Looks like James Comer and Chuck Grassley are gonna have to find another ‘source’.
Well Wagner Group did have a rough few months there https://t.co/I28JzDadB7
— zeddy (@Zeddary) June 15, 2023
Never say an expensive legal education doesn’t teach people some things…
Tough question but I’ll venture an answer: By earning a reputation for ignoring their advice, putting them in personal legal jeopardy, stiffing them on their bills, and then rousing his vicious acolytes to pour out hatred upon them when things inevitably go sour. https://t.co/YEUOKRCKPs
— southpaw (@nycsouthpaw) June 14, 2023
it is a genuinely extraordinary achievement though. if you'd asked me a few years ago i would have said it was not possible https://t.co/VsVHh3w2ru
— flglmn (@flglmn) June 14, 2023
it is a genuinely amazing achievement to be *such* an asshole that it's hard to find lawyers who want to be seen representing you when you are the former president of the united states and quite possibly also the next president of the united states
— flglmn (@flglmn) June 14, 2023
@MichaelCohen212 would also add, by suing those former attorneys for defamation.
— VotingVetInPA (@VotingVetInPA) June 14, 2023
If anyone should need a reminder…
"It turns out no one got anything. Not even a cafecito to-go." https://t.co/2oDyhZlNIf
— Silvia Foster-Frau (@SilviaElenaFF) June 15, 2023
… The former president was fingerprinted and arraigned at the Wilkie D. Ferguson Jr. U.S. Courthouse in downtown Miami. And, no matter what side of the political fence you stand on, it’s a fact that after a hard day in court, you need a little break.
Trump opted to decompress with a trip to Versailles in Little Havana. The iconic restaurant has long been a pit stop for politicians seeking to curry favor with Miami’s Cuban voters.
Trump and his entourage arrived at Versailles shortly after leaving the courthouse and made straight for the bakery…
A glad-handing Trump was heard to declare, “Food for everyone!”
So, New Times wondered, did Trump — who famously fancies his chicken from KFC and his steaks well-done and slathered with ketchup but isn’t exactly known for picking up the check — treat his fan club to a spread of croquetas, pastelitos, and cubanos chased with cafecitos?
It turns out no one got anything. Not even a cafecito to-go.
A knowledgeable source assures New Times that Donald Trump’s stop at Versailles totaled about ten minutes, leaving no time for anyone to eat anything, much less place an order.
Per HuffPost:
… The New York Times reported that Trump didn’t get any food at the restaurant, preferring to eat McDonald’s on his plane.
HuffPost reached out to both the restaurant and the Trump campaign, but no one immediately responded.
But many Twitter users did…
I’m not the world’s most adventurous eater, but if given the choice between snacks from a nationally renowned Cuban bakery and some reheated Mickey D’s, can’t say I’d choose the Big Macs.
Aziz, light!
Big Macs are still better than the taco salad at Trump Tower.
How many years in total must our nation wallow in everything this putz excretes?
David 🌈 ☘The Establishment☘🌈 Koch
Rudy’s source was named “Harvey“
Amir Khalid
I have no idea how many people Versailles seats, or how pricey its fare is. How much would it have cost TFG to buy everyone lunch?
Frankensteinbeck
@David 🌈 ☘The Establishment☘🌈 Koch:
How dare you claim that Harvey would have anything to do with an asshole delusional nutcase like Giuliani?!
Brachiator
@Amir Khalid:
Typical Trump. Natural born grifter. His fake generosity gets broadcast to the world. His base foolish eat it up and don’t see the con.
Let’s see. The Cuban Baguette, sweet ham, roast pork, swiss cheese, mustard and pickles, is $6.50.
For a real billionaire, picking up the tab would not be a huge deal.
Tony Jay
“So while the Woke Media have been working like mules to distract your attention away from Clinton’s Socks with this joke theory that Republican Presidents can’t be trusted around the nation’s secrets – Hello? Hitlery’s hidden e-mail server, anyone? Hello? We remember! – Garland’s Gestapo Goons have been sneaking around Fascist Ukraine assassinating the brave truthtellers who’ve been trying to warn us about Uncle Joe Brandon’s decades of bribery and corruption. It’s in your face, people! That’s your taxes being used to pay these hitmen to parachute in to foreign countries to commit murder. Talk about spitting all over the Constitution! That’s illegal, baby. That’s what the Radical Left tried to get Reagan impeached for! How long are you all just going to stand by and let this happen? We can stop it, but it takes money and it takes bravery and it takes love of country. You think you got what it takes? Hit that DONATE button down below and we’ll be right back with more of the Truth about Hunter Biden and the Drag-Queen DemoRats.” #youtubemepatriot #45caliberfreedom #visitvolgavacations
I think that covers all the major points of contention.
JWR
I haven’t caught up on the evenings threads, so this may already have been discussed, but I have one thing to say to Chino’s school board: Take your Florida values and shove ’em up your Texass! From CBS:
There’s more from The Sacramento Bee, who’s headline more accurately reflects its story.
NotMax
Hardly spontaneous, it was a pre-planned ‘event’ so costs associated with the trip to and from Miami could be covered by the campaign’s account.
Bruce K in ATH-GR
@Frankensteinbeck: We may be thinking of different Harveys. My mind immediately went to Harvey from Farscape, a much less benevolent figment than the one from the Jimmy Stewart movie. I could definitely see that other Harvey advising Rudy 911 Giuliani.
NotMax
@Tony Jay
Oughtn’t that be Garland’s Gazpacho Goons?
//
NotMax
How long do y’all suppose Jeff Sessions’ celebratory bender since leaving as AG lasted?
a) 1 week
b) 1 month
c) 1 year
d) still ongoing
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Baud
Shoot. Now they’ll just have to make everything up.
Shalimar
Trump doesn’t prefer the McDonald’s because he likes it better than the delicacies from Versailles. He prefers McDonald’s because he’s paranoid and he thinks mass-produced food can’t be poisoned.
NotMax
@Shalimar
“Does this special sauce smell right to you, Walt?”
Shalimar
@Amir Khalid: It would have cost Trump less to pay for meals for 100 people than the money it cost the Secret Service to arrange the logistics for the extra stop.
RandomMonster
Oh sure, I bet you enjoy arugala salads, too.
p.a.
Hey Anne, what makes you think he even bothers to reheat it? 🤢
Tony Jay
@NotMax:
I hummed and hawed over exactly that, but in the end I decided it had more verisimilitude if it didn’t mock the Mickey Rourke Method Act’s inability to connect brain to mouth.
Shalimar
@NotMax: I have known Jeff Sessions my whole life (he’s my step-dad’s cousin). I haven’t spoken with him directly in years, but I can guess the answer: until he got his ass kicked by Tuberville in the senate primary in 2020.
JWR
@JWR:
Geez, dude! Whose, not who is!
NotMax
@Tony Jay
While you’re around, ever seen Bob Servant (a.k.a. Bob Servant Independent)? Noticed it’s a recent addition on Kanopy and a quick look for info about it online piqued my interest to give it a shot when next the mood for broad British comedy should beckon.
raven
Versailles an bakery?
NotMax
@raven
Pro tip: don’t order a Napoleon.
:)
Tony Jay
@NotMax:
No, I haven’t. Never heard of it, in fact, but Brian Cox. That’s got good value stamped all over it.
Greg
His food is less likely to be spit on if a random staffer goes through the McDonald’s drive through than if he personally places an order that is just for him.
That is why he prefers bad fast food.
What Have The Romans Ever Done for Us?
Gotta hand it to the guy…if you’d a told me there was someone who was such asshole that he’d get virtually every lawyer in the country, a group not short on assholery, to say en masse “Christ, what as asshole!” I would have been extremely skeptical. But here we are.
lowtechcyclist
@Shalimar:
Lord knows Sessions was and is on the wrong side of practically all the issues that matter to us, but at least there were some lines he wouldn’t cross for Trump. With so many Rethug characters that have no such restraints (Tuberville apparently among them), that difference is worth recognizing.
Commenter BR brought up the “Who Goes Nazi” piece from 1941 yesterday, and there was a fair amount of discussion about it. But I think having some core integrity, some inviolable principles, is probably a big distinction between who goes Nazi and who doesn’t.
Sessions, however bad he may be on so many things, is unlikely to go Nazi. Tuberville, like so many others, will follow Trump no matter what horrid policies that means supporting or excusing.
lowtechcyclist
The fifth-grader’s “the dog ate my homework” was a more believable excuse.
Matt McIrvin
Can Trump really not find a lawyer, or has he realized that “I can’t find a lawyer” will actually work for him as a tactic to delay his prosecution?
lowtechcyclist
Just saw this – boy howdy, the RNC is making no bones about who they are:
Princess
@Matt McIrvin: Changing lawyers is certainly a bid to delay.
satby
@David 🌈 ☘The Establishment☘🌈 Koch: Harvey was kind and not a liar. You leave Harvey aloooone!
satby
@Frankensteinbeck: Right?!!!
bbleh
@Amir Khalid: well, how ever much it would have cost, it’s still cheaper to SAY you’re buying everyone lunch, have them cheer for you, get the story splashed all over the media, and then NOT do it and have the OWNERS be the ones who have to say “no.”
mrmoshpotato
@satby: I would hope Harvey would just sit on Ghouliani.
bbleh
@Tony Jay: “ChatGPT, compile a paragraph of unproven outrageous claims about Trump’s opponents in the style of a Rudy Giuliani rant.”
mrmoshpotato
@bbleh:
Hopefully in the form of “That orange shitstain is a conman. He didn’t give us a single dollar to cover the cost of anything.”
Patricia Kayden
@JWR: The California assembly should ban any school district from implementing this anti-trans policy. It’s dangerous.
bjacques
@lowtechcyclist: The dog ate my witness.
Florida Cubans–sorry, not getting any response on the Give-a-shit-ometer. They’ll probably still vote straight ticket GOP.
Keith P.
I envision a “Trading Places”-style scenario where Trump yells in the Mar-a-Lago ballroom “IS THERE A LAWYER IN THE HOUSE?” And half the room starts coughing and walks away.
kalakal
@David 🌈 ☘The Establishment☘🌈 Koch:
“As I was walking down the stair,
I met a man who wasn’t there.
He wasn’t there again today,
I wish to god he’d go away!”
EarthWindFire
@lowtechcyclist: Of course Rudy has a girlfriend. She lives in Canada. You wouldn’t know her.
Betty Cracker
@Brachiator: Not that anyone gives a crap, but immigrants in Tampa invented Cuban sandwiches, and the wingnut Miami restaurant where Trump did a drive-by doesn’t make a proper one. I’m sure theirs is a tasty sandwich, but it’s not “authentic.”
Tony Jay
@bbleh:
“They’re not putting me out of business! I’m gonna put them outta business! You come with the crazy, you better not miss!”
gvg
@Matt McIrvin: I think the significant thing is that his last lawyers quit right after this indictment showed in detail how much effort he went to deceiving them into signing serious forms to the government that they had turned over all the classified documents, when he hadn’t. Those are crimes with serious jail time, and Presidential minions have in the past gone to jail even while Presidents haven’t. They tried and the feds proved to them how badly they failed, or even if they realized they were being fooled, they saw they could no longer credibly claim a defense going forward that they were fooled. So they had to quit quickly. And I suspect every lawyer sees that…and says I am not sticking my foot in that bear trap too.
Trump really worked hard at involving those lawyers in illegal actions and I think if Smith had not been so careful, Trump could have blamed them for some of it and got off again. Now I don’t know the law at all, but that is my “feeling” based on the way Trump spouts endless lies till he buries logic.
JML
@lowtechcyclist: the “witness” is from Canada, Rudy met her at summer camp. you wouldn’t know her.
satby
@Betty Cracker: Mucho gracias! Figures that even the “legendary” Cuban restaurant would be perpetrating a tiny fraud on its customers and that’s where tfg would go. Like attracts like.
Ken
I see from the screencap that Rudi is using his car as his video studio. Is he planning to run for something and trying to capture the tik-tok vote? Or will Fox not shell out to get him to a real studio?
bbleh
@Tony Jay: Lol I was thinking more of some of the Moscow boyz deciding that “Meester Giuliani iz now, mmm, conseedered, how you say, mmm, dizpenzable.”
Scout211
Cannon has issued her first order. We’ll see if she allows delays but she is starting with a quick timeline. Link
Freemark
@gvg: The lawyer who showed up to his indictment got a 3 million dollar pre-paid retainer for advice counsel months ago. From what I understand he has been distancing himself from Trump as much as possible. He tried very hard to find Trump another Florida barred criminal defense attorney to show up but couldn’t so got stuck sitting there.
sdhays
@lowtechcyclist: That pledge is just so dumb. If you believe that our Dumpy Dump will keep that pledge if he somehow lost the nomination, you’re out of your gourd. And if you’re Asa Hutchinson, what are the consequences to you if you sign the pledge and then similarly break it after Donnie slouches to the nomination and is convicted of high crimes?
Ronna will stamp her foot and glare? No one gives a shit about the “pledge”. No one in the Republican party believes in integrity – clearly! Just say “sure, I’ll sign it” and never think about it again.
lowtechcyclist
@Betty Cracker:
Damn straight! And even if Versailles is an authentic Cuban restaurant, that doesn’t make their Cuban sandwich authentic since, as you point out, the sandwich originated in Tampa, not Cuba.
One of the great mysteries (to me, at least) of living in the greater DC area is that we’ve got cuisines of a hundred nations represented in these environs. But there’s no similar representation of regional American cuisines. Try to find a guava turnover around here, let alone a ‘Cuban sandwich’ that is anything like the real thing. (Good thing I get my fix of both in Tampa two or three times a year.) And I gave up my search for a decent plate of crawfish etouffée years ago; it’ll just have to wait until I get back to New Orleans.
sdhays
@Freemark: Trump gave him (well, his super PAC gave him) all that money and begged him to join the team, and when he immediately told Trump to return all the documents, Trump stopped taking his calls.
I got the impression that the distancing was mutual at the time.
lowtechcyclist
@sdhays:
Oh sure, it’s dumb, and I agree that the consequences of breaking it would probably be minimal.
I brought it up entirely for what it said about the people officially running the GOP, that they insist that candidates have to pledge to support the nominee even after he gets convicted of felonies. That they wouldn’t even allow an exception for that shows how far down the rabbit hole they are.
Tony Jay
@bbleh:
“Who you say? Mister Ghoul? Mister Goonies? No, I never hear of such a person. What? Oh, that crate? Is nothing. Is just old, uh, old suits. I push in river now. Splash splash, bye bye. All gone now.”
Manyakitty
@Frankensteinbeck: exactly! He has much better taste than that.
Manyakitty
@Shalimar: who would have ever thought we’d miss that jerk? As awful as sessions is, I don’t think he’d put national security at risk the way tubby is.
Captain C
@NotMax: Definitely ‘D’
VOR
Trump has to be the nightmare legal client. Doesn’t listen, doesn’t shut up, doesn’t tell his own legal team the truth, and worst of all, doesn’t pay. IIRC there was a story that one of his former legal firms always sent two people so they collaborate the story he told in a previous meeting – basically one lawyer served as a witness.
Look at his White House hires. He bragged about hiring the best people and then denounced them as horrible after they left. He recently attacked General Kelly and I’m thinking “Yeah, who hired him Donald?”
Daoud bin Daoud
@Shalimar: but the taxpayers pay for the Secret Service, the food bill would have come from his own pocket.
Paul in KY
@Brachiator: Multiplied by the 11 people that were there and that’s gotta be $85.00 easy. Too much…
Paul in KY
@Tony Jay: You know, he might actually use that, as he has to pay (I assume) for non-parody ad copy.
If so, then gotcha libtard!!!
artem1s
It is dumb but it’s the only way the GOP can continue to raise money from TFG’s MAGAt supporters. The RNC can’t afford for TFG to be taken out of the field of play this early. Not taking it means you can’t get on the debate stage, so refusing is basically a campaign killer from the get go. So they make tons of bucks on the KKKrazy Debates where TFG slaps around the grifters, weaklings, media and whatever women are standing around.
Seems to me the RNC is trying to force a decision early so they don’t have to spend any of their money on primaries and are trying to save it all for the general (or state campaigns). I’m betting they have already made their choice for who will ascend to the nominee should TFG be knocked out before the convention – and it ain’t DeSantos (Mother is going to super be pissed she has to go thru this deplorable crap all over again).
RaflW
“A glad-handing Trump was heard to declare, ‘Food for everyone!’”
Pedantic, but that sentence is merely a declarative observation. The unspoken “Hey lookit all this food for everyone that this restaurant has prepared and you each will receive a table check!” is just so obvious that no one should expect he meant anything else by it.
Tony Jay
@Paul in KY:
Isn’t there a Law about that? Named for some crazy Southern dude?