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PainterofCrap
Oct 17, 2002

hey bebe



rkd_ posted:

Nobody said he was jerking himself off

Ah, well, nevertheless

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Eric Cantonese
Dec 21, 2004

You should hear my accent.

Murgos posted:

Maybe Wades ex does think there is a romantic link between Willis and Wade but doesn’t have any evidence of it? Wouldn’t be the first time a spouse became jealous over their SO working closely with someone from their office. Particularly as this sort of effort would necessarily involve a lot of travel, late nights and meals together. However, what if she didn’t think that until Roman, or someone affiliated with him, suggested it? That’s what I understand was Roman’s job, oppo research, I.e raking muck and then putting it into a story to attack or discredit an opponent.

Yeah. I was thinking that ex-wife might have been more recently talked into playing along because she doesn't really have much to lose from it from a monetary perspective.

Also, who knows how Wade's ex-wife feels about her ex-husband and his heightened profile.

Lammasu
May 8, 2019

lawful Good Monster

Fart Amplifier posted:

It's like the time Trump was in the hospital with covid and some people here claimed he was likely dead. Then when he was recorded outside the White House people claimed it was prerecorded or green screen or something. A lot of the noisiest people just believe whatever they want.

That fake Melania thing was just bizarre.

Nervous
Jan 25, 2005

Why, hello, my little slice of pecan pie.

rkd_ posted:

Nobody said he was jerking himself off

It was Hunter Biden wasn't it? Is there nothing he won't do?

Arsenic Lupin
Apr 12, 2012

This particularly rapid💨 unintelligible 😖patter💁 isn't generally heard🧏‍♂️, and if it is🤔, it doesn't matter💁.


mdemone posted:

it's loving red Sharpie you morons have you never worked in permanent marker

Nobody signs autographs in red Sharpie. Black or gold.

mobby_6kl
Aug 9, 2009

by Fluffdaddy

rkd_ posted:

Nobody said he was jerking himself off
Correct. He had to jerk off everyone in the room but didn't know about the optimal tip-to-tip efficiency




E: Here's what that Trump rant was bout

quote:

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

mobby_6kl fucked around with this message at 14:26 on Jan 20, 2024

Sarcastro
Dec 28, 2000
Elite member of the Grammar Nazi Squad that

Lammasu posted:

That fake Melania thing was just bizarre.

Although that reminds me - did we ever find out why she completely dropped out of view for a solid month there?

mobby_6kl
Aug 9, 2009

by Fluffdaddy

Sarcastro posted:

Although that reminds me - did we ever find out why she completely dropped out of view for a solid month there?

Yes she was being replaced by an android

Raskolnikov2089
Nov 3, 2006

Schizzy to the matic

Sarcastro posted:

Although that reminds me - did we ever find out why she completely dropped out of view for a solid month there?

I just assumed it was a bargaining tactic for better terms in the prenup.

haveblue
Aug 15, 2005



Toilet Rascal

mobby_6kl posted:

Yes she was being replaced by an android

Shipment from Tleilax was delayed

Platonicsolid
Nov 17, 2008

haveblue posted:

Shipment from Tleilax was delayed

:perfect:

Sarcastro
Dec 28, 2000
Elite member of the Grammar Nazi Squad that

Raskolnikov2089 posted:

I just assumed it was a bargaining tactic for better terms in the prenup.

See, all their stupid bullshit blends together at this point, and this was hardly important, but: I thought that was the theory for why she took so long to move to the White House at the start, and then a couple of years later, when the Android Replacement Theory popped up, it was because of people noticing that the First Lady hadn't made any appearances or even been seen in public for 4-5 weeks.

Tesseraction
Apr 5, 2009

Pretty sure the delay in moving to the White House has now been corroborated as being based on terms of the prenup / boosting Barron's relative inheritance given he is too young to benefit from the businesses. The missing from public came two-three years later and was likely something significant such as an illness but nothing as salacious as clones.

Morrow
Oct 31, 2010
Or she was just sick of all the poo poo and decided not to make any public appearances for the sake of not making any public appearances.

Blind Rasputin
Nov 25, 2002

Farewell, good Hunter. May you find your worth in the waking world.

I mean, I think she hates him. I wonder if being ruled by a jury an actual rqpist may have changed that but it’s hard to know. She really believed his talking points when they were in the White House. But that photo of him and her snapped at the funeral, getting into the car? She absolutely cannot stand him. No way anyone looks at another human that way otherwise.

Tenkaris
Feb 10, 2006

I would really prefer if you would be quiet.

Blind Rasputin posted:

I mean, I think she hates him. I wonder if being ruled by a jury an actual rqpist may have changed that but it’s hard to know. She really believed his talking points when they were in the White House. But that photo of him and her snapped at the funeral, getting into the car? She absolutely cannot stand him. No way anyone looks at another human that way otherwise.

I wanted to find this photo



That the one?

"Try not to commit any more rape or treason on your way home, Donald."

davecrazy
Nov 25, 2004

I'm an insufferable shitposter who does not deserve to root for such a good team. Also, this is what Matt Harvey thinks of me and my garbage posting.
I’m no lip reader, but in the video it looked like he said gently caress you to her before walking away.

Lammasu
May 8, 2019

lawful Good Monster

Tenkaris posted:

I wanted to find this photo



That the one?

"Try not to commit any more rape or treason on your way home, Donald."

When was this picture taken?

Tenkaris
Feb 10, 2006

I would really prefer if you would be quiet.

Lammasu posted:

When was this picture taken?

At her mother's funeral when she left in a separate vehicle

Lammasu
May 8, 2019

lawful Good Monster

Tenkaris posted:

At her mother's funeral when she left in a separate vehicle

drat.

Subjunctive
Sep 12, 2006

✨sparkle and shine✨

She might just have had gas.

Ms Adequate
Oct 30, 2011

Baby even when I'm dead and gone
You will always be my only one, my only one
When the night is calling
No matter who I become
You will always be my only one, my only one, my only one
When the night is calling



Blind Rasputin posted:

I mean, I think she hates him. I wonder if being ruled by a jury an actual rqpist may have changed that but it’s hard to know. She really believed his talking points when they were in the White House. But that photo of him and her snapped at the funeral, getting into the car? She absolutely cannot stand him. No way anyone looks at another human that way otherwise.

Even if she didn't believe his talking points she likely at least appreciated the grift, as First Lady she got to wine and dine, live the high life, and while as far as I know she didn't grow up in miserable poverty or anything that's a pretty drat high place to get to as a model, while she didn't have to do any of the actual governing that Donny was supposed to. The worst she got was when she wore that "I don't really care, do u" jacket and that didn't really hurt her much. Compared to now? She must be absolutely loving furious at him at all times.

Goatse James Bond
Mar 28, 2010

If you see me posting please remind me that I have Charlie Work in the reports forum to do instead
her dad was the communist Yugoslavia equivalent of middle class, but mostly she had a huge breakthrough in modeling at 16 (I don't think I really want to know the behind the scenes details) that led her to professional success and meeting a wealthy New York real estate sleazeball

Captain_Maclaine
Sep 30, 2001

Every moment that I'm alive, I pray for death!

Google Jeb Bush posted:

her dad was the communist Yugoslavia equivalent of middle class, but mostly she had a huge breakthrough in modeling at 16 (I don't think I really want to know the behind the scenes details) that led her to professional success and meeting a wealthy New York real estate sleazeball

She's been pretty up front about her marriage being entirely transactional. If I recall right, prior to 2016 she got asked in some puff interview why she decided to marry him and her answer was basically "what do you think?"

Murgos
Oct 21, 2010
Trump ad:

Rapist and murderers are criminals.

Illegal aliens are criminals.

Therefore illegal aliens are rapist and murderers.

BE VERY AFRAID OF THE BORDER!!!

And Nikki Haley is bad.

Meanwhile republicans refuse to vote for any border reform because they do t want to give Biden a win.

StumblyWumbly
Sep 12, 2007

Batmanticore!

Blind Rasputin posted:

I mean, I think she hates him. I wonder if being ruled by a jury an actual rqpist may have changed that but it’s hard to know. She really believed his talking points when they were in the White House. But that photo of him and her snapped at the funeral, getting into the car? She absolutely cannot stand him. No way anyone looks at another human that way otherwise.

Remember when it came out that Trump had sex with a porn star while she was pregnant?
Even if they had an understanding, that's not the kind of thing folks like to have in the news.

Lammasu
May 8, 2019

lawful Good Monster

Murgos posted:

Trump ad:

Rapist and murderers are criminals.

Illegal aliens are criminals.

Therefore illegal aliens are rapist and murderers.

BE VERY AFRAID OF THE BORDER!!!

And Nikki Haley is bad.

Meanwhile republicans refuse to vote for any border reform because they do t want to give Biden a win.

Well, the most obvious solution is to make it easier to immigrate to the US and they would never go for that.

Eric Cantonese
Dec 21, 2004

You should hear my accent.

So finally we're seeing details.

quote:

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.

[...]

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.

This is so messy and stupid and probably another instance of God punishing us.

So maybe Roman and Jocelyn Wade have been very tactical about how information is getting slow dripped out. I wonder if Willis is scrambling or has something prepared...

Eric Cantonese fucked around with this message at 05:57 on Jan 21, 2024

BigHead
Jul 25, 2003
Huh?


Nap Ghost
Saying someone is an "intended travel partner" is about as meaningful as saying "we still have unanswered questions."

The tickets are described as a $900 and a $500 ticket, which are very very likely tickets for the two of them to go to DC or to Miami to coordinate the three cases. It's normal for a private lawyer, which he is, to buy tickets and get them reimbursed by the government he's contacted for. It's normal for some government lawyers - like me - to book travel on a personal card to get reimbursed later.

The biggest sin committed here is that the dude pissed off an ex wife. The lawyers are working together because attacking the prosecutor from two fronts will get each of their clients a better outcome.

SlurredSpeech609
Oct 29, 2012

BigHead posted:

Saying someone is an "intended travel partner" is about as meaningful as saying "we still have unanswered questions."

The tickets are described as a $900 and a $500 ticket, which are very very likely tickets for the two of them to go to DC or to Miami to coordinate the three cases. It's normal for a private lawyer, which he is, to buy tickets and get them reimbursed by the government he's contacted for. It's normal for some government lawyers - like me - to book travel on a personal card to get reimbursed later.

The biggest sin committed here is that the dude pissed off an ex wife. The lawyers are working together because attacking the prosecutor from two fronts will get each of their clients a better outcome.

They booked a cruise in Miami and a hotel in Napa.

quote:

The first trip, dated 4 October 2022, involves a flight from Atlanta to Miami. Wade paid for a ticket for himself and for Willis. Separately, on the same date and without any names attached, the statement shows Wade’s credit card was used to make two purchases with Royal Caribbean Cruises, for $1,284 and $1,387.

The second trip, dated 25 April 2023, involves a flight from Atlanta to San Francisco. Wade again paid for a ticket for himself and for Willis. Separately, on 14 May 2023, Wade’s credit card was used to make two purchases of $612 and $228 with a Doubletree hotel in Napa Valley, California.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024/jan/19/fani-willis-travel-paid-nathan-wade-trump-georgia-case

Stabbey_the_Clown
Sep 21, 2002

Are... are you quite sure you really want to say that?
Taco Defender

Were those payments made on personal cards or government-provided cards for business expenses?

SlurredSpeech609
Oct 29, 2012

Stabbey_the_Clown posted:

Were those payments made on personal cards or government-provided cards for business expenses?

The article said that they were bank records so I would guess personal.

Ms Adequate
Oct 30, 2011

Baby even when I'm dead and gone
You will always be my only one, my only one
When the night is calling
No matter who I become
You will always be my only one, my only one, my only one
When the night is calling



So he might have tried to hide income from his soon-to-be-ex wife, if I'm reading that right? Which yeah isn't great and I guess may be something a divorce court can take him to task for, but I'm really not seeing what this is beyond a messy divorce? I'm starting to think this is a nothingburger, and I'm growing convinced by the argument that Jocelyn Wade has a bone to pick with her ex husband's (possible) new beau.

Gyges
Aug 4, 2004

NOW NO ONE
RECOGNIZE HULK
I love that we've entered a new era of corruption and graft, where my job is clearly just a front to funnel money to the girl I took out to eat last week. And lets not even talk about my employer's rampant bribery of my niece via the Christmas presents I bought her.

Assuming there is a relationship between Willis and Wade, she 100% didn't get him a contract in order to make hundreds in hotel stays and airfare. She did it so they'd be working together and as a normal level of nepotistic indulgence. Not a good thing, but I'm still struggling to see Roman's standing regarding this case.

Still, all this evidence remains in the vaguely specific realm of a clear fishing expedition. I mean, maybe Wade is dumb as poo poo with his money, but why is he apparently paying for his own and his side chick's cruise tickets(?) separately instead of together? Dude really did some crazy poo poo at the Doubletree to be dropping almost $850 for a cheap room and extremely mid priced dining. Unless they held their illicit affair in separate rooms.

Asproigerosis
Mar 13, 2013

insufferable
Maybe if you all partook in the best CCCC thread on the forum (trimp thread) you'd already have known Melania has hated his guts for years, and the entire presidency was really a master class by the two in managing to pull off the staying together for the publicity as loving president and first Lady. I think the word that best described it was effortless. You hardly even knew Melania existed. Why, there she is right now, looking down at us from that window.

Soylent Yellow
Nov 5, 2010

yospos

davecrazy posted:

I’m no lip reader, but in the video it looked like he said gently caress you to her before walking away.

"For the last time, Donad, we're not burying my mother on your golf course"
"gently caress you"

The Top G
Jul 19, 2023

by Fluffdaddy

Blind Rasputin posted:

I mean, I think she hates him. I wonder if being ruled by a jury an actual rqpist may have changed that but it’s hard to know. She really believed his talking points when they were in the White House. But that photo of him and her snapped at the funeral, getting into the car? She absolutely cannot stand him. No way anyone looks at another human that way otherwise.

If true, I have to hand it to Melania for having some moral backbone. Meanwhile Dr Jill Biden and Hillary Clinton stood by and supported their husbands in the face of countless credible accusations of sexual assault. Sad!

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The Bible
May 8, 2010

Crows Turn Off posted:

So which STD is on his hand?



I've said it before, but goddammit am I ever tired of our choices for leadership being only walking corpses who are literally just rotting before our eyes. How can this represent the future in any way?

single-mode fiber
Dec 30, 2012

I dunno, the future rotting (melting) away before our eyes seems pretty apt.

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Mano
Jul 11, 2012

The Bible posted:

I've said it before, but goddammit am I ever tired of our choices for leadership being only walking corpses who are literally just rotting before our eyes. How can this represent the future in any way?

You heard about the Zombie Apocalypse?

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