[doug from upland]

They have gone full Mao

[Chgogal]

Name the damn official.

[Texas Eagle]

Make them call their bluff, Mr President! Cancel the lease yourself and watch them squeal like stuck pigs.

[Secret Agent Man]

Breach of contract, probably

[griswold3]

Full blown vendetta

[BenLurkin]

How very....totalitarian...of them.

[stanne]

One wonders why they don’t wait until after the inauguration

[BiglyCommentary]

Does Palm Beach have a mayor? If so, Trump should do the Clint Eastwood thing (Carmel), run for mayor and fire all these weasels.

[JME_FAN]

This absolutely needs to stop right now. Somebody is going to get seriously hurt or killed if this witch hunt does not end. Republicans in Congress and in the various state legislatures need to bring this to a halt. Donald Trump and every member of his family should sue the crap out of these morons.

[RckyRaCoCo]

Bolsheviks going scorched earth...what’s next, take his pants?

[Alberta's Child]

Howard Falcon, the country’s chief assistant attorney, confirmed to the Palm Beach Post that a county official had contacted him about canceling the land contract for which the president pays the county $88,338 a month in rent.

You don't sign a "land contract" for this sort of thing.

It's called a ground lease, and if the county ever terminated it against the will of the other party it would cost them a staggering sum of money.

To illustrate how ridiculous this is ...

Can you imagine being the bank or commercial lender that extended a loan to build on a property that was subject to a 50-year (for example) ground lease, only to find that the owner of the land terminated the lease five or ten years into the deal? You'd never be able to borrow money to build anything on leased land if it were so easy to terminate the lease.

[Grampa Dave]

US takes back its assertion that Capitol rioters wanted to 'capture and assassinate' officials

CNN Digital Expansion 2018 Katelyn Polantz

By Katelyn Polantz, CNN

Updated 5:46 PM ET, Fri January 15, 2021

(CNN)Justice Department prosecutors have formally walked back their assertion in a court filing that said Capitol rioters sought to "capture and assassinate elected officials."

A federal prosecutor in Arizona asked a magistrate judge in a hearing on Friday to strike the line in a recent court filing about defendant Jacob Anthony Chansley, a man who is alleged to have led some in the crowd in the first wave into the Capitol with a bullhorn while carrying a spear and wearing a fur headdress.

The entire line the prosecutors want to omit from their court filing is: "Strong evidence, including Chansley's own words and actions at the Capitol, supports that the intent of the Capitol rioters was to capture and assassinate elected officials in the United States Government."

The stunning move comes a few hours after Michael Sherwin, the acting US attorney in Washington, DC, said at a press conference there was "no direct evidence of kill and capture teams" at this time in the siege of the Capitol building.

Excerpted:

https://www.cnn.com/2021/01/15/politics/capitol-capture-assassinate-elected-officials/index.html?utm_content=2021-01-15T15%3A20%3A10&utm_source=twcnnbrk&

[Twitmo]

So Teed off, maybe they should abolish the letter T.

[ml/nj]

I’m here in Palm Beach County for the Winter. I don’t suspect that this will be particularly popular.

ML/NJ

[conservative98]

Also both of Trump’s online stores are still down

[upchuck]

Nothing is more vindictive than a rat.

[chajin]

Keep pushing, keep pushing...

[terycarl]

Just when you think they couldn’t possibly become more stupid, they prove you wrong!!!!

[StAnDeliver]

Wow, sky's the limit on Trump's damages. Do it PBC.

Oh, wait. Breaking news LOFL...

Palm Beach County, Florida, sought to terminate a contract it has with one of President Donald Trump's golf courses, but an attorney for the region said Friday that it would not be possible.

Howard Falcon, chief assistant county attorney, told Newsweek that "there is no basis" for the county to end its lease with Trump International Golf Club in West Palm Beach.

"I reviewed the matter and concluded we do not have a basis for terminating the lease. Accordingly, I am not continuing to look into the possibility of severing ties," he said in a statement to Newsweek on Friday.

Falcon previously told the Palm Beach Post that an unnamed county commissioner asked him if it would be possible to cut ties with Trump."

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LOFL. Let's play spot the creep. Meet yer Palm Beach County Commissioners

Back Row: Maria G. Marino (R), Melissa McKinlay (D), Gregg K. Weiss (D), Maria Sachs (D)
Front Row : Vice Mayor Robert S. Weinroth (D), Mayor Dave Kerner (D), Mack Bernard (D)

[oblomov]

Plow up the golf course and salt the earth.