Petty Tyranny: New Jersey Looking Into Revoking Trump Golf Courses’ Liquor Licenses
“President Trump is not the holder of any liquor license in New Jersey, and he is not an officer or director of any entity that holds a liquor license in New Jersey – or anywhere in the United States for that matter”
As you undoubtedly recall from the covid plandemic, the power of the state was brought to bear on restaurants and bars that flouted the ludicrous, unscientific (as even Fauci has now admitted) restrictions and shutdowns by revoking liquor licenses (among other horrors) to bring to ruin small businesses.
Once Democrats find a way to harm people, via lawfare or other means, they gleefully embrace the means to their end. In this case, their end goal is the political (and financial) ruin of former president Donald Trump.
Enter the state of New Jersey, which is reportedly seeking to revoke the liquor licenses of the state’s Trump golf course. Because Orange Man Bad.
NJ reviewing Trump golf courses' liquor licenses after felony conviction https://t.co/iW0I3lt3rG
— Fox News (@FoxNews) June 11, 2024
This angle seems to have first been pursued in 2018 when Democrats demanded that Trump’s liquor license be revoked in DC. Because reasons. It didn’t work, of course, but now they have their (Trump approval boosting) mantra of “convicted felon” on which to hang their pointy banana republic hat.
The New Jersey Attorney General’s Division of Alcoholic Beverage Control (ABC) is reviewing the liquor licenses held by former President Donald Trump’s golf courses in the state following his criminal conviction in New York, the agency confirmed.
Trump holds three active licenses for Trump National Golf Club Colts Neck, Lamington Farm Club and Trump National Golf Club Pine Hill.
“ABC is reviewing the impact of President Trump’s conviction on the above referenced licenses, and declines further comment at this time,” a spokesperson for the agency said in an email.
Issuing a liquor license “to any person who has been convicted of a crime involving moral turpitude” is against the law in New Jersey. Applicants for a liquor license must have a reputable character and would be expected to operate the licensed business in a reputable manner, giving the division of alcoholic beverage control the discretion to consider Trump’s criminal history.
Team Trump was quick to point out the obvious.
One minor problem – President Trump is not the holder of any liquor license in New Jersey, and he is not an officer or director of any entity that holds a liquor license in New Jersey – or anywhere in the United States for that matter. Ask me how I know… https://t.co/FUPpdzcPTc
— Eric Trump (@EricTrump) June 11, 2024
The Trump Organization pushed back against the new probe into the liquor licenses of three Trump-owned golf courses in New Jersey, stating the inquiry is baseless as former President Trump is not the holder of the licenses.
“President Trump is not the holder of any liquor license in New Jersey, and he is not an officer or director of any entity that holds a liquor license in New Jersey – or anywhere in the United States for that matter,” a spokesperson for the Trump organization said in a statement to The Hill.
“These are some of the most iconic properties in the world, and reports like this do nothing but harm the thousands of hard-working Americans who derive their livelihoods from these spectacular assets,” the Trump Organization spokesperson wrote.
. . . . Upon being sworn into the White House in January 2017, Trump turned over management of the Trump Organization to his two sons Donald Jr. and Eric Trump.
Needless to say, people have thoughts.
It is hard to see how falsifying business records constitutes an act “of moral turpitude.” Yet, it seems that any act by Trump is by definition base, vile, and depraved. Lawfare is like binge drinking: the excess is the very measure of its success. https://t.co/yVYprKgwK7
— Jonathan Turley (@JonathanTurley) June 11, 2024
New Jersey is trying to pull the liquor license from Trump golf courses even though none of them are in his name.
If you can’t see how political this is, you’re blind
— 🇺🇸Travis🇺🇸 (@Travis_4_Trump) June 12, 2024
The deranged Democrats who run New Jersey are attempting to revoke President Trump’s liquor licenses. People who go out of their way to ruin people’s lives are sick individuals. The Left’s petty attitude towards Trump and his supporters is why America is turning against Biden. pic.twitter.com/U6G9qVJ6pw
— Charles R Downs (@TheCharlesDowns) June 11, 2024
New Jersey's Division of Alcoholic Beverage Control (ABC) reviewing liquor licenses held by Trump's golf courses
At what point are these people going to stop? I mean seriously
Truly sounds like those in the ABC and in government just want to villianize Trump from every angle… pic.twitter.com/RaS5MXvK7B
— ☕ Wαƙҽ Uρ NJ 🇺🇸 (@wakeupnj) June 11, 2024
So New Jersey ABC division makes announcement that they’re looking into taking Trump’s liquor licenses, but that they won’t be making any more announcements about it?
For whatever reason, Democrats have decided it is good for them to maintain persecution and Republican outrage. https://t.co/ArE5EJmvTf— GWardHome 🇺🇸🐊 (@gwardhome) June 11, 2024
It is odd that Democrats keep doubling down on ‘Get Trump’ despite clear evidence that it is not only not working but is actually creating more support for Trump, motivating Trump voters like never before, and alienating their own traditional base. It’s one of those head scratching things that makes you go “hmmm.”
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Basically, guilty of being Trump – again.
How about changing venue from NJ to conservative states? That would fix their wagons/
Trump Derangement Syndrome is a terminal. disease….. we need to be sure to help the worst affected through assisted deletion starting 2025.
“It won’t have any effect on any of the Trumps, but we’ll feel good about it.”
Will they try to use the 14th Amendment?
The 18th.
Thirteen ex-intelligence officials have signed a statement declaring that the 21st “has all the classic earmarks of a Russian disinformation operation.”
This will only get worse until red state Republicans start putting Democrats in prison.
Only if they do it for real, honest to goodness charges, and not equine exhaust stuff.
cant defeat the enemy playing by the rules that they give you
Nah, make it fake as hell and transparently so. Let them know without equification that we will play just as dirty as they want to
This is a basic rule of game theory. Want to stop your opponent from cheating? You don’t read the rules to him or explain why cheating is bad. You start cheating too. As soon as your behavior harms your opponent he’ll clean up his act because it benefits him, not you, to do so.
why should Republicans be held to a higher standard? Make up some BS and indict, just as the Dems do
There are, unfortunately, plenty of statutory and regulatory infractions to choose from. Finding an arguably ‘legitimate’ violation isn’t all that hard if one wanted to engage in a focused lawfare assault against a person encompassing every aspect of their personal and professional life.
The d/prog, their lapdog legacy media allies and others who stood aside while such tactics were used against Tom DeLay, Bob McDonald, Tom Stevens and now DJT don’t have any genuine grounds for complaining if the tables are turned by equally partisan Red State/Red County prosecutors. Goose, gander, pot, kettle, FAFO.
Since when have they ever required genuine grounds?
They do need to cite a crime to uphold an arrest …my point is the fact we have so many criminal statutes and regulations that it is very easy to pick one to use against a Citizen.
Then there’s the danger of non compliance with a mere regulation. Say you didn’t get a permit to put a shed on your property the city code enforcement goons issue a citation, you say eff you and refuse to obey….at some point LEO shows up to enforce it. Still feeling froggy? Ok, you gonna get involuntarily put into cuffs and arrested assuming you don’t get killed in the process.
That kind of crap goes on every day and so long as they can point to a genuine criminal or regulatory infraction as the original basis then they gonna get by with it. You’ll be lucky to have it overturned on appeal and qualified immunity is very difficult to pierce.
You can potentially beat the charge at or before trial but you ain’t gonna beat the ride to jail once LEO decide to make an example.
I would love to see Dems who have committed crimes in prison, hopefully a special prison in the middle of a desert.
Sheriff Joe’s still agitating and would welcome the work.
Don’t forget Steve stockman.
Since biden decided to ignore federal law and us scotus rulings and garland decided to ignore subpoena, then we should do the same.
“It is odd that Democrats keep doubling down on ‘Get Trump’ despite clear evidence that it is not only not working…”
That is how they do everything. Name one policy they give up on even when the evidence that it is counter productive is clear.
it is working
the time money energy is zapping americas exceptionalism by mindfoooking the children ( and lefty is stopping at the mind) and the courts and the military backing up the left
correction:
and lefty is NOT stopping at the mind
I was fixin’ to make the same comment.
Leftists keep this crap up, all they’re going to do is increase the animus of normal people, to the point where it won’t be safe for a leftist to show it’s face in public.
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We know where the 5th column communist rallies are. Some pro Israel protestors had the balls to do what needed to be done in Los Angeles. Do the rest of us not have the balls to crack some heads?
Let us hope.
NJ is the home of moral turpitude.
There’re times New Jersey makes Connecticut look good.
There’s no denying that the blue states are by far the most corrupt.
If there was a way to give an enema to our country, they’d insert the nozzle in New Jersey.
California is way worse, but I get you.
Daily it becomes more obvious that e pluribus unum is moot. We are separate, hostile factions and the odds of reconciliation are miniscule.
Subotai Bahadur
“odds of reconciliation are miniscule” Two options for the Left…. The Tito Yugoslavian version or the Soviet Eastern European subjugation version.
Considering who owns all the guns, I’m not sure how that works out for them
You can own all the guns in the world–if you’re not willing to fight because you’ll lose your job or you’ve got X or Y to take care of or some such other thing that has you sitting on the sidelines waiting for someone else to take the next shot heard round the world then all those guns don’t matter..
“…we mutually pledge to each other our Lives, our Fortunes and our sacred Honor.”
Can we do less?
“Celebrate Diversity” is a leftist pretty face for “divide and conquer”.
It’s NJ. Just BYOB.
Trump hasn’t been convicted of anything.
He has been found guilty by a jury, but he is not “convicted” until the judge in the case enters an order of conviction which is scheduled to happen on July 11, 2024 just prior to sentencing. (Assuming that there is not an appeal that wipes the whole thing out for any number of legitimate, legal reasons.)
Correct. The judge could enter an order of conviction or he could set aside the jury decision which is unlikely but could happen.
Somehow, they think it’s a winning argument that we should leave them in power because the operate without guard rails.
Do any of these idiots ever think to look at stuff before they make these announcements?
Dems pull a stunt like this in NJ and it might put the state in play in November. Governor Murphy only won re-election in 2021 over Ciattarelli by 3%. IMO the Dems ignore the recent EU election results at their great peril. They are the canary in the coal mine.
Not sure what the point to this is. Even it the licenses were removed it would only hurt businesses in New Jersey costing them much revenue and harden the opinions of everyone on the right that this is nothing but vindictive legal warfare. Those on the fence about it would most likely be even more likely to swing towards Trump as the faceless bureaucracy of the State could come after them next for anything. No one likes the faceless State.
IMO it is being explored/pursued by lefty totalitarian gov’t bureaucrats out of pure vindictiveness. They DAF how it appears to others outside their ideological ecosystem. In fairness the devout DJT supporters who get hostile to any less than positive observations about DJT operate with similar blinders.
Frankly the lines are already drawn about ‘orange man bad’ mania. Those who hate DJT will automatically find any criticism or action against him to be legitimate while his supporters will find any criticism of him intolerable. IMO 95%+ of the voting public have already adopted one of following ways of viewing/conceptualizing these lawfare tactics:
1. Trump haters will automatically approve
2. Trump supporters will automatically disapprove
3. A very few are able to remove the ideological blinders and evaluate each independently and fairly (most concluding that the lawfare so far is BS and this NJ action is another example of more BS)
4. A few simply don’t care anymore if they ever did
TL/DR – Those who already believe ‘orange man bad’ ain’t gonna change their minds nor will this (or other lawfare) change the mind of ardent Trump supporters and probably not anyone else who is either uncaring or those still willing to evaluate the lawfare skeptically.
Trump should simply install blind pigs in all of his clubs with the password, “Joe sent me.”
The left has led the country to a civil war
Not there yet. Although if there is a “CW-II” I suspect it will not be states formally seceding but rather something more unplanned, kinetic, deadly, and widespread; if we are on that path we are about at the equivalent phase as they were at the same point before the election of 1860.
Indeed, the election this coming November is likely to be the turning point. If there actually is an election that takes place and it is “postponed”, “delayed”, or the process “modified” in any way by the government, if the election is seen by a significant segment of the voting public to have been stolen (again), if anything untoward happens to the presumed Republican nominee Donald Trump (especially if it can be attributed in any way to the Coercive Organs of State Power or their allies on the Left), or if the supposed “opposition” the GOPe is considered by enough people to have collaborated with the Left to deliberately sabotage Trump; what would be the perception of the legitimacy of any subsequent administration/government?
Speaking purely theoretically, in such a contested governing mode what is the percentage of the population that considers the government NOT to be legitimate to make it in fact questionable? 10%? 25%? . . . .? And given the politicization of the Judicial Branch and legal system, the cowardice of the Legislative Branch, the examples of the corruption of the Executive Branch, and the perceived lack of integrity in the voting process; what alternatives remain?
That is where the actions and in-actions of the last half century or so have led us. We have foreclosed all the nonviolent options to fix things left to us by the Founding Fathers. If the “CW-II” does come, it will be closer to what is going on now in the Middle East than “CW-I” where civilians and innocents would have a chance to get out of the way. And the aftermath will not be conducive to peaceful reunification like after Appomattox, no matter who wins. I do not predict this with any joy. I have children and grandchildren who will have to live in the world to come.
Subotai Bahadur
When did we give the Government the authority to license everything?
We didn’t get to vote for the legislatures that passed those laws.
Our parents didn’t get to vote for the legislatures that passed those laws.
Our grandparents didn’t get to vote for the legislatures that passed those laws.
Unless you are as old as me, even your great-grandparents didn’t get to vote for the legislatures that passed those laws.
Don’t vote for anyone is will not vote to disassemble the Administrative State that exists to make rules to control we the people.
Rewrite the headline:
“NJ looking for licenses that no longer exist: Trump transferred his licenses before taking the oath of office as President.”