handing out free bread during the worst of the Great Depression
obviously fake -- he would have been tossing out the bread as if it was a roll of paper towels...
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BillW
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Sat 12 Aug, 2023 10:37 pm
@bobsal u1553115,
bobsal u1553115 wrote:
He also taught them how to reproduce - a much needed task that insured the human life form would carry on! As you see, there are no women in this picture.........
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bobsal u1553115
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Sun 13 Aug, 2023 06:05 am
They're in the kitchen, where they belong.
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bobsal u1553115
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Sun 13 Aug, 2023 06:07 am
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Walter Hinteler
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Mon 14 Aug, 2023 12:51 pm
The former president’s lawyers argued that Justice Juan M. Merchan had a conflict of interest. In a terse decision, the judge rejected their arguments.
The New York judge presiding over the criminal case against Donald J. Trump in Manhattan has declined to remove himself from the proceedings, a loss for the former president as he anticipates a potential fourth indictment this week.
Mr. Trump was charged with 34 felonies in March in a case brought by the Manhattan district attorney’s office. The district attorney, Alvin L. Bragg, accused Mr. Trump of falsifying records to cover up a hush-money payment to a porn star that was made during the 2016 presidential campaign.
In late May, Mr. Trump’s lawyers asked the judge, Juan M. Merchan, to recuse himself from the case. They argued that he should do so for three reasons.
They noted that, during the 2020 presidential campaign, Justice Merchan had donated $15 to Mr. Trump’s opponent, Joseph R. Biden Jr., raising the potential appearance of bias.
They also claimed that while presiding over a criminal case against Mr. Trump’s company in 2022, Justice Merchan had encouraged Mr. Trump’s longtime chief financial officer, Allen H. Weisselberg, to cooperate against his former boss.
Finally, they argued that the judge’s daughter, the president and chief operating officer of a digital marketing agency that works with Democratic candidates, stood to benefit financially from decisions Justice Merchan made.
The judge tersely rejected all of those arguments in a decision dated Aug. 11 and released on Monday. The outcome, though widely anticipated, marked more bad news for Mr. Trump, soon after he was indicted by federal prosecutors who accused him of working to overturn the legitimate results of the 2020 election. It also came at the beginning of a week during which he was expected to be indicted yet again, this time by a state prosecutor in Georgia, on charges stemming from his efforts to disrupt the election results there.
A spokeswoman for the district attorney’s office, which had opposed the recusal effort, declined to comment, as did one of Mr. Trump’s lawyers, Susan R. Necheles, who along with Todd Blanche, filed the recusal motion.
Justice Merchan relied in part on the guidance of a state advisory committee on judicial ethics, which he had questioned about the donations and his daughter’s position.
The committee determined that his impartiality could not “reasonably be questioned” based on “de minimus political contributions made more than two years ago” or his daughter’s interests, given that it did not appear that they could be substantially affected by the proceedings.
