Tuesday, February 15, 2022

The loyalty of the GOP to Trump isn't about his ideology so much as winning an election.

I was waiting for the other shoe to drop and it hit the floor hard today. Donald John Trump was dropped from his accounting firm because they no longer will stand behind ten years of records. What does ten years of lies look like? The US Presidency is what ten years of lies looks like. A man who never belonged in the Oval Office made it because he was seen as a great success that "Only he could do." 

Well, guess what? It was a lie and the American people paid for it.

February 15, 2022
By Alexander Bolton

Senate Republicans are scrambling (click here) to figure out how former President Trump’s mounting legal troubles will affect his grip on the party and chances of running for office again in 2024.

Allies of Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.), who has worked behind the scenes to counter Trump, are wondering whether the former president’s clout may fade regardless of what happens in the 2022 midterm elections because of his many legal entanglements, including investigations by New York Attorney General Letitia James (D) and Fulton County, Ga., District Attorney Fani Willis (D).

The latest development came Monday evening when Trump’s longtime accounting firm, Mazars USA, severed ties with him and his business empire and said it could no longer vouch for the reliability of a decade’s worth of financial statements it prepared for the Trump Organization....