BigBallChunkyTime posted:

Apparently Lauren Boebert decided she hasn't been acting trashy enough lately and punched her ex husband in the nose in a Colorado restaurant. Then she called the cops on him.

Pot Smoke Phoenix posted:

It's really weird.

I still have to wonder if there was some kind of mega-ironclad NDA that Trump made the entire GOP sign that bound their souls for life because the lockstep they have all been in is loving eerie

kazil posted:

it's because everything is overcooked so much that bacteria can't possibly survive

Froghammer posted:

Billionaires have access to crazy powerful drugs that can effectively cure Covid make an old man's dick work

JAnon posted:

if Trump loses the Republican nomination I'm going to giggle like a upper-class child from Victorian England

Frank Frank posted:

Is there a particular reason it seems like they're pushing for a female VP? I mean, I get Harris is a thing but you'd think that would lose points with their base.

BigBallChunkyTime posted:

He only wants a female VP so he can try to gently caress her. Let's be real. His running mate will be an attractive female.

Dementropy posted:

Or, to a MUCH lesser degree, Dean Phillips

https://www.politico.com/news/2024/01/15/dean-phillips-floats-a-cabinet-post-for-musk-or-ackman-00135640

Grey Cat posted:

Why do chuds get so much work done? I don't see this nearly as much on the left. Like beyond some mild gender affirming stuff it's never even close to botched like chud plastic work.

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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.

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.

BrideOfUglycat posted:

What infuriates me is that you have to go into this knowing they are going to do EVERYTHING they can to disqualify and delay. EVERYTHING has to be done by the book to avoid that. I'm a loving legal layperson, I don't have a law degree, I've worked with but not for lawyers, but it doesn't take a legal genius to know how this works because it applies to almost every job across the board. If someone wants to gently caress you, make sure you leave no available opportunities for that to happen. These people worked their way up that food chain. They should know better.

Coolguye posted:

jesus, doomerflood started early this weekend

kazil posted:

big nipples big life posted:

Whatever the effect on the case, just imagine throwing away your entire career for 2 plane tickets.

Dapper_Swindler posted:

because NH isnt a big bastion of weird chud poo poo. its mostly various boring moderate/buisness types. plus chud votes already have trump, so why try there.

Outpost22 posted:

Someone correct me if I forgot something

GOP Talking Point/Dog Whistle
Tough on crime = Harrass black people
Border security = Get rid of Hispanic people
Anti globalist = Anti Semitic
Traditional Family Values = Homophobic
Economic Anxiety = Taxes being raised on corporations
Women's Sports = Trans Panic

EDIT:
Weaponization of DOJ = Holding Rump accountable for crimes
Hunter Biden = Huge Hog

SilvergunSuperman posted:

Seems doubtful, at least not in areas it would matter

SonOfGhostDad posted:

Post itt every time you lol that trump is going to be president in 2024

Data Graham posted:

It would be good to know that his base is shrinking if that is the case.

I know that all through his term we saw his approval rating banging against that 39% number like a fly against a window, never dipping lower, and we eventually concluded that that was just his concrete floor, solid as bedrock.

Are we saying that number is actually starting to get porous? Or that his "base" has been larger during Biden's term than it was during Trump's, and now it has to shed chaff and shrink back down to its impenetrable demon core in order for Biden to have a chance at all?

Millions of loud idiots won't translate to a win if there's only a few millions of them and everyone else is just quietly sick of everything being so loving stupid and having to hear about his obnoxious rear end whining 24 hours a day.

Azuth0667 posted:

Do not channel loving fishmech.

Junk posted:

i remember 3 years ago when this thread was genuinely worried ron would win in 2024

fishing with the fam posted:

So fuckin funny to me that all that it took was a single primary caucus loss to have Ronny D running away with his tail tucked between his legs. Absolute piss baby poo poo.

Almost Smart posted:

I hope the “my morals won’t let me vote for Joe” crew comes around when the danger Trump poses starts to become tangible.

Nelson Mandingo posted:

Reminder Ron is gonna get buried in lawsuits and Disney is going to own Florida thanks to Ron DeSantis.

Silly Burrito posted:

how the hell do you let Kelce get THAT open

TRUMP

Drunk Nerds posted:

Buffalo's defense needs to build a wall