that was in 2016. february 2016. which is actually after these plaintiffs were beaten up by trump security guards outside trump tower but these plaintiffs contend in court that, you know, trump publicly imploring other people to knock the bleep out of people protesting, people posing the terrifying threat of potentially throwing a tomato, that shows the pattern of trump ordering violence against protesters and perhaps violence out of keeping any perceived threat theng protesters might pose. now if throwing a tomato is actually a lethal threat though, what wouldn t be justified. with the release of this deposition, in this past day, we now know a whole new thing we didn t know before about former president trump is that he is apparently desperately afraid of a flyingap tomato. i don t know. if i were in his position, i m not sure if i would let the world know that i had that kind
might die. did somebody throw a pineapple at this man as a baby? does that explain everything since? in addition to the fruit pocalypse theory here, the newly-released deposition does alsone have one potentially ver salient exchange not about fruit about the ally criminalte case that the former president s business, the trump organization, is facing as soon as this summer, possibly this fall,n when it goes to trial. you will recall that the trump organization s long-time cfo and theor company itself have been criminally charged for an alleged pattern of tax fraud which among other things they are accused ofgeof compensating bunch of different employees at the trump organization effectively off the bookses as wayef of evading taxes. one of the employees about whom those concerns have been raised is somebody who hasn t been
republicans as a whole had cast votes to pick nominees for those positions that they would have picked those same folks? or is this something about the sort of core activists in the party that is different than how most people feel in the state? it s very difficult to tell. of course, the people that participate in this convention are the most ardent donald trump supporters that you can find in michigan, but i don t think it s necessarily a given that christina and matt would not have won a primary election. these are two individuals who donald trump has done a lot to help. he comes to michigan for rallies. he s done telephone town halls. sent out numerous statements to back them. and really, the people who were challenging christina, specifically within the party, did not really have a basis of support, they didn t have the financial ability to compete with her, and matt might have been a different story, but i think what is clear in michigan, after saturday, is the base of the part
ofwo phobia, just kind of exposg his weakness to the world, right? his fear of flying tomatoes is apparently so all consuming when confronted verbally with a discussion about the possibility of somebody throwing a tomato, he immediately extrapolates that from the tomato to the threat of a flying banana and the threat of a flying pineapple. a tomato, a pineapple, a lot of other things they throw. i think they have to be aggressive in stopping that from happening because if that happens, you can be killed if that happens. question, and getting aggressive includes the use of physical force? trump, to stop somebody from throwing pineapples, tomatoes, bananas, stuff like that, yeah, it s dangerous. dangerous stuff. okay, sir, and how about we give you the nuclear codes for the united states of america? i mean we have to get real. if there is an incoming banana, somebody s going to have to make the hard call because we all
nothing else to sell and a lot has been written about the fact that china or india or other markets will step up and take russian energy supplies if russia stops selling it westward but that s not a practical from a purely logistics standpoint, as the associated press pints out, the russian pipeline network from western severa to europe don t connect with the pipelines running to china and russia has limited facilities to export super chilled liquefied natural gas by ship. and they don t have ships and pipelines to send it anywhere except into the pipelines. . russia is ill-equipped to send gas to these other countries. there s also the most, more obvious point that you re dealing with a much lower volume when moving a product by ship as opposed to moving it by a pipeline. in any way, by picking this fight with poland, it is cutting off its nose despite its face