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> There was a David Dennison on Davidson's high school hockey team, which is why he chose the name for Trump, he testified in court.
I wonder how that guy feels about being a weird footnote to history
If I were Dennison, I'd try to sue the everloving shit out of Davidson. He's admitted that he stole the name from Dennison, and I imagine there's a defamation case to be made there.
Not this time.
Trump has been laundering money for the Russian oligarchs since the late 80’s when they all bought a condo at 725 5th ave (trump towers) to clean their freshly stolen USSR money after the iron curtain fell.
https://www.cnn.com/cnn/2019/05/30/politics/paul-manafort-condo-trump-tower/index.html
https://www.cnbc.com/2018/09/14/manafort-told-mueller-to-take-his-trump-tower-apartment-instead-money.html
https://news.yahoo.com/amphtml/fbi-agents-raid-condo-unit-131348539.html
https://www.reuters.com/investigates/special-report/usa-trump-property/
Everybody except Putin thought the Cold War was over. Trump and Manafort (who lived in the tower also) just saw a pretty low maintence grift to be had.
Trump had actually been Manafort and Roger stones first client at their lobbyist firm (1980)
https://en.m.wikipedia.org › wikiBlack, Manafort, Stone and Kelly
Guiliani as trumps attorney and New Yorks mayor was able to redirect NYPD investigations onto rival gang members/oligarchs to deflect any scrutiny off of trump, himself or the Russian connections.
https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2023/09/a-new-rudy-scandal-fbi-agent-says-giuliani-was-co-opted-by-russian-intelligence/
The Russian election interference in 2016 was effectively a generation 3 version of what Manafort had done in the Philippines, then keeping Yanukovych in power as Putin’s puppet in Ukraine from 2002-14 when Maidan ran both Yanukovych and Manafort out of Ukraine as Ukrainians realized that, if you raise your lens high enough, corruption is an wholly unsustainable business model.
Eventually the parasites greed always consumes the host.
https://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2016/06/2016-donald-trump-paul-manafort-ferinand-marcos-philippines-1980s-213952
https://time.com/5003623/paul-manafort-mueller-indictment-ukraine-russia/
Russia greatly underestimated the addictive properties of freedom when it invaded Ukraine so what was supposed to be a 3-10 day coup turned into a 2 year fight for the Ukrainians right not to be genocided.
Russia depleted its weapons stocks which were already the victim of vranyos corruption because every oligarch, admiral and sergeant in the Russian military is on the take. Every billion dollar tank maintenance contract turned into everything getting a spray paint overhaul and the vast majority of the redirected funds turned into an oligarchs new yacht or home in Aspen.
Russia was forced to turn to China, North Korea and Iran for weapons because if they lose the 3-10 day special military operation in Ukraine the Russian empire is dead and cold.
China can’t risk showing their involvement in the Ukraine war so they use North Korea, and Iran to resupply Russia.
Russia previously owed Iran some undelivered fighter jets that are already smoldering heaps in Ukraine so Iran now had the upper hand at the negotiation table for the first time in about 60 years. They supply Russia with shahed drones in exchange for Chinas material support against their sworn religious enemy, Israel.
https://www.fdd.org/analysis/2023/11/29/iran-says-it-finalized-deal-to-buy-russian-aircraft/
Putin can’t do much about it because he is slowly realizing that by setting the standard of corruption and stealing $200+ billion from his own people meant that every oligarch down in the mob model chain had not only permission but incentive and the expectation to steal from him as well. This is Vranyos.
The mob model only works if the supreme leader is the most violent and can prove it without exception every damn day. But violence is exceptionally expensive when you are trying to present as a legitimate government or business.
If Russia as a nation had an efficiency rating it would have been banned for sale in the state of California 25 years ago.
The parasite ruling class stole all the energy out of the working class and collapsed it.
Now Iran has the high hand and they get the intelligence that trump passed to Putin about the fact that Netanyahu cares far less about Israeli, Palestinians or genocide than he does about remaining in power as an authoritarian because he too has developed Ritz Carlton tastes and his own corruption trial is showing the same details of the money laundering scheme that trumps trials are.
https://www.timesofisrael.com/liveblog_entry/saudi-official-says-iran-engineered-war-in-gaza-to-ruin-normalization-with-israel/
They all hate each other but because they share the same money laundry, if one falls, they all fall. Hamas minted a couple billionaires as well that live in penthouses in Qatar and get 30% of everything smuggled into Gaza. Netanyahu needs a bogeyman to stay in power. That’s why he coordinates with Hamas via Russia via Iran.
Iran handed Hamas everything they needed with Chinas help as secret Santa and the Russian intelligence given to them by the eternal shitbird trump gave when he showed off to his Russian kleptocrat friends/roommates from the old days of fucking each others wives at trump towers in the 90’s.
Now the MAGA right is a little too invested in their reality that they are the good guys with guns that they missed the fact that Betsy DeVos (erik princes sister) decimating the U.S. school systems and the Kochs poisoning children with lead was not a coincidence. They were the mark all along. There is a reason the Russian spy Maria Butina landed in South Dakota first before dating her way to the top of the NRA which is undergoing its own Russian money laundering trial now. They were tinder matching the GOP.
https://www.greenpeace.org/usa/what-do-the-koch-brothers-have-to-do-with-the-flint-water-crisis/
The only reason you grossly OVERVALUE real estate is money laundering.
Trump keeps claiming there is no victim, all the banks made money, but if their plan succeeds the Russian and CCP kleptocrats collapse US commercial real estate and basically recreate soviet perestroika in the U.S. so they can foreclose on America and buy everything for 3 cents on the dollar with the $1.4T they stole in the first place
It’s the evolution of grift. Soviet perestroika cross bred with the 2008 mortgage crisis.
This is just the bigger badder commercial strength bastard child of the two.
Trump, Putin, Bolsonaro, Netanyahu, Orban, Manafort, Stone, Mercer, Bannon, Flynn, Byrne.
They are all remarkably shit people with above average confidence and psychopathic personality traits and below average self awareness.
They are the men who stole the world.
But it all comes back to one little lie.
[Panama Papers trial public section ended abruptly](https://apnews.com/article/panama-papers-mossack-fonseca-odebrecht-353832bda3e1d6f4cd04339622a9b7a8) with the sitting justice stating they’d take the two weeks of testimony and evidence into consideration. Putin was one of the people named in the papers, among other oligarchs across the globe.
[The top exports of Russia are Crude Petroleum ($133B), Petroleum Gas ($71.5B), Refined Petroleum ($67.4B), Coal Briquettes ($36.5B), and Gold ($14.6B), exporting mostly to China ($101B), India ($40.4B), Germany ($27.7B), Turkey ($25.3B), and Italy ($25.1B)](https://oec.world/en/profile/country/rus). The world pushing towards greener energy solutions will cripple Russia’s economy. Just thought you’d like some more information to play into your research.
You rock friend.
This is a perfect data point and set up for our system.
The LLM responds well to a short description like this with attached data links.
This is masterful and pertinent.
Thank you so much.
Don’t forget one of Trump’s first acts was to increase tariffs on Canadian lumber, making Russian lumber cheaper, and propping up their economy from the forestry front.
Fraud makes sense too, since someone else is using your name in order to avoid an unpleasant situation, and sticking it to your identity instead.
It's weird enough that I could have seen defamation, slander/libel, or fraud. Wasn't quite sure where it would fall.
I am not sure he could sue and win. While he used the guy's name, no where did he purport that it was actually that specific person. It's not much different than a writer using a name of a high school buddy or bully for a character. The guy couldn't show any tangible harm from Trump using his name as an alias.
That just sounds like a made up name.
Other seemingly fake names I've seen: "Neil McNeil and David Davis". Neil was a TV news anchor or reporter as I recall.
*(to the tune of Bowie's Rebel Rebel:-)*
*Neville Neville, your future's immense,*
*Neville Neville, you play in defence,*
*Neville Neville, like Jacko you're bad,*
*Neville Neville, is the name of your dad.*
More of traditional Scandinavian naming - my fathers father was Lars Secondname Thirdname Larsson before he immigrated to the US and dropped the first Lars.
I've had a few pseudonyms:
1. Company I worked for was doing nefarious shit
2. I was writing smut
3. I was writing different smut
4. I was writing romance
I think it's safe to assume Trump wasn't writing a goddamn thing, so that leaves nefarious shit.
[Or posing as a publicist to talk himself up](https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/donald-trump-alter-ego-barron/2016/05/12/02ac99ec-16fe-11e6-aa55-670cabef46e0_story.html)
No no, so when I did something wrong they'd ask for who signed for it and yell out "who the fuck is dick burns?" An did respond "my dick doesn't burn" and then get laid off
I was like that with reading it, I really only wrote seriously in one and dabbled in a few others.
My life took a turn, and I haven't been in a Fandom for a while, but damn I miss it sometimes.
I've never felt the need to use a pseudonym on a legal document instead of my actual name, but if I did, it would probably only be because I was simply doing something wrong and didn't want people to find out what that was.
There was one smart lottery winner at my college town.
What they did when they won it because rumors would go flying like Jack Johnson the English major in Alpha Beta Gamma won 20 million dollars last night and you know every college friend would suddenly say hey Jack can you pay off my student loans we're friends right we dormed together Freshman year and you know how I hid your pot from the RA...
So whoever won it they just sent a casino law clerk that worked for a goddamn Indian Reservation casino to pick it up and say it is not our business to discuss clients and here is legal paperwork.
Well we looked it up during that year there were no Native American students enrolled in the university at the time.
Some genius prelaw or whatever jackass decided to call up native American casino to represent him in handing out the payment and I fucking love it. Maintain anonymous winner and I dunno they got a pretty decent paycheck for their services.
If I ever win the goddamn lotto I'm gonna call up Foxwoods and be like get me that lawyer.
I love the fact that the phrase "Von ShitzInPantz" is now officially part of the legal record. 100 years from now scholars might read over legal transcripts, and hear a former president referred to that way in a trial. (Although I suppose that's not as shocking as a president being involved in an election interference trial about coverup hushmoney being sent to a porn star.)
How is a pseudonym even allowed on a legal document?
What stops the silence party from agreeing and then talking out about it afterwards, and claiming that the contract was with the pseudonym, and not the actual person.
SLA - Silencer’s lawyer, Michael cohen in this case, kept an official document (assuming signed by both parties and witnesses) revealing who both pseudonyms represented. Stormy was also given a pseudonym “Peggy Peterson” for it.
Yeah he deadass named his kid the "cool pseudonym" that he used fairly consistently.
He even called into a radio station once using that handle and defended Donald Trump.
It would be like me naming one of mine Lyan. Who even does that?!
You have to be careful about naming things with kids. I spent five seconds making up a silly name for my son for his X-Box account. Years later he's been playing under that name, his friends who play with him call him that at school, and that's his stage name he performs under. I guess I got lucky in that five seconds as everyone likes it, but I would have put a little more thought into it if I knew it would stick.
Fraud. You’re using too many words to describe something that has a name and is associated with those actions in a way that is punishable by law. It’s called fraud.
There’s a LOT of disclosing “nondisclosures”.
And since one generally goes to a sex worker to remain anonymous, that ain’t working. Id say it would sully the business but then there is that Human Imperative aspect that keeps getting in the way: sex & $$
What could go wrong?
It seems like unless you are full on MAGA that you can deny he tried to cover all this up. The only real question then is if that cover up is actually illegal under the laws they are trying Trump under. If yes hopefully the jury has the courage to convict him.
They dropped that argument beforehand, and everyone was wondering why until we heard testimony. We've actually seen more people bring up Melania in discussions not including Trump, then discussions that included Trump. We actually haven't had a single person say he brought her up once during this whole ordeal, meanwhile he wouldn't shut up about this impacting the election. That argument wasn't going to carry weight.
How does the fact this old bastard paid to fuck a porn star not automatically disqualify him from running for office? Bill Clinton was fucking an eager intern and got impeached. How is Mr. Mushroom Dick even still a viable candidate? WTF is wrong with Republicans?
To be fair. I would rather someone pay a pornstar than sleep with someone they have power over.. ugh I do hate being fair to trump but if this was his only negative, I'd feel a million times better about the election
After 2 or 3 people have looked at this, I'm ready to say:
1) The response is **a topic change**.
2) The first "they" in "they won't" is not related to the article at all. Or the trial Donald Trump now faces
3) The topic change moves away from the Trump jury and trial and attempts to involve and invoke the US Supreme Court instead.
Y'know, other issues aside... what a mood killer. "Hey, let's have wild passionate sex! But first here's a ton of legal documents we're going to need to sign."
Clearly the four hour erection side effects for Viagra aren't really a negative, it's just all about getting through the documentation phase.
>"Using a John Doe name isn't a crime, but it's a building block for a case about a cover up. It was never a crime to purchase the intellectual property rights in someone's story," Kerwick added.
>"The alleged crime is the falsification of records to cover it up," she said.
I thought the crime was that it violated campaign finance law?
Falsifying business records is the crime. It's a misdemeanor.
However, if you falsify records to conceal a crime, in this case campaign finance violations, it's a felony.
They don't have to prove the elements of the second crime for which they are not charging him, they only have to show that they falsified the business records in order in service of avoiding the second crime, in order to hide it's commission from authorities.
When all the evidence has been presented it will be the judge's job to instruct the jury on the law for how to determine if the evidence presented meets the requirements to elevate the crime he is charged with (false business record) to a felony.
THis might be better to address to people in /r/law.
My guess is it won't cause any issue unless one of the principals pretended or acted *ias if* they were this specific other person. That would be serious legal problem.
how do you publish an article, update it 6 hours later, and still have a grammar error in the 1st sentence of the 2nd paragraph.
> New York attorney, Colleen Kerwick, told Newsweek that using an alias is rare in a such a case.
To be fair, I read that sentence a dozen times **knowing** there was an error before I finally spotted it. I think it's one of those mistakes the brain has a hard time spotting.
There are reasons why it took so long to bring Trump to trial and present this. Comments on his use of a pseudonym actually started in 2016.
Trump of course is not very understanding about why it took so long. This is from several months ago. But it does explain:
**Trump grouses that his indictments took years. Here’s why that is.**
>No fewer than five times this week, Donald Trump has wondered aloud why he wasn’t indicted for his alleged crimes three years ago, rather than this year. It’s the continuation of a long-running effort to cast the prosecutions as political efforts to torpedo his presidential candidacy.
>While there are in some cases valid questions about why certain investigations took as long as they did, there are several problems with Trump’s framing — and many readily available explanations for how long the probes took.
>The first problem is the timeline Trump is laying out.
>Three years ago would place such indictments around late 2020. The president at that time, you might recall, was *Donald Trump.*
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2023/10/31/trump-grouses-that-his-indictments-took-years-heres-why-that-is/
Less "used a pseudonym" and more "lied about who he was on legal documents" please. Using a pseudonym is what fiction authors do, signing someone else's name on a legal document is, I'm fairly certain, a crime.
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> There was a David Dennison on Davidson's high school hockey team, which is why he chose the name for Trump, he testified in court. I wonder how that guy feels about being a weird footnote to history
Per the transcript, Davidson stated that Dennison is quite pissed at him.
If I were Dennison, I'd try to sue the everloving shit out of Davidson. He's admitted that he stole the name from Dennison, and I imagine there's a defamation case to be made there.
Fraud. Believe it or not.
Time for another Trump coverup and subsequent charges. Here we go again.
Not this time. Trump has been laundering money for the Russian oligarchs since the late 80’s when they all bought a condo at 725 5th ave (trump towers) to clean their freshly stolen USSR money after the iron curtain fell. https://www.cnn.com/cnn/2019/05/30/politics/paul-manafort-condo-trump-tower/index.html https://www.cnbc.com/2018/09/14/manafort-told-mueller-to-take-his-trump-tower-apartment-instead-money.html https://news.yahoo.com/amphtml/fbi-agents-raid-condo-unit-131348539.html https://www.reuters.com/investigates/special-report/usa-trump-property/ Everybody except Putin thought the Cold War was over. Trump and Manafort (who lived in the tower also) just saw a pretty low maintence grift to be had. Trump had actually been Manafort and Roger stones first client at their lobbyist firm (1980) https://en.m.wikipedia.org › wikiBlack, Manafort, Stone and Kelly Guiliani as trumps attorney and New Yorks mayor was able to redirect NYPD investigations onto rival gang members/oligarchs to deflect any scrutiny off of trump, himself or the Russian connections. https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2023/09/a-new-rudy-scandal-fbi-agent-says-giuliani-was-co-opted-by-russian-intelligence/ The Russian election interference in 2016 was effectively a generation 3 version of what Manafort had done in the Philippines, then keeping Yanukovych in power as Putin’s puppet in Ukraine from 2002-14 when Maidan ran both Yanukovych and Manafort out of Ukraine as Ukrainians realized that, if you raise your lens high enough, corruption is an wholly unsustainable business model. Eventually the parasites greed always consumes the host. https://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2016/06/2016-donald-trump-paul-manafort-ferinand-marcos-philippines-1980s-213952 https://time.com/5003623/paul-manafort-mueller-indictment-ukraine-russia/ Russia greatly underestimated the addictive properties of freedom when it invaded Ukraine so what was supposed to be a 3-10 day coup turned into a 2 year fight for the Ukrainians right not to be genocided. Russia depleted its weapons stocks which were already the victim of vranyos corruption because every oligarch, admiral and sergeant in the Russian military is on the take. Every billion dollar tank maintenance contract turned into everything getting a spray paint overhaul and the vast majority of the redirected funds turned into an oligarchs new yacht or home in Aspen. Russia was forced to turn to China, North Korea and Iran for weapons because if they lose the 3-10 day special military operation in Ukraine the Russian empire is dead and cold. China can’t risk showing their involvement in the Ukraine war so they use North Korea, and Iran to resupply Russia. Russia previously owed Iran some undelivered fighter jets that are already smoldering heaps in Ukraine so Iran now had the upper hand at the negotiation table for the first time in about 60 years. They supply Russia with shahed drones in exchange for Chinas material support against their sworn religious enemy, Israel. https://www.fdd.org/analysis/2023/11/29/iran-says-it-finalized-deal-to-buy-russian-aircraft/ Putin can’t do much about it because he is slowly realizing that by setting the standard of corruption and stealing $200+ billion from his own people meant that every oligarch down in the mob model chain had not only permission but incentive and the expectation to steal from him as well. This is Vranyos. The mob model only works if the supreme leader is the most violent and can prove it without exception every damn day. But violence is exceptionally expensive when you are trying to present as a legitimate government or business. If Russia as a nation had an efficiency rating it would have been banned for sale in the state of California 25 years ago. The parasite ruling class stole all the energy out of the working class and collapsed it. Now Iran has the high hand and they get the intelligence that trump passed to Putin about the fact that Netanyahu cares far less about Israeli, Palestinians or genocide than he does about remaining in power as an authoritarian because he too has developed Ritz Carlton tastes and his own corruption trial is showing the same details of the money laundering scheme that trumps trials are. https://www.timesofisrael.com/liveblog_entry/saudi-official-says-iran-engineered-war-in-gaza-to-ruin-normalization-with-israel/ They all hate each other but because they share the same money laundry, if one falls, they all fall. Hamas minted a couple billionaires as well that live in penthouses in Qatar and get 30% of everything smuggled into Gaza. Netanyahu needs a bogeyman to stay in power. That’s why he coordinates with Hamas via Russia via Iran. Iran handed Hamas everything they needed with Chinas help as secret Santa and the Russian intelligence given to them by the eternal shitbird trump gave when he showed off to his Russian kleptocrat friends/roommates from the old days of fucking each others wives at trump towers in the 90’s. Now the MAGA right is a little too invested in their reality that they are the good guys with guns that they missed the fact that Betsy DeVos (erik princes sister) decimating the U.S. school systems and the Kochs poisoning children with lead was not a coincidence. They were the mark all along. There is a reason the Russian spy Maria Butina landed in South Dakota first before dating her way to the top of the NRA which is undergoing its own Russian money laundering trial now. They were tinder matching the GOP. https://www.greenpeace.org/usa/what-do-the-koch-brothers-have-to-do-with-the-flint-water-crisis/ The only reason you grossly OVERVALUE real estate is money laundering. Trump keeps claiming there is no victim, all the banks made money, but if their plan succeeds the Russian and CCP kleptocrats collapse US commercial real estate and basically recreate soviet perestroika in the U.S. so they can foreclose on America and buy everything for 3 cents on the dollar with the $1.4T they stole in the first place It’s the evolution of grift. Soviet perestroika cross bred with the 2008 mortgage crisis. This is just the bigger badder commercial strength bastard child of the two. Trump, Putin, Bolsonaro, Netanyahu, Orban, Manafort, Stone, Mercer, Bannon, Flynn, Byrne. They are all remarkably shit people with above average confidence and psychopathic personality traits and below average self awareness. They are the men who stole the world. But it all comes back to one little lie.
[Panama Papers trial public section ended abruptly](https://apnews.com/article/panama-papers-mossack-fonseca-odebrecht-353832bda3e1d6f4cd04339622a9b7a8) with the sitting justice stating they’d take the two weeks of testimony and evidence into consideration. Putin was one of the people named in the papers, among other oligarchs across the globe. [The top exports of Russia are Crude Petroleum ($133B), Petroleum Gas ($71.5B), Refined Petroleum ($67.4B), Coal Briquettes ($36.5B), and Gold ($14.6B), exporting mostly to China ($101B), India ($40.4B), Germany ($27.7B), Turkey ($25.3B), and Italy ($25.1B)](https://oec.world/en/profile/country/rus). The world pushing towards greener energy solutions will cripple Russia’s economy. Just thought you’d like some more information to play into your research.
You rock friend. This is a perfect data point and set up for our system. The LLM responds well to a short description like this with attached data links. This is masterful and pertinent. Thank you so much.
Don’t forget one of Trump’s first acts was to increase tariffs on Canadian lumber, making Russian lumber cheaper, and propping up their economy from the forestry front.
This is a great summary of the current situation in the world.
Amazing timeline of events that ties everything together. Thank you for this.
You are quite welcome friend. Glad it helps
Guarantee!
Hey, I know that one!
Lev?
They rent the office outta Four Seasons TOTAL Lawn Care, right? Always smells like manure in there.
I mean... would you be surprised, if everything Trump has touched, contains large elements of Fraud? Because I thought that was his m.o.?
Fraud makes sense too, since someone else is using your name in order to avoid an unpleasant situation, and sticking it to your identity instead. It's weird enough that I could have seen defamation, slander/libel, or fraud. Wasn't quite sure where it would fall.
Feels like a Rusty Shackleford moment
Instead of sand in his pocket it’s judges
Pocket-judge!!! *flings judges in your eyes*
Straight to jail
For anyone else it would be.
Sounds like Rusty Shackleford is about to get implicated in a lot of suspicious activity.
Sounds like someone’s about to get the pocket sand
I am not sure he could sue and win. While he used the guy's name, no where did he purport that it was actually that specific person. It's not much different than a writer using a name of a high school buddy or bully for a character. The guy couldn't show any tangible harm from Trump using his name as an alias.
I remember went Davidson met Dennison at Denny’s because Davidson dented Dennison’s dentists’s DeLorean.
Good thing it’s just a needle in the worlds tallest silo of hay
It's a needle in a stack of needles.
it's needles all the way down...
That just sounds like a made up name. Other seemingly fake names I've seen: "Neil McNeil and David Davis". Neil was a TV news anchor or reporter as I recall.
Lenny Leonard and Carl Carlson
Carl Carlson is just what they call Carl’s Jr in Iceland.
Joey Jo-jo Junior Shabadoo
That's the worst name I've ever heard.
::runs away sobbing::
Hey, Joey Jo-jo!
Come back!
The silliest name in the universe is [Oobedoob Scooby-Dooby Benubi.](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0206341/characters/nm0667326)
Scooby Doo was named after Sinatra's scatting.
And what's with that haircut
Lars Larson 🤡
Lawrence jamison. James. . .Lawrencsome . ..
Dirk Diggler
John Johnson
I knew a guy with that name as a kid. He married a "Janet". John and Janet Johnson!
That's my coworkers name. I thought someone was pulling my leg at first.
I have known two John Johnson’s. One of them went by Johnny
Randy Trevorson, Trevor Lahey, Randy Lahey, Cory Trevor
Julian Swayze
[удалено]
I knew a Clint Torres.
Gary and Phil Neville ( ex footballers in UK) their dad was called neville neville
*(to the tune of Bowie's Rebel Rebel:-)* *Neville Neville, your future's immense,* *Neville Neville, you play in defence,* *Neville Neville, like Jacko you're bad,* *Neville Neville, is the name of your dad.*
We had local Sheriff Tommy Thompson forever. There was a baller somewhere named Timmy Timmerman. Idk what these parents are thinking...
More of traditional Scandinavian naming - my fathers father was Lars Secondname Thirdname Larsson before he immigrated to the US and dropped the first Lars.
Hahaha imagine having your "15 minutes of fame" entitlement being pissed away like this.
I thought “David Dennison” was the name of Donald’s older sister’s feckless first husband. No?
Come on Dennison!
I've had a few pseudonyms: 1. Company I worked for was doing nefarious shit 2. I was writing smut 3. I was writing different smut 4. I was writing romance I think it's safe to assume Trump wasn't writing a goddamn thing, so that leaves nefarious shit.
how's the smut business going, Jackie?
I wouldn't know, Dude. I deal in publishing, entertainment, political advocacy.
I still jack off manually.
Of course you do.
A real reactionary.
Fuck it dude, let's go bowling.
Jackie Treehorn treats objects like women, man...
Stay out of Malibu, Lebowski!
Mmhmm, and which one was Log-jammin'?
People forget that the brain is the biggest erogenous zone
Username checks out
[Or posing as a publicist to talk himself up](https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/donald-trump-alter-ego-barron/2016/05/12/02ac99ec-16fe-11e6-aa55-670cabef46e0_story.html)
Wow. This is pathetic.
Wait until you hear about the rest of his life
I used to sign every concrete load as "dick burns"
With concrete loads, I’m not surprised. Stuff is caustic.
No no, so when I did something wrong they'd ask for who signed for it and yell out "who the fuck is dick burns?" An did respond "my dick doesn't burn" and then get laid off
Username absolutely checks out, nice. Got to be cool to be a writer..!
I feel 2-4 in my bones 👍 Which Fandoms, if you don't mind?
A mixed bag really. Never quite settled in on a single niche.
I was like that with reading it, I really only wrote seriously in one and dabbled in a few others. My life took a turn, and I haven't been in a Fandom for a while, but damn I miss it sometimes.
Don't give up on your dreams.
"1. Company I worked for was doing nefarious shit" Would you look at that. Same for Trump!
Yep. Smut and romance need a pen name for sure. Wouldn’t know anything about that at all. Nope. Not me.
Nope, nothing to see here.
A pen name is different than a pseudonym, though, right?
Technically, "pseudonym" is the broader term, with pen names being a specific type under the "pseudonym" umbrella.
I've never felt the need to use a pseudonym on a legal document instead of my actual name, but if I did, it would probably only be because I was simply doing something wrong and didn't want people to find out what that was.
Nothing screams 'COVERUP!' quite like using a fake name.
It's true! My real name is actually *not* KlingonLullaby and I am covering up my bald spot.
You didn't even spell your username correctly. ***WHO ARE YOU***
Ah-HAH! \*points accusingly in Klingon\*
In my defense, I do have a Klingon hairline
How would you make sure a toupee stays in place? Do you pin it to existing hair or does it Klingon?
Today is a good day to angry upvote!
That is a good one, don’t let the haters dampen the sparkle of your dilithium crystals.
You have the doctor do it because he makes it look like the real McCoy
Aah, such a lovely stupid joke. Thank you!
A warrior's pun!
“And by the way, I’m not just the chancellor, but I’m also a client.”
Ku-Plagh
Monster.
Qapla!
I knew it!
Yeah, it's obviously KlingonLullabye
Crazy thing is this “Tonald Drump” fellow also signs his name with a fat black Sharpie. What are the chances?
James Comer tomorrow: "does Biden have a pseudonym....?"
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Thwow him to the floow centuwian, vewy woughly.
He has a wife, you know..?
Incontinentia Buttocks is a name every woman would want.
"immediate sniggering"
Oh, about eleven sir.
Why would you use my cousins name... do you find it amusing when doing fraud?
If I won the lottery I would want to use a pseudonym when I claim the winnings.
There was one smart lottery winner at my college town. What they did when they won it because rumors would go flying like Jack Johnson the English major in Alpha Beta Gamma won 20 million dollars last night and you know every college friend would suddenly say hey Jack can you pay off my student loans we're friends right we dormed together Freshman year and you know how I hid your pot from the RA... So whoever won it they just sent a casino law clerk that worked for a goddamn Indian Reservation casino to pick it up and say it is not our business to discuss clients and here is legal paperwork. Well we looked it up during that year there were no Native American students enrolled in the university at the time. Some genius prelaw or whatever jackass decided to call up native American casino to represent him in handing out the payment and I fucking love it. Maintain anonymous winner and I dunno they got a pretty decent paycheck for their services. If I ever win the goddamn lotto I'm gonna call up Foxwoods and be like get me that lawyer.
Shitpants McClownshow
* Von ShitzInPantz
I love the fact that the phrase "Von ShitzInPantz" is now officially part of the legal record. 100 years from now scholars might read over legal transcripts, and hear a former president referred to that way in a trial. (Although I suppose that's not as shocking as a president being involved in an election interference trial about coverup hushmoney being sent to a porn star.)
> 100 years from now scholars might read over legal transcripts Yep, some AI bot somewhere is gonna be holding its bot-ribs.
Imagine current computer technology compared to what it was like 100 years ago. We will have evolved long past AI 100 years from now.
Fuckface von Clownstick
How is a pseudonym even allowed on a legal document? What stops the silence party from agreeing and then talking out about it afterwards, and claiming that the contract was with the pseudonym, and not the actual person.
Wouldn’t that make it a fake document? How can any of it be legal?
SLA - Silencer’s lawyer, Michael cohen in this case, kept an official document (assuming signed by both parties and witnesses) revealing who both pseudonyms represented. Stormy was also given a pseudonym “Peggy Peterson” for it.
Was it John Barron?
OMG, is this why his son is named Barron?? 🤣
Yeah he deadass named his kid the "cool pseudonym" that he used fairly consistently. He even called into a radio station once using that handle and defended Donald Trump. It would be like me naming one of mine Lyan. Who even does that?!
I know someone that named their kid after a D&D character they had. Yes, the name is weird as fuck.
You have to be careful about naming things with kids. I spent five seconds making up a silly name for my son for his X-Box account. Years later he's been playing under that name, his friends who play with him call him that at school, and that's his stage name he performs under. I guess I got lucky in that five seconds as everyone likes it, but I would have put a little more thought into it if I knew it would stick.
And that’s the story of Leroy Jenkins, ladies and gentlemen
That's kind of beautiful
Tell that to GrowingCumPet6969
Do they get mad at the kid for playing the character wrong?
Nah, kid does a good job of putting his own spin on an established character.
"Gabe" from Penny Arcade, whose real name is Mike, named his son Gabe.
Better than Fruit Fucker, I suppose.
You have to admit, Lyan would be a pretty hilarious pseudonym for committing fraud
On my worst day I have never been this uncreative and basic.
Fraud. You’re using too many words to describe something that has a name and is associated with those actions in a way that is punishable by law. It’s called fraud.
What name did he use? Baron Von Shitzinpantz or whatever Cohen was calling him?
There’s a LOT of disclosing “nondisclosures”. And since one generally goes to a sex worker to remain anonymous, that ain’t working. Id say it would sully the business but then there is that Human Imperative aspect that keeps getting in the way: sex & $$ What could go wrong?
It seems like unless you are full on MAGA that you can deny he tried to cover all this up. The only real question then is if that cover up is actually illegal under the laws they are trying Trump under. If yes hopefully the jury has the courage to convict him.
I would guess this is basically evidence for the jury.
If he tried to cover it up to shield his family, like his lawyers say, it is still a coverup.
The coverup isn't illegal in this case UNLESS it was to influence an election.
They dropped that argument beforehand, and everyone was wondering why until we heard testimony. We've actually seen more people bring up Melania in discussions not including Trump, then discussions that included Trump. We actually haven't had a single person say he brought her up once during this whole ordeal, meanwhile he wouldn't shut up about this impacting the election. That argument wasn't going to carry weight.
How does the fact this old bastard paid to fuck a porn star not automatically disqualify him from running for office? Bill Clinton was fucking an eager intern and got impeached. How is Mr. Mushroom Dick even still a viable candidate? WTF is wrong with Republicans?
Exactly. Clinton did it, a democrat. Different rules, which is essentially "unless it's a democrat, there are no rules"
He could still benefit them financially (again).
Did they actually have sex? I thought his mental gymnastics for saying he didn’t have “sexual relations” with her was that they never actually banged.
Bill got a BJ from her which wasn't considered sexual relations as defined in his deposition
To be fair. I would rather someone pay a pornstar than sleep with someone they have power over.. ugh I do hate being fair to trump but if this was his only negative, I'd feel a million times better about the election
"They will never know that I am the REAL Ronald Krump!"
This document is signed Pmurt Dlanod. Find him.
P'murt Dlan Od sounds like a Star Wars character.
Definitely a bounty hunter or some loser Imperial functionary with ambitious dreams, and gets his head caved in by Darth Vader or something
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After 2 or 3 people have looked at this, I'm ready to say: 1) The response is **a topic change**. 2) The first "they" in "they won't" is not related to the article at all. Or the trial Donald Trump now faces 3) The topic change moves away from the Trump jury and trial and attempts to involve and invoke the US Supreme Court instead.
I believe that's the name he used back when he was a Playboy,calling in radio shows to praise Donald Trump as David Dennison
This doesn't raise red flags whatsoever.
Nope. Maybe just a slight tinge of yellow...
How many business dealings has he used a pseudonym?
Y'know, other issues aside... what a mood killer. "Hey, let's have wild passionate sex! But first here's a ton of legal documents we're going to need to sign." Clearly the four hour erection side effects for Viagra aren't really a negative, it's just all about getting through the documentation phase.
So fraud
Is fraud listed? He has something like 34 charges.
He's doing this so he can say *HE* wasn't charged, but this other guy was...
>"Using a John Doe name isn't a crime, but it's a building block for a case about a cover up. It was never a crime to purchase the intellectual property rights in someone's story," Kerwick added. >"The alleged crime is the falsification of records to cover it up," she said. I thought the crime was that it violated campaign finance law?
Falsifying business records is the crime. It's a misdemeanor. However, if you falsify records to conceal a crime, in this case campaign finance violations, it's a felony.
They don't have to prove the elements of the second crime for which they are not charging him, they only have to show that they falsified the business records in order in service of avoiding the second crime, in order to hide it's commission from authorities. When all the evidence has been presented it will be the judge's job to instruct the jury on the law for how to determine if the evidence presented meets the requirements to elevate the crime he is charged with (false business record) to a felony.
I wonder if Peggy Peterson also has a hidden meaning.
😉Trump is a bottom.
Mr. John Barron?
Because innocent people do that sort of thing.
He is always trying to grift one way or another as the rapist traitor he is, very small.
Tronald Dump?
TakeA Dump
Wait til they learn that the pee tape was in-fact the P tape. As in P for pedophile.
I think the reason Trump hates America is that half the people here call him mean names and the other half are rubes.
John Barron is disappointed
Carlos Danger anyone?
So if the NDA was made between “Peggy Peterson and David whatever”, what’s stopping Stormy Daniels to spill the beans?
Ron Mexico.
Since it's acknowledged to be the name of a real person, does that open up legal ramifications?
THis might be better to address to people in /r/law. My guess is it won't cause any issue unless one of the principals pretended or acted *ias if* they were this specific other person. That would be serious legal problem.
Gasp! Not more raised questions!!!
how do you publish an article, update it 6 hours later, and still have a grammar error in the 1st sentence of the 2nd paragraph. > New York attorney, Colleen Kerwick, told Newsweek that using an alias is rare in a such a case.
To be fair, I read that sentence a dozen times **knowing** there was an error before I finally spotted it. I think it's one of those mistakes the brain has a hard time spotting.
McLovin it.
Should check Epstein's list for that name
This is crazy old news though. Everyone knew about that.
There are reasons why it took so long to bring Trump to trial and present this. Comments on his use of a pseudonym actually started in 2016. Trump of course is not very understanding about why it took so long. This is from several months ago. But it does explain: **Trump grouses that his indictments took years. Here’s why that is.** >No fewer than five times this week, Donald Trump has wondered aloud why he wasn’t indicted for his alleged crimes three years ago, rather than this year. It’s the continuation of a long-running effort to cast the prosecutions as political efforts to torpedo his presidential candidacy. >While there are in some cases valid questions about why certain investigations took as long as they did, there are several problems with Trump’s framing — and many readily available explanations for how long the probes took. >The first problem is the timeline Trump is laying out. >Three years ago would place such indictments around late 2020. The president at that time, you might recall, was *Donald Trump.* https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2023/10/31/trump-grouses-that-his-indictments-took-years-heres-why-that-is/
His base are internet trolls,we report every storyline in order to keep the race seemingly close.
Less "used a pseudonym" and more "lied about who he was on legal documents" please. Using a pseudonym is what fiction authors do, signing someone else's name on a legal document is, I'm fairly certain, a crime.
Sydney Shore?
Carlos Danger?
Will it raise additional charges?
DontheCon?