DL Open Thread: Sunday, Feb. 11, 2024
Trump’s Gonna Trump: Told NATO Allies To Pay Up, Or…:
Former President Donald J. Trump said on Saturday that, while president, he told the leaders of NATO countries that he would “encourage” Russia “to do whatever the hell they want” to countries that had not paid the money they owed to the military alliance.
Mr. Trump did not make clear whether he ever intended to follow through on such a threat or what that would mean for the alliance, but his comment at a campaign event in South Carolina — a variation of one he has made before to highlight his negotiation skills — is likely to cause concern among NATO member states, which are already very nervous about the prospect of a Trump return.
Also:
Former President Donald J. Trump continued his aggressive attacks on Nikki Haley Saturday, insinuating at a rally in South Carolina that her husband, a National Guardsmen, left for a deployment in order to escape her.
“What happened to her husband? Where is he?” Mr. Trump said to a crowd in Conway, S.C. “He’s gone.”
He already knows that he’s able say to such things and his followers will lap it up.
How And Why Cops Raided Rural Kansas Newspaper. Guess they have LEOBOR in Kansas as well:
Former Marion Police Chief Gideon Cody did not remember the Miranda warning when he forced Marion County Record newspaper staff out into the nearly 100-degree heat during a raid that drew international condemnation.
Cody “couldn’t recall the wording of the warning” when he attempted to interrogate Record reporter Phyllis Zorn, according to a new federal lawsuit. He had to get a printed copy of the Miranda warning from one of his colleagues to continue interrogations of reporter Deb Gruver, but he “realized he did not have his reading glasses with him and he could not read the card.”
Cody then had one of his officers read Gruver the warning.
Zorn filed the second federal lawsuit in the case Tuesday. She asks for $950,000 to be awarded and alleges constitutional violations during the raid.
Cody initiated the unprecedented Aug. 11 rural newspaper raid under the pretense that Zorn committed identity theft when she accessed public records through the Kansas Department of Revenue database. The agency later said that was a legal way for reporters to access information.
Gruver, a veteran Record reporter, filed a federal lawsuit in August for emotional and physical injury during the raid.
Though the Record didn’t publish the information before the raid, Gruver had compiled allegations made against Cody by his former colleagues with the Kansas City, Missouri, Police Department. According to the reporting, Cody left Kansas City under the threat of demotion, following accusations of offensive behavior and creating a hostile work environment.
Three sources told the Record that Cody had driven over a dead body at a crime scene, Zorn’s lawsuit alleges. Her lawsuit adds that Cody had attempted to persuade her into leaving the paper and starting her own news outlet – with investment from him – after learning about the Record’s reporting.
I can’t even…
The D’s Have A Real ‘Shot’ In The Montana Governor’s Race. I like this guy. Best ad so far this cycle:
“3-D-Printed Meat”. I’ll just leave it at that…
What do you want to talk about?
“he would “encourage” Russia “to do whatever the hell they want” to countries that had not paid the money they owed to the military alliance.”
Can’t wait to see how the media normalizes this.
Not to mention, allies don’t owe money to NATO. The treaty requires them to invest a certain percentage into their own defense budgets.
The serial deadbeat Trump concluded his remarks by saying “You’ve got to pay your debts.”
I’d like to see someone try to make the case that the world is better off with him than without him. Russians, Saudis and Netanyahu excluded, of course.