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  Joan E Greve and David Smith report from Washington “We won,” declared an exultant Trump after walking on stage at Washington’s Capital One Arena on Sunday night, accompanied by his signature campaign anthem God Bless the USA. Vowing to “take our country back”, the soon-to-be 47th president said: “Tomorrow at noon the curtain closes […]

Some would recall the President-Elect’s eloquent words of comfort to the 2018 #ParklandSchoolShooting victims when he said that he would “run in there even if I didn't have a weapon” to take down the #ActiveShooter and save the day.

Today the #PresidentElect wrote that #California “incompetent pols have no idea how to put” the #LAFires out, that “[t]hey just can’t put out the fires. What’s wrong with them?” He didn’t mention #FirstResponders. He gave no words of comfort to those that are suffering through this catastrophe.

But I can’t wait for #Jan20 because – like the ending of the Ukraine and Gaza conflicts and #MakingEggsCheaper#President #Trump will get the #CaliforniaFires out on #DayOne of his #NewAdministration! Let him run in there amongst the flames in his #InagurationDay super-suit and quench the #wildfires with his famous #BigWater !

(See the award-winning photograph of the once-and-future president travelling incognito in northern California looking for the special #VeryLargeFaucet – that only he knows how to operate: for only he can save #LA – below:)

#MakeWaterGreatAgain #Sarcasm #USPol #USPolitics #CaliforniaPol #CaliforniaPolitics #LosAngelesFires

Donald Trump avoids jail time and fine in hush money case sentencing: Donald Trump will not face jail time or fines in his hush money trial. Instead, the president-elect received an “unconditional discharge at today’s sentencing.” Trump was convicted in May last year on 34 counts of falsifying business records over hush-money payments in 2016. It was argued that he did so to cover up a payoff […] https://creebhills.com/2025/01/donald-trump-avoids-jail-time-and-fine-in-hush-money-case-sentencing?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon #DonaldTrump #HushMoney #LegalBattle #CourtDecision #PresidentElect
Donald Trump avoids jail time and fine in hush money case sentencing

Donald Trump will not face jail time or fines in his hush money trial. Instead, the president-elect received an “unconditional discharge at today's sentencing.”

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#breakingnews : In response to threats from #PresidentElect #donaldtrump countries of the #europeanunion ( incl. #greenland ), #southamerica ( incl. #panama ) and #canada have announced to increase cooperation under the name #freewest .
Negotiations to intensity relations with #china are starting beginning of April.

Disclaimer: The is a repost from #facebook and #instagram . Post mortem thanks go to #MarkSuckerZwerg .

"Congress has the power to block Trump from taking office, but lawmakers must act now"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aDbCiNMmorw

@markreckons in conversation with former attorney Richard Greene (the “Civics Dean”) explaining the #Trump #disqualification under #14thAmendmentSectionThree including a discussion of Trump v. Anderson and Congress’ role under the #ElectoralCountAct (as amended 2022).

My take-away from the interview: Thompson & Greene agree that it’s not going to happen: i.e., Trump will be inaugurated on #Jan20 , but #Democrats should act on their Constitutional duty and object to his Electoral votes on the grounds that the #PresidentElect is an adjudicated #insurrectionist

See the #JessicaDenson led https://nowmarch.org/plan-your-trip/ for details of the peaceful protest to be held in #WashingtonDC on January 3-5

The photograph is of #poet Amanda Gorman reading her #poem “The Hill we Climb” at the #Inauguration of #President Joseph R. Biden, United States #Capitol January 20, 2021.

#USPol #USPolitics #14thNow

Congress has the power to block Trump from taking office, but lawmakers must act now

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And the marvel of the post below is that we can’t tell for sure that prez-elect trump/musk did not in fact come up with this scheme. #trump #presidentMusk #PresidentElect

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Today Donald Trump announced he was seizing the Panama Canal and moving it to the new US territory of Greenland. “It will dramatically reduce shipping costs and time to transport all of the goods from China the new tariffs help pay for,” he stated in a early morning post on Truth Social. “The best part is that Canada will be paying for relocation of the canal.” Stunned world leaders did find themselves agreeing with his statement that no one other than him could have conceived such a plan.

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@yuhasz01

As I noted originally, there *is* a growing body of legal opinion that views the now #PresidentElect to be Constitutionally #disqualified from holding office. As might be expected, this body of opinion is now being added to: some of the opinion is as current as today where, in a YouTube discussion with Brian Tyler Cohen, former federal prosecutor Glenn Kirschner re-states his view that #Trump has been adjudicated as an insurrectionist by: i) the state of Colorado; ii) #Congress (in the second #impeachment trial); iii) the #Jan6 Committee (1). #Insurrection – & not treason – is the relevant yardstick for #14thAmendmentSectionThree

Cohen & Kirschner also discuss a Dec 26 article by Evan A. Davis & David M. Schulte (“Congress has the Power to Stop Trump from Taking Office…”) where legal scholars Davis & Schulte argue that despite the implications of Trump v. Anderson (the Colorado case in #SCOTUS), Trump is still disqualified due to legal precedent & his Electoral College votes may be objected to in Congress on that basis under the Electoral Count Act (2).

I further note that there are other mechanisms available for Congress to ‘trigger’ disqualification (or to “remove such disability”) under #AmendmentXIV (see Kaitlyn Bird, “King Trump is not Inevitable” (3), Jessica Denson’s YouTube channel (4) & bibliography of legal opinion (5)): mechanisms that also fall within SCOTUS’ determination in Trump v. Anderson.

I’m not a US citizen but I care about the country (to the point that I wrote a book about it) & this is my reading of the up-to-date (as of today) legal thinking on the left. I still think that you have an ‘out’: but that this ‘out’ is going to expire on #InaugurationDay After that, all bets are off.

(1) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XI5-s6NIcys
(2) https://thehill.com/opinion/congress-blog/5055171-constitution-insurrection-trump-disqualification/
(3) https://www.damemagazine.com/2024/12/03/king-trump-is-not-inevitable/
(4) https://www.youtube.com/@JessicaDenson07/videos
(5) https://nowmarch.org/legal-authority/

#USPol #USPolitics #DonaldJTrump #RuleOfLaw #14thNow #RIPJimmy

Prosecutor on whether Congress can BLOCK Trump's certification

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The text of the #14thAmendmentSectionThree of the US #Constitution states that:

No person shall be a Senator or Representative in Congress, or elector of President and Vice President, or hold any office, civil or military, under the United States, or under any state, who, having previously taken an oath, as a member of Congress, or as an officer of the United States, or as a member of any state legislature, or as an executive or judicial officer of any state, to support the Constitution of the United States, shall have engaged in insurrection or rebellion against the same, or given aid or comfort to the enemies thereof.

On #Jan6 2021 the whole world saw then #POTUS #Trump incite an #insurrection. There is a growing body of legal opinion that views the now #PresidentElect to be Constitutionally #disqualified from holding office (see https://nowmarch.org/legal-authority/ )

Led by #JessicaDenson there are events planned for January 3-5, 2025 in #WashingtonDC (see https://nowmarch.org/ )

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d5Qe4h7KQ7c

#USPol #USPolitics #DonaldJTrump #RuleOfLaw #14thNow

Legal Authority – Fourteenth Now!

PreservingBlackHistory on Instagram: "We are witnessing the president-elect as he goes through mental decline. #trumpisdelusional #trumpisdisgraceful #trumpisdividingthecountry #trumpisdelusionalontheeconomy #trumpisdelirious"

1,753 likes, 154 comments - preservinghistory on December 26, 2024: "We are witnessing the president-elect as he goes through mental decline. #trumpisdelusional #trumpisdisgraceful #trumpisdividingthecountry #trumpisdelusionalontheeconomy #trumpisdelirious".

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🔔“Being pals w/a #PresidentElect isn’t supposed to be enough to serve in a position of #authority — in this country or any other.🔔

#gop keeps “goin’ round the…bend”.
They’re just so darn excited to be #authoritarian stooges!

“One House #republicans declared, “It feels like as if #elonmusk is our #primeminister.” The closer one looks, the worse the comment appears.”
#influence

https://apple.news/AmeuceVNBSmSCMt3zOuqiFg

With ‘prime minister’ talk, the GOP line on Elon Musk takes a weird turn — MSNBC

One House Republican declared, “It feels like as if Elon Musk is our prime minister.” The closer one looks, the worse the comment appears.