Trump amps claims DeSantis was 'grooming high school girls'

[Kid Berwyn]

This story needs to gain traction. From the must take one to know one department:

Link to tweet

Trump amplifies posts claiming DeSantis was 'grooming high school girls'

The former president reposted a photo purporting to show DeSantis drinking and partying with high school students when he worked as a teacher.

David Knowles·Senior Editor
Yahoo News, Tue, February 7, 2023, 6:34 PM EST

Former President Donald Trump escalated his attacks on Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis Tuesday, seizing on a story that his rival for the 2024 Republican presidential nomination partied with underage students when he worked as a teacher at a Georgia high school.

In five successive posts Tuesday to his social media site, Truth Social, Trump went after DeSantis. Two of them referenced a story published by the far-right website Hillreporter.com that claimed DeSantis had been photographed "partying with underaged students" at the Darlington School, a private K-12 school in Rome, Ga., where DeSantis taught from 2001-02.

Trump reposted a photograph originally posted by a Truth Social member who goes by the handle Dong-Chan Lee, and who uses a profile photo of the alt-right meme Pepe the Frog, featuring Trump's signature hairdo. The image showed what appeared to be DeSantis flanked by three young women that had been captioned, "Here is Ron DeSanctimonious grooming high school girls with alcohol as a teacher."

Trump, who so far is the only Republican to have formally declared himself a candidate for the 2024 presidential election, added his own commentary to go with the photo. "That’s not Ron, is it?" Trump wrote. "He would never do such a thing!"

In another repost, Trump added more sarcastic commentary, writing "No way?" when highlighting further commentary from the same Truth Social user who posted the photo of DeSantis.

"Ron DeSantis was having a 'drink' party with his students when he was a high school teacher. Having drinks with underage girls and cuddling with them certainly look [sic] pretty gross and ephebophiliaesque," Trump posted.

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https://www.yahoo.com/news/trump-amplifies-posts-claiming-desantis-was-grooming-high-school-girls-233428924.html

It’s Mithras vs. Ghidora time.

[Irish_Dem]

1. "ephebophiliaesque,"

Big word for Trump.

[progressoid]

3. Epstein probably taught Trump that word.

[Irish_Dem]

6. Trump probably taught Epstein the word. :(

[Hekate]

4. Biiiiig word, from the man who sexualized his pre-teen daughter

[Irish_Dem]

8. +1

[Kid Berwyn]

14. Epstein told Trump: "Lolita" was not for him.

Jeffrey Epstein Accuser: When Donald Trump Eyed Me, Epstein Remarked ‘She’s Not for You’

by JERRY LAMBE
Law & Crime.org, Aug. 26th, 2019, 1:29 pm 305

In a harrowing report from the New York Times on Monday, sisters Maria Farmer and Annie Farmer divulged details of the earliest known reports to authorities of Jeffrey Epstein’s illicit sexual contact with young women and young girls. They accused both Epstein and his alleged madam Ghislaine Maxwell of sexually assaulting them as early as 1996, a year before actress and model Alicia Arden filed a police report claiming that Epstein groped her.

Recounting one of her first memories of life in Epstein’s orbit, Maria Farmer said she remembered one particular interaction between Epstein and President Donald Trump, during which Epstein appeared to shoot down the future president of the United States after he allegedly ogled the 25-year-old Farmer.

Farmer was an artist who moved to New York City in 1993 to pursue a career in the arts. She said she was introduced to Epstein and Maxwell after graduating from the New York Academy of Art, both of whom took an immediate interest in the young woman. Epstein quickly offered her a position acquisitioning art and managing his townhouse entrance, which meant she frequently found herself in the palatial estate.

Farmer was in Epstein’s office when she first met Donald Trump. According to the report, Trump was “eyeing” Farmer when Epstein jumped in, telling Trump “she’s not for you.” The Times said Farmer’s mother, Janice Swain, vouched for the account of the Trump-Epstein interaction, saying her daughter detailed it to her around the time it happened.

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https://lawandcrime.com/high-profile/jeffrey-epstein-accuser-when-donald-trump-eyed-me-epstein-remarked-shes-not-for-you/

The fact Trump obeyed Epstein shows who was Boss.

[Irish_Dem]

15. There it is. Epstein was in charge of everyone's sex lives.

The sex lives of the rich and powerful that is.

[Kid Berwyn]

17. Apparently at the top of the heap, one Bill Barr, Esq.

Barr’s dad hired the college-dropout Jeffrey Epstein to teach at the exclusive Dalton School in Manhattan. As far as I know, no one in government or the media has publicly asked Barr about this connection.

The Ties That Bind Jeffrey Epstein, William Barr & Donald Trump

Todd Neikirk
Hill Reporter, May 19, 2019

During Attorney General, William Barr’s confirmation hearing, he was mostly peppered with questions about how he would handle the Mueller Report. Senator Ben Sasse’s (R-NE) questioning, however, diverged from the pack. Sasse asked Barr about the lenient sentence given out to billionaire pedophile, Jeffrey Epstein. The future Attorney General told Sasse that he would look into the matter.

This, however, was not the first connection between Barr and his family and the disgraced pedophile. In 1973, Barr’s father Donald, the headmaster at Manhattan’s Dalton School, hired Epstein as a calculus and physics teacher.

While hiring Epstein, a noted mathematics genius, was not strange on its face, the hire was unusual for a number of reasons. Epstein had not earned a college degree as he dropped out of New York’s prestigious Cooper Union. The other odd circumstance was that the new teacher was only 20 years of age.

Apparently, the hire was a successful one. The New Yorker wrote in a 2003 profile on Epstein, “he was something of a Robin Williams–in–Dead Poets Society type of figure, wowing his high-school classes with passionate mathematical riffs.” Epstein’s mathematical skills caught the eye of Bear Stearns’ chairman, Alan “Ace” Greenberg, whose son attended the Dalton School. Greenberg hired Epstein as an options trader and the former teacher was able to amass a fortune.

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https://hillreporter.com/the-ties-that-bind-jeffrey-epstein-william-barr-donald-trump-34107

Small world. And very, very bad.

[Irish_Dem]

18. Yes I remember these interesting facts.

Money, sex, power, underage minors.

Yep. Bad, very bad.

[7wo7rees]

27. Just damned disturbing!! Tks, Kid Berwyn. n/t

Ms7wo7rees

[uponit7771]

2. Let them destroy themselves, gooooooood

[Kid Berwyn]

16. Toss that drowning duo two anchors.

They are very sick players in a very sordid business.

DeSantis introduced Gaetz's cannabiz & sex-travel buddy to Trumps

Here DeSantis hooks up Dr. Pirozzolo (Gaetz hand surgeon and cannabiz buddy) with Melanie and Dumpy.



A 2019 video has resurfaced showing then-President Donald Trump and his wife Melania Trump meeting a man at the centre of Matt Gaetz’s swirling sex scandal.

Link to tweet

Who knew Ron DeSantis has a wealthy friend in common with Matt Gaetz?

https://floridanewstimes.com/jason-pirozzolo-video-of-trumps-congressman-at-the-heart-of-matt-gaetzs-scandal/211318/

The game is big and very, very dirty.

Link to tweet

Roger Stone was a mentor to Trump, Gaetz and other shady types.

Link to tweet

Things get scary sick, fast.

The Final Lesson Donald Trump Never Learned From Roy Cohn

The unrepentant political hitman who taught a younger Trump how to flout the rules didn’t get away with it forever.

By MICHAEL KRUSE
Politico, September 19, 2019

One of Donald Trump’s most important mentors, one of the most reviled men in American political history, is about to have another moment.

Roy Cohn, who has been described by people who knew him as “a snake,” “a scoundrel” and “a new strain of son of a bitch,” is the subject of a new documentary out this week from producer and director Matt Tyrnauer. It’s an occasion to once again look at Cohn and ask how much of him and his “savage,” “abrasive” and “amoral” behavior is visible in the behavior of the current president. Trump, as has been well-established, learned so much from the truculent, unrepentant Cohn about how to get what he wants, and he pines for Cohn and his notorious capabilities still. Trump, after all, reportedly has said so himself, and it’s now the name of this film: “Where’s My Roy Cohn?”

What Cohn could, and did, get away with was the very engine of his existence. The infamous chief counsel for the red-baiting, Joseph McCarthy-chaired Senate subcommittee in the 1950s, Cohn was indicted four times from the mid-’60s to the early ’70s—for stock-swindling and obstructing justice and perjury and bribery and conspiracy and extortion and blackmail and filing false reports. And three times he was acquitted—the fourth ended in a mistrial—giving him a kind of sneering, sinister sheen of invulnerability. Cohn, Tyrnauer’s work reaffirms, took his sanction-skirting capers and twisted them into a sort of suit of armor.

Snip...

“I decided long ago,” Cohn once told Penthouse, “to make my own rules.”

He was acquitted in ’64, and he was acquitted in ’69, and he was acquitted in ’71, all the while thumbing his nose at the feds, but Cohn’s screw-you stance was a lifelong philosophy, entitlement plus boldness.

He was “an incredibly spoiled princeling of an only child,” Cohn cousin David Lloyd Marcus told me. “He always got his way,” recalled his favorite aunt. As an adult, the resting expression on his face, which was marred by a scar that ran like a scrape down the middle of his nose, was a mixture of “arrogant disdain” and a “whipped-dog look,” people observed, “caught somewhere between a pout and a challenging glare.”

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https://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2019/09/19/roy-cohn-donald-trump-documentary-228144

An important picture that ties things from commie-hunting Joe McCarthy era to Richard Nixon to Ronald Reagan to Donald Trump via Roger Stone and Associates and the late Jeffrey Epstein:

The Ghost of Roy Cohn

BY TERRY MELANSON · AUGUST 24, 2014

EXCERPT...

In an interview with former NYPD detective James Rothstein, this author discovered that such operations do exist and go far back into America’s secret history. Rothstein is no conspiracy theorist. He is a legend in American law enforcement and speaks from experience. Furthermore, he gave me two notable examples from his time as a detective. Rothstein had an opportunity to have a sit-down with infamous McCarthy committee counsel Roy Cohn. During this sit-down, Cohn admitted to Rothstein that he was part of a rather elaborate sexual blackmail operation that compromised politicians with child prostitutes (Rothstein, no pagination). Cohn told Rothstein that this operation was being carried out as part of the anticommunist crusade of the time (no pagination).

Rothstein also had an opportunity to speak to infamous Watergate burglar Frank Sturgis. During this conversation, Sturgis revealed one of the reasons for breaking into the Watergate. According to Sturgis, there was a “Pedophile Book” hidden away at the Democratic National Committee headquarters (no pagination). The book was supposed to have a list of pedophiles on the American political scene (no pagination). One can only imagine the power G. Gordon Liddy would have held over the government if he had such a book in his possession.

I asked Rothstein if Roy Cohn was a real anticommunist or just using the fear of communism to justify his sex ring. It seemed like a fair question. After all, Cohn had argued against homosexuals being schoolteachers when he himself was a homosexual. Perhaps Cohn’s hypocrisy extended to his anticommunism. Rothstein made it clear that Cohn was a genuine anticommunist (no pagination). Anticommunist sentiments aside, evidence suggests that the sex ring operation started by Cohn was used for more than fighting the threat of domestic communists. Fugitive ex-CIA officer Frank Terpil has claimed that sexual blackmailing operations directed by the CIA were intensive in Washington during the Watergate era (DeCamp 179). Terpil also asserts that his former partner, Ed Wilson, was coordinating one of these sexual blackmail operations (179). In a letter to author Jim Hougan, Terpil revealed Wilson’s modus operandi:

“Historically, one of Wilson’s Agency jobs was to subvert members of both houses [of Congress] by any means necessary…. Certain people could be easily coerced by living out their sexual fantasies in the flesh…. A remembrance of these occasions [was] permanently recorded via selected cameras…. The technicians in charge of filming… were TSD [Technical Services Division of the CIA]. The unwitting porno stars advanced in their political careers, some of [whom] may still be in office.” (Qtd. in DeCamp 179)

According to John DeCamp, a former Nebraska Senator and Vietnam War hero, Wilson’s operation was merely a continuation of the one set up by Cohn (179). When I asked James Rothstein if Palfrey’s outfit was a continuation of the sexual blackmail rings that began with Cohn, he answered in the affirmative (Rothstein, pagination). The NYPD veteran made it clear that Palfrey’s outfit could not exist in Washington unless it was a tool for the power elite and sinister factions of the intelligence community (no pagination). Somewhere in a Queens cemetery, the corpse of a high-powered attorney is smiling in his grave.

SOURCE:

https://www.conspiracyarchive.com/2014/08/24/the-ghost-of-roy-cohn/

The same Roy Cohn who taught Donald Drumpf also schooled Roger Stone and Jeffrey Epstein...

... Who knew what when? In Palo Alto, after Epstein’s conviction, he was a guest at a dinner for the MIT neuroscientist Ed Boyden that was hosted by LinkedIn co-founder Reid Hoffman. At the same dinner Elon Musk introduced Epstein to Mark Zuckerberg. Is money so powerful that it tramples all other considerations? As James Baldwin put it, “I can’t believe what you say, because I see what you do.”

One of the most remarkable moments in Tyrnauer’s documentary comes near the end, when it’s no longer possible to pretend that Cohn isn’t a liar and a fraud, when it’s no longer possible to deny that he lacks both shame and conscience. When Cohn was about to be disbarred in 1986 for defrauding his clients and for taking advantage of a dying and incompetent man, character witnesses began to emerge. There were letters to the court from William F. Buckley Jr., Barbara Walters, William Safire, and, of course, Trump, who wrote that Cohn “has been extremely loyal and extremely honest.” Were Cohn’s parties—was his protection—really that good?...

Source: https://www.townandcountrymag.com/society/money-and-power/a29130905/roy-cohn-documentary-wheres-my-roy-cohn/

In addition to their personal corruption, these are professional blackmailers and extortionists, the kind Barr and his ilk have long played. When no longer useful, their protection evaporates and they turn on each other.

[malaise]

31. You always have the goods on these scumbags

Thanks man

[H2O Man]

37. +1

[Mad_Machine76]

5. This video about DeSantis

references it as well (not a Trumper AFAIK)

[Kid Berwyn]

21. That's a great video biography of Ron DeSantis.

DeSantis grew up thinking he was superior, making clear now he is just Dixie NAZI scum.



Eight Times Ron DeSantis "Accidentally" Did Racist Stuff

JERRY IANNELLI
Miami New Times, SEPTEMBER 4, 2018

After enough racism scandals involving a particular political candidate, you'd think everyone might just admit that person is simply racist. Yet a whole lot of people — from bad-faith conservative pundits to easily fooled reporters — continue offering excuses for Republican gubernatorial candidate Ron DeSantis' infamous statement on Fox News that Andrew Gillum would "monkey... up" Florida.

SNIP…

1. He spoke at a Muslim-bashing event alongside Milo Yiannopoulos and Steve Bannon.

SNIP…

2. He called New York candidate Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, who is a Puerto Rican woman, "whatever she is."

SNIP…

3. He defended a supporter who said "bring back the hanging tree."

SNIP…

4. He was moderator of a Facebook group that was a haven for racist memes and was run by lunatics.

SNIP…

5. He proudly associated himself with Sebastian Gorka, who has ties to a Hungarian far-right group that collaborated with the Nazis.

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https://www.miaminewtimes.com/news/eight-times-ron-desantis-did-racist-stuff-by-accident-10687534

[Hekate]

7. Posted by Dong Chan Lee whose profile photo is Pepe the Frog?

Ew, ew, ew

[Kid Berwyn]

22. Trump's Axis attracts kids with cartoons and lots of sugary treats.

For example, Charlie Kirk, who stated on August 16, 2021 in a radio show segment:

Joe Biden intentionally “let it fall apart” in Afghanistan because he “wants a couple hundred thousand more Ilhan Omars to come into America to change the body politic permanently.”

Source: https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2021/aug/19/charlie-kirk/charlie-kirk-baselessly-claims-biden-intentionally/

That’s Nazi. And unless We the People rise up to stop them, the wrong side will be calling the loony tunes of the future.

[MOMFUDSKI]

9. I believe the orange menace

has always gotten the goods on whomever. That is his MO. Nobody can get the goods on him because he has no shame. I will love deathsantis getting depants.

[Kid Berwyn]

24. Mom always said, "You can tell a lot about a person by the friends they keep."

The “NBA blogger” wrote an excellent summary below of the relationship that goes where Big Money, politics, cameras, drugs and women “on the young side” converge.



Steve Bannon and Jeffrey Epstein

What was that relationship really about?

TrueHoops, Dec 10, 2021

Excerpt…

Bannon is also a Jeffrey Epstein buddy who, according to several reports, visited Epstein’s houses on multiple continents, and spent hours prepping Epstein for a 60 Minutes interview that never happened. When Epstein invited a reporter to dinner it was with Bannon.

Snip…

First up in my craw is this oddity: Do we know how Bannon and Epstein met? I have a lot of questions about Steve Bannon’s business history, which put him in the vicinity of Leon Black, Epstein’s key funder, and the founder of Apollo Global, the NBA’s most important source of cash. Black recently resigned from Apollo Global after it was revealed Black bankrolled Epstein to the tune of $158 million. Black is another character who hung out at Epstein’s mansion, and consulted with Epstein, by his own admission, on the most sensitive matters.

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The second funky component of this: In 2020, just off Westbrook, Connecticut, the coast guard and law enforcement stormed the superyacht of Bannon’s business partner in a media startup: fugitive Chinese billionaire Guo Wengui. But they weren’t there to arrest Guo. They were there to arrest Bannon, on allegations he had siphoned money from a Trump-related charity. (Trump later pardoned Bannon.)

Here’s where it gets crazy, though: Take a look at Guo’s story of business success. It might sound a little familiar. Cui Xiankang, Yu Ning and Liu Ran report for Caixin Global:

Sources close to Guo said he has used his luxury hotels, including the ones in Yuda International Center in Zhengzhou and the Pangu Plaza in Beijing, to host high-level officials to develop connections.

Sources said he collected evidence of wrongdoing by officials by secretly shooting videos of them living in luxury and engaging in affairs so that he could blackmail them later and help his business interests.

The third “this feels odd” coincidence here is that Guo’s most important source of cash is the same as Apollo Global’s most important source of cash: the royal family of the United Arab Emirates. If you haven’t already read our earlier reports, that royal family has deep ties to children and women being used as sexual playthings to gain power. They were invested with both Leon Black’s Apollo and Guo Wengui at the same time, while Black was bankrolling Epstein.

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https://www.truehoop.com/p/steve-bannon-and-jeffrey-epstein

[padah513]

10. Let's see if the media picks this up like they would if these were Democrats

If they do it may be time to break out the big bag of popcorn. Lol I had to look up ephebophiliaesque. Can't believe I actually learned something from Trump.

[Kid Berwyn]

20. The Guardian brought up a major threat to democracy: corrupt news media.

Jeffrey Epstein: how US media - with one star exception - whitewashed the story

Jeffrey Epstein: how US media – with one star exception – whitewashed the story

The Miami Herald exposed a vast criminal network and a government cover-up – but why the silence elsewhere?

Ed Pilkington
The Guardian, July 19, 2019

EXCERPT...

Reiter warned Brown what would happen were she to continue digging: “Somebody’s going to call your publisher and the next thing you know you are going to be assigned to the obituaries department.”

Brown did not heed his warning. She flung herself at the investigation and eventually persuaded Reiter to go on record. Her resulting, award-winning three-part series last November exposed a vast operation in which 80 potential victims were identified, some as young as 13 and 14 at the time of the alleged abuse. She persuaded eight to tell their stories.

Brown also exposed a government cover-up in which Epstein got away with an exceptionally light sentence that saw him serve only 13 months in jail. She discovered that a “non-prosecution agreement” had been negotiated secretly in 2008 by the then top federal prosecutor in Miami, Alexander Acosta, that gave Epstein and his co-conspirators immunity from federal prosecution.

In 2017, Acosta was appointed by Donald Trump as labor secretary, a post that ironically is responsible for combating sex trafficking.

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https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2019/jul/13/jeffrey-epstein-alex-acosta-miami-herald-media

We likely wouldn’t know squat about Epstein & Associates without the Miami Herald.

[ecstatic]

11. Oh this is good! 😂

lol. Look at drump making use of his Russian receipts. I'm sure he has kompromat on everyone in the GOP.

[Kid Berwyn]

30. How Does PEGASUS Work?

How Does PEGASUS Work?

18 July 2021, OCCRP (Organized Crime and Corruption Reporting Project)

Excerpt…

Pegasus is the flagship product of Israeli cyber-surveillance company NSO Group, perhaps the best known of the new spyware companies. NSO Group’s technology allows its clients — which the company says are always governments, never private individuals or companies — to target specific phone numbers and infect the associated devices with Pegasus code.

But instead of trying to listen in on data flowing between two devices — which will probably be encrypted — Pegasus allows its users to commandeer the device itself, gaining access to everything on it.

Pegasus also monitors the keystrokes on an infected device – all written communications and web searches, even passwords – and returns them to the client, while also providing access the phone’s microphone and camera, turning it into a mobile spying device that the target unwittingly carries with them.

“When a phone is compromised, it’s done in such a way that allows the attackers to obtain administrative privileges on the device. That allows virtually anything to be done on the phone,” said Claudio Guarnieri from Amnesty International’s Security Lab, which has developed a methodology for analyzing infected devices.

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https://www.occrp.org/en/the-pegasus-project/how-does-pegasus-work

This apparently is how Jeff Bezos and his wee willy selfie got into the public domain.

https://www.wired.co.uk/article/jeff-bezos-phone-hack-mbs-saudi-arabia

PEGASUS helped Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman target Khashoggi

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-57891506

And everywhere Netanyahu went, Pegasus sales were sure to follow. (Paywall)

https://www.haaretz.com/israel-news/tech-news/.premium.HIGHLIGHT-where-bibi-went-nso-followed-how-israel-pushed-cyberweapons-sales-1.10015034

And wherever there’s money to be had, Jared’s sure to follow.

[Zambero]

12. Trump has expertise at detecting those things

from his own experience while hosting the Miss Teen U.S.A. beauty pageant. Given his "esteemed position", barging into dressing rooms was perfectly OK, after all.

[Kid Berwyn]

33. Yet this all never seems to make it into the national consciousness.

Fox News regrets 'mistakenly' editing Donald Trump out of photo with Jeffrey Epstein



Fox News on Monday confirmed that the network had edited President Donald Trump out of a photo in which he appeared with convicted sexual offender Jeffrey Epstein.

The incident occurred during a broadcast on Sunday covering the arrest of Epstein confidant Ghislaine Maxwell.

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https://www.alternet.org/2020/07/fox-news-regrets-mistakenly-editing-donald-trump-out-of-photo-with-jeffrey-epstein/

Gee.That seems a pretty bad editing uh miscue. Fox shoulda asked DU.



Before he died, Epstein told the New York Times that he had introduced Trump to Melanie. Maybe Ghislaine can confirm before anything untoward should happen to her.

[Hassler]

13. How long until Orange Judas ups the ante and "wonders" if De fascist

Was also grooming boys? You know he'll do it.

[Kid Berwyn]

29. Trump's Latest Attack On DeSantis Is Right Out Of The Q Playbook

That's pretty low, Donald.

By Conover Kennard
Crooks & Liars, February 8, 2023

In a series of posts on Tuesday, former President Donald Trump targeted his potential 2024 rival Gov. Ron DeSantis and went as far as to imply that the Republican Governor might be a groomer and pedophile. Trump supporters are obsessed with pedophilia. It's a Q thing. If you're a Democrat on Truth Social, you will be called a pedo and a groomer multiple times daily for no explainable reason.

Trump posted a photo showing a post-college DeSantis with many teenage girls at a party.

Snip…

I don't feel sorry for the Republican Governor because I remember him as a candidate claiming to be just like Trump:

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https://crooksandliars.com/2023/02/trumps-latest-attack-desantis-right-out-q

[Bengus81]

19. Never knew Cohn died young from AIDS

After trying to destroy others lives and careers--and succeeding with McCarthy during the Red scare for homosexuality.

[Kid Berwyn]

34. The late Nicholas von Hoffman wrote an excellent profile...

The Snarling Death of Roy M. Cohn

Elevated by Joe McCarthy, felled by AIDS, he went with no regrets

March 1988
By Nicholas von Hoffman

At the time of his death on August 2, 1986, Roy Cohn was 59 and a generation had come to adulthood knowing of no senator named Joe McCarthy. But people born in the 1940s or earlier remember Cohn and his master performing on television. They remember coming home to be hushed by a mother or aunt who was watching the hearings; they remember a father's opinion, expressed at the family table when families still ate together. Roy served as chief counsel on Senator McCarthy's Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations. But exactly what was the subversive menace that Cohn investigated?

Today the United States, alone among the major democracies, has no Communists, no socialists, no anarchists, no left-wing political groups except in microscopic numbers. Few Americans under 50 have seen or heard a Communist who didn't speak with a foreign accent. The purging of American society in which Roy Cohn took such a conspicuous part in the early 1950s may seem like a gratuitously malevolent lunacy. In actuality, domestic Communism posed a problem like that posed by the Catholic Church to Protestant England in Elizabeth I's time. Both were sometimes public, sometimes clandestine organizations ideologically connected to a foreign power. Some of the members of the CPUSA were connected to the Soviet Union of Joseph Stalin.

The fact that these smart, tough men and women often did not identify themselves as Communists gave non-Communists a permanent case of the jitters. Citizens were taken before commissions, subcommittees, grand juries, courts and other instruments of inquiry. They were asked, by Roy Cohn and others, that terrible question: "Are you now or have you ever been a member of the Communist party?

Snip…

Roy liked to play games with his friends in the gossip columns, and not always nice ones. A lawyer closely associated with Roy in the 1960s remembers, "He once let something happen in a column, something like, 'Rumors are circulating that Roy Cohn may be tying the knot with So-and-so.' Miss So-and-so would be calling the office to talk to him because she didn't know anything about it. He'd dodge her. His secretary would say, 'So-and-so is calling. She's called four times this morning. She wants to know about the Jack O'Brian column.' He'd say, 'Tell her I'll talk to her tomorrow. I gotta run.' And it was he who planted the item!"

In the early 1950s my wife and I lived in a small one-room apartment on West 70th Street, and we had Roy to dinner. I had known Roy since we went to high school together. I remember Roy came in and said, "Can I use the telephone? "He dialed the operator and said so we could hear it "Get me Walter Winchell at the Boca Raton Hotel in Boca Raton, Florida. "He got Winchell on the phone, and he proceeded to plot out with Winchell how to do something nasty to Jimmy Wechsler. James Wechsler had been a young Communist, but by then he was a columnist on the New York Post, or perhaps even the editor, and had long since given that up. And here was Roy Cohn saying, "Now, Walter, we could play this up, and we could do that, "and listening to this thing, I should have said, if I had had any guts, "Roy, that's outrageous", please leave. "But I didn't."
— Anthony Lewis, columnist for The New York Times

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https://www.maryellenmark.com/bibliography/magazines/article/life/the-snarling-death-of-roy-mcohn/L

[Tom Rinaldo]

23. Cue up the reports of Trump barging into the dressing room for Miss Teen Age America...

... or whatever the name was of the "beauty pageant" he was sponsoring at the time when he was reported to say something to the effect of "When you own the event you can go anywhere you want" (not exact quote.) Also the grossly inappropriate photos of him with his then teen daughter Ivanka.

Let the Republican "Groomer" Civil War commence!

[Kid Berwyn]

38. For some reason, MAGA are immune to shame, compassion and reason.

It’s important we remember the creepy wanker pee-resident and his all his victims.



Former Miss Teen USA Contestants Claim Donald Trump Walked in on Them Changing

By Evan Real
Us, October 12, 2016

Excerpt…

Several former Miss Teen USA contestants alleged to BuzzFeed News that Donald Trump walked in on them while they were changing.

Several former Miss Teen USA contestants alleged to BuzzFeed News that Donald Trump walked in on them while they were changing.

Four women who competed in the annual event in 1997 claimed that the real estate tycoon — who had partial ownership of the Miss Universe, Miss USA and Miss Teen USA pageants from 1996 until 2015 — barged in uninvited while the contestants (some as young as 15) were not fully dressed.

“I remember putting on my dress really quick because I was like, Oh, my god, there’s a man in here,” former Miss Teen USA Vermont Mariah Billado recounted.

According to Billado, the Republican presidential nominee, now 70, said something along the lines of “Don’t worry ladies, I’ve seen it all before.”

Three other women who competed alongside Billado — but asked to remain anonymous — also recalled Trump entering the room while girls were changing. Two of them told BuzzFeed that they remember young women rushing to find garments to cover their bodies.

Continues…

https://www.usmagazine.com/celebrity-news/news/teen-beauty-queens-claim-donald-trump-walked-in-on-them-changing-w444592/

[Tom Rinaldo]

39. Agreed. Thanks for tracking down this story n/t

[dlk]

25. Let the mud-slinging begin

This could get ugly, quickly.

[gratuitous]

40. We can only hope

The uglier, the quicker, the better.

[dlk]

41. With two psychopaths, I think we can count on it

They are monsters.

[ProfessorGAC]

26. TFG Didn't Write That Last Post

"ephebophiliaesque"? He wouldn't know what ephebophilia is.

[Hermit-The-Prog]

28. hillreporter.com is not a "far-right website"

https://mediabiasfactcheck.com/hill-reporter/

https://hillreporter.com/watch-marjorie-taylor-greene-posits-that-electric-airplanes-will-run-on-slave-labor

[Paladin]

32. Every accusation is a confession. (nt)

[H2O Man]

36. Recommended.

Gosh, how unexpected! Ha!

This could get entertaining! Thank you for this!

[newdayneeded]

42. Why do I get the thought that

those pee tapes are finally gonna surface. DeSantis just might pay millions to get them and let them play 24/7.

[Emile]

43. I bet Trump has plenty of shit on DeSantis.

Should be hilarious here before long.

[spanone]

44. These two 'class acts' really deserve each other

FUCK 'EM BOTH