ryrybang @ ryrybang @lemmy.world

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Right before they lower it, in 10 days time, to $50M which will be due in an extra 30 days.

He has to pay $175M in 10 days. For now. That could get extended. Or reduced. Or both. No reason to assume he'll be held to that now. All evidence points to it being reduced or extended again.

5 days ago I was downvoted for saying this would happen. Yet here we are.

Expect this judgement to get appealed and tossed completely. They can't do it all in one go as that's too obvious. Doing a slow roll. Randomly extending the deadline and slashing the bond amount is just the first step. Expect more. Each time easing up even more on Trump.

It has started :(

Trump is above the law.

For the record, the predictions in my comment have started. Severely reduced bond amount and an extra 10 days. The appeals court stepped in, even without an appeal.

Nothing is going to happen. Some court/judge will step in just before the deadline, says this needs a stay despite the lack of an official appeal request from the defendent. It will need a close examination due to "the historical nature of the case" or some such bullshit. Schedule a review date in October 2024, which will get rescheduled to 2025 because reasons. Then Trump will go spouting everywhere that he beat the courts and "won" his case.

This guy is part of the protected class, for whatever reason.

I hope I'm wrong. But I know, deep down in my plums I'm right.

If it can give hugs too, you basically got a whole gramma there.

Excellent. Didn't know about this one. I've been diving into conservas a lot lately with some diet changes, so this is super.

Trump's attorney said it was "unfathomable" that Trump would be ready to balance his legal obligations with his campaigning.

I can't believe this stuff is even allowed in open court. Campaigning isn't even a job. It's a 100% optional thing somebody chooses to do in running for elected office. It can be stopped at any moment for any reason, completely and willingly.

A court date for multiple felonies is an obligation. It's much higher priority. There's no comparison.

If it is a fair excuse, then I guess we should all be campaigning.

Sorry boss, it's unfathomable to work today because I need to campaign. Sorry your honor, jury duty is unfathomable because I'm working the crowds. Sorry IRS, can't file my taxes this year because I'm busy raising money on social media.

Just wait until she drops out:

"Trump is the leader we need, he's bigly strong, aced all his cognitive tests, he's super rich and therefore smart, Biden is too old, blah blah."

It improves the waste issue, doesn't really solve it. A dirty, little-discussed secret about fusion power.

If we had a bunch of fusion plants go live, we'd soon have tons and tons of radioactive containment wall material to bury/store somewhere. Including all the special handling requirements that you need with fuel rod waste. I think fusion plants would actually create more waste than a comparable fission plant, at least as far as tons of radioactive material.

The benefit is that waste would be lighter isotopes and degrade faster. So you have more physical material to worry about but only need to worry about it for ~100 years, not thousands.

She lost the right to critique anybody's job performance after giving out handies and vaping at a musical as a sitting member of Congress. It's all just air passing through her lungs making meaningless sounds at this point.

Not just a tax bill, but insurance bills and attorney bills for the Carroll case.

But the rest apparently went to cover Trump’s mounting legal costs following a searing jury verdict in May that determined he sexually assaulted the journalist E. Jean Carroll—and slapped him with a $5 million penalty.

“I have also confirmed that the other transfers were for insurance premiums and to an attorney escrow account,” Jones wrote, referencing the Carroll case.

What a guy.

Was driving by Fort Walker the other day and they did a great job on all the exit signs, boundary markers, and what not. Didn't see a single "AP Hill" anywhere. Naming Army installations after quite literal traitors is absolutely insane.

GOP senators say

Unfortunately, their word is meaningless. And to believe their statements is risky. I mean, I'm glad they are saying this. But we won't be able to see if it means shit until they actually do or do not block a new member of the committee.

This guy's name shows up all over the GA indictment, including lots of calls and emails to a bunch of people. This guy knows stuff. Interesting that they think he's a reliable witness. If I was one of the other co-defendents, my nervousness level would be going from 99.9 to 99.9999.

Potentially violates both of these conditions from the GA bond conditions.

The Defendant shall make no direct or indirect threat of any nature against any codefendant;

The Defendant shall not communicate in any way, directly or indirectly, about the facts of this case with any person known to him to be a codefendant in this case except through his or her counsel.

Wakes up, sips coffee, makes loud, proud declarations against the Geneva Conventions. Yep, this is the modern GOP.

Right? It's like the career criminal doing one more robbery. They tell themselves it'll be the last time they do it because they know it's wrong. Except it's not the last time. They'll do another later on and call that one the last time. And again and again.

Senate GOP Leader Mitch McConnell moved behind the scenes to reassure his allies and donors he can do his job

Is he doing this or is the Shadow Senate GOP Leader doing this? And by that, I mean his unelected aide who is acting and speaking on behalf of McConnell.