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Bump is right, it's just

artappraiser — Wed, 07 Jul 2021 16:42:21 +0000

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Bump is right, it's just plain stupid to apply legal logic here:

A not-brief history of Trump threatening to sue various people and why, this time, he's actually trying it. https://t.co/N1Di0xhYSf
— Philip Bump (@pbump) July 7, 2021

There’s absolutely no legal

artappraiser — Wed, 07 Jul 2021 01:12:03 +0000

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There’s absolutely no legal basis for Trump to sue any of the social media platforms that booted him: they were just exercising their 1st Amendment rights as private companies to decide whose speech to publish. https://t.co/qHY9l1QwQU
— Laurence Tribe (@tribelaw) July 7, 2021

Reminds me of how Trump

Orion — Mon, 05 Jul 2021 18:56:56 +0000

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Reminds me of how Trump seemed to have close ties both win with the Mexican leadership that came in during his presidency and with the CEO of Hispanic food giant Goya. His rhetoric was/is a scam but a lot of progressives took it literally despite regarding Trump as a "con artist."

Chinese connection, from Bess

PeraclesPlease — Fri, 02 Jul 2021 21:05:25 +0000

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Chinese connection, from Bess Levin/Vanity Fair:

Who is bankrolling Trumpworld’s new social media network?

A foundation of an on-the-lam billionaire, of course. Per the Daily Beast:

On Thursday, [Trump adviser Jason] Miller announced the launch of “Gettr,” a new social media app aimed at conservatives that promises to be “cancel-free.” Trump fans wary of social media censorship on more prominent platforms like Twitter and Facebook started to sign up for the platform after Politico reported on the existence of the new site. What’s not made clear to Gettr’s new users, though, is that the site received initial funding from a foundation owned by Chinese billionaire Guo Wengui and his family. In an interview with the Daily Beast on Thursday, Miller said Guo’s “family foundation” provided Gettr with early funding. “Some of the initial seed money has come from his family foundation,” Miller said of Guo, who also goes by the name Miles Kwok.

Guo, a vocal critic of the Chinese government who is wanted in that country on corruption charges, has developed close ties to top Trump allies. The billionaire paid former Trump White House adviser Steve Bannon at least $1 million, and teamed up with him to promote a Chinese doctor’s claims that the coronavirus was created by the Chinese government. When federal authorities arrested Bannon on fraud charges in August 2020, they found him on a yacht owned by Guo.

I looked it up and didn't

Orion — Thu, 01 Jul 2021 20:37:19 +0000

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I looked it up and didn't find anything. Weird acronym.