chainchompz posted:

Does he not know about the coast guard?

happyhippy posted:

Looking forward to his acceptance speech in Jan.

Cable Guy posted:

Donny T, the "Great But Slightly Imperfect" President you just have to live with

Escape From Noise posted:

This is a pro Trump shirt?

Grey Cat posted:

Hold up, you can what now?

Toxic Mental posted:

Mike Lindell's, you mean.

emSparkly posted:

He looks like a roast duck. Greasy and golden brown.

Amazing Zimmo posted:

Maximum Sexy Pigeon posted:

Looking forward to the series of anti-Trump campaign ads that are just cuts from his speeches where he has a 'moment' then an ominous music stab or record scratch plays and the narrator corrects him. At the moment it could probably fill out a while ad break from the last year alone.

And THEN there are the ads where you can play snippets where he directly contradicts himself in back-to-back clips. Over and over and over and over.

Buce posted:

why’s he cranking up the orangeness? sir, I ask with tears in my eyes, what are you trying to tell us??

Data Graham posted:

Ok but those ads would work equally well as pro-Trump ads, because his base sees that poo poo and is like “hell yeah” and “owned much lib?? ”

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Nathan Wade, the outside special prosecutor appointed by Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis to oversee her criminal racketeering case against Donald Trump, purchased plane tickets for the DA for trips together, according to credit card statements included in a Friday court filing obtained by NBC News.

A co-defendant in the Trump case, Michael Roman, had previously made misconduct accusations against the pair, alleging they had been “engaged in an improper, clandestine personal relationship during the pendency of this case, which has resulted in the special prosecutor, and, in turn, the district attorney, profiting significantly from this prosecution at the expense of the taxpayers.”

Fulton County Superior Court Judge Scott McAfee has scheduled a hearing on the allegations for Feb. 15.

The credit card statements showing Wade had purchased tickets for himself and Willis to travel San Francisco and Miami in 2022 and 2023 were attached to a filing by Wade’s estranged wife, Joycelyn Wade, in the couple’s ongoing divorce case in Cobb County, Georgia.

The DA’s office declined to comment on the credit card statements.

A member of Fulton County’s board of commissioners said in a statement Friday that he would pursue a “full investigation” into the allegations that Willis had an improper relationship with Wade.

“Under no circumstances should an elected official contract with or hire someone who they are in a romantic relationship with,” said Commissioner Bob Ellis, adding that in the absence of such a relationship “accepting favors and extravagant gifts from such contractors should also be considered improper.”

Ellis, who serves as chairman of the county’s audit committee, sent a letter to Willis on Friday requesting documents related to the appointment of special prosecutors, and payment and invoices for special prosecutors’ services dating back to Jan. 1, 2021.

In a filing Thursday, Willis had accused Joycelyn Wade of trying to “harass” her and “damage her professional reputation” by subpoenaing her for a deposition in the divorce case. Willis said the wife had “conspired with interested parties in the Criminal Election Interference Case to use the civil discovery process to annoy, embarrass and oppress District Attorney Willis.”

The DA said that the Wades have been living apart since 2021 and have agreed in court filings that their marriage is “irretrievably broken,” and that she does not have any information “that might prove relevant to granting or denying the divorce.”

Joycelyn Wade painted a different picture in her filing, which was first reported by the Atlanta Journal-Constitution, and said Willis has information about her husband’s finances.

She said her husband filed for divorce on Nov. 2, 2021 — a day after Willis appointed him as special prosecutor. Joycelyn Wade said she had been kept in the dark about the appointment, which resulted in “substantial income” for her husband to which she was not privy.

The court filing said Nathan Wade had left her “with little means of financial support while simultaneously spending tens of thousands of dollars per month on a very lavish lifestyle.”

“Since Plaintiff filed for divorce, he has taken trips to San Francisco and Napa Valley, to Florida and even gone on Caribbean cruises, enjoyed a trip to Belize, another to the country of Panama and even just last month took a trip to Australia. The evidence is clear that Ms. Willis was an intended travel partner for at least some of these trips as indicated by flights he purchased for her to accompany him,” the filing said.

The statements show one of the tickets cost almost $900 and the other almost $500.

Roman’s filing suggested Wade and Willis were in a “romantic relationship,” a sentiment echoed in Joycelyn Wade’s filing.

“Defendant seeks to depose Ms. Willis in order to determine details surrounding her romantic affair with Plaintiff, as there appears to be no reasonable explanation for their travels apart from a romantic relationship,” the filing said.

“Contrary to Ms. Willis’s belief, the Defendant is not utilizing the deposition to harass her but rather to seek pertinent information from her husband’s paramour regarding her relationship with Plaintiff and the extent of the Plaintiff’s financial involvement in the same. These answers are relevant to the equitable division of the marital estate, dissipation of marital assets, and the Plaintiff’s capacity to provide spousal support,” it added.

A Cobb County judge has set an emergency hearing for Monday at 11:30 a.m. ET to hear arguments on Willis’ effort to block the subpoena and whether to unseal the divorce records in the case.

Invoices attached to Roman’s court filing last week show Wade has been being paid $250 an hour for his work on the case, and his law firm has been paid at least $550,000 since 2022 for his work on the sprawling 19-defendant case.

Roman is using the alleged relationship to contend that Willis, Nathan Wade and the DA’s office should be disqualified from prosecuting the case and the criminal charges against him dismissed. He alleged that Willis had sidestepped the proper procedure to appoint Wade, thereby tainting the entire case.

“Instead of handling this case within her office, as she could have done,” the filing said, Willis “chose to hire a private special prosecutor to preside over the case,” and in doing so used the prosecution “to pay her partner a large sum of money.”

Willis has not yet responded to the allegations, and her office has said she would in a court filing. McAfee has ordered her office to respond to Roman’s filing by Feb. 2.

Attorneys for Roman and Joycelyn Wade did not immediately respond to requests for comment.

Three Olives posted:

https://twitter.com/NBCNews/status/1748577852092490036

“Appeared”

We are all going to die.

Rod Hoofhearted posted:

Credit card statements show Trump special prosecutor appointed by Georgia DA Fani Willis bought her plane tickets
A Fulton County commissioner says he is now pursuing an investigation into Willis over allegations that she had an improper relationship with prosecutor Nathan Wade.

https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/donald-trump/credit-card-statements-show-trump-special-prosecutor-appointed-georgia-rcna134791

Did Fani Willis seriously gently caress up the Trump RICO case over $1400 in plane tickets?!

Even if the romantic relationship stuff is bunk, there’s a lot here that stinks.

Marklar posted:

Yeah, something stinks. And it sucks. How incredibly stupid.

Mr Ice Cream Glove posted:

Pot Smoke Phoenix posted:

Captain Pike reboot looks weird

Crazyweasel posted:

I think it’s time to realize the reason why all of this happens, like enabling a fascist repeatedly for years, is partially because the incompetence throughout government, in all forms, is staggering.

bird with big dick posted:

Did you ever do it? Go against your mother's wishes and type boobies into a search engine?

Escape From Noise posted:

Mike, as usual, has the solution.

bird with big dick posted:

Did you ever do it? Go against your mother's wishes and type boobies into a search engine?

bird with big dick posted:

Did you ever do it? Go against your mother's wishes and type boobies into a search engine?

Quote-Unquote posted:

I never did!

Pot Smoke Phoenix posted:

I didn’t have the internet porn as a kid.

I had woods porn, and the porn my friends and I would find under our father’s or older brother’s mattresses.

And then cable tv happened, and scrambled porn came about, and that changed everything!

You kids today… *yells at cloud*

ManBoyChef posted:

Everyone is their avatar right?

Pot Smoke Phoenix posted:

I didn’t have the internet porn as a kid.

I had woods porn, and the porn my friends and I would find under our father’s or older brother’s mattresses.

And then cable tv happened, and scrambled porn came about, and that changed everything!

You kids today… *yells at cloud*

Escape From Noise posted:

Nothing beats doing your first porn search on the family computer, thinking you deleted the evidence, and having a dad who's a network administrator.

tek79 posted:

Also old-ish here. Remember Cinemax on cable? They'd have a block they called "Max After Dark" and they'd just show straight up porn in the middle of the night, unscrambled. Woods porn was also very much a real phenomenon.