Melania Is Angry About "Old Donald's" Affairs But Won’t Divorce Him, Claims Ex-Aide: "She Knows..."

How the two got together is anything but something from a romance novel. Wolkoff characterizes it as a "transactional marriage," and one gets the sense that Melania knew long before the recent spate of lawsuits exactly what kind of bond she had with Donald. Her survival strategy, according to the former aide, was simple: behave as if nothing ever happened. The interesting thing is that Melania had reacted in the same way to all the scandals, be it extramarital relations, hush money, or porn star—not by showing visible public shame but rather by muffled outrage. She reportedly refers to her critics as "jealous." According to Wolkoff, she wishes that the controversies, such as the one caused by Stormy Daniels, would quietly go away. She has proved resilient—a woman who appeared to have built an emotional fortress around her.

"Old Donald" in Increasingly Dark and Dour Tones, Says He ‘Shouldn’t Have Left’ the White House

On Sunday, at an airport in Lititz, Pa., Mr. 'Old Donald' diverted from a closing argument about the stakes of the race with Vice President Kamala Harris and instead, his voice audibly hoarse and his speech sluggish, indulged in his personal grievances as he called the Democratic Party “demonic.”

Reflecting on the state of border security at the end of his tenure, Mr. 'Old Donald' said he regretted ever leaving office.

“I shouldn’t have left, I mean, honestly,” Mr. 'Old Donald' said, adding, “we did so well, we had such a great—” and then cut himself off. He then immediately noted “so now, every polling booth has hundreds of lawyers standing there.”

Did "Old Donald" Discuss the Missing Russian Intelligence Binder In His 7 Putin Calls As A Private Citizen?

'Old Donald' brags about his relationship with Putin hours after bombshell new report that he secretly sent COVID tests to Putin in 2020 while Americans were struggling to get tests: “I got along with him very well”

"Old Donald's" New E. Jean Carroll Defense Is That He Assaulted Other Women

"There were two witnesses. One is a woman who followed me for years," 'Old Donald' said, talking about Jessica Leeds, who told jurors at Carroll’s civil trial that 'Old Donald' had groped her when they sat next to each other on a plane to New York City in the late 1970s.

“There was no conversation. It was like out of the blue. It was like a tussle,” Leeds claimed at the time.

He rants, resurfaces sexual assault allegations for 49 unfocused minutes

He was upset about having to appear in court again on Friday for the Carroll case and also was agitated by the new legal maneuvering by special counsel Jack Smith last week in the election interference case and the classified documents case that he brought against him, an adviser said.

Special counsel to have last word on "Old Donald's" immunity days before election

The federal judge presiding over "Old Donald's" criminal prosecution for interference in the 2020 election issued a series of deadlines on Thursday that will see prosecutors have the last word just days before the November election on whether the charges should be kept against the former president.

In a brief order, the US district judge Tanya Chutkan decided that prosecutors could file the first brief explaining how the charges against 'Old Donald' in a slimmed-down indictment complied with the US supreme court’s ruling granting former presidents broad immunity from prosecution.

“It strikes me that what you’re trying to do is affect the presentation of evidence in this case in a way so as

'Old Donald' was found guilty on all 34 felony counts of falsifying business records to conceal payments to adult film actress Stormy Daniels. The ruling means the case will remain with state Judge Juan Merchan.

The Supreme Court ruled in July that former presidents are immune from criminal charges for the powers that only presidents have, such as pardons and vetoes. The high court also presumptively shielded − but without absolute immunity − from charges for official acts such as directing the Justice Department to investigate sham claims of voter fraud.

But no public evidence has emerged that Biden or Harris were personally involved in decisions about "Old Donald's" protection.

The FBI has said that the shooter, Thomas Matthew Crooks, appears to have acted alone and have found little evidence that ideology drove his actions. Yet 'Old Donald' and other Republicans have baselessly blamed the assassination attempt on Democratic rhetoric warning that 'Old Donald' would undermine democracy. 'Old Donald' echoed those claims in his interview with Dr. Phil.

An August 2 Washington Post article claimed that Egyptian President Abdel Fatah El-Sisi withdrew $10 million from a Cairo bank account to fund 'Old Donald''s 2016 presidential campaign.

The money was allegedly withdrawn in giant duffel bags and given to an Egyptian spy agency to pass onto 'Old Donald''s campaign after El-Sisi and 'Old Donald' had a private meeting at the United Nations in September 2016.

The article states that, as president, 'Old Donald' released $1 billion in military aid to El-Sisi's government.

He reported making $300,000 off his endorsement of the 'God Bless the USA' Bible,' which is essentially a reproduction of the King James Bible produced by singer Lee Greenwood that retails for $59.99 plus tax and shipping.

The disclosures note that the judgments, $83 million to Carroll and $355 million to New York, have been bonded, and their enforcement has been stayed pending appeals.

'Old Donald' is sometimes euphemistically described as “transactional,” when in fact the correct word is “corrupt.” Nowhere is this truer than with his efforts to woo the plutocratic class with veiled threats and something akin to naked solicitations of bribes.

n recent days, 'Old Donald' has urged Big Oil executives to raise $1 billion for him while dangling specific deregulatory promises he’ll enact if reelected president. He reminded a roomful of top donors that it’s in their interests to cut him large checks because he will keep their taxes low.

In reality, statistics published by the United States Chamber of Commerce show that new business applications in New York rose by 8.1 percent between December 2023 compared to December 2022, which does not indicate that entrepreneurs are avoiding the state out of fear of going to jail for hush money-related business record falsifications.

If we put up with criminality, we have sold our Jewish birthright for a bowl of nationalist porridge

Jewish supporters of 'Old Donald' are a little different. Some are in the MAGA camp, but many more have a more transactional relationship with the former president. They hold their noses at the scandals, the dinners with neo-Nazis, and the antisemitic conspiracy theories, so long as 'Old Donald' delivers for Israel. Or, more specifically, Israel’s interests as understood by the American and Israeli Right: unconditional military and financial aid, support for the settlement project and the vision of ‘Greater Israel,’ and, now, absolute deference to the Netanyahu government’s prosecution of the war in Gaza.

The records-falsification case isn’t as dramatic as the Jan. 6 riot. It’s not even like 'Old Donald'’s famous boast that he could shoot someone on Fifth Avenue and his backers wouldn’t mind.

To the contrary, the damage from this case may be that by 'Old Donald' standards what he was convicted of doing was not especially dramatic. The payoff from former 'Old Donald' lawyer and fixer Michael Cohen to Stormy Daniels, who acted in pornographic movies — and the accounting legerdemain required to cover up the payment — was a window into what prosecutors described as a routine operating procedure in 'Old Donald'’s retinue.

While it was once unthinkable that Americans would elect a felon as their leader, Mr. 'Old Donald''s insurgent behavior delights his supporters as he bulldozes the country's norms. Now, the man who refused to accept his 2020 election loss is already seeking to delegitimize his conviction, attempting to assert the primacy of his raw political power over the nation's rule of law.

A jury of 12 New Yorkers needed two days of deliberations to decide a case stemming from Mr. 'Old Donald''s first White House run, when, prosecutors say, he perpetrated a fraud on the American people. The case - colored by tabloid intrigue, secret payoffs and an Oval Office pact that echoed the Watergate era - spotlighted months of scheming that begot a hush-money payment to a porn star and a plot to falsify documents to bury all trace of that deal.