Old fat retiree living at Florida golf course motel is scamming people who finally are catching on

Because major advertisers are avoiding Donald Trump’s Truth Social, users are instead being exposed to a flood of ads from what the New York Times characterizes as “miracle cures, scams and fake merchandise,” as the platform is forced to take what it can in an effort to survive.

That, in turn, has led to complaints aimed at the former president in his comment sections for allowing the forum to turn into a cesspool of ads from scam artists.

As the Times is reporting, Truth Social is almost devoid of ads from large corporations for a multitude of reasons that include the toxic rhetoric on the site, its small reach due to few users and the fact that the predominant demographic is not one that advertisers are trying to reach.

As the Times’ Stuart Thompson wrote, “Ads from major brands are nonexistent on the site. Instead, the ads on Truth Social are for alternative medicine, diet pills, gun accessories and Trump-themed trinkets, according to an analysis of hundreds of ads on the social network by The New York Times,” before adding, “The ads reflect the difficulty that several far-right platforms, including Rumble and Gab, have faced in courting large brands, preventing the sites from tapping into some of the world’s largest ad budgets.”

As the report notes, Truth Social was initially financed with $37 million from GOP donors, and is currently estimated to be burning through $1.7 million per month and money is running out because of problems with the Securities and Exchange Commission

Upon its launch, Devin Nunes, the chief executive of Trump Media, announced major advertisers would flock to the site — which has not happened — and the gap has been filled by companies that are much less desirable.

Add to that, according to one advertiser, the money he has spent on Truth Social has gone nowhere when it comes to sales.

“Maxwell Finn, an online marketer, said in a YouTube video that he was one of Truth Social’s top advertisers, spending more than $150,000 on ads, including those for Trump-themed hats, shirts, coins and novelty bills. In the video, he called the ad platform ‘frustrating’ and ‘bare bones,’ adding that it lacked even basic functionality, forcing his company to manually track ad performance — a method that would prove impossible for advertisers with larger budgets,” the report states with Finn explaining, “Do I think this is a platform where you can be spending tens of thousands of dollars a day, especially if you only have a few products? No, probably. The audience is just too small.”

As for those who are still advertising on the site, fans of the former president are furious that advertisers are not being vetted.

Old fat retiree living in Florida golf course motel raves about “deranged” investigations

Former President Donald Trump on Friday posted several videos on his Truth Social platform, including one in which he angrily ranted about being investigated for his 2016 campaign’s multiple contacts with Russian agents.

In the video, Trump called out Charles McGonigal, a former special agent in charge of counterintelligence in the FBI’s New York Field Office, who was arrested last week for his work helping Kremlin-aligned oligarch Oleg Deripaska try to evade sanctions.

“The FBI after me for the Russia, Russia, Russia hoax, long before my election as president, was just arrested for taking money from Russia, Russia, Russia!” Trump fumed. “May he rot in hell!”

In fact, there is no indication that McGonigal was the lead investigator into the Trump campaign’s Russian ties.

What’s more, the oligarch whom McGonigal is accused of helping is the same oligarch whose deep ties to former Trump campaign chairman Paul Manafort created suspicions that Trump’s campaign might have been directly working with Kremlin agents to sabotage Democratic rival Hillary Clinton’s campaign.

A Senate Intelligence Committee report released in 2020 found that “Manafort’s high level access and willingness to share information with individuals closely affiliated with the Russian intelligence services, particularly Kilimnik and associates of Oleg Deripaska, represented a grave counterintelligence threat.”

93% of all children who are sexually molested are molested BY A FAMILY MEMBER WHO IS KNOWN TO THEM — father, grandfather, stepfather, uncle, cousin — not drag queens.

Study by Scientific American shows that half of the guns in the country are owned by poorly-educated, insecure white men who think the gun will make them SOMEBODY.

Since the 2008 election of President Obama, the number of firearms manufactured in the U.S. has tripled, while imports have doubled. This doesn’t mean more households have guns than ever before—that percentage has stayed fairly steady for decades. Rather, more guns are being stockpiled by a small number of individuals. Three percent of the population now owns half of the country’s firearms, says a recent, definitive study from the Injury Control Research Center at Harvard University.

So, who is buying all these guns—and why?

The short, broad-brush answer to the first part of that question is this: men, who on average possess almost twice the number of guns female owners do. But not all men. Some groups of men are much more avid gun consumers than others. The American citizen most likely to own a gun is a white male—but not just any white guy. According to a growing number of scientific studies, the kind of man who stockpiles weapons or applies for a concealed-carry license meets a very specific profile.

These are men who are anxious about their ability to protect their families, insecure about their place in the job market, and beset by racial fears. They tend to be less educated. For the most part, they don’t appear to be religious—and, suggests one study, faith seems to reduce their attachment to guns. In fact, stockpiling guns seems to be a symptom of a much deeper crisis in meaning and purpose in their lives. Taken together, these studies describe a population that is struggling to find a new story—one in which they are once again the heroes.

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“We found that white men who have experienced economic setbacks or worry about their economic futures are the group of owners most attached to their guns,” says Froese. “Those with high attachment felt that having a gun made them a better and more respected member of their communities.”

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Donald has a history of being shady and disagreeable with customers and co-workers. Donald is fired. He packs and leaves with his personal tools. The shop notices a very significant amount of their tools are gone as well. They contact Donald, who says he doesn’t have them. The shop presses him and he then claims he has only a few of the missing shop tools. When the shop insists he must have more, Donald wants to negotiate on the return of any more tools he may have, and even claims some of the tools with the shop logo are his. Exasperated, the shop manager contacts law enforcement. The police obtain a warrant and search Donald’s property, discovering many more shop tools.

Joe retires. Joe discovers a few smaller shop tools mixed in with his tools that he brought home. He returns them immediately. As the weeks go on and he tinkers with projects at home, he periodically discovers a few more and returns those as well. He assures the shop he will return any more he discovers. The shop manager doesn’t contact law enforcement.

Donald wonders why they were treated differently when both had taken shop tools home.

Donald Trump’s inability to keep his motor-mouth shut about his legal problems, and his penchant for floating possible defenses on his social media accounts, will likely come back to haunt him, explained one legal expert.

During an appearance on MSNBC early Sunday morning, former Army prosecutor Glenn Kirschner was asked by host Katie Phang about the former president’s inability to keep quiet while he is under multiple investigations.

Brought on to talk about a report that new government documents were recovered from President Joe Biden’s home, Kirschner first pointed out the distinction between the Biden investigation and special counsel Jack Smith looking at obstruction by Trump over his Mar-a-Lago documents.

That led host Phang to ask, “We do know that Donald Trump, and you mentioned it a couple of minutes ago, he is his own worst enemy. He cannot shut up. He posted on Truth Social, for example, that these were ‘cool keepsake folders that the Gestapo, the FBI took when they raided Mar-a-Lago,’ quote.”

“Does he keep on making admissions and confessions every time he opens his mouth with a post on Truth Social?” she asked.

“He does, that is incriminating evidence from heaven for prosecutors,” the legal analyst replied. “One, somebody who is the target of a criminal probe, which he clearly is, special counsel Jack Smith is investigating these precise crimes, the classified documents at Mar-a-Lago.”

“Everything he says, everything he posts is what we call it an admission by a party opponent,” he elaborated. “It’s not hearsay, it comes in as criminal information.”

“When Donald Trump says, on the one hand, the FBI planted them, on the other hand, okay, if they are there I declassified them with my mind. On the next post, well, you know, it was a bunch of empty folders — we know that to be untrue,” he continued. “All of this may play to a certain segment of the base. You know who won’t play too? When prosecutors line it all up and present it to 12 people in the jury box. It’s not going to play to a jury.”

All of which raises the question:

Who is more stupid:  Trump or the people who worship him?

While Donald Trump still leads in the polls as the favorite to win the Republican Party 2024 presidential nomination, his campaign which should be putting more distance between himself and some of his potential rivals is going nowhere since his November announcement.

As former Trump administration officials like former vice president Mike Pence, ex-U.N ambassador Nikki Haley and former secretary of state Mike Pompeo maneuver and battle each other for expected runs, the former president is barely venturing out of Mar-a-Lago, losing lawsuits, and facing criminal investigations as his money begins to dry up.

And then there is current top rival Gov. Ron DeSantis (R-FL).

According to a report from the Guardian’s Lloyd Green, Trump’s early campaign events — from his 2024 announcement to his later “major” events have been “duds.”

For those looking for uplift from a Trump campaign, those days are over. Rather, personal grievance and claims of a stolen 2020 election will likely be his dominant themes. For the 45th president, that may bring catharsis for Trump.  For everyone else in the Republican party, Trump’s antics spell chaos, headache and the possibility of another Trump defeat at the hands of Joe Biden and the Democrats.

Trump’s speech announcing his campaign was one the public never heard and  now is another self-inflicted nothingburger, up there with his much-touted Trump NFT superhero trading cards – a waste of time and attention, a lost opportunity.

Trump had vowed to deliver a major political announcement later that night. He also promised to resume his signature rallies. Instead, he spoke behind closed doors at Trump Doral, his resort in Miami, to Judicial Watch, a tax-exempt group.  Yet for all of his would-be opponents’ missteps, Trump’s road to re-nomination won’t be a coronation. His mojo is missing, his aura of inevitability damaged, if not gone. In the two months since Trump announced his candidacy, he has barely ventured from the confines of Mar-a-Lago, his redoubt by the Atlantic.

Trump is also facing trouble right out of the gate when the Republican primary season begins.

Trump could well face Chris Sununu, New Hampshire’s popular governor, in the state’s primary. A Trump loss in the Granite State would be monumental. He won that contest seven years ago.

Beyond that, Trump has suffered a series of recent legal setbacks. Last month, a Manhattan jury convicted the Trump Organization on tax and fraud charges. As a coda, the court imposed $1.6m in fines, the maximum allowed under state law.  A federal judge in Georgia hit Trump and his lawyers with an almost $1 million sanction for filing frivolous suits and wasting the court’s time, after which Trump quietly withdrew his loony suit against Hillary Clinton.  To top it off, in Georgia, a Fulton county court will hear arguments this coming week on whether to release a grand jury report on the 2020 election.

If indicted in Georgia Trump may need to be extradited to Georgia from Florida, a decision that will rest with Governor Ron DeSantis !!! 

Remember the Chrisley’s, you know, the squeaky-clean coup0le and their children who were featured in the (un)reality TV show “Chrisley Knows Best”?

Remember them?

You know — the couple who held themselves up as paragons of virtue and “proof” that God rewards the hardworking faithful.  Turns out they are starting their prison sentences. He will serve 12 years; she will serve 7. It seems their “success” was nothing but a series of frauds that yielded them over 30 million dollars and made it possible for them to spend $300,000 a year on clothes.

But, hey—at least they weren’t gay — amIright?

And then, the Court fined Trump and his attorneys almost $1 million for frivolous suits.

It came out yesterday, 19 January 2023

US District Court, So. District of Florida
DONALD J. TRUMP Plaintiff, v. HILLARY R. CLINTON, et al., Defendants.

After waiting six years, in a suit filed in March of 2022, Trump alleged that Hillary Clinton and others had orchestrated “a malicious conspiracy” to spread false information that his campaign had colluded with Russia during the 2016 presidential race. The one he claimed he “won” that was actually given to him by legal default.

So how’d that turn out…?

U.S. District Judge Donald M. Middlebrooks, in a searing 46-page judgment wrote Trump is a “prolific and sophisticated litigant who is repeatedly using the courts to seek revenge on political adversaries.”

That’s our boy!

Let’s start with Page ONE of the Court’s decision on Trump’s suit against Hillary Clinton:

“This case should never have been brought. Its inadequacy as a legal claim was evident from the start. No reasonable lawyer would have filed it. Intended for a political purpose, none of the counts of the amended complaint stated a cognizable legal claim. Thirty-one individuals and entities were needlessly harmed in order to dishonestly advance a political narrative. A continuing pattern of misuse of the courts by Mr. Trump and his lawyers undermines the rule of law, portrays judges as partisans, and diverts resources from those who have suffered actual legal harm. – Case 2:22-cv-14102-DMM, Page 1.

Whoa!!! And that’s just the opening paragraph! It can only get worse and it does – here:

“…we are confronted with a lawsuit that should never have been filed, which was completely frivolous, both factually and legally, and which was brought in bad faith for an improper purpose. Mr. Trump is a prolific and sophisticated litigant who is repeatedly using the courts to seek revenge on political adversaries. He is the mastermind of strategic abuse of the judicial process, and he cannot be seen as a litigant blindly following the advice of a lawyer. He knew full well the impact of his actions. As such, I find that sanctions should be imposed upon Mr. Trump and his lead counsel, Ms. Habba.” – Case 2:22-cv-14102-DMM, Page 6.

BOOM! Trump and his parking lot real estate lawyer, Alina Habba, have been fined almost $1 million by the judge!

More deliciousness from the dish-best-served-cold; the Judge:

“The deliberate use of a shotgun pleading is an abusive litigation tactic which amounts to obstruction of justice. This case involved three categories of shotgun pleadings condemned by the Eleventh Circuit. …I find that the pleadings here were abusive litigation tactics. The Complaint and Amended Complaint were drafted to advance a political narrative; not to address legal harm caused by any Defendant.

The 819 paragraphs of the 186-page Amended Complaint are filled with immaterial, conclusory facts not connected to any particular cause of action.” – Case 2:22-cv-14102-DMM, pages 6-7.

In their Amended Complaint, Trump and Habba cited a letter from the Director of National Intelligence, John Ratcliff, to Senator Lindsey Graham as evidence of a false collusion:

“Ratcliff’s letter stated that Clinton and her campaign conceived the false Russia collision [sic] story to protect Clinton’s presidential bid, which was at the time, in trouble because of revelations about her illegally using a private email server to handle classified information. Ratcliff confirmed in the letter that Obama, Comey and Strzok knew about it. – Case 2:22-cv-14102-DMM, page 8.

And the Coup de Grace! You read the Judge’s personal footnote on that:

“This provocative allegation stirred my curiosity, so I looked up the Ratcliff letter. The allegation in the Amended Complaint fails to mention that the information came from a Russian intelligence analysis and that Mr. Ratcliffe commented:

The (intelligence community) does not know the accuracy of this allegation or the extent to which the Russian intelligence analysis may reflect exaggeration or fabrication.” – Letter from John Ratcliff, to Sen. Lindsey Graham, Sept. 29, 2020, almost four years after the election.”

NB: In 2016 when this ‘conspiracy’ allegedly took place, Ratcliff was not Director of National Intelligence, he was a not-so-great member of Congress and Reich-wing toady.

“Mr. Trump’s lawyers saw no professional impediment or irony in relying upon Russian intelligence as the good faith basis for their allegation.

Trump used RUSSIAN INTELLIGENCE to back his claim and attack U.S. citizens. That’s balls of solid brass. No wonder the Judge was pissed.

Read it all here: https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.flsd.610157/gov.uscourts.flsd.610157.302.0.pdf

Meanwhile, Trump had filed a $250 million suit against the NY Attorney General who successfully prosecuted the Trump organization for tax, bank, and insurance fraud.  Within 24 hours of his suit against Hillary being thrown out, Trump withdrew his suit against the NY AG.

Trump’s attorneys had better watch out.  Trump and his lawyers have been fined almost $1 million for filing the frivolous suit against Hillary.  If Trump does not pay his share, then, his lawyers are on the hook for the whole amount. HIs main attorney — Allina Habba — is a rookie lawyer who has done nothing but serve as the attorney for a company that builds parking lots.  She does not have the $$$ to pay the fine.

NY attorney Roy Cohn was Trump’s father’s attorney.  After he took over his father’s businesses, Trump continued to use Cohn./

Roy Cohn. Cohn was one of the biggest swindlers known to man. He taught Trump everything he knows. Then, when Cohn was dying from AIDS, Trump completely abandoned him. Never visited him in the hospital, wouldn’t return Cohn’s phone calls, didn’t even attend Cohn’s funeral.

That’s what sort of “friend” DJT is.

It’s about time the judicial system made him pay back a tiny fraction of what he’s cost thousands of people, and the courts, with his weaponized use of frivolous lawsuits.

This demented old fool really is a former President of the US.

WTAF is this hot orange mess even talking about? 😳 pic.twitter.com/RdidMKv9ej

— Anthony Davis (@theanthonydavis) January 19, 2023