The Trump 2024 thread...

[welch]

Judge Merchan has ordered journalists not to reveal two answers jurors might give:

- current employer

- previous employer

The judge in former President Donald J. Trump’s criminal trial ordered reporters to not disclose employment information about potential jurors after he excused a woman who said she was worried about her identity becoming known.

The woman, who had been seated on the jury on Tuesday, told the judge that her friends and colleagues had warned her that she had been identified as a juror in the high-profile case. Although the judge has kept prospective jurors’ names private, some have disclosed their employers and other identifying information in court.

She also said that she did not believe she could be impartial.

The judge, Juan M. Merchan, promptly dismissed her.

Moments later, Justice Merchan ordered the press to not report the answer to two queries on a lengthy questionnaire for prospective jurors: “Who is your current employer?” and “Who was your prior employer?”

[welch]

And, astoundingly, a young man set himself on fire in a park beside the courthouse.

[Chuck Naill]

It was good to see Johnson out side his career to do the right thing. It reminded me of a Churchill quote, “that Americans will always do the right thing, only after they have tried everything else."

[Warbler]

The Dems should do him the courtesy of saving his job.

[welch]

The Dems should do him the courtesy of saving his job.

Yes. This would be sanity, as against Marjorie Taylor Greene's claim that Ukraine is making war on Christianity and Transcarpathia. Who taught her to spell "Transcarpathia"?

[Chuck Naill]

From HRC,
"Meanwhile, today is the fourth anniversary of the press conference in which former president Donald Trump suggested injecting disinfectant to get rid of Covid, prompting the maker of Lysol to warn people not to use their disinfectant cleaning products internally. Four years later, Trump spent the day in a Manhattan courtroom, where his former friend David Pecker, who ran the company that published the National Enquirer tabloid magazine, testified for the prosecution. "

[dneal]

From HRC,
"Meanwhile, today is the fourth anniversary of the press conference in which former president Donald Trump suggested injecting disinfectant to get rid of Covid, prompting the maker of Lysol to warn people not to use their disinfectant cleaning products internally. Four years later, Trump spent the day in a Manhattan courtroom, where his former friend David Pecker, who ran the company that published the National Enquirer tabloid magazine, testified for the prosecution. "

Looks like HRC threw away any credibility she had left, believing in the same hoaxes Chuck does.

From that alt-right-wing-nazi publication PolitiFact 11 JUL 2020: No, Trump didn’t tell Americans infected with the coronavirus to drink bleach

Since Chuck always advocates reading the transcript:

"A question that probably some of you are thinking of if you’re totally into that world, which I find to be very interesting. So, supposedly we hit the body with a tremendous, whether it’s ultraviolet or just very powerful light, and I think you said that hasn’t been checked, but you’re going to test it. And then I said supposing you brought the light inside the body, which you can do either through the skin or in some other way. (To Bryan) And I think you said you’re going to test that, too. Sounds interesting, right?"

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And since "tRUmP SaiD trEAt COviD wITh SuNShINE!!! HOO HOO HA HA!!!" will inevitably be Chuck's next response...

eyeroll

Cedars-Sinai: Reduced Viral Loads Seen in COVID-19 Patients Treated With UVA Light

[Chuck Naill]

From HRC:
"North America’s Building Trades Unions (NABTU) acknowledged the power of Biden’s approach today when it endorsed Biden for president in 2024. The union’s president, Sean McGarvey, noted that Trump had promised to protect pensions and to pass infrastructure laws that would help employment in the building trades, but did neither."

[kazoolaw]

NABTU: isn't that where JRB read "Four more years. Pause?"
Quite the approach..

[dneal]

From HRC:
"North America’s Building Trades Unions (NABTU) acknowledged the power of Biden’s approach today when it endorsed Biden for president in 2024. The union’s president, Sean McGarvey, noted that Trump had promised to protect pensions and to pass infrastructure laws that would help employment in the building trades, but did neither."

Union leadership and union membership might not hold to this line of thinking. More below.

But why is this now an issue? Perhaps the prepared soundbite is to bolster Biden's recent comment that Trump "looks down on American union workers"?

Here's a video trending on X/Twitter, that the right is celebrating. It's a New York City building trades worker. His response is identical to the one the President received recently in Scranton.

https://x.com/DogRightGirl/status/1783516894638551480