Trump Derangement Syndrome

Trump victory poses ‘fundamental’ challenge to Europe, warns Blackrock chief

Donald Trump’s re-election poses a “fundamental” challenge to Europe, according to the leader of the world’s largest asset manager.

Philipp Hildebrand, vice chairman at Blackrock, said the re-election of the former US President “would challenge Europe fundamentally” following a decades-long dependence on America for leadership on the world stage.

Mr Hildebrand, who has served in the position since 2012, was responding to comments last week from Christine Lagarde, the head of the European Central Bank (ECB), who said Mr Trump posed a “clear threat” to Europe because of his divergent views on climate change and trade policy.

That is the sound of Elite panic.

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In deep Iowa snow, Trump expected to win caucuses in an avalanche

A cold coming we had of it. Icy winds blow across the plains, numbing the face and cutting to the bone. Stranded cars and tractor trailers lie abandoned at the side of highways. Snow is piled high on the side of every road in the state capital, where giant icicles hang off buildings. Candidates’ yard signs and children’s playgrounds have been enveloped by a white blanket.

Welcome to Iowa, often described as the centre of the political universe at this stage of the US electoral cycle, but currently feeling more like the outer reaches of our solar system.

The poor Guardian ia twammatized like these guys below!

h/t Clink

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Poison Spiders at the Center of the Web

You know why the judge let provocateur Ray Epps off the hook for his antics before and during the so-called J-6 “insurrection,” don’t you? Well, yes, it was partly because he was acting at the direction of blob officials, most likely the FBI, but possibly the CIA, Defense Intelligence, or some black-box fed outfit no one ever heard of (but somehow gets half a billion in funding every year). Ol’ Ray pleaded to one year’s probation (no jail time), 100 hours of community service (checking books out at his local library?), and a $500 fine. Say, what. . . ? A speeding ticket on the Rockville Pike would probably cost you more.

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Wild Trump Smears on PBS: ‘Ethnic Cleansing, Genocide, Holocaust. This Is a Real Threat’

Journalist Tim Alberta is author of The Kingdom, the Power, and the Glory: American Evangelicals in an Age of Extremism, a book touted as the author’s “deeply personal examination of the divisions that threaten to destroy the American evangelical movement.” He’s been making the rounds of friendly liberal media outlets lamenting fear-based evangelical Christian loyalty to Donald Trump, and his Friday stop at PBS’s Firing Line With Margaret Hoover may have been his most over the top excoriation of all.

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Whoopi Goldberg tells The View co-hosts that Donald Trump will ‘disappear gay folks’ if he beats Biden

Whoopi Goldberg told her co-stars from The View that if Donald Trump wins the 2024 election and returns to The White House, he will ‘disappear gay folks’ as well as journalists.

During Tuesday’s daytime talk show, Goldberg told her co-hosts and the audience how she believed it was imperative to support Biden’s run for re-election and added that those who don’t would be supporting a ‘dictator.’

‘I’m going to put you people away. I’m going to take all the journalists, I’m going to take all the gay folks, and I’ll move you all around and disappear you,’ Goldberg said of what she believes Trump would do once elected.

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Five things to know about Trump’s New York fraud trial

The vast business empire upon which Donald Trump made his name is on the line in a civil fraud trial in New York.

The former president, his two adult sons and the wider Trump Organization are accused of massively inflating the value of their properties by over $2bn (£1.65bn) in order to secure favourable loans.

Mr Trump has denied any wrongdoing, calling the case a sham.

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Judge, Prosecutor, and Defense Lawyer All Agree Ray Epps Is a Victim of MAGA Conspiracy Theories; Gets Probation, No Jail Time

Ray Epps, the J6er who was repeatedly caught on tape urging Trump supporters to “go into the Capitol,” was sentenced Tuesday to just a year of probation for his actions during the Capitol riot on January 6, 2021.

Last September, Epps, a former Oath Keeper from Arizona, was charged with a single misdemeanor count of disruptive or disorderly conduct in a restricted area in U.S. District Court in Washington, despite his lead role in orchestrating chaos on that day. The charge carries a maximum punishment of a year in prison.

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200 Undercover FBI Assets at US Capitol on Jan. 6, Congressman Estimates

A member of Congress investigating the Jan. 6, 2021, protest at the U.S. Capitol estimates the FBI had 200 undercover assets both inside and outside the building.

“We believe that there were easily 200 FBI undercover assets operating in the crowd, outside the Capitol, embedded into groups that entered the Capitol or provoked entry of the Capitol,” Rep. Clay Higgins, R-La., said.

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New York A.G. Seeks $370 Million From Trump After Civil Fraud Trial

The New York attorney general on Friday asked that the judge who had overseen the civil fraud trial of Donald J. Trump to penalize the former president about $370 million, saying the trial had demonstrated that he had gained that amount through unlawful conduct.

The sum was well over the $250 million that the attorney general, Letitia James, had estimated in the fall of 2022, when she sued Mr. Trump, accusing him of inflating his net worth to obtain favorable treatment from banks and insurers.

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