I don’t expect Jillette to act as a stenographer but if he heard Trump say the N-word and chose not to say anything about it until now then frankly I consider that a cowardly dick move.
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One horrible person trashing another horrible person. News at 11.
(shrug)
Maybe I’ll just go to bed.
He explains exactly why he feels the way he does about “revealing” such things in the article, and I feel it makes the case for why it’s the furthest thing from a “cowardly dick move”.
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He says he doesn’t want to share what he heard Trump say because he’d probably get the “details” wrong.
If I heard someone use that racial slur in that context I have to say I think it’s one detail I would remember.
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As I understand it, you can’t prosecute a public servant for being a whistle-blower unless they’re releasing classified government information-- you can gossip about the president’s peccadillos all you want and just get fired and that’s that.
But that’s not the point-- the NDAs exist to intimidate people into shutting up, it’s like how Trump will threaten to sue contractors so he doesn’t have to pay them in full: is the cost of lawyers and legal headaches worth opening your mouth?
I don’t think anyone in Trump’s cabinet really trusts him, so NDAs and payoffs are all he has to keep them in line, and secret tapes are all they have as insurance. It’s not a good way to run a government.
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but I thought that arbitration was confidential-- and not precedent setting. It would be most unsettling to abdicate that sort of public judicial power to a private arbitration firm, but it makes it difficult to establish a pattern of obnoxious behavior the part of an employer or fraudulent enterprise.
That doesn’t appear to be the correct corporate name.
It should probably be “Donald J. Trump for President, Inc.” of Virginia.
https://opencorporates.com/companies/us_va/07927957
A nice grouping of his companies:
https://opencorporates.com/corporate_groupings/Donald+Trump
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Odds of being caught up in the dumpster fire accidentally simply by proxy: high.
Odds of misquoting Spanky saying something horrible: negligible.
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Apologies, I abbreviated the name in my reply. They use the correct corporate name in their filing.
The point was that they seem to be trying to focus on her work for the for-profit company formed to elect Trump and downplaying her role as a public servant.
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Fixed that for them. Fortune magazine more than most should understand that a lawyer like Harder works first and foremost for the person who’s paying him.
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I think the lead is being buried here. She could not have violated the NDA unless what she said was true.
This is Trump admitting that at least some of what Omarosa has said is in fact true.
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Many NDAs (no doubt Dolt-45’s among them) contain a non-disparagement clause that provides a bit of cover in this regard: they don’t have to prove whether what she said is true or not,* just that her statements did damage to the reputation of her former employer. This, in addition to the fact that he has become the go-to attorney for the alt-right, is probably why they hired Harder to sue her.
[* to be clear, in this case I believe the parts about his racism are true and that the validity of the NDA is going to be challenged as a whole in the context of her post-election work in the White House.]
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Arbitration usually is confidential - but the appeal is of the contractual obligation on whether you’re bound to arbitration or not.
So, who’s paying Harder? The Trump campaign? The US gov’t? Trump out of his own pocket (lol, yeah right)?
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You have stated it well, but it’s still too complicated for his base to follow. They only understand Bumper Stickers or hats.
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That’s what I don’t get - that they can’t see it. Because he managed to fit that sentiment into a single tweet - he just laid it all out there, plain as can be. So it’s not the complexity that has people ignoring it, but that they don’t want to think about/believe what he’s actually saying. Which is what’s allowed him to get this far, even though there are big discrepancies between what his supporters want from him and what he’s promised. His supporters just ignore what they don’t want to hear (“he doesn’t really mean it”) and act quite surprised when it turns out that, yes, he actually meant it.
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I haven’t read her book, but Amanda Carpenter seems to have addressed the issue, at least somewhat.
https://www.amazon.com/Gaslighting-America-Love-When-Trump/dp/0062748009
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I believe I saw it posted on BB before that, for Trump, calling someone a “dog” is the worst insult he can conceive. I may be mistaken, but I believe he has called men “dogs” before as well; relating their characters to those of dogs.
You know you’ve pissed him off when he busts out the 3-letter-word.
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