(C) Daily Kos This story was originally published by Daily Kos and is unaltered. . . . . . . . . . . “His numbers are fraudulent- he’s a fraud.” [1] ['This Content Is Not Subject To Review Daily Kos Staff Prior To Publication.'] Date: 2023-10-03 Omission or Commission, Donald “Red-tie Caesar” Trump arrives at the courthouse for day two of the civil trial and apparently has decided he’ll use the fraud charge with his usual close messaging: accusing the object of his own hate with identical charges. Tucker Carlson opines that this is a 'Grotesque Parody of the System Our Ancestors Created'. Grotesque does go back to the Romans, so our Red Caesar will be in good company. From the bench: "Every use" of a false statements of financial condition "in business starts the statute of limitations running again." Trump RAILS against his $250 million fraud case the Attorney General. “Her numbers are fraudulent- she’s a fraud.” Trump said of Tish James as he arrived for the second day of his civil trial. Trump claimed the judge was given “extremely misleading information” about his net worth, and claimed Mar-a-Lago was worth $1.5 billion instead of $18 million. So basically, Trump is repeating the fraudulent statement the judge has already cited as example of why he’s liable for fraud. twitter.com/... x Our trial against Donald Trump and the Trump Organization begins today. Here’s what’s happened since we started our investigation 4.5 years ago. pic.twitter.com/fo2VMvpj9R — NY AG James (@NewYorkStateAG) October 2, 2023 x LETITIA JAMES: "Donald Trump's financial statements are fraudulent and full of lies." DONALD TRUMP: "Donald Trump's financial statements are fraudulent and full of lies." pic.twitter.com/7QQ3dAOKYT — Mrs. Betty Bowers (@BettyBowers) October 3, 2023 x Manhattan Supreme Court Justice Arthur Engoron noted that “nobody asked for” a jury trial. So Trump’s complaints about being tried by Justice Engoron, in addition to being baseless, make no sense. Had he wanted a trial by jury, he should’ve requested one.https://t.co/07RoWkZobU — Laurence Tribe 🇺🇦 ⚖️ (@tribelaw) October 2, 2023 For the last three years, parts of the American right have advocated a theory called Caesarism as an authoritarian solution to the claimed collapse of the US republic in conference rooms, podcasts and the house organs of the extreme right, especially those associated with the Claremont Institute thinktank. Though on the surface this discussion might seem esoteric, experts who track extremism in the US say that due to their influence on the Republican party, the rightwing intellectuals who espouse these ideas about the attractions of autocracy present a profound threat to American democracy. Their calls for a “red Caesar” are now only growing louder as Donald Trump, whose supporters attempted to violently halt the election of Joe Biden in 2020, has assumed dominant frontrunner status in the 2024 Republican nomination race. Trump, who also faces multiple criminal indictments, has spoken openly of attacking the free press in the US and having little regard for American constitutional norms should he win the White House again. The idea that the US might be redeemed by a Caesar – an authoritarian, rightwing leader – was first broached explicitly by Michael Anton, a Claremont senior fellow and Trump presidential adviser. www.theguardian.com/... Michael Anton gave us the screed, Flight 93 Election [END] --- [1] Url: https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2023/10/3/2197069/--His-numbers-are-fraudulent-he-s-a-fraud Published and (C) by Daily Kos Content appears here under this condition or license: Site content may be used for any purpose without permission unless otherwise specified. via Magical.Fish Gopher News Feeds: gopher://magical.fish/1/feeds/news/dailykos/