Just Trump threatening and shaking down CEOs. Trump Is Now Openly Threatening CEOs Who Don’t Support Him Donald Trump is warning CEOs to fall in line—or else. https://newrepublic.com/post/182868/trump-threaten-ceos-support Donald Trump is taking aim at business leaders, saying they should be fired if they don’t support him. In two long Truth Social posts on Tuesday quoting a Wall Street Journal article, Trump said “Business Executives and Shareholder Representatives should be 100% behind Donald Trump! Anybody that’s not should be FIRED for incompetence!” Lately, Trump has attempted to line up the CEO and executive crowd behind him, but this is the first time he seems to have openly threatened them. Last week, he met with at least 80 CEOs, promising tax cuts and scaled-back business regulations if he’s elected president. Accounts of that meeting did not have the convicted felon and former president coming off well, with Trump reportedly rambling all over the place on different topics. “These were people who, I think, might have been actually predisposed to him,” said CNBC’s Ross Sorkin. “And [they] actually walked out of the room less predisposed to him, actually predisposed to thinking ‘This is not necessarily—’ as one person said, ‘this may not be any different or better than a Biden thought, if you’re thinking that way.’” Trump also proposed a plan to cut the federal corporate tax rate to 20 percent from 21 percent, which didn’t bring a lot of excitement from the audience. One attendee described the idea as “We’re going to give you more of the same for the next four years.” Previously, Trump also tried to win over the support of oil and gas executives, reportedly promising them changes in policies if they contributed to his campaign. Perhaps Trump’s recent posts came about because these meetings aren’t getting him the support he was seeking, and he sought to strike back at the CEOs. Maybe he thought they didn’t like his idea of leaving worker tips untaxed. Or maybe he got tired of proposing outrageous deals in exchange for total support, and decided an implicit threat would work better. Whatever the case, it’s not likely that the richest and most powerful business leaders in America will respond kindly to Trump saying “support me or else!” Even if they do support him, history doesn’t look kindly upon business leaders who throw their support behind (wanna-be) dictators and autocrats.
The court will likely say, on a 6 to 3 vote or more, that Presidents have immunity from criminal prosecution for their official and unofficial acts which fall in the outer perimeter of their duties. Then, I suspect they will kick the case back to lower courts for determination on what constitutes official and unofficial acts. Depending on the lower courts decision, it may then make it back to SCOTUS for a ruling. Highly unlikely that the Jan 6 "case" will make it to trial prior to the election. If it did, it would only strengthen Trump's poll numbers further.
Oh, poor Donald was "tortured". Trump campaign fundraising email says he was ‘tortured’ in jail https://thehill.com/homenews/campaign/4736777-trump-campaign-criticizes-jail/
Bad start for Biden right out of the gate. His voice is totally shot already from over-practicing for a week. Has a real geriatric look to it.
Hey Tree... this: "I will reinstate Roe V Wade"... Or something like that. I'm no lawyer, and I'm no Constitutional scholar... but correct me if I'm wrong here. (Talk about the statements of a dictator.) He can't reinstate that can he? That's what our whole nation was founded on for god sake! Right? The separation of powers. The 3 branches. What am I missing here?! Like I said, I'm no lawyer, but I'm not totally stupid. I have a feeling that line is is gonna get some serious inbound fire when the experts dissect this thing.
Yeh, he words it in a klutzy way. Neither the president nor Congress can go back undo the Roe decision which was based on an alleged "right to privacy" (non-existent) and various standards such as states being able to prohibit after the fetus is viable, yaddy di, yaddy dah. A future court reversing Dobbs is the only way it could be reversed as a constitutional issue. What Dufus Biden is trying to say- if he spoke English- is that he wants to use Congressional legislative power to enact a statute that would re-implement the same level of "protections" for women to get abortions that Roe provided. But that does not "reinstate Roe." It just comes at the abortion issue legislatively because Roe is gone for good.
Oh ok. That's nice of you to interpret that giving him the benefit of the doubt. I heard that and said wtf(?!). Ok here's another one lol... "We're not sending Ukraine money, we're sending them weapons."... Does RTX and Lockheed donate those things? What's the difference? One more ... ... nahhhh I'l let that one go. But can a girl get raped by her sister and need abortion services? --->"By brothers and sisters." He can have a senior moment pass on that one i guess.
Ya know though... the way they seem to like to take Trump's tongue in cheek remarks and run with them.... "He said he would be a dictator".... the GOP should run with that one. Klutzy or not. What's good for the goose... PLUS... Biden did say regarding student loan forgiveness... "The Supreme Court didn't stop me!" He did say that. Not tonight, it was a while back. Once again... the three branches?