Monday, January 29, 2024

THE TRUMP WHITEHOUSE FOR SALE - Dems Finally TAKE IT TO TRUMP with Powerful Subpoena

 “The top democrats on the MAGA controlled House Oversight Commitee, as a follow up to their recent bombshell report that Trump took $8 million of foreign payments and $6 million from China while president in violation of the Constitution, are about to subpoena ALL of Trump’s business records. Michael Popok of Legal AF breaks down what they are seeking and how the Courts and Supreme Court will respond.”


Dems Finally TAKE IT TO TRUMP with Powerful Subpoena




"Key Facts

The government of China was the largest spender at Trump properties, according to the report, spending a total of $5,572,548 at Trump Tower and the Trump International Hotels in Washington, D.C. and Las Vegas.

Notably, Trump chose not to impose sanctions on ICBC, a Chinese bank that the Justice Department alleged was helping North Korea avoid sanctions (ICBC’s U.S. headquarters is located at Trump Tower, and paid Trump approximately $7 million in rent at Trump Tower, according to Forbes reporting).

Saudi Arabia also spent an estimated $615,422, the majority of which was sent through a monthly $11,189.21 rent for a property on the 45th floor in Trump Tower.

Meanwhile, Trump signed off on a $100 billion arms deal, and became the first U.S. president to make Saudi Arabia his first foreign visit in office.

The United Arab Emirates spent $65,225 at the Trump International Hotel in Washington over seven months while the Gulf nation was pushing the U.S. to support a blockade of its neighbor Qatar.

The government of India, where Trump owns his largest portfolio of foreign businesses, spent $282,764—mostly on monthly rent for two apartments at Trump Tower."

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Forbes


Trump Businesses Received $7.8 Million From Foreign Countries During Presidency, House Reports

Zachary Folk Jan 4, 2024,



Political commentators like Megan McArdle needing access to politicians have no knowledge of violent right wing extremism. As violence drove Hitler’s rise in Germany violence now drives what is still called the Republican Party.

Republicans publicly rejecting Trump need 24-7 bodyguards for themselves and their families. The cost of 24-7 bodyguards limits speaking out against Trump to wealthy Republican officials like Mitt Romney. 



“Violence and threats against elected leaders are suppressing the emergence of a pro-democracy faction of the GOP,” writes Rachel Kleinfeld, an expert on political violence at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace. Absent threats, Kleinfeld argues, a move to Trump from inside the party — perhaps a more serious challenge in the presidential primary — might have had a better chance of getting off the ground. 

In her paper, Kleinfeld notes a striking example of this effect at work — a comment by Kim Ward, the Trump-supporting Republican leader of the Pennsylvania state Senate, on what would happen if she spoke out against the former president.

“I’d get my house bombed tonight,” Ward said.

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How death threats get Republicans to fall in line behind Trump

The insidious way violence is changing American politics — and shaping the 2024 election.

Zack Beauchamp. Jan 2, 2024, 7:00am EST




Trump has hijacked the Republican Party utilizing violent extremist anti-government white supremacy. Death threats to Republican officials & their families force them into subjugation under Trump.




“Democrats’ reason for keeping the show going is simple. They are stuck with President Biden because he’s stuck with the charmless and inept vice president he chose four years ago for reasons of coalitional politics. For the same reasons, she cannot be replaced with someone who could easily beat Donald Trump.

Republicans’ reason is more interesting — and longer-lasting. Republicans are stuck with Trump because their party has been unable to overcome its collective action problem.

For nine years now, they’ve known that they’d all be better off with Trump gone but also that anyone who tried to make that happen would risk the anger of his voters.”


MAGA TRUMPERS BACK UP THEIR ANGER WITH VIOLENCE. - Jim Pitcherella


“So individual politicians keep retreating to the same playbook: stay quiet on the sidelines in hopes that fate will intervene or that someone else will muster the courage to take him out. This is both morally derelict and ineffective…

As I say, however, recriminations are mostly pointless. We are where we are, and Trump is where he is — which is to say, poised to do further damage to his party and his country. We will remain stuck in reruns until Republicans find some way to overcome the forces arrayed against institutional cohesion, unite as a party and get rid of him, together.”


YOU GET RID OF TRUMP BY PUTING HIM IN PRISON.  THE COMING DEMOCRATIC PARTY LANDSLIDE OF 2024 BEGINS THE LONG ROAD TO REBUILDING DEMOCRACY IN THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA - 

Jim Pitcherella


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The Washington Post


Opinion Why haven’t Republicans unified to stop Trump? Because they can’t.

Megan McArdle

January 29, 2024 at 6:15 a.m. EST



Sunday, January 28, 2024

The 1st. 17 years of my life. Dr. Lewis Stokes lived next door. Dr. Stokes was a pioneering Black physician active in the NAACP. Black PHYSICIANS ARE STILL RARE. NEW BOOK "Legacy: A Black Physician Reckons With Racism in Medicine.”

 My next-door neighbors for the first 17 years of my life were Dr. Lewis Stokes and his wife Ms. Barbara Stokes. 


Dr. Stokes was a pioneering Black physician who was active in the NAACP. 


My parents called on Dr. Stokes when I had medical emergencies at night. I went to his office on Chestnut Street in Coatesville. I don't know what he put in those big syringes. I got better quickly when I saw him. 


Cutting through my Black neighbors yards on my way to school where I had Black and White friends it was hard to be racist. 


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Tuesday, April 4, 2023

Living in an antisemitic forest trees etched with swastikas go unnoticed. It seems hate and love can be felt in our bodies, somehow transmitted in the air. In the antisemitic forest Democrats are assumed Jewish. Your body feels the hate.



The U.S. medical industry got around the shortage of physicians because of racial discrimination in U.S.medical schools by accepting foreign physicians. 










"For centuries in this country, White-only medical schools, with exclusionary policies and practices, made it virtually impossible for Black people to receive medical training. It was only after the Civil War, with thousands of injured veterans in desperate need of medical care, that a small handful of Black trainees began to be admitted to White medical schools in the North. And it wasn’t until Reconstruction that a number of Black medical schools sprang up in the South, enabling Black people to finally have access to medical training in greater numbers.


These schools were Howard University College of Medicine, established in D.C. in 1868; Meharry Medical College, established in Nashville in 1876; Leonard Medical School, established in Raleigh, N.C., in 1882; New Orleans University Medical College, founded in 1887; Knoxville College Medical Department, founded in 1895; Chattanooga National Medical College, founded in 1902; and the University of West Tennessee College of Physicians and Surgeons, founded in Memphis in 1904. By 1905, those Black medical schools had trained 1,465 doctors. Each of those doctors was poised to train a new generation of physicians, who would have gone on to train a generation of their own.

And then, that promising legacy was abruptly extinguished.



The reason was the publication of the Flexner Report — a landmark document in U.S. medical history that had a devastating effect on the number of Black physicians in this country.

Abraham Flexner, the White author of the report, was an education specialist who at the turn of the 20th century was employed by the Carnegie Foundation and the American Medical Association to travel to all 155 medical schools in the United States and Canada to assess the state of medical education. His report, published in 1910, led to broad standardization of medical schools, with the top school in the country at the time — Johns Hopkins — held up as the example for all others to follow.

The new standards did go some way toward elevating the quality of U.S. medical care. Flexner’s recommendations included more-stringent admissions criteria; well-equipped laboratories and facilities; and a higher level of instruction by physician scientists, resembling the model found in Western European medical schools. The problem was that smaller Black institutions simply did not have the resources or endowments to implement the more rigorous instruction the new standards required.

Flexner had strongly racist opinions on the role of Black people in medicine. He wrote that Black students should be trained in “hygiene rather than surgery” and were best employed as “sanitarians” who could help protect White people from common diseases such as tuberculosis.

“Not only does the negro himself suffer from hookworm and tuberculosis; he communicates them to his white neighbors,” Flexner wrote, begrudgingly admitting that Black people did need some role in health care, if mostly as it pertained to Whites. “The negro must be educated not only for his sake, but for ours. He is, as far as the human eye can see, a permanent factor in the nation.” He added that Black medical schools were “wasting small sums annually and sending out undisciplined men, whose lack of real training is covered up by the imposing M.D. degree.”

After the Flexner Report, five of the seven Black medical schools in the United States were forced to close, leaving only Howard and Meharry.

Almost a hundred years later, in June 2020, amid a global pandemic and the Black Lives Matter protests, I read an article about the Flexner Report that popped up in my Twitter feed. My heart dropped as my eyes scanned the information. I wasn’t prepared for its contents.

The article described a new study estimating that if the majority of Black medical schools had been allowed to remain open after the Flexner Report’s publication, and if they had continued training Black doctors to this day, they would have educated roughly 25,000 to 35,000 people. In essence, tens of thousands of future Black physicians had disappeared. I remember sobbing as I absorbed the magnitude of those numbers.

The loss of so many Black physicians to the field of medicine and to our communities has been undeniably profound. We know — as I witnessed in my mother’s clinic — that racial concordance in patient-physician interactions influences everything from how patients feel when they leave their appointment to how likely they are to take their medications. We know that because Black physicians are more likely to mentor and sponsor Black students, those students would have felt more comfortable, and would have been more likely to thrive, in academic medical environments, resulting in greater academic success and career opportunities — and generations of new doctors.

We know that had those Black medical schools remained open, the health of our communities might be in a different place, most likely better than it is today.

Instead, more than a century after the Flexner Report, we are still recovering from its impact. In 1900, 1.3 percent of U.S. physicians were Black, when Black people made up 11.6 percent of the population. Today, the number of Black physicians remains stubbornly low, with only 5.7 percent of all U.S. physicians identifying as Black — although Black people make up 13.6 percent of the population."


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The Washington Post

Opinion How tens of thousands of Black U.S. doctors simply vanished

By Uché Blackstock

January 22, 2024 at 7:00 a.m. EST








The U.S. medical industry got around the shortage of physicians because of racial discrimination in U.S.medical schools by accepting foreign physicians. 


I had a Black surgeon but he was from Nigeria. He would be murdered if he went back to Nigeria. 




“An international medical graduate (IMG), earlier known as a foreign medical graduate (FMG), is a physician who has graduated from a medical school outside of the country where he or she intends to practice. The term non-local medical graduate may be similarly used in countries with distinct licensing regions within them.[1][2] Generally, the medical school of graduation is one listed in the World Directory of Medical Schools (WDOM) as accredited by the Foundation for Advancement of International Medical Education and Research or the World Health Organization.


Medical schools around the world vary in education standards, curricula, and evaluation methods. Many countries have their own certification program, equivalent to the ECFMG in the United States. The purpose of ECFMG Certification is to assess the readiness of international medical graduates to enter clinical specialty training programs as resident physicians and fellowship programs in the United States.”



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International medical graduate







Wednesday, January 17, 2024

“FBI Takes IMMEDIATE ACTION against Trump’s SICKO Pal” Roger Stone for trying to hire hit men to kill Rep.Jerrold Nadler & Rep. Eric Swalwell

 “Roger Stone is now under investigation by the FBI And the Capitol Police for trying to hire a hitman to take out members of congress. Former Prosecutor and Legal AF Host, Karen Friedman Agnifilo reports.”




“It’s time to do it,” the speaker (Roger Stone)  can be heard saying. “Let’s go find Swalwell. It’s time to do it. Then we’ll see how brave the rest of them are. It’s time to do it. It’s either Swalwell or Nadler has to die before the election. They need to get the message…”


Mr. Stone, a self-described “political dirty trickster,” has a history of making remarks that have either threatened or outright called for violence, though some of his statements have turned out to be more hyperbolic than actually dangerous.

In 2019, during his criminal prosecution on charges of obstructing a congressional inquiry into Russian interference in the 2016 election, he had members of the far-right Proud Boys put online an image of the judge in the case beside the cross hairs of a rifle. And in a documentary film about his role in helping Mr. Trump remain in power after losing the 2020 election, Mr. Stone was caught on camera laying out plans to create and exploit uncertainty about the election results to help Mr. Trump cling to power.

“Let’s get right to the violence,” he says at one point. “Shoot to kill.”

Federal prosecutors, as part of their investigation into the events of Jan. 6, 2021, examined whether a member of the Proud Boys and other people close to Mr. Stone used an attempt to foment street protests against a potential recount in a 2018 Florida Senate race as a model for the violence that erupted at the Capitol.

That investigation focused on whether the Proud Boy, Jacob Engels, who was with Mr. Stone in Washington on Jan. 5 and 6, had any ties to a Miami-based cryptocurrency promoter who gave Enrique Tarrio, the former leader of the Proud Boys, a document titled “1776 Returns.” The document contained a detailed plan to surveil and storm government buildings around the Capitol on Jan. 6.

Mr. Greco was also with Mr. Stone in Washington on Jan. 5 and 6 and was in contact by phone with Mr. Engels at least 15 times that month and the month before, according to the final report from Mr. Greco’s internal Police Department trial.

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The New York Times

Authorities Investigate Threats to Democratic Lawmakers

The inquiry by the Capitol Police and the F.B.I. came after a website released a recording that it said captured Roger J. Stone Jr. in 2020 expressing a desire for the deaths of two Trump critics.

Jan. 16, 2024

By Alan Feuer and Luke Broadwater


Monday, January 15, 2024

"Trump Quickly CAUGHT Planning Trial Stunt, Judge ALERTED" - It's likely that defendant mobster Trump will attempt to threaten a jury member.

It's likely that defendant mobster Trump will attempt to threaten a jury member.  It would be in an obtuse manner, so Trump can deny the threats. - Jim


"The Fulton County Sheriff’s Office said Thursday that it was investigating online threats against the grand jurors who voted this week to indict former President Donald J. Trump and 18 others,."

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"Trump will not be allowed to “sow chaos” and make a mockery in front of a jury of next week’s E Jean Carroll MULTIMILLION DOLLAR CIVIL FRAUD CASE if the federal judge orders him to behave or ban him from the trial, as her lawyers have asked the judge to do in a late night court filing. Michael Popok of Legal AF reports on the likelihood that Judge Kaplan will order Trump to behave at the jury trial or risk contempt and being tried in abstentia."





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“Special counsel Jack Smith is seeking to bar former President Trump from making ‘political attacks’ about his federal 2020 election subversion criminal prosecution at trial, urging a judge to prohibit Trump from claiming to jurors he is being selectively prosecuted and introducing certain other evidence.

‘Through public statements, filings, and argument in hearings before the Court, the defense has attempted to inject into this case partisan political attacks and irrelevant and prejudicial issues that have no place in a jury trial,” senior assistant special counsel Molly Gaston wrote in court papers filed Wednesday.

‘Although the Court can recognize these efforts for what they are and disregard them, the jury — if subjected to them — may not,” she continued. “The Court should not permit the defendant to turn the courtroom into a forum in which he propagates irrelevant disinformation, and should reject his attempt to inject politics into this proceeding.”


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THE HILL

Jack Smith asks judge to bar Trump from making ‘political attacks’ in 2020 election trial

BY ZACH SCHONFELD - 12/27/23 11:42 AM ET



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"The Fulton County Sheriff’s Office said Thursday that it was investigating online threats against the grand jurors who voted this week to indict former President Donald J. Trump and 18 others, accusing them of conspiring to overturn Georgia’s 2020 election results.

The jurors’ names are listed early in the sprawling 98-page indictment, as required in Georgia, making the state an outlier among federal and state court systems.

Now some of those jurors have had their faces, social media profiles and possible addresses and phone numbers shared on internet sites, in some cases with the suggestion that they should be harassed — though it was unclear on Thursday if anyone had followed up on those suggestions.

The county sheriff’s office said in a statement that it was aware of online threats against grand jurors and was working with other agencies to track down their origin. It did not answer inquiries about whether any jurors had reported harassment.

Other prosecutions of Mr. Trump have also resulted in threats. A Texas woman was charged this month with threatening to kill Tanya S. Chutkan, the judge in Washington who is overseeing the federal election interference case against the former president."


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The New York Times

Officials Investigate Threats Against Trump Grand Jurors in Georgia

Some of the jurors’ identities have been shared on social media, with suggestions that they be harassed or made “infamous.”

By Anna BettsJames C. McKinley Jr. and Nicholas Bogel-Burroughs

Anna Betts and Nicholas Bogel-Burroughs reported from Atlanta.

Published Aug. 17, 2023Updated Aug. 24, 2023