Hello Dante? What Level Is This?

[JazzNU]

This orbit is so freaking bizarre. Like this doesn't sound strange enough on it's own with her being Mnuchin's wife, the co-star shown in the picture is Ed Westwick of Gossip Girl and #MeToo fame.

[ponchi101]

Oh, an autobiography?

[ti-amie]

Here is the @NYTimes article being referenced here:
https://www.nytimes.com/2021/01/31/us/t ... n-lie.html


Adam Davidson @adamdavidson

The NYT amazing report on Trump's post-election insanity helps explain why he has so many almost-certainly-illegal projects around the world.
Over the past 25 years, there has been an astonishing amount of illegal money flowing out of former Soviet Union and...
1/

other highly corrupt economies. Trillions of dollars. Broadly called money-laundering.
The sophisticated oligarchs used top law- and accounting-firms, banks, and big hotels to clean their money.
But there were many hack oligarchs.
2/

Who were too blatantly corrupt, too tied to terror or other bad actors, to use the "legitimate" forms of money-laundering.
Consider Azerbaijan's Anar Mammadov. He spent years and millions of dollars trying to get someone, anyone, in the US to work with him.
3/

Or Indonesia's Hary Tanoe, a man shockingly corrupt and crude even in a shockingly corrupt country.
Or the Tiah family in Malaysia. Or his partner's in Toronto, Panama, etc, etc.
These were very rich losers. They had too much risk to cross over to the legit economy.
4/

Until they met Trump.
The Trump Org, like the White House, did have some good lawyers. They wouldn't touch these deals.
So, Trump brought in Michael Cohen--who is less of a lawyer than Rudy, Lin, Sidney, and Ellis--from a taxi dispatch office in Brooklyn.
5/

And the Trump Org did have experienced real estate execs, but these deals were handled by Don, Jr., and Ivanka.
Trump refused to pay for the barest due diligence but did pay for fig-leaf assurances from pay-to-play "due diligence" firms.
6/

Much like with the election, he made a series of hugely risky and self-destructive decisions, was counseled against them, and then got a bunch of losers to back him up.
He got away with it because America barely prosecutes international white collar crime.
7/

The only reason he didn't get away with this coup (yet) is that people with power and resources had a strong incentive to investigate and stop him.
That has not, yet, happened with his business. (God damn you, Robert S. Mueller).
8/

Investigating the business will be harder.
But it's necessary.
In the end, it will find scenes much like the ones in the NYT story: Trump being told something is illegal, unethical, and risky, and then finding some bottom feeder who will tell him the opposite.
9/end

https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1356 ... 08322.html

[ti-amie]

[ti-amie]

[ti-amie]

[JazzNU]

Hilarious. Amazing what happens when Dominion says enough with the BS slander and files a billion dollar lawsuit against your propaganda network.

[ponchi101]

Question: he IS a billionaire. He is still spewing this stuff. What stops Dominion from suing him too? Giulani and Powell will not be able to pay that bill, but this psycho can.
AITA?

[JazzNU]

Dominion already sent him a warning letter informing him they will file suit if the defamation doesn't end. Given that he's been saying he's going to expose their fraud at week's end, he hasn't appeared to have gotten the message loudly enough that he's opened himself up to significant liability. While Newmax is trying to cover their own ass and no one else's here, their attempts to cut him off and talk over him are helpful to Mike, he's just too deranged to realize it. He's got hundreds of millions I believe, but that's a dwindling fortune unless people stop caring about his nonsense or he adds in some hefty new contracts. Major retailers have been dropping MyPillow and most are citing plummeting demand as the reason.

[JazzNU]

[ti-amie]

That lawsuit has them running scared doesn't it?

Fox News has dropped ‘Lou Dobbs Tonight,’ promoter of Trump’s false election fraud claims

By
Elahe Izadi
Feb. 5, 2021 at 7:32 p.m. EST

This story has been updated.

“Lou Dobbs Tonight” has been canceled by Fox News, a network spokesperson confirmed.

Dobbs, 75, was among the most ardent pro-Trump voices on air. He held influence over Trump administration policy — particularly on trade and immigration — and relentlessly promoted the former president’s false claims of election fraud late last year. His nightly program, which a person close to Dobbs said aired its final episode Friday, was by far the highest-rated on Fox Business.

The news was first reported by the Los Angeles Times, which reported that Dobbs will be unlikely to return to air, although he still has a contract with Fox News Media.

The announcement comes one day after the election technology company Smartmatic filed a $2.7 billion defamation lawsuit against Fox News, parent company Fox Corp. and several on-air commentators, including Dobbs.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/media/20 ... celed-fox/

[ponchi101]

For reasons I have explained before, I detest Smartmatic.
But man, am I hoping they clean all these jerks' wallets. To the bone.

[JazzNU]

That lawsuit has them running scared doesn't it?

Big time. It could bankrupt some of them. Especially because they have more than just these lawsuits to deal with.


OAN put this before Mike's election fraud special that he paid to air on the channel. Important to note, a disclaimer like this is BS and isn't a legal shield, especially since a 90 second disclaimer in front of what I think I read was a 3-hour special is not much of a disclaimer.

[JazzNU]

Rudy also got a disclaimer put on him by his employer and had a bit of a tantrum about it. CYA time all-around.

[ti-amie]