A few points.
This is good news for Ballard.
His legal issues continue. There's a court hearing in a week on one of them.
The lawyer involved is also involved other cases. The judge said the allegations against Ballard were not specific. So this could be the case in the other lawsuits.
The timing on this, however, was partially driven by Ballard/OUR.
They asked the judge if they could be granted like an extra month to file papers earlier this year.
What about the other women?
Just found this online. So not all of this has stopped.
Did Reyes ever have a legitimate shot at the nomination?
Tim Ballard and OUR continue to face four other civil lawsuits.
This week, two of the women accusing Ballard of sexual assault filed requests for a protective order.
Celeste Borys and Kira Lynch have also reported their cases to police.
Multiple criminal investigations are ongoing.
As for the Irishman it's based on a book that was supposedly the deathbed confession of Frank Sheeran who was an inverterate liar
When trying to sell his book the first time around, he forged a letter from Jimmy Hoffa.
The paper was from 1994, not 1974. He claimed to commit 25 to 30 murders.
None have been confirmed let alone him killing Hoffa.
The book goes way way further than the movie. Sheeran claimed he delivered 3 high powered rifles to Dallas.
The killing of the NY monster Joe Gallo in the movie is so far removed from facts it's silly. Gallos walife said there were multiple shooters and they were short fat Italians including this guy. Not one tall Irish guy.
Are you saying the movie The Irishman seems credible because it was absolutely was not.
John had the audacity to nepotistically appoint Robert as his AG.
AG requires Senate approval, RFK sr was unanimously approved by the Senate Judiciary Committee. They were familiar with RFK's work as the chief counsel for this committee : United States Senate Select Committee on Improper Activities in Labor and Management
They investigated labor racketeering including Jimmy Hoffa working with NYC mobster Johnny Dio to take over the Teamsters Union.
Here's Hoffa testifying to RFK in 1957
https://youtu.be/RsQu9KeP06s?si=wVwTPVngBpVqtk2I
So the idea the mob was surprised by what RFK did as AG in 1961 seems weird to me.
To stop the mob trying to establish a trafficking/money-laundering foothold on Cuba, and destroying that Island-nation (with a checkered past.) There was a thing called Cuban Missile crisis
This all jumbled up. https://www.cubamafia.com/index.html
The mob was not trying to establish a foothold in Cuba in 1960. They were trying to win back a lost empire
The mob was in Cuba since the 1920s. By the 1940s. Meyer Lansky was working with President Batista who by the 1950s was the dictator of Cuba until he filed the country when Fidel Castro's revolution took over. Castro was elected? No he just assumed power as the leader of the revolutionaries. By Jan 1 1959 Battista was fleeing the country and the mob was on the verge of getting forced out
https://themobmuseum.org/blog/rise-castro-fall-havana-mob/
At first Castro sought US help but then came out as an open Communist, nationalized farms and businesses (some of which were US owned ) and cozied up to Moscow. By 1960 Einsenerhower was trying take Castro out and approved the bay of Pigs plan which disasterously went ahead under JFK in 1961. This open warfare was what led to the Cuban Missile crisis. Not the mob.
Do you think Trump is standing 10 feet from a robot and not mentioning this?
How?
You would just get a jittery Alzheimer's patient.
CSPAN clip from 1994
https://www.c-span.org/video/?c5002300/user-clip-joe-biden-talks-stutter
One of the first optimists I've seen.
There's this weird pessimism going on
People acting like Biden is going to be Adderall and Steroids and EPO and whatever Barry Bonds took.People saying the event is rigged. Someone just told me the distance between the podiums was unfair to Trump.
Acting like facing CNN moderators is going into the lion's den.
Are folks just playing an expectations game?
Trump obviously agreed to that.
And what's significantly different from other debates?
It seems like everyone is saying Trump won't be able to think on his feet.
Why is everyone convinced Trump is going to do poorly?
Like what exactly is going to hinder Trump?
Here's Biden talking about his stutter 30 years ago
https://www.c-span.org/video/?c5002300/user-clip-joe-biden-talks-stutter
Et tu Brute,
Trump is a taller, stronger, more imposing, masculine figure with great mobility, while "Biden" is wee and weak, barely able to move - so podiums are placed 15 feet apart, no walking around, no seeing the two men side by side for a physical comparison
Are they still doing the swimsuit competition?
I just tried some of the searches they mentioned and I got the RNC and Trump's website were right up top.
How does that affect anything?
???
If you and I watch the debate, won't we know how Trump did?
Why is everyone talking about how Trump will lose?
The tone has been really pessimistic for a bit now.
I'm WhiteHairedJudge, fren.
Just to be clear
But if true, why isn't Coomer blinging it up and hitting the victory circuit like E. Jean?
Two possibilities pop into my head.
He doesn't want to. Either no interest in being a public figure or doesn't want to affect the ongoing cases.
He can't. Lots of settlements require silence. Basically it will be something like we will pay more $$$ only on certain conditions.
I think this is more likely.
E. Jean did not settle. She went to trial and won, so she has no restrictions about speaking out.
The rhetoric from the judges is definitely in Coomer's favor in every instance that I saw, to the point that they sound as though they're arguing on his behalf rather than judging.
Well the case has been going on for a while. A lot of sworn evidence has been submitted. This and the fact that several folks have settled leave me ro believe he has a strong case.
Coomer has declared he never participated in any such call. He supplied things like his schedule to support this.
The documents say there was a call by Denver activists in September that might be the call in question, but the timing isn't an exact match, and one participant said it was not an antifa call and Eric Coomer was not on it and he doesn't know Eric Coomer. So that's what the judges are responding to.
In April, the appeals court let the case go forward.
https://www.courts.state.co.us/Courts/Court_of_Appeals/Opinion/2024/22CA0843-PD.pdf On page 81 they say
we conclude that Coomer has met his burden of establishing a reasonable likelihood that he will be able to prove actual malice by clear and convincing evidence.
This is why I think when someone settles after this ruling, the settlement is favorable to Coomer.
Also On page 68 they discuss "Falsity." They mention this (2) Oltmann originally said it was a phone call but later said it was a Zoom call;
Nope.