Trump's Troubles

VC's for Kamala - not going to let Thiel put his thumb on the scale without a counterbalance.

With tech leaders like Elon Musk turning to Trump, more than 100 Silicon Valley investors pledge support for Harris (msn.com)

More than 100 venture capitalists pledged to vote and gather donations for Harris, according to the newly launched website, VCsForKamala.org. Signatories include Reid Hoffman, a cofounder of LinkedIn, Ron Conway, a so-called "super angel" investor, and Mark Cuban.

The venture capitalists who've signed in support of Harris represent about $150 billion in assets under management, Leslie Feinzaig, the managing director of the firm Graham & Walker and one of the principal organizers of the effort, said in a post on X, formerly known as Twitter.

"We are pro-business, pro-American dream, pro-entrepreneurship, and pro-technological progress," a statement on the VCsForKamala's website says. "We also believe in democracy as the backbone of our nation." The statement says that strong institutions are integral to all industries and are "at stake in this election."

 

been hoping this would happen the minute Cannon dismissed. Imagine djt having to compete with two black women at the same time..of the irony

Judge Chutkan could jumpstart Trump election interference case now that it’s back in her court (msn.com)

A federal judge in Washington, DC, on Friday should regain control of the criminal case against former President Donald Trump for his attempts to overturn the 2020 election, leaving the historic criminal case’s fate in her hands less than 100 days before the November election. Chutkan has long signaled she wanted the case presented to a jury before voters go to the polls in November, initially pushing for a March trial date. But the Supreme Court interceded earlier this year and put the case on pause to consider Trump’s claims of presidential immunity.

By granting Trump sweeping immunity for official acts as president, the Supreme Court’s ruling may gut special counsel Jack Smith’s case. That leaves Chutkan with a number of crucial decisions to make, including whether Trump’s efforts to undo the 2020 election results count as official acts.
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While it’s still not clear when – if ever – the case will go to trial, observers believe Chutkan will move quickly to move the criminal proceedings along given her judicial style. “She likes to move cases along,” the same attorney told CNN of Chutkan. “She doesn’t want to want a lot of talk, she’ll just rule.”

Five major motions are pending before the judge, four of which she could rule on immediately. Sources say that some of the attorneys involved in the case believe Chutkan may have worked on writing opinions for outstanding motions while the case was paused, and that those motions could quickly appear on the court docket.

 

this story keeps creeping closer to the mainstream.

If I was the DNC or someone that wanted to help, I would be pushing that suit to get more info public

Menendez was just convicted for less

 

yes, this funding was heading to djt when he decided to inject $10M of "his own" money into the campaign.

this was a straight up bribe to influence policy just like the payments to Menendez..from the article



Five days before Donald Trump became president in January 2017, a manager at a bank branch in Cairo received an unusual letter from an organization linked to the Egyptian intelligence service. It asked the bank to “kindly withdraw” nearly $10 million from the organization’s account — all in cash.

Inside the state-run National Bank of Egypt, employees were soon busy placing bundles of $100 bills into two large bags, according to records from the bank. Four men arrived and carried away the bags, which U.S. officials later described in sealed court filings as weighing a combined 200 pounds and containing what was then a sizable share of Egypt’s reserve of U.S. currency. Federal investigators learned of the withdrawal, which has not been previously reported, early in 2019. The discovery intensified a secret criminal investigation that had begun two years earlier with classified U.S. intelligence indicating that Egyptian President Abdel Fatah El-Sisi sought to give Trump $10 million to boost his 2016 presidential campaign, a Washington Post investigation has found.

Within months of learning of the withdrawal, prosecutors and FBI agents were blocked by top Justice Department officials from obtaining bank records they believed might hold critical evidence, according to interviews with people familiar with the case as well as documents and contemporaneous notes of the investigation. The case ground to a halt by the fall of 2019 as Trump’s then-attorney general, William P. Barr, raised doubts about whether there was sufficient evidence to continue the probe of Trump.
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In the years since the Egypt case was closed, the Sisi regime’s ambitions to influence senior U.S. government officials have been laid bare by the bribery conviction of Sen. Bob Menendez (D-N.J.), the former chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee. Over the course of his presidency, Trump shifted U.S. policy in ways that benefited the Egyptian leader, a man he once called “my favorite dictator.” In 2018, Trump’s State Department released $195 million in military aid that the United States had been withholding over human rights abuses — a move that had been opposed by his first secretary of state — followed by the release of $1.2 billion more in such assistance.