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03 APR 2025 White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt said President Trump’s tariffs won’t lead to “pain” for U.S. workers or American-owned businesses amid concern after “Liberation Day.” “There’s not going to be any pain for American-owned companies and American workers, because their jobs are going to come back home, and again, as for prices, President Trump is working on tax cuts to put more money back into the pockets of Americans,” Leavitt said. https://thehill.com/business/5231298-leavitt-trump-tariffs-american-owned-businesses-us-workers/

March 25, 2025 headline Washington Post: In Karoline Leavitt’s world, Trump’s word is enough The White House press secretary is shaming some members of the Washington media and fielding softballs from others — all with a self-assured smile.

Of course making a payment to an agent to obtain a requirements waiver to get a retirement extension is illegal. If it were legal, you wouldn't need an agent.

OK.

Jack Smith was able to get a Federal Grand jury in Washington DC to indict former President Trump on criminal charges. As the jurisdiction for almost all the 'revenge crimes' will be in Washington DC, it might not be so easy for the current DoJ to get similar grand jury indictments against Trump's erstwhile opponents in the overly Democratic venue.

A NY Times article 2 days ago on the precariousness of the bond market ended with this: All of which leaves the world in a bewildering place. The old sanctuary (US Bond market) no longer seems so safe. Yet no other place looks immediately capable of standing in.

Rightly or wrongly, when a career prosecutor who was a law clerk for Antonin Scalia thinks so, that cannot be dismissed as your typical left-wing lawfare.

Seems there have been plenty enough resignations already especially in the Dept. of Justice for persons being asked to do something they considered unlawful

Ms. James will be up for re-election as NY State attorney general in a state-wide election in NOV 2026.

Wrong case.

It was a bench trial -- no jury. And while the 'no victims' argument may hacve swayed Engoron, the appeals courts might have looked at it differently.

That the case was a dud has nothing to do with anything in OP. It was always a dud. And while there may never be any legal action against Ms. James in the OP, Ms. James may be in for a whole lot of adverse publicity of her own doing.

This is the Oath of Office for US attorney general: A. OATH OF OFFICE I will support and defend the Constitution of the United States against all enemies, foreign and domestic; that I will bear true faith and allegiance to the same; that I take this obligation freely, without any mental reservation or purpose of evasion; and that I will well and faithfully discharge the duties of the office on which I am about to enter. So help me God. -- Not a lot of wiggle room to say you know something is wrong if not unlawful but you support it anyway 'Cause He's the Boss

You can go to this page below from FEB 2024 where I was taking the heat for presenting the case that that the Ms. James case against Mr. Trump was a real dud. So Ms. James will get little sympathy at least from me. As the Brits would say 'Own Goal'. https://aseannow.com/topic/1320175-judge-orders-trump-and-companies-to-pay-nearly-355-million-in-civil-fraud-trial/page/22/ .

Until you turn your back to walk away and they dump a bucket of water on you from behind -- my experience after I just wanted to go out for a walk during SongKran following knee surgery. That was my experience one year. Broke my glasses.

It goes down or not goes down -- any time anyone mentions a wife in Thailand you go into your fake-wife, cuckold , just her brother, shafted, dragging the wife around routine.

REDUX From Sir Alfred Hitchcock's North by Northwest (1959) -- Cary Grant as Thornhill: Roger Thornhill: How do we know it's not a fake? It looks like a fake. Bidder: Well, one thing we know. You're no fake. You are a genuine idiot.

OR ... The Apprentice was created by British television producer Mark Burnett, and co-produced with Donald Trump, who was the show's host for the first fourteen seasons. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Apprentice_(American_TV_series)

I lived 6 months 2005 on KlangSan pre-Skytrain and know the Minburi area well. So there are non-tourist areas. But really I was only replying regards the OP claim that: I doubt after all my study I will NOT retire to Thailand I have been locked up there, assaulted etc so it becomes too traumatic for me So maybe now just OT.

AP Headline this morning: Trump goes with his gut and the world goes along for the ride

Big cities vs small. There are big cities esp. in Isaan that are still non-Tourist.

As I see it, there are 2 parts to Thailand: Tourist Thailand and non-Tourist Thailand. Living in the latter is different from living in the former.

'don't have to look it up -- it is referenced in the case: First, the China Executive Orders are ultra vires because the IEEPA does not authorize a president to impose tariffs. Basic tools of statutory construction dictate this conclusion. The Supreme Court’s major questions doctrine confirms it. Because the Executive Orders present a question of “vast economic and political significance,” the major questions doctrine requires the President to show that the IEEPA “clearly” authorizes him to impose tariffs. The President cannot make that showing.

How wuz Trump supposed to know water doesn't flow uphill?

https://static.foxbusiness.com/foxbusiness.com/content/uploads/2025/04/filing_simplified-v.-trump_complaint-for-injunctive-and-declaratory-relief_04032025.pdf BTW 'Simplified' is the name of the plaintiff company