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This deserves a blog of it's own. Back in the 1990's Carroll claims Donald Trump raped her in a famous New York City department store. Trump denied her allegation. He said she's not his type.
I read she kept the garment she was wearing that has his sperm on it and a DNA test would be conclusive. I also read the court isn't allowing the test.
There's a second issue of defamation where he's being sued by Carroll based on disparaging comments he made in response to her accusation.

Trump's lawyers tried and failed to get both cases dismissed.

Over the years, he's been accused of rape several times, but none of them stuck. I recall one woman backed out before the trial due to death threats.

Another woman came forward and the situation was different. Either Trump or one of his lawyers made a clarification or comparison, but that only sounded like he was part of both and the women weren't lying.

So the man who's in court over business fraud, indirectly paying a porn star hush money, a boasting womanizer with a history of affairs while married, had partied with Jeffrey Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell is teetering over a rape case that may actually lean in Carroll's favor. He would be found guilty of s*xual assault. Convicted Rapists in Florida are on a list and their movements are often restricted.

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Up until today, I thought congressman George Santos was just a pathological liar, now I see he's been arrested on Federal charges of fraud and money laundering.

"The 13-count indictment returned by a federal grand jury Tuesday includes seven counts of wire fraud, three counts of money laundering, one count of theft of public funds and two counts of making materially false statements to the House of Representatives. If convicted, Santos faces up to 20 years in prison for the most serious charges."

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George, does this make you eligible for unemployment?

In yesterday's news, a 3rd woman took the stand in the civil trial of Donald J. Trump. Author and journalist, Natasha Stoynoff became the third woman to testify under oath that Trump sexually assaulted her years earlier.
She was more specific and told the jury Trump forcefully kissed her while doing an interview in 2005, for People magazine at his home in Mar-a-Lago.

"She also told her direct superior at work, who was also a close friend, but she didn’t tell anyone else higher up at the magazine for fear that they’d kill her story and Trump would retaliate, she testified."

A pattern has formed and it's not looking good for Trump. Already talk of appealing the outcome, like all judgements of Donald. J. Trump, this could be in the court system for many years.

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Let's be direct: Trump's trial attorneys have already given up and the new plan is to get the verdict reversed on appeal.

When the person can’t be bothered to show up for a court case against them, I don’t think it cast them in the best light.

My mother is a T fan. She said she loves his policies and doesn't care what kind of person he is. "That's his business," she says. I think that's the mindset of his followers. Doesn't matter if he has integrity, honor, dignity, courage, none of it.

He didn't call any witnesses for his defense because there is no witnesses for his defense. He has no defense.

In layman's terms trump's lawyers are saying he's guilty and there is nothing we can do to help him.

TORONTO (AP) — Gordon Lightfoot, the folk singer-songwriter known for “If You Could Read My Mind” and “Sundown” and for songs that told tales of Canadian identity, died Monday. He was 84.

Representative Victoria Lord said the musician died at a Toronto hospital. His cause of death was not immediately available.

One of the most renowned voices to emerge from Toronto’s Yorkville folk club scene in the 1960s, Lightfoot recorded 20 studio albums and penned hundreds of songs, including “Carefree Highway,” “Early Morning Rain” and “The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald.”

In the 1970s, Lightfoot garnered five Grammy nominations, three platinum records and nine gold records for albums and singles. He performed in well over 1,500 concerts and recorded 500 songs.

He toured late into his life. Just last month he canceled upcoming U.S. and Canadian shows, citing health issues.

One of the most renowned voices to emerge from Toronto’s Yorkville folk club scene in the 1960s, Lightfoot recorded 20 studio albums and penned hundreds of songs, including “Carefree Highway,” “Early Morning Rain” and “The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald.”

In the 1970s, Lightfoot garnered five Grammy nominations, three platinum records and nine gold records for albums and singles. He performed in well over 1,500 concerts and recorded 500 songs.

He toured late into his life. Just last month he canceled upcoming U.S. and Canadian shows, citing health issues.

“We have lost one of our greatest singer-songwriters,” Prime Minister Justin Trudeau tweeted. “Gordon Lightfoot captured our country’s spirit in his music – and in doing so, he helped shape Canada’s soundscape. May his music continue to inspire future generations, and may his legacy live on forever.”

Once called a “rare talent” by Bob Dylan, Lightfoot has been covered by dozens of artists, including Elvis Presley, Barbra Streisand, Harry Belafonte, Johnny Cash, Anne Murray, Jane’s Addiction and Sarah McLachlan.

Donald J. Trump is in Scotland breaking ground for another golf course. Reports are the red carpet welcome wasn't a big turnout.
I heard bagpipes...




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We are getting some severe weather this week. About 20 miles north, in Palm Beach Gardens, a tornado touched down flipping cars and damaging houses. The National Weather Service in Miami said the tornado that hit late Saturday afternoon had winds of over 100 miles per hour.
Luckily, there were no reports of injuries or fatalities.
I watched radar a few times today and areas 30 miles south of me were under tornado watch. As far as I know, there were no incidents there.


I'm not sure why the news reported it as a 'suspected' tornado. It appeared on radar as a tornado, damaged as a tornado, people were warned we were on a tornado watch and the news posted video of the tornado.

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Although some would argue it is a little more than Putin's speech in February predicted of only 3% but still a little better than some Asian analysts had forecast. Income tax revenue fell by 21.9% over last year's 1st quarter.
Russia spent just over 8 Trillion Rubles (99 Billion US Dollars) this last quarter.
The 2023 Russian budget (released last August) allows Russia to spend only 29 Trillion Rubles (about 350 Billion US dollars) for the entire year. In short Russia has significantly overspent what it's 2023 budget forecast their spending.
Russia's spending on state procurements (2.5 Trillion Rubles or about 52 Billion US dollars) in the 1st quarter was over 50% higher than it's procurements in 2022. The 2023 budget allocated only about 5 Trillion Rubles (61 Billion US Dollars) for all of 2023.
The Net deficit for the 1st Quarter of 023 is about 2.4 Trillion Rubles (about 29.3 Billion US dollars (more than the 24 Billion dollars the US spent on the Apollo moon program)).
The 2023 Russian budget was a little controversial in some domestic quarters when it was released, because in order to raise government procurement and increase the number of state security personnel the Duma agreed to a budget that greatly deduced things like medicine, hospital outlays, road improvements, maintenance, education, etc.
The Russian budget called for a total deficit in 2023 of 2.9 Trillion Rubles (36 Billion US dollars) or about 3.5% for all of 2023. The actual loss of 2.4 Trillion Rubles just in the 1st quarter of the year is about 83% of all of the anticipated loss. It is very probable much more financial loss is oncoming to Russia.
Last summer on RT.com in a text there I pointed out the Russian 2023 budget was essentially worthless toilet paper as it totally ignored the upcoming Oil and oil product sanctions. Naturally all on that site who worship Putin says disagreed with me and claimed I listened to too much CNN and the EU & NATO would back down and not implement any sanctions or lift them once the cold weather arrived. Sigh.
The War between Russia and Ukraine will probably continue another 2 or 3 years. Contrary to Russian myth the West is not even close to financial collapse. Russia's cash reserves(the well fund) are currently expected to totally run out sometime this September or October). The obvious short term solution will be to just print more Rubles. Of course that will immediately result in further devaluation of the Russian Ruble which has already fallen to about 1 Ruble = (about) US $0.01 per dollar. Just over a US penny a Ruble today, 81 to the dollar (and falling). It is very obvious the longer Putin and his supporters continue their illegal war the more the other people of Russia will become unemployed, suffer or just vanish from their Census..
In WWI when it's economy reached a similar state the Kaiser's Germany was smart enough to simply surrender. Putin and his supporters are not that smart and has no desire to dance at the end of a hangman's noose which the War Crimes they allowed ensure they will. So it continues.
Figures supplied by Russia's Ministry of Finance
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FOX finally realizing that their recent loss of (US) $787,000,000 in a lawsuit in which lies by Tucker Carlson played a huge role, facing additional even larger lawsuits in which, again, false statements on the air play a large role, and having been notified their core broadcast license is under FCC review saw the writing on their wall and has released Tucker Carlson from their network.