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(Note: Assuming that justice still exists/is possible to achieve in the U.S.
...Commentary, including reposted commentary. Temporarily posted. Some updated material is added further below.)
...Commentary, including reposted commentary. Temporarily posted. Some updated material is added further below.)
(For reference, an quick definition:
"Q. Can you explain the genesis of the phrase 'chickens coming home to roost'?
A. As a proverbial expression it’s half a millennium old.
The older fuller form was curses are like chickens; they always come home to roost, meaning that your offensive words or actions are likely at some point to rebound on you. The idea goes back to Chaucer, though he expressed it rather differently in The Parson’s Tale, around 1390, writing that curses are like “a bird that returns again to his own nest”....")(Source article link)
(YT video link. No copyright or association.)
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Below: (Just..) Some slimy samples involving our "Name-Caller-in-Chief"....
(-- As a quick insert, we'll also include (five-military-draft deferments --) Trump's zest for publicly disparaging/lying about people generally more (lawful and) decent than he...)
(Continuing:)......Who himself was not-so-long-ago succinctly described in this manner..:
"Donald Trump is a phony, a fraud. His promises are as worthless as a degree from Trump University.".....by prominent Republican Mitt Romney. (Source link.)
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Note: Readers may feel a need to take a quick shower after reading much of the following.
>>> ..Some - included below - (currently) involve allegations (i.e., not yet proven). (BTW: If you want to view a really lengthy accounting (over time), take a look here (link): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Legal_affairs_of_Donald_Trump.)
--- Listing the following first, as Trump-appointee Brett Kavanaugh's nomination "case" may be concluded, but not completely closed. (Copy:):
I've seen the FBI "report" on Brett Kavanaugh. 4 things are clear:— Elizabeth Warren (@SenWarren) October 4, 2018
❌This wasn't a full or fair investigation.
❌ It doesn't exonerate him.
❌ The available documents contradict what he said under oath.
❌ We must #CancelKavanaugh. pic.twitter.com/bLfINQmKf5
(Generally listing items below from older to more recent. External sources are linked:)
--- (Excerpt -- illustrating a "closed (settled) case" example:) "Trump University (also known as the Trump Wealth Institute and Trump Entrepreneur Initiative LLC) was an American for-profit education company that ran a real estate training program from 2005 until 2010. It was owned and operated by The Trump Organization.... After multiple lawsuits, it is now defunct. It was founded by Donald Trump and his associates, Michael Sexton and Jonathan Spitalny, in 2004....Despite repeatedly insisting that he would not settle, Trump settled all three lawsuits in November 2016 for a total of $25 million after being elected to the presidency."
(Source link)
--- (Excerpt:) "The Donald J. Trump Foundation was a New York-based private foundation founded and chaired by Donald Trump 45th President of the United States. Trump originally created the foundation to his proceeds from his book Trump: The Art of the Deal to charitable causes. However Trump stopped contributing personal funds to the foundation in 2008 and instead solicited donations from outsiders. During the 2016 presidential election campaign the foundation's activities came under intense media scrutiny, initially by the Washington Post's David Fahrenthold, who went on to win the 2017 Pulitzer Prize for National Reporting for his investigatory work. The foundation and its directors have since been accused of committing various ethical and legal violations, including self-dealing...."
...On June 14, 2018, New York Attorney General Barbara Underwood filed civil suit against President Donald Trump and his three eldest children, Donald, Jr., Ivanka, and Eric, alleging "persistently illegal conduct" with respect to foundation money, accusing them of engaging in campaign finance violations, using foundation money in their self-interest ("self-dealing"), and illegally coordinating donations with Donald Trump's presidential campaign. She ordered the charity dissolved and demanded $2.8 million in restitution and penalties. She also made referrals to the Federal Election Commission and the IRS."
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--- (Excerpt:) "On January 17, 2017, [Summer] Zervos filed a defamation lawsuit against Trump, arising from his statement that she had lied about the allegations... Zervos has filed a subpoena for "all documents concerning any woman who asserted that Donald J. Trump touched her inappropriately". On 21 March 2018, a New York Supreme Court judge decided to allow a defamation lawsuit against the President to go forward. On June 4, 2018, Manhattan Supreme Court Justice Jennifer Schecter ruled that Trump must be deposed by January 31, 2019. As of September 9, 2018, Trump will provide written answers under oath in the defamation lawsuit."
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--- (Excerpt:) "The Stormy Daniels–Donald Trump scandal is a political scandal involving a nondisclosure agreement (NDA) signed by U.S. President Donald Trump's personal lawyer Michael Cohen and adult film actress Stormy Daniels just before the 2016 United States presidential election. After the existence of the NDA was revealed by The Wall Street Journal in January 2018, Daniels sued Trump and Cohen to argue that the agreement is invalid....In August 2018, Cohen pleaded guilty to eight charges, including one related to the scandal, and he stated under oath that he paid Daniels "in coordination with and at the direction of a candidate for federal office," meaning Trump..."
"....During a Fox & Friends interview Trump stated that the payment funds came from him personally and not from campaign funds. Trump also said that he only knew about the payments "later on". These comments contradict earlier statements from Cohen that were given while under oath. Lanny Davis, Cohen's lawyer suggested that Trump should be prosecuted for the crimes he instructed Cohen to commit."
(Source link)
--- (Off-site 10/4/18 opinion article link:) https://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/plum-line/wp/2018/10/04/trump-may-be-guilty-of-massive-tax-fraud-dont-let-it-fall-down-the-memory-hole/
(Additional reporting:)
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Update: Off-site link to additional reporting and analysis:
https://www.nbcnews.com/think/opinion/trump-family-s-massive-tax-con-job-has-been-hiding-ncna917146
--- (9/28/18 article excerpts:) "Judge Emmet G. Sullivan of the United States District Court in Washington ruled that the lawmakers have standing to sue Mr. Trump for accepting payments and other benefits from foreign governments without obtaining permission from Congress, which would violate the Constitution’s clause that bars federal officials from accepting gifts, or emoluments, from foreign powers without congressional approval..."
"...If Judge Sullivan finds that Mr. Trump has violated the emoluments clause, congressional Democrats can ask for information in the discovery phase of the lawsuit about any foreign benefit related to his global business dealings, including payments, trademarks, intellectual property and regulatory advantages...."
(Source link)
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Closing commentary: (Even for this tiny blog..) I actually enjoy researching things....
..And I'm really tired of all the work involved with excerpting some key items from an exceptionally lengthy listing right now.....
So I'm going outside. (BTW: That is what even superficially dealing with the never-ending chaos surrounding Donald Trump does to ((mostly-) normal) people...)
I didn't even (explicitly) list the ongoing Mueller Special Counsel investigation in the above....Potentially at least as significant (for the Trump administration, family, associates, and businesses) as anything included above.
(An off-site 9/16/18 article link: https://thehill.com/policy/national-security/409013-the-mueller-investigation-where-it-stands-at-the-midterms)**************************************************************************************************************
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