You guys need to be made aware of this: As of this morning there appears to be a video circulating of Lev harness vocally denouncing Midas in general & Cohen in particular without really being specific about what his issues are & upon close examination of the video it seems to be faked at least in that the voice audio does not match the mouth positions on the tape, & it doesn't just look like the track has slipped or is not exactly lined up the way you will see the tracks sometimes not perfectlined up, up, it just looks like there is some sort of fake voice, perhaps AI generated, of Lev put over existing video of him & in the interests of transparency, IF this is fake you need to be made aware of it, but obviously if this is real you & Aaron need to address this because if someone has done this, especially on Christmas Eve, this is a new low to which they have sunk. But it's something you need to be aware of & that you address it as early as possible. Hope the holiday and the New Year find you & your families well. Keep up the good work….
I had seen something earlier this morning on someone else’s post about a falling out between Lev and Michael Cohen and I couldn’t figure out what was going on. My guess is it is fake then. I can’t imagine two people on the same side of democracy, causing such a rift. Another fake DOJ posting?
Your guess is as good as mine. I just know that they did a shit ass job matching voice to lips. But the Bros need to comment on this and call it out at the very least
And of course the easiest answer would be to get either Lev or Aaron to comment, but it's a holiday weekend so, I guess we'll see when we see if we see. See?
I'm certain Waj ...Left Hook will have further information. He has lev on quite a bit. I would not be surprised if Lev and Michael have had some disagreements but a total blow out, IMPOSSIBLE
The more they attack you Ben, the faster you and the Meidas Mighty will grow!! People want the truth, and independent news media is the ONLY way to get it, the only way.
Thanks Ellen, MTN and others like it are the light in the darkness!! Merry Christmas to you and yours, I hope you have a great one...and let's hope that 2026 is the year we take America back!!!
tRump you don’t have a leg to stand on. You see, you’re not use to dealing with anyone who always tells the truth, and has proof, remember the word “proof?”
Trump has blurred the boundaries between business and government, to an extent that could have long-term consequences for the U.S. economy and the country's global standing. "When the American government appears to favor a company over rival companies, that distorts the marketplace," says Ann Lipton, a veteran business law expert and professor at University of Colorado's law school. "It means that other firms have less incentive to compete on innovation, which is sort of the opposite of how a free market is supposed to operate," she adds. "It's just bad for the economy." Lipton calls this capitalism by "schmoozing," and warns that it could seriously damage the competitiveness of U.S. businesses, thus hurting the overall economy in the long term. "We're not going to get the best innovations. We're not going to get the best products," she says. "If [businesses] are competing on their ability to schmooze, then that's bad for everybody."
I suppose the only response to such a cruel word as"dope" would be .Liar Liar Pants on Fire 🔥. At the very least, the entire Administration will understand that you mean Buissness. Ha Ha. He's such a Block Head.🤪🙃😊😂🤣
The regime is rushing as fast as they can to dismantle the foundations of our form of democracy. They are in it for all the marbles. And for this regime it means, no longer the land of liberty and freedom. Its rule by decree with punishment if one steps out of line. We'll eventually have no choice but to take to the streets, stop business as usual. We need to make the corporate over lords feel it where it huts and big time. We have options now but in the near future we will not. Just bodies on the lines
Agreed. This article (and many others) confirm that was and is the Project 2025 Plan
The Project 2025 Mandate for Leadership is a 920-page road map for a future president to wield excessive power to implement a dangerous policy agenda, ripping out democracy by its roots and replacing it with a system that most Americans would find unthinkable. ... Quite simply, if Project 2025 is implemented, the United States would be unrecognizable. Instead, it would resemble autocracies around the world ... [that have] ... weakened their democracies and vested inordinate power in authoritarian leaders who serve the interests of themselves, not the public. Once this backsliding occurs, it is incredibly difficult to fix.…
Project 2025 provides a plausible pathway for a far-right administration, based on a white, Christian nationalist, pro-corporate, and antiworker philosophy, to degrade democracy and promote radical policy goals it has long wanted to accomplish but has not yet been able to implement. ... These deep-pocketed funders have worked hand in hand for decades with extreme politicians and other allies to weaken the nation’s system of checks and balances—in order to hold onto political power and implement a white, Christian, nationalist, corporatist agenda, even as the nation is becoming more diverse and pluralistic....
When elected leaders have no loyalty to traditional pro-democracy norms, they become unshackled to bend the government to their political will. ... When well-accepted norms are shattered, checks and balances—and democracy—can backslide. ... Installing loyalists throughout government who will unquestioningly and swiftly carry out a president’s orders is an essential component of Project 2025. ... Replacing career civil servants with partisan loyalists is particularly problematic, as it could represent a deep loss of the nonpartisan expertise needed by public agencies to protect Americans effectively....
Project 2025 proposes steps to weaken the reach and effectiveness of the media’s news reporting, depriving everyday Americans of vital information about what their government is doing. ... One of the most dystopian proposals advocated by the authors of Project 2025 is to break yet another central political norm and stretch the boundaries of the federal Insurrection Act, allowing the president to deploy the military for domestic law enforcement....
America is at a crossroads, and ... Americans must understand that Project 2025 provides a plausible road map to dismantling the republic and taking away their rights and freedoms.
Source: Project 2025 Would Destroy the U.S. System of Checks and Balances and Create an Imperial Presidency, Center for American Progress, 1-Oct-25 https://tinyurl.com/3aucrsc4
Good catch on the "fake" letter. You are exactly right. If it's fake why are they circulating it. They spin so many lies it must feel like they live in a tornado.
Pardons Can Include, Create, Or Cause Collateral Legal Risks
[Brookings]
Although the president’s power is broad, it is not without accepted limitations. Perhaps the most important is that the president can only pardon federal offenses; he cannot interfere with state prosecutions. Also, the pardoning power only extends to criminal offenses; it does not preclude civil actions. ... Whenever it issues, a pardon will not interfere with any rights a third party has to recover damages for another’s criminal behavior even if that behavior has been forgiven by a pardon.
In the 1915 case of Burdick v. U.S., George Burdick refused a pre-emptive pardon issued by Woodrow Wilson because accepting it would have meant that he could not claim his Fifth Amendment privilege when called to give testimony relating to the pardoned crime before a grand jury. Herein lies the downside for President Trump in any pardons he might grant. Should Congress or the Justice Department seek to determine whether the president or any of his associates acted criminally before or during Trump’s term as president, pardoned individuals would be limited in their ability to dodge questions by claiming their Fifth Amendment privilege.
The broader the pardon, the narrower the Fifth Amendment protection. To a degree determined by the scope of Trump’s pardons, recipients could be required to flesh out details about crimes for which they had been pardoned, perhaps implicating others whose involvement had gone undetected. If they then lied to avoid shaming themselves or to protect others, they could be tried for that crime.
[Bowman]
[P]ardons cannot insulate a president or others in his or her orbit from non-criminal investigation and potential liability. A presidential pardon does not affect federal civil or administrative proceedings, or state criminal or civil actions. Likewise, a pardon would not preclude congressional investigation of the pardoned conduct or any related matters. A presidential pardon can cover any (and perhaps all) federal crimes the beneficiary has ever committed, so long as such crimes occurred and were completed prior to the issuance of the pardon.
A president cannot pardon crimes that have not yet been committed, and the pardon power does not extend to state crimes or to any civil or administrative action brought by federal or state authorities. A presidential pardon cannot block congressional investigations. Finally, because a pardon effectively erases the Fifth Amendment privilege as to offenses covered by the pardon, it might make it easier for criminal and civil investigative authorities and Congress to compel testimony from the person pardoned.
Sources:
Presidential Pardons: Settled Law, unsettled issues, and a downside for Trump, Brookings, January 17, 2021 https://tinyurl.com/4hxfkfnx
Presidential Pardons and the Problem of Impunity, Frank O. Bowman, III, Legislation and Public Policy (2021) Vol. 23:425 https://tinyurl.com/5c3za42d
Add Presidential immunity, compromised free speech; the destruction of any wall between Church and State, somehow escalating religion to render it the dominant value protected First Amendment; failure to uphold the core principles of Due Process (Notice and an Opportunity to be Heard); shadow docket injustices on the rise ... much more.
Let me close by following your "let's rise above" this spirit. I join you in that. Cheers!
That’s horrible & never heard about it. It’s horrible for the girl & baby & hope she is doing fine now.
Theresa, Trump & his administration are destroying America & many low income families & seniors plus others. It appears the Supreme Court is aiding him with their decisions.
Pray we remove him & all returns to normal. Merry Christmas & many blessings rain down on us.
I had not heard about what you raised in your comment or what it means (quite possibly absolutely nothing – I have no idea). Maybe someone else does or can decipher this:
FEDERAL BUREAU OF INVESTIGATION Intake Case ID #: 50D-NY-3027571 Date: 08/03/2020
DOJ is fake! Just like the orange felon in the White House.
Merry Christmas and Happy Holidays to you and your whole family and the MeidasMighty!!
When he says, "fake news" - We say "FAKE PRESIDENT!"
𝓘 𝓾𝓼𝓮𝓭 𝓽𝓸 𝓽𝓱𝓲𝓷𝓴 𝓽𝓱𝓮𝔂 𝔀𝓮𝓻𝓮𝓷'𝓽 𝓹𝓸𝓲𝓼𝓸𝓷𝓲𝓷𝓰 𝓸𝓾𝓻 𝓯𝓸𝓸𝓭 𝓽𝓸 𝓶𝓪𝓴𝓮 𝓾𝓼 𝓼𝓲𝓬𝓴..."𝐛𝐮𝐭" 𝓽𝓱𝓲𝓼 𝓬𝓱𝓪𝓷𝓰𝓮𝓭 𝓮𝓿𝓮𝓻𝔂𝓽𝓱𝓲𝓷𝓰....
𝓣 𝓡 𝓐 𝓒 𝓚 𝓓 𝓞 𝓚 . 𝓒 𝓞 𝓜
You guys need to be made aware of this: As of this morning there appears to be a video circulating of Lev harness vocally denouncing Midas in general & Cohen in particular without really being specific about what his issues are & upon close examination of the video it seems to be faked at least in that the voice audio does not match the mouth positions on the tape, & it doesn't just look like the track has slipped or is not exactly lined up the way you will see the tracks sometimes not perfectlined up, up, it just looks like there is some sort of fake voice, perhaps AI generated, of Lev put over existing video of him & in the interests of transparency, IF this is fake you need to be made aware of it, but obviously if this is real you & Aaron need to address this because if someone has done this, especially on Christmas Eve, this is a new low to which they have sunk. But it's something you need to be aware of & that you address it as early as possible. Hope the holiday and the New Year find you & your families well. Keep up the good work….
I had seen something earlier this morning on someone else’s post about a falling out between Lev and Michael Cohen and I couldn’t figure out what was going on. My guess is it is fake then. I can’t imagine two people on the same side of democracy, causing such a rift. Another fake DOJ posting?
Your guess is as good as mine. I just know that they did a shit ass job matching voice to lips. But the Bros need to comment on this and call it out at the very least
I questioned it too…does not seem authentic??
And of course the easiest answer would be to get either Lev or Aaron to comment, but it's a holiday weekend so, I guess we'll see when we see if we see. See?
I'm certain Waj ...Left Hook will have further information. He has lev on quite a bit. I would not be surprised if Lev and Michael have had some disagreements but a total blow out, IMPOSSIBLE
The more they attack you Ben, the faster you and the Meidas Mighty will grow!! People want the truth, and independent news media is the ONLY way to get it, the only way.
Barry, you are spot on!
Merry Christmas to you all.
Thanks Ellen, MTN and others like it are the light in the darkness!! Merry Christmas to you and yours, I hope you have a great one...and let's hope that 2026 is the year we take America back!!!
Exactly!!!
Agree! If you’re getting under their skin, you’re doing something right!
So childish. And they think they are all professionals.
Key word: think. Isn’t that an oxymoron? They are morons.
Some real brain trusts running that page. I haven't called anyone a dope, since the 3rd grade!
Who has the better track record of honesty? TrumpWorld or Meidas?
Duh. Documented liars in TrumpWorld.
Thanks Ben for going above and beyond for truth and democracy. Job well done.
tRump you don’t have a leg to stand on. You see, you’re not use to dealing with anyone who always tells the truth, and has proof, remember the word “proof?”
Yes, of course you're breaking the law, DOJ.
Thanks to Mighty Meidas - you are moving mountains!
How Trump's 'crony capitalism' has shaken up U.S. business, NPR 22-Dec-25 https://tinyurl.com/m33u4vy4
Trump has blurred the boundaries between business and government, to an extent that could have long-term consequences for the U.S. economy and the country's global standing. "When the American government appears to favor a company over rival companies, that distorts the marketplace," says Ann Lipton, a veteran business law expert and professor at University of Colorado's law school. "It means that other firms have less incentive to compete on innovation, which is sort of the opposite of how a free market is supposed to operate," she adds. "It's just bad for the economy." Lipton calls this capitalism by "schmoozing," and warns that it could seriously damage the competitiveness of U.S. businesses, thus hurting the overall economy in the long term. "We're not going to get the best innovations. We're not going to get the best products," she says. "If [businesses] are competing on their ability to schmooze, then that's bad for everybody."
I suppose the only response to such a cruel word as"dope" would be .Liar Liar Pants on Fire 🔥. At the very least, the entire Administration will understand that you mean Buissness. Ha Ha. He's such a Block Head.🤪🙃😊😂🤣
I'm rubber and you're glue...sticks and stones may break my bones and all that other puerile playground stuff...
The regime is rushing as fast as they can to dismantle the foundations of our form of democracy. They are in it for all the marbles. And for this regime it means, no longer the land of liberty and freedom. Its rule by decree with punishment if one steps out of line. We'll eventually have no choice but to take to the streets, stop business as usual. We need to make the corporate over lords feel it where it huts and big time. We have options now but in the near future we will not. Just bodies on the lines
Agreed. This article (and many others) confirm that was and is the Project 2025 Plan
The Project 2025 Mandate for Leadership is a 920-page road map for a future president to wield excessive power to implement a dangerous policy agenda, ripping out democracy by its roots and replacing it with a system that most Americans would find unthinkable. ... Quite simply, if Project 2025 is implemented, the United States would be unrecognizable. Instead, it would resemble autocracies around the world ... [that have] ... weakened their democracies and vested inordinate power in authoritarian leaders who serve the interests of themselves, not the public. Once this backsliding occurs, it is incredibly difficult to fix.…
Project 2025 provides a plausible pathway for a far-right administration, based on a white, Christian nationalist, pro-corporate, and antiworker philosophy, to degrade democracy and promote radical policy goals it has long wanted to accomplish but has not yet been able to implement. ... These deep-pocketed funders have worked hand in hand for decades with extreme politicians and other allies to weaken the nation’s system of checks and balances—in order to hold onto political power and implement a white, Christian, nationalist, corporatist agenda, even as the nation is becoming more diverse and pluralistic....
When elected leaders have no loyalty to traditional pro-democracy norms, they become unshackled to bend the government to their political will. ... When well-accepted norms are shattered, checks and balances—and democracy—can backslide. ... Installing loyalists throughout government who will unquestioningly and swiftly carry out a president’s orders is an essential component of Project 2025. ... Replacing career civil servants with partisan loyalists is particularly problematic, as it could represent a deep loss of the nonpartisan expertise needed by public agencies to protect Americans effectively....
Project 2025 proposes steps to weaken the reach and effectiveness of the media’s news reporting, depriving everyday Americans of vital information about what their government is doing. ... One of the most dystopian proposals advocated by the authors of Project 2025 is to break yet another central political norm and stretch the boundaries of the federal Insurrection Act, allowing the president to deploy the military for domestic law enforcement....
America is at a crossroads, and ... Americans must understand that Project 2025 provides a plausible road map to dismantling the republic and taking away their rights and freedoms.
Source: Project 2025 Would Destroy the U.S. System of Checks and Balances and Create an Imperial Presidency, Center for American Progress, 1-Oct-25 https://tinyurl.com/3aucrsc4
Fuck them! Go for the jugulars of the whole GOP
That saying needs to go away in this situation. What is really meant is “i would NEVER fuck you”. None of them deserve a good fuck.
How literally-thinking of you…
Good catch on the "fake" letter. You are exactly right. If it's fake why are they circulating it. They spin so many lies it must feel like they live in a tornado.
Pardons Can Include, Create, Or Cause Collateral Legal Risks
[Brookings]
Although the president’s power is broad, it is not without accepted limitations. Perhaps the most important is that the president can only pardon federal offenses; he cannot interfere with state prosecutions. Also, the pardoning power only extends to criminal offenses; it does not preclude civil actions. ... Whenever it issues, a pardon will not interfere with any rights a third party has to recover damages for another’s criminal behavior even if that behavior has been forgiven by a pardon.
In the 1915 case of Burdick v. U.S., George Burdick refused a pre-emptive pardon issued by Woodrow Wilson because accepting it would have meant that he could not claim his Fifth Amendment privilege when called to give testimony relating to the pardoned crime before a grand jury. Herein lies the downside for President Trump in any pardons he might grant. Should Congress or the Justice Department seek to determine whether the president or any of his associates acted criminally before or during Trump’s term as president, pardoned individuals would be limited in their ability to dodge questions by claiming their Fifth Amendment privilege.
The broader the pardon, the narrower the Fifth Amendment protection. To a degree determined by the scope of Trump’s pardons, recipients could be required to flesh out details about crimes for which they had been pardoned, perhaps implicating others whose involvement had gone undetected. If they then lied to avoid shaming themselves or to protect others, they could be tried for that crime.
[Bowman]
[P]ardons cannot insulate a president or others in his or her orbit from non-criminal investigation and potential liability. A presidential pardon does not affect federal civil or administrative proceedings, or state criminal or civil actions. Likewise, a pardon would not preclude congressional investigation of the pardoned conduct or any related matters. A presidential pardon can cover any (and perhaps all) federal crimes the beneficiary has ever committed, so long as such crimes occurred and were completed prior to the issuance of the pardon.
A president cannot pardon crimes that have not yet been committed, and the pardon power does not extend to state crimes or to any civil or administrative action brought by federal or state authorities. A presidential pardon cannot block congressional investigations. Finally, because a pardon effectively erases the Fifth Amendment privilege as to offenses covered by the pardon, it might make it easier for criminal and civil investigative authorities and Congress to compel testimony from the person pardoned.
Sources:
Presidential Pardons: Settled Law, unsettled issues, and a downside for Trump, Brookings, January 17, 2021 https://tinyurl.com/4hxfkfnx
Presidential Pardons and the Problem of Impunity, Frank O. Bowman, III, Legislation and Public Policy (2021) Vol. 23:425 https://tinyurl.com/5c3za42d
Kelvin Hobbs (clever) thank you for providing the deep dive into Presidential pardons I hope some victims of J6 are using the civil courts.
I did notice in your reference SETTLED LAW ..
What a joke !! As if that holds any weight with the stacked court we are supposed to rely on
Enjoy a season of peace and love away from all this 🎄
MaryE, ty for your kind top of the cap re KH
I think your observations are spot-on, though so often I have to question what settled law (stare decision; let things decided stand) means under the Roberts Court. Roe v. Wade? An incomplete but representative list of its destruction of established principles can be read here: https://www.acslaw.org/analysis/acs-journal/acs-supreme-court-review-sixth-edition/selective-judicial-activism-in-the-roberts-court/.
Add Presidential immunity, compromised free speech; the destruction of any wall between Church and State, somehow escalating religion to render it the dominant value protected First Amendment; failure to uphold the core principles of Due Process (Notice and an Opportunity to be Heard); shadow docket injustices on the rise ... much more.
Let me close by following your "let's rise above" this spirit. I join you in that. Cheers!
How childish it is for the president and his administration to be name calling. They must have the mentalities of 6 years olds.
Apple dumpling gangsters!
3 Stoogers
Djudas, Shady Vance and Mixed up maga Mike
lol I used the three stooges reference in regard to the three Supreme Court justices that dissent anything that may benefit us rather then Trump
AP rejected my post. I don’t get it
Notice that the DOJ isn't addressing the murder of Trump's infant born to the 13 yr old he raped.
Wow, I missed that one! WTF, that's rape and there's proof?
That’s horrible & never heard about it. It’s horrible for the girl & baby & hope she is doing fine now.
Theresa, Trump & his administration are destroying America & many low income families & seniors plus others. It appears the Supreme Court is aiding him with their decisions.
Pray we remove him & all returns to normal. Merry Christmas & many blessings rain down on us.
I had not heard about what you raised in your comment or what it means (quite possibly absolutely nothing – I have no idea). Maybe someone else does or can decipher this:
FEDERAL BUREAU OF INVESTIGATION Intake Case ID #: 50D-NY-3027571 Date: 08/03/2020
Witness Information
First Name: Donald
Middle Name:
Last Name: Trump
https://www.justice.gov/epstein/files/DataSet%208/EFTA00025010.pdf
I saw that post. Threw the baby in Lake Michigan??? WTF.