Isn’t this a pretty kettle of fish? Trump could lose something he loves almost as much as he does himself. He will not be happy about it, oh no, not Trump. We would be *extremely* entertained if it actually happens. He deserves it. In spades. Look at how he got it and what he did or did not do with it. Couldn’t happen to a nastier guy. My regards to Raw Story:
President Donald Trump could see his vast personal fortune wiped out by a judge’s ruling relating to the January 6 Capitol Hill attack, a legal analyst wrote Sunday. The insurrection occurred as Congress met to certify the 2020 presidential election results, which Trump had refused to accept..
Veteran legal analyst Sabrina Haake believes that Trump could see his personal fortune wiped out should a judge rule he is personally liable for damages accrued during the insurrection.
Haake wrote, “Measuring the amount of corruption lining Trump’s pocket is like shoveling on a snowy day.
As of late January, Trump had pocketed upwards of $4 billion from untraceable cryptocurrency ventures, suspicious market manipulations, and outright bribery from foreign and domestic sources during his first year back in office.
He’s certainly not hiding his grifting anymore. At least one of the bribes is obvious – that ridiculous plane. A second is “everybody” donating money to build his fcking ballroom. Damn that thing! No, there’s no reason to detest the thing quite so rabidly. This would be me getting fired up a ridiculous amount regarding it. But it is detestable. You folks might agree with me on that, at least. Moving along:
“He’d better be thinking on how to hide it, because U.S. District Judge Amit P. Mehta has ruled that Trump. Is. Civilly. Liable for the damages he caused on January 6, 2021.”
Last month, Mehta ruled that Trump was not immune against civil claims for damages regarding Jan. 6.
“Judge Mehta’s cautious 79-page ruling denied Trump civil immunity through a careful analysis largely devoted to distinguishing between Trump’s criminal actions as an office-holder (official-acts immunity), and his actions in seeking office, which were not official acts and therefore are not immune.
WHAM, WHAM, and WHAM again! He is not immune from the events of the insurrection because he was not in office at that time! Sweeeeeet! Ok folks, do we add him to the list of BadA$$ judges? He should be. Please allow me to remind you that the judge took the time to explain why his “absolute immunity” does not apply. Holy cow, SCOTUS screwed up with that one. We can bet Roberts is having second, third, and fortieth thoughts about that now. He belongs to Trump, and so do a number of the other judges, including the blatantly corrupt ones. What does it feel like to be a lapdog, Chief Justice Roberts?
“The decision carefully followed the Supreme Court’s immunity ruling, and will allow claims against him from members of Congress and Capitol police officers to proceed to trial.”
Rep. Barry Loudermilk, who chairs the new GOP Select Subcommittee on the Jan. 6 attack, suggested federal agencies had advance warning of violence ahead of the deadly Capitol attack, insisting, “there’s no way they could miss that.” “There was intelligence from both groups on the left and the right,” Loudermilk told Raw Story this month. [Subscription required.] “Why wasn’t something done? Was it incompetency? I can’t believe that it’s that level of incompetency across several agencies.”
Rep. Zoe Lofgren (D-CA) blasted Loudermilk’s line of attack as “embarrassing,” and accused Republicans of ignoring the root cause of the riot. “What happened was that Trump incited a mob and asked them to come and attack the Capitol violently,” Lofgren said.
Kudos to the judge for his enormous due diligence and explanation. That was awesome. Loudermilk is an imbecile. He’s from my state gahhhhh. Rep Lofgren was absolutely correct. Trump intended to do exactly what happened. I think the phrase was “Stand back and stand by”. Trump wanted to walk to the Capitol with the mob and was told uh-uh, nope, not happening. The irony of that is enormous. But he set them on the path to the insurrection and *everyone* knows it.
He was not president at the time, so no absolute immunity, boyo. Better get some lawyers for him that will work for nothing, since he never pays anyone. He is civilly responsible. This will be goooooooood.
See you soon!
Friends, I know everybody begs you for money. I promise you that of all of the outlets bugging you for spare change, we are the smallest and the hardest working. We’re a bunch of old, disabled people, except one writer in his mid-50s. But the rest of us are in our sixties and seventies, and this is a labor of love. All we’re asking for is the ability to continue our quest to tell the truth about Trump and help ensure democracy survives. If you can help, please do. Thank you. Ursula
I don’t want to be nitpicky, but he was president at the time. The distinction is that running for office is not an official duty; the mob action was part of trying to get him back into office; therefore he is liable. His immunity is only for official actions.
Okay, no nitpicking done 🙂 you gave me information I didn’t have before. I was mistaken. Thank you!