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🟣 Former Vice President Mike Pence won’t appeal a judge’s decision ordering him to testify before a grand jury investigating January 6.
“Vice President Pence will not appeal the Judge’s ruling and will comply with the subpoena as required by law,” Pence spox Devin O’Malley said in a statement.
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🔴🔵🟢 On Tuesday, immediately after receiving the indictment against President Trump, TGP analyzed the document. What stuck out was that Soros-backed Manhattan DA Alvin Bragg claims in his charges that President Trump made the accounting entries himself related to this case.
🔻🔻 These are the 34 charges – they are related to 11 transactions. What’s the crime?
Here is a list in the order in which they are listed in the indictment:
🔻Feb 14
Invoice- Feb 14
Voucher -842457
Voucher- 842460
Check- 138
🔻March 16-17
Invoice- Feb 15
Voucher – 846907
Check 147
🔻June 19
Invoice- April 13
Voucher – 858770
Check – 2740
🔻May 22
Invoice – May 22
Voucher- 855331
Check – 2700
🔻June 16-19
Invoice – June 16
Voucher – 858772
Check – 2741
🔻July 11
Invoice- July 11
Voucher – 861097
Check – 2781
🔻Aug 1
Invoice – Aug 1
Voucher- 863641
Check- 2821
🔻Sep 11
Invoice – Sep 11
Voucher – 868174
Check – 2908
🔻Oct 18
Invoice – Oct 18
Voucher – 872654
Check – 2944
🔻Nov 20
Invoice – Nov 20
Voucher – 876511
Check – 2980
🔻Dec 1
Invoice – Dec 1
Voucher – 877785
Check – 3006
🟣 Many of these transactions appear to be monthly recurring fees being paid perhaps as a retainer? We just don’t know from the filing.
We also don’t know what the amounts are on these individual transactions.
But most notable is that the transactions are from 2017. This was when President Trump was in office and his sons were running his company. President Trump had nothing to do with these transactions.
These transactions also somehow impacted the 2016 election – but they were made in 2017?
And again, President Trump supposedly “made and caused a false record” when these entries were addressed which is insane because no CEO of any billion-dollar enterprise is booking entries in General Ledger (GL).
This doesn’t make sense. Invoices are support for entries posted in the GL when invoices are received. There is no transaction posted in the GL when an invoice is received. The invoice is forwarded to the department that would book the entry in the GL based on adequate support which includes the invoice.
Bragg claims that the invoices received trigger a transaction separate from the vouchers posted in the accounting system. This is not true. Therefore the 11 invoices received are not entries into the GL made by President Trump or anyone. They are documents received from the client. There is no record that is “made or caused” by the invoice independent of the voucher.
THIS IS TRULY THE DUMBEST CASE IN US HISTORY.
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💎❤️💎 Donald Trump's speech at Mar-a-Lago after leaving court :
The former President of the United States spoke to his supporters at Mar-a-Lago on Tuesday after leaving New York
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Donald Trump has surrendered to New York authorities at the Manhattan District Attorney’s Office, where he will be processed and later arraigned as the first former president to face criminal prosecution.
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cacophony (n) [uncountable, singular] (formal)
🇬🇧 /kəˈkɒfəni/
🇺🇸/kəˈkɑːfəni/
a mixture of loud unpleasant sounds
Examples:
1- After the explosion, there was a cacophony of screams and ambulance sirens.
2- Because Mrs. Thompson left her classroom unattended, she is the one responsible for the cacophony coming down from the class.
3- Her thoughts were interrupted by a cacophony of squawks and wings beating against the chicken coop walls.
4- Sometimes, it seems as though the dogs in our neighbourhood bark together to create a cacophony that wakes me up every morning.
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🍃🍃❤️❤️🍃🍃🍃🍃❤️❤️🍃🍃
Simple present tense
🍃🍃❤️❤️🍃🍃🍃🍃❤️❤️🍃🍃
💎🚨 The simple present tense is one of several forms of present tense in English. It is used to describe habits, unchanging situations, general truths, and fixed arrangements. The simple present tense is simple to form. Just use the base form of the verb: (I take, you take, we take, they take) The 3rd person singular takes an -s at the end. (he takes, she takes)
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GEM n.
📖 something that is very special or beautiful; a very helpful or special person
📌🎧 Ben, you’re a real gem!💎
📌 Every single ad in the campaign was a gem.
📌 Candour is the brightest gem of criticism.
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🍃🍃❤️❤️🍃🍃/eə/ [BE]🍃🍃❤️❤️🍃🍃
💎🚨 correct pronunciation of /eə/ [BE]
❤️ /eə/ bear, share, fair, mayor, there, their
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🍃🍃❤️❤️🍃🍃/ɔɪ/🍃🍃❤️❤️🍃🍃
💎🚨 correct pronunciation of /ɔɪ/
❤️ /ɔɪ/ coin, noise, voice, soya, toy, annoying
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🍃🍃❤️❤️🍃🍃/eɪ/🍃🍃❤️❤️🍃🍃
💎🚨 correct pronunciation of /eɪ/
❤️ /eɪ/ ace, name, cage, hate, play, stayed, great, faith, wait, eight, reindeer, they, grey
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🍃🍃❤️❤️🍃🍃/əʊ/ [BE]🍃🍃❤️❤️🍃🍃
💎🚨 correct pronunciation of /əʊ/ [BE]
❤️ /əʊ/ no, both, note, rope, explode, bolth, over, coat, oak, soul, shoulder, know, bowl, though
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🍃🍃❤️❤️🍃🍃/ɒ/ [got, box, coffee] [BE]🍃🍃❤️❤️🍃🍃
💎🚨 correct pronunciation of /ɒ/ ;
❤️ /ɒ/ not, gone, pottery, wanted, watch, quantity, cough
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🍃🍃❤️❤️🍃🍃/Ʌ/ [bus, cup, London]🍃🍃❤️❤️🍃🍃
💎🚨 correct pronunciation of /Ʌ/ ;
❤️ /Ʌ/ fun, ugly, love, colour, blood, flooding, tough, double
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🍃🍃❤️❤️🍃🍃/æ/ [hat, back, jam]🍃🍃❤️❤️🍃🍃
💎🚨 correct pronunciation of /æ/ ;
❤️ /æ/ mat, angry
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🍃🍃❤️❤️🍃🍃/e/ [red, check, leg]🍃🍃❤️❤️🍃🍃
💎🚨 correct pronunciation of /e/ ;
❤️/e/ red, yes, spread, head, many, any, friend, again, leopard, says
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🟣 Adult film actress Stormy Daniels reacted to former President Donald Trump’s arraignment in a Manhattan court on Tuesday with a vulgar tweet that gloated over not being “under arrest.”
“Y’all keep saying ‘c– dumpster’ like it’s a bad thing,” Daniels tweeted. “It’s definitely more fun being under my sexy man instead of under arrest.”
It’s unclear to whom she was directing the tweet.
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THERE’S MORE – Alvin Bragg’s Case Against Trump Shows Complete Ignorance and Manipulation of Basic Accounting
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In Tuesday’s paper:
- Women have whittled away at Trump’s power
- US organ transplant system to get a redo
- More than 1,000 trains derail yearly; deaths low
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Suspended LA Councilman Mark Ridley-Thomas Convicted in Federal Corruption Case
Suspended Los Angeles City Councilman Mark Ridley-Thomas was convicted March 30 of federal bribery and conspiracy charges, along with mail and wire fraud, stemming from his time serving on the county Board of Supervisors.
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💎🚨The simple present tense is used:
❤️To express habits, general truths, repeated actions or unchanging situations, emotions and wishes:
🚨I smoke (habit);
🚨I work in London (unchanging situation);
🚨London is a large city (general truth)
❤️To give instructions or directions:
🚨You walk for two hundred meters, then you turn left.
❤️To express fixed arrangements, present or future:
🚨Your exam starts at 09.00
❤️To express future time, after some conjunctions: after, when, before, as soon as, until:
🚨He'll give it to you when you come next Saturday.
🚨🚨Be careful! 🚨🚨 The simple present is not used to express actions happening now.
💎🚨Examples
❤️For habits
💎He drinks tea at breakfast.
💎She only eats fish.
💎They watch television regularly.
❤️For repeated actions or events
💎We catch the bus every morning.
💎It rains every afternoon in the hot season.
💎They drive to Monaco every summer.
❤️For general truths
💎Water freezes at zero degrees.
💎The Earth revolves around the Sun.
💎Her mother is Peruvian.
❤️For instructions or directions
💎Open the packet and pour the contents into hot water.
💎You take the No.6 bus to Watney and then the No.10 to Bedford.
❤️For fixed arrangements
💎His mother arrives tomorrow.
💎Our holiday starts on the 26th March
❤️With future constructions
💎She'll see you before she leaves.
💎We'll give it to her when she arrives
🚨💎Notes on the simple present, third person singular
🚨In the third person singular the verb always ends in -s:
💎he wants, she needs, he gives, she thinks.
🚨Negative and question forms use DOES (= the third person of the auxiliary 'DO') + the infinitive of the verb.
💎He wants ice cream. Does he want strawberry? He does not want vanilla.
🚨Verbs ending in -y : the third person changes the -y to -ies:
💎fly --> flies, cry --> cries
🚨🚨Exception 🚨🚨: if there is a vowel before the -y:
💎play --> plays, pray --> prays
🚨Add -es to verbs ending in:-ss, -x, -sh, -ch:
💎he passes, she catches, he fixes, it pushes
💎💎Examples💎💎
💎He goes to school every morning.
💎She understands English.
💎It mixes the sand and the water.
💎He tries very hard.
💎She enjoys playing the piano.
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🍃🍃❤️❤️🍃🍃
16 Tenses in English
🍃🍃❤️❤️🍃🍃
🚨Simple Present;
💎I play basketball every week.
🚨Present Progressive;
💎I'm playing basketball now.
🚨Simple Past;
💎I played basketball yesterday.
🚨Past Progressive:
💎I was playing basketball the whole evening.
🚨Present Perfect;
💎I have just played basketball.
🚨Present Perfect Progressive;
💎I have been playing basketball for 3 hours.
🚨Past Perfect;
💎I had played basketball before mary came.
🚨Past Perfect Progressive;
💎I had been playing basketball when Mary came.
🚨Future - will ;
💎I will play basketball next week.
🚨Future - going to;
💎I'm going to play basketball this afternoon.
🚨Future Progressive;
💎I will be playing basketball next Sunday.
🚨Future Perfect;
💎I will have played basketball by tomorrow.
🚨Conditional Simple;
💎I would play basketball.
🚨Conditional Progressive;
💎I would be playing basketball.
🚨Conditional Perfect;
💎I would have played basketball.
🚨Conditional Perfect Progressive;
💎I would have been playing basketball.
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🍃🍃❤️❤️🍃🍃 ʊә Sound: How to Pronounce The ʊә Diphthong (/ʊə/ Phoneme) 🍃🍃❤️❤️🍃🍃
🧨 ʊә sound, as in the words:
❤️during /’djʊәrɪŋ/
❤️security /sɪˈkjʊәrәti/
❤️poor /pʊә/
🍃🍃❤️❤️🍃🍃How to Pronounce the ʊә Sound🍃🍃❤️❤️🍃🍃
The ʊә sound is a diphthong which means it is a combination of two vowel sounds that are pronounced within the same syllable. The ʊә sound is a combination of /ʊ/ and /ә/.
Like vowels the diphthongs are all made through the mouth and are voiced which means that you vibrate you vocal chords to make the sound.
Unlike with vowels and consonants, when you pronounce a diphthong sound, your mouth will change position and shape as you say the sound, because they combine two vowel sounds. So as you say the /ʊә/ sound your mouth will start on the position of the /ʊ/ sound and finish on the position of the /ә/ sound.
So in this case our mouth goes from being almost closed with slightly rounded lips like we are going to kiss someone, /ʊ/, to being slightly open with relaxed lips, /ә/.
🍃🍃❤️❤️🍃🍃How the ʊә Sound is Spelled🍃🍃❤️❤️🍃🍃
One of the most difficult things about learning English is the spelling. This is because spelling is often not phonetic especially the vowels and diphthongs.
So you will find the /ʊә/ sound spelled many different ways. But it is often spelled with the letters “u”, “ou” or “o-o”, There are not many examples of this sound because it is not very common. In fact the three examples we just heard are the most important ones to know. Here they are again.
❤️during /’djʊәrɪŋ/
❤️hour /aʊә/
❤️security /sɪˈkjʊәrәti/
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🍃🍃❤️❤️🍃🍃/ɪə/ [BE]🍃🍃❤️❤️🍃🍃
💎🚨 correct pronunciation of /ɪə/ [BE]
❤️ /ɪə/ here, hero, beer, career, ear, fear, pier, cashier, weird
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🍃🍃❤️❤️🍃🍃/Ʌɪ/🍃🍃❤️❤️🍃🍃
💎🚨 correct pronunciation of /Ʌɪ/
❤️ /Ʌɪ/ like, write, ice, arrive, try, my, sky, shy, why, buy, height, aisle, beguile, sight
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🍃🍃❤️❤️🍃🍃/aʊ/🍃🍃❤️❤️🍃🍃
💎🚨 correct pronunciation of /aʊ/
❤️
/aʊ/ loud, round, out, cow, down, allow
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🍃🍃❤️❤️🍃🍃/ə/ [banana, doctor, under]🍃🍃❤️❤️🍃🍃
💎🚨 correct pronunciation of /ə/
❤️/ə/ arround, comma, begin, other, possible, official, director, particular
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🍃🍃❤️❤️🍃🍃/ɔ:/ [call, ball, talk]🍃🍃❤️❤️🍃🍃
💎🚨 correct pronunciation of /ɔ:/
❤️ /ɔ:/ sport, north, walking, chalk, tall, bought, thoughtful, caution, naughty, law, paw
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🍃🍃❤️❤️🍃🍃/ɑ:/ [car, after, ask]🍃🍃❤️❤️🍃🍃
💎🚨 correct pronunciation of /ɑ:/
❤️ /ɑ:/ path, staff, photograph, class, dance, start, market, heart, hearth, laughter, auntie, balm
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🍃🍃❤️❤️🍃🍃/ɜ:/ [bird, first, turn]🍃🍃❤️❤️🍃🍃
💎🚨 correct pronunciation of /ɜ:/
❤️/ɜ:/ urgent, fur, curse, eternity, nervous, commercial, bird, girl, virtue, early, learn, heard, work, word, worst, journey, courteous, journalist
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🍃🍃❤️❤️🍃🍃/ʊ/ [book, full, would]🍃🍃❤️❤️🍃🍃
💎🚨 correct pronunciation of /ʊ/
❤️ /ʊ/ put, pull, butcher, foot, stood, could, would, should, wolf
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