I disagree, Eric. Hollywood should not be involved. Hollywood is already characterized as being full of libtards. Even if it wasn’t politicized, the republicans would say it was.
Paying workers with tax-free fringe benefits is said to be a subject of the investigation of the Trump Organization. Trump's former bodyguard investigated in NY prosectors' probe: report excerpt: "Prosecutors have reportedly advised both Calamaris to hire their own lawyers, indicating that their investigation is intensifying. However, neither Trump Organization employee has been accused of any wrongdoing. In coordination with the New York attorney general's office, Manhattan District Attorney Cyrus Vance Jr. has been investigating the Trump Organization and its executives over potential fraud violations. Trump's former personal attorney Michael Cohen said in 2019 testimony in front of the House Oversight and Reform Committee that the elder Calamari would have information that backed up his claims that Trump inflated the value of his assets over the years for insurance purposes. After news of prosecutors looking into Calamari broke, Cohen tweeted, "One by one…the house built on lies will fall!""
Leader behind bleach ‘miracle cure’ claims Trump consumed his product excerpt: "Mark Grenon, the self-styled “archbishop” of the Genesis II “church”, has given an interview from his prison cell in Colombia as he awaits extradition to the US to face criminal charges that he fraudulently sold bleach as a Covid cure. In the 90-minute interview he effectively presents himself as the source of Trump’s fixation with the healing powers of disinfectant. “We were able to give through a contact with Trump’s family – a family member – the bottles in my book,” Grenon says. “And he mentioned it on TV: ‘I found this disinfectant’.” Grenon had previously revealed that he had written to Trump in the White House in the days leading up to the disinfectant episode, urging him to promote the healing powers of chlorine dioxide. But in the new interview Grenon goes considerably further, claiming that the bleach, which carries serious health warnings from federal agencies, was actually put into the hands of the then president who consumed it. Trump’s comments about disinfectant, made at the White House on 23 April 2020 as coronavirus was tearing through the US, reverberated around the world. They caused astonishment in scientific circles, attracted widespread ridicule, and have come to symbolize the maverick response of the Trump administration towards the pandemic."
https://www.cnbc.com/2021/06/21/rnc-paid-trumps-mar-a-lago-over-175000-for-donor-retreat.html excerpt: "“I think it’s the same phenomenon as when he did this while in government, grifting. The fact that they’re still willing to pay him shows their commitment to meeting his demands for enrichment,” Shaub said. “That sends a message that they won’t be demanding he clean up his act. To the contrary, it says they are fully complicit in his monetizing his political activities.” Representatives for Trump and his company did not return requests for comment. The payment by the RNC into one of Trump’s properties is the latest by Republican officials toward a venue owned by the former president. Since he lost the 2020 presidential election, Trump has had visits from dozens of Republican leaders, including House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy, R-Calif., and Sen. Rick Scott, R-Fla., chairman of the National Republican Senatorial Committee."
https://www.cnbc.com/2021/06/21/rnc-paid-trumps-mar-a-lago-over-175000-for-donor-retreat.html excerpt: "Forbes reported the gubernatorial campaign of former White House press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders paid Mar-a-Lago over $10,000 for an event that featured Trump himself. FEC filings show Alabama Senate candidate Lynda Blanchard paid Mar-a-Lago over $13,000 in March for an event at the club. Blanchard held a fundraiser at the club that month with Trump making an appearance. CNBC reported last year that Trump properties had received more than $17 million from the former president’s campaign and the RNC after the 2016 election. Data from the nonpartisan Center for Responsive Politics shows that from 2008 through the 2020 election, more than $25 million has gone to Trump properties. CRP data also shows that during the 2020 election cycle, the RNC paid Trump properties over $1 million to host political events."
A partial list of the 'pride' of Ohio. An attorney for rioter Thompson sums up the spell that Trump casts over his followers. Capitol riot: 15 from Ohio face charges | wkyc.com excerpt: "Thompson's attorney told AP his client, who repairs furniture for a living, was inspired by lies about election fraud told by Trump and his backers. “Trump and people that supported his presidency would stop at absolutely nothing to keep him in power,” said Sam Shamansky, who didn’t dispute his client’s involvement based on video evidence. “The lie that was perpetuated endlessly by Trump and also members of the media that were willing to support him had its desired effect — it sowed dissension, it caused people to behave in ways that were just unimaginable.” Lyon’s public defender declined to comment."
Trump Wanted His Justice Department to Stop ‘SNL’ From Teasing Him excerpt: "In any case, Trump seems to have confused the FCC rules he was invoking in fury, explains Paul Matzko, a scholar on technology policy at the Cato Institute. The “equal time” rule refers to a specific FCC that wouldn’t apply to SNL. “Equal time meant that if a radio or TV station offered time to one political candidate they had to offer comparable time on the same terms to an opposing candidate,” later broadened to “not only to candidates themselves and their campaigns directly but any kind of allied group,” says Matzko. Instead, Matzko says Trump is likely confusing the equal time rule with the “fairness doctrine,” a practice which demanded that broadcasters provide “fair and balanced” coverage of controversial issues of public importance. The FCC, however, stopped enforcing the doctrine in 1987 and formally revoked it in 2011."
Trump replaces Jason Miller with Liz Harrington. Trump's new chief spokeswoman, Liz Harrington, has been a serial promoter of election lies - CNNPolitics excerpt: "On January 6, both before and after the Capitol insurrection, Harrington issued her warnings against allowing "communists" to "steal" the election. In a Newsmax interview that night, she falsely claimed that Pennsylvania had 200,000 more votes cast than actual voters, though that assertion, which came from Republican lawmakers who misinterpreted official data, had already been debunked by the state. The day after the insurrection, Harrington said on Newsmax that "equal justice under the law" means that people should be prosecuted not only "if you're storming the Capitol and destroying property" but "if you're destroying votes that were legally cast for our president" -- though there is no evidence that legal votes for Trump were destroyed. And on January 12, Harrington went on Newsmax again and said "the real insurrection" happened in the early hours of the morning the day after Election Day, when she said the "vote dumps" occurred. "That's when it happened. That was the overthrow," she said."
Trump’s bizarre Father’s Day message to ‘losers of the world’ excerpt: "“Happy Father’s Day to all, including the Radical Left, RINOs, and other Losers of the world. Hopefully, eventually, everyone will come together!” the statement read."