Texas mayor to seek re-election while awaiting trial for illegal voting, election fraud
In April 2019 Molina was arrested for voter fraud. There was a string of arrests the state’s election fraud unit made in connection with what Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton described as “an organized illegal voting scheme” in the November 2017 municipal election.
According to a news release issued in 2017 by the attorney general’s office, Molina directed voters to change their addresses to places where they did not live.
Molina won the 2017 election by 1,240 votes, unseating incumbent Mayor Richard Garcia.
Molina and his wife, Dalia, turned themselves in and he received a cash bond for three illegal voting charges.
Public records show Molina was indicted on 11 counts of illegal voting and one count of engaging in organized election fraud.
The court previously scheduled Molina’s jury trial for June 1, 2020, but the pandemic led a delay.
There is currently no new date for the trial, according to public records.
https://www.kxan.com/news/texas/tex...ting-trial-for-illegal-voting-election-fraud/
You left out all the times he supported them, praised them at rallies.
Obama Foreign policies in Syria and Libya are failures.
You want to defend Trump failure on Covid response by saying that the vast majority of the deaths lie elsewhere. But when it comes to Obama the majority of failed Syria is on Obama even though the US intervention was very much a joke well behind Turkey, Saudi Arabia and Iran.
The obvious explanation would seem to be that these are different people with different agendas. And I'd stress that last word, "agendas", because the people at least originating these positions (if not perhaps those repeating them) hope to achieve something, so lumping them all together as a single, utterly incoherent worldview prevents us from recognising or responding to those agendas.
The obvious explanation would seem to be that these are different people with different agendas. And I'd stress that last word, "agendas", because the people at least originating these positions (if not perhaps those repeating them) hope to achieve something, so lumping them all together as a single, utterly incoherent worldview prevents us from recognising or responding to those agendas.
My cynical view is that the narrative of conservative self-contradiction has been cultivated, if not by then on behalf of the Democratic Party, in order to excuse their impotence. If these contradictory positions represents genuine lines of conflict within the Republican Party, then they suggest political opportunity- but the Democratic Party has neither the will nor competence to exploit any such opportunity. It's preferable to regard the Republican Party as a shambling mutant abomination: grotesque and self-contradictory, yet which nevertheless exhibits a crude unity of purpose.But it's lazier to just say that you have a communal mind which fails to identify basic contradictions.
Maybe also more popular; everyone wants to be of the view they are more intelligent than other equally real humans, but some are less picky than others when it comes to establishing how real the being they supposedly bested is.
It is strange that Trump supporters praise him for rapidly creating the vaccines that they refuse to get.
Aaah, this is why they say that Barack Obama, a.k.a. the Devil, i.e. a fallen angel, is from Africa. It all makes sense now.now God was sending Angels from Africa.
She was an official White House spritual advisor to Trump IIRCThere was religious leaders saying that God told them that Trump would be re-elected, now God was sending Angels from Africa. People will believe what they want to believe no matter how illogical.
"Angels are being dispatched right now... Harranda akka bakka setta amba ossa katta..."Aaah, this is why they say that Barack Obama, a.k.a. the Devil, i.e. a fallen angel, is from Africa. It all makes sense now.
I could only find examples on the daily hate, so they may not have chosen the best, but they look pretty bad to me. Considering that people will pay ~$1.4m for a pixel, this is not the most ridiculous art sale in the world.Poor Joe. Hunter continues to cause problems.
https://www.msn.com/en-gb/news/worl...ate-art-sale/ar-AALWQGP?ocid=msedgdhp&pc=U531
Hunter is holding a sale of his paintings. They are expected to fetch outrageous prices because of his celebrity.
Its going to be a blind sale so the Bidens won't know who paid what for a painting but nor will anybody else.
Bit of a Catch-22 situation.
and that was okay?
do u have a link to the 3rd part of that, btw?
Trump Organization Reportedly Charged U.S Government Over $1.1 Million For Luxury Hotel Stays
Washington Post found the Trump Organization has charged the government as much as $650 per night for a room, and tacked on extravagant fees to hotel bills, including a $1,300 bill to move furniture.
Vice President Mike Pence stayed at a Trump property in Doonbeg for two nights at Trump’s suggestion, even though it’s on the opposite side of the country. Also last year, the White House said the G7 summit would be held at his resort in Miami, a decision that was walked back after bipartisan criticism on Capitol Hill.
https://www.forbes.com/sites/daniel...llion-for-luxury-hotel-stays/?sh=46d972255411
The $3,000-a-month toilet for the Ivanka Trump/Jared Kushner Secret Service detail
Instructed not to use any of the half-dozen bathrooms inside the couple’s house, the Secret Service detail assigned to President Trump’s daughter and son-in-law spent months searching for a reliable restroom to use on the job
their reliance on the restrooms used by fellow agents assigned to the Obamas and Pences, the detail occasionally popped into neighborhood businesses to avail themselves of the facilities.
“It’s the first time I ever heard of a Secret Service detail having to go to these extremes to find a bathroom,” said one law enforcement official familiar with the situation.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/dc-m...-service-bathroom-ivanka-trump-jared-kushner/
How Trump Steered Supporters Into Unwitting Donationsthat isn't a link to the 3rd part of his post
Stacy Blatt was in hospice care last September listening to Rush Limbaugh’s dire warnings about how badly Donald J. Trump’s campaign needed money when he went online and chipped in everything he could: $500.
It was a big sum for a 63-year-old battling cancer and living in Kansas City on less than $1,000 per month. But that single contribution — federal records show it was his first ever — quickly multiplied. Another $500 was withdrawn the next day, then $500 the next week and every week through mid-October, without his knowledge — until Mr. Blatt’s bank account had been depleted and frozen. When his utility and rent payments bounced, he called his brother, Russell, for help.
What the Blatts soon discovered was $3,000 in withdrawals by the Trump campaign in less than 30 days. They called their bank and said they thought they were victims of fraud.
“It felt,” Russell said, “like it was a scam.”
But what the Blatts believed was duplicity was actually an intentional scheme to boost revenues by the Trump campaign and the for-profit company that processed its online donations, WinRed. Facing a cash crunch and getting badly outspent by the Democrats, the campaign had begun last September to set up recurring donations by default for online donors, for every week until the election.
In effect, the money that Mr. Trump eventually had to refund amounted to an interest-free loan from unwitting supporters at the most important juncture of the 2020 race.
urged his followers to send their money to him — and not to the traditional party apparatus — making plain that he intends to remain the gravitational center of Republican fund-raising online.
A small yellow box and a flood of fraud complaints
The small and bright yellow box popped up on Mr. Trump’s digital donation portal around March 2020. The text was boldface, simple and straightforward: “Make this a monthly recurring donation.”
The box came prefilled with a check mark.
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crowed to Fox News about the achievement without mentioning how exactly the party had pulled it off. “Republicans are thinking smarter digitally,” she said, and were poised to “outwork, outdo, and outmaneuver the Democrats at every turn.”
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The two prechecked yellow boxes would be a fixture for the rest of the campaign. And so would a much larger volume of refunds.
Until then, the Biden and Trump operations had nearly identical refund rates on WinRed and ActBlue in 2020: 2.18 percent for Mr. Trump and 2.17 percent for Mr. Biden.
But from the day after Mr. Trump’s birthday through the rest of the year, Mr. Biden’s refund rate remained nearly flat, at 2.24 percent, while Mr. Trump’s soared to 12.29 percent.
“40 under 40” list in 2017: “Asking for forgiveness is easier than permission.”
Mr. Coby’s partner in fund-raising was Mr. Lansing, the president of WinRed, which had been created in 2019 as a centralized platform for G.O.P. digital contributions after prominent Republicans feared they were falling irreparably behind Democrats and ActBlue.
The Trump and WinRed operations had been closely aligned since the platform’s inception — Mr. Trump reportedly helped come up with the firm’s name — and the president’s re-election operation amounted to a majority of all of WinRed’s business last cycle, when it processed more than $2 billion.
Inside the Trump orbit, “Gary and Gerrit” became something of a shorthand term for Mr. Coby and Mr. Lansing, according to multiple senior Trump campaign and White House officials.
The two strategists were already well acquainted: They had worked together at the R.N.C. in 2016, when Mr. Lansing oversaw its digital operations and Mr. Coby was the director of advertising. And they were business partners in Opn Sesame, a text messaging platform, which Mr. Lansing co-founded and served as chief operating officer for; WinRed said he stepped away from its day-to-day operations in early 2019.
Archived versions of WinRed’s website show it added a disclaimer saying it would keep its fees around when refunds surged.)
There is another reason Mr. Trump’s refund rates were so high: His campaign accepted millions of dollars above the legal cap, a problem exacerbated by recurring donations. A pianist in New York, for instance, contributed more than 100 times in the months leading up to Election Day, going far past the legal limit of $2,800. She was refunded $87,716.50 — three weeks after Election Day.
While every large-scale campaign winds up accepting and returning some donations above the legal limit, including Mr. Biden’s, the Trump situation stands out. Records show that Mr. Biden’s campaign committee issued roughly $47,000 in refunds larger than $5,000 after Election Day; Mr. Trump’s campaign issued more than $7 million.
Trump officials attributed the excessive donations to enthusiastic supporters and said the surge in postelection complaints was a result of losing the election, not of the recurring donation tactics.
Kevin McCarthy, the House minority leader, and Senator Mitch McConnell, the Senate minority leader, include prechecked yellow boxes for multiple or recurring donations.
And after Mr. Trump’s first public speech of his post-presidency at the end of February, his new political operation sent its first text message to supporters since he left the White House. “Did you miss me?” he asked.
The message directed supporters to a WinRed donation page with two prechecked yellow boxes. Mr. Trump raised $3 million that day, according to an adviser, with more to come from the recurring donations in the months ahead.