Little Trumps
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Matt DePerno has earned the endorsement of the Michigan Republican Party to take on incumbent Democrat Dana Nessel in November.
DePerno beat Tom Leonard in the second round of voting with 54% of the vote. Candidate Ryan Berman was eliminated in the first round.
President Donald Trump endorsed DePerno, going as far as hosting a rally for him in Michigan earlier this spring.
“He is really tough. And that’s just what you need,” Trump said. “He is a killer. We need a killer. And he’s a killer in honesty. He’s an honest, hard-working guy who is feared up here.”
The thing about Donald Trump is that a pretty good guide to the facts of any matter is to simply assume that the exact opposite of what he’s saying is the actual truth:
A Republican running to be Michigan’s top law enforcement official was fired from a law firm in 2005 after colleagues alleged he “padded” client billings for personal and professional benefit, according to court records reviewed by Bridge Michigan.
Matt DePerno, an attorney general candidate endorsed by former President Donald Trump, sued the firm over his firing and denied the allegations in court. But he told Bridge he cannot discuss details because of a confidential settlement.
DePerno is best known for defending former state Rep. Todd Courser after a 2015 sex scandal cover up and challenging Antrim County election results in a failed lawsuit that spawned ongoing conspiracy theories about the 2020 election. . . .
The Antrim County case made DePerno a national figure in Trump’s campaign to overturn the election but prompted criticism from a Republican-led Michigan Senate panel that accused him of making false claims for personal profit, echoing allegations that marred DePerno’s legal career nearly two decades earlier.
As a tax attorney who worked primarily in Kalamazoo and Van Buren counties, his legal career has been marked by discord. DePerno was fired from one law firm, fought over client records after leaving a second firm and was accused of assaulting a client amid a fee dispute, according to court documents and transcripts reviewed by Bridge.
DePerno “committed fraud, deceit and dishonesty with regards to bogus billing, duplicate billing and write offs, in addition to other wrongful acts,” his former law firm — Kreis, Enderle, Calendar and Hudgins PC – alleged in a 2006 legal filing.
Those allegations, contained in never-before-reported documents out of Kalamazoo County Circuit Court, were only made public because DePerno sued the firm in an attempt to cash out his shares and transfer the lease on a company vehicle that was repossessed after his firing. . . .
In a related case, involving a malpractice claim against DePerno, he argued the Kreis Enderle firm “invented a claim of misconduct” to deny him state unemployment benefits. DePerno was able to obtain jobless assistance by presenting paperwork to the state indicating he was fired for failing “to promote a harmonious relationship with the firm,” not fraud.
But court records show law firm colleagues confronted DePerno in October 2005 and presented him with evidence detailed in a “confidential memo” included in public filings, along with 190 pages of internal billing documents.
DePerno had “padded” billings, claimed “excessive” write offs, “manipulated” the firm’s timekeeping system and logged hours with no explanation, according to the interoffice memo prepared by Kreis Enderle administrator Mike Beam.
In at least one instance, DePerno “admitted that he falsified billing to a client’s account,” the law firm’s attorney said in a court filing.
The billing allegations could be a “disqualifying factor” for DePerno as a candidate, said John Truscott, a Republican public relations professional who served as press secretary under former Gov. John Engler.
“I think it’s extremely problematic,” Truscott told Bridge Michigan. “As attorney general, you’re the state’s chief law enforcement officer. If you can’t abide by the laws and the rules, how do you have the moral authority to prosecute criminals?”
Stop it, you’re killing me (soon no longer to be strictly a figure of speech).
Being an out and out crook not only isn’t disqualifying for Trumpian Republicans — a redundancy at this point obviously — it’s an almost literal requirement for his minions, who strive with each other to emulate their Master in this as in all other things.
One thing that continues to amaze me is the degree of denial among progressives regarding the practical fact that Trump is going to be the Republican nominee for president two years from now. Indeed there’s an air of deep absurdity to this debate, similar to debating whether Stalin was going to be able to squeak out a nomination from the Party Presidium in 1949 to continue to be the leader of his party, even though it was his party.
I get about twenty emails like this every week:
Friend,
Even after reaching out OVER 12 TIMES, your Trump Social Media Founding Supporter status is STILL PENDING.
What more do we need to do to convince you to take the final step and complete your transaction? President Trump and the rest of YOUR PARTY have been busy fighting back against the Big Tech CENSORS, and it’s time that you do your part.
Who is sending this email? If you think it’s being paid for by Donald Trump you just may be graduate of Bovine Trump University:
Paid for by the Republican National Committee
Not authorized by any candidate or candidate’s committee.
www.GOP.com
Donald Trump is the Republican party in 2022 and for the foreseeable future.
Grifters like DeSantis, Cruz, Hawley, etc., are trying to position themselves to grab the tiara should it tumble from Dear Leader’s magnificent coiffure, but that’s only going to happen when Trump is either dead, completely incapacitated physically and mentally, or in prison after the successful completion of Merrick Garland’s super secret and therefore all the more devastating investigation into the incredibly obscure and complex question of whether Donald Trump led a seditious attempt to overturn the 2020 presidential election, on live TV that one time.
Until then, it’s going to be little Trumps all the way down.