I encourage everybody to read the 2020 GOP Platform, which lays out all of their policies.
It is a quick read for a policy platform, only 1 page long, but they were very clear on what the party's policies are.
And I think they have been very diligent in delivering on it to the best of their abilities. Laser-focused, really.
The only problem is that it is considered gauche and unsophisticated to read what Republicans actually say they stand for so it doesn't get reported on.
The quip about Smith comes amid rumours that the former president is showing signs of dementia, with an expert telling the Mirror that Trump's behaviour in court during the hush money trial — specifically, his constant snoozing and alleged farting — including an unintelligible run of phrases during his "Gettysburg Address" campaign speech weeks ago, are indicative of his declining cognitive state. #trump #jacksmith #election2024 #2024Election https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/us-news/donald-trump-makes-embarrassing-blunder-32840638
"The Telemundo/NBC debate would be widely watched by Hispanic voters, but Biden’s handlers are petrified to allow him to defend his disastrous record." - Danielle Alvarez, Trump Campaign spokesperson
@w7voa#Trump is HATED WITH PASSION by latinos everywhere except "Latino-Americans"! Here's an example that, at one point, displays trump's severed bloody head on a silver platter. Quite a few US citizens think that should be the fate of all current US politicians... #GenocideJoe too. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GCPBfkEKz_U
"The media and the general public—both in New York City and beyond—instantly believed these five black and Latino youth were guilty of the crime without giving them a fair chance of proving their innocence."
I'm voting for Joe Biden in November and intend to continue donating to help him get reelected because: (1) the U.S. is in much better shape now than it was under the former president; and (2) many of the things that could be better (e.g., the makeup of the Supreme Court) are a direct result of the last president being in office.
No caveats.
No "even though..."
The rest of you can vote however you like, but my mind is made up.
So all those of you protesters refusing to vote for Biden I hope you realize this is your future with a Trump presidency:👇
" Trump Wants to Deport Pro-Palestine Protesters—and GOP Lawmakers Are Filing Bills to Make It Happen"
"....comments come amid Republican-led efforts to brand ** all anti-war protesters *** as supporters of terrorism and a continued push to criminalize protest."
The prosecution asks that the defense be precluded from asking #StormyDaniels whether she was arrested. Justice #Merchan agrees w/the prosecutors, saying that “anybody can be arrested” & that it “doesn’t prove anything.”
The people call Stormy Daniels back to the stand
#Trump atty #Necheles begins questioning by saying that in 2011, Daniels denied having had sex w/Trump.
#StormyDaniels’s is beginning to sound upset as #Necheles attacks her account of the story, saying she described it differently in her book & at trial.
Necheles continues to call it the "supposed" meeting at a hotel, but there was evidence that Daniels had not just #Trump's bodyguard, Keith Schiller, listed in her phone, but his gatekeeper, #RhonaGraff.
Daniels, is quizzed extensively about whether she actually ate while in Trump's hotel room in 2006, prior to the alleged sexual encounter, smiles a bit. "It was dinner" she says, "but we never got food." She adds: "I'm very food-motivated."
This is mostly an attempt to confuse the jury about what #StormyDaniels has actually said.
The best witnesses have vivid recall of events & tell their stories consistently over time. #Necheles is homing in on any discrepancy she can find.
Necheles is addressing something that Daniels has long said, which is that she did not eat while in #Trump's hotel room in 2006 - presenting evidence that Daniels has at times described that episode as having been a "dinner."
It may seem minor but the defense is likely hoping to show the jurors that Daniels's memory cannot be trusted in this description of something that happened just before she says she & #Trump had sex.
#StormyDaniels, though, is still fighting back, describing the encounter as a "dinner" but saying no food was ever served - which is why she's always harped on the lack of food in interviews.
#Necheles concludes the discussion of dinner w/a blunt question: "Your words don't mean what they say, do they?" There's an objection, but the line already landed in the room.
Necheles spent many minutes drilling down on what #StormyDaniels meant when she said she & Trump had dinner but didn't eat. It's a pretty picayune distinction that the jurors can probably pick up on. It's starting to feel like Necheles is harping on this minor semantic choice just to bully.
Part of the reason #Necheles is even able to do this sort of minor parsing of words in the first place is because #StormyDaniels has now told her story in many places many different times, & invariably there will be slight alterations in each recounting.
Defense lawyers love it when witnesses have given multiple accounts of the same event.
#Necheles, harps on one inconsistency in #StormyDaniels's whether #Trump was watching TV when she arrived at the hotel suite.
Again none of this actually matters.
Necheles has reached the moment before the sexual encounter & is seeking to question Daniels's credibility about that account, mixing in descriptions of Daniels's previous work in porn. Necheles notes that in Daniels's book, she describes the early part of the encounter, writing that she made him her “bitch."
"There was no more conversation,"
Daniels says, about what happened after she left the bathroom, the moment at which she says the sexual encounter began.
#Necheles questions #StormyDaniels’s assertion that she felt a #power imbalance w/ #Trump before their sexual encounter. Necheles cuts Daniels off as she's talking, prompting prosecutors to ask the judge to permit the witness to answer.
Necheles insinuates that Daniels is making up her feeling that Trump was overpowering her. Daniels gives perhaps her strongest testimony of the morning:
“My own insecurities made me feel that way," she says, her voice never wavering.
#Necheles has taken a risky tack in cross-examination. She accused #StormyDaniels of making up the sexual encounter w/ #Trump in part by pointing out the idea of a power imbalance. The imbalance is obvious to anyone.
It's worth noting, that the defense only need to convince one of the jurors to distrust Daniels, or to buy into the idea that her word affects the case. It doesn’t.
"You are trying to make me say it's changed, but it hasn't changed," Daniels says about her story.