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WHO CONTROLS THE NEWS
The Petty Feud Between the NYT and the White House
This is stunning. A NY Times journalist says the publication’s chairman AG Sulzberger encourages that the organization cover the President negatively and highlight his age out of retribution for the fact that Biden hasn’t granted the Times an interview.
NYT largest shareholder
is oligarch Carlos SLIM
WaPo is owned by oligarch Jeff BEZOS
WSJ is owned by oligarch Rupert MURDOCH
Rupert Murdoch, the media mogul, has a significant connection to Ronald Reagan, the 40th President of the United States. During Reagan’s 1980 presidential campaign, Murdoch’s newspapers, including the New York Post and the Chicago Sun-Times, endorsed Reagan’s candidacy. This endorsement was seen as a significant boost to Reagan’s campaign, as Murdoch’s newspapers had a significant readership and influence in the United States.
In fact, The New York Times reported that Reagan’s campaign team credited Murdoch and the Post for his victory in New York in the 1980 United States presidential election. Additionally, Murdoch’s support for Reagan was not limited to his newspapers.
The essence of Christianity is told to us in the Garden of Eden story. The fruit that was forbidden was on the tree of knowledge. The subtext is, All the suffering you have is because you wanted to find out what was going on. You could still be in the Garden of Eden if you had just kept your fucking mouth shut and hadn’t asked any questions.” Frank Zappa
Frank Zappa on Evangelicals- “ Their goal is to take over the United States the way the ayatollah took over Iran.”
Zappa on Pat Robertson, religion and the Right Wing
By the 1980s, with Ronald Reagan as president and the growing involvement of the religious right in conservative politics, Goldwater’s libertarian views on personal issues were revealed; he believed that they were an integral part of true conservatism. Goldwater viewed abortion as a matter of personal choice and as such supported abortion rights. As a passionate defender of personal liberty, he saw the religious right’s views as an encroachment on personal privacy and individual liberties.DAY 7 of Donald Trump’s NYC Criminal Trial.
Donald Trump’s trial on 34 felony counts
That Trump’s lawyers are from St. Louis should not escape your attention.
Prosecutors say Trump is ‘angling’ toward jail time for pushing gag order limits in hush-money trial.
Prosecutors argued that Trump violated the order with a series of inflammatory social media posts aimed at witnesses and jurors.
Wow. Not backing off. Trump’s lawyer just told the Supreme Court Trump could assassinate his opponent and would still be immune from prosecution. Trump said he could shoot someone on 5th Ave and get away with it. Now he’s asking the Supreme Court to make that so.
Not a drill.
No ruling from the judge, but the DA wants Trump sanctioned for 4 more gag order violations. One of them was Trump’s recent interview with @6abc, in which he called Michael Cohen a “convicted liar.” The DA says we’re up to 14 violations in total. “Michael Cohen is a convicted liar, and he’s got no credibility…then he got in trouble because of things outside of what he did for me.”
David Pecker is back on the stand, talking about how he purchased damning stories about Trump to kill them and help his campaign. One of those stories was Karen McDougal’s – she didn’t want it published. “McDougal said… that she didn’t want to be the next Monica Lewinsky.”
Once Howard negotiated a price of 150K from McDougal’s camp for the story, Pecker spoke to Cohen.
Cohen said that Pecker should pay for it, but Pecker was hesitant. Who would reimburse him?
Cohen again said “Don’t worry about it, I’m your friend, The Boss will take care of it.”
Christina Bobb is the lawyer overseeing the RNC’s “election integrity” efforts.
She was also just indicted by a grand jury for election-related crimes.
Trump’s crimes weren’t official acts.
Gorsuch gets Sauer to agree that POTUS can be prosecuted for private conduct. [The lawyers on the Florida case may be uncomfortable with that.]
Gorsuch seems to want to adopt Blassingame. Sauer says they should adopt Katsas’ Blassingame prosecution. Gorsuch grasps onto the “further proceedings” out.
Why did Richard Nixon need a pardon
if presidents had total immunity
from criminal prosecution?
Elie Mystal @ElieNYC
“John Roberts starts out with questions for Trump’s lawyer, D. John Sauer. Roberts doesn’t often use his prerogative to go first, deferring to Thomas who is more senior.
So… this is all a good sign that Roberts is not buying the core Trumpian argument.
I’m assuming Sauer is sick/recovering from having his vocal chords flayed by Ramsay Bolton. His vocal quality is going to be rough to listen to, but not as rough as the stupid words coming out of his mouth.
The opening round of questions is about the “official acts” question. Trump is arguing that [trying to steal the election] is an “official act” that the President is immune from prosecution. Roberts is saying that the trial is *about* whether the act is official.
KBJ: So what was up with the pardon for President Nixon? If everybody thought that presidents couldn’t be prosecuted, what was up with that?
I love her.
Gorsuch trying to segregate private conduct “for which no man is above the law” and public acts.
Alito wonders if the immunity Trump is asking for is too *robust.*
This right here is how he’s going to get to remand. If the president says that he’s acting officially, Alito wants a finding of fact to figure out if the act is official.
Alito says that perhaps you get immunity for official acts that are “plausibly” legal, Sotomayor says “plausible” may as well be “absolute” b/c there’s always a plausible reason. Alito says ordering Seal Team 6 to assassinate a rival is not plausibly legal.
I’m struck, again, that SCOTUS could have easily dismissed this Trump argument in December because it was as stupid then as it is now, but they’ve let it get this far to help Trump get to the election.
Kavanaugh: “where do you think the DC Circuit went wrong?”
My man Sauer is just getting beat up now. I think Simon Cowell is about to show up and tell him he needs a cup of tea.
Barrett taking a whack at the pinata now.
ACB just rattled off a list of things that would clearly not be official and Sauer had to agree to it all.
WHICH SHOULD END THIS CASE SINCE TRUMP IS ASKING FOR ABSOLUTE IMMUNITY… but whatever”
Kagan: If POTUS sells nuclear secrets.
Sauer: If it’s structured as official act. [Claiming he’d have to be impeached first, doesn’t ask about if he has stolen the docs first.]
Kagan: Order military to stage a coup?
MEANWHILE: NOBODY IS TALKING ABOUT THIS
Bloomberg: chances of US bankruptcy in the next 10 years are 88%
https://www.centarzlata.com/en/sad-bankrot/