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Fact Check: Has Donald Trump Filed for Bankruptcy Six Times?
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... The first filing was all the way back in 1991, and the most recent one was in 2014. Is it true that he filed for bankruptcy six times? Yes, it is true, and here are the six times Donald Trump filed for bankruptcy:

1. Trump Taj Mahal (1991)

2. Trump Castle (1992)

3. Trump Plaza Hotel (1992)

4. Trump Hotels and Casinos Resorts (2004)

5. Trump Entertainment Resorts (2009)

6. Trump Entertainment Resorts (2014)


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... Trump: Power Restrained Only by 'My Own Morality' ...

Most Americans say U.S. should be world's moral leader; far fewer say it is
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...A significant gap has emerged between Americans' aspirations and current assessments regarding U.S. moral leadership, according to a new NPR/Ipsos poll. While three in five Americans agree the U.S. should be the moral leader of the world, only 39% believe it actually is. This shift reflects a significant decline in perceived standing from a 2017 NPR/Ipsos Poll. ...

1. Americans see a gap between moral leadership aspirations and current state of affairs.

While 61% of Americans agree the United States should be the moral leader of the world, only 39% believe it actually is.

This represents a significant shift from 2017, when 60% believed America was the moral leader, marking a 21-percentage point

Partisan differences are pronounced: 64% of Republicans believe the U.S. is the moral leader, compared to only 24% of Democrats and 35% of Independents.


2. Half of Americans believe the U.S. is losing global influence, while even more say China has made gains.

Half of Americans (50%) say the U.S. has been losing influence over the past five years, compared with just 21% who say it has gained influence; 24% say its level of influence has stayed about the same.

Views on America's standing are deeply polarized by party: 72% of Democrats say the U.S. is losing influence compared to just 26% of Republicans.




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Trump administration mulls payments to sway Greenlanders to join US
www.reuters.com

... U.S. officials have discussed sending lump sum payments to Greenlanders as part of a bid to convince them to secede from Denmark and potentially join the United States, according to four sources familiar with the matter.

While the exact dollar figure and logistics of any payment are unclear, U.S. officials, including White House aides, have discussed figures ranging from $10,000 to $100,000 per person, said two of the sources, who requested anonymity to discuss internal deliberations.

The idea of directly paying residents of Greenland, an overseas territory of Denmark, offers one explanation of how the U.S. might attempt to "buy" the island of 57,000 people, despite authorities' insistence in Copenhagen and Nuuk that Greenland is not for sale.

The tactic is among various plans being discussed by the White House for acquiring Greenland, including potential use of the U.S. military. But it risks coming off as overly transactional and even degrading to a population that has long debated its own independence and its economic dependence on Denmark.

"Enough is enough ... No more fantasies about annexation," Greenland's Prime Minister Jens-Frederik Nielsen wrote in a Facebook post on Sunday after U.S. President Donald Trump again told reporters the U.S. needed to acquire the island. ...



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Justice Department sues Connecticut and Arizona as part of effort to get voter data from the states
www.scrippsnews.com

... Officials in Connecticut and Arizona are defending their decision to refuse a request by the U.S. Justice Department for detailed voter information, after their states became the latest to face federal lawsuits over the issue.

"Pound sand," Arizona Secretary of State Adrian Fontes posted on X, saying the release of the voter records would violate state and federal law.

The Justice Department's Civil Rights Division announced this week it was suing Connecticut and Arizona for failing to comply with its requests, bringing to 23 the number of states the department has sued to obtain the data. It also has filed suit against the District of Columbia.

Attorney General Pam Bondi said the department will "continue filing lawsuits to protect American elections," saying accurate voter rolls are the "foundation of election integrity."

Secretaries of state and state attorneys general who have pushed back against the effort say it violates federal privacy law, which protects the sharing of individual data with the government, and would run afoul of their own state laws that restrict what voter information can be released publicly.

Some of the data the Justice Department is seeking includes names, dates of birth, residential addresses, driver's license numbers and partial Social Security numbers. ...


I hate to write this but the Minnesota national guard need to be deployed to 'defend' the citizens of Minnesota from the federal government's fascist that are in their streets without any probable cause and without any local, county or state oversight. ICE and HS are breaking multiple laws harassing, assaulting with chemical agents and other weapons, shoving, pushing, kidnapping, arresting and intimidating local Americans and their legal resident immigrant neighbors just because they vote blue are hispanic or brown. I support immigration controls but not the way they are going about it. DUE PROCESS --------! How hard it that to understand. The FBI is ran by a ------- traitor suck ass for the orange POTUS so, we cannot count on his department being objective in anyway on this issue. If they were really "agents and officers" of the state as they claim they would not be hunting down migrants without warrants or due cause much less assaulting American citizens who do not wish to just stand around and watch them behave like Nazi brown shirts. All of what they are doing is illegal under the US constitution. I did not believe it at first but there are Jan 6th traitors; along with gang members for multiple 'militias' and proud boy types and other table of fascist criminal intent mixed within the federal government. This year, If you work for the federal government you have been taking online courses where their employees have to sign a waiver that gives them the federal government the right to transfer any employee out of his or her job classification and into another one whenever they wish. I see the feds doing this with the FBI, DEA, Home Land security and pushing them out on to the streets. All those high profile cases the FBI or DEA had going on are now put on permanent hold and they are out in the streets with those ICE bozos. I know why. The only want MAGA morons working for the government. This is a slow moving coup taking place and before the next election they will use any excuse they can to declare marital law and keep the blue states from voting in the large cities while the red states are not bothered. The irony of the American right's justification to invade Venezuela and kidnap Muduro was that his government was corrupt. The fact is that the main reason Venezuela was in the pits is because of the very same fascist style government but one that claimed their were leftists. They were no more communist running Venezuela than there are "patriots" running the US government.

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Security fears and dreams of minerals behind Trump's push to 'own' Greenland
www.nbcnews.com

... To hear President Donald Trump tell it, a push to take control of Greenland is a "national security" necessity, critical to reinforcing control of the Arctic against possible threats from Russia and China.

For America's allies and Greenlanders themselves, however, Trump's threats to seize the semi-autonomous Danish territory cut much deeper, and threaten to shatter the decades-old principle of Western defense cooperation.

But there may be little they can do to stop it.

"This is a threat that is completely appalling, to be honest," Aaja Chemnitz, one of two Greenlandic lawmakers in the Danish parliament, said in an interview Thursday. "You can't just buy another country, a people, the soul of Greenland," she added.

"Everybody in Greenland is discussing it, and many people are worried and concerned."

That alarm is shared across European capitals.

French President Emmanuel Macron accused the United States on Thursday of "breaking free from the international rules that it used to promote," while German President Frank-Walter Steinmeier warned the world risked descending into a "den of robbers, where the most unscrupulous take whatever they want." ...


"You can always find a lawyer," Rahman said. "The defendants did. They found lawyers to justify what they wanted, then language to make it sound like protection."

The free speech file.

This tribunal reaches beyond border enforcement. A central section will examine restrictions on speech and protest, measures prosecutors argue created the conditions for wider abuse.

Court filings describe directives known as the "Speech Restrictions": federal pressure on platforms, threats to broadcasters' licenses, narrowed press access, and the branding of certain reporting as "operational interference." Prosecutors allege DHS used classifications and "domestic extremist" designations to target protest organizers, coordinating with the White House and state Republican parties to pre-frame arrests as preemption rather than punishment.

Two former government attorneys, now cooperating witnesses, are expected to testify about meetings where plans were implemented to illegally monitor cell phones and email accounts of protestors and journalists.

The military question: the republic's scar

The most volatile evidence concerns illegal domestic use of military force. The tribunal will examine whether federal officials deployed military assets, including combat personnel, surveillance, and logistics, in violation of long-standing constraints, and whether civilians were mischaracterized as insurgents to justify escalation.

The civil conflict was brief by global standards but devastating by American ones. It left burned statehouses, still-open forensic investigations, and veterans, some conscripted under emergency measures, now testifying for the norms they were once told they were defending.

The tribunal is trying to answer a question that haunts every recovered democracy: When the state becomes afraid of its own people, who tells the state to stop?

"And others" is not decorative. A sealed list of additional defendants, spanning DHS legal offices, contractor executives, and military liaisons, will be unsealed in phases, according to the Office of the Special Prosecutor. Executives from social media, telecommunications, and data brokers will be called to testify on their sharing of user data with DHS and its prime data contractor, Palantir.

The hinge years: from politics to crackdown

The government's case will center on what it calls the hinge period after Donald Trump's death in 2027, an event that did not relieve tension so much as detonate it. The succession crisis that followed accelerated the regime's instincts: to control the narrative, punish defection, and treat oversight as treason.

J.D. Vance is not in the dock. The former Vice President fled the United States after a brief civil conflict amid contested federal succession and state refusals to comply with emergency directives. U.S. intelligence believes he is living in Russia under protection, though Moscow has never confirmed it.

Pete Hegseth, the defense secretary during the period when military assets were used in ways now under scrutiny, is also absent, killed in a drunk driving accident before the conflict peaked. The tribunal will still examine orders and communications bearing his signature, and whether subordinates had a duty to refuse to carry them out.

The prosecution's thesis is chillingly simple: when the leader is gone, the system either collapses or becomes feral. Here, it became feral.

In question are the deaths at the hands of ICE and DHS of over 180 American citizens and over 1,100 immigrants, as well as the illegal use of force against over 3,500 American citizens and tens of thousands of immigrants, and the illegal detention of thousands of American citizens.

Stephen Miller, 49, once a White House deputy Chief of Staff and policy architect, is accused of designing the legal and rhetorical framework for what prosecutors call the "Permanent Emergency": the series of rolling declarations that treated dissent as sabotage and migration as invasion, and that increasingly erased the line between foreign threat and domestic political opposition.

Kristi Noem, 63, former Secretary of Homeland Security in the administration's final years, is accused of overseeing an expansion of detention operations and authorizing the illegal abuse of DHS intelligence components and political staff to identify journalists, protest organizers, and elected officials as "enemy combatants" and for the corrupt abuse of government planes, housing, and for spending over $400 million dollars on ads featuring herself.

Tom Homan, 73, the administration's most visible immigration enforcer, is charged with directing ICE operations that prosecutors allege escalated from civil deportation into punitive confinement, "retribution sweeps," and mass transfers designed to sever detainees from counsel and family. Homan is also accused of running a massive fraud scheme that demanded bribes from DHS contractors.

Greg Bovino, 58, a border enforcement commander whose name became synonymous with the hardline "line-hold" doctrine, is accused of implementing field policies that prosecutors say amounted to systematic abuse, creating "expedited removal systems" where medical care, legal contact, and even recordkeeping were intentionally degraded.

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