Donald Trump Private Citizen

Fogdog

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You need two parties in your system. If not moderate republicans who realize ruling is not a winner take all proposition then who?
We don't need the Republican Party in its current menacing white terrorist form. We need their leaders behind bars and the Republican Party declared a terrorist organization. If the presidential election is decided during the Democratic primary that would be enough.
 

DIY-HP-LED

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Trump Organization Indictment Hints at More Charges: Former Prosecutor (businessinsider.com)

One sentence in the Trump Organization indictment suggests more charges are coming, former prosecutor says

  • The Manhattan DA's Trump Organization investigation is ongoing after last week's indictments.
  • Prosecutors say its CFO is "one of the largest individual beneficiaries of the defendants' scheme."
  • This suggests people other than Allen Weisselberg are under scrutiny and may be charged later.
One sentence in the Manhattan district attorney's 15-count indictment against the Trump Organization suggested more people affiliated with the ex-president's family company could face charges, according to a former prosecutor.

Thursday's indictment alleged the Trump Organization and Chief Financial Officer Allen Weisselberg participated in a years-long scheme to avoid paying taxes on $1.7 million worth of compensation. Both Weisselberg and attorneys for the Trump Organization pleaded not guilty to the charges against them.

Randy Zelin, a former New York state prosecutor, told Insider the charging documents included a sentence that offered a clue about other people who may be under prosecutors' scrutiny.

"One of the largest individual beneficiaries of the defendants' scheme was Allen Weisselberg," the indictment said.

Zelin, now a defense attorney at Wilk Auslander LLP, said prosecutors' use of the word "individual" suggested other people — not just corporations — benefited from what the indictment alleged was the Trump Organization's tax-avoidance scheme.

"The government could have said he was the only one, right? The government didn't have to use the word 'individual,'" Zelin said. "The fact that the government inserted the word 'individual' means that there may be others who enjoy perks."

He added: "The fact that the government said 'one of the largest' — that by its very nature means other people were doing the same or doing similar."

The investigation into the Trump Organization is ongoing. A special grand jury is scheduled to sit until November, examining issues like whether the company kept two sets of books, whether it broke laws by facilitating a hush-money payment to the adult-film star Stormy Daniels, and whether anyone other than Weisselberg received untaxed benefits.

The indictment described an ongoing tax-avoidance scheme that prosecutors alleged began in 2005. Donald Trump personally led the company until 2017, and then turned over leadership to Weisselberg and his two eldest sons, Eric and Donald Jr., who have disparaged the investigation as politically motivated.

Zelin said the Trump Organization closed ranks around Weisselberg after he was charged, which suggests prosecutors don't consider the executive a rogue actor.

"If he had done this on his own, he would have then have been cheating the Trump Organization," Zelin said. "Not only wasn't he terminated, not only was he not suspended pending further investigation, not only was he not suspended once he was indicted — but apparently he's gone back to work since his indictment."

Manhattan prosecutors have sought Weisselberg's cooperation in their investigation, and Zelin said the charges against him could help flip more people from Trump's orbit.

Matthew Calamari, the Trump Organization's chief operating officer who lived in company-owned apartments, is under scrutiny as well. And Ivanka Trump — who appeared to take a tax-deducted consulting fee from the company despite being one of its executives, according to a New York Times investigation of tax filingsmay also be at legal risk.

"There's certainly a lot of clues that would suggest that this indictment is just the beginning, rather than the end," Zelin said.
 

CunningCanuk

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Is Ivanka Next? Why Trump-Org Charges Could Spell Trouble For Ivanka


“It looks fishy in essentially a swap of tax fraud. That’s what makes me think that’s where they are going to look,” says former federal prosecutor Cynthia Alksne on Ivanka Trump’s potential legal exposure based on Trump Org payments.
It would be sweet if Ivanka had to find something new. Like becoming the new license plate stamping machine operator.
 

DIY-HP-LED

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No doubt required by Scottish law, they also want to find out where Trump got the money to buy the golf course!
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Trump Organization CFO Allen Weisselberg has been terminated as the director of one of Trump's golf courses in Scotland
  • Trump Organization CFO Allen Weisselberg was terminated from one of Trump's Scotland golf courses.
  • The termination followed a 15-count indictment against Weisselberg and the Trump Organization.
  • Weisselberg's attorneys didn't immediately respond to Insider's request for comment.
Allen Weisselberg, the Trump Organization's chief financial officer, was terminated as the director and controller of one of former President Donald Trump's golf courses in Scotland a week after the executive and the company were charged with tax crimes.
A notice filed on Thursday with Companies House, the UK registry of private companies, showed that Weisselberg had been terminated as a director of Trump International Golf Club Scotland, a holding company that owns Trump's Aberdeenshire golf resort, Trump International Golf Links.

He was also terminated as a "person with significant control," a designation for an individual with influence over how a company is run, another notice said.

Trump's sons Eric and Donald Trump Jr. remain directors of the company, and Trump Jr. is now the sole person with significant control. Donald Trump resigned as a director in January 2017, when he became president, Companies House records showed.
Part of an electronic document from Companies House on July 8 with the heading Termination of a Director Appointment showing that Allen Weisselberg was terminated by Trump International Golf Club Scotland Limited.

A Companies House notice filed on Thursday said Weisselberg had been terminated as the director of Trump International Golf Club Scotland. Companies House
Weisselberg was appointed as one of four directors of the company in 2006, when Trump purchased the land in Aberdeenshire that he turned into the luxury golf resort.

Eric Trump remains the sole director of Trump's other Scottish golf company, Golf Recreation Scotland.

On July 1, prosecutors in the Manhattan district attorney's office announced a 15-count indictment against Weisselberg and the Trump Organization alleging a wide-ranging tax-fraud scheme that involved Weisselberg dodging taxes on $1.7 million in personal income.

Weisselberg and the Trump Organization pleaded not guilty to the charges. A special-grand-jury investigation into the Trump Organization's finances is ongoing.

Prosecutors are seeking to "flip" Weisselberg into cooperating in their investigation, which is also examining whether the company misrepresented its finances in order to pay little in taxes while obtaining favorable rates for insurance and bank loans.

Attorneys for Weisselberg and a representative for the Trump Organization did not immediately respond to Insider's requests for comment about Weisselberg's termination from Trump International Golf Club Scotland.
 

Justin-case

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No doubt required by Scottish law, they also want to find out where Trump got the money to buy the golf course!
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Trump Organization CFO Allen Weisselberg has been terminated as the director of one of Trump's golf courses in Scotland
  • Trump Organization CFO Allen Weisselberg was terminated from one of Trump's Scotland golf courses.
  • The termination followed a 15-count indictment against Weisselberg and the Trump Organization.
  • Weisselberg's attorneys didn't immediately respond to Insider's request for comment.
Allen Weisselberg, the Trump Organization's chief financial officer, was terminated as the director and controller of one of former President Donald Trump's golf courses in Scotland a week after the executive and the company were charged with tax crimes.
A notice filed on Thursday with Companies House, the UK registry of private companies, showed that Weisselberg had been terminated as a director of Trump International Golf Club Scotland, a holding company that owns Trump's Aberdeenshire golf resort, Trump International Golf Links.

He was also terminated as a "person with significant control," a designation for an individual with influence over how a company is run, another notice said.

Trump's sons Eric and Donald Trump Jr. remain directors of the company, and Trump Jr. is now the sole person with significant control. Donald Trump resigned as a director in January 2017, when he became president, Companies House records showed.
Part of an electronic document from Companies House on July 8 with the heading Termination of a Director Appointment showing that Allen Weisselberg was terminated by Trump International Golf Club Scotland Limited.

A Companies House notice filed on Thursday said Weisselberg had been terminated as the director of Trump International Golf Club Scotland. Companies House
Weisselberg was appointed as one of four directors of the company in 2006, when Trump purchased the land in Aberdeenshire that he turned into the luxury golf resort.

Eric Trump remains the sole director of Trump's other Scottish golf company, Golf Recreation Scotland.

On July 1, prosecutors in the Manhattan district attorney's office announced a 15-count indictment against Weisselberg and the Trump Organization alleging a wide-ranging tax-fraud scheme that involved Weisselberg dodging taxes on $1.7 million in personal income.

Weisselberg and the Trump Organization pleaded not guilty to the charges. A special-grand-jury investigation into the Trump Organization's finances is ongoing.

Prosecutors are seeking to "flip" Weisselberg into cooperating in their investigation, which is also examining whether the company misrepresented its finances in order to pay little in taxes while obtaining favorable rates for insurance and bank loans.

Attorneys for Weisselberg and a representative for the Trump Organization did not immediately respond to Insider's requests for comment about Weisselberg's termination from Trump International Golf Club Scotland.
Oh wow, I didn't realize chef weisselberg was internationally trained.
 

DIY-HP-LED

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Oh wow, I didn't realize chef weisselberg was internationally trained.
Are Trump’s Scottish Golf Courses a Front for Money Laundering? | Vanity Fair

ARE TRUMP’S SCOTTISH GOLF COURSES A FRONT FOR MONEY LAUNDERING?
The ex-president may soon be screwed across the pond, too.

If you’ve been keeping up with the post-presidential life and times of Donald Trump, you know that unlike Barack Obama and George W. Bush, who left office and threw themselves into memoir-writing and painting, respectively, Trump spends his days telling people the election was stolen from him and amassing a list of legal problems that would make the Manson family blush. There are, of course, the 29 lawsuits and four criminal investigations against him and now, we can add a potential probe into his Scottish golf courses to the docket.

Reuters reports that Avaaz, a human rights group, has filed a petition in Scotland’s highest civil court seeking a judicial review of the government’s decision to reject an “unexplained wealth order” on Trump’s local golf courses. In February, Scottish Parliament voted 89-32 against the motion, which was brought by the Scottish Green Party and would have sought information on the source of the money the ex-president’s business used to buy property in Aberdeenshire, where he built a golf course and hotel, and Turnberry, a seaside course purchased for $60 million. After decades of financing property purchases with debt, Trump dropped more than $300 million in cash buying and developing the Scottish courses; according to Reuters, neither of them have turned a profit.

All of which has apparently struck some Scots as quite to very shady. Per Reuters:
[Patrick] Harvie, the Greens’ leader, has expressed concerns in Scottish Parliament over how the courses were funded. “Big questions remain over Trump’s business dealings in Scotland,” he said in February 2020. The purchase of the two courses, he said, “were part of Trump’s huge cash spending spree in the midst of a global financial crisis, while his son was bragging about money pouring in from Russia.” Harvie was referring to a comment attributed to Eric Trump by veteran golf writer James Dodson, who relayed a conversation with Trump’s son in a 2017 interview with National Public Radio. Dodson said Eric Trump told him the courses were financed with money from Russia.
The British government introduced unexplained wealth orders in 2018 to help authorities fight money laundering and target the illicit wealth of foreign officials. The orders do not trigger a criminal proceeding. But if the Trump Organization couldn’t satisfy the court that the money was clean, the government, in theory, could seize the properties.
When Parliament voted against Avaaz’s motion in February, Humza Yousaf, the justice minister and a member of the ruling Scottish National Party, argued that wealth orders should be brought by law enforcement, not politicians, saying, “There must not be political interference in the enforcement of the law,” according to Reuters. He added that the Civil Recovery Unit, an enforcement agency that reports to Scotland’s most senior legal officer, should “undertake the investigatory role.” Avaaz has challenged that argument, asking the Court of Session in Edinburgh to rule that Scotland’s ministers have sole responsibility to decide to apply for an unexplained wealth order and should not pass that responsibility to other people or institutions. It also insists that the legal standard for issuing a wealth order against Trump has already been met.

A spokesman for Trump did not respond to Reuters’s request for comment. Eric Trump said in February that Scottish politicians who supported the unexplained wealth order were “advancing their personal agendas,” while claiming the Trump Organization had “made an overwhelming contribution to the leisure and tourism industry.” He also denied making the comment about Russia money to Dodson. Donald Trump insists he did not use Russia money to buy the golf courses.
 

printer

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Trump tells supporters to ignore books after they reveal he complimented Hitler and joked about Khashoggi
Wall Street Journal reporter Michael Bender alleges in a new book that then-President Donald Trump said “well, Hitler did a lot of good things,” to White House chief of staff John Kelly in 2018 while they were on a trip to Paris to commemorate the end of World War I.

Mr Trump also pushed back on Mr Bender’s reporting that the former president fought with then-Vice President Mike Pence over his political committee hiring Corey Lewandowski, a former campaign manager for Mr Trump in 2016.

An essay adapted from Mr Bender’s Frankly, We Did Win This Election: The Inside Story of How Trump Lost describes an incident in which Mr Trump crumpled up an article about the hiring of Mr Lewandowski and threw it at Mr Pence.

“Mr Trump was holding a newspaper article about the hiring and said it made him look weak, like his team was abandoning him as he was probed for his campaign’s role in Russian election meddling. He crumpled the article and threw it at his vice president. ‘So disloyal,’ Mr Trump said,” according to the essay. “Mr Pence lost it.”

“Mr Kushner had asked him to hire Mr Lewandowski, and he had discussed the plan with Mr Trump over lunch. Mr Pence picked up the article and threw it back at Mr Trump. He leaned toward the president and pointed a finger a few inches from his chest,” the essay adds. “‘We walked you through every detail of this,’ Mr Pence snarled. ‘We did this for you—as a favour. And this is how you respond? You need to get your facts straight.’”
 

schuylaar

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Trump tells supporters to ignore books after they reveal he complimented Hitler and joked about Khashoggi
Wall Street Journal reporter Michael Bender alleges in a new book that then-President Donald Trump said “well, Hitler did a lot of good things,” to White House chief of staff John Kelly in 2018 while they were on a trip to Paris to commemorate the end of World War I.

Mr Trump also pushed back on Mr Bender’s reporting that the former president fought with then-Vice President Mike Pence over his political committee hiring Corey Lewandowski, a former campaign manager for Mr Trump in 2016.

An essay adapted from Mr Bender’s Frankly, We Did Win This Election: The Inside Story of How Trump Lost describes an incident in which Mr Trump crumpled up an article about the hiring of Mr Lewandowski and threw it at Mr Pence.

“Mr Trump was holding a newspaper article about the hiring and said it made him look weak, like his team was abandoning him as he was probed for his campaign’s role in Russian election meddling. He crumpled the article and threw it at his vice president. ‘So disloyal,’ Mr Trump said,” according to the essay. “Mr Pence lost it.”

“Mr Kushner had asked him to hire Mr Lewandowski, and he had discussed the plan with Mr Trump over lunch. Mr Pence picked up the article and threw it back at Mr Trump. He leaned toward the president and pointed a finger a few inches from his chest,” the essay adds. “‘We walked you through every detail of this,’ Mr Pence snarled. ‘We did this for you—as a favour. And this is how you respond? You need to get your facts straight.’”
O to have been a fly on that wall.
 

printer

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A second top Trump associate receives legal immunity
As we reported earlier, Allen Weisselberg, the chief financial officer of the Trump business organization, has struck a legal immunity agreement with federal prosecutors.

It is the second day in a row a man with close ties to President Trump has made a deal. Weisselberg is reportedly testifying to a grand jury about more than $400,000 in reimbursement payments that he helped arrange to Mr. Trump's former attorney Michael Cohen.

"Well, it means, first of all, that Mr. Weisselberg himself had criminal liability.

You don't need an immunity deal if you weren't involved potentially in committing a crime. That's the first thing. Second of all, it indicates that prosecutors believe that there was something valuable that they were getting in exchange for his testimony.

Prosecutors don't just give away immunity like candy. They have a specific reason for doing so. So, here, it appears Mr. Weisselberg's cooperation was at the very least helpful to prosecutors in securing the conviction of Michael Cohen, who pled guilty earlier this week.

I think the question is, is there other potential value in that testimony beyond that? And I think that's an important question going forward."

Going back a few years.
 

printer

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Trump: Interviews Granted for Books About My Presidency Were 'Total Waste of Time'
Trump released a statement that took aim at writers producing what he called "pure fiction," according to the Post.

"It seems to me that meeting with authors of the ridiculous number of books being written about my very successful Administration, or me, is a total waste of time," Trump said.

"These writers are often bad people who write whatever comes to their mind or fits their agenda. It has nothing to do with facts or reality."

From the unwashed.

Knights Templar
Mr President… the first lump, ok. The second lump … the third fourth and fifth….….You are a very sympathetic man, but your good nature has and will be taken advantage of. I’m glad to hear you have hardened, finally. GOD BLESS YOU!! 2024!

Elpadre81
It is truly hilarious how utterly terrified the liberal/democrats are of the truth.

StopNonsense
Trump is on thin ice when it comes to reporters. He needs to record the interviews so he has solid proof to throw the applicable parts back into the interviewer's face and call him out as a fraud. Otherwise, it's a he said, she said, or it said conflict.

YHWH is The Judge
Joe Biden is a best friend of Smartmatic Majic on Election Nov. 3 , 2020!
This biden installation is the coup.

KJS
A book about his failed presidency. Comes with crayons, right?
 

schuylaar

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A second top Trump associate receives legal immunity
As we reported earlier, Allen Weisselberg, the chief financial officer of the Trump business organization, has struck a legal immunity agreement with federal prosecutors.

It is the second day in a row a man with close ties to President Trump has made a deal. Weisselberg is reportedly testifying to a grand jury about more than $400,000 in reimbursement payments that he helped arrange to Mr. Trump's former attorney Michael Cohen.

"Well, it means, first of all, that Mr. Weisselberg himself had criminal liability.

You don't need an immunity deal if you weren't involved potentially in committing a crime. That's the first thing. Second of all, it indicates that prosecutors believe that there was something valuable that they were getting in exchange for his testimony.

Prosecutors don't just give away immunity like candy. They have a specific reason for doing so. So, here, it appears Mr. Weisselberg's cooperation was at the very least helpful to prosecutors in securing the conviction of Michael Cohen, who pled guilty earlier this week.

I think the question is, is there other potential value in that testimony beyond that? And I think that's an important question going forward."

Going back a few years.
hate to be the fly in the ointment but i'm not seeing any news on Weisselburg Immunity deal and as you acknowledged the article cited is from 2018.
 

DIY-HP-LED

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Looks like Trouble for Donald, if Murdoch pulls the rug out from under him, looks like his hardcore supporters might be going back to OAN and Newsmax. They will do it gently though, but over time they will change the narrative, I think this could be another sign of Donald's downfall, he's got republicans who want the nomination too, Mitch wants him gone and everybody knows Donald has a date with a judge before too long. When he gets to court, Fox might just grease the skids and cover the trial accurately, they've probably had enough of Trump too.
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“F--k Him”: Rupert Murdoch Reportedly Made the Call to Bury Trump’s Election Night Dreams in a Shallow Grave | Vanity Fair


“F--K HIM”: RUPERT MURDOCH REPORTEDLY MADE THE CALL TO BURY TRUMP’S ELECTION NIGHT DREAMS IN A SHALLOW GRAVE

Both Kushner and Trump are said to have personally pleaded with the Fox News owner to retract the call.

In the early-morning hours of November 4, the day after the 2020 election, Donald Trump held a news conference in the East Room of the White House in which he falsely claimed that the fact that he had been ahead in the early tallying of votes, and then later behind, meant that the election had been stolen from him. “This is a fraud on the American public,” he declared. “This is an embarrassment to this country. We were getting ready to win this election. Frankly, we did win this election.” Obviously that wasn’t true at all—Trump hadn’t won anything because not all of the votes had been counted yet. Still, in some states it had become clear that he was very likely going to lose, hence Fox News’s decision to declare Arizona for Joe Biden. At the time the call from the right-wing outlet, made before any other major network, shocked the country—and according to a new book, it was Rupert Murdoch who gave it the greenlight, with some less-than-charitable things to say about Trump!

Insider reports that Michael Wolff’s forthcoming book, Landslide, includes a scene in which Lachlan Murdoch, the nonagenarian billionaire’s son, got a call from Fox’s election desk saying it was ready to announce Biden had won Arizona, which he then took to the top:

The book [notes] that the Murdochs—who spearhead a vast right-wing media empire—had “every reason” to delay calling Arizona at the time, given Fox’s steadfast allegiance to Trump and the fact that no other network had made the call yet. “Lachlan got his father on the phone to ask if he wanted to make the early call. His father, with signature grunt, assented, adding, ‘F--- him,’” Wolff wrote. The book [says] that Fox News anchor Bill Hemmer then called Trump’s lead social media strategist, Jason Miller, to let him know the network was going to call Arizona for Biden. “Miller involuntarily rose from his seat. ‘What the f---?’ he said out loud, looking around and seeing the still-merry and untroubled faces in the Map Room”...Wolff wrote. Hemmer reportedly replied: “That’s what they’re doing. That’s what they’re going with.”
“Who?” Miller asked.
“The election desk,” Hemmer said, adding that the network’s decision was going to be aired imminently. The decision to call Arizona for Biden was a pivotal moment on election night, indicating the Democrat was poised to win the traditionally Republican-leaning state and complicating Trump’s ability to declare an early victory in the overall race.
In a statement, a Fox News Media spokesperson told the Hive: "This account is completely false. Arnon Mishkin who leads the FOX News Decision Desk made the Arizona call on election night and FOX News Media President Jay Wallace was then called in the control room. Any other version of the story is wildly inaccurate.” Regarding Bill Hemmer’s call to Miller, a Fox News spokesperson insisted “This never happened and is completely untrue.”

Trump was unsurprisingly livid about the Arizona decision and, as my colleague Gabriel Sherman reported at the time, personally called Murdoch “to scream about the call and demand a retraction. Murdoch refused, and the call stood.” (Jared Kushner also reportedly tried to convince the Fox News founder to withdraw the call, a “desperate” plea that fell on deaf ears.)
 

Justin-case

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Are Trump’s Scottish Golf Courses a Front for Money Laundering? | Vanity Fair

ARE TRUMP’S SCOTTISH GOLF COURSES A FRONT FOR MONEY LAUNDERING?
The ex-president may soon be screwed across the pond, too.

If you’ve been keeping up with the post-presidential life and times of Donald Trump, you know that unlike Barack Obama and George W. Bush, who left office and threw themselves into memoir-writing and painting, respectively, Trump spends his days telling people the election was stolen from him and amassing a list of legal problems that would make the Manson family blush. There are, of course, the 29 lawsuits and four criminal investigations against him and now, we can add a potential probe into his Scottish golf courses to the docket.

Reuters reports that Avaaz, a human rights group, has filed a petition in Scotland’s highest civil court seeking a judicial review of the government’s decision to reject an “unexplained wealth order” on Trump’s local golf courses. In February, Scottish Parliament voted 89-32 against the motion, which was brought by the Scottish Green Party and would have sought information on the source of the money the ex-president’s business used to buy property in Aberdeenshire, where he built a golf course and hotel, and Turnberry, a seaside course purchased for $60 million. After decades of financing property purchases with debt, Trump dropped more than $300 million in cash buying and developing the Scottish courses; according to Reuters, neither of them have turned a profit.

All of which has apparently struck some Scots as quite to very shady. Per Reuters:

When Parliament voted against Avaaz’s motion in February, Humza Yousaf, the justice minister and a member of the ruling Scottish National Party, argued that wealth orders should be brought by law enforcement, not politicians, saying, “There must not be political interference in the enforcement of the law,” according to Reuters. He added that the Civil Recovery Unit, an enforcement agency that reports to Scotland’s most senior legal officer, should “undertake the investigatory role.” Avaaz has challenged that argument, asking the Court of Session in Edinburgh to rule that Scotland’s ministers have sole responsibility to decide to apply for an unexplained wealth order and should not pass that responsibility to other people or institutions. It also insists that the legal standard for issuing a wealth order against Trump has already been met.

A spokesman for Trump did not respond to Reuters’s request for comment. Eric Trump said in February that Scottish politicians who supported the unexplained wealth order were “advancing their personal agendas,” while claiming the Trump Organization had “made an overwhelming contribution to the leisure and tourism industry.” He also denied making the comment about Russia money to Dodson. Donald Trump insists he did not use Russia money to buy the golf courses.
So, what's the consensus?
Think The Don will run for pres?
If not, who will on the Repub side?

It appears to me that the general population is less than happy with Joe's performance to date.
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