Bannon said he thought Trump would be sent to prison in July 2024 for his hush money conviction and for much longer than his four-month sentence that he is currently serving for contempt of Congress. Trump didn't even face sentencing on July 11 courtesy the Supreme Court whose immunity ruling allowed Trump to delay the sentencing until at least September and potentially delay it additional months. Trump can make the hush money conviction moot if he can delay sentencing until after he starts a possible second term. Trump has a small chance of having the whole case and conviction thrown out via the immunity ruling. Trump Ally Steve Bannon Goes To Jail excerpt: "Trump is going to be sentenced to prison on July 11. Me going here for four months is nothing."
Trump didn't say much about farmers and coal miners during his 2024 RNC convention speech. During the 2020 campaign, Trump bragged at his rallies about his welfare payments to U.S. farmers. Article from 2020. https://www.politico.com/news/2020/07/14/donald-trump-coronavirus-farmer-bailouts-359932 excerpt: "Direct farm aid has climbed each year of Trump’s presidency, from $11.5 billion in 2017 to more than $32 billion this year — an all-time high, with potentially far more funding still to come in 2020, amounting to about two-thirds of the cost of the entire Department of Housing and Urban Development and more than the Agriculture Department’s $24 billion discretionary budget, according to a POLITICO analysis. But lawmakers have taken a largely hands-off approach, letting the department decide who gets the money and how much."
Trump's payments to farmers were apportioned ad hoc and most went to the wealthy farmers in eight states. Interactive Map: Farm Subsidies Ballooned Under Trump excerpt: "EWG’s analysis of records from the Department of Agriculture finds that subsidy payments to farmers ballooned from just over $4 billion in 2017 to more than $20 billion in 2020 – driven largely by ad hoc programs meant to offset the effects of President Trump’s failed trade war. Not only did the amount of subsidies skyrocket, but the richest farms also increased their share: In 2016, about 17 percent of total subsidies went to the top 1 percent of farms and about 60 percent to the top 10th. In 2019, the richest 1 percent received almost one-fourth of the total, and the top 10th received almost two-thirds.1 The staggering growth of subsidies and the worsening inequity in distribution underscore the urgency for the Biden administration and the new Congress to enact commonsense farm subsidy reforms that will benefit small, struggling farmers and the environment and make up for the mistakes of the Trump years."
Interactive Map: Farm Subsidies Ballooned Under Trump excerpt: "The majority of payments went to just eight states – Illinois, Iowa, Kansas, Minnesota, Nebraska, North Dakota, South Dakota and Texas. Farmers in those states received more than $41 billion, or 51 percent of the total."
Trump in 2019 bragging about welfare payments he gave to American farmers, mostly to wealthy farmers. Trump’s $28 Billion Bet That Rural America Will Stick With Him excerpt: “I sometimes see where these horrible dishonest reporters will say that ‘oh jeez, the farmers are upset.’ Well, they can’t be too upset, because I gave them $12 billion and I gave them $16 billion this year,” said Trump, who then added, “I hope you like me even better than you did in ’16.”
Judge Chutkan warns about becoming complacent about the riot a tthe Capitol. A newly released video is in the article showing how brainwashed Trump's rioters were about the election supposedly being stolen from Trump. They were looking at police officers through a window that they smashed on the House chamber and yelling insults at them. https://www.politico.com/news/2024/...acency-jan-6-capitol-riot-sentencing-00167841 excerpt: “The effects of that day are still being felt,” Chutkan said before sentencing defendant Spencer Offman to 30 days in prison for breaching the building during the riot. Chutkan used Friday’s sentencing in the relatively routine Jan. 6 case to make a case against complacency about the danger that the attack posed to democracy, characterizing it as a “violent attempt to stop the peaceful transfer of power” in which rioters were “desecrating the center of our government.”
It turns out that's what Trump thinks. Trump said that his VP search is like the Apprentice TV show.. Trump likens VP selection to ‘The Apprentice’ ahead of pre-convention rally excerpt: “It’s like a highly sophisticated version of ‘The Apprentice,’” he said in a radio interview Friday afternoon, referring to the show he once hosted that featured him firing contestants on camera.
It wasn't highly sophisticated. In the end, Trump chose Vance, a clone of himself, who had previously called Trump Hitler (which Trump probably considers a compliment). Burgum of ND seemed too conventional, like Pence. Trump didn't go with the slaphappy Scott who did just about everything on stage to praise Trump (like saying "I love you!") except pulling down his pants and kissing his back side. Selecting Rubio or Donalds of FL would have raised residency issues which could have prevented Trump from receiving electoral votes from FL. The chance of Trump picking a black or a woman was low. Trump will sometimes do PR events with black people (like trying to sell $399 sneakers to them in Philadelphia) and will plant them on his rally stage, but In terms of a permanent, high-profile position like a VP in the White House, he can't stand to be next to anyone except a white male. Even the ghostly white conservative Pence wasn't a good enough clone of Trump.
Heritage Foundation says Trump won't receive a fair election (if he loses but not if he wins). Unbowed by Jan. 6 Charges, Republicans Pursue Plans to Contest a Trump Defeat excerpt: “As things stand right now, there’s zero chance of a free and fair election,” Mike Howell, a project director at the Heritage Foundation, a conservative think tank, said at an event this week. “I’m formally accusing the Biden administration of creating the conditions that most reasonable policymakers and officials cannot in good conscience certify an election.”
Virginia Republicans mum on Trump’s remarks about Jan. 6 at Chesapeake rally – The Virginian-Pilot excerpt: Virginia’s House Speaker Don Scott, D-Portsmouth, said he fears that the failure to firmly and consistently condemn the attack is sowing the seeds for more violence. “I absolutely think we are harming American democracy by normalizing that political violence and claiming that the people who literally stormed the Capitol were some kind of victims,” he said. “I think we are going down a dangerous path.”
Matt Gaetz appears to have undergone cosmetic surgery or procedures, just in time for the 2024 RNC convention. Matt Gaetz's face at the RNC sparks jokes, Botox rumors
Ronny Jackson apparerntly is still treating Trump's wound caused by the assassination attempt, but his medical license reportedly expired in 2020. Ronny Jackson's Virginia Medical License Expired, Still Treating Trump
Night Of The Living Dead was filmed in Butler County, PA where Trump was nearly assassinated. Night of the Living Dead - Wikipedia
So Vance with the makeup and Gaetz with the plastic surgery...can these two even campaign in red states? Tennessee now has a law against public drag performances that were worded so vaguely, they could've applied to Alice Cooper. The question is, with the MAGAs apply it to themselves...
Biden drops out of race and endorses Harris. Sen. Daines calls on Biden to resign from the presidency. https://www.cnn.com/politics/live-news/biden-trump-election-07-21-24/index.html
The 2024 election is turning into Night Of The Living Dead. The film was released in 1968, the same year as the tumultuous 1968 Democratic presidential campaign after President Johnson dropped out of the race. The 2024 Democratic National Convention is in Chicago like it was in 1968.
GOP Sen. Daines and others in the GOP are now calling for that scenario in the wake of the news that Biden is stepping down from the 2024 campaign. The 2024 campaign continues to become more uncertain. image:
SD woman charged for participating in Capitol riot. Sioux Falls woman charged for involvement in Jan. 6 Capitol riot excerpt: "SIOUX FALLS, S.D. (Dakota News Now) - A Sioux Falls business owner has been charged for participating in the January 6th riot at the United States Capitol in Washington, D.C."