#mary trump

[isawthismeme]

[liberalsarecool]

Every bad personality trait and disqualifying attribute is a further test of MAGA loyalty.

Accept all. No questions asked. #ItsACult

[mysharona1987]

[lemonbombsfjl]

[justinspoliticalcorner]

Mary L. Trump at The Good in Us Substack:

Normally, my issue with the corporate media is their failure to shine a light on stories that matter. But in this case, it seems some segments of the corporate media, primarily Fox, is hellbent on helping Donald interfere with his trial through jury intimidation. It’s a disturbing reality that we must confront. Last night, Donald Trump posted the following on social media: “They are catching undercover liberal activists lying to the judge,” Jesse Watters.

Lawyers and legal analysts like Ryan Goodman and Andrew Weissman made it clear that this was a serious breach, the most serious to date, of Judge Merchan’s gag order – one that should be dressed immediately.  The fact that Donald was quoting somebody else is irrelevant. This seemed to be a blatant case of jury tampering, especially since, at the time of this was posted, five jurors and all six alternates remained to be chosen. I fully expected today’s proceedings to begin with the judge announcing that the so-called Sandoval hearing, which he originally scheduled, would be held today before any other court business. This seemed to be a reasonable assumption considering the purpose of that hearing was so the judge can rule on the prosecution’s contention that Donald should be held in contempt and sanctioned accordingly.

Juror Number 2 dismissed

It’s not uncommon for a juror to be chosen and subsequently let go during the selection process. That was the case with Juror Four after the prosecution discovered the man may have been untruthful in some of his answers. Juror Two’s circumstances were different. She was excused after telling the court that she’d become concerned that her identity might be discovered after her family and  friends questioned her about her possible involvement in the trial following media coverage. The fact that the judge felt the need to keep the identities of jurors anonymous is a damning indictment of the criminal defendant. And clearly the jurors understand the inherent danger of being seated on this jury. 

To put this in perspective, my friend and former U.S. Attorney, Joyce White Vance explained, “Typically, you would only see that happen in a case involving violent organized crime.” Following the juror’s feedback, Judge Merchan reprimanded the press for reporting far too much information about the jurors. [Out of an abundance of caution, I deleted the section about the jurors from last night’s post.]

[...] In a disturbing display of media influence, Fox host Jesse Watters went through the list of jurors, with identifying characteristics like employment, gender, place of residence, and commented on each one. 

Watters then singled out any jurors who didn’t align with his idea of what a juror should be (pro-Donald) and cast doubt on their ability to be fair and impartial. This is not just unethical, it’s dangerous. Fox, on Donald’s behalf, is actively helping Donald create an atmosphere of fear among the jurors. In a just world, Watters would be fired for his irresponsible behavior, but Fox has no interest in justice. Consider what Josh Kovensky of Talking Points Memo, pointed out: “Instead of operating within the process of jury selection, which assumes that people are capable of setting aside whatever political beliefs or biases they may have in order to render a good faith judgment on the evidence, it casts the assumptions underlying that process as Trump’s enemy to be defeated, implying that the jurors themselves are incapable of both being impartial in their judgment of him and participating in a political system in which he is a main actor.”

[...]

Donald amplifies Fox, scares a juror, and breaks his gag order

So far, here’s the pattern: A Fox personality attacks the judge or jury, and then Donald shares it on Truth Social as a way to give himself plausible deniability: He can distance himself from the quote by saying it doesn’t represent what he actually believes. This is exactly what he did last night when he quoted Jesse Watters. Regardless of Donald’s attempts to pretend otherwise, this is a clear violation of his gag order and shows a blatant disregard for the legal process. He needs to be punished or this will spiral out of control quickly. We’re already seeing that his disrespectful behavior in the courtroom and flouting of norms — like refusing to stand when the prospective jurors enter the room or using his phone when nobody else is —has already gone too far. The gag order was imposed to prevent Donald from publicly speaking about witnesses, jurors, court staff and their families outside of the courtroom. Donald has run out of chances and his downfall will be of his own making.

[...]

Judge Merchan must lay the smackdown on Donald

Prosecutors have accused Donald of violating the court-imposed gag order SEVEN times since the commencement of the trial. And they will have a chance to make the case for Donald to be held accountable during a hearing next week. They have pointed to public statements and social media posts made by Donald over the past few days as evidence of these violations. They have described the situation as “ridiculous” and have called for it to stop, expressing frustration over Donald’s repeated breaches of the order. Former federal prosecutor Shannon Wu has now called on Merchan to strengthen the gag order to any communication about the trial beyond Donald saying he’s innocent and plans to defend himself. At the very least, Judge Merchan needs to be unequivocal in telling Donald and defense counsel that enough is enough. The repeated violations of the gag order and Donald’s attempts to interfere with the trial warrant serious repercussions. He cannot keep getting away with it.

Mary L. Trump writes in her Substack on how right-wing media outlets (esp. Fox's Jesse Watters) and Donald Trump are conducting witness tampering on the jury for the Trump falsification of business records trial. Trump Trial

[porterdavis]

[tomorrowusa]

There is a lot of emphasis in the news media on Biden's age while almost nothing about Trump's fitness. This needs to change and we should be more active about holding news organizations to account.

In a four day period in September, the cable news stations mentioned Biden’s age 193 times while Trump’s age was mentioned just 56 times. (MediaMatters.org on September 29, 2023.) After this one sided coverage, these same media outlets then polled the voters about Biden’s age and found (surprise!) that voters are more concerned about Biden’s age than Trump’s age. It’s garbage in and garbage out.

There's just a 3.5 year difference between Biden and Trump. But Trump is not the fitter of the two. Being an epic blowhard and blabbermouth is not a measure of fitness.

After Biden concluded his debt ceiling deal with McCarthy in June, the extremist so-called House “Freedom” Caucus members complained that Biden “outsmarted” McCarthy in the negotiations. The House GOP’s most extreme members hate Biden and have zero incentive to tell the truth about Biden’s good state of health.

So even the most extreme Republicans had to admit that they were outfoxed by Biden.

On October 2, Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-FL) took to the floor of the House to denounce the deal that funded the government for forty five days Gaetz said: “It is going to be difficult for my Republican friends to keep calling President Biden feeble while he continues to take Speaker McCarthy’s lunch money in every negotiation.”

As for Trump's health, mental health in particular, the evidence of his debility is on full display.

Meanwhile, the mainstream press has largely ignored and downplayed Trump’s declining mental condition and increasing tendency to threaten violence. Probably the only mainstream media piece that accurately described the respective health of Biden and Trump was in the New York Times on June 4, 2023. The pertinent excerpts are as follows: “While in office, Mr. Trump generated concerns about his mental acuity and physical condition. He did not exercise, his diet leaned heavily on cheeseburgers and steak and he officially tipped the scales at 244 pounds, a weight formally deemed obese for his height. After complaining that he was overscheduled with morning meetings, Mr. Trump stopped showing up at the Oval Office until 11 or 11:30 a.m. each day, staying in the residence to watch television, make phone calls or send out incendiary tweets. During an appearance at the U.S. Military Academy at West Point, he had trouble lifting a glass of water and seemed to have trouble making his way down a modest ramp. Most striking was Mr. Trump’s cognitive performance. He was erratic and tended to ramble; experts have found that he had grown less articulate and that his vocabulary had shrunk since his younger days. Aides said privately that Mr. Trump had trouble processing information and distinguishing fact from fiction. His second chief of staff, John F. Kelly, bought a book analyzing Mr. Trump’s psychological health to understand him better, and several cabinet secretaries concerned that he might be mentally unfit discussed invoking the 25th Amendment to remove him.”

He's gotten worse rather than better since leaving office.

These aren’t isolated statements. The highlights (or lowlights) of Trump’s deteriorating condition are as follows. Trump forgot who is currently president, and claimed “the Obama administration” recorded the length of his “border wall.” He even claimed **Jeb Bush** invaded Afghanistan and Iraq! Trump appeared confused when he said Jeb Bush was president during the Iraq War. “You know he was a mili — he got us into the, uh, he got us into the Middle East … Right?” In September, Trump mixed up Biden and Obama, and claimed Biden might start World War TWO. Trump even said you need a government photo ID to buy a loaf of bread. At the same time, Trump’s remarks have taken a dark turn and he has repeatedly threatened violence. Trump suggested that General Mark Milley should be executed. If anybody else had said that, they would be getting a visit from the FBI. The fact that this isn’t being treated as major front-page news is astonishing to me.

Trump makes threats to media moguls and they go easy on reporting his delirium.

The run away front runner for the GOP presidential nomination said Comcast, the owner of NBC and MSNBC, “should be investigated for its ‘Country Threatening Treason’” and promised to do so should he be re-elected president next year. Why does the press continue to cover up Trump’s poor health when he has promised to go after them? How can they be so stupid? It’s pretty wild that, of the two leading presidential candidates, the guy found liable for rape and who is facing ninety one criminal indictments isn’t the one who is facing calls to step aside for someone else to run. The mainstream media has lost all sense of scale and proportion. The media fixation with Biden as opposed to this clearly impaired guy is journalistic malpractice.

Psychologist Mary Trump, Donald's niece, called her uncle a "dangerous presence" on Australia's ABC earlier this year. She also said he was essentially "an insecure little boy who seeks attention".

And that's just the tip of the iceberg.

Ask your news providers why they are seldom mentioning Trump's mental health in their coverage. They should not be normalizing his threats against people and his bizarre erratic comments.

[ingek73]

[randomfoggytiger]

Fail Better Premium: David's Thoughts (Part XIV)

Creating a breadcrumb trail with David Duchovny's personal growth.

"Alright, so. I'm back from England where I was playing the Latitude Festival. Chorus was transcrimed..." [laughs] "'transcrimed'-- transcribed by the A.I. function in a voice memo that I tried to do this morning as 'the Morality Festival'. No, it was the Latitude Festival. Anyway, we had great fun there.

"But, uh, what I wanted to try to get down on paper-- or on the airwaves-- was, uh, my thoughts about the Mary Trump discussion. Which I very much enjoyed; very very much liked meeting Mary and talking to her, having watched her, y'know, on my television for a long time. Um. But what was really cool was to go over the old graduate school memories, y'know. Uh, or, or-- we're both failed graduate students, right? I dropped out from a PhD program; she dropped out of an M.A. program and switched over to clinical psychology. But we both started there; and... y'know, it just reminded me of those, those years. Uh, which, y'know, was twenty... twenty-three? To twenty-six? Or twenty.... I mean, those really important years, formative years; and the kind of.... You know, we talk a lot on this podcast about authenticity. And as much as I did love reading, as much as I did love literature, there was something inauthentic about my stay in graduate school. I wasn't committed enough to the profession, which is the teaching profession. Um. It wasn't that I wasn't uncommitted to the teaching profession, uh.... It's just my soul was elsewhere. I don't know how else to put it-- I'm not saying 'better' or 'worse.' I'm just saying," [sighs] "y'know, at that age, if you're given the, the choice-- if you're lucky enough to have the choice to be able to choose a profession-- um. And to not-- y'know, for me it was safety: it was a safe life; and then I would be able to..." [sighs] "write my books or whatever. And that was going to be the dangerous part.

"And I, I don't ever want this discussion, when I talk about these things, to be about, 'Oh, I don't believe in the pedagogy, or I don't believe in academia.' I do. It was just... where I was going to be most fulfilled. And that sounds... selfish; and maybe it is. But I had to be elsewhere.

"Anyway: it reminded me, um-- y'know, we were, we were la--, Mary and I were laughing about being dropouts; being failures, graduate school failures. And it reminded me of my mom: her entire life," [sighs] "until she died-- and she had dementia for probably eight years before she died, mercifully-- um, would ask me, 'Are you ever going to finish your dissertation?' No, not, 'Are you ever'; she would ask me 'When are you going to finish your dissertation?' And, this is-- y'know, I dropped out of graduate school when I was... twenty-six, twenty-seven; so this is... y'know, thirty-five years" [laughs] "of this question." [Continues laughing.] "And, uh, y'know. I, I, I would try to be rational with her-- especially back in the days when she could be rational-- and just say, 'Hey, I was, uh, I'm doing other things....' It's a big undertaking to say, 'Okay, you're going to write that dissertation.' it's like writing a book but it's like writing a technical manual; it's like writing-- you can't just jump in, it's not like fiction, you can't just make it up. Y'know, you have to research, you have to, y'know, be aware of all the other writings on what you're writing about. I was going to be writing about Magic and Technology in Contemporary American Fiction and Prose, and I would have to know... all the current writings on Ishmael Reed, James Merrill, Norman Mailer-- who's coming under reassessment right now, I was just reading something about him the other day. Ummmm, who else? I can't even-- Robertson Davies, a Canadian author. Uh, and Thomas Pynchon. I'd have to be up-to-date on that-- I mean, it would take me a year just to be up-to-date on, on, on those authors; and then to reread the books-- you're getting the idea, it's a big, it's a big undertaking; and I....

"I guess there was always a part of me when she would ask me that, was like, 'Why, why aren't you just accepting who I am?' You know, I was--" [stumbles] "--for a good part of these interrogations, I was a very successful, I'd become a very successful person. A very successful actor; and then I was writing books, and then I was... y'know, making music or whatever. But, y'know--." [Trails off with a noise.] "She, uh... it was like, from your mom when she says-- to me, 'When are you gonna finish your dissertation?'-- it was like, 'I don't believe in the other stuff you're doing.' Y'know. 'I believe in that.' And there was something in me that would... push back-- and then one of the last times I saw her with my kids, she was at a place in Jersey; and she was, y'know, full-on into..." [sighs] "...the last bit of dementia. And, um. I don't know...." [Voice cracks, drops.] "We were-- it was a Sunday; and, and she... we were sitting somewhere, listening to music where she was living. And she asked me again, 'When are you going to finish your dissertation?' And... it was in front of the kids; and, um.... I said, 'Y'know, Mom, I, I don't think I will. It's just, I'm not... it's not something I can just do, I'm doing other things--' and she looked horrified; and fell asleep, immediately." [Chuckles.] "And on the way home, my kids were like, 'Why don't you just lie to her? Why don't you just tell her y-you did it, you finished your dissertation?' And, and I was like, um... y'know, it seemed very rational-- 'I really should.' And I never really did get the chance-- she maybe, maybe died a couple months later; but we never, we never, it never came up again. And I never did make that beautiful lie to her. Or, or would it be? And, again, it was just-- me being 'the son', almost a little boy, y'know," [voice drops, cracks] "and my mom checking in on my homework-- y'know, 'Have you finished your homework? Have you finished your dissertation?' And me pushing back and saying, 'Not important to me-- I don't care-- I'm never going to use that.' Y'know, 'That's not important in my life. Look at me. Look at who I am-- see me. See me.' It's a very complicated kind of a thing.

"So, talking to Mary about graduate school kind of had me thinking about that, y'know? And... while I think about my mom, y'know, I think about pedagogy; and I think about the family. All these things Mary and I talk about. And... my mom was a great teacher; and a champion of the kids who had trouble, a champion of the kids who didn't fit right away. Bless her, y'know. And I think, as I've said, I walk around the village now and people come up to me and they say, 'Hey, your mom taught me; hey, your mom taught my mother; hey, your mom taught my daughter, my son.' And it's very fulfilling to me. And my sister's also a wonderful teacher. And, um. Nothi-- yeah.

"We-we're talking about Mary." [Birds caw in the distance.] We're talking about the institutions of, of the world we come into. And we're talking about institutions too big to fail. And we're interrogating the family, too; because, if like Mary, you're born into a family that is somewhat broken-- and not broken in a way that is outrageous to the culture; broken in an exaggerated way to the culture-- but part of what, for better or for worse, we now call the 'toxic patriarchy' (and I don't really like the word 'toxic', I think it's overused; but, anyway, let's just use it as short-hand right now.) So, what happens when you're firmly ensconced in the, the 'toxic patriarchy' of a family? How do you get out? Y'know, and this goes for not just women, but for men, too. Obviously. And that's where you get the other cliche: it can take a village-- it can take a teacher, like my mom, like my sister-- it can take a mentor. As, as you see a kid looking out from 'the family' for help, for hope, for another way-- a kid looking to transform him or herself, as Mary did, through literature, through clinical psychology. Got herself out of this rut of a family, of an institution, of a way of thinking and raising kids that is from the last century-- and maybe from a couple, three centuries ago, when you really sit down and think about it. And I'm not laying it all at the feet of the patriarchy: y'know, 'cuz it takes men and women to make a patriarchy. I do believe that. Apologies; but, Trump was raised as much by his mother as his father. So. You have a child that senses they are different from the world in which they are born; and that world really is the 'family' when that child is young. And when they are looking about for other mentors, other role models, other ways of thinking, you'd better hope they find somebody good. That's just the way, isn't it? And that's the luck of it. If Mary Trump can find a teacher like my mother, or like my sister. But I'm afraid it doesn't happen that often; or I'm afraid it doesn't happen often enough. I'm afraid it doesn't happen often enough." [Exhales.] "And I think it's a combination of what we teach and also the way we treat teachers, which is not good enough.

"Um. So. Those are my thoughts on the Mary Trump stuff-- she also mentioned, she mentioned in one of her books a poem Andre... Andrea Sarto by Robert Browning. It's a beautiful poem; and I wanted to, I wanted to ask her what it meant to her. Um, I suggest anybody read it. Uh, it's kinda about a failed artist; and that's what I, I wish I could have asked Mary about that. Because to quote that poem is really to... make a feint towards, 'I'm a failed artist.' And in a ways, it must feel that way for Mary-- at this point, y'know. I think she's going to get beyond it. But she's, she's writing her family at this point; and whether or not that satisfies her urge to enter the artistic competition she wanted to enter into as a kid, when she was inspired by literature, one feels that she wants to write literature. And one-- this guy-- hopes that she does; and I hope that she's released from the prison of having to write about her uncle. Very soon. Like, in the next few months. I hope for her release from that; and I hope that that will release her into her literary career, or her screenwriting career. Her creative writing career. I sure hope so.

"And another thing I wanted to ask her was about her brother's book. So, it's two siblings who are both publishing books about their uncle. What a family, huh? What an interesting phenomenon to happen. And I wonder what she thinks about her brother's point of view-- because Mary obviously has a, y'know, clinically-inflected vocabulary. I don't know anything about her brother but I don't think he's a psychologist; so, he's going to be coming at it with a different vocabulary. And I wonder what Mary thinks of that; and I wonder what it feels like to have a brother writing about your subject." [Couple seconds of silence.] "Maybe we, maybe we should do a follow-up. Uh, maybe we should talk to Fred-- I don't know. But, uh.

"And that's where we're at, today. After the Morality-- I mean, the Latitude Festival."

(Part I, Part II, Part III, Part IV: 1/3, Part IV: 2/3, Part IV: 3/3, Part V: 1/3, Part V: 2/3, Part V: 3/3, Part VI: 1/2, Part VI: 2/2, Part VII, Part VIII, Part IX, Part X, Part XI,Part XII: 1/2, Part XII: 2/2, Part XIII: 1/2, Part XIII: 2/2)

[hale-nathan]

Trump Weird News - "Donald Is Cruel" {Judge Trump-Barry]

Trump "he has no principles."

Trump "The lying, Holy shit"

Trump "It's the phoniness of it all"

"Donald is cruel."

[gordontheengineswifenirmal]

For all of those out there who think I should love trump, I do have respect for trump. The only difference is, it’s THIS one (also a touché for anyone who thinks I hate other women lol) -

Mary trump rocks. She’s the opposite of - well pretty much most of her family. I can relate to her a lot, and she’s actually intelligent. And humble! You can also tell she also has a caring face. She’s an actual role model. She’s fun to listen to. I bought her book as an audio book a couple years ago. Great read. (I also got a kindle version to read separately). I figured she was one trump that deserved support. She’s the kind of woman who I look up to. She’s a woman who makes me proud to be female.

[mysharona1987]

[originalleftist]

YES PLEASE!

Love the strong Star Trek presence- this November, let's boldly go where no Presidency has gone before!

(Sadly I'll be in classes until twenty minutes after it starts that day :( )

[onlytiktoks]

@a-captions-blog

[justinspoliticalcorner]

Mary L. Trump at The Good in Us:

Like most Americans, I too want the national temperature to be lowered. I want to see the violent rhetoric to stop. And I want to see our nation unified. But the other side seems to be saying that, in order for that to happen, we’re not allowed to talk about Donal'd’s record of lawlessness, cruelty, and incompetence and we must make concessions to the would-be dictator. On Monday, while Republicans tried to shame their critics into silence by making false and increasingly incendiary claims that it was Democrats who are responsible for creating the context in which Saturday’s shooting took place, we were reminded just how dangerous things will get if Donald wins this election. Today, Aileen Cannon, Donald’s personal pocket judge, took the shocking (but not surprising) and illogical step of dismissing the charges against my uncle. Her behavior since acquiring this case has been abysmal and partisan; she has frequently skated across the line of malpractice. Her repeatedly putting her thumb on the scale in favor of the defense (who am I kidding?—she acted like she was lead counsel for the defense) felt even worse, because we know Donald is guilty. We know he stole our national security documents; we know held them in non-secure locations; and we know he refused to return them. We know these things because we witnessed Donald commit the crimes—and he confessed to them over and over again.

There is no way to interpret Cannon’s decision other than as a political favor from a corrupt judge who, along with the illegitimate super-majority of the Supreme Court (especially Clarence Thomas) is determined to put Donald above the law.

[...]

What happened at Donald’s rally in Pennsylvania on Saturday was deeply wrong and un-American. The same can be said of his plans for this country if he’s put in the Oval Office again. We can’t be quiet. We can’t let the side that continues to traffic in violent political rhetoric blame us shame us or scare us into silence. We must continue to sound the warnings—there will be no pivoting to unity and peace. There will only be Donald and his sycophants and enablers being exactly what we have known them to be. This morning, while pundits and columnists were, once again, falling for the promise to pivot to unity, Donald simply couldn’t help himself. In response to Cannon’s horrifying ruling, he called for the “dismissal of ALL the Witch Hunts—the January 6th Hoax in Washington, D.C., the Manhattan D.A.’s Zombie Case, the New York A.G. Scam, Fake Claims about a woman I never met (a decades old photo in a line with her then husband does not count), and the Georgia ‘Perfect’ Phone Call charges.” 

[...] Not long after Cannon’s corrupt gift to him, Donald announced the selection of Ohio Senator J.D. Vance as his running mate. If his goal was to pick a hypocritical bully and revanchist sycophant, he could not have made a better choice. Clearly, Vance thinks he’s immune to the kind of consequences suffered by Donald’s former Vice President—you know, the guy who almost got hanged by Donald’s mob—but I’d still suggest that Vance watch his back. Vance is stronger than Pence when it comes to pursuing his own interests, but he’s as transactional as Donald. Pence has very few principles, but on one important days, he had least one when it really counted. Despite the enormous amount of pressure that was brought to bear on him, he showed up to do his job on January 6th. Vance will have no such compunction. If you have any doubts about that, consider his comments to George Stephanopoulos:

“If I had been vice president, I would have told the states, like Pennsylvania, Georgia and so many others, that we needed to have multiple slates of electors, and I think the U.S. Congress should have fought over it from there. That is the legitimate way to deal with an election that a lot of folks, including me, think had a lot of problems in 2020.” Of course, Donald gave this fellow-insurrectionist a promotion.  Jen O’Malley Dillon of the Biden-Harris campaign, put it this way, “[Donald] picked J.D. Vance as his running mate because Vance will do what Mike Pence wouldn’t on January 6: bend over backwards to enable Trump and his extreme MAGA agenda, even if it means breaking the law and no matter the harm to the American people. In other words, Donald didn’t want to take a chance that his new running mate would ever put the country first like Pence did. That’s one more guardrail that no longer exists. 

Mary L. Trump nails it in that we cannot unite around the fascistic and divisive Trump/Vance agenda.