Perhaps he declassified his mouth so he could legally sell us out before he surrenders again
”Even though large tracts of Europe and many old and famous States have fallen or may fall into the grip of the Gestapo and all the odious apparatus of Nazi rule, we shall not flag or fail. We shall go on to the end. We shall fight in France, we shall fight on the seas and oceans, we shall fight with growing confidence and growing strength in the air, we shall defend our island, whatever the cost may be. We shall fight on the beaches, we shall fight on the landing grounds, we shall fight in the fields and in the streets, we shall fight in the hills; we shall never surrender.”
(4 June 1940; Prime Minister Winston Churchill’s speech to Great Britain’s House of Commons)
83 years later, an ex-President of the US is hawking this t-shirt to help pay for his defense lawyers.
That’s from a video on social media yesterday.
Also yesterday, a few days before he’d have to give deposition testimony in the half-a-billion-dollar lawsuit Trump filed against his former legal ‘fixer’, Michael Cohen, he withdrew the lawsuit. He surrendered.
In one of the major lawsuits filed by DOJ Special Counsel Jack Smith, Trump also filed a defense motion declaring presidential immunity for his actions on January 6. And he announced yesterday he’s supporting the ethically and physically diminutive Jim Jordan as the next House Speaker. Jordan has never successfully authored a bill that passed into law in his 16+ years in Congress. He’s just part of an 8 person minority of the minority party but he’s vowed to block any additional spending on its aid to help Ukraine hold off the Russian invasion.
Appeasement and isolationism have worked so well before against fascist European dictators that Jordan has decided this one without the support of a majority of the group formerly known as the GOP. Surrender seems to have become a common theme among criminals and miscreants in that group lately. Citizen support for Ukraine aid is strong across the political spectrum, so this should be seen as another gift from Trump to Vladimir Putin: the largest country in Europe.
And then ABC News broke this story last night:
Months after leaving the White House, former President Donald Trump allegedly discussed potentially sensitive information about U.S. nuclear submarines with a member of his Mar-a-Lago Club -- an Australian billionaire who then allegedly shared the information with scores of others, including more than a dozen foreign officials, several of his own employees, and a handful of journalists, according to sources familiar with the matter.
The potential disclosure was reported to special counsel Jack Smith's team as they investigated Trump's alleged hoarding of classified documents at Mar-a-Lago, the sources told ABC News. The information could shed further light on Trump's handling of sensitive government secrets.
Prosecutors and FBI agents have at least twice this year interviewed the Mar-a-Lago member, Anthony Pratt, who runs U.S.-based Pratt Industries, one of the world's largest packaging companies.
and
According to Pratt's account, as described by the sources, Pratt told Trump he believed Australia should start buying its submarines from the United States, to which an excited Trump -- "leaning" toward Pratt as if to be discreet -- then told Pratt two pieces of information about U.S. submarines: the supposed exact number of nuclear warheads they routinely carry, and exactly how close they supposedly can get to a Russian submarine without being detected.
In emails and conversations after meeting with Trump, Pratt described Trump's remarks to at least 45 others, including six journalists, 11 of his company's employees, 10 Australian officials, and three former Australian prime ministers, the sources told ABC News.
US investigators told Pratt not to repeat the numbers Trump had told him.
I guess you can’t surrender when you’ve already sold out.
And the image that Trump posted on Truth Social Wednesday of himself in court next to a drawing of Jesus?
The Intelligencer reported he got that picture from “an Australian who was sentenced to life in prison plus 129 years last year for rape, human trafficking, and the sexual abuse of children as young as 18 months.
Now let’s take it back to the 70s…