses of any other criminal defendant.”

Get ready for strike three...and he's out...of weak, pathetic excuses...

A court ruling in Trump's favor should have no bearing on the hush-money trial now underway in New York in part because that state-level case involves actions Trump took before he became president. And though Trump's lawyers have made the same immunity argument in a federal case in Florida charging him with hoarding classified documents, that case accuses Trump of illegally retaining the records and obstructing efforts to get them back after he left office — rather than during his presidency.

Even if he wins here, which he won't, he's still going to jail for violating a subpoena, lying in writing to the FBI, and destroying evidence...

And he'll go broke defaming E Jean Carroll, then paying our millions, then defame her again, and pay out more millions, etc., etc...

"Bing, Bam, Boom"....

Of a crime. Not of paying hush money.

And of course that’s only if the trial is seen as “fair” and the verdict as “just”. Otherwise more people vote for Trump.

Our MAGA-friends here giving us a lesson in disingenuousness...

Daily they yell "paying hush money is not a crime"....and daily they are provided evidence that it was the coverup, not the payment, that was the crime...

"The district attorney’s office will also use Trump’s own words. Trump’s own words will help establish his intent to unlawfully influence the election. A 2016 audio recording shows that Cohen ran the hush money payment arrangements by Trump, including the amount and method of the payment and the need to open a company to make it. The recording demonstrates not only Trump’s knowledge of the payments, but also his concern that personal information (like divorce records) not be disclosed before the election: “All you’ve got to do is delay.”

Moreover, Trump initially denied knowing about the hush money payments when they were first reported — a provable lie. Only after law enforcement searched Cohen’s premises — and Trump realized he would be caught — did Trump acknowledge that he knew about the payments and had reimbursed Cohen for them. Trump’s lie exhibits his consciousness of guilt. Why would he lie if he thought he did nothing wrong?"

https://www.yahoo.com/news/opinion-trump-own-words-may-121205976.html

But keep the daily fantasy alive - it just shows your desperation and despair...

Who is going to be the most deadly witness for Trump at this trial?

That's a tough question - two of the Trump Org financial experts, the Controller and an Accountant, will testify that Trump gave directions to conceal the reimbursement of Cohen's payments to Stormy on the financial records...that will be devastating. Couple that with Pecker testifying that he, Trump, and Cogen concocted the catch and kill scheme to influence the election and it's game over.

But I happen to think Karen McDougal's testimony that she had a two-year affair with Donald could be the last straw for Melania. Stormy was a cheap one-night stand - McDougal was a two-year relationship...that's too much humiliation even for Melania.

In addition to 4 criminal trials and numerous civil ones, throw in a very messy "divorce" trial also...

What's Trump's greatest fear from this trial? Jail? Fine? Humiliation?

Nope - it's Melania walking into the courtroom carrying a golf club...

It looks like the witnesses called by the Prosecution will be a parade of current and former Trump employees;

Former associates of Donald Trump, look out—the Manhattan District Attorney’s Office is lining up witnesses as his hush-money trial is set to begin.

Rhona Graff, Trump’s former assistant, and Madeleine Westerhout, his former director of Oval Office operations, are expected to testify in the trial, ABC News reported Monday, citing anonymous sources. They will join Hope Hicks, the former White House communications director and onetime aide to Trump, who has already testified before a grand jury investigating Trump’s interference in the 2020 election.

In addition, Deborah Tarasoff, a former employee in the Trump Organization’s accounting department, as well Jeffrey McConney, the organization’s onetime controller, will likely be called to testify. They all join the most well-known name on this list: Michael Cohen, Trump’s former fixer and personal attorney.

https://www.yahoo.com/news/trump-hush-money-case-got-203827665.html

So that's at least six former Trump employees or associates who know Trump and what he did VERY WELL...

They better ban ketchup from the courtroom or it's going to get messy....ROFL...

This trial will have more comedy than all the late-night shows put together...

We'll have daily does of Dozing Donald going into Dreamland...then when he wakes up calling Biden 'Sleepy Joe"....

When he takes the stand, we'll be treated to more entertaining MAGA-onomatopoeia; "Bing", "Hiss", "Boom", "Buzz", "DING!"...

We'll see Trump turn four different shades of orange as tapes are played showing him, Cohen, and Pecker conspiring to capture and kill these stories...

Melania may actually turn up in person, then pull a brick out of her purse and start to pummel him...

Get ready for the MAGA-circus...

Kim fires more missiles off his coast...in his long-term war on sea-life...

Of course, this is the same location where his people who are starving from poor harvests can catch fish...

But given his waistline, he obviously doesn't have to worry about that...

He already did -

Not in the future when it comes to taxpayer money

How do you know? He already flipped and supported it this time...

Didn't ask that -

And? So what?

You dodged - was Trump wrong to support this aid bill you think is wasted money? Yes or no...

I asked whether Trump wrong for supporting this aid you think is wasting money?

I already answered that.

ROFL...checkmate...

Won't have to - Trump will give it to him...

Which comes from Taxpayer money, doubt he will

He already did - he could have come out with a statement saying every Repub should vote no on this bill - HE DIDN'T....giving it his OK....

So Trump partnered with Johnson and Jefferies to pass Ukraine aid...was he right or wrong?

Election year not a of choices, but I get why both men did what they did for now.

Didn't ask that - I asked whether Trump wrong for supporting this aid you think is wasting money?

Zelensky still has one Ace up his sleeve when this money runs out...

Beg for more U.S. taxpayer funded money?

Won't have to - Trump will give it to him...

Remarks made by Senator Lindsey Graham, a South Carolina Republican, on Sunday crediting former President Donald Trump for Ukraine aid funding has raised eyebrows on social media.

During an interview appearance on Fox News Sunday, Graham stated his approval for the House of Representatives approving more than $60 billion in aid to Ukraine to bolster its fight against Russia's invasion that began in February 2022. The bill designates approximately $10 billion of the Ukraine funding as repayable loans.

"There's a loan component to it. This would not have passed without President Trump. I want to thank the House Speaker [Mike Johnson] and [Minority Leader] Hakeem Jeffries working together in a bipartisan fashion to give weapons to Ukraine to fight a fight that matters to us," Graham said.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/lindsey-graham-crediting-trump-for-ukraine-aid-passing-raises-eyebrows/ar-AA1np4bg?ocid=windirect&cvid=d957ebef4f084b4691df858a87d26bba&ei=92

So Trump partnered with Johnson and Jefferies to pass Ukraine aid...was he right or wrong?

Zelensky still has one Ace up his sleeve when this money runs out...

He can say publicly; "Donald Trump is a financial, military, and diplomatic genius. He has one of the most brilliant minds in the world. His wife is beautiful and he has the physical strength of Atlas"....

Trump would sell Bedminster and come up with a new line of gold sneakers to help fund Ukraine...

Our MAGA-friends here aren't fooling anyone but themselves...

The only reason they refuse to support Ukraine is because they love Trump and Trump loves Putin - it's as simple as that....

All the talk about "proxy wars" and "my money" is just MAGA hot air...

Just like with abortion, Trump could do a 180 flip on his position tomorrow and they'd all demanding we give B2s to Zelensky...

Have the honesty and courage to admit the truth...you ain't foolin' anybody...

You know the most ironic thing about this Ukraine aid package? It shows just what Losers the MAGA-faction of the Repub party is...

Remember when Trump told them to torpedo that combined Ukraine aid and border security bill, negotiated and approved by Sen Jim Lankford, one of the most conservative Repubs in the Senate...how did that turn out for them?

1) Ukraine aid passed anyway...

2) They proved to the American public what utter hypocrites they were, by refusing to support a real fix to the border...

Losing and humiliation X2...with more coming in Nov...

Add one more example to the Repub civil war...

"Representative Tony Gonzales, a Texas Republican, shared a stunning condemnation of some his GOP colleagues on Sunday.  During a panel discussion on CNN's State of the Union, Gonzales, a Republican who voted for the foreign aid package, was asked by host Dana Bash about the opposition to Johnson's leadership and whether he'll be able to "survive."

"I serve with some real scumbags," Gonzales said. He then took specific aim at Representative Matt Gaetz, a Florida Republican, and Representative Bob Good, a Virginia Republican.

"Matt Gaetz, he paid minors to have sex with him at drug parties," the Texas Republican said. "Bob Good endorsed my opponent, a known neo-Nazi. These people used to walk around in white hoods at night. Now they're walking around with white hoods in the daytime."

How's that for party unity - calling each other scumbags, perverts, and Neo-Nazis...

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/republican-s-stunning-condemnation-of-gop-colleagues-scumbags/ar-AA1noBIe?ocid=windirect&cvid=d957ebef4f084b4691df858a87d26bba&ei=49

One wonders when they'll pick up where Jan 6th left off and start storming each others offices...

This important Ukraine package will not only help defeat Putin, it will further the implosion of the Republican Party....Just look at the inter-party warfare...

MTG accuses her Repub Speaker of "disloyalty and betrayal"....

Former Repub Freedom Caucus member Ken Buck labels MTG "Moscow Marjorie"...

Two prominent Repubs admit their party has been "infected with Russian propaganda"...

Uber-conservative Newt Gingrich says the Freedom Caucus is composed of "Stupid Idiots"...

Lindsey Graham says fellow Repub Senator JD Vance's position on Ukraine is "garbage"...

This issue is tearing the party apart - and it's about time...

Send Putin and his Puppets in the Repub Party packing...

So explain to us again how they are on the "same page" when one accuses the other of "disloyalty" and "betrayal"...

"They absolutely are on the same page, the difference is she is not how speaker, Johnson is with the hand that he dealt with, he pretty much has no choice, now if Marjorie thinks he’s disloyal, on paper it would seem so in spirit he’s actually 100% not, so I did both sides. Not blaming either of them, it is what it is for now."

I just love how he keeps digging...

if Marjorie thinks he’s disloyal, on paper it would seem so in spirit he’s actually 100% not, so I did both sides.

Marjorie doesn't "think" he's disloyal - read her tweet - she said it plain and clear - he betrayed the MAGA-cause and sided with the enemy. How do you conspire and collude with Dems and still be on the "same page"?

You need to read he post again; "After doing nothing to secure America’s Southern border, reauthorizing FISA to spy on the American people without a warrant, fully funding Joe Biden’s DOJ that has indicted President Trump 91 times, and giving Biden’s political gestapo a brand new FBI building bigger than the Pentagon, Speaker Johnson just sent $61 billion to fund the proxy war against Russia in Ukraine."

So, is she correct or is she lying?

Huge divide between Moscow-Marjorie and MAGA-Mike.

Not really, they’re on the same page,

ROFL - I guess you missed MTG latest post;

Mike Johnson betrayed America once again.

After doing nothing to secure America’s Southern border, reauthorizing FISA to spy on the American people without a warrant, fully funding Joe Biden’s DOJ that has indicted President Trump 91 times, and giving Biden’s political gestapo a brand new FBI building bigger than the Pentagon, Speaker Johnson just sent $61 billion to fund the proxy war against Russia in Ukraine.

House Republicans and the American people would be stronger without his disloyalty and betrayal of his principles.

https://townhall.com/tipsheet/saraharnold/2024/04/20/mtg-ukraine-bill-n2638068

So explain to us again how they are on the "same page" when one accuses the other of "disloyalty" and "betrayal"...