THE MALADMINISTRATION II FAKAKTE CONTINUES

“Let them eat sliced beef filet, truffle dauphinoise and pan-seared scallops!”

Today begins Week Two of the tenth month of Trump’s revenge on Americans for our failure to recognize what a lifetime genius he is and always has been. There are 360 days to the mid term elections where we can end all this.

As of this morning, the First Circuit Court of Appeals has yet to make a decision regarding the appeal by Maladministration II to support its denial of food aid to 42 million Americans. With Tuesday a holiday, one hopes the decision will be published tomorrow.

Friday night - for the second weekend in a row - Trump held a lavish dinner party for all the MAGA criminal class and their Vegas Whore trophy wives and girlfriends. He literally rolled out the red carpet for a lavish party at Mar-a-Lardo - footage from the event showed guests in tuxedos and gowns strutting down a Hollywood-style red carpet leading to his cheesy golf motel, where they swapped a government shutdown for a three-course meal that began with a salad of blue cheese and cabernet-poached pear with watercress, blue cheese mousse, walnuts dukkah (a Middle Eastern spice blend), port gastrique dressing and fresh herbs, according to a menu posted online. The main course featured sliced beef filet, truffle dauphinoise (a potato dish) and pan-seared scallops paired with vegetables and leeks - at the same time that Maladministration II was asking the Supreme Court to stop it from being forced to pay SNAP benefitsto to 42 million Americans, at least half of whom likely voted for him. Trump partied with anti- immigration British politician Nigel Farage, Iowa GOP Rep. Zach Nunn, Hercules star Kevin Sorbo, Trump loyalist and country star Jason Aldean and wife Brittany, former HHS Press Secretary Vianca Rodriguez, and Catalina Stubbe, national director of Moms for Liberty. Video posted Friday night also shows him seated next to one of his occasional golf buddies, Fox News anchor Bret Baier, who’s allegedly from the “straight news side” of the propaganda network. After dinner, the hangers-on enjoyed an opera performance from a less-than fully clad singer, ice sculptures, and cocktails; dessert included the “Mar-a-Lardo Trio”: Trump chocolate cake, key lime pie, and vanilla cheesecake. Let’s call it Le Grande Cheese-a-thon.

On Friday, U.S. District Judge Karin J. Immergut - a Trump appointee - ruled in a 106-page opinion barring President Donald Trump from deploying National Guard troops from any state to Oregon, that the president exceeded his authority. “Even giving great deference to the President’s determination, the President did not have a lawful basis to federalize the National Guard,” she wrote. Immergut’s injunction follows a three-day trial she held last week and a brief, preliminary order she issued last Monday. Friday’s injunction offers a much more detailed examination of the law and conditions in Portland leading up to Trump’s Sept. 27 authorization of Guard members to protect the ICE building in the South Waterfront neighborhood amid nightly protests. She found that Trump failed to meet the two criteria he used to invoke federal code to mobilize the National Guard: there was no danger of a rebellion against U.S. government authority, Immergut ruled, and officers have not been thwarted from executing federal law. Immergut found Trump’s mobilization of Guard members to the state violated both federal law and the 10th Amendment, which reserves powers to states that are not expressly given to the federal government in the U.S. Constitution. Oregon Attorney General Dan Rayfield called it “a huge victory,” while Gov. Tina Kotek said: “This ruling, now the fourth of its kind, validates the facts on the ground. Oregon does not want or need military intervention, and Trump’s attempts to federalize the guard is a gross abuse of power.”

On Thursday, a federal appeals court ordered a Manhattan district judge to reconsider Trump’s request to move his conviction to federal court from state court. In a Friday friend-of-court filing, the DOJ said Trump’s hush money criminal conviction in New York should be thrown out, because it was based on improper evidence and a legal theory preempted by federal law. DOJ adopted Trump’s view that he deserved immunity for official acts he took as president, and introducing evidence of such acts at trial “can never be harmless.” (FACT CHECK: He was not president when he agreed to pay the hush money to Stormy Daniels.) DOJ also said federal law barred jurors from considering whether Trump violated federal election law by concealing a hush money payment to porn star Stormy Daniels, the disclosure of which could have disrupted his 2016 presidential campaign. The filing was made to support Trump’s bid to overturn his May 2024 conviction on 34 felony counts of falsifying business records. Trump and DOJ cited the U.S. Supreme Court’s landmark July 2024 decision shielding presidents from prosecution over official acts, and barring prosecutors from discussing such acts in criminal cases about private behavior. (FACT CHECK: Making a hush money payment is not an “official act.”) DOJ said this means Trump’s trial judge should not have let jurors hear about Trump’s alleged discussions with Attorney General Jeff Sessions about a potential federal election probe, and White House Communications Director Hope Hicks about dealing with negative press. “To allow any of the Nation’s more than 2,300 prosecutors’ offices to indict a former President for his official conduct would risk chilling every President in the vigorous discharge of the duties of his office.” DOJ acknowledged that Trump’s six-week trial predated the Supreme Court decision, and trial judge Juan Merchan could not have applied its findings.

In Chicago, crimes against humanity on the part of ICE continue. Wednesday, ICE thugs invaded a daycare to abduct a teacher in front of the students, without a warrant for her arrest. It was beyond disturbing. Rep. Mike Quigley was one of many lawmakers who spoke at the rally held at the site that night, saying ICE had a “complete lack of humanity.” Quigley said the worker is a “trusted and loved member of the community with a work permit, who has dedicated her life to caring for children.” A judge overseeing the case has since blocked Maladministration II from deporting her.

COP30, which is also known as the 2025 United Nations Climate Change Conference, is underway this weekend. Trump is probably glad he decided to skip it, as several world leaders at the event have thrown shade his way. Without saying Trump’s name, Brazil’s President Lula da Silva called out the “extremist forces that fabricate fake news and are condemning future generations to life on a planet altered forever by global warming.” French President Emmanuel Macron stated: “climate misinformation today poses a threat to our democracies.” Colombian President Gustavo Petro said: “Trump is against humankind.” Chilean President Gabriel Boric blasted Trump for calling climate science a “hoax” and “con job,” stating: “That is a lie. We might have legitimate discussions about how to face these things, but we cannot deny them.” In place of Trump, Gavin Newsom attended the meeting as the unofficial representative of the U.S. He said: “As Trump turns his back on people and the planet, California is inking global partnerships focused on creating jobs and cutting toxic pollution. The economic winners of the 21st century are those who build the clean energy future.”

Returning from COP30 yesterday, Gov. Gavin Newsom held a rally in Houston with Rep. Jasmine Crockett. A member of Newsom’s communication team expertly trolled Trump on social media, writing: “WOW! GAVIN NEWSOM HAS THE BIGGEST CROWD IN TEXAS HISTORY! DOZY DON IS FURIOUS!!!” While introducing Newsom, Crockett said: “Winning means that we gotta do the work. But more importantly, joy comes in the morning. Newsom is here at ground zero, because he wants y’all to know he’s about this life.” Newsom said: “Let’s stand up for those that have given up. And let’s give them hope. Let’s stand up for the rule of law … for a system of checks and balances … for our democracy. For all of us.”

This morning, Newsom went on Jake Tapper’s State Of The Union, where he said: “One thing I will say, it has nothing to do with me, but I think it has everything to do with all of us, is we’ve gotta deal with the issue of our time that we have to democratize this economy if we’re gonna save democracy. You just can’t, you can’t have 10% of people owning two-thirds of the wealth in this country. You can’t have that 30-year-old that’s doing worse than his parents’ generation for the first time in US history. And those are fundamental issues that were obviously present in this election on Tuesday, and Donald Trump got it for a moment and now is defensively suggesting he’s solved it. Ask the folks on Amazon paying 12% more. Ask the folks at Target paying 5.5% more or at Walmart 5.3% more. Ask those who went down to get coffee today, 18.9% more than a year ago. Look at the cost of a pound of beef. Donald Trump said he would make us wealthier and healthier. We’re poorer and sicker, and I don’t want to see that sickness extend to ending our republic and our democracy as we know it, particularly in the 250th anniversary of our founding fathers.”

Friday night, Joe Biden and Kentucky Gov. Andy Beshear spoke at a gala for Nebraska Democrats in Omaha. Beshear said: “We’ve got to get back to the work of showing people that we are spending all day, every day, trying to make their life a little bit better and a little bit easier.” When it was his turn to speak, Biden literally jogged out to the microphone and went straight at Trump. Calling the demolition of the East Wing “a perfect symbol of his presence,” Biden said Trump has taken “a wrecking ball to the country … the Constitution … the rule of law … to our very democracy. Folks, look, this isn’t a golden age. It is a very, very dark moment … But we’re in a situation where we had something very special happen just last Tuesday.” He closed with: “The American experiment is not going to end on our watch.”

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