Who in their right mind would post a nearly $100 million bond for Donald knowing he a) has a problem paying his bills and b) owes another half a billion dollars in civil penalties and c) doesn’t appear to have enough funds to cover it?
The answer is interesting:
Donald’s bond was initiated by Federal Insurance Company, a subsidiary of Chubb Insurance.
Chubb Insurance was the same company that provided health insurance for my grandfather's company and family going back decades. Donald appointed Chubb CEO Evan Greenberg to serve as a member of the White House Advisory Committee for Trade Policy and Negotiations for a term of four years.
There’s even more. 👇
What are the Russian connections behind the company fronting Donald’s $92 million bond?
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Like many New Yorkers, that day and in the days that followed, I pored over every report, every video, and every photograph in order to try to make sense of what had happened. But there was no sense to be made. 1/ 🧵
Not long after, I turned inward. I didn’t want to hear other people’s stories. I didn’t want to tell my own—it was too personal, too difficult. And I didn’t want to see the pictures anymore. 2/ marytrump.substack.com/p/farther-away…
But that’s different from forgetting. That’s different from failing to exact justice. It seems like we’ve lost sight of the promise that arose in the wake of that day, missing opportunities and, instead, creating new horrors.
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In 2018, John Roberts appointed a federal panel of judges to investigate 83 ethics complaints against Brett Kavanaugh. Although considered “serious,” the complaints were dismissed because the panel determined it had no authority to discipline a SCOTUS justice. 1/
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Three years later, we learned that the FBI had received over 4,500 tips about Kavanaugh during the hearings. In 2019, Sheldon Whitehouse (D-RI) and Chris Coons (D-DE) wrote a letter to FBI Director Chris Wray asking why none of these tips was pursued.
Wray's response came 2 years later and provided no useful information. Whitehouse and Coons wrote Wray again in 2021 “If the FBI did not follow up on any of the tips that it received from the tip line, it is difficult to understand the point of having a tip line at all.”
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I was listening recently to @aimeemann's phenomenal 2021 album, Queens of the Summer Hotel, and her track “At the Frick Museum” came on. It brought me back to the time when I lived on the Upper East Side of Manhattan and used to visit the Frick two or three times a week.
I was particularly drawn to "The Boatman of Mortefontaine," a painting by Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot that hung on the first floor but the entire museum, with its beautiful setting and intimate collection, is one of my favorite places.
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And then I realized I can’t remember the last time I was there. It’s amazing how easily, how quietly, things fall away in the midst of the unceasing grind of difficult news and the knowledge that the institutions we rely on don’t seem up to the task.
I was out all day last Friday and was spared the media’s decision to turn the brutal beating of an innocent young man into some kind of dystopian game show. Charles Blow referred to the countdown clock as, “a damning indictment of American perversion.” Yes.
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Police brutality against Black Americans occurs with such frequency that there is a recognizable pattern of responses that politicians and pundits use to deflect blame from the officers, to shift it onto the victim, or to change the subject entirely.
We don’t yet know why Mr. Nichols was pulled over but—unless you can tell me there’s a traffic crime an unarmed man can commit while alone in his car that deserves the punishment of death without the benefit of indictment and trial—it doesn’t matter.
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Far too often in the last seven years, I have said the word hate and felt the feeling of it more than in the previous five decades combined. I have, more times than I can count, said “I am so tired of hating people I don’t know.”
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More accurately, it's usually that I hate what somebody, in this case, Merrick Garland, has done--or hasn't done, like not indicting Donald based on Mueller’s blueprint for ten charges of obstruction. The statutes of limitation for almost all of these have now passed.
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It's been seven years of watching the worst among us accrue and abuse power and then get rewarded for it. Seven years, during which trauma piled on tragedy, rage became habitual, irony no longer even seemed possible, and division between us increased.