Former Trump campaign chairman Paul Manafort’s daughter has filed paperwork to officially change her last name, a move that would distance herself from her father, a convicted felon.
Jessica Manafort filed name-change paperwork in the Manhattan Supreme Court on Friday, according to multiple reports.
She is seeking to take her mother’s maiden name, Bond.
“I would like my new name to be Jessica Anne Bond, in place of my present name,” the 36-year-old wrote in the filing, adding that it “more closely suits [her] profession.”
Her profession is apparently not bribery, fraud, tax evasion, witness tampering, perjury, and treason, like her father.
Baud
This is what Ivanka should have done.
Paul Smirl
Bond, Jess Bond.
Major Major Major Major
So her profession is, what, spying for the Crown?
Corner Stone
@Baud: Can you make the application from a Fed Max facility?
Inventor
Bond, Jess Bond.
Corner Stone
@Major Major Major Major: I thought she was a Bail Bondsman type. Kind of still honors the family tradition at the same time.
dmsilev
@Baud: Is there any actual evidence, as opposed to PR spin, that she disagrees with Daddy’s views?
Inventor
Moderator: please delete my doppelganger’s post. I accidentally forgot to use my nom de plume…nom de post? Anyway, sorry.
MazeDancer
Watching the remarkable documentary “Active Measures” on Hulu. Manafort’s work for Yanukovych was reprehensible.
And Tad Devine was there helping. Which didn’t bother Bernie.
Also, John McCain was a true patriot when it came to Russia
Corner Stone
@dmsilev: Is she the one caught on recording saying daddy was the devil and he had blood on his hands re: Ukraine?
BruceFromOhio
@Inventor: Oooh, I dig the full out Jessica Bond. Anything in that British accent makes me shaken and stirred.
dmsilev
@Corner Stone: Ivanka? Not that I know of.
Amir Khalid
Is the soon-to-be Jessica Bond an intelligence officer, by any chance?
sukabi
@dmsilev: she might have said it while she was a teen as he was barging into her bedroom for a peek and feel, but I’m pretty sure she’s internalized that trauma and is hellbent on wearing the trump mantle….
Not sure which of Manafort’s daughters said he was the devil, but that daughter was promoting one of his schemes after she said it sooo…?
Elizabelle
I would think that providing the new name is NOT what you’d do. Especially with saying it’s the mother’s maiden name, the answer to a lot of security questions. Well done Jessica. This one should not take up a life of crime. Not devious enough. (Although Daddy is rather flagrant, thank dog for that.)
Ajabu
OT but important:
My Mentor, Hero & Best Friend RANDY WESTON – the last remaining genius of jazz piano – died yesterday
at the age of 92 (sitll performing on a regular basis). If you don’t know who he was, please google his name and find out why he is the most important musician of the 20th Century & beyond.
Later I’ll discuss Randy & Institutional racism. Not now.
Rest in Power, RW. I Love You, Man.
Steeplejack
@Baud:
Zelníčková? Yeah, no.
Mike in NC
Ten years from now Barron Trump will be shopping for a new last name as well.
Mnemosyne
@Elizabelle:
IIRC, part of the requirement for legally changing your name is providing the court with those kinds of answers, and the proceedings are part of the public record to make sure you aren’t trying to defraud people or dodge creditors by changing your name.
Chyron HR
@Mike in NC:
Ten years from now Donald Trump will be shopping for a new last name.
BruceFromOhio
@Amir Khalid: A bit of Googling reveals film-making, and a divorce.
trollhattan
@Chyron HR:
Being such a picture of health one presumes it will involve recarving his tombstone.
Steeplejack
@Ajabu:
He was a great one!
“In Memory Of.”
Steeplejack
@Mike in NC:
“Hi, I’m John Barron.”
Major Major Major Major
BruceFromOhio
From Paul Manafort’s Family: 5 Fast Facts You Need to Know.
Mandalay
@Chyron HR:
Even though he wears absurdly baggy, oversized suits to mask his obesity, every now and again Trump gets exposed on camera as being grossly overweight. I think there’s a fair chance that he won’t be alive ten years from now.
jk
@Chyron HR:
“Ten years from now Donald Trump will be shopping”
at a store located inside of a federal prison.
Steeplejack
@Steeplejack:
Randy Weston, “Ganawa (Blue Moses).”
Litlebritdifrnt
Watched an absolutely fascinating episode of Fake or Fortune, with two African American paintings Dido Bell was adopted by her Aristocratic Great Grand Father after his grand son had a child with an African Slave. It is an absolutely stunning painting. As is the second one, that depicted two absolutely beautiful Black female children, who is turns out was painted by Emma Jones an Anti Slavery campaigner in the 1800s. It really was fascinating and if you can find it on demand or Youtube, I would recommend it. I tried to find a Youtube link but unfortunately it gave me one of those click on things that ask you to subscribe.
Litlebritdifrnt
Oh DH just came down stairs to tell me a joke he had seen. Oprah, Barack Obama, A Child and Donald Trump are on a plane. The captain comes out and says the engine has failed we have to bail out. There are three parachutes. Oprah says I am rich, I should have one and bails, Trump says I am POTUS I should have one and bails, Obama says I am old, you could be the next POTUS you should take the last parachute, child says “no need, Trump took my backpack”. Love it.
Steeplejack
@Steeplejack:
Randy Weston, “A Ballad,”
Steeplejack
@Litlebritdifrnt:
Okay, that’s funny.
Ghost of Joe Lieblings Dog
@Mike in NC:
Harkonnen?
Because it’s an improvement?
Keith P
I was waiting for the punchline – “She changed her name to something less socially embarrassing – ‘Manfart’.” “Bond” was a bit of a letdown.
Major Major Major Major
@Litlebritdifrnt: ah, that’s an old one. Replace the characters as needed.
burnspbesq
@Ajabu:
What a silly thing to say.
Ruckus
@Major Major Major Major:
Still, an appropriate updating a historical mime.
Uncle Cosmo
@Litlebritdifrnt: That one is as old as passenger airplanes & parachutes. I heard one version a generation back in which Henry the K says I am the smartest man in the world, I must liff! & jumps out with the kid’s backpack.
It is my firm belief that there are no new political jokes except for those dependent upon some product or technology that hadn’t been invented before the year XXXX.
Ajabu
@Steeplejack:
An obvious fan, you are. And even more appreciated by me who only had a career because of Randy Weston.
Ajabu
@burnspbesq:
Go listen to “The Storyteller” and get back to me.
Fucking lawyers, what do they know?…
hilts
@Ajabu:
I loved Randy Weston’s music, but I take great exception with this remark. What about Herbie Hancock, McCoy Tyner, and Keith Jarrett?
Ajabu
@burnspbesq:
Now that I’m a little less emotional, an update to your comment:
Hyperbole?, perhaps… Silly?, hell no.
efgoldman
@Ajabu:
I’m not a lawyer, so whadda’ I know….other great American musicians, not necessarily keyboard artists, named Gershwin and Bernstein….
efgoldman
@efgoldman: There ere supposed to be werdz in that ellipsis.
J R in WV
I think that at any given time there are so many timeless musicians performing, some of whom have not even recorded, that comparing them to one another is… silly.
Plus on any given night, one may be supreme — and they all have different styles which change daily depending upon what they heard yesterday, or thought up just now.
takebakawashi
Manafort’s heinous treatment of his wife may play a role in this decision. It’s sordid.
burnspbesq
@Ajabu:
Would you like the list chronological, alphabetical, or by instrument?