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Donald Trump's Properties Will Likely Be Auctioned Off, Attorney Says. Donald Trump's properties will likely be liquidated and sold off at auction after a judge found he had committed fraud, New York's former assistant attorney general has said. Tristan Snell was speaking after a court found that the former president had massively inflated the value of some of his properties and ordered that some Trump companies involved be stripped of their corporate licenses. It's one part of Trump's ongoing civil fraud trial. https://youtu.be/PWK10qQ2uec https://www.newsweek.com/donald-trump-properties-auctioned-off-fraud-trial-tristan-snell-1832011 Donald Trump's Plan to Save Mar-a-Lago Has One Glaring Problem. Donald Trump could put up several roadblocks to stop his Mar-a-Lago estate in Florida being auctioned off following a landmark New York fraud case, a real-estate attorney has told Newsweek. Whether Trump can use Florida's tough home-protection laws t

Trump’s club was once blasted by a former FBI agent as arguably “the worst counterintelligence nightmare the country has faced since the Cold War.” Trump’s Mar-a-Lago is heaven — for spies https://www.politico.com/story/2017/03/trump-mar-lago-security-risk-espionage-235950 Foreign temp workers at Mar-a-Lago raise another security concern https://www.palmbeachpost.com/story/news/2022/09/08/foreign-workers-mar-a-lago-florida-worry-some-experts/7928393001/ A Chinese businesswoman convicted of trespassing at President Donald Trump’s Mar-a-Lago resort while carrying a bag full of electronics was sentenced Monday to eight months in jail. Florida federal Judge Roy Altman also ordered Yujing Zhang, a 33-year-old Shanghai business consultant, to be deported after her jail sentence is complete. Federal prosecutors wanted Altman to give Zhang 18 months behind bars. https://www.cnbc.com/2019/11/25/chinese-trespasser-at-trumps-mar-a-lago-resort-sentenced.html https://www.vox.com/p

Speaking of Psychology: Why people believe in conspiracy theories, with Karen Douglas, PhD Karen Douglas, PhD, is a professor of social psychology at the University of Kent in the United Kingdom. Her research focus is on beliefs in conspiracy theories and their consequences. She is also interested in the social psychology of human communication, including the influence of technology on social interaction. Episode 124 — Why people believe in conspiracy theories, with Karen Douglas, PhD https://www.apa.org/news/podcasts/speaking-of-psychology/conspiracy-theories Susceptibility to Conspiracy Theories and Fake News Baseless theories threaten our safety and democracy. It turns out that specific emotions make people prone to such thinking. Posted on March 24th, 2021 In the third of a series of blogs around the theme of safeguarding, ETF Associate Selina Stewart asks why conspiracy theories are attractive. Throughout my teaching career in colleges a minority of students woul

BREAKING NEWS: Trump Takes Victory Lap Tom Emmer Drops Out Of Speaker Race, Praises Byron Donalds https://youtu.be/jaAjU_X71Uk https://www.harrietspeaks.com/blog/2017/4/4/beyond-the-dream-words-of-martin-luther-king-jr Byron Donalds reps a new wave of Black Republicans One of two Black Republicans in the House, freshman Rep. Byron Donalds is making a name for himself within the GOP. Representing Florida’s 19th Congressional District, which overwhelmingly voted for Donald Trump, Donalds embodies the values of the modern GOP-er: fiscally conservative, anti-abortion and staunch defender of the right to carry a gun. He also serves as a lieutenant in today’s culture wars, railing against critical race theory, rebutting the findings of the Jan. 6 committee and standing behind the biggest figure in the Republican Party: Donald Trump. Donalds represents the new wave of Black Republicanism that has emerged with the 45th president. The same year Donalds won his election ― and Trum

How to restore ethics, the rule of law, and democracy as the centerpieces of U.S. government. U.S. government has been repeatedly renewed—sometimes simply repaired and other times reinvented—during its over 230 years. Major aspects of the federal system were broken again during the four years of the Trump administration, so it’s time for even more fixes. This book sets out the damage that was done and important ideas on how the repairs should be made, focusing on ethics, the rule of law, and democracy. Distinguished scholars and practitioners have come together not only to address what went awry over the past four years, but also the deeper weaknesses that have become more evident, and how those weaknesses can be repaired. The problem areas range from ethics and conflicts of interest to the Hatch Act and big money in politics, and from independence at the Department of Justice and government transparency to reestablishing Congressional oversight, and the government’s role in the b

2018:Trump Abandons Iran Nuclear Deal He Long Scorned. QUOTE: The Iran Deal was one of the worst and most one-sided transactions the United States has ever entered into. President Donald J. Trump. Trump pulls out of Iran nuclear deal full speech. Two years after Trump withdrew from the Iran nuclear deal, Tehran has cut in half the time it would need to produce enough weapons-grade fuel for a nuclear bomb. https://youtu.be/Rap1oAvQpy8 https://foreignpolicy.com/2020/05/08/iran-advances-nuclear-program-withdrawal-jcpoa/ WASHINGTON — President Trump declared on Tuesday that he was withdrawing from the Iran nuclear deal, unraveling the signature foreign policy achievement of his predecessor Barack Obama, isolating the United States from its Western allies and sowing uncertainty before a risky nuclear negotiation with North Korea. https://www.nytimes.com/2018/05/08/world/middleeast/trump-iran-nuclear-deal.html Iran Is Closer to Building a Nuclear Bomb Than It Has Ever Been

Homes in parts of the U.S. are "essentially uninsurable" due to rising climate change risks Donald Trump likes to toss around eye-watering sums when estimating the value of his Florida private club Mar-a-Lago — often in the same sentence. “The house is worth a billion, a billion and a half, $750m,” Mr Trump said in meandering remarks outside his civil fraud trial in New York on Tuesday. It was “the most expensive house, probably, in the world,” he added. Mar-A-Lago Has A Flood Insurance Policy Through The Federal Government. Donald Trump's Florida estate is among the flood-prone properties covered by the controversial program. The property has a flood insurance policy through the National Flood Insurance Program, a Federal Emergency Management Agency spokesperson told HuffPost. The program provides affordable insurance in flood-prone zones where private insurers have traditionally refused to insure properties because they’re so vulnerable. The Mar-a-Lago club’

The Deadly Rise of Underwater ‘Parasite’ Cocaine Smuggling Cocaine found in parasite tube, attached to US tanker hull Police detected so-called “parasite”, a steel tube attached to, understood, underwater hull of a product tanker MTM POTOMAC, docked at Santo Tomas De Castilla, Guatemala, where she arrived on Aug 4 from Colombia. Tube was filled with packages containing, it is believed, cocaine, 56 packages in total. Interestingly, there was a GPS transmitter in tube, to track the shipment and help traffickers, who were to receive the drugs, to locate it. Crew and ship’s management weren’t mentioned, understood they’re clear of suspicions and have nothing to do with drug trafficking. https://www.fleetmon.com/maritime-news/2020/30517/cocaine-found-parasite-tube-attached-us-tanker-hul/ https://researchers.mq.edu.au/en/clippings/the-deadly-rise-of-underwater-parasite-cocaine-smuggling Trump’s border wall has been breached more than 3,000 times by smugglers, CBP records show