Cohen was not involved in these payments. These particular payments were provided by the Trump campaign to a totally different law firm, Kasowitz Benson Torres, not Cohen’s. The intent of these payments was to circumvent campaign finance laws to pay off women. These payments did not involve Trump’s behavior but sexual harassment involving others working on the campaign. Cohen was Trump’s personal fixer, not the campaign’s fixer.
Paying someone off to shut them up has been there for a long time. Bill Clinton paid off Paula Jones to the tune of $900,000 for her sexual harassment case. Did the DOJ charge Bill Clinton? Of course not. There is no basis for it. Yet, they charge Donald Trump because they wanted to damage him politically, they threw everything at him but, the kitchen sink. Nothing wrong with non-disclosure agreements and they are paying out of their pockets. This is pretty standard fare. Michael Cohen is just a serial liar which is why his credibility is shot. He will say anything if it suits him or benefits him. A serial perjurer, he has already proven himself to be yet, he is the star witness of the prosecution?
Harry Enten is apparently a poll analyst looking at the new sienna poll and coming to the realization that Trump is strong in the southwest right now but if he had been reading the forum he would have known this in March.
I expect many of the hardware engineers will come from overseas; H1-B visas, etc. Keep in mind that silicon design engineers can be located anywhere in the world; only a limited number of process engineers are required to be on the floor of the manufacturing site. Most of the people in these large manufacturing facilities are just workers, not engineering. Chip plants require a significant investment and high on-going costs to maintain -- and as you mentioned thin margins. Overseas plants were much cheaper to build & operate which is why so many semiconductor companies left the U.S. previously. The Chips Act subsidies is intent on bringing semiconductor manufacturing back to the U.S. -- and so far it appears to have traction. Bloomberg has an interesting article on the global chip battle and subsidies. Here is a re-print of it in the Japan Times (to avoid the firewall). Global chips battle intensifies with $81 billion subsidy surge https://www.japantimes.co.jp/business/2024/05/13/tech/global-chips-battle-subsidy/
CNN interrupts their fifteen panelists - who are busy masturbating over Michael Cohen's testimony- to present the new NYT poll results showing Trump ahead in five of the six battleground states. Pretty effin funny. Yeh, Michael Cohen is da man. Trump is going down for sure. OR NOT. Trump maintains narrow lead in key battleground states, NYT poll finds https://www.politico.com/news/2024/05/13/trump-narrow-lead-battleground-00157541
It is interesting that the Senate races in battleground states seem to be completely disconnected from the Presidential race. Battleground Polling Shows Ticket-Splitting Pattern https://www.yahoo.com/news/battleground-polling-shows-ticket-splitting-121703109.html We have a new set of polls for you in the battleground states, including New York Times/Siena College polls of Michigan, Wisconsin, Georgia, Nevada, Arizona and the inaugural Times/Philadelphia Inquirer/Siena poll in Pennsylvania. The results in the presidential race would have been surprising a year ago, but it’s hard to call them surprising anymore. Former President Donald Trump leads in five of the six states among likely voters, with President Joe Biden squeaking out a lead among likely voters in Michigan. Trump’s strength is largely thanks to gains among young, Black and Hispanic voters. What’s more surprising is the U.S. Senate results. This is the first time we’ve asked about Senate races this year, and the Democratic candidates led in all four of the states we tested: Pennsylvania, Wisconsin, Arizona and Nevada. Not only do Democrats lead, but they also seem to do so in an entirely customary way, with ordinary levels of support from young and nonwhite voters, even as Biden struggles at the top of the ticket. Nevada was ground zero for this striking ticket splitting. Trump led the poll by a staggering 12 points among registered voters, thanks to an eye-popping 9-point lead among Hispanic voters and a 13-point lead among those 18 to 29. But in the Senate race, everything looks “normal.” Democratic Sen. Jacky Rosen led her likeliest Republican challenger by 2 points among registered voters, including a 46-27 lead among those 18 to 29 and a 46-28 lead among Hispanics. Remarkably, 28% of Trump’s Hispanic supporters and 26% of his young supporters back Rosen. This level of crossover voting has been extremely rare in the last few years, but it was pretty common before 2020. In fact, these results remind me a lot of the 2016 presidential election, when Trump surged in white working-class areas, Hillary Clinton surged in college-educated areas, and yet the Senate and House results by county still mostly followed the pre-2016 pattern. With polls showing Trump making yet another demographic breakthrough, perhaps it shouldn’t be so surprising that ticket splitting is back as well. What does ticket splitting mean for Biden? There’s been understandable debate over whether Biden could really be doing so poorly among young, Black and Hispanic voters. After all, we’ve never seen anything like it before, and polls are hardly perfect. But at least to me, the relatively “normal” down-ballot results strengthen the case that Trump’s breakthrough among young and nonwhite voters is probably real — which is to say, not an artifact of some kind of systemic polling error. It’s consistent with other indicators (such as party registration, or recalled 2020 vote preference) suggesting that the polls are reaching the people who usually vote for Democrats — they just aren’t backing Biden. And historically, huge polling errors tend to be systematic. Back in 2016, for instance, the polls missed Ron Johnson’s victory in the Wisconsin Senate race, not just Trump’s win for president in the state. Similarly, the 2020 polls overstated the prospects of Democratic candidates such as Sara Gideon, Gary Peters and Steve Bullock by every bit as much as they overstated those of Biden. That said, there may be some good news for Biden here: These voters haven’t yet abandoned Democrats in full, and they might still be available to return to his side. What is going on with likely voters in Michigan? One of the most peculiar findings in the poll is the huge split between registered and likely voters in Michigan. Overall, Trump led by 7 points among registered voters — the broader group of people who are registered to vote in the state. But Biden had a 1-point lead among likely voters, the smaller group that represents the likely electorate of actual voters this November. I find that gap to be more than a little hard to believe. It requires unlikely voters in Michigan to back Trump by about 30 points, even as Biden narrowly leads among those who actually show up and vote. But it’s worth noting that the last Times/Siena poll of Michigan also had an unusually large gap between registered and likely voters, with Trump leading by 5 points among registered voters while Biden and Trump were tied among likely voters. In this poll, Michigan voters who said they were only “somewhat” likely (or less likely than that) to vote backed Trump by 26 points, 54% to 28%. Those without a record of voting in the 2020 election backed Trump by 34 points, 62% to 28%. Arab and Muslim voters When we did our last Times/Siena poll of the battleground states, we found signs of huge defections from Biden among a small sample of voters who were either Muslim or Arab. We found it again. Overall, Trump led, 57-25, among Middle East, North African or Muslim voters in the poll. Those who say they voted in the 2020 election reported backing Biden by a similar but opposite margin, 56-35. When we asked Arab or Muslim voters who didn’t back Biden about their most important issue in the race, around 70% cited foreign policy or the war in the Gaza Strip. c.2024 The New York Times Company
It is interesting. Trump seems to be peeling some young voters and some black voters who support democrats down ballot. Sienna also had him at 42% Hispanics. If Trump solidifies those voters and they actually show up to vote Biden’s 6% lead on suburban women won’t win the day.
What a contrast in the way lefty prosecutors and their media cronies treat Trump versus Biden. The argument with Trump is that Trump cannot deny knowledge of ANYTHING because it is well-established that he is on top of EVERYTHING and is very epitome of a micromanager. Absolutely nothing escapes his notice or involvement. Okay class, now let's pivot over and examine how they treat Genocide Joe: Biden cannot be prosecuted for ANYTHING because it is well established that he is too far gone in the head to put before a jury. Scam.