4/30/21: As we noted previously, April has been the “cruelest month” for Team
Trump. In the waning days of April, it only got crueler.
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“No evidence that such allegations were true.”
Newsmax apology
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First, Newsmax, the right-wing television network, has been forced to settle a defamation lawsuit – and pony up an undisclosed pile of cash – for lying about Dominion Voting Machines and one of its employees, Dr. Eric Coomer. Newsmax had claimed that the company helped rig the last election.
By legal
standards, Dr. Coomer got almost instant relief. He filed his suit on December
22. Newsmax promptly crumbled.
Among other absurdities, the cable channel had reported that Coomer took part in an “Antifa conference call” to make sure Biden and not Trump won in November. The network has withdrawn its claims and offered abject apology:
[We]
subsequently found no evidence [emphasis added] that such allegations
were true. Many of the states whose results were contested by the Trump
campaign after the November 2020 election have conducted extensive recounts
and audits, and each of these states certified the results as legal and
final.
The network also added, “On behalf of Newsmax, we would like to apologize for any harm that our reporting of the allegations against Dr. Coomer may have caused to Dr. Coomer and his family.”
(That
would include having to live in hiding for the last six months and fielding
multiple death threats.)
Sadly,
a recent poll by CNN shows that 70% of Republicans still don’t believe Biden
had enough votes to win the election. Even worse, 50% still believe there’s “solid
evidence” to support that myth.
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A pardon priced at $250,000 in bitcoin?
IF SLEAZE is your style, Rep. Matt Gaetz, one of Rejected-President Trump’s favorite cheerleaders, is facing potential indictment on a variety of charges, including sex-trafficking a minor. New evidence keeps surfacing.
The Daily Beast is in possession of a damning letter and emails sent by Gaetz friend Joel Greenberg.
If
you’ve never heard of Joel, he’s facing an impressive array of 33 charges. In the waning days of
the Trump administration, knowing he was in legal jeopardy, he wrote Roger
Stone (seven-time felon, and pal of the president) and asked Stone about a
pardon for himself and Rep. Gaetz.
Of the 17-year-old, who was the alleged victim of sex trafficking, he said:
On
more than one occasion, this individual was involved in sexual activities with
several of the other girls, the congressman from Florida’s 1st Congressional
District and myself. From time to time, gas money or gifts, rent or partial
tuition payments were made to several of these girls, including the individual
who was not yet 18. I did see the acts occur firsthand and Venmo transactions,
Cash App or other payments were made to these girls on behalf of the Congressman.
Even better, according to the Orlando Sentinel, Greenberg is alleged to have offered Stone $250,000 in Bitcoin if he could convince his pal Donald to grant him and Gaetz a pair of pardons.
In a separate email, Greenberg informed Stone that he had ditched his legal team. “My lawyers that I fired, know the whole story about MG’s involvement,” he explained. “They know he paid me to pay the girls and that he and I both had sex with the girl who was underage. So naturally they think that is my golden ticket.”
That is: to flip on Gaetz and get some of the 33 charges thrown out. But he promised he wasn’t going to flip.
Stone,
of course, got his own pardon – mainly because he didn’t flip on the president
– and it’s likely Greenberg figured
birds of a felonious feather flock together.
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Two convicted felons, and Gaetz, middle. (Greenberg, right, plead guilty recently.) |
Stone suggested that Greenberg play up his support for the president in a letter to the White House, asking directly for pardon.
Greenberg replied:
And while I haven’t had any communication with MG he absolutely
has to know that the sex charge they hit me with would be what they would hit
him with. All he has to do is explain to POTUS the situation and his exposure,
and it would be very easy to do.
MG is like a son to POTUS. MG is like a brother to me.
Honestly, I would have thought MG would have reached out to me or
tried via a third party. One conversation with POTUS and he can get this
done and it all goes away.
Yes, indeed. Who deserves a pardon more than a couple of Trump buddies, involved at the very least in paying young women for sex!
Basically,
soliciting prostitution.
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SPEAKING OF sleazy dudes, Rudy Giuliani woke up at six a.m. one recent morning to hear federal agents shouting, “Open up, search warrant.”
Apparently, Department of Justice officials believe Rudy should have registered as a foreign agent, back when he and Donald were working to dig up dirt in Ukraine on the Biden family.
So far, details are murky. Rudy may be innocent, as we always note before trials begin. Still, it doesn’t help his case to know that Lev Parnas and Igor Fruman, two close associates who were working with him in Ukraine, have long since been indicted. And they were indicted when Trump was still in office. So when Sean Hannity tries to convince viewers that the Biden team is going after Rudy unfairly, Hannity is, as he so often is, full of hot air that smells like donkey dung on his breathe.
One area
of interest involves Rudy’s efforts to get the U.S. ambassador to Ukraine,
Maria Yovanovitch, fired. DOJ suspects that Rudy put national interests aside
and had her axed because a couple of Ukrainian pals – known for their own
corruption – wanted her gone.
We also know that Rudy, Lev, and Igor were paid handsomely by a variety of shady Eastern European characters. Part of Rudy’s work involved trying to save Ukrainian businessman Dmitry Firtash from being extradited to the U.S. on bribery and conspiracy charges. Rudy claimed at the time that he was only interested in Ukraine because he and President Trump were anxious to cleanup corruption in foreign lands.
And while he was at it, he would earn a few hundred thousand dollars representing corrupt Ukrainian business leaders.
Just
for kicks.
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HAVING HAD his Twitter megaphone knocked from his grip, Trump has been reduced this spring to howling about the Oscars in an official press release. The ratings were way down, he grumbled. Format was terrible. They needed go back to calling the show “The Academy Awards.” They needed a real host.
More
importantly, the former president wanted to drum up hate for Hollywood with his
base. “These television people spend all their time thinking about how to
promote the Democratic Party,” he moaned, “which is destroying the County, and
cancel Conservatives and Republicans.”
Rather than ranting about Hollywood, this blogger would have thought Mr. Trump might have issued his long lost healthcare plan.
POSTSCRIPT: In other odds and ends of sad news for Team Trump: Brendan Hunt, 37, a
big supporter of Rejected Don, has been convicted of threatening to kill members of Congress. Hunt missed out
on a chance to riot in the Capitol on January 6, but made up for it two days
later by posting a video online. It was sweetly titled: “KILL YOUR SENATORS:
Slaughter them all.”
It took
a jury only three hours to decide that Hunt was serious, and dangerous, and
ought to cool down in jail.
Also
arrested: Robert Chapman, after bragging on Bumble, a dating website, that he had been part of the Capitol Hill riot. One woman he
contacted about a date replied, “We are not a match.”
Then
she called federal authorities.
Finally,
Don Wagner, a Republican official in Orange County, California got the kind of
reaction he deserved when he asked the county health director a stupid
question. “In the vaccine,
we heard about an injection of a tracking device. Is that being done anywhere?”
he asked Dr. Clayton Chau.
Dr. Chau hesitated
to answer for several seconds, then couldn’t help himself and started laughing.
He quickly
apologized, adding, “There is not a vaccine with a tracking device embedded in
it that I know of exists in the world. Period.”
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