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JARED KUSHNER HAS CREATED A SHELL COMPANY TO FUNNEL CAMPAIGN CASH TO FAMILY MEMBERS.
Donald Trump and his family have spent the last four years making the airtight case that they view the presidency as simply a means to enrich themselves and their associates. They probably don’t particularly like that reputation and, yet, it hasn’t stopped them from funneling taxpayer money to their private business, gouging the Secret Service, and raising legal defense funds that the fine print says could go directly to their pockets. Oh, and, according to a new report, setting up a shell company that spent hundreds of millions of campaign dollars to pay Trump family members along with other expenditures it seemingly wanted to keep under wraps.
According to Business Insider, first son-in-law Jared Kushner personally approved the creation of the company, incorporated as American Made Media Consultants Corp. and American Made Media Consultants LLC, in April 2018. From there, Eric Trump’s wife, Lara Trump, was named president, with Mike Pence’s nephew John Pence serving as vice president. If you’re wondering why the shell company, described as Business Insider as acting “almost like a campaign within a campaign” was necessary, well, it’s not entirely clear, but it sure sounds like the express purpose was the ability to shield “financial and operational details from public scrutiny,” as it allowed the campaign to avoid federally mandated disclosures concerning what it was spending considerable amounts of money on. And by considerable we mean nearly half of the $1.26 billion raised for Trump’s reelection.
Campaign-finance records showed Trump's reelection effort and its affiliated committee with the RNC spent more than $600 million through American Made Consultants since its formation. For months, some of Trump’s top advisers and campaign staff told Insider they had no idea how the shell company functioned, which cast an air of mystery around the operation…. Some of those same advisers said they didn’t learn about John Pence’s and Lara Trump’s involvement until Insider contacted them for this story.
Campaign-law experts have long accused the Trump team of using a corporate pass-through to hide payments. The nonpartisan Campaign Legal Center, led by former Republican Federal Election Commission Chairman Trevor Potter, filed a civil complaint with the FEC in July accusing the Trump campaign of “disguising” about $170 million worth of campaign spending in large part “by laundering the funds” through AMMC. Brendan Fischer, the Campaign Legal Center’s director of federal reform, said the payments to AMMC were a “scheme to evade telling voters even the basics on where its money is really going” and a “shield to disguise the ultimate recipients of its spending.”
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Even ramped up we are so far behind where South Korea Started. South Korea, and America, discovered their first Covid19 cases on the same day. Korea has tested 80% of its population, isolated the infected, provide masks and medical supplies to all parts of their nation, and flattened and reversed the curve.
Trump, he just staged to admit we have a Pandemic, tells states it’s not his job, refuses to establish order in the supply chain to stop FEMA, Hospitals, States, and other Agencies from competing against each other for supplies, and the best he can do is place Jared Kushner in charge of yet another failed job.
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JARED KUSHNER HAS CREATED A SHELL COMPANY TO FUNNEL CAMPAIGN CASH TO FAMILY MEMBERS.
Donald Trump and his family have spent the last four years making the airtight case that they view the presidency as simply a means to enrich themselves and their associates. They probably don’t particularly like that reputation and, yet, it hasn’t stopped them from funneling taxpayer money to their private business, gouging the Secret Service, and raising legal defense funds that the fine print says could go directly to their pockets. Oh, and, according to a new report, setting up a shell company that spent hundreds of millions of campaign dollars to pay Trump family members along with other expenditures it seemingly wanted to keep under wraps.
According to Business Insider, first son-in-law Jared Kushner personally approved the creation of the company, incorporated as American Made Media Consultants Corp. and American Made Media Consultants LLC, in April 2018. From there, Eric Trump’s wife, Lara Trump, was named president, with Mike Pence’s nephew John Pence serving as vice president. If you’re wondering why the shell company, described as Business Insider as acting “almost like a campaign within a campaign” was necessary, well, it’s not entirely clear, but it sure sounds like the express purpose was the ability to shield “financial and operational details from public scrutiny,” as it allowed the campaign to avoid federally mandated disclosures concerning what it was spending considerable amounts of money on. And by considerable we mean nearly half of the $1.26 billion raised for Trump’s reelection.
Campaign-finance records showed Trump's reelection effort and its affiliated committee with the RNC spent more than $600 million through American Made Consultants since its formation. For months, some of Trump’s top advisers and campaign staff told Insider they had no idea how the shell company functioned, which cast an air of mystery around the operation…. Some of those same advisers said they didn’t learn about John Pence’s and Lara Trump’s involvement until Insider contacted them for this story.
Campaign-law experts have long accused the Trump team of using a corporate pass-through to hide payments. The nonpartisan Campaign Legal Center, led by former Republican Federal Election Commission Chairman Trevor Potter, filed a civil complaint with the FEC in July accusing the Trump campaign of “disguising” about $170 million worth of campaign spending in large part “by laundering the funds” through AMMC. Brendan Fischer, the Campaign Legal Center’s director of federal reform, said the payments to AMMC were a “scheme to evade telling voters even the basics on where its money is really going” and a “shield to disguise the ultimate recipients of its spending.”
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I am only on page 48 of the Muller Report and I am amazed at how well the main stream media: NYT, WP, WSJ, CNN, MSNBC, etc. got the details spot on. This is a strong testament to the vitality of our Real News sources. Other than Manafort, Don Jr, and J Kushner, it appears that Trump did not ACTIVELY CRIMINALLY coordinate with the Russians - pay attention to my choice of words. However, the Russians were all over Trump campaign officials, and Trump himself, playing them like a fiddle. As for obstruction... yes Trump did that.
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The enemies of freedom are, it turns out, as shameless and corrupt here as they are in nations, from Hungary to Turkey, in which democracy has effectively collapsed. But the defenders of American democracy seem more united and determined than their counterparts abroad. The big question is whether that difference — that true American exceptionalism — will be enough to save us.
Let’s back up and ask what we’ve learned about America over the past three years.
There was never any doubt that Trump would abuse his powers; he telegraphed his contempt for rule of law, his eagerness to exploit his office for personal gain, right from the start. For a while, however, it was possible to imagine that at least part of his party would stand up for democratic principles.
But it was not to be. What we saw Wednesday was a parade of sycophants comparing their leader to Jesus Christ while spouting discredited conspiracy theories straight from the Kremlin. And as they were doing so, the object of their adoration was giving an endless, rambling, third-world-dictator-style speech, full of lies, that veered between grandiosity and self-pity, interspersed with complaints about how many times he has to flush his toilet.
Republicans, in other words, are beyond redemption; they’ve become just another authoritarian party devoted to the leader principle. And like similar parties in other countries, the G.O.P. is trying to rig future elections through gerrymandering and voter suppression, creating a permanent lock on power.
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@robertmcgovern4936
JARED KUSHNER HAS CREATED A SHELL COMPANY TO FUNNEL CAMPAIGN CASH TO FAMILY MEMBERS.
Donald Trump and his family have spent the last four years making the airtight case that they view the presidency as simply a means to enrich themselves and their associates. They probably don’t particularly like that reputation and, yet, it hasn’t stopped them from funneling taxpayer money to their private business, gouging the Secret Service, and raising legal defense funds that the fine print says could go directly to their pockets. Oh, and, according to a new report, setting up a shell company that spent hundreds of millions of campaign dollars to pay Trump family members along with other expenditures it seemingly wanted to keep under wraps.
According to Business Insider, first son-in-law Jared Kushner personally approved the creation of the company, incorporated as American Made Media Consultants Corp. and American Made Media Consultants LLC, in April 2018. From there, Eric Trump’s wife, Lara Trump, was named president, with Mike Pence’s nephew John Pence serving as vice president. If you’re wondering why the shell company, described as Business Insider as acting “almost like a campaign within a campaign” was necessary, well, it’s not entirely clear, but it sure sounds like the express purpose was the ability to shield “financial and operational details from public scrutiny,” as it allowed the campaign to avoid federally mandated disclosures concerning what it was spending considerable amounts of money on. And by considerable we mean nearly half of the $1.26 billion raised for Trump’s reelection.
Campaign-finance records showed Trump's reelection effort and its affiliated committee with the RNC spent more than $600 million through American Made Consultants since its formation. For months, some of Trump’s top advisers and campaign staff told Insider they had no idea how the shell company functioned, which cast an air of mystery around the operation…. Some of those same advisers said they didn’t learn about John Pence’s and Lara Trump’s involvement until Insider contacted them for this story.
Campaign-law experts have long accused the Trump team of using a corporate pass-through to hide payments. The nonpartisan Campaign Legal Center, led by former Republican Federal Election Commission Chairman Trevor Potter, filed a civil complaint with the FEC in July accusing the Trump campaign of “disguising” about $170 million worth of campaign spending in large part “by laundering the funds” through AMMC. Brendan Fischer, the Campaign Legal Center’s director of federal reform, said the payments to AMMC were a “scheme to evade telling voters even the basics on where its money is really going” and a “shield to disguise the ultimate recipients of its spending.”
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FEDERAL JUDGES CALL EMERGENCY MEETING TO DEAL WITH BARR’s & TRUMP’s UNPRECEDENTED INTERVENTION IN STONE CASE.
The head of the Federal Judges Association is taking the extraordinary step of calling an emergency meeting to address the intervention in politically sensitive cases by President Trump and Attorney General William P. Barr.
U.S. District Judge Cynthia M. Rufe, the Philadelphia-based judge who heads the voluntary association of around 1,100 life-term federal judges, said the issue “could not wait.”
On Sunday, more than 1,100 former Justice Department employees released a public letter calling on Barr to resign over the Stone case. See Article “More than 1,100 ex-Justice Department officials call for Barr’s resignation”
The action follows a week of turmoil that included the president tweeting his outrage over the length of sentence recommended by career federal prosecutors for his friend Roger Stone and the decision by Barr to withdraw that recommendation. To make matters worse, Trump singled out the judge in the Stone case, Amy Berman Jackson of the U.S. District Court in Washington, for personal attacks, accusing her of bias and spreading a falsehood about her record.
“There are plenty of issues that we are concerned about,” Rufe said to USA Today. “We’ll talk all this through.”
Trump began disparaging federal judges who have ruled against his interests before he took office, starting with U.S. District Judge Gonzalo P. Curiel. After Curiel ruled against Trump in 2016 in a pair of lawsuits detailing predatory marketing practices at Trump University in San Diego, Trump described him as “a hater of Donald Trump,” adding that he believed the Indiana-born judge was “Mexican.”
President Trump has a history of denouncing judges over rulings that have negatively affected him personally as well as his administration's policies. Faced with more than 100 adverse rulings in the federal courts, Trump has continued verbal attacks on judges.
THIS IS TREASONOUS TRUMP’s IDEA OF MAGA, A BANANA REPUBLIC WITH HIM AS A PETTY DICTATOR LIKE CHAVEZ IN VENEZUELA.
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OUR MORON PRESIDENT SAID WHAT?
During Thursday's White House coronavirus task force briefing, an official presented the results of US government research that indicated coronavirus on an external surface appeared to weaken more quickly when exposed to sunlight, heat, and disinfectant.
Upon taking the podium Trump said:
"So, supposing we hit the body with a tremendous - whether it's ultraviolet or just very powerful light," the president said, turning to Dr Deborah Birx, the White House coronavirus response co-ordinator, "and I think you said that hasn't been checked but you're going to test it.
"And then I said, supposing you brought the light inside of the body, which you can do either through the skin or in some other way. And I think you said you're going to test that too. Sounds interesting," the president continued.
"And then I see the disinfectant where it knocks it out in a minute. One minute. And is there a way we can do something like that, by injection inside or almost a cleaning? So it'd be interesting to check that." Pointing to his head, Mr Trump went on: "I'm not a doctor. But I'm, like, a person that has a good you-know-what." He turned again to Dr Birx and asked if she had ever heard of using "the heat and the light" to treat coronavirus.
"Not as a treatment," Dr Birx said. "I mean, certainly, fever is a good thing. When you have a fever, it helps your body respond. But I've not seen heat or light."
"I think it's a great thing to look at," Mr Trump said.
You heard it here first folks, our president is a Mad Moron Would be “Scientist Jenius” (sic).
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A day before rioters stormed Congress, an FBI office in Virginia issued an explicit internal warning that extremists were preparing to travel to Washington to commit violence and “war,” according to an FBI internal document. A situational information report approved for release the day before the U.S. Capitol riot painted a dire portrait of dangerous plans, including individuals sharing a map of the complex’s tunnels, and possible rally points for would-be conspirators to meet up. “As of 5 January 2021, FBI Norfolk received information indicating calls for violence in response to ‘unlawful lockdowns’ to begin on 6 January 2021 in Washington. D.C.,” the document says. “An online thread discussed specific calls for violence to include stating ‘Be ready to fight. Congress needs to hear glass breaking, doors being kicked in, and blood being spilled. Get violent. Stop calling this a march, or rally, or a protest. Go there ready for war. Our President wants us to do this. NOTHING else will achieve this goal.”
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WASHINGTON — It was supposed to be an exclusive party at Mar-a-Lago, Donald J. Trump’s members-only club in Palm Beach, Fla. But other than the two dozen or so women flown in to provide the entertainment, the only guests were Mr. Trump and Jeffrey Epstein.
The year was 1992 and the event was a “calendar girl” competition, something that George Houraney, a Florida-based businessman who ran American Dream Enterprise, had organized at Mr. Trump’s request.
“I arranged to have some contestants fly in,” Mr. Houraney recalled in an interview on Monday. “At the very first party, I said, ‘Who’s coming tonight? I have 28 girls coming.’ It was him and Epstein.”
Mr. Houraney, who had just partnered with Mr. Trump to host events at his casinos, said he was surprised. “I said, ‘Donald, this is supposed to be a party with V.I.P.s. You’re telling me it’s you and Epstein?’”
“I’ve known Jeff for 15 years. Terrific guy,” Mr. Trump told New York magazine in 2002. “He’s a lot of fun to be with. It is even said that he likes beautiful women as much as I do, and many of them are on the younger side.”
He also dismissed Mr. Houraney’s warning about his friend’s conduct.
“I said, ‘Look, Donald, I know Jeff really well, I can’t have him going after younger girls,’” Mr. Houraney remembers. “He said, ‘Look I’m putting my name on this. I wouldn’t put my name on it and have a scandal.’”
Mr. Houraney said he “pretty much had to ban Jeff from my events — Trump didn’t care about that.”
Shortly before the 2016 presidential election, Mr. Houraney accused Mr. Trump himself of inappropriate behavior toward his girlfriend and business partner, Jill Harth, during their business dealings.
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William H. McRaven, a retired Navy admiral, was commander of the U.S. Joint Special Operations Command from 2011 to 2014. He oversaw the 2011 Navy SEAL raid in Pakistan that killed al-Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden. He writes:
Dear Mr. President:
Former CIA director John Brennan, whose security clearance you revoked on Wednesday, is one of the finest public servants I have ever known. Few Americans have done more to protect this country than John. He is a man of unparalleled integrity, whose honesty and character have never been in question, except by those who don’t know him.
Therefore, I would consider it an honor if you would revoke my security clearance as well, so I can add my name to the list of men and women who have spoken up against your presidency.
Like most Americans, I had hoped that when you became president, you would rise to the occasion and become the leader this great nation needs.
A good leader tries to embody the best qualities of his or her organization. A good leader sets the example for others to follow. A good leader always puts the welfare of others before himself or herself.
Your leadership, however, has shown little of these qualities. Through your actions, you have embarrassed us in the eyes of our children, humiliated us on the world stage and, worst of all, divided us as a nation.
If you think for a moment that your McCarthy-era tactics will suppress the voices of criticism, you are sadly mistaken. The criticism will continue until you become the leader we prayed you would be.
NEED WE SAY MORE THAN THIS AMERICAN HERO? STAND UP AND BE COUNTED. VOTE THIS WOULD BE PETTY DICTATOR OUT OF OFFICE.
🇺🇸🗽🇺🇸
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“I no longer recognize my party”
Why Hundreds of Thousands of Republicans Are Leaving the Crazed Party
Voting registration data indicates a strong and unusual flight from the G.O.P. since the Capitol riot, with an intensely fluid period in American politics now underway.
In the days and weeks after the storming of the Capitol by Trump supporters on Jan. 6, hundreds of thousands of Republicans left the party. After the Jan. 6 attack on the Capitol, the phone lines and websites of local election officials across the country were jumping: Tens of thousands of Republicans were calling or logging on to switch their party affiliations.
In California, more than 33,000 registered Republicans left the party during the three weeks after the Washington riot. In Pennsylvania, more than 12,000 voters left the G.O.P. in the past month, and more than 10,000 Republicans changed their registration in Arizona.
An analysis of January voting records found that nearly 140,000 Republicans had quit the party in 25 states that had readily available data (19 states do not have registration by party). Voting experts say this is the start of a particularly damaging period for G.O.P. registrations as voters recoil from the Capitol violence and its fallout.
Among those who recently left the party are Juan Nunez, 56, an Army veteran in Mechanicsburg, Pa. He said he had long felt that the difference between the United States and many other countries was that campaign-season fighting ended on Election Day, when all sides would peacefully accept the result. The Jan. 6 riot changed that, he said.
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FAILURE IN AMERICA ON A TRUMPIAN SCALE:
Nearly every country has struggled to contain the coronavirus and made mistakes along the way.
China silenced doctors and allowed the virus to escape Wuhan, much of Europe went next, failing to avoid and contain enormous outbreaks. Today, many countries — Japan, Canada, France, Australia and more — are coping with new increases in cases after reopening parts of society.
But one country stands alone, as the only affluent nation to have suffered a severe, sustained outbreak for more than four months: the United States. In just the past month over 1.9 million Americans have tested positive for the virus. That’s more than five times as many as in all of Europe, Canada, Japan, South Korea and Australia, combined. The United States also has the highest number of Deaths 157,000 from the virus far out pacing all other countries. Brazil is the only country competing with the United States for complete failure in containing the virus.
What does the United States & Brazil have in common? Trumpian Politics.
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Dangerous Media:
For weeks, Fox News’s hosts downplayed the threat of the coronavirus, calling it a conspiracy by the Main Stream Media and Democrats to undermine President Trump.
Sean Hannity and Laura Ingraham accused the news media of whipping up “mass hysteria” and being “panic pushers.” Trish Regan called the Main Stream Media response “yet another attempt to impeach the president.”
But that was then.
Monday, Trump’s declared a national emergency, Faux News immediately has quickly shifted. Hannity, suddenly the lauded the president’s handling of the “crisis.”
“Tonight, we are witnessing what will be a massive paradigm shift in the future of disease control and prevention,” he said. “A bold, new precedent is being set, the world will once again benefit greatly from America’s leadership. . . . The federal government, state governments, private businesses, top hospitals all coming together, under the president’s leadership, to stem the tide of the coronavirus.”
In a complicated dance to mimic Trump, Faux news took the same stance as the president for several weeks — that this coronavirus was no worse a threat than the seasonal flu.
Just a week ago, Hannity shrugged at the pandemic. “So far in the United States, there’s been around 30 deaths, most of which came from one nursing home in the state of Washington,” he said, “Healthy people, generally, 99 percent recover very fast, even if they contract it.” He added: “Twenty-six people were shot in Chicago alone over the weekend. I doubt you heard about it. You notice there’s no widespread hysteria about violence in Chicago. And this has gone on for years and years. By the way, Democratic-run cities, we see a lot of that.”
Ingraham, also had to flip flop as social and economic dislocation of the virus took hold. This was more than just a Democratic talking point wielded against the president.
In February, Ingraham called Democrats the “pandemic party” and displayed photos of House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) and Senate Minority Leader Charles E. Schumer (D-N.Y.) alongside enlarged images of coronavirus molecules. “How sick that these people seem almost happiest when Americans are hurting,” she said.
She kept at it showing a graphic reading “Trump confronts the panic pushers,” Ingraham said, “The public in some ways seems a lot more levelheaded than the so-called experts. . . . The facts are actually pretty reassuring, but you’d never know it watching all this stuff.”
Ingraham even tweeted that it was a “great time to fly if not in at-risk population!” The tweet was later deleted.
After Trump announced a travel ban on people from the European Union, Ingraham started calling the pandemic “this dangerous health crisis.” She characterized warnings issued by National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases head Anthony S. Fauci about the potential spread of the disease as “sobering and scary to hear.”
Regan’s on-air speculation that coronavirus was merely another impeachment gambit for Democrats drew widespread pushback. Clearly Faux was starting to get the message. Faux announced that Trish Regan would leave the air indefinitely.
Tucker Carlson too, blamed the “corrupt” media. But in a monologue he indirectly scolded Trump, he also complained that “none of our leaders helped us to take it seriously. . . . People you trust, people you probably voted for, have spent weeks minimizing what is clearly a very serious problem. It’s just partisan politics, they say. ‘Calm down. In the end, this is just like the flu and people die from that every year. Coronavirus will pass, and when it does, we will feel foolish for worrying about it.’ That’s their position. . . . But they’re wrong.”
In comments downplaying the pandemic on March 7, Jeanine Pirro, offered “All the talk about coronavirus being so much more deadly [than the flu] doesn’t reflect reality.” She reiterated Trump’s comment that the infection rate will drop “as the weather warms.”
On the “Fox & Friends”, Liberty University President Jerry Falwell Jr. spun out a meandering tale advancing the baseless notion that the coronavirus was designed by North Korean and Chinese scientists to harm Americans. Nobody tried to correct him.
Then, Rep. Devin Nunes (R-Calif.) appeared on Fox News and urged Americans to “stop panicking” and for those who are healthy to “just go out.”
Said Nunes: “There’s a lot of concerns with the economy here because people are scared to go out. But I will just say one of the things you can do if you’re healthy, you and your family, it’s a great time to just go out, go to a local restaurant.”
Anchor Maria Bartiromo offered no response to Nunes’s comment. On Monday, a day later, Fox News contributor Nicole Saphier, a doctor, specifically called out the congressman on air to contradict his advice and told viewers to stay home.
This is a quick summation of how Faux news has become nothing more than a platform for Trumpian Propaganda.
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@AN-nm1zy What you stated is an opinion wrapped in a schedule not a Fact. Trump may very well keep that schedule but he very often makes no sense. As the following person said it best I will post their words: Trump has no policy on any issue because his mental impairment means he cannot think strategically or in abstract terms. He cannot weigh options, assess risk, or foresee consequences. Concepts like fairness, justice, honor, and integrity quite literally do not register. You can see this in every interview or press encounter. He never states an abstract thought or idea. Instead he falls back on simple adjectives: disgraceful, horrible, low-intelligence, perfect, innocent, nasty, stupid, fake, etc.
John M. Talmadge, M.D.
Physician specializing in psychiatry & addiction medicine.
Clinical Professor of Psychiatry at U.T. Southwestern Medical Center.
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Trump is a liar, a cheat, an adulterer, and a Russian Collaborator. Trump is Evil in Nature & commands his followers do the dirty work of violence. Trump is Grotesque in body & pallor, narcissistic, and sociopathic. Trump is Treasonous to Country 🇺🇸, Allie’s, is Racist, has Contempt for Women, and is utterly morally bankrupt. This is Trump your CULT LEADER. This is who you give your money to, who you worship, who you follow. Why? Because he is a mirror that reflects you. No, I do not “RESPECT YOUR CHOICES”, nor your loyalty to this demoniac vision. For you are devoid of Civic Virtue, loyalty to our Republic 🇺🇸 and our Rule of Law. For you to renounce Trump is for you to renounce yourself.
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David Rabb
It’s hard to give an Intelligence Briefing to a Moron when you are limited to 1 page, pictures, and a single crayon. During briefings the president constantly veers off on tangents. He has a short attention span and rarely, if ever, reads intelligence reports, relying instead on conservative media and his friends for information. He frequently interrupts Intell Officers and will riff based on tips or gossip he hears from the former casino magnate Steve Wynn, the retired golfer Gary Player or Christopher Ruddy, the conservative media executive.
Mr. Trump rarely absorbs information that he disagrees with or that runs counter to his worldview. Briefing him has been so great a challenge compared with his predecessors that the intelligence agencies have hired outside consultants to study how better to get his attention and keep it during briefings.
Working to keep Mr. Trump’s interest exhausted and burned out his first briefer, Ted Gistaro, two former officials said. Mr. Gistaro did not always know what to expect and would sometimes have to brief an erratic and angry president upset over news reports, the officials said
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@Hypocrisywatch1 And Kelly’s statement adds context to a story in the book “The Divider: Trump in the White House, 2017-2021,” by Susan Glasser and Peter Baker, in which Trump, after a separate trip to France in 2017, tells Kelly he wants no wounded veterans in a military parade he’s trying to have planned in his honor. Inspired by the Bastille Day parade, except for the section of the parade featuring wounded French veterans in wheelchairs, Trump tells Kelly, “Look, I don’t want any wounded guys in the parade.”
“Those are the heroes,” Kelly said. “In our society, there’s only one group of people who are more heroic than they are – and they are buried over in Arlington.”
“I don’t want them,” Trump said. “It doesn’t look good for me.”
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@vduval52 Are you referring to the Record Economic Growth, a World Class Economy, Record Low Unemployment, Record Wage Growth, Record Job Growth, Record American Standing in the Free World, Record Infrastructure Growth, Record Manufacturing Growth, Record Job Returning from Overseas, Record Low Crime Rate, or something Else?
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Faux news October 21, 2020:
Comments were made by Putin just prior to our November Election.
“As for the Democratic candidate, what can I say? We can hear rather sharp anti-Russian rhetoric, as well. Regrettably, we have become used to this”.
“But… the Democratic Party is traditionally closer to the so-called liberal values, closer to Social Democratic ideas, if compared to Europe. And it was from the Social Democratic environment that the Communist Party evolved.”
“I still like many of these values. Equality and fraternity. What is bad about them? In fact, they are akin to Christian values. Yes, they are difficult to implement, but they are very attractive, nevertheless,” he continued. “In other words, this can be seen as an ideological basis for developing contacts with the Democratic representative.”
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“I no longer recognize my party”
Why Hundreds of Thousands of Republicans Are Leaving the Crazed Party
Voting registration data indicates a strong and unusual flight from the G.O.P. since the Capitol riot, with an intensely fluid period in American politics now underway.
In the days and weeks after the storming of the Capitol by Trump supporters on Jan. 6, hundreds of thousands of Republicans left the party. After the Jan. 6 attack on the Capitol, the phone lines and websites of local election officials across the country were jumping: Tens of thousands of Republicans were calling or logging on to switch their party affiliations.
In California, more than 33,000 registered Republicans left the party during the three weeks after the Washington riot. In Pennsylvania, more than 12,000 voters left the G.O.P. in the past month, and more than 10,000 Republicans changed their registration in Arizona.
An analysis of January voting records found that nearly 140,000 Republicans had quit the party in 25 states that had readily available data (19 states do not have registration by party). Voting experts say this is the start of a particularly damaging period for G.O.P. registrations as voters recoil from the Capitol violence and its fallout.
Among those who recently left the party are Juan Nunez, 56, an Army veteran in Mechanicsburg, Pa. He said he had long felt that the difference between the United States and many other countries was that campaign-season fighting ended on Election Day, when all sides would peacefully accept the result. The Jan. 6 riot changed that, he said.
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Trump touts Putin’s speaking out against his impeachment
Late Friday night, minutes before deplaning in Florida for the holidays, President Trump retweeted a link to an article in which Russian President Vladimir Putin defended him against impeachment.
“A total Witch Hunt!” the president tweeted at 10:30 p.m., as he shared a 36-hour-old Associated Press tweet that read: “BREAKING: Russian President Vladimir Putin says U.S. President Donald Trump’s impeachment is far-fetched and predicts the U.S. Senate will reject it.”
Trump’s boasting of Putin’s support comes a day after The Washington Post reported that White House advisers feared Trump’s belief that Ukraine, not Russia, was responsible for interfering with the 2016 election was spurred by conversations Trump had with Putin.
Trump’s critics responded to the tweet, expressing exasperation more than incredulity.
“At the end of the day, it’s always Putin First,” wrote conservative commentator and “Never Trumper” Bill Kristol.
Russian President Vladimir Putin accused the U.S. House of Representatives Dec. 19 of having "invented" a story to "revise" history and impeach President Trump. (Reuters)
“Trump wants us to know that Putin has his back. We know,” tweeted Eric Columbus, a former Justice Department appointee in the Obama administration.
“Putin is a dictator who jails opponents, kills opponents, invades neighbors, interferes in democracies’ elections, etc. I don’t think an American president should be buddying with him. I wonder if Trump defenders are ever (secretly) embarrassed by this stuff. I hope so,” wrote Jay Nordlinger, a senior editor at the right-leaning National Review.
At his annual end-of-the-year news conference on Thursday, Putin was asked about Trump’s impeachment. He called the charges “completely fabricated reasons.”
[[Putin stays in Trump’s corner on impeachment]]
That evening, Russian state media, which follows Putin’s lead, also threw its support behind Trump.
Donald Trump is the third president in U.S. history to face a Senate trial. (The Washington Post)
Popular Kremlin propagandist Vladimir Soloviev gave an impassioned defense of Trump on his evening show, raising his voice several times in a discussion with Atlantic Council expert Ariel Cohen.
“I can’t understand for what reason [Democrats] don’t like Trump,” Soloviev said.
Days earlier, on his two-hour Sunday night program, anchor Dmitry Kiselyov opined about how Hollywood has joined the Democrats in being against Trump, portraying him as “always on the dark side.”
And the state-sponsored Rossiya-1 news channel, which airs Soloviev’s show, recently broadcast segments of Rudolph W. Giuliani’s interview with right-wing channel One America News, in which the president’s personal attorney promoted debunked conspiracy theories about Ukrainian interference in the 2016 U.S. presidential election.
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@deadlyta Hannity: “Under no circumstances — you are promising America tonight — you would never abuse power as retribution against anybody?”
Trump: “Except for Day One,” Trump quickly replied.
“He’s going crazy!” Trump said as Hannity looked perplexed.
“Except for Day One. Meaning?” Hannity asked.
“I want to close the border, and I want to drill, drill, drill,” Trump said as the crowd cheered.
“That’s not retribution,” Hannity responded.
“We love this guy,” Trump said of Hannity. “He says: ‘You’re not gonna be a dictator, are ya?’ I say: ‘No, no, no — other than from Day One.’”
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@luckysportQuick Supremacy Clause of the Constitution of the United States (Article VI, Clause 2) establishes that the Constitution, federal laws made pursuant to it, and treaties made under its authority, constitute the "supreme Law of the Land", and thus take priority over any conflicting state laws.[1] It provides that state courts are bound by, and state constitutions subordinate to, the supreme law.[2] However, federal statutes and treaties must be within the parameters of the Constitution;[3] that is, they must be pursuant to the federal government's enumerated powers, and not violate other constitutional limits on federal power, such as the Bill of Rights—of particular interest is the Tenth Amendment to the United States Constitution, which states that the federal government has only those powers that are delegated to it by the Constitution.
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@kevinpreston5590 After Trump spent several days denigrating the adult daughter of Justice Juan Merchan, the judge overseeing Trump’s Manhattan criminal case, Merchan issued an expanded gag order barring Trump from attacking the judge’s own family. Merchan also expanded the gag to cover the family of the lead prosecutor, Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg.
“The average observer, must now, after hearing Defendant’s recent attacks, draw the conclusion that if they become involved in these proceedings, even tangentially, they should worry not only for themselves, but for their loved ones as well,” Merchan wrote. “Such concerns will undoubtedly interfere with the fair administration of justice and constitutes a direct attack on the Rule of Law itself.”
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THANK YOU PRESIDENT BIDEN for Lowest Crime Rate in 30 years, lowest unemployment in 30 years, highest stock market ever, best real wage growth in decades, hot job market, best GDP growth in decades, infrastructure, jobs brought back to America, lower drug prices, lower deficits, restored respect & standing amongst our Allies, and Russia & China put in their place. 🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸
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In opening an investigation of the Trump campaign, the FBI felt it had reached a ‘tipping point,’ IG finds.
The FBI had barely closed a politically volcanic investigation into Secretary of State Hillary Clinton’s use of a private email server when it got a troubling tip about her rival’s presidential campaign.
On July 28, 2016, the bureau received information from an Australian diplomat, who said a Donald Trump campaign aide had “suggested the Trump team had received some kind of suggestion from Russia” that Moscow could anonymously release damaging information about Clinton, according to the long-awaited Justice Department inspector general’s report released Monday.
The tip, vague as it was, shook senior FBI officials, who were already investigating suspected Russian interference in the 2016 campaign, including the theft of emails from the Democratic National Committee. Three days later, the FBI took the momentous decision to open a counterintelligence investigation of a presidential campaign, as the election season entered the home stretch.
[[Read the inspector general’s report]]
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The enemies of freedom are, it turns out, as shameless and corrupt here as they are in nations, from Hungary to Turkey, in which democracy has effectively collapsed. But the defenders of American democracy seem more united and determined than their counterparts abroad. The big question is whether that difference — that true American exceptionalism — will be enough to save us.
Let’s back up and ask what we’ve learned about America over the past three years.
There was never any doubt that Trump would abuse his powers; he telegraphed his contempt for rule of law, his eagerness to exploit his office for personal gain, right from the start. For a while, however, it was possible to imagine that at least part of his party would stand up for democratic principles.
But it was not to be. What we saw Wednesday was a parade of sycophants comparing their leader to Jesus Christ while spouting discredited conspiracy theories straight from the Kremlin. And as they were doing so, the object of their adoration was giving an endless, rambling, third-world-dictator-style speech, full of lies, that veered between grandiosity and self-pity, interspersed with complaints about how many times he has to flush his toilet.
Republicans, in other words, are beyond redemption; they’ve become just another authoritarian party devoted to the leader principle. And like similar parties in other countries, the G.O.P. is trying to rig future elections through gerrymandering and voter suppression, creating a permanent lock on power.
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TRUMP LOVES CRIMINALS: Roger Stone, Steve Bannon, Michael Flynn, Paul Manafort, Ross Ulbricht, Eric Adams, Rod Blagojevich, Charles Kushner, Elliott Broidy, Kwame Kilpatrick, Sholam Weiss, Salomon E. Melgen, Paul Erickson, Eliyahu Weinstein, Nicholas Slatten, Conrad Black, Dinesh D’Souza, etc…
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OUR MORON PRESIDENT SAID WHAT?
During Thursday's White House coronavirus task force briefing, an official presented the results of US government research that indicated coronavirus on an external surface appeared to weaken more quickly when exposed to sunlight, heat, and disinfectant.
Upon taking the podium Trump said:
"So, supposing we hit the body with a tremendous - whether it's ultraviolet or just very powerful light," the president said, turning to Dr Deborah Birx, the White House coronavirus response co-ordinator, "and I think you said that hasn't been checked but you're going to test it.
"And then I said, supposing you brought the light inside of the body, which you can do either through the skin or in some other way. And I think you said you're going to test that too. Sounds interesting," the president continued.
"And then I see the disinfectant where it knocks it out in a minute. One minute. And is there a way we can do something like that, by injection inside or almost a cleaning? So it'd be interesting to check that." Pointing to his head, Mr Trump went on: "I'm not a doctor. But I'm, like, a person that has a good you-know-what." He turned again to Dr Birx and asked if she had ever heard of using "the heat and the light" to treat coronavirus.
"Not as a treatment," Dr Birx said. "I mean, certainly, fever is a good thing. When you have a fever, it helps your body respond. But I've not seen heat or light."
"I think it's a great thing to look at," Mr Trump said.
You heard it here first folks, our president is a Mad Moron Would be “Scientist Jenius” (sic).
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Nun Ya
I know I don’t follow the Antichrist that is Treasonous Trump. I know I am not selling out my soul out to a grossly immoral man who has broke every commandment, but one, on a regular basis. I know I don’t follow an incompetent president who has a man crush on Vladimir Putin. I know I am not the one claiming blasphemy and looking to stone, burn, torture, or declare war on all who do not believe exactly as you do. Which leads me to the most important questions? Are you a Christian because you claim to be one or because you follow and live the teachings of Christ? Do you believe in a loving God, as taught by Jesus, or a vengeful, capricious, and chaotic God as taught by the Old Testament? Does your God require of you a hateful, draconian, misogynistic Taliban style of beliefs, or a progressive humanistic style of beliefs?
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TRUMP’s CRIME SYNDICATE: Trump - Felon - Tied to Kremlin🇷🇺, Trump's Campaign Mgr - Felon🇷🇺, T’s Deputy Campaign Mgr - Felon🇷🇺, T’s Chief Strategist - Felon🇷🇺, T’s National Security Advisor - Felon🇷🇺, T’s Foreign Policy advisor - Felon🇷🇺, T’s Personal Lawyer - Felon, T’s Campaign Fixer - Felon, T’s Company CFO - Felon, T’s Trade Advisor - Felon, 22 Other Close Trump Associates - Convicted Felons.
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Trump’s budget is a tremendous fraud.
Remember when he said he would eliminate the federal debt, or at least halve it, during his presidency? His new budget adds another $3.4 trillion by 2024 to the debt on top of the $3 trillion Trump has already added.
Remember when he repeatedly promised not to “touch” Social Security and Medicare? His budget calls for removing $550 billion dollars of funding from the Medicare program, including $135 billion from Medicare prescription drugs, and tens of billions from the Social Security program.
Remember when he promised not to touch Medicaid? Now he wants to cut it by $920 billion.
Remember when he was going to give Americans health care “much better” than Obamacare. But he has proposed no such thing and now his budget calls for cutting spending on the program by $844 billion.
Remember when he vowed that his tax cuts would grow the economy by 4 percent, 5 percent or even 6 percent? Last year it grew at 2.3 percent, and his new budget, even with the rosiest of assumptions, projects 2.8 percent for this year - in other words little changed from Obama’s growth rates. Yet the budget would also devote another $1.4 trillion to extending those tax cuts, primarily for the rich.
Oh, and remember when he said Mexico would pay for the Wall - Treasonous Trump Con Man Extraordinaire.
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Daniel Plainview
The cost of Trump’s Golf Trips tops $628,000 to U.S. Tax Payers.
President Trump’s company charged the Secret Service $157,000 more than was previously known — billing taxpayers for rooms at his clubs at rates far higher than his company has claimed, according to a new trove of receipts and billing documents released by the Secret Service. When added to dozens of charges already reported by The Washington Post, the new documents show that Trump’s company has charged the Secret Service more than $628,000 since he took office in 2017.
Yet another Trumpian Lie Exposed.
“If my father travels, they stay at our properties for free — meaning, like, cost for housekeeping,” said Eric Trump, the company’s executive vice president. Later in the interview, he said, “We charge them, like, 50 bucks.” Said Eric Trump.
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FAILURE IN AMERICA ON A TRUMPIAN SCALE:
Nearly every country has struggled to contain the coronavirus and made mistakes along the way.
China silenced doctors and allowed the virus to escape Wuhan, much of Europe went next, failing to avoid and contain enormous outbreaks. Today, many countries — Japan, Canada, France, Australia and more — are coping with new increases in cases after reopening parts of society.
But one country stands alone, as the only affluent nation to have suffered a severe, sustained outbreak for more than four months: the United States. In just the past month over 1.9 million Americans have tested positive for the virus. That’s more than five times as many as in all of Europe, Canada, Japan, South Korea and Australia, combined. The United States also has the highest number of Deaths 157,000 from the virus far out pacing all other countries. Brazil is the only country competing with the United States for complete failure in containing the virus.
What does the United States & Brazil have in common? Trumpian Politics.
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Ricardo Rey
OUR MORON PRESIDENT SAID WHAT?
During Thursday's White House coronavirus task force briefing, an official presented the results of US government research that indicated coronavirus on an external surface appeared to weaken more quickly when exposed to sunlight, heat, and disinfectant.
Upon taking the podium Trump said:
"So, supposing we hit the body with a tremendous - whether it's ultraviolet or just very powerful light," the president said, turning to Dr Deborah Birx, the White House coronavirus response co-ordinator, "and I think you said that hasn't been checked but you're going to test it.
"And then I said, supposing you brought the light inside of the body, which you can do either through the skin or in some other way. And I think you said you're going to test that too. Sounds interesting," the president continued.
"And then I see the disinfectant where it knocks it out in a minute. One minute. And is there a way we can do something like that, by injection inside or almost a cleaning? So it'd be interesting to check that." Pointing to his head, Mr Trump went on: "I'm not a doctor. But I'm, like, a person that has a good you-know-what." He turned again to Dr Birx and asked if she had ever heard of using "the heat and the light" to treat coronavirus.
"Not as a treatment," Dr Birx said. "I mean, certainly, fever is a good thing. When you have a fever, it helps your body respond. But I've not seen heat or light."
"I think it's a great thing to look at," Mr Trump said.
You heard it here first folks, our president is a Mad Moron Would be “Scientist Jenius” (sic).
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The American Tax Payer should not be on the Hook for a Treasonous Trump Sieg Heil Rally. Let Treasonous Trump’s wealthy Swamp donors pay for their own entertainment. Drain the Swamp and remove all of Treasonous Trump’s Swamp Creatures. And get rid of all these False Patriots who do not respect the Constitution, The Rule of Law, Our Institutions, and have a corrupted understanding of God and Jesus. Treasonous Trump is the Antichrist. He is Adulterous, Pathological Lier, Corrupt, Fake Christian, Narcissistic, Immoral, 22 Sexual Assaults, etc.
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“The privilege of being the only American in our history to serve as the director of both the F.B.I. and the C.I.A. gives me a unique perspective and a responsibility to speak out about a dire threat to the rule of law in the country I love. Order protects liberty, and liberty protects order. Today, the integrity of the institutions that protect our civil order are, tragically, under assault from too many people whose job it should be to protect them.
The rule of law is the bedrock of American democracy, the principle that protects every American from the abuse of monarchs, despots and tyrants. Every American should demand that our leaders put the rule of law above politics.
I am deeply disturbed by the assertion of President Trump that our “current director” — as he refers to the man he selected for the job of running the F.B.I. — cannot fix what the president calls a broken agency. The 10-year term given to all directors following J. Edgar Hoover’s 48-year tenure was created to provide independence for the director and for the bureau. The president’s thinly veiled suggestion that the director, Christopher Wray, like his banished predecessor, James Comey, could be on the chopping block, disturbs me greatly. The independence of both the F.B.I. and its director are critical and should be fiercely protected by each branch of government.”
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JARED KUSHNER HAS CREATED A SHELL COMPANY TO FUNNEL CAMPAIGN CASH TO FAMILY MEMBERS.
Donald Trump and his family have spent the last four years making the airtight case that they view the presidency as simply a means to enrich themselves and their associates. They probably don’t particularly like that reputation and, yet, it hasn’t stopped them from funneling taxpayer money to their private business, gouging the Secret Service, and raising legal defense funds that the fine print says could go directly to their pockets. Oh, and, according to a new report, setting up a shell company that spent hundreds of millions of campaign dollars to pay Trump family members along with other expenditures it seemingly wanted to keep under wraps.
According to Business Insider, first son-in-law Jared Kushner personally approved the creation of the company, incorporated as American Made Media Consultants Corp. and American Made Media Consultants LLC, in April 2018. From there, Eric Trump’s wife, Lara Trump, was named president, with Mike Pence’s nephew John Pence serving as vice president. If you’re wondering why the shell company, described as Business Insider as acting “almost like a campaign within a campaign” was necessary, well, it’s not entirely clear, but it sure sounds like the express purpose was the ability to shield “financial and operational details from public scrutiny,” as it allowed the campaign to avoid federally mandated disclosures concerning what it was spending considerable amounts of money on. And by considerable we mean nearly half of the $1.26 billion raised for Trump’s reelection.
Campaign-finance records showed Trump's reelection effort and its affiliated committee with the RNC spent more than $600 million through American Made Consultants since its formation. For months, some of Trump’s top advisers and campaign staff told Insider they had no idea how the shell company functioned, which cast an air of mystery around the operation…. Some of those same advisers said they didn’t learn about John Pence’s and Lara Trump’s involvement until Insider contacted them for this story.
Campaign-law experts have long accused the Trump team of using a corporate pass-through to hide payments. The nonpartisan Campaign Legal Center, led by former Republican Federal Election Commission Chairman Trevor Potter, filed a civil complaint with the FEC in July accusing the Trump campaign of “disguising” about $170 million worth of campaign spending in large part “by laundering the funds” through AMMC. Brendan Fischer, the Campaign Legal Center’s director of federal reform, said the payments to AMMC were a “scheme to evade telling voters even the basics on where its money is really going” and a “shield to disguise the ultimate recipients of its spending.”
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JARED KUSHNER HAS CREATED A SHELL COMPANY TO FUNNEL CAMPAIGN CASH TO FAMILY MEMBERS.
Donald Trump and his family have spent the last four years making the airtight case that they view the presidency as simply a means to enrich themselves and their associates. They probably don’t particularly like that reputation and, yet, it hasn’t stopped them from funneling taxpayer money to their private business, gouging the Secret Service, and raising legal defense funds that the fine print says could go directly to their pockets. Oh, and, according to a new report, setting up a shell company that spent hundreds of millions of campaign dollars to pay Trump family members along with other expenditures it seemingly wanted to keep under wraps.
According to Business Insider, first son-in-law Jared Kushner personally approved the creation of the company, incorporated as American Made Media Consultants Corp. and American Made Media Consultants LLC, in April 2018. From there, Eric Trump’s wife, Lara Trump, was named president, with Mike Pence’s nephew John Pence serving as vice president. If you’re wondering why the shell company, described as Business Insider as acting “almost like a campaign within a campaign” was necessary, well, it’s not entirely clear, but it sure sounds like the express purpose was the ability to shield “financial and operational details from public scrutiny,” as it allowed the campaign to avoid federally mandated disclosures concerning what it was spending considerable amounts of money on. And by considerable we mean nearly half of the $1.26 billion raised for Trump’s reelection.
Campaign-finance records showed Trump's reelection effort and its affiliated committee with the RNC spent more than $600 million through American Made Consultants since its formation. For months, some of Trump’s top advisers and campaign staff told Insider they had no idea how the shell company functioned, which cast an air of mystery around the operation…. Some of those same advisers said they didn’t learn about John Pence’s and Lara Trump’s involvement until Insider contacted them for this story.
Campaign-law experts have long accused the Trump team of using a corporate pass-through to hide payments. The nonpartisan Campaign Legal Center, led by former Republican Federal Election Commission Chairman Trevor Potter, filed a civil complaint with the FEC in July accusing the Trump campaign of “disguising” about $170 million worth of campaign spending in large part “by laundering the funds” through AMMC. Brendan Fischer, the Campaign Legal Center’s director of federal reform, said the payments to AMMC were a “scheme to evade telling voters even the basics on where its money is really going” and a “shield to disguise the ultimate recipients of its spending.”
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Federal prosecutors in New York on Thursday unsealed criminal charges against Stephen K. Bannon, President Trump’s former chief strategist, and three other men they alleged defrauded hundreds of thousands of donors using an online crowdfunding campaign that was advertised as raising money to build a wall on the U.S. border with Mexico.
In a news release, prosecutors said Bannon and another organizer of the campaign, Air Force veteran Brian Kolfage, claimed that they would not take any compensation as part of the campaign, called “We Build The Wall,” but that was a lie. Bannon, prosecutors alleged, received more than $1 million through a non-profit he controlled, and Kolfage received more than $350,000.
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Republicans: Tax Cuts For The Super Rich.
Democrats: Fair Taxes, Healthcare, Price of Drugs, Jobs, Wages, Affordable Housing, Infrastructure, Education, Science, Protections, our Constitution, our American Democracy, Social Services, Etc…
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THANK YOU PRESIDENT BIDEN for Lowest Crime Rate in 30 years, lowest unemployment in 30 years, highest stock market ever, best real wage growth in decades, hot job market, best GDP growth in decades, infrastructure, jobs brought back to America, lower drug prices, lower deficits, restored respect & standing amongst our Allies, and Russia & China put in their place. 🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸
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Trump Failure’s: U.S. Presidency, Trump Airlines, Trump Bottled Water, Trump Board Game, Trump Mortgage, Trump Travel, Trump Steaks, Trump Vodka, Trump Telephone, Trump Tower Tampa, Trump University, Trump Fragrance, Trump Mattresses, Trump Casino, Trump Castle & Marina, Trump Plaza Hotel, Trump “Worlds Fair”, Trump Coachella 29 - removed for incompetence.
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Who is America
OUR MORON PRESIDENT SAID WHAT?
During Thursday's White House coronavirus task force briefing, an official presented the results of US government research that indicated coronavirus on an external surface appeared to weaken more quickly when exposed to sunlight, heat, and disinfectant.
Upon taking the podium Trump said:
"So, supposing we hit the body with a tremendous - whether it's ultraviolet or just very powerful light," the president said, turning to Dr Deborah Birx, the White House coronavirus response co-ordinator, "and I think you said that hasn't been checked but you're going to test it.
"And then I said, supposing you brought the light inside of the body, which you can do either through the skin or in some other way. And I think you said you're going to test that too. Sounds interesting," the president continued.
"And then I see the disinfectant where it knocks it out in a minute. One minute. And is there a way we can do something like that, by injection inside or almost a cleaning? So it'd be interesting to check that." Pointing to his head, Mr Trump went on: "I'm not a doctor. But I'm, like, a person that has a good you-know-what." He turned again to Dr Birx and asked if she had ever heard of using "the heat and the light" to treat coronavirus.
"Not as a treatment," Dr Birx said. "I mean, certainly, fever is a good thing. When you have a fever, it helps your body respond. But I've not seen heat or light."
"I think it's a great thing to look at," Mr Trump said.
You heard it here first folks, our president is a Mad Moron Would be “Scientist Jenius” (sic).
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Yet more evidence of Trumpian Criminal Activity! 🍊🤡🚨
Giuliani Associate Says He Gave Demand for Biden Inquiry to Ukrainians
The claim by the associate, Lev Parnas, is being vigorously disputed.
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Lev Parnas, second from left, has emerged as a central character in the impeachment inquiry into President Trump.
Lev Parnas, second from left, has emerged as a central character in the impeachment inquiry into President Trump. CreditEduardo Munoz/Reuters
By Ben Protess, Andrew E. Kramer, Michael Rothfeld and William K. Rashbaum
Nov. 10, 2019, 5:08 p.m. ET
Not long before the Ukrainian president was inaugurated in May, an associate of Rudolph W. Giuliani’s journeyed to Kiev to deliver a warning to the country’s new leadership, a lawyer for the associate said.
The associate, Lev Parnas, told a representative of the incoming government that it had to announce an investigation into Mr. Trump’s political rival, Joseph R. Biden Jr., and his son, or else Vice President Mike Pence would not attend the swearing-in of the new president, and the United States would freeze aid, the lawyer said.
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JARED KUSHNER HAS CREATED A SHELL COMPANY TO FUNNEL CAMPAIGN CASH TO FAMILY MEMBERS.
Donald Trump and his family have spent the last four years making the airtight case that they view the presidency as simply a means to enrich themselves and their associates. They probably don’t particularly like that reputation and, yet, it hasn’t stopped them from funneling taxpayer money to their private business, gouging the Secret Service, and raising legal defense funds that the fine print says could go directly to their pockets. Oh, and, according to a new report, setting up a shell company that spent hundreds of millions of campaign dollars to pay Trump family members along with other expenditures it seemingly wanted to keep under wraps.
According to Business Insider, first son-in-law Jared Kushner personally approved the creation of the company, incorporated as American Made Media Consultants Corp. and American Made Media Consultants LLC, in April 2018. From there, Eric Trump’s wife, Lara Trump, was named president, with Mike Pence’s nephew John Pence serving as vice president. If you’re wondering why the shell company, described as Business Insider as acting “almost like a campaign within a campaign” was necessary, well, it’s not entirely clear, but it sure sounds like the express purpose was the ability to shield “financial and operational details from public scrutiny,” as it allowed the campaign to avoid federally mandated disclosures concerning what it was spending considerable amounts of money on. And by considerable we mean nearly half of the $1.26 billion raised for Trump’s reelection.
Campaign-finance records showed Trump's reelection effort and its affiliated committee with the RNC spent more than $600 million through American Made Consultants since its formation. For months, some of Trump’s top advisers and campaign staff told Insider they had no idea how the shell company functioned, which cast an air of mystery around the operation…. Some of those same advisers said they didn’t learn about John Pence’s and Lara Trump’s involvement until Insider contacted them for this story.
Campaign-law experts have long accused the Trump team of using a corporate pass-through to hide payments. The nonpartisan Campaign Legal Center, led by former Republican Federal Election Commission Chairman Trevor Potter, filed a civil complaint with the FEC in July accusing the Trump campaign of “disguising” about $170 million worth of campaign spending in large part “by laundering the funds” through AMMC. Brendan Fischer, the Campaign Legal Center’s director of federal reform, said the payments to AMMC were a “scheme to evade telling voters even the basics on where its money is really going” and a “shield to disguise the ultimate recipients of its spending.”
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IT IS TRULY INTERESTING HOW WHAT WAS ONCE IMORAL IS NOW “JUST DOING BUSINESS”
Sen. Grassley's closed-door impeachment statement
Released into Congressional Record, February 12, 1999
Excerpts From Sen. Charles Grassley (R-Iowa) 1999 Speech on Clinton Impeachment:
Some say that this impeachment effort is part of a right-wing conspiracy, it is a Republican plot to get a Democratic President. Let's look at how we got here and see if that argument holds up.
We are here because the President did wrongful acts. We are here because of the independent counsel law.
Opponents called it a tool of partisan attack against Republican Presidents and a waste of taxpayer funds. It was neither.
Also under the law, the Attorney General can initiate the dismissal of an independent counsel if he oversteps his bounds or acts improperly. Not only was this never done by the President's Attorney General but, in contrast, she even agreed several times to expand his jurisdiction, including to cover the Monica Lewinsky matter.
Also under the law, the independent counsel is obliged to send to the House any evidences of crimes that might be impeachable.
In short, this case came about through a legitimate, legal process. It is a process that historically was vigorously defended by this side of the aisle. There are various checks and balances built into the process. They are designed to prevent abuse by the independent counsel, but they were never triggered, even though the President's own Attorney General could move for dismissal.
No, this President is in this predicament because of his own private wrongdoing and because of public policy he pursued. There is no conspiracy.
The President's actions are having a profound impact, of course, upon our society. His misdeeds have caused many to mistrust elected officials. Cynicism is swelling among the grassroots. His breach of trust has eroded the public's faith in the office of the Presidency. The President's wrongdoing has painted all of us in Washington with a very broad brush.
The true tragedy in this case is the collapse of the President's moral authority. He undermined himself when he wagged his finger and lied to our people on national television, denying that relationship with Ms. Lewinsky. That did more damage to his credibility than any other single act.
There was no better reason than that for the resignation of the President. I did not personally call for his resignation in August. That is something the President should decide on his own. But once you lose your moral authority to lead, you are a failure.
The Presidency is not merely an administrative office. . ..It is preeminently a place of moral leadership.
Mr. Clinton should take note.
Next, there is the issue of the abuse of power and authority. The President used his position to enter into an improper relationship with a subordinate--not just a subordinate, a young intern. He later used his power to find her a job.
Another abuse of power: The full powers of the White House were on lease to stonewall the process and to attack the credibility of those who investigated him.
This White House has perfected the art of stonewalling around the truth. I fear that future White Houses will learn much from these experts and will refine and improve their own truth-fighting arsenals. Truth and openness will be casualties.
Last, there is the issue of the poor example the President's actions serve for the Nation, especially for our youth. Is it now OK to lie because the President does it?
These are all questions and issues that emerge from the broader contours of this case, outside the narrow charges in the articles.
With respect to the impeachment charges, many of the President's arguments are based on contorted interpretations of the facts. These interpretations aren't credible. They represent lawyering at its best or, as some would say, at its worst.
It is clear to me that the President committed serious crimes when he coached his secretary, Betty Currie, and when he misled his aides, Sidney Blumenthal and John Podesta. Each of these aides ended up being a witness in official court proceedings. I believe, based on the evidence before the Senate, that the President lied to these witnesses so they would repeat those lies before official court proceedings. That is obstruction of justice.
Mr. Chief Justice, these actions weren't just outrageous, and, more important, morally wrong, but they were also illegal. They were a direct assault on the integrity of the judicial process. The President is guilty of the offenses charged under article II.
The President was not forthright when he testified before the grand jury. Time and time again, he gave answers that were misleading and sometimes deliberately false. The American people have a right to expect their President to be completely truthful, as they can expect you and me to be completely truthful. And the American people have a right to expect their President to be truthful, especially when placed under oath. I will vote guilty on article I as well.
Mr. Chief Justice, these were not easy decisions. They are the product of soul-searching, as it is for all of you. So they leave me with a good conscience. I believe my votes reflect the truth of what happened in this case.
The Senate is about to close this chapter in American history. It may or may not be the final chapter in this story. Nonetheless, our decision in this impeachment trial will stand against the test of time. You only truly understand the present when it is past. In that respect, future generations will serve as our jury and, in the end, history will serve as the final judge. Thank you.
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How Treasonous Trump “Cares About America”:
He has pressured a foreign leader to interfere in the 2020 American presidential election.
He urged a foreign country to intervene in the 2016 presidential election.
He divulged classified information to foreign officials.
He publicly undermined American intelligence agents while standing next to a hostile foreign autocrat.
He hired a national security adviser who he knew had secretly worked as a foreign lobbyist.
He encourages foreign leaders to enrich him and his family by staying at his hotels.
He genuflects to murderous dictators.
He has alienated America’s closest allies.
He lied to the American people about his company’s business dealings in Russia.
He tells new lies virtually every week — about the economy, voter fraud, even the weather.
He spends hours on end watching television and days on end staying at resorts.
He often declines to read briefing books or perform other basic functions of a president’s job.
He has aides, as well as members of his own party in Congress, who mock him behind his back as unfit for office.
He described a former first lady, not long after she died, as “nasty.”
He described white supremacists as “some very fine people.”
He told four women of color, all citizens and members of Congress, to “go back and help fix the totally broken and crime-infested places from which they came.”
He made a joke about Pocahontas during a ceremony honoring Native American World War II veterans.
He launched his political career by falsely claiming that the first black president was not really American.
He launched his presidential campaign by describing Mexicans as “rapists.”
He has described women, variously, as “a dog,” “a pig” and “horseface,” as well as “bleeding badly from a facelift” and having “blood coming out of her wherever.”
He has been accused of sexual assault or misconduct by multiple women.
He enthusiastically campaigned for a Senate candidate who was accused of molesting multiple teenage girls.
He waved around his arms, while giving a speech, to ridicule a physically disabled person.
He has encouraged his supporters to commit violence against his political opponents.
He has called for his opponents and critics to be investigated and jailed.
He uses a phrase popular with dictators — “the enemy of the people” — to describe journalists.
He attempts to undermine any independent source of information that he does not like, including judges, scientists, journalists, election officials, the F.B.I., the C.I.A., the Congressional Budget Office and the National Weather Service.
He has tried to harass the chairman of the Federal Reserve into lowering interest rates.
He said that a judge could not be objective because of his Mexican heritage.
He obstructed justice by trying to influence an investigation into his presidential campaign.
He violated federal law by directing his lawyer to pay $280,000 in hush money to cover up two apparent adulterous affairs.
He made his fortune partly through wide-scale financial fraud.
He has refused to release his tax returns.
He claimed that federal law-enforcement agents and prosecutors regularly fabricated evidence, thereby damaging the credibility of criminal investigations across the country.
He uses his office to enrich himself and his family
He said that America is no different from or better than Vladimir Putin’s Russia.
This is the president who “Cares About America”.
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Trump’s budget is a tremendous fraud.
Remember when he said he would eliminate the federal debt, or at least halve it, during his presidency? His new budget adds another $3.4 trillion by 2024 to the debt on top of the $3 trillion Trump has already added.
Remember when he repeatedly promised not to “touch” Social Security and Medicare? His budget calls for removing $550 billion dollars of funding from the Medicare program, including $135 billion from Medicare prescription drugs, and tens of billions from the Social Security program.
Remember when he promised not to touch Medicaid? Now he wants to cut it by $920 billion.
Remember when he was going to give Americans health care “much better” than Obamacare. But he has proposed no such thing and now his budget calls for cutting spending on the program by $844 billion.
Remember when he vowed that his tax cuts would grow the economy by 4 percent, 5 percent or even 6 percent? Last year it grew at 2.3 percent, and his new budget, even with the rosiest of assumptions, projects 2.8 percent for this year - in other words little changed from Obama’s growth rates. Yet the budget would also devote another $1.4 trillion to extending those tax cuts, primarily for the rich.
Treasonous Trump, Con Man Extraordinaire.
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TRUMP’s BEST FRIENDS: Jeffrey Epstein, Laura Loomer, Nick Fuentes, David Duke, Paul Manafort, Roger Stone, Stephen Miller, Sloppy Steve, Vladimir Putin, Viktor Orban, Kim Jong Un, etc…
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TRUMP’s CRIME SYNDICATE: Trump - Felon - Tied to Kremlin🇷🇺, Trump's Campaign Mgr - Felon🇷🇺, T’s Deputy Campaign Mgr - Felon🇷🇺, T’s Chief Strategist - Felon🇷🇺, T’s National Security Advisor - Felon🇷🇺, T’s Foreign Policy advisor - Felon🇷🇺, T’s Personal Lawyer - Felon, T’s Campaign Fixer - Felon, T’s Company CFO - Felon, T’s Trade Advisor - Felon, 22 Other Close Trump Associates - Convicted Felons.
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TRUML RAISED $255.6 MILLION FOR HIS STOP THE STEAL CAMPAIGN HOW WAS IT SPENT?
Trump Raked In Cash by Denying His Loss, and Very Little Actuality Went to the Legal Fight. A picture of Graft/Con has emerged in new campaign finance reports filed by Trump. According to the FEC, Trump paid big bucks for a public relations effort to spread his lies & conspiracies but only a fraction actual legal challenges.
In Total, Trump’s “Stop the Steal” Campaign spent $50 million on advertising to raise money. And for every dollar raised online the RNC pocketed 25 cents. All told, Trump’s campaign spent only $10 million on legal costs. Other expenses included $237,000 on the purchase of books signed by Ted Cruz that the Trump campaign offered for people who contributed more than $75 to Senator Cruz - this explains Cruz’s sudden loyalty - $34,000 to the Trump Hotel Collection, $39,200 a Trump-owned LLC that operates a private plane, and $75,000 was paid in rent to the Trump Tower building in December.
But while Trump’s efforts to delegitimize the election did not keep him in power, they did spur millions in contributions from loyal supporters and an enormous infusion of cash. In the end the RNC hauled in $80 million and Trump $150 million. Most of the money came from smaller contributors.
One of the interesting things of note is that the “Stop the Steal” Campaign poured millions into a secretive LLC called AMMC , controlled by Jared Kushner. More than $700 million of Trump Campaign & “Stop the Steal” money have flowed through the LLC in 2020.
ESSENTIALLY THE MAJORITY OF THE “STOP THE STEAL” MONEY WENT TO TRUMP & HIS FAMILY
ONCE A CON MAM ALWAYS A CON MAN
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The “Jenius” Of DJT ~ “So, supposing we hit the body with a tremendous — whether it’s ultraviolet or just very powerful light — and I think you said that that hasn’t been tried, but you’re going to test it. And then I said, supposing you brought the light inside the body, which you can do either through the skin or in some other way, and I think you said you’re going to test that, too. It sounds interesting. And then I see the disinfectant, where it knocks it out in a minute. One minute. And is there a way we can do something like that, by injection inside or almost a cleaning. Because you see it gets in the lungs, and it does a tremendous number on the lungs. So it would be interesting to check that, maybe check that out”. 😂😂😂
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THE FOLLOWING AGREE TREASON T TRIED TO OVERTHROW OUR GOVERNMENT: Bill Barr, Mike Pence, Gen. Kelly, Gen. Mattis, Gen Milley, Mick Mulvaney, Mark Meadows, Betsy DeVoss, Mitch McConnell, Nikki Haley, Elaine Chao, Mark Esper, Richard Spencer, John Bolton, etc… ALL REPUBLICANS.
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Lou Hayhurst
In your ironic list you managed to nail a couple of near truths. I take it by your response you are not a reader and do not have a knowledge of history. America has seen Oligarchs, Robber Barons, and Monopolies before, early 20th Century. A Republican Teddy Roosevelt fixed some of the problem with Trust Busting and Regulation. This was back when Republicans tended to be honest and Democrats tended to be corrupt and racist - Southern Blue Dog Democrats. Over time Teddy’s fix has been forgotten, Republicans have become corrupt and racist, and Democrats have become more honest and not racist. The switch started in the 60s. Yes, Republicans are primarily to blame here because of their undying faith in free markets - free markets only work with honest corporations, lots of competition, and good government oversight through regulation and enforcement. Some Democrats have sold their soul to corporations but Republicans hold the record for lock step resistance to any market interventions. Example, why is Medicaid/Medicare not allowed to negotiate drug prices? Answer: The Patriot Act. Say what? Yup, the Patriot Act. It also, prohibits the re importation of drugs sold by American Pharmaceutical companies to Canada and Mexico at bargain prices. Who would make such an amendment? Republicans. So much for run government like a business. Bottom line is, that Trump is just another person who talks big and means nothing on this issue.
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2008: Russians laundered millions through apartment sales at the Trump SoHo.
2008: A Russian oligarch bought a Palm Beach estate from Trump in 2008 for $95m, more than double what Trump had paid for it.
2008: 63 Russians, with Kremlin connections, spent $100m buying property fromTrump.
2008: Russian money & Latin Drug Lords pour money into Trump Panama properties.
Donny Sr 2008: “We have access to $100 million Line of Credit”
Q: Who is it? No American Bank will lend to you.
A: “I would rather not say”
Donny Jr. 2008: “We have Russians willing to lend us money”
Donny Jr. 2008: “Russians make up a pretty disproportionate cross-section of a lot of our assets. We have a lot of money pouring in from Russia."
2010: Alex Shnaider Ukrainian KleptoBillionaire ponies up $100 million to save Trump Toronto.
Eric Trump 2014: "Well, we don’t rely on American banks. We have all the funding we need out of Russia.' I said, 'Really?' And he said, 'Oh, yeah. We’ve got some guys that are really, really invested in our programs. We just go there all the time.”
Forbes 2020: Trump’s Russian Business Partners Allegedly Involved In Human Trafficking, Mafia Matters, and Probable Money Laundering.
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The Ultra Conservative New York Post gave Trump a blistering rebuke demanding that he grow up and accept his loss to President-elect Joe Biden and stop falsely claiming that mass voter fraud had marred the results — an effort the paper labeled a “dark charade.”
“We understand, Mr. President, that you’re angry that you lost,” the editorial board wrote. “But to continue down this road is treasonous.”
Under the headline “Stop the insanity,” the conservative tabloid took particular aim at Trump’s attempts to pressure Vice President Pence and congressional Republicans to somehow Throwout the result when they meet on Jan. 6 to certify Biden’s electoral college victory.
“You have tweeted that, as long as Republicans have ‘courage,’ they can overturn the results and give you four more years in office,” the Post wrote. “In other words, you’re cheering for an undemocratic coup.”
The article also reminded Trump that he had clearly failed in his attempts to prove voter fraud propelled Biden to victory.
“You had every right to investigate the election. But let’s be clear: Those efforts have found nothing,” the Post wrote, noting that Trump-backed recounts in Wisconsin and Georgia had turned up no evidence of malfeasance.
The editorial also lashed out at Sidney Powell, whose “Kraken” lawsuits seeking to overturn the election results have repeatedly been tossed out of court, and Michael Flynn, the former national security adviser who has floated the idea of declaring martial law to keep Trump in power.
“Michael Flynn suggesting martial law is tantamount to treason. It is beyond shameful.”
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700 former Republican National Security Advisors stated - “TRUMP IS A THREAT TO OUR AMERICAN DEMOCRACY”:
Admiral Steve Abbot
USN (Ret.), Deputy Homeland Security Advisor, George W. Bush
Kenneth Adelman Director, Arms Control and Disarmament Agency, Reagan
Dr. Carol C. Adelman Asst. Admin., U.S. Agency for International Development, Reagan
Major General John Barry USAF (Ret.), Military Assistant to the Secretary of Defense
Richard C. Barth Asst. Secretary, Department of Homeland Security, W. Bush
Christopher Barton Director, National Security Council Staff
John Bellinger Legal Adviser, National Security Council, W. Bush
Admiral Kenneth Bernard Special Asst. to W. Bush
Mark E. Bitterman Special Asst. to the Secretary of Defense, H.W. Bush
Robert D. Blackwill Deputy National Security Advisor, W. Bush
William Bodie Asst. to the Secretary of the Air Force, W. Bush
Christian M.L. Bonat Deputy General Counsel, DOD, W. Bush & Obama
Richard Boucher Assistant Secretary of State, W. Bush
Charles W. Boustany, Jr. Former Member of Congress, Louisiana
Charles R. Bowers Ambassador to Bolivia, H.W. Bush
Greg Brower Asst. Director, FBI, Obama & Trump
Christopher Buckley Chief Speechwriter, Office of VP H.W. Bush
James R. Bullington U.S. Ambassador to Burundi, Reagan
Richard Burt U.S. Ambassador to Germany, Reagan
Gahl Hodges Burt Asst. to the Secretary of State, Reagan
Rear Admiral Fred Byus U.S. Navy (Ret.)
Jack C. Chow Deputy Asst. Secretary of State, W. Bush
James W. Cicconi Asst. to the President & Deputy to the Chief of Staff, H. W. Bush
Peggy Cifrino Deputy Chief of Staff to Secretary of State Colin Powell, W. Bush
Eliot A. Cohen Counselor of the Dept. of State, W. Bush
Benedict S. Cohen General Counsel, Dept. of the Army, W. Bush
William Cohen Secretary of Defense, Clinton, & U.S. Senator, Maine
Joseph J. Collins Deputy Asst. Secretary of Defense, W. Bush
Barbara Comstock Former Member of Congress, Virginia
Cindy Courville National Security Affairs for Africa, W. Bush
Chester A. Crocker Assistant Secretary of State, Reagan
Patrick M. Cronin Admin. U.S. Agency for International Development, W. Bush
Stephen W. DeVine Deputy Legal Advisor, National Security Council, W. Bush
Charles Djou Former Member of Congress, Hawaii
Michael Donley Secretary of the Air Force, George W. Bush & Obama
Raymond F. DuBois Secretary of the Army, George W. Bush
Martha E. Duncan Sr Executive Service, DOD, George W. Bush & Obama
Lewis A. Dunn Director, Arms Control and Disarmament Agency, Reagan
Eric S. Edelman Under Secretary of Defense, George W. Bush
Mickey Edwards Member of Congress, Oklahoma
Richard A. Falkenrath Deputy Assistant to the President, George W. Bush
Jendayi E. Frazer Ambassador to South Africa George W. Bush Administration
Aaron L. Friedber Deputy Assistant to George W. Bush
William Gaches Director of Counterterrorism, NSA, George W. Bush
Janice Gardner Assistant Secretary of the Treasury, George W. Bush
Stuart M. Gerson Attorney General of the United States, George W. Bush
James K. Glassman Under Secretary of State, George W. Bush
Jon D. Glassman Deputy National Security Advisor to George H.W. Bush
David Gordon Director, State Dept, Policy Planning, George W. Bush
Sen. Chuck Hagel Secretary of Defense, Obama, and former U.S. Senator, Nebraska
Christopher Hank Deputy Assistant Secretary of State; Reagan,Bush, & Clinton
Mark Harvey Special Assistant to the President, Trump
General Michael V. Hayden Director of the CIA & NSA, Bush & Obama
Carla Hills U.S. Trade Representative, George H.W Bush
Seth Hurwitz Counsel, President's Intelligence Oversight Board, George H.W. Bush
Peter Keisler Attorney General of the U.S., George W. Bush
James A. Kelly Secretary of State, George W. Bush
Adam Kinzinger Former Member of Congress, Illinois
Sofia Kinzinger Deputy Assistant Secretary, Dept. of Homeland Security, Trump
Kenneth J. Krieg Under Secretary of Defense, George W. Bush
James R. Kunder Deputy Administrator, U.S. Agency for International Development, Bush
Brigadier General George Landis, USA, Ret. U.S. Personnel Info Systems Command
Frank Lavin Ambassador to Singapore & Under Secretary of Commerce, George W. Bush
Peter Lichtenbaum
Former Assistant Secretary of Commerce, George W. Bush Administration
Rear Admiral David M. Lichtman, MD, USN (Ret.)
Former Commander, National Naval Medical Center, Bethesda, George H.W. Bush and Clinton Administrations
Winston Lord
Former U.S. Ambassador to China, Reagan and George H.W. Bush Administration
Steven R. Mann
Former Ambassador to Turkmenistan and Former Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary in the State Dept., Clinton and George W. Bush Administrations
Colonel John W. McDonald
Former Deputy Under Secretary of the Army
P. Michael McKinley
Former Ambassador to Peru and Acting Ambassador to the European Union and Mozambique, George W. Bush Administration; Former Ambassador to Peru, Colombia, Afghanistan, and Brazil, Obama Administration
Dan Miller
Former Member of Congress, Florida
John M. Mitnick
Former General Counsel, Dept. of Homeland Security, Trump
Allen Moore
Former Under Secretary of Commerce, Reagan
Alberto Mora
Former General Counsel, U.S. Information Agency, George H.W. Bush; Former General Counsel, Dept. of the Navy, George W. Bush
Kenneth Mortensen
Former Associate Deputy Attorney General, George W. Bush
Vice Admiral Charles L. Munns
U.S. Navy (Ret.), George W. Bush
John D. Negroponte Deputy Secretary of State, George W. Bush
Elizabeth Neumann Assistant Secretary of Homeland Security, Trump
Sean O'Keefe Secretary of the Navy, George H.W. Bush
Bill Paxon Former Member of Congress, New York
William R Piekney CIA Chief of Station, Reagan
Daniel M. Price Deputy NSA Advisor, George W. Bush
Alan Charles Raul Vice Chairman, Civil Liberties Oversight Board, George W. Bush
Victor Reis Director, DARPA, George H.W. Bush
Robert Annan Riley Ambassador to Micronesia, Trump
Paul Rosenzweig Deputy Assistant Secretary of Homeland Security, George W. Bush
Charles Rossotti Deputy Asst. Secretary of Defense; Commissioner of IRS, Clinton & Bush
Nicholas Rostow National Security Council Legal Adviser, Reagan & H.W. Bush
Kori Schake Deputy Director of Policy Planning, State Dept., W. Bush
Wayne A. Schroeder Deputy Under Secretary of Defense, W. Bush
Gregory L. Schulte Sr Director, National Security Council & Atomic Energy Agency, W. Bush
Robert Shanks Deputy Assistant AG, Reagan
Rep. Christopher Shays Former Member of Congress, Connecticut
John Simon Senior Director, National Security Council Staff, W. Bush
Stephen Slick Sr. Director, National Security Council Staff, W. Bush
Mark C. Storella U.S. Ambassador to Zambia, Obama
William H. Taft IV Deputy Secretary of Defense and Ambassador to NATO, W. Bush
Miles Taylor Chief of Staff, Dept. of Homeland Security, Trump
Larry D. Thompson Former Deputy AG, W. Bush
Jack Tomarchio Deputy Under Secretary of Homeland Security, W. Bush
Olivia Troye Special Advisor to VP Pence, Trump
Robert Tuttle U.S. Ambassador to the UK, W. Bush
John K. Veroneau Deputy U.S. Trade Rep. & Assistant Secretary of Defense, W. Bush & Clinton
Colonel Terry Virts, USAF (Ret.)
Former NASA Astronaut, Former Commander of the International Space Station
Dr. Thomas G. Ward, Jr. Director of Threats, Ballistic Missile Defense Org., Reagan & Clinton
Matthew C. Waxman Principal Deputy Director, State Dept Policy Planning, W. Bush
William H. Webster Director of the CIA & FBI, Reagan & H.W. Bush
William F. Weld Assistant Attorney General, Criminal Division, Reagan
J. Robinson West Assistant Secretary of Interior, Reagan
Wendell L. Willkie II General Counsel, Dept. of Commerce, H.W. Bush
Philip Zelikow Counselor of the Dept. of State, W. Bush
Robert B. Zoellick White House Deputy Chief of Staff, George H.W. Bush
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Mark Hu
Even ramped up we are so far behind we’re South Korea Started. South Korea, and America, discovered their first Covid19 cases on the same day. Korea has tested 80% of its population, isolated the infected, provide masks and medical supplies to all parts of their nation, and flattened and reversed the curve.
Trump, he just staged to admit we have a Pandemic, tells states it’s not his job, refuses to establish order in the supply chain to stop FEMA, Hospitals, States, and other Agencies from competing against each other for supplies, and the best he can do is place Jared Kushner in charge of yet another failed job.
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@jack-of-all-trades1234 Good ole Tucker Carlson, Laura Ingraham, Sean Hannity, Elise Stefanik, MJT, DJT, Paul Gosar, Matt Gaetz, Ron Johnson, Gym Jordan, Etc. have filled this disturbed kid full of lies and hate.
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@chinocampos4088 Good ole Tucker Carlson, Laura Ingraham, Sean Hannity, Elise Stefanik, MJT, DJT, Paul Gosar, Matt Gaetz, Ron Johnson, Gym Jordan, Etc. have filled this disturbed kid full of lies and hate.
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Lyndsey Graham Impeachment of Bill Clinton:
Sen. Lindsey Graham in 1999: “A president doesn’t even have to be convicted of a crime to be impeached. Impeachment is about restoring honor and integrity to the office”
Then (as a congressman who served as a House manager in Clinton’s Senate trial): “You don’t even have to be convicted of a crime in this constitutional republic if this body determines your conduct as a public official is clearly out of bounds in your role. Impeachment is about cleansing the office. Impeachment is about restoring honor and integrity to the office.”
– Jan. 16, 1999, statement
Sen. Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.)
“Our nation is indeed at a crossroads. Will we pursue the search for truth, or will we dodge, weave and evade the truth? I am of course referring to the investigation into serious allegations of illegal conduct by the president of the United States — that the president has engaged in a persistent pattern and practice of obstruction of justice. The allegations are grave, the investigation is legitimate, and ascertaining the truth, the whole truth and nothing but the unqualified, unevasive truth is absolutely critical.”
– Feb. 12, 1998, floor statement
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Spent-
On Fox News, suddenly a very different tune about the coronavirus.
For weeks, some of Fox News’s hosts downplayed the threat of the coronavirus, characterizing it as a conspiracy by media organizations and Democrats to undermine President Trump.
Sean Hannity and Laura Ingraham accused the news media of whipping up “mass hysteria” and being “panic pushers.” Trish Regan called the Main Stream Media response “yet another attempt to impeach the president.”
But that was then.
When Trump’s declared a national emergency, the tone on Fox News has quickly shifted. Hannity, suddenly the lauded the president’s handling of what the host is now, belatedly, referring to as a “crisis.”
“Tonight, we are witnessing what will be a massive paradigm shift in the future of disease control and prevention,” he said. “A bold, new precedent is being set, the world will once again benefit greatly from America’s leadership. . . . The federal government, state governments, private businesses, top hospitals all coming together, under the president’s leadership, to stem the tide of the coronavirus.”
In a complicated dance to mirror the president, Trump’s allies on Fox News took the same stance as the president for several weeks — that this coronavirus that had sickened and killed thousands of people in China was no worse a threat than the seasonal flu.
Just a week ago, Hannity shrugged at the pandemic. “So far in the United States, there’s been around 30 deaths, most of which came from one nursing home in the state of Washington,” he said, “Healthy people, generally, 99 percent recover very fast, even if they contract it.”
By way of comparison, he added: “Twenty-six people were shot in Chicago alone over the weekend. I doubt you heard about it. You notice there’s no widespread hysteria about violence in Chicago. And this has gone on for years and years. By the way, Democratic-run cities, we see a lot of that.”
Ingraham, also had a fast-dawning recognition that the social and economic dislocation of the virus was more than just a Democratic talking point wielded against the president.
In late February, Ingraham called Democrats the “pandemic party” and displayed photos of House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) and Senate Minority Leader Charles E. Schumer (D-N.Y.) alongside enlarged images of coronavirus molecules. “How sick that these people seem almost happiest when Americans are hurting,” she said.
She kept at it through last Tuesday when, in front of a graphic reading “Trump confronts the panic pushers,” Ingraham said, “The public in some ways seems a lot more levelheaded than the so-called experts. . . . The facts are actually pretty reassuring, but you’d never know it watching all this stuff.”
On Friday, Ingraham tweeted that it was a “great time to fly if not in at-risk population!” The tweet was later deleted.
By Wednesday, after Trump announced a travel ban on people from the European Union, Ingraham had started calling the pandemic “this dangerous health crisis.” She characterized warnings issued by National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases head Anthony S. Fauci about the potential spread of the disease as “sobering and scary to hear.”
Regan’s on-air speculation at the start of last week that coronavirus was merely another impeachment gambit for Democrats drew widespread pushback. Clearly the mood was changing at Fox by the time the network announced late Friday that her discussion-and-commentary program on Fox Business would leave the air indefinitely.
Tucker Carlson too, blamed the “corrupt” media. But in a monologue that many took at an indirect scolding of the president, he also complained that “none of our leaders helped us to take it seriously. . . . People you trust, people you probably voted for, have spent weeks minimizing what is clearly a very serious problem. It’s just partisan politics, they say. ‘Calm down. In the end, this is just like the flu and people die from that every year. Coronavirus will pass, and when it does, we will feel foolish for worrying about it.’ That’s their position. . . . But they’re wrong.”
Days earlier, Carlson attended the birthday party of former Fox News host Kimberly Guilfoyle, who is dating Donald Trump Jr.
In comments downplaying the pandemic on March 7, Jeanine Pirro, offered “All the talk about coronavirus being so much more deadly [than the flu] doesn’t reflect reality.” She reiterated Trump’s comment that the infection rate will drop “as the weather warms.”
On the “Fox & Friends” program Friday, Liberty University President Jerry Falwell Jr. spun out a meandering tale advancing the baseless notion that the coronavirus was designed by North Korean and Chinese scientists to harm Americans.
The program’s three co-hosts offered no objections. Host Steve Doocy moved on to asking Falwell about Liberty’s plans to cancel classes.
Then on Sunday, Rep. Devin Nunes (R-Calif.) appeared on Fox News and urged Americans to “stop panicking” and for those who are healthy to “just go out.”
Said Nunes: “There’s a lot of concerns with the economy here because people are scared to go out. But I will just say one of the things you can do if you’re healthy, you and your family, it’s a great time to just go out, go to a local restaurant.”
Anchor Maria Bartiromo offered no response to Nunes’s comment. On Monday, a day later, Fox News contributor Nicole Saphier, a doctor, specifically called out the congressman on air to contradict his advice and told viewers to stay home.
This is a quick summation of how Faux news has become nothing more than a platform for Trumpian Propaganda.
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WHEN GOOD PEOPLE DON’T ACT, EVIL REIGNS:
How did the trans-Atlantic slave trade play out over hundreds of years?
How did slavery thrive in this country?
How was the Holocaust allowed to happen?
How did the genocides in Rwanda or Darfur come to be?
It turns out that our current era is providing the unsettling answer: It was easy. As Edmund Burke said: “The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.” If you don’t complain, you condone.
Gather the energy. Gather your neighbor. Fight, vote, email, post. Do all you can to stand up for the vulnerable, for the oppressed, for our Constitution, and for our Democratic Values. Don’t let history record this moment as it has recorded too many others: a time when good people did too little to confront the wickedness and disaster of Trumpian Neo Nazism. In November America has a clear choice, do nothing to confront Trumpian Evil, or vote to sweep the Evil out of office and began the long painful process of Restoring Our Democracy and Democratic Institutions.
As Edmund Burke wrote: “When bad men combine, the good must associate; else they will fall, one by one, an unpitied sacrifice in a contemptible struggle.”
But you may be more familiar with another quote often attributed to Burke: “The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.”
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A day before rioters stormed Congress, an FBI office in Virginia issued an explicit internal warning that extremists were preparing to travel to Washington to commit violence and “war,” according to an FBI internal document. A situational information report approved for release the day before the U.S. Capitol riot painted a dire portrait of dangerous plans, including individuals sharing a map of the complex’s tunnels, and possible rally points for would-be conspirators to meet up. “As of 5 January 2021, FBI Norfolk received information indicating calls for violence in response to ‘unlawful lockdowns’ to begin on 6 January 2021 in Washington. D.C.,” the document says. “An online thread discussed specific calls for violence to include stating ‘Be ready to fight. Congress needs to hear glass breaking, doors being kicked in, and blood being spilled. Get violent. Stop calling this a march, or rally, or a protest. Go there ready for war. Our President wants us to do this. NOTHING else will achieve this goal.”
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JARED KUSHNER HAS CREATED A SHELL COMPANY TO FUNNEL CAMPAIGN CASH TO FAMILY MEMBERS.
Donald Trump and his family have spent the last four years making the airtight case that they view the presidency as simply a means to enrich themselves and their associates. They probably don’t particularly like that reputation and, yet, it hasn’t stopped them from funneling taxpayer money to their private business, gouging the Secret Service, and raising legal defense funds that the fine print says could go directly to their pockets. Oh, and, according to a new report, setting up a shell company that spent hundreds of millions of campaign dollars to pay Trump family members along with other expenditures it seemingly wanted to keep under wraps.
According to Business Insider, first son-in-law Jared Kushner personally approved the creation of the company, incorporated as American Made Media Consultants Corp. and American Made Media Consultants LLC, in April 2018. From there, Eric Trump’s wife, Lara Trump, was named president, with Mike Pence’s nephew John Pence serving as vice president. If you’re wondering why the shell company, described as Business Insider as acting “almost like a campaign within a campaign” was necessary, well, it’s not entirely clear, but it sure sounds like the express purpose was the ability to shield “financial and operational details from public scrutiny,” as it allowed the campaign to avoid federally mandated disclosures concerning what it was spending considerable amounts of money on. And by considerable we mean nearly half of the $1.26 billion raised for Trump’s reelection.
Campaign-finance records showed Trump's reelection effort and its affiliated committee with the RNC spent more than $600 million through American Made Consultants since its formation. For months, some of Trump’s top advisers and campaign staff told Insider they had no idea how the shell company functioned, which cast an air of mystery around the operation…. Some of those same advisers said they didn’t learn about John Pence’s and Lara Trump’s involvement until Insider contacted them for this story.
Campaign-law experts have long accused the Trump team of using a corporate pass-through to hide payments. The nonpartisan Campaign Legal Center, led by former Republican Federal Election Commission Chairman Trevor Potter, filed a civil complaint with the FEC in July accusing the Trump campaign of “disguising” about $170 million worth of campaign spending in large part “by laundering the funds” through AMMC. Brendan Fischer, the Campaign Legal Center’s director of federal reform, said the payments to AMMC were a “scheme to evade telling voters even the basics on where its money is really going” and a “shield to disguise the ultimate recipients of its spending.”
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Trump 26 assaults and counting.
Jan. 22: President Trump is asked: “Are there worries about a pandemic at this point?” Trump answers: “No. Not at all. And we’re, we have it totally under control. It’s one person coming in from China. … It’s — going to be just fine.”
Feb. 25: Trump’s declares: “We have contained this. I won’t say airtight, but pretty close to airtight.”
March 9: Trump tweets: “Nothing is shut down, life & the economy go on. At this moment there are 546 confirmed cases of CoronaVirus, with 22 deaths.”
March 13: Fox host Lou Dobbs shows off on his program a chart of the day’s 1,985-point Dow Jones rise. The chart was autographed and sent by Trump, who seemed to suggest that his remarks were responsible for the rise, a day after the same index had dropped a record 2,352 points.
March 16: After the weekend, the Dow suffers another record drop, closing 2,997.10 points lower. Trump did not autograph that chart and send it to Dobbs.
March 31: The U.S. has more than 180,000 confirmed coronavirus cases, about 80,000 more than any other country.
Nov. 26, 2018: Reports show that Trump “dismissed a study produced by his own administration … and more than 300 leading scientists, warning of the potentially catastrophic impending crisis. Asked why, Trump told reporters, “I don’t believe it.” Asked if he read it, Trump said, “some.”
March 30, 2020: This newspaper reports that Trump completed plans to scrap Obama-era automobile fuel efficiency standards that limited climate-warming tailpipe pollution — a move that will “allow cars on American roads to emit nearly a billion tons more carbon dioxide over the lifetime of the vehicles.”
What’s the common theme? We have a president who is enamored with markets but ignorant of science, and we have paid a steep, steep price for that — and we are paying an even bigger price now.
Early on, Trump clearly spent his days watching the markets and downplaying the virus’s potential for rapid spread. If the markets were doing well for investors, he was doing well for America.
Trump thought that closing off flights from China was enough to stem this growing epidemic and calm the markets — without the mass testing, surveillance and quarantines of the infected that South Korea, Hong Kong and Singapore employed to great success. You could hear that in the reckless, premature assurances by Kudlow, Kellyanne CONWAY and Trump himself that the virus had been contained.
If only Trump had listened to Medical Doctors and Scientists. It was his deadly mistake, and a cruel joke on America.
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dad bear
William H. McRaven, a retired Navy admiral, was commander of the U.S. Joint Special Operations Command from 2011 to 2014. He oversaw the 2011 Navy SEAL raid in Pakistan that killed al-Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden. He writes:
Dear Mr. President:
Former CIA director John Brennan, whose security clearance you revoked on Wednesday, is one of the finest public servants I have ever known. Few Americans have done more to protect this country than John. He is a man of unparalleled integrity, whose honesty and character have never been in question, except by those who don’t know him.
Therefore, I would consider it an honor if you would revoke my security clearance as well, so I can add my name to the list of men and women who have spoken up against your presidency.
Like most Americans, I had hoped that when you became president, you would rise to the occasion and become the leader this great nation needs.
A good leader tries to embody the best qualities of his or her organization. A good leader sets the example for others to follow. A good leader always puts the welfare of others before himself or herself.
Your leadership, however, has shown little of these qualities. Through your actions, you have embarrassed us in the eyes of our children, humiliated us on the world stage and, worst of all, divided us as a nation.
If you think for a moment that your McCarthy-era tactics will suppress the voices of criticism, you are sadly mistaken. The criticism will continue until you become the leader we prayed you would be.
NEED WE SAY MORE THAN THIS AMERICAN HERO? STAND UP AND BE COUNTED. VOTE THIS WOULD BE PETTY DICTATOR OUT OF OFFICE.
🇺🇸🗽🇺🇸
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Steve Doocy - Recorded June 15, 2018
Doocy: “Will Kim Jong Un Visit the White House?”
DJT: “It could happen. Hey he’s the head of his country, and I mean the strong head. When he speaks his people sit straight up at attention, I want my people to do the same. How many young guys [Kim Jong Un]… he was, like, 26 or 25 when his father died… take over these tough generals, and all of a sudden ... he goes in, he takes over, and he's the boss. It's incredible. He wiped out the uncle, he wiped out this one, that one. I mean, this guy is incredibly successful like me and doesn't play games.” ~ DJT
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Trump has no policy on any issue because his mental impairment means he cannot think strategically or in abstract terms. He cannot weigh options, assess risk, or foresee consequences. Concepts like fairness, justice, honor, and integrity quite literally do not register. You can see this in every interview or press encounter. He never states an abstract thought or idea. Instead he falls back on simple adjectives: disgraceful, horrible, low-intelligence, perfect, innocent, nasty, stupid, fake, etc.
John M. Talmadge, M.D.
Clinical Professor of Psychiatry at U.T. Southwestern Medical Center.
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Jack Devereaux
Even ramped up we are so far behind we’re South Korea Started. South Korea, and America, discovered their first Covid19 cases on the same day. Korea has tested 80% of its population, isolated the infected, provide masks and medical supplies to all parts of their nation, and flattened and reversed the curve.
Trump, he just staged to admit we have a Pandemic, tells states it’s not his job, refuses to establish order in the supply chain to stop FEMA, Hospitals, States, and other Agencies from competing against each other for supplies, and the best he can do is place Jared Kushner in charge of yet another failed job.
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A HISTORY LEASON FROM DJT: "The Silver War was so fascinating, so horrible — but so fascinating, it was really fascinating. I'm so attracted to seeing it. It’s really interesting. But it was horrible, really horrible. It was, I don’t know, it was just different. So many mistakes were made. See, there was something I think I could have negotiated, to be honest with you. I think I could’ve negotiated that.
Abraham Lincoln, of course if he negotiated it, you probably wouldn’t even know who Abraham Lincoln was. He would have been president, but he would have been president, and he wouldn’t have been the Abraham Lincoln. Would’ve been different, but that would’ve been OK.
I know it very well. I know the whole process that they went through, and they just couldn’t get along, and that would’ve been something that could have been negotiated and they wouldn’t have had that problem. There’s nothing nice about it. All the people died, so many people died.”
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@moeemdown3774 Safest Cities In America:
1. Glens Falls, New York
2. Midland, Michigan
3. State College, Pennsylvania
4. Appleton, Wisconsin
5. Logan, Utah
6. Wausau, Wisconsin
7. Cambridge, Massachusetts
8. Portland, Maine
9. Kingston, New York
10. Wenatchee, Washington
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saintbees
DRAIN THE SWAMP - HOW MUCH ICREAM CAN YOU BUY WITH A BILLION DOLLARS?
Trump’s company has received at least $970,000 from U.S. taxpayers for room rentals.
The U.S. government has paid at least $970,000 to President Trump’s company since Trump took office — including payments for more than 1,600 nightly room rentals at Trump’s hotels and clubs, according to federal records obtained.
Since March, The Post has catalogued an additional $340,000 in such payments. They were all related to trips taken by Trump, his family and his top officials. The government is known to have paid full price for rooms for staffers and Secret Service agents to accompany the president.
The payments create an unprecedented business relationship between the president’s private company and his government — which began in the first month of Trump’s presidency records show.
The records show that taxpayers have now paid for the equivalent of more than four years’ worth of nightly rentals at Trump properties, including 950 nights at Trump’s golf club in Bedminster, N.J., and 530 nights at the president’s Mar-a-Lago Club in Florida, according to analysis.
Who needs a pay check when you can get nearly a Billion Dollars in guaranteed business from the government - DRAIN THE SWAMP!
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Trump touts Putin’s speaking out against his impeachment
A souvenir shop in Moscow displays Matryoshka dolls featuring President Trump and Russian President Vladimir Putin. (Misha Friedman/AFP/Getty Images)
By Colby Itkowitz and Isabelle Khurshudyan
December 21 at 10:31 AM MT
Late Friday night, minutes before deplaning in Florida for the holidays, President Trump retweeted a link to an article in which Russian President Vladimir Putin defended him against impeachment.
“A total Witch Hunt!” the president tweeted at 10:30 p.m., as he shared a 36-hour-old Associated Press tweet that read: “BREAKING: Russian President Vladimir Putin says U.S. President Donald Trump’s impeachment is far-fetched and predicts the U.S. Senate will reject it.”
Trump’s boasting of Putin’s support comes a day after The Washington Post reported that White House advisers feared Trump’s belief that Ukraine, not Russia, was responsible for interfering with the 2016 election was spurred by conversations Trump had with Putin.
[[Former White House officials say they feared Putin influenced the president’s views on Ukraine and 2016 campaign]]
Trump’s critics responded to the tweet, expressing exasperation more than incredulity.
“At the end of the day, it’s always Putin First,” wrote conservative commentator and “Never Trumper” Bill Kristol.
Russian President Vladimir Putin accused the U.S. House of Representatives Dec. 19 of having "invented" a story to "revise" history and impeach President Trump. (Reuters)
“Trump wants us to know that Putin has his back. We know,” tweeted Eric Columbus, a former Justice Department appointee in the Obama administration.
“Putin is a dictator who jails opponents, kills opponents, invades neighbors, interferes in democracies’ elections, etc. I don’t think an American president should be buddying with him. I wonder if Trump defenders are ever (secretly) embarrassed by this stuff. I hope so,” wrote Jay Nordlinger, a senior editor at the right-leaning National Review.
At his annual end-of-the-year news conference on Thursday, Putin was asked about Trump’s impeachment. He called the charges “completely fabricated reasons.”
[[Putin stays in Trump’s corner on impeachment]]
That evening, Russian state media, which follows Putin’s lead, also threw its support behind Trump.
Donald Trump is the third president in U.S. history to face a Senate trial. (The Washington Post)
Popular Kremlin propagandist Vladimir Soloviev gave an impassioned defense of Trump on his evening show, raising his voice several times in a discussion with Atlantic Council expert Ariel Cohen.
“I can’t understand for what reason [Democrats] don’t like Trump,” Soloviev said.
Days earlier, on his two-hour Sunday night program, anchor Dmitry Kiselyov opined about how Hollywood has joined the Democrats in being against Trump, portraying him as “always on the dark side.”
And the state-sponsored Rossiya-1 news channel, which airs Soloviev’s show, recently broadcast segments of Rudolph W. Giuliani’s interview with right-wing channel One America News, in which the president’s personal attorney promoted debunked conspiracy theories about Ukrainian interference in the 2016 U.S. presidential election.
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Sharing polling data
(VOLUME I, PP. 130-131, 140)
Throughout his time as the Trump campaign chairman, Paul Manafort stayed in touch with a Russian man named Konstantin Kilimnik, whom, according to the Mueller report, “the F.B.I. assesses to have ties to Russian intelligence.” Mr. Gates, Mr. Manafort’s deputy, believed Mr. Kilimnik to be a “spy.” — a view, the report says, that he shared with Mr. Manafort.
While managing the campaign, Mr. Manafort told Mr. Gates to share “internal polling data” private to the campaign with Mr. Kilimnik, so he could share it with Ukrainian oligarchs and a Russian oligarch. Mr. Gates sent Mr. Kilimnik the data regularly, deleting the WhatsApp messages after he did so. In an in-person meeting with Mr. Kilimnik, Mr. Manafort shared more information about the campaign’s election plans and polling, including information about “battleground states” that would be key to Mr. Trump’s election.
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Republicans are blaming renewable energy, when it’s the state’s powerful deregulated utilities that failed to prepare for the worst.Texans are also furious about how their state’s ruinous laissez-faire governance led to a cascade of human-caused disasters of epic. In general, there’s a natural gas storage problem in Texas. Utility companies didn’t bother to have gas reserves: It’s easier, cheaper and more profitable to tap the gas in the field with a pipeline.
After a cold snap in 2011, the power companies were supposed to better winterize their plants. Ten years later, they hadn’t done it. It’s hard to believe they couldn’t afford it: Oncor, the giant power utility serving Dallas, reported $651 million in net income in 2019.
As the cold froze Oklahoma and sent temperatures in Dallas to lows not seen in over a century, the natural gas industry were unable to deliver more gas even if it was purchased. Wellheads in the Permian Basin froze solid. Pipelines leaked water, which, in turn, turned metal and gas into useless, immovable ice.
The crisis dates back to the 1930s, when the Federal Power Commission gained the authority to regulate interstate transmission of electric power. But politicians in Texas didn’t want Washington regulating the electricity business and chipping away at those hefty profits.
So the business went entirely unregulated until the formation of the Electric Reliability Council of Texas (ERCOT) in the 1970s. But ERCOT has been anything but reliable. While it is technically overseen by the state, its board is really just an industry club. Several of its members don’t even live in Texas.
After taking a beating on Twitter, Mr. Abbott tried to blame the renewable energy industry, a talking point that caught fire among conservatives. Renewables like wind and solar can contribute up to 20 percent of the Texas power grid, but just 7 percent of the winter grid, with 80 percent coming from natural gas, coal and a bit of nuclear power. While some wind turbines in Texas froze, many of them kept turning.
Yet another example of Fakenews- media spewing Propaganda.
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Speaking Life - The “Jenius” Of DJT ~ “So, supposing we hit the body with a tremendous — whether it’s ultraviolet or just very powerful light — and I think you said that that hasn’t been tried, but you’re going to test it. And then I said, supposing you brought the light inside the body, which you can do either through the skin or in some other way, and I think you said you’re going to test that, too. It sounds interesting. And then I see the disinfectant, where it knocks it out in a minute. One minute. And is there a way we can do something like that, by injection inside or almost a cleaning. Because you see it gets in the lungs, and it does a tremendous number on the lungs. So it would be interesting to check that, maybe check that out”. 😂😂😂
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JARED KUSHNER HAS CREATED A SHELL COMPANY TO FUNNEL CAMPAIGN CASH TO FAMILY MEMBERS.
Donald Trump and his family have spent the last four years making the airtight case that they view the presidency as simply a means to enrich themselves and their associates. They probably don’t particularly like that reputation and, yet, it hasn’t stopped them from funneling taxpayer money to their private business, gouging the Secret Service, and raising legal defense funds that the fine print says could go directly to their pockets. Oh, and, according to a new report, setting up a shell company that spent hundreds of millions of campaign dollars to pay Trump family members along with other expenditures it seemingly wanted to keep under wraps.
According to Business Insider, first son-in-law Jared Kushner personally approved the creation of the company, incorporated as American Made Media Consultants Corp. and American Made Media Consultants LLC, in April 2018. From there, Eric Trump’s wife, Lara Trump, was named president, with Mike Pence’s nephew John Pence serving as vice president. If you’re wondering why the shell company, described as Business Insider as acting “almost like a campaign within a campaign” was necessary, well, it’s not entirely clear, but it sure sounds like the express purpose was the ability to shield “financial and operational details from public scrutiny,” as it allowed the campaign to avoid federally mandated disclosures concerning what it was spending considerable amounts of money on. And by considerable we mean nearly half of the $1.26 billion raised for Trump’s reelection.
Campaign-finance records showed Trump's reelection effort and its affiliated committee with the RNC spent more than $600 million through American Made Consultants since its formation. For months, some of Trump’s top advisers and campaign staff told Insider they had no idea how the shell company functioned, which cast an air of mystery around the operation…. Some of those same advisers said they didn’t learn about John Pence’s and Lara Trump’s involvement until Insider contacted them for this story.
Campaign-law experts have long accused the Trump team of using a corporate pass-through to hide payments. The nonpartisan Campaign Legal Center, led by former Republican Federal Election Commission Chairman Trevor Potter, filed a civil complaint with the FEC in July accusing the Trump campaign of “disguising” about $170 million worth of campaign spending in large part “by laundering the funds” through AMMC. Brendan Fischer, the Campaign Legal Center’s director of federal reform, said the payments to AMMC were a “scheme to evade telling voters even the basics on where its money is really going” and a “shield to disguise the ultimate recipients of its spending.”
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How Russia saw Trump: ‘A potential asset and an exploitable victim’
‘Wow,” Michael McFaul, a former U.S. ambassador to Moscow, exclaimed on Twitter in late October. “We still need to understand why Trump remains so intent on appeasing Putin.”
What set off McFaul was testimony from a top State Department official that “senior officials in the White House” had blocked the department from condemning Moscow for attacking Ukrainian ships in the Azov Sea. And on that day it was telling that even McFaul, a Kremlin-watcher for nearly 40 years, was struggling to put his finger on exactly what had driven the president of the United States into the Russian strongman’s arms, tugging the Republican Party along with him.
Trump’s affinity for Vladimir Putin seemed to glow red during a now-notorious 2018 Helsinki news conference when he sided with the former KGB agent’s denials of election interference over U.S. intelligence agencies’ findings. But so much else has erupted before and since, from revelations that he was secretly pursuing a Moscow hotel deal during the 2016 campaign, to exposés of his business relations with Russian oligarchs, to his continuing criticism of the NATO alliance, to his acquiescence to Russian troops taking over abandoned U.S. bases in Syria, to his pressure on Ukraine’s president to say publicly that Kyiv, not Moscow, had hacked the computers of the Democratic National Committee.
It makes you wonder, as the TV detectives say. Why do men go bad? Mole hunters have an acronym for it: MICE, which stands for money, ideology, coercion/compromise and ego/excitement. Trump qualifies for three out of four that explain his attachment to Moscow. Ideology’s not one of them, notwithstanding Trump’s crude nationalist populism that in many ways apes Putin’s kleptocratic rule. According to New York state records Trump changed party registrations at least five times over the years.
On his arm was his first wife, Ivana, a native of communist Czechoslovakia, whose Moscow-controlled spy service, the StB, had long counted her father as an informant, according to authoritative reporting cited by Nance. Her 1977 marriage to Trump had prompted the Czechs to open a dossier on him. “We knew that Trump was influential. He didn’t hide that he wanted to become president one day,” the StB’s then-chief said years later. “We were interested in learning more things about him.”
Especially his weaknesses. In Trump, they found two, a hunger for money and a raging ego, not to mention a lust for beautiful women. They began dangling opportunities — the Miss Universe contest, Trump Tower Moscow. They treated him like a potentate, affording him the bedroom suite reserved for princes and presidents at the Moscow Ritz-Carlton. Then, in the wake of Trump’s Atlantic City bankruptcies, Trump found new sources of cash from Russian sources, including the Kremlin-connected Deutsche Bank, Russian oligarchs who bought luxury condos in Trump Tower and “New York City allies from the former Soviet Union” who partnered with him in real estate deals from SoHo to Baku. One of them, Felix Sater, would eventually be accused of laundering hundreds of millions of dollars stolen from a Kazakhstan bank “to develop a Trump Tower in Moscow,” according to a lawsuit reported by the Associated Press.
That Trump wanted the details of his financial sources kept secret (along with his tax returns) was all the better, It gave Putin a better hold on him, a tool for coercion.
From the beginning, Russia had used “the MICE strategy to bring him under its sway, as his interest in Russia clearly blinded him. Trump was a potential asset and an exploitable victim worth keeping.”
Judging by his Russia-related decisions and pronouncements, the strategy has worked. Trump has dismissed Moscow’s subversion of American politics and pursued debunked conspiracy theories tying Ukraine to Hillary Clinton’s campaign. Equally important to Moscow’s strategic goals, he’s disparaged NATO and, by championing Brexit, undermined the European Union.
To longtime observers, Trump’s transformation of the GOP from hard-line cold warriors to muted bystanders has been astounding. Here again, the possible role of foreign money, Russian oligarchs and front groups provided millions of dollars for the campaigns of key Republican senators.
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Joe Martin
Jan. 22: President Trump is asked: “Are there worries about a pandemic at this point?” Trump answers: “No. Not at all. And we’re, we have it totally under control. It’s one person coming in from China. … It’s — going to be just fine.”
Feb. 25: Trump’s declares: “We have contained this. I won’t say airtight, but pretty close to airtight.”
March 9: Trump tweets: “Nothing is shut down, life & the economy go on. At this moment there are 546 confirmed cases of CoronaVirus, with 22 deaths.”
March 13: Fox host Lou Dobbs shows off on his program a chart of the day’s 1,985-point Dow Jones rise. The chart was autographed and sent by Trump, who seemed to suggest that his remarks were responsible for the rise, a day after the same index had dropped a record 2,352 points.
March 16: After the weekend, the Dow suffers another record drop, closing 2,997.10 points lower. Trump did not autograph that chart and send it to Dobbs.
March 31: The U.S. has more than 180,000 confirmed coronavirus cases, about 80,000 more than any other country.
Nov. 26, 2018: Reports show that Trump “dismissed a study produced by his own administration … and more than 300 leading scientists, warning of the potentially catastrophic impending crisis. Asked why, Trump told reporters, “I don’t believe it.” Asked if he read it, Trump said, “some.”
March 30, 2020: This newspaper reports that Trump completed plans to scrap Obama-era automobile fuel efficiency standards that limited climate-warming tailpipe pollution — a move that will “allow cars on American roads to emit nearly a billion tons more carbon dioxide over the lifetime of the vehicles.”
What’s the common theme? We have a president who is enamored with markets but ignorant of science, and we have paid a steep, steep price for that — and we are paying an even bigger price now.
Early on, Trump clearly spent his days watching the markets and downplaying the virus’s potential for rapid spread. If the markets were doing well for investors, he was doing well for America.
Trump thought that closing off flights from China was enough to stem this growing epidemic and calm the markets — without the mass testing, surveillance and quarantines of the infected that South Korea, Hong Kong and Singapore employed to great success. You could hear that in the reckless, premature assurances by Kudlow, Kellyanne CONWAY and Trump himself that the virus had been contained.
If only Trump had listened to Medical Doctors and Scientists. It was his deadly mistake, and a cruel joke on America.
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FAILURE IN AMERICA ON A TRUMPIAN SCALE:
Nearly every country has struggled to contain the coronavirus and made mistakes along the way.
China silenced doctors and allowed the virus to escape Wuhan, much of Europe went next, failing to avoid and contain enormous outbreaks. Today, many countries — Japan, Canada, France, Australia and more — are coping with new increases in cases after reopening parts of society.
But one country stands alone, as the only affluent nation to have suffered a severe, sustained outbreak for more than four months: the United States. In just the past month over 1.9 million Americans have tested positive for the virus. That’s more than five times as many as in all of Europe, Canada, Japan, South Korea and Australia, combined. The United States also has the highest number of Deaths 157,000 from the virus far out pacing all other countries. Brazil is the only country competing with the United States for complete failure in containing the virus.
What does the United States & Brazil have in common? Trumpian Politics.
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@AnAmericanPatriot1555 Dear Maga Morons, it has become apparent that many of you confuse the word Patriot for the word Traitor. So I have taken this opportunity to provide the following definitions:
trai·tor /ˈtrādər/ noun: traitor; plural noun: traitors
a person who betrays a friend, country, principle, etc.
Excerpt From
On Tyranny
Timothy Snyder
“A patriot, by contrast, wants the nation to live up to its ideals, which means asking us to be our best selves. A patriot must be concerned with the real world, which is the only place where his country can be loved and sustained. A patriot has universal values, standards by which he judges his nation, always wishing it well—and wishing that it would do better.”
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U.S. authorities have leveled the first conspiracy charge against a leader of an extremist group in the Jan. 6 storming of the U.S. Capitol, arresting an Oath Keeper who is accused of plotting to disrupt the electoral vote confirmation of President-elect Joe Biden’s victory and proposing further assaults on state capitols.
Thomas Edward Caldwell, 66, of Clarke County, Va., was taken into custody before 7 a.m. on four federal counts, including conspiracy to commit an offense against the United States in the attack on the Capitol. The conspiracy charge is reserved for offenses interfering with or obstructing the lawful operation of government.
A charging affidavit says he helped organize a group of eight to 10 individuals, including self-styled Ohio militia members apprehended Sunday, who wore helmets and military-style gear and were seen moving purposefully toward the top of the Capitol steps and leading the move against police lines.
Separately, charges were unsealed Wednesday accusing a Queens man who worked in the state court system of making threats to murder Democratic politicians, including suggesting another attack on the Capitol timed to President-elect Joe Biden’s inauguration Wednesday.
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TRUMP CLAIMS HEALTH-CARE PLAN READY
But None of his advisors know what he is talking about.
The Plan is so secret that the people responsible for the plan don’t even know they’re involved. The GOP has promised (and failed) to repeal and replace Obamacare for more than a decade. Trump began claiming he had a replacement plan back in 2015. He announced his plan would swap out the Affordable Care Act for “something terrific,” details TBD.
Over subsequent months and years, Trump boasted about the benefits of his plan. It would be cheaper, more generous, and better than Obamacare. It would be “so easy,” even though “nobody knew health care could be so complicated.” It would “take care of everybody”. This plan was always only “two weeks” away — just like proof wiretapping, the “amazing infrastructure plan”, and Melania Trump’s immigration history.
Finally, five years later, an announcement came this week: it exists, its alive! “I have it all ready,” Trump said at a town hall Tuesday, “and it’s a much better plan for you, and it’s a much better plan.”
Alas, Trump remains unable to share this “much better plan” with the public and no one in his administration knows anything about the “plan”.
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@frankieb9444
Trump’s Lies and Tweets leading up to the January 6th, Storming of the Capital by crazed Trump supporters:
Dec. 12: On the day of pro-Trump rallies in Washington, D.C., Trump tweeted "Wow! Thousands of people forming in Washington (D.C.) for Stop the Steal. Didn’t know about this, but I’ll be seeing them! #MAGA."
Dec. 12: "WE HAVE JUST BEGUN TO FIGHT!!!" Trump said in another tweet.
Dec. 18: “Republican Senators have to get tougher, or you won’t have a Republican Party anymore. We won the Presidential Election, by a lot. FIGHT FOR IT. Don’t let them take it away!"
Dec. 19: Trump tweeted his praise for a report by his adviser Peter Navarro alleging election fraud: "A great report by Peter. Statistically impossible to have lost the 2020 Election. Big protest in D.C. on January 6th. Be there, will be wild!"
Dec. 26: Trump tweeted: "The ‘Justice’ Department and the FBI have done nothing about the 2020 Presidential Election Voter Fraud, the biggest SCAM in our nation’s history, despite overwhelming evidence. They should be ashamed. History will remember. Never give up. See everyone in D.C. on January 6th."
Dec. 27: "See you in Washington, DC, on January 6th. Don’t miss it. Information to follow!" Trump tweeted.
Jan. 1: "The BIG Protest Rally in Washington, D.C., will take place at 11.00 A.M. on January 6th. Locational details to follow. StopTheSteal!" Trump tweeted.
Jan. 1: "January 6th. See you in D.C." Trump tweeted.
Jan. 3: Trump retweeted @JenLawrence21, an organizer of a March for Trump bus tour: "Now we will bring it to DC on Jan 6 and PROUDLY stand beside you!"
Jan. 3: Trump retweeted Amy Kremer, another promoter of the march who said, "We are excited to announce the site of our January 6th event will be The Ellipse in the President’s Park, just steps from the White House!"
Jan. 3: Trump retweeted @CodeMonkeyZ: "If you are planning to attend peaceful protests in DC on the 6th, i recommend wearing a body camera. The more video angles of that day the better."
Jan. 4: At a rally in Georgia the day before the Senate runoffs, Trump repeated his grievances about his own election. He spoke about a continued fight, both for himself and the Senate.
"If the liberal Democrats take the Senate and the White House — and they’re not taking this White House — we’re going to fight like hell, I’ll tell you right now," Trump said.
"We’re going to take it back," Trump said.
Which of these reprehensible inflammatory lies would you care to discuss? We both know how this story ended, Trump’s crazed mob stormed the Capital and tried to injure, kidnap, murder, hang, etc. our Congress.
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700 former Republican National Security Advisors stated - “TRUMP IS A THREAT TO OUR AMERICAN DEMOCRACY”:
Admiral Steve Abbot
USN (Ret.), Deputy Homeland Security Advisor, George W. Bush
Kenneth Adelman Director, Arms Control and Disarmament Agency, Reagan
Dr. Carol C. Adelman Asst. Admin., U.S. Agency for International Development, Reagan
Major General John Barry USAF (Ret.), Military Assistant to the Secretary of Defense
Richard C. Barth Asst. Secretary, Department of Homeland Security, W. Bush
Christopher Barton Director, National Security Council Staff
John Bellinger Legal Adviser, National Security Council, W. Bush
Admiral Kenneth Bernard Special Asst. to W. Bush
Mark E. Bitterman Special Asst. to the Secretary of Defense, H.W. Bush
Robert D. Blackwill Deputy National Security Advisor, W. Bush
William Bodie Asst. to the Secretary of the Air Force, W. Bush
Christian M.L. Bonat Deputy General Counsel, DOD, W. Bush & Obama
Richard Boucher Assistant Secretary of State, W. Bush
Charles W. Boustany, Jr. Former Member of Congress, Louisiana
Charles R. Bowers Ambassador to Bolivia, H.W. Bush
Greg Brower Asst. Director, FBI, Obama & Trump
Christopher Buckley Chief Speechwriter, Office of VP H.W. Bush
James R. Bullington U.S. Ambassador to Burundi, Reagan
Richard Burt U.S. Ambassador to Germany, Reagan
Gahl Hodges Burt Asst. to the Secretary of State, Reagan
Rear Admiral Fred Byus U.S. Navy (Ret.)
Jack C. Chow Deputy Asst. Secretary of State, W. Bush
James W. Cicconi Asst. to the President & Deputy to the Chief of Staff, H. W. Bush
Peggy Cifrino Deputy Chief of Staff to Secretary of State Colin Powell, W. Bush
Eliot A. Cohen Counselor of the Dept. of State, W. Bush
Benedict S. Cohen General Counsel, Dept. of the Army, W. Bush
William Cohen Secretary of Defense, Clinton, & U.S. Senator, Maine
Joseph J. Collins Deputy Asst. Secretary of Defense, W. Bush
Barbara Comstock Former Member of Congress, Virginia
Cindy Courville National Security Affairs for Africa, W. Bush
Chester A. Crocker Assistant Secretary of State, Reagan
Patrick M. Cronin Admin. U.S. Agency for International Development, W. Bush
Stephen W. DeVine Deputy Legal Advisor, National Security Council, W. Bush
Charles Djou Former Member of Congress, Hawaii
Michael Donley Secretary of the Air Force, George W. Bush & Obama
Raymond F. DuBois Secretary of the Army, George W. Bush
Martha E. Duncan Sr Executive Service, DOD, George W. Bush & Obama
Lewis A. Dunn Director, Arms Control and Disarmament Agency, Reagan
Eric S. Edelman Under Secretary of Defense, George W. Bush
Mickey Edwards Member of Congress, Oklahoma
Richard A. Falkenrath Deputy Assistant to the President, George W. Bush
Jendayi E. Frazer Ambassador to South Africa George W. Bush Administration
Aaron L. Friedber Deputy Assistant to George W. Bush
William Gaches Director of Counterterrorism, NSA, George W. Bush
Janice Gardner Assistant Secretary of the Treasury, George W. Bush
Stuart M. Gerson Attorney General of the United States, George W. Bush
James K. Glassman Under Secretary of State, George W. Bush
Jon D. Glassman Deputy National Security Advisor to George H.W. Bush
David Gordon Director, State Dept, Policy Planning, George W. Bush
Sen. Chuck Hagel Secretary of Defense, Obama, and former U.S. Senator, Nebraska
Christopher Hank Deputy Assistant Secretary of State; Reagan,Bush, & Clinton
Mark Harvey Special Assistant to the President, Trump
General Michael V. Hayden Director of the CIA & NSA, Bush & Obama
Carla Hills U.S. Trade Representative, George H.W Bush
Seth Hurwitz Counsel, President's Intelligence Oversight Board, George H.W. Bush
Peter Keisler Attorney General of the U.S., George W. Bush
James A. Kelly Secretary of State, George W. Bush
Adam Kinzinger Former Member of Congress, Illinois
Sofia Kinzinger Deputy Assistant Secretary, Dept. of Homeland Security, Trump
Kenneth J. Krieg Under Secretary of Defense, George W. Bush
James R. Kunder Deputy Administrator, U.S. Agency for International Development, Bush
Brigadier General George Landis, USA, Ret. U.S. Personnel Info Systems Command
Frank Lavin Ambassador to Singapore & Under Secretary of Commerce, George W. Bush
Peter Lichtenbaum
Former Assistant Secretary of Commerce, George W. Bush Administration
Rear Admiral David M. Lichtman, MD, USN (Ret.)
Former Commander, National Naval Medical Center, Bethesda, George H.W. Bush and Clinton Administrations
Winston Lord
Former U.S. Ambassador to China, Reagan and George H.W. Bush Administration
Steven R. Mann
Former Ambassador to Turkmenistan and Former Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary in the State Dept., Clinton and George W. Bush Administrations
Colonel John W. McDonald
Former Deputy Under Secretary of the Army
P. Michael McKinley
Former Ambassador to Peru and Acting Ambassador to the European Union and Mozambique, George W. Bush Administration; Former Ambassador to Peru, Colombia, Afghanistan, and Brazil, Obama Administration
Dan Miller
Former Member of Congress, Florida
John M. Mitnick
Former General Counsel, Dept. of Homeland Security, Trump
Allen Moore
Former Under Secretary of Commerce, Reagan
Alberto Mora
Former General Counsel, U.S. Information Agency, George H.W. Bush; Former General Counsel, Dept. of the Navy, George W. Bush
Kenneth Mortensen
Former Associate Deputy Attorney General, George W. Bush
Vice Admiral Charles L. Munns
U.S. Navy (Ret.), George W. Bush
John D. Negroponte Deputy Secretary of State, George W. Bush
Elizabeth Neumann Assistant Secretary of Homeland Security, Trump
Sean O'Keefe Secretary of the Navy, George H.W. Bush
Bill Paxon Former Member of Congress, New York
William R Piekney CIA Chief of Station, Reagan
Daniel M. Price Deputy NSA Advisor, George W. Bush
Alan Charles Raul Vice Chairman, Civil Liberties Oversight Board, George W. Bush
Victor Reis Director, DARPA, George H.W. Bush
Robert Annan Riley Ambassador to Micronesia, Trump
Paul Rosenzweig Deputy Assistant Secretary of Homeland Security, George W. Bush
Charles Rossotti Deputy Asst. Secretary of Defense; Commissioner of IRS, Clinton & Bush
Nicholas Rostow National Security Council Legal Adviser, Reagan & H.W. Bush
Kori Schake Deputy Director of Policy Planning, State Dept., W. Bush
Wayne A. Schroeder Deputy Under Secretary of Defense, W. Bush
Gregory L. Schulte Sr Director, National Security Council & Atomic Energy Agency, W. Bush
Robert Shanks Deputy Assistant AG, Reagan
Rep. Christopher Shays Former Member of Congress, Connecticut
John Simon Senior Director, National Security Council Staff, W. Bush
Stephen Slick Sr. Director, National Security Council Staff, W. Bush
Mark C. Storella U.S. Ambassador to Zambia, Obama
William H. Taft IV Deputy Secretary of Defense and Ambassador to NATO, W. Bush
Miles Taylor Chief of Staff, Dept. of Homeland Security, Trump
Larry D. Thompson Former Deputy AG, W. Bush
Jack Tomarchio Deputy Under Secretary of Homeland Security, W. Bush
Olivia Troye Special Advisor to VP Pence, Trump
Robert Tuttle U.S. Ambassador to the UK, W. Bush
John K. Veroneau Deputy U.S. Trade Rep. & Assistant Secretary of Defense, W. Bush & Clinton
Colonel Terry Virts, USAF (Ret.)
Former NASA Astronaut, Former Commander of the International Space Station
Dr. Thomas G. Ward, Jr. Director of Threats, Ballistic Missile Defense Org., Reagan & Clinton
Matthew C. Waxman Principal Deputy Director, State Dept Policy Planning, W. Bush
William H. Webster Director of the CIA & FBI, Reagan & H.W. Bush
William F. Weld Assistant Attorney General, Criminal Division, Reagan
J. Robinson West Assistant Secretary of Interior, Reagan
Wendell L. Willkie II General Counsel, Dept. of Commerce, H.W. Bush
Philip Zelikow Counselor of the Dept. of State, W. Bush
Robert B. Zoellick White House Deputy Chief of Staff, George H.W. Bush
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TRUMP HAS STILL GOT IT, A VIRTUAL “JENIUS”
Trump appeared on Fox News with Laura Ingraham on Wednesday night shortly after Russia announced that it would attack Ukraine.
Midway through the interview, Laura Ingraham said, “we are just got word from that U.S. officials are looking at a potential amphibious landing now in Odessa, Ukraine.”
“Well, I think the whole thing, again, would have never happened. It shouldn’t happen. And it’s a very sad thing,” Trump said. “But you know what is also very dangerous is, you told me about the amphibious attack by Americans, because you and everyone else shouldn’t know about it. They should do that secretly, not being doing that through the great Laura Ingraham. They should be doing that secretly. Nobody should know that, Laura.”
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@americasnanafromtexas4432
What is happening is not a coup, or even an attempt at a coup but a ham-handed effort to discredit the election outcome by any crackpot method available to sooth Trump’s ego. Scholars of real coups in other countries say that Trump has few of the ingredients necessary to pull off a coup — the international community despises him, the nation’s main media is still independent, an the armed forces think Trump is a joke. However, Trump is set to successfully pursue a slow-motion “con game,” pleading for donations by playing his supporters. He’s also crafting a “Stab in the Back” myth in hopes of returning to the WH in 2024.There is a fundamental difference between between a coup and a con. A coup is an illegitimate power grab by force. A con is a mostly criminal, unethical, or manipulative act. A con can become a coup if the con is successful — if enough people buy into the con then a Coup has occurred.
Though Trump will fail in his coup - this time - the fact that his fellow Republicans tacitly approved of his methods, or looked the other way dramatically weakens our Democratic Institutions. As Trump continues to spew crazy conspiracies, half truths, and outright lies more and more Republican voters will drift into delusion and violence.
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@zephyrwinkle6552 Oh please, please, show me how and who disproved it. I point to the Mueller Report Vol I and the Senate Intel Report, 24 indictments, 32 meetings, and 6 Felony Convictions as my proof… what is yours. Please, please, please, let me know what, or who, disproved all the evidence I just cited.
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Ghost
Please do a little more research before you pontificate:
The Constitution limits grounds of impeachment to "Treason, Bribery, or other high Crimes and Misdemeanors".[2] The precise meaning of the phrase "high Crimes and Misdemeanors" is not defined in the Constitution itself.
The notion that only criminal conduct can constitute sufficient grounds for impeachment does not comport with either the views of the founders or with historical practice.[1] Alexander Hamilton, in Federalist 65, described impeachable offenses as arising from "the misconduct of public men, or in other words from the abuse or violation of some public trust."[3] Such offenses were "political, as they relate chiefly to injuries done immediately to the society itself."[3] According to this reasoning, impeachable conduct could include behavior that violates an official's duty to the country, even if such conduct is not necessarily a prosecutable offense. Indeed, in the past both houses of Congress have given the phrase "high Crimes and Misdemeanors" a broad reading, finding that impeachable offenses need not be limited to criminal conduct.[4][1]
The purposes underlying the impeachment process also indicate that non-criminal activity may constitute sufficient grounds for impeachment.[1][5] The purpose of impeachment is not to inflict personal punishment for criminal activity. Instead, impeachment is a "remedial" tool; it serves to effectively "maintain constitutional government" by removing individuals unfit for office.[6][1] Grounds for impeachment include abuse of the particular powers of government office or a violation of the "public trust"—conduct that is unlikely to be barred via statute.[6][4][1]
In drawing up articles of impeachment, the House has placed little emphasis on criminal conduct.[1] Less than one-third of the articles that the House have adopted have explicitly charged the violation of a criminal statute or used the word "criminal" or "crime" to describe the conduct alleged.[1] Officials have been impeached and removed for drunkenness, biased decision-making, or inducing parties to enter financial transactions, none of which is specifically criminal.[1] Two of the articles against President Andrew Johnson were based on rude speech that reflected badly on the office: President Johnson had made "harangues" criticizing the Congress and questioning its legislative authority, refusing to follow laws, and diverting funds allocated in an army appropriations act, each of which brought the presidency "into contempt, ridicule, and disgrace".[7] A number of individuals have been impeached for behavior incompatible with the nature of the office they hold.[1] Some impeachments have addressed, at least in part, conduct before the individuals assumed their positions: for example, Article IV against Judge Porteous related to false statements to the FBI and Senate in connection with his nomination and confirmation to the court.[1]
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Grandpa: Immigrant, Draft Dodger, Whorehouse Owner
Father: Racist, Crooked Slumlord, Tax Cheat.
Son: Racist, Crooked Slumlord, Tax Cheat, Traitor, Draft Dodger, Grifter, Russian Money Launderer.
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“I no longer recognize my party”
Why Hundreds of Thousands of Republicans Are Leaving the Crazed Party
Voting registration data indicates a strong and unusual flight from the G.O.P. since the Capitol riot, with an intensely fluid period in American politics now underway.
In the days and weeks after the storming of the Capitol by Trump supporters on Jan. 6, hundreds of thousands of Republicans left the party. After the Jan. 6 attack on the Capitol, the phone lines and websites of local election officials across the country were jumping: Tens of thousands of Republicans were calling or logging on to switch their party affiliations.
In California, more than 33,000 registered Republicans left the party during the three weeks after the Washington riot. In Pennsylvania, more than 12,000 voters left the G.O.P. in the past month, and more than 10,000 Republicans changed their registration in Arizona.
An analysis of January voting records found that nearly 140,000 Republicans had quit the party in 25 states that had readily available data (19 states do not have registration by party). Voting experts say this is the start of a particularly damaging period for G.O.P. registrations as voters recoil from the Capitol violence and its fallout.
Among those who recently left the party are Juan Nunez, 56, an Army veteran in Mechanicsburg, Pa. He said he had long felt that the difference between the United States and many other countries was that campaign-season fighting ended on Election Day, when all sides would peacefully accept the result. The Jan. 6 riot changed that, he said.
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FAILURE IN AMERICA ON A TRUMPIAN SCALE:
Nearly every country has struggled to contain the coronavirus and made mistakes along the way.
China silenced doctors and allowed the virus to escape Wuhan, much of Europe went next, failing to avoid and contain enormous outbreaks. Today, many countries — Japan, Canada, France, Australia and more — are coping with new increases in cases after reopening parts of society.
But one country stands alone, as the only affluent nation to have suffered a severe, sustained outbreak for more than four months: the United States. In just the past month over 1.9 million Americans have tested positive for the virus. That’s more than five times as many as in all of Europe, Canada, Japan, South Korea and Australia, combined. The United States also has the highest number of Deaths 157,000 from the virus far out pacing all other countries. Brazil is the only country competing with the United States for complete failure in containing the virus.
What does the United States & Brazil have in common? Trumpian Politics.
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Yet Fascism, Nazism, Neo Nazism, Trumpism is defined: As a Far Right Ideology that embraces Authoritarianism, Xenophobia, Homophobia, Ableism, Anti Semitism, Racism, The Big Lies, a Central Cult Figure, and of Course The Stab in the Back Myth now up dated to The Stolen Election. Now you know and knowing what you are is half the battle, the other half is the Will to change.
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Trump is a liar, a cheat, an adulterer, and a Russian Collaborator. Trump is Evil in Nature & commands his followers do the dirty work of violence. Trump is Grotesque in body & pallor, narcissistic, and sociopathic. Trump is Treasonous to Country 🇺🇸, Allie’s, is Racist, has Contempt for Women, and is utterly morally bankrupt. Trump is your CULT LEADER. This is who you give your money to, you worship, and you follow. Why? Because he is a mirror that reflects you. NO, I do not “RESPECT YOUR CHOICES”, nor your loyalty to this demoniac vision. For you are devoid of Civic Virtue, with no loyalty to our Republic 🇺🇸 and our Rule of Law. For you to renounce Trump is for you to renounce yourself.
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DEMOCRACY IS IN DECLINE AROUND THE WORLD - AND TRUMP IS PART OF THE PROBLEM.
The Freedom House Annual report on the health of global democracy warned of its decline. In its survey evaluating 195 countries and 15 territories, Freedom House, a nongovernmental, nonpartisan advocacy organization established in 1941, found that political freedoms and civil liberties across the world are backsliding more often than they are improving.
“Democracy is under assault,” read the opening sentence of its report, written by Sarah Repucci. “Dictators are toiling to stamp out the last vestiges of domestic dissent and spread their harmful influence to new corners of the world.”
The usual suspects remain among the worst offenders. Freedom House decried China for its “totalitarian offensive” in Xinjiang and other campaigns of repression, and it warned of Beijing’s “relentless campaign to replace existing international norms with its own authoritarian vision.” It pointed to Russia’s “stage-managed elections” in 2019, in which the genuine opposition was largely shut out. Iran’s leadership, even as it sowed “discord” in neighboring countries, deployed security forces that used live ammunition to crush demonstrations last fall, killing hundreds of people.
But perhaps more disquieting is the steady erosion seen in “established democracies,” more than two dozen of which have seen net losses in their democracy rankings.
“Many freely elected leaders are dramatically narrowing their concerns to a blinkered interpretation of the national interest,” wrote Repucci. “In fact, such leaders — including the chief executives of the United States and India, the world’s two largest democracies — are increasingly willing to break down institutional safeguards and disregard the rights of critics and minorities as they pursue their populist agendas.”
President Trump is a key part of this story. Freedom House’s report, titled “A Leaderless Struggle for Democracy,” highlighted the “pressure” Trump is exerting “on electoral integrity, judicial independence, and safeguards against corruption” in the United States.
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“There’s Nothing Left, I no longer recognize my party”
Why Hundreds of Thousands of Republicans Are Leaving the Party
Voting registration data indicates a strong and unusual flight from the G.O.P. since the Capitol riot, with an intensely fluid period in American politics now underway.
In the days and weeks after the storming of the Capitol by Trump supporters on Jan. 6, hundreds of thousands of Republicans left the party. After the Jan. 6 attack on the Capitol, the phone lines and websites of local election officials across the country were jumping: Tens of thousands of Republicans were calling or logging on to switch their party affiliations.
In California, more than 33,000 registered Republicans left the party during the three weeks after the Washington riot. In Pennsylvania, more than 12,000 voters left the G.O.P. in the past month, and more than 10,000 Republicans changed their registration in Arizona.
An analysis of January voting records found that nearly 140,000 Republicans had quit the party in 25 states that had readily available data (19 states do not have registration by party). Voting experts say this is the start of a particularly damaging period for G.O.P. registrations as voters recoil from the Capitol violence and its fallout.
Among those who recently left the party are Juan Nunez, 56, an Army veteran in Mechanicsburg, Pa. He said he had long felt that the difference between the United States and many other countries was that campaign-season fighting ended on Election Day, when all sides would peacefully accept the result. The Jan. 6 riot changed that, he said.
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@MrEkzotic Funny how every time Trump says something horrendous the apologists step in and say: Trump was Joking or you misunderstood him.
The “Jenius” Of DJT ~ “So, supposing we hit the body with a tremendous — whether it’s ultraviolet or just very powerful light — and I think you said that that hasn’t been tried, but you’re going to test it. And then I said, supposing you brought the light inside the body, which you can do either through the skin or in some other way, and I think you said you’re going to test that, too. It sounds interesting. And then I see the disinfectant, where it knocks it out in a minute. One minute. And is there a way we can do something like that, by injection inside or almost a cleaning. Because you see it gets in the lungs, and it does a tremendous number on the lungs. So it would be interesting to check that, maybe check that out”. 😂😂😂
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“I no longer recognize my party”
Why Hundreds of Thousands of Republicans Are Leaving the Crazed Party
Voting registration data indicates a strong and unusual flight from the G.O.P. since the Capitol riot, with an intensely fluid period in American politics now underway.
In the days and weeks after the storming of the Capitol by Trump supporters on Jan. 6, hundreds of thousands of Republicans left the party. After the Jan. 6 attack on the Capitol, the phone lines and websites of local election officials across the country were jumping: Tens of thousands of Republicans were calling or logging on to switch their party affiliations.
In California, more than 33,000 registered Republicans left the party during the three weeks after the Washington riot. In Pennsylvania, more than 12,000 voters left the G.O.P. in the past month, and more than 10,000 Republicans changed their registration in Arizona.
An analysis of January voting records found that nearly 140,000 Republicans had quit the party in 25 states that had readily available data (19 states do not have registration by party). Voting experts say this is the start of a particularly damaging period for G.O.P. registrations as voters recoil from the Capitol violence and its fallout.
Among those who recently left the party are Juan Nunez, 56, an Army veteran in Mechanicsburg, Pa. He said he had long felt that the difference between the United States and many other countries was that campaign-season fighting ended on Election Day, when all sides would peacefully accept the result. The Jan. 6 riot changed that, he said.
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Jake4Truth The “Jenius” Of DJT ~ “So, supposing we hit the body with a tremendous — whether it’s ultraviolet or just very powerful light — and I think you said that that hasn’t been tried, but you’re going to test it. And then I said, supposing you brought the light inside the body, which you can do either through the skin or in some other way, and I think you said you’re going to test that, too. It sounds interesting. And then I see the disinfectant, where it knocks it out in a minute. One minute. And is there a way we can do something like that, by injection inside or almost a cleaning. Because you see it gets in the lungs, and it does a tremendous number on the lungs. So it would be interesting to check that, maybe check that out”. 😂😂😂
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“I no longer recognize my party”
Why Hundreds of Thousands of Republicans Are Leaving the Crazed Party
Voting registration data indicates a strong and unusual flight from the G.O.P. since the Capitol riot, with an intensely fluid period in American politics now underway.
In the days and weeks after the storming of the Capitol by Trump supporters on Jan. 6, hundreds of thousands of Republicans left the party. After the Jan. 6 attack on the Capitol, the phone lines and websites of local election officials across the country were jumping: Tens of thousands of Republicans were calling or logging on to switch their party affiliations.
In California, more than 33,000 registered Republicans left the party during the three weeks after the Washington riot. In Pennsylvania, more than 12,000 voters left the G.O.P. in the past month, and more than 10,000 Republicans changed their registration in Arizona.
An analysis of January voting records found that nearly 140,000 Republicans had quit the party in 25 states that had readily available data (19 states do not have registration by party). Voting experts say this is the start of a particularly damaging period for G.O.P. registrations as voters recoil from the Capitol violence and its fallout.
Among those who recently left the party are Juan Nunez, 56, an Army veteran in Mechanicsburg, Pa. He said he had long felt that the difference between the United States and many other countries was that campaign-season fighting ended on Election Day, when all sides would peacefully accept the result. The Jan. 6 riot changed that, he said.
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VP Harris pulled a Trumpian Bonner. DJT: “We had finished dinner. We’re now having dessert. And we had the most beautiful piece of chocolate cake that you’ve ever seen and President Xi was enjoying it. Let me explain something to you, this is during dessert,” he said of his meal with Jinping.
We’ve just fired 59 missiles, all of which hit by the way, unbelievable, from hundreds of miles away, it’s brilliant it’s genius, what we have in terms of technology no one can come close to competing. So I said, we’ve just launched 59 missiles, heading to Iraq.
“Heading to Syria?” The Faux host interjects, you mean Syria.
“Oh, oh ya, I mean Syria.” Trump said.
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FAILURE IN AMERICA ON A TRUMPIAN SCALE:
Nearly every country has struggled to contain the coronavirus and made mistakes along the way.
China silenced doctors and allowed the virus to escape Wuhan, much of Europe went next, failing to avoid and contain enormous outbreaks. Today, many countries — Japan, Canada, France, Australia and more — are coping with new increases in cases after reopening parts of society.
But one country stands alone, as the only affluent nation to have suffered a severe, sustained outbreak for more than four months: the United States. In just the past month over 1.9 million Americans have tested positive for the virus. That’s more than five times as many as in all of Europe, Canada, Japan, South Korea and Australia, combined. The United States also has the highest number of Deaths 157,000 from the virus far out pacing all other countries. Brazil is the only country competing with the United States for complete failure in containing the virus.
What does the United States & Brazil have in common? Trumpian Politics.
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You forgot to mention that Biden is also supported by teachers, Scientists, academics, educated people, 60% of America, generals, admirals, and every decent person in America, including God.
Trump has Neo Nazis, White Supremacy Groups, Proud Boys, and Rightwing Militia Nuts.
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@rickrhymes1 TRUMP ❤ CRIMINALS: Roger Stone, Steve Bannon, Michael Flynn, Paul Manafort, Ross Ulbricht, Eric Adams, Rod Blagojevich, Charles Kushner, Elliott Broidy, Kwame Kilpatrick, Sholam Weiss, Salomon E. Melgen, Paul Erickson, Eliyahu Weinstein, Nicholas Slatten, Conrad Black, Dinesh D’Souza, etc…
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IS DJT MENTALLY FIT: "The Civil War was so fascinating, so horrible — but so fascinating, it was really fascinating. I'm so attracted to seeing it. It’s really interesting. But it was horrible, really horrible. It was, I don’t know, it was just different. So many mistakes were made. See, there was something I think I could have negotiated, to be honest with you. I think I could’ve negotiated that. All the people died, so many people died”.
Abraham Lincoln, of course if he negotiated it, you probably wouldn’t even know who Abraham Lincoln was. He would have been president, but he would have been president, and he wouldn’t have been the Abraham Lincoln. Would’ve been different, but that would’ve been OK.
I know it very well. I know the whole process that they went through, and they just couldn’t get along, and that would’ve been something that could have been negotiated and they wouldn’t have had that problem. There’s nothing nice about it. All the people died, so many people died.”
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Principles? Trump Cheated on 3 Wife’s, Cheats America on his Taxes, Cheated Suppliers, Caused $1.75 billion in defaults on loans, Colluded with Russian Spies, Praises Dictators, Lies About Election, Tried to Overthrow our Government, Incited a Violent Mob Against our Capital, is charged with 91 Felonies, and on and on…
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He said he wanted to slow testing:
“I said to my people, slow testing down, please”
During a campaign rally in Tulsa, Oklahoma, on Saturday, Mr. Trump said, "When you do testing to that extent you're going to find more people, you're going to find cases. So I said to my people, 'Slow the testing down, please.' They test and they test. We got tests for people who don't know what's going on."
But when asked by CBS News' Weijia Jiang on Tuesday if he was kidding when he made those remarks, Mr. Trump replied, "I don't kid."
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A LIST OF COMPANIES OR INSTITUTIONS TRUMP HAS BANKRUPTED OR RUINED:
Trump Taj Mahal, the Trump Castle, the Trump Plaza Atlantic City, the Trump Plaza New York, Trump Hotels and Casino Resorts, Trump Entertainment Resorts, the Trump Tower Tampa, the Trump Shuttle, Trump: The Game, Trump magazine, Trump Mortgage, Trump Steaks, Trump mattresses, Trump pillows, Trump perfume, Trump shirts, Trump underwear, Trump shoes, Trump eyeglasses, Trump University, Trump Vodka, the Trump Foundation and the U.S. Treasury.
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Trump is a liar, a cheat, an adulterer, and a Russian Collaborator. Trump is Evil in Nature & commands his followers do the dirty work of violence. Trump is Grotesque in body & pallor, narcissistic, and sociopathic. Trump is Treasonous to Country 🇺🇸, Allie’s, is Racist, has Contempt for Women, and is utterly morally bankrupt. This is Trump your CULT LEADER. This is who you give your money to, who you worship, who you follow. Why? Because he is a mirror that reflects you. No, I do not “RESPECT YOUR CHOICES”, nor your loyalty to this demoniac vision. For you are devoid of Civic Virtue, loyalty to our Republic 🇺🇸 and our Rule of Law. For you to renounce Trump is for you to renounce yourself.
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“I no longer recognize my party”
Why Hundreds of Thousands of Republicans Are Leaving the Crazed Party
Voting registration data indicates a strong and unusual flight from the G.O.P. since the Capitol riot, with an intensely fluid period in American politics now underway.
In the days and weeks after the storming of the Capitol by Trump supporters on Jan. 6, hundreds of thousands of Republicans left the party. After the Jan. 6 attack on the Capitol, the phone lines and websites of local election officials across the country were jumping: Tens of thousands of Republicans were calling or logging on to switch their party affiliations.
In California, more than 33,000 registered Republicans left the party during the three weeks after the Washington riot. In Pennsylvania, more than 12,000 voters left the G.O.P. in the past month, and more than 10,000 Republicans changed their registration in Arizona.
An analysis of January voting records found that nearly 140,000 Republicans had quit the party in 25 states that had readily available data (19 states do not have registration by party). Voting experts say this is the start of a particularly damaging period for G.O.P. registrations as voters recoil from the Capitol violence and its fallout.
Among those who recently left the party are Juan Nunez, 56, an Army veteran in Mechanicsburg, Pa. He said he had long felt that the difference between the United States and many other countries was that campaign-season fighting ended on Election Day, when all sides would peacefully accept the result. The Jan. 6 riot changed that, he said.
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@janos5408 Funny you should bring up the concept of complex thoughts: Trump has no policy on any issue because his mental impairment means he cannot think strategically or in abstract terms. He cannot weigh options, assess risk, or foresee consequences. Concepts like fairness, justice, honor, and integrity quite literally do not register. You can see this in every interview or press encounter. He never states an abstract thought or idea. Instead he falls back on simple adjectives: disgraceful, horrible, low-intelligence, perfect, innocent, nasty, stupid, fake, etc.
John M. Talmadge, M.D.
Physician specializing in psychiatry & addiction medicine.
Clinical Professor of Psychiatry at U.T. Southwestern Medical Center.
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WE NOW HAVE EVIDENCE OF VOTER FRAUD AT THE HIGHEST LEVELS OF GOVERNMENT:
Mark Meadows, Trump’s last White House chief of staff, registered to vote in September of that year, listing his domicile as a rusty old mobile home in Scaly Mountain, N.C.
It seems, however, that he never bothered to live there. Voter registration forms, require you to list “where you physically live,” which one signs “under penalty of perjury.” But at the time of his registration, Meadows lived at his home near Washington, D.C.. The rules seem clear enough even for Meadows.
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TRUMP OWES HUNDREDS OF MILLION TO RUSSIA & CHINA.
IS HE KOMPROMISED?
Americans do not know how many hundreds of millions Donald Trump’s business owe Russia or China, but we need to know.
In 2008, Donald Trump Jr. told attendees at a real estate conference in New York City that “Russians make up a pretty disproportionate cross-section of a lot of our assets. We see a lot of money pouring in from Russia.” Sergei Millian, the president of the U.S. Russian Chamber of Commerce and friend of Trump, claims in 2016 the figure is in the hundreds of millions.
Russians are not the only American adversaries to support Trump’s business. The state-owned Central Bank of China has loaned Trump hundreds of millions of dollars. The New York Times has reported that American companies owned by Trump have at least $650 million in debt and the Bank of China is among the lenders. Jared Kushner received a $550 million loan from the state-owned CBC in 2017. This was one of the reasons the FBI would not give Kushner a Security Clearance, this and Jared & Ivanka’s “unusual” ties to CCP notables. We need to know how much Trump and his businesses owe Chinese banks as well as Russian oligarchs.
Trump has praised Russian President Vladimir Putin while hiring pro-Russian advisers to fill top campaign positions. Paul Manafort served as Trump’s campaign chairman until scrutiny over his consulting and lobbying work for Viktor Yanukovych, the Russian-backed former president of Ukraine, forced his resignation. Carter Page served as a foreign policy adviser for Trump until U.S. intelligence officials began looking into whether Mr. Page had opened a line of communication with senior Russian officials to discuss lifting economic sanctions on Russia should Trump win the presidency. These sanctions were imposed on Russia following Putin’s invasion of Crimea and Eastern Ukraine. Trump’s military advisor, retired Lt. Gen. Michael Flynn, unfortunately allowed himself to be used as a validator for Russian propaganda last year when he was seated near Putin at a Moscow gala celebrating Russia Today. Russia Today TV is Putin’s propaganda machine.
In summary you all are freaked out by Hunter Biden being slimy but Trump, Don Jr., Eric, Ivanka, and Jared make Hunter look like an armature. Your Hypocrisy STINKS all the way through the Internet.
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Shane Braden
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DRAIN THE SWAMP - DON’T LET THE GOOD TIMES END - TRUMP FOR LIFE
Trump’s company has received at least $970,000 from U.S. taxpayers for room rentals.
The U.S. government has paid at least $970,000 to President Trump’s company since Trump took office — including payments for more than 1,600 nightly room rentals at Trump’s hotels and clubs, according to federal records obtained.
Since March, The Post has catalogued an additional $340,000 in such payments. They were all related to trips taken by Trump, his family and his top officials. The government is known to have paid full price for rooms for staffers and Secret Service agents to accompany the president.
The payments create an unprecedented business relationship between the president’s private company and his government — which began in the first month of Trump’s presidency records show.
The records show that taxpayers have now paid for the equivalent of more than four years’ worth of nightly rentals at Trump properties, including 950 nights at Trump’s golf club in Bedminster, N.J., and 530 nights at the president’s Mar-a-Lago Club in Florida, according to analysis.
Who needs a pay check when you can get nearly a Billion Dollars in guaranteed business from the government - DRAIN THE SWAMP!
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TRUMP OWES HUNDREDS OF MILLION TO RUSSIA & CHINA.
IS HE KOMPROMISED?
Americans do not know how many hundreds of millions Donald Trump’s business owe Russia or China, but we need to know.
In 2008, Donald Trump Jr. told attendees at a real estate conference in New York City that “Russians make up a pretty disproportionate cross-section of a lot of our assets. We see a lot of money pouring in from Russia.” Sergei Millian, the president of the U.S. Russian Chamber of Commerce and friend of Trump, claims in 2016 the figure is in the hundreds of millions.
Russians are not the only American adversaries to support Trump’s business. The state-owned Central Bank of China has loaned Trump hundreds of millions of dollars. The New York Times has reported that American companies owned by Trump have at least $650 million in debt and the Bank of China is among the lenders. Jared Kushner received a $550 million loan from the state-owned CBC in 2017. This was one of the reasons the FBI would not give Kushner a Security Clearance, this and Jared & Ivanka’s “unusual” ties to CCP notables. We need to know how much Trump and his businesses owe Chinese banks as well as Russian oligarchs.
Trump has praised Russian President Vladimir Putin while hiring pro-Russian advisers to fill top campaign positions. Paul Manafort served as Trump’s campaign chairman until scrutiny over his consulting and lobbying work for Viktor Yanukovych, the Russian-backed former president of Ukraine, forced his resignation. Carter Page served as a foreign policy adviser for Trump until U.S. intelligence officials began looking into whether Mr. Page had opened a line of communication with senior Russian officials to discuss lifting economic sanctions on Russia should Trump win the presidency. These sanctions were imposed on Russia following Putin’s invasion of Crimea and Eastern Ukraine. Trump’s military advisor, retired Lt. Gen. Michael Flynn, unfortunately allowed himself to be used as a validator for Russian propaganda last year when he was seated near Putin at a Moscow gala celebrating Russia Today. Russia Today TV is Putin’s propaganda machine.
In summary you are telling me Hunter Biden is slimy but Trump, Don Jr., Eric, Ivanka, and Jared are Angles.
Your Hypocrisy STINKS all the way through the Internet.
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@TrumpAmerica-2024 Dear Maga Morons, it has become apparent that many of you confuse the word Patriot for the word Traitor. So I have taken this opportunity to provide the following definitions:
trai·tor /ˈtrādər/ noun: traitor; plural noun: traitors
a person who betrays a friend, country, principle, etc.
Excerpt From
On Tyranny
Timothy Snyder
“A patriot, by contrast, wants the nation to live up to its ideals, which means asking us to be our best selves. A patriot must be concerned with the real world, which is the only place where his country can be loved and sustained. A patriot has universal values, standards by which he judges his nation, always wishing it well—and wishing that it would do better.”
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Drain the Swamp and remove all of Treasonous Trump’s Swamp Creatures. And get rid of all these False Patriots who do not respect the Constitution, The Rule of Law, Our Institutions, and have a corrupted understanding of God and Jesus. Treasonous Trump is the Antichrist. He is Adulterous, Pathological Lier, Corrupt, Fake Christian, Narcissistic, Immoral, 22 Sexual Assaults, etc.
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Michael Aylor
Your personal opposition to Birth Control makes you an accomplice in Abortion. Let me restate this in Trumpian language you can understand: No Baby, no abortion, no problem it’s beautiful. By opposing Birth Control, Sex Education, and Birth Control Availability, you are effectively contributing to abortions.
As for “Rights” you MAGA Maggots are all for States Rights until Trump came along and now you are all about the imposing Federal Control. You were all about personal responsibility and now you are defending people who are being irresponsible. You are all about the Right to Bare Arms but get freaked out when Non White Militia Types agree with you. You claim to be Christians but support a president who has repeatedly broke 9 of the 10 Commandments nearly daily, has committed everyone of the 7 Deadly Sins over & over again, a president who score 100% on the DSM for Narcissism & Sociopathy, and a president who has never repented and supports a Neo Nazi Ideology. More recently, Jerry Falwell Jr, an Evangelical Leader, was blackmailed by Trump into endorsing him in 2016 in exchange for making compromising sex pictures go away. What kind of Christian are you? I can respect your opposition to Abortion but I can not respect your Christian Hypocrisy.
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Lars Janson
So if I believe your evil because you follow the Antichrist Trump, where does that leave us? I am concerned about this evil regime destroying America and imposing some sort of Talibanish Christianity (Which only claims to be Christian) and setting up a Dictatorship/Caliphate. I seriously worry that Trump will Abuse our Constitution, Erode our Rule of Law, Eviscerate our Democratic Institutions, and turn America into some sort of a Banana Republic - thus my fear that Treasonous Trump is the Antichrist. Think about it🤔 What about Treasonous Trump says man of God versus Narcissistic, Vain, Self dealing, Vengeful, Spiteful, Adulterous, Corrupt, and Petty?
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Trump Business Failure’s: Trump Airlines, Trump Bottled Water, Trump Board Game, Trump Mortgage, Trump Travel, Trump Steaks, Trump Vodka, Trump Telephone, Trump Tower Tampa, Trump University, Trump Fragrance, Trump Mattresses, Trump Casino, Trump Castle & Marina, Trump Plaza Hotel, Trump “Worlds Fair”, Trump Coachella 29 - removed for incompetence.
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2008: Russians laundered millions through apartment sales at the Trump SoHo.
2008: A Russian oligarch bought a Palm Beach estate from Trump in 2008 for $95m, more than double what Trump had paid for it.
2008: 63 Russians, with Kremlin connections, spent $100m buying property fromTrump.
2008: Russian money & Latin Drug Lords pour money into Trump Panama properties.
Donny Sr 2008: “We have access to $100 million Line of Credit”
Q: Who is it? No American Bank will lend to you.
A: “I would rather not say”
Donny Jr. 2008: “We have Russians willing to lend us money”
Donny Jr. 2008: “Russians make up a pretty disproportionate cross-section of a lot of our assets. We have a lot of money pouring in from Russia."
2010: Alex Shnaider Ukrainian KleptoBillionaire ponies up $100 million to save Trump Toronto.
Eric Trump 2014: "Well, we don’t rely on American banks. We have all the funding we need out of Russia.' I said, 'Really?' And he said, 'Oh, yeah. We’ve got some guys that are really, really invested in our programs. We just go there all the time.”
Forbes 2020: Trump’s Russian Business Partners Allegedly Involved In Human Trafficking, Mafia Matters, and Probable Money Laundering.
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Trump Failure’s: U.S. Presidency, Trump Airlines, Trump Bottled Water, Trump Board Game, Trump Mortgage, Trump Travel, Trump Steaks, Trump Vodka, Trump Telephone, Trump Tower Tampa, Trump Tower Chicago,Trump University, Trump Fragrance, Trump Mattresses, Trump Casino, Trump Castle & Marina, Trump Plaza Hotel, Trump “Worlds Fair”, Trump Coachella 29 - removed for incompetence..
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TRUMP ❤❤❤ CRIMINALS: Roger Stone, Steve Bannon, Michael Flynn, Paul Manafort, Ross Ulbricht, Eric Adams, Rod Blagojevich, Charles Kushner, Elliott Broidy, Kwame Kilpatrick, Sholam Weiss, Salomon E. Melgen, Paul Erickson, Eliyahu Weinstein, Nicholas Slatten, Conrad Black, Dinesh D’Souza, etc…
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Trump: Campaign shifted money into indebted private business, Forbes
Trump has shifted money raised from campaign donors into the Trump Organization, according to documents from the Federal Election Committee (FEC) seen by Forbes.
He moved around $2.8 million into his private businesses throughout the duration of his presidency, Forbes's Dan Alexander reported.
Trump funneled an additional $81,000 into the Trump Organization after his election loss, the magazine said.
The payments were made public in the filings the campaign submitted to the FEC and were liest to cover costs including rent, airfare, lodging, and other expenses.
One of the campaign's joint-fundraising committees, associated with the Republican Party, also moved an estimated $4.3 million of donor money into his private business during his presidential term, according to Forbes.
Read more: 10 huge hits to Trump's business from the pandemic that may be permanent.
The joint-fundraising committee also paid around $300,000 towards Trump's hotel chain in the week following the former president's election loss, the Independent reported.
Around $40,000 was handed over from the campaign to Trump Tower Commercial LLC, a company which the former president owns a stake in, in December, the paper said.
This isn't the first time it has been reported that Trump transferred campaign money to his private businesses.
In July, The Washington Post's David Fahrenthold reported that Trump's campaign sent nearly $400,000 to the Trump Organization in just two days.
Documents showed that the campaign channeled $380,000 to the president's personal business in 43 transactions, Fahrenthold said.
This comes when the former president is said to be looking for ways to cash in on his post-presidency to address potentially huge debt.
The Trump Organization owes $400 million, according to Forbes.
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@ Nope, they were Liberals.
Main article: History of liberalism
The United States was the first nation to be founded on the liberal ideas of John Locke and other philosophers of the Enlightenment, based on inalienable rights and the consent of the governed with no monarchy and no hereditary aristocracy, and while individual states had established religions, the federal government was kept from establishing religion by the First Amendment. The United States Bill of Rights guarantees every citizen the freedoms advocated by the liberal philosophers, namely equality under the law, freedom of religion, freedom of speech, freedom of the press, the right to gather in peaceful assembly, the right to petition the government for redress of grievances and the right to bear arms, among other freedoms and rights. In this sense, virtually all Americans are liberals.[90]
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#20 The “Jenius” Of DJT ~ “So, supposing we hit the body with a tremendous — whether it’s ultraviolet or just very powerful light — and I think you said that that hasn’t been tried, but you’re going to test it. And then I said, supposing you brought the light inside the body, which you can do either through the skin or in some other way, and I think you said you’re going to test that, too. It sounds interesting. And then I see the disinfectant, where it knocks it out in a minute. One minute. And is there a way we can do something like that, by injection inside or almost a cleaning. Because you see it gets in the lungs, and it does a tremendous number on the lungs. So it would be interesting to check that, maybe check that out”. 😂😂😂
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Joanna Dillon
WHITE HOUSE MOVED TRANSCRIPT OF TRUMP CALL TO CLASSIFIED SERVER AFTER UKRAINE ADVISER RAISED ALARMS.
Moments after President Trump ended his phone call with Ukraine’s president on July 25, an unsettled national security aide rushed to the office of White House lawyer John Eisenberg.
Army Lt. Col. Alexander Vindman, the top Ukraine adviser at the White House, had been listening to the call and was disturbed by the pressure Trump had applied to Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky to investigate his political rivals, according to people familiar with Vindman’s testimony to lawmakers this week.
Vindman told Eisenberg, the White House’s legal adviser on national security issues, that what the president did was wrong, said the people, who spoke on the condition of anonymity because of the ongoing investigation.
Scribbling notes on a yellow legal pad, Eisenberg proposed a step that other officials have said is at odds with long-standing White House protocol: moving a transcript of the call to a highly classified server and restricting access to it, according to two people familiar with Vindman’s account.
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TheDesert IsPatient
OUR MORON PRESIDENT SAID WHAT?
During Thursday's White House coronavirus task force briefing, an official presented the results of US government research that indicated coronavirus on an external surface appeared to weaken more quickly when exposed to sunlight, heat, and disinfectant.
Upon taking the podium Trump said:
"So, supposing we hit the body with a tremendous - whether it's ultraviolet or just very powerful light," the president said, turning to Dr Deborah Birx, the White House coronavirus response co-ordinator, "and I think you said that hasn't been checked but you're going to test it.
"And then I said, supposing you brought the light inside of the body, which you can do either through the skin or in some other way. And I think you said you're going to test that too. Sounds interesting," the president continued.
"And then I see the disinfectant where it knocks it out in a minute. One minute. And is there a way we can do something like that, by injection inside or almost a cleaning? So it'd be interesting to check that." Pointing to his head, Mr Trump went on: "I'm not a doctor. But I'm, like, a person that has a good you-know-what." He turned again to Dr Birx and asked if she had ever heard of using "the heat and the light" to treat coronavirus.
"Not as a treatment," Dr Birx said. "I mean, certainly, fever is a good thing. When you have a fever, it helps your body respond. But I've not seen heat or light."
"I think it's a great thing to look at," Mr Trump said.
You heard it here first folks, our president is a Mad Moron Would be “Scientist Jenius” (sic).
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TRUMP HAS STILL GOT IT, A VIRTUAL “JENIUS”
Trump appeared on Fox News with Laura Ingraham on Wednesday night shortly after Russia announced that it would attack Ukraine.
Midway through the interview, Laura Ingraham said, “we are just got word from that U.S. officials are looking at a potential amphibious landing now in Odessa, Ukraine.”
“Well, I think the whole thing, again, would have never happened. It shouldn’t happen. And it’s a very sad thing,” Trump said. “But you know what is also very dangerous is, you told me about the amphibious attack by Americans, because you and everyone else shouldn’t know about it. They should do that secretly, not being doing that through the great Laura Ingraham. They should be doing that secretly. Nobody should know that, Laura.”
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Lets Tango
Jan. 22: President Trump is asked: “Are there worries about a pandemic at this point?” Trump answers: “No. Not at all. And we’re, we have it totally under control. It’s one person coming in from China. … It’s — going to be just fine.”
Feb. 25: Trump’s declares: “We have contained this. I won’t say airtight, but pretty close to airtight.”
March 9: Trump tweets: “Nothing is shut down, life & the economy go on. At this moment there are 546 confirmed cases of CoronaVirus, with 22 deaths.”
March 13: Fox host Lou Dobbs shows off on his program a chart of the day’s 1,985-point Dow Jones rise. The chart was autographed and sent by Trump, who seemed to suggest that his remarks were responsible for the rise, a day after the same index had dropped a record 2,352 points.
March 16: After the weekend, the Dow suffers another record drop, closing 2,997.10 points lower. Trump did not autograph that chart and send it to Dobbs.
March 31: The U.S. has more than 180,000 confirmed coronavirus cases, about 80,000 more than any other country.
Nov. 26, 2018: Reports show that Trump “dismissed a study produced by his own administration … and more than 300 leading scientists, warning of the potentially catastrophic impending crisis. Asked why, Trump told reporters, “I don’t believe it.” Asked if he read it, Trump said, “some.”
March 30, 2020: This newspaper reports that Trump completed plans to scrap Obama-era automobile fuel efficiency standards that limited climate-warming tailpipe pollution — a move that will “allow cars on American roads to emit nearly a billion tons more carbon dioxide over the lifetime of the vehicles.”
What’s the common theme? We have a president who is enamored with markets but ignorant of science, and we have paid a steep, steep price for that — and we are paying an even bigger price now.
Early on, Trump clearly spent his days watching the markets and downplaying the virus’s potential for rapid spread. If the markets were doing well for investors, he was doing well for America.
Trump thought that closing off flights from China was enough to stem this growing epidemic and calm the markets — without the mass testing, surveillance and quarantines of the infected that South Korea, Hong Kong and Singapore employed to great success. You could hear that in the reckless, premature assurances by Kudlow, Kellyanne CONWAY and Trump himself that the virus had been contained.
If only Trump had listened to Medical Doctors and Scientists. It was his deadly mistake, and a cruel joke on America.
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@williamkerr2121
“They” also “got to”: Former Defense Sec. James Mattis, Former Navy Sec. Richard V. Spencer, Former WH chief of staff John Kelly, Former WH national security adviser H.R. McMaster, Former Homeland Sec. adviser Tom Bossert, Cliff Sims, former special assistant to the President and director of WH Msg. Strategy, Gary Cohn, former National Economic Council director, Former WH counsel Ty Cobb, Former US Ambassador to the United Nations Nikki Haley, Former Sec. of State Rex Tillerson, to Former US Special Representative for Ukraine Kurt Volker, and Former National Sec. Advisor John Bolton. DAMM “They” ARE AMAZING!
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2008: Russians laundered millions through apartment sales at the Trump SoHo.
2008: A Russian oligarch bought a Palm Beach estate from Trump in 2008 for $95m, more than double what Trump had paid for it.
2008: 63 Russians, with Kremlin connections, spent $100m buying property fromTrump.
2008: Russian money & Latin Drug Lords pour money into Trump Panama properties.
Donny Sr 2008: “We have access to $100 million Line of Credit”
Q: Who is it? No American Bank will lend to you.
A: “I would rather not say”
Donny Jr. 2008: “We have Russians willing to lend us money”
Donny Jr. 2008: “Russians make up a pretty disproportionate cross-section of a lot of our assets. We have a lot of money pouring in from Russia."
2010: Alex Shnaider Ukrainian KleptoBillionaire ponies up $100 million to save Trump Toronto.
Eric Trump 2014: "Well, we don’t rely on American banks. We have all the funding we need out of Russia.' I said, 'Really?' And he said, 'Oh, yeah. We’ve got some guys that are really, really invested in our programs. We just go there all the time.”
Forbes 2020: Trump’s Russian Business Partners Allegedly Involved In Human Trafficking, Mafia Matters, and Probable Money Laundering.
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DonReality
It’s hard to give an Intelligence Briefing to a Moron when you are limited to 1 page, pictures, and a single crayon. During briefings the president constantly veers off on tangents. He has a short attention span and rarely, if ever, reads intelligence reports, relying instead on conservative media and his friends for information. He frequently interrupts Intell Officers and will riff based on tips or gossip he hears from the former casino magnate Steve Wynn, the retired golfer Gary Player or Christopher Ruddy, the conservative media executive.
Mr. Trump rarely absorbs information that he disagrees with or that runs counter to his worldview. Briefing him has been so great a challenge compared with his predecessors that the intelligence agencies have hired outside consultants to study how better to get his attention and keep it during briefings.
Working to keep Mr. Trump’s interest exhausted and burned out his first briefer, Ted Gistaro, two former officials said. Mr. Gistaro did not always know what to expect and would sometimes have to brief an erratic and angry president upset over news reports, the officials said
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@kevinpreston5590 Because you keep asking, I can only assume that you really don’t know. So in the spirit of compassion I have provided you the following explanations:
Criminal Cases
Only the government initiates a criminal case, usually through the U.S. attorney’s office, in coordination with a law enforcement agency. Allegations of criminal behavior should be brought to the local police, the FBI, or another appropriate law enforcement agency.
The Judicial Process
Criminal cases differ from civil cases. At the beginning of a federal criminal case, the principal actors are the U.S. Attorney (the prosecutor) and the grand jury. The U.S. Attorney represents the United States in most court proceedings, including all criminal prosecutions. The grand jury reviews evidence presented by the U.S. Attorney and decides whether it is sufficient to require a defendant to stand trial.
Burden of Proof
In a criminal trial, the burden of proof is on the government. Defendants do not have to prove their innocence. Instead, the government must provide evidence to convince the jury of the defendant’s guilt. The standard of proof in a criminal trial gives the prosecutor a much greater burden than the plaintiff in a civil trial. The defendant must be found guilty “beyond a reasonable doubt,” which means the evidence must be so strong that there is no reasonable doubt that the defendant committed the crime.
Pretrial
At an initial appearance, a judge who has reviewed arrest and post-arrest investigation reports, advises the defendant of the charges filed, considers whether the defendant should be held in jail until trial, and determines whether there is probable cause to believe that an offense has been committed and that the defendant has committed it. Defendants who are unable to afford counsel are advised of their right to a court-appointed attorney. Defendants released into the community before trial may be subject to electronic monitoring or drug testing, and required to make periodic reports to a pretrial services officer to ensure appearance at trial.
The defendant enters a plea to the charges brought by the U.S. Attorney at a court hearing known as arraignment. More than 90 percent of defendants plead guilty rather than go to trial. If a defendant pleads guilty in return for the government agreeing to drop certain charges or to recommend a lenient sentence, the agreement often is called a “plea bargain.” If the defendant pleads guilty, the judge may impose a sentence, but more commonly will schedule a later hearing to determine the sentence. In most felony cases the judge waits for the results of a presentence report from the court’s probation office before imposing sentence. If the defendant pleads not guilty, the judge will schedule a trial.
Trial
Criminal cases include limited pretrial discovery proceedings, similar to those in civil cases, but with restrictions to protect the identity of government informants and to prevent intimidation of witnesses. The attorneys also may file motions, which are requests for rulings by the court before the trial, such as to suppress evidence that could violate a defendant’s constitutional rights.
If a defendant is found not guilty, the defendant is released and the government may not appeal. The person may not be charged again for the same offense in a federal court. The Constitution prohibits “double jeopardy,” or being tried twice for the same offense.
Sentencing
If the verdict is guilty, the judge determines the defendant’s sentence. During sentencing, the court may consider U. S. Sentencing Commission guidelines, evidence produced at trial, and also relevant information provided by the pretrial services officer, the U.S. attorney, and the defense attorney.
A sentence may include time in prison, a fine to be paid to the government, and restitution to be paid to crime victims. The court’s probation officers enforce conditions imposed by the court part of a criminal sentence. Supervision of offenders may involve services such as substance abuse testing and treatment programs, job counseling, and alternative detention options, such as home confinement or electronic monitoring.
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@kevinpreston5590 Civil Cases
A federal civil case involves a legal dispute between two or more parties. A civil action begins when a party to a dispute files a complaint, and pays a filing fee required by statute. A plaintiff who is unable to pay the fee may file a request to proceed in forma pauperis. If the request is granted, the fee is waived.
The Process
To begin a civil lawsuit in federal court, the plaintiff files a complaint with the court and “serves” a copy of the complaint on the defendant. The complaint describes the plaintiff’s damages or injury, explains how the defendant caused the harm, shows that the court has jurisdiction, and asks the court to order relief. A plaintiff may seek money to compensate for the damages, or may ask the court to order the defendant to stop the conduct that is causing the harm. The court may also order other types of relief, such as a declaration of the legal rights of the plaintiff in a particular situation.
Case Preparation
There may be “discovery,” where the litigants must provide information to each other about the case, such as the identity of witnesses and copies of any documents related to the case. The purpose of discovery is to prepare for trial by requiring the litigants to assemble their evidence and prepare to call witnesses. Each side also may file requests, or “motions,” with the court seeking rulings on the discovery of evidence, or on the procedures to be followed at trial.
Discovery may include a deposition, requiring a witness to answer questions about the case before the trial. The witness answers questions from the lawyer under oath, in the presence of a court reporter, who produces a word-for-word account called a transcript.
Settling Differences
To avoid the expense and delay of having a trial, judges encourage the litigants to try to reach an agreement resolving their dispute. The courts encourage the use of mediation, arbitration, and other forms of alternative dispute resolution, designed to produce a resolution of a dispute without the need for trial or other court proceedings. As a result, litigants often agree to a “settlement.” Absent a settlement, the court will schedule a trial. In a wide variety of civil cases, either side is entitled under the Constitution to request a jury trial. If the parties waive their right to a jury, then a judge without a jury will hear the case.
Trial Process
By applying rules of evidence, the judge determines which information may be presented in the courtroom. So that witnesses speak from their own knowledge and do not change their story based on what they hear another witness say, they are kept out of the courtroom until they testify. A court reporter keeps a record of the trial proceedings, and a deputy clerk of court keeps a record of each person who testifies and any documents, photographs, or other items introduced into evidence.
The opposing attorney may object if a question it invites the witness to say something that is not based on the witness’s personal knowledge, is unfairly prejudicial, or is irrelevant to the case. Generally, the judge either overrules or sustains – allows – the objection. If the objection is sustained, the witness does not answer the question, and the attorney must move on to his next question. The court reporter records the objections so that a court of appeals can review the arguments later if necessary.
Closing
After evidence is heard, each side gives a closing argument. In a jury trial, the judge will explain the law that is relevant to the case and the decisions the jury needs to make. The jury generally is asked to determine whether the defendant is responsible for harming the plaintiff in some way, and then to determine the amount of damages that the defendant will be required to pay. If the case is tried before a judge without a jury, known as a “bench” trial, the judge will decide these issues or order some kind of relief to the prevailing party. In a civil case, the plaintiff must convince the jury by a “preponderance of the evidence” (i.e., that it is more likely than not) that the defendant is responsible for the harm the plaintiff has suffered.
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Treasonous Trump’s State of the Union Speech: “Me, Me, Me, Me, Me, Me, Them, Them, Me, Me, Me, Them, Me, Me, etc.”
Nailed it! 😂🤣😂🤣
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passtime for civilwar
Nude pictures of Treasonous Trump - I cant think of anything grosser 🤮 However, your story is missing many key details. I know, I know, MAGA MAGGOTS hate facts, details, and truth, so forgive me for attempting to educate you.
Excerpts from Interview with Russian Pranksters:
“We wanted to talk to someone who specifically works on intelligence and give him a completely insane version of events,” Kuznetsov told me of the prank. “We leaked him a bunch of disinformation,” Stolyarov said. “It was completely absurd.”
A spokesman for Schiff said, “Before agreeing to take the call, and immediately following it, the committee informed appropriate law-enforcement and security personnel of the conversation, and of our belief that it was probably bogus.”
BTY, THIS IS WHAT REAL PATRIOTIC AMERICANS DO WHEN APPROACHED BY FOREIGN AGENTS WITH BLACKMAIL INFORMATION
(Cont)
He and Stolyarov have repeatedly denied any connection to the Russian secret services, but they clearly have cozy ties to the government. They have had shows on several Kremlin-controlled TV channels, which requires high-level approval. When I met them, they casually mentioned that they had been at the Russian Parliament the day before, meeting with a well-known elected official. “We’re working on a project,” Stolyarov said coyly, then bragged about having hacked the Skype account of the late Russian oligarch—and Putin enemy—Boris Berezovsky “for a long time.” They had somehow obtained the cellphone numbers of foreign leaders such as Turkey’s Recep Tayyip Erdoğan.
Kuznetsov and Stolyarov have an extensive list of American victims. In February, posing as the Ukrainian prime minister, they prank-called Senator John McCain, who confessed that the Trump era was the hardest time of his long political life. “He sounded like he didn’t know what to do—like, at all,” Kuznetsov recalled. That same month, they prank-called Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, who told them that “he would do his best and not impose new sanctions on Russia.”
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@shannonmiller1129 “TRUMP UNFIT TO SERVE AS PRESIDENT, OR IN ANY OFFICE OF PUBLIC TRUST.” List of Republicans who signed a letter saying Trump is a Threat To Our American Democracy 🇺🇸:
Admiral Steve Abbot
USN (Ret.), Deputy Homeland Security Advisor, George W. Bush
Kenneth Adelman Director, Arms Control and Disarmament Agency, Reagan
Dr. Carol C. Adelman Asst. Admin., U.S. Agency for International Development, Reagan
Major General John Barry USAF (Ret.), Military Assistant to the Secretary of Defense
Richard C. Barth Asst. Secretary, Department of Homeland Security, W. Bush
Christopher Barton Director, National Security Council Staff
John Bellinger Legal Adviser, National Security Council, W. Bush
Admiral Kenneth Bernard Special Asst. to W. Bush
Mark E. Bitterman Special Asst. to the Secretary of Defense, H.W. Bush
Robert D. Blackwill Deputy National Security Advisor, W. Bush
William Bodie Asst. to the Secretary of the Air Force, W. Bush
Christian M.L. Bonat Deputy General Counsel, DOD, W. Bush & Obama
Richard Boucher Assistant Secretary of State, W. Bush
Charles W. Boustany, Jr. Former Member of Congress, Louisiana
Charles R. Bowers Ambassador to Bolivia, H.W. Bush
Greg Brower Asst. Director, FBI, Obama & Trump
Christopher Buckley Chief Speechwriter, Office of VP H.W. Bush
James R. Bullington U.S. Ambassador to Burundi, Reagan
Richard Burt U.S. Ambassador to Germany, Reagan
Gahl Hodges Burt Asst. to the Secretary of State, Reagan
Rear Admiral Fred Byus U.S. Navy (Ret.)
Jack C. Chow Deputy Asst. Secretary of State, W. Bush
James W. Cicconi Asst. to the President & Deputy to the Chief of Staff, H. W. Bush
Peggy Cifrino Deputy Chief of Staff to Secretary of State Colin Powell, W. Bush
Eliot A. Cohen Counselor of the Dept. of State, W. Bush
Benedict S. Cohen General Counsel, Dept. of the Army, W. Bush
William Cohen Secretary of Defense, Clinton, & U.S. Senator, Maine
Joseph J. Collins Deputy Asst. Secretary of Defense, W. Bush
Barbara Comstock Former Member of Congress, Virginia
Cindy Courville National Security Affairs for Africa, W. Bush
Chester A. Crocker Assistant Secretary of State, Reagan
Patrick M. Cronin Admin. U.S. Agency for International Development, W. Bush
Stephen W. DeVine Deputy Legal Advisor, National Security Council, W. Bush
Charles Djou Former Member of Congress, Hawaii
Michael Donley Secretary of the Air Force, George W. Bush & Obama
Raymond F. DuBois Secretary of the Army, George W. Bush
Martha E. Duncan Sr Executive Service, DOD, George W. Bush & Obama
Lewis A. Dunn Director, Arms Control and Disarmament Agency, Reagan
Eric S. Edelman Under Secretary of Defense, George W. Bush
Mickey Edwards Member of Congress, Oklahoma
Richard A. Falkenrath Deputy Assistant to the President, George W. Bush
Jendayi E. Frazer Ambassador to South Africa George W. Bush Administration
Aaron L. Friedber Deputy Assistant to George W. Bush
William Gaches Director of Counterterrorism, NSA, George W. Bush
Janice Gardner Assistant Secretary of the Treasury, George W. Bush
Stuart M. Gerson Attorney General of the United States, George W. Bush
James K. Glassman Under Secretary of State, George W. Bush
Jon D. Glassman Deputy National Security Advisor to George H.W. Bush
David Gordon Director, State Dept, Policy Planning, George W. Bush
Sen. Chuck Hagel Secretary of Defense, Obama, and former U.S. Senator, Nebraska
Christopher Hank Deputy Assistant Secretary of State; Reagan,Bush, & Clinton
Mark Harvey Special Assistant to the President, Trump
General Michael V. Hayden Director of the CIA & NSA, Bush & Obama
Carla Hills U.S. Trade Representative, George H.W Bush
Seth Hurwitz Counsel, President's Intelligence Oversight Board, George H.W. Bush
Peter Keisler Attorney General of the U.S., George W. Bush
James A. Kelly Secretary of State, George W. Bush
Adam Kinzinger Former Member of Congress, Illinois
Sofia Kinzinger Deputy Assistant Secretary, Dept. of Homeland Security, Trump
Kenneth J. Krieg Under Secretary of Defense, George W. Bush
James R. Kunder Deputy Administrator, U.S. Agency for International Development, Bush
Brigadier General George Landis, USA, Ret. U.S. Personnel Info Systems Command
Frank Lavin Ambassador to Singapore & Under Secretary of Commerce, George W. Bush
Peter Lichtenbaum
Former Assistant Secretary of Commerce, George W. Bush Administration
Rear Admiral David M. Lichtman, MD, USN (Ret.)
Former Commander, National Naval Medical Center, Bethesda, George H.W. Bush and Clinton Administrations
Winston Lord
Former U.S. Ambassador to China, Reagan and George H.W. Bush Administration
Steven R. Mann
Former Ambassador to Turkmenistan and Former Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary in the State Dept., Clinton and George W. Bush Administrations
Colonel John W. McDonald
Former Deputy Under Secretary of the Army
P. Michael McKinley
Former Ambassador to Peru and Acting Ambassador to the European Union and Mozambique, George W. Bush Administration; Former Ambassador to Peru, Colombia, Afghanistan, and Brazil, Obama Administration
Dan Miller
Former Member of Congress, Florida
John M. Mitnick
Former General Counsel, Dept. of Homeland Security, Trump
Allen Moore
Former Under Secretary of Commerce, Reagan
Alberto Mora
Former General Counsel, U.S. Information Agency, George H.W. Bush; Former General Counsel, Dept. of the Navy, George W. Bush
Kenneth Mortensen
Former Associate Deputy Attorney General, George W. Bush
Vice Admiral Charles L. Munns
U.S. Navy (Ret.), George W. Bush
John D. Negroponte Deputy Secretary of State, George W. Bush
Elizabeth Neumann Assistant Secretary of Homeland Security, Trump
Sean O'Keefe Secretary of the Navy, George H.W. Bush
Bill Paxon Former Member of Congress, New York
William R Piekney CIA Chief of Station, Reagan
Daniel M. Price Deputy NSA Advisor, George W. Bush
Alan Charles Raul Vice Chairman, Civil Liberties Oversight Board, George W. Bush
Victor Reis Director, DARPA, George H.W. Bush
Robert Annan Riley Ambassador to Micronesia, Trump
Paul Rosenzweig Deputy Assistant Secretary of Homeland Security, George W. Bush
Charles Rossotti Deputy Asst. Secretary of Defense; Commissioner of IRS, Clinton & Bush
Nicholas Rostow National Security Council Legal Adviser, Reagan & H.W. Bush
Kori Schake Deputy Director of Policy Planning, State Dept., W. Bush
Wayne A. Schroeder Deputy Under Secretary of Defense, W. Bush
Gregory L. Schulte Sr Director, National Security Council & Atomic Energy Agency, W. Bush
Robert Shanks Deputy Assistant AG, Reagan
Rep. Christopher Shays Former Member of Congress, Connecticut
John Simon Senior Director, National Security Council Staff, W. Bush
Stephen Slick Sr. Director, National Security Council Staff, W. Bush
Mark C. Storella U.S. Ambassador to Zambia, Obama
William H. Taft IV Deputy Secretary of Defense and Ambassador to NATO, W. Bush
Miles Taylor Chief of Staff, Dept. of Homeland Security, Trump
Larry D. Thompson Former Deputy AG, W. Bush
Jack Tomarchio Deputy Under Secretary of Homeland Security, W. Bush
Olivia Troye Special Advisor to VP Pence, Trump
Robert Tuttle U.S. Ambassador to the UK, W. Bush
John K. Veroneau Deputy U.S. Trade Rep. & Assistant Secretary of Defense, W. Bush & Clinton
Colonel Terry Virts, USAF (Ret.)
Former NASA Astronaut, Former Commander of the International Space Station
Dr. Thomas G. Ward, Jr. Director of Threats, Ballistic Missile Defense Org., Reagan & Clinton
Matthew C. Waxman Principal Deputy Director, State Dept Policy Planning, W. Bush
William H. Webster Director of the CIA & FBI, Reagan & H.W. Bush
William F. Weld Assistant Attorney General, Criminal Division, Reagan
J. Robinson West Assistant Secretary of Interior, Reagan
Wendell L. Willkie II General Counsel, Dept. of Commerce, H.W. Bush
Philip Zelikow Counselor of the Dept. of State, W. Bush
Robert B. Zoellick White House Deputy Chief of Staff, George H.W. Bush
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Litmus test. How to know if your president is a potential Authoritarian Threat to Democracy:
1. Rejection of (or weak commitment to) democratic rules or norms.
Examples.
Q. Do they reject the Constitution or express a willingness to violate it?
Q. Do they suggest a need for anti democratic measures banning certain organizations, or restricting basic civil or political rights?
Q. Do they attempt to undermine the legitimacy of elections, for example, by claiming unverifiable mass voter fraud.
2. Denial of the legitimacy of political opponents.
Examples.
Q. Do they describe their rivals as subversive, or opposed to your presidential powers.
Q. Do they claim that their rivals constitute a threat, either to the country or the prevailing way of life. Such as calling opponents socialists or communists?
Q. Do they baselessly describe their partisan rivals as criminals, whose supposed violations disqualifies them from full participation in the political arena.
Q. Do they baselessly suggest that their rivals are secretly working in alliance against you?
3. Toleration or encouragement of violence.
Examples.
Q. Do they have any ties to armed militias, paramilitary forces, white supremacy groups, etc?
Q. Have they encouraged, or suggested, mob attacks on opponents?
Q. Have they tacitly endorsed violence by their supporters by refusing to unambiguously condemning it?
Q. Have they praised (or refused to condemn) politically violent state actors in the past or currently?
4. Readiness to curtail civil liberties or voting rights of opponents, including the media?
Q. Have they supported laws or policies that restrict civil liberties, such as expanding defamation laws, or laws restricting protests, criticism of the government, or certain civic or political organizations?
Q. Have they threatened to take legal or other punitive action against critics in rival parties, civil society, or the media?
Q. Have they praised repressive leaders or actions taken by repressive leaders?
If the answer is yes to even on of the above questions then you have a wanna be Dictator on your hands.
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@donaldmiller4386 Do you support the military? Quote From General John Kelly Former Chief of Staff for Trump: And Kelly’s statement adds context to a story in the book “The Divider: Trump in the White House, 2017-2021,” by Susan Glasser and Peter Baker, in which Trump, after a separate trip to France in 2017, tells Kelly he wants no wounded veterans in a military parade he’s trying to have planned in his honor. Inspired by the Bastille Day parade, except for the section of the parade featuring wounded French veterans in wheelchairs, Trump tells Kelly, “Look, I don’t want any wounded guys in the parade.”
“Those are the heroes,” Kelly said. “In our society, there’s only one group of people who are more heroic than they are – and they are buried over in Arlington.”
“I don’t want them,” Trump said. “It doesn’t look good for me.”
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Curtis Jennings
dad bear
William H. McRaven, a retired Navy admiral, was commander of the U.S. Joint Special Operations Command from 2011 to 2014. He oversaw the 2011 Navy SEAL raid in Pakistan that killed al-Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden. He writes:
Dear Mr. President:
Former CIA director John Brennan, whose security clearance you revoked on Wednesday, is one of the finest public servants I have ever known. Few Americans have done more to protect this country than John. He is a man of unparalleled integrity, whose honesty and character have never been in question, except by those who don’t know him.
Therefore, I would consider it an honor if you would revoke my security clearance as well, so I can add my name to the list of men and women who have spoken up against your presidency.
Like most Americans, I had hoped that when you became president, you would rise to the occasion and become the leader this great nation needs.
A good leader tries to embody the best qualities of his or her organization. A good leader sets the example for others to follow. A good leader always puts the welfare of others before himself or herself.
Your leadership, however, has shown little of these qualities. Through your actions, you have embarrassed us in the eyes of our children, humiliated us on the world stage and, worst of all, divided us as a nation.
If you think for a moment that your McCarthy-era tactics will suppress the voices of criticism, you are sadly mistaken. The criticism will continue until you become the leader we prayed you would be.
NEED WE SAY MORE THAN THIS AMERICAN HERO? STAND UP AND BE COUNTED. VOTE THIS WOULD BE PETTY DICTATOR OUT OF OFFICE.
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“I no longer recognize my party”
Why Hundreds of Thousands of Republicans Are Leaving the Crazed Party
Voting registration data indicates a strong and unusual flight from the G.O.P. since the Capitol riot, with an intensely fluid period in American politics now underway.
In the days and weeks after the storming of the Capitol by Trump supporters on Jan. 6, hundreds of thousands of Republicans left the party. After the Jan. 6 attack on the Capitol, the phone lines and websites of local election officials across the country were jumping: Tens of thousands of Republicans were calling or logging on to switch their party affiliations.
In California, more than 33,000 registered Republicans left the party during the three weeks after the Washington riot. In Pennsylvania, more than 12,000 voters left the G.O.P. in the past month, and more than 10,000 Republicans changed their registration in Arizona.
An analysis of January voting records found that nearly 140,000 Republicans had quit the party in 25 states that had readily available data (19 states do not have registration by party). Voting experts say this is the start of a particularly damaging period for G.O.P. registrations as voters recoil from the Capitol violence and its fallout.
Among those who recently left the party are Juan Nunez, 56, an Army veteran in Mechanicsburg, Pa. He said he had long felt that the difference between the United States and many other countries was that campaign-season fighting ended on Election Day, when all sides would peacefully accept the result. The Jan. 6 riot changed that, he said.
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Rip Cord It was always known from day one that Steele did op research for the Hilary Campaign… Duh 🙄. However, the only part of the Steele Dosier that was never verified was the Pee Pee Tape. Now think real hard here, the Mueller Report long ago - LET ME SAY THAT IN ALL CAPS, LONG AGO - replaced the Steele Dosier Rumors with VERIFIED FACTS. Why argue over the Steele Dosier when you have the Muller Report, The House Intel Report, The Senate Intel Report, the CIA, FBI, DIA, & NSA Official Reports, researched, verified, signed, & delivered? Seriously?
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Treasonous Trump Lies Again using over $400 million in tax payer money to prop up his failing properties.
President Trump’s company charges the Secret Service for the rooms agents use while protecting him at his luxury properties — billing U.S. taxpayers at $650 per night, according to federal records and people who have seen receipts.
New documents obtained under the Freedom of Information Act reveal the rates the Secret Service paid at President Trump's priorities. (Zach Purser Brown/The Washington Post)
And at the Trump National Golf Club Bedminster, the Secret Service was charged $17,000 a month to use a three-bedroom cottage on the property, an unusually high rent for homes in that area, according to receipts from 2017. Trump’s company billed the government even for days when Trump wasn’t there.
The full extent of the Secret Service’s payments to Trump’s company is not known as Steven Mnuchin, Secretary of The Treasury refuses to release information even though the Secret Service is required to report payments over $10,000.
The records show more than $471,000,00 in payments from taxpayers to Trump’s companies. But — because these records cover only a fraction of Trump’s travel during a fraction of his term — the actual total is likely to be higher. It appears that TT is using tax payer money to prop up his failing properties. “We provide the rooms at cost and could make far more money renting them to members or guests,” Trump Organization Executive Vice President Eric Trump said in a statement: “If he stays at one of his places, the government actually . . . saves a fortune because, if they were to go to a hotel across the street, they’d be charging them $500 a night, whereas, you know we charge them, like 50 bucks,” Eric Trump said. That statement appears to be a lie.
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Doomsday Clock
Jan. 22: President Trump is asked: “Are there worries about a pandemic at this point?” Trump answers: “No. Not at all. And we’re, we have it totally under control. It’s one person coming in from China. … It’s — going to be just fine.”
Feb. 25: Trump’s declares: “We have contained this. I won’t say airtight, but pretty close to airtight.”
March 9: Trump tweets: “Nothing is shut down, life & the economy go on. At this moment there are 546 confirmed cases of CoronaVirus, with 22 deaths.”
March 13: Fox host Lou Dobbs shows off on his program a chart of the day’s 1,985-point Dow Jones rise. The chart was autographed and sent by Trump, who seemed to suggest that his remarks were responsible for the rise, a day after the same index had dropped a record 2,352 points.
March 16: After the weekend, the Dow suffers another record drop, closing 2,997.10 points lower. Trump did not autograph that chart and send it to Dobbs.
March 31: The U.S. has more than 180,000 confirmed coronavirus cases, about 80,000 more than any other country.
Nov. 26, 2018: Reports show that Trump “dismissed a study produced by his own administration … and more than 300 leading scientists, warning of the potentially catastrophic impending crisis. Asked why, Trump told reporters, “I don’t believe it.” Asked if he read it, Trump said, “some.”
March 30, 2020: This newspaper reports that Trump completed plans to scrap Obama-era automobile fuel efficiency standards that limited climate-warming tailpipe pollution — a move that will “allow cars on American roads to emit nearly a billion tons more carbon dioxide over the lifetime of the vehicles.”
What’s the common theme? We have a president who is enamored with markets but ignorant of science, and we have paid a steep, steep price for that — and we are paying an even bigger price now.
Early on, Trump clearly spent his days watching the markets and downplaying the virus’s potential for rapid spread. If the markets were doing well for investors, he was doing well for America.
Trump thought that closing off flights from China was enough to stem this growing epidemic and calm the markets — without the mass testing, surveillance and quarantines of the infected that South Korea, Hong Kong and Singapore employed to great success. You could hear that in the reckless, premature assurances by Kudlow, Kellyanne CONWAY and Trump himself that the virus had been contained.
If only Trump had listened to Medical Doctors and Scientists. It was his deadly mistake, and a cruel joke on America.
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Bag-N-OK
CDC estimates* that, from October 1, 2019, through April 4, 2020, there have been:
flu illnesses
18,000,000 – 26,000,000
flu medical visits
410,000 – 740,000
flu hospitalizations
24,000 – 62,000
flu deaths
NOTE: The week of April 4 was the last week in-season influenza burden estimates will be provided for the 2019-2020 season.
*Because influenza surveillance does not capture all cases of flu that occur in the U.S., CDC provides these estimated ranges to better reflect the larger burden of influenza. These estimates are calculated based on CDC’s weekly influenza surveillance data and are preliminary.
**Influenza testing across the United States may be higher than normal at this time of year because of the COVID-19 pandemic. These estimates may partly reflect increases in testing in recent weeks and may be adjusted downward once the season is complete and final data for the 2019/20 season are available.
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Steve Rose
deanerhar
The cost of Trump’s Golf Trips tops $628,000 to U.S. Tax Payers.
President Trump’s company charged the Secret Service $157,000 more than was previously known — billing taxpayers for rooms at his clubs at rates far higher than his company has claimed, according to a new trove of receipts and billing documents released by the Secret Service. When added to dozens of charges already reported by The Washington Post, the new documents show that Trump’s company has charged the Secret Service more than $628,000 since he took office in 2017.
Yet another Trumpian Lie Exposed.
“If my father travels, they stay at our properties for free — meaning, like, cost for housekeeping,” said Eric Trump, the company’s executive vice president. Later in the interview, he said, “We charge them, like, 50 bucks.” Said Eric Trump.
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Rocco Starbuck
dad bear
William H. McRaven, a retired Navy admiral, was commander of the U.S. Joint Special Operations Command from 2011 to 2014. He oversaw the 2011 Navy SEAL raid in Pakistan that killed al-Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden. He writes:
Dear Mr. President:
Former CIA director John Brennan, whose security clearance you revoked on Wednesday, is one of the finest public servants I have ever known. Few Americans have done more to protect this country than John. He is a man of unparalleled integrity, whose honesty and character have never been in question, except by those who don’t know him.
Therefore, I would consider it an honor if you would revoke my security clearance as well, so I can add my name to the list of men and women who have spoken up against your presidency.
Like most Americans, I had hoped that when you became president, you would rise to the occasion and become the leader this great nation needs.
A good leader tries to embody the best qualities of his or her organization. A good leader sets the example for others to follow. A good leader always puts the welfare of others before himself or herself.
Your leadership, however, has shown little of these qualities. Through your actions, you have embarrassed us in the eyes of our children, humiliated us on the world stage and, worst of all, divided us as a nation.
If you think for a moment that your McCarthy-era tactics will suppress the voices of criticism, you are sadly mistaken. The criticism will continue until you become the leader we prayed you would be.
NEED WE SAY MORE THAN THIS AMERICAN HERO? STAND UP AND BE COUNTED. VOTE THIS WOULD BE PETTY DICTATOR OUT OF OFFICE.
🇺🇸🗽🇺🇸
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WHITE HOUSE MOVED TRANSCRIPT OF TRUMP CALL TO CLASSIFIED SERVER AFTER UKRAINE ADVISER RAISED ALARMS.
Moments after President Trump ended his phone call with Ukraine’s president on July 25, an unsettled national security aide rushed to the office of White House lawyer John Eisenberg.
Army Lt. Col. Alexander Vindman, the top Ukraine adviser at the White House, had been listening to the call and was disturbed by the pressure Trump had applied to Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky to investigate his political rivals, according to people familiar with Vindman’s testimony to lawmakers this week.
Vindman told Eisenberg, the White House’s legal adviser on national security issues, that what the president did was wrong, said the people, who spoke on the condition of anonymity because of the ongoing investigation.
Scribbling notes on a yellow legal pad, Eisenberg proposed a step that other officials have said is at odds with long-standing White House protocol: moving a transcript of the call to a highly classified server and restricting access to it, according to two people familiar with Vindman’s account.
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Looking for Clinton’s “missing” emails
(VOLUME I, PP. 49, 62-63)
At a July 27, 2016, campaign rally, Mr. Trump said, “Russia, if you’re listening, I hope you’re able to find the 30,000 emails that are missing” — referring to Clinton emails reportedly stored on a personal server. “Within approximately five hours” of Mr. Trump’s remarks, according to the Mueller report, Russian military intelligence began a cyberattack against “Clinton’s personal office.”
After his July 27 comment, the report states, Mr. Trump “asked individuals affiliated with his campaign to find the deleted Clinton emails” — including Michael Flynn.
Mr. Flynn, in turn, reached out to a Republican Senate staffer and a party operative who worked separately to obtain the emails. The operative raised money to support the project, which he marketed as “coordinated with the Trump campaign,” and told others that he was in communication with Russian hackers who had access to emails he believed were Mrs. Clinton’s. But Mr. Mueller “did not establish” that the operative had actually made contact with any real Russian hackers. And while the staffer obtained emails, an effort funded by a businessman close to the campaign found that they were not really Mrs. Clinton’s either.
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Treasonous Trump’s State of the Union Speech: “Me, Me, Me, Me, Me, Me, Them, Them, Me, Me, Me, Them, Me, Me, etc.”
Nailed it! 😂🤣😂🤣
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@timesup4688 700 former Republican National Security Advisors stated - “TRUMP IS A THREAT TO OUR AMERICAN DEMOCRACY”:
Admiral Steve Abbot
USN (Ret.), Deputy Homeland Security Advisor, George W. Bush
Kenneth Adelman Director, Arms Control and Disarmament Agency, Reagan
Dr. Carol C. Adelman Asst. Admin., U.S. Agency for International Development, Reagan
Major General John Barry USAF (Ret.), Military Assistant to the Secretary of Defense
Richard C. Barth Asst. Secretary, Department of Homeland Security, W. Bush
Christopher Barton Director, National Security Council Staff
John Bellinger Legal Adviser, National Security Council, W. Bush
Admiral Kenneth Bernard Special Asst. to W. Bush
Mark E. Bitterman Special Asst. to the Secretary of Defense, H.W. Bush
Robert D. Blackwill Deputy National Security Advisor, W. Bush
William Bodie Asst. to the Secretary of the Air Force, W. Bush
Christian M.L. Bonat Deputy General Counsel, DOD, W. Bush & Obama
Richard Boucher Assistant Secretary of State, W. Bush
Charles W. Boustany, Jr. Former Member of Congress, Louisiana
Charles R. Bowers Ambassador to Bolivia, H.W. Bush
Greg Brower Asst. Director, FBI, Obama & Trump
Christopher Buckley Chief Speechwriter, Office of VP H.W. Bush
James R. Bullington U.S. Ambassador to Burundi, Reagan
Richard Burt U.S. Ambassador to Germany, Reagan
Gahl Hodges Burt Asst. to the Secretary of State, Reagan
Rear Admiral Fred Byus U.S. Navy (Ret.)
Jack C. Chow Deputy Asst. Secretary of State, W. Bush
James W. Cicconi Asst. to the President & Deputy to the Chief of Staff, H. W. Bush
Peggy Cifrino Deputy Chief of Staff to Secretary of State Colin Powell, W. Bush
Eliot A. Cohen Counselor of the Dept. of State, W. Bush
Benedict S. Cohen General Counsel, Dept. of the Army, W. Bush
William Cohen Secretary of Defense, Clinton, & U.S. Senator, Maine
Joseph J. Collins Deputy Asst. Secretary of Defense, W. Bush
Barbara Comstock Former Member of Congress, Virginia
Cindy Courville National Security Affairs for Africa, W. Bush
Chester A. Crocker Assistant Secretary of State, Reagan
Patrick M. Cronin Admin. U.S. Agency for International Development, W. Bush
Stephen W. DeVine Deputy Legal Advisor, National Security Council, W. Bush
Charles Djou Former Member of Congress, Hawaii
Michael Donley Secretary of the Air Force, George W. Bush & Obama
Raymond F. DuBois Secretary of the Army, George W. Bush
Martha E. Duncan Sr Executive Service, DOD, George W. Bush & Obama
Lewis A. Dunn Director, Arms Control and Disarmament Agency, Reagan
Eric S. Edelman Under Secretary of Defense, George W. Bush
Mickey Edwards Member of Congress, Oklahoma
Richard A. Falkenrath Deputy Assistant to the President, George W. Bush
Jendayi E. Frazer Ambassador to South Africa George W. Bush Administration
Aaron L. Friedber Deputy Assistant to George W. Bush
William Gaches Director of Counterterrorism, NSA, George W. Bush
Janice Gardner Assistant Secretary of the Treasury, George W. Bush
Stuart M. Gerson Attorney General of the United States, George W. Bush
James K. Glassman Under Secretary of State, George W. Bush
Jon D. Glassman Deputy National Security Advisor to George H.W. Bush
David Gordon Director, State Dept, Policy Planning, George W. Bush
Sen. Chuck Hagel Secretary of Defense, Obama, and former U.S. Senator, Nebraska
Christopher Hank Deputy Assistant Secretary of State; Reagan,Bush, & Clinton
Mark Harvey Special Assistant to the President, Trump
General Michael V. Hayden Director of the CIA & NSA, Bush & Obama
Carla Hills U.S. Trade Representative, George H.W Bush
Seth Hurwitz Counsel, President's Intelligence Oversight Board, George H.W. Bush
Peter Keisler Attorney General of the U.S., George W. Bush
James A. Kelly Secretary of State, George W. Bush
Adam Kinzinger Former Member of Congress, Illinois
Sofia Kinzinger Deputy Assistant Secretary, Dept. of Homeland Security, Trump
Kenneth J. Krieg Under Secretary of Defense, George W. Bush
James R. Kunder Deputy Administrator, U.S. Agency for International Development, Bush
Brigadier General George Landis, USA, Ret. U.S. Personnel Info Systems Command
Frank Lavin Ambassador to Singapore & Under Secretary of Commerce, George W. Bush
Peter Lichtenbaum
Former Assistant Secretary of Commerce, George W. Bush Administration
Rear Admiral David M. Lichtman, MD, USN (Ret.)
Former Commander, National Naval Medical Center, Bethesda, George H.W. Bush and Clinton Administrations
Winston Lord
Former U.S. Ambassador to China, Reagan and George H.W. Bush Administration
Steven R. Mann
Former Ambassador to Turkmenistan and Former Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary in the State Dept., Clinton and George W. Bush Administrations
Colonel John W. McDonald
Former Deputy Under Secretary of the Army
P. Michael McKinley
Former Ambassador to Peru and Acting Ambassador to the European Union and Mozambique, George W. Bush Administration; Former Ambassador to Peru, Colombia, Afghanistan, and Brazil, Obama Administration
Dan Miller
Former Member of Congress, Florida
John M. Mitnick
Former General Counsel, Dept. of Homeland Security, Trump
Allen Moore
Former Under Secretary of Commerce, Reagan
Alberto Mora
Former General Counsel, U.S. Information Agency, George H.W. Bush; Former General Counsel, Dept. of the Navy, George W. Bush
Kenneth Mortensen
Former Associate Deputy Attorney General, George W. Bush
Vice Admiral Charles L. Munns
U.S. Navy (Ret.), George W. Bush
John D. Negroponte Deputy Secretary of State, George W. Bush
Elizabeth Neumann Assistant Secretary of Homeland Security, Trump
Sean O'Keefe Secretary of the Navy, George H.W. Bush
Bill Paxon Former Member of Congress, New York
William R Piekney CIA Chief of Station, Reagan
Daniel M. Price Deputy NSA Advisor, George W. Bush
Alan Charles Raul Vice Chairman, Civil Liberties Oversight Board, George W. Bush
Victor Reis Director, DARPA, George H.W. Bush
Robert Annan Riley Ambassador to Micronesia, Trump
Paul Rosenzweig Deputy Assistant Secretary of Homeland Security, George W. Bush
Charles Rossotti Deputy Asst. Secretary of Defense; Commissioner of IRS, Clinton & Bush
Nicholas Rostow National Security Council Legal Adviser, Reagan & H.W. Bush
Kori Schake Deputy Director of Policy Planning, State Dept., W. Bush
Wayne A. Schroeder Deputy Under Secretary of Defense, W. Bush
Gregory L. Schulte Sr Director, National Security Council & Atomic Energy Agency, W. Bush
Robert Shanks Deputy Assistant AG, Reagan
Rep. Christopher Shays Former Member of Congress, Connecticut
John Simon Senior Director, National Security Council Staff, W. Bush
Stephen Slick Sr. Director, National Security Council Staff, W. Bush
Mark C. Storella U.S. Ambassador to Zambia, Obama
William H. Taft IV Deputy Secretary of Defense and Ambassador to NATO, W. Bush
Miles Taylor Chief of Staff, Dept. of Homeland Security, Trump
Larry D. Thompson Former Deputy AG, W. Bush
Jack Tomarchio Deputy Under Secretary of Homeland Security, W. Bush
Olivia Troye Special Advisor to VP Pence, Trump
Robert Tuttle U.S. Ambassador to the UK, W. Bush
John K. Veroneau Deputy U.S. Trade Rep. & Assistant Secretary of Defense, W. Bush & Clinton
Colonel Terry Virts, USAF (Ret.)
Former NASA Astronaut, Former Commander of the International Space Station
Dr. Thomas G. Ward, Jr. Director of Threats, Ballistic Missile Defense Org., Reagan & Clinton
Matthew C. Waxman Principal Deputy Director, State Dept Policy Planning, W. Bush
William H. Webster Director of the CIA & FBI, Reagan & H.W. Bush
William F. Weld Assistant Attorney General, Criminal Division, Reagan
J. Robinson West Assistant Secretary of Interior, Reagan
Wendell L. Willkie II General Counsel, Dept. of Commerce, H.W. Bush
Philip Zelikow Counselor of the Dept. of State, W. Bush
Robert B. Zoellick White House Deputy Chief of Staff, George H.W. Bush
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What is happening is not a coup, or even an attempt at a coup but a ham-handed effort to discredit the election outcome by any crackpot method available to sooth Trump’s ego. Scholars of real coups in other countries say that Trump has few of the ingredients necessary to pull off a coup — the international community despises him, the nation’s main media is still independent, an the armed forces think Trump is a joke. However, Trump is set to successfully pursue a slow-motion “con game,” pleading for donations by playing his supporters. He’s also crafting a “Stab in the Back” myth in hopes of returning to the WH in 2024.There is a fundamental difference between between a coup and a con. A coup is an illegitimate power grab by force. A con is a mostly criminal, unethical, or manipulative act. A con can become a coup if the con is successful — if enough people buy into the con then a Coup has occurred.
Though Trump will fail in his coup - this time - the fact that his fellow Republicans tacitly approved of his methods, or looked the other way dramatically weakens our Democratic Institutions. As Trump continues to spew crazy conspiracies, half truths, and outright lies more and more Republican voters will drift into delusion and violence.
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@markcosenza3274 700 national security officials endorse Kamala Harris in open letter. ‘Harris will defend America’s democratic ideals’ & says Trump is ‘unfit to serve’.
40 out of 44 Former Trump Cabinet & Heads of Depts, refuse to endorse Trump.
“TRUMP UNFIT TO SERVE AS PRESIDENT” - In a published letter 700 national security officials endorse Kamala Harris.
“TRUMP UNFIT FOR ANY PUBLIC OFFICE” - In another published open letter, 100 former Advisors to Presidents Reagan, Bush Sr, Clinton, Bush Jr, Obama, and Trump endorsed Kamala Harris.
“TRUMP UNFIT TO SERVE AS PRESIDENT .” List of Republicans who signed a letter saying Trump is a Threat To Our American Democracy 🇺🇸:
Admiral Steve Abbot
USN (Ret.), Deputy Homeland Security Advisor, George W. Bush
Kenneth Adelman Director, Arms Control and Disarmament Agency, Reagan
Dr. Carol C. Adelman Asst. Admin., U.S. Agency for International Development, Reagan
Major General John Barry USAF (Ret.), Military Assistant to the Secretary of Defense
Richard C. Barth Asst. Secretary, Department of Homeland Security, W. Bush
Christopher Barton Director, National Security Council Staff
John Bellinger Legal Adviser, National Security Council, W. Bush
Admiral Kenneth Bernard Special Asst. to W. Bush
Mark E. Bitterman Special Asst. to the Secretary of Defense, H.W. Bush
Robert D. Blackwill Deputy National Security Advisor, W. Bush
William Bodie Asst. to the Secretary of the Air Force, W. Bush
Christian M.L. Bonat Deputy General Counsel, DOD, W. Bush & Obama
Richard Boucher Assistant Secretary of State, W. Bush
Charles W. Boustany, Jr. Former Member of Congress, Louisiana
Charles R. Bowers Ambassador to Bolivia, H.W. Bush
Greg Brower Asst. Director, FBI, Obama & Trump
Christopher Buckley Chief Speechwriter, Office of VP H.W. Bush
James R. Bullington U.S. Ambassador to Burundi, Reagan
Richard Burt U.S. Ambassador to Germany, Reagan
Gahl Hodges Burt Asst. to the Secretary of State, Reagan
Rear Admiral Fred Byus U.S. Navy (Ret.)
Jack C. Chow Deputy Asst. Secretary of State, W. Bush
James W. Cicconi Asst. to the President & Deputy to the Chief of Staff, H. W. Bush
Peggy Cifrino Deputy Chief of Staff to Secretary of State Colin Powell, W. Bush
Eliot A. Cohen Counselor of the Dept. of State, W. Bush
Benedict S. Cohen General Counsel, Dept. of the Army, W. Bush
William Cohen Secretary of Defense, Clinton, & U.S. Senator, Maine
Joseph J. Collins Deputy Asst. Secretary of Defense, W. Bush
Barbara Comstock Former Member of Congress, Virginia
Cindy Courville National Security Affairs for Africa, W. Bush
Chester A. Crocker Assistant Secretary of State, Reagan
Patrick M. Cronin Admin. U.S. Agency for International Development, W. Bush
Stephen W. DeVine Deputy Legal Advisor, National Security Council, W. Bush
Charles Djou Former Member of Congress, Hawaii
Michael Donley Secretary of the Air Force, George W. Bush & Obama
Raymond F. DuBois Secretary of the Army, George W. Bush
Martha E. Duncan Sr Executive Service, DOD, George W. Bush & Obama
Lewis A. Dunn Director, Arms Control and Disarmament Agency, Reagan
Eric S. Edelman Under Secretary of Defense, George W. Bush
Mickey Edwards Member of Congress, Oklahoma
Richard A. Falkenrath Deputy Assistant to the President, George W. Bush
Jendayi E. Frazer Ambassador to South Africa George W. Bush Administration
Aaron L. Friedber Deputy Assistant to George W. Bush
William Gaches Director of Counterterrorism, NSA, George W. Bush
Janice Gardner Assistant Secretary of the Treasury, George W. Bush
Stuart M. Gerson Attorney General of the United States, George W. Bush
James K. Glassman Under Secretary of State, George W. Bush
Jon D. Glassman Deputy National Security Advisor to George H.W. Bush
David Gordon Director, State Dept, Policy Planning, George W. Bush
Sen. Chuck Hagel Secretary of Defense, Obama, and former U.S. Senator, Nebraska
Christopher Hank Deputy Assistant Secretary of State; Reagan,Bush, & Clinton
Mark Harvey Special Assistant to the President, Trump
General Michael V. Hayden Director of the CIA & NSA, Bush & Obama
Carla Hills U.S. Trade Representative, George H.W Bush
Seth Hurwitz Counsel, President's Intelligence Oversight Board, George H.W. Bush
Peter Keisler Attorney General of the U.S., George W. Bush
James A. Kelly Secretary of State, George W. Bush
Adam Kinzinger Former Member of Congress, Illinois
Sofia Kinzinger Deputy Assistant Secretary, Dept. of Homeland Security, Trump
Kenneth J. Krieg Under Secretary of Defense, George W. Bush
James R. Kunder Deputy Administrator, U.S. Agency for International Development, Bush
Brigadier General George Landis, USA, Ret. U.S. Personnel Info Systems Command
Frank Lavin Ambassador to Singapore & Under Secretary of Commerce, George W. Bush
Peter Lichtenbaum
Former Assistant Secretary of Commerce, George W. Bush Administration
Rear Admiral David M. Lichtman, MD, USN (Ret.)
Former Commander, National Naval Medical Center, Bethesda, George H.W. Bush and Clinton Administrations
Winston Lord
Former U.S. Ambassador to China, Reagan and George H.W. Bush Administration
Steven R. Mann
Former Ambassador to Turkmenistan and Former Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary in the State Dept., Clinton and George W. Bush Administrations
Colonel John W. McDonald
Former Deputy Under Secretary of the Army
P. Michael McKinley
Former Ambassador to Peru and Acting Ambassador to the European Union and Mozambique, George W. Bush Administration; Former Ambassador to Peru, Colombia, Afghanistan, and Brazil, Obama Administration
Dan Miller
Former Member of Congress, Florida
John M. Mitnick
Former General Counsel, Dept. of Homeland Security, Trump
Allen Moore
Former Under Secretary of Commerce, Reagan
Alberto Mora
Former General Counsel, U.S. Information Agency, George H.W. Bush; Former General Counsel, Dept. of the Navy, George W. Bush
Kenneth Mortensen
Former Associate Deputy Attorney General, George W. Bush
Vice Admiral Charles L. Munns
U.S. Navy (Ret.), George W. Bush
John D. Negroponte Deputy Secretary of State, George W. Bush
Elizabeth Neumann Assistant Secretary of Homeland Security, Trump
Sean O'Keefe Secretary of the Navy, George H.W. Bush
Bill Paxon Former Member of Congress, New York
William R Piekney CIA Chief of Station, Reagan
Daniel M. Price Deputy NSA Advisor, George W. Bush
Alan Charles Raul Vice Chairman, Civil Liberties Oversight Board, George W. Bush
Victor Reis Director, DARPA, George H.W. Bush
Robert Annan Riley Ambassador to Micronesia, Trump
Paul Rosenzweig Deputy Assistant Secretary of Homeland Security, George W. Bush
Charles Rossotti Deputy Asst. Secretary of Defense; Commissioner of IRS, Clinton & Bush
Nicholas Rostow National Security Council Legal Adviser, Reagan & H.W. Bush
Kori Schake Deputy Director of Policy Planning, State Dept., W. Bush
Wayne A. Schroeder Deputy Under Secretary of Defense, W. Bush
Gregory L. Schulte Sr Director, National Security Council & Atomic Energy Agency, W. Bush
Robert Shanks Deputy Assistant AG, Reagan
Rep. Christopher Shays Former Member of Congress, Connecticut
John Simon Senior Director, National Security Council Staff, W. Bush
Stephen Slick Sr. Director, National Security Council Staff, W. Bush
Mark C. Storella U.S. Ambassador to Zambia, Obama
William H. Taft IV Deputy Secretary of Defense and Ambassador to NATO, W. Bush
Miles Taylor Chief of Staff, Dept. of Homeland Security, Trump
Larry D. Thompson Former Deputy AG, W. Bush
Jack Tomarchio Deputy Under Secretary of Homeland Security, W. Bush
Olivia Troye Special Advisor to VP Pence, Trump
Robert Tuttle U.S. Ambassador to the UK, W. Bush
John K. Veroneau Deputy U.S. Trade Rep. & Assistant Secretary of Defense, W. Bush & Clinton
Colonel Terry Virts, USAF (Ret.)
Former NASA Astronaut, Former Commander of the International Space Station
Dr. Thomas G. Ward, Jr. Director of Threats, Ballistic Missile Defense Org., Reagan & Clinton
Matthew C. Waxman Principal Deputy Director, State Dept Policy Planning, W. Bush
William H. Webster Director of the CIA & FBI, Reagan & H.W. Bush
William F. Weld Assistant Attorney General, Criminal Division, Reagan
J. Robinson West Assistant Secretary of Interior, Reagan
Wendell L. Willkie II General Counsel, Dept. of Commerce, H.W. Bush
Philip Zelikow Counselor of the Dept. of State, W. Bush
Robert B. Zoellick White House Deputy Chief of Staff, George H.W. Bush
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Patriots Only
The cost of Trump’s Golf Trips tops $628,000 to U.S. Tax Payers.
President Trump’s company charged the Secret Service $157,000 more than was previously known — billing taxpayers for rooms at his clubs at rates far higher than his company has claimed, according to a new trove of receipts and billing documents released by the Secret Service. When added to dozens of charges already reported by The Washington Post, the new documents show that Trump’s company has charged the Secret Service more than $628,000 since he took office in 2017.
Yet another Trumpian Lie Exposed.
“If my father travels, they stay at our properties for free — meaning, like, cost for housekeeping,” said Eric Trump, the company’s executive vice president. Later in the interview, he said, “We charge them, like, 50 bucks.” Said Eric Trump.
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Ramix Nudles
Perhaps you either didn’t read 1984 or did not comprehend 1984. Let us together revisit some of the key concepts:
ACCEPTING TWO MUTUALLY CONTRADICTORY BELIEFS AS CORRECT.
*For example, all contradictory news to Trump is fake all complimentary (single source Faux news) is truth.
*Trump has over 20,000 Documented & Sourced lies yet you will not read or debate the information.
*Trump betrayed America by accepting help from Putin yet everyone else is the traitor.
* “BLM is coming for you” yet Rightwing Nuts have killed over 360 Americans in the last 10 years, 7 in the last 2 months, and Jihadists have killed 64, Leftwing Nuts 3, ANTIFA 0.
* Doublespeak - Lies are Alternate Facts, Tax Cuts for the 1% benefit the poor...
MEMORY HOLE: Anything that needed to be wiped from the public record (embarrassing documents, photographs, transcripts) would be sent into the memory hole. For example, that the majority of the South’s Statues were not placed to honor “War Heroes” but to clearly demonstrate to Black people who was in charge - read history of Southern Statues. Also, the Civil War REALLY was about Slavery not “States Rights”. Etc, Etc, Etc...
Thinkpol: a newspeak word to describe the secret police (AKA Faux news), who are responsible for the detection, prosecution, and elimination of unspoken beliefs and doubts that contradict the Party.
* Right now Trump has then quit, fires them, or labels them “Deep State” even though he is The State.
UNPERSON: Someone whose existence has been excised from the public and private memory.
* Everyone who has been indicted committing Trumpian Crimes or those who once supported but now disagree with Trump.
I could go on but hopefully a little of this makes you uncomfortable with Trump.
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Question: "What does the Bible say about a person who is a sociopath / psychopath?"
Answer: The terms sociopath and psychopath do not appear in the Bible. However, the Bible does mention behaviors that are characteristic of sociopathic and psychopathic.
A sociopath or psychopath is identified as one who is characterized by extreme self-centeredness and immaturity, shallow emotions, a lack of empathy and remorse, low tolerance for stress, cold-heartedness, superficial charm, irresponsibility, impulsivity, criminality, a parasitic lifestyle and a desire to manipulate others. A psychopath is one who compulsively performs criminally selfish acts with no apparent conscience or concern about the welfare of his victims.
The above is a perfect description of Trump and Newt. Return to the Lord, repent and turn away from sin and false prophets.
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@ fascisms aka Trumpism
1. often Fascism : a populist political philosophy, movement, or regime (such as that of the Fascisti) that exalts nation and often race above the individual, that is associated with a centralized autocratic government headed by a dictatorial leader, and that is characterized by severe economic and social regimentation and by forcible suppression of opposition
At the core of fascism is loyalty to tribe, ethnic identity, religion, tradition, or, in a word, nation.
—Jason Stanley
There are differences between Italian Fascism, German Nazism, and their various nationalist descendants.
—Josh Jones
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William H. McRaven, a retired Navy admiral, was commander of the U.S. Joint Special Operations Command from 2011 to 2014. He oversaw the 2011 Navy SEAL raid in Pakistan that killed al-Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden. He writes:
Dear Mr. President:
Former CIA director John Brennan, whose security clearance you revoked on Wednesday, is one of the finest public servants I have ever known. Few Americans have done more to protect this country than John. He is a man of unparalleled integrity, whose honesty and character have never been in question, except by those who don’t know him.
Therefore, I would consider it an honor if you would revoke my security clearance as well, so I can add my name to the list of men and women who have spoken up against your presidency.
Like most Americans, I had hoped that when you became president, you would rise to the occasion and become the leader this great nation needs.
A good leader tries to embody the best qualities of his or her organization. A good leader sets the example for others to follow. A good leader always puts the welfare of others before himself or herself.
Your leadership, however, has shown little of these qualities. Through your actions, you have embarrassed us in the eyes of our children, humiliated us on the world stage and, worst of all, divided us as a nation.
If you think for a moment that your McCarthy-era tactics will suppress the voices of criticism, you are sadly mistaken. The criticism will continue until you become the leader we prayed you would be.
NEED WE SAY MORE THAN THIS AMERICAN HERO? STAND UP AND BE COUNTED. VOTE THIS WOULD BE PETTY DICTATOR OUT OF OFFICE.
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TRUMP & HIS MURDEROUS LIES
Trump has reached the milestone of 18,000 lies during his presidency. On the same day he accused the WHO of “covering up the spread of the coronavirus” and failing to “share information in a timely fashion.” He declared he was cutting off funding for the world’s public health body in the middle of a pandemic.
He also called WHO a “tool of China” and floated the theory that WHO deliberately concealed the danger of the virus: “There’s something going on” at the WHO “that’s very bad,” and "I have a feeling they knew exactly what was going on.”
This is a murderous lie as 15 Trump appointed officials were embedded with WHO in Geneva, working full time, hand-in-glove with the organization on the virus from the very first day China disclosed the outbreak to the world, Dec. 31. These Trump officials U.S. officials dedicated 100% of their time to the virus. In the weeks that followed, they and other U.S. government scientists engaged in all major deliberations and decisions at the WHO on the novel coronavirus, had access to all information, and contributed significantly to the world body’s conclusions and recommendations. Everything that WHO knew, Trump knew — in real time. As congressional investigators are now learning, senior Trump administration officials — Health and Human Services Secretary Alex Azar; the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s Robert R. Redfield Jr., Anne Schuchat, Ray R. Arthur and Jeffrey McFarland; the National Institutes of Health’s Anthony S. Fauci and H. Clifford Lane, and many others — consulted with the WHO throughout the crisis.
Trump lied and Americans Died - 33,500+ & Counting.
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DEMOCRACY IS IN DECLINE AROUND THE WORLD - AND TRUMP IS PART OF THE PROBLEM.
The Freedom House Annual report on the health of global democracy warned of its decline. In its survey evaluating 195 countries and 15 territories, Freedom House, a nongovernmental, nonpartisan advocacy organization established in 1941, found that political freedoms and civil liberties across the world are backsliding more often than they are improving.
“Democracy is under assault,” read the opening sentence of its report, written by Sarah Repucci. “Dictators are toiling to stamp out the last vestiges of domestic dissent and spread their harmful influence to new corners of the world.”
The usual suspects remain among the worst offenders. Freedom House decried China for its “totalitarian offensive” in Xinjiang and other campaigns of repression, and it warned of Beijing’s “relentless campaign to replace existing international norms with its own authoritarian vision.” It pointed to Russia’s “stage-managed elections” in 2019, in which the genuine opposition was largely shut out. Iran’s leadership, even as it sowed “discord” in neighboring countries, deployed security forces that used live ammunition to crush demonstrations last fall, killing hundreds of people.
But perhaps more disquieting is the steady erosion seen in “established democracies,” more than two dozen of which have seen net losses in their democracy rankings.
“Many freely elected leaders are dramatically narrowing their concerns to a blinkered interpretation of the national interest,” wrote Repucci. “In fact, such leaders — including the chief executives of the United States and India, the world’s two largest democracies — are increasingly willing to break down institutional safeguards and disregard the rights of critics and minorities as they pursue their populist agendas.”
President Trump is a key part of this story. Freedom House’s report, titled “A Leaderless Struggle for Democracy,” highlighted the “pressure” Trump is exerting “on electoral integrity, judicial independence, and safeguards against corruption” in the United States.
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Trump Lies, Again, and Again, and Again...
“Saudi Arabia is paying for 100 percent of the cost, including the cost of our soldiers. The negotiation took a very short time — like, maybe, about 35 seconds.”
The Truth:
What caught our attention is that the president claims that Saudi Arabia will pay all of the costs — “100 percent” — of the deployment, including “the cost of our soldiers.” Some critics have charged that Trump is turning U.S. troops into mercenaries, available to the highest bidder. Since the president has a long history of inflating what he has supposedly negotiated, we thought we would investigate.
Notice that Trump claims he negotiated this deal in a “very short time — like, maybe, about 35 seconds.” In previous White Houses we have covered, such a stunning act of negotiation would be accompanied by readouts by presidential aides, eager to explain how such a coup came about.
But, in this case, just crickets from the White House, except for the bragging by the president himself. White House officials would not explain what Trump meant.
So, we checked with the Pentagon for more details on the supposed payment arrangement. Officials at the Defense Department deflected our inquiry, telling us to contact the State Department.
Hmmm, experience has taught us that this is a sign that any such deal is still under negotiation. Otherwise, the Pentagon would have been happy to discuss it.
Sure enough, we ended up with a carefully crafted statement from State that certainly reinforced that impression.
The core of the statement, attributed to a State Department spokesman, said: “While we will not comment on specific bilateral defense agreements, more broadly the United States encourages burden-sharing among partners in support of shared security interests, to include defense of the Arabian Gulf.”
Notice the “encourages burden-sharing” language. That certainly sounds like an aspiration, not a negotiated outcome. And the State Department won’t comment on a “specific bilateral defense agreement” even though the president is talking about it? That doesn’t make much sense.
We checked with the relevant committees in the House and the Senate — Defense, Foreign Affairs and Appropriations — and none could report an understanding of the president’s claim. The Saudi Embassy did not respond with an explanation, either.
When NBC News reported in July that U.S. troops were being dispatched to Prince Sultan Air Base, it quoted unnamed U.S. officials as saying that “Saudi Arabia has already agreed to pay some of the costs associated with having U.S. personnel and assets there.”
“Some” is clearly much less than 100 percent.
Neither the Pentagon nor the State Department would comment on that language, each telling The Fact Checker to discuss it with the other agency.
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“I no longer recognize my party”
Why Hundreds of Thousands of Republicans Are Leaving the Crazed Party
Voting registration data indicates a strong and unusual flight from the G.O.P. since the Capitol riot, with an intensely fluid period in American politics now underway.
In the days and weeks after the storming of the Capitol by Trump supporters on Jan. 6, hundreds of thousands of Republicans left the party. After the Jan. 6 attack on the Capitol, the phone lines and websites of local election officials across the country were jumping: Tens of thousands of Republicans were calling or logging on to switch their party affiliations.
In California, more than 33,000 registered Republicans left the party during the three weeks after the Washington riot. In Pennsylvania, more than 12,000 voters left the G.O.P. in the past month, and more than 10,000 Republicans changed their registration in Arizona.
An analysis of January voting records found that nearly 140,000 Republicans had quit the party in 25 states that had readily available data (19 states do not have registration by party). Voting experts say this is the start of a particularly damaging period for G.O.P. registrations as voters recoil from the Capitol violence and its fallout.
Among those who recently left the party are Juan Nunez, 56, an Army veteran in Mechanicsburg, Pa. He said he had long felt that the difference between the United States and many other countries was that campaign-season fighting ended on Election Day, when all sides would peacefully accept the result. The Jan. 6 riot changed that, he said.
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@ Yet another Criminal who has Maga Support. TRUMP & MAGA 💕 CONVICTED CRIMINALS: Roger Stone, Steve Bannon, Michael Flynn, Paul Manafort, Ross Ulbricht, Eric Adams, Rod Blagojevich, Charles Kushner, Elliott Broidy, Kwame Kilpatrick, Sholam Weiss, Salomon E. Melgen, Paul Erickson, Eliyahu Weinstein, Nicholas Slatten, Conrad Black, Dinesh D’Souza, etc…
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@ TRUMP LOVES CRIMINALS: Roger Stone, Steve Bannon, Michael Flynn, Paul Manafort, Ross Ulbricht, Eric Adams, Rod Blagojevich, Charles Kushner, Elliott Broidy, Kwame Kilpatrick, Sholam Weiss, Salomon E. Melgen, Paul Erickson, Eliyahu Weinstein, Nicholas Slatten, Conrad Black, Dinesh D’Souza, etc…
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@fishtexas5548 LIST OF 16 MEMBERS OF CONGRESS WHO COMMITTED TREASON:
Rep. Scott Perry, R-Pa.
Rep. Jim Jordan, R-Ohio
Rep. Mo Brooks, R-Ala.
Rep. Louie Gohmert, R-Texas
Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene, R-Ga.
Rep. Andy Biggs, R-Ariz.
Rep. Paul Gosar, R-Ariz.
Rep. Matt Gaetz, R-Fla.
Rep. Lauren Boebert, R-Colo.
Rep. Andy Harris, R-Md.
Rep. Madison Cawthorn, R-N.C.
Rep. Brian Babin, R-Texas
Sen. Lindsey Graham, R-S.C.
Sen. Ron Johnson, R-Wis.
Sen. Mike Lee, R-Utah
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@februaryspring-z2k Trump is a liar, cheat, adulterer, criminal, a Russian Collaborator, and Evil. Trump is Grotesque, narcissistic, and sociopathic. Trump is Treasonous to our Country 🇺🇸, Allie’s, has Contempt for Women, and is utterly morally bankrupt. Trump has no loyalty to our Republic 🇺🇸, our Constitution, and our Rule of Law.
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@earnesttbass8107 By the way, nobody talks about Communism, it is an Old & Widely Discredited Idea. However, Trumpian Neo Nazism is on the rise. Text Book Definition of Nazism/Fascism: A Far Right Cult ideology that embraces Authoritarianism, Racism, Xenophobia, Homophobia, AntiSemitism, The Big Lie - große Lüge, and rallying myth such as The Stab In The Back - Dolchstoßlegende, [FOR Trump’s Updated version substitute The “Stolen” Election].
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@earnesttbass8107 Did you get all your advice from Trump on COVID? The “Jenius” Of DJT ~ “So, supposing we hit the body with a tremendous — whether it’s ultraviolet or just very powerful light — and I think you said that that hasn’t been tried, but you’re going to test it. And then I said, supposing you brought the light inside the body, which you can do either through the skin or in some other way, and I think you said you’re going to test that, too. It sounds interesting. And then I see the disinfectant, where it knocks it out in a minute. One minute. And is there a way we can do something like that, by injection inside or almost a cleaning. Because you see it gets in the lungs, and it does a tremendous number on the lungs. So it would be interesting to check that, maybe check that out”. 😂😂😂
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@annrn6148 According to the Treaty,[6] Russia, the US and the UK confirmed their recognition of Belarus, Kazakhstan and Ukraine becoming parties to the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons and effectively removing all Soviet nuclear weapons from their soil, and that they agreed to the following:
Respect the signatory's independence and sovereignty in the existing borders (in accordance with the principles of the CSCE Final Act).[7]
Refrain from the threat or use of force against the territorial integrity or political independence of the signatories to the memorandum, and undertake that none of their weapons will ever be used against these countries, except in cases of self-defense or otherwise in accordance with the Charter of the United Nations.
Refrain from economic coercion designed to subordinate to their own interest the exercise by Ukraine, the Republic of Belarus and Kazakhstan of the rights inherent in its sovereignty and thus to secure advantages of any kind.
Seek immediate Security Council action to provide assistance to the signatory if they "should become a victim of an act of aggression or an object of a threat of aggression in which nuclear weapons are used".
Not to use nuclear weapons against any non–nuclear-weapon state party to the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons, except in the case of an attack on themselves, their territories or dependent territories, their armed forces, or their allies, by such a state in association or alliance with a nuclear weapon state.[5]: 169–171 [8][9]
Consult with one another if questions arise regarding those commitments.[10][11]
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@ TRUMP 💕 Convicted CRIMINALS: Roger Stone, Steve Bannon, Michael Flynn, Paul Manafort, Ross Ulbricht, Eric Adams, Rod Blagojevich, Charles Kushner, Elliott Broidy, Kwame Kilpatrick, Sholam Weiss, Salomon E. Melgen, Paul Erickson, Eliyahu Weinstein, Nicholas Slatten, Conrad Black, Dinesh D’Souza, etc…
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@Ooops.0 And on the eighth day, God looked down on his planned paradise and said, "I need a man to test the will and goodness of a free people."
So God made Trump.
God said, "I need a man who failed in everything but theft and broken promises to live in a golden palace and convince the poor he serves their needs."
So God made Trump.
God said, "I need a wicked man to lead the common folk with hatred and fear."
So God made a Trump.
God said, "I need a corrupt man who is above the law and immune from justice."
So God made Trump.
God said, "I need a man who will use violence to seize power."
So God made Trump.
God said, "I need a man whose followers will call black white, call evil good and call criminals hostages."
So God made Trump.
God said, "I need his political party to obey without question and the press fear his wrath."
So God made Trump.
God said, "I need a cruel man who uses his power and position to punish and harm his opposition."
So God made Trump.
God said, "I need a man who breaks the faith of even his most godly followers and leads them to idolatry, place him above Me."
So God made Trump.
And then God said, "I sent Trump to test you and until you cast him down you have failed."
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@JerryEskridge-rx6mf
“TRUMP UNFIT TO SERVE AS PRESIDENT & A THREAT TO OUR AMERICAN DEMOCRACY” - In a published open letter, 700 former Republican National Security Advisors.
Admiral Steve Abbot
USN (Ret.), Deputy Homeland Security Advisor, George W. Bush
Kenneth Adelman Director, Arms Control and Disarmament Agency, Reagan
Dr. Carol C. Adelman Asst. Admin., U.S. Agency for International Development, Reagan
Major General John Barry USAF (Ret.), Military Assistant to the Secretary of Defense
Richard C. Barth Asst. Secretary, Department of Homeland Security, W. Bush
Christopher Barton Director, National Security Council Staff
John Bellinger Legal Adviser, National Security Council, W. Bush
Admiral Kenneth Bernard Special Asst. to W. Bush
Mark E. Bitterman Special Asst. to the Secretary of Defense, H.W. Bush
Robert D. Blackwill Deputy National Security Advisor, W. Bush
William Bodie Asst. to the Secretary of the Air Force, W. Bush
Christian M.L. Bonat Deputy General Counsel, DOD, W. Bush & Obama
Richard Boucher Assistant Secretary of State, W. Bush
Charles W. Boustany, Jr. Former Member of Congress, Louisiana
Charles R. Bowers Ambassador to Bolivia, H.W. Bush
Greg Brower Asst. Director, FBI, Obama & Trump
Christopher Buckley Chief Speechwriter, Office of VP H.W. Bush
James R. Bullington U.S. Ambassador to Burundi, Reagan
Richard Burt U.S. Ambassador to Germany, Reagan
Gahl Hodges Burt Asst. to the Secretary of State, Reagan
Rear Admiral Fred Byus U.S. Navy (Ret.)
Jack C. Chow Deputy Asst. Secretary of State, W. Bush
James W. Cicconi Asst. to the President & Deputy to the Chief of Staff, H. W. Bush
Peggy Cifrino Deputy Chief of Staff to Secretary of State Colin Powell, W. Bush
Eliot A. Cohen Counselor of the Dept. of State, W. Bush
Benedict S. Cohen General Counsel, Dept. of the Army, W. Bush
William Cohen Secretary of Defense, Clinton, & U.S. Senator, Maine
Joseph J. Collins Deputy Asst. Secretary of Defense, W. Bush
Barbara Comstock Former Member of Congress, Virginia
Cindy Courville National Security Affairs for Africa, W. Bush
Chester A. Crocker Assistant Secretary of State, Reagan
Patrick M. Cronin Admin. U.S. Agency for International Development, W. Bush
Stephen W. DeVine Deputy Legal Advisor, National Security Council, W. Bush
Charles Djou Former Member of Congress, Hawaii
Michael Donley Secretary of the Air Force, George W. Bush & Obama
Raymond F. DuBois Secretary of the Army, George W. Bush
Martha E. Duncan Sr Executive Service, DOD, George W. Bush & Obama
Lewis A. Dunn Director, Arms Control and Disarmament Agency, Reagan
Eric S. Edelman Under Secretary of Defense, George W. Bush
Mickey Edwards Member of Congress, Oklahoma
Richard A. Falkenrath Deputy Assistant to the President, George W. Bush
Jendayi E. Frazer Ambassador to South Africa George W. Bush Administration
Aaron L. Friedber Deputy Assistant to George W. Bush
William Gaches Director of Counterterrorism, NSA, George W. Bush
Janice Gardner Assistant Secretary of the Treasury, George W. Bush
Stuart M. Gerson Attorney General of the United States, George W. Bush
James K. Glassman Under Secretary of State, George W. Bush
Jon D. Glassman Deputy National Security Advisor to George H.W. Bush
David Gordon Director, State Dept, Policy Planning, George W. Bush
Sen. Chuck Hagel Secretary of Defense, Obama, and former U.S. Senator, Nebraska
Christopher Hank Deputy Assistant Secretary of State; Reagan,Bush, & Clinton
Mark Harvey Special Assistant to the President, Trump
General Michael V. Hayden Director of the CIA & NSA, Bush & Obama
Carla Hills U.S. Trade Representative, George H.W Bush
Seth Hurwitz Counsel, President's Intelligence Oversight Board, George H.W. Bush
Peter Keisler Attorney General of the U.S., George W. Bush
James A. Kelly Secretary of State, George W. Bush
Adam Kinzinger Former Member of Congress, Illinois
Sofia Kinzinger Deputy Assistant Secretary, Dept. of Homeland Security, Trump
Kenneth J. Krieg Under Secretary of Defense, George W. Bush
James R. Kunder Deputy Administrator, U.S. Agency for International Development, Bush
Brigadier General George Landis, USA, Ret. U.S. Personnel Info Systems Command
Frank Lavin Ambassador to Singapore & Under Secretary of Commerce, George W. Bush
Peter Lichtenbaum
Former Assistant Secretary of Commerce, George W. Bush Administration
Rear Admiral David M. Lichtman, MD, USN (Ret.)
Former Commander, National Naval Medical Center, Bethesda, George H.W. Bush and Clinton Administrations
Winston Lord
Former U.S. Ambassador to China, Reagan and George H.W. Bush Administration
Steven R. Mann
Former Ambassador to Turkmenistan and Former Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary in the State Dept., Clinton and George W. Bush Administrations
Colonel John W. McDonald
Former Deputy Under Secretary of the Army
P. Michael McKinley
Former Ambassador to Peru and Acting Ambassador to the European Union and Mozambique, George W. Bush Administration; Former Ambassador to Peru, Colombia, Afghanistan, and Brazil, Obama Administration
Dan Miller
Former Member of Congress, Florida
John M. Mitnick
Former General Counsel, Dept. of Homeland Security, Trump
Allen Moore
Former Under Secretary of Commerce, Reagan
Alberto Mora
Former General Counsel, U.S. Information Agency, George H.W. Bush; Former General Counsel, Dept. of the Navy, George W. Bush
Kenneth Mortensen
Former Associate Deputy Attorney General, George W. Bush
Vice Admiral Charles L. Munns
U.S. Navy (Ret.), George W. Bush
John D. Negroponte Deputy Secretary of State, George W. Bush
Elizabeth Neumann Assistant Secretary of Homeland Security, Trump
Sean O'Keefe Secretary of the Navy, George H.W. Bush
Bill Paxon Former Member of Congress, New York
William R Piekney CIA Chief of Station, Reagan
Daniel M. Price Deputy NSA Advisor, George W. Bush
Alan Charles Raul Vice Chairman, Civil Liberties Oversight Board, George W. Bush
Victor Reis Director, DARPA, George H.W. Bush
Robert Annan Riley Ambassador to Micronesia, Trump
Paul Rosenzweig Deputy Assistant Secretary of Homeland Security, George W. Bush
Charles Rossotti Deputy Asst. Secretary of Defense; Commissioner of IRS, Clinton & Bush
Nicholas Rostow National Security Council Legal Adviser, Reagan & H.W. Bush
Kori Schake Deputy Director of Policy Planning, State Dept., W. Bush
Wayne A. Schroeder Deputy Under Secretary of Defense, W. Bush
Gregory L. Schulte Sr Director, National Security Council & Atomic Energy Agency, W. Bush
Robert Shanks Deputy Assistant AG, Reagan
Rep. Christopher Shays Former Member of Congress, Connecticut
John Simon Senior Director, National Security Council Staff, W. Bush
Stephen Slick Sr. Director, National Security Council Staff, W. Bush
Mark C. Storella U.S. Ambassador to Zambia, Obama
William H. Taft IV Deputy Secretary of Defense and Ambassador to NATO, W. Bush
Miles Taylor Chief of Staff, Dept. of Homeland Security, Trump
Larry D. Thompson Former Deputy AG, W. Bush
Jack Tomarchio Deputy Under Secretary of Homeland Security, W. Bush
Olivia Troye Special Advisor to VP Pence, Trump
Robert Tuttle U.S. Ambassador to the UK, W. Bush
John K. Veroneau Deputy U.S. Trade Rep. & Assistant Secretary of Defense, W. Bush & Clinton
Colonel Terry Virts, USAF (Ret.)
Former NASA Astronaut, Former Commander of the International Space Station
Dr. Thomas G. Ward, Jr. Director of Threats, Ballistic Missile Defense Org., Reagan & Clinton
Matthew C. Waxman Principal Deputy Director, State Dept Policy Planning, W. Bush
William H. Webster Director of the CIA & FBI, Reagan & H.W. Bush
William F. Weld Assistant Attorney General, Criminal Division, Reagan
J. Robinson West Assistant Secretary of Interior, Reagan
Wendell L. Willkie II General Counsel, Dept. of Commerce, H.W. Bush
Philip Zelikow Counselor of the Dept. of State, W. Bush
Robert B. Zoellick White House Deputy Chief of Staff, George H.W. Bush
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@brandon3525 In a published open letter, 700 former Republican National Security Advisors stated - “TRUMP IS A THREAT TO OUR AMERICAN DEMOCRACY”:
Admiral Steve Abbot
USN (Ret.), Deputy Homeland Security Advisor, George W. Bush
Kenneth Adelman Director, Arms Control and Disarmament Agency, Reagan
Dr. Carol C. Adelman Asst. Admin., U.S. Agency for International Development, Reagan
Major General John Barry USAF (Ret.), Military Assistant to the Secretary of Defense
Richard C. Barth Asst. Secretary, Department of Homeland Security, W. Bush
Christopher Barton Director, National Security Council Staff
John Bellinger Legal Adviser, National Security Council, W. Bush
Admiral Kenneth Bernard Special Asst. to W. Bush
Mark E. Bitterman Special Asst. to the Secretary of Defense, H.W. Bush
Robert D. Blackwill Deputy National Security Advisor, W. Bush
William Bodie Asst. to the Secretary of the Air Force, W. Bush
Christian M.L. Bonat Deputy General Counsel, DOD, W. Bush & Obama
Richard Boucher Assistant Secretary of State, W. Bush
Charles W. Boustany, Jr. Former Member of Congress, Louisiana
Charles R. Bowers Ambassador to Bolivia, H.W. Bush
Greg Brower Asst. Director, FBI, Obama & Trump
Christopher Buckley Chief Speechwriter, Office of VP H.W. Bush
James R. Bullington U.S. Ambassador to Burundi, Reagan
Richard Burt U.S. Ambassador to Germany, Reagan
Gahl Hodges Burt Asst. to the Secretary of State, Reagan
Rear Admiral Fred Byus U.S. Navy (Ret.)
Jack C. Chow Deputy Asst. Secretary of State, W. Bush
James W. Cicconi Asst. to the President & Deputy to the Chief of Staff, H. W. Bush
Peggy Cifrino Deputy Chief of Staff to Secretary of State Colin Powell, W. Bush
Eliot A. Cohen Counselor of the Dept. of State, W. Bush
Benedict S. Cohen General Counsel, Dept. of the Army, W. Bush
William Cohen Secretary of Defense, Clinton, & U.S. Senator, Maine
Joseph J. Collins Deputy Asst. Secretary of Defense, W. Bush
Barbara Comstock Former Member of Congress, Virginia
Cindy Courville National Security Affairs for Africa, W. Bush
Chester A. Crocker Assistant Secretary of State, Reagan
Patrick M. Cronin Admin. U.S. Agency for International Development, W. Bush
Stephen W. DeVine Deputy Legal Advisor, National Security Council, W. Bush
Charles Djou Former Member of Congress, Hawaii
Michael Donley Secretary of the Air Force, George W. Bush & Obama
Raymond F. DuBois Secretary of the Army, George W. Bush
Martha E. Duncan Sr Executive Service, DOD, George W. Bush & Obama
Lewis A. Dunn Director, Arms Control and Disarmament Agency, Reagan
Eric S. Edelman Under Secretary of Defense, George W. Bush
Mickey Edwards Member of Congress, Oklahoma
Richard A. Falkenrath Deputy Assistant to the President, George W. Bush
Jendayi E. Frazer Ambassador to South Africa George W. Bush Administration
Aaron L. Friedber Deputy Assistant to George W. Bush
William Gaches Director of Counterterrorism, NSA, George W. Bush
Janice Gardner Assistant Secretary of the Treasury, George W. Bush
Stuart M. Gerson Attorney General of the United States, George W. Bush
James K. Glassman Under Secretary of State, George W. Bush
Jon D. Glassman Deputy National Security Advisor to George H.W. Bush
David Gordon Director, State Dept, Policy Planning, George W. Bush
Sen. Chuck Hagel Secretary of Defense, Obama, and former U.S. Senator, Nebraska
Christopher Hank Deputy Assistant Secretary of State; Reagan,Bush, & Clinton
Mark Harvey Special Assistant to the President, Trump
General Michael V. Hayden Director of the CIA & NSA, Bush & Obama
Carla Hills U.S. Trade Representative, George H.W Bush
Seth Hurwitz Counsel, President's Intelligence Oversight Board, George H.W. Bush
Peter Keisler Attorney General of the U.S., George W. Bush
James A. Kelly Secretary of State, George W. Bush
Adam Kinzinger Former Member of Congress, Illinois
Sofia Kinzinger Deputy Assistant Secretary, Dept. of Homeland Security, Trump
Kenneth J. Krieg Under Secretary of Defense, George W. Bush
James R. Kunder Deputy Administrator, U.S. Agency for International Development, Bush
Brigadier General George Landis, USA, Ret. U.S. Personnel Info Systems Command
Frank Lavin Ambassador to Singapore & Under Secretary of Commerce, George W. Bush
Peter Lichtenbaum
Former Assistant Secretary of Commerce, George W. Bush Administration
Rear Admiral David M. Lichtman, MD, USN (Ret.)
Former Commander, National Naval Medical Center, Bethesda, George H.W. Bush and Clinton Administrations
Winston Lord
Former U.S. Ambassador to China, Reagan and George H.W. Bush Administration
Steven R. Mann
Former Ambassador to Turkmenistan and Former Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary in the State Dept., Clinton and George W. Bush Administrations
Colonel John W. McDonald
Former Deputy Under Secretary of the Army
P. Michael McKinley
Former Ambassador to Peru and Acting Ambassador to the European Union and Mozambique, George W. Bush Administration; Former Ambassador to Peru, Colombia, Afghanistan, and Brazil, Obama Administration
Dan Miller
Former Member of Congress, Florida
John M. Mitnick
Former General Counsel, Dept. of Homeland Security, Trump
Allen Moore
Former Under Secretary of Commerce, Reagan
Alberto Mora
Former General Counsel, U.S. Information Agency, George H.W. Bush; Former General Counsel, Dept. of the Navy, George W. Bush
Kenneth Mortensen
Former Associate Deputy Attorney General, George W. Bush
Vice Admiral Charles L. Munns
U.S. Navy (Ret.), George W. Bush
John D. Negroponte Deputy Secretary of State, George W. Bush
Elizabeth Neumann Assistant Secretary of Homeland Security, Trump
Sean O'Keefe Secretary of the Navy, George H.W. Bush
Bill Paxon Former Member of Congress, New York
William R Piekney CIA Chief of Station, Reagan
Daniel M. Price Deputy NSA Advisor, George W. Bush
Alan Charles Raul Vice Chairman, Civil Liberties Oversight Board, George W. Bush
Victor Reis Director, DARPA, George H.W. Bush
Robert Annan Riley Ambassador to Micronesia, Trump
Paul Rosenzweig Deputy Assistant Secretary of Homeland Security, George W. Bush
Charles Rossotti Deputy Asst. Secretary of Defense; Commissioner of IRS, Clinton & Bush
Nicholas Rostow National Security Council Legal Adviser, Reagan & H.W. Bush
Kori Schake Deputy Director of Policy Planning, State Dept., W. Bush
Wayne A. Schroeder Deputy Under Secretary of Defense, W. Bush
Gregory L. Schulte Sr Director, National Security Council & Atomic Energy Agency, W. Bush
Robert Shanks Deputy Assistant AG, Reagan
Rep. Christopher Shays Former Member of Congress, Connecticut
John Simon Senior Director, National Security Council Staff, W. Bush
Stephen Slick Sr. Director, National Security Council Staff, W. Bush
Mark C. Storella U.S. Ambassador to Zambia, Obama
William H. Taft IV Deputy Secretary of Defense and Ambassador to NATO, W. Bush
Miles Taylor Chief of Staff, Dept. of Homeland Security, Trump
Larry D. Thompson Former Deputy AG, W. Bush
Jack Tomarchio Deputy Under Secretary of Homeland Security, W. Bush
Olivia Troye Special Advisor to VP Pence, Trump
Robert Tuttle U.S. Ambassador to the UK, W. Bush
John K. Veroneau Deputy U.S. Trade Rep. & Assistant Secretary of Defense, W. Bush & Clinton
Colonel Terry Virts, USAF (Ret.)
Former NASA Astronaut, Former Commander of the International Space Station
Dr. Thomas G. Ward, Jr. Director of Threats, Ballistic Missile Defense Org., Reagan & Clinton
Matthew C. Waxman Principal Deputy Director, State Dept Policy Planning, W. Bush
William H. Webster Director of the CIA & FBI, Reagan & H.W. Bush
William F. Weld Assistant Attorney General, Criminal Division, Reagan
J. Robinson West Assistant Secretary of Interior, Reagan
Wendell L. Willkie II General Counsel, Dept. of Commerce, H.W. Bush
Philip Zelikow Counselor of the Dept. of State, W. Bush
Robert B. Zoellick White House Deputy Chief of Staff, George H.W. Bush
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@raelynnwagner742 TRUMP ❤❤❤ CRIMINALS: Roger Stone, Steve Bannon, Michael Flynn, Paul Manafort, Ross Ulbricht, Eric Adams, Rod Blagojevich, Charles Kushner, Elliott Broidy, Kwame Kilpatrick, Sholam Weiss, Salomon E. Melgen, Paul Erickson, Eliyahu Weinstein, Nicholas Slatten, Conrad Black, Dinesh D’Souza, etc…
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The Ultra Conservative New York Post gave Trump a blistering rebuke demanding that he grow up and accept his loss to President-elect Joe Biden and stop falsely claiming that mass voter fraud had marred the results — an effort the paper labeled a “dark charade.”
“We understand, Mr. President, that you’re angry that you lost,” the editorial board wrote. “But to continue down this road is treasonous.”
Under the headline “Stop the insanity,” the conservative tabloid took particular aim at Trump’s attempts to pressure Vice President Pence and congressional Republicans to somehow Throwout the result when they meet on Jan. 6 to certify Biden’s electoral college victory.
“You have tweeted that, as long as Republicans have ‘courage,’ they can overturn the results and give you four more years in office,” the Post wrote. “In other words, you’re cheering for an undemocratic coup.”
The article also reminded Trump that he had clearly failed in his attempts to prove voter fraud propelled Biden to victory.
“You had every right to investigate the election. But let’s be clear: Those efforts have found nothing,” the Post wrote, noting that Trump-backed recounts in Wisconsin and Georgia had turned up no evidence of malfeasance.
The editorial also lashed out at Sidney Powell, whose “Kraken” lawsuits seeking to overturn the election results have repeatedly been tossed out of court, and Michael Flynn, the former national security adviser who has floated the idea of declaring martial law to keep Trump in power.
“Michael Flynn suggesting martial law is tantamount to treason. It is shameful.”
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It’s hard to give an Intelligence Briefing to a Moron when you are limited to 1 page, pictures, and a single crayon. During briefings the president constantly veers off on tangents. He has a short attention span and rarely, if ever, reads intelligence reports, relying instead on conservative media and his friends for information. He frequently interrupts Intell Officers and will riff based on tips or gossip he hears from the former casino magnate Steve Wynn, the retired golfer Gary Player or Christopher Ruddy, the conservative media executive.
Mr. Trump rarely absorbs information that he disagrees with or that runs counter to his worldview. Briefing him has been so great a challenge compared with his predecessors that the intelligence agencies have hired outside consultants to study how better to get his attention and keep it during briefings.
Working to keep Mr. Trump’s interest exhausted and burned out his first briefer, Ted Gistaro, two former officials said. Mr. Gistaro did not always know what to expect and would sometimes have to brief an erratic and angry president upset over news reports, the officials said
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@MrEkzotic The judge,his wife, his daughter, the jury, the prosecutor, etc… And his Crazy Cult followers have made Threats, to judges, family members, jurors, public officials, and anyone Trump singles out for harassment. Maga Cult members can be very dangerous. ✌️🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸✌️
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Interesting. The news attached is dramatically different about his testimony. Faux trying to put a happy face on a bad situation?
White House official corroborates diplomat’s account that Trump appeared to seek quid pro quo
Timothy Morrison, a deputy to John Bolton when he served as President Trump’s national security adviser, arrived for his closed-door deposition on Oct. 31. (Reuters)
By Carol D. Leonnig, John Hudson, Karoun Demirjian and Rachael Bade
October 31 at 4:01 PM MT
A White House adviser on Thursday corroborated key impeachment testimony from a senior U.S. diplomat who said last week he was alarmed by efforts to pressure the Ukrainian government to investigate President Trump’s political rivals in exchange for nearly $400 million in military aid.
Tim Morrison, the top Russia and Europe adviser on President Trump’s National Security Council, told House investigators over eight hours of closed-door testimony that the “substance” of his conversations recalled by William B. Taylor Jr., the acting ambassador to Ukraine, was “accurate,” according to his prepared remarks and people familiar with Morrison’s testimony.
In particular, Morrison verified that Trump’s envoy to the European Union, Gordon Sondland, conveyed to a Ukrainian official that the military aid would be released if the country investigated an energy firm linked to the son of former vice president Joe Biden. Morrison, who announced his resignation the night before his testimony, said he did not necessarily view the president’s demands as improper or illegal, but rather problematic for U.S. policy in supporting an ally in the region.
His testimony is significant given his proximity to decision-making in the White House and his status as a Trump political appointee rather than one of several career officials who in recent weeks have offered critical testimonies of Trump’s Ukraine policy. Democrats hope Morrison’s testimony will take away an often-cited Republican complaint that many of the accounts from U.S. officials describing a quid pro quo are secondhand.
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Frederick Zaugg
THE PLOT TO BETRAY AMERICA
How Russia saw Trump: ‘A potential asset and an exploitable victim’
‘Wow,” Michael McFaul, a former U.S. ambassador to Moscow, exclaimed on Twitter in late October. “We still need to understand why Trump remains so intent on appeasing Putin.”
What set off McFaul was testimony from a top State Department official that “senior officials in the White House” had blocked the department from condemning Moscow for attacking Ukrainian ships in the Azov Sea. And on that day it was telling that even McFaul, a Kremlin-watcher for nearly 40 years, was struggling to put his finger on exactly what had driven the president of the United States into the Russian strongman’s arms, tugging the Republican Party along with him.
Trump’s affinity for Vladimir Putin seemed to glow red during a now-notorious 2018 Helsinki news conference when he sided with the former KGB agent’s denials of election interference over U.S. intelligence agencies’ findings. But so much else has erupted before and since, from revelations that he was secretly pursuing a Moscow hotel deal during the 2016 campaign, to exposés of his business relations with Russian oligarchs, to his continuing criticism of the NATO alliance, to his acquiescence to Russian troops taking over abandoned U.S. bases in Syria, to his pressure on Ukraine’s president to say publicly that Kyiv, not Moscow, had hacked the computers of the Democratic National Committee.
Why do once-loyal men go bad? Mole hunters have an acronym for it: MICE, which stands for money, ideology, coercion/compromise and ego/excitement. Trump qualifies for three out of four, in the telling of Nance (and many others who’ve long followed Trump’s career), that explain his attachment to Moscow. Ideology’s not one of them, notwithstanding Trump’s crude nationalist populism that in many ways apes Putin’s kleptocratic rule. According to New York state records revealed by the Smoking Gun, he changed party registrations at least five times over the years.
His first wife, Ivana, a native of communist Czechoslovakia, whose Moscow-controlled spy service, the StB, had long counted her father as an informant. Her 1977 marriage to Trump had prompted the Czechs to open a dossier on him. “We knew that Trump was influential. He didn’t hide that he wanted to become president one day,” the StB’s then-chief said years later. “We were interested in learning more things about him.”
Especially his weaknesses. In Trump, they found two, a hunger for money and a raging ego, not to mention a lust for beautiful women. They began dangling opportunities — the Miss Universe contest, Trump Tower Moscow. They treated him like a potentate, affording him the bedroom suite reserved for princes and presidents at the Moscow Ritz-Carlton. Then, in the wake of Trump’s Atlantic City bankruptcies, Trump found new sources of cash from Russian sources, including the Kremlin-connected Deutsche Bank, Russian oligarchs who bought luxury condos in Trump Tower and “New York City allies from the former Soviet Union” who partnered with him in real estate deals from SoHo to Baku. One of them, Felix Sater, would eventually be accused of laundering hundreds of millions of dollars stolen from a Kazakhstan bank “to develop a Trump Tower in Moscow,” according to a lawsuit reported by the Associated Press.
That Trump wanted the details of his financial sources kept secret (along with his tax returns) was all the better, Nance notes: It gave Putin a better hold on him, a tool for coercion.
From the beginning, Russia had used “the MICE strategy to bring him under its sway, as his interest in Russia clearly blinded him,” Nance theorizes. “He was a potential asset and an exploitable victim worth keeping.”
Judging by his Russia-related decisions and pronouncements, the strategy has worked. Trump has dismissed Moscow’s subversion of American politics and pursued debunked conspiracy theories tying Ukraine to Hillary Clinton’s campaign. Equally important to Moscow’s strategic goals, he’s disparaged NATO and, by championing Brexit, undermined the European Union.
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TRUMP HAS STILL GOT IT, A VIRTUAL “JENIUS”
Trump appeared on Fox News with Laura Ingraham on Wednesday night shortly after Russia announced that it would attack Ukraine.
Midway through the interview, Laura Ingraham said, “we are just got word from that U.S. officials are looking at a potential amphibious landing now in Odessa, Ukraine.”
“Well, I think the whole thing, again, would have never happened. It shouldn’t happen. And it’s a very sad thing,” Trump said. “But you know what is also very dangerous is, you told me about the amphibious attack by Americans, because you and everyone else shouldn’t know about it. They should do that secretly, not being doing that through the great Laura Ingraham. They should be doing that secretly. Nobody should know that, Laura.”
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TRUMP CLAIMS HEALTH-CARE PLAN READY
But None of his advisors know what he is talking about.
The Plan is so secret that the people responsible for the plan don’t even know they’re involved. The GOP has promised (and failed) to repeal and replace Obamacare for more than a decade. Trump began claiming he had a replacement plan back in 2015. He announced his plan would swap out the Affordable Care Act for “something terrific,” details TBD.
Over subsequent months and years, Trump boasted about the benefits of his plan. It would be cheaper, more generous, and better than Obamacare. It would be “so easy,” even though “nobody knew health care could be so complicated.” It would “take care of everybody”. This plan was always only “two weeks” away — just like proof wiretapping, the “amazing infrastructure plan”, and Melania Trump’s immigration history.
Finally, five years later, an announcement came this week: it exists, its alive! “I have it all ready,” Trump said at a town hall Tuesday, “and it’s a much better plan for you, and it’s a much better plan.”
Alas, Trump remains unable to share this “much better plan” with the public and no one in his administration knows anything about the “plan”.
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Trump Failure’s: U.S. Presidency, Trump Airlines, Trump Bottled Water, Trump Board Game, Trump Mortgage, Trump Travel, Trump Steaks, Trump Vodka, Trump Telephone, Trump Tower Tampa, Trump Tower Chicago,Trump University, Trump Fragrance, Trump Mattresses, Trump Casino, Trump Castle & Marina, Trump Plaza Hotel, Trump “Worlds Fair”, Trump Coachella 29 - removed for incompetence..
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Gman S
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Trump has made a lot of promises about actions to fight the coronavirus pandemic.Most of them have been half truths or embellishments.
For example:
Naval hospital ships
Trump announced Wed. that the Navy would dispatch its two hospital ships, the USNS Comfort and the USNS Mercy, to help treat patients and free up land-based hospitals for coronavirus patients.
"So those two ships are prepared to go, and they can be launched over the next week or so," Trump said, calling the ships in "tip-top shape."
Well, not so much.
The Navy said that the Comfort was actually undergoing repairs in Norfolk, Va., and it would be weeks before it could sail.
FDA drug approval
On Thur. Trump touted that the Food and Drug Administration had "approved" use of an anti-malaria drug called chloroquine to treat patients afflicted with the coronavirus. He had a “hunch” that this was the cure.
"We're going to be able to make that drug available almost immediately," Trump said, calling it "a tremendous breakthrough" and a potential "game-changer."
But FDA commissioner Stephen Hahn immediately tried to tamp down Trump's enthusiasm, saying that "a large, pragmatic clinical trial" would be needed first to determine the drug's usefulness before making it available to coronavirus patients.
Hahn said he couldn't "speculate about a timeline" for the drug's availability.
Trump's enthusiasm for hydroxychloroquine spilled into another press conference on Friday, when he again described it as a potential wonder drug.
And again, a public health official — this time, Dr. Anthony Fauci, a top immunologist on the White House's response team — tried to rein in the optimism by echoing the need for clinical proof that it would make a difference.
On Thursday, Trump said another drug, Remdesivir, had "also been approved, or very close to approved" by the FDA for treating patients coronavirus. In fact, that drug is undergoing a clinical trial and is months away from being ready for use.
The website
Last Friday, Trump said at a Rose Garden news conference that Google has 1,700 engineers developing a new website that would help Americans determine whether they should seek testing for the coronavirus.
The president sought to cast his own project as a triumph compared with the initial failure of President Barack Obama to roll out a website as part of the changes to the health care market enacted in 2009.
"Google is helping to develop a website," Trump said. "It's going to be very quickly done — unlike websites of the past — to determine whether a test is warranted and to facilitate testing at a nearby convenient location."
Within hours, Google attempted to clarify the president's comments. It said an affiliated company, Verily, was working on the project but on a limited scale only for people in the San Francisco area.
"Verily is in the early stages of development," Google said, "and planning to roll testing out in the Bay Area, with the hope of expanding more broadly over time."
Unfortunately, there are insufficient tests available to test anyone.
Medical supplies
On Wednesday, Trump met with a group of nurses at the White House, telling them that the administration had arranged for a major new supply of the type of respirator in high demand during the pandemic.
"We've ordered 500 million N95 masks to drive private production," Trump said. He also said that construction companies were being asked to donate unused masks. The next day at a briefing, Vice President Pence stated: "We've vastly increased the supply of medical masks."
But hospitals continue to report that they are running short of masks, as are pharmacists.
Loose-fitting surgical masks aren't appropriate for dealing with the pandemic authorities say; the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention released a graphic detailing the important differences between a surgical mask and an N95 respirator.
Testing
One of the most frequent exaggerations coming from Trump is the availability of coronavirus tests.
When he visited the CDC in Atlanta earlier this month, Trump claimed that "They have the tests. And the tests are beautiful. Anybody that needs a test gets a test."
Pence made a similar claim last week, saying that "a million tests are in the field" and that "by the end of this week, another 4 million tests will be distributed."
Americans who feel sick still can’t get tested. Fauci acknowledged that there clearly is a gap between the supply and the demand.
Trump and Pence say they don't want every American — particularly those who are feeling well — to be tested. Yet people who are not critically sick are being sent home without testing. They are told to “assume they have covid-19” and come back only if there condition worsens. Not knowing if you have the virus dose not help contain the virus.
In summary, Trump just needs to shut up and let the experts talk.
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Trump and Epstein shared “girls” at parties. They were the best of friends until a business deal went south and Trump ran for president. See below:
It was supposed to be an exclusive party at Mar-a-Lago, Donald J. Trump’s members-only club in Palm Beach, Fla. But other than the two dozen or so women flown in to provide the entertainment, the only guests were Mr. Trump and Jeffrey Epstein.
“I arranged to have some contestants fly in,” Mr. Houraney recalled in an interview on Monday. “At the very first party, I said, ‘Who’s coming tonight? I have 28 girls coming.’ It was him and Epstein.”
Mr. Houraney, who had just partnered with Mr. Trump to host events at his casinos, said he was surprised. “I said, ‘Donald, this is supposed to be a party with V.I.P.s. You’re telling me it’s you and Epstein?’”
“I’ve known Jeff for 15 years. Terrific guy,” Mr. Trump told New York magazine in 2002. “He’s a lot of fun to be with. It is even said that he likes beautiful women as much as I do, and many of them are on the younger side.”
“I said, ‘Look, Donald, I know Jeff really well, I can’t have him going after younger girls,’” Mr. Houraney remembers. “He said, ‘Look I’m putting my name on this. I wouldn’t put my name on it and have a scandal.’”
Mr. Houraney said he “pretty much had to ban Jeff from my events — Trump didn’t care about that.”
Shortly before the 2016 presidential election, Mr. Houraney accused Mr. Trump himself of inappropriate behavior toward his girlfriend and business partner, Jill Harth, during their business dealings.
He also dismissed Mr. Houraney’s warning about his friend’s conduct.
“I said, ‘Look, Donald, I know Jeff really well, I can’t have him going after younger girls,’” Mr. Houraney remembers. “He said, ‘Look I’m putting my name on this. I wouldn’t put my name on it and have a scandal.’”
Mr. Houraney said he “pretty much had to ban Jeff from my events — Trump didn’t care about that.”
Shortly before the 2016 presidential election, Mr. Houraney accused Mr. Trump himself of inappropriate behavior toward his girlfriend and business partner, Jill Harth, during their business dealings.
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@patriotpatrol3709 All National Security Experts categorically dismiss Trump’s suggestion that he could declassify documents simply by thinking about it. But as an ABA Legal Fact Check posted Oct. 17 explains, legal guidelines support that presidents have broad authority to formally declassify most documents that are NOT STATUTORILY PROTECTED, WHILE THEY ARE IN OFFICE.
The system of classifying national security documents is largely a bureaucratic process used by the federal government to control how executive branch officials handle information, whose release could cause the country harm. The government has, however, prosecuted cases for both mistaken and deliberate mishandling of information. Under the U.S. Constitution, the president as commander in chief is given broad powers to classify and declassify such information, often through use of EXECUTIVE ORDERS.
Some secrets, such as information related to nuclear weapons, are handled separately under a specific statutory scheme that Congress has adopted under the Atomic Energy Act. Those secrets CANNOT BE AUTOMATICALLY DECLASSIFIED BY THE PRESIDENT ALONE AND REQUIRE, BY LAW, EXTENSIVE consultation with other executive branch agencies.
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@debbydeloach STEVE DOOCY, FOX & FRIENDS: So we're going to see a bunch of bank records. Ultimately, you’re going to have a narrative, I would imagine, about what happened. But do you know for a fact what happened? Did you talk to anybody in the Biden family and say, okay, why did you get this money? Or is it you know, it is supposition what happened? And have you found out, Congressman, that any of the Bidens broke any rules? Did they break any laws?
Because ultimately, that’s what the American people want to know. If they broke laws, they should be held accountable. But you’ve got to be able to prove they broke laws. Can you do that? SHORT ANSWER NOPE.
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TREASONOUS TRUMP PARDONS THE WHO’S WHO OF SWAMP CREATURES
Trump used his pardon power to help his supporters, fundraisers, and those that committed crimes for him.
The latest round of pardons and commutations — 143 in total — followed dozens last month, when Mr. Trump pardoned associates like Paul Manafort and Roger J. Stone Jr., and four Blackwater guards convicted in connection with the killing of Iraqi civilians.
* Stephen K. Bannon, his former chief strategist. Bannon was headed to jail for stealing $1 million dollars from a Build the Wall Charity promoted by Bannon and Don Jr.
* Elliott Broidy, Trump’s top fund-raisers in 2016. Mr. Broidy pleaded guilty last year to conspiring to violate foreign lobbying laws as part of a covert campaign to influence the Trump administration on behalf of the Chinese Government. Mr. Brody accepted $9 million from the Chinese to lobby Trump. After Mr. Trump’s victory, Mr. Broidy aggressively promoted his connections to the new administration to politicians, business executives and governments around the world. A defense company he owns won big contracts from the United Arab Emirates and Angola. And Mr. Broidy discussed the possibility of a visit to Mar-a-Lago, the president’s private resort in Florida, for an Angolan politician from whom he was seeking to collect additional payments. He also was involved along with several others — including the lawyer of Mr. Trump’s son-in-law, Jared Kushner — in what prosecutors described as a scheme to offer a bribe in exchange for clemency for a convicted tax criminal, according to court documents unsealed in December.
* Rick Renzi, Republican, was sentenced in 2013 to 3 years in jail for a bribery scheme involving an Arizona land swap deal.
* Robert Hayes, GOP Chairman NC, pleaded guilty in 2019 to lying to the F.B.I. about a bribery scandal involving a state insurance commissioner donating $2 million towards his reelection campaign — in exchange for the removal of another official involved in the regulation of GOP donor and co-defendant Greg Lindberg’s private-equity company.
* Randall “Duke” Cunningham, Republican, who pleaded guilty in 2005 to taking $2.4 million in bribes from military
* M. Kilpatrick, a former Detroit mayor who was convicted in 2013 for using his office to enrich himself and his family through shakedowns, kickbacks and bid-rigging schemes.
* William T. Walters, a wealthy sports gambler convicted on charges related to his role in an insider-trading scheme. Mr. Walters hired Mr. Trump’s former personal lawyer John M. Dowd in 2018. Mr. Dowd bragged to Mr. Walters and others that he could help them receive a pardon because of his close relationship with the president.
* Paul Erickson, Republican Influence Peddler and former boyfriend of the Russian operative Maria Butina. Mr. Erickson was convicted last July of wire fraud and money laundering and sentenced to 84 months in prison on charges that related to his work in 2017 on a business deal in the Bakken oil fields of North Dakota.
* Dr. Salomon E. Melgen, who ran a series of clinics in Florida that fraudulently told Medicare patients that they had eye diseases and then performed medically unnecessary tests and procedures, falsely billing the federal government at least $42 million, according to prosecutors.
* Ken Kurson, a friend and associate of Mr. Trump’s son-in-law, Jared Kushner, who was arrested late last year on cyberstalking.
* George Gilmore, Republican, who was convicted last January of failure to file payroll taxes for employees and bank fraud.
* Anthony Levandowski, the former Uber executive who pleaded guilty to stealing driverless-car plans when he left Google to form a company, which Uber then acquired.
* Sholam Weiss, who was sentenced to more than 800 years in prison in 2000 for racketeering, wire fraud and money laundering related to a huge insurance fraud scheme.
* Eliyahu Weinstein, who was sentenced to more than 20 years in prison in 2014 for a real estate Ponzi scheme that prosecutors said caused $200 million in losses.
* Robert Zangrillo, a Miami real estate developer who was charged with conspiring with a college consultant to bribe athletic officials at the University of Southern California to designate his daughter as a recruit to the crew team.
* Aviem Sella, a former Israeli Air Force officer who was indicted by the United States in 1987 on espionage charges that he recruited the convicted spy Jonathan Jay Pollard to collect U.S. military secrets for Israel.
Treasonous Trump loves criminals just like him.
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Drak T'Roc
On Fox News, suddenly a very different tune about the coronavirus.
For weeks, some of Fox News’s hosts downplayed the threat of the coronavirus, characterizing it as a conspiracy by media organizations and Democrats to undermine President Trump.
Sean Hannity and Laura Ingraham accused the news media of whipping up “mass hysteria” and being “panic pushers.” Trish Regan called the Main Stream Media response “yet another attempt to impeach the president.”
But that was then.
When Trump’s declared a national emergency, the tone on Fox News has quickly shifted. Hannity, suddenly the lauded the president’s handling of what the host is now, belatedly, referring to as a “crisis.”
“Tonight, we are witnessing what will be a massive paradigm shift in the future of disease control and prevention,” he said. “A bold, new precedent is being set, the world will once again benefit greatly from America’s leadership. . . . The federal government, state governments, private businesses, top hospitals all coming together, under the president’s leadership, to stem the tide of the coronavirus.”
In a complicated dance to mirror the president, Trump’s allies on Fox News took the same stance as the president for several weeks — that this coronavirus that had sickened and killed thousands of people in China was no worse a threat than the seasonal flu.
Just a week ago, Hannity shrugged at the pandemic. “So far in the United States, there’s been around 30 deaths, most of which came from one nursing home in the state of Washington,” he said, “Healthy people, generally, 99 percent recover very fast, even if they contract it.”
By way of comparison, he added: “Twenty-six people were shot in Chicago alone over the weekend. I doubt you heard about it. You notice there’s no widespread hysteria about violence in Chicago. And this has gone on for years and years. By the way, Democratic-run cities, we see a lot of that.”
Ingraham, also had a fast-dawning recognition that the social and economic dislocation of the virus was more than just a Democratic talking point wielded against the president.
In late February, Ingraham called Democrats the “pandemic party” and displayed photos of House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) and Senate Minority Leader Charles E. Schumer (D-N.Y.) alongside enlarged images of coronavirus molecules. “How sick that these people seem almost happiest when Americans are hurting,” she said.
She kept at it through last Tuesday when, in front of a graphic reading “Trump confronts the panic pushers,” Ingraham said, “The public in some ways seems a lot more levelheaded than the so-called experts. . . . The facts are actually pretty reassuring, but you’d never know it watching all this stuff.”
On Friday, Ingraham tweeted that it was a “great time to fly if not in at-risk population!” The tweet was later deleted.
By Wednesday, after Trump announced a travel ban on people from the European Union, Ingraham had started calling the pandemic “this dangerous health crisis.” She characterized warnings issued by National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases head Anthony S. Fauci about the potential spread of the disease as “sobering and scary to hear.”
Regan’s on-air speculation at the start of last week that coronavirus was merely another impeachment gambit for Democrats drew widespread pushback. Clearly the mood was changing at Fox by the time the network announced late Friday that her discussion-and-commentary program on Fox Business would leave the air indefinitely.
Tucker Carlson too, blamed the “corrupt” media. But in a monologue that many took at an indirect scolding of the president, he also complained that “none of our leaders helped us to take it seriously. . . . People you trust, people you probably voted for, have spent weeks minimizing what is clearly a very serious problem. It’s just partisan politics, they say. ‘Calm down. In the end, this is just like the flu and people die from that every year. Coronavirus will pass, and when it does, we will feel foolish for worrying about it.’ That’s their position. . . . But they’re wrong.”
Days earlier, Carlson attended the birthday party of former Fox News host Kimberly Guilfoyle, who is dating Donald Trump Jr.
In comments downplaying the pandemic on March 7, Jeanine Pirro, offered “All the talk about coronavirus being so much more deadly [than the flu] doesn’t reflect reality.” She reiterated Trump’s comment that the infection rate will drop “as the weather warms.”
On the “Fox & Friends” program Friday, Liberty University President Jerry Falwell Jr. spun out a meandering tale advancing the baseless notion that the coronavirus was designed by North Korean and Chinese scientists to harm Americans.
The program’s three co-hosts offered no objections. Host Steve Doocy moved on to asking Falwell about Liberty’s plans to cancel classes.
Then on Sunday, Rep. Devin Nunes (R-Calif.) appeared on Fox News and urged Americans to “stop panicking” and for those who are healthy to “just go out.”
Said Nunes: “There’s a lot of concerns with the economy here because people are scared to go out. But I will just say one of the things you can do if you’re healthy, you and your family, it’s a great time to just go out, go to a local restaurant.”
Anchor Maria Bartiromo offered no response to Nunes’s comment. On Monday, a day later, Fox News contributor Nicole Saphier, a doctor, specifically called out the congressman on air to contradict his advice and told viewers to stay home.
This is a quick summation of how Faux news has become nothing more than a platform for Trumpian Propaganda.
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spooderdoggy
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The Stock Market grew 145% under Obama -Trump is at 55%.
Unemployment dropped from 10% when Obama took office to 4.7% a drop of 5.3% - Trump has taken it from 4.7% to 3.7% a drop of 1%.
Jobs
Obama created: 1,130,000 jobs. Note Obama inherited the the Great Recession and still pulled off these numbers.
Trump created: 567,000 jobs
GDP Economic Growth
Obama: - 2.5 (2009)*, 2.6 (2010), 1.6 (2011), 2.2 (2012), 1.8 (2013), 2.5 (2014), 2.9 (2015), and 1.6 (2016)
* Obama inherited the worst recession in American History. He turned it around in one year.
Trump: 2.4 (2017), 2.9 (2018), and 2.1 (2019) estimated.
US Manufacturing Output
Obama: grew from 90.6 to 104.3 a positive change of 13.7 ($in Trillions)
Trump: grew from 104.3 to 108 a positive change of 3.7
US Business Investment
Obama: +16 (2010), +18 (2011), +20 (2013), + 7.4 (2014), +7.6 (2015) +5.4 (2016) Note: $ In Trillions
Trump: +2.5 (2017), +7.2 (2018), - .06 (2019)
So as you can see Trump has nothing to really brag about other than not tanking the economy... yet. Source of data GAO and Fed.
It was my pleasure to educate you. 🙂
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TRUMP CANT READ AND WONT LISTEN
Reagan & Clinton preferred to read the written PDB, scribbling questions in the margins. Barack Obama read the daily brief on his iPad and sent it back with detailed queries. But Trump won’t read the PDB or Listen to Oral briefings, or much of anything else. Maybe part of the reason is that Trump is still mad that the Intelligence Community said that Russia had intervened in the 2016 election on his behalf. Given his hostility toward the intelligence community, and his Twitter-sized attention span, Trump is impossible to brief. Some briefers have even tried to do a show and tell using Pictures of New York City landmarks, agency briefers thought, might help Trump grasp threats. In an effort to explain the scale of North Korea’s nuclear program, the CIA built a model of the Hermit Kingdom’s underground weapons facility and put a miniature Statue of Liberty inside it.
But Trump preferred to get his news from Fox news, and other sources such as Putin. In July 2017, he refused to believe the CIA that N. Korea had developed an ICBM capable of reaching U.S. soil. How could the president be certain the agency was wrong? Because, he said, Vladimir Putin told him so.
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Time Magazine: World News Tonight host David Muir’s repeatedly fact-checked ing kept the proceedings honest. Davis and Muir's fact-checks tamped down Trump's most egregious inventions. His repetition of a racist and xenophobic conspiracy theory about Haitian immigrants in Springfield, Ohio—“They’re eating the dogs, they’re eating the cats, they’re eating the pets of the people that live there”—got a quick correction. In apparent anticipation of this talking point, ABC News had contacted Springfield's city manager, who, Muir told viewers, had received “no credible reports of specific claims of pets being harmed, injured or abused by individuals within the immigrant community.” When Trump insisted he was being “sarcastic" in instances when he'd appeared to admit to having lost the 2020 election, Muir pushed back, noting that he'd reviewed tapes of some of those remarks and “didn't detect the sarcasm.” When Trump said, “Crime in this country is through the roof” due to an influx of migrants, Muir quickly corrected him, citing the FBI as his source.
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Yeah, Faux news has Identified its 39 War on Woke Hot Lines, to join the other 38 Wars Faux has invented. Previous notables have been the War on Xmas, The War on Xmas Trees, Xmas Paper Coffee Cups, Masculinity, Toxic Masculinity, Gender, Pronouns, School Children, Toxic Christians, Femininity, Conservatives, Conservative Media, and on and on and on. Keeping Track of all these Wars Must Be Exhausting. 😢😢😢
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@shawnstephens1251 The “Jenius” Of DJT ~ “So, supposing we hit the body with a tremendous — whether it’s ultraviolet or just very powerful light — and I think you said that that hasn’t been tried, but you’re going to test it. And then I said, supposing you brought the light inside the body, which you can do either through the skin or in some other way, and I think you said you’re going to test that, too. It sounds interesting. And then I see the disinfectant, where it knocks it out in a minute. One minute. And is there a way we can do something like that, by injection inside or almost a cleaning. Because you see it gets in the lungs, and it does a tremendous number on the lungs. So it would be interesting to check that, maybe check that out”. 😂😂😂
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TRUMP & HIS MURDEROUS LIES
Trump has reached the milestone of 18,000 lies during his presidency. On the same day he accused the WHO of “covering up the spread of the coronavirus” and failing to “share information in a timely fashion.” He declared he was cutting off funding for the world’s public health body in the middle of a pandemic.
He also called WHO a “tool of China” and floated the theory that WHO deliberately concealed the danger of the virus: “There’s something going on” at the WHO “that’s very bad,” and "I have a feeling they knew exactly what was going on.”
This is a murderous lie as 15 Trump appointed officials were embedded with WHO in Geneva, working full time, hand-in-glove with the organization on the virus from the very first day China disclosed the outbreak to the world, Dec. 31. These Trump officials U.S. officials dedicated 100% of their time to the virus. In the weeks that followed, they and other U.S. government scientists engaged in all major deliberations and decisions at the WHO on the novel coronavirus, had access to all information, and contributed significantly to the world body’s conclusions and recommendations. Everything that WHO knew, Trump knew — in real time. As congressional investigators are now learning, senior Trump administration officials — Health and Human Services Secretary Alex Azar; the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s Robert R. Redfield Jr., Anne Schuchat, Ray R. Arthur and Jeffrey McFarland; the National Institutes of Health’s Anthony S. Fauci and H. Clifford Lane, and many others — consulted with the WHO throughout the crisis.
Trump lied and Americans Died - 33,500+ & Counting.
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WHEN GOOD PEOPLE DON’T ACT, EVIL REIGNS:
How did the trans-Atlantic slave trade play out over hundreds of years?
How did slavery thrive in this country?
How was the Holocaust allowed to happen?
How did the genocides in Rwanda or Darfur come to be?
It turns out that our current era is providing the unsettling answer: It was easy. As Edmund Burke said: “The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.” If you don’t complain, you condone.
Gather the energy. Gather your neighbor. Fight, vote, email, post. Do all you can to stand up for the vulnerable, for the oppressed, for our Constitution, and for our Democratic Values. Don’t let history record this moment as it has recorded too many others: a time when good people did too little to confront the wickedness and disaster of Trumpian Neo Nazism. In November America has a clear choice, do nothing to confront Trumpian Evil, or vote to sweep the Evil out of office and began the long painful process of Restoring Our Democracy and Democratic Institutions.
As Edmund Burke wrote: “When bad men combine, the good must associate; else they will fall, one by one, an unpitied sacrifice in a contemptible struggle.”
But you may be more familiar with another quote often attributed to Burke: “The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.”
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@yankee2666 TRUMP’s CRIME SYNDICATE: Trump - Felon - Tied to Kremlin🇷🇺, Trump's Campaign Mgr - Felon🇷🇺, T’s Deputy Campaign Mgr - Felon🇷🇺, T’s Chief Strategist - Felon🇷🇺, T’s National Security Advisor - Felon🇷🇺, T’s Foreign Policy advisor - Felon🇷🇺, T’s Personal Lawyer - Felon, T’s Campaign Fixer - Felon, T’s Company CFO - Felon, T’s Trade Advisor - Felon, 22 Other Close Trump Associates - Convicted Felons.
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@nukembear2345
Treasonous Trump at Helsinki shortly after 6 U.S. Intelligence Agencies confirmed Putin hacked DNC and assisted Trump in the election:
“My people came to me, [Director of National Intelligence] Dan Coats came to me and some others saying they think it's Russia. I have President Putin, he just said it’s not Russia,” Trump said. “I will say this, I don’t see any reason why it would be.”
Trump has labeled as a “hoax” the U.S. intelligence reports that Putin placed bounties on American soldiers.
“The president is seemingly smitten with the Russian president. Trump cannot stop praising him”.
Trump: “Putin has done a really great job of outsmarting our country. He could not have been nicer. He was so nice. He is really very much of a leader. He said nice things about me. I like him because he called me a genius. Putin did call me a genius.”
Trump when asked about Putin ordering the assassinations of journalists: “We got a lot of killers—a lot of killers. Why do you think our country is so innocent? You think our country is so innocent?… Take a look at what we’ve done too. Putin is no different than us”.
Trump congratulated Putin on winning reelection, giving his sham election legitimacy.
He considered visiting Putin on Russian soil despite the fact that Russia attacked the U.S. election.
He also gave Putin a PR victory on coronavirus by accepting a large delivery of medical supplies from Russia, a move that was regarded as a stunt by Moscow.
He pleases Putin over and over again, constantly criticizing NATO. To this day, Putin wants to weaken the alliance.
And speaking of alliances, the president asked allies to let Russia back into the G-7. The other member nations refused. He also invited Moscow to the G-7 summit again. Allies rejected him.
But Trump doesn’t just praise Putin. The president has also praised far-right European leaders aligned with Putin.
He likes to tell Moscow secrets about the U.S. Four months into his presidency, the president gave classified intelligence to the Russians inside the Oval Office.
Trump directed the CIA to share more with Russia, according to two former CIA officials. Even though the U.S. received nothing in return.
The Trump administration considered returning two diplomatic compounds in New York and Maryland to Russia after they were seized for spying.
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@arizjones Then you will love this:
Treasury Department Releases Report Card on How President Biden’s Investing in America Agenda is Supporting Record Small Business Growth
October 23, 2023
New data show how communities are using the nearly $22 billion made available for thousands of small business support projects across three Treasury Department-led programs, in addition to $12.8 billion reported for over 4,200 worker support projects
WASHINGTON – Today, the U.S. Department of the Treasury released a report card detailing how the Department’s implementation of federal investments in entrepreneurs and small businesses – including those in President Biden’s American Rescue Plan – are sustaining the continued record growth in small business creation. These programs are key to the Biden-Harris Administration’s strategy to strengthen the small business creation seen since the start of this Administration by expanding access to capital and customers, and by providing entrepreneurs the resources they need to succeed.
In January, the Census Bureau released data which show that Americans have applied to start 10.5 million new businesses over the last two years, making 2021 and 2022 the strongest two years on record for new business applications. To sustain small business growth, record demand was met with new federal resources. The Treasury Department has taken the lead role in implementing programs and initiatives to support small businesses across all communities. The Department’s work has also helped these funds reach traditionally underserved entrepreneurs and small businesses that will ensure the small business boom grows the economy in communities that were disproportionately harmed by the pandemic.
Through June 2023, three Treasury Department-led programs – the State Small Business Credit Initiative (SSBCI), State and Local Fiscal Recovery Funds (SLFRF), and Emergency Capital Investment Program (ECIP) – have together provided billions of dollars for projects and lending to grow the small businesses ecosystem.
The State Small Business Credit Initiative – reauthorized and expanded under President Biden’s American Rescue Plan – provides nearly $10 billion to increase access to capital and promote entrepreneurship, including $2.5 billion in funding and incentives to support underserved businesses and jurisdictions that are successful in reaching those businesses. To date, the Treasury Department has announced the approval of applications for capital programs representing $8.2 billion in potential funding. SSBCI funding is expected to catalyze up to $10 of private investment for every $1 of SSBCI capital funding.
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FAILURE IN AMERICA ON A TRUMPIAN SCALE:
Nearly every country has struggled to contain the coronavirus and made mistakes along the way.
China silenced doctors and allowed the virus to escape Wuhan, much of Europe went next, failing to avoid and contain enormous outbreaks. Today, many countries — Japan, Canada, France, Australia and more — are coping with new increases in cases after reopening parts of society.
But one country stands alone, as the only affluent nation to have suffered a severe, sustained outbreak for more than four months: the United States. In just the past month over 1.9 million Americans have tested positive for the virus. That’s more than five times as many as in all of Europe, Canada, Japan, South Korea and Australia, combined. The United States also has the highest number of Deaths 157,000 from the virus far out pacing all other countries. Brazil is the only country competing with the United States for complete failure in containing the virus.
What does the United States & Brazil have in common? Trumpian Politics.
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@federalistpapers4523 IT IS LIKE LEADING A HORSE TO WATER & WATCHING IT REFUSE TO DRINK! SIGH!
Liberalism is a political and moral philosophy based on the rights of the individual, liberty, consent of the governed, political equality, right to private property and equality before the law.[1][2] Liberals espouse various and often mutually warring views depending on their understanding of these principles but generally support private property, market economies, individual rights (including civil rights and human rights), liberal democracy, secularism, rule of law, economic and political freedom, freedom of speech, freedom of the press, freedom of assembly, and freedom of religion,[2][3][4][5][6][7][8][9] constitutional government and privacy rights.[10] Liberalism is frequently cited as the dominant ideology of modern history.[11][12]: 11
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@Ryan Brown
Treasonous Trump not only supports each and everyone of these things he actively supports them. “Stand down and stand by”, “fine people on both sides”, “ I want 'my people' to 'sit up at attention' like in North Korea”, “Kim and I are in Love”, “Go home, we love you, you are special”, “birtherism”, “Stop the Steal”, “perfect phone call”, “Putin told me himself it wasn’t Russia”, etc.
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@bobbyyocham851 ASK THE TRUMP’s CRIME SYNDICATE ABOUT TIES TO THE KREMLIN: Trump - Felon - Tied to Kremlin🇷🇺, Trump's Campaign Mgr - Felon🇷🇺, T’s Deputy Campaign Mgr - Felon🇷🇺, T’s Chief Strategist - Felon🇷🇺, T’s National Security Advisor - Felon🇷🇺, T’s Foreign Policy advisor - Felon🇷🇺, T’s Personal Lawyer - Felon, T’s Campaign Fixer - Felon, T’s Company CFO - Felon, T’s Trade Advisor - Felon, 22 Other Close Trump Associates - Convicted Felons.
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Litmus test. How to know if your president is a potential Authoritarian Threat (Dictator) to Democracy:
1. Rejection of (or weak commitment to) democratic rules or norms.
Examples.
Q. Do they reject the Constitution or express a willingness to violate it?
Q. Do they suggest a need for anti democratic measures banning certain organizations, or restricting basic civil or political rights?
Q. Do they attempt to undermine the legitimacy of elections, for example, by claiming unverifiable mass voter fraud.
2. Denial of the legitimacy of political opponents.
Examples.
Q. Do they describe their rivals as subversive, or opposed to your presidential powers.
Q. Do they claim that their rivals constitute a threat, either to the country or the prevailing way of life. Such as calling opponents socialists or communists?
Q. Do they baselessly describe their partisan rivals as criminals, whose supposed violations disqualifies them from full participation in the political arena.
Q. Do they baselessly suggest that their rivals are secretly working in alliance against you?
3. Toleration or encouragement of violence.
Examples.
Q. Do they have any ties to armed militias, paramilitary forces, white supremacy groups, etc?
Q. Have they encouraged, or suggested, mob attacks on opponents?
Q. Have they tacitly endorsed violence by their supporters by refusing to unambiguously condemning it?
Q. Have they praised (or refused to condemn) politically violent state actors in the past or currently?
4. Readiness to curtail civil liberties or voting rights of opponents, including the media?
Q. Have they supported laws or policies that restrict civil liberties, such as expanding defamation laws, or laws restricting protests, criticism of the government, or certain civic or political organizations?
Q. Have they threatened to take legal or other punitive action against critics in rival parties, civil society, or the media?
Q. Have they praised repressive leaders or actions taken by repressive leaders?
If the answer is yes to even on of the above questions then you have a wanna be Dictator on your hands.
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OMG, now *ucker Charlatan is claiming their is a War on Sports, in addition to the War on Xmas, War Xmas Trees, War on Males, War on White Males, War on Masculinity, War on Christians, War on Gender Identity, War on Ultra Conservative Crazies, War on Truth, War on Schools, War on Parents, War on Students, etc… It must be exhausting trying to keep track of all the Wars that make you snowflakes a whinny victim.
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@Cass-lv1on And on the eighth day, God looked down on his planned paradise and said, "I need a man to test the will and goodness of a free people." So God made Trump.
God said, "I need a man who failed at everything but theft and grifting."
So God made Trump.
God said, "I need a narcissist & sociopath to lead the simple minded folk with hatred and fear."
So God made a Trump.
God said, "I need a corrupt & evil man who places himself above the law and makes a mockery of justice."
So God made Trump.
God said, "I need a man who will use violence and lies to seize power."
So God made Trump.
God said, "I need a man whose followers will call black white, call evil good and call criminals hostages."
So God made Trump.
God said, "I need his political party to obey without question and the press fear his wrath.”
So God made Trump.
God said, "I need a cruel man who uses his power and position to punish and harm his opposition."
So God made Trump.
God said, "I need a man who breaks the faith of even his most godly followers and leads them to idolatry, place himself above Me." So God made Trump.
And then God said, "I sent Trump to test you and until you cast him down you have failed."
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WE NOW HAVE EVIDENCE OF VOTER FRAUD AT THE HIGHEST LEVELS OF GOVERNMENT:
Mark Meadows, Trump’s last White House chief of staff, registered to vote in September of that year, listing his domicile as a rusty old mobile home in Scaly Mountain, N.C.
It seems, however, that he never bothered to live there. Voter registration forms, require you to list “where you physically live,” which one signs “under penalty of perjury.” But at the time of his registration, Meadows lived at his home near Washington, D.C.. The rules seem clear enough even for Meadows.
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The Trumpian 2020 Disinformation War:
Treasonous Trump's team is presiding over a sophisticated, multimillion-dollar digital operation, an operation that carries his propaganda across just about every digital platform available. This propaganda push results in the most extensive disinformation campaign in U.S. history.
COPPINS: That's exactly...
KELLY: ...Type of ads.
Trump Campaign Manager, Brad Pascal and the Republican National Committee and Trump campaign actually have 3,000 data points on almost every voter in America, and they use those data points to determine how exactly to pitch their message. So a message, for example, on defunding Planned Parenthood might not go over well in certain parts of the country, but if you microtarget it to 800 pro-life women in Dubuque, Iowa, it's going to get a positive result. And that's how they kind of have waged their campaign.
The Trump campaign micro targeted ads to black voters in Florida with an ad that said, Hillary thinks African Americans are super-predators. And the goal was not even really to win over black voters. It was to depress black turnout in Florida.
Another example was the impeachment battle. The Trump campaign was pumping out disinformation at an alarming rate. Of course you would always expect a certain amount of partisan spin but the Trump Campaign was taking spin to an alarming level. You could watch the impeachment proceedings on TV, and see what was pretty damning testimony about the president's conduct. And then later in the day the Trump Campaign would put out a Fox News and Facebook feed that would totally recast what had happened that day in completely different terms. In fact, even at times, the Trump campaign would create videos that were supercuts of the same testimony and make look like something completely different.
With this kind of daily propaganda fed to Trump supporters it very hard for them to grasp reality. In the end, it erodes their confidence in our democratic institutions. It erodes their ability to sort out fact from fiction. And it actually makes it harder for conservatives to compete in the marketplace of ideas because reality doesn't exist as a regulating force.
The Republicans, and especially the Trump campaign, are much more sophisticated, much more advanced and, so far, have been more - for lack of a better word - shameless.
Please for the sake of our Democracy please get out of your conservative propaganda Bubble Loop. Your children and mine will all suffer with what you do and believe from theses Propaganda Sources.
May God Bless and Spare America.
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TRUMP’s BLAME-SHIFTING SCAM SPOTLIGHTS HIS FAILURES.
The timeline for Trump’s Failures:
Jan. 23, the WHO warned that coronavirus could “appear in any country,” and urged all countries to be “prepared for containment” and get ready to exercise “isolation” and “prevention” measures against its spread.
At the same time Trump was asked point-blank if worried about coronavirus’s spread, and he answered: “No, not at all, it was one person coming from China. We have it totally under control.”
On Jan. 24, Trump praised China’s “efforts” and its “transparency” and predicting that “it will all work out well.” Trump showed no concern about Covid45s spread outside China — even though WHO warned otherwise.
On Jan. 30, the WHO declared coronavirus a global public health emergency. While WHO was still too credulous toward China’s response, WHO also warned that all countries must review “preparedness plans” and take seriously what was coming.
By contrast, on Jan. 30 Trump was AGAIN directly warned by his HHS Sec. of the threat coronavirus posed. Trump dismissed this as “alarmist.”
On Feb. 2, Trump boasted to Sean Hannity: “We pretty much shut it down, coming in from China.” He hailed our “tremendous relationship” with that country. Trump continued praising China’s handling of coronavirus all through the entire month of February. Trump showed precisely the same credulity about China that WHO for showing, but without appreciating the urgency of the international threat coronavirus posed to the degree that the WHO did.
On travel restrictions:
Jan. 31, Trump announced restrictions on travel from China, WHO disagreed claiming it was too late. Ironically, Trump’s travel ban only excluded non Americans, not Americans, and set up no measures to screen or quarantine American Travelers returning from China.
For kicks and giggles google all the crazy quotes Trump made dismissing the coming deadly crisis right up to the last week of March. In the end Xi lied, WHO botched, & Trump did NOTHING DESPITE ALL THE WARNINGS.
26,212 American Deaths & rising and Trump still can’t pull it together.
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Pullback Leaves Green Berets Feeling ‘Ashamed,’ and Kurdish Allies Describing ‘Betrayal’
American commandos were working alongside Kurdish forces at an outpost in eastern Syria last year when they were attacked by columns of Syrian government tanks and hundreds of troops, including Russian mercenaries. In the next hours, the Americans threw the Pentagon’s arsenal at them, including B-52 strategic bombers. The attack was stopped.
That operation, in the middle of the American-led campaign against the Islamic State in Syria, showed the extent to which the United States military was willing to protect the Syrian Kurds, its main ally on the ground.
But now, with the White House revoking protection for these Kurdish fighters, some of the Special Forces officers who battled alongside the Kurds say they feel deep remorse at orders to abandon their allies.
“They trusted us and we broke that trust,” one Army officer who has worked alongside the Kurds in northern Syria said last week in a telephone interview. “It’s a stain on the American conscience.”
“I’m ashamed,” said another officer who had also served in northern Syria. Both officers spoke on the condition of anonymity to avoid reprisals from their chains of command.
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@breakupbigtechmedia8470 700 national security officials endorse Kamala Harris in open letter. ‘Harris will defend America’s democratic ideals’ & says Trump is ‘unfit to serve’.
40 out of 44 Former Trump Cabinet & Heads of Depts, refuse to endorse Trump.
“TRUMP UNFIT TO SERVE AS PRESIDENT” - In a published letter 700 national security officials endorse Kamala Harris.
“TRUMP UNFIT FOR ANY PUBLIC OFFICE” - In another published open letter, 100 former Advisors to Presidents Reagan, Bush Sr, Clinton, Bush Jr, Obama, and Trump endorsed Kamala Harris.
“TRUMP UNFIT TO SERVE AS PRESIDENT .” List of Republicans who signed a letter saying Trump is a Threat To Our American Democracy 🇺🇸:
Admiral Steve Abbot
USN (Ret.), Deputy Homeland Security Advisor, George W. Bush
Kenneth Adelman Director, Arms Control and Disarmament Agency, Reagan
Dr. Carol C. Adelman Asst. Admin., U.S. Agency for International Development, Reagan
Major General John Barry USAF (Ret.), Military Assistant to the Secretary of Defense
Richard C. Barth Asst. Secretary, Department of Homeland Security, W. Bush
Christopher Barton Director, National Security Council Staff
John Bellinger Legal Adviser, National Security Council, W. Bush
Admiral Kenneth Bernard Special Asst. to W. Bush
Mark E. Bitterman Special Asst. to the Secretary of Defense, H.W. Bush
Robert D. Blackwill Deputy National Security Advisor, W. Bush
William Bodie Asst. to the Secretary of the Air Force, W. Bush
Christian M.L. Bonat Deputy General Counsel, DOD, W. Bush & Obama
Richard Boucher Assistant Secretary of State, W. Bush
Charles W. Boustany, Jr. Former Member of Congress, Louisiana
Charles R. Bowers Ambassador to Bolivia, H.W. Bush
Greg Brower Asst. Director, FBI, Obama & Trump
Christopher Buckley Chief Speechwriter, Office of VP H.W. Bush
James R. Bullington U.S. Ambassador to Burundi, Reagan
Richard Burt U.S. Ambassador to Germany, Reagan
Gahl Hodges Burt Asst. to the Secretary of State, Reagan
Rear Admiral Fred Byus U.S. Navy (Ret.)
Jack C. Chow Deputy Asst. Secretary of State, W. Bush
James W. Cicconi Asst. to the President & Deputy to the Chief of Staff, H. W. Bush
Peggy Cifrino Deputy Chief of Staff to Secretary of State Colin Powell, W. Bush
Eliot A. Cohen Counselor of the Dept. of State, W. Bush
Benedict S. Cohen General Counsel, Dept. of the Army, W. Bush
William Cohen Secretary of Defense, Clinton, & U.S. Senator, Maine
Joseph J. Collins Deputy Asst. Secretary of Defense, W. Bush
Barbara Comstock Former Member of Congress, Virginia
Cindy Courville National Security Affairs for Africa, W. Bush
Chester A. Crocker Assistant Secretary of State, Reagan
Patrick M. Cronin Admin. U.S. Agency for International Development, W. Bush
Stephen W. DeVine Deputy Legal Advisor, National Security Council, W. Bush
Charles Djou Former Member of Congress, Hawaii
Michael Donley Secretary of the Air Force, George W. Bush & Obama
Raymond F. DuBois Secretary of the Army, George W. Bush
Martha E. Duncan Sr Executive Service, DOD, George W. Bush & Obama
Lewis A. Dunn Director, Arms Control and Disarmament Agency, Reagan
Eric S. Edelman Under Secretary of Defense, George W. Bush
Mickey Edwards Member of Congress, Oklahoma
Richard A. Falkenrath Deputy Assistant to the President, George W. Bush
Jendayi E. Frazer Ambassador to South Africa George W. Bush Administration
Aaron L. Friedber Deputy Assistant to George W. Bush
William Gaches Director of Counterterrorism, NSA, George W. Bush
Janice Gardner Assistant Secretary of the Treasury, George W. Bush
Stuart M. Gerson Attorney General of the United States, George W. Bush
James K. Glassman Under Secretary of State, George W. Bush
Jon D. Glassman Deputy National Security Advisor to George H.W. Bush
David Gordon Director, State Dept, Policy Planning, George W. Bush
Sen. Chuck Hagel Secretary of Defense, Obama, and former U.S. Senator, Nebraska
Christopher Hank Deputy Assistant Secretary of State; Reagan,Bush, & Clinton
Mark Harvey Special Assistant to the President, Trump
General Michael V. Hayden Director of the CIA & NSA, Bush & Obama
Carla Hills U.S. Trade Representative, George H.W Bush
Seth Hurwitz Counsel, President's Intelligence Oversight Board, George H.W. Bush
Peter Keisler Attorney General of the U.S., George W. Bush
James A. Kelly Secretary of State, George W. Bush
Adam Kinzinger Former Member of Congress, Illinois
Sofia Kinzinger Deputy Assistant Secretary, Dept. of Homeland Security, Trump
Kenneth J. Krieg Under Secretary of Defense, George W. Bush
James R. Kunder Deputy Administrator, U.S. Agency for International Development, Bush
Brigadier General George Landis, USA, Ret. U.S. Personnel Info Systems Command
Frank Lavin Ambassador to Singapore & Under Secretary of Commerce, George W. Bush
Peter Lichtenbaum
Former Assistant Secretary of Commerce, George W. Bush Administration
Rear Admiral David M. Lichtman, MD, USN (Ret.)
Former Commander, National Naval Medical Center, Bethesda, George H.W. Bush and Clinton Administrations
Winston Lord
Former U.S. Ambassador to China, Reagan and George H.W. Bush Administration
Steven R. Mann
Former Ambassador to Turkmenistan and Former Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary in the State Dept., Clinton and George W. Bush Administrations
Colonel John W. McDonald
Former Deputy Under Secretary of the Army
P. Michael McKinley
Former Ambassador to Peru and Acting Ambassador to the European Union and Mozambique, George W. Bush Administration; Former Ambassador to Peru, Colombia, Afghanistan, and Brazil, Obama Administration
Dan Miller
Former Member of Congress, Florida
John M. Mitnick
Former General Counsel, Dept. of Homeland Security, Trump
Allen Moore
Former Under Secretary of Commerce, Reagan
Alberto Mora
Former General Counsel, U.S. Information Agency, George H.W. Bush; Former General Counsel, Dept. of the Navy, George W. Bush
Kenneth Mortensen
Former Associate Deputy Attorney General, George W. Bush
Vice Admiral Charles L. Munns
U.S. Navy (Ret.), George W. Bush
John D. Negroponte Deputy Secretary of State, George W. Bush
Elizabeth Neumann Assistant Secretary of Homeland Security, Trump
Sean O'Keefe Secretary of the Navy, George H.W. Bush
Bill Paxon Former Member of Congress, New York
William R Piekney CIA Chief of Station, Reagan
Daniel M. Price Deputy NSA Advisor, George W. Bush
Alan Charles Raul Vice Chairman, Civil Liberties Oversight Board, George W. Bush
Victor Reis Director, DARPA, George H.W. Bush
Robert Annan Riley Ambassador to Micronesia, Trump
Paul Rosenzweig Deputy Assistant Secretary of Homeland Security, George W. Bush
Charles Rossotti Deputy Asst. Secretary of Defense; Commissioner of IRS, Clinton & Bush
Nicholas Rostow National Security Council Legal Adviser, Reagan & H.W. Bush
Kori Schake Deputy Director of Policy Planning, State Dept., W. Bush
Wayne A. Schroeder Deputy Under Secretary of Defense, W. Bush
Gregory L. Schulte Sr Director, National Security Council & Atomic Energy Agency, W. Bush
Robert Shanks Deputy Assistant AG, Reagan
Rep. Christopher Shays Former Member of Congress, Connecticut
John Simon Senior Director, National Security Council Staff, W. Bush
Stephen Slick Sr. Director, National Security Council Staff, W. Bush
Mark C. Storella U.S. Ambassador to Zambia, Obama
William H. Taft IV Deputy Secretary of Defense and Ambassador to NATO, W. Bush
Miles Taylor Chief of Staff, Dept. of Homeland Security, Trump
Larry D. Thompson Former Deputy AG, W. Bush
Jack Tomarchio Deputy Under Secretary of Homeland Security, W. Bush
Olivia Troye Special Advisor to VP Pence, Trump
Robert Tuttle U.S. Ambassador to the UK, W. Bush
John K. Veroneau Deputy U.S. Trade Rep. & Assistant Secretary of Defense, W. Bush & Clinton
Colonel Terry Virts, USAF (Ret.)
Former NASA Astronaut, Former Commander of the International Space Station
Dr. Thomas G. Ward, Jr. Director of Threats, Ballistic Missile Defense Org., Reagan & Clinton
Matthew C. Waxman Principal Deputy Director, State Dept Policy Planning, W. Bush
William H. Webster Director of the CIA & FBI, Reagan & H.W. Bush
William F. Weld Assistant Attorney General, Criminal Division, Reagan
J. Robinson West Assistant Secretary of Interior, Reagan
Wendell L. Willkie II General Counsel, Dept. of Commerce, H.W. Bush
Philip Zelikow Counselor of the Dept. of State, W. Bush
Robert B. Zoellick White House Deputy Chief of Staff, George H.W. Bush
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The deputy assistant secretary of labor for public affairs, said on Monday that Mr. Acosta had no comment. Pelosi, said Monday night that Mr. Acosta should resign because of the “unconscionable agreement” that he made with Mr. Epstein in 2008.
Alexander Acosta President Donald Trump nominated Republican Acosta to be Labor Secretary on February 16, 2017, and he was confirmed by the U.S. Senate on April 27, 2017.
Attorney General William P. Barr said on Monday during a trip to South Carolina that he had recused himself from the case because Mr. Barr’s former law firm, Kirkland & Ellis, had represented Mr. Epstein.
In 2002, Mr. Trump described Mr. Epstein as “a terrific guy,” telling New York Magazine, “It is even said that he likes beautiful women as much as I do, and many of them are on the younger side.”
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@OrtusMallum2075 To make their case about rising crime, industry leaders have mainly relied on figures from an annual survey conducted by the National Retail Federation, one of the largest retail trade associations in the country. The federation estimates that stolen merchandise cost retailers $94 billion in 2021, up from $90 billion the year before. Another lobbying group, the Retail Industry Leaders Association, set the number at $69 billion a year.The increase is not necessarily a sign of a worsening problem. Steep inflation has upped the price of goods, while the federation’s survey shows that the amount of merchandise disappearing from shelves remained stable. External theft only represented a portion of overall losses, the survey shows. The largest share, roughly two-thirds of missing merchandise, is a result of employee theft, process failures and unknown sources.
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JARED KUSHNER HAS CREATED A SHELL COMPANY TO FUNNEL CAMPAIGN CASH TO FAMILY MEMBERS.
Donald Trump and his family have spent the last four years making the airtight case that they view the presidency as simply a means to enrich themselves and their associates. They probably don’t particularly like that reputation and, yet, it hasn’t stopped them from funneling taxpayer money to their private business, gouging the Secret Service, and raising legal defense funds that the fine print says could go directly to their pockets. Oh, and, according to a new report, setting up a shell company that spent hundreds of millions of campaign dollars to pay Trump family members along with other expenditures it seemingly wanted to keep under wraps.
According to Business Insider, first son-in-law Jared Kushner personally approved the creation of the company, incorporated as American Made Media Consultants Corp. and American Made Media Consultants LLC, in April 2018. From there, Eric Trump’s wife, Lara Trump, was named president, with Mike Pence’s nephew John Pence serving as vice president. If you’re wondering why the shell company, described as Business Insider as acting “almost like a campaign within a campaign” was necessary, well, it’s not entirely clear, but it sure sounds like the express purpose was the ability to shield “financial and operational details from public scrutiny,” as it allowed the campaign to avoid federally mandated disclosures concerning what it was spending considerable amounts of money on. And by considerable we mean nearly half of the $1.26 billion raised for Trump’s reelection.
Campaign-finance records showed Trump's reelection effort and its affiliated committee with the RNC spent more than $600 million through American Made Consultants since its formation. For months, some of Trump’s top advisers and campaign staff told Insider they had no idea how the shell company functioned, which cast an air of mystery around the operation…. Some of those same advisers said they didn’t learn about John Pence’s and Lara Trump’s involvement until Insider contacted them for this story.
Campaign-law experts have long accused the Trump team of using a corporate pass-through to hide payments. The nonpartisan Campaign Legal Center, led by former Republican Federal Election Commission Chairman Trevor Potter, filed a civil complaint with the FEC in July accusing the Trump campaign of “disguising” about $170 million worth of campaign spending in large part “by laundering the funds” through AMMC. Brendan Fischer, the Campaign Legal Center’s director of federal reform, said the payments to AMMC were a “scheme to evade telling voters even the basics on where its money is really going” and a “shield to disguise the ultimate recipients of its spending.”
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@jasonbarnett7747 Trump Failure’s: U.S. Presidency, Trump Airlines, Trump Bottled Water, Trump Board Game, Trump Mortgage, Trump Travel, Trump Steaks, Trump Vodka, Trump Telephone, Trump Tower Tampa, Trump Tower Chicago,Trump University, Trump Fragrance, Trump Mattresses, Trump Casino, Trump Castle & Marina, Trump Plaza Hotel, Trump “Worlds Fair”, Trump Coachella 29 - removed for incompetence..
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@debbydeloach Google Trump’s Tax Returns: In all, the Trumps reported millions in foreign income and business expenses from businesses in at least 22 countries over the six-year period, the returns show, including at various points money from Russia, China, South Korea, Azerbaijan, Turkey, the Philippines and Brazil.
The couple paid little in federal taxes during Trump's presidency and appeared to owe none in 2020 after reporting large deductions and expenses that resulted in a net loss of $15 million. Trump then claimed a $5 million refund, according to the return and reported zero charitable donations that year, and the previous four years.
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@annbrucepineda8093
Former names of “Global Elites” who control the World: The Knights Hospitaller, The House of Medici, The Elders of Zion, The Rothschilds, Skull & Cross Bones, The Illuminati, The FreeMasons, Opus Dei, Bilderberg Group, Rosicrucians, and on and on. These Conspiracies just get re created over and over again.
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kamehameha
It’s hard to give an Intelligence Briefing to a Moron when you are limited to 1 page, pictures, and a single crayon. During briefings the president constantly veers off on tangents. He has a short attention span and rarely, if ever, reads intelligence reports, relying instead on conservative media and his friends for information. He frequently interrupts Intell Officers and will riff based on tips or gossip he hears from the former casino magnate Steve Wynn, the retired golfer Gary Player or Christopher Ruddy, the conservative media executive.
Mr. Trump rarely absorbs information that he disagrees with or that runs counter to his worldview. Briefing him has been so great a challenge compared with his predecessors that the intelligence agencies have hired outside consultants to study how better to get his attention and keep it during briefings.
Working to keep Mr. Trump’s interest exhausted and burned out his first briefer, Ted Gistaro, two former officials said. Mr. Gistaro did not always know what to expect and would sometimes have to brief an erratic and angry president upset over news reports, the officials said
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@MagaCult-ps9xr “TRUMP UNFIT TO SERVE AS PRESIDENT, OR IN ANY OFFICE OF PUBLIC TRUST.” List of Republicans who signed a letter saying Trump is a Threat To Our American Democracy 🇺🇸:
Admiral Steve Abbot
USN (Ret.), Deputy Homeland Security Advisor, George W. Bush
Kenneth Adelman Director, Arms Control and Disarmament Agency, Reagan
Dr. Carol C. Adelman Asst. Admin., U.S. Agency for International Development, Reagan
Major General John Barry USAF (Ret.), Military Assistant to the Secretary of Defense
Richard C. Barth Asst. Secretary, Department of Homeland Security, W. Bush
Christopher Barton Director, National Security Council Staff
John Bellinger Legal Adviser, National Security Council, W. Bush
Admiral Kenneth Bernard Special Asst. to W. Bush
Mark E. Bitterman Special Asst. to the Secretary of Defense, H.W. Bush
Robert D. Blackwill Deputy National Security Advisor, W. Bush
William Bodie Asst. to the Secretary of the Air Force, W. Bush
Christian M.L. Bonat Deputy General Counsel, DOD, W. Bush & Obama
Richard Boucher Assistant Secretary of State, W. Bush
Charles W. Boustany, Jr. Former Member of Congress, Louisiana
Charles R. Bowers Ambassador to Bolivia, H.W. Bush
Greg Brower Asst. Director, FBI, Obama & Trump
Christopher Buckley Chief Speechwriter, Office of VP H.W. Bush
James R. Bullington U.S. Ambassador to Burundi, Reagan
Richard Burt U.S. Ambassador to Germany, Reagan
Gahl Hodges Burt Asst. to the Secretary of State, Reagan
Rear Admiral Fred Byus U.S. Navy (Ret.)
Jack C. Chow Deputy Asst. Secretary of State, W. Bush
James W. Cicconi Asst. to the President & Deputy to the Chief of Staff, H. W. Bush
Peggy Cifrino Deputy Chief of Staff to Secretary of State Colin Powell, W. Bush
Eliot A. Cohen Counselor of the Dept. of State, W. Bush
Benedict S. Cohen General Counsel, Dept. of the Army, W. Bush
William Cohen Secretary of Defense, Clinton, & U.S. Senator, Maine
Joseph J. Collins Deputy Asst. Secretary of Defense, W. Bush
Barbara Comstock Former Member of Congress, Virginia
Cindy Courville National Security Affairs for Africa, W. Bush
Chester A. Crocker Assistant Secretary of State, Reagan
Patrick M. Cronin Admin. U.S. Agency for International Development, W. Bush
Stephen W. DeVine Deputy Legal Advisor, National Security Council, W. Bush
Charles Djou Former Member of Congress, Hawaii
Michael Donley Secretary of the Air Force, George W. Bush & Obama
Raymond F. DuBois Secretary of the Army, George W. Bush
Martha E. Duncan Sr Executive Service, DOD, George W. Bush & Obama
Lewis A. Dunn Director, Arms Control and Disarmament Agency, Reagan
Eric S. Edelman Under Secretary of Defense, George W. Bush
Mickey Edwards Member of Congress, Oklahoma
Richard A. Falkenrath Deputy Assistant to the President, George W. Bush
Jendayi E. Frazer Ambassador to South Africa George W. Bush Administration
Aaron L. Friedber Deputy Assistant to George W. Bush
William Gaches Director of Counterterrorism, NSA, George W. Bush
Janice Gardner Assistant Secretary of the Treasury, George W. Bush
Stuart M. Gerson Attorney General of the United States, George W. Bush
James K. Glassman Under Secretary of State, George W. Bush
Jon D. Glassman Deputy National Security Advisor to George H.W. Bush
David Gordon Director, State Dept, Policy Planning, George W. Bush
Sen. Chuck Hagel Secretary of Defense, Obama, and former U.S. Senator, Nebraska
Christopher Hank Deputy Assistant Secretary of State; Reagan,Bush, & Clinton
Mark Harvey Special Assistant to the President, Trump
General Michael V. Hayden Director of the CIA & NSA, Bush & Obama
Carla Hills U.S. Trade Representative, George H.W Bush
Seth Hurwitz Counsel, President's Intelligence Oversight Board, George H.W. Bush
Peter Keisler Attorney General of the U.S., George W. Bush
James A. Kelly Secretary of State, George W. Bush
Adam Kinzinger Former Member of Congress, Illinois
Sofia Kinzinger Deputy Assistant Secretary, Dept. of Homeland Security, Trump
Kenneth J. Krieg Under Secretary of Defense, George W. Bush
James R. Kunder Deputy Administrator, U.S. Agency for International Development, Bush
Brigadier General George Landis, USA, Ret. U.S. Personnel Info Systems Command
Frank Lavin Ambassador to Singapore & Under Secretary of Commerce, George W. Bush
Peter Lichtenbaum
Former Assistant Secretary of Commerce, George W. Bush Administration
Rear Admiral David M. Lichtman, MD, USN (Ret.)
Former Commander, National Naval Medical Center, Bethesda, George H.W. Bush and Clinton Administrations
Winston Lord
Former U.S. Ambassador to China, Reagan and George H.W. Bush Administration
Steven R. Mann
Former Ambassador to Turkmenistan and Former Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary in the State Dept., Clinton and George W. Bush Administrations
Colonel John W. McDonald
Former Deputy Under Secretary of the Army
P. Michael McKinley
Former Ambassador to Peru and Acting Ambassador to the European Union and Mozambique, George W. Bush Administration; Former Ambassador to Peru, Colombia, Afghanistan, and Brazil, Obama Administration
Dan Miller
Former Member of Congress, Florida
John M. Mitnick
Former General Counsel, Dept. of Homeland Security, Trump
Allen Moore
Former Under Secretary of Commerce, Reagan
Alberto Mora
Former General Counsel, U.S. Information Agency, George H.W. Bush; Former General Counsel, Dept. of the Navy, George W. Bush
Kenneth Mortensen
Former Associate Deputy Attorney General, George W. Bush
Vice Admiral Charles L. Munns
U.S. Navy (Ret.), George W. Bush
John D. Negroponte Deputy Secretary of State, George W. Bush
Elizabeth Neumann Assistant Secretary of Homeland Security, Trump
Sean O'Keefe Secretary of the Navy, George H.W. Bush
Bill Paxon Former Member of Congress, New York
William R Piekney CIA Chief of Station, Reagan
Daniel M. Price Deputy NSA Advisor, George W. Bush
Alan Charles Raul Vice Chairman, Civil Liberties Oversight Board, George W. Bush
Victor Reis Director, DARPA, George H.W. Bush
Robert Annan Riley Ambassador to Micronesia, Trump
Paul Rosenzweig Deputy Assistant Secretary of Homeland Security, George W. Bush
Charles Rossotti Deputy Asst. Secretary of Defense; Commissioner of IRS, Clinton & Bush
Nicholas Rostow National Security Council Legal Adviser, Reagan & H.W. Bush
Kori Schake Deputy Director of Policy Planning, State Dept., W. Bush
Wayne A. Schroeder Deputy Under Secretary of Defense, W. Bush
Gregory L. Schulte Sr Director, National Security Council & Atomic Energy Agency, W. Bush
Robert Shanks Deputy Assistant AG, Reagan
Rep. Christopher Shays Former Member of Congress, Connecticut
John Simon Senior Director, National Security Council Staff, W. Bush
Stephen Slick Sr. Director, National Security Council Staff, W. Bush
Mark C. Storella U.S. Ambassador to Zambia, Obama
William H. Taft IV Deputy Secretary of Defense and Ambassador to NATO, W. Bush
Miles Taylor Chief of Staff, Dept. of Homeland Security, Trump
Larry D. Thompson Former Deputy AG, W. Bush
Jack Tomarchio Deputy Under Secretary of Homeland Security, W. Bush
Olivia Troye Special Advisor to VP Pence, Trump
Robert Tuttle U.S. Ambassador to the UK, W. Bush
John K. Veroneau Deputy U.S. Trade Rep. & Assistant Secretary of Defense, W. Bush & Clinton
Colonel Terry Virts, USAF (Ret.)
Former NASA Astronaut, Former Commander of the International Space Station
Dr. Thomas G. Ward, Jr. Director of Threats, Ballistic Missile Defense Org., Reagan & Clinton
Matthew C. Waxman Principal Deputy Director, State Dept Policy Planning, W. Bush
William H. Webster Director of the CIA & FBI, Reagan & H.W. Bush
William F. Weld Assistant Attorney General, Criminal Division, Reagan
J. Robinson West Assistant Secretary of Interior, Reagan
Wendell L. Willkie II General Counsel, Dept. of Commerce, H.W. Bush
Philip Zelikow Counselor of the Dept. of State, W. Bush
Robert B. Zoellick White House Deputy Chief of Staff, George H.W. Bush
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@AndrewPriester Mr. Dougan, 51, who received political asylum in Moscow, is now a key player in Russia’s disinformation operations against the West. Back in 2016, when the Kremlin interfered in the American presidential election, an army of computer trolls toiled for hours in an office building in St. Petersburg to try to fool Americans online.
Today Mr. Dougan may be accomplishing much the same task largely by himself, according to American and European government officials and researchers from companies and organizations that have tracked his activities since August. The groups include NewsGuard, a company that reviews the reliability of news and information online; Recorded Future, a threat intelligence company; and Clemson University’s Media Forensics Hub.
Working from an apartment crowded with servers and other computer equipment, Mr. Dougan has built an ever-growing network of more than 160 fake websites that mimic news outlets in the United States, Britain and France.
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With the help of commercially available artificial intelligence tools, including OpenAI’s ChatGPT and DALL-E 3, he has filled the sites with tens of thousands of articles, many based on actual news events. Interspersed among them are also bespoke fabrications that officials in the United States and European Union have attributed to Russian intelligence agencies or the administration of President Vladimir V. Putin.
Between September and May, Mr. Dougan’s outlets have been cited or referred to in news articles or social media posts nearly 8,000 times, and seen by more than 37 million people in 16 languages, according to a report to be released Wednesday by NewsGuard.
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WHO’S THE BOSS?
Late Friday night, minutes before deplaning in Florida for the holidays, President Trump retweeted a link to an article in which Russian President Vladimir Putin defended him against impeachment.
“A total Witch Hunt!” the president tweeted at 10:30 p.m., as he shared a 36-hour-old Associated Press tweet that read: “BREAKING: Russian President Vladimir Putin says U.S. President Donald Trump’s impeachment is far-fetched and predicts the U.S. Senate will reject it.”
Trump’s boasting of Putin’s support comes a day after The Washington Post reported that White House advisers feared Trump’s belief that Ukraine, not Russia, was responsible for interfering with the 2016 election was spurred by conversations Trump had with Putin.
Trump’s critics responded to the tweet, expressing exasperation more than incredulity.
“At the end of the day, it’s always Putin First,” wrote conservative commentator and “Never Trumper” Bill Kristol.
Russian President Vladimir Putin accused the U.S. House of Representatives Dec. 19 of having "invented" a story to "revise" history and impeach President Trump. (Reuters)
“Trump wants us to know that Putin has his back. We know,” tweeted Eric Columbus, a former Justice Department appointee in the Obama administration.
“Putin is a dictator who jails opponents, kills opponents, invades neighbors, interferes in democracies’ elections, etc. I don’t think an American president should be buddying with him. I wonder if Trump defenders are ever (secretly) embarrassed by this stuff. I hope so,” wrote Jay Nordlinger, a senior editor at the right-leaning National Review.
At his annual end-of-the-year news conference on Thursday, Putin was asked about Trump’s impeachment. He called the charges “completely fabricated reasons.”
That evening, Russian state media, which follows Putin’s lead, also threw its support behind Trump.
Donald Trump is the third president in U.S. history to face a Senate trial. (The Washington Post)
Popular Kremlin propagandist Vladimir Soloviev gave an impassioned defense of Trump on his evening show, raising his voice several times in a discussion with Atlantic Council expert Ariel Cohen.
“I can’t understand for what reason [Democrats] don’t like Trump,” Soloviev said.
Days earlier, on his two-hour Sunday night program, anchor Dmitry Kiselyov opined about how Hollywood has joined the Democrats in being against Trump, portraying him as “always on the dark side.”
And the state-sponsored Rossiya-1 news channel, which airs Soloviev’s show, recently broadcast segments of Rudolph W. Giuliani’s interview with right-wing channel One America News, in which the president’s personal attorney promoted debunked conspiracy theories about Ukrainian interference in the 2016 U.S. presidential election.
colby.itkowitz@washpost.com
Khurshudyan reported from Moscow.
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@elbosque8677 God gave us free agency and many seek to do Evil including so called Christians. Christianity has always had 2 natures: 1. Those who love, accept, and welcome. 2. Those who judge, persecute, control, seek power, and burn witches & heretics. As the Bible says in 2 Corinthians 11:13-15 :
For such men are false apostles, deceitful workmen, disguising themselves as apostles of Christ. And no wonder, for even Satan disguises himself as an angel of light. So it is no surprise if his servants, also, disguise themselves as servants of righteousness. Their end will correspond to their deeds.
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Breaking 🚨: “I think mostly radical people on the right … are trying to exert influence on the judiciary in an anti-democratic fashion,” she said. “It is through intimidation. It is through threats. It is through violence.”
On Wednesday, bomb threats forced evacuations, closures or stepped-up security measures at more than a dozen state capitols, in Connecticut, Georgia, Kentucky, Michigan, Minnesota, Mississippi, Montana, Wisconsin, Hawaii, Maine, Oklahoma, Illinois, Idaho, South Dakota, Alabama, Alaska, Maryland and Arizona. The FBI said it had no information to indicate that the threats were credible.
Additional security threats were reported Thursday in Arkansas, Florida, Maine, Mississippi and Wisconsin, according to officials and local news outlets.
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TRUMP OWES HUNDREDS OF MILLION TO RUSSIA & CHINA.
IS HE KOMPROMISED?
Americans do not know how many hundreds of millions Donald Trump’s business owe Russia or China, but we need to know.
In 2008, Donald Trump Jr. told attendees at a real estate conference in New York City that “Russians make up a pretty disproportionate cross-section of a lot of our assets. We see a lot of money pouring in from Russia.” Sergei Millian, the president of the U.S. Russian Chamber of Commerce and friend of Trump, claims in 2016 the figure is in the hundreds of millions.
Russians are not the only American adversaries to support Trump’s business. The state-owned Central Bank of China has loaned Trump hundreds of millions of dollars. The New York Times has reported that American companies owned by Trump have at least $650 million in debt and the Bank of China is among the lenders. Jared Kushner received a $550 million loan from the state-owned CBC in 2017. This was one of the reasons the FBI would not give Kushner a Security Clearance, this and Jared & Ivanka’s “unusual” ties to CCP notables. We need to know how much Trump and his businesses owe Chinese banks as well as Russian oligarchs.
Trump has praised Russian President Vladimir Putin while hiring pro-Russian advisers to fill top campaign positions. Paul Manafort served as Trump’s campaign chairman until scrutiny over his consulting and lobbying work for Viktor Yanukovych, the Russian-backed former president of Ukraine, forced his resignation. Carter Page served as a foreign policy adviser for Trump until U.S. intelligence officials began looking into whether Mr. Page had opened a line of communication with senior Russian officials to discuss lifting economic sanctions on Russia should Trump win the presidency. These sanctions were imposed on Russia following Putin’s invasion of Crimea and Eastern Ukraine. Trump’s military advisor, retired Lt. Gen. Michael Flynn, unfortunately allowed himself to be used as a validator for Russian propaganda last year when he was seated near Putin at a Moscow gala celebrating Russia Today. Russia Today TV is Putin’s propaganda machine.
In summary you are telling me Hunter Biden is slimy but Trump, Don Jr., Eric, Ivanka, and Jared are Angles.
Your Hypocrisy STINKS all the way through the Internet.
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Litmus test. How to know if your president is a potential Authoritarian Threat to Democracy:
1. Rejection of (or weak commitment to) democratic rules or norms.
Examples.
Q. Do they reject the Constitution or express a willingness to violate it?
Q. Do they suggest a need for anti democratic measures banning certain organizations, or restricting basic civil or political rights?
Q. Do they attempt to undermine the legitimacy of elections, for example, by claiming unverifiable mass voter fraud.
2. Denial of the legitimacy of political opponents.
Examples.
Q. Do they describe their rivals as subversive, or opposed to your presidential powers.
Q. Do they claim that their rivals constitute a threat, either to the country or the prevailing way of life. Such as calling opponents socialists or communists?
Q. Do they baselessly describe their partisan rivals as criminals, whose supposed violations disqualifies them from full participation in the political arena.
Q. Do they baselessly suggest that their rivals are secretly working in alliance against you?
3. Toleration or encouragement of violence.
Examples.
Q. Do they have any ties to armed militias, paramilitary forces, white supremacy groups, etc?
Q. Have they encouraged, or suggested, mob attacks on opponents?
Q. Have they tacitly endorsed violence by their supporters by refusing to unambiguously condemning it?
Q. Have they praised (or refused to condemn) politically violent state actors in the past or currently?
4. Readiness to curtail civil liberties or voting rights of opponents, including the media?
Q. Have they supported laws or policies that restrict civil liberties, such as expanding defamation laws, or laws restricting protests, criticism of the government, or certain civic or political organizations?
Q. Have they threatened to take legal or other punitive action against critics in rival parties, civil society, or the media?
Q. Have they praised repressive leaders or actions taken by repressive leaders?
If the answer is yes to even on of the above questions then you have a wanna be Dictator on your hands.
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@ TRUMP’s CRIME SYNDICATE: Trump - Felon - Tied to Kremlin🇷🇺, Trump's Campaign Mgr - Felon🇷🇺, T’s Deputy Campaign Mgr - Felon🇷🇺, T’s Chief Strategist - Felon🇷🇺, T’s National Security Advisor - Felon🇷🇺, T’s Foreign Policy advisor - Felon🇷🇺, T’s Personal Lawyer - Felon, T’s Campaign Fixer - Felon, T’s Company CFO - Felon, T’s Trade Advisor - Felon, 22 Other Close Trump Associates - Convicted Felons.
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@jimdoe1694 Oh Komrade 🇷🇺🤡, you make me laugh. President Biden restored our American Democracy, restored our economy, lowest unemployment, best wage growth, best job market, best stock market ever, best infrastructure, and actually brought real jobs back to American Shores. Our Allie’s Respect us again, our enemies fear us, Putin & Xi lost their lackey Trump who would sell out America for a few $$$ in his pocket & a little flattery.
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Patti Morris
I believe it was Donald “Jenius” Trump who said of Epstein: “I’ve known Jeff for 15 years. Terrific guy, he’s a lot of fun to be with. It is even said that he likes beautiful young women as much as I do”
Then there is the other story:
It was supposed to be an exclusive party at Mar-a-Lago, Donald J. Trump’s members-only club in Palm Beach, Fla. But other than the two dozen or so young girls were flown in to provide the entertainment, the only guests were Mr. Trump and Jeffrey Epstein.
The year was 1992 and the event was a “calendar girl” competition, something that George Houraney, a Florida-based businessman who ran American Dream Enterprise, had organized at Mr. Trump’s request.
“I arranged to have some contestants fly in,” Mr. Houraney recalled in an interview on Monday. “At the very first party, I said, ‘Who’s coming tonight? I have 28 girls coming.’ Trump said “it was just him and Epstein”.
Mr. Houraney, who had just partnered with Mr. Trump to host events at his casinos, said he was surprised. “I said, ‘Donald, this is supposed to be a party with V.I.P.s. You’re telling me it’s you and Epstein?’” “I said, ‘Look, Donald, I know Jeff really well, I can’t have him going after younger girls,’” Mr. Houraney remembers. “He said, ‘Look I’m putting my name on this. I wouldn’t put my name on it and have a scandal.’” But Trump didn’t care.
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Trump Failure’s: U.S. Presidency, Trump Airlines, Trump Bottled Water, Trump Board Game, Trump Mortgage, Trump Travel, Trump Steaks, Trump Vodka, Trump Telephone, Trump Tower Tampa, Trump Tower Chicago,Trump University, Trump Fragrance, Trump Mattresses, Trump Casino, Trump Castle & Marina, Trump Plaza Hotel, Trump “Worlds Fair”, Trump Coachella 29 - removed for incompetence..
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@jf7078 Tell me JF, what part of the Constitution allows for a Fake Electors Coup? I can show you what part of the Constitution talks about Sedition:
Fourteenth Amendment Equal Protection and Other Rights
Section 3 Disqualification from Holding Office
No person shall be a Senator or Representative in Congress, or elector of President and Vice-President, or hold any office, civil or military, under the United States, or under any State, who, having previously taken an oath, as a member of Congress, or as an officer of the United States, or as a member of any State legislature, or as an executive or judicial officer of any State, to support the Constitution of the United States, shall have engaged in insurrection or rebellion against the same, or given aid or comfort to the enemies thereof. Amdt14.S3.1 Overview of Disqualification Clause. ✌️🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸✌️
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@AlexofStoneylodge The “Jenius” Of DJT ~ “So, supposing we hit the body with a tremendous — whether it’s ultraviolet or just very powerful light — and I think you said that that hasn’t been tried, but you’re going to test it. And then I said, supposing you brought the light inside the body, which you can do either through the skin or in some other way, and I think you said you’re going to test that, too. It sounds interesting. And then I see the disinfectant, where it knocks it out in a minute. One minute. And is there a way we can do something like that, by injection inside or almost a cleaning. Because you see it gets in the lungs, and it does a tremendous number on the lungs. So it would be interesting to check that, maybe check that out”. 😂😂😂
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@Jon-dr4fb TRUMP’s CRIME SYNDICATE: Trump - Felon - Tied to Kremlin🇷🇺, Trump's Campaign Mgr - Felon🇷🇺, T’s Deputy Campaign Mgr - Felon🇷🇺, T’s Chief Strategist - Felon🇷🇺, T’s National Security Advisor - Felon🇷🇺, T’s Foreign Policy advisor - Felon🇷🇺, T’s Personal Lawyer - Felon, T’s Campaign Fixer - Felon, T’s Company CFO - Felon, T’s Trade Advisor - Felon, 22 Other Close Trump Associates - Convicted Felons.
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@Stoich827 The “calendar girl” event took place at Trump’s Mar-a-Lago in 1992. George Houraney, who ran American Dream Enterprise, organized a meet and greet of the teens at Trump’s request. Houraney: “I arranged to have some contestants fly in. At the very first party, I said, ‘Who’s coming tonight? I have 28 girls coming.’ It was him and Epstein.” Houraney added that he warned Trump about his friend’s conduct, recalling: “I said, ‘Look, Donald, I know Jeff really well, I can’t have him going after younger girls.’... He said, ‘Look, I’m the boss we do what I want’.
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@24juan68 Face the obvious, everything said about Treasonous Trump was True. Igor Danchenko, Steele, Mueller, House Intel, Senate Intel, CIA, DIA, FBI, NSA, etc. all presented overwhelming evidence that has stood up in court.
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@kevinpreston5590
Love of Authoritarianism ✅:
“I will terminate all of the rules, regulations, and articles, even those found in the Constitution” ~ Donald J Trump 12/05/22
“Trump was wrong, I had no Constitutional right to overturn the election. The American people need to know that Trump asked me to put him over the Constitution. Anyone who puts themselves over the Constitution should never be president of the United States.” ~ Mike Pence 🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸
“Just say that the election was corrupt and leave the rest to me” ~ DJT
Gen. Mark Milley: “We were so worried that Trump would attempt a Coup that the Top Brass drew up contingency plans to stop him from using the military in a Coup.”
Gen. Jim Mattis: “Donald Trump is the first president in my lifetime who does not try to unite the American people — does not even pretend to try. Instead he tries to divide us. We must reject and hold accountable those [like Trump] who make a mockery of our Constitution.”
“I went in yesterday and there was a television screen, and I said, ‘This is genius.’ Putin declares a big portion of the Ukraine, of Ukraine, Putin declares it as independent. Oh, that’s wonderful” ~ DJT
"My people came to me. Dan Coats came to me, and some others.They said they think it's Russia. I have President Putin. He just said it's not Russia. I will say this: I don't see any reason why it would be." ~ DJT
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@kevinpreston5590 More Love of Authoritarianism ✅:
“There’s nobody that’s better, smarter or a better leader than Viktor Orban” ~ DJT
“We [Kim Jong Un] exchanged love letters, beautiful love letters… we were in love” ~ DJT
"How many young guys [Kim Jong Un] — he was, like, 26 or 25 when his father died — take over these tough generals, all of a sudden ... he goes in, he takes over, and he's the boss. It's incredible. He wiped out the uncle, he wiped out this one, that one. I mean, this guy is incredibly successful and doesn't play games.” ~ DJT
" Xi, a great Guy, is now president for life, president for life. I think it's great. Maybe we'll have to give that a shot someday.” ~ DJT
“I like President Xi a lot. I consider him a close friend, and – but I like him a lot. I’ve gotten to know him very well. He’s a strong man, right? Anybody that – he’s a strong guy, tough guy. We need a strong guy like Xi.” ~ DJT
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JamarcusRobinson154 Trump Failure’s: U.S. Presidency, Trump Airlines, Trump Bottled Water, Trump Board Game, Trump Mortgage, Trump Travel, Trump Steaks, Trump Vodka, Trump Telephone, Trump Tower Tampa, Trump University, Trump Fragrance, Trump Mattresses, Trump Casino, Trump Castle & Marina, Trump Plaza Hotel, Trump “Worlds Fair”, Trump Coachella 29 - removed for incompetence..
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The cost of Trump’s Golf Trips tops $628,000 to U.S. Tax Payers.
President Trump’s company charged the Secret Service $157,000 more than was previously known — billing taxpayers for rooms at his clubs at rates far higher than his company has claimed, according to a new trove of receipts and billing documents released by the Secret Service. When added to dozens of charges already reported by The Washington Post, the new documents show that Trump’s company has charged the Secret Service more than $628,000 since he took office in 2017.
Yet another Trumpian Lie Exposed.
“If my father travels, they stay at our properties for free — meaning, like, cost for housekeeping,” said Eric Trump, the company’s executive vice president. Later in the interview, he said, “We charge them, like, 50 bucks.” Said Eric Trump.
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This is the type of people who support Treasonous Trump:
Rep. Rodney Garcia, a state lawmaker in Montana, told a roomful of Republicans he believes the U.S. Constitution says socialists can be jailed or shot simply for being socialists. Garcia initially made the statement at an election event, then he reiterated it to a Billings Gazette reporter.
Garcia’s inflammatory assertion first came Friday night, after former interior secretary Ryan Zinke gave a speech at the party event in Helena. According to reporting from the Gazette, Garcia said he was concerned there were socialists “everywhere” in Billings, which he represents in House District 52.
Billings Gazette reporter Holly Michels later asked Garcia to clarify his remarks, and the lawmaker doubled down.
“So actually in the Constitution of the United States, [if you] are found guilty of being a socialist member you either go to prison or are shot,” Garcia told Michels.
Garcia was not able to say where he finds that in the Constitution, the Billings Gazette reported.
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A day before rioters stormed Congress, an FBI office in Virginia issued an explicit internal warning that extremists were preparing to travel to Washington to commit violence and “war,” according to an FBI internal document. A situational information report approved for release the day before the U.S. Capitol riot painted a dire portrait of dangerous plans, including individuals sharing a map of the complex’s tunnels, and possible rally points for would-be conspirators to meet up. “As of 5 January 2021, FBI Norfolk received information indicating calls for violence in response to ‘unlawful lockdowns’ to begin on 6 January 2021 in Washington. D.C.,” the document says. “An online thread discussed specific calls for violence to include stating ‘Be ready to fight. Congress needs to hear glass breaking, doors being kicked in, and blood being spilled. Get violent. Stop calling this a march, or rally, or a protest. Go there ready for war. Our President wants us to do this. NOTHING else will achieve this goal.”
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The Ultra Conservative New York Post gave Trump a blistering rebuke demanding that he grow up and accept his loss to President-elect Joe Biden and stop falsely claiming that mass voter fraud had marred the results — an effort the paper labeled a “dark charade.”
“We understand, Mr. President, that you’re angry that you lost,” the editorial board wrote. “But to continue down this road is treasonous.”
Under the headline “Stop the insanity,” the conservative tabloid took particular aim at Trump’s attempts to pressure Vice President Pence and congressional Republicans to somehow Throwout the result when they meet on Jan. 6 to certify Biden’s electoral college victory.
“You have tweeted that, as long as Republicans have ‘courage,’ they can overturn the results and give you four more years in office,” the Post wrote. “In other words, you’re cheering for an undemocratic coup.”
The article also reminded Trump that he had clearly failed in his attempts to prove voter fraud propelled Biden to victory.
“You had every right to investigate the election. But let’s be clear: Those efforts have found nothing,” the Post wrote, noting that Trump-backed recounts in Wisconsin and Georgia had turned up no evidence of malfeasance.
The editorial also lashed out at Sidney Powell, whose “Kraken” lawsuits seeking to overturn the election results have repeatedly been tossed out of court, and Michael Flynn, the former national security adviser who has floated the idea of declaring martial law to keep Trump in power.
“Michael Flynn suggesting martial law is tantamount to treason. It is shameful.”
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MisterQuantum77
Trumpian Lies continued:
Blaming the Obama Administration
When: Wednesday, March 4
The claim: The Trump White House rolled back FDA regulations that limited the kind of laboratory tests states could run and how they could conduct them. “The Obama administration made a decision on testing that turned out to be very detrimental to what we’re doing,” Trump said.
The truth: The Obama administration drafted, but never implemented, changes to rules that regulate laboratory tests run by states. Trump’s policy change relaxed an FDA requirement that would have forced private labs to wait for FDA authorization to conduct their own, non-CDC-approved coronavirus tests.
When: Friday, March 13
The claim: The Obama White House’s response to the H1N1 pandemic was “a full scale disaster, with thousands dying, and nothing meaningful done to fix the testing problem, until now.”
The truth: Barack Obama declared a public-health emergency two weeks after the first U.S. cases of H1N1 were reported, in California. (Trump declared a national emergency more than seven weeks after the first domestic COVID-19 case was reported, in Washington State.) While testing is a problem now, it wasn’t back in 2009.
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MisterQuantum77
Trumpian Lies continued again:
On Coronavirus Testing
When: Friday, March 6
The claim: “Anybody that needs a test, gets a test. We—they’re there. They have the tests. And the tests are beautiful.”
The truth: The country’s testing capabilities are severely limited. Trump made this claim one day after his own vice president, Mike Pence, admitted that “we don’t have enough tests today to meet what we anticipate will be the demand going forward.”
When: Wednesday, March 11
The claim: In an Oval Office address, Trump said that private health-insurance companies had “agreed to waive all co-payments for coronavirus treatments, extend insurance coverage to these treatments, and to prevent surprise medical billing.”
The truth: Insurers agreed only to absorb the cost of coronavirus testing—waiving co-pays and deductibles for getting the test. Follow-up treatments aren’t covered. Neither are the costs of other non-coronavirus testing or treatment incurred by patients who have COVID-19 or are trying to get a diagnosis. And as for surprise medical billing? Mitigating it would require the cooperation of insurers, doctors, and hospitals.
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MisterQuantum77
Yet more Trumpian lies on the Coronavirus:
When: Friday, March 13
The claim: Google engineers are building a website to help Americans determine whether they need testing for the coronavirus and to direct them to their nearest testing site.
The truth: The announcement was news to Google itself—the website Trump (and other administration officials) described was actually being built by Verily, a division of Alphabet, the parent company of Google. The Verge first reported on Trump’s error, citing a Google representative who confirmed that Verily was working on a “triage website” with limited coverage for the San Francisco Bay Area. But since then, Google has pivoted to fulfill Trump’s public proclamation, saying it would speed up the development of a new, separate website while Verily worked on finishing its project, The Washington Post reported.
When: Tuesday, March 24 and Wednesday, March 25
The claim: The United States has outpaced South Korea’s COVID-19 testing: “We’re going up proportionally very rapidly,” Trump said during a Fox News town hall.
The truth: While, in absolute numbers, Trump is right about the number of tests administered in the United States, the country still lags behind South Korea’s testing relative to its population. South Korea has conducted about five times as many tests as a proportion of its population relative to the United States. As of this writing, the U.S. has conducted roughly 430,000 tests, according to the COVID-19 Tracking Project, while South Korea has conducted about 350,000, according to the Korean Center for Disease Control.
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MisterQuantum77
Yet more and more Trumpian lies:
On Travel Bans and Travelers
When: Wednesday, March 11
The claim: The United States would suspend “all travel from Europe, except the United Kingdom, for the next 30 days,” Trump announced in an Oval Office address.
The truth: The travel restriction would not apply to U.S. citizens, legal permanent residents, or their families returning from Europe. At first, it applied specifically to the 26 European countries that make up the Schengen Area, not all of Europe. Trump later announced the inclusion of the United Kingdom and Ireland in the ban.
Another claim: In the same address, Trump said the travel restrictions would “not only apply to the tremendous amount of trade and cargo but various other things as we get approval.”
The truth: Trump followed up in a tweet, explaining that trade and cargo would not be subject to the restrictions.
When: Thursday, March 12
The claim: All U.S. citizens arriving from Europe would be subject to medical screening, COVID-19 testing, and quarantine if necessary. “If an American is coming back or anybody is coming back, we’re testing,” Trump said. “We have a tremendous testing setup where people coming in have to be tested … We’re not putting them on planes if it shows positive, but if they do come here, we’re quarantining.”
The truth: Testing is already severely limited in the United States. It is not true that all Americans returning to the country are being tested, nor that anyone is being forced to quarantine.
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MisterQuantum77
OMG more Trumpian lies:
On Taking the Pandemic Seriously
When: Tuesday, March 17
The claim: “I’ve always known this is a real—this is a pandemic. I felt it was a pandemic long before it was called a pandemic … I’ve always viewed it as very serious.”
The truth: Trump has repeatedly downplayed the significance of COVID-19 as outbreaks began stateside. From calling criticism of his handling of the virus a “hoax,” to comparing the coronavirus to a common flu, to worrying about letting sick Americans off cruise ships because they would increase the number of confirmed cases, Trump has used his public statements to send mixed messages and sow doubt about the outbreak’s seriousness.
On COVID-19 Treatments and Vaccines
When: Monday, March 2
The claim: Pharmaceutical companies are going “to have vaccines, I think, relatively soon.”
The truth: The president’s own experts told him during a White House meeting with pharmaceutical leaders earlier that same day that a vaccine could take a year to 18 months to develop. In response, he said he would prefer if it took only a few months. He later claimed, at a campaign rally in Charlotte, NC, that a vaccine would be ready “soon.”
When: Thursday, March 19
The claim: At a press briefing with his coronavirus task force, Trump said the FDA had approved the antimalarial drug chloroquine to treat COVID-19. “Normally the FDA would take a long time to approve something like that, and it’s—it was approved very, very quickly and it’s now approved by prescription,” he said.
The truth: FDA Commissioner Stephen Hahn, who was at the briefing, quickly clarified that the drug still had to be tested in a clinical setting. An FDA representative later told Bloomberg that the drug has not been approved for COVID-19 use, though a doctor could still prescribe it for that purpose. Later that same day, Fauci told CNN that there is no “magic drug” to cure COVID-19: “Today, there are no proven safe and effective therapies for the coronavirus.”
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Holy snikies yet more Trumpian lies, does he ever stop?
On the Defense Production Act
When: Friday, March 20
The claim: Trump twice said during a task-force briefing that he had invoked the Defense Production Act, a Korean War–era law that enables the federal government to order private industry to produce certain items and materials for national use. He also said the federal government was already using its authority under the law: “We have a lot of people working very hard to do ventilators and various other things.”
The truth: Federal Emergency Management Agency Administrator Peter Gaynor told CNN on March 22 that the president has not actually used the DPA to order private companies to produce anything. Shortly after that, Trump backtracked, saying that he had not compelled private companies to take action. Then, on March 24, Gaynor told CNN that FEMA plans to use the DPA to allocate 60,000 test kits. Trump tweeted afterward that the DPA would not be used.
When: Saturday, March 21
The claim: Automobile companies that have volunteered to manufacture medical equipment, such as ventilators, are “making them right now.”
The truth: Ford and General Motors, which Trump mentioned at a task-force briefing the same day, announced earlier in March that they had halted all factory production in North America and were likely months away from beginning production of ventilators, representatives told the Associated Press. Since then, Ford CEO James Hackett told CNN that the auto company will begin to work with 3M to produce respirators and with General Electric to assemble ventilators. GM said it will explore the possibility of producing ventilators in an Indiana factory. Tesla CEO Elon Musk, whose company Trump highlighted in a tweet, has said that the company is “working on ventilators” but that they cannot be produced “instantly.”
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So you support the Antichrist Trump. Think about it:
1. Trump has committed Adultly multiple Times.
2. He is a self admitted philanderer.
3. He son in law owns a building at the address of 666.
4. He is in love with his daughter in an incestuous way. “If she weren’t my daughter I would date her”
5. He betrays America to take favors from Putin - Russian Scandal and Election Hacking.
6. He cheats on his taxes
7. He cheats his contractors
8. He lies about big things and little things daily - lost count of verified lies. Is it 1000+ or 10,000+
9. Is not a Christian but claims to be. Knows nothing of the Bible, Jesus, or God. Does not, has not, acted like a Christian in any way, shape, or form. However, he panders to the Evangelicals.
10. Is attracted to, and fawns over, murderous dictators like Putin and Kim.
11. Is Verified Narcissistic
12. Appears stupid, inept, cruel, clownish, evil, etc. but is still very attractive to his followers?
13. Has Demon children.
Trump is the Antichrist and his followers are his minions.
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TRUMP & HIS MURDEROUS LIES
Trump has reached the milestone of 18,000 lies during his presidency. On the same day he accused the WHO of “covering up the spread of the coronavirus” and failing to “share information in a timely fashion.” He declared he was cutting off funding for the world’s public health body in the middle of a pandemic.
He also called WHO a “tool of China” and floated the theory that WHO deliberately concealed the danger of the virus: “There’s something going on” at the WHO “that’s very bad,” and "I have a feeling they knew exactly what was going on.”
This is a murderous lie as 15 Trump appointed officials were embedded with WHO in Geneva, working full time, hand-in-glove with the organization on the virus from the very first day China disclosed the outbreak to the world, Dec. 31. These Trump officials U.S. officials dedicated 100% of their time to the virus. In the weeks that followed, they and other U.S. government scientists engaged in all major deliberations and decisions at the WHO on the novel coronavirus, had access to all information, and contributed significantly to the world body’s conclusions and recommendations. Everything that WHO knew, Trump knew — in real time. As congressional investigators are now learning, senior Trump administration officials — Health and Human Services Secretary Alex Azar; the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s Robert R. Redfield Jr., Anne Schuchat, Ray R. Arthur and Jeffrey McFarland; the National Institutes of Health’s Anthony S. Fauci and H. Clifford Lane, and many others — consulted with the WHO throughout the crisis.
Trump lied and Americans Died - 33,500+ & Counting.
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A day before rioters stormed Congress, an FBI office in Virginia issued an explicit internal warning that extremists were preparing to travel to Washington to commit violence and “war,” according to an FBI internal document. A situational information report approved for release the day before the U.S. Capitol riot painted a dire portrait of dangerous plans, including individuals sharing a map of the complex’s tunnels, and possible rally points for would-be conspirators to meet up. “As of 5 January 2021, FBI Norfolk received information indicating calls for violence in response to ‘unlawful lockdowns’ to begin on 6 January 2021 in Washington. D.C.,” the document says. “An online thread discussed specific calls for violence to include stating ‘Be ready to fight. Congress needs to hear glass breaking, doors being kicked in, and blood being spilled. Get violent. Stop calling this a march, or rally, or a protest. Go there ready for war. Our President wants us to do this. NOTHING else will achieve this goal.”
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Face the obvious, Treasonous Trump lied to you. The evidence presented by Danchenko, Steele, Mueller, House Intel, Senate Intel, CIA, DIA, FBI, NSA, etc. has stood up in court and is overwhelmingly damming to TT.
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TRUMP’s BLAME-SHIFTING SCAM SPOTLIGHTS HIS FAILURES.
The timeline for Trump’s Failures:
Jan. 23, the WHO warned that coronavirus could “appear in any country,” and urged all countries to be “prepared for containment” and get ready to exercise “isolation” and “prevention” measures against its spread.
At the same time Trump was asked point-blank if worried about coronavirus’s spread, and he answered: “No, not at all, it was one person coming from China. We have it totally under control.”
On Jan. 24, Trump praised China’s “efforts” and its “transparency” and predicting that “it will all work out well.” Trump showed no concern about Covid45s spread outside China — even though WHO warned otherwise.
On Jan. 30, the WHO declared coronavirus a global public health emergency. While WHO was still too credulous toward China’s response, WHO also warned that all countries must review “preparedness plans” and take seriously what was coming.
By contrast, on Jan. 30 Trump was AGAIN directly warned by his HHS Sec. of the threat coronavirus posed. Trump dismissed this as “alarmist.”
On Feb. 2, Trump boasted to Sean Hannity: “We pretty much shut it down, coming in from China.” He hailed our “tremendous relationship” with that country. Trump continued praising China’s handling of coronavirus all through the entire month of February. Trump showed precisely the same credulity about China that WHO for showing, but without appreciating the urgency of the international threat coronavirus posed to the degree that the WHO did.
On travel restrictions:
Jan. 31, Trump announced restrictions on travel from China, WHO disagreed claiming it was too late. Ironically, Trump’s travel ban only excluded non Americans, not Americans, and set up no measures to screen or quarantine American Travelers returning from China.
For kicks and giggles google all the crazy quotes Trump made dismissing the coming deadly crisis right up to the last week of March. In the end Xi lied, WHO botched, & Trump did NOTHING DESPITE ALL THE WARNINGS.
26,212 American Deaths & rising and Trump still can’t pull it together.
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TRUMP & HIS MURDEROUS LIES
Trump has reached the milestone of 18,000 lies during his presidency. On the same day he accused the WHO of “covering up the spread of the coronavirus” and failing to “share information in a timely fashion.” He declared he was cutting off funding for the world’s public health body in the middle of a pandemic.
He also called WHO a “tool of China” and floated the theory that WHO deliberately concealed the danger of the virus: “There’s something going on” at the WHO “that’s very bad,” and "I have a feeling they knew exactly what was going on.”
This is a murderous lie as 15 Trump appointed officials were embedded with WHO in Geneva, working full time, hand-in-glove with the organization on the virus from the very first day China disclosed the outbreak to the world, Dec. 31. These Trump officials U.S. officials dedicated 100% of their time to the virus. In the weeks that followed, they and other U.S. government scientists engaged in all major deliberations and decisions at the WHO on the novel coronavirus, had access to all information, and contributed significantly to the world body’s conclusions and recommendations. Everything that WHO knew, Trump knew — in real time. As congressional investigators are now learning, senior Trump administration officials — Health and Human Services Secretary Alex Azar; the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s Robert R. Redfield Jr., Anne Schuchat, Ray R. Arthur and Jeffrey McFarland; the National Institutes of Health’s Anthony S. Fauci and H. Clifford Lane, and many others — consulted with the WHO throughout the crisis.
Trump lied and Americans Died - 33,500+ & Counting.
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THE GQP HAS ATTACKED: Our American Democracy, Democratic Institutions, Free Press, Rule of Law, Constitution, Military, Education, Teachers, Voting Rights, Truth, Common Decency…
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“TRUMP UNFIT TO SERVE AS PRESIDENT, OR IN ANY OFFICE OF PUBLIC TRUST.” Every National Security, Foreign Policy, Dept. of Defense, Treasury, State, Justice, Homeland Security, Commerce, signed a Letter saying this:
Admiral Steve Abbot
USN (Ret.), Deputy Homeland Security Advisor, George W. Bush
Kenneth Adelman Director, Arms Control and Disarmament Agency, Reagan
Dr. Carol C. Adelman Asst. Admin., U.S. Agency for International Development, Reagan
Major General John Barry USAF (Ret.), Military Assistant to the Secretary of Defense
Richard C. Barth Asst. Secretary, Department of Homeland Security, W. Bush
Christopher Barton Director, National Security Council Staff
John Bellinger Legal Adviser, National Security Council, W. Bush
Admiral Kenneth Bernard Special Asst. to W. Bush
Mark E. Bitterman Special Asst. to the Secretary of Defense, H.W. Bush
Robert D. Blackwill Deputy National Security Advisor, W. Bush
William Bodie Asst. to the Secretary of the Air Force, W. Bush
Christian M.L. Bonat Deputy General Counsel, DOD, W. Bush & Obama
Richard Boucher Assistant Secretary of State, W. Bush
Charles W. Boustany, Jr. Former Member of Congress, Louisiana
Charles R. Bowers Ambassador to Bolivia, H.W. Bush
Greg Brower Asst. Director, FBI, Obama & Trump
Christopher Buckley Chief Speechwriter, Office of VP H.W. Bush
James R. Bullington U.S. Ambassador to Burundi, Reagan
Richard Burt U.S. Ambassador to Germany, Reagan
Gahl Hodges Burt Asst. to the Secretary of State, Reagan
Rear Admiral Fred Byus U.S. Navy (Ret.)
Jack C. Chow Deputy Asst. Secretary of State, W. Bush
James W. Cicconi Asst. to the President & Deputy to the Chief of Staff, H. W. Bush
Peggy Cifrino Deputy Chief of Staff to Secretary of State Colin Powell, W. Bush
Eliot A. Cohen Counselor of the Dept. of State, W. Bush
Benedict S. Cohen General Counsel, Dept. of the Army, W. Bush
William Cohen Secretary of Defense, Clinton, & U.S. Senator, Maine
Joseph J. Collins Deputy Asst. Secretary of Defense, W. Bush
Barbara Comstock Former Member of Congress, Virginia
Cindy Courville National Security Affairs for Africa, W. Bush
Chester A. Crocker Assistant Secretary of State, Reagan
Patrick M. Cronin Admin. U.S. Agency for International Development, W. Bush
Stephen W. DeVine Deputy Legal Advisor, National Security Council, W. Bush
Charles Djou Former Member of Congress, Hawaii
Michael Donley Secretary of the Air Force, George W. Bush & Obama
Raymond F. DuBois Secretary of the Army, George W. Bush
Martha E. Duncan Sr Executive Service, DOD, George W. Bush & Obama
Lewis A. Dunn Director, Arms Control and Disarmament Agency, Reagan
Eric S. Edelman Under Secretary of Defense, George W. Bush
Mickey Edwards Member of Congress, Oklahoma
Richard A. Falkenrath Deputy Assistant to the President, George W. Bush
Jendayi E. Frazer Ambassador to South Africa George W. Bush Administration
Aaron L. Friedber Deputy Assistant to George W. Bush
William Gaches Director of Counterterrorism, NSA, George W. Bush
Janice Gardner Assistant Secretary of the Treasury, George W. Bush
Stuart M. Gerson Attorney General of the United States, George W. Bush
James K. Glassman Under Secretary of State, George W. Bush
Jon D. Glassman Deputy National Security Advisor to George H.W. Bush
David Gordon Director, State Dept, Policy Planning, George W. Bush
Sen. Chuck Hagel Secretary of Defense, Obama, and former U.S. Senator, Nebraska
Christopher Hank Deputy Assistant Secretary of State; Reagan,Bush, & Clinton
Mark Harvey Special Assistant to the President, Trump
General Michael V. Hayden Director of the CIA & NSA, Bush & Obama
Carla Hills U.S. Trade Representative, George H.W Bush
Seth Hurwitz Counsel, President's Intelligence Oversight Board, George H.W. Bush
Peter Keisler Attorney General of the U.S., George W. Bush
James A. Kelly Secretary of State, George W. Bush
Adam Kinzinger Former Member of Congress, Illinois
Sofia Kinzinger Deputy Assistant Secretary, Dept. of Homeland Security, Trump
Kenneth J. Krieg Under Secretary of Defense, George W. Bush
James R. Kunder Deputy Administrator, U.S. Agency for International Development, Bush
Brigadier General George Landis, USA, Ret. U.S. Personnel Info Systems Command
Frank Lavin Ambassador to Singapore & Under Secretary of Commerce, George W. Bush
Peter Lichtenbaum
Former Assistant Secretary of Commerce, George W. Bush Administration
Rear Admiral David M. Lichtman, MD, USN (Ret.)
Former Commander, National Naval Medical Center, Bethesda, George H.W. Bush and Clinton Administrations
Winston Lord
Former U.S. Ambassador to China, Reagan and George H.W. Bush Administration
Steven R. Mann
Former Ambassador to Turkmenistan and Former Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary in the State Dept., Clinton and George W. Bush Administrations
Colonel John W. McDonald
Former Deputy Under Secretary of the Army
P. Michael McKinley
Former Ambassador to Peru and Acting Ambassador to the European Union and Mozambique, George W. Bush Administration; Former Ambassador to Peru, Colombia, Afghanistan, and Brazil, Obama Administration
Dan Miller
Former Member of Congress, Florida
John M. Mitnick
Former General Counsel, Dept. of Homeland Security, Trump
Allen Moore
Former Under Secretary of Commerce, Reagan
Alberto Mora
Former General Counsel, U.S. Information Agency, George H.W. Bush; Former General Counsel, Dept. of the Navy, George W. Bush
Kenneth Mortensen
Former Associate Deputy Attorney General, George W. Bush
Vice Admiral Charles L. Munns
U.S. Navy (Ret.), George W. Bush
John D. Negroponte Deputy Secretary of State, George W. Bush
Elizabeth Neumann Assistant Secretary of Homeland Security, Trump
Sean O'Keefe Secretary of the Navy, George H.W. Bush
Bill Paxon Former Member of Congress, New York
William R Piekney CIA Chief of Station, Reagan
Daniel M. Price Deputy NSA Advisor, George W. Bush
Alan Charles Raul Vice Chairman, Civil Liberties Oversight Board, George W. Bush
Victor Reis Director, DARPA, George H.W. Bush
Robert Annan Riley Ambassador to Micronesia, Trump
Paul Rosenzweig Deputy Assistant Secretary of Homeland Security, George W. Bush
Charles Rossotti Deputy Asst. Secretary of Defense; Commissioner of IRS, Clinton & Bush
Nicholas Rostow National Security Council Legal Adviser, Reagan & H.W. Bush
Kori Schake Deputy Director of Policy Planning, State Dept., W. Bush
Wayne A. Schroeder Deputy Under Secretary of Defense, W. Bush
Gregory L. Schulte Sr Director, National Security Council & Atomic Energy Agency, W. Bush
Robert Shanks Deputy Assistant AG, Reagan
Rep. Christopher Shays Former Member of Congress, Connecticut
John Simon Senior Director, National Security Council Staff, W. Bush
Stephen Slick Sr. Director, National Security Council Staff, W. Bush
Mark C. Storella U.S. Ambassador to Zambia, Obama
William H. Taft IV Deputy Secretary of Defense and Ambassador to NATO, W. Bush
Miles Taylor Chief of Staff, Dept. of Homeland Security, Trump
Larry D. Thompson Former Deputy AG, W. Bush
Jack Tomarchio Deputy Under Secretary of Homeland Security, W. Bush
Olivia Troye Special Advisor to VP Pence, Trump
Robert Tuttle U.S. Ambassador to the UK, W. Bush
John K. Veroneau Deputy U.S. Trade Rep. & Assistant Secretary of Defense, W. Bush & Clinton
Colonel Terry Virts, USAF (Ret.)
Former NASA Astronaut, Former Commander of the International Space Station
Dr. Thomas G. Ward, Jr. Director of Threats, Ballistic Missile Defense Org., Reagan & Clinton
Matthew C. Waxman Principal Deputy Director, State Dept Policy Planning, W. Bush
William H. Webster Director of the CIA & FBI, Reagan & H.W. Bush
William F. Weld Assistant Attorney General, Criminal Division, Reagan
J. Robinson West Assistant Secretary of Interior, Reagan
Wendell L. Willkie II General Counsel, Dept. of Commerce, H.W. Bush
Philip Zelikow Counselor of the Dept. of State, W. Bush
Robert B. Zoellick White House Deputy Chief of Staff, George H.W. Bush
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Then why do you vote for these Corrupt Republicans? While you get $600 (total cost $166 Billion), the top 1% richest Americans got $200 Billion in Tax Cuts, Tax Breaks, Offshore Tax Breaks, 3 Martini Expensive Business Lunch Tax Breaks, Etc. American Farmers got $156 Billion in stimulus, to unequally divide amongst the Richest Farmers.
And yes, these were all added by people with a Big R by their name. And yes, these same people with a Big R by their name fought tooth & nail to make damm sure no more than $600 was spent on Joe Average.
By the way, are you calling these Republicans, the same people who supported Treasonous Trump for 4 years. The same Republicans who turned a blind eye to Treasonous Trump’s Gross Corruption Communists?
HOW IRONIC!
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LIST OF 16 MEMBERS OF CONGRESS WHO COMMITTED TREASON:
Rep. Scott Perry, R-Pa.
Rep. Jim Jordan, R-Ohio
Rep. Mo Brooks, R-Ala.
Rep. Louie Gohmert, R-Texas
Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene, R-Ga.
Rep. Andy Biggs, R-Ariz.
Rep. Paul Gosar, R-Ariz.
Rep. Matt Gaetz, R-Fla.
Rep. Lauren Boebert, R-Colo.
Rep. Andy Harris, R-Md.
Rep. Madison Cawthorn, R-N.C.
Rep. Brian Babin, R-Texas
Sen. Lindsey Graham, R-S.C.
Sen. Ron Johnson, R-Wis.
Sen. Mike Lee, R-Utah
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@uwefisher656 Face the obvious, Treasonous Trump lied to you. The evidence presented by Danchenko, Steele, Mueller, House Intel, Senate Intel, CIA, DIA, FBI, NSA, etc. has stood up in court and is overwhelmingly damming to TT.
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“TRUMP UNFIT TO SERVE AS PRESIDENT, OR IN ANY OFFICE OF PUBLIC TRUST.” List of Prominent Republicans who will not support Trump.
Admiral Steve Abbot
USN (Ret.), Deputy Homeland Security Advisor, George W. Bush
Kenneth Adelman Director, Arms Control and Disarmament Agency, Reagan
Dr. Carol C. Adelman Asst. Admin., U.S. Agency for International Development, Reagan
Major General John Barry USAF (Ret.), Military Assistant to the Secretary of Defense
Richard C. Barth Asst. Secretary, Department of Homeland Security, W. Bush
Christopher Barton Director, National Security Council Staff
John Bellinger Legal Adviser, National Security Council, W. Bush
Admiral Kenneth Bernard Special Asst. to W. Bush
Mark E. Bitterman Special Asst. to the Secretary of Defense, H.W. Bush
Robert D. Blackwill Deputy National Security Advisor, W. Bush
William Bodie Asst. to the Secretary of the Air Force, W. Bush
Christian M.L. Bonat Deputy General Counsel, DOD, W. Bush & Obama
Richard Boucher Assistant Secretary of State, W. Bush
Charles W. Boustany, Jr. Former Member of Congress, Louisiana
Charles R. Bowers Ambassador to Bolivia, H.W. Bush
Greg Brower Asst. Director, FBI, Obama & Trump
Christopher Buckley Chief Speechwriter, Office of VP H.W. Bush
James R. Bullington U.S. Ambassador to Burundi, Reagan
Richard Burt U.S. Ambassador to Germany, Reagan
Gahl Hodges Burt Asst. to the Secretary of State, Reagan
Rear Admiral Fred Byus U.S. Navy (Ret.)
Jack C. Chow Deputy Asst. Secretary of State, W. Bush
James W. Cicconi Asst. to the President & Deputy to the Chief of Staff, H. W. Bush
Peggy Cifrino Deputy Chief of Staff to Secretary of State Colin Powell, W. Bush
Eliot A. Cohen Counselor of the Dept. of State, W. Bush
Benedict S. Cohen General Counsel, Dept. of the Army, W. Bush
William Cohen Secretary of Defense, Clinton, & U.S. Senator, Maine
Joseph J. Collins Deputy Asst. Secretary of Defense, W. Bush
Barbara Comstock Former Member of Congress, Virginia
Cindy Courville National Security Affairs for Africa, W. Bush
Chester A. Crocker Assistant Secretary of State, Reagan
Patrick M. Cronin Admin. U.S. Agency for International Development, W. Bush
Stephen W. DeVine Deputy Legal Advisor, National Security Council, W. Bush
Charles Djou Former Member of Congress, Hawaii
Michael Donley Secretary of the Air Force, George W. Bush & Obama
Raymond F. DuBois Secretary of the Army, George W. Bush
Martha E. Duncan Sr Executive Service, DOD, George W. Bush & Obama
Lewis A. Dunn Director, Arms Control and Disarmament Agency, Reagan
Eric S. Edelman Under Secretary of Defense, George W. Bush
Mickey Edwards Member of Congress, Oklahoma
Richard A. Falkenrath Deputy Assistant to the President, George W. Bush
Jendayi E. Frazer Ambassador to South Africa George W. Bush Administration
Aaron L. Friedber Deputy Assistant to George W. Bush
William Gaches Director of Counterterrorism, NSA, George W. Bush
Janice Gardner Assistant Secretary of the Treasury, George W. Bush
Stuart M. Gerson Attorney General of the United States, George W. Bush
James K. Glassman Under Secretary of State, George W. Bush
Jon D. Glassman Deputy National Security Advisor to George H.W. Bush
David Gordon Director, State Dept, Policy Planning, George W. Bush
Sen. Chuck Hagel Secretary of Defense, Obama, and former U.S. Senator, Nebraska
Christopher Hank Deputy Assistant Secretary of State; Reagan,Bush, & Clinton
Mark Harvey Special Assistant to the President, Trump
General Michael V. Hayden Director of the CIA & NSA, Bush & Obama
Carla Hills U.S. Trade Representative, George H.W Bush
Seth Hurwitz Counsel, President's Intelligence Oversight Board, George H.W. Bush
Peter Keisler Attorney General of the U.S., George W. Bush
James A. Kelly Secretary of State, George W. Bush
Adam Kinzinger Former Member of Congress, Illinois
Sofia Kinzinger Deputy Assistant Secretary, Dept. of Homeland Security, Trump
Kenneth J. Krieg Under Secretary of Defense, George W. Bush
James R. Kunder Deputy Administrator, U.S. Agency for International Development, Bush
Brigadier General George Landis, USA, Ret. U.S. Personnel Info Systems Command
Frank Lavin Ambassador to Singapore & Under Secretary of Commerce, George W. Bush
Peter Lichtenbaum
Former Assistant Secretary of Commerce, George W. Bush Administration
Rear Admiral David M. Lichtman, MD, USN (Ret.)
Former Commander, National Naval Medical Center, Bethesda, George H.W. Bush and Clinton Administrations
Winston Lord
Former U.S. Ambassador to China, Reagan and George H.W. Bush Administration
Steven R. Mann
Former Ambassador to Turkmenistan and Former Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary in the State Dept., Clinton and George W. Bush Administrations
Colonel John W. McDonald
Former Deputy Under Secretary of the Army
P. Michael McKinley
Former Ambassador to Peru and Acting Ambassador to the European Union and Mozambique, George W. Bush Administration; Former Ambassador to Peru, Colombia, Afghanistan, and Brazil, Obama Administration
Dan Miller
Former Member of Congress, Florida
John M. Mitnick
Former General Counsel, Dept. of Homeland Security, Trump
Allen Moore
Former Under Secretary of Commerce, Reagan
Alberto Mora
Former General Counsel, U.S. Information Agency, George H.W. Bush; Former General Counsel, Dept. of the Navy, George W. Bush
Kenneth Mortensen
Former Associate Deputy Attorney General, George W. Bush
Vice Admiral Charles L. Munns
U.S. Navy (Ret.), George W. Bush
John D. Negroponte Deputy Secretary of State, George W. Bush
Elizabeth Neumann Assistant Secretary of Homeland Security, Trump
Sean O'Keefe Secretary of the Navy, George H.W. Bush
Bill Paxon Former Member of Congress, New York
William R Piekney CIA Chief of Station, Reagan
Daniel M. Price Deputy NSA Advisor, George W. Bush
Alan Charles Raul Vice Chairman, Civil Liberties Oversight Board, George W. Bush
Victor Reis Director, DARPA, George H.W. Bush
Robert Annan Riley Ambassador to Micronesia, Trump
Paul Rosenzweig Deputy Assistant Secretary of Homeland Security, George W. Bush
Charles Rossotti Deputy Asst. Secretary of Defense; Commissioner of IRS, Clinton & Bush
Nicholas Rostow National Security Council Legal Adviser, Reagan & H.W. Bush
Kori Schake Deputy Director of Policy Planning, State Dept., W. Bush
Wayne A. Schroeder Deputy Under Secretary of Defense, W. Bush
Gregory L. Schulte Sr Director, National Security Council & Atomic Energy Agency, W. Bush
Robert Shanks Deputy Assistant AG, Reagan
Rep. Christopher Shays Former Member of Congress, Connecticut
John Simon Senior Director, National Security Council Staff, W. Bush
Stephen Slick Sr. Director, National Security Council Staff, W. Bush
Mark C. Storella U.S. Ambassador to Zambia, Obama
William H. Taft IV Deputy Secretary of Defense and Ambassador to NATO, W. Bush
Miles Taylor Chief of Staff, Dept. of Homeland Security, Trump
Larry D. Thompson Former Deputy AG, W. Bush
Jack Tomarchio Deputy Under Secretary of Homeland Security, W. Bush
Olivia Troye Special Advisor to VP Pence, Trump
Robert Tuttle U.S. Ambassador to the UK, W. Bush
John K. Veroneau Deputy U.S. Trade Rep. & Assistant Secretary of Defense, W. Bush & Clinton
Colonel Terry Virts, USAF (Ret.)
Former NASA Astronaut, Former Commander of the International Space Station
Dr. Thomas G. Ward, Jr. Director of Threats, Ballistic Missile Defense Org., Reagan & Clinton
Matthew C. Waxman Principal Deputy Director, State Dept Policy Planning, W. Bush
William H. Webster Director of the CIA & FBI, Reagan & H.W. Bush
William F. Weld Assistant Attorney General, Criminal Division, Reagan
J. Robinson West Assistant Secretary of Interior, Reagan
Wendell L. Willkie II General Counsel, Dept. of Commerce, H.W. Bush
Philip Zelikow Counselor of the Dept. of State, W. Bush
Robert B. Zoellick White House Deputy Chief of Staff, George H.W. Bush
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TRUMP’s CRIME SYNDICATE: Trump - Felon - Tied to Kremlin🇷🇺, Trump's Campaign Mgr - Felon🇷🇺, T’s Deputy Campaign Mgr - Felon🇷🇺, T’s Chief Strategist - Felon🇷🇺, T’s National Security Advisor - Felon🇷🇺, T’s Foreign Policy advisor - Felon🇷🇺, T’s Personal Lawyer - Felon, T’s Campaign Fixer - Felon, T’s Company CFO - Felon, T’s Trade Advisor - Felon, 22 Other Close Trump Associates - Convicted Felons.
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How Treasonous Trump “Cares About America”:
He has pressured a foreign leader to interfere in the 2020 American presidential election.
He urged a foreign country to intervene in the 2016 presidential election.
He divulged classified information to foreign officials.
He publicly undermined American intelligence agents while standing next to a hostile foreign autocrat.
He hired a national security adviser who he knew had secretly worked as a foreign lobbyist.
He encourages foreign leaders to enrich him and his family by staying at his hotels.
He genuflects to murderous dictators.
He has alienated America’s closest allies.
He lied to the American people about his company’s business dealings in Russia.
He tells new lies virtually every week — about the economy, voter fraud, even the weather.
He spends hours on end watching television and days on end staying at resorts.
He often declines to read briefing books or perform other basic functions of a president’s job.
He has aides, as well as members of his own party in Congress, who mock him behind his back as unfit for office.
He described a former first lady, not long after she died, as “nasty.”
He described white supremacists as “some very fine people.”
He told four women of color, all citizens and members of Congress, to “go back and help fix the totally broken and crime-infested places from which they came.”
He made a joke about Pocahontas during a ceremony honoring Native American World War II veterans.
He launched his political career by falsely claiming that the first black president was not really American.
He launched his presidential campaign by describing Mexicans as “rapists.”
He has described women, variously, as “a dog,” “a pig” and “horseface,” as well as “bleeding badly from a facelift” and having “blood coming out of her wherever.”
He has been accused of sexual assault or misconduct by multiple women.
He enthusiastically campaigned for a Senate candidate who was accused of molesting multiple teenage girls.
He waved around his arms, while giving a speech, to ridicule a physically disabled person.
He has encouraged his supporters to commit violence against his political opponents.
He has called for his opponents and critics to be investigated and jailed.
He uses a phrase popular with dictators — “the enemy of the people” — to describe journalists.
He attempts to undermine any independent source of information that he does not like, including judges, scientists, journalists, election officials, the F.B.I., the C.I.A., the Congressional Budget Office and the National Weather Service.
He has tried to harass the chairman of the Federal Reserve into lowering interest rates.
He said that a judge could not be objective because of his Mexican heritage.
He obstructed justice by trying to influence an investigation into his presidential campaign.
He violated federal law by directing his lawyer to pay $280,000 in hush money to cover up two apparent adulterous affairs.
He made his fortune partly through wide-scale financial fraud.
He has refused to release his tax returns.
He claimed that federal law-enforcement agents and prosecutors regularly fabricated evidence, thereby damaging the credibility of criminal investigations across the country.
He uses his office to enrich himself and his family
He said that America is no different from or better than Vladimir Putin’s Russia.
This is the president who “Cares About America”.
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Trump and Epstein shared “girls” at parties. They were the best of friends until a business deal went south and Trump ran for president. See below:
It was supposed to be an exclusive party at Mar-a-Lago, Donald J. Trump’s members-only club in Palm Beach, Fla. But other than the two dozen or so women flown in to provide the entertainment, the only guests were Mr. Trump and Jeffrey Epstein.
“I arranged to have some contestants fly in,” Mr. Houraney recalled in an interview on Monday. “At the very first party, I said, ‘Who’s coming tonight? I have 28 girls coming.’ It was him and Epstein.”
Mr. Houraney, who had just partnered with Mr. Trump to host events at his casinos, said he was surprised. “I said, ‘Donald, this is supposed to be a party with V.I.P.s. You’re telling me it’s you and Epstein?’”
“I’ve known Jeff for 15 years. Terrific guy,” Mr. Trump told New York magazine in 2002. “He’s a lot of fun to be with. It is even said that he likes beautiful women as much as I do, and many of them are on the younger side.”
“I said, ‘Look, Donald, I know Jeff really well, I can’t have him going after younger girls,’” Mr. Houraney remembers. “He said, ‘Look I’m putting my name on this. I wouldn’t put my name on it and have a scandal.’”
Mr. Houraney said he “pretty much had to ban Jeff from my events — Trump didn’t care about that.”
Shortly before the 2016 presidential election, Mr. Houraney accused Mr. Trump himself of inappropriate behavior toward his girlfriend and business partner, Jill Harth, during their business dealings.
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Face the obvious, everything said about Treasonous Trump was True, from Igor Danchenko, Steele, Mueller, House Intel, Senate Intel, CIA, DIA, FBI, NSA, etc.
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On Fox News, suddenly a very different tune about the coronavirus.
For weeks, some of Fox News’s hosts downplayed the threat of the coronavirus, characterizing it as a conspiracy by media organizations and Democrats to undermine President Trump.
Sean Hannity and Laura Ingraham accused the news media of whipping up “mass hysteria” and being “panic pushers.” Trish Regan called the Main Stream Media response “yet another attempt to impeach the president.”
But that was then.
When Trump’s declared a national emergency, the tone on Fox News has quickly shifted. Hannity, suddenly the lauded the president’s handling of what the host is now, belatedly, referring to as a “crisis.”
“Tonight, we are witnessing what will be a massive paradigm shift in the future of disease control and prevention,” he said. “A bold, new precedent is being set, the world will once again benefit greatly from America’s leadership. . . . The federal government, state governments, private businesses, top hospitals all coming together, under the president’s leadership, to stem the tide of the coronavirus.”
In a complicated dance to mirror the president, Trump’s allies on Fox News took the same stance as the president for several weeks — that this coronavirus that had sickened and killed thousands of people in China was no worse a threat than the seasonal flu.
Just a week ago, Hannity shrugged at the pandemic. “So far in the United States, there’s been around 30 deaths, most of which came from one nursing home in the state of Washington,” he said, “Healthy people, generally, 99 percent recover very fast, even if they contract it.”
By way of comparison, he added: “Twenty-six people were shot in Chicago alone over the weekend. I doubt you heard about it. You notice there’s no widespread hysteria about violence in Chicago. And this has gone on for years and years. By the way, Democratic-run cities, we see a lot of that.”
Ingraham, also had a fast-dawning recognition that the social and economic dislocation of the virus was more than just a Democratic talking point wielded against the president.
In late February, Ingraham called Democrats the “pandemic party” and displayed photos of House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) and Senate Minority Leader Charles E. Schumer (D-N.Y.) alongside enlarged images of coronavirus molecules. “How sick that these people seem almost happiest when Americans are hurting,” she said.
She kept at it through last Tuesday when, in front of a graphic reading “Trump confronts the panic pushers,” Ingraham said, “The public in some ways seems a lot more levelheaded than the so-called experts. . . . The facts are actually pretty reassuring, but you’d never know it watching all this stuff.”
On Friday, Ingraham tweeted that it was a “great time to fly if not in at-risk population!” The tweet was later deleted.
By Wednesday, after Trump announced a travel ban on people from the European Union, Ingraham had started calling the pandemic “this dangerous health crisis.” She characterized warnings issued by National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases head Anthony S. Fauci about the potential spread of the disease as “sobering and scary to hear.”
Regan’s on-air speculation at the start of last week that coronavirus was merely another impeachment gambit for Democrats drew widespread pushback. Clearly the mood was changing at Fox by the time the network announced late Friday that her discussion-and-commentary program on Fox Business would leave the air indefinitely.
Tucker Carlson too, blamed the “corrupt” media. But in a monologue that many took at an indirect scolding of the president, he also complained that “none of our leaders helped us to take it seriously. . . . People you trust, people you probably voted for, have spent weeks minimizing what is clearly a very serious problem. It’s just partisan politics, they say. ‘Calm down. In the end, this is just like the flu and people die from that every year. Coronavirus will pass, and when it does, we will feel foolish for worrying about it.’ That’s their position. . . . But they’re wrong.”
Days earlier, Carlson attended the birthday party of former Fox News host Kimberly Guilfoyle, who is dating Donald Trump Jr.
In comments downplaying the pandemic on March 7, Jeanine Pirro, offered “All the talk about coronavirus being so much more deadly [than the flu] doesn’t reflect reality.” She reiterated Trump’s comment that the infection rate will drop “as the weather warms.”
On the “Fox & Friends” program Friday, Liberty University President Jerry Falwell Jr. spun out a meandering tale advancing the baseless notion that the coronavirus was designed by North Korean and Chinese scientists to harm Americans.
The program’s three co-hosts offered no objections. Host Steve Doocy moved on to asking Falwell about Liberty’s plans to cancel classes.
Then on Sunday, Rep. Devin Nunes (R-Calif.) appeared on Fox News and urged Americans to “stop panicking” and for those who are healthy to “just go out.”
Said Nunes: “There’s a lot of concerns with the economy here because people are scared to go out. But I will just say one of the things you can do if you’re healthy, you and your family, it’s a great time to just go out, go to a local restaurant.”
Anchor Maria Bartiromo offered no response to Nunes’s comment. On Monday, a day later, Fox News contributor Nicole Saphier, a doctor, specifically called out the congressman on air to contradict his advice and told viewers to stay home.
This is a quick summation of how Faux news has become nothing more than a platform for Trumpian Propaganda.
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Jan. 22: President Trump is asked: “Are there worries about a pandemic at this point?” Trump answers: “No. Not at all. And we’re, we have it totally under control. It’s one person coming in from China. … It’s — going to be just fine.”
Feb. 25: Trump’s declares: “We have contained this. I won’t say airtight, but pretty close to airtight.”
March 9: Trump tweets: “Nothing is shut down, life & the economy go on. At this moment there are 546 confirmed cases of CoronaVirus, with 22 deaths.”
March 13: Fox host Lou Dobbs shows off on his program a chart of the day’s 1,985-point Dow Jones rise. The chart was autographed and sent by Trump, who seemed to suggest that his remarks were responsible for the rise, a day after the same index had dropped a record 2,352 points.
March 16: After the weekend, the Dow suffers another record drop, closing 2,997.10 points lower. Trump did not autograph that chart and send it to Dobbs.
March 31: The U.S. has more than 180,000 confirmed coronavirus cases, about 80,000 more than any other country.
Nov. 26, 2018: Reports show that Trump “dismissed a study produced by his own administration … and more than 300 leading scientists, warning of the potentially catastrophic impending crisis. Asked why, Trump told reporters, “I don’t believe it.” Asked if he read it, Trump said, “some.”
March 30, 2020: This newspaper reports that Trump completed plans to scrap Obama-era automobile fuel efficiency standards that limited climate-warming tailpipe pollution — a move that will “allow cars on American roads to emit nearly a billion tons more carbon dioxide over the lifetime of the vehicles.”
What’s the common theme? We have a president who is enamored with markets but ignorant of science, and we have paid a steep, steep price for that — and we are paying an even bigger price now.
Early on, Trump clearly spent his days watching the markets and downplaying the virus’s potential for rapid spread. If the markets were doing well for investors, he was doing well for America.
Trump thought that closing off flights from China was enough to stem this growing epidemic and calm the markets — without the mass testing, surveillance and quarantines of the infected that South Korea, Hong Kong and Singapore employed to great success. You could hear that in the reckless, premature assurances by Kudlow, Kellyanne CONWAY and Trump himself that the virus had been contained.
If only Trump had listened to Medical Doctors and Scientists. It was his deadly mistake, and a cruel joke on America.
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@One.Disgruntled.American
It is racist because he said it with racist intent. Example: We humans are incredibly adept at knowing when someone is mad without then having to say so. Tone of voice, choice of words, body language, and of course the fact that actions speak louder than words. Let us examine some of TTs words - you will have to review his body language and tone of voice in online videos. Here is an example:
When do we beat Mexico at the border? They're laughing at us, at our stupidity. And now they are beating us economically. They are not our friend, believe me. But they're killing us economically. The U.S. has become a dumping ground for everybody else's problems.
Thank you. It's true, and these are the best and the finest. When Mexico sends its people, they're not sending their best. They're not sending you. They're not sending you. They're sending people that have lots of problems, and they're bringing those problems with us. They're bringing drugs. They're bringing crime. They're rapists. And some, I assume, are good people.
But I speak to border guards and they tell us what we're getting. And it only makes common sense. It only makes common sense. They're sending us not the right people.
It's coming from more than Mexico. It's coming from all over South and Latin America, and it's coming probably — probably — from the Middle East. But we don't know. Because we have no protection and we have no competence, we don't know what's happening. And it's got to stop and it's got to stop fast.
I don’t have to be a genius to understand the dog whistles TT is saying here… and Mexico will pay for the Wall.
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@suellenhill8097 You posted a TOTAL LIE: ore than 1,000 people have been arrested for storming the U.S. Capitol building on Jan. 6, 2021, with charges ranging from obstruction of an official proceeding to assault. But 26 months after the attempted insurrection, a significant number of rioters are still awaiting their sentencing.
Around 42% of those arrested—420 individuals—have received criminal sentences, while the rest are waiting for their trials or haven’t yet reached plea agreements. According to the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the District of Columbia, 220 defendants were sentenced to periods of incarceration, with longer prison terms for those who engaged in violence or threats. So far, the median prison sentence for the Jan. 6 rioters is 60 days, according to TIME’s calculation of the public records. An additional 100 rioters have been sentenced to periods of home detention, while most sentences have included fines, community service and probation for low-level offenses like illegally parading or demonstrating in the Capitol, which is a misdemeanor.
Hundreds of additional cases are expected to be adjudicated in the coming months, with a number of sentencing hearings already on the calendar this spring. The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) is still looking for more than 260 individuals believed to have committed violent acts on the Capitol grounds.
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@harryfarber6435 Trump turned his back on Ukraine, Germany, France, Sweden, Norway, Denmark, the Afghan Government, etc… But he did embrace our Enemies like Kim Jong Un, Putin, Xi, and any other Dictator he admired. ✌️
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@garyhenningsen3897 George H W Bush: A downed plane and hungry captors
After an attack on Chichijima, a Japanese base, Bush was able to attack several of his intended targets. Along the way, however, his plane was hit by enemy fire and went down. Others on the plane died in the crash, but he was able to bail out, landing in water. Those in other planes who survived the fall were captured by the Japanese. Meanwhile, Bush found a raft and paddled away from land as an attempt to get away. He was eventually rescued and taken aboard the USS Finback, a submarine. He was spotted by the watchman and pulled aboard, before the vessel went back underwater.
The other survivors were tortured, beheaded or killed by other means, and were partially eaten their captors. It’s reported at of the nine Americans who landed alive, eight were killed, and four had parts of their livers and thighs eaten. The future President Bush was the ninth.
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Frankie C
In 1654, the expression quid pro quo was used to generally refer to something done for personal gain or with the expectation of reciprocity.
Quid pro quo would go on to be used, by English speakers in legal and diplomatic contexts, as an exchange of equally valued goods or services and continues to be today.
In the United States, if the exchange appears excessively one sided, courts in some jurisdictions may question whether a quid pro quo did actually exist and the contract may be held void. In cases of "Quid Pro Quo" business contracts, the term takes on a negative connotation because major corporations may cross ethical boundaries in order to enter into these very valuable, mutually beneficial, agreements with other major big businesses. In these deals, large sums of money are often at play and can consequently lead to promises of exclusive partnerships indefinitely or promises of distortion of economic reports, for example.
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The enemies of freedom are, it turns out, as shameless and corrupt here as they are in nations, from Hungary to Turkey, in which democracy has effectively collapsed. But the defenders of American democracy seem more united and determined than their counterparts abroad. The big question is whether that difference — that true American exceptionalism — will be enough to save us.
Let’s back up and ask what we’ve learned about America over the past three years.
There was never any doubt that Trump would abuse his powers; he telegraphed his contempt for rule of law, his eagerness to exploit his office for personal gain, right from the start. For a while, however, it was possible to imagine that at least part of his party would stand up for democratic principles.
But it was not to be. What we saw Wednesday was a parade of sycophants comparing their leader to Jesus Christ while spouting discredited conspiracy theories straight from the Kremlin. And as they were doing so, the object of their adoration was giving an endless, rambling, third-world-dictator-style speech, full of lies, that veered between grandiosity and self-pity, interspersed with complaints about how many times he has to flush his toilet.
Republicans, in other words, are beyond redemption; they’ve become just another authoritarian party devoted to the leader principle. And like similar parties in other countries, the G.O.P. is trying to rig future elections through gerrymandering and voter suppression, creating a permanent lock on power.
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On Fox News, suddenly a very different tune about the coronavirus.
For weeks, some of Fox News’s hosts downplayed the threat of the coronavirus, characterizing it as a conspiracy by media organizations and Democrats to undermine President Trump.
Sean Hannity and Laura Ingraham accused the news media of whipping up “mass hysteria” and being “panic pushers.” Trish Regan called the Main Stream Media response “yet another attempt to impeach the president.”
But that was then.
When Trump’s declared a national emergency, the tone on Fox News has quickly shifted. Hannity, suddenly the lauded the president’s handling of what the host is now, belatedly, referring to as a “crisis.”
“Tonight, we are witnessing what will be a massive paradigm shift in the future of disease control and prevention,” he said. “A bold, new precedent is being set, the world will once again benefit greatly from America’s leadership. . . . The federal government, state governments, private businesses, top hospitals all coming together, under the president’s leadership, to stem the tide of the coronavirus.”
In a complicated dance to mirror the president, Trump’s allies on Fox News took the same stance as the president for several weeks — that this coronavirus that had sickened and killed thousands of people in China was no worse a threat than the seasonal flu.
Just a week ago, Hannity shrugged at the pandemic. “So far in the United States, there’s been around 30 deaths, most of which came from one nursing home in the state of Washington,” he said, “Healthy people, generally, 99 percent recover very fast, even if they contract it.”
By way of comparison, he added: “Twenty-six people were shot in Chicago alone over the weekend. I doubt you heard about it. You notice there’s no widespread hysteria about violence in Chicago. And this has gone on for years and years. By the way, Democratic-run cities, we see a lot of that.”
Ingraham, also had a fast-dawning recognition that the social and economic dislocation of the virus was more than just a Democratic talking point wielded against the president.
In late February, Ingraham called Democrats the “pandemic party” and displayed photos of House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) and Senate Minority Leader Charles E. Schumer (D-N.Y.) alongside enlarged images of coronavirus molecules. “How sick that these people seem almost happiest when Americans are hurting,” she said.
She kept at it through last Tuesday when, in front of a graphic reading “Trump confronts the panic pushers,” Ingraham said, “The public in some ways seems a lot more levelheaded than the so-called experts. . . . The facts are actually pretty reassuring, but you’d never know it watching all this stuff.”
On Friday, Ingraham tweeted that it was a “great time to fly if not in at-risk population!” The tweet was later deleted.
By Wednesday, after Trump announced a travel ban on people from the European Union, Ingraham had started calling the pandemic “this dangerous health crisis.” She characterized warnings issued by National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases head Anthony S. Fauci about the potential spread of the disease as “sobering and scary to hear.”
Regan’s on-air speculation at the start of last week that coronavirus was merely another impeachment gambit for Democrats drew widespread pushback. Clearly the mood was changing at Fox by the time the network announced late Friday that her discussion-and-commentary program on Fox Business would leave the air indefinitely.
Tucker Carlson too, blamed the “corrupt” media. But in a monologue that many took at an indirect scolding of the president, he also complained that “none of our leaders helped us to take it seriously. . . . People you trust, people you probably voted for, have spent weeks minimizing what is clearly a very serious problem. It’s just partisan politics, they say. ‘Calm down. In the end, this is just like the flu and people die from that every year. Coronavirus will pass, and when it does, we will feel foolish for worrying about it.’ That’s their position. . . . But they’re wrong.”
Days earlier, Carlson attended the birthday party of former Fox News host Kimberly Guilfoyle, who is dating Donald Trump Jr.
In comments downplaying the pandemic on March 7, Jeanine Pirro, offered “All the talk about coronavirus being so much more deadly [than the flu] doesn’t reflect reality.” She reiterated Trump’s comment that the infection rate will drop “as the weather warms.”
On the “Fox & Friends” program Friday, Liberty University President Jerry Falwell Jr. spun out a meandering tale advancing the baseless notion that the coronavirus was designed by North Korean and Chinese scientists to harm Americans.
The program’s three co-hosts offered no objections. Host Steve Doocy moved on to asking Falwell about Liberty’s plans to cancel classes.
Then on Sunday, Rep. Devin Nunes (R-Calif.) appeared on Fox News and urged Americans to “stop panicking” and for those who are healthy to “just go out.”
Said Nunes: “There’s a lot of concerns with the economy here because people are scared to go out. But I will just say one of the things you can do if you’re healthy, you and your family, it’s a great time to just go out, go to a local restaurant.”
Anchor Maria Bartiromo offered no response to Nunes’s comment. On Monday, a day later, Fox News contributor Nicole Saphier, a doctor, specifically called out the congressman on air to contradict his advice and told viewers to stay home.
This is a quick summation of how Faux news has become nothing more than a platform for Trumpian Propaganda.
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Republicans are blaming renewable energy, when it’s the state’s powerful deregulated utilities that failed to prepare for the worst.Texans are also furious about how their state’s ruinous laissez-faire governance led to a cascade of human-caused disasters of epic. In general, there’s a natural gas storage problem in Texas. Utility companies didn’t bother to have gas reserves: It’s easier, cheaper and more profitable to tap the gas in the field with a pipeline.
After a cold snap in 2011, the power companies were supposed to better winterize their plants. Ten years later, they hadn’t done it. It’s hard to believe they couldn’t afford it: Oncor, the giant power utility serving Dallas, reported $651 million in net income in 2019.
As the cold froze Oklahoma and sent temperatures in Dallas to lows not seen in over a century, the natural gas industry were unable to deliver more gas even if it was purchased. Wellheads in the Permian Basin froze solid. Pipelines leaked water, which, in turn, turned metal and gas into useless, immovable ice.
The crisis dates back to the 1930s, when the Federal Power Commission gained the authority to regulate interstate transmission of electric power. But politicians in Texas didn’t want Washington regulating the electricity business and chipping away at those hefty profits.
So the business went entirely unregulated until the formation of the Electric Reliability Council of Texas (ERCOT) in the 1970s. But ERCOT has been anything but reliable. While it is technically overseen by the state, its board is really just an industry club. Several of its members don’t even live in Texas.
After taking a beating on Twitter, Mr. Abbott tried to blame the renewable energy industry, a talking point that caught fire among conservatives. Renewables like wind and solar can contribute up to 20 percent of the Texas power grid, but just 7 percent of the winter grid, with 80 percent coming from natural gas, coal and a bit of nuclear power. While some wind turbines in Texas froze, many of them kept turning.
Yet another example of Fakenews- media spewing Propaganda.
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@trekie30122 “TRUMP UNFIT TO SERVE AS PRESIDENT, OR IN ANY OFFICE OF PUBLIC TRUST.” List of Republicans who signed a letter saying Trump is a Threat To Our American Democracy 🇺🇸:
Admiral Steve Abbot
USN (Ret.), Deputy Homeland Security Advisor, George W. Bush
Kenneth Adelman Director, Arms Control and Disarmament Agency, Reagan
Dr. Carol C. Adelman Asst. Admin., U.S. Agency for International Development, Reagan
Major General John Barry USAF (Ret.), Military Assistant to the Secretary of Defense
Richard C. Barth Asst. Secretary, Department of Homeland Security, W. Bush
Christopher Barton Director, National Security Council Staff
John Bellinger Legal Adviser, National Security Council, W. Bush
Admiral Kenneth Bernard Special Asst. to W. Bush
Mark E. Bitterman Special Asst. to the Secretary of Defense, H.W. Bush
Robert D. Blackwill Deputy National Security Advisor, W. Bush
William Bodie Asst. to the Secretary of the Air Force, W. Bush
Christian M.L. Bonat Deputy General Counsel, DOD, W. Bush & Obama
Richard Boucher Assistant Secretary of State, W. Bush
Charles W. Boustany, Jr. Former Member of Congress, Louisiana
Charles R. Bowers Ambassador to Bolivia, H.W. Bush
Greg Brower Asst. Director, FBI, Obama & Trump
Christopher Buckley Chief Speechwriter, Office of VP H.W. Bush
James R. Bullington U.S. Ambassador to Burundi, Reagan
Richard Burt U.S. Ambassador to Germany, Reagan
Gahl Hodges Burt Asst. to the Secretary of State, Reagan
Rear Admiral Fred Byus U.S. Navy (Ret.)
Jack C. Chow Deputy Asst. Secretary of State, W. Bush
James W. Cicconi Asst. to the President & Deputy to the Chief of Staff, H. W. Bush
Peggy Cifrino Deputy Chief of Staff to Secretary of State Colin Powell, W. Bush
Eliot A. Cohen Counselor of the Dept. of State, W. Bush
Benedict S. Cohen General Counsel, Dept. of the Army, W. Bush
William Cohen Secretary of Defense, Clinton, & U.S. Senator, Maine
Joseph J. Collins Deputy Asst. Secretary of Defense, W. Bush
Barbara Comstock Former Member of Congress, Virginia
Cindy Courville National Security Affairs for Africa, W. Bush
Chester A. Crocker Assistant Secretary of State, Reagan
Patrick M. Cronin Admin. U.S. Agency for International Development, W. Bush
Stephen W. DeVine Deputy Legal Advisor, National Security Council, W. Bush
Charles Djou Former Member of Congress, Hawaii
Michael Donley Secretary of the Air Force, George W. Bush & Obama
Raymond F. DuBois Secretary of the Army, George W. Bush
Martha E. Duncan Sr Executive Service, DOD, George W. Bush & Obama
Lewis A. Dunn Director, Arms Control and Disarmament Agency, Reagan
Eric S. Edelman Under Secretary of Defense, George W. Bush
Mickey Edwards Member of Congress, Oklahoma
Richard A. Falkenrath Deputy Assistant to the President, George W. Bush
Jendayi E. Frazer Ambassador to South Africa George W. Bush Administration
Aaron L. Friedber Deputy Assistant to George W. Bush
William Gaches Director of Counterterrorism, NSA, George W. Bush
Janice Gardner Assistant Secretary of the Treasury, George W. Bush
Stuart M. Gerson Attorney General of the United States, George W. Bush
James K. Glassman Under Secretary of State, George W. Bush
Jon D. Glassman Deputy National Security Advisor to George H.W. Bush
David Gordon Director, State Dept, Policy Planning, George W. Bush
Sen. Chuck Hagel Secretary of Defense, Obama, and former U.S. Senator, Nebraska
Christopher Hank Deputy Assistant Secretary of State; Reagan,Bush, & Clinton
Mark Harvey Special Assistant to the President, Trump
General Michael V. Hayden Director of the CIA & NSA, Bush & Obama
Carla Hills U.S. Trade Representative, George H.W Bush
Seth Hurwitz Counsel, President's Intelligence Oversight Board, George H.W. Bush
Peter Keisler Attorney General of the U.S., George W. Bush
James A. Kelly Secretary of State, George W. Bush
Adam Kinzinger Former Member of Congress, Illinois
Sofia Kinzinger Deputy Assistant Secretary, Dept. of Homeland Security, Trump
Kenneth J. Krieg Under Secretary of Defense, George W. Bush
James R. Kunder Deputy Administrator, U.S. Agency for International Development, Bush
Brigadier General George Landis, USA, Ret. U.S. Personnel Info Systems Command
Frank Lavin Ambassador to Singapore & Under Secretary of Commerce, George W. Bush
Peter Lichtenbaum
Former Assistant Secretary of Commerce, George W. Bush Administration
Rear Admiral David M. Lichtman, MD, USN (Ret.)
Former Commander, National Naval Medical Center, Bethesda, George H.W. Bush and Clinton Administrations
Winston Lord
Former U.S. Ambassador to China, Reagan and George H.W. Bush Administration
Steven R. Mann
Former Ambassador to Turkmenistan and Former Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary in the State Dept., Clinton and George W. Bush Administrations
Colonel John W. McDonald
Former Deputy Under Secretary of the Army
P. Michael McKinley
Former Ambassador to Peru and Acting Ambassador to the European Union and Mozambique, George W. Bush Administration; Former Ambassador to Peru, Colombia, Afghanistan, and Brazil, Obama Administration
Dan Miller
Former Member of Congress, Florida
John M. Mitnick
Former General Counsel, Dept. of Homeland Security, Trump
Allen Moore
Former Under Secretary of Commerce, Reagan
Alberto Mora
Former General Counsel, U.S. Information Agency, George H.W. Bush; Former General Counsel, Dept. of the Navy, George W. Bush
Kenneth Mortensen
Former Associate Deputy Attorney General, George W. Bush
Vice Admiral Charles L. Munns
U.S. Navy (Ret.), George W. Bush
John D. Negroponte Deputy Secretary of State, George W. Bush
Elizabeth Neumann Assistant Secretary of Homeland Security, Trump
Sean O'Keefe Secretary of the Navy, George H.W. Bush
Bill Paxon Former Member of Congress, New York
William R Piekney CIA Chief of Station, Reagan
Daniel M. Price Deputy NSA Advisor, George W. Bush
Alan Charles Raul Vice Chairman, Civil Liberties Oversight Board, George W. Bush
Victor Reis Director, DARPA, George H.W. Bush
Robert Annan Riley Ambassador to Micronesia, Trump
Paul Rosenzweig Deputy Assistant Secretary of Homeland Security, George W. Bush
Charles Rossotti Deputy Asst. Secretary of Defense; Commissioner of IRS, Clinton & Bush
Nicholas Rostow National Security Council Legal Adviser, Reagan & H.W. Bush
Kori Schake Deputy Director of Policy Planning, State Dept., W. Bush
Wayne A. Schroeder Deputy Under Secretary of Defense, W. Bush
Gregory L. Schulte Sr Director, National Security Council & Atomic Energy Agency, W. Bush
Robert Shanks Deputy Assistant AG, Reagan
Rep. Christopher Shays Former Member of Congress, Connecticut
John Simon Senior Director, National Security Council Staff, W. Bush
Stephen Slick Sr. Director, National Security Council Staff, W. Bush
Mark C. Storella U.S. Ambassador to Zambia, Obama
William H. Taft IV Deputy Secretary of Defense and Ambassador to NATO, W. Bush
Miles Taylor Chief of Staff, Dept. of Homeland Security, Trump
Larry D. Thompson Former Deputy AG, W. Bush
Jack Tomarchio Deputy Under Secretary of Homeland Security, W. Bush
Olivia Troye Special Advisor to VP Pence, Trump
Robert Tuttle U.S. Ambassador to the UK, W. Bush
John K. Veroneau Deputy U.S. Trade Rep. & Assistant Secretary of Defense, W. Bush & Clinton
Colonel Terry Virts, USAF (Ret.)
Former NASA Astronaut, Former Commander of the International Space Station
Dr. Thomas G. Ward, Jr. Director of Threats, Ballistic Missile Defense Org., Reagan & Clinton
Matthew C. Waxman Principal Deputy Director, State Dept Policy Planning, W. Bush
William H. Webster Director of the CIA & FBI, Reagan & H.W. Bush
William F. Weld Assistant Attorney General, Criminal Division, Reagan
J. Robinson West Assistant Secretary of Interior, Reagan
Wendell L. Willkie II General Counsel, Dept. of Commerce, H.W. Bush
Philip Zelikow Counselor of the Dept. of State, W. Bush
Robert B. Zoellick White House Deputy Chief of Staff, George H.W. Bush
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FAILURE IN AMERICA ON A TRUMPIAN SCALE:
Nearly every country has struggled to contain the coronavirus and made mistakes along the way.
China silenced doctors and allowed the virus to escape Wuhan, much of Europe went next, failing to avoid and contain enormous outbreaks. Today, many countries — Japan, Canada, France, Australia and more — are coping with new increases in cases after reopening parts of society.
But one country stands alone, as the only affluent nation to have suffered a severe, sustained outbreak for more than four months: the United States. In just the past month over 1.9 million Americans have tested positive for the virus. That’s more than five times as many as in all of Europe, Canada, Japan, South Korea and Australia, combined. The United States also has the highest number of Deaths 157,000 from the virus far out pacing all other countries. Brazil is the only country competing with the United States for complete failure in containing the virus.
What does the United States & Brazil have in common? Trumpian Politics.
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StinkFingerr
dad bear
William H. McRaven, a retired Navy admiral, was commander of the U.S. Joint Special Operations Command from 2011 to 2014. He oversaw the 2011 Navy SEAL raid in Pakistan that killed al-Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden. He writes:
Dear Mr. President:
Former CIA director John Brennan, whose security clearance you revoked on Wednesday, is one of the finest public servants I have ever known. Few Americans have done more to protect this country than John. He is a man of unparalleled integrity, whose honesty and character have never been in question, except by those who don’t know him.
Therefore, I would consider it an honor if you would revoke my security clearance as well, so I can add my name to the list of men and women who have spoken up against your presidency.
Like most Americans, I had hoped that when you became president, you would rise to the occasion and become the leader this great nation needs.
A good leader tries to embody the best qualities of his or her organization. A good leader sets the example for others to follow. A good leader always puts the welfare of others before himself or herself.
Your leadership, however, has shown little of these qualities. Through your actions, you have embarrassed us in the eyes of our children, humiliated us on the world stage and, worst of all, divided us as a nation.
If you think for a moment that your McCarthy-era tactics will suppress the voices of criticism, you are sadly mistaken. The criticism will continue until you become the leader we prayed you would be.
NEED WE SAY MORE THAN THIS AMERICAN HERO? STAND UP AND BE COUNTED. VOTE THIS WOULD BE PETTY DICTATOR OUT OF OFFICE.
🇺🇸🗽🇺🇸
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WHEN GOOD PEOPLE DON’T ACT, EVIL REIGNS:
How did the trans-Atlantic slave trade play out over hundreds of years?
How did slavery thrive in this country?
How was the Holocaust allowed to happen?
How did the genocides in Rwanda or Darfur come to be?
It turns out that our current era is providing the unsettling answer: It was easy. As Edmund Burke said: “The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.” If you don’t complain, you condone.
Gather the energy. Gather your neighbor. Fight, vote, email, post. Do all you can to stand up for the vulnerable, for the oppressed, for the planet itself. Don’t let history record this moment as it has recorded too many others: a time when good people did too little to confront the wickedness and disaster of Trumpian Neo Nazism. In November America has a clear choice, do nothing to confront Trumpian Evil, or vote to sweep the Evil out of office and began the long painful process of Restoring Our Democracy and Democratic Institutions.
As Edmund Burke wrote: “When bad men combine, the good must associate; else they will fall, one by one, an unpitied sacrifice in a contemptible struggle.”
But you may be more familiar with another quote often attributed to Burke: “The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.”
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The enemies of freedom are, it turns out, as shameless and corrupt here as they are in nations, from Hungary to Turkey, in which democracy has effectively collapsed. But the defenders of American democracy seem more united and determined than their counterparts abroad. The big question is whether that difference — that true American exceptionalism — will be enough to save us.
Let’s back up and ask what we’ve learned about America over the past three years.
There was never any doubt that Trump would abuse his powers; he telegraphed his contempt for rule of law, his eagerness to exploit his office for personal gain, right from the start. For a while, however, it was possible to imagine that at least part of his party would stand up for democratic principles.
But it was not to be. What we saw Wednesday was a parade of sycophants comparing their leader to Jesus Christ while spouting discredited conspiracy theories straight from the Kremlin. And as they were doing so, the object of their adoration was giving an endless, rambling, third-world-dictator-style speech, full of lies, that veered between grandiosity and self-pity, interspersed with complaints about how many times he has to flush his toilet.
Republicans, in other words, are beyond redemption; they’ve become just another authoritarian party devoted to the leader principle. And like similar parties in other countries, the G.O.P. is trying to rig future elections through gerrymandering and voter suppression, creating a permanent lock on power.
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Jan. 22: President Trump is asked: “Are there worries about a pandemic at this point?” Trump answers: “No. Not at all. And we’re, we have it totally under control. It’s one person coming in from China. … It’s — going to be just fine.”
Feb. 25: Trump’s declares: “We have contained this. I won’t say airtight, but pretty close to airtight.”
March 9: Trump tweets: “Nothing is shut down, life & the economy go on. At this moment there are 546 confirmed cases of CoronaVirus, with 22 deaths.”
March 13: Fox host Lou Dobbs shows off on his program a chart of the day’s 1,985-point Dow Jones rise. The chart was autographed and sent by Trump, who seemed to suggest that his remarks were responsible for the rise, a day after the same index had dropped a record 2,352 points.
March 16: After the weekend, the Dow suffers another record drop, closing 2,997.10 points lower. Trump did not autograph that chart and send it to Dobbs.
March 31: The U.S. has more than 180,000 confirmed coronavirus cases, about 80,000 more than any other country.
Nov. 26, 2018: Reports show that Trump “dismissed a study produced by his own administration … and more than 300 leading scientists, warning of the potentially catastrophic impending crisis. Asked why, Trump told reporters, “I don’t believe it.” Asked if he read it, Trump said, “some.”
March 30, 2020: This newspaper reports that Trump completed plans to scrap Obama-era automobile fuel efficiency standards that limited climate-warming tailpipe pollution — a move that will “allow cars on American roads to emit nearly a billion tons more carbon dioxide over the lifetime of the vehicles.”
What’s the common theme? We have a president who is enamored with markets but ignorant of science, and we have paid a steep, steep price for that — and we are paying an even bigger price now.
Early on, Trump clearly spent his days watching the markets and downplaying the virus’s potential for rapid spread. If the markets were doing well for investors, he was doing well for America.
Trump thought that closing off flights from China was enough to stem this growing epidemic and calm the markets — without the mass testing, surveillance and quarantines of the infected that South Korea, Hong Kong and Singapore employed to great success. You could hear that in the reckless, premature assurances by Kudlow, Kellyanne CONWAY and Trump himself that the virus had been contained.
If only Trump had listened to Medical Doctors and Scientists. It was his deadly mistake, and a cruel joke on America.
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@bhabigbig2391 GAME, SET, MATCH. 😂😂😂
The “Jenius” Of DJT ~ “So, supposing we hit the body with a tremendous — whether it’s ultraviolet or just very powerful light — and I think you said that that hasn’t been tried, but you’re going to test it. And then I said, supposing you brought the light inside the body, which you can do either through the skin or in some other way, and I think you said you’re going to test that, too. It sounds interesting. And then I see the disinfectant, where it knocks it out in a minute. One minute. And is there a way we can do something like that, by injection inside or almost a cleaning. Because you see it gets in the lungs, and it does a tremendous number on the lungs. So it would be interesting to check that, maybe check that out”. 😂😂😂
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@CrissContino Wars have many causes, as did the Civil War, but only a fool would not recognize Slavery as the Primary and most important issue. Slavery, and the desired expansion of Slavery to other Territories was the constant wound and insult that drove the South to Treason. As for Straw Man Argument I say BS. I am well read on the Civil War & it’s Causes, my personal library is full of books on the topic. Recently a friend suggested I read: Fateful Lightning by Allen C. Guelzo a Comprehensive Study of the Causes of the Civil War & Reconstruction - a History Book That Would Serve You Well.
Indeed 1787 was a precursor to the Civil War, and every battle over Slavery’s expansion to the Territories & new States were precursors. At every Turn various States of the South threatened DisUnion over Slavery. The Sins of Slavery still Echos today in our American Character from the Southern Evangelicals to the Southern Republican Party.
As for the “South” in 1860 these States were commonly referred to The Slave Holding States who’s economies & wealth were beholden to Cotton & Slavery.
I will leave you with this advice: History is fascinating for its depth, its ugliness, its flawed characters, and its echos that are with us today. Do not limit yourself, read widely, read often, and ALWAYS read quality scholarly material. ✌️
P.S. Another fun rabbit hole is: What part did Slavery & Mexico’s partial/full banning Slavery play in the Formation of Texas?
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@SocraticMutt List of Top Advisors to last 6 Presidents who say “TRUMP IS UNFIT TO SERVE”:
Admiral Steve Abbot
USN (Ret.), Deputy Homeland Security Advisor, George W. Bush
Kenneth Adelman Director, Arms Control and Disarmament Agency, Reagan
Dr. Carol C. Adelman Asst. Admin., U.S. Agency for International Development, Reagan
Major General John Barry USAF (Ret.), Military Assistant to the Secretary of Defense
Richard C. Barth Asst. Secretary, Department of Homeland Security, W. Bush
Christopher Barton Director, National Security Council Staff
John Bellinger Legal Adviser, National Security Council, W. Bush
Admiral Kenneth Bernard Special Asst. to W. Bush
Mark E. Bitterman Special Asst. to the Secretary of Defense, H.W. Bush
Robert D. Blackwill Deputy National Security Advisor, W. Bush
William Bodie Asst. to the Secretary of the Air Force, W. Bush
Christian M.L. Bonat Deputy General Counsel, DOD, W. Bush & Obama
Richard Boucher Assistant Secretary of State, W. Bush
Charles W. Boustany, Jr. Former Member of Congress, Louisiana
Charles R. Bowers Ambassador to Bolivia, H.W. Bush
Greg Brower Asst. Director, FBI, Obama & Trump
Christopher Buckley Chief Speechwriter, Office of VP H.W. Bush
James R. Bullington U.S. Ambassador to Burundi, Reagan
Richard Burt U.S. Ambassador to Germany, Reagan
Gahl Hodges Burt Asst. to the Secretary of State, Reagan
Rear Admiral Fred Byus U.S. Navy (Ret.)
Jack C. Chow Deputy Asst. Secretary of State, W. Bush
James W. Cicconi Asst. to the President & Deputy to the Chief of Staff, H. W. Bush
Peggy Cifrino Deputy Chief of Staff to Secretary of State Colin Powell, W. Bush
Eliot A. Cohen Counselor of the Dept. of State, W. Bush
Benedict S. Cohen General Counsel, Dept. of the Army, W. Bush
William Cohen Secretary of Defense, Clinton, & U.S. Senator, Maine
Joseph J. Collins Deputy Asst. Secretary of Defense, W. Bush
Barbara Comstock Former Member of Congress, Virginia
Cindy Courville National Security Affairs for Africa, W. Bush
Chester A. Crocker Assistant Secretary of State, Reagan
Patrick M. Cronin Admin. U.S. Agency for International Development, W. Bush
Stephen W. DeVine Deputy Legal Advisor, National Security Council, W. Bush
Charles Djou Former Member of Congress, Hawaii
Michael Donley Secretary of the Air Force, George W. Bush & Obama
Raymond F. DuBois Secretary of the Army, George W. Bush
Martha E. Duncan Sr Executive Service, DOD, George W. Bush & Obama
Lewis A. Dunn Director, Arms Control and Disarmament Agency, Reagan
Eric S. Edelman Under Secretary of Defense, George W. Bush
Mickey Edwards Member of Congress, Oklahoma
Richard A. Falkenrath Deputy Assistant to the President, George W. Bush
Jendayi E. Frazer Ambassador to South Africa George W. Bush Administration
Aaron L. Friedber Deputy Assistant to George W. Bush
William Gaches Director of Counterterrorism, NSA, George W. Bush
Janice Gardner Assistant Secretary of the Treasury, George W. Bush
Stuart M. Gerson Attorney General of the United States, George W. Bush
James K. Glassman Under Secretary of State, George W. Bush
Jon D. Glassman Deputy National Security Advisor to George H.W. Bush
David Gordon Director, State Dept, Policy Planning, George W. Bush
Sen. Chuck Hagel Secretary of Defense, Obama, and former U.S. Senator, Nebraska
Christopher Hank Deputy Assistant Secretary of State; Reagan,Bush, & Clinton
Mark Harvey Special Assistant to the President, Trump
General Michael V. Hayden Director of the CIA & NSA, Bush & Obama
Carla Hills U.S. Trade Representative, George H.W Bush
Seth Hurwitz Counsel, President's Intelligence Oversight Board, George H.W. Bush
Peter Keisler Attorney General of the U.S., George W. Bush
James A. Kelly Secretary of State, George W. Bush
Adam Kinzinger Former Member of Congress, Illinois
Sofia Kinzinger Deputy Assistant Secretary, Dept. of Homeland Security, Trump
Kenneth J. Krieg Under Secretary of Defense, George W. Bush
James R. Kunder Deputy Administrator, U.S. Agency for International Development, Bush
Brigadier General George Landis, USA, Ret. U.S. Personnel Info Systems Command
Frank Lavin Ambassador to Singapore & Under Secretary of Commerce, George W. Bush
Peter Lichtenbaum
Former Assistant Secretary of Commerce, George W. Bush Administration
Rear Admiral David M. Lichtman, MD, USN (Ret.)
Former Commander, National Naval Medical Center, Bethesda, George H.W. Bush and Clinton Administrations
Winston Lord
Former U.S. Ambassador to China, Reagan and George H.W. Bush Administration
Steven R. Mann
Former Ambassador to Turkmenistan and Former Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary in the State Dept., Clinton and George W. Bush Administrations
Colonel John W. McDonald
Former Deputy Under Secretary of the Army
P. Michael McKinley
Former Ambassador to Peru and Acting Ambassador to the European Union and Mozambique, George W. Bush Administration; Former Ambassador to Peru, Colombia, Afghanistan, and Brazil, Obama Administration
Dan Miller
Former Member of Congress, Florida
John M. Mitnick
Former General Counsel, Dept. of Homeland Security, Trump
Allen Moore
Former Under Secretary of Commerce, Reagan
Alberto Mora
Former General Counsel, U.S. Information Agency, George H.W. Bush; Former General Counsel, Dept. of the Navy, George W. Bush
Kenneth Mortensen
Former Associate Deputy Attorney General, George W. Bush
Vice Admiral Charles L. Munns
U.S. Navy (Ret.), George W. Bush
John D. Negroponte Deputy Secretary of State, George W. Bush
Elizabeth Neumann Assistant Secretary of Homeland Security, Trump
Sean O'Keefe Secretary of the Navy, George H.W. Bush
Bill Paxon Former Member of Congress, New York
William R Piekney CIA Chief of Station, Reagan
Daniel M. Price Deputy NSA Advisor, George W. Bush
Alan Charles Raul Vice Chairman, Civil Liberties Oversight Board, George W. Bush
Victor Reis Director, DARPA, George H.W. Bush
Robert Annan Riley Ambassador to Micronesia, Trump
Paul Rosenzweig Deputy Assistant Secretary of Homeland Security, George W. Bush
Charles Rossotti Deputy Asst. Secretary of Defense; Commissioner of IRS, Clinton & Bush
Nicholas Rostow National Security Council Legal Adviser, Reagan & H.W. Bush
Kori Schake Deputy Director of Policy Planning, State Dept., W. Bush
Wayne A. Schroeder Deputy Under Secretary of Defense, W. Bush
Gregory L. Schulte Sr Director, National Security Council & Atomic Energy Agency, W. Bush
Robert Shanks Deputy Assistant AG, Reagan
Rep. Christopher Shays Former Member of Congress, Connecticut
John Simon Senior Director, National Security Council Staff, W. Bush
Stephen Slick Sr. Director, National Security Council Staff, W. Bush
Mark C. Storella U.S. Ambassador to Zambia, Obama
William H. Taft IV Deputy Secretary of Defense and Ambassador to NATO, W. Bush
Miles Taylor Chief of Staff, Dept. of Homeland Security, Trump
Larry D. Thompson Former Deputy AG, W. Bush
Jack Tomarchio Deputy Under Secretary of Homeland Security, W. Bush
Olivia Troye Special Advisor to VP Pence, Trump
Robert Tuttle U.S. Ambassador to the UK, W. Bush
John K. Veroneau Deputy U.S. Trade Rep. & Assistant Secretary of Defense, W. Bush & Clinton
Colonel Terry Virts, USAF (Ret.)
Former NASA Astronaut, Former Commander of the International Space Station
Dr. Thomas G. Ward, Jr. Director of Threats, Ballistic Missile Defense Org., Reagan & Clinton
Matthew C. Waxman Principal Deputy Director, State Dept Policy Planning, W. Bush
William H. Webster Director of the CIA & FBI, Reagan & H.W. Bush
William F. Weld Assistant Attorney General, Criminal Division, Reagan
J. Robinson West Assistant Secretary of Interior, Reagan
Wendell L. Willkie II General Counsel, Dept. of Commerce, H.W. Bush
Philip Zelikow Counselor of the Dept. of State, W. Bush
Robert B. Zoellick White House Deputy Chief of Staff, George H.W. Bush
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Another Traitor pleads guilty to Treason. Lucas Denney, 44, of Mansfield, Tex., created a militia in Texas he called “Patriot Boys of North Texas,” which he said was aligned with the Proud Boys, a far-right group with a history of violence, court records show. Denney was captured on multiple videos and photographs battling with police on the West Terrace of the Capitol, pushing with a mob inside the Capitol, and then as part of a large crowd that grabbed individual officers who were fighting the rioters, including D.C. police officer Michael Fanone.
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@KittyKat63306 From the Court Guilty Plea: Robert Khuzami, Attorney for the United States, Acting Under Authority Conferred by 28 U.S.C. § 515, William F. Sweeney Jr., the Assistant Director-in-Charge of the New York Field Office of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (“FBI”), and James D. Robnett, the Special Agent-in-Charge of the New York Field Office of the Internal Revenue Service, Criminal Investigation (“IRS-CI”), announced today the guilty plea of MICHAEL COHEN to charges of tax evasion, making false statements to a federally-insured bank, and campaign finance violations. The plea was entered followed the filing of an eight-count criminal information, which alleged that COHEN concealed more than $4 million in personal income from the IRS, made false statements to a federally-insured financial institution in connection with a $500,000 home equity loan, and, in 2016, caused $280,000 in payments to be made to silence two women who otherwise planned to speak publicly about their alleged affairs with a presidential candidate, thereby intending to influence the 2016 presidential election. COHEN pled guilty today before U.S. District Judge William H. Pauley III.
NOTE: CAMPAIGN FINANCE VIOLATIONS.
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@zippydooda If you know History you know that the Little German Mustached 1930s Corporal & his Not-See Party accused ALL OPPOSITION of being Marxists, Communists, Bolsheviks, etc.. It didn’t matter if the opposition was Center Right, or Center Left, ALL Opposition was labeled Communist. Not-See-ism is an Ultra Right Fascist Ideology that embraces Authoritarianism, Racism, Xenophobia, Homophobia, The Big Lies(s), and a Mythology of that of the Victim - Think Trump’s $tolen Election Lie. But in order to know these things you would have to read a book. Knowing is half the battle, making an effort to change is the other half ✌️
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Treasonous Trump Lies Again using over $400 million in tax payer money to prop up his failing properties.
President Trump’s company charges the Secret Service for the rooms agents use while protecting him at his luxury properties — billing U.S. taxpayers at $650 per night, according to federal records and people who have seen receipts.
New documents obtained under the Freedom of Information Act reveal the rates the Secret Service paid at President Trump's priorities. (Zach Purser Brown/The Washington Post)
And at the Trump National Golf Club Bedminster, the Secret Service was charged $17,000 a month to use a three-bedroom cottage on the property, an unusually high rent for homes in that area, according to receipts from 2017. Trump’s company billed the government even for days when Trump wasn’t there.
The full extent of the Secret Service’s payments to Trump’s company is not known as Steven Mnuchin, Secretary of The Treasury refuses to release information even though the Secret Service is required to report payments over $10,000.
The records show more than $471,000,00 in payments from taxpayers to Trump’s companies. But — because these records cover only a fraction of Trump’s travel during a fraction of his term — the actual total is likely to be higher. It appears that TT is using tax payer money to prop up his failing properties. “We provide the rooms at cost and could make far more money renting them to members or guests,” Trump Organization Executive Vice President Eric Trump said in a statement: “If he stays at one of his places, the government actually . . . saves a fortune because, if they were to go to a hotel across the street, they’d be charging them $500 a night, whereas, you know we charge them, like 50 bucks,” Eric Trump said. That statement appears to be a lie.
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Grand Solar Minimum,Grand Solar Maximum, Maunder Minimum, Milankovitch cycles, Axial tilt, Axial precession, Apsidal precession, Orbital inclination, etc. are relatively understood by Astrophysicists and none of these explain the rapidity of warming and the massive up tick in CO2 and other Green House Gases. You can try to blame natural CO2 such as Volcanism but Volcanoes leave a distinct CO2 signature as does CO2 from carbon fuel combustion. Bottom line, man caused climate change science is settled science, all that remains to be determined is how bad things will get. Please take your own advice and research down that rabbit hole.
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Republicans are blaming renewable energy, when it’s the state’s powerful deregulated utilities that failed to prepare for the worst.Texans are also furious about how their state’s ruinous laissez-faire governance led to a cascade of human-caused disasters of epic. In general, there’s a natural gas storage problem in Texas. Utility companies didn’t bother to have gas reserves: It’s easier, cheaper and more profitable to tap the gas in the field with a pipeline.
After a cold snap in 2011, the power companies were supposed to better winterize their plants. Ten years later, they hadn’t done it. It’s hard to believe they couldn’t afford it: Oncor, the giant power utility serving Dallas, reported $651 million in net income in 2019.
As the cold froze Oklahoma and sent temperatures in Dallas to lows not seen in over a century, the natural gas industry were unable to deliver more gas even if it was purchased. Wellheads in the Permian Basin froze solid. Pipelines leaked water, which, in turn, turned metal and gas into useless, immovable ice.
The crisis dates back to the 1930s, when the Federal Power Commission gained the authority to regulate interstate transmission of electric power. But politicians in Texas didn’t want Washington regulating the electricity business and chipping away at those hefty profits.
So the business went entirely unregulated until the formation of the Electric Reliability Council of Texas (ERCOT) in the 1970s. But ERCOT has been anything but reliable. While it is technically overseen by the state, its board is really just an industry club. Several of its members don’t even live in Texas.
After taking a beating on Twitter, Mr. Abbott tried to blame the renewable energy industry, a talking point that caught fire among conservatives. Renewables like wind and solar can contribute up to 20 percent of the Texas power grid, but just 7 percent of the winter grid, with 80 percent coming from natural gas, coal and a bit of nuclear power. While some wind turbines in Texas froze, many of them kept turning.
Yet another example of Fakenews- media spewing Propaganda.
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“No simple Form of Government, can possibly secure Men against the Violences of Power. Simple Monarchy will soon mould itself into Despotism, Aristocracy will soon commence an Oligarchy, and Democracy, will soon degenerate into an Anarchy, such an Anarchy that every Man will do what is right in his own Eyes, and no Mans life or Property or Reputation or Liberty will be secure and every one of these will soon mould itself into a system of subordination of all the moral Virtues, and Intellectual Abilities, all the Powers of Wealth, Beauty, Wit, and Science, to the wanton Pleasures, the capricious Will, and the execrable Cruelty of one or a very few.”
~ John Adams Cautions against Trumpian Neo Nazism.
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The Ultra Conservative New York Post gave Trump a blistering rebuke demanding that he grow up and accept his loss to President-elect Joe Biden and stop falsely claiming that mass voter fraud had marred the results — an effort the paper labeled a “dark charade.”
“We understand, Mr. President, that you’re angry that you lost,” the editorial board wrote. “But to continue down this road is treasonous.”
Under the headline “Stop the insanity,” the conservative tabloid took particular aim at Trump’s attempts to pressure Vice President Pence and congressional Republicans to somehow Throwout the result when they meet on Jan. 6 to certify Biden’s electoral college victory.
“You have tweeted that, as long as Republicans have ‘courage,’ they can overturn the results and give you four more years in office,” the Post wrote. “In other words, you’re cheering for an undemocratic coup.”
The article also reminded Trump that he had clearly failed in his attempts to prove voter fraud propelled Biden to victory.
“You had every right to investigate the election. But let’s be clear: Those efforts have found nothing,” the Post wrote, noting that Trump-backed recounts in Wisconsin and Georgia had turned up no evidence of malfeasance.
The editorial also lashed out at Sidney Powell, whose “Kraken” lawsuits seeking to overturn the election results have repeatedly been tossed out of court, and Michael Flynn, the former national security adviser who has floated the idea of declaring martial law to keep Trump in power.
“Michael Flynn suggesting martial law is tantamount to treason. It is shameful.”
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DEMOCRACY IS IN DECLINE AROUND THE WORLD - AND TRUMP IS PART OF THE PROBLEM.
The Freedom House Annual report on the health of global democracy warned of its decline. In its survey evaluating 195 countries and 15 territories, Freedom House, a nongovernmental, nonpartisan advocacy organization established in 1941, found that political freedoms and civil liberties across the world are backsliding more often than they are improving.
“Democracy is under assault,” read the opening sentence of its report, written by Sarah Repucci. “Dictators are toiling to stamp out the last vestiges of domestic dissent and spread their harmful influence to new corners of the world.”
The usual suspects remain among the worst offenders. Freedom House decried China for its “totalitarian offensive” in Xinjiang and other campaigns of repression, and it warned of Beijing’s “relentless campaign to replace existing international norms with its own authoritarian vision.” It pointed to Russia’s “stage-managed elections” in 2019, in which the genuine opposition was largely shut out. Iran’s leadership, even as it sowed “discord” in neighboring countries, deployed security forces that used live ammunition to crush demonstrations last fall, killing hundreds of people.
But perhaps more disquieting is the steady erosion seen in “established democracies,” more than two dozen of which have seen net losses in their democracy rankings.
“Many freely elected leaders are dramatically narrowing their concerns to a blinkered interpretation of the national interest,” wrote Repucci. “In fact, such leaders — including the chief executives of the United States and India, the world’s two largest democracies — are increasingly willing to break down institutional safeguards and disregard the rights of critics and minorities as they pursue their populist agendas.”
President Trump is a key part of this story. Freedom House’s report, titled “A Leaderless Struggle for Democracy,” highlighted the “pressure” Trump is exerting “on electoral integrity, judicial independence, and safeguards against corruption” in the United States.
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TRUMP’s CRIME SYNDICATE: Trump - Felon - Tied to Kremlin🇷🇺, Trump's Campaign Mgr - Felon🇷🇺, T’s Deputy Campaign Mgr - Felon🇷🇺, T’s Chief Strategist - Felon🇷🇺, T’s National Security Advisor - Felon🇷🇺, T’s Foreign Policy advisor - Felon🇷🇺, T’s Personal Lawyer - Felon, T’s Campaign Fixer - Felon, T’s Company CFO - Felon, T’s Trade Advisor - Felon, 22 Other Close Trump Associates - Convicted Felons.
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TRUMP’s CRIME SYNDICATE: Trump - Felon - Tied to Kremlin🇷🇺, Trump's Campaign Mgr - Felon🇷🇺, T’s Deputy Campaign Mgr - Felon🇷🇺, T’s Chief Strategist - Felon🇷🇺, T’s National Security Advisor - Felon🇷🇺, T’s Foreign Policy advisor - Felon🇷🇺, T’s Personal Lawyer - Felon, T’s Campaign Fixer - Felon, T’s Company CFO - Felon, T’s Trade Advisor - Felon, 22 Other Close Trump Associates - Convicted Felons.
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@TXbullymom Trump Failure’s: U.S. Presidency, Trump Airlines, Trump Bottled Water, Trump Board Game, Trump Mortgage, Trump Travel, Trump Steaks, Trump Vodka, Trump Telephone, Trump Tower Tampa, Trump University, Trump Fragrance, Trump Mattresses, Trump Casino, Trump Castle & Marina, Trump Plaza Hotel, Trump “Worlds Fair”, Trump Coachella 29 - removed for incompetence.
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A day before rioters stormed Congress, an FBI office in Virginia issued an explicit internal warning that extremists were preparing to travel to Washington to commit violence and “war,” according to an FBI internal document. A situational information report approved for release the day before the U.S. Capitol riot painted a dire portrait of dangerous plans, including individuals sharing a map of the complex’s tunnels, and possible rally points for would-be conspirators to meet up. “As of 5 January 2021, FBI Norfolk received information indicating calls for violence in response to ‘unlawful lockdowns’ to begin on 6 January 2021 in Washington. D.C.,” the document says. “An online thread discussed specific calls for violence to include stating ‘Be ready to fight. Congress needs to hear glass breaking, doors being kicked in, and blood being spilled. Get violent. Stop calling this a march, or rally, or a protest. Go there ready for war. Our President wants us to do this. NOTHING else will achieve this goal.”
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@opossumsrawesome6860 A HISTORY LEASON FROM DJT: "The Silver War was so fascinating, so horrible — but so fascinating, it was really fascinating. I'm so attracted to seeing it. It’s really interesting. But it was horrible, really horrible. It was, I don’t know, it was just different. So many mistakes were made. See, there was something I think I could have negotiated, to be honest with you. I think I could’ve negotiated that.
Abraham Lincoln, of course if he negotiated it, you probably wouldn’t even know who Abraham Lincoln was. He would have been president, but he would have been president, and he wouldn’t have been the Abraham Lincoln. Would’ve been different, but that would’ve been OK.
I know it very well. I know the whole process that they went through, and they just couldn’t get along, and that would’ve been something that could have been negotiated and they wouldn’t have had that problem. There’s nothing nice about it. All the people died, so many people died.”
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user-lh7rg9tq7i There is a Full PDF of these type case, all you have to do is Google. In New York, the criminal law on falsifying business records is found at Article 175 of New York’s penal code. The crime of falsifying business records can be committed in the second degree, which is a class A misdemeanor (N.Y. Penal Code § 175.05), or in the first degree, which is a class E felony (N.Y. Penal Code § 175.10).
An individual is “guilty of falsifying business records in the second degree when, with intent to defraud, he:
makes or causes a false entry in the business records of an enterprise; or
alters, erases, obliterates, deletes, removes or destroys a true entry in the business records of an enterprise; or
omits to make a true entry in the business records of an enterprise in violation of a duty to do so which he knows to be imposed upon him by law or by the nature of his position; or
prevents the making of a true entry or causes the omission thereof in the business records of an enterprise.” N.Y. Penal Code § 175.05
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@georgesykes394 Yeah, Faux news has Identified its 39 War on Woke Hot Lines, to join the other 38 Wars Faux has invented. Previous notables have been the War on Xmas, The War on Xmas Trees, Xmas Paper Coffee Cups, Masculinity, Toxic Masculinity, Gender, Pronouns, School Children, Toxic Christians, Femininity, Conservatives, Conservative Media, and on and on and on. Keeping Track of all these Wars Must Be Exhausting. 😢😢😢
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Dan C.
Even ramped up we are so far behind we’re South Korea Started. South Korea, and America, discovered their first Covid19 cases on the same day. Korea has tested 80% of its population, isolated the infected, provide masks and medical supplies to all parts of their nation, and flattened and reversed the curve.
Trump, he just staged to admit we have a Pandemic, tells states it’s not his job, refuses to establish order in the supply chain to stop FEMA, Hospitals, States, and other Agencies from competing against each other for supplies, and the best he can do is place Jared Kushner in charge of yet another failed job.
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WASHINGTON — John H. Durham, the Trump-era special counsel scrutinizing the investigation into Russia’s 2016 election interference, distanced himself on Thursday from false reports by right-wing news outlets that a motion he recently filed said Hillary Clinton’s campaign had paid to spy on Trump White House servers.
Citing a barrage of such reports on Fox News and elsewhere based on the prosecutor’s Feb. 11 filing, defense lawyers for a Democratic-linked cybersecurity lawyer, Michael Sussmann, have accused the special counsel of including unnecessary and misleading information in filings “plainly intended to politicize this case, inflame media coverage and taint the jury pool.”
In a filing on Thursday, Mr. Durham defended himself, saying those accusations about his intentions were “simply not true.” He said he had “valid and straightforward reasons” for including the information in the Feb. 11 filing that set off the firestorm, while disavowing responsibility for how certain news outlets had interpreted and portrayed it.
“If third parties or members of the media have overstated or otherwise misinterpreted facts contained in the government’s motion, that does not in any way undermine the valid reasons for the government’s inclusion of this information,” he wrote.
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On Fox News, suddenly a very different tune about the coronavirus.
For weeks, some of Fox News’s hosts downplayed the threat of the coronavirus, characterizing it as a conspiracy by media organizations and Democrats to undermine President Trump.
Sean Hannity and Laura Ingraham accused the news media of whipping up “mass hysteria” and being “panic pushers.” Trish Regan called the Main Stream Media response “yet another attempt to impeach the president.”
But that was then.
When Trump’s declared a national emergency, the tone on Fox News has quickly shifted. Hannity, suddenly the lauded the president’s handling of what the host is now, belatedly, referring to as a “crisis.”
“Tonight, we are witnessing what will be a massive paradigm shift in the future of disease control and prevention,” he said. “A bold, new precedent is being set, the world will once again benefit greatly from America’s leadership. . . . The federal government, state governments, private businesses, top hospitals all coming together, under the president’s leadership, to stem the tide of the coronavirus.”
In a complicated dance to mirror the president, Trump’s allies on Fox News took the same stance as the president for several weeks — that this coronavirus that had sickened and killed thousands of people in China was no worse a threat than the seasonal flu.
Just a week ago, Hannity shrugged at the pandemic. “So far in the United States, there’s been around 30 deaths, most of which came from one nursing home in the state of Washington,” he said, “Healthy people, generally, 99 percent recover very fast, even if they contract it.”
By way of comparison, he added: “Twenty-six people were shot in Chicago alone over the weekend. I doubt you heard about it. You notice there’s no widespread hysteria about violence in Chicago. And this has gone on for years and years. By the way, Democratic-run cities, we see a lot of that.”
Ingraham, also had a fast-dawning recognition that the social and economic dislocation of the virus was more than just a Democratic talking point wielded against the president.
In late February, Ingraham called Democrats the “pandemic party” and displayed photos of House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) and Senate Minority Leader Charles E. Schumer (D-N.Y.) alongside enlarged images of coronavirus molecules. “How sick that these people seem almost happiest when Americans are hurting,” she said.
She kept at it through last Tuesday when, in front of a graphic reading “Trump confronts the panic pushers,” Ingraham said, “The public in some ways seems a lot more levelheaded than the so-called experts. . . . The facts are actually pretty reassuring, but you’d never know it watching all this stuff.”
On Friday, Ingraham tweeted that it was a “great time to fly if not in at-risk population!” The tweet was later deleted.
By Wednesday, after Trump announced a travel ban on people from the European Union, Ingraham had started calling the pandemic “this dangerous health crisis.” She characterized warnings issued by National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases head Anthony S. Fauci about the potential spread of the disease as “sobering and scary to hear.”
Regan’s on-air speculation at the start of last week that coronavirus was merely another impeachment gambit for Democrats drew widespread pushback. Clearly the mood was changing at Fox by the time the network announced late Friday that her discussion-and-commentary program on Fox Business would leave the air indefinitely.
Tucker Carlson too, blamed the “corrupt” media. But in a monologue that many took at an indirect scolding of the president, he also complained that “none of our leaders helped us to take it seriously. . . . People you trust, people you probably voted for, have spent weeks minimizing what is clearly a very serious problem. It’s just partisan politics, they say. ‘Calm down. In the end, this is just like the flu and people die from that every year. Coronavirus will pass, and when it does, we will feel foolish for worrying about it.’ That’s their position. . . . But they’re wrong.”
Days earlier, Carlson attended the birthday party of former Fox News host Kimberly Guilfoyle, who is dating Donald Trump Jr.
In comments downplaying the pandemic on March 7, Jeanine Pirro, offered “All the talk about coronavirus being so much more deadly [than the flu] doesn’t reflect reality.” She reiterated Trump’s comment that the infection rate will drop “as the weather warms.”
On the “Fox & Friends” program Friday, Liberty University President Jerry Falwell Jr. spun out a meandering tale advancing the baseless notion that the coronavirus was designed by North Korean and Chinese scientists to harm Americans.
The program’s three co-hosts offered no objections. Host Steve Doocy moved on to asking Falwell about Liberty’s plans to cancel classes.
Then on Sunday, Rep. Devin Nunes (R-Calif.) appeared on Fox News and urged Americans to “stop panicking” and for those who are healthy to “just go out.”
Said Nunes: “There’s a lot of concerns with the economy here because people are scared to go out. But I will just say one of the things you can do if you’re healthy, you and your family, it’s a great time to just go out, go to a local restaurant.”
Anchor Maria Bartiromo offered no response to Nunes’s comment. On Monday, a day later, Fox News contributor Nicole Saphier, a doctor, specifically called out the congressman on air to contradict his advice and told viewers to stay home.
This is a quick summation of how Faux news has become nothing more than a platform for Trumpian Propaganda.
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CB BC
In these last days, Scripture warns that false prophets will arise and deceive many. Believers who are not well-grounded make easy targets for doctrines that may sound good but are filled with error.
Some doctrines are deadly: those that alter the Deity of Christ, redefine the Trinity — or even deny the Trinity. Sometimes a charmer will lead the susceptible off into error that results in physical death — Jonestown and Waco come to mind. [The Cult of Trump]
We must sharpen our awareness and be alert — not just for ourselves but for our loved ones who might otherwise be drawn to a false prophet.
Last time, we looked at five tests you can apply to any teacher’s message: the Source, Savior, Subject, Salvation, and Sanctification tests. But even if the teacher’s message passes these tests, we still should examine his method, manner, and motive.
Know them by their method.
They “…privily shall bring in damnable heresies…And through covetousness shall they with feigned words make merchandise of you: (2 Peter 2:1-3) [Trump?]
Peter is describing the way they operate.
privily means “secretly, clandestinely, in a way that’s hard to spot.” Give the devil credit for being clever. His helpers lay false teaching alongside good teaching in order to confuse.
feigned words. The word feigned in the Greek is plastos, from which we get our word “plastic.” Plastic is pliable, molding itself just simply to fit and to imitate…plastic preachers with plastic words.
Know them by their manner.
And many shall follow their pernicious ways… (v. 2)
Pernicious is a word we don’t use much today. It literally means “unbridled lust.” The center, sum and substance of their message is themselves. [Trump?]
Have you noticed that apostasy and immorality go hand in hand? Often you’ll hear about false teachers being caught in adultery. Or, within their belief system, they advocate immorality, multiple wives, or some sort of “free sex.” We see it over and over again. We hear news reports of a cult under the spell of a leader who, it is revealed, has been engaging in shocking immorality with members of his flock. High-profile evangelists preaching easy-believe-ism or a health-and-wealth gospel have sometimes been exposed as leading double lives. [Trump?]
They call themselves prophets, but they’re living in sin. Note their methods, manner, and way of life. Are they above reproach?
I have seen also in the prophets of Jerusalem an horrible thing: they commit adultery, and walk in lies: they strengthen also the hands of evildoers, that none of them doth return from his wickedness: they are all of them unto me as Sodom, and the inhabitants therefore as Gomorrah. Jeremiah 23:14 [Trump?]
Success in ministry does not necessarily mean they’re doing God’s work. Statistics are no proof that something is of God, because “many will follow” (2 Peter 2:2). Some people love the sensual rather than the spiritual. Jesus said, “Not every one that saith unto Me, Lord, Lord, shall enter into the kingdom of heaven; but he that doeth the will of My Father, which is in heaven” (Matthew 7:21). Many people lead double lives. They are counterfeits.
Know them by their motive.
And through covetousness shall they with feigned words make merchandise of you…. 2 Peter 2:3
What is the false teacher’s motive? They want to use and manipulate you. Why? Because they themselves are covetous. [Trump?]
For their own motivation and wicked heart, Peter says, they make merchandise of the Gospel. You’ve perhaps seen some of these hucksters on TV who merchandise the Gospel of Christ. In my estimation, the hottest part of hell is reserved for these plastic preachers who, for whatever reason, merchandise God’s people. With great swelling words they exploit the ignorant. They are prophets, spelled “P-R-O-F-I-T-S.”
Lastly, in verses 4-5 Peter gets very serious. He says God will surely judge and not spare them.
Don’t get caught up in counterfeit Christianity. God will not spare sin or the sinner, for He did not spare His only begotten Son, the Lord Jesus, so that you and I might have eternal life.
The world is full of counterfeits. Every counterfeit dollar is a tribute to the worth of the real — or men wouldn’t be printing counterfeits! And every counterfeit Christian is a tribute to the value of salvation. Jesus is real. Salvation is real. And you can make sure you have the real thing if you repent of your sin and trust Him. [Spurn the Antichrist, Spurn Trump]
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@littlebob1261 Kind? You are confusing EVIL with KIND. To help you, I have taken the liberty of providing you the definitions.
e·vil /ˈēv(ə)l/ adjective
profoundly immoral and wicked.
"his evil deeds"
Similar: wicked, bad ,wrong, morally wrong, wrongful, immoral, sinful, ungodly, unholy, foul, vile, base, ignoble, dishonorable, corrupt, iniquitous, depraved, degenerate, villainous, nefarious, sinister, vicious, malicious, malevolent, demonic, diabolic, diabolical, dark, monstrous, etc…
kind adjective [-er/-est only] (GOOD)
generous, helpful, and caring about other people
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FEDERAL JUDGES CALL EMERGENCY MEETING TO DEAL WITH BARR’s & TRUMP’s UNPRECEDENTED INTERVENTION IN STONE CASE.
The head of the Federal Judges Association is taking the extraordinary step of calling an emergency meeting to address the intervention in politically sensitive cases by President Trump and Attorney General William P. Barr.
U.S. District Judge Cynthia M. Rufe, the Philadelphia-based judge who heads the voluntary association of around 1,100 life-term federal judges, said the issue “could not wait.”
On Sunday, more than 1,100 former Justice Department employees released a public letter calling on Barr to resign over the Stone case. See Article “More than 1,100 ex-Justice Department officials call for Barr’s resignation”
The action follows a week of turmoil that included the president tweeting his outrage over the length of sentence recommended by career federal prosecutors for his friend Roger Stone and the decision by Barr to withdraw that recommendation. To make matters worse, Trump singled out the judge in the Stone case, Amy Berman Jackson of the U.S. District Court in Washington, for personal attacks, accusing her of bias and spreading a falsehood about her record.
“There are plenty of issues that we are concerned about,” Rufe said to USA Today. “We’ll talk all this through.”
Trump began disparaging federal judges who have ruled against his interests before he took office, starting with U.S. District Judge Gonzalo P. Curiel. After Curiel ruled against Trump in 2016 in a pair of lawsuits detailing predatory marketing practices at Trump University in San Diego, Trump described him as “a hater of Donald Trump,” adding that he believed the Indiana-born judge was “Mexican.”
President Trump has a history of denouncing judges over rulings that have negatively affected him personally as well as his administration's policies. Faced with more than 100 adverse rulings in the federal courts, Trump has continued verbal attacks on judges.
THIS IS TREASONOUS TRUMP’s IDEA OF MAGA, A BANANA REPUBLIC WITH HIM AS A PETTY DICTATOR LIKE CHAVEZ IN VENEZUELA.
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@tompain2751
PROUD BOYS
Ideology: Chauvinism, Neo-fascism, White Nationalism,
Political position: Far-right
Major actions: Harassment, Picketing, Political violence, Neo-fascism
The Proud Boys is a far-right, neo-fascist and male-only political organization that promotes and engages in political violence in the United States and Canada.[1] The group originated in the far-right Taki's Magazine in 2016 under the leadership of Vice Media co-founder and former commentator Gavin McInnes, taking its name from the song "Proud of Your Boy" from the 2011 Disney musical Aladdin.[2] Although the Proud Boys emerged as part of the alt-right, McInnes distanced himself from this movement in early 2017, saying the Proud Boys was "alt-light" while the alt-right's focus was race.[3] The re-branding effort intensified following the white supremacist Unite the Right rally.[4] Since early 2019, Enrique Tarrio, who identifies as Afro-Cuban, has been the chairman of the Proud Boys.[5]
The group believes men and Western culture are under siege, their views having elements of the white genocide conspiracy theory.[6] Members have participated in multiple racist events and events centered around anti-antifa, anti-left and anti-socialist violence, with expelled member Jason Kessler organizing the Unite the Right rally in Charlottesville.[7] The Proud Boys glorifies violence, and the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) has called the group an "alt-right fight club."[8][9] The organization has been described as a hate group by NPR's The Takeaway and the SPLC, while the ADL has variously described the Proud Boys as an "extremist conservative" group and ideologically as primarily "alt lite."[10]
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Treasonous Trump’s State of the Union Speech: “Me, Me, Me, Me, Me, Me, Them, Them, Me, Me, Me, Them, Me, Me, etc.”
Nailed it! 😂🤣😂🤣
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robert ryan
dad bear
William H. McRaven, a retired Navy admiral, was commander of the U.S. Joint Special Operations Command from 2011 to 2014. He oversaw the 2011 Navy SEAL raid in Pakistan that killed al-Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden. He writes:
Dear Mr. President:
Former CIA director John Brennan, whose security clearance you revoked on Wednesday, is one of the finest public servants I have ever known. Few Americans have done more to protect this country than John. He is a man of unparalleled integrity, whose honesty and character have never been in question, except by those who don’t know him.
Therefore, I would consider it an honor if you would revoke my security clearance as well, so I can add my name to the list of men and women who have spoken up against your presidency.
Like most Americans, I had hoped that when you became president, you would rise to the occasion and become the leader this great nation needs.
A good leader tries to embody the best qualities of his or her organization. A good leader sets the example for others to follow. A good leader always puts the welfare of others before himself or herself.
Your leadership, however, has shown little of these qualities. Through your actions, you have embarrassed us in the eyes of our children, humiliated us on the world stage and, worst of all, divided us as a nation.
If you think for a moment that your McCarthy-era tactics will suppress the voices of criticism, you are sadly mistaken. The criticism will continue until you become the leader we prayed you would be.
NEED WE SAY MORE THAN THIS AMERICAN HERO? STAND UP AND BE COUNTED. VOTE THIS WOULD BE PETTY DICTATOR OUT OF OFFICE.
🇺🇸🗽🇺🇸
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@dr.burtgummerfan439 “TRUMP UNFIT TO SERVE AS PRESIDENT.” List of (Rs) who signed a letter saying This:
Admiral Steve Abbot
USN (Ret.), Deputy Homeland Security Advisor, George W. Bush
Kenneth Adelman Director, Arms Control and Disarmament Agency, Reagan
Dr. Carol C. Adelman Asst. Admin., U.S. Agency for International Development, Reagan
Major General John Barry USAF (Ret.), Military Assistant to the Secretary of Defense
Richard C. Barth Asst. Secretary, Department of Homeland Security, W. Bush
Christopher Barton Director, National Security Council Staff
John Bellinger Legal Adviser, National Security Council, W. Bush
Admiral Kenneth Bernard Special Asst. to W. Bush
Mark E. Bitterman Special Asst. to the Secretary of Defense, H.W. Bush
Robert D. Blackwill Deputy National Security Advisor, W. Bush
William Bodie Asst. to the Secretary of the Air Force, W. Bush
Christian M.L. Bonat Deputy General Counsel, DOD, W. Bush & Obama
Richard Boucher Assistant Secretary of State, W. Bush
Charles W. Boustany, Jr. Former Member of Congress, Louisiana
Charles R. Bowers Ambassador to Bolivia, H.W. Bush
Greg Brower Asst. Director, FBI, Obama & Trump
Christopher Buckley Chief Speechwriter, Office of VP H.W. Bush
James R. Bullington U.S. Ambassador to Burundi, Reagan
Richard Burt U.S. Ambassador to Germany, Reagan
Gahl Hodges Burt Asst. to the Secretary of State, Reagan
Rear Admiral Fred Byus U.S. Navy (Ret.)
Jack C. Chow Deputy Asst. Secretary of State, W. Bush
James W. Cicconi Asst. to the President & Deputy to the Chief of Staff, H. W. Bush
Peggy Cifrino Deputy Chief of Staff to Secretary of State Colin Powell, W. Bush
Eliot A. Cohen Counselor of the Dept. of State, W. Bush
Benedict S. Cohen General Counsel, Dept. of the Army, W. Bush
William Cohen Secretary of Defense, Clinton, & U.S. Senator, Maine
Joseph J. Collins Deputy Asst. Secretary of Defense, W. Bush
Barbara Comstock Former Member of Congress, Virginia
Cindy Courville National Security Affairs for Africa, W. Bush
Chester A. Crocker Assistant Secretary of State, Reagan
Patrick M. Cronin Admin. U.S. Agency for International Development, W. Bush
Stephen W. DeVine Deputy Legal Advisor, National Security Council, W. Bush
Charles Djou Former Member of Congress, Hawaii
Michael Donley Secretary of the Air Force, George W. Bush & Obama
Raymond F. DuBois Secretary of the Army, George W. Bush
Martha E. Duncan Sr Executive Service, DOD, George W. Bush & Obama
Lewis A. Dunn Director, Arms Control and Disarmament Agency, Reagan
Eric S. Edelman Under Secretary of Defense, George W. Bush
Mickey Edwards Member of Congress, Oklahoma
Richard A. Falkenrath Deputy Assistant to the President, George W. Bush
Jendayi E. Frazer Ambassador to South Africa George W. Bush Administration
Aaron L. Friedber Deputy Assistant to George W. Bush
William Gaches Director of Counterterrorism, NSA, George W. Bush
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Stuart M. Gerson Attorney General of the United States, George W. Bush
James K. Glassman Under Secretary of State, George W. Bush
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David Gordon Director, State Dept, Policy Planning, George W. Bush
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Mark Harvey Special Assistant to the President, Trump
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Frank Lavin Ambassador to Singapore & Under Secretary of Commerce, George W. Bush
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Former Assistant Secretary of Commerce, George W. Bush Administration
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Winston Lord
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Steven R. Mann
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Colonel John W. McDonald
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P. Michael McKinley
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Dan Miller
Former Member of Congress, Florida
John M. Mitnick
Former General Counsel, Dept. of Homeland Security, Trump
Allen Moore
Former Under Secretary of Commerce, Reagan
Alberto Mora
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Kenneth Mortensen
Former Associate Deputy Attorney General, George W. Bush
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U.S. Navy (Ret.), George W. Bush
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@kevinbacon2636
Dear Mr. Bacon,
You command of economics and the causes of inflation are profoundly lacking. Our current inflation issues can be pinned on Trump Economic Polices, Biden Economic Policies, a Decade of Loose Fed Monitory Policies, COVID, Supply Chain Issues, Massive on Line Purchases during COVID, Record Economic Growth - Highest in 40 Years, Middle Class and Lower Level Wage Growth, etc. These causes of inflation can be easily verified by going to Web Sites that deal in the issue of inflation. This is a polite way for me to tell you to research and read credible sources so that you need not remain a moron. Your affliction need not be permanent as it has the a cure: Read Often, Read Deeply, Read from credible and scholarly sources. ✌️
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Don Burwell
OUR MORON PRESIDENT SAID WHAT?
During Thursday's White House coronavirus task force briefing, an official presented the results of US government research that indicated coronavirus on an external surface appeared to weaken more quickly when exposed to sunlight, heat, and disinfectant.
Upon taking the podium Trump said:
"So, supposing we hit the body with a tremendous - whether it's ultraviolet or just very powerful light," the president said, turning to Dr Deborah Birx, the White House coronavirus response co-ordinator, "and I think you said that hasn't been checked but you're going to test it.
"And then I said, supposing you brought the light inside of the body, which you can do either through the skin or in some other way. And I think you said you're going to test that too. Sounds interesting," the president continued.
"And then I see the disinfectant where it knocks it out in a minute. One minute. And is there a way we can do something like that, by injection inside or almost a cleaning? So it'd be interesting to check that." Pointing to his head, Mr Trump went on: "I'm not a doctor. But I'm, like, a person that has a good you-know-what." He turned again to Dr Birx and asked if she had ever heard of using "the heat and the light" to treat coronavirus.
"Not as a treatment," Dr Birx said. "I mean, certainly, fever is a good thing. When you have a fever, it helps your body respond. But I've not seen heat or light."
"I think it's a great thing to look at," Mr Trump said.
You heard it here first folks, our president is a Mad Moron Would be “Scientist Jenius” (sic).
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Jazmine Sanders
Unfortunately, those Prosperity Preachers who surround Treasonous Trump in this video “call” themselves Christians. Jesus never taught that your charitable donations would come back to you and make you materially wealthy. Each and every one of the above Preaches Teaches Prosperity Christianity.
Paula White, Trump’s official Whitehouse Spiritual Advisor is a prominent televangelists who teach a prosperity gospel, that God will reward believers with wealth and health, a teaching that many Christians believe is heretical.
Prosperity theology (sometimes referred to as the prosperity gospel, the health and wealth gospel, the gospel of success, or seed faith)[A] is a controversial religious belief among some Protestant Christians, who hold that financial blessing and physical well-being are always the will of God for them, and that faith, positive speech, and donations to religious causes will increase one's material wealth.
In summary it goes like this: If you give Paula White $10 God will give you $20. If you give Paula White $1,000 God might let you win the lottery. Paula White becomes rich, has multiple mansions, multiple jets, and fancy life style all on the backs of her followers. Is this a “Christian” you want advising your president?
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Shirley Evans
Jan. 22: President Trump is asked: “Are there worries about a pandemic at this point?” Trump answers: “No. Not at all. And we’re, we have it totally under control. It’s one person coming in from China. … It’s — going to be just fine.”
Feb. 25: Trump’s declares: “We have contained this. I won’t say airtight, but pretty close to airtight.”
March 9: Trump tweets: “Nothing is shut down, life & the economy go on. At this moment there are 546 confirmed cases of CoronaVirus, with 22 deaths.”
March 13: Fox host Lou Dobbs shows off on his program a chart of the day’s 1,985-point Dow Jones rise. The chart was autographed and sent by Trump, who seemed to suggest that his remarks were responsible for the rise, a day after the same index had dropped a record 2,352 points.
March 16: After the weekend, the Dow suffers another record drop, closing 2,997.10 points lower. Trump did not autograph that chart and send it to Dobbs.
March 31: The U.S. has more than 180,000 confirmed coronavirus cases, about 80,000 more than any other country.
Nov. 26, 2018: Reports show that Trump “dismissed a study produced by his own administration … and more than 300 leading scientists, warning of the potentially catastrophic impending crisis. Asked why, Trump told reporters, “I don’t believe it.” Asked if he read it, Trump said, “some.”
March 30, 2020: This newspaper reports that Trump completed plans to scrap Obama-era automobile fuel efficiency standards that limited climate-warming tailpipe pollution — a move that will “allow cars on American roads to emit nearly a billion tons more carbon dioxide over the lifetime of the vehicles.”
What’s the common theme? We have a president who is enamored with markets but ignorant of science, and we have paid a steep, steep price for that — and we are paying an even bigger price now.
Early on, Trump clearly spent his days watching the markets and downplaying the virus’s potential for rapid spread. If the markets were doing well for investors, he was doing well for America.
Trump thought that closing off flights from China was enough to stem this growing epidemic and calm the markets — without the mass testing, surveillance and quarantines of the infected that South Korea, Hong Kong and Singapore employed to great success. You could hear that in the reckless, premature assurances by Kudlow, Kellyanne CONWAY and Trump himself that the virus had been contained.
If only Trump had listened to Medical Doctors and Scientists. It was his deadly mistake, and a cruel joke on America.
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“I no longer recognize my party”
Why Hundreds of Thousands of Republicans Are Leaving the Crazed Party
Voting registration data indicates a strong and unusual flight from the G.O.P. since the Capitol riot, with an intensely fluid period in American politics now underway.
In the days and weeks after the storming of the Capitol by Trump supporters on Jan. 6, hundreds of thousands of Republicans left the party. After the Jan. 6 attack on the Capitol, the phone lines and websites of local election officials across the country were jumping: Tens of thousands of Republicans were calling or logging on to switch their party affiliations.
In California, more than 33,000 registered Republicans left the party during the three weeks after the Washington riot. In Pennsylvania, more than 12,000 voters left the G.O.P. in the past month, and more than 10,000 Republicans changed their registration in Arizona.
An analysis of January voting records found that nearly 140,000 Republicans had quit the party in 25 states that had readily available data (19 states do not have registration by party). Voting experts say this is the start of a particularly damaging period for G.O.P. registrations as voters recoil from the Capitol violence and its fallout.
Among those who recently left the party are Juan Nunez, 56, an Army veteran in Mechanicsburg, Pa. He said he had long felt that the difference between the United States and many other countries was that campaign-season fighting ended on Election Day, when all sides would peacefully accept the result. The Jan. 6 riot changed that, he said.
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FAILURE IN AMERICA ON A TRUMPIAN SCALE:
Nearly every country has struggled to contain the coronavirus and made mistakes along the way.
China silenced doctors and allowed the virus to escape Wuhan, much of Europe went next, failing to avoid and contain enormous outbreaks. Today, many countries — Japan, Canada, France, Australia and more — are coping with new increases in cases after reopening parts of society.
But one country stands alone, as the only affluent nation to have suffered a severe, sustained outbreak for more than four months: the United States. In just the past month over 1.9 million Americans have tested positive for the virus. That’s more than five times as many as in all of Europe, Canada, Japan, South Korea and Australia, combined. The United States also has the highest number of Deaths 157,000 from the virus far out pacing all other countries. Brazil is the only country competing with the United States for complete failure in containing the virus.
What does the United States & Brazil have in common? Trumpian Politics.
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@jonathansanders7756 Ryan Mac (@rmac18), reporter for the New York Times
Donie O’Sullivan (@donie), reporter for CNN
Drew Harwell (@drewharwell), reporter for the Washington Post
Taylor Lorenz (@TaylorLorenz), reporter for the Washington Post
Matt Binder (@mattbinder), reporter for Mashable
Micah Lee (@micahflee), reporter for The Intercept
Steve Herman (@W7VOA), chief national correspondent for Voice of America
Aaron Rupar (@atrupar), freelance journalist
Keith Olbermann (@keitholbermann), political commentator
Linette Lopez (@lopezlinette), reporter for Business Insider
Susan Li (@SusanLiTV), reporter for Fox Business
Tony Webster (@webster), freelance journalist
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@travisclark8431 “TRUMP UNFIT TO SERVE AS PRESIDENT.” List of Republicans who signed a letter saying Trump is a Threat To Our American Democracy 🇺🇸:
Admiral Steve Abbot
USN (Ret.), Deputy Homeland Security Advisor, George W. Bush
Kenneth Adelman Director, Arms Control and Disarmament Agency, Reagan
Dr. Carol C. Adelman Asst. Admin., U.S. Agency for International Development, Reagan
Major General John Barry USAF (Ret.), Military Assistant to the Secretary of Defense
Richard C. Barth Asst. Secretary, Department of Homeland Security, W. Bush
Christopher Barton Director, National Security Council Staff
John Bellinger Legal Adviser, National Security Council, W. Bush
Admiral Kenneth Bernard Special Asst. to W. Bush
Mark E. Bitterman Special Asst. to the Secretary of Defense, H.W. Bush
Robert D. Blackwill Deputy National Security Advisor, W. Bush
William Bodie Asst. to the Secretary of the Air Force, W. Bush
Christian M.L. Bonat Deputy General Counsel, DOD, W. Bush & Obama
Richard Boucher Assistant Secretary of State, W. Bush
Charles W. Boustany, Jr. Former Member of Congress, Louisiana
Charles R. Bowers Ambassador to Bolivia, H.W. Bush
Greg Brower Asst. Director, FBI, Obama & Trump
Christopher Buckley Chief Speechwriter, Office of VP H.W. Bush
James R. Bullington U.S. Ambassador to Burundi, Reagan
Richard Burt U.S. Ambassador to Germany, Reagan
Gahl Hodges Burt Asst. to the Secretary of State, Reagan
Rear Admiral Fred Byus U.S. Navy (Ret.)
Jack C. Chow Deputy Asst. Secretary of State, W. Bush
James W. Cicconi Asst. to the President & Deputy to the Chief of Staff, H. W. Bush
Peggy Cifrino Deputy Chief of Staff to Secretary of State Colin Powell, W. Bush
Eliot A. Cohen Counselor of the Dept. of State, W. Bush
Benedict S. Cohen General Counsel, Dept. of the Army, W. Bush
William Cohen Secretary of Defense, Clinton, & U.S. Senator, Maine
Joseph J. Collins Deputy Asst. Secretary of Defense, W. Bush
Barbara Comstock Former Member of Congress, Virginia
Cindy Courville National Security Affairs for Africa, W. Bush
Chester A. Crocker Assistant Secretary of State, Reagan
Patrick M. Cronin Admin. U.S. Agency for International Development, W. Bush
Stephen W. DeVine Deputy Legal Advisor, National Security Council, W. Bush
Charles Djou Former Member of Congress, Hawaii
Michael Donley Secretary of the Air Force, George W. Bush & Obama
Raymond F. DuBois Secretary of the Army, George W. Bush
Martha E. Duncan Sr Executive Service, DOD, George W. Bush & Obama
Lewis A. Dunn Director, Arms Control and Disarmament Agency, Reagan
Eric S. Edelman Under Secretary of Defense, George W. Bush
Mickey Edwards Member of Congress, Oklahoma
Richard A. Falkenrath Deputy Assistant to the President, George W. Bush
Jendayi E. Frazer Ambassador to South Africa George W. Bush Administration
Aaron L. Friedber Deputy Assistant to George W. Bush
William Gaches Director of Counterterrorism, NSA, George W. Bush
Janice Gardner Assistant Secretary of the Treasury, George W. Bush
Stuart M. Gerson Attorney General of the United States, George W. Bush
James K. Glassman Under Secretary of State, George W. Bush
Jon D. Glassman Deputy National Security Advisor to George H.W. Bush
David Gordon Director, State Dept, Policy Planning, George W. Bush
Sen. Chuck Hagel Secretary of Defense, Obama, and former U.S. Senator, Nebraska
Christopher Hank Deputy Assistant Secretary of State; Reagan,Bush, & Clinton
Mark Harvey Special Assistant to the President, Trump
General Michael V. Hayden Director of the CIA & NSA, Bush & Obama
Carla Hills U.S. Trade Representative, George H.W Bush
Seth Hurwitz Counsel, President's Intelligence Oversight Board, George H.W. Bush
Peter Keisler Attorney General of the U.S., George W. Bush
James A. Kelly Secretary of State, George W. Bush
Adam Kinzinger Former Member of Congress, Illinois
Sofia Kinzinger Deputy Assistant Secretary, Dept. of Homeland Security, Trump
Kenneth J. Krieg Under Secretary of Defense, George W. Bush
James R. Kunder Deputy Administrator, U.S. Agency for International Development, Bush
Brigadier General George Landis, USA, Ret. U.S. Personnel Info Systems Command
Frank Lavin Ambassador to Singapore & Under Secretary of Commerce, George W. Bush
Peter Lichtenbaum
Former Assistant Secretary of Commerce, George W. Bush Administration
Rear Admiral David M. Lichtman, MD, USN (Ret.)
Former Commander, National Naval Medical Center, Bethesda, George H.W. Bush and Clinton Administrations
Winston Lord
Former U.S. Ambassador to China, Reagan and George H.W. Bush Administration
Steven R. Mann
Former Ambassador to Turkmenistan and Former Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary in the State Dept., Clinton and George W. Bush Administrations
Colonel John W. McDonald
Former Deputy Under Secretary of the Army
P. Michael McKinley
Former Ambassador to Peru and Acting Ambassador to the European Union and Mozambique, George W. Bush Administration; Former Ambassador to Peru, Colombia, Afghanistan, and Brazil, Obama Administration
Dan Miller
Former Member of Congress, Florida
John M. Mitnick
Former General Counsel, Dept. of Homeland Security, Trump
Allen Moore
Former Under Secretary of Commerce, Reagan
Alberto Mora
Former General Counsel, U.S. Information Agency, George H.W. Bush; Former General Counsel, Dept. of the Navy, George W. Bush
Kenneth Mortensen
Former Associate Deputy Attorney General, George W. Bush
Vice Admiral Charles L. Munns
U.S. Navy (Ret.), George W. Bush
John D. Negroponte Deputy Secretary of State, George W. Bush
Elizabeth Neumann Assistant Secretary of Homeland Security, Trump
Sean O'Keefe Secretary of the Navy, George H.W. Bush
Bill Paxon Former Member of Congress, New York
William R Piekney CIA Chief of Station, Reagan
Daniel M. Price Deputy NSA Advisor, George W. Bush
Alan Charles Raul Vice Chairman, Civil Liberties Oversight Board, George W. Bush
Victor Reis Director, DARPA, George H.W. Bush
Robert Annan Riley Ambassador to Micronesia, Trump
Paul Rosenzweig Deputy Assistant Secretary of Homeland Security, George W. Bush
Charles Rossotti Deputy Asst. Secretary of Defense; Commissioner of IRS, Clinton & Bush
Nicholas Rostow National Security Council Legal Adviser, Reagan & H.W. Bush
Kori Schake Deputy Director of Policy Planning, State Dept., W. Bush
Wayne A. Schroeder Deputy Under Secretary of Defense, W. Bush
Gregory L. Schulte Sr Director, National Security Council & Atomic Energy Agency, W. Bush
Robert Shanks Deputy Assistant AG, Reagan
Rep. Christopher Shays Former Member of Congress, Connecticut
John Simon Senior Director, National Security Council Staff, W. Bush
Stephen Slick Sr. Director, National Security Council Staff, W. Bush
Mark C. Storella U.S. Ambassador to Zambia, Obama
William H. Taft IV Deputy Secretary of Defense and Ambassador to NATO, W. Bush
Miles Taylor Chief of Staff, Dept. of Homeland Security, Trump
Larry D. Thompson Former Deputy AG, W. Bush
Jack Tomarchio Deputy Under Secretary of Homeland Security, W. Bush
Olivia Troye Special Advisor to VP Pence, Trump
Robert Tuttle U.S. Ambassador to the UK, W. Bush
John K. Veroneau Deputy U.S. Trade Rep. & Assistant Secretary of Defense, W. Bush & Clinton
Colonel Terry Virts, USAF (Ret.)
Former NASA Astronaut, Former Commander of the International Space Station
Dr. Thomas G. Ward, Jr. Director of Threats, Ballistic Missile Defense Org., Reagan & Clinton
Matthew C. Waxman Principal Deputy Director, State Dept Policy Planning, W. Bush
William H. Webster Director of the CIA & FBI, Reagan & H.W. Bush
William F. Weld Assistant Attorney General, Criminal Division, Reagan
J. Robinson West Assistant Secretary of Interior, Reagan
Wendell L. Willkie II General Counsel, Dept. of Commerce, H.W. Bush
Philip Zelikow Counselor of the Dept. of State, W. Bush
Robert B. Zoellick White House Deputy Chief of Staff, George H.W. Bush
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@jeffepstein4138 VP Harris pulled a Trumpian Bonner. DJT: “We had finished dinner. We’re now having dessert. And we had the most beautiful piece of chocolate cake that you’ve ever seen and President Xi was enjoying it. Let me explain something to you, this is during dessert,” he said of his meal with Jinping.
We’ve just fired 59 missiles, all of which hit by the way, unbelievable, from hundreds of miles away, it’s brilliant it’s genius, what we have in terms of technology no one can come close to competing. So I said, we’ve just launched 59 missiles, heading to Iraq.
“Heading to Syria?” The Faux host interjects, you mean Syria.
“Oh, oh ya, I mean Syria.” Trump said.
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Doms twin brother
OUR MORON PRESIDENT SAID WHAT?
During Thursday's White House coronavirus task force briefing, an official presented the results of US government research that indicated coronavirus on an external surface appeared to weaken more quickly when exposed to sunlight, heat, and disinfectant.
Upon taking the podium Trump said:
"So, supposing we hit the body with a tremendous - whether it's ultraviolet or just very powerful light," the president said, turning to Dr Deborah Birx, the White House coronavirus response co-ordinator, "and I think you said that hasn't been checked but you're going to test it.
"And then I said, supposing you brought the light inside of the body, which you can do either through the skin or in some other way. And I think you said you're going to test that too. Sounds interesting," the president continued.
"And then I see the disinfectant where it knocks it out in a minute. One minute. And is there a way we can do something like that, by injection inside or almost a cleaning? So it'd be interesting to check that." Pointing to his head, Mr Trump went on: "I'm not a doctor. But I'm, like, a person that has a good you-know-what." He turned again to Dr Birx and asked if she had ever heard of using "the heat and the light" to treat coronavirus.
"Not as a treatment," Dr Birx said. "I mean, certainly, fever is a good thing. When you have a fever, it helps your body respond. But I've not seen heat or light."
"I think it's a great thing to look at," Mr Trump said.
You heard it here first folks, our president is a Mad Moron Would be “Scientist Jenius” (sic).
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WHEN GOOD PEOPLE DON’T ACT, EVIL REIGNS:
How did the trans-Atlantic slave trade play out over hundreds of years?
How did slavery thrive in this country?
How was the Holocaust allowed to happen?
How did the genocides in Rwanda or Darfur come to be?
It turns out that our current era is providing the unsettling answer: It was easy. As Edmund Burke said: “The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.” If you don’t complain, you condone.
Gather the energy. Gather your neighbor. Fight, vote, email, post. Do all you can to stand up for the vulnerable, for the oppressed, for our Constitution, and for our Democratic Values. Don’t let history record this moment as it has recorded too many others: a time when good people did too little to confront the wickedness and disaster of Trumpian Neo Nazism. In November America has a clear choice, do nothing to confront Trumpian Evil, or vote to sweep the Evil out of office and began the long painful process of Restoring Our Democracy and Democratic Institutions.
As Edmund Burke wrote: “When bad men combine, the good must associate; else they will fall, one by one, an unpitied sacrifice in a contemptible struggle.”
But you may be more familiar with another quote often attributed to Burke: “The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.”
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@Aaron-fo1sy Gen Kelly, DeVos, Gen. Milley, Gen. Mattis, Gen. McMaster, Esper, Spencer, Tillerson, Mulvaney, Bolton, Pompeo, Barr, Haley, Azar, Chao, McMahon,
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@locknessmonster48 Are you really that ignorant of Organizations & History? ANTIFA is a misguided, militant/sometimes violent, unorganized, Left leaning Anti Fascist Group. The Brown Shirts were pure Fascist, MAGAt level Rightwing, always violent, German Nazis. Nazism is defined as a Ultra Rightwing Cult Group that embraces Authoritarianism, Racism, Xenophobia, Homophobia, Anti Semitism, The Big Lies, and a mythology such as the Stab In The Back or Stolen Election Myth. That’s MAGAt territory.
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@elizabethfrownfelter2531 TRUMP’s CRIME SYNDICATE: Trump - Felon - Tied to Kremlin🇷🇺, Trump's Campaign Mgr - Felon🇷🇺, T’s Deputy Campaign Mgr - Felon🇷🇺, T’s Chief Strategist - Felon🇷🇺, T’s National Security Advisor - Felon🇷🇺, T’s Foreign Policy advisor - Felon🇷🇺, T’s Personal Lawyer - Felon, T’s Campaign Fixer - Felon, T’s Company CFO - Felon, T’s Trade Advisor - Felon, 22 Other Close Trump Associates - Convicted Felons.
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Elon Musks AI Grok 3 was asked: What are the odds that Trump is a Putin Compromised Asset? The Answer: 75 - 85% probability.
“What is the likelihood from 1-100 that Trump is a Putin-compromised asset? Use all publicly available information from 1980 on and his failure to ever say anything negative about Putin but has no issue attacking allies.”
Grok 3 Answer:
Throughout the 1990 - 2000, Trump faced bankruptcy and heavily used Russian & Kremlin funding.
* Leaked Kremlin documents in 2021 suggest Putin personally approved a 2016 operation to back Trump, viewing him as ‘mentally unstable’ and exploitable.
Given Trump’s Russian financial ties (decades-long, opaque, & substantial), intelligence suggesting Russian intent, & Trump’s unwavering refusal to criticize Putin despite attacking allies tilt the scale.”
*Trump’s ego & debts make him unwittingly pliable, & tips the scale. Adjusting for uncertainty and alternative explanations (e.g., ideological alignment or naivety), I estimate a 75-85% likelihood Trump is a Putin-compromised asset, leaning toward the higher end due to the consistency of his behavior and the depth of historical ties.”
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Karen Messinger
We - Bush - lied to go to war in Iraq. We lied to our Allies and created a mess. Having a president willing to apologize was very refreshing. As for our military - I served as enlisted and later as an officer... all at the point of the spear - the forever wars have exhausted the military, not a lack of spending. It is ironic that a person who paid for Bone Spurs should claim to be a champion of the military.
Again on military spending, Trump is not spending money on housing, pay, benefits, services, or anything of the kind on our soldiers. Trump is buying what politicians always buy - weapon systems that benefit the 1% through the military industrial complex. Don’t get me wrong, good weapons are appreciated, but having toilets that flush, drinking water that isn’t polluted, housing that doesn’t have cockroaches, pay that isn’t below poverty level, or medical services that actually take care of those who sacrificed limbs, body and soul is better.
By the way, the money Trump stole from the Pentagon? That was money that would have been used for military infrastructure.
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@MrEkzotic All Academics, Public Heath Officials, and Scientists agree - Trump Totally Botched COVID. As if there was any doubt, BEHOLD THE “JENIUS” of Trump: “So, supposing we hit the body with a tremendous — whether it’s ultraviolet or just very powerful light — and I think you said that that hasn’t been tried, but you’re going to test it. And then I said, supposing you brought the light inside the body, which you can do either through the skin or in some other way, and I think you said you’re going to test that, too. It sounds interesting. And then I see the disinfectant, where it knocks it out in a minute. One minute. And is there a way we can do something like that, by injection inside or almost a cleaning. Because you see it gets in the lungs, and it does a tremendous number on the lungs. So it would be interesting to check that, maybe check that out”. 😂😂😂
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Rose
IT IS TRULY INTERESTING HOW WHAT WAS ONCE IMORAL IS NOW “JUST DOING BUSINESS”
Sen. Grassley's closed-door impeachment statement
Released into Congressional Record, February 12, 1999
Excerpts From Sen. Charles Grassley (R-Iowa) 1999 Speech on Clinton Impeachment:
Some say that this impeachment effort is part of a right-wing conspiracy, it is a Republican plot to get a Democratic President. Let's look at how we got here and see if that argument holds up.
We are here because the President did wrongful acts. We are here because of the independent counsel law.
Opponents called it a tool of partisan attack against Republican Presidents and a waste of taxpayer funds. It was neither.
Also under the law, the Attorney General can initiate the dismissal of an independent counsel if he oversteps his bounds or acts improperly. Not only was this never done by the President's Attorney General but, in contrast, she even agreed several times to expand his jurisdiction, including to cover the Monica Lewinsky matter.
Also under the law, the independent counsel is obliged to send to the House any evidences of crimes that might be impeachable.
In short, this case came about through a legitimate, legal process. It is a process that historically was vigorously defended by this side of the aisle. There are various checks and balances built into the process. They are designed to prevent abuse by the independent counsel, but they were never triggered, even though the President's own Attorney General could move for dismissal.
No, this President is in this predicament because of his own private wrongdoing and because of public policy he pursued. There is no conspiracy.
The President's actions are having a profound impact, of course, upon our society. His misdeeds have caused many to mistrust elected officials. Cynicism is swelling among the grassroots. His breach of trust has eroded the public's faith in the office of the Presidency. The President's wrongdoing has painted all of us in Washington with a very broad brush.
The true tragedy in this case is the collapse of the President's moral authority. He undermined himself when he wagged his finger and lied to our people on national television, denying that relationship with Ms. Lewinsky. That did more damage to his credibility than any other single act.
There was no better reason than that for the resignation of the President. I did not personally call for his resignation in August. That is something the President should decide on his own. But once you lose your moral authority to lead, you are a failure.
The Presidency is not merely an administrative office. . ..It is preeminently a place of moral leadership.
Mr. Clinton should take note.
Next, there is the issue of the abuse of power and authority. The President used his position to enter into an improper relationship with a subordinate--not just a subordinate, a young intern. He later used his power to find her a job.
Another abuse of power: The full powers of the White House were on lease to stonewall the process and to attack the credibility of those who investigated him.
This White House has perfected the art of stonewalling around the truth. I fear that future White Houses will learn much from these experts and will refine and improve their own truth-fighting arsenals. Truth and openness will be casualties.
Last, there is the issue of the poor example the President's actions serve for the Nation, especially for our youth. Is it now OK to lie because the President does it?
These are all questions and issues that emerge from the broader contours of this case, outside the narrow charges in the articles.
With respect to the impeachment charges, many of the President's arguments are based on contorted interpretations of the facts. These interpretations aren't credible. They represent lawyering at its best or, as some would say, at its worst.
It is clear to me that the President committed serious crimes when he coached his secretary, Betty Currie, and when he misled his aides, Sidney Blumenthal and John Podesta. Each of these aides ended up being a witness in official court proceedings. I believe, based on the evidence before the Senate, that the President lied to these witnesses so they would repeat those lies before official court proceedings. That is obstruction of justice.
Mr. Chief Justice, these actions weren't just outrageous, and, more important, morally wrong, but they were also illegal. They were a direct assault on the integrity of the judicial process. The President is guilty of the offenses charged under article II.
The President was not forthright when he testified before the grand jury. Time and time again, he gave answers that were misleading and sometimes deliberately false. The American people have a right to expect their President to be completely truthful, as they can expect you and me to be completely truthful. And the American people have a right to expect their President to be truthful, especially when placed under oath. I will vote guilty on article I as well.
Mr. Chief Justice, these were not easy decisions. They are the product of soul-searching, as it is for all of you. So they leave me with a good conscience. I believe my votes reflect the truth of what happened in this case.
The Senate is about to close this chapter in American history. It may or may not be the final chapter in this story. Nonetheless, our decision in this impeachment trial will stand against the test of time. You only truly understand the present when it is past. In that respect, future generations will serve as our jury and, in the end, history will serve as the final judge. Thank you.
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It’s hard to give an Intelligence Briefing to a Moron when you are limited to 1 page, pictures, and a single crayon. During briefings the president constantly veers off on tangents. He has a short attention span and rarely, if ever, reads intelligence reports, relying instead on conservative media and his friends for information. He frequently interrupts Intell Officers and will riff based on tips or gossip he hears from the former casino magnate Steve Wynn, the retired golfer Gary Player or Christopher Ruddy, the conservative media executive.
Mr. Trump rarely absorbs information that he disagrees with or that runs counter to his worldview. Briefing him has been so great a challenge compared with his predecessors that the intelligence agencies have hired outside consultants to study how better to get his attention and keep it during briefings.
Working to keep Mr. Trump’s interest exhausted and burned out his first briefer, Ted Gistaro, two former officials said. Mr. Gistaro did not always know what to expect and would sometimes have to brief an erratic and angry president upset over news reports, the officials said
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WHEN GOOD PEOPLE DON’T ACT, EVIL REIGNS:
How did the trans-Atlantic slave trade play out over hundreds of years?
How did slavery thrive in this country?
How was the Holocaust allowed to happen?
How did the genocides in Rwanda or Darfur come to be?
It turns out that our current era is providing the unsettling answer: It was easy. As Edmund Burke said: “The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.” If you don’t complain, you condone.
Gather the energy. Gather your neighbor. Fight, vote, email, post. Do all you can to stand up for the vulnerable, for the oppressed, for our Constitution, and for our Democratic Values. Don’t let history record this moment as it has recorded too many others: a time when good people did too little to confront the wickedness and disaster of Trumpian Neo Nazism. In November America has a clear choice, do nothing to confront Trumpian Evil, or vote to sweep the Evil out of office and began the long painful process of Restoring Our Democracy and Democratic Institutions.
As Edmund Burke wrote: “When bad men combine, the good must associate; else they will fall, one by one, an unpitied sacrifice in a contemptible struggle.”
But you may be more familiar with another quote often attributed to Burke: “The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.”
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@scottbutler2343
It was the latest indication that, despite attempts by lawmakers to build layers of oversight into the largest stimulus program of its kind in modern history, an administration that has been hostile to congressional scrutiny continues to resist. In a letter to four congressional committees last week, the heads of an independent accountability panel created by the law alerted lawmakers that lawyers for the Treasury Department were interpreting the statute in a way to exempt more than $1 trillion from scrutiny.
“The administration should release the names of all P.P.P. borrowers — as the S.B.A. routinely does for similar loan programs,” the lawmakers wrote in a letter to the heads of the Treasury Department and the Small Business Administration, which jointly administer the program. It came days after Mr. Mnuchin told a Senate committee that information was “proprietary” and not public.
“Contrary to Secretary Mnuchin’s recent testimony, there is nothing ‘proprietary’ or ‘confidential’ about a business receiving millions of dollars appropriated by Congress, and taxpayers deserve to know how their money is being spent,” the Democrats wrote.
Since the $2.2 trillion economic stabilization package became law in March, lawmakers have struggled to establish oversight. With some funds yet to be spent, including about $100 billion in the Paycheck Protection Program, and with lawmakers contemplating negotiations over another relief package, the scope of the task will only expand in the coming months.
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How TV Cable Companies Cover the Impeachment - an exercise in Propaganda:
Note: See if you can spot which company engages in Propaganda.
• CNN: EX-WHITE HOUSE AIDE: HIGHLY UNUSUAL EFFORT TO “LOCK DOWN”. TRANSCRIPT OF JULY 25 CALL WAS AN “ADMINISTRATIVE ERROR”
• Fox News: DEMS PRAISE VINDMAN FOR WORKING AGAINST TRUMP
• MSNBC: CONCLUDES AFTER MORE THAN 9 HOURS
At 9:13 p.m. that day, here’s what viewers saw.
• CNN: KEY WITNESSES QUESTIONED IN PUBLIC HEARINGS
• Fox News: SCHIFF STEERS IMPEACHMENT SHAM OFF A CLIFF / DEMS’ UKRAINE HOAX UNRAVELS ON CAPITOL HILL
• MSNBC: VINDMAN REASSURES SOVIET IMMIGRANT FATHER: HE WILL BE FINE FOR TELLING THE TRUTH / HOUSE INTEL COMPLETES 3RD DAY OF PUBLIC IMPEACHMENT HEARINGS
At 10:15 p.m.:
• CNN: SONDLAND TESTIFIES TOMORROW
• Fox News: VOLKER TESTIMONY UNDERMINES DEMS’ NARRATIVE
• MSNBC: IMPEACHMENT HEARING WRAPS AFTER 4 WITNESSES, 9+ HOURS / LT. COL VINDMAN, TRUMP’S TOP UKRAINE ADVISOR, TESTIFIES. TRUMP ACTED “IMPROPERLY” WHEN HE “DEMANDED” A FAVOR
At 10:51 p.m.:
• CNN: REPUBLICANS USE IMPEACHMENT HEARINGS TO QUESTION LOYALTY OF DECORATED ARMY VETERAN SPEAKING OUT AGAINST TRUMP
• Fox News: CHICK-FIL-A CAVES TO LIBERAL MOB
• MSNBC: EU AMB. GORDON SONDLAND TESTIFIES TOMORROW MORNING / SONDLAND WILL FACE QUESTIONS ABOUT PREVIOUSLY. UNKNOWN CALL TO TRUMP FROM RESTAURANT IN UKRAINE
Following day 8:12 p.m.:
• CNN: SONDLAND TIES PRES. TRUMP, VP PENCE, SECY. OF STATE POMPEO. AND WH CHIEF OF STAFF MULVANEY TO PRESSURE CAMPAIGN / SONDLAND: “EVERYONE WAS IN THE LOOP” ON UKRAINE PRESSURE
• Fox News: “NO QUID PRO QUO”
Half an hour later, while CNN was still covering Sondland’s testimony, Fox News was discussing the Clinton Foundation.
At 10:54 p.m., here’s what the two networks were showing viewers.
• CNN: SONDLAND: ‘YES’ THERE WAS QUID PRO QUO. IN UKRAINE SCANDAL
• Fox News: SWALWELL CAUSES A STINK
That latter text referred to a viral video clip that appeared to have captured the sound of flatulence while Rep. Eric Swalwell (D-Calif.) was appearing on MSNBC the previous day.
On Thursday, similar divides were on display. At 9:53 p.m., here’s what each network showed — perhaps the most representative comparison of any.
• CNN: NO REPUBLICANS BUDGE AFTER ALL THE FACTS, EVIDENCE REVEALED IN 3O+ HOURS OF PUBLIC TESTIMONY / MEMBERS OF PRESIDENT’S PARTY CROSSED AISLE IN NIXON & CLINTON IMPEACHMENT PROCEEDINGS, BUT NOT NOW
• Fox News: FBI OFFICIAL UNDER INVESTIGATION FOR ALLEGEDLY ALTERING DOC RELATED TO PAGE SURVEILLANCE, CNN REPORTS
• MSNBC: NIXON PLEDGED TO FIGHT TO KEEP HIS PRESIDENCY / IMPEACHMENT HEARING WITNESSES WRAP UP WEEK OF EXPLOSIVE TESTIMONY
There’s a reason that Trump’s current press secretary has only given interviews to Fox News and not other broadcast or major cable networks. Why would Trump need a White House communications director when he has a generously friendly cable network that’s already popular with the people he wants to talk to anyway?
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The Trumpian 2020 Disinformation War:
Treasonous Trump's team is presiding over a sophisticated, multimillion-dollar digital operation, an operation that carries his propaganda across just about every digital platform available. This propaganda push results in the most extensive disinformation campaign in U.S. history.
COPPINS: That's exactly...
KELLY: ...Type of ads.
Trump Campaign Manager, Brad Pascal and the Republican National Committee and Trump campaign actually have 3,000 data points on almost every voter in America, and they use those data points to determine how exactly to pitch their message. So a message, for example, on defunding Planned Parenthood might not go over well in certain parts of the country, but if you microtarget it to 800 pro-life women in Dubuque, Iowa, it's going to get a positive result. And that's how they kind of have waged their campaign.
The Trump campaign micro targeted ads to black voters in Florida with an ad that said, Hillary thinks African Americans are super-predators. And the goal was not even really to win over black voters. It was to depress black turnout in Florida.
Another example was the impeachment battle. The Trump campaign was pumping out disinformation at an alarming rate. Of course you would always expect a certain amount of partisan spin but the Trump Campaign was taking spin to an alarming level. You could watch the impeachment proceedings on TV, and see what was pretty damning testimony about the president's conduct. And then later in the day the Trump Campaign would put out a Fox News and Facebook feed that would totally recast what had happened that day in completely different terms. In fact, even at times, the Trump campaign would create videos that were supercuts of the same testimony and make look like something completely different.
With this kind of daily propaganda fed to Trump supporters it very hard for them to grasp reality. In the end, it erodes their confidence in our democratic institutions. It erodes their ability to sort out fact from fiction. And it actually makes it harder for conservatives to compete in the marketplace of ideas because reality doesn't exist as a regulating force.
The Republicans, and especially the Trump campaign, are much more sophisticated, much more advanced and, so far, have been more - for lack of a better word - shameless.
Please for the sake of our Democracy please get out of your conservative propaganda Bubble Loop. Your children and mine will all suffer with what you do and believe from theses Propaganda Sources.
May God Bless and Spare America.
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Trump touts Putin’s speaking out against his impeachment
Late Friday night, minutes before deplaning in Florida for the holidays, President Trump retweeted a link to an article in which Russian President Vladimir Putin defended him against impeachment.
“A total Witch Hunt!” the president tweeted at 10:30 p.m., as he shared a 36-hour-old Associated Press tweet that read: “BREAKING: Russian President Vladimir Putin says U.S. President Donald Trump’s impeachment is far-fetched and predicts the U.S. Senate will reject it.”
Trump’s boasting of Putin’s support comes a day after The Washington Post reported that White House advisers feared Trump’s belief that Ukraine, not Russia, was responsible for interfering with the 2016 election was spurred by conversations Trump had with Putin.
Trump’s critics responded to the tweet, expressing exasperation more than incredulity.
“At the end of the day, it’s always Putin First,” wrote conservative commentator and “Never Trumper” Bill Kristol.
Russian President Vladimir Putin accused the U.S. House of Representatives Dec. 19 of having "invented" a story to "revise" history and impeach President Trump. (Reuters)
“Trump wants us to know that Putin has his back. We know,” tweeted Eric Columbus, a former Justice Department appointee in the Obama administration.
“Putin is a dictator who jails opponents, kills opponents, invades neighbors, interferes in democracies’ elections, etc. I don’t think an American president should be buddying with him. I wonder if Trump defenders are ever (secretly) embarrassed by this stuff. I hope so,” wrote Jay Nordlinger, a senior editor at the right-leaning National Review.
At his annual end-of-the-year news conference on Thursday, Putin was asked about Trump’s impeachment. He called the charges “completely fabricated reasons.”
[[Putin stays in Trump’s corner on impeachment]]
That evening, Russian state media, which follows Putin’s lead, also threw its support behind Trump.
Donald Trump is the third president in U.S. history to face a Senate trial. (The Washington Post)
Popular Kremlin propagandist Vladimir Soloviev gave an impassioned defense of Trump on his evening show, raising his voice several times in a discussion with Atlantic Council expert Ariel Cohen.
“I can’t understand for what reason [Democrats] don’t like Trump,” Soloviev said.
Days earlier, on his two-hour Sunday night program, anchor Dmitry Kiselyov opined about how Hollywood has joined the Democrats in being against Trump, portraying him as “always on the dark side.”
And the state-sponsored Rossiya-1 news channel, which airs Soloviev’s show, recently broadcast segments of Rudolph W. Giuliani’s interview with right-wing channel One America News, in which the president’s personal attorney promoted debunked conspiracy theories about Ukrainian interference in the 2016 U.S. presidential election.
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@ TRUMP LOVES CRIMINALS: Roger Stone, Steve Bannon, Michael Flynn, Paul Manafort, Ross Ulbricht, Eric Adams, Rod Blagojevich, Charles Kushner, Elliott Broidy, Kwame Kilpatrick, Sholam Weiss, Salomon E. Melgen, Paul Erickson, Eliyahu Weinstein, Nicholas Slatten, Conrad Black, Dinesh D’Souza, etc…
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TRUMP CLAIMS HEALTH-CARE PLAN READY
But None of his advisors know what he is talking about.
The Plan is so secret that the people responsible for the plan don’t even know they’re involved. The GOP has promised (and failed) to repeal and replace Obamacare for more than a decade. Trump began claiming he had a replacement plan back in 2015. He announced his plan would swap out the Affordable Care Act for “something terrific,” details TBD.
Over subsequent months and years, Trump boasted about the benefits of his plan. It would be cheaper, more generous, and better than Obamacare. It would be “so easy,” even though “nobody knew health care could be so complicated.” It would “take care of everybody”. This plan was always only “two weeks” away — just like proof wiretapping, the “amazing infrastructure plan”, and Melania Trump’s immigration history.
Finally, five years later, an announcement came this week: it exists, its alive! “I have it all ready,” Trump said at a town hall Tuesday, “and it’s a much better plan for you, and it’s a much better plan.”
Alas, Trump remains unable to share this “much better plan” with the public and no one in his administration knows anything about the “plan”.
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But I am a billionaire, everybody knows it, they say sir how did you get so successful? I say because I am a Stable Genius, the best, Bigly So. Thank you very much. Thank you.
I’ve had a tremendous time as a billionaire, the best, no could have done it better. It’s been really incredible. I am a fantastic host.
I think we set a new record, but you’ll have to check that out. Everybody says sir your the best Putin, Kim, Pakistan, Poland, New Zealand, Singapore, Egypt, South Korea, United Kingdom, India, Iraq, Argentina, Germany, Brazil, France, Japan, Ukraine, Honduras, El Salvador, Saudi Arabia, Jordan, Bahrain, Kuwait, Qatar, Oman, UAE, Chile, Colombia, Ecuador, and Peru. But the press doesn’t cover that. You know, I have made some fantastic deals, some say the best deals, deals that nobody has ever heard of. For farmers, I have made have a tremendous deals. And that doesn’t get covered because you waste your time on nonsense. I am incredible, I am though the roof. You’ll have to figure that out for yourself, everyone is saying this. I fully support transparency and I will release my tax returns after my audit is over. Joe Biden and his son got millions and millions and millions but not like me, I am a billionaire. People say I am an outstanding billionaire, none better, its a record, no one has ever done it before.
I didn’t do it. I didn’t threaten anybody. It was a perfect billion, It’s all a big hoax. And they want, I guess, want, and I said it’s a thing of beauty. And you saw those beautiful pictures, beautiful, just amazing. That’s what I do. It was always my best thing. Does everybody understand that? You know why, right? You know why? we’re moving along very We’ll see what happens.
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@ From Campaign Finance. In the top 10 of donors Trump got $876,000,000 & Harris got $83,000,000.
In the next Top 10 Donors Trump got $103,000,000 & Harris got $112,000,000
Grand Total for Top 20 Donors Trump = $979,000,000 & Harris = $195,000,000
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“I no longer recognize my party”
Why Hundreds of Thousands of Republicans Are Leaving the Crazed Party
Voting registration data indicates a strong and unusual flight from the G.O.P. since the Capitol riot, with an intensely fluid period in American politics now underway.
In the days and weeks after the storming of the Capitol by Trump supporters on Jan. 6, hundreds of thousands of Republicans left the party. After the Jan. 6 attack on the Capitol, the phone lines and websites of local election officials across the country were jumping: Tens of thousands of Republicans were calling or logging on to switch their party affiliations.
In California, more than 33,000 registered Republicans left the party during the three weeks after the Washington riot. In Pennsylvania, more than 12,000 voters left the G.O.P. in the past month, and more than 10,000 Republicans changed their registration in Arizona.
An analysis of January voting records found that nearly 140,000 Republicans had quit the party in 25 states that had readily available data (19 states do not have registration by party). Voting experts say this is the start of a particularly damaging period for G.O.P. registrations as voters recoil from the Capitol violence and its fallout.
Among those who recently left the party are Juan Nunez, 56, an Army veteran in Mechanicsburg, Pa. He said he had long felt that the difference between the United States and many other countries was that campaign-season fighting ended on Election Day, when all sides would peacefully accept the result. The Jan. 6 riot changed that, he said.
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A HISTORY LEASON FROM DJT: "The Silver War was so fascinating, so horrible — but so fascinating, it was really fascinating. I'm so attracted to seeing it. It’s really interesting. But it was horrible, really horrible. It was, I don’t know, it was just different. So many mistakes were made. See, there was something I think I could have negotiated, to be honest with you. I think I could’ve negotiated that.
Abraham Lincoln, of course if he negotiated it, you probably wouldn’t even know who Abraham Lincoln was. He would have been president, but he would have been president, and he wouldn’t have been the Abraham Lincoln. Would’ve been different, but that would’ve been OK.
I know it very well. I know the whole process that they went through, and they just couldn’t get along, and that would’ve been something that could have been negotiated and they wouldn’t have had that problem. There’s nothing nice about it. All the people died, so many people died.”
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Radek Woj
If Treasonous Trump weren’t such a F&@CKING MORON, NARCISSIST, & PATHOLOGICAL LIER, there would be more forgiveness for him showing a complete lack of leader this time - but we both know TT is all the before. When asked how he rated himself he said “the best, an A+, no one has done it better in the world, people are saying”.
You lie 16,214 times and counting, constantly peddle Conspiracy Theories to distract from your own criminal behavior, and people will loose trust in you. Look at these Faux posts, a large percentage have an element of Conspiracy in them. Is this do to sick minds, sick followers, a sick leader, or all the above? Think about it 🤔.
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TRUMP’s BEST FRIENDS: Jeffrey Epstein, Laura Loomer, Nick Fuentes, David Duke, Paul Manafort, Roger Stone, Stephen Miller, Sloppy Steve, Vladimir Putin, Viktor Orban, Kim Jong Un, etc…
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WHEN GOOD PEOPLE DON’T ACT, EVIL REIGNS:
How did the trans-Atlantic slave trade play out over hundreds of years?
How did slavery thrive in this country?
How was the Holocaust allowed to happen?
How did the genocides in Rwanda or Darfur come to be?
It turns out that our current era is providing the unsettling answer: It was easy. As Edmund Burke said: “The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.” If you don’t complain, you condone.
Gather the energy. Gather your neighbor. Fight, vote, email, post. Do all you can to stand up for the vulnerable, for the oppressed, for our Constitution, and for our Democratic Values. Don’t let history record this moment as it has recorded too many others: a time when good people did too little to confront the wickedness and disaster of Trumpian Neo Nazism. In November America has a clear choice, do nothing to confront Trumpian Evil, or vote to sweep the Evil out of office and began the long painful process of Restoring Our Democracy and Democratic Institutions.
As Edmund Burke wrote: “When bad men combine, the good must associate; else they will fall, one by one, an unpitied sacrifice in a contemptible struggle.”
But you may be more familiar with another quote often attributed to Burke: “The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.”
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Trump Failure’s: U.S. Presidency, Trump Airlines, Trump Bottled Water, Trump Board Game, Trump Mortgage, Trump Travel, Trump Steaks, Trump Vodka, Trump Telephone, Trump Tower Tampa, Trump Tower Chicago,Trump University, Trump Fragrance, Trump Mattresses, Trump Casino, Trump Castle & Marina, Trump Plaza Hotel, Trump “Worlds Fair”, Trump Coachella 29 - removed for incompetence..
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@K4lt
By its terms, Article I, Section 4, Clause 1 empowers both Congress and state legislatures to regulate the times, places and manner of holding elections for Senators and Representatives. Not until 1842, when it passed a law requiring the election of Representatives by districts,1 did Congress undertake to exercise this power. In subsequent years, Congress expanded on the requirements, successively adding contiguity, compactness, and substantial equality of population to the districting requirements.2 However, no challenge to the seating of Members-elect selected in violation of these requirements was ever successful,3 and Congress deleted the standards from the 1929 apportionment act.4
In 1866, Congress was more successful in legislating to remedy a situation under which deadlocks in state legislatures over the election of Senators were creating vacancies in the office. The act required the two houses of each legislature to meet in joint session on a specified day and to meet every day thereafter until a Senator was selected.5
The first comprehensive federal statute dealing with elections was adopted in 1870 as a means of enforcing the Fifteenth Amendment's guarantee against racial discrimination in granting suffrage rights.6 Under the Enforcement Act of 1870, and subsequent laws, false registration, bribery, voting without legal right, making false returns of votes cast, interference in any manner with officers of election, and the neglect by any such officer of any duty required of him by state or federal law were made federal offenses.7 Provision was made for the appointment by federal judges of persons to attend at places of registration and at elections with authority to challenge any person proposing to register or vote unlawfully, to witness the counting of votes, and to identify by their signatures the registration of voters and election talley sheets.8 When the Democratic Party regained control of Congress, these pieces of Reconstruction legislation dealing specifically with elections were repealed,9 but other statutes prohibiting interference with civil rights generally were retained and these were used in later years. More recently, Congress has enacted, in 1957, 1960, 1964, 1965, 1968, 1970, 1975, 1980, and 1982, legislation to protect the right to vote in all elections, federal, state, and local, through the assignment of federal registrars and poll watchers, suspension of literacy and other tests, and the broad proscription of intimidation and reprisal, whether with or without state action.10
Another chapter was begun in 1907 when Congress passed the Tillman Act, prohibiting national banks and corporations from making contributions in federal elections.11 The Corrupt Practices Act, first enacted in 1910 and replaced by another law in 1925, extended federal regulation of campaign contributions and expenditures in federal elections,12 and other acts have similarly provided other regulations.13
As noted above, although § 2, cl. 1, of this Article vests in the states the responsibility, now limited, to establish voter qualifications for congressional elections, the Court has held that the right to vote for Members of Congress is derived from the Federal Constitution,14 and that Congress therefore may legislate under this section of the Article to protect the integrity of this right. Congress may protect the right of suffrage against both official and private abridgment.15 Where a primary election is an integral part of the procedure of choice, the right to vote in that primary election is subject to congressional protection.16 The right embraces, of course, the opportunity to cast a ballot and to have it counted honestly.17 Freedom from personal violence and intimidation may be secured.18 The integrity of the process may be safeguarded against a failure to count ballots lawfully cast19 or the dilution of their value by the stuffing of the ballot box with fraudulent ballots.20 But the bribery of voters, although within reach of congressional power under other clauses of the Constitution, has been held not to be an interference with the rights guaranteed by this section to other qualified voters.21
To accomplish the ends under this clause, Congress may adopt the statutes of the states and enforce them by its own sanctions.22 It may punish a state election officer for violating his duty under a state law governing congressional elections.23 It may, in short, use its power under this clause, combined with the Necessary and Proper Clause, to regulate the times, places, and manner of electing Members of Congress so as to fully safeguard the integrity of the process; it may not, however, under this clause, provide different qualifications for electors than those provided by the states.24
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@MrEkzotic It’s cruel for you to take joy in Trump’s Low IQ ramblings. Here is an independent analysis of Trump’s Speech: Trump has no policy on any issue because his mental impairment means he cannot think strategically or in abstract terms. He cannot weigh options, assess risk, or foresee consequences. Concepts like fairness, justice, honor, and integrity quite literally do not register. You can see this in every interview or press encounter. He never states an abstract thought or idea. Instead he falls back on simple adjectives: disgraceful, horrible, low-intelligence, perfect, innocent, nasty, stupid, fake, etc.
John M. Talmadge, M.D.
Physician specializing in psychiatry & addiction medicine.
Clinical Professor of Psychiatry at U.T. Southwestern Medical Center.
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Alberto Raphael Pinto
godoggo
Trump has made a lot of promises about actions to fight the coronavirus pandemic.Most of them have been half truths or embellishments.
For example:
Naval hospital ships
Trump announced Wed. that the Navy would dispatch its two hospital ships, the USNS Comfort and the USNS Mercy, to help treat patients and free up land-based hospitals for coronavirus patients.
"So those two ships are prepared to go, and they can be launched over the next week or so," Trump said, calling the ships in "tip-top shape."
Well, not so much.
The Navy said that the Comfort was actually undergoing repairs in Norfolk, Va., and it would be weeks before it could sail.
FDA drug approval
On Thur. Trump touted that the Food and Drug Administration had "approved" use of an anti-malaria drug called chloroquine to treat patients afflicted with the coronavirus. He had a “hunch” that this was the cure.
"We're going to be able to make that drug available almost immediately," Trump said, calling it "a tremendous breakthrough" and a potential "game-changer."
But FDA commissioner Stephen Hahn immediately tried to tamp down Trump's enthusiasm, saying that "a large, pragmatic clinical trial" would be needed first to determine the drug's usefulness before making it available to coronavirus patients.
Hahn said he couldn't "speculate about a timeline" for the drug's availability.
Trump's enthusiasm for hydroxychloroquine spilled into another press conference on Friday, when he again described it as a potential wonder drug.
And again, a public health official — this time, Dr. Anthony Fauci, a top immunologist on the White House's response team — tried to rein in the optimism by echoing the need for clinical proof that it would make a difference.
On Thursday, Trump said another drug, Remdesivir, had "also been approved, or very close to approved" by the FDA for treating patients coronavirus. In fact, that drug is undergoing a clinical trial and is months away from being ready for use.
The website
Last Friday, Trump said at a Rose Garden news conference that Google has 1,700 engineers developing a new website that would help Americans determine whether they should seek testing for the coronavirus.
The president sought to cast his own project as a triumph compared with the initial failure of President Barack Obama to roll out a website as part of the changes to the health care market enacted in 2009.
"Google is helping to develop a website," Trump said. "It's going to be very quickly done — unlike websites of the past — to determine whether a test is warranted and to facilitate testing at a nearby convenient location."
Within hours, Google attempted to clarify the president's comments. It said an affiliated company, Verily, was working on the project but on a limited scale only for people in the San Francisco area.
"Verily is in the early stages of development," Google said, "and planning to roll testing out in the Bay Area, with the hope of expanding more broadly over time."
Unfortunately, there are insufficient tests available to test anyone.
Medical supplies
On Wednesday, Trump met with a group of nurses at the White House, telling them that the administration had arranged for a major new supply of the type of respirator in high demand during the pandemic.
"We've ordered 500 million N95 masks to drive private production," Trump said. He also said that construction companies were being asked to donate unused masks. The next day at a briefing, Vice President Pence stated: "We've vastly increased the supply of medical masks."
But hospitals continue to report that they are running short of masks, as are pharmacists.
Loose-fitting surgical masks aren't appropriate for dealing with the pandemic authorities say; the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention released a graphic detailing the important differences between a surgical mask and an N95 respirator.
Testing
One of the most frequent exaggerations coming from Trump is the availability of coronavirus tests.
When he visited the CDC in Atlanta earlier this month, Trump claimed that "They have the tests. And the tests are beautiful. Anybody that needs a test gets a test."
Pence made a similar claim last week, saying that "a million tests are in the field" and that "by the end of this week, another 4 million tests will be distributed."
Americans who feel sick still can’t get tested. Fauci acknowledged that there clearly is a gap between the supply and the demand.
Trump and Pence say they don't want every American — particularly those who are feeling well — to be tested. Yet people who are not critically sick are being sent home without testing. They are told to “assume they have covid-19” and come back only if there condition worsens. Not knowing if you have the virus dose not help contain the virus.
In summary, Trump just needs to shut up and let the experts talk.
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Donald J. Trump is corrupt: The Ukraine quid pro quo matters because it shows how Trump has reneged on his promise to fight for ordinary Americans and is using the power of the presidency to benefit himself. As Leah Greenberg, a co-founder of the progressive group Indivisible, says: “This man is not working for you. He is working to put his own interests first. And he is endangering the country to do it.”
Corruption is one of the public’s top worries, surveys show. In polls last year, people ranked the economy as the country’s most important issue, and No. 2 was “reducing the influence of special interests and corruption in Washington.” It’s a cross-partisan concern too, spanning Democrats, Republicans and independents.
Trump is a reprobate but most of his supporters don’t care that, He is a “pathological liar,” as Ted Cruz said during the 2016 Republican primaries, as well as a “con artist” (Marco Rubio’s description) and a “race-baiting, xenophobic, religious bigot” (Lindsey Graham’s). Mick Mulvaney, then a Republican congressman, had the simplest summary: “He’s a terrible human being.”
Trump signed a tax bill that benefits wealthy people like him, not ordinary workers. He has used the presidency to pad the profits of his hotels. And he has damaged American interests by contorting foreign policy, toward Russia and continues enriching himself at taxpayers’ expense.
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@freexplz_1117 Wars during Trump: Afghanistan, Darfur, South Tia Land Insurgency, Niger Delta War, Houthi Insurgency, Fatah, Hamas, Hezbollah, Israel Conflict, Second Chechen, Russian War, North Camus War: Russia, Chechnya, & South Ossetia, Boko Haram insurgency, Syrian civil war, Sudanese War, Syrian civil war spillover in Lebanon, Mali War, War in Iraq (2013–2017), Russo-Ukrainian War 2014 - Present, War against the Islamic State, 2016 Nagorno-Karabakh conflict, 2017 Afghanistan–Pakistan border skirmish, 2017 Iraqi–Kurdish conflict, 2018 Armenian–Azerbaijani clashes, November 2018 Gaza–Israel clashes, 2019 India–Pakistan border skirmishes, May 2019 Gaza–Israel clashes, etc…
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@freexplz_1117 Wars during Trump: Afghanistan, Darfur, South Tia Land Insurgency, Niger Delta War, Houthi Insurgency, Fatah, Hamas, Hezbollah, Israel Conflict, Second Chechen, Russian War, North Camus War: Russia, Chechnya, & South Ossetia, Boko Haram insurgency, Syrian civil war, Sudanese War, Syrian civil war spillover in Lebanon, Mali War, War in Iraq (2013–2017), Russo-Ukrainian War 2014 - Present,
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@freexplz_1117 Wars during Trump: Afghanistan, Darfur, South Tia Land Insurgency, Niger Delta War, Houthi Insurgency, Fatah, Hamas, Hezbollah, Israel Conflict, Second Chechen, Russian War, North Camus War: Russia, Chechnya, & South Ossetia, Boko Haram insurgency, Syrian civil war, Sudanese War, Syrian civil war spillover in Lebanon, Mali War, War in Iraq (2013–2017), Russo-Ukrainian War 2014 - Present,
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Wars during Trump: Afghanistan, Darfur, South Tia Land Insurgency, Niger Delta War, Houthi Insurgency, Fatah, Hamas, Hezbollah, Israel Conflict, Second Chechen, Russian War, North Camus War: Russia, Chechnya, & South Ossetia, Boko Haram insurgency, Syrian civil war, Sudanese War, Syrian civil war spillover in Lebanon, Mali War, War in Iraq (2013–2017), Russo-Ukrainian War 2014 - Present,
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@BigFootTheRealOne
🤣😂🤣😂 In Trump’s own words:
"A question that probably some of you are thinking of if you’re totally into that world, which I find to be very interesting. So, supposedly we hit the body with a tremendous, whether it’s ultraviolet or just very powerful light, and I think you said that hasn’t been checked, but you’re going to test it. And then I said supposing you brought the light inside the body, which you can do either through the skin or in some other way. And I think you said you’re going to test that, too. Sounds interesting, right?"
"And then I see the disinfectant, where it knocks it out in one minute. And is there a way we can do something like that, by injection inside or almost a cleaning, because you see it gets in the lungs and it does a tremendous number on the lungs, so it’d be interesting to check that, so that you’re going to have to use medical doctors with, but it sounds interesting to me. So, we’ll see, but the whole concept of the light, the way it kills it in one minute. That’s pretty powerful."
YES INDEED, A TRUE “JENIUS” OF OUR TIME.
Trump’s middle initial is J, he says it stands for “Jenius”.
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FAILURE IN AMERICA ON A TRUMPIAN SCALE:
Nearly every country has struggled to contain the coronavirus and made mistakes along the way.
China silenced doctors and allowed the virus to escape Wuhan, much of Europe went next, failing to avoid and contain enormous outbreaks. Today, many countries — Japan, Canada, France, Australia and more — are coping with new increases in cases after reopening parts of society.
But one country stands alone, as the only affluent nation to have suffered a severe, sustained outbreak for more than four months: the United States. In just the past month over 1.9 million Americans have tested positive for the virus. That’s more than five times as many as in all of Europe, Canada, Japan, South Korea and Australia, combined. The United States also has the highest number of Deaths 157,000 from the virus far out pacing all other countries. Brazil is the only country competing with the United States for complete failure in containing the virus.
What does the United States & Brazil have in common? Trumpian Politics.
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EVERYTHING TRUMP ALWAYS COMES UP RUSSIA:
Trump Is a Con Man, but He’s Also a Mark. Corrupt forces find it easy to manipulate this president.
Kenneth McCallion is a New York lawyer who once represented former Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko of Ukraine. A few years ago, he brought a civil racketeering lawsuit on her behalf against some now familiar figures like Paul Manafort and the Ukrainian oligarch Dmitry Firtash. He knows a lot about corruption in Ukraine, and he said that earlier this year F.B.I. counterintelligence investigators approached him for information about Rudy Giuliani’s Ukrainian activities.
By then, McCallion had already been hearing strange things about what Lev Parnas and Igor Fruman, whom we now know as Giuliani’s close associates, were doing in Ukraine.
Parnas and Fruman, both American citizens born in the former Soviet Union, aren’t ordinary political operatives. Parnas has long been a low-level grifter. Fruman owns an Odessa beach club called Mafia Rave, and a joint investigation by the Organized Crime and Corruption Reporting Project and BuzzFeed News found ties between him and an Odessa organized crime figure named Volodymyr Galanternik, known as “Light Bulb.”
The duo first appeared on the American political scene in 2015 as enthusiastic supporters of Donald Trump. They became big-dollar donors to a number of Republicans; their Instagram accounts would soon fill up with photos of party elites. Then, this year, McCallion learned they were poking around Ukrainian politics, where they were spreading conspiracy theories that Ukraine, not Russia, had interfered in America’s election in 2016.
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@dustinnunez5077 The indictment said Trump had documents related to the "Five Eyes" — a group of U.S. allies whose intelligence agencies cooperate — as well as information about U.S. nuclear capabilities, U.S. military plans to deal with a foreign attack and details about military operations abroad.
In total, the indictment charged Trump for retaining 31 documents illegally, which included White House intelligence briefings, communications with foreign leaders, assessments of U.S. and foreign countries' military capabilities and reports on military activities.
Those documents came from the CIA, Department of Defense, National Security Agency, National Geospatial Intelligence Agency, National Reconnaissance Office, Department of Energy and Department of State, according to the indictment.
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@carolbusse5803 Maga’s War on Judges, Juries, Election Workers, Morality, Facts, Truth, Education, Science, Biology, Decency, ….etc.
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Trump: Campaign shifted money into indebted private business, Forbes
Trump has shifted money raised from campaign donors into the Trump Organization, according to documents from the Federal Election Committee (FEC) seen by Forbes.
He moved around $2.8 million into his private businesses throughout the duration of his presidency, Forbes's Dan Alexander reported.
Trump funneled an additional $81,000 into the Trump Organization after his election loss, the magazine said.
The payments were made public in the filings the campaign submitted to the FEC and were liest to cover costs including rent, airfare, lodging, and other expenses.
One of the campaign's joint-fundraising committees, associated with the Republican Party, also moved an estimated $4.3 million of donor money into his private business during his presidential term, according to Forbes.
Read more: 10 huge hits to Trump's business from the pandemic that may be permanent.
The joint-fundraising committee also paid around $300,000 towards Trump's hotel chain in the week following the former president's election loss, the Independent reported.
Around $40,000 was handed over from the campaign to Trump Tower Commercial LLC, a company which the former president owns a stake in, in December, the paper said.
This isn't the first time it has been reported that Trump transferred campaign money to his private businesses.
In July, The Washington Post's David Fahrenthold reported that Trump's campaign sent nearly $400,000 to the Trump Organization in just two days.
Documents showed that the campaign channeled $380,000 to the president's personal business in 43 transactions, Fahrenthold said.
This comes when the former president is said to be looking for ways to cash in on his post-presidency to address potentially huge debt.
The Trump Organization owes $400 million, according to Forbes.
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Christine C.
The cost of Trump’s Golf Trips tops $628,000 to U.S. Tax Payers.
President Trump’s company charged the Secret Service $157,000 more than was previously known — billing taxpayers for rooms at his clubs at rates far higher than his company has claimed, according to a new trove of receipts and billing documents released by the Secret Service. When added to dozens of charges already reported by The Washington Post, the new documents show that Trump’s company has charged the Secret Service more than $628,000 since he took office in 2017.
Yet another Trumpian Lie Exposed.
“If my father travels, they stay at our properties for free — meaning, like, cost for housekeeping,” said Eric Trump, the company’s executive vice president. Later in the interview, he said, “We charge them, like, 50 bucks.” Said Eric Trump.
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InCogNito
Read the court records for yourself.
At the city’s federal courthouse on Thursday evening, attorneys for Trump asked a judge to issue an emergency order to stop the count, alleging that all Republican observers had been barred.
Under sharp questioning from Judge Paul S. Diamond, however, they conceded that Trump in fact had “a nonzero number of people in the room,” leaving Diamond audibly exasperated.
“I’m sorry, then what’s your problem?” asked Diamond, who was appointed to the federal bench by President George W. Bush. Denying Trump’s request, Diamond struck a deal for 60 observers from each party to be allowed inside.
At one point on Friday afternoon, 12 Republican observers and five Democrats were watching the count, according to a ballot counter who was working.
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Another Trump lawyer, Jonathan S. Goldstein, was also grilled by a Pennsylvania judge this week. Under questioning, he acknowledged that, contrary to Trump’s claims about rampant voter fraud, he wasn’t alleging fraud in the 592 ballots he sought to disqualify in Montgomery County, Pa.
Again, Trump’s lawyer strained to avoid directly answering the question but was ultimately forced to acknowledge it:
THE COURT: In your petition, which is right before me — and I read it several times — you don’t claim that any electors or the Board of the County were guilty of fraud, correct? That’s correct?
GOLDSTEIN: Your Honor, accusing people of fraud is a pretty big step. And it is rare that I call somebody a liar, and I am not calling the Board of the [Democratic National Committee] or anybody else involved in this a liar. Everybody is coming to this with good faith. The DNC is coming with good faith. We’re all just trying to get an election done. We think these were a mistake, but we think they are a fatal mistake, and these ballots ought not be counted.
THE COURT: I understand. I am asking you a specific question, and I am looking for a specific answer. Are you claiming that there is any fraud in connection with these 592 disputed ballots?
GOLDSTEIN: To my knowledge at present, no.
THE COURT: Are you claiming that there is any undue or improper influence upon the elector with respect to these 592 ballots?
GOLDSTEIN: To my knowledge at present, no.
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THERE IS A TREND HERE, SEE IF YOU CAN SPOT IT.
Another of the Trump team’s claims crumbled rather quickly in Georgia.
In Chatham County, as in Michigan, the Trump campaign cited supposed evidence that 53 late ballots may have been predated so they could be counted. Except two witnesses they called acknowledged under oath that they didn’t know whether the ballots were received after the deadline. And two others for the local board of elections testified that they were, in fact, received on time.
Judge James Bass dismissed the case in a one-sentence, eight-word ruling, saying, “I’m denying the request and dismissing the petition” and abruptly adjourned the hearing. He then elaborated in a written opinion, saying that “the Court finds that there is no evidence that the ballots referenced in the petition were received after 7:00 p.m. on election day, thereby making those ballots invalid. Additionally, there is no evidence that the Chatham County Board of Elections or the Chatham County Board of Registrars has failed to comply with the law.”
The common thread running through all of these is that Trump’s lawyers are regularly offering a significantly more watered-down version of Trump’s claims about rampant voter fraud — because they, unlike Trump, have to substantiate their claims. And as these exchanges show, it’s a rather thankless task that can quickly land them on a judge’s bad side.
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@DudeLove-ob1xo A HISTORY LEASON FROM DJT: "The Silver War was so fascinating, so horrible — but so fascinating, it was really fascinating. I'm so attracted to seeing it. It’s really interesting. But it was horrible, really horrible. It was, I don’t know, it was just different. So many mistakes were made. See, there was something I think I could have negotiated, to be honest with you. I think I could’ve negotiated that.
Abraham Lincoln, of course if he negotiated it, you probably wouldn’t even know who Abraham Lincoln was. He would have been president, but he would have been president, and he wouldn’t have been the Abraham Lincoln. Would’ve been different, but that would’ve been OK.
I know it very well. I know the whole process that they went through, and they just couldn’t get along, and that would’ve been something that could have been negotiated and they wouldn’t have had that problem. There’s nothing nice about it. All the people died, so many people died.”
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@emilym3224 Or Trump’s 3rd way, make besties out of people like Kim, Putin, or Xi, become useful, and become just like them.
"How many young guys [Kim Jong Un] — he was, like, 26 or 25 when his father died — take over these tough generals, and all of a sudden ... he goes in, he takes over, and he's the boss. It's incredible. He wiped out the uncle, he wiped out this one, that one. I mean, this guy is incredibly successful and doesn't play games.” ~ DJT
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700 former Republican National Security Advisors stated - “TRUMP IS A THREAT TO OUR AMERICAN DEMOCRACY”:
Admiral Steve Abbot
USN (Ret.), Deputy Homeland Security Advisor, George W. Bush
Kenneth Adelman Director, Arms Control and Disarmament Agency, Reagan
Dr. Carol C. Adelman Asst. Admin., U.S. Agency for International Development, Reagan
Major General John Barry USAF (Ret.), Military Assistant to the Secretary of Defense
Richard C. Barth Asst. Secretary, Department of Homeland Security, W. Bush
Christopher Barton Director, National Security Council Staff
John Bellinger Legal Adviser, National Security Council, W. Bush
Admiral Kenneth Bernard Special Asst. to W. Bush
Mark E. Bitterman Special Asst. to the Secretary of Defense, H.W. Bush
Robert D. Blackwill Deputy National Security Advisor, W. Bush
William Bodie Asst. to the Secretary of the Air Force, W. Bush
Christian M.L. Bonat Deputy General Counsel, DOD, W. Bush & Obama
Richard Boucher Assistant Secretary of State, W. Bush
Charles W. Boustany, Jr. Former Member of Congress, Louisiana
Charles R. Bowers Ambassador to Bolivia, H.W. Bush
Greg Brower Asst. Director, FBI, Obama & Trump
Christopher Buckley Chief Speechwriter, Office of VP H.W. Bush
James R. Bullington U.S. Ambassador to Burundi, Reagan
Richard Burt U.S. Ambassador to Germany, Reagan
Gahl Hodges Burt Asst. to the Secretary of State, Reagan
Rear Admiral Fred Byus U.S. Navy (Ret.)
Jack C. Chow Deputy Asst. Secretary of State, W. Bush
James W. Cicconi Asst. to the President & Deputy to the Chief of Staff, H. W. Bush
Peggy Cifrino Deputy Chief of Staff to Secretary of State Colin Powell, W. Bush
Eliot A. Cohen Counselor of the Dept. of State, W. Bush
Benedict S. Cohen General Counsel, Dept. of the Army, W. Bush
William Cohen Secretary of Defense, Clinton, & U.S. Senator, Maine
Joseph J. Collins Deputy Asst. Secretary of Defense, W. Bush
Barbara Comstock Former Member of Congress, Virginia
Cindy Courville National Security Affairs for Africa, W. Bush
Chester A. Crocker Assistant Secretary of State, Reagan
Patrick M. Cronin Admin. U.S. Agency for International Development, W. Bush
Stephen W. DeVine Deputy Legal Advisor, National Security Council, W. Bush
Charles Djou Former Member of Congress, Hawaii
Michael Donley Secretary of the Air Force, George W. Bush & Obama
Raymond F. DuBois Secretary of the Army, George W. Bush
Martha E. Duncan Sr Executive Service, DOD, George W. Bush & Obama
Lewis A. Dunn Director, Arms Control and Disarmament Agency, Reagan
Eric S. Edelman Under Secretary of Defense, George W. Bush
Mickey Edwards Member of Congress, Oklahoma
Richard A. Falkenrath Deputy Assistant to the President, George W. Bush
Jendayi E. Frazer Ambassador to South Africa George W. Bush Administration
Aaron L. Friedber Deputy Assistant to George W. Bush
William Gaches Director of Counterterrorism, NSA, George W. Bush
Janice Gardner Assistant Secretary of the Treasury, George W. Bush
Stuart M. Gerson Attorney General of the United States, George W. Bush
James K. Glassman Under Secretary of State, George W. Bush
Jon D. Glassman Deputy National Security Advisor to George H.W. Bush
David Gordon Director, State Dept, Policy Planning, George W. Bush
Sen. Chuck Hagel Secretary of Defense, Obama, and former U.S. Senator, Nebraska
Christopher Hank Deputy Assistant Secretary of State; Reagan,Bush, & Clinton
Mark Harvey Special Assistant to the President, Trump
General Michael V. Hayden Director of the CIA & NSA, Bush & Obama
Carla Hills U.S. Trade Representative, George H.W Bush
Seth Hurwitz Counsel, President's Intelligence Oversight Board, George H.W. Bush
Peter Keisler Attorney General of the U.S., George W. Bush
James A. Kelly Secretary of State, George W. Bush
Adam Kinzinger Former Member of Congress, Illinois
Sofia Kinzinger Deputy Assistant Secretary, Dept. of Homeland Security, Trump
Kenneth J. Krieg Under Secretary of Defense, George W. Bush
James R. Kunder Deputy Administrator, U.S. Agency for International Development, Bush
Brigadier General George Landis, USA, Ret. U.S. Personnel Info Systems Command
Frank Lavin Ambassador to Singapore & Under Secretary of Commerce, George W. Bush
Peter Lichtenbaum
Former Assistant Secretary of Commerce, George W. Bush Administration
Rear Admiral David M. Lichtman, MD, USN (Ret.)
Former Commander, National Naval Medical Center, Bethesda, George H.W. Bush and Clinton Administrations
Winston Lord
Former U.S. Ambassador to China, Reagan and George H.W. Bush Administration
Steven R. Mann
Former Ambassador to Turkmenistan and Former Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary in the State Dept., Clinton and George W. Bush Administrations
Colonel John W. McDonald
Former Deputy Under Secretary of the Army
P. Michael McKinley
Former Ambassador to Peru and Acting Ambassador to the European Union and Mozambique, George W. Bush Administration; Former Ambassador to Peru, Colombia, Afghanistan, and Brazil, Obama Administration
Dan Miller
Former Member of Congress, Florida
John M. Mitnick
Former General Counsel, Dept. of Homeland Security, Trump
Allen Moore
Former Under Secretary of Commerce, Reagan
Alberto Mora
Former General Counsel, U.S. Information Agency, George H.W. Bush; Former General Counsel, Dept. of the Navy, George W. Bush
Kenneth Mortensen
Former Associate Deputy Attorney General, George W. Bush
Vice Admiral Charles L. Munns
U.S. Navy (Ret.), George W. Bush
John D. Negroponte Deputy Secretary of State, George W. Bush
Elizabeth Neumann Assistant Secretary of Homeland Security, Trump
Sean O'Keefe Secretary of the Navy, George H.W. Bush
Bill Paxon Former Member of Congress, New York
William R Piekney CIA Chief of Station, Reagan
Daniel M. Price Deputy NSA Advisor, George W. Bush
Alan Charles Raul Vice Chairman, Civil Liberties Oversight Board, George W. Bush
Victor Reis Director, DARPA, George H.W. Bush
Robert Annan Riley Ambassador to Micronesia, Trump
Paul Rosenzweig Deputy Assistant Secretary of Homeland Security, George W. Bush
Charles Rossotti Deputy Asst. Secretary of Defense; Commissioner of IRS, Clinton & Bush
Nicholas Rostow National Security Council Legal Adviser, Reagan & H.W. Bush
Kori Schake Deputy Director of Policy Planning, State Dept., W. Bush
Wayne A. Schroeder Deputy Under Secretary of Defense, W. Bush
Gregory L. Schulte Sr Director, National Security Council & Atomic Energy Agency, W. Bush
Robert Shanks Deputy Assistant AG, Reagan
Rep. Christopher Shays Former Member of Congress, Connecticut
John Simon Senior Director, National Security Council Staff, W. Bush
Stephen Slick Sr. Director, National Security Council Staff, W. Bush
Mark C. Storella U.S. Ambassador to Zambia, Obama
William H. Taft IV Deputy Secretary of Defense and Ambassador to NATO, W. Bush
Miles Taylor Chief of Staff, Dept. of Homeland Security, Trump
Larry D. Thompson Former Deputy AG, W. Bush
Jack Tomarchio Deputy Under Secretary of Homeland Security, W. Bush
Olivia Troye Special Advisor to VP Pence, Trump
Robert Tuttle U.S. Ambassador to the UK, W. Bush
John K. Veroneau Deputy U.S. Trade Rep. & Assistant Secretary of Defense, W. Bush & Clinton
Colonel Terry Virts, USAF (Ret.)
Former NASA Astronaut, Former Commander of the International Space Station
Dr. Thomas G. Ward, Jr. Director of Threats, Ballistic Missile Defense Org., Reagan & Clinton
Matthew C. Waxman Principal Deputy Director, State Dept Policy Planning, W. Bush
William H. Webster Director of the CIA & FBI, Reagan & H.W. Bush
William F. Weld Assistant Attorney General, Criminal Division, Reagan
J. Robinson West Assistant Secretary of Interior, Reagan
Wendell L. Willkie II General Counsel, Dept. of Commerce, H.W. Bush
Philip Zelikow Counselor of the Dept. of State, W. Bush
Robert B. Zoellick White House Deputy Chief of Staff, George H.W. Bush
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@kerwinbrown4180 So that is Hitler’s problem, he had negative characteristics. This must explain Trump, and ALL his sycophant Cult followers. There is nothing wrong about traditional Conservatism, but there is something fatally wrong with Trumpian Neo Nazism.
Text Book Definition of Nazism/Fascism: A Far Right Cult ideology that embraces Authoritarianism, Racism, Xenophobia, Homophobia, AntiSemitism, The Big Lie - große Lüge, and rallying myth such as The Stab In The Back - Dolchstoßlegende, or the modern version The “Stolen” Election.
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ROME — Pope Francis has expressed in unusually sharp terms his dismay at American Conservatives Message of Hate, one that fixates on social issues like abortion and sexuality to the exclusion of caring for the poor, acceptance, and the environment.
The pope lamented the “backwardness” of some American conservatives who he said insist on a narrow, outdated and unchanging vision. They refuse, he said, to accept the full breadth of the Church’s mission and the need for changes in doctrine over time.
“I would like to remind these people that backwardness is useless,” Francis, 86, told a group of fellow Jesuits early this month in a meeting at World Youth Day celebrations in Lisbon. “Doing this, you lose the true tradition and you turn to ideologies to have support. In other words, ideologies replace faith.”
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WHEN GOOD PEOPLE DON’T ACT, EVIL REIGNS:
How did the trans-Atlantic slave trade play out over hundreds of years?
How did slavery thrive in this country?
How was the Holocaust allowed to happen?
How did the genocides in Rwanda or Darfur come to be?
It turns out that our current era is providing the unsettling answer: It was easy. As Edmund Burke said: “The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.” If you don’t complain, you condone.
Gather the energy. Gather your neighbor. Fight, vote, email, post. Do all you can to stand up for the vulnerable, for the oppressed, for our Constitution, and for our Democratic Values. Don’t let history record this moment as it has recorded too many others: a time when good people did too little to confront the wickedness and disaster of Trumpian Neo Nazism. In November America has a clear choice, do nothing to confront Trumpian Evil, or vote to sweep the Evil out of office and began the long painful process of Restoring Our Democracy and Democratic Institutions.
As Edmund Burke wrote: “When bad men combine, the good must associate; else they will fall, one by one, an unpitied sacrifice in a contemptible struggle.”
But you may be more familiar with another quote often attributed to Burke: “The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.”
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FAILURE IN AMERICA ON A TRUMPIAN SCALE:
Nearly every country has struggled to contain the coronavirus and made mistakes along the way.
China silenced doctors and allowed the virus to escape Wuhan, much of Europe went next, failing to avoid and contain enormous outbreaks. Today, many countries — Japan, Canada, France, Australia and more — are coping with new increases in cases after reopening parts of society.
But one country stands alone, as the only affluent nation to have suffered a severe, sustained outbreak for more than four months: the United States. In just the past month over 1.9 million Americans have tested positive for the virus. That’s more than five times as many as in all of Europe, Canada, Japan, South Korea and Australia, combined. The United States also has the highest number of Deaths 157,000 from the virus far out pacing all other countries. Brazil is the only country competing with the United States for complete failure in containing the virus.
What does the United States & Brazil have in common? Trumpian Politics.
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@kngjoea3743 What are the odds that Main Stream Media such as the NYT, WAPO, Politico, etc… have Trump wrong? After all these companies hire reputable journalists, investigative reporters, fact checkers, and cultivate long term reliable sources for news. In contrast, Fox has NO INVESTIGATIVE JOURNALISTS, NO FACT CHECKERS, & NO RELIABLE SOURCES. As Rupert Murdock said under oath: “Fox is not about truth or fact, it is about entertainment”.
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Tammy Johnson
Assuming that is a real name. Can you even list the dollar amounts each country got? I highly doubt it. Why? Because the total foreign aid was less than $3 Billion - shameful, but small. While each Joe Average American may get $600 (total cost $166 Billion), the top 1% richest Americans got $200 Billion in Tax Cuts, Tax Breaks, Offshore Tax Breaks, 3 Martini Expensive Business Lunch Tax Breaks, Etc. American Farmers get $156 Billion in stimulus, to unequally divide amongst the Richest Farmers - there are approximately 2.2 million American Farmers. That is equal to $70,000 per Farmer if every Farmer got an equal share. And you know that is not how the game works.
And yes, these were all added by people with a Big R by their name. And yes, these same people with a Big R by their name fought tooth & nail to make damm sure no more than $600 was spent on Joe Average.
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“There’s Nothing Left, I no longer recognize my party”
Why Hundreds of Thousands of Republicans Are Leaving the Party
Voting registration data indicates a strong and unusual flight from the G.O.P. since the Capitol riot, with an intensely fluid period in American politics now underway.
In the days and weeks after the storming of the Capitol by Trump supporters on Jan. 6, hundreds of thousands of Republicans left the party. After the Jan. 6 attack on the Capitol, the phone lines and websites of local election officials across the country were jumping: Tens of thousands of Republicans were calling or logging on to switch their party affiliations.
In California, more than 33,000 registered Republicans left the party during the three weeks after the Washington riot. In Pennsylvania, more than 12,000 voters left the G.O.P. in the past month, and more than 10,000 Republicans changed their registration in Arizona.
An analysis of January voting records found that nearly 140,000 Republicans had quit the party in 25 states that had readily available data (19 states do not have registration by party). Voting experts say this is the start of a particularly damaging period for G.O.P. registrations as voters recoil from the Capitol violence and its fallout.
Among those who recently left the party are Juan Nunez, 56, an Army veteran in Mechanicsburg, Pa. He said he had long felt that the difference between the United States and many other countries was that campaign-season fighting ended on Election Day, when all sides would peacefully accept the result. The Jan. 6 riot changed that, he said.
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Jan. 22: President Trump is asked: “Are there worries about a pandemic at this point?” Trump answers: “No. Not at all. And we’re, we have it totally under control. It’s one person coming in from China. … It’s — going to be just fine.”
Feb. 25: Trump’s declares: “We have contained this. I won’t say airtight, but pretty close to airtight.”
March 9: Trump tweets: “Nothing is shut down, life & the economy go on. At this moment there are 546 confirmed cases of CoronaVirus, with 22 deaths.”
March 13: Fox host Lou Dobbs shows off on his program a chart of the day’s 1,985-point Dow Jones rise. The chart was autographed and sent by Trump, who seemed to suggest that his remarks were responsible for the rise, a day after the same index had dropped a record 2,352 points.
March 16: After the weekend, the Dow suffers another record drop, closing 2,997.10 points lower. Trump did not autograph that chart and send it to Dobbs.
March 31: The U.S. has more than 180,000 confirmed coronavirus cases, about 80,000 more than any other country.
Nov. 26, 2018: Reports show that Trump “dismissed a study produced by his own administration … and more than 300 leading scientists, warning of the potentially catastrophic impending crisis. Asked why, Trump told reporters, “I don’t believe it.” Asked if he read it, Trump said, “some.”
March 30, 2020: This newspaper reports that Trump completed plans to scrap Obama-era automobile fuel efficiency standards that limited climate-warming tailpipe pollution — a move that will “allow cars on American roads to emit nearly a billion tons more carbon dioxide over the lifetime of the vehicles.”
What’s the common theme? We have a president who is enamored with markets but ignorant of science, and we have paid a steep, steep price for that — and we are paying an even bigger price now.
Early on, Trump clearly spent his days watching the markets and downplaying the virus’s potential for rapid spread. If the markets were doing well for investors, he was doing well for America.
Trump thought that closing off flights from China was enough to stem this growing epidemic and calm the markets — without the mass testing, surveillance and quarantines of the infected that South Korea, Hong Kong and Singapore employed to great success. You could hear that in the reckless, premature assurances by Kudlow, Kellyanne CONWAY and Trump himself that the virus had been contained.
If only Trump had listened to Medical Doctors and Scientists. It was his deadly mistake, and a cruel joke on America.
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@casey8726 Losing is just Trump’s Style - Trump Failure’s: U.S. Presidency, Trump Airlines, Trump Bottled Water, Trump Board Game, Trump Mortgage, Trump Travel, Trump Steaks, Trump Vodka, Trump Telephone, Trump Tower Tampa, Trump Tower Chicago,Trump University, Trump Fragrance, Trump Mattresses, Trump Casino, Trump Castle & Marina, Trump Plaza Hotel, Trump “Worlds Fair”, Trump Coachella 29 - removed for incompetence..
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@harryfarber6435 “TRUMP UNFIT TO SERVE AS PRESIDENT, OR IN ANY OFFICE OF PUBLIC TRUST.” List of Republicans who signed a letter saying Trump is a Threat To Our American Democracy 🇺🇸.
Admiral Steve Abbot
USN (Ret.), Deputy Homeland Security Advisor, George W. Bush
Kenneth Adelman Director, Arms Control and Disarmament Agency, Reagan
Dr. Carol C. Adelman Asst. Admin., U.S. Agency for International Development, Reagan
Major General John Barry USAF (Ret.), Military Assistant to the Secretary of Defense
Richard C. Barth Asst. Secretary, Department of Homeland Security, W. Bush
Christopher Barton Director, National Security Council Staff
John Bellinger Legal Adviser, National Security Council, W. Bush
Admiral Kenneth Bernard Special Asst. to W. Bush
Mark E. Bitterman Special Asst. to the Secretary of Defense, H.W. Bush
Robert D. Blackwill Deputy National Security Advisor, W. Bush
William Bodie Asst. to the Secretary of the Air Force, W. Bush
Christian M.L. Bonat Deputy General Counsel, DOD, W. Bush & Obama
Richard Boucher Assistant Secretary of State, W. Bush
Charles W. Boustany, Jr. Former Member of Congress, Louisiana
Charles R. Bowers Ambassador to Bolivia, H.W. Bush
Greg Brower Asst. Director, FBI, Obama & Trump
Christopher Buckley Chief Speechwriter, Office of VP H.W. Bush
James R. Bullington U.S. Ambassador to Burundi, Reagan
Richard Burt U.S. Ambassador to Germany, Reagan
Gahl Hodges Burt Asst. to the Secretary of State, Reagan
Rear Admiral Fred Byus U.S. Navy (Ret.)
Jack C. Chow Deputy Asst. Secretary of State, W. Bush
James W. Cicconi Asst. to the President & Deputy to the Chief of Staff, H. W. Bush
Peggy Cifrino Deputy Chief of Staff to Secretary of State Colin Powell, W. Bush
Eliot A. Cohen Counselor of the Dept. of State, W. Bush
Benedict S. Cohen General Counsel, Dept. of the Army, W. Bush
William Cohen Secretary of Defense, Clinton, & U.S. Senator, Maine
Joseph J. Collins Deputy Asst. Secretary of Defense, W. Bush
Barbara Comstock Former Member of Congress, Virginia
Cindy Courville National Security Affairs for Africa, W. Bush
Chester A. Crocker Assistant Secretary of State, Reagan
Patrick M. Cronin Admin. U.S. Agency for International Development, W. Bush
Stephen W. DeVine Deputy Legal Advisor, National Security Council, W. Bush
Charles Djou Former Member of Congress, Hawaii
Michael Donley Secretary of the Air Force, George W. Bush & Obama
Raymond F. DuBois Secretary of the Army, George W. Bush
Martha E. Duncan Sr Executive Service, DOD, George W. Bush & Obama
Lewis A. Dunn Director, Arms Control and Disarmament Agency, Reagan
Eric S. Edelman Under Secretary of Defense, George W. Bush
Mickey Edwards Member of Congress, Oklahoma
Richard A. Falkenrath Deputy Assistant to the President, George W. Bush
Jendayi E. Frazer Ambassador to South Africa George W. Bush Administration
Aaron L. Friedber Deputy Assistant to George W. Bush
William Gaches Director of Counterterrorism, NSA, George W. Bush
Janice Gardner Assistant Secretary of the Treasury, George W. Bush
Stuart M. Gerson Attorney General of the United States, George W. Bush
James K. Glassman Under Secretary of State, George W. Bush
Jon D. Glassman Deputy National Security Advisor to George H.W. Bush
David Gordon Director, State Dept, Policy Planning, George W. Bush
Sen. Chuck Hagel Secretary of Defense, Obama, and former U.S. Senator, Nebraska
Christopher Hank Deputy Assistant Secretary of State; Reagan,Bush, & Clinton
Mark Harvey Special Assistant to the President, Trump
General Michael V. Hayden Director of the CIA & NSA, Bush & Obama
Carla Hills U.S. Trade Representative, George H.W Bush
Seth Hurwitz Counsel, President's Intelligence Oversight Board, George H.W. Bush
Peter Keisler Attorney General of the U.S., George W. Bush
James A. Kelly Secretary of State, George W. Bush
Adam Kinzinger Former Member of Congress, Illinois
Sofia Kinzinger Deputy Assistant Secretary, Dept. of Homeland Security, Trump
Kenneth J. Krieg Under Secretary of Defense, George W. Bush
James R. Kunder Deputy Administrator, U.S. Agency for International Development, Bush
Brigadier General George Landis, USA, Ret. U.S. Personnel Info Systems Command
Frank Lavin Ambassador to Singapore & Under Secretary of Commerce, George W. Bush
Peter Lichtenbaum
Former Assistant Secretary of Commerce, George W. Bush Administration
Rear Admiral David M. Lichtman, MD, USN (Ret.)
Former Commander, National Naval Medical Center, Bethesda, George H.W. Bush and Clinton Administrations
Winston Lord
Former U.S. Ambassador to China, Reagan and George H.W. Bush Administration
Steven R. Mann
Former Ambassador to Turkmenistan and Former Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary in the State Dept., Clinton and George W. Bush Administrations
Colonel John W. McDonald
Former Deputy Under Secretary of the Army
P. Michael McKinley
Former Ambassador to Peru and Acting Ambassador to the European Union and Mozambique, George W. Bush Administration; Former Ambassador to Peru, Colombia, Afghanistan, and Brazil, Obama Administration
Dan Miller
Former Member of Congress, Florida
John M. Mitnick
Former General Counsel, Dept. of Homeland Security, Trump
Allen Moore
Former Under Secretary of Commerce, Reagan
Alberto Mora
Former General Counsel, U.S. Information Agency, George H.W. Bush; Former General Counsel, Dept. of the Navy, George W. Bush
Kenneth Mortensen
Former Associate Deputy Attorney General, George W. Bush
Vice Admiral Charles L. Munns
U.S. Navy (Ret.), George W. Bush
John D. Negroponte Deputy Secretary of State, George W. Bush
Elizabeth Neumann Assistant Secretary of Homeland Security, Trump
Sean O'Keefe Secretary of the Navy, George H.W. Bush
Bill Paxon Former Member of Congress, New York
William R Piekney CIA Chief of Station, Reagan
Daniel M. Price Deputy NSA Advisor, George W. Bush
Alan Charles Raul Vice Chairman, Civil Liberties Oversight Board, George W. Bush
Victor Reis Director, DARPA, George H.W. Bush
Robert Annan Riley Ambassador to Micronesia, Trump
Paul Rosenzweig Deputy Assistant Secretary of Homeland Security, George W. Bush
Charles Rossotti Deputy Asst. Secretary of Defense; Commissioner of IRS, Clinton & Bush
Nicholas Rostow National Security Council Legal Adviser, Reagan & H.W. Bush
Kori Schake Deputy Director of Policy Planning, State Dept., W. Bush
Wayne A. Schroeder Deputy Under Secretary of Defense, W. Bush
Gregory L. Schulte Sr Director, National Security Council & Atomic Energy Agency, W. Bush
Robert Shanks Deputy Assistant AG, Reagan
Rep. Christopher Shays Former Member of Congress, Connecticut
John Simon Senior Director, National Security Council Staff, W. Bush
Stephen Slick Sr. Director, National Security Council Staff, W. Bush
Mark C. Storella U.S. Ambassador to Zambia, Obama
William H. Taft IV Deputy Secretary of Defense and Ambassador to NATO, W. Bush
Miles Taylor Chief of Staff, Dept. of Homeland Security, Trump
Larry D. Thompson Former Deputy AG, W. Bush
Jack Tomarchio Deputy Under Secretary of Homeland Security, W. Bush
Olivia Troye Special Advisor to VP Pence, Trump
Robert Tuttle U.S. Ambassador to the UK, W. Bush
John K. Veroneau Deputy U.S. Trade Rep. & Assistant Secretary of Defense, W. Bush & Clinton
Colonel Terry Virts, USAF (Ret.)
Former NASA Astronaut, Former Commander of the International Space Station
Dr. Thomas G. Ward, Jr. Director of Threats, Ballistic Missile Defense Org., Reagan & Clinton
Matthew C. Waxman Principal Deputy Director, State Dept Policy Planning, W. Bush
William H. Webster Director of the CIA & FBI, Reagan & H.W. Bush
William F. Weld Assistant Attorney General, Criminal Division, Reagan
J. Robinson West Assistant Secretary of Interior, Reagan
Wendell L. Willkie II General Counsel, Dept. of Commerce, H.W. Bush
Philip Zelikow Counselor of the Dept. of State, W. Bush
Robert B. Zoellick White House Deputy Chief of Staff, George H.W. Bush
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@GlobeWarmer America’s Most Dangerous Small Towns:
Lake City, South Carolina
Highland Park, Michigan
Oakwood, Georgia
Robstown, Texas
Anniston, Alabama
Sauk Village, Illinois
Asheville, North Carolina
Avondale, Arizona
Bismarck, North Dakota
Boca Raton, Florida
Boynton Beach, Florida
Bryan, Texas
Canton, Ohio
Cheyenne, Wyoming
Conway, Arkansas
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WHY IS TRUMP’S RELATIONSHIP SO WEIRD WITH PUTIN?
Trump touts Putin’s speaking out against his impeachment
Late Friday night, minutes before deplaning in Florida for the holidays, President Trump retweeted a link to an article in which Russian President Vladimir Putin defended him against impeachment.
“A total Witch Hunt!” the president tweeted at 10:30 p.m., as he shared a 36-hour-old Associated Press tweet that read: “BREAKING: Russian President Vladimir Putin says U.S. President Donald Trump’s impeachment is far-fetched and predicts the U.S. Senate will reject it.”
Trump’s boasting of Putin’s support comes a day after The Washington Post reported that White House advisers feared Trump’s belief that Ukraine, not Russia, was responsible for interfering with the 2016 election was spurred by conversations Trump had with Putin.
Trump’s critics responded to the tweet, expressing exasperation more than incredulity.
“At the end of the day, it’s always Putin First,” wrote conservative commentator and “Never Trumper” Bill Kristol.
Russian President Vladimir Putin accused the U.S. House of Representatives Dec. 19 of having "invented" a story to "revise" history and impeach President Trump. (Reuters)
“Trump wants us to know that Putin has his back. We know,” tweeted Eric Columbus, a former Justice Department appointee in the Obama administration.
“Putin is a dictator who jails opponents, kills opponents, invades neighbors, interferes in democracies’ elections, etc. I don’t think an American president should be buddying with him. I wonder if Trump defenders are ever (secretly) embarrassed by this stuff. I hope so,” wrote Jay Nordlinger, a senior editor at the right-leaning National Review.
At his annual end-of-the-year news conference on Thursday, Putin was asked about Trump’s impeachment. He called the charges “completely fabricated reasons.”
[[Putin stays in Trump’s corner on impeachment]]
That evening, Russian state media, which follows Putin’s lead, also threw its support behind Trump.
Donald Trump is the third president in U.S. history to face a Senate trial. (The Washington Post)
Popular Kremlin propagandist Vladimir Soloviev gave an impassioned defense of Trump on his evening show, raising his voice several times in a discussion with Atlantic Council expert Ariel Cohen.
“I can’t understand for what reason [Democrats] don’t like Trump,” Soloviev said.
Days earlier, on his two-hour Sunday night program, anchor Dmitry Kiselyov opined about how Hollywood has joined the Democrats in being against Trump, portraying him as “always on the dark side.”
And the state-sponsored Rossiya-1 news channel, which airs Soloviev’s show, recently broadcast segments of Rudolph W. Giuliani’s interview with right-wing channel One America News, in which the president’s personal attorney promoted debunked conspiracy theories about Ukrainian interference in the 2016 U.S. presidential election.
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Treasonous Trump: Criminal, Low IQ, Daily Lier, Grossly Immoral, Adulterous, Molester, Corrupt, Fascist, Racist, Anti American Values, and a good candidate for the a Antichrist.
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@tierrabailey9958 Just as Multiple Grand Jurys have returned 91 Felony Criminal Charges against Trump, a Grand Jury has returned the following Charges against Hunter Biden: Three Felony Tax Offenses and Six Misdemeanor Tax Offenses
Thursday, December 7, 2023
Special Counsel David C. Weiss
A federal grand jury returned a nine-count indictment today charging Robert Hunter Biden (Hunter Biden) with three felony tax offenses and six misdemeanor tax offenses.
According to the indictment, Hunter Biden engaged in a four-year scheme in which he chose not to pay at least $1.4 million in self-assessed federal taxes he owed for tax years 2016 through 2019 and to evade the assessment of taxes for tax year 2018 when he filed false returns. As alleged in the indictment, to further this scheme, Hunter Biden:
subverted the payroll and tax withholding process of his own company by withdrawing millions outside of the payroll and tax withholding process;
spent millions of dollars on an extravagant lifestyle rather than paying his tax bills;
in 2018, stopped paying his outstanding and overdue taxes for tax year 2015;
willfully failed to pay his 2016, 2017, 2018 and 2019 taxes on time, despite having access to funds to pay some or all of these taxes;
willfully failed to file his 2017 and 2018 tax returns, on time; and
when he did finally file his 2018 returns, included false business deductions in order to reduce the very substantial tax liability he faced as of February 2020.
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Trump Aide Has Mental Melt Down On Facebook. 🤪🤪🤪🤪
Michael R. Caputo told his audience that left-wing hit squads were being trained for insurrection and accused C.D.C. scientists of “sedition.” He complained that he was under siege by the news media, feeling paranoid, and that his “mental health was failing.” He accused the CDC of harboring a “secret resistance unit” determined to undermine President Trump.
Mr. Caputo, who lead efforts to warp C.D.C. weekly bulletins to fit Mr. Trump’s pandemic narrative, suggested that he personally could be in danger from opponents of the administration. “If you carry guns, buy ammunition, ladies and gentlemen, because it’s going to be hard to get,” he urged his followers. “I don’t like being alone in Washington,” Mr. Caputo said, describing “shadows on the ceiling in my apartment, there alone, shadows are so long.” He also said the mounting number of Covid-19 deaths was taking a toll on him, telling his viewers, “You are not waking up every morning and talking about dead Americans. But you should attend Trump rallies and wear a mask”.
SOUNDS LIKE TRUMP ONLY HIRES THE BEST PEOPLE 🤪🤪🤪🤪
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How TV Cable Companies Cover the Impeachment - an exercise in Propaganda:
Note: See if you can spot which company engages in Propaganda.
• CNN: EX-WHITE HOUSE AIDE: HIGHLY UNUSUAL EFFORT TO “LOCK DOWN”. TRANSCRIPT OF JULY 25 CALL WAS AN “ADMINISTRATIVE ERROR”
• Fox News: DEMS PRAISE VINDMAN FOR WORKING AGAINST TRUMP
• MSNBC: CONCLUDES AFTER MORE THAN 9 HOURS
At 9:13 p.m. that day, here’s what viewers saw.
• CNN: KEY WITNESSES QUESTIONED IN PUBLIC HEARINGS
• Fox News: SCHIFF STEERS IMPEACHMENT SHAM OFF A CLIFF / DEMS’ UKRAINE HOAX UNRAVELS ON CAPITOL HILL
• MSNBC: VINDMAN REASSURES SOVIET IMMIGRANT FATHER: HE WILL BE FINE FOR TELLING THE TRUTH / HOUSE INTEL COMPLETES 3RD DAY OF PUBLIC IMPEACHMENT HEARINGS
At 10:15 p.m.:
• CNN: SONDLAND TESTIFIES TOMORROW
• Fox News: VOLKER TESTIMONY UNDERMINES DEMS’ NARRATIVE
• MSNBC: IMPEACHMENT HEARING WRAPS AFTER 4 WITNESSES, 9+ HOURS / LT. COL VINDMAN, TRUMP’S TOP UKRAINE ADVISOR, TESTIFIES. TRUMP ACTED “IMPROPERLY” WHEN HE “DEMANDED” A FAVOR
At 10:51 p.m.:
• CNN: REPUBLICANS USE IMPEACHMENT HEARINGS TO QUESTION LOYALTY OF DECORATED ARMY VETERAN SPEAKING OUT AGAINST TRUMP
• Fox News: CHICK-FIL-A CAVES TO LIBERAL MOB
• MSNBC: EU AMB. GORDON SONDLAND TESTIFIES TOMORROW MORNING / SONDLAND WILL FACE QUESTIONS ABOUT PREVIOUSLY. UNKNOWN CALL TO TRUMP FROM RESTAURANT IN UKRAINE
Following day 8:12 p.m.:
• CNN: SONDLAND TIES PRES. TRUMP, VP PENCE, SECY. OF STATE POMPEO. AND WH CHIEF OF STAFF MULVANEY TO PRESSURE CAMPAIGN / SONDLAND: “EVERYONE WAS IN THE LOOP” ON UKRAINE PRESSURE
• Fox News: “NO QUID PRO QUO”
Half an hour later, while CNN was still covering Sondland’s testimony, Fox News was discussing the Clinton Foundation.
At 10:54 p.m., here’s what the two networks were showing viewers.
• CNN: SONDLAND: ‘YES’ THERE WAS QUID PRO QUO. IN UKRAINE SCANDAL
• Fox News: SWALWELL CAUSES A STINK
That latter text referred to a viral video clip that appeared to have captured the sound of flatulence while Rep. Eric Swalwell (D-Calif.) was appearing on MSNBC the previous day.
On Thursday, similar divides were on display. At 9:53 p.m., here’s what each network showed — perhaps the most representative comparison of any.
• CNN: NO REPUBLICANS BUDGE AFTER ALL THE FACTS, EVIDENCE REVEALED IN 3O+ HOURS OF PUBLIC TESTIMONY / MEMBERS OF PRESIDENT’S PARTY CROSSED AISLE IN NIXON & CLINTON IMPEACHMENT PROCEEDINGS, BUT NOT NOW
• Fox News: FBI OFFICIAL UNDER INVESTIGATION FOR ALLEGEDLY ALTERING DOC RELATED TO PAGE SURVEILLANCE, CNN REPORTS
• MSNBC: NIXON PLEDGED TO FIGHT TO KEEP HIS PRESIDENCY / IMPEACHMENT HEARING WITNESSES WRAP UP WEEK OF EXPLOSIVE TESTIMONY
There’s a reason that Trump’s current press secretary has only given interviews to Fox News and not other broadcast or major cable networks. Why would Trump need a White House communications director when he has a generously friendly cable network that’s already popular with the people he wants to talk to anyway?
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WHEN GOOD PEOPLE DON’T ACT, EVIL REIGNS:
How did the trans-Atlantic slave trade play out over hundreds of years?
How did slavery thrive in this country?
How was the Holocaust allowed to happen?
How did the genocides in Rwanda or Darfur come to be?
It turns out that our current era is providing the unsettling answer: It was easy. As Edmund Burke said: “The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.” If you don’t complain, you condone.
Gather the energy. Gather your neighbor. Fight, vote, email, post. Do all you can to stand up for the vulnerable, for the oppressed, for our Constitution, and for our Democratic Values. Don’t let history record this moment as it has recorded too many others: a time when good people did too little to confront the wickedness and disaster of Trumpian Neo Nazism. In November America has a clear choice, do nothing to confront Trumpian Evil, or vote to sweep the Evil out of office and began the long painful process of Restoring Our Democracy and Democratic Institutions.
As Edmund Burke wrote: “When bad men combine, the good must associate; else they will fall, one by one, an unpitied sacrifice in a contemptible struggle.”
But you may be more familiar with another quote often attributed to Burke: “The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.”
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This is the type of people who support Treasonous Trump:
Rep. Rodney Garcia, a state lawmaker in Montana, told a roomful of Republicans he believes the U.S. Constitution says socialists can be jailed or shot simply for being socialists. Garcia initially made the statement at an election event, then he reiterated it to a Billings Gazette reporter.
Garcia’s inflammatory assertion first came Friday night, after former interior secretary Ryan Zinke gave a speech at the party event in Helena. According to reporting from the Gazette, Garcia said he was concerned there were socialists “everywhere” in Billings, which he represents in House District 52.
Billings Gazette reporter Holly Michels later asked Garcia to clarify his remarks, and the lawmaker doubled down.
“So actually in the Constitution of the United States, [if you] are found guilty of being a socialist member you either go to prison or are shot,” Garcia told Michels.
Garcia was not able to say where he finds that in the Constitution, the Billings Gazette reported.
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@JohnDoe-ew3xt ASK & YOU SHALL RECEIVE: Since 2010, lenders have forgiven President Donald Trump about $287 million in debt that he had failed to repay, the New York Times reported Tuesday.
Citing Trump’s federal tax-return records, the Times reported that the vast bulk of that sum was related to a skyscraper in Chicago that failed to live up to expectations. Banks and hedge funds gave him years of extensions to repay loans on the underperforming hotel-and-condominium property, the Times said, and his biggest lender, Deutsche Bank DB, 1.50%, lent him another $99 million even after he had sued the bank, accusing it of predatory lending practices.
Amid the height of the financial crisis, Trump’s loans came due, but without an ability to pay, he instead received extensions, the Times reported.
Deutsche Bank eventually sought repayment of its loans, accusing Trump of being a habitual deadbeat, according to the Times, with some executives vowing to never again to business with Trump. In July 2010, Trump, Deutsche Bank and other lenders reached a private settlement, canceling about $270 million in debt, the Times found.
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JARED KUSHNER HAS CREATED A SHELL COMPANY TO FUNNEL CAMPAIGN CASH TO FAMILY MEMBERS.
Donald Trump and his family have spent the last four years making the airtight case that they view the presidency as simply a means to enrich themselves and their associates. They probably don’t particularly like that reputation and, yet, it hasn’t stopped them from funneling taxpayer money to their private business, gouging the Secret Service, and raising legal defense funds that the fine print says could go directly to their pockets. Oh, and, according to a new report, setting up a shell company that spent hundreds of millions of campaign dollars to pay Trump family members along with other expenditures it seemingly wanted to keep under wraps.
According to Business Insider, first son-in-law Jared Kushner personally approved the creation of the company, incorporated as American Made Media Consultants Corp. and American Made Media Consultants LLC, in April 2018. From there, Eric Trump’s wife, Lara Trump, was named president, with Mike Pence’s nephew John Pence serving as vice president. If you’re wondering why the shell company, described as Business Insider as acting “almost like a campaign within a campaign” was necessary, well, it’s not entirely clear, but it sure sounds like the express purpose was the ability to shield “financial and operational details from public scrutiny,” as it allowed the campaign to avoid federally mandated disclosures concerning what it was spending considerable amounts of money on. And by considerable we mean nearly half of the $1.26 billion raised for Trump’s reelection.
Campaign-finance records showed Trump's reelection effort and its affiliated committee with the RNC spent more than $600 million through American Made Consultants since its formation. For months, some of Trump’s top advisers and campaign staff told Insider they had no idea how the shell company functioned, which cast an air of mystery around the operation…. Some of those same advisers said they didn’t learn about John Pence’s and Lara Trump’s involvement until Insider contacted them for this story.
Campaign-law experts have long accused the Trump team of using a corporate pass-through to hide payments. The nonpartisan Campaign Legal Center, led by former Republican Federal Election Commission Chairman Trevor Potter, filed a civil complaint with the FEC in July accusing the Trump campaign of “disguising” about $170 million worth of campaign spending in large part “by laundering the funds” through AMMC. Brendan Fischer, the Campaign Legal Center’s director of federal reform, said the payments to AMMC were a “scheme to evade telling voters even the basics on where its money is really going” and a “shield to disguise the ultimate recipients of its spending.”
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Yet more evidence of Trumpian Criminal Activity! 🍊🤡🚨
Giuliani Associate Says He Gave Demand for Biden Inquiry to Ukrainians
The claim by the associate, Lev Parnas, is being vigorously disputed.
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Lev Parnas, second from left, has emerged as a central character in the impeachment inquiry into President Trump.
Lev Parnas, second from left, has emerged as a central character in the impeachment inquiry into President Trump. CreditEduardo Munoz/Reuters
By Ben Protess, Andrew E. Kramer, Michael Rothfeld and William K. Rashbaum
Nov. 10, 2019, 5:08 p.m. ET
Not long before the Ukrainian president was inaugurated in May, an associate of Rudolph W. Giuliani’s journeyed to Kiev to deliver a warning to the country’s new leadership, a lawyer for the associate said.
The associate, Lev Parnas, told a representative of the incoming government that it had to announce an investigation into Mr. Trump’s political rival, Joseph R. Biden Jr., and his son, or else Vice President Mike Pence would not attend the swearing-in of the new president, and the United States would freeze aid, the lawyer said.
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Fact: Kudlow has been grossly wrong about every single economic event in the last 3 decades.
“Homebuilders led the stock parade this week with a fantastic 11 percent gain. This is a group that hedge funds and bubbleheads love to hate. All the bond bears have been dead wrong in predicting sky-high mortgage rates. So have all the bubbleheads who expect housing-price crashes in Las Vegas or Naples, Fla., to bring down the consumer, the rest of the economy and the entire stock market.” — June, 2005
“What’s even more incredible is Team Obama’s stubborn refusal to have any faith in the free market. In some of the hardest hit areas of the country, markets are already solving the housing problem.
If the government really wants to help, instead of bailing out irresponsible mortgage holders, it should support new and younger families who want to buy starter homes and begin to climb the ladder of prosperity.
All this is free-market economics 101. And I say, let free-markets work.” — February, 2009
“At home in the U.S., there are still housing-slump worries and concerns about an inventory correction in autos and factories. Former Federal Reserve Chairman Alan Greenspan this week even predicted a recession, naming the budget deficit as the cause. Huh? The deficit is evaporating as record tax revenues are being generated by a solid economy, itself a function of the low marginal tax rates put in place by President Bush.” — March, 2007
“Recessions are therapeutic. They cleanse excess from the economy. Think about excessive risk speculation, leverage, and housing. Recessions are curative: They restore balance and create the foundation for the next recovery. Despite the housing and credit problem and the sub-prime virus, banks are still lending to businesses. So we don’t have a genuine credit crunch across the board. That is very good.” — April, 2008
“There's no question that President Clinton's across-the-board tax increases on labor, capital and energy will throw a wet blanket over the recovery and depress the economy's long-run potential to grow.” — March, 1993
“And let’s not forget: The stock market, which is a leading indicator of the future economy, is in a wee bit of a correction. Given the recent rise of presidential candidate Donald Trump, we should all be thankful that stocks haven’t plunged. Trump’s agenda of trade protectionism, dollar devaluation, and immigrant deportation is completely anti-growth. It’s like Fortress America in an economy that is completely globalized and where the U.S. must compete in the worldwide race for capital and labor. Trump’s policies don’t fit.” — August, 2015
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@c.m.r.artifacts84 REALITY 101: The indictment said Trump had documents related to the "Five Eyes" — a group of U.S. allies whose intelligence agencies cooperate — as well as information about U.S. nuclear capabilities, U.S. military plans to deal with a foreign attack and details about military operations abroad.
In total, the indictment charged Trump for retaining 31 documents illegally, which included White House intelligence briefings, communications with foreign leaders, assessments of U.S. and foreign countries' military capabilities and reports on military activities.
Those documents came from the CIA, Department of Defense, National Security Agency, National Geospatial Intelligence Agency, National Reconnaissance Office, Department of Energy and Department of State, according to the indictment.
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“TRUMP UNFIT TO SERVE AS PRESIDENT, OR IN ANY OFFICE OF PUBLIC TRUST.” List of Republicans who signed a letter saying Trump is a Threat To Our American Democracy 🇺🇸:
Admiral Steve Abbot
USN (Ret.), Deputy Homeland Security Advisor, George W. Bush
Kenneth Adelman Director, Arms Control and Disarmament Agency, Reagan
Dr. Carol C. Adelman Asst. Admin., U.S. Agency for International Development, Reagan
Major General John Barry USAF (Ret.), Military Assistant to the Secretary of Defense
Richard C. Barth Asst. Secretary, Department of Homeland Security, W. Bush
Christopher Barton Director, National Security Council Staff
John Bellinger Legal Adviser, National Security Council, W. Bush
Admiral Kenneth Bernard Special Asst. to W. Bush
Mark E. Bitterman Special Asst. to the Secretary of Defense, H.W. Bush
Robert D. Blackwill Deputy National Security Advisor, W. Bush
William Bodie Asst. to the Secretary of the Air Force, W. Bush
Christian M.L. Bonat Deputy General Counsel, DOD, W. Bush & Obama
Richard Boucher Assistant Secretary of State, W. Bush
Charles W. Boustany, Jr. Former Member of Congress, Louisiana
Charles R. Bowers Ambassador to Bolivia, H.W. Bush
Greg Brower Asst. Director, FBI, Obama & Trump
Christopher Buckley Chief Speechwriter, Office of VP H.W. Bush
James R. Bullington U.S. Ambassador to Burundi, Reagan
Richard Burt U.S. Ambassador to Germany, Reagan
Gahl Hodges Burt Asst. to the Secretary of State, Reagan
Rear Admiral Fred Byus U.S. Navy (Ret.)
Jack C. Chow Deputy Asst. Secretary of State, W. Bush
James W. Cicconi Asst. to the President & Deputy to the Chief of Staff, H. W. Bush
Peggy Cifrino Deputy Chief of Staff to Secretary of State Colin Powell, W. Bush
Eliot A. Cohen Counselor of the Dept. of State, W. Bush
Benedict S. Cohen General Counsel, Dept. of the Army, W. Bush
William Cohen Secretary of Defense, Clinton, & U.S. Senator, Maine
Joseph J. Collins Deputy Asst. Secretary of Defense, W. Bush
Barbara Comstock Former Member of Congress, Virginia
Cindy Courville National Security Affairs for Africa, W. Bush
Chester A. Crocker Assistant Secretary of State, Reagan
Patrick M. Cronin Admin. U.S. Agency for International Development, W. Bush
Stephen W. DeVine Deputy Legal Advisor, National Security Council, W. Bush
Charles Djou Former Member of Congress, Hawaii
Michael Donley Secretary of the Air Force, George W. Bush & Obama
Raymond F. DuBois Secretary of the Army, George W. Bush
Martha E. Duncan Sr Executive Service, DOD, George W. Bush & Obama
Lewis A. Dunn Director, Arms Control and Disarmament Agency, Reagan
Eric S. Edelman Under Secretary of Defense, George W. Bush
Mickey Edwards Member of Congress, Oklahoma
Richard A. Falkenrath Deputy Assistant to the President, George W. Bush
Jendayi E. Frazer Ambassador to South Africa George W. Bush Administration
Aaron L. Friedber Deputy Assistant to George W. Bush
William Gaches Director of Counterterrorism, NSA, George W. Bush
Janice Gardner Assistant Secretary of the Treasury, George W. Bush
Stuart M. Gerson Attorney General of the United States, George W. Bush
James K. Glassman Under Secretary of State, George W. Bush
Jon D. Glassman Deputy National Security Advisor to George H.W. Bush
David Gordon Director, State Dept, Policy Planning, George W. Bush
Sen. Chuck Hagel Secretary of Defense, Obama, and former U.S. Senator, Nebraska
Christopher Hank Deputy Assistant Secretary of State; Reagan,Bush, & Clinton
Mark Harvey Special Assistant to the President, Trump
General Michael V. Hayden Director of the CIA & NSA, Bush & Obama
Carla Hills U.S. Trade Representative, George H.W Bush
Seth Hurwitz Counsel, President's Intelligence Oversight Board, George H.W. Bush
Peter Keisler Attorney General of the U.S., George W. Bush
James A. Kelly Secretary of State, George W. Bush
Adam Kinzinger Former Member of Congress, Illinois
Sofia Kinzinger Deputy Assistant Secretary, Dept. of Homeland Security, Trump
Kenneth J. Krieg Under Secretary of Defense, George W. Bush
James R. Kunder Deputy Administrator, U.S. Agency for International Development, Bush
Brigadier General George Landis, USA, Ret. U.S. Personnel Info Systems Command
Frank Lavin Ambassador to Singapore & Under Secretary of Commerce, George W. Bush
Peter Lichtenbaum
Former Assistant Secretary of Commerce, George W. Bush Administration
Rear Admiral David M. Lichtman, MD, USN (Ret.)
Former Commander, National Naval Medical Center, Bethesda, George H.W. Bush and Clinton Administrations
Winston Lord
Former U.S. Ambassador to China, Reagan and George H.W. Bush Administration
Steven R. Mann
Former Ambassador to Turkmenistan and Former Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary in the State Dept., Clinton and George W. Bush Administrations
Colonel John W. McDonald
Former Deputy Under Secretary of the Army
P. Michael McKinley
Former Ambassador to Peru and Acting Ambassador to the European Union and Mozambique, George W. Bush Administration; Former Ambassador to Peru, Colombia, Afghanistan, and Brazil, Obama Administration
Dan Miller
Former Member of Congress, Florida
John M. Mitnick
Former General Counsel, Dept. of Homeland Security, Trump
Allen Moore
Former Under Secretary of Commerce, Reagan
Alberto Mora
Former General Counsel, U.S. Information Agency, George H.W. Bush; Former General Counsel, Dept. of the Navy, George W. Bush
Kenneth Mortensen
Former Associate Deputy Attorney General, George W. Bush
Vice Admiral Charles L. Munns
U.S. Navy (Ret.), George W. Bush
John D. Negroponte Deputy Secretary of State, George W. Bush
Elizabeth Neumann Assistant Secretary of Homeland Security, Trump
Sean O'Keefe Secretary of the Navy, George H.W. Bush
Bill Paxon Former Member of Congress, New York
William R Piekney CIA Chief of Station, Reagan
Daniel M. Price Deputy NSA Advisor, George W. Bush
Alan Charles Raul Vice Chairman, Civil Liberties Oversight Board, George W. Bush
Victor Reis Director, DARPA, George H.W. Bush
Robert Annan Riley Ambassador to Micronesia, Trump
Paul Rosenzweig Deputy Assistant Secretary of Homeland Security, George W. Bush
Charles Rossotti Deputy Asst. Secretary of Defense; Commissioner of IRS, Clinton & Bush
Nicholas Rostow National Security Council Legal Adviser, Reagan & H.W. Bush
Kori Schake Deputy Director of Policy Planning, State Dept., W. Bush
Wayne A. Schroeder Deputy Under Secretary of Defense, W. Bush
Gregory L. Schulte Sr Director, National Security Council & Atomic Energy Agency, W. Bush
Robert Shanks Deputy Assistant AG, Reagan
Rep. Christopher Shays Former Member of Congress, Connecticut
John Simon Senior Director, National Security Council Staff, W. Bush
Stephen Slick Sr. Director, National Security Council Staff, W. Bush
Mark C. Storella U.S. Ambassador to Zambia, Obama
William H. Taft IV Deputy Secretary of Defense and Ambassador to NATO, W. Bush
Miles Taylor Chief of Staff, Dept. of Homeland Security, Trump
Larry D. Thompson Former Deputy AG, W. Bush
Jack Tomarchio Deputy Under Secretary of Homeland Security, W. Bush
Olivia Troye Special Advisor to VP Pence, Trump
Robert Tuttle U.S. Ambassador to the UK, W. Bush
John K. Veroneau Deputy U.S. Trade Rep. & Assistant Secretary of Defense, W. Bush & Clinton
Colonel Terry Virts, USAF (Ret.)
Former NASA Astronaut, Former Commander of the International Space Station
Dr. Thomas G. Ward, Jr. Director of Threats, Ballistic Missile Defense Org., Reagan & Clinton
Matthew C. Waxman Principal Deputy Director, State Dept Policy Planning, W. Bush
William H. Webster Director of the CIA & FBI, Reagan & H.W. Bush
William F. Weld Assistant Attorney General, Criminal Division, Reagan
J. Robinson West Assistant Secretary of Interior, Reagan
Wendell L. Willkie II General Counsel, Dept. of Commerce, H.W. Bush
Philip Zelikow Counselor of the Dept. of State, W. Bush
Robert B. Zoellick White House Deputy Chief of Staff, George H.W. Bush
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What the judge said: U.S. District Judge Matthew W. Brann, a Republican, dismissed the case Saturday, throwing it out before the Trump campaign said it had a chance to even get started. And he didn’t just close the door. He slammed it, with a 37-page ruling that at times amounted to accusing the campaign of undermining democracy.
Among the most notable portions of his writing:
• “[The Trump campaign asks] this Court to disenfranchise almost seven million voters. This Court has been unable to find any case in which a plaintiff has sought such a drastic remedy in the contest of an election, in terms of the sheer volume of votes asked to be invalidated. One might expect that when seeking such a startling outcome, a plaintiff would come formidably armed with compelling legal arguments and factual proof of rampant corruption, such that this Court would have no option but to regrettably grant the proposed injunctive relief despite the impact it would have on such a large group of citizens. That has not happened. Instead, this Court has been presented with strained legal arguments without merit and speculative accusations, unpled in the operative complaint and unsupported by evidence. In the United States of America, this cannot justify the disenfranchisement of a single voter, let alone all the voters of its sixth most populated state. Our people, laws, and institutions demand more.”
• “Plaintiffs’ only remaining claim alleges a violation of equal protection. This claim, like Frankenstein’s Monster, has been haphazardly stitched together from two distinct theories in an attempt to avoid controlling precedent.” (In other words, the judge alleges the Trump campaign tried to sew up baseless accusations in the hopes the judge wouldn’t notice they didn’t have a concrete one.)
• “[Two voters who say their ballots were thrown out] have entirely failed to establish any causal relationship between Secretary [of State Kathy] Boockvar and the cancellation of their votes.”
• “Granting Plaintiffs’ requested relief would necessarily require invalidating the ballots of every person who voted in Pennsylvania. Because this Court has no authority to take away the right to vote of even a single person, let alone millions of citizens, it cannot grant Plaintiffs’ requested relief.”
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@goolsen5630 §2385. Advocating overthrow of Government
Whoever knowingly or willfully advocates, abets, advises, or teaches the duty, necessity, desirability, or propriety of overthrowing or destroying the government of the United States or the government of any State, Territory, District or Possession thereof, or the government of any political subdivision therein, by force or violence, or by the assassination of any officer of any such government; or
Whoever, with intent to cause the overthrow or destruction of any such government, prints, publishes, edits, issues, circulates, sells, distributes, or publicly displays any written or printed matter advocating, advising, or teaching the duty, necessity, desirability, or propriety of overthrowing or destroying any government in the United States by force or violence, or attempts to do so; or
Whoever organizes or helps or attempts to organize any society, group, or assembly of persons who teach, advocate, or encourage the overthrow or destruction of any such government by force or violence; or becomes or is a member of, or affiliates with, any such society, group, or assembly of persons, knowing the purposes thereof—
Shall be fined under this title or imprisoned not more than twenty years, or both, and shall be ineligible for employment by the United States or any department or agency thereof, for the five years next following his conviction.
If two or more persons conspire to commit any offense named in this section, each shall be fined under this title or imprisoned not more than twenty years, or both, and shall be ineligible for employment by the United States or any department or agency thereof, for the five years next following his conviction.
As used in this section, the terms "organizes" and "organize", with respect to any society, group, or assembly of persons, include the recruiting of new members, the forming of new units, and the regrouping or expansion of existing clubs, classes, and other units of such society, group, or assembly of persons.
(June 25, 1948, ch. 645, 62 Stat. 808; July 24, 1956, ch. 678, §2, 70 Stat. 623; Pub. L. 87–486, June 19, 1962, 76 Stat. 103; Pub. L. 103–322, title XXXIII, §330016(1)(N), Sept. 13, 1994, 108 Stat. 2148.)
Historical and Revision Notes
Based on title 18, U.S.C., 1940 ed., §§10, 11, 13 (June 28, 1940, ch. 439, title I, §§2, 3, 5, 54 Stat. 670, 671).
Section consolidates sections 10, 11, and 13 of title 18, U.S.C., 1940 ed. Section 13 of title 18, U.S.C., 1940 ed., which contained the punishment provisions applicable to sections 10 and 11 of title 18, U.S.C., 1940 ed., was combined with section 11 of title 18, U.S.C., 1940 ed., and added to this section.
In first paragraph, words "the Government of the United States or the government of any State, Territory, District or possession thereof, or the government of any political subdivision therein" were substituted for "any government in the United States".
In second and third paragraphs, word "such" was inserted after "any" and before "government", and words "in the United States" which followed "government" were omitted.
In view of these changes, the provisions of subsection (b) of section 10 of title 18, U.S.C., 1940 ed., which defined the term "government in the United States" were omitted as unnecessary.
Reference to conspiracy to commit any of the prohibited acts was omitted as covered by the general conspiracy provision, incorporated in section 371 of this title. (See reviser's note under that section.)
Words "upon conviction thereof" which preceded "be fined" were omitted as surplusage, as punishment cannot be imposed until a conviction is secured.
The phraseology was considerably changed to effect consolidation but without any change of substance.
Editorial Notes
Amendments
1994—Pub. L. 103–322 substituted "fined under this title" for "fined not more than $20,000" in fourth and fifth pars.
1962—Pub. L. 87–486 defined the terms "organizes" and "organize".
1956—Act July 24, 1956, substituted "$20,000" for "$10,000", and "twenty years" for "ten years" in the paragraph prescribing penalties applicable to advocating overthrow of government and inserted provisions relating to conspiracy to commit any offense named in this section.
Statutory Notes and Related Subsidiaries
Effective Date of 1956 Amendment
Amendment by act July 24, 1956, as applicable only with respect to offenses committed on and after July 24, 1956, see section 3 of act July 24, 1956, set out as a note under section 2384 of this title.
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@goolsen5630 §2383. Rebellion or insurrection
Whoever incites, sets on foot, assists, or engages in any rebellion or insurrection against the authority of the United States or the laws thereof, or gives aid or comfort thereto, shall be fined under this title or imprisoned not more than ten years, or both; and shall be incapable of holding any office under the United States.
(June 25, 1948, ch. 645, 62 Stat. 808; Pub. L. 103–322, title XXXIII, §330016(1)(L), Sept. 13, 1994, 108 Stat. 2147.)
Historical and Revision Notes
Based on title 18, U.S.C., 1940 ed., §4 (Mar. 4, 1909, ch. 321, §4, 35 Stat. 1088).
Word "moreover" was deleted as surplusage and minor changes were made in phraseology.
Editorial Notes
Amendments
1994—Pub. L. 103–322 substituted "fined under this title" for "fined not more than $10,000".
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OUR MORON PRESIDENT SAID WHAT?
During Thursday's White House coronavirus task force briefing, an official presented the results of US government research that indicated coronavirus on an external surface appeared to weaken more quickly when exposed to sunlight, heat, and disinfectant.
Upon taking the podium Trump said:
"So, supposing we hit the body with a tremendous - whether it's ultraviolet or just very powerful light," the president said, turning to Dr Deborah Birx, the White House coronavirus response co-ordinator, "and I think you said that hasn't been checked but you're going to test it.
"And then I said, supposing you brought the light inside of the body, which you can do either through the skin or in some other way. And I think you said you're going to test that too. Sounds interesting," the president continued.
"And then I see the disinfectant where it knocks it out in a minute. One minute. And is there a way we can do something like that, by injection inside or almost a cleaning? So it'd be interesting to check that." Pointing to his head, Mr Trump went on: "I'm not a doctor. But I'm, like, a person that has a good you-know-what." He turned again to Dr Birx and asked if she had ever heard of using "the heat and the light" to treat coronavirus.
"Not as a treatment," Dr Birx said. "I mean, certainly, fever is a good thing. When you have a fever, it helps your body respond. But I've not seen heat or light."
"I think it's a great thing to look at," Mr Trump said.
You heard it here first folks, our president is a Mad Moron Would be “Scientist Jenius” (sic).
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More How Cable News Covers The Impeachment Trial. Headlines as follows:
8:12 p.m.
• CNN: SONDLAND TIES PRES. TRUMP, VP PENCE, SECY. OF STATE POMPEO. AND WH CHIEF OF STAFF MULVANEY TO PRESSURE CAMPAIGN / SONDLAND: “EVERYONE WAS IN THE LOOP” ON UKRAINE PRESSURE
• Fox News: “NO QUID PRO QUO”
Half an hour later, while CNN was still covering Sondland’s testimony, Fox News was discussing the Clinton Foundation.
At 10:54 p.m., here’s what the two networks were showing viewers.
• CNN: SONDLAND: ‘YES’ THERE WAS QUID PRO QUO. IN UKRAINE SCANDAL
• Fox News: SWALWELL CAUSES A STINK
That latter text referred to a viral video clip that appeared to have captured the sound of flatulence while Rep. Eric Swalwell (D-Calif.) was appearing on MSNBC the previous day.
On Thursday, similar divides were on display. At 9:53 p.m., here’s what each network showed — perhaps the most representative comparison of any.
• CNN: NO REPUBLICANS BUDGE AFTER ALL THE FACTS, EVIDENCE REVEALED IN 3O+ HOURS OF PUBLIC TESTIMONY / MEMBERS OF PRESIDENT’S PARTY CROSSED AISLE IN NIXON & CLINTON IMPEACHMENT PROCEEDINGS, BUT NOT NOW
• Fox News: FBI OFFICIAL UNDER INVESTIGATION FOR ALLEGEDLY ALTERING DOC RELATED TO PAGE SURVEILLANCE, CNN REPORTS
• MSNBC: NIXON PLEDGED TO FIGHT TO KEEP HIS PRESIDENCY / IMPEACHMENT HEARING WITNESSES WRAP UP WEEK OF EXPLOSIVE TESTIMONY
There’s a reason that Trump’s current press secretary has only given interviews to Fox News and not other broadcast or major cable networks. Why would Trump need a White House communications director when he has a generously friendly cable network that’s already popular with the people he wants to talk to anyway?)
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The enemies of freedom are, it turns out, as shameless and corrupt here as they are in nations, from Hungary to Turkey, in which democracy has effectively collapsed. But the defenders of American democracy seem more united and determined than their counterparts abroad. The big question is whether that difference — that true American exceptionalism — will be enough to save us.
Let’s back up and ask what we’ve learned about America over the past three years.
There was never any doubt that Trump would abuse his powers; he telegraphed his contempt for rule of law, his eagerness to exploit his office for personal gain, right from the start. For a while, however, it was possible to imagine that at least part of his party would stand up for democratic principles.
But it was not to be. What we saw Wednesday was a parade of sycophants comparing their leader to Jesus Christ while spouting discredited conspiracy theories straight from the Kremlin. And as they were doing so, the object of their adoration was giving an endless, rambling, third-world-dictator-style speech, full of lies, that veered between grandiosity and self-pity, interspersed with complaints about how many times he has to flush his toilet.
Republicans, in other words, are beyond redemption; they’ve become just another authoritarian party devoted to the leader principle. And like similar parties in other countries, the G.O.P. is trying to rig future elections through gerrymandering and voter suppression, creating a permanent lock on power.
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@FshHnt192 Good ole Tucker Carlson, Laura Ingraham, Sean Hannity, Elise Stefanik, MJT, DJT, Paul Gosar, Matt Gaetz, Ron Johnson, Gym Jordan, Etc. have filled this disturbed kid full of lies and hate.
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The Ultra Conservative New York Post gave Trump a blistering rebuke demanding that he grow up and accept his loss to President-elect Joe Biden and stop falsely claiming that mass voter fraud had marred the results — an effort the paper labeled a “dark charade.”
“We understand, Mr. President, that you’re angry that you lost,” the editorial board wrote. “But to continue down this road is treasonous.”
Under the headline “Stop the insanity,” the conservative tabloid took particular aim at Trump’s attempts to pressure Vice President Pence and congressional Republicans to somehow Throwout the result when they meet on Jan. 6 to certify Biden’s electoral college victory.
“You have tweeted that, as long as Republicans have ‘courage,’ they can overturn the results and give you four more years in office,” the Post wrote. “In other words, you’re cheering for an undemocratic coup.”
The article also reminded Trump that he had clearly failed in his attempts to prove voter fraud propelled Biden to victory.
“You had every right to investigate the election. But let’s be clear: Those efforts have found nothing,” the Post wrote, noting that Trump-backed recounts in Wisconsin and Georgia had turned up no evidence of malfeasance.
The editorial also lashed out at Sidney Powell, whose “Kraken” lawsuits seeking to overturn the election results have repeatedly been tossed out of court, and Michael Flynn, the former national security adviser who has floated the idea of declaring martial law to keep Trump in power.
“Michael Flynn suggesting martial law is tantamount to treason. It is shameful.”
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Yeah, Faux news has Identified its 39 War on Woke Hot Lines, to join the other 38 Wars Faux has invented. Previous notables have been the War on Xmas, The War on Xmas Trees, the War on Xmas Paper Coffee Cups, the War on Masculinity, the horrible War on Toxic Masculinity, the War on Gender, the War on Pronouns, the War on School Children, the War on Toxic Christians, the War on Femininity, the War on Conservatives, the War on Conservative Media, and on and on and on. Keeping Track of all these Wars Must Be Exhausting. 😢😢😢
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“I no longer recognize my party”
Why Hundreds of Thousands of Republicans Are Leaving the Crazed Party
Voting registration data indicates a strong and unusual flight from the G.O.P. since the Capitol riot, with an intensely fluid period in American politics now underway.
In the days and weeks after the storming of the Capitol by Trump supporters on Jan. 6, hundreds of thousands of Republicans left the party. After the Jan. 6 attack on the Capitol, the phone lines and websites of local election officials across the country were jumping: Tens of thousands of Republicans were calling or logging on to switch their party affiliations.
In California, more than 33,000 registered Republicans left the party during the three weeks after the Washington riot. In Pennsylvania, more than 12,000 voters left the G.O.P. in the past month, and more than 10,000 Republicans changed their registration in Arizona.
An analysis of January voting records found that nearly 140,000 Republicans had quit the party in 25 states that had readily available data (19 states do not have registration by party). Voting experts say this is the start of a particularly damaging period for G.O.P. registrations as voters recoil from the Capitol violence and its fallout.
Among those who recently left the party are Juan Nunez, 56, an Army veteran in Mechanicsburg, Pa. He said he had long felt that the difference between the United States and many other countries was that campaign-season fighting ended on Election Day, when all sides would peacefully accept the result. The Jan. 6 riot changed that, he said.
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@timothykrause2327 The Problem is Monopolies, in almost every sector from food to energy Republicans have allowed mergers to distill everything down to 4 Corporations. Time and again history has taught us the excessive tax cuts lead to excessive profits, not reinvestment. You want reinvestment, you want on shore jobs, you want hire wages, make tax policy around what you want - not some discredited Trickle Down Theory. Case in point: Taxes for Corporations were higher in the 50 & 60s, real wages for middle class workers were substantially higher in real purchasing power, CEO wages astronomically lower, shareholder returns significantly lower but still substantial. The answer is never more taxes or less taxes, the answer is taxes for what economic policy you need to achieve for the maximum benefit for the most people, while earning revenue to provide services, while leaving the goose with enough golden eggs to encourage more production. In short a Balance that benefits all.
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James Brice
Trumpian Speak In His OWN WORDS:
“A question that probably some of you are thinking of if you’re totally into that world, which I find to be very interesting. So, supposing we hit the body with a tremendous, whether it’s ultraviolet or just very powerful light, and I think you said that hasn’t been checked, but you’re going to test it. And then I said supposing you brought the light inside the body, which you can do either through the skin or in some other way. And I think you said you’re going to test that too. Sounds interesting, right? And then I see the disinfectant, where it knocks it out in a minute, one minute. And is there a way we can do something like that by injection inside or almost a cleaning, because you see it gets in the lungs and it does a tremendous number on the lungs. So it’d be interesting to check that. So that you’re going to have to use medical doctors with, but it sounds interesting to me. So, we’ll see, but the whole concept of the light, the way it kills it in one minute. That’s pretty powerful.”
EPA’s List of Disinfectants for Covid19:
Clorox Disinfecting Wipes
Clorox Commercial Solutions
Clorox Disinfecting Spray
Clorox Multi-Surface Cleaner + Bleach
Klercide 70/30
Lonza Formulation
Lysol Clean & Fresh Multi-Surface Cleaner
Lysol Disinfectant Max Cover Mist
Lysol Heavy-Duty Cleaner Disinfectant Concentrate
Oxycide Daily Disinfectant Cleaner
Peak Disinfectant Wipes
Peroxide Multi Surface Cleaner and Disinfectant
Peroxide Disinfectant and Glass Cleaner
Purell Professional Surface Disinfectant
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LIST OF 16 MEMBERS OF CONGRESS WHO COMMITTED TREASON:
Rep. Scott Perry, R-Pa.
Rep. Jim Jordan, R-Ohio
Rep. Mo Brooks, R-Ala.
Rep. Louie Gohmert, R-Texas
Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene, R-Ga.
Rep. Andy Biggs, R-Ariz.
Rep. Paul Gosar, R-Ariz.
Rep. Matt Gaetz, R-Fla.
Rep. Lauren Boebert, R-Colo.
Rep. Andy Harris, R-Md.
Rep. Madison Cawthorn, R-N.C.
Rep. Brian Babin, R-Texas
Sen. Lindsey Graham, R-S.C.
Sen. Ron Johnson, R-Wis.
Sen. Mike Lee, R-Utah
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“I no longer recognize my party”
Why Hundreds of Thousands of Republicans Are Leaving the Crazed Party
Voting registration data indicates a strong and unusual flight from the G.O.P. since the Capitol riot, with an intensely fluid period in American politics now underway.
In the days and weeks after the storming of the Capitol by Trump supporters on Jan. 6, hundreds of thousands of Republicans left the party. After the Jan. 6 attack on the Capitol, the phone lines and websites of local election officials across the country were jumping: Tens of thousands of Republicans were calling or logging on to switch their party affiliations.
In California, more than 33,000 registered Republicans left the party during the three weeks after the Washington riot. In Pennsylvania, more than 12,000 voters left the G.O.P. in the past month, and more than 10,000 Republicans changed their registration in Arizona.
An analysis of January voting records found that nearly 140,000 Republicans had quit the party in 25 states that had readily available data (19 states do not have registration by party). Voting experts say this is the start of a particularly damaging period for G.O.P. registrations as voters recoil from the Capitol violence and its fallout.
Among those who recently left the party are Juan Nunez, 56, an Army veteran in Mechanicsburg, Pa. He said he had long felt that the difference between the United States and many other countries was that campaign-season fighting ended on Election Day, when all sides would peacefully accept the result. The Jan. 6 riot changed that, he said.
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Trump’s budget is a tremendous fraud.
Remember when he said he would eliminate the federal debt, or at least halve it, during his presidency? His new budget adds another $3.4 trillion by 2024 to the debt on top of the $3 trillion Trump has already added.
Remember when he repeatedly promised not to “touch” Social Security and Medicare? His budget calls for removing $550 billion dollars of funding from the Medicare program, including $135 billion from Medicare prescription drugs, and tens of billions from the Social Security program.
Remember when he promised not to touch Medicaid? Now he wants to cut it by $920 billion.
Remember when he was going to give Americans health care “much better” than Obamacare. But he has proposed no such thing and now his budget calls for cutting spending on the program by $844 billion.
Remember when he vowed that his tax cuts would grow the economy by 4 percent, 5 percent or even 6 percent? Last year it grew at 2.3 percent, and his new budget, even with the rosiest of assumptions, projects 2.8 percent for this year - in other words little changed from Obama’s growth rates. Yet the budget would also devote another $1.4 trillion to extending those tax cuts, primarily for the rich.
Treasonous Trump, Con Man Extraordinaire.
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sick of liberals
Trumpian Quotes:
Jan. 22
“We have it totally under control. It’s one person coming in from China, and we have it under control. It’s going to be just fine.”
Feb. 10
“Looks like by April, you know, in theory, when it gets a little warmer, it miraculously goes away.”
Feb. 24
“The Coronavirus is very much under control in the USA. … Stock Market starting to look very good to me!”
Feb. 27
“It’s going to disappear. One day, it’s like a miracle, it will disappear.”
March 4
“I think the 3.4 percent [fatality rate] is really a false number.”
March 9
“The Fake News Media and their partner, the Democrat Party, is doing everything within its semi-considerable power ... to inflame the CoronaVirus situation.”
March 10
“We’re prepared, and we’re doing a great job with it. And it will go away. Just stay calm. It will go away.”
March 15
“This is a very contagious virus. It’s incredible. But it’s something that we have tremendous control over.”
March 17
“I felt it was a pandemic long before it was called a pandemic.”
😂🤣😂🤣
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@rebeccadowney9084
ALL THESE VERSUS SPEAK OF TRUMP
2 Corinthians 11:13-15
For such men are false apostles, deceitful workmen, disguising themselves as apostles of Christ. And no wonder, for even Satan disguises himself as an angel of light. So it is no surprise if his servants, also, disguise themselves as servants of righteousness. Their end will correspond to their deeds.
Matthew 24:11
And many false prophets will arise and lead many astray.
2 Timothy 4:3
For the time is coming when people will not endure sound teaching, but having itching ears they will accumulate for themselves teachers to suit their own passions,
Deuteronomy 18:20-22
But the prophet who presumes to speak a word in my name that I have not commanded him to speak, or who speaks in the name of other gods, that same prophet shall die.’ And if you say in your heart, ‘How may we know the word that the Lord has not spoken?’— when a prophet speaks in the name of the Lord, if the word does not come to pass or come true, that is a word that the Lord has not spoken; the prophet has spoken it presumptuously. You need not be afraid of him.
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Kae Bae
On Fox News, suddenly a very different tune about the coronavirus.
For weeks, some of Fox News’s hosts downplayed the threat of the coronavirus, characterizing it as a conspiracy by media organizations and Democrats to undermine President Trump.
Sean Hannity and Laura Ingraham accused the news media of whipping up “mass hysteria” and being “panic pushers.” Trish Regan called the Main Stream Media response “yet another attempt to impeach the president.”
But that was then.
When Trump’s declared a national emergency, the tone on Fox News has quickly shifted. Hannity, suddenly the lauded the president’s handling of what the host is now, belatedly, referring to as a “crisis.”
“Tonight, we are witnessing what will be a massive paradigm shift in the future of disease control and prevention,” he said. “A bold, new precedent is being set, the world will once again benefit greatly from America’s leadership. . . . The federal government, state governments, private businesses, top hospitals all coming together, under the president’s leadership, to stem the tide of the coronavirus.”
In a complicated dance to mirror the president, Trump’s allies on Fox News took the same stance as the president for several weeks — that this coronavirus that had sickened and killed thousands of people in China was no worse a threat than the seasonal flu.
Just a week ago, Hannity shrugged at the pandemic. “So far in the United States, there’s been around 30 deaths, most of which came from one nursing home in the state of Washington,” he said, “Healthy people, generally, 99 percent recover very fast, even if they contract it.”
By way of comparison, he added: “Twenty-six people were shot in Chicago alone over the weekend. I doubt you heard about it. You notice there’s no widespread hysteria about violence in Chicago. And this has gone on for years and years. By the way, Democratic-run cities, we see a lot of that.”
Ingraham, also had a fast-dawning recognition that the social and economic dislocation of the virus was more than just a Democratic talking point wielded against the president.
In late February, Ingraham called Democrats the “pandemic party” and displayed photos of House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) and Senate Minority Leader Charles E. Schumer (D-N.Y.) alongside enlarged images of coronavirus molecules. “How sick that these people seem almost happiest when Americans are hurting,” she said.
She kept at it through last Tuesday when, in front of a graphic reading “Trump confronts the panic pushers,” Ingraham said, “The public in some ways seems a lot more levelheaded than the so-called experts. . . . The facts are actually pretty reassuring, but you’d never know it watching all this stuff.”
On Friday, Ingraham tweeted that it was a “great time to fly if not in at-risk population!” The tweet was later deleted.
By Wednesday, after Trump announced a travel ban on people from the European Union, Ingraham had started calling the pandemic “this dangerous health crisis.” She characterized warnings issued by National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases head Anthony S. Fauci about the potential spread of the disease as “sobering and scary to hear.”
Regan’s on-air speculation at the start of last week that coronavirus was merely another impeachment gambit for Democrats drew widespread pushback. Clearly the mood was changing at Fox by the time the network announced late Friday that her discussion-and-commentary program on Fox Business would leave the air indefinitely.
Tucker Carlson too, blamed the “corrupt” media. But in a monologue that many took at an indirect scolding of the president, he also complained that “none of our leaders helped us to take it seriously. . . . People you trust, people you probably voted for, have spent weeks minimizing what is clearly a very serious problem. It’s just partisan politics, they say. ‘Calm down. In the end, this is just like the flu and people die from that every year. Coronavirus will pass, and when it does, we will feel foolish for worrying about it.’ That’s their position. . . . But they’re wrong.”
Days earlier, Carlson attended the birthday party of former Fox News host Kimberly Guilfoyle, who is dating Donald Trump Jr.
In comments downplaying the pandemic on March 7, Jeanine Pirro, offered “All the talk about coronavirus being so much more deadly [than the flu] doesn’t reflect reality.” She reiterated Trump’s comment that the infection rate will drop “as the weather warms.”
On the “Fox & Friends” program Friday, Liberty University President Jerry Falwell Jr. spun out a meandering tale advancing the baseless notion that the coronavirus was designed by North Korean and Chinese scientists to harm Americans.
The program’s three co-hosts offered no objections. Host Steve Doocy moved on to asking Falwell about Liberty’s plans to cancel classes.
Then on Sunday, Rep. Devin Nunes (R-Calif.) appeared on Fox News and urged Americans to “stop panicking” and for those who are healthy to “just go out.”
Said Nunes: “There’s a lot of concerns with the economy here because people are scared to go out. But I will just say one of the things you can do if you’re healthy, you and your family, it’s a great time to just go out, go to a local restaurant.”
Anchor Maria Bartiromo offered no response to Nunes’s comment. On Monday, a day later, Fox News contributor Nicole Saphier, a doctor, specifically called out the congressman on air to contradict his advice and told viewers to stay home.
This is a quick summation of how Faux news has become nothing more than a platform for Trumpian Propaganda.
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Useful Idiot: A Naive person who can be manipulated to advance a political agenda. e.g. Maga Mor Ons, Fox news, Donald Trump, James Comer, Marsha Blackburn, Marjorie Taylor Green, Jim Jordon, Matt Gaetz, Paul Gosar, Tucker Carlson, Sean Hannity, Laura Ingraham, Jesse Watters, etc…
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@AndrewPriester Did you read the whole thing? Trump’s admiration for Kim. It’s not the 1st time Trump has admired a Dictators Brutality. Take this example of Trump - “When the student protesters poured into Tiananmen Square, the Chinese government almost blew it. But then they were vicious, and they put it down with strength. That shows you the power of strength.” ~ DJT
"How many young guys [Kim Jong Un], he was, like, 26 or 25 when his father died, take over these tough generals, and all of a sudden ... he goes in, he takes over, and he's the boss. It's incredible. He wiped out the uncle, he wiped out this one, that one. I mean, this guy is incredibly successful and doesn't play games.” ~ DJT
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700 former Republican National Security Advisors stated - “TRUMP IS A THREAT TO OUR AMERICAN DEMOCRACY”:
Admiral Steve Abbot
USN (Ret.), Deputy Homeland Security Advisor, George W. Bush
Kenneth Adelman Director, Arms Control and Disarmament Agency, Reagan
Dr. Carol C. Adelman Asst. Admin., U.S. Agency for International Development, Reagan
Major General John Barry USAF (Ret.), Military Assistant to the Secretary of Defense
Richard C. Barth Asst. Secretary, Department of Homeland Security, W. Bush
Christopher Barton Director, National Security Council Staff
John Bellinger Legal Adviser, National Security Council, W. Bush
Admiral Kenneth Bernard Special Asst. to W. Bush
Mark E. Bitterman Special Asst. to the Secretary of Defense, H.W. Bush
Robert D. Blackwill Deputy National Security Advisor, W. Bush
William Bodie Asst. to the Secretary of the Air Force, W. Bush
Christian M.L. Bonat Deputy General Counsel, DOD, W. Bush & Obama
Richard Boucher Assistant Secretary of State, W. Bush
Charles W. Boustany, Jr. Former Member of Congress, Louisiana
Charles R. Bowers Ambassador to Bolivia, H.W. Bush
Greg Brower Asst. Director, FBI, Obama & Trump
Christopher Buckley Chief Speechwriter, Office of VP H.W. Bush
James R. Bullington U.S. Ambassador to Burundi, Reagan
Richard Burt U.S. Ambassador to Germany, Reagan
Gahl Hodges Burt Asst. to the Secretary of State, Reagan
Rear Admiral Fred Byus U.S. Navy (Ret.)
Jack C. Chow Deputy Asst. Secretary of State, W. Bush
James W. Cicconi Asst. to the President & Deputy to the Chief of Staff, H. W. Bush
Peggy Cifrino Deputy Chief of Staff to Secretary of State Colin Powell, W. Bush
Eliot A. Cohen Counselor of the Dept. of State, W. Bush
Benedict S. Cohen General Counsel, Dept. of the Army, W. Bush
William Cohen Secretary of Defense, Clinton, & U.S. Senator, Maine
Joseph J. Collins Deputy Asst. Secretary of Defense, W. Bush
Barbara Comstock Former Member of Congress, Virginia
Cindy Courville National Security Affairs for Africa, W. Bush
Chester A. Crocker Assistant Secretary of State, Reagan
Patrick M. Cronin Admin. U.S. Agency for International Development, W. Bush
Stephen W. DeVine Deputy Legal Advisor, National Security Council, W. Bush
Charles Djou Former Member of Congress, Hawaii
Michael Donley Secretary of the Air Force, George W. Bush & Obama
Raymond F. DuBois Secretary of the Army, George W. Bush
Martha E. Duncan Sr Executive Service, DOD, George W. Bush & Obama
Lewis A. Dunn Director, Arms Control and Disarmament Agency, Reagan
Eric S. Edelman Under Secretary of Defense, George W. Bush
Mickey Edwards Member of Congress, Oklahoma
Richard A. Falkenrath Deputy Assistant to the President, George W. Bush
Jendayi E. Frazer Ambassador to South Africa George W. Bush Administration
Aaron L. Friedber Deputy Assistant to George W. Bush
William Gaches Director of Counterterrorism, NSA, George W. Bush
Janice Gardner Assistant Secretary of the Treasury, George W. Bush
Stuart M. Gerson Attorney General of the United States, George W. Bush
James K. Glassman Under Secretary of State, George W. Bush
Jon D. Glassman Deputy National Security Advisor to George H.W. Bush
David Gordon Director, State Dept, Policy Planning, George W. Bush
Sen. Chuck Hagel Secretary of Defense, Obama, and former U.S. Senator, Nebraska
Christopher Hank Deputy Assistant Secretary of State; Reagan,Bush, & Clinton
Mark Harvey Special Assistant to the President, Trump
General Michael V. Hayden Director of the CIA & NSA, Bush & Obama
Carla Hills U.S. Trade Representative, George H.W Bush
Seth Hurwitz Counsel, President's Intelligence Oversight Board, George H.W. Bush
Peter Keisler Attorney General of the U.S., George W. Bush
James A. Kelly Secretary of State, George W. Bush
Adam Kinzinger Former Member of Congress, Illinois
Sofia Kinzinger Deputy Assistant Secretary, Dept. of Homeland Security, Trump
Kenneth J. Krieg Under Secretary of Defense, George W. Bush
James R. Kunder Deputy Administrator, U.S. Agency for International Development, Bush
Brigadier General George Landis, USA, Ret. U.S. Personnel Info Systems Command
Frank Lavin Ambassador to Singapore & Under Secretary of Commerce, George W. Bush
Peter Lichtenbaum
Former Assistant Secretary of Commerce, George W. Bush Administration
Rear Admiral David M. Lichtman, MD, USN (Ret.)
Former Commander, National Naval Medical Center, Bethesda, George H.W. Bush and Clinton Administrations
Winston Lord
Former U.S. Ambassador to China, Reagan and George H.W. Bush Administration
Steven R. Mann
Former Ambassador to Turkmenistan and Former Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary in the State Dept., Clinton and George W. Bush Administrations
Colonel John W. McDonald
Former Deputy Under Secretary of the Army
P. Michael McKinley
Former Ambassador to Peru and Acting Ambassador to the European Union and Mozambique, George W. Bush Administration; Former Ambassador to Peru, Colombia, Afghanistan, and Brazil, Obama Administration
Dan Miller
Former Member of Congress, Florida
John M. Mitnick
Former General Counsel, Dept. of Homeland Security, Trump
Allen Moore
Former Under Secretary of Commerce, Reagan
Alberto Mora
Former General Counsel, U.S. Information Agency, George H.W. Bush; Former General Counsel, Dept. of the Navy, George W. Bush
Kenneth Mortensen
Former Associate Deputy Attorney General, George W. Bush
Vice Admiral Charles L. Munns
U.S. Navy (Ret.), George W. Bush
John D. Negroponte Deputy Secretary of State, George W. Bush
Elizabeth Neumann Assistant Secretary of Homeland Security, Trump
Sean O'Keefe Secretary of the Navy, George H.W. Bush
Bill Paxon Former Member of Congress, New York
William R Piekney CIA Chief of Station, Reagan
Daniel M. Price Deputy NSA Advisor, George W. Bush
Alan Charles Raul Vice Chairman, Civil Liberties Oversight Board, George W. Bush
Victor Reis Director, DARPA, George H.W. Bush
Robert Annan Riley Ambassador to Micronesia, Trump
Paul Rosenzweig Deputy Assistant Secretary of Homeland Security, George W. Bush
Charles Rossotti Deputy Asst. Secretary of Defense; Commissioner of IRS, Clinton & Bush
Nicholas Rostow National Security Council Legal Adviser, Reagan & H.W. Bush
Kori Schake Deputy Director of Policy Planning, State Dept., W. Bush
Wayne A. Schroeder Deputy Under Secretary of Defense, W. Bush
Gregory L. Schulte Sr Director, National Security Council & Atomic Energy Agency, W. Bush
Robert Shanks Deputy Assistant AG, Reagan
Rep. Christopher Shays Former Member of Congress, Connecticut
John Simon Senior Director, National Security Council Staff, W. Bush
Stephen Slick Sr. Director, National Security Council Staff, W. Bush
Mark C. Storella U.S. Ambassador to Zambia, Obama
William H. Taft IV Deputy Secretary of Defense and Ambassador to NATO, W. Bush
Miles Taylor Chief of Staff, Dept. of Homeland Security, Trump
Larry D. Thompson Former Deputy AG, W. Bush
Jack Tomarchio Deputy Under Secretary of Homeland Security, W. Bush
Olivia Troye Special Advisor to VP Pence, Trump
Robert Tuttle U.S. Ambassador to the UK, W. Bush
John K. Veroneau Deputy U.S. Trade Rep. & Assistant Secretary of Defense, W. Bush & Clinton
Colonel Terry Virts, USAF (Ret.)
Former NASA Astronaut, Former Commander of the International Space Station
Dr. Thomas G. Ward, Jr. Director of Threats, Ballistic Missile Defense Org., Reagan & Clinton
Matthew C. Waxman Principal Deputy Director, State Dept Policy Planning, W. Bush
William H. Webster Director of the CIA & FBI, Reagan & H.W. Bush
William F. Weld Assistant Attorney General, Criminal Division, Reagan
J. Robinson West Assistant Secretary of Interior, Reagan
Wendell L. Willkie II General Counsel, Dept. of Commerce, H.W. Bush
Philip Zelikow Counselor of the Dept. of State, W. Bush
Robert B. Zoellick White House Deputy Chief of Staff, George H.W. Bush
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How many “Wars” has Faux news proclaimed? How many times will Faux news tell you what a victim you are? Let’s try to list some of the “Wars” that make MAGA Morons victims: War on Xmas, War on Xmas Trees, War on White People, War on Men, War on Masculinity, War on Christians, War on Truth, War on Conservatives, War on Babies, War on Family Values, War on the American Flag, War on Guns, War on White Santa, War on White Jesus, Etc.
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JOHNNYDONTDROPTHESOAP TRUMP’s CRIME SYNDICATE: Trump - Felon - Tied to Kremlin🇷🇺, Trump's Campaign Mgr - Felon🇷🇺, T’s Deputy Campaign Mgr - Felon🇷🇺, T’s Chief Strategist - Felon🇷🇺, T’s National Security Advisor - Felon🇷🇺, T’s Foreign Policy advisor - Felon🇷🇺, T’s Personal Lawyer - Felon, T’s Campaign Fixer - Felon, T’s Company CFO - Felon, T’s Trade Advisor - Felon, 22 Other Close Trump Associates - Convicted Felons.
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Stuart Stevens is a writer and GOP political consultant.
Here’s a question: What does the Trump Republican Party stands for?
One way to find out: Ask a Trump Republican friend. I’m betting the answer is going to involve a noun, a verb and either “socialism” or “Democrats.” Republicans now partly define their party simply as an alternative to that other party, as in, “I’m a Republican because I’m not a Democrat.”
In a long-forgotten era — say, four years ago — such a question would have elicited a very different answer: fiscal responsibility, free trade, strong on Russia, and that character and personal responsibility count. Today it’s not that the Republican Party has forgotten these issues and values; instead, it actively opposes all of them.
Republicans are now officially the character doesn’t count party, the personal responsibility just proves you have failed to blame the other guy party, the deficit doesn’t matter party, the Putin is “good guy” party, and the I’m-right-and-you-are-human-scum party. Yes, it’s President Trump’s party now, but it stands only for what he has just tweeted.
A party without a governing theory, a higher purpose or a clear moral direction is nothing more than a cartel, a syndicate that exists only to advance itself. There is no organized, coherent purpose other than the acquisition and maintenance of power.
Donald Trump, Destroying America One Republican Soul At a Time.
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@joegrrputo “TRUMP UNFIT TO SERVE AS PRESIDENT.” List of Republicans who signed a letter saying Trump is a Threat To Our American Democracy 🇺🇸:
Admiral Steve Abbot
USN (Ret.), Deputy Homeland Security Advisor, George W. Bush
Kenneth Adelman Director, Arms Control and Disarmament Agency, Reagan
Dr. Carol C. Adelman Asst. Admin., U.S. Agency for International Development, Reagan
Major General John Barry USAF (Ret.), Military Assistant to the Secretary of Defense
Richard C. Barth Asst. Secretary, Department of Homeland Security, W. Bush
Christopher Barton Director, National Security Council Staff
John Bellinger Legal Adviser, National Security Council, W. Bush
Admiral Kenneth Bernard Special Asst. to W. Bush
Mark E. Bitterman Special Asst. to the Secretary of Defense, H.W. Bush
Robert D. Blackwill Deputy National Security Advisor, W. Bush
William Bodie Asst. to the Secretary of the Air Force, W. Bush
Christian M.L. Bonat Deputy General Counsel, DOD, W. Bush & Obama
Richard Boucher Assistant Secretary of State, W. Bush
Charles W. Boustany, Jr. Former Member of Congress, Louisiana
Charles R. Bowers Ambassador to Bolivia, H.W. Bush
Greg Brower Asst. Director, FBI, Obama & Trump
Christopher Buckley Chief Speechwriter, Office of VP H.W. Bush
James R. Bullington U.S. Ambassador to Burundi, Reagan
Richard Burt U.S. Ambassador to Germany, Reagan
Gahl Hodges Burt Asst. to the Secretary of State, Reagan
Rear Admiral Fred Byus U.S. Navy (Ret.)
Jack C. Chow Deputy Asst. Secretary of State, W. Bush
James W. Cicconi Asst. to the President & Deputy to the Chief of Staff, H. W. Bush
Peggy Cifrino Deputy Chief of Staff to Secretary of State Colin Powell, W. Bush
Eliot A. Cohen Counselor of the Dept. of State, W. Bush
Benedict S. Cohen General Counsel, Dept. of the Army, W. Bush
William Cohen Secretary of Defense, Clinton, & U.S. Senator, Maine
Joseph J. Collins Deputy Asst. Secretary of Defense, W. Bush
Barbara Comstock Former Member of Congress, Virginia
Cindy Courville National Security Affairs for Africa, W. Bush
Chester A. Crocker Assistant Secretary of State, Reagan
Patrick M. Cronin Admin. U.S. Agency for International Development, W. Bush
Stephen W. DeVine Deputy Legal Advisor, National Security Council, W. Bush
Charles Djou Former Member of Congress, Hawaii
Michael Donley Secretary of the Air Force, George W. Bush & Obama
Raymond F. DuBois Secretary of the Army, George W. Bush
Martha E. Duncan Sr Executive Service, DOD, George W. Bush & Obama
Lewis A. Dunn Director, Arms Control and Disarmament Agency, Reagan
Eric S. Edelman Under Secretary of Defense, George W. Bush
Mickey Edwards Member of Congress, Oklahoma
Richard A. Falkenrath Deputy Assistant to the President, George W. Bush
Jendayi E. Frazer Ambassador to South Africa George W. Bush Administration
Aaron L. Friedber Deputy Assistant to George W. Bush
William Gaches Director of Counterterrorism, NSA, George W. Bush
Janice Gardner Assistant Secretary of the Treasury, George W. Bush
Stuart M. Gerson Attorney General of the United States, George W. Bush
James K. Glassman Under Secretary of State, George W. Bush
Jon D. Glassman Deputy National Security Advisor to George H.W. Bush
David Gordon Director, State Dept, Policy Planning, George W. Bush
Sen. Chuck Hagel Secretary of Defense, Obama, and former U.S. Senator, Nebraska
Christopher Hank Deputy Assistant Secretary of State; Reagan,Bush, & Clinton
Mark Harvey Special Assistant to the President, Trump
General Michael V. Hayden Director of the CIA & NSA, Bush & Obama
Carla Hills U.S. Trade Representative, George H.W Bush
Seth Hurwitz Counsel, President's Intelligence Oversight Board, George H.W. Bush
Peter Keisler Attorney General of the U.S., George W. Bush
James A. Kelly Secretary of State, George W. Bush
Adam Kinzinger Former Member of Congress, Illinois
Sofia Kinzinger Deputy Assistant Secretary, Dept. of Homeland Security, Trump
Kenneth J. Krieg Under Secretary of Defense, George W. Bush
James R. Kunder Deputy Administrator, U.S. Agency for International Development, Bush
Brigadier General George Landis, USA, Ret. U.S. Personnel Info Systems Command
Frank Lavin Ambassador to Singapore & Under Secretary of Commerce, George W. Bush
Peter Lichtenbaum
Former Assistant Secretary of Commerce, George W. Bush Administration
Rear Admiral David M. Lichtman, MD, USN (Ret.)
Former Commander, National Naval Medical Center, Bethesda, George H.W. Bush and Clinton Administrations
Winston Lord
Former U.S. Ambassador to China, Reagan and George H.W. Bush Administration
Steven R. Mann
Former Ambassador to Turkmenistan and Former Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary in the State Dept., Clinton and George W. Bush Administrations
Colonel John W. McDonald
Former Deputy Under Secretary of the Army
P. Michael McKinley
Former Ambassador to Peru and Acting Ambassador to the European Union and Mozambique, George W. Bush Administration; Former Ambassador to Peru, Colombia, Afghanistan, and Brazil, Obama Administration
Dan Miller
Former Member of Congress, Florida
John M. Mitnick
Former General Counsel, Dept. of Homeland Security, Trump
Allen Moore
Former Under Secretary of Commerce, Reagan
Alberto Mora
Former General Counsel, U.S. Information Agency, George H.W. Bush; Former General Counsel, Dept. of the Navy, George W. Bush
Kenneth Mortensen
Former Associate Deputy Attorney General, George W. Bush
Vice Admiral Charles L. Munns
U.S. Navy (Ret.), George W. Bush
John D. Negroponte Deputy Secretary of State, George W. Bush
Elizabeth Neumann Assistant Secretary of Homeland Security, Trump
Sean O'Keefe Secretary of the Navy, George H.W. Bush
Bill Paxon Former Member of Congress, New York
William R Piekney CIA Chief of Station, Reagan
Daniel M. Price Deputy NSA Advisor, George W. Bush
Alan Charles Raul Vice Chairman, Civil Liberties Oversight Board, George W. Bush
Victor Reis Director, DARPA, George H.W. Bush
Robert Annan Riley Ambassador to Micronesia, Trump
Paul Rosenzweig Deputy Assistant Secretary of Homeland Security, George W. Bush
Charles Rossotti Deputy Asst. Secretary of Defense; Commissioner of IRS, Clinton & Bush
Nicholas Rostow National Security Council Legal Adviser, Reagan & H.W. Bush
Kori Schake Deputy Director of Policy Planning, State Dept., W. Bush
Wayne A. Schroeder Deputy Under Secretary of Defense, W. Bush
Gregory L. Schulte Sr Director, National Security Council & Atomic Energy Agency, W. Bush
Robert Shanks Deputy Assistant AG, Reagan
Rep. Christopher Shays Former Member of Congress, Connecticut
John Simon Senior Director, National Security Council Staff, W. Bush
Stephen Slick Sr. Director, National Security Council Staff, W. Bush
Mark C. Storella U.S. Ambassador to Zambia, Obama
William H. Taft IV Deputy Secretary of Defense and Ambassador to NATO, W. Bush
Miles Taylor Chief of Staff, Dept. of Homeland Security, Trump
Larry D. Thompson Former Deputy AG, W. Bush
Jack Tomarchio Deputy Under Secretary of Homeland Security, W. Bush
Olivia Troye Special Advisor to VP Pence, Trump
Robert Tuttle U.S. Ambassador to the UK, W. Bush
John K. Veroneau Deputy U.S. Trade Rep. & Assistant Secretary of Defense, W. Bush & Clinton
Colonel Terry Virts, USAF (Ret.)
Former NASA Astronaut, Former Commander of the International Space Station
Dr. Thomas G. Ward, Jr. Director of Threats, Ballistic Missile Defense Org., Reagan & Clinton
Matthew C. Waxman Principal Deputy Director, State Dept Policy Planning, W. Bush
William H. Webster Director of the CIA & FBI, Reagan & H.W. Bush
William F. Weld Assistant Attorney General, Criminal Division, Reagan
J. Robinson West Assistant Secretary of Interior, Reagan
Wendell L. Willkie II General Counsel, Dept. of Commerce, H.W. Bush
Philip Zelikow Counselor of the Dept. of State, W. Bush
Robert B. Zoellick White House Deputy Chief of Staff, George H.W. Bush
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@Mr.Shartly Is Donny Von ShitzInPants yours? The “Jenius” Of DJT ~ “So, supposing we hit the body with a tremendous — whether it’s ultraviolet or just very powerful light — and I think you said that that hasn’t been tried, but you’re going to test it. And then I said, supposing you brought the light inside the body, which you can do either through the skin or in some other way, and I think you said you’re going to test that, too. It sounds interesting. And then I see the disinfectant, where it knocks it out in a minute. One minute. And is there a way we can do something like that, by injection inside or almost a cleaning. Because you see it gets in the lungs, and it does a tremendous number on the lungs. So it would be interesting to check that, maybe check that out”. 😂😂😂
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@ IF YOU WATCHED OR READ REAL NEWS YOU WOULD KNOW THIS.
COUNT VERDICT BUSINESS RECORD
1 Guilty Invoice from Michael Cohen, marked as a record of the Donald J. Trump Revocable Trust
2 Guilty Entry in the Detail General Ledger for the Donald J. Trump Revocable Trust, bearing voucher number 842457
3 Guilty Entry in the Detail General Ledger for the Donald J. Trump Revocable Trust, bearing voucher number 842460
4 Guilty Check and check stub, Donald J. Trump Revocable Trust Account, bearing check number 000138
5 Guilty Invoice from Michael Cohen, marked as a record of the Donald J. Trump Revocable Trust
6 Guilty Entry in the Detail General Ledger for the Donald J. Trump Revocable Trust, bearing voucher number 846907
7 Guilty Check and check stub, Donald J. Trump Revocable Trust Account, bearing check number 000147
8 Guilty Invoice from Michael Cohen, marked as a record of Donald J. Trump
9 Guilty Entry in the Detail General Ledger for Donald J. Trump, bearing voucher number 858770
10 Guilty Check and check stub, Donald J. Trump account, bearing check number 002740
11 Guilty Invoice from Michael Cohen, marked as a record of Donald J. Trump
12 Guilty Entry in the Detail General Ledger for Donald J. Trump, bearing voucher number 855331
13 Guilty Check and check stub, Donald J. Trump account, bearing check number 002700
14 Guilty Invoice from Michael Cohen, marked as a record of Donald J. Trump
15 Guilty Entry in the Detail General Ledger for Donald J. Trump, bearing voucher number 858772
16 Guilty Check and check stub, Donald J. Trump account, bearing check number 002741
17 Guilty Invoice from Michael Cohen, marked as a record of Donald J. Trump
18 Guilty Entry in the Detail General Ledger for Donald J. Trump, bearing voucher number 861096
19 Guilty Check and check stub, Donald J. Trump account, bearing check number 002781
20 Guilty Invoice from Michael Cohen, marked as a record of Donald J. Trump
21 Guilty Entry in the Detail General Ledger for Donald J. Trump, bearing voucher number 863641
22 Guilty Check and check stub, Donald J. Trump account, bearing check number 002821
23 Guilty Invoice from Michael Cohen, marked as a record of Donald J. Trump
24 Guilty Entry in the Detail General Ledger for Donald J. Trump, bearing voucher number 868174
25 Guilty Check and check stub, Donald J. Trump account, bearing check number 002908
26 Guilty Invoice from Michael Cohen, marked as a record of Donald J. Trump
27 Guilty Entry in the Detail General Ledger for Donald J. Trump, bearing voucher number 872654
28 Guilty Check and check stub, Donald J. Trump account, bearing check number 002944
29 Guilty Invoice from Michael Cohen, marked as a record of Donald J. Trump
30 Guilty Entry in the Detail General Ledger for Donald J. Trump, bearing voucher number 876511
31 Guilty Check and check stub, Donald J. Trump account, bearing check number 002980
32 Guilty Invoice from Michael Cohen, marked as a record of Donald J. Trump
33 Guilty Entry in the Detail General Ledger for Donald J. Trump, bearing voucher number 877785
34 Guilty Check and check stub, Donald J. Trump account, bearing check number 003006
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TRUMP & HIS MURDEROUS LIES
Trump has reached the milestone of 18,000 lies during his presidency. On the same day he accused the WHO of “covering up the spread of the coronavirus” and failing to “share information in a timely fashion.” He declared he was cutting off funding for the world’s public health body in the middle of a pandemic.
He also called WHO a “tool of China” and floated the theory that WHO deliberately concealed the danger of the virus: “There’s something going on” at the WHO “that’s very bad,” and "I have a feeling they knew exactly what was going on.”
This is a murderous lie as 15 Trump appointed officials were embedded with WHO in Geneva, working full time, hand-in-glove with the organization on the virus from the very first day China disclosed the outbreak to the world, Dec. 31. These Trump officials U.S. officials dedicated 100% of their time to the virus. In the weeks that followed, they and other U.S. government scientists engaged in all major deliberations and decisions at the WHO on the novel coronavirus, had access to all information, and contributed significantly to the world body’s conclusions and recommendations. Everything that WHO knew, Trump knew — in real time. As congressional investigators are now learning, senior Trump administration officials — Health and Human Services Secretary Alex Azar; the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s Robert R. Redfield Jr., Anne Schuchat, Ray R. Arthur and Jeffrey McFarland; the National Institutes of Health’s Anthony S. Fauci and H. Clifford Lane, and many others — consulted with the WHO throughout the crisis.
Trump lied and Americans Died - 33,500+ & Counting.
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@snapfinger1 Funny, the Convicted Felons ALL STILL SUPPORT HIM - TRUMP’s CRIME SYNDICATE: Trump - Felon, Trump's Campaign manager - Felon, Trump's Deputy Campaign Manager - Felon, Trump's Personal Lawyer - Felon Trump's Chief Strategist - Felon, Trump's National Security Advisor - Felon, Trump's Trade Advisor - Felon, Trump's Foreign Policy advisor - Felon, Trump's Campaign Fixer - Felon, Trump's Company CFO - Felon, 22 Other Close Trump Associates - Convicted Felons.
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U.S. authorities have leveled the first conspiracy charge against a leader of an extremist group in the Jan. 6 storming of the U.S. Capitol, arresting an Oath Keeper who is accused of plotting to disrupt the electoral vote confirmation of President-elect Joe Biden’s victory and proposing further assaults on state capitols.
Thomas Edward Caldwell, 66, of Clarke County, Va., was taken into custody before 7 a.m. on four federal counts, including conspiracy to commit an offense against the United States in the attack on the Capitol. The conspiracy charge is reserved for offenses interfering with or obstructing the lawful operation of government.
A charging affidavit says he helped organize a group of eight to 10 individuals, including self-styled Ohio militia members apprehended Sunday, who wore helmets and military-style gear and were seen moving purposefully toward the top of the Capitol steps and leading the move against police lines.
Separately, charges were unsealed Wednesday accusing a Queens man who worked in the state court system of making threats to murder Democratic politicians, including suggesting another attack on the Capitol timed to President-elect Joe Biden’s inauguration Wednesday.
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Tony Perez
Jan. 22: President Trump is asked: “Are there worries about a pandemic at this point?” Trump answers: “No. Not at all. And we’re, we have it totally under control. It’s one person coming in from China. … It’s — going to be just fine.”
Feb. 25: Trump’s declares: “We have contained this. I won’t say airtight, but pretty close to airtight.”
March 9: Trump tweets: “Nothing is shut down, life & the economy go on. At this moment there are 546 confirmed cases of CoronaVirus, with 22 deaths.”
March 13: Fox host Lou Dobbs shows off on his program a chart of the day’s 1,985-point Dow Jones rise. The chart was autographed and sent by Trump, who seemed to suggest that his remarks were responsible for the rise, a day after the same index had dropped a record 2,352 points.
March 16: After the weekend, the Dow suffers another record drop, closing 2,997.10 points lower. Trump did not autograph that chart and send it to Dobbs.
March 31: The U.S. has more than 180,000 confirmed coronavirus cases, about 80,000 more than any other country.
Nov. 26, 2018: Reports show that Trump “dismissed a study produced by his own administration … and more than 300 leading scientists, warning of the potentially catastrophic impending crisis. Asked why, Trump told reporters, “I don’t believe it.” Asked if he read it, Trump said, “some.”
March 30, 2020: This newspaper reports that Trump completed plans to scrap Obama-era automobile fuel efficiency standards that limited climate-warming tailpipe pollution — a move that will “allow cars on American roads to emit nearly a billion tons more carbon dioxide over the lifetime of the vehicles.”
What’s the common theme? We have a president who is enamored with markets but ignorant of science, and we have paid a steep, steep price for that — and we are paying an even bigger price now.
Early on, Trump clearly spent his days watching the markets and downplaying the virus’s potential for rapid spread. If the markets were doing well for investors, he was doing well for America.
Trump thought that closing off flights from China was enough to stem this growing epidemic and calm the markets — without the mass testing, surveillance and quarantines of the infected that South Korea, Hong Kong and Singapore employed to great success. You could hear that in the reckless, premature assurances by Kudlow, Kellyanne CONWAY and Trump himself that the virus had been contained.
If only Trump had listened to Medical Doctors and Scientists. It was his deadly mistake, and a cruel joke on America.
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Trump touts Putin’s speaking out against his impeachment
A souvenir shop in Moscow displays Matryoshka dolls featuring President Trump and Russian President Vladimir Putin. (Misha Friedman/AFP/Getty Images)
By Colby Itkowitz and Isabelle Khurshudyan
December 21 at 10:31 AM MT
Late Friday night, minutes before deplaning in Florida for the holidays, President Trump retweeted a link to an article in which Russian President Vladimir Putin defended him against impeachment.
“A total Witch Hunt!” the president tweeted at 10:30 p.m., as he shared a 36-hour-old Associated Press tweet that read: “BREAKING: Russian President Vladimir Putin says U.S. President Donald Trump’s impeachment is far-fetched and predicts the U.S. Senate will reject it.”
Trump’s boasting of Putin’s support comes a day after The Washington Post reported that White House advisers feared Trump’s belief that Ukraine, not Russia, was responsible for interfering with the 2016 election was spurred by conversations Trump had with Putin.
[[Former White House officials say they feared Putin influenced the president’s views on Ukraine and 2016 campaign]]
Trump’s critics responded to the tweet, expressing exasperation more than incredulity.
“At the end of the day, it’s always Putin First,” wrote conservative commentator and “Never Trumper” Bill Kristol.
Russian President Vladimir Putin accused the U.S. House of Representatives Dec. 19 of having "invented" a story to "revise" history and impeach President Trump. (Reuters)
“Trump wants us to know that Putin has his back. We know,” tweeted Eric Columbus, a former Justice Department appointee in the Obama administration.
“Putin is a dictator who jails opponents, kills opponents, invades neighbors, interferes in democracies’ elections, etc. I don’t think an American president should be buddying with him. I wonder if Trump defenders are ever (secretly) embarrassed by this stuff. I hope so,” wrote Jay Nordlinger, a senior editor at the right-leaning National Review.
At his annual end-of-the-year news conference on Thursday, Putin was asked about Trump’s impeachment. He called the charges “completely fabricated reasons.”
[[Putin stays in Trump’s corner on impeachment]]
That evening, Russian state media, which follows Putin’s lead, also threw its support behind Trump.
Donald Trump is the third president in U.S. history to face a Senate trial. (The Washington Post)
Popular Kremlin propagandist Vladimir Soloviev gave an impassioned defense of Trump on his evening show, raising his voice several times in a discussion with Atlantic Council expert Ariel Cohen.
“I can’t understand for what reason [Democrats] don’t like Trump,” Soloviev said.
Days earlier, on his two-hour Sunday night program, anchor Dmitry Kiselyov opined about how Hollywood has joined the Democrats in being against Trump, portraying him as “always on the dark side.”
And the state-sponsored Rossiya-1 news channel, which airs Soloviev’s show, recently broadcast segments of Rudolph W. Giuliani’s interview with right-wing channel One America News, in which the president’s personal attorney promoted debunked conspiracy theories about Ukrainian interference in the 2016 U.S. presidential election.
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FAILURE IN AMERICA ON A TRUMPIAN SCALE:
Nearly every country has struggled to contain the coronavirus and made mistakes along the way.
China silenced doctors and allowed the virus to escape Wuhan, much of Europe went next, failing to avoid and contain enormous outbreaks. Today, many countries — Japan, Canada, France, Australia and more — are coping with new increases in cases after reopening parts of society.
But one country stands alone, as the only affluent nation to have suffered a severe, sustained outbreak for more than four months: the United States. In just the past month over 1.9 million Americans have tested positive for the virus. That’s more than five times as many as in all of Europe, Canada, Japan, South Korea and Australia, combined. The United States also has the highest number of Deaths 157,000 from the virus far out pacing all other countries. Brazil is the only country competing with the United States for complete failure in containing the virus.
What does the United States & Brazil have in common? Trumpian Politics.
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THE CRAZIES IN THE GOP
A clear indication that Marjorie Taylor Greene was more than a dabbler in QAnon was her 2018 endorsement of “Frazzledrip,” one of the most grotesque tendrils of the movement’s mythology. You “have to go down a number of rabbit holes to get that far,” said Mike Rothschild, whose book about QAnon.
The lurid fantasy of Frazzledrip refers to an imaginary video said to show Hillary Clinton and her former aide, Huma Abedin, assaulting a young girl, and drinking her blood. It holds that several cops saw the video, and Clinton had them killed.
Greene posted a picture of Donald Trump superimposed with the mother of the slain N.Y.P.D. officer Miosotis Familia on Facebook, one of her Frazzledrip fans wrote, “This was another Hillary hit.” Greene replied, “Yes it is, I post things sometimes to see who knows things. Most the time people don’t. I’m glad to see your comment.”
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Litmus test. How to know if your president is a potential Authoritarian Threat (Dictator) to Democracy:
1. Rejection of (or weak commitment to) democratic rules or norms.
Examples.
Q. Do they reject the Constitution or express a willingness to violate it?
Q. Do they suggest a need for anti democratic measures banning certain organizations, or restricting basic civil or political rights?
Q. Do they attempt to undermine the legitimacy of elections, for example, by claiming unverifiable mass voter fraud.
2. Denial of the legitimacy of political opponents.
Examples.
Q. Do they describe their rivals as subversive, or opposed to your presidential powers.
Q. Do they claim that their rivals constitute a threat, either to the country or the prevailing way of life. Such as calling opponents socialists or communists?
Q. Do they baselessly describe their partisan rivals as criminals, whose supposed violations disqualifies them from full participation in the political arena.
Q. Do they baselessly suggest that their rivals are secretly working in alliance against you?
3. Toleration or encouragement of violence.
Examples.
Q. Do they have any ties to armed militias, paramilitary forces, white supremacy groups, etc?
Q. Have they encouraged, or suggested, mob attacks on opponents?
Q. Have they tacitly endorsed violence by their supporters by refusing to unambiguously condemning it?
Q. Have they praised (or refused to condemn) politically violent state actors in the past or currently?
4. Readiness to curtail civil liberties or voting rights of opponents, including the media?
Q. Have they supported laws or policies that restrict civil liberties, such as expanding defamation laws, or laws restricting protests, criticism of the government, or certain civic or political organizations?
Q. Have they threatened to take legal or other punitive action against critics in rival parties, civil society, or the media?
Q. Have they praised repressive leaders or actions taken by repressive leaders?
If the answer is yes to even on of the above questions then you have a wanna be Dictator on your hands.
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WASHINGTON — John H. Durham, the Trump-era special counsel scrutinizing the investigation into Russia’s 2016 election interference, distanced himself on Thursday from false reports by right-wing news outlets that a motion he recently filed said Hillary Clinton’s campaign had paid to spy on Trump White House servers.
Citing a barrage of such reports on Fox News and elsewhere based on the prosecutor’s Feb. 11 filing, defense lawyers for a Democratic-linked cybersecurity lawyer, Michael Sussmann, have accused the special counsel of including unnecessary and misleading information in filings “plainly intended to politicize this case, inflame media coverage and taint the jury pool.”
In a filing on Thursday, Mr. Durham defended himself, saying those accusations about his intentions were “simply not true.” He said he had “valid and straightforward reasons” for including the information in the Feb. 11 filing that set off the firestorm, while disavowing responsibility for how certain news outlets had interpreted and portrayed it.
“If third parties or members of the media have overstated or otherwise misinterpreted facts contained in the government’s motion, that does not in any way undermine the valid reasons for the government’s inclusion of this information,” he wrote.
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@texaskippen
As president, Donald Trump has flouted all kinds of norms, starting with his decision not to divest from his business interests while in office. That set the stage for an administration marked by self-interest, profiteering at the highest levels and more than 3,700 conflicts of interest.
Trump’s Administration had 215 indictments of his administration, Nixon only 63, Reagan 26, Obama 0, Carter 1.
Public corruption was out in the open during Trump's administration, with people looking to reach into the government’s wallet staying at Trump’s hotel in Washington. Trump even proposed having the government pay for a summit of international leaders at his resort in Miami.That flaunting of government power for personal and political gain led to Trump’s first impeachment.
Giuliani now faces possible criminal charges over his dealings in Ukraine. Giuliani’s home and law office were raided earlier this year by the FBI in a search for cellphones and other evidence.
One of the few constants throughout the Donald J. Trump administration has been corruption. Since his first day as president, when Trump took the wholly unprecedented step of refusing to divest1 from his private businesses, his administration has been characterized by an unending effort by him, his family, and his senior advisers to abuse their political power for personal gain.
Of course, those efforts started long before Trump was elected; in just one example, Trump had the federal government pay him more than $1.5 million2 for the Secret Services’ use of his private plane during the campaign. These efforts to enrich himself and those around him continued through the inauguration, in which Trump abandoned past practice to allow for unlimited donations from wealthy individuals and corporations so he could raise record sums—reportedly more than $107 million. He then used that money to help his friends, including paying a company owned by Melania Trump’s friend and senior advisor, $26 million3 to help plan the event. To this day, some of the money raised still has not been accounted for.
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Trump Corruption creates national security risks
Trump’s culture of corruption poses serious risks to the nation’s security. The president and his senior advisers deal with issues that have effects across the globe—in making those decisions, it is critical that they do so based on America’s national interests. But the Trump administration—has on numerous occasions—seemed to do the opposite; shaping foreign policy based on what is in their personal interests, or those of foreign benefactors.
Take the Trump administration’s response to Russia’s attack on the U.S. electoral system. The American intelligence community unequivocally determined25 that Russia interfered in the 2016 presidential election to aid Donald Trump. In response, then-President Barack Obama issued26 sweeping sanctions to punish Russia for its interference.
Trump, however, has continually sought to roll back Russian sanctions. In the immediate aftermath of Obama’s sanctions, while still president-elect, Trump’s designee for national security adviser, Lt. Gen. Michael Flynn, contacted Russia and told them not to escalate27 in response to the sanctions. Senior U.S. officials viewed that effort as a signal to the Kremlin that it could expect a reprieve from the Obama imposed punishment. Flynn later pleaded guilty to lying to the FBI28 about his conversations with Russia.
Shortly after Trump became president, the White House sought29 to lift sanctions against Russia for its illegal annexation of Crimea and invasion of Eastern Ukraine. Later, Trump fought30 congressional efforts to codify and expand the Obama sanctions and prevent him from weakening them. After Congress nearly unanimously passed the sanctions legislation, the Trump administration repeatedly undermined31 the bill’s implementation, before finally moving forward32 with a delayed and incomplete sanctions package against a select group of Russians who interfered in the election. Even after taking this legally required action, Trump later walked back33 further Russian sanctions that his own U.N. ambassador said would be issued and declared that there would be no further sanctions levied against Russia without a triggering event.
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@texaskippen
Trump is not the only government official who has appeared to let personal interests cloud his judgment when it comes to national security affairs. After Flynn was forced to resign as national security adviser, it came to light that he had been paid more than $500,00037 to secretly advocate for the interests of Turkey, including while he was on the Trump campaign. He seemingly continued to advocate for positions beneficial to Turkey during the presidential transition and into Trump’s presidency; case in point, Flynn blocked38 an effort to arm Syrian Kurds in order to combat the Islamic State group (IS), a decision that was in line with the Turkish government’s strong opposition to arming the Kurds. Apparently, others in the administration thought the effort would be important to combatting IS, since after Flynn was forced out of the White House, the administration moved forward with the plan.39
White House Senior Adviser Jared Kushner—the president’s son-in-law—has raised similar concerns about where his loyalties lie. In one striking instance, his real estate business interests may have influenced his foreign policy positions, threatening to destabilize an already challenging situation in the Middle East. As widely reported, Kushner’s real estate company is facing a $1.2 billion debt40 for a Manhattan building it owns, and he has been meeting with potential foreign sources of funding to try and make the payment. Reportedly, Kushner’s real estate company had sought a $1 billion investment from Qatar’s minister of finance, funding that was not provided.41 Just weeks after declining the funding request, Trump unexpectedly sided with Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates in a blockade of Qatar, contrary to the views42 of his own departments of State and Defense. Kushner was reportedly43 a major supporter of the blockade, raising questions as to whether his push to ignore Middle East experts and foster tension in the volatile region—potentially putting U.S. troops at risk44—was a product of his policy views or payback for Qatar’s business decisions. Subsequently, the Qatari government considered sharing information with Department of Justice (DOJ) special counsel Robert Mueller about Kushner’s actions,45 but decided not to given the fact that talks with the United States had been productive, meaning that they too could potentially have leverage over Kushner in the future.
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“But understand this, that in the last days there will come times of difficulty. For people will be lovers of self, lovers of money, proud, arrogant, abusive, disobedient to their parents, ungrateful, unholy, heartless, unappeasable, slanderous, without self-control, brutal, not loving good, 4 treacherous, reckless, swollen with conceit, lovers of pleasure rather than lovers of God, having the appearance of godliness, but denying its power. Avoid such people. For among them are those who creep into households and capture weak women, burdened with sins and led astray by various passions, always learning and never able to arrive at a knowledge of the truth. Are we talking about Trump and the GOP?
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@chevy3022 TRUMP’s CRIME SYNDICATE: Trump - Felon - Tied to Kremlin🇷🇺, Trump's Campaign Mgr - Felon🇷🇺, T’s Deputy Campaign Mgr - Felon🇷🇺, T’s Chief Strategist - Felon🇷🇺, T’s National Security Advisor - Felon🇷🇺, T’s Foreign Policy advisor - Felon🇷🇺, T’s Personal Lawyer - Felon, T’s Campaign Fixer - Felon, T’s Company CFO - Felon, T’s Trade Advisor - Felon, 22 Other Close Trump Associates - Convicted Felons.
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@daveruckert7926 Eastman admitted to Jacob that Trump’s Electors Coup would lose on the merits in the Supreme Court: “When I pressed him on the point, I said ‘John, if the vice president did what you were asking him to do, we would lose 9-0 in the Supreme Court, wouldn’t we?’ And he initially started at, ‘Well, I think maybe you would lose only 7-2,' and after some further discussion, acknowledged, ‘Well, yeah, you’re right, we would lose 9-0.’ ... [He] ultimately acknowledged that, no, we would lose 9-0 — no judge would support his argument.”
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Jane Young
Jan. 22: President Trump is asked: “Are there worries about a pandemic at this point?” Trump answers: “No. Not at all. And we’re, we have it totally under control. It’s one person coming in from China. … It’s — going to be just fine.”
Feb. 25: Trump’s declares: “We have contained this. I won’t say airtight, but pretty close to airtight.”
March 9: Trump tweets: “Nothing is shut down, life & the economy go on. At this moment there are 546 confirmed cases of CoronaVirus, with 22 deaths.”
March 13: Fox host Lou Dobbs shows off on his program a chart of the day’s 1,985-point Dow Jones rise. The chart was autographed and sent by Trump, who seemed to suggest that his remarks were responsible for the rise, a day after the same index had dropped a record 2,352 points.
March 16: After the weekend, the Dow suffers another record drop, closing 2,997.10 points lower. Trump did not autograph that chart and send it to Dobbs.
March 31: The U.S. has more than 180,000 confirmed coronavirus cases, about 80,000 more than any other country.
Nov. 26, 2018: Reports show that Trump “dismissed a study produced by his own administration … and more than 300 leading scientists, warning of the potentially catastrophic impending crisis. Asked why, Trump told reporters, “I don’t believe it.” Asked if he read it, Trump said, “some.”
March 30, 2020: This newspaper reports that Trump completed plans to scrap Obama-era automobile fuel efficiency standards that limited climate-warming tailpipe pollution — a move that will “allow cars on American roads to emit nearly a billion tons more carbon dioxide over the lifetime of the vehicles.”
What’s the common theme? We have a president who is enamored with markets but ignorant of science, and we have paid a steep, steep price for that — and we are paying an even bigger price now.
Early on, Trump clearly spent his days watching the markets and downplaying the virus’s potential for rapid spread. If the markets were doing well for investors, he was doing well for America.
Trump thought that closing off flights from China was enough to stem this growing epidemic and calm the markets — without the mass testing, surveillance and quarantines of the infected that South Korea, Hong Kong and Singapore employed to great success. You could hear that in the reckless, premature assurances by Kudlow, Kellyanne CONWAY and Trump himself that the virus had been contained.
If only Trump had listened to Medical Doctors and Scientists. It was his deadly mistake, and a cruel joke on America.
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THE CRAZIES IN THE GOP
A clear indication that Marjorie Taylor Greene was more than a dabbler in QAnon was her 2018 endorsement of “Frazzledrip,” one of the most grotesque tendrils of the movement’s mythology. You “have to go down a number of rabbit holes to get that far,” said Mike Rothschild, whose book about QAnon.
The lurid fantasy of Frazzledrip refers to an imaginary video said to show Hillary Clinton and her former aide, Huma Abedin, assaulting a young girl, and drinking her blood. It holds that several cops saw the video, and Clinton had them killed.
Greene posted a picture of Donald Trump superimposed with the mother of the slain N.Y.P.D. officer Miosotis Familia on Facebook, one of her Frazzledrip fans wrote, “This was another Hillary hit.” Greene replied, “Yes it is, I post things sometimes to see who knows things. Most the time people don’t. I’m glad to see your comment.”
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@@user-iu8od7di8e Have you ever wondered what the odds are that Law Enforcement, almost all Trump appointees, DOJ, FBI, CIA, NSA, Congress, Respected Main Stream Media, Historians, Academics, 55% of Voters, the Courts, Jury’s, and on and on have colluded against one man (a man of seedy character) who you think speaks the only truth? The odds are literally astronomical. 🤣🤣🤣 Grow up or move to Russia.
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Trump’s budget is a tremendous fraud.
Remember when he said he would eliminate the federal debt, or at least halve it, during his presidency? His new budget adds another $3.4 trillion by 2024 to the debt on top of the $3 trillion Trump has already added.
Remember when he repeatedly promised not to “touch” Social Security and Medicare? His budget calls for removing $550 billion dollars of funding from the Medicare program, including $135 billion from Medicare prescription drugs, and tens of billions from the Social Security program.
Remember when he promised not to touch Medicaid? Now he wants to cut it by $920 billion.
Remember when he was going to give Americans health care “much better” than Obamacare. But he has proposed no such thing and now his budget calls for cutting spending on the program by $844 billion.
Remember when he vowed that his tax cuts would grow the economy by 4 percent, 5 percent or even 6 percent? Last year it grew at 2.3 percent, and his new budget, even with the rosiest of assumptions, projects 2.8 percent for this year - in other words little changed from Obama’s growth rates. Yet the budget would also devote another $1.4 trillion to extending those tax cuts, primarily for the rich.
Treasonous Trump, Con Man Extraordinaire.
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FEDERAL JUDGES CALL EMERGENCY MEETING TO DEAL WITH BARR’s & TRUMP’s UNPRECEDENTED INTERVENTION IN STONE CASE.
The head of the Federal Judges Association is taking the extraordinary step of calling an emergency meeting to address the intervention in politically sensitive cases by President Trump and Attorney General William P. Barr.
U.S. District Judge Cynthia M. Rufe, the Philadelphia-based judge who heads the voluntary association of around 1,100 life-term federal judges, said the issue “could not wait.”
On Sunday, more than 1,100 former Justice Department employees released a public letter calling on Barr to resign over the Stone case. See Article “More than 1,100 ex-Justice Department officials call for Barr’s resignation”
The action follows a week of turmoil that included the president tweeting his outrage over the length of sentence recommended by career federal prosecutors for his friend Roger Stone and the decision by Barr to withdraw that recommendation. To make matters worse, Trump singled out the judge in the Stone case, Amy Berman Jackson of the U.S. District Court in Washington, for personal attacks, accusing her of bias and spreading a falsehood about her record.
“There are plenty of issues that we are concerned about,” Rufe said to USA Today. “We’ll talk all this through.”
Trump began disparaging federal judges who have ruled against his interests before he took office, starting with U.S. District Judge Gonzalo P. Curiel. After Curiel ruled against Trump in 2016 in a pair of lawsuits detailing predatory marketing practices at Trump University in San Diego, Trump described him as “a hater of Donald Trump,” adding that he believed the Indiana-born judge was “Mexican.”
President Trump has a history of denouncing judges over rulings that have negatively affected him personally as well as his administration's policies. Faced with more than 100 adverse rulings in the federal courts, Trump has continued verbal attacks on judges.
THIS IS TREASONOUS TRUMP’s IDEA OF MAGA, A BANANA REPUBLIC WITH HIM AS A PETTY DICTATOR LIKE CHAVEZ IN VENEZUELA.
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Trump’s budget is a tremendous fraud.
Remember when he said he would eliminate the federal debt, or at least halve it, during his presidency? His new budget adds another $3.4 trillion by 2024 to the debt on top of the $3 trillion Trump has already added.
Remember when he repeatedly promised not to “touch” Social Security and Medicare? His budget calls for removing $550 billion dollars of funding from the Medicare program, including $135 billion from Medicare prescription drugs, and tens of billions from the Social Security program.
Remember when he promised not to touch Medicaid? Now he wants to cut it by $920 billion.
Remember when he was going to give Americans health care “much better” than Obamacare. But he has proposed no such thing and now his budget calls for cutting spending on the program by $844 billion.
Remember when he vowed that his tax cuts would grow the economy by 4 percent, 5 percent or even 6 percent? Last year it grew at 2.3 percent, and his new budget, even with the rosiest of assumptions, projects 2.8 percent for this year - in other words little changed from Obama’s growth rates. Yet the budget would also devote another $1.4 trillion to extending those tax cuts, primarily for the rich.
Treasonous Trump, Con Man Extraordinaire.
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Trump touts Putin’s speaking out against his impeachment
A souvenir shop in Moscow displays Matryoshka dolls featuring President Trump and Russian President Vladimir Putin. (Misha Friedman/AFP/Getty Images)
By Colby Itkowitz and Isabelle Khurshudyan
December 21 at 10:31 AM MT
Late Friday night, minutes before deplaning in Florida for the holidays, President Trump retweeted a link to an article in which Russian President Vladimir Putin defended him against impeachment.
“A total Witch Hunt!” the president tweeted at 10:30 p.m., as he shared a 36-hour-old Associated Press tweet that read: “BREAKING: Russian President Vladimir Putin says U.S. President Donald Trump’s impeachment is far-fetched and predicts the U.S. Senate will reject it.”
Trump’s boasting of Putin’s support comes a day after The Washington Post reported that White House advisers feared Trump’s belief that Ukraine, not Russia, was responsible for interfering with the 2016 election was spurred by conversations Trump had with Putin.
[[Former White House officials say they feared Putin influenced the president’s views on Ukraine and 2016 campaign]]
Trump’s critics responded to the tweet, expressing exasperation more than incredulity.
“At the end of the day, it’s always Putin First,” wrote conservative commentator and “Never Trumper” Bill Kristol.
Russian President Vladimir Putin accused the U.S. House of Representatives Dec. 19 of having "invented" a story to "revise" history and impeach President Trump. (Reuters)
“Trump wants us to know that Putin has his back. We know,” tweeted Eric Columbus, a former Justice Department appointee in the Obama administration.
“Putin is a dictator who jails opponents, kills opponents, invades neighbors, interferes in democracies’ elections, etc. I don’t think an American president should be buddying with him. I wonder if Trump defenders are ever (secretly) embarrassed by this stuff. I hope so,” wrote Jay Nordlinger, a senior editor at the right-leaning National Review.
At his annual end-of-the-year news conference on Thursday, Putin was asked about Trump’s impeachment. He called the charges “completely fabricated reasons.”
[[Putin stays in Trump’s corner on impeachment]]
That evening, Russian state media, which follows Putin’s lead, also threw its support behind Trump.
Donald Trump is the third president in U.S. history to face a Senate trial. (The Washington Post)
Popular Kremlin propagandist Vladimir Soloviev gave an impassioned defense of Trump on his evening show, raising his voice several times in a discussion with Atlantic Council expert Ariel Cohen.
“I can’t understand for what reason [Democrats] don’t like Trump,” Soloviev said.
Days earlier, on his two-hour Sunday night program, anchor Dmitry Kiselyov opined about how Hollywood has joined the Democrats in being against Trump, portraying him as “always on the dark side.”
And the state-sponsored Rossiya-1 news channel, which airs Soloviev’s show, recently broadcast segments of Rudolph W. Giuliani’s interview with right-wing channel One America News, in which the president’s personal attorney promoted debunked conspiracy theories about Ukrainian interference in the 2016 U.S. presidential election.
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WHEN GOOD PEOPLE DON’T ACT, EVIL REIGNS:
How did the trans-Atlantic slave trade play out over hundreds of years?
How did slavery thrive in this country?
How was the Holocaust allowed to happen?
How did the genocides in Rwanda or Darfur come to be?
It turns out that our current era is providing the unsettling answer: It was easy. As Edmund Burke said: “The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.” If you don’t complain, you condone.
Gather the energy. Gather your neighbor. Fight, vote, email, post. Do all you can to stand up for the vulnerable, for the oppressed, for our Constitution, and for our Democratic Values. Don’t let history record this moment as it has recorded too many others: a time when good people did too little to confront the wickedness and disaster of Trumpian Neo Nazism. In November America has a clear choice, do nothing to confront Trumpian Evil, or vote to sweep the Evil out of office and began the long painful process of Restoring Our Democracy and Democratic Institutions.
As Edmund Burke wrote: “When bad men combine, the good must associate; else they will fall, one by one, an unpitied sacrifice in a contemptible struggle.”
But you may be more familiar with another quote often attributed to Burke: “The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.”
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godoggo
Trump has made a lot of promises about actions to fight the coronavirus pandemic.Most of them have been half truths or embellishments.
For example:
Naval hospital ships
Trump announced Wed. that the Navy would dispatch its two hospital ships, the USNS Comfort and the USNS Mercy, to help treat patients and free up land-based hospitals for coronavirus patients.
"So those two ships are prepared to go, and they can be launched over the next week or so," Trump said, calling the ships in "tip-top shape."
Well, not so much.
The Navy said that the Comfort was actually undergoing repairs in Norfolk, Va., and it would be weeks before it could sail.
FDA drug approval
On Thur. Trump touted that the Food and Drug Administration had "approved" use of an anti-malaria drug called chloroquine to treat patients afflicted with the coronavirus. He had a “hunch” that this was the cure.
"We're going to be able to make that drug available almost immediately," Trump said, calling it "a tremendous breakthrough" and a potential "game-changer."
But FDA commissioner Stephen Hahn immediately tried to tamp down Trump's enthusiasm, saying that "a large, pragmatic clinical trial" would be needed first to determine the drug's usefulness before making it available to coronavirus patients.
Hahn said he couldn't "speculate about a timeline" for the drug's availability.
Trump's enthusiasm for hydroxychloroquine spilled into another press conference on Friday, when he again described it as a potential wonder drug.
And again, a public health official — this time, Dr. Anthony Fauci, a top immunologist on the White House's response team — tried to rein in the optimism by echoing the need for clinical proof that it would make a difference.
On Thursday, Trump said another drug, Remdesivir, had "also been approved, or very close to approved" by the FDA for treating patients coronavirus. In fact, that drug is undergoing a clinical trial and is months away from being ready for use.
The website
Last Friday, Trump said at a Rose Garden news conference that Google has 1,700 engineers developing a new website that would help Americans determine whether they should seek testing for the coronavirus.
The president sought to cast his own project as a triumph compared with the initial failure of President Barack Obama to roll out a website as part of the changes to the health care market enacted in 2009.
"Google is helping to develop a website," Trump said. "It's going to be very quickly done — unlike websites of the past — to determine whether a test is warranted and to facilitate testing at a nearby convenient location."
Within hours, Google attempted to clarify the president's comments. It said an affiliated company, Verily, was working on the project but on a limited scale only for people in the San Francisco area.
"Verily is in the early stages of development," Google said, "and planning to roll testing out in the Bay Area, with the hope of expanding more broadly over time."
Unfortunately, there are insufficient tests available to test anyone.
Medical supplies
On Wednesday, Trump met with a group of nurses at the White House, telling them that the administration had arranged for a major new supply of the type of respirator in high demand during the pandemic.
"We've ordered 500 million N95 masks to drive private production," Trump said. He also said that construction companies were being asked to donate unused masks. The next day at a briefing, Vice President Pence stated: "We've vastly increased the supply of medical masks."
But hospitals continue to report that they are running short of masks, as are pharmacists.
Loose-fitting surgical masks aren't appropriate for dealing with the pandemic authorities say; the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention released a graphic detailing the important differences between a surgical mask and an N95 respirator.
Testing
One of the most frequent exaggerations coming from Trump is the availability of coronavirus tests.
When he visited the CDC in Atlanta earlier this month, Trump claimed that "They have the tests. And the tests are beautiful. Anybody that needs a test gets a test."
Pence made a similar claim last week, saying that "a million tests are in the field" and that "by the end of this week, another 4 million tests will be distributed."
Americans who feel sick still can’t get tested. Fauci acknowledged that there clearly is a gap between the supply and the demand.
Trump and Pence say they don't want every American — particularly those who are feeling well — to be tested. Yet people who are not critically sick are being sent home without testing. They are told to “assume they have covid-19” and come back only if there condition worsens. Not knowing if you have the virus dose not help contain the virus.
In summary, Trump just needs to shut up and let the experts talk.
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In opening an investigation of the Trump campaign, the FBI felt it had reached a ‘tipping point,’ IG finds.
The FBI had barely closed a politically volcanic investigation into Secretary of State Hillary Clinton’s use of a private email server when it got a troubling tip about her rival’s presidential campaign.
On July 28, 2016, the bureau received information from an Australian diplomat, who said a Donald Trump campaign aide had “suggested the Trump team had received some kind of suggestion from Russia” that Moscow could anonymously release damaging information about Clinton, according to the long-awaited Justice Department inspector general’s report released Monday.
The tip, vague as it was, shook senior FBI officials, who were already investigating suspected Russian interference in the 2016 campaign, including the theft of emails from the Democratic National Committee. Three days later, the FBI took the momentous decision to open a counterintelligence investigation of a presidential campaign, as the election season entered the home stretch.
[[Read the inspector general’s report]]
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Trump Aide Has Mental Melt Down On Facebook. 🤪🤪🤪🤪
Michael R. Caputo told his audience that left-wing hit squads were being trained for insurrection and accused C.D.C. scientists of “sedition.” He complained that he was under siege by the news media, feeling paranoid, and that his “mental health was failing.” He accused the CDC of harboring a “secret resistance unit” determined to undermine President Trump.
Mr. Caputo, who lead efforts to warp C.D.C. weekly bulletins to fit Mr. Trump’s pandemic narrative, suggested that he personally could be in danger from opponents of the administration. “If you carry guns, buy ammunition, ladies and gentlemen, because it’s going to be hard to get,” he urged his followers. “I don’t like being alone in Washington,” Mr. Caputo said, describing “shadows on the ceiling in my apartment, there alone, shadows are so long.” He also said the mounting number of Covid-19 deaths was taking a toll on him, telling his viewers, “You are not waking up every morning and talking about dead Americans. But you should attend Trump rallies and wear a mask”.
SOUNDS LIKE TRUMP ONLY HIRES THE BEST PEOPLE 🤪🤪🤪🤪
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THE DAY DEMOCRACY DIED sung to the Day the Music Died: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-Ue5F57dZMU
A long long time ago
A Tuesday in November
When that sinking feeling laid us low
And we knew if he had his way
That we’d all live to curse the day
When decency received a fatal blow
His bankruptcies got no attention
Pussy-grabbing — barely mentioned
Promising a great wall
He swore to make tax rates fall
I still remember how I tried
To have sympathy for his third bride
But something rumbled deep inside
The day democracy died
, but...
No, don’t let democracy die
He’s a famous ignoramus — can’t tell truth from a lie
And if he wins we’ll kiss our country goodbye
Singin’ vote for anyone but this guy
Vote for anyone but this guy
Is Putin the one to blame
‘Cause we all know it was not Ukraine
Who lost it by three million strong
And do you believe the shit he says
Repeated by Fox talking heads
We’re quite amazed they fell for such a con
All the red hats at his rallies cheer
But there must be something in the beer
‘Cause if they had a brain
Then they’d know this man’s insane
He was a loser bullied by his Dad
Kept bailing out his debts gone bad
He craved the love he never had
The day democracy died,
so now we’re singin’
No, don’t let democracy die
He’s a famous ignoramus — can’t tell truth from a lie
And if he wins we’ll kiss our country goodbye
Singin’ vote for anyone but this guy
Vote for anyone but this guy
Every four years we all make a choice
And try to unite our divided voice
I guess that’s how it’s always been
Now we find ourselves in this crazy state
In a war to vote for love or hate
And we can’t ever let the darkness win
Oh, dictatorship was not our thing
But electors picked a tyrant king
Impeaches sure taste sweet
Oh but now that’s all history
‘Cause when Moscow Mitch gets on the case
Then honor’s gone without a trace
And we all prayed they’d be replaced
Before democracy dies,
now we’re singin’
No, don’t let democracy die
He’s a famous ignoramus — can’t tell truth from a lie
And if he wins we’ll kiss our country goodbye
Singin’ vote for anyone but this guy
Vote for anyone but this guy
Face it, face it, he’s just a racist
And “white” is what he means by “greatest”
Rich and white is better, I guess
A mobster with a crooked past
Who laundered condos for autocrats
But he can’t outrun the bloodhounds on his tracks
‘Cause the time keeps ticking like a fuse
Fifty-two percent are not amused
Too many to suppress
Who want a White House repossessed
Yeah, we know that right is on our side
And soon we’ll look back full of pride
Together we can reverse the tide
Before democracy dies
, now we’re singin’
No, don’t let democracy die
He’s a famous ignoramus — can’t tell truth from a lie
And if he wins we’ll kiss our country goodbye
Singin’ vote for anyone but this guy
Vote for anyone but this guy
Oh, and when we’re alone in that booth
All generations, age and youth
The time has come to pick the one
So come on, search your heart and search your soul
Don’t flush our planet down a hole
For an orange ass who’s blotting out the sun
Oh, and as I watch him on a stage
His lips — they twist in fits of rage
Playing the victim well
He casts his creepy spell
And as conspiracies on Facebook flow
We flip the page and just say no
Because only sheep would watch that show
And let democracy die
, we’re all singin’
No, don’t let democracy die
He’s a famous ignoramus — can’t tell truth from a lie
And if he wins we’ll kiss our country goodbye
Singin’ vote for anyone but this guy
Vote for anyone but this guy
I met a girl who chose him once
Now she regrets she played the dunce
And she’s a leading activist
I went down to the polling place
Saw lines for miles, all happy-faced
And the crowd there knows who they’re not gonna pick
And on the screens the pundits shriek
A slanted poll, an angry tweet
Hackers interfering
It’s too late for a hearing
Good thing you and I and all our friends
Now realize our life depends
On making sure this madness ends
Before democracy dies
, yeah we’re all singin’
No, don’t let democracy die
He’s a famous ignoramus — can’t tell truth from a lie
And if he wins we’ll kiss our country goodbye
Singin’ vote for anyone but this guy
Vote for anyone but this guy,
we’re all singin’
No, don’t let democracy die
He’s a famous ignoramus — can’t tell truth from a lie
And if he wins we’ll kiss our country goodbye
Singin’ vote for anyone but this guy
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@stevovimy
As does Hitler, Mussolini, Franco, Mao, and Stalin to a degree. If only the German people had recognized who and what Hitler and his Nazis were, but many wanted Germany Great Again, they believed the Big Lies(s), and the Stab In The Back Myth aka The “Stolen Election. The German people embraced Authoritarianism, Xenophobia, Homophobia, Ableism, and Anti Semitism. So as you can see Treasonous Trump is a lazy, lower IQ, word salad, less organized Hitler. But none the less a serious threat to our American Democracy and the American People. Evidently you missed the point of Der Hauptmann.
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Marc Mummert
On Fox News, suddenly a very different tune about the coronavirus.
For weeks, some of Fox News’s hosts downplayed the threat of the coronavirus, characterizing it as a conspiracy by media organizations and Democrats to undermine President Trump.
Sean Hannity and Laura Ingraham accused the news media of whipping up “mass hysteria” and being “panic pushers.” Trish Regan called the Main Stream Media response “yet another attempt to impeach the president.”
But that was then.
When Trump’s declared a national emergency, the tone on Fox News has quickly shifted. Hannity, suddenly the lauded the president’s handling of what the host is now, belatedly, referring to as a “crisis.”
“Tonight, we are witnessing what will be a massive paradigm shift in the future of disease control and prevention,” he said. “A bold, new precedent is being set, the world will once again benefit greatly from America’s leadership. . . . The federal government, state governments, private businesses, top hospitals all coming together, under the president’s leadership, to stem the tide of the coronavirus.”
In a complicated dance to mirror the president, Trump’s allies on Fox News took the same stance as the president for several weeks — that this coronavirus that had sickened and killed thousands of people in China was no worse a threat than the seasonal flu.
Just a week ago, Hannity shrugged at the pandemic. “So far in the United States, there’s been around 30 deaths, most of which came from one nursing home in the state of Washington,” he said, “Healthy people, generally, 99 percent recover very fast, even if they contract it.”
By way of comparison, he added: “Twenty-six people were shot in Chicago alone over the weekend. I doubt you heard about it. You notice there’s no widespread hysteria about violence in Chicago. And this has gone on for years and years. By the way, Democratic-run cities, we see a lot of that.”
Ingraham, also had a fast-dawning recognition that the social and economic dislocation of the virus was more than just a Democratic talking point wielded against the president.
In late February, Ingraham called Democrats the “pandemic party” and displayed photos of House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) and Senate Minority Leader Charles E. Schumer (D-N.Y.) alongside enlarged images of coronavirus molecules. “How sick that these people seem almost happiest when Americans are hurting,” she said.
She kept at it through last Tuesday when, in front of a graphic reading “Trump confronts the panic pushers,” Ingraham said, “The public in some ways seems a lot more levelheaded than the so-called experts. . . . The facts are actually pretty reassuring, but you’d never know it watching all this stuff.”
On Friday, Ingraham tweeted that it was a “great time to fly if not in at-risk population!” The tweet was later deleted.
By Wednesday, after Trump announced a travel ban on people from the European Union, Ingraham had started calling the pandemic “this dangerous health crisis.” She characterized warnings issued by National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases head Anthony S. Fauci about the potential spread of the disease as “sobering and scary to hear.”
Regan’s on-air speculation at the start of last week that coronavirus was merely another impeachment gambit for Democrats drew widespread pushback. Clearly the mood was changing at Fox by the time the network announced late Friday that her discussion-and-commentary program on Fox Business would leave the air indefinitely.
Tucker Carlson too, blamed the “corrupt” media. But in a monologue that many took at an indirect scolding of the president, he also complained that “none of our leaders helped us to take it seriously. . . . People you trust, people you probably voted for, have spent weeks minimizing what is clearly a very serious problem. It’s just partisan politics, they say. ‘Calm down. In the end, this is just like the flu and people die from that every year. Coronavirus will pass, and when it does, we will feel foolish for worrying about it.’ That’s their position. . . . But they’re wrong.”
Days earlier, Carlson attended the birthday party of former Fox News host Kimberly Guilfoyle, who is dating Donald Trump Jr.
In comments downplaying the pandemic on March 7, Jeanine Pirro, offered “All the talk about coronavirus being so much more deadly [than the flu] doesn’t reflect reality.” She reiterated Trump’s comment that the infection rate will drop “as the weather warms.”
On the “Fox & Friends” program Friday, Liberty University President Jerry Falwell Jr. spun out a meandering tale advancing the baseless notion that the coronavirus was designed by North Korean and Chinese scientists to harm Americans.
The program’s three co-hosts offered no objections. Host Steve Doocy moved on to asking Falwell about Liberty’s plans to cancel classes.
Then on Sunday, Rep. Devin Nunes (R-Calif.) appeared on Fox News and urged Americans to “stop panicking” and for those who are healthy to “just go out.”
Said Nunes: “There’s a lot of concerns with the economy here because people are scared to go out. But I will just say one of the things you can do if you’re healthy, you and your family, it’s a great time to just go out, go to a local restaurant.”
Anchor Maria Bartiromo offered no response to Nunes’s comment. On Monday, a day later, Fox News contributor Nicole Saphier, a doctor, specifically called out the congressman on air to contradict his advice and told viewers to stay home.
This is a quick summation of how Faux news has become nothing more than a platform for Trumpian Propaganda.
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MakeDemonrats CryAgain
Something is Rotten and Smelling:
For weeks, Fox News’s hosts downplayed the threat of the coronavirus, calling it a conspiracy by the Main Stream Media and Democrats to undermine President Trump.
Sean Hannity and Laura Ingraham accused the news media of whipping up “mass hysteria” and being “panic pushers.” Trish Regan called the Main Stream Media response “yet another attempt to impeach the president.”
But that was then.
Monday, Trump’s declared a national emergency, Faux News immediately has quickly shifted. Hannity, suddenly the lauded the president’s handling of the “crisis.”
“Tonight, we are witnessing what will be a massive paradigm shift in the future of disease control and prevention,” he said. “A bold, new precedent is being set, the world will once again benefit greatly from America’s leadership. . . . The federal government, state governments, private businesses, top hospitals all coming together, under the president’s leadership, to stem the tide of the coronavirus.”
In a complicated dance to mimic Trump, Faux news took the same stance as the president for several weeks — that this coronavirus was no worse a threat than the seasonal flu.
Just a week ago, Hannity shrugged at the pandemic. “So far in the United States, there’s been around 30 deaths, most of which came from one nursing home in the state of Washington,” he said, “Healthy people, generally, 99 percent recover very fast, even if they contract it.” He added: “Twenty-six people were shot in Chicago alone over the weekend. I doubt you heard about it. You notice there’s no widespread hysteria about violence in Chicago. And this has gone on for years and years. By the way, Democratic-run cities, we see a lot of that.”
Ingraham, also had to flip flop as social and economic dislocation of the virus took hold. This was more than just a Democratic talking point wielded against the president.
In February, Ingraham called Democrats the “pandemic party” and displayed photos of House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) and Senate Minority Leader Charles E. Schumer (D-N.Y.) alongside enlarged images of coronavirus molecules. “How sick that these people seem almost happiest when Americans are hurting,” she said.
She kept at it showing a graphic reading “Trump confronts the panic pushers,” Ingraham said, “The public in some ways seems a lot more levelheaded than the so-called experts. . . . The facts are actually pretty reassuring, but you’d never know it watching all this stuff.”
Ingraham even tweeted that it was a “great time to fly if not in at-risk population!” The tweet was later deleted.
After Trump announced a travel ban on people from the European Union, Ingraham started calling the pandemic “this dangerous health crisis.” She characterized warnings issued by National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases head Anthony S. Fauci about the potential spread of the disease as “sobering and scary to hear.”
Regan’s on-air speculation that coronavirus was merely another impeachment gambit for Democrats drew widespread pushback. Clearly Faux was starting to get the message. Faux announced that Trish Regan would leave the air indefinitely.
Tucker Carlson too, blamed the “corrupt” media. But in a monologue he indirectly scolded Trump, he also complained that “none of our leaders helped us to take it seriously. . . . People you trust, people you probably voted for, have spent weeks minimizing what is clearly a very serious problem. It’s just partisan politics, they say. ‘Calm down. In the end, this is just like the flu and people die from that every year. Coronavirus will pass, and when it does, we will feel foolish for worrying about it.’ That’s their position. . . . But they’re wrong.”
In comments downplaying the pandemic on March 7, Jeanine Pirro, offered “All the talk about coronavirus being so much more deadly [than the flu] doesn’t reflect reality.” She reiterated Trump’s comment that the infection rate will drop “as the weather warms.”
On the “Fox & Friends”, Liberty University President Jerry Falwell Jr. spun out a meandering tale advancing the baseless notion that the coronavirus was designed by North Korean and Chinese scientists to harm Americans. Nobody tried to correct him.
Then, Rep. Devin Nunes (R-Calif.) appeared on Fox News and urged Americans to “stop panicking” and for those who are healthy to “just go out.”
Said Nunes: “There’s a lot of concerns with the economy here because people are scared to go out. But I will just say one of the things you can do if you’re healthy, you and your family, it’s a great time to just go out, go to a local restaurant.”
Anchor Maria Bartiromo offered no response to Nunes’s comment. On Monday, a day later, Fox News contributor Nicole Saphier, a doctor, specifically called out the congressman on air to contradict his advice and told viewers to stay home.
This is a quick summation of how Faux news has become nothing more than a platform for Trumpian Propaganda.
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@mikehannan8932 As For President Biden calling 1/2 Fascist, Fascist Like, Fascist Light, or Supporters of Fascism, is a correct usage of the Term. Not-C-ism, the ultimate expression of Fascism, Embraced: Authoritarianism, Racism, Xenophobia, Homophobia/Transphobia, and the Big Lie(s). Trumpism embraces all of these.
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Is Treasonous Trump is mentally ill?
Signs and symptoms of narcissistic personality disorder and the severity of symptoms vary. People with the disorder can:
Have an exaggerated sense of self-importance
Have a sense of entitlement and require constant, excessive admiration
Expect to be recognized as superior even without achievements that warrant it
Exaggerate achievements and talents
Be preoccupied with fantasies about success, power, brilliance, beauty or the perfect mate
Believe they are superior and can only associate with equally special people
Monopolize conversations and belittle or look down on people they perceive as inferior
Expect special favors and unquestioning compliance with their expectations
Take advantage of others to get what they want
Have an inability or unwillingness to recognize the needs and feelings of others
Be envious of others and believe others envy them
Behave in an arrogant or haughty manner, coming across as conceited, boastful and pretentious
Insist on having the best of everything — for instance, the best car or office
At the same time, people with narcissistic personality disorder have trouble handling anything they perceive as criticism, and they can:
Become impatient or angry when they don't receive special treatment
Have significant interpersonal problems and easily feel slighted
React with rage or contempt and try to belittle the other person to make themselves appear superior
Have difficulty regulating emotions and behavior
Experience major problems dealing with stress and adapting to change
Feel depressed and moody because they fall short of perfection
Have secret feelings of insecurity, shame, vulnerability and humiliation
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spooderdoggy
spooderdoggy
The Stock Market grew 145% under Obama -Trump is at 55%.
Unemployment dropped from 10% when Obama took office to 4.7% a drop of 5.3% - Trump has taken it from 4.7% to 3.7% a drop of 1%.
Jobs
Obama created: 1,130,000 jobs. Note Obama inherited the the Great Recession and still pulled off these numbers.
Trump created: 567,000 jobs
GDP Economic Growth
Obama: - 2.5 (2009)*, 2.6 (2010), 1.6 (2011), 2.2 (2012), 1.8 (2013), 2.5 (2014), 2.9 (2015), and 1.6 (2016)
* Obama inherited the worst recession in American History. He turned it around in one year.
Trump: 2.4 (2017), 2.9 (2018), and 2.1 (2019) estimated.
US Manufacturing Output
Obama: grew from 90.6 to 104.3 a positive change of 13.7 ($in Trillions)
Trump: grew from 104.3 to 108 a positive change of 3.7
US Business Investment
Obama: +16 (2010), +18 (2011), +20 (2013), + 7.4 (2014), +7.6 (2015) +5.4 (2016) Note: $ In Trillions
Trump: +2.5 (2017), +7.2 (2018), - .06 (2019)
So as you can see Trump has nothing to really brag about other than not tanking the economy... yet. Source of data GAO and Fed.
It was my pleasure to educate you all 🙂
🇺🇸🗽🇺🇸
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WE NOW HAVE EVIDENCE OF VOTER FRAUD AT THE HIGHEST LEVELS OF GOVERNMENT:
Mark Meadows, Trump’s last White House chief of staff, registered to vote in September of that year, listing his domicile as a rusty old mobile home in Scaly Mountain, N.C.
It seems, however, that he never bothered to live there. Voter registration forms, require you to list “where you physically live,” which one signs “under penalty of perjury.” But at the time of his registration, Meadows lived at his home near Washington, D.C.. The rules seem clear enough even for Meadows.
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@JeffBrody-w5j Great ideas can wither and die without the capital to support them. And from the earliest days, America’s uprising depended on French willingness to provide open-ended credit that enabled Deane and his partners to ship supplies to the beleaguered revolutionary forces. Ultimately, France provided about 1.3 billion livres of desperately-needed money and goods to support the rebels. Estimates suggest that at the colonists’ October 1777 victory at Saratoga, a turning point in the war, 90 percent of all American troops carried French arms, and they were completely dependent on French gunpowder.
That triumph prompted the French to open their coffers wider. Once the relationship was formalized in twin agreements early in 1778 (the Treaty of Alliance and the Treaty of Amity and Commerce), the flow of supplies soared, along with the numbers of soldiers and sailors crossing the Atlantic to fight for the American cause.
Roughly 12,000 French soldiers served the rebellion, along with some 22,000 naval personnel, aboard 63 warships. Lafayette was the one of the earliest—and most prominent —officers to join. The comte de Rochambeau, commander in chief of all French forces, played a crucial role in containing the English fleet and in the final campaigns. The comte de Grasse reinforced revolutionary forces in Virginia with French troops from Saint-Domingue (now Haiti) in the Caribbean, then dealt Britain’s navy a decisive defeat at the 1781 Battle of the Chesapeake. It would be an army led by Washington, Lafayette and Rochambeau together that struck the decisive blow at Yorktown.
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@JeffBrody-w5j During American independence celebrations, it is easy to forget the extent of French involvement in the revolutionary struggle and particularly the Battle of Yorktown. The French played an indispensable role in helping the United States gain its independence in three key areas. First, French loans, clothing, gunpowder, muskets, cannons, and provisions supplied and sustained the American Continental Army especially during its most desperate moments. Second, the United States would not have been able to win at Yorktown without French land forces led by the Comte de Rochambeau and, critically, the French fleet led by Admiral De Grasse, which eliminated any hope of British reinforcements, supplies or escape. And finally, the French military engaged the British in many other geographical arenas, most-notably the Caribbean, which diverted British resources from North America and turned the American Revolution into so costly a global war that many British politicians refused to continue it. The French contribution to American independence was therefore of great significance.
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@SteverRob “TRUMP UNFIT TO SERVE AS PRESIDENT” List of Prominent Republicans who endorse Kamala Harris:
Admiral Steve Abbot
USN (Ret.), Deputy Homeland Security Advisor, George W. Bush
Kenneth Adelman Director, Arms Control and Disarmament Agency, Reagan
Dr. Carol C. Adelman Asst. Admin., U.S. Agency for International Development, Reagan
Major General John Barry USAF (Ret.), Military Assistant to the Secretary of Defense
Richard C. Barth Asst. Secretary, Department of Homeland Security, W. Bush
Christopher Barton Director, National Security Council Staff
John Bellinger Legal Adviser, National Security Council, W. Bush
Admiral Kenneth Bernard Special Asst. to W. Bush
Mark E. Bitterman Special Asst. to the Secretary of Defense, H.W. Bush
Robert D. Blackwill Deputy National Security Advisor, W. Bush
William Bodie Asst. to the Secretary of the Air Force, W. Bush
Christian M.L. Bonat Deputy General Counsel, DOD, W. Bush & Obama
Richard Boucher Assistant Secretary of State, W. Bush
Charles W. Boustany, Jr. Former Member of Congress, Louisiana
Charles R. Bowers Ambassador to Bolivia, H.W. Bush
Greg Brower Asst. Director, FBI, Obama & Trump
Christopher Buckley Chief Speechwriter, Office of VP H.W. Bush
James R. Bullington U.S. Ambassador to Burundi, Reagan
Richard Burt U.S. Ambassador to Germany, Reagan
Gahl Hodges Burt Asst. to the Secretary of State, Reagan
Rear Admiral Fred Byus U.S. Navy (Ret.)
Jack C. Chow Deputy Asst. Secretary of State, W. Bush
James W. Cicconi Asst. to the President & Deputy to the Chief of Staff, H. W. Bush
Peggy Cifrino Deputy Chief of Staff to Secretary of State Colin Powell, W. Bush
Eliot A. Cohen Counselor of the Dept. of State, W. Bush
Benedict S. Cohen General Counsel, Dept. of the Army, W. Bush
William Cohen Secretary of Defense, Clinton, & U.S. Senator, Maine
Joseph J. Collins Deputy Asst. Secretary of Defense, W. Bush
Barbara Comstock Former Member of Congress, Virginia
Cindy Courville National Security Affairs for Africa, W. Bush
Chester A. Crocker Assistant Secretary of State, Reagan
Patrick M. Cronin Admin. U.S. Agency for International Development, W. Bush
Stephen W. DeVine Deputy Legal Advisor, National Security Council, W. Bush
Charles Djou Former Member of Congress, Hawaii
Michael Donley Secretary of the Air Force, George W. Bush & Obama
Raymond F. DuBois Secretary of the Army, George W. Bush
Martha E. Duncan Sr Executive Service, DOD, George W. Bush & Obama
Lewis A. Dunn Director, Arms Control and Disarmament Agency, Reagan
Eric S. Edelman Under Secretary of Defense, George W. Bush
Mickey Edwards Member of Congress, Oklahoma
Richard A. Falkenrath Deputy Assistant to the President, George W. Bush
Jendayi E. Frazer Ambassador to South Africa George W. Bush Administration
Aaron L. Friedber Deputy Assistant to George W. Bush
William Gaches Director of Counterterrorism, NSA, George W. Bush
Janice Gardner Assistant Secretary of the Treasury, George W. Bush
Stuart M. Gerson Attorney General of the United States, George W. Bush
James K. Glassman Under Secretary of State, George W. Bush
Jon D. Glassman Deputy National Security Advisor to George H.W. Bush
David Gordon Director, State Dept, Policy Planning, George W. Bush
Sen. Chuck Hagel Secretary of Defense, Obama, and former U.S. Senator, Nebraska
Christopher Hank Deputy Assistant Secretary of State; Reagan,Bush, & Clinton
Mark Harvey Special Assistant to the President, Trump
General Michael V. Hayden Director of the CIA & NSA, Bush & Obama
Carla Hills U.S. Trade Representative, George H.W Bush
Seth Hurwitz Counsel, President's Intelligence Oversight Board, George H.W. Bush
Peter Keisler Attorney General of the U.S., George W. Bush
James A. Kelly Secretary of State, George W. Bush
Adam Kinzinger Former Member of Congress, Illinois
Sofia Kinzinger Deputy Assistant Secretary, Dept. of Homeland Security, Trump
Kenneth J. Krieg Under Secretary of Defense, George W. Bush
James R. Kunder Deputy Administrator, U.S. Agency for International Development, Bush
Brigadier General George Landis, USA, Ret. U.S. Personnel Info Systems Command
Frank Lavin Ambassador to Singapore & Under Secretary of Commerce, George W. Bush
Peter Lichtenbaum
Former Assistant Secretary of Commerce, George W. Bush Administration
Rear Admiral David M. Lichtman, MD, USN (Ret.)
Former Commander, National Naval Medical Center, Bethesda, George H.W. Bush and Clinton Administrations
Winston Lord
Former U.S. Ambassador to China, Reagan and George H.W. Bush Administration
Steven R. Mann
Former Ambassador to Turkmenistan and Former Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary in the State Dept., Clinton and George W. Bush Administrations
Colonel John W. McDonald
Former Deputy Under Secretary of the Army
P. Michael McKinley
Former Ambassador to Peru and Acting Ambassador to the European Union and Mozambique, George W. Bush Administration; Former Ambassador to Peru, Colombia, Afghanistan, and Brazil, Obama Administration
Dan Miller
Former Member of Congress, Florida
John M. Mitnick
Former General Counsel, Dept. of Homeland Security, Trump
Allen Moore
Former Under Secretary of Commerce, Reagan
Alberto Mora
Former General Counsel, U.S. Information Agency, George H.W. Bush; Former General Counsel, Dept. of the Navy, George W. Bush
Kenneth Mortensen
Former Associate Deputy Attorney General, George W. Bush
Vice Admiral Charles L. Munns
U.S. Navy (Ret.), George W. Bush
John D. Negroponte Deputy Secretary of State, George W. Bush
Elizabeth Neumann Assistant Secretary of Homeland Security, Trump
Sean O'Keefe Secretary of the Navy, George H.W. Bush
Bill Paxon Former Member of Congress, New York
William R Piekney CIA Chief of Station, Reagan
Daniel M. Price Deputy NSA Advisor, George W. Bush
Alan Charles Raul Vice Chairman, Civil Liberties Oversight Board, George W. Bush
Victor Reis Director, DARPA, George H.W. Bush
Robert Annan Riley Ambassador to Micronesia, Trump
Paul Rosenzweig Deputy Assistant Secretary of Homeland Security, George W. Bush
Charles Rossotti Deputy Asst. Secretary of Defense; Commissioner of IRS, Clinton & Bush
Nicholas Rostow National Security Council Legal Adviser, Reagan & H.W. Bush
Kori Schake Deputy Director of Policy Planning, State Dept., W. Bush
Wayne A. Schroeder Deputy Under Secretary of Defense, W. Bush
Gregory L. Schulte Sr Director, National Security Council & Atomic Energy Agency, W. Bush
Robert Shanks Deputy Assistant AG, Reagan
Rep. Christopher Shays Former Member of Congress, Connecticut
John Simon Senior Director, National Security Council Staff, W. Bush
Stephen Slick Sr. Director, National Security Council Staff, W. Bush
Mark C. Storella U.S. Ambassador to Zambia, Obama
William H. Taft IV Deputy Secretary of Defense and Ambassador to NATO, W. Bush
Miles Taylor Chief of Staff, Dept. of Homeland Security, Trump
Larry D. Thompson Former Deputy AG, W. Bush
Jack Tomarchio Deputy Under Secretary of Homeland Security, W. Bush
Olivia Troye Special Advisor to VP Pence, Trump
Robert Tuttle U.S. Ambassador to the UK, W. Bush
John K. Veroneau Deputy U.S. Trade Rep. & Assistant Secretary of Defense, W. Bush & Clinton
Colonel Terry Virts, USAF (Ret.)
Former NASA Astronaut, Former Commander of the International Space Station
Dr. Thomas G. Ward, Jr. Director of Threats, Ballistic Missile Defense Org., Reagan & Clinton
Matthew C. Waxman Principal Deputy Director, State Dept Policy Planning, W. Bush
William H. Webster Director of the CIA & FBI, Reagan & H.W. Bush
William F. Weld Assistant Attorney General, Criminal Division, Reagan
J. Robinson West Assistant Secretary of Interior, Reagan
Wendell L. Willkie II General Counsel, Dept. of Commerce, H.W. Bush
Philip Zelikow Counselor of the Dept. of State, W. Bush
Robert B. Zoellick White House Deputy Chief of Staff, George H.W. Bush
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The Ultra Conservative New York Post gave Trump a blistering rebuke demanding that he grow up and accept his loss to President-elect Joe Biden and stop falsely claiming that mass voter fraud had marred the results — an effort the paper labeled a “dark charade.”
“We understand, Mr. President, that you’re angry that you lost,” the editorial board wrote. “But to continue down this road is treasonous.”
Under the headline “Stop the insanity,” the conservative tabloid took particular aim at Trump’s attempts to pressure Vice President Pence and congressional Republicans to somehow Throwout the result when they meet on Jan. 6 to certify Biden’s electoral college victory.
“You have tweeted that, as long as Republicans have ‘courage,’ they can overturn the results and give you four more years in office,” the Post wrote. “In other words, you’re cheering for an undemocratic coup.”
The article also reminded Trump that he had clearly failed in his attempts to prove voter fraud propelled Biden to victory.
“You had every right to investigate the election. But let’s be clear: Those efforts have found nothing,” the Post wrote, noting that Trump-backed recounts in Wisconsin and Georgia had turned up no evidence of malfeasance.
The editorial also lashed out at Sidney Powell, whose “Kraken” lawsuits seeking to overturn the election results have repeatedly been tossed out of court, and Michael Flynn, the former national security adviser who has floated the idea of declaring martial law to keep Trump in power.
“Michael Flynn suggesting martial law is tantamount to treason. It is shameful.”
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Anthony S
Indranil "Neil" Chatterjee[1] is an American lawyer, political advisor, and government official who is currently serving as Chairman of the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission.[2] Prior to assuming his current role, he served as a member of the Commission.
Neil Chatterjee
Chairman of the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission
Chatterjee previously served as energy policy advisor to United States Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell.[3][4][5]
Chatterjee was confirmed by the United States Senate as a member of the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission on August 3, 2017. On August 10, 2017, President Donald Trump designated Chatterjee as chairman of FERC.[8] On December 7, 2017, Kevin J. McIntyre succeeded Chatterjee as the chairman of FERC. On October 24, 2018, President Donald Trump again designated Chatterjee as Chairman of the Commission.[9]
Having a president who puts unqualified loyalists as department heads has consequences.
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This is the type of people who support Treasonous Trump:
Rep. Rodney Garcia, a state lawmaker in Montana, told a roomful of Republicans he believes the U.S. Constitution says socialists can be jailed or shot simply for being socialists. Garcia initially made the statement at an election event, then he reiterated it to a Billings Gazette reporter.
Garcia’s inflammatory assertion first came Friday night, after former interior secretary Ryan Zinke gave a speech at the party event in Helena. According to reporting from the Gazette, Garcia said he was concerned there were socialists “everywhere” in Billings, which he represents in House District 52.
Billings Gazette reporter Holly Michels later asked Garcia to clarify his remarks, and the lawmaker doubled down.
“So actually in the Constitution of the United States, [if you] are found guilty of being a socialist member you either go to prison or are shot,” Garcia told Michels.
Garcia was not able to say where he finds that in the Constitution, the Billings Gazette reported.
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Late Friday night, minutes before deplaning in Florida for the holidays, President Trump retweeted a link to an article in which Russian President Vladimir Putin defended him against impeachment.
“A total Witch Hunt!” the president tweeted at 10:30 p.m., as he shared a 36-hour-old Associated Press tweet that read: “BREAKING: Russian President Vladimir Putin says U.S. President Donald Trump’s impeachment is far-fetched and predicts the U.S. Senate will reject it.”
Trump’s boasting of Putin’s support comes a day after The Washington Post reported that White House advisers feared Trump’s belief that Ukraine, not Russia, was responsible for interfering with the 2016 election was spurred by conversations Trump had with Putin.
Trump’s critics responded to the tweet, expressing exasperation more than incredulity.
“At the end of the day, it’s always Putin First,” wrote conservative commentator and “Never Trumper” Bill Kristol.
Russian President Vladimir Putin accused the U.S. House of Representatives Dec. 19 of having "invented" a story to "revise" history and impeach President Trump. (Reuters)
“Trump wants us to know that Putin has his back. We know,” tweeted Eric Columbus, a former Justice Department appointee in the Obama administration.
“Putin is a dictator who jails opponents, kills opponents, invades neighbors, interferes in democracies’ elections, etc. I don’t think an American president should be buddying with him. I wonder if Trump defenders are ever (secretly) embarrassed by this stuff. I hope so,” wrote Jay Nordlinger, a senior editor at the right-leaning National Review.
At his annual end-of-the-year news conference on Thursday, Putin was asked about Trump’s impeachment. He called the charges “completely fabricated reasons.”
That evening, Russian state media, which follows Putin’s lead, also threw its support behind Trump.
Donald Trump is the third president in U.S. history to face a Senate trial. (The Washington Post)
Popular Kremlin propagandist Vladimir Soloviev gave an impassioned defense of Trump on his evening show, raising his voice several times in a discussion with Atlantic Council expert Ariel Cohen.
“I can’t understand for what reason [Democrats] don’t like Trump,” Soloviev said.
Days earlier, on his two-hour Sunday night program, anchor Dmitry Kiselyov opined about how Hollywood has joined the Democrats in being against Trump, portraying him as “always on the dark side.”
And the state-sponsored Rossiya-1 news channel, which airs Soloviev’s show, recently broadcast segments of Rudolph W. Giuliani’s interview with right-wing channel One America News, in which the president’s personal attorney promoted debunked conspiracy theories about Ukrainian interference in the 2016 U.S. presidential election.
colby.itkowitz@washpost.com
Khurshudyan reported from Moscow.
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Yet even as Trump lied to his rallygoers’ faces, we learned that the White House counsel has ordered two top Trump advisers to defy subpoenas for testimony to the Judiciary Committee, which is considering articles of impeachment against Trump, while sharply limiting a third former adviser’s testimony to the panel.
Which raises a question: If the case against Trump’s corruption were so weak, then why would Trump and the White House have to go to such extraordinary lengths to stonewall Congress’ ability to exercise its most basic and fundamental oversight authority?
This juxtaposition will be on full display on Tuesday afternoon, when former Trump campaign manager Corey Lewandowski testifies to the Judiciary Committee. The White House has placed sharp limits on what Lewandowski can discuss, ordering him to discuss only what’s in the Mueller report, and not to discuss any private communications that go beyond this.
[Lewandowski ‘excited’ about defending Trump in congressional hearing Tuesday]
Liberals and conservatives share basic common values, but leaders like Donald Trump use fear to exploit their differences for political gain. Abigail Marsh, a psychology and neuroscience professor at Georgetown University, analyzes the slippery slope between protecting your in-group and attacking the out-group. (Joshua Carroll/The Washington Post; Danielle Kunitz/The Washington Post; Kate Woodsome/The Washington Post)
At the same time, the White House has also directed two others to refuse questioning: former White House secretary Rob Porter, and former Trump campaign adviser and White House deputy chief of staff Rick Dearborn.
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WHEN GOOD PEOPLE DON’T ACT, EVIL REIGNS:
How did the trans-Atlantic slave trade play out over hundreds of years?
How did slavery thrive in this country?
How was the Holocaust allowed to happen?
How did the genocides in Rwanda or Darfur come to be?
It turns out that our current era is providing the unsettling answer: It was easy. As Edmund Burke said: “The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.” If you don’t complain, you condone.
Gather the energy. Gather your neighbor. Fight, vote, email, post. Do all you can to stand up for the vulnerable, for the oppressed, for our Constitution, and for our Democratic Values. Don’t let history record this moment as it has recorded too many others: a time when good people did too little to confront the wickedness and disaster of Trumpian Neo Nazism. In November America has a clear choice, do nothing to confront Trumpian Evil, or vote to sweep the Evil out of office and began the long painful process of Restoring Our Democracy and Democratic Institutions.
As Edmund Burke wrote: “When bad men combine, the good must associate; else they will fall, one by one, an unpitied sacrifice in a contemptible struggle.”
But you may be more familiar with another quote often attributed to Burke: “The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.”
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JARED KUSHNER HAS CREATED A SHELL COMPANY TO FUNNEL CAMPAIGN CASH TO FAMILY MEMBERS.
Donald Trump and his family have spent the last four years making the airtight case that they view the presidency as simply a means to enrich themselves and their associates. They probably don’t particularly like that reputation and, yet, it hasn’t stopped them from funneling taxpayer money to their private business, gouging the Secret Service, and raising legal defense funds that the fine print says could go directly to their pockets. Oh, and, according to a new report, setting up a shell company that spent hundreds of millions of campaign dollars to pay Trump family members along with other expenditures it seemingly wanted to keep under wraps.
According to Business Insider, first son-in-law Jared Kushner personally approved the creation of the company, incorporated as American Made Media Consultants Corp. and American Made Media Consultants LLC, in April 2018. From there, Eric Trump’s wife, Lara Trump, was named president, with Mike Pence’s nephew John Pence serving as vice president. If you’re wondering why the shell company, described as Business Insider as acting “almost like a campaign within a campaign” was necessary, well, it’s not entirely clear, but it sure sounds like the express purpose was the ability to shield “financial and operational details from public scrutiny,” as it allowed the campaign to avoid federally mandated disclosures concerning what it was spending considerable amounts of money on. And by considerable we mean nearly half of the $1.26 billion raised for Trump’s reelection.
Campaign-finance records showed Trump's reelection effort and its affiliated committee with the RNC spent more than $600 million through American Made Consultants since its formation. For months, some of Trump’s top advisers and campaign staff told Insider they had no idea how the shell company functioned, which cast an air of mystery around the operation…. Some of those same advisers said they didn’t learn about John Pence’s and Lara Trump’s involvement until Insider contacted them for this story.
Campaign-law experts have long accused the Trump team of using a corporate pass-through to hide payments. The nonpartisan Campaign Legal Center, led by former Republican Federal Election Commission Chairman Trevor Potter, filed a civil complaint with the FEC in July accusing the Trump campaign of “disguising” about $170 million worth of campaign spending in large part “by laundering the funds” through AMMC. Brendan Fischer, the Campaign Legal Center’s director of federal reform, said the payments to AMMC were a “scheme to evade telling voters even the basics on where its money is really going” and a “shield to disguise the ultimate recipients of its spending.”
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Sharing polling data
(VOLUME I, PP. 130-131, 140)
Throughout his time as the Trump campaign chairman, Paul Manafort stayed in touch with a Russian man named Konstantin Kilimnik, whom, according to the Mueller report, “the F.B.I. assesses to have ties to Russian intelligence.” Mr. Gates, Mr. Manafort’s deputy, believed Mr. Kilimnik to be a “spy.” — a view, the report says, that he shared with Mr. Manafort.
While managing the campaign, Mr. Manafort told Mr. Gates to share “internal polling data” private to the campaign with Mr. Kilimnik, so he could share it with Ukrainian oligarchs and a Russian oligarch. Mr. Gates sent Mr. Kilimnik the data regularly, deleting the WhatsApp messages after he did so. In an in-person meeting with Mr. Kilimnik, Mr. Manafort shared more information about the campaign’s election plans and polling, including information about “battleground states” that would be key to Mr. Trump’s election.
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@mesolithicman164
Alexander Solzhenitsyn said it best:
Live Not By Lies
* I will not henceforth write, sign, or print in any way a single phrase which distorts the truth.
* I will not depict, foster or broadcast a single idea which he can only see is false or a distortion of the truth whether it be in painting, sculpture, photography, technical science, or music.
* I will not cite out of context, either orally or written, a single quotation so as to please someone, to feather his own nest, to achieve success in his work, if he does not share completely the idea which is quoted, or if it does not accurately reflect the matter at issue.
* I will not allow myself to be dragged to a meeting where there can be expected a forced or distorted discussion of a question.
* I Will immediately talk out of a meeting, session, lecture, performance or film showing if he hears a speaker tell lies, or purvey ideological nonsense or shameless propaganda.
* I will not subscribe to or buy a newspaper or magazine in which information is distorted and primary facts are concealed.
My point in providing the above is that you lament the state of journalism yet you are listing to Tucker Carlson, one of the absolute worst cases of Rightwing Lies & Propaganda? Because of this I find your words of concern ringing a little shallow, can you explain?
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2 Timothy 3:1-17
“But understand this, that in the last days there will come times of difficulty. For people will be lovers of self, lovers of money, proud, arrogant, abusive, disobedient to their parents, ungrateful, unholy, heartless, unappeasable, slanderous, without self-control, brutal, not loving good, treacherous, reckless, swollen with conceit, lovers of pleasure rather than lovers of God, having the appearance of godliness, but denying its power. Avoid such people. ... “
Turn away from Trump, Hanity, Tucker and embrace the Lord.
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Trump touts Putin’s speaking out against his impeachment
A souvenir shop in Moscow displays Matryoshka dolls featuring President Trump and Russian President Vladimir Putin. (Misha Friedman/AFP/Getty Images)
By Colby Itkowitz and Isabelle Khurshudyan
December 21 at 10:31 AM MT
Late Friday night, minutes before deplaning in Florida for the holidays, President Trump retweeted a link to an article in which Russian President Vladimir Putin defended him against impeachment.
“A total Witch Hunt!” the president tweeted at 10:30 p.m., as he shared a 36-hour-old Associated Press tweet that read: “BREAKING: Russian President Vladimir Putin says U.S. President Donald Trump’s impeachment is far-fetched and predicts the U.S. Senate will reject it.”
Trump’s boasting of Putin’s support comes a day after The Washington Post reported that White House advisers feared Trump’s belief that Ukraine, not Russia, was responsible for interfering with the 2016 election was spurred by conversations Trump had with Putin.
[[Former White House officials say they feared Putin influenced the president’s views on Ukraine and 2016 campaign]]
Trump’s critics responded to the tweet, expressing exasperation more than incredulity.
“At the end of the day, it’s always Putin First,” wrote conservative commentator and “Never Trumper” Bill Kristol.
Russian President Vladimir Putin accused the U.S. House of Representatives Dec. 19 of having "invented" a story to "revise" history and impeach President Trump. (Reuters)
“Trump wants us to know that Putin has his back. We know,” tweeted Eric Columbus, a former Justice Department appointee in the Obama administration.
“Putin is a dictator who jails opponents, kills opponents, invades neighbors, interferes in democracies’ elections, etc. I don’t think an American president should be buddying with him. I wonder if Trump defenders are ever (secretly) embarrassed by this stuff. I hope so,” wrote Jay Nordlinger, a senior editor at the right-leaning National Review.
At his annual end-of-the-year news conference on Thursday, Putin was asked about Trump’s impeachment. He called the charges “completely fabricated reasons.”
[[Putin stays in Trump’s corner on impeachment]]
That evening, Russian state media, which follows Putin’s lead, also threw its support behind Trump.
Donald Trump is the third president in U.S. history to face a Senate trial. (The Washington Post)
Popular Kremlin propagandist Vladimir Soloviev gave an impassioned defense of Trump on his evening show, raising his voice several times in a discussion with Atlantic Council expert Ariel Cohen.
“I can’t understand for what reason [Democrats] don’t like Trump,” Soloviev said.
Days earlier, on his two-hour Sunday night program, anchor Dmitry Kiselyov opined about how Hollywood has joined the Democrats in being against Trump, portraying him as “always on the dark side.”
And the state-sponsored Rossiya-1 news channel, which airs Soloviev’s show, recently broadcast segments of Rudolph W. Giuliani’s interview with right-wing channel One America News, in which the president’s personal attorney promoted debunked conspiracy theories about Ukrainian interference in the 2016 U.S. presidential election.
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@nathanpartridge3565 Face the obvious, everything said about Treasonous Trump was True, from Igor Danchenko, Steele, Mueller, House Intel, Senate Intel, CIA, DIA, FBI, NSA, etc.
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Rip Cord Face the obvious, everything said about Treasonous Trump was True, from Igor Danchenko, Steele, Mueller, House Intel, Senate Intel, CIA, DIA, FBI, NSA, etc.
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@caseyfreeman3994 Face the obvious, Treasonous Trump Colluded with Russian Spies. The overwhelming evidence from Igor Danchenko, Steele, Mueller, House Intel, Senate Intel, CIA, DIA, FBI, NSA, etc. prove it.
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@guyguyver7552 TOP 10 States For Drug Deaths
West Virginia: 41.5 per 100,000 people
New Hampshire: 34.3 per 100,000 people
Kentucky: 29.9 per 100,000 people
Ohio: 29.9 per 100,000 people
Rhode Island: 28.2 per 100,000 people
Pennsylvania: 26.3 per 100,000 people
Massachusetts: 25.7 per 100,000 people
New Mexico: 25.3 per 100,000 people
Utah: 23.4 per 100,000 people
Tennessee: 22.2 per 100,000 people
WHY SO MANY RED STATES?
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@skullthumper8646
Don't take my word for watch for yourself. Take note every time you are told you are a Victim of reverse discrimination, jobs, cancel culture, war on Christmas, censorship, war on religion, war on conservatives, liberal programing of kids at schools, Hollywood war on conservatives, war on guns, etc., etc., etc., the victimization perceived by the rightwing is a very long list. You all are literally professional victims.
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“No simple Form of Government, can possibly secure Men against the Violences of Power. Simple Monarchy will soon mould itself into Despotism, Aristocracy will soon commence an Oligarchy, and Democracy, will soon degenerate into an Anarchy, such an Anarchy that every Man will do what is right in his own Eyes, and no Mans life or Property or Reputation or Liberty will be secure and every one of these will soon mould itself into a system of subordination of all the moral Virtues, and Intellectual Abilities, all the Powers of Wealth, Beauty, Wit, and Science, to the wanton Pleasures, the capricious Will, and the execrable Cruelty of one or a very few.”
~ John Adams Cautions against Trumpian Neo Nazism.
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WHEN GOOD PEOPLE DON’T ACT, EVIL REIGNS:
How did the trans-Atlantic slave trade play out over hundreds of years?
How did slavery thrive in this country?
How was the Holocaust allowed to happen?
How did the genocides in Rwanda or Darfur come to be?
It turns out that our current era is providing the unsettling answer: It was easy. As Edmund Burke said: “The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.” If you don’t complain, you condone.
Gather the energy. Gather your neighbor. Fight, vote, email, post. Do all you can to stand up for the vulnerable, for the oppressed, for our Constitution, and for our Democratic Values. Don’t let history record this moment as it has recorded too many others: a time when good people did too little to confront the wickedness and disaster of Trumpian Neo Nazism. In November America has a clear choice, do nothing to confront Trumpian Evil, or vote to sweep the Evil out of office and began the long painful process of Restoring Our Democracy and Democratic Institutions.
As Edmund Burke wrote: “When bad men combine, the good must associate; else they will fall, one by one, an unpitied sacrifice in a contemptible struggle.”
But you may be more familiar with another quote often attributed to Burke: “The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.”
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WASHINGTON — Lt. Col. Alexander S. Vindman, the top Ukraine expert on the National Security Council, told House impeachment investigators on Tuesday that the White House transcript of a July call between President Trump and Ukraine’s president omitted crucial words and phrases, and that his attempts to include them failed, according to three people familiar with the testimony.
The omissions, Colonel Vindman said, included Mr. Trump’s assertion that there were recordings of former Vice President Joseph R. Biden Jr. discussing Ukraine corruption, and an explicit mention by Ukraine’s president, Volodymyr Zelensky, of Burisma Holdings, the energy company whose board employed Mr. Biden’s son Hunter.
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@JobyPanachickal
a. Trump Campaign Promotion of IRA Political Materials
Among the U.S. “leaders of public opinion” targeted by the IRA were various members and surrogates of the Trump Campaign. In total, Trump Campaign affiliates promoted dozens of tweets, posts, and other political content created by the IRA.
- Posts from the IRA-controlled Twitter account @TEN_GOP were cited or retweeted by multiple Trump Campaign officials and surrogates, including Donald J. Trump Jr.,96 Eric
96 See, e.g., @DonaldJTrumpJr 10/26/16 Tweet (“RT @TEN_GOP: BREAKING Thousands of names changed on voter rolls in Indiana. Police investigating #VoterFraud. #DrainTheSwamp.”); @DonaldJTrumpJr 11/2/16 Tweet (“RT @TEN_GOP: BREAKING: #VoterFraud by counting tens of thousands of ineligible mail in Hillary votes being reported in Broward County, Florida.”); @DonaldJTrumpJr 11/8/16 Tweet (“RT @TEN_GOP: This vet passed away last month before he could vote for Trump. Here he is in his #MAGA hat. #voted #ElectionDay.”). Trump Jr. retweeted additional @TEN_GOP content subsequent to the election.
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Trump,97KellyanneConway,98BradParscale,99andMichaelT.Flynn.100 Thesepostsincluded allegations of voter fraud,101 as well as allegations that Secretary Clinton had mishandled classified information.102
- A November 7, 2016 post from the IRA-controlled Twitter account @Pamela_Moore13 was retweeted by Donald J. Trump Jr.103
- On September 19, 2017, President Trump’s personal account @realDonaldTrump responded to a tweet from the IRA-controlled account @10_gop (the backup account of @TEN_GOP, which had already been deactivated by Twitter). The tweet read: “We love you, Mr. President!”104
IRA employees monitored the reaction of the Trump Campaign and, later, Trump Administration officials to their tweets. For example, on August 23, 2016, the IRA- controlled persona “Matt Skiber” Facebook account sent a message to a U.S. Tea Party activist, writing that “Mr. Trump posted about our event in Miami! This is great!”105 The IRA employee included a screenshot of candidate Trump’s Facebook account, which included a post about the August 20, 2016 political rallies organized by the IRA.
Screenshot of Trump Facebook Account (from Matt Skiber)
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@JobyPanachickal
e. Donald Trump Jr. Interaction with WikiLeaks
Donald Trump Jr. had direct electronic communications with WikiLeaks during the campaign period. On September 20, 2016, an individual named Jason Fishbein sent WikiLeaks the password for an unlaunched website focused on Trump’s “unprecedented and dangerous” ties
245 During the same interview, Corsi also suggested that he may have sent out public tweets because he knew Assange was reading his tweets. Our Office was unable to find evidence of any such tweets.
246 Corsi 9/21/18 302, at 6-7.
247 Corsi 11/1/18 302, at 6.
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to Russia, PutinTrump.org.252 WikiLeaks publicly tweeted: “‘Let’s bomb Iraq’ Progress for America PAC to launch “PutinTrump.org’ at 9:30am. Oops pw is ‘putintrump’ putintrump.org.” Several hours later, WikiLeaks sent a Twitter direct message to Donald Trump Jr., “A PAC run anti-Trump site putintrump.org is about to launch. The PAC is a recycled pro-Iraq war PAC. We have guessed the password. It is ‘putintrump.’ See ‘About’ for who is behind it. Any comments?”253
Several hours later, Trump Jr. emailed a variety of senior campaign staff:
Guys I got a weird Twitter DM from wikileaks. See below. I tried the password and it works and the about section they reference contains the next pic in terms of who is behind it. Not sure if this is anything but it seems like it’s really wikileaks asking me as I follow them and it is a DM. Do you know the people mentioned and what the conspiracy they are looking for could be? These are just screen shots but it’s a fully built out page claiming to be a PAC let me know your thoughts and if we want to look into it.254
Trump Jr. attached a screenshot of the “About” page for the unlaunched site PutinTrump.org. The next day (after the website had launched publicly), Trump Jr. sent a direct message to WikiLeaks: “Off the record, I don’t know who that is but I’ll ask around. Thanks.”255
On October 3, 2016, WikiLeaks sent another direct message to Trump Jr., asking “you guys” to help disseminate a link alleging candidate Clinton had advocated using a drone to target Julian Assange. Trump Jr. responded that he already “had done so,” and asked, “what’s behind this Wednesday leak I keep reading about?”256 WikiLeaks did not respond.
On October 12, 2016, WikiLeaks wrote again that it was “great to see you and your dad talking about our publications. Strongly suggest your dad tweets this link if he mentions us wlsearch.tk.”257 WikiLeaks wrote that the link would help Trump in “digging through” leaked emails and stated, “we just released Podesta emails Part 4.”258 Two days later, Trump Jr. publicly tweeted the wlsearch.tk link.259
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@Toph378
Eastman admitted to Jacob that Trump’s Electors Coup would lose on the merits in the Supreme Court: “When I pressed him on the point, I said ‘John, if the vice president did what you were asking him to do, we would lose 9-0 in the Supreme Court, wouldn’t we?’ And he initially started at, ‘Well, I think maybe you would lose only 7-2,' and after some further discussion, acknowledged, ‘Well, yeah, you’re right, we would lose 9-0.’ ... [He] ultimately acknowledged that, no, we would lose 9-0 — no judge would support his argument.”
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Matt Kennel
And China is only a small fraction of Trump’s business conflicts of interests. According to Eric Trump, by his own words in a golf magazine interview:
"I said, 'Eric, who’s funding? I know no banks that have touched a golf course. You know, no one’s funding any kind of golf construction. It’s dead in the water the last four or five years.”
"And this is what he said. He said, 'Well, we don’t rely on American banks. We have all the funding we need out of Russia.' I said, 'Really?' And he said, 'Oh, yeah. We’ve got some great connections in Russia and are guys that really, really, invested in our company. We go there all the time.’"
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@Demona27
And China is only a small fraction of Trump’s business conflicts of interests. According to Eric Trump, by his own words in a golf magazine interview:
"I said, 'Eric, who’s funding? I know no banks that will touch a golf course. You know, no one’s funding any kind of golf construction. It’s dead in the water the last four or five years.”
"And this is what he said. He said, 'Well, we don’t rely on American banks. We have all the funding we need out of Russia.' I said, 'Really?' And he said, 'Oh, yeah. We’ve got some great connections in Russia and they are guys that are really, really, invested in our company. We go there all the time.’"
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@ladylestranj
And China is only a small fraction of Trump’s business conflicts of interests. According to Eric Trump, by his own words in a golf magazine interview:
"I said, 'Eric, who’s funding? I know no banks that will touch a golf course. You know, no one’s funding any kind of golf construction. It’s dead in the water the last four or five years.”
"And this is what he said. He said, 'Well, we don’t rely on American banks. We have all the funding we need out of Russia.' I said, 'Really?' And he said, 'Oh, yeah. We’ve got some great connections in Russia and they are guys that are really, really, invested in our company. We go there all the time.’"
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Didn’t think I needed to spell it out for you but you obviously need the help. China is but a fraction of Trump’s business interests, the bulk being in the U.S. This makes the Tax Disparity even more interesting. Trump owes over a $100 million to CCP Controlled Banks. Trump owes around $250 million to Russian Controlled Oligarchs, and another $75 million to offshore banks that have yet to be sourced. But if you don’t believe me, take Eric Trump at his word in a golf magazine interview:
"I said, 'Eric, who’s funding? I know no banks that will touch a golf course. You know, no one’s funding any kind of golf construction. It’s dead in the water the last four or five years.”
"And this is what he said. He said, 'Well, we don’t rely on American banks. We have all the funding we need out of Russia.' I said, 'Really?' And he said, 'Oh, yeah. We’ve got some great connections in Russia and they are guys that are really, really, invested in our company. We go there all the time.’"
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@georgeyarbrough88 Well George, let us dissect your response:
1. Treasonous Trump and Russia - it is a proven fact that TT & his close associates sought the help from and accepted help from Russian Spies. There are 32 documented such meetings. “Russia if you’re listening” or "My people came to me. Dan Coats came to me, and some others," Trump said. "They said they think it's Russia. I have President Putin. He just said it's not Russia. I will say this: I don't see any reason why it would be." Sources: TT’s own mouth, The Mueller Report, The House Intel Report, The Senate Intel Report, the CIA, NSA, FBI, & DIA Reports.
2. TT & Kremlin Controlled Bank - The suspicious high volume of internet traffic was confirmed by Durham & Sussman was found Not Guilty of lying to Durham. Please tell me how this report did anything other than confirm what we knew?
3. Democrats leaked information is usually 100% false - what has been proven false? Nothing! The only thing not confirmed on TT is the so called P P tape. Once again I refer you to the Mueller Report, House Intel Report, Senate Intel Report, CIA, FBI, NSA, and the DIA Reports. And now we have the new FBI Report on Stolen Secret Documents. If TT doesn’t work for the Russians then the only conclusion left is that TT is the biggest Moron in the World.
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DRAIN THE SWAMP
These days, the Milken Institute is a leading proponent of a new federal tax break that was intended to coax wealthy investors to plow money into distressed communities known as “opportunity zones.” The institute’s leaders have helped push senior officials in the Trump administration to make the tax incentive more generous, even though it is under fire for being slanted toward the wealthy.
Mr. Milken, it turns out, is in a position to personally gain from some of the changes that his institute has urged the Trump administration to enact. In one case, the Treasury secretary, Steven Mnuchin, directly intervened in a way that benefited Mr. Milken, his longtime friend.
It is a vivid illustration of the power that Mr. Milken, who was barred from the securities industry and fined $600 million as part of his 1990 felony conviction, has amassed in President Trump’s Washington. In addition to the favorable tax-policy changes, some of Mr. Trump’s closest advisers — including Mr. Mnuchin, Jared Kushner and Rudolph W. Giuliani — have lobbied the president to pardon Mr. Milken for his crimes, or supported that effort, according to people familiar with the effort.
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@adrianestrada9799
Ghost guns are unserialized and untraceable firearms that can be bought online and assembled at home. They are often sold through "ghost gun kits," which include ALL of the parts and often the equipment necessary to build these weapons at home. These kits are widely available and can be purchased by anyone, including prohibited purchasers, domestic abusers, and gun traffickers — without a background check.
Ghost guns are constructed by individuals using unfinished frames or receivers, the piece of the firearm that contains the operating parts of the firing mechanism, and which are the part of the gun regulated under federal law. However, when a frame or receiver is “unfinished” by a small fraction, it is unregulated. Ghost gun kits include all of the necessary component parts to turn the unfinished frame or receiver into a fully functioning gun, which once assembled looks, feels, and functions like a traditional gun, whether a handgun or assault weapon, and is just as deadly and dangerous in the wrong hands.
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Treasonous Trump picks only the best people:
Mr. VanDyke’s accomplishments are offset by the assessments of interviewees that Mr. VanDyke is arrogant, lazy, an ideologue, and lacking in knowledge of the day-to- day practice including procedural rules. There was a theme that the nominee lacks humility, has an “entitlement” temperament, does not have an open mind, and does not always have a commitment to being candid and truthful.
When a majority of your colleges say you are arrogant, lazy, ideological, and lacking knowledge, you have a problem nominee.
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James Brice
In the movie Chancy Gardner is a simpleton, but everyone is desperate to ascribe some level of genius in his words or actions. Trump’s actions with the media play out much the same way with his fan boy club. In truth, Trump really is that corrupt, that loose of a cannon, that prone to say horrible and unpresidential things. However, there is no grand strategy, no insight, no master plan other than chaos.
An example: When this story first broke Trump claimed he never said it or did it. Then it changed to “ I was pressuring the Ukraine to curb corruption”. Then it changed to “I held the money up because Europe was not paying their share”. A person with a grand strategy would have had a consistent story from the start.
In summary Trump really is a simple Trump. He really is the person he is as reported by the Main Stream Media. If you like who he is with his flaws of racism, lying, corrupt inclinations, Alt Fascism, narcissism, Adulterous behavior, etc. Then man up and claim him and acknowledge your own inclinations.
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Trump’s budget is a tremendous fraud.
Remember when he said he would eliminate the federal debt, or at least halve it, during his presidency? His new budget adds another $3.4 trillion by 2024 to the debt on top of the $3 trillion Trump has already added.
Remember when he repeatedly promised not to “touch” Social Security and Medicare? His budget calls for removing $550 billion dollars of funding from the Medicare program, including $135 billion from Medicare prescription drugs, and tens of billions from the Social Security program.
Remember when he promised not to touch Medicaid? Now he wants to cut it by $920 billion.
Remember when he was going to give Americans health care “much better” than Obamacare. But he has proposed no such thing and now his budget calls for cutting spending on the program by $844 billion.
Remember when he vowed that his tax cuts would grow the economy by 4 percent, 5 percent or even 6 percent? Last year it grew at 2.3 percent, and his new budget, even with the rosiest of assumptions, projects 2.8 percent for this year - in other words little changed from Obama’s growth rates. Yet the budget would also devote another $1.4 trillion to extending those tax cuts, primarily for the rich.
Oh, and remember when he said Mexico would pay for the Wall - Treasonous Trump Con Man Extraordinaire.
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deanerhar
The cost of Trump’s Golf Trips tops $628,000 to U.S. Tax Payers.
President Trump’s company charged the Secret Service $157,000 more than was previously known — billing taxpayers for rooms at his clubs at rates far higher than his company has claimed, according to a new trove of receipts and billing documents released by the Secret Service. When added to dozens of charges already reported by The Washington Post, the new documents show that Trump’s company has charged the Secret Service more than $628,000 since he took office in 2017.
Yet another Trumpian Lie Exposed.
“If my father travels, they stay at our properties for free — meaning, like, cost for housekeeping,” said Eric Trump, the company’s executive vice president. Later in the interview, he said, “We charge them, like, 50 bucks.” Said Eric Trump.
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Trump Aide Has Mental Melt Down On Facebook.
Michael R. Caputo told his audience that left-wing hit squads were being trained for insurrection and accused C.D.C. scientists of “sedition.” He complained that he was under siege by the news media, feeling paranoid, and that his “mental health was failing.” He accused the CDC of harboring a “secret resistance unit” determined to undermine President Trump.
Mr. Caputo, who lead efforts to warp C.D.C. weekly bulletins to fit Mr. Trump’s pandemic narrative, suggested that he personally could be in danger from opponents of the administration. “If you carry guns, buy ammunition, ladies and gentlemen, because it’s going to be hard to get,” he urged his followers. “I don’t like being alone in Washington,” Mr. Caputo said, describing “shadows on the ceiling in my apartment, there alone, shadows are so long.” He also said the mounting number of Covid-19 deaths was taking a toll on him, telling his viewers, “You are not waking up every morning and talking about dead Americans. But you should attend Trump rallies and wear a mask”.
SOUNDS LIKE TRUMP ONLY HIRES THE BEST PEOPLE 🤪🤪🤪🤪
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“Saudi Arabia is paying for 100 percent of the cost, including the cost of our soldiers. The negotiation took a very short time — like, maybe, about 35 seconds.”
The Truth:
What caught our attention is that the president claims that Saudi Arabia will pay all of the costs — “100 percent” — of the deployment, including “the cost of our soldiers.” Some critics have charged that Trump is turning U.S. troops into mercenaries, available to the highest bidder. Since the president has a long history of inflating what he has supposedly negotiated, we thought we would investigate.
Notice that Trump claims he negotiated this deal in a “very short time — like, maybe, about 35 seconds.” In previous White Houses we have covered, such a stunning act of negotiation would be accompanied by readouts by presidential aides, eager to explain how such a coup came about.
But, in this case, just crickets from the White House, except for the bragging by the president himself. White House officials would not explain what Trump meant.
So, we checked with the Pentagon for more details on the supposed payment arrangement. Officials at the Defense Department deflected our inquiry, telling us to contact the State Department.
Hmmm, experience has taught us that this is a sign that any such deal is still under negotiation. Otherwise, the Pentagon would have been happy to discuss it.
Sure enough, we ended up with a carefully crafted statement from State that certainly reinforced that impression.
The core of the statement, attributed to a State Department spokesman, said: “While we will not comment on specific bilateral defense agreements, more broadly the United States encourages burden-sharing among partners in support of shared security interests, to include defense of the Arabian Gulf.”
Notice the “encourages burden-sharing” language. That certainly sounds like an aspiration, not a negotiated outcome. And the State Department won’t comment on a “specific bilateral defense agreement” even though the president is talking about it? That doesn’t make much sense.
We checked with the relevant committees in the House and the Senate — Defense, Foreign Affairs and Appropriations — and none could report an understanding of the president’s claim. The Saudi Embassy did not respond with an explanation, either.
When NBC News reported in July that U.S. troops were being dispatched to Prince Sultan Air Base, it quoted unnamed U.S. officials as saying that “Saudi Arabia has already agreed to pay some of the costs associated with having U.S. personnel and assets there.”
“Some” is clearly much less than 100 percent.
Neither the Pentagon nor the State Department would comment on that language, each telling The Fact Checker to discuss it with the other agency.
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Tony Pinto
I do remember that Treasonous Trump an Epstein used to Party a lot together. Check out below:
WASHINGTON — It was supposed to be an exclusive party at Mar-a-Lago, Donald J. Trump’s members-only club in Palm Beach, Fla. But other than the two dozen or so girls flown in to provide the entertainment, the only guests were Mr. Trump and Jeffrey Epstein.
The year was 1992 and the event was a “calendar girl” competition, something that George Houraney, a Florida-based businessman who ran American Dream Enterprise, had organized at Mr. Trump’s request.
“I arranged to have some contestants fly in,” Mr. Houraney recalled in an interview on Monday. “At the very first party, I said, ‘Who’s coming tonight? I have 28 girls coming.’ It was him and Epstein.”
Mr. Houraney, who had just partnered with Mr. Trump to host events at his casinos, said he was surprised. “I said, ‘Donald, this is supposed to be a party with V.I.P.s. You’re telling me it’s you and Epstein?’”
Do you think TT had Epstein “suicided” to keep Jeffrey quite? TT did control Barr and Barr controlled the prisons.
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King Dumb Good ole Tucker Carlson, Laura Ingraham, Sean Hannity, Elise Stefanik, MJT, DJT, Paul Gosar, Matt Gaetz, Ron Johnson, Gym Jordan, Etc. have filled this disturbed kid full of lies and hate.
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Eastman admitted to Jacob that Trump’s Electors Coup would lose on the merits in the Supreme Court: “When I pressed him on the point, I said ‘John, if the vice president did what you were asking him to do, we would lose 9-0 in the Supreme Court, wouldn’t we?’ And he initially started at, ‘Well, I think maybe you would lose only 7-2,' and after some further discussion, acknowledged, ‘Well, yeah, you’re right, we would lose 9-0.’ ... [He] ultimately acknowledged that, no, we would lose 9-0 — no judge would support his argument.”
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What is happening is not a coup, or even an attempt at a coup but a ham-handed effort to discredit the election outcome by any crackpot method available to sooth Trump’s ego. Scholars of real coups in other countries say that Trump has few of the ingredients necessary to pull off a coup — the international community despises him, the nation’s main media is still independent, an the armed forces think Trump is a joke. However, Trump is set to successfully pursue a slow-motion “con game,” pleading for donations by playing his supporters. He’s also crafting a “Stab in the Back” myth in hopes of returning to the WH in 2024.There is a fundamental difference between between a coup and a con. A coup is an illegitimate power grab by force. A con is a mostly criminal, unethical, or manipulative act. A con can become a coup if the con is successful — if enough people buy into the con then a Coup has occurred.
Though Trump will fail in his coup - this time - the fact that his fellow Republicans tacitly approved of his methods, or looked the other way dramatically weakens our Democratic Institutions. As Trump continues to spew crazy conspiracies, half truths, and outright lies more and more Republican voters will drift into delusion and violence.
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@Kelvin Blackstone
JARED KUSHNER HAS CREATED A SHELL COMPANY TO FUNNEL CAMPAIGN CASH TO FAMILY MEMBERS.
Donald Trump and his family have spent the last four years making the airtight case that they view the presidency as simply a means to enrich themselves and their associates. They probably don’t particularly like that reputation and, yet, it hasn’t stopped them from funneling taxpayer money to their private business, gouging the Secret Service, and raising legal defense funds that the fine print says could go directly to their pockets. Oh, and, according to a new report, setting up a shell company that spent hundreds of millions of campaign dollars to pay Trump family members along with other expenditures it seemingly wanted to keep under wraps.
According to Business Insider, first son-in-law Jared Kushner personally approved the creation of the company, incorporated as American Made Media Consultants Corp. and American Made Media Consultants LLC, in April 2018. From there, Eric Trump’s wife, Lara Trump, was named president, with Mike Pence’s nephew John Pence serving as vice president. If you’re wondering why the shell company, described as Business Insider as acting “almost like a campaign within a campaign” was necessary, well, it’s not entirely clear, but it sure sounds like the express purpose was the ability to shield “financial and operational details from public scrutiny,” as it allowed the campaign to avoid federally mandated disclosures concerning what it was spending considerable amounts of money on. And by considerable we mean nearly half of the $1.26 billion raised for Trump’s reelection.
Campaign-finance records showed Trump's reelection effort and its affiliated committee with the RNC spent more than $600 million through American Made Consultants since its formation. For months, some of Trump’s top advisers and campaign staff told Insider they had no idea how the shell company functioned, which cast an air of mystery around the operation…. Some of those same advisers said they didn’t learn about John Pence’s and Lara Trump’s involvement until Insider contacted them for this story.
Campaign-law experts have long accused the Trump team of using a corporate pass-through to hide payments. The nonpartisan Campaign Legal Center, led by former Republican Federal Election Commission Chairman Trevor Potter, filed a civil complaint with the FEC in July accusing the Trump campaign of “disguising” about $170 million worth of campaign spending in large part “by laundering the funds” through AMMC. Brendan Fischer, the Campaign Legal Center’s director of federal reform, said the payments to AMMC were a “scheme to evade telling voters even the basics on where its money is really going” and a “shield to disguise the ultimate recipients of its spending.”
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How'sIt Going?
Define new information. For example, the Gov. of Georgia “discovered” on last Thursday that people can be contagious many days before becoming symptomatic - information anyone not living in a cave has known since mid February. A lie, a deflection, stupidity, or all the before? Or Trump, “It’s. Hoax”, “It will disappear”, “We have 15 soon we will have none”, “We have it contained, I wouldn’t say air tight, but almost air tight”. Lies, incompetence, deflection, stupidity, or all the before?
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r4ng3rownz8
DRAIN THE SWAMP - HOW MUCH ICREAM CAN YOU BUY WITH A BILLION DOLLARS?
Trump’s company has received at least $970,000 from U.S. taxpayers for room rentals.
The U.S. government has paid at least $970,000 to President Trump’s company since Trump took office — including payments for more than 1,600 nightly room rentals at Trump’s hotels and clubs, according to federal records obtained.
Since March, The Post has catalogued an additional $340,000 in such payments. They were all related to trips taken by Trump, his family and his top officials. The government is known to have paid full price for rooms for staffers and Secret Service agents to accompany the president.
The payments create an unprecedented business relationship between the president’s private company and his government — which began in the first month of Trump’s presidency records show.
The records show that taxpayers have now paid for the equivalent of more than four years’ worth of nightly rentals at Trump properties, including 950 nights at Trump’s golf club in Bedminster, N.J., and 530 nights at the president’s Mar-a-Lago Club in Florida, according to analysis.
Who needs a pay check when you can get nearly a Billion Dollars in guaranteed business from the government - DRAIN THE SWAMP!
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Hack Prine
DEMOCRACY IS IN DECLINE AROUND THE WORLD - AND TRUMP IS PART OF THE PROBLEM.
The Freedom House Annual report on the health of global democracy warned of its decline. In its survey evaluating 195 countries and 15 territories, Freedom House, a nongovernmental, nonpartisan advocacy organization established in 1941, found that political freedoms and civil liberties across the world are backsliding more often than they are improving.
“Democracy is under assault,” read the opening sentence of its report, written by Sarah Repucci. “Dictators are toiling to stamp out the last vestiges of domestic dissent and spread their harmful influence to new corners of the world.”
The usual suspects remain among the worst offenders. Freedom House decried China for its “totalitarian offensive” in Xinjiang and other campaigns of repression, and it warned of Beijing’s “relentless campaign to replace existing international norms with its own authoritarian vision.” It pointed to Russia’s “stage-managed elections” in 2019, in which the genuine opposition was largely shut out. Iran’s leadership, even as it sowed “discord” in neighboring countries, deployed security forces that used live ammunition to crush demonstrations last fall, killing hundreds of people.
But perhaps more disquieting is the steady erosion seen in “established democracies,” more than two dozen of which have seen net losses in their democracy rankings.
“Many freely elected leaders are dramatically narrowing their concerns to a blinkered interpretation of the national interest,” wrote Repucci. “In fact, such leaders — including the chief executives of the United States and India, the world’s two largest democracies — are increasingly willing to break down institutional safeguards and disregard the rights of critics and minorities as they pursue their populist agendas.”
President Trump is a key part of this story. Freedom House’s report, titled “A Leaderless Struggle for Democracy,” highlighted the “pressure” Trump is exerting “on electoral integrity, judicial independence, and safeguards against corruption” in the United States.
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FOR8YESHUA
DRAIN THE SWAMP - HOW MUCH ICREAM CAN YOU BUY WITH A BILLION DOLLARS?
Trump’s company has received at least $970,000 from U.S. taxpayers for room rentals.
The U.S. government has paid at least $970,000 to President Trump’s company since Trump took office — including payments for more than 1,600 nightly room rentals at Trump’s hotels and clubs, according to federal records obtained.
Since March, The Post has catalogued an additional $340,000 in such payments. They were all related to trips taken by Trump, his family and his top officials. The government is known to have paid full price for rooms for staffers and Secret Service agents to accompany the president.
The payments create an unprecedented business relationship between the president’s private company and his government — which began in the first month of Trump’s presidency records show.
The records show that taxpayers have now paid for the equivalent of more than four years’ worth of nightly rentals at Trump properties, including 950 nights at Trump’s golf club in Bedminster, N.J., and 530 nights at the president’s Mar-a-Lago Club in Florida, according to analysis.
Who needs a pay check when you can get nearly a Billion Dollars in guaranteed business from the government - DRAIN THE SWAMP!
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TBill
U.S. Confirmed Covid19 🦠 cases 401,636, Recovered 22,476, Deaths 12,905.
Our president:
“It’s a Hoax”
“We did a beautiful job and have contained, not air tight, but I will say air tight”
“We have 15 cases soon we will have none”
“We contained it, no one could have done it better”
“It’s no worse than the flu”
“It will soon disappear”
OMG “It’s a National Emergency”, “I knew it was a Pandemic before it was called a Pandemic”
Yes indeed, our president, a purveyor of truth and shinning example of competence.
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A day before rioters stormed Congress, an FBI office in Virginia issued an explicit internal warning that extremists were preparing to travel to Washington to commit violence and “war,” according to an FBI internal document. A situational information report approved for release the day before the U.S. Capitol riot painted a dire portrait of dangerous plans, including individuals sharing a map of the complex’s tunnels, and possible rally points for would-be conspirators to meet up. “As of 5 January 2021, FBI Norfolk received information indicating calls for violence in response to ‘unlawful lockdowns’ to begin on 6 January 2021 in Washington. D.C.,” the document says. “An online thread discussed specific calls for violence to include stating ‘Be ready to fight. Congress needs to hear glass breaking, doors being kicked in, and blood being spilled. Get violent. Stop calling this a march, or rally, or a protest. Go there ready for war. Our President wants us to do this. NOTHING else will achieve this goal.”
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WASHINGTON — It was supposed to be an exclusive party at Mar-a-Lago, Donald J. Trump’s members-only club in Palm Beach, Fla. But other than the two dozen or so women flown in to provide the entertainment, the only guests were Mr. Trump and Jeffrey Epstein.
The year was 1992 and the event was a “calendar girl” competition, something that George Houraney, a Florida-based businessman who ran American Dream Enterprise, had organized at Mr. Trump’s request.
“I arranged to have some contestants fly in,” Mr. Houraney recalled in an interview on Monday. “At the very first party, I said, ‘Who’s coming tonight? I have 28 girls coming.’ It was him and Epstein.”
Mr. Houraney, who had just partnered with Mr. Trump to host events at his casinos, said he was surprised. “I said, ‘Donald, this is supposed to be a party with V.I.P.s. You’re telling me it’s you and Epstein?’”
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On Wednesday, the White House attempted to retroactively justify a tweet that President Trump issued over the weekend in which he warned, erroneously, that Alabama would be affected by Hurricane Dorian.
In a White House video released Wednesday, Trump displays a modified National Hurricane Center “cone of uncertainty” forecast, dated from 11 a.m. on Aug. 29, indicating Alabama would in fact be affected. The graphic appears to have been altered with a Sharpie to indicate a risk the storm would move into Alabama from Florida.
“We had, actually, our original chart was that it was going to be hit — hitting Florida directly,” Trump said as he displayed the graphic from Aug. 29, which now includes an added appendage extending the cone into Alabama.
Asked about the altered hurricane forecast chart at a White House event on opioids Wednesday afternoon, Trump said his briefings included a “95 percent chance probability” that Alabama would be hit. When asked whether the chart had been drawn on, Trump said: “I don’t know; I don’t know.”
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@shelleyrusk2479
Because the FBI found it to be fake. Is Hunter as slimy as Eric, Jr, Ivanka, and Jared... more than likely. But just like with the Trump family, probably is not good enough, we must have reasonable cause to investigate, we must find evidence to convict, and we must convince a jury or a judge beyond a reasonable doubt. You should read some good articles on the Hunter “lap top” BS, I would suggest anything written by NYT, WAPO, or POLITICO. These are solid investigative journalist papers.
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Trump Aide Has Mental Melt Down On Facebook.
Michael R. Caputo told his audience that left-wing hit squads were being trained for insurrection and accused C.D.C. scientists of “sedition.” He complained that he was under siege by the news media, feeling paranoid, and that his “mental health was failing.” He accused the CDC of harboring a “secret resistance unit” determined to undermine President Trump.
Mr. Caputo, who lead efforts to warp C.D.C. weekly bulletins to fit Mr. Trump’s pandemic narrative, suggested that he personally could be in danger from opponents of the administration. “If you carry guns, buy ammunition, ladies and gentlemen, because it’s going to be hard to get,” he urged his followers. “I don’t like being alone in Washington,” Mr. Caputo said, describing “shadows on the ceiling in my apartment, there alone, shadows are so long.” He also said the mounting number of Covid-19 deaths was taking a toll on him, telling his viewers, “You are not waking up every morning and talking about dead Americans. But you should attend Trump rallies and wear a mask”.
SOUNDS LIKE TRUMP ONLY HIRES THE BEST PEOPLE 🤪🤪🤪🤪
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@darthkek1953
Eastman admitted to Jacob that Trump’s Electors Coup would lose on the merits in the Supreme Court: “When I pressed him on the point, I said ‘John, if the vice president did what you were asking him to do, we would lose 9-0 in the Supreme Court, wouldn’t we?’ And he initially started at, ‘Well, I think maybe you would lose only 7-2,' and after some further discussion, acknowledged, ‘Well, yeah, you’re right, we would lose 9-0.’ ... [He] ultimately acknowledged that, no, we would lose 9-0 — no judge would support his argument.”
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shaunbir klair
On Fox News, suddenly a very different tune about the coronavirus.
For weeks, some of Fox News’s hosts downplayed the threat of the coronavirus, characterizing it as a conspiracy by media organizations and Democrats to undermine President Trump.
Sean Hannity and Laura Ingraham accused the news media of whipping up “mass hysteria” and being “panic pushers.” Trish Regan called the Main Stream Media response “yet another attempt to impeach the president.”
But that was then.
When Trump’s declared a national emergency, the tone on Fox News has quickly shifted. Hannity, suddenly the lauded the president’s handling of what the host is now, belatedly, referring to as a “crisis.”
“Tonight, we are witnessing what will be a massive paradigm shift in the future of disease control and prevention,” he said. “A bold, new precedent is being set, the world will once again benefit greatly from America’s leadership. . . . The federal government, state governments, private businesses, top hospitals all coming together, under the president’s leadership, to stem the tide of the coronavirus.”
In a complicated dance to mirror the president, Trump’s allies on Fox News took the same stance as the president for several weeks — that this coronavirus that had sickened and killed thousands of people in China was no worse a threat than the seasonal flu.
Just a week ago, Hannity shrugged at the pandemic. “So far in the United States, there’s been around 30 deaths, most of which came from one nursing home in the state of Washington,” he said, “Healthy people, generally, 99 percent recover very fast, even if they contract it.”
By way of comparison, he added: “Twenty-six people were shot in Chicago alone over the weekend. I doubt you heard about it. You notice there’s no widespread hysteria about violence in Chicago. And this has gone on for years and years. By the way, Democratic-run cities, we see a lot of that.”
Ingraham, also had a fast-dawning recognition that the social and economic dislocation of the virus was more than just a Democratic talking point wielded against the president.
In late February, Ingraham called Democrats the “pandemic party” and displayed photos of House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) and Senate Minority Leader Charles E. Schumer (D-N.Y.) alongside enlarged images of coronavirus molecules. “How sick that these people seem almost happiest when Americans are hurting,” she said.
She kept at it through last Tuesday when, in front of a graphic reading “Trump confronts the panic pushers,” Ingraham said, “The public in some ways seems a lot more levelheaded than the so-called experts. . . . The facts are actually pretty reassuring, but you’d never know it watching all this stuff.”
On Friday, Ingraham tweeted that it was a “great time to fly if not in at-risk population!” The tweet was later deleted.
By Wednesday, after Trump announced a travel ban on people from the European Union, Ingraham had started calling the pandemic “this dangerous health crisis.” She characterized warnings issued by National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases head Anthony S. Fauci about the potential spread of the disease as “sobering and scary to hear.”
Regan’s on-air speculation at the start of last week that coronavirus was merely another impeachment gambit for Democrats drew widespread pushback. Clearly the mood was changing at Fox by the time the network announced late Friday that her discussion-and-commentary program on Fox Business would leave the air indefinitely.
Tucker Carlson too, blamed the “corrupt” media. But in a monologue that many took at an indirect scolding of the president, he also complained that “none of our leaders helped us to take it seriously. . . . People you trust, people you probably voted for, have spent weeks minimizing what is clearly a very serious problem. It’s just partisan politics, they say. ‘Calm down. In the end, this is just like the flu and people die from that every year. Coronavirus will pass, and when it does, we will feel foolish for worrying about it.’ That’s their position. . . . But they’re wrong.”
Days earlier, Carlson attended the birthday party of former Fox News host Kimberly Guilfoyle, who is dating Donald Trump Jr.
In comments downplaying the pandemic on March 7, Jeanine Pirro, offered “All the talk about coronavirus being so much more deadly [than the flu] doesn’t reflect reality.” She reiterated Trump’s comment that the infection rate will drop “as the weather warms.”
On the “Fox & Friends” program Friday, Liberty University President Jerry Falwell Jr. spun out a meandering tale advancing the baseless notion that the coronavirus was designed by North Korean and Chinese scientists to harm Americans.
The program’s three co-hosts offered no objections. Host Steve Doocy moved on to asking Falwell about Liberty’s plans to cancel classes.
Then on Sunday, Rep. Devin Nunes (R-Calif.) appeared on Fox News and urged Americans to “stop panicking” and for those who are healthy to “just go out.”
Said Nunes: “There’s a lot of concerns with the economy here because people are scared to go out. But I will just say one of the things you can do if you’re healthy, you and your family, it’s a great time to just go out, go to a local restaurant.”
Anchor Maria Bartiromo offered no response to Nunes’s comment. On Monday, a day later, Fox News contributor Nicole Saphier, a doctor, specifically called out the congressman on air to contradict his advice and told viewers to stay home.
This is a quick summation of how Faux news has become nothing more than a platform for Trumpian Propaganda.
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FAILURE IN AMERICA ON A TRUMPIAN SCALE:
Nearly every country has struggled to contain the coronavirus and made mistakes along the way.
China silenced doctors and allowed the virus to escape Wuhan, much of Europe went next, failing to avoid and contain enormous outbreaks. Today, many countries — Japan, Canada, France, Australia and more — are coping with new increases in cases after reopening parts of society.
But one country stands alone, as the only affluent nation to have suffered a severe, sustained outbreak for more than four months: the United States. In just the past month over 1.9 million Americans have tested positive for the virus. That’s more than five times as many as in all of Europe, Canada, Japan, South Korea and Australia, combined. The United States also has the highest number of Deaths 157,000 from the virus far out pacing all other countries. Brazil is the only country competing with the United States for complete failure in containing the virus.
What does the United States & Brazil have in common? Trumpian Politics.
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Trump, Pence, and Barr:
There are six things that the LORD strongly dislikes, seven that are an abomination to him: haughty eyes, a LYING TONGUE, and hands that shed innocent blood, a HEART that devises WICKED plans, FEET that make haste to run to evil, a false witness who BREATHES out LIES, and ONE who sows DISCORD among brothers.
— Proverbs 6:16–19
Trump, Pence, and Barr repent and return to the Lord.
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Trump has made more than $150 million dollars off of back stage “V.I.P. package” sold for more than $7,500, a $75 picture book, a multimillion-dollar advance by a new publishing company co-founded by his eldest son, Make America Great Again” hats for $50 each — a $20 markup from the price currently offered by his political action committee — with all proceeds going to a Trump-owned company.
Now wife, Melania, has gotten into the act, too, auctioning off online collectibles and scheduling her own big-ticket event in Naples this April, a “tulips and topiaries high tea,” with V.I.P. packages reaching $50,000 and an undisclosed portion going to charity. In addition to the above the Trump PAC has raised close to $300 million dollars with zero limitations as to how the money can be spent including personal use.
For Mr. Trump, the monetization of his post-presidency represents a return to his roots. He expertly leveraged his celebrity as the host of “The Apprentice” and his image as a decisive businessman to build credibility when he first entered politics. Now, he is executing the same playbook, only in reverse: converting a political following that provided hundreds of millions of dollars in small campaign contributions into a base of consumers for all things branded Trump.
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A day before rioters stormed Congress, an FBI office in Virginia issued an explicit internal warning that extremists were preparing to travel to Washington to commit violence and “war,” according to an FBI internal document. A situational information report approved for release the day before the U.S. Capitol riot painted a dire portrait of dangerous plans, including individuals sharing a map of the complex’s tunnels, and possible rally points for would-be conspirators to meet up. “As of 5 January 2021, FBI Norfolk received information indicating calls for violence in response to ‘unlawful lockdowns’ to begin on 6 January 2021 in Washington. D.C.,” the document says. “An online thread discussed specific calls for violence to include stating ‘Be ready to fight. Congress needs to hear glass breaking, doors being kicked in, and blood being spilled. Get violent. Stop calling this a march, or rally, or a protest. Go there ready for war. Our President wants us to do this. NOTHING else will achieve this goal.”
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Inquisitive One
I voted for every Republican, starting with Ford all the way to Bush Jr (The first time) - as former military I highly resented Bush Jr’s lies leading up to the Iraq War. But Treasonous Trump was never a consideration, I despised Hilary, thought she was slimy, etc. But Treasonous Trump? I never had any doubt that he was a Con Man, an absolutely horrible person, an Fn Moron, and dangerous to America. The Republican Party has lost its soul, its morals, its principles, and its collective mind in subscribing to the Cult of Treasonous Trump. I felt Treasonous Trump was so dangerous to America that I voted for Hilary and repressed my gag reflexes.
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Federal prosecutors in New York on Thursday unsealed criminal charges against Stephen K. Bannon, President Trump’s former chief strategist, and three other men they alleged defrauded hundreds of thousands of donors using an online crowdfunding campaign that was advertised as raising money to build a wall on the U.S. border with Mexico.
In a news release, prosecutors said Bannon and another organizer of the campaign, Air Force veteran Brian Kolfage, claimed that they would not take any compensation as part of the campaign, called “We Build The Wall,” but that was a lie. Bannon, prosecutors alleged, received more than $1 million through a non-profit he controlled, and Kolfage received more than $350,000.
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Tony Pinto
On Fox News, suddenly a very different tune about the coronavirus.
For weeks, some of Fox News’s hosts downplayed the threat of the coronavirus, characterizing it as a conspiracy by media organizations and Democrats to undermine President Trump.
Sean Hannity and Laura Ingraham accused the news media of whipping up “mass hysteria” and being “panic pushers.” Trish Regan called the Main Stream Media response “yet another attempt to impeach the president.”
But that was then.
When Trump’s declared a national emergency, the tone on Fox News has quickly shifted. Hannity, suddenly the lauded the president’s handling of what the host is now, belatedly, referring to as a “crisis.”
“Tonight, we are witnessing what will be a massive paradigm shift in the future of disease control and prevention,” he said. “A bold, new precedent is being set, the world will once again benefit greatly from America’s leadership. . . . The federal government, state governments, private businesses, top hospitals all coming together, under the president’s leadership, to stem the tide of the coronavirus.”
In a complicated dance to mirror the president, Trump’s allies on Fox News took the same stance as the president for several weeks — that this coronavirus that had sickened and killed thousands of people in China was no worse a threat than the seasonal flu.
Just a week ago, Hannity shrugged at the pandemic. “So far in the United States, there’s been around 30 deaths, most of which came from one nursing home in the state of Washington,” he said, “Healthy people, generally, 99 percent recover very fast, even if they contract it.”
By way of comparison, he added: “Twenty-six people were shot in Chicago alone over the weekend. I doubt you heard about it. You notice there’s no widespread hysteria about violence in Chicago. And this has gone on for years and years. By the way, Democratic-run cities, we see a lot of that.”
Ingraham, also had a fast-dawning recognition that the social and economic dislocation of the virus was more than just a Democratic talking point wielded against the president.
In late February, Ingraham called Democrats the “pandemic party” and displayed photos of House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) and Senate Minority Leader Charles E. Schumer (D-N.Y.) alongside enlarged images of coronavirus molecules. “How sick that these people seem almost happiest when Americans are hurting,” she said.
She kept at it through last Tuesday when, in front of a graphic reading “Trump confronts the panic pushers,” Ingraham said, “The public in some ways seems a lot more levelheaded than the so-called experts. . . . The facts are actually pretty reassuring, but you’d never know it watching all this stuff.”
On Friday, Ingraham tweeted that it was a “great time to fly if not in at-risk population!” The tweet was later deleted.
By Wednesday, after Trump announced a travel ban on people from the European Union, Ingraham had started calling the pandemic “this dangerous health crisis.” She characterized warnings issued by National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases head Anthony S. Fauci about the potential spread of the disease as “sobering and scary to hear.”
Regan’s on-air speculation at the start of last week that coronavirus was merely another impeachment gambit for Democrats drew widespread pushback. Clearly the mood was changing at Fox by the time the network announced late Friday that her discussion-and-commentary program on Fox Business would leave the air indefinitely.
Tucker Carlson too, blamed the “corrupt” media. But in a monologue that many took at an indirect scolding of the president, he also complained that “none of our leaders helped us to take it seriously. . . . People you trust, people you probably voted for, have spent weeks minimizing what is clearly a very serious problem. It’s just partisan politics, they say. ‘Calm down. In the end, this is just like the flu and people die from that every year. Coronavirus will pass, and when it does, we will feel foolish for worrying about it.’ That’s their position. . . . But they’re wrong.”
Days earlier, Carlson attended the birthday party of former Fox News host Kimberly Guilfoyle, who is dating Donald Trump Jr.
In comments downplaying the pandemic on March 7, Jeanine Pirro, offered “All the talk about coronavirus being so much more deadly [than the flu] doesn’t reflect reality.” She reiterated Trump’s comment that the infection rate will drop “as the weather warms.”
On the “Fox & Friends” program Friday, Liberty University President Jerry Falwell Jr. spun out a meandering tale advancing the baseless notion that the coronavirus was designed by North Korean and Chinese scientists to harm Americans.
The program’s three co-hosts offered no objections. Host Steve Doocy moved on to asking Falwell about Liberty’s plans to cancel classes.
Then on Sunday, Rep. Devin Nunes (R-Calif.) appeared on Fox News and urged Americans to “stop panicking” and for those who are healthy to “just go out.”
Said Nunes: “There’s a lot of concerns with the economy here because people are scared to go out. But I will just say one of the things you can do if you’re healthy, you and your family, it’s a great time to just go out, go to a local restaurant.”
Anchor Maria Bartiromo offered no response to Nunes’s comment. On Monday, a day later, Fox News contributor Nicole Saphier, a doctor, specifically called out the congressman on air to contradict his advice and told viewers to stay home.
This is a quick summation of how Faux news has become nothing more than a platform for Trumpian Propaganda.
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The Trumpian 2020 Disinformation War:
Treasonous Trump's team is presiding over a sophisticated, multimillion-dollar digital operation, an operation that carries his propaganda across just about every digital platform available. This propaganda push results in the most extensive disinformation campaign in U.S. history.
COPPINS: That's exactly...
KELLY: ...Type of ads.
Trump Campaign Manager, Brad Pascal and the Republican National Committee and Trump campaign actually have 3,000 data points on almost every voter in America, and they use those data points to determine how exactly to pitch their message. So a message, for example, on defunding Planned Parenthood might not go over well in certain parts of the country, but if you microtarget it to 800 pro-life women in Dubuque, Iowa, it's going to get a positive result. And that's how they kind of have waged their campaign.
The Trump campaign micro targeted ads to black voters in Florida with an ad that said, Hillary thinks African Americans are super-predators. And the goal was not even really to win over black voters. It was to depress black turnout in Florida.
Another example was the impeachment battle. The Trump campaign was pumping out disinformation at an alarming rate. Of course you would always expect a certain amount of partisan spin but the Trump Campaign was taking spin to an alarming level. You could watch the impeachment proceedings on TV, and see what was pretty damning testimony about the president's conduct. And then later in the day the Trump Campaign would put out a Fox News and Facebook feed that would totally recast what had happened that day in completely different terms. In fact, even at times, the Trump campaign would create videos that were supercuts of the same testimony and make look like something completely different.
With this kind of daily propaganda fed to Trump supporters it very hard for them to grasp reality. In the end, it erodes their confidence in our democratic institutions. It erodes their ability to sort out fact from fiction. And it actually makes it harder for conservatives to compete in the marketplace of ideas because reality doesn't exist as a regulating force.
The Republicans, and especially the Trump campaign, are much more sophisticated, much more advanced and, so far, have been more - for lack of a better word - shameless.
Please for the sake of our Democracy please get out of your conservative propaganda Bubble Loop. Your children and mine will all suffer with what you do and believe from theses Propaganda Sources.
May God Bless and Spare America.
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EVERYTHING TRUMP ALWAYS COMES UP RUSSIA:
Trump Is a Con Man, but He’s Also a Mark.Corrupt forces find it easy to manipulate this president.
Kenneth McCallion is a New York lawyer who once represented former Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko of Ukraine. A few years ago, he brought a civil racketeering lawsuit on her behalf against some now familiar figures like Paul Manafort and the Ukrainian oligarch Dmitry Firtash. He knows a lot about corruption in Ukraine, and he said that earlier this year F.B.I. counterintelligence investigators approached him for information about Rudy Giuliani’s Ukrainian activities.
By then, McCallion had already been hearing strange things about what Lev Parnas and Igor Fruman, whom we now know as Giuliani’s close associates, were doing in Ukraine.
Parnas and Fruman, both American citizens born in the former Soviet Union, aren’t ordinary political operatives. Parnas has long been a low-level grifter. Fruman owns an Odessa beach club called Mafia Rave, and a joint investigation by the Organized Crime and Corruption Reporting Project and BuzzFeed News found ties between him and an Odessa organized crime figure named Volodymyr Galanternik, known as “Light Bulb.”
The duo first appeared on the American political scene in 2015 as enthusiastic supporters of Donald Trump. They became big-dollar donors to a number of Republicans; their Instagram accounts would soon fill up with photos of party elites. Then, this year, McCallion learned they were poking around Ukrainian politics, where they were spreading conspiracy theories that Ukraine, not Russia, had interfered in America’s election in 2016.
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Question: "What does the Bible say about a person who is a sociopath / psychopath?"
Answer: The terms sociopath and psychopath do not appear in the Bible. However, the Bible does mention behaviors that are characteristic of sociopathic and psychopathic.
A sociopath or psychopath is identified as one who is characterized by extreme self-centeredness and immaturity, shallow emotions, a lack of empathy and remorse, low tolerance for stress, cold-heartedness, superficial charm, irresponsibility, impulsivity, criminality, a parasitic lifestyle and a desire to manipulate others. A psychopath is one who compulsively performs criminally selfish acts with no apparent conscience or concern about the welfare of his victims.
The above is a perfect description of Trump and Newt. Return to the Lord, repent and turn away from sin and false prophets.
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WASHINGTON — Lt. Col. Alexander S. Vindman, the top Ukraine expert on the National Security Council, told House impeachment investigators on Tuesday that the White House transcript of a July call between President Trump and Ukraine’s president omitted crucial words and phrases, and that his attempts to include them failed, according to three people familiar with the testimony.
The omissions, Colonel Vindman said, included Mr. Trump’s assertion that there were recordings of former Vice President Joseph R. Biden Jr. discussing Ukraine corruption, and an explicit mention by Ukraine’s president, Volodymyr Zelensky, of Burisma Holdings, the energy company whose board employed Mr. Biden’s son Hunter.
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A LIST OF COMPANIES OR INSTITUTIONS TRUMP HAS BANKRUPTED OR RUINED:
Trump Taj Mahal, the Trump Castle, the Trump Plaza Atlantic City, the Trump Plaza New York, Trump Hotels and Casino Resorts, Trump Entertainment Resorts, the Trump Tower Tampa, the Trump Shuttle, Trump: The Game, Trump magazine, Trump Mortgage, Trump Steaks, Trump mattresses, Trump pillows, Trump perfume, Trump shirts, Trump underwear, Trump shoes, Trump eyeglasses, Trump University, Trump Vodka, the Trump Foundation and the U.S. Treasury.
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Trump: Campaign shifted money into indebted private business, Forbes
Trump has shifted money raised from campaign donors into the Trump Organization, according to documents from the Federal Election Committee (FEC) seen by Forbes.
He moved around $2.8 million into his private businesses throughout the duration of his presidency, Forbes's Dan Alexander reported.
Trump funneled an additional $81,000 into the Trump Organization after his election loss, the magazine said.
The payments were made public in the filings the campaign submitted to the FEC and were liest to cover costs including rent, airfare, lodging, and other expenses.
One of the campaign's joint-fundraising committees, associated with the Republican Party, also moved an estimated $4.3 million of donor money into his private business during his presidential term, according to Forbes.
Read more: 10 huge hits to Trump's business from the pandemic that may be permanent.
The joint-fundraising committee also paid around $300,000 towards Trump's hotel chain in the week following the former president's election loss, the Independent reported.
Around $40,000 was handed over from the campaign to Trump Tower Commercial LLC, a company which the former president owns a stake in, in December, the paper said.
This isn't the first time it has been reported that Trump transferred campaign money to his private businesses.
In July, The Washington Post's David Fahrenthold reported that Trump's campaign sent nearly $400,000 to the Trump Organization in just two days.
Documents showed that the campaign channeled $380,000 to the president's personal business in 43 transactions, Fahrenthold said.
This comes when the former president is said to be looking for ways to cash in on his post-presidency to address potentially huge debt.
The Trump Organization owes $400 million, according to Forbes.
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Trump Lies, Again, and Again, and Again...
“Saudi Arabia is paying for 100 percent of the cost, including the cost of our soldiers. The negotiation took a very short time — like, maybe, about 35 seconds.”
The Truth:
What caught our attention is that the president claims that Saudi Arabia will pay all of the costs — “100 percent” — of the deployment, including “the cost of our soldiers.” Some critics have charged that Trump is turning U.S. troops into mercenaries, available to the highest bidder. Since the president has a long history of inflating what he has supposedly negotiated, we thought we would investigate.
Notice that Trump claims he negotiated this deal in a “very short time — like, maybe, about 35 seconds.” In previous White Houses we have covered, such a stunning act of negotiation would be accompanied by readouts by presidential aides, eager to explain how such a coup came about.
But, in this case, just crickets from the White House, except for the bragging by the president himself. White House officials would not explain what Trump meant.
So, we checked with the Pentagon for more details on the supposed payment arrangement. Officials at the Defense Department deflected our inquiry, telling us to contact the State Department.
Hmmm, experience has taught us that this is a sign that any such deal is still under negotiation. Otherwise, the Pentagon would have been happy to discuss it.
Sure enough, we ended up with a carefully crafted statement from State that certainly reinforced that impression.
The core of the statement, attributed to a State Department spokesman, said: “While we will not comment on specific bilateral defense agreements, more broadly the United States encourages burden-sharing among partners in support of shared security interests, to include defense of the Arabian Gulf.”
Notice the “encourages burden-sharing” language. That certainly sounds like an aspiration, not a negotiated outcome. And the State Department won’t comment on a “specific bilateral defense agreement” even though the president is talking about it? That doesn’t make much sense.
We checked with the relevant committees in the House and the Senate — Defense, Foreign Affairs and Appropriations — and none could report an understanding of the president’s claim. The Saudi Embassy did not respond with an explanation, either.
When NBC News reported in July that U.S. troops were being dispatched to Prince Sultan Air Base, it quoted unnamed U.S. officials as saying that “Saudi Arabia has already agreed to pay some of the costs associated with having U.S. personnel and assets there.”
“Some” is clearly much less than 100 percent.
Neither the Pentagon nor the State Department would comment on that language, each telling The Fact Checker to discuss it with the other agency.
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Shark Cat
Though The Uranium One deal smelled of traditional Clinton sliminess it is hard to say she pedaled influence for Foundation donations. The NYT had a good article at the Time. However, this article in No Way Excuses or Exonerates Treasonous Trump and his Rampant Corruption and Selling Out America to Putin or Erdogan.
NYT Excerpts:
As the Russians gradually assumed control of Uranium One in three separate transactions from 2009 to 2013, Canadian records show, a flow of cash made its way to the Clinton Foundation. Uranium One’s chairman used his family foundation to make four donations totaling $2.35 million. Those contributions were not publicly disclosed by the Clintons, despite an agreement Mrs. Clinton had struck with the Obama White House to publicly identify all donors. Other people with ties to the company made donations as well.
And shortly after the Russians announced their intention to acquire a majority stake in Uranium One, Mr. Clinton received $500,000 for a Moscow speech from a Russian investment bank with links to the Kremlin that was promoting Uranium One stock.
Whether the donations played any role in the approval of the uranium deal is unknown. But the episode underscores the special ethical challenges presented by the Clinton Foundation, headed by a former president who relied heavily on foreign cash to accumulate $250 million in assets even as his wife helped steer American foreign policy as secretary of state, presiding over decisions with the potential to benefit the foundation’s donors.
In a statement, Brian Fallon, a spokesman for Mrs. Clinton’s presidential campaign, said no one “has ever produced a shred of evidence supporting the theory that Hillary Clinton ever took action as secretary of state to support the interests of donors to the Clinton Foundation.” He emphasized that multiple United States agencies, as well as the Canadian government, had signed off on the deal and that, in general, such matters were handled at a level below the secretary. “To suggest the State Department, under then-Secretary Clinton, exerted undue influence in the U.S. government’s review of the sale of Uranium One is utterly baseless,” he added.
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“I no longer recognize my party”
Why Hundreds of Thousands of Republicans Are Leaving the Crazed Party
Voting registration data indicates a strong and unusual flight from the G.O.P. since the Capitol riot, with an intensely fluid period in American politics now underway.
In the days and weeks after the storming of the Capitol by Trump supporters on Jan. 6, hundreds of thousands of Republicans left the party. After the Jan. 6 attack on the Capitol, the phone lines and websites of local election officials across the country were jumping: Tens of thousands of Republicans were calling or logging on to switch their party affiliations.
In California, more than 33,000 registered Republicans left the party during the three weeks after the Washington riot. In Pennsylvania, more than 12,000 voters left the G.O.P. in the past month, and more than 10,000 Republicans changed their registration in Arizona.
An analysis of January voting records found that nearly 140,000 Republicans had quit the party in 25 states that had readily available data (19 states do not have registration by party). Voting experts say this is the start of a particularly damaging period for G.O.P. registrations as voters recoil from the Capitol violence and its fallout.
Among those who recently left the party are Juan Nunez, 56, an Army veteran in Mechanicsburg, Pa. He said he had long felt that the difference between the United States and many other countries was that campaign-season fighting ended on Election Day, when all sides would peacefully accept the result. The Jan. 6 riot changed that, he said.
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Eastman admitted to Jacob that Trump’s Electors Coup would lose on the merits in the Supreme Court: “When I pressed him on the point, I said ‘John, if the vice president did what you were asking him to do, we would lose 9-0 in the Supreme Court, wouldn’t we?’ And he initially started at, ‘Well, I think maybe you would lose only 7-2,' and after some further discussion, acknowledged, ‘Well, yeah, you’re right, we would lose 9-0.’ ... [He] ultimately acknowledged that, no, we would lose 9-0 — no judge would support his argument.”
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Trumpian Quotes Continued:
02/07 & 02/19
“When we get into April, in the warmer weather—that has a very negative effect on that, and that type of a virus.”
02/27
“It’s going to disappear. One day it’s like a miracle—it will disappear.”
Dr. Fauci, warned days later that he was concerned that “as the next week or two or three go by, we’re going to see a lot more community-related cases.”
03/23 & 24 & 29
If the economic shutdown continues, deaths by suicide “definitely would be in far greater numbers than the numbers that we’re talking about” for COVID-19 deaths.
03/04
“The Obama administration made a decision on testing that turned out to be very detrimental to what we’re doing,” Trump said.
The Obama administration drafted, but never implemented, changes to rules that regulate laboratory tests run by states.
03/13
The Obama’s response to the H1N1 pandemic was “a full scale disaster, with thousands dying, and nothing meaningful done to fix the testing problem, until now.”
Barack Obama declared a public-health emergency two weeks after the first U.S. cases of H1N1 were reported, in California. Trump declared a national emergency more than seven weeks after the first domestic COVID-19 case was reported. While testing is a problem now, it wasn’t back in 2009.
03/06
“Anybody that needs a test, gets a test. We—they’re there. They have the tests. And the tests are beautiful.”
The country’s testing capabilities are severely limited. Many states have experienced a lack of testing kits. Pence, a day later admitted that “we don’t have enough tests today to meet what we anticipate will be the demand going forward.”
03/11
Trump said that private-health-insurance companies had “agreed to waive all co-payments for coronavirus treatments, extend insurance coverage to these treatments, and to prevent surprise medical billing.”
Insurers agreed only to absorb the cost of coronavirus testing—waiving co-pays and deductibles for getting the test.
03/13
“Google engineers are building a website to help Americans determine whether they need testing for the coronavirus and to direct them to their nearest testing site.”
The announcement was news to Google itself—the website Trump (and other administration officials) described was actually being built by Verily, a division of Alphabet, the parent company of Google. The Verge first reported on Trump’s error, citing a Google representative who confirmed that Verily was working on a “triage website” with limited coverage for the San Francisco Bay Area.
To be continued:
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Trumpian Quotes continued, yet more:
03/24 & 25
The U.S. has outpaced South Korea’s COVID-19 testing: “We’re going up proportionally very rapidly,” Trump said during a Fox News town hall.
The truth: When the president made this claim, testing in the U.S. was severely lagging behind that in South Korea. Korea has tested 80% of its population and currently the U.S. is at 1%.
03/11
The U.S. would suspend “all travel from Europe, except the United Kingdom, for the next 30 days,” Trump announced in an Oval Office address.
The travel restriction would not apply to U.S. citizens, legal permanent residents, or their families returning from Europe.
In the same address, Trump said the travel restrictions would “not only apply to the tremendous amount of trade and cargo but various other things as we get approval.” Trump followed up in a tweet, explaining that trade and cargo would not be subject to the restrictions.
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Yet more Trumpian Quotes:
03/12
TAll U.S. citizens arriving from Europe would be subject to medical screening, COVID-19 testing, and quarantine if necessary. “If an American is coming back or anybody is coming back, we’re testing,” Trump said. “We have a tremendous testing setup where people coming in have to be tested … We’re not putting them on planes if it shows positive, but if they do come here, we’re quarantining.”
Testing was already unavailable or severely limited in the United States. Americans returning to the country were not being tested, nor was anyone being forced to quarantine.
03/31
“We stopped all of Europe” with a travel ban. “We started with certain parts of Italy, and then all of Italy. Then we saw Spain. Then I said, ‘Stop Europe; let’s stop Europe. We have to stop them from coming here.’”
The travel ban applied to the Schengen Area, as well as the United Kingdom and Ireland, and not all of Europe as he claimed. Additionally, Trump is wrong about the United States rolling out a piecemeal ban. The State Department did issue advisories in late February cautioning Americans against travel to the Lombardy region of Italy before issuing a general “Do Not Travel” warning on March 19. But the U.S. never placed individual bans on Italy and Spain
03/17
“I’ve always known this is a real—this is a pandemic. I felt it was a pandemic long before it was called a pandemic … I’ve always viewed it as very serious.”
Trump has repeatedly downplayed the significance of COVID-19 as outbreaks began stateside. From calling criticism of his handling of the virus a “hoax,” to comparing the coronavirus to a common flu, to worrying about letting sick Americans off cruise ships because they would increase the number of confirmed cases, Trump has used his public statements to send mixed messages and sow doubt about the outbreak’s seriousness.
03/26
This kind of pandemic “was something nobody thought could happen … Nobody would have ever thought a thing like this could have happened.”
Experts both inside and outside the federal government sounded the alarm many times in the past decade about the potential for a devastating global pandemic.
03/02
Pharmaceutical companies are going “to have vaccines, I think, very soon.”
The president’s own experts told him during a White House meeting with pharmaceutical leaders earlier that same day that a vaccine could take a year to 18 months to develop.
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Yet more and more Trumpian Quotes:
03/19
At a press briefing with his coronavirus task force, Trump said the FDA had approved the antimalarial drug chloroquine to treat COVID-19. “Normally the FDA would take a long time to approve something like that, and it’s—it was approved very, very quickly and it’s now approved by prescription,” he said.
The FDA Commissioner, who was at the briefing, quickly clarified that the drug still had to be tested in a clinical setting. An FDA representative later told Bloomberg that the drug has not been approved for COVID-19 use, though a doctor could still prescribe it for that purpose. Later that same day, Dr. Fauci told Said that there is no “magic drug” to cure COVID-19: “Today, there are no proven safe and effective therapies for the coronavirus.”
03/20
Trump twice said during a task-force briefing that he had invoked the Defense Production Act, enabling the federal government to order private industry to produce certain items and materials for national use. He also said the federal government was already using its authority under the law: “We have a lot of people working very hard to do ventilators and various other things.”
The FEMA Administrator Peter Gaynor said on 02/22 that the president has not actually used the DPA to order private companies to produce anything. Shortly after that, Trump backtracked, saying that he had not compelled private companies to take action. Then, on 03/24, Gaynor said that FEMA plans to use the DPA to allocate 60,000 test kits. Trump tweeted afterward that the DPA would not be used.
03/21
Automobile companies that have volunteered to manufacture medical equipment, such as ventilators, are “making them right now.”
Ford & GM, which Trump mentioned at a task-force briefing the same day, announced earlier in March that they had halted all factory production in North America and were likely months away from beginning production of ventilators, representatives told the Associated Press. Since then, Ford CEO James Hackett said that the auto company will begin to work with 3M to produce respirators and with General Electric to assemble ventilators. GM said it will explore the possibility of producing ventilators in an Indiana factory. Tesla CEO Elon Musk, whose company Trump highlighted in a tweet, has said that the company is “working on ventilators” but that they cannot be produced “instantly.”
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Yet more OMG Trumpian Quotes:
03/29
Trump “didn’t say” that governors do not need all the medical equipment they are requesting from the federal government. And he “didn’t say” that governors should be more appreciative of the help.
The president told Fox News’ Sean Hannity on Thursday, March 26, that “a lot of equipment’s being asked for that I don’t think they’ll need,” referring to requests from the governors of Michigan, New York, and Washington. He also said, during a Friday, March 27, task-force briefing, that he wanted state leaders “to be appreciative … We’ve done a great job.” He added that he wasn’t talking about himself, but about others within the federal government working to combat the pandemic.
03/29 & 30
Hospitals are reporting an artificially inflated need for masks and equipment, items that might be “going out the back door,” Trump said on two separate days. He also said he was not talking about hoarding: “I think maybe it’s worse than hoarding.”
There is no evidence to show that hospitals are maliciously hoarding or inflating their need for masks and personal protective equipment when reporting shortages in supplies. Although Cuomo reported anecdotal stories of thefts from hospitals early in March, he was referring to opportunists trying to price-gouge early in the pandemic.
This is just a brief example of things Trump has said that show his lack of taking this crisis serious. For kicks and giggles you should Google how many times Dr. Fauci has had to correct Trump. You should also read up on how difficult it has been for him to do his job, not make Trump look bad, and keep Trump focused on the science. To make matters worse the Alt Republican Nut Cases are calling Dr. Fauci “Deep State” and “Treasonous” because he dared correct Tump’s false statements.
In summary, I hope you will forgive me if I don’t applaud Trump for his handling of this crisis.
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30 billion? Is that a FAUX news number? Have you read the Muller Report? Did you listen to Muller’s speech the other day?
Fact Muller declined to indict Treasonous Trump for Russian GRU Spy Collusion on two very key points.
1. The party accepting for aid (as in something of value) must know (key word) that they are committing a crime. Muller essentially says that, in plain English, the president and his Swamp Creatures were too stupid to understand what they were doing. However, Muller very clearly condemns the president and his Swamp Creatures for a complete break down in ethical behavior unbecoming of a presidential candidate.
2. Muller stated that though there was the strong appearance of coordination between Trump and the Russian GRU it was highly disorganized on Trump’s part.
As for Vol II on Obstruction, Muller found 11 counts. He explained the other day that he was not allowed to indict a sitting president. This is Barr’s ruling. Therefore, Muller felt he could not indict because there would be no legal path for the President to be prosecuted or cleared of the indictment in a court of law. Remember, Barr’s Rule - no sitting president can be charged with a crime.
In Muller’s closing statements in Vol II he very clearly states that he “is not clearing the president of a crime”. What Muller wanted was fir Congress to do their job and bring the charges that Barr would not allow him to bring. Now, we have a constitutional problem. The House is controlled by Democrats and the Senate is controlled by Republicans. If one body, the House wants to enforce the law but the other side, the Senate, wants ti ignore the law, you have a problem.
Bottom line... you don’t have a right to an opinion if you have not read the Muller Report.
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Yet even as Trump lied to his rallygoers’ faces, we learned that the White House counsel has ordered two top Trump advisers to defy subpoenas for testimony to the Judiciary Committee, which is considering articles of impeachment against Trump, while sharply limiting a third former adviser’s testimony to the panel.
Which raises a question: If the case against Trump’s corruption were so weak, then why would Trump and the White House have to go to such extraordinary lengths to stonewall Congress’ ability to exercise its most basic and fundamental oversight authority?
This juxtaposition will be on full display on Tuesday afternoon, when former Trump campaign manager Corey Lewandowski testifies to the Judiciary Committee. The White House has placed sharp limits on what Lewandowski can discuss, ordering him to discuss only what’s in the Mueller report, and not to discuss any private communications that go beyond this.
[Lewandowski ‘excited’ about defending Trump in congressional hearing Tuesday]
Liberals and conservatives share basic common values, but leaders like Donald Trump use fear to exploit their differences for political gain. Abigail Marsh, a psychology and neuroscience professor at Georgetown University, analyzes the slippery slope between protecting your in-group and attacking the out-group. (Joshua Carroll/The Washington Post; Danielle Kunitz/The Washington Post; Kate Woodsome/The Washington Post)
At the same time, the White House has also directed two others to refuse questioning: former White House secretary Rob Porter, and former Trump campaign adviser and White House deputy chief of staff Rick Dearborn.
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Do I think Trump and his family were Personally Involved? Yes, please read attached:
“In a statement signed by Trump’s attorney, the president admitted to poor oversight of the charity. The president agreed to submit to extra monitoring of any future charitable activities in New York, so that “the conduct which engendered this petition should not occur in the future,” the judge said. If Trump does ever join a charity board — or starts a new charity of his own — the charity must fill a majority of board seats with people who have no relationship to Trump. It also must hire a qualified attorney, submit to audits and agree never to pay Trump or his company for any services.
Trump’s three eldest children — Ivanka, Donald Jr. and Eric — were also named in the lawsuit, because they were listed as board members at the foundation. In reality, the board did not meet at all for 19 straight years, from 1999 to 2018.
The three Trump children were required to take an “in-person interactive” training class in how to be better board members, court documents say.
The Trump Foundation had been a relatively small charity that in recent years had received very little in donations from Trump himself. He donated nothing from 2009 to 2015. Instead, the foundation subsisted largely on a gift from pro-wrestling moguls Vince and Linda McMahon: $5 million in total. Linda McMahon was later appointed by Trump as head of the Small Business Administration.”
Where did the money go:
“The Court found that Trump had used the charity’s money to make a $25,000 donation to a political committee associated with then-Florida Attorney General Pam Bondi (R). Charities are prohibited from making political gifts.” Note: Bondi just joined the Trump Administration.
The Court also found that Trump had taken more than $250,000 from the charity to settle lawsuits involving his for-profit businesses. And Trump had used the charity to buy things for himself, including a helmet signed by former pro football player Tim Tebow, and a large painting of himself that was later hung on the wall of Trump’s Doral golf resort in Miami.
In an interview with Allen Weisselberg — a Trump Organization executive who was listed as the foundation’s treasurer — Weisselberg said he had no idea he was even on the board, according to the state’s lawsuit.
When state investigators asked about the foundation’s policies for handing out grants, Weisselberg said, “There’s no policy, just so you understand.”
THIS IS YOUR PRESIDENT. WHEN BAD PEOPLE DO BAD THINGS IT IS PROPER AND JUST TO CRITICIZE THEM AND REMOVE THEM FROM OFFICE. Trump Derangement Syndrome is Real but not as you understand it. People like me are frustrated because all of these warning signs of documented corruption are piling up and Trump supporters keep making excuses as to how it’s not his fault.
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Fact: Bill Barr’s father hired Jeffry Epstein to be a High School Math teacher. Fact: Donald Trump shared women with Jeffrey Epstein. See below:
WASHINGTON — It was supposed to be an exclusive party at Mar-a-Lago, Donald J. Trump’s members-only club in Palm Beach, Fla. But other than the two dozen or so women flown in to provide the entertainment, the only guests were Mr. Trump and Jeffrey Epstein.
The year was 1992 and the event was a “calendar girl” competition, something that George Houraney, a Florida-based businessman who ran American Dream Enterprise, had organized at Mr. Trump’s request.
“I arranged to have some contestants fly in,” Mr. Houraney recalled in an interview on Monday. “At the very first party, I said, ‘Who’s coming tonight? I have 28 girls coming.’ It was him and Epstein.”
Mr. Houraney, who had just partnered with Mr. Trump to host events at his casinos, said he was surprised. “I said, ‘Donald, this is supposed to be a party with V.I.P.s. You’re telling me it’s you and Epstein?’”
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Stuart Stevens is a writer and GOP political consultant.
Here’s a question: What does the Trump Republican Party stands for?
One way to find out: Ask a Trump Republican friend. I’m betting the answer is going to involve a noun, a verb and either “socialism” or “Democrats.” Republicans now partly define their party simply as an alternative to that other party, as in, “I’m a Republican because I’m not a Democrat.”
In a long-forgotten era — say, four years ago — such a question would have elicited a very different answer: fiscal responsibility, free trade, strong on Russia, and that character and personal responsibility count. Today it’s not that the Republican Party has forgotten these issues and values; instead, it actively opposes all of them.
Republicans are now officially the character doesn’t count party, the personal responsibility just proves you have failed to blame the other guy party, the deficit doesn’t matter party, the Putin is “good guy” party, and the I’m-right-and-you-are-human-scum party. Yes, it’s President Trump’s party now, but it stands only for what he has just tweeted.
A party without a governing theory, a higher purpose or a clear moral direction is nothing more than a cartel, a syndicate that exists only to advance itself. There is no organized, coherent purpose other than the acquisition and maintenance of power.
Donald Trump, Destroying America One Republican Soul At a Time.
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@chad534
I looked into your Durham Conspiracy and found a REAL CONSPIRACY! Faux news has been caught, again, lying to you.
WASHINGTON — John H. Durham, the Trump-era special counsel scrutinizing the investigation into Russia’s 2016 election interference, distanced himself on Thursday from false reports by right-wing news outlets that a motion he recently filed said Hillary Clinton’s campaign had paid to spy on Trump White House servers.
Citing a barrage of such reports on Fox News and elsewhere based on the prosecutor’s Feb. 11 filing, defense lawyers for a Democratic-linked cybersecurity lawyer, Michael Sussmann, have accused the special counsel of including unnecessary and misleading information in filings “plainly intended to politicize this case, inflame media coverage and taint the jury pool.”
In a filing on Thursday, Mr. Durham defended himself, saying those accusations about his intentions were “simply not true.” He said he had “valid and straightforward reasons” for including the information in the Feb. 11 filing that set off the firestorm, while disavowing responsibility for how certain news outlets had interpreted and portrayed it.
“If third parties or members of the media have overstated or otherwise misinterpreted facts contained in the government’s motion, that does not in any way undermine the valid reasons for the government’s inclusion of this information,” he wrote.
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Is Donal J Trump mentally ill? Take the test for yourself:
The DSM-5 nine questions for pathological narcissism (only 5 yes answers to qualify):
1. Has a grandiose sense of self-importance (e.g., exaggerates achievements and talents, expects to be recognized as superior without commensurate achievements). 👍
2. Is preoccupied with fantasies of unlimited success, power, brilliance, beauty, or ideal love. 👍
3. Believes that he or she is “special” and unique and can only be understood by, or should associate with, other special or high-status people (or institutions). 👍
4. Requires excessive admiration. 👍
5. Has a sense of entitlement (i.e., unreasonable expectations of especially favorable treatment or automatic compliance with his or her expectations). 👍
6. Is interpersonally exploitative (i.e., takes advantage of others to achieve his or her own ends) 👍
7. Lacks empathy: is unwilling to recognize or identify with the feelings or needs of others. 👍
8. Is often envious of others or believes that others are envious of him or her. 👍
9. Shows arrogant, haughty behaviors or attitudes. 👍
Treasonous Trump has a perfect score for the first time in his life.
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Trump touts Putin’s speaking out against his impeachment
Late Friday night, minutes before deplaning in Florida for the holidays, President Trump retweeted a link to an article in which Russian President Vladimir Putin defended him against impeachment.
“A total Witch Hunt!” the president tweeted at 10:30 p.m., as he shared a 36-hour-old Associated Press tweet that read: “BREAKING: Russian President Vladimir Putin says U.S. President Donald Trump’s impeachment is far-fetched and predicts the U.S. Senate will reject it.”
Trump’s boasting of Putin’s support comes a day after The Washington Post reported that White House advisers feared Trump’s belief that Ukraine, not Russia, was responsible for interfering with the 2016 election was spurred by conversations Trump had with Putin.
Trump’s critics responded to the tweet, expressing exasperation more than incredulity.
“At the end of the day, it’s always Putin First,” wrote conservative commentator and “Never Trumper” Bill Kristol.
Russian President Vladimir Putin accused the U.S. House of Representatives Dec. 19 of having "invented" a story to "revise" history and impeach President Trump. (Reuters)
“Trump wants us to know that Putin has his back. We know,” tweeted Eric Columbus, a former Justice Department appointee in the Obama administration.
“Putin is a dictator who jails opponents, kills opponents, invades neighbors, interferes in democracies’ elections, etc. I don’t think an American president should be buddying with him. I wonder if Trump defenders are ever (secretly) embarrassed by this stuff. I hope so,” wrote Jay Nordlinger, a senior editor at the right-leaning National Review.
At his annual end-of-the-year news conference on Thursday, Putin was asked about Trump’s impeachment. He called the charges “completely fabricated reasons.”
[[Putin stays in Trump’s corner on impeachment]]
That evening, Russian state media, which follows Putin’s lead, also threw its support behind Trump.
Donald Trump is the third president in U.S. history to face a Senate trial. (The Washington Post)
Popular Kremlin propagandist Vladimir Soloviev gave an impassioned defense of Trump on his evening show, raising his voice several times in a discussion with Atlantic Council expert Ariel Cohen.
“I can’t understand for what reason [Democrats] don’t like Trump,” Soloviev said.
Days earlier, on his two-hour Sunday night program, anchor Dmitry Kiselyov opined about how Hollywood has joined the Democrats in being against Trump, portraying him as “always on the dark side.”
And the state-sponsored Rossiya-1 news channel, which airs Soloviev’s show, recently broadcast segments of Rudolph W. Giuliani’s interview with right-wing channel One America News, in which the president’s personal attorney promoted debunked conspiracy theories about Ukrainian interference in the 2016 U.S. presidential election.
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Special Bronze
On Fox News, suddenly a very different tune about the coronavirus.
For weeks, Fox News’s hosts downplayed the threat of the coronavirus, characterizing it as a conspiracy by media organizations and Democrats to undermine President Trump.
Sean Hannity and Laura Ingraham accused the news media of whipping up “mass hysteria” and being “panic pushers.” Trish Regan called the Main Stream Media response “yet another attempt to impeach the president.”
But that was then.
When Trump’s declared a national emergency, Fox News quickly shifted gears. Hannity, suddenly lauded the president’s handling of what the host is now, belatedly, referring to as a “crisis.”
“Tonight, we are witnessing what will be a massive paradigm shift in the future of disease control and prevention,” he said. “A bold, new precedent is being set, the world will once again benefit greatly from America’s leadership. . . . The federal government, state governments, private businesses, top hospitals all coming together, under the president’s leadership, to stem the tide of the coronavirus.”
In a complicated dance to mirror the president, Trump’s allies on Fox News took the same stance as the president for several weeks — that this coronavirus that had sickened and killed thousands of people in China was no worse a threat than the seasonal flu.
Just a week ago, Hannity shrugged at the pandemic. “So far in the United States, there’s been around 30 deaths, most of which came from one nursing home in the state of Washington,” he said, “Healthy people, generally, 99 percent recover very fast, even if they contract it.”
By way of comparison, he added: “Twenty-six people were shot in Chicago alone over the weekend. I doubt you heard about it. You notice there’s no widespread hysteria about violence in Chicago. And this has gone on for years and years. By the way, Democratic-run cities, we see a lot of that.”
Ingraham, also had a fast-dawning recognition that the social and economic dislocation of the virus was more than just a Democratic talking point wielded against the president.
In late February, Ingraham called Democrats the “pandemic party” and displayed photos of House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) and Senate Minority Leader Charles E. Schumer (D-N.Y.) alongside enlarged images of coronavirus molecules. “How sick that these people seem almost happiest when Americans are hurting,” she said.
She kept at it through last Tuesday when, in front of a graphic reading “Trump confronts the panic pushers,” Ingraham said, “The public in some ways seems a lot more levelheaded than the so-called experts. . . . The facts are actually pretty reassuring, but you’d never know it watching all this stuff.”
On Friday, Ingraham tweeted that it was a “great time to fly if not in at-risk population!” The tweet was later deleted.
By Wednesday, after Trump announced a travel ban on people from the European Union, Ingraham had started calling the pandemic “this dangerous health crisis.” She characterized warnings issued by National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases head Anthony S. Fauci about the potential spread of the disease as “sobering and scary to hear.”
Regan’s on-air speculation at the start of last week that coronavirus was merely another impeachment gambit for Democrats drew widespread pushback. Clearly the mood was changing at Fox by the time the network announced late Friday that her discussion-and-commentary program on Fox Business would leave the air indefinitely.
Tucker Carlson too, blamed the “corrupt” media. But in a monologue that many took at an indirect scolding of the president, he also complained that “none of our leaders helped us to take it seriously. . . . People you trust, people you probably voted for, have spent weeks minimizing what is clearly a very serious problem. It’s just partisan politics, they say. ‘Calm down. In the end, this is just like the flu and people die from that every year. Coronavirus will pass, and when it does, we will feel foolish for worrying about it.’ That’s their position. . . . But they’re wrong.”
Days earlier, Carlson attended the birthday party of former Fox News host Kimberly Guilfoyle, who is dating Donald Trump Jr.
In comments downplaying the pandemic on March 7, Jeanine Pirro, offered “All the talk about coronavirus being so much more deadly [than the flu] doesn’t reflect reality.” She reiterated Trump’s comment that the infection rate will drop “as the weather warms.”
On the “Fox & Friends” program Friday, Liberty University President Jerry Falwell Jr. spun out a meandering tale advancing the baseless notion that the coronavirus was designed by North Korean and Chinese scientists to harm Americans.
The program’s three co-hosts offered no objections. Host Steve Doocy moved on to asking Falwell about Liberty’s plans to cancel classes.
Then on Sunday, Rep. Devin Nunes (R-Calif.) appeared on Fox News and urged Americans to “stop panicking” and for those who are healthy to “just go out.”
Said Nunes: “There’s a lot of concerns with the economy here because people are scared to go out. But I will just say one of the things you can do if you’re healthy, you and your family, it’s a great time to just go out, go to a local restaurant.”
Anchor Maria Bartiromo offered no response to Nunes’s comment. On Monday, a day later, Fox News contributor Nicole Saphier, a doctor, specifically called out the congressman on air to contradict his advice and told viewers to stay home.
This is a quick summation of how Faux news has become nothing more than a platform for Trumpian Propaganda.
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How TV Cable Companies Cover the Impeachment - an exercise in Propaganda:
Note: See if you can spot which company engages in Propaganda.
• CNN: EX-WHITE HOUSE AIDE: HIGHLY UNUSUAL EFFORT TO “LOCK DOWN”. TRANSCRIPT OF JULY 25 CALL WAS AN “ADMINISTRATIVE ERROR”
• Fox News: DEMS PRAISE VINDMAN FOR WORKING AGAINST TRUMP
• MSNBC: CONCLUDES AFTER MORE THAN 9 HOURS
At 9:13 p.m. that day, here’s what viewers saw.
• CNN: KEY WITNESSES QUESTIONED IN PUBLIC HEARINGS
• Fox News: SCHIFF STEERS IMPEACHMENT SHAM OFF A CLIFF / DEMS’ UKRAINE HOAX UNRAVELS ON CAPITOL HILL
• MSNBC: VINDMAN REASSURES SOVIET IMMIGRANT FATHER: HE WILL BE FINE FOR TELLING THE TRUTH / HOUSE INTEL COMPLETES 3RD DAY OF PUBLIC IMPEACHMENT HEARINGS
At 10:15 p.m.:
• CNN: SONDLAND TESTIFIES TOMORROW
• Fox News: VOLKER TESTIMONY UNDERMINES DEMS’ NARRATIVE
• MSNBC: IMPEACHMENT HEARING WRAPS AFTER 4 WITNESSES, 9+ HOURS / LT. COL VINDMAN, TRUMP’S TOP UKRAINE ADVISOR, TESTIFIES. TRUMP ACTED “IMPROPERLY” WHEN HE “DEMANDED” A FAVOR
At 10:51 p.m.:
• CNN: REPUBLICANS USE IMPEACHMENT HEARINGS TO QUESTION LOYALTY OF DECORATED ARMY VETERAN SPEAKING OUT AGAINST TRUMP
• Fox News: CHICK-FIL-A CAVES TO LIBERAL MOB
• MSNBC: EU AMB. GORDON SONDLAND TESTIFIES TOMORROW MORNING / SONDLAND WILL FACE QUESTIONS ABOUT PREVIOUSLY. UNKNOWN CALL TO TRUMP FROM RESTAURANT IN UKRAINE
Following day 8:12 p.m.:
• CNN: SONDLAND TIES PRES. TRUMP, VP PENCE, SECY. OF STATE POMPEO. AND WH CHIEF OF STAFF MULVANEY TO PRESSURE CAMPAIGN / SONDLAND: “EVERYONE WAS IN THE LOOP” ON UKRAINE PRESSURE
• Fox News: “NO QUID PRO QUO”
Half an hour later, while CNN was still covering Sondland’s testimony, Fox News was discussing the Clinton Foundation.
At 10:54 p.m., here’s what the two networks were showing viewers.
• CNN: SONDLAND: ‘YES’ THERE WAS QUID PRO QUO. IN UKRAINE SCANDAL
• Fox News: SWALWELL CAUSES A STINK
That latter text referred to a viral video clip that appeared to have captured the sound of flatulence while Rep. Eric Swalwell (D-Calif.) was appearing on MSNBC the previous day.
On Thursday, similar divides were on display. At 9:53 p.m., here’s what each network showed — perhaps the most representative comparison of any.
• CNN: NO REPUBLICANS BUDGE AFTER ALL THE FACTS, EVIDENCE REVEALED IN 3O+ HOURS OF PUBLIC TESTIMONY / MEMBERS OF PRESIDENT’S PARTY CROSSED AISLE IN NIXON & CLINTON IMPEACHMENT PROCEEDINGS, BUT NOT NOW
• Fox News: FBI OFFICIAL UNDER INVESTIGATION FOR ALLEGEDLY ALTERING DOC RELATED TO PAGE SURVEILLANCE, CNN REPORTS
• MSNBC: NIXON PLEDGED TO FIGHT TO KEEP HIS PRESIDENCY / IMPEACHMENT HEARING WITNESSES WRAP UP WEEK OF EXPLOSIVE TESTIMONY
There’s a reason that Trump’s current press secretary has only given interviews to Fox News and not other broadcast or major cable networks. Why would Trump need a White House communications director when he has a generously friendly cable network that’s already popular with the people he wants to talk to anyway?
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In these last days, Scripture warns that false prophets will arise and deceive many. Believers who are not well-grounded make easy targets for doctrines that may sound good but are filled with error.
Some doctrines are deadly: those that alter the Deity of Christ, redefine the Trinity — or even deny the Trinity. Sometimes a charmer will lead the susceptible off into error that results in physical death — Jonestown and Waco come to mind. [The Cult of Trump]
We must sharpen our awareness and be alert — not just for ourselves but for our loved ones who might otherwise be drawn to a false prophet.
Last time, we looked at five tests you can apply to any teacher’s message: the Source, Savior, Subject, Salvation, and Sanctification tests. But even if the teacher’s message passes these tests, we still should examine his method, manner, and motive.
Know them by their method.
They “…privily shall bring in damnable heresies…And through covetousness shall they with feigned words make merchandise of you: (2 Peter 2:1-3) [Trump?]
Peter is describing the way they operate.
privily means “secretly, clandestinely, in a way that’s hard to spot.” Give the devil credit for being clever. His helpers lay false teaching alongside good teaching in order to confuse.
feigned words. The word feigned in the Greek is plastos, from which we get our word “plastic.” Plastic is pliable, molding itself just simply to fit and to imitate…plastic preachers with plastic words.
Know them by their manner.
And many shall follow their pernicious ways… (v. 2)
Pernicious is a word we don’t use much today. It literally means “unbridled lust.” The center, sum and substance of their message is themselves. [Trump?]
Have you noticed that apostasy and immorality go hand in hand? Often you’ll hear about false teachers being caught in adultery. Or, within their belief system, they advocate immorality, multiple wives, or some sort of “free sex.” We see it over and over again. We hear news reports of a cult under the spell of a leader who, it is revealed, has been engaging in shocking immorality with members of his flock. High-profile evangelists preaching easy-believe-ism or a health-and-wealth gospel have sometimes been exposed as leading double lives. [Trump?]
They call themselves prophets, but they’re living in sin. Note their methods, manner, and way of life. Are they above reproach?
I have seen also in the prophets of Jerusalem an horrible thing: they commit adultery, and walk in lies: they strengthen also the hands of evildoers, that none of them doth return from his wickedness: they are all of them unto me as Sodom, and the inhabitants therefore as Gomorrah. Jeremiah 23:14 [Trump?]
Success in ministry does not necessarily mean they’re doing God’s work. Statistics are no proof that something is of God, because “many will follow” (2 Peter 2:2). Some people love the sensual rather than the spiritual. Jesus said, “Not every one that saith unto Me, Lord, Lord, shall enter into the kingdom of heaven; but he that doeth the will of My Father, which is in heaven” (Matthew 7:21). Many people lead double lives. They are counterfeits.
Know them by their motive.
And through covetousness shall they with feigned words make merchandise of you…. 2 Peter 2:3
What is the false teacher’s motive? They want to use and manipulate you. Why? Because they themselves are covetous. [Trump?]
For their own motivation and wicked heart, Peter says, they make merchandise of the Gospel. You’ve perhaps seen some of these hucksters on TV who merchandise the Gospel of Christ. In my estimation, the hottest part of hell is reserved for these plastic preachers who, for whatever reason, merchandise God’s people. With great swelling words they exploit the ignorant. They are prophets, spelled “P-R-O-F-I-T-S.”
Lastly, in verses 4-5 Peter gets very serious. He says God will surely judge and not spare them.
Don’t get caught up in counterfeit Christianity. God will not spare sin or the sinner, for He did not spare His only begotten Son, the Lord Jesus, so that you and I might have eternal life.
The world is full of counterfeits. Every counterfeit dollar is a tribute to the worth of the real — or men wouldn’t be printing counterfeits! And every counterfeit Christian is a tribute to the value of salvation. Jesus is real. Salvation is real. And you can make sure you have the real thing if you repent of your sin and trust Him. [Spurn the Antichrist, Spurn Trump]
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OUR MORON PRESIDENT SAID WHAT?
During Thursday's White House coronavirus task force briefing, an official presented the results of US government research that indicated coronavirus on an external surface appeared to weaken more quickly when exposed to sunlight, heat, and disinfectant.
Upon taking the podium Trump said:
"So, supposing we hit the body with a tremendous - whether it's ultraviolet or just very powerful light," the president said, turning to Dr Deborah Birx, the White House coronavirus response co-ordinator, "and I think you said that hasn't been checked but you're going to test it.
"And then I said, supposing you brought the light inside of the body, which you can do either through the skin or in some other way. And I think you said you're going to test that too. Sounds interesting," the president continued.
"And then I see the disinfectant where it knocks it out in a minute. One minute. And is there a way we can do something like that, by injection inside or almost a cleaning? So it'd be interesting to check that." Pointing to his head, Mr Trump went on: "I'm not a doctor. But I'm, like, a person that has a good you-know-what." He turned again to Dr Birx and asked if she had ever heard of using "the heat and the light" to treat coronavirus.
"Not as a treatment," Dr Birx said. "I mean, certainly, fever is a good thing. When you have a fever, it helps your body respond. But I've not seen heat or light."
"I think it's a great thing to look at," Mr Trump said.
You heard it here first folks, our president is a Mad Moron Would be “Scientist Jenius” (sic).
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Dale Hansen
In these last days, Scripture warns that false prophets will arise and deceive many. Believers who are not well-grounded make easy targets for doctrines that may sound good but are filled with error.
Some doctrines are evil, we must sharpen our awareness and be alert — not just for ourselves but for our loved ones who might otherwise be drawn to a false prophet.
Five tests you can apply to any false prophet’s message: the Source, Savior, Subject, Salvation, and Sanctification tests. But even if the teacher’s message passes these tests, we still should examine his method, manner, and motive. It is method, manner, and motive that Trump fails and his parse knowledge of scripture.
Know them by their method.
They “…privily shall bring in damnable heresies…And through covetousness shall they with feigned words make merchandise of you: (2 Peter 2:1-3)
Peter is describing the way they operate. Privily means “secretly, clandestinely, in a way that’s hard to spot.” Give the devil credit for being clever. His helpers lay false teaching alongside good teaching in order to confuse.
Feigned Words. The word feigned in the Greek is plastos, from which we get our word “plastic.” Plastic is pliable, molding itself just simply to fit and to imitate…plastic preachers with plastic words. Trump uses all of these tricks.
Know them by their manner. And many shall follow their pernicious ways… (v. 2)
Pernicious is a word we don’t use much today. It literally means “unbridled lust.” The center, sum and substance of their message is themselves. Have you noticed that apostasy and immorality go hand in hand? Often you’ll hear about false teachers being caught in adultery. Or, within their belief system, they advocate immorality, multiple wives, or some sort of “free sex.” We see it over and over again (Note Trump’s Adultery and Howard Stern talk). We hear news reports of a cult under the spell of a leader who, it is revealed, has been engaging in shocking immorality with members of his flock. High-profile evangelists preaching easy-believe-ism or a health-and-wealth gospel have sometimes been exposed as leading double lives.
For there are certain men crept in unawares, who were before of old ordained to this condemnation, ungodly men, turning the grace of our God into lasciviousness, and denying the only Lord God, and our Lord Jesus Christ. Jude, verse 4
They call themselves The Chosen One, but they’re living in sin. Note their methods, manner, and way of life. Are they above reproach?
I have seen also in the prophets of Jerusalem an horrible thing: they commit adultery, and walk in lies: they strengthen also the hands of evildoers, that none of them doth return from his wickedness: they are all of them unto me as Sodom, and the inhabitants therefore as Gomorrah. Jeremiah 23:14
Success in ministry does not necessarily mean they’re doing God’s work. Statistics are no proof that something is of God, because “many will follow” (2 Peter 2:2). Some people love the sensual rather than the spiritual. Jesus said, “Not every one that saith unto Me, Lord, Lord, shall enter into the kingdom of heaven; but he that doeth the will of My Father, which is in heaven” (Matthew 7:21). Many people lead double lives. They are counterfeits.
Know them by their motive. And through covetousness shall they with feigned words make merchandise of you…. 2 Peter 2:3
What is the false teacher’s motive? They want to use and manipulate you. Why? Because they themselves are covetous.
For their own motivation and wicked heart, Peter says, they make merchandise of the Gospel. A very Trumpian description.
Trump is surrounded by Prosperity Preachers. These hucksters are on TV and merchandise the Gospel of Christ. The hottest part of hell is reserved for these plastic preachers who, for whatever reason, merchandise God’s people. With great swelling words they exploit the ignorant. They are prophets, spelled “P-R-O-F-I-T-S.”
Lastly, in verses 4-5 Peter gets very serious. He says God will surely judge and not spare them. God is saying: Here is My solemn warning to every counterfeiter. When the angels fell, I judged them. When civilization in Noah’s day became polluted, I judged them. When Sodom and Gomorrah became perverted, I judged them. And I’m going to judge these false prophets.
Don’t get caught up in counterfeit Christianity. God will not spare sin or the sinner, for He did not spare His only begotten Son, the Lord Jesus, so that you and I might have eternal life.
The world is full of counterfeits. Every counterfeit dollar is a tribute to the worth of the real — or men wouldn’t be printing counterfeits! And every counterfeit Christian is a tribute to the value of salvation. Jesus is real. Salvation is real. And you can make sure you have the real thing if you repent of your sin and trust Him.
Is it possible that Trump is the Antichrist?
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BLacK CaT
Dale Hansen
In these last days, Scripture warns that false prophets will arise and deceive many. Believers who are not well-grounded make easy targets for doctrines that may sound good but are filled with error.
Some doctrines are evil, we must sharpen our awareness and be alert — not just for ourselves but for our loved ones who might otherwise be drawn to a false prophet.
Five tests you can apply to any false prophet’s message: the Source, Savior, Subject, Salvation, and Sanctification tests. But even if the teacher’s message passes these tests, we still should examine his method, manner, and motive. It is method, manner, and motive that Trump fails and his parse knowledge of scripture.
Know them by their method.
They “…privily shall bring in damnable heresies…And through covetousness shall they with feigned words make merchandise of you: (2 Peter 2:1-3)
Peter is describing the way they operate. Privily means “secretly, clandestinely, in a way that’s hard to spot.” Give the devil credit for being clever. His helpers lay false teaching alongside good teaching in order to confuse.
Feigned Words. The word feigned in the Greek is plastos, from which we get our word “plastic.” Plastic is pliable, molding itself just simply to fit and to imitate…plastic preachers with plastic words. Trump uses all of these tricks.
Know them by their manner. And many shall follow their pernicious ways… (v. 2)
Pernicious is a word we don’t use much today. It literally means “unbridled lust.” The center, sum and substance of their message is themselves. Have you noticed that apostasy and immorality go hand in hand? Often you’ll hear about false teachers being caught in adultery. Or, within their belief system, they advocate immorality, multiple wives, or some sort of “free sex.” We see it over and over again (Note Trump’s Adultery and Howard Stern talk). We hear news reports of a cult under the spell of a leader who, it is revealed, has been engaging in shocking immorality with members of his flock. High-profile evangelists preaching easy-believe-ism or a health-and-wealth gospel have sometimes been exposed as leading double lives.
For there are certain men crept in unawares, who were before of old ordained to this condemnation, ungodly men, turning the grace of our God into lasciviousness, and denying the only Lord God, and our Lord Jesus Christ. Jude, verse 4
They call themselves The Chosen One, but they’re living in sin. Note their methods, manner, and way of life. Are they above reproach?
I have seen also in the prophets of Jerusalem an horrible thing: they commit adultery, and walk in lies: they strengthen also the hands of evildoers, that none of them doth return from his wickedness: they are all of them unto me as Sodom, and the inhabitants therefore as Gomorrah. Jeremiah 23:14
Success in ministry does not necessarily mean they’re doing God’s work. Statistics are no proof that something is of God, because “many will follow” (2 Peter 2:2). Some people love the sensual rather than the spiritual. Jesus said, “Not every one that saith unto Me, Lord, Lord, shall enter into the kingdom of heaven; but he that doeth the will of My Father, which is in heaven” (Matthew 7:21). Many people lead double lives. They are counterfeits.
Know them by their motive. And through covetousness shall they with feigned words make merchandise of you…. 2 Peter 2:3
What is the false teacher’s motive? They want to use and manipulate you. Why? Because they themselves are covetous.
For their own motivation and wicked heart, Peter says, they make merchandise of the Gospel. A very Trumpian description.
Trump is surrounded by Prosperity Preachers. These hucksters are on TV and merchandise the Gospel of Christ. The hottest part of hell is reserved for these plastic preachers who, for whatever reason, merchandise God’s people. With great swelling words they exploit the ignorant. They are prophets, spelled “P-R-O-F-I-T-S.”
Lastly, in verses 4-5 Peter gets very serious. He says God will surely judge and not spare them. God is saying: Here is My solemn warning to every counterfeiter. When the angels fell, I judged them. When civilization in Noah’s day became polluted, I judged them. When Sodom and Gomorrah became perverted, I judged them. And I’m going to judge these false prophets.
Don’t get caught up in counterfeit Christianity. God will not spare sin or the sinner, for He did not spare His only begotten Son, the Lord Jesus, so that you and I might have eternal life.
The world is full of counterfeits. Every counterfeit dollar is a tribute to the worth of the real — or men wouldn’t be printing counterfeits! And every counterfeit Christian is a tribute to the value of salvation. Jesus is real. Salvation is real. And you can make sure you have the real thing if you repent of your sin and trust Him.
Is it possible that Trump is the Antichrist?
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Umbrella Corporation
Dale Hansen
In these last days, Scripture warns that false prophets will arise and deceive many. Believers who are not well-grounded make easy targets for doctrines that may sound good but are filled with error.
Some doctrines are evil, we must sharpen our awareness and be alert — not just for ourselves but for our loved ones who might otherwise be drawn to a false prophet.
Five tests you can apply to any false prophet’s message: the Source, Savior, Subject, Salvation, and Sanctification tests. But even if the teacher’s message passes these tests, we still should examine his method, manner, and motive. It is method, manner, and motive that Trump fails and his parse knowledge of scripture.
Know them by their method.
They “…privily shall bring in damnable heresies…And through covetousness shall they with feigned words make merchandise of you: (2 Peter 2:1-3)
Peter is describing the way they operate. Privily means “secretly, clandestinely, in a way that’s hard to spot.” Give the devil credit for being clever. His helpers lay false teaching alongside good teaching in order to confuse.
Feigned Words. The word feigned in the Greek is plastos, from which we get our word “plastic.” Plastic is pliable, molding itself just simply to fit and to imitate…plastic preachers with plastic words. Trump uses all of these tricks.
Know them by their manner. And many shall follow their pernicious ways… (v. 2)
Pernicious is a word we don’t use much today. It literally means “unbridled lust.” The center, sum and substance of their message is themselves. Have you noticed that apostasy and immorality go hand in hand? Often you’ll hear about false teachers being caught in adultery. Or, within their belief system, they advocate immorality, multiple wives, or some sort of “free sex.” We see it over and over again (Note Trump’s Adultery and Howard Stern talk). We hear news reports of a cult under the spell of a leader who, it is revealed, has been engaging in shocking immorality with members of his flock. High-profile evangelists preaching easy-believe-ism or a health-and-wealth gospel have sometimes been exposed as leading double lives.
For there are certain men crept in unawares, who were before of old ordained to this condemnation, ungodly men, turning the grace of our God into lasciviousness, and denying the only Lord God, and our Lord Jesus Christ. Jude, verse 4
They call themselves The Chosen One, but they’re living in sin. Note their methods, manner, and way of life. Are they above reproach?
I have seen also in the prophets of Jerusalem an horrible thing: they commit adultery, and walk in lies: they strengthen also the hands of evildoers, that none of them doth return from his wickedness: they are all of them unto me as Sodom, and the inhabitants therefore as Gomorrah. Jeremiah 23:14
Success in ministry does not necessarily mean they’re doing God’s work. Statistics are no proof that something is of God, because “many will follow” (2 Peter 2:2). Some people love the sensual rather than the spiritual. Jesus said, “Not every one that saith unto Me, Lord, Lord, shall enter into the kingdom of heaven; but he that doeth the will of My Father, which is in heaven” (Matthew 7:21). Many people lead double lives. They are counterfeits.
Know them by their motive. And through covetousness shall they with feigned words make merchandise of you…. 2 Peter 2:3
What is the false teacher’s motive? They want to use and manipulate you. Why? Because they themselves are covetous.
For their own motivation and wicked heart, Peter says, they make merchandise of the Gospel. A very Trumpian description.
Trump is surrounded by Prosperity Preachers. These hucksters are on TV and merchandise the Gospel of Christ. The hottest part of hell is reserved for these plastic preachers who, for whatever reason, merchandise God’s people. With great swelling words they exploit the ignorant. They are prophets, spelled “P-R-O-F-I-T-S.”
Lastly, in verses 4-5 Peter gets very serious. He says God will surely judge and not spare them. God is saying: Here is My solemn warning to every counterfeiter. When the angels fell, I judged them. When civilization in Noah’s day became polluted, I judged them. When Sodom and Gomorrah became perverted, I judged them. And I’m going to judge these false prophets.
Don’t get caught up in counterfeit Christianity. God will not spare sin or the sinner, for He did not spare His only begotten Son, the Lord Jesus, so that you and I might have eternal life.
The world is full of counterfeits. Every counterfeit dollar is a tribute to the worth of the real — or men wouldn’t be printing counterfeits! And every counterfeit Christian is a tribute to the value of salvation. Jesus is real. Salvation is real. And you can make sure you have the real thing if you repent of your sin and trust Him.
Is it possible that Trump is the Antichrist?
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mumbai jaan
Dale Hansen
In these last days, Scripture warns that false prophets will arise and deceive many. Believers who are not well-grounded make easy targets for doctrines that may sound good but are filled with error.
Some doctrines are evil, we must sharpen our awareness and be alert — not just for ourselves but for our loved ones who might otherwise be drawn to a false prophet.
Five tests you can apply to any false prophet’s message: the Source, Savior, Subject, Salvation, and Sanctification tests. But even if the teacher’s message passes these tests, we still should examine his method, manner, and motive. It is method, manner, and motive that Trump fails and his parse knowledge of scripture.
Know them by their method.
They “…privily shall bring in damnable heresies…And through covetousness shall they with feigned words make merchandise of you: (2 Peter 2:1-3)
Peter is describing the way they operate. Privily means “secretly, clandestinely, in a way that’s hard to spot.” Give the devil credit for being clever. His helpers lay false teaching alongside good teaching in order to confuse.
Feigned Words. The word feigned in the Greek is plastos, from which we get our word “plastic.” Plastic is pliable, molding itself just simply to fit and to imitate…plastic preachers with plastic words. Trump uses all of these tricks.
Know them by their manner. And many shall follow their pernicious ways… (v. 2)
Pernicious is a word we don’t use much today. It literally means “unbridled lust.” The center, sum and substance of their message is themselves. Have you noticed that apostasy and immorality go hand in hand? Often you’ll hear about false teachers being caught in adultery. Or, within their belief system, they advocate immorality, multiple wives, or some sort of “free sex.” We see it over and over again (Note Trump’s Adultery and Howard Stern talk). We hear news reports of a cult under the spell of a leader who, it is revealed, has been engaging in shocking immorality with members of his flock. High-profile evangelists preaching easy-believe-ism or a health-and-wealth gospel have sometimes been exposed as leading double lives.
For there are certain men crept in unawares, who were before of old ordained to this condemnation, ungodly men, turning the grace of our God into lasciviousness, and denying the only Lord God, and our Lord Jesus Christ. Jude, verse 4
They call themselves The Chosen One, but they’re living in sin. Note their methods, manner, and way of life. Are they above reproach?
I have seen also in the prophets of Jerusalem an horrible thing: they commit adultery, and walk in lies: they strengthen also the hands of evildoers, that none of them doth return from his wickedness: they are all of them unto me as Sodom, and the inhabitants therefore as Gomorrah. Jeremiah 23:14
Success in ministry does not necessarily mean they’re doing God’s work. Statistics are no proof that something is of God, because “many will follow” (2 Peter 2:2). Some people love the sensual rather than the spiritual. Jesus said, “Not every one that saith unto Me, Lord, Lord, shall enter into the kingdom of heaven; but he that doeth the will of My Father, which is in heaven” (Matthew 7:21). Many people lead double lives. They are counterfeits.
Know them by their motive. And through covetousness shall they with feigned words make merchandise of you…. 2 Peter 2:3
What is the false teacher’s motive? They want to use and manipulate you. Why? Because they themselves are covetous.
For their own motivation and wicked heart, Peter says, they make merchandise of the Gospel. A very Trumpian description.
Trump is surrounded by Prosperity Preachers. These hucksters are on TV and merchandise the Gospel of Christ. The hottest part of hell is reserved for these plastic preachers who, for whatever reason, merchandise God’s people. With great swelling words they exploit the ignorant. They are prophets, spelled “P-R-O-F-I-T-S.”
Lastly, in verses 4-5 Peter gets very serious. He says God will surely judge and not spare them. God is saying: Here is My solemn warning to every counterfeiter. When the angels fell, I judged them. When civilization in Noah’s day became polluted, I judged them. When Sodom and Gomorrah became perverted, I judged them. And I’m going to judge these false prophets.
Don’t get caught up in counterfeit Christianity. God will not spare sin or the sinner, for He did not spare His only begotten Son, the Lord Jesus, so that you and I might have eternal life.
The world is full of counterfeits. Every counterfeit dollar is a tribute to the worth of the real — or men wouldn’t be printing counterfeits! And every counterfeit Christian is a tribute to the value of salvation. Jesus is real. Salvation is real. And you can make sure you have the real thing if you repent of your sin and trust Him.
Is it possible that Trump is the Antichrist?
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Named
Dale Hansen
In these last days, Scripture warns that false prophets will arise and deceive many. Believers who are not well-grounded make easy targets for doctrines that may sound good but are filled with error.
Some doctrines are evil, we must sharpen our awareness and be alert — not just for ourselves but for our loved ones who might otherwise be drawn to a false prophet.
Five tests you can apply to any false prophet’s message: the Source, Savior, Subject, Salvation, and Sanctification tests. But even if the teacher’s message passes these tests, we still should examine his method, manner, and motive. It is method, manner, and motive that Trump fails and his parse knowledge of scripture.
Know them by their method.
They “…privily shall bring in damnable heresies…And through covetousness shall they with feigned words make merchandise of you: (2 Peter 2:1-3)
Peter is describing the way they operate. Privily means “secretly, clandestinely, in a way that’s hard to spot.” Give the devil credit for being clever. His helpers lay false teaching alongside good teaching in order to confuse.
Feigned Words. The word feigned in the Greek is plastos, from which we get our word “plastic.” Plastic is pliable, molding itself just simply to fit and to imitate…plastic preachers with plastic words. Trump uses all of these tricks.
Know them by their manner. And many shall follow their pernicious ways… (v. 2)
Pernicious is a word we don’t use much today. It literally means “unbridled lust.” The center, sum and substance of their message is themselves. Have you noticed that apostasy and immorality go hand in hand? Often you’ll hear about false teachers being caught in adultery. Or, within their belief system, they advocate immorality, multiple wives, or some sort of “free sex.” We see it over and over again (Note Trump’s Adultery and Howard Stern talk). We hear news reports of a cult under the spell of a leader who, it is revealed, has been engaging in shocking immorality with members of his flock. High-profile evangelists preaching easy-believe-ism or a health-and-wealth gospel have sometimes been exposed as leading double lives.
For there are certain men crept in unawares, who were before of old ordained to this condemnation, ungodly men, turning the grace of our God into lasciviousness, and denying the only Lord God, and our Lord Jesus Christ. Jude, verse 4
They call themselves The Chosen One, but they’re living in sin. Note their methods, manner, and way of life. Are they above reproach?
I have seen also in the prophets of Jerusalem an horrible thing: they commit adultery, and walk in lies: they strengthen also the hands of evildoers, that none of them doth return from his wickedness: they are all of them unto me as Sodom, and the inhabitants therefore as Gomorrah. Jeremiah 23:14
Success in ministry does not necessarily mean they’re doing God’s work. Statistics are no proof that something is of God, because “many will follow” (2 Peter 2:2). Some people love the sensual rather than the spiritual. Jesus said, “Not every one that saith unto Me, Lord, Lord, shall enter into the kingdom of heaven; but he that doeth the will of My Father, which is in heaven” (Matthew 7:21). Many people lead double lives. They are counterfeits.
Know them by their motive. And through covetousness shall they with feigned words make merchandise of you…. 2 Peter 2:3
What is the false teacher’s motive? They want to use and manipulate you. Why? Because they themselves are covetous.
For their own motivation and wicked heart, Peter says, they make merchandise of the Gospel. A very Trumpian description.
Trump is surrounded by Prosperity Preachers. These hucksters are on TV and merchandise the Gospel of Christ. The hottest part of hell is reserved for these plastic preachers who, for whatever reason, merchandise God’s people. With great swelling words they exploit the ignorant. They are prophets, spelled “P-R-O-F-I-T-S.”
Lastly, in verses 4-5 Peter gets very serious. He says God will surely judge and not spare them. God is saying: Here is My solemn warning to every counterfeiter. When the angels fell, I judged them. When civilization in Noah’s day became polluted, I judged them. When Sodom and Gomorrah became perverted, I judged them. And I’m going to judge these false prophets.
Don’t get caught up in counterfeit Christianity. God will not spare sin or the sinner, for He did not spare His only begotten Son, the Lord Jesus, so that you and I might have eternal life.
The world is full of counterfeits. Every counterfeit dollar is a tribute to the worth of the real — or men wouldn’t be printing counterfeits! And every counterfeit Christian is a tribute to the value of salvation. Jesus is real. Salvation is real. And you can make sure you have the real thing if you repent of your sin and trust Him.
Is it possible that Trump is the Antichrist?
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Yet last time I counted, Faux news claimed that there were 33 Wars on MAGA Morons such as: The War on Xmas, Xmas Trees, Masculinity, Makes, Females, Conservatives, Christians, Family Values, Gender, etc, etc, etc, … That sounds like a solid string of victim claiming.
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Eastman admitted to Jacob that Trump’s Electors Coup would lose on the merits in the Supreme Court: “When I pressed him on the point, I said ‘John, if the vice president did what you were asking him to do, we would lose 9-0 in the Supreme Court, wouldn’t we?’ And he initially started at, ‘Well, I think maybe you would lose only 7-2,' and after some further discussion, acknowledged, ‘Well, yeah, you’re right, we would lose 9-0.’ ... [He] ultimately acknowledged that, no, we would lose 9-0 — no judge would support his argument.”
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Mr. Mueller, for his part, defended his work and sought to drive home to lawmakers and the public the grave implications of his report, which laid bare that Mr. Trump was elected with Russia’s help and cataloged the president’s frantic efforts to undermine the investigation into Moscow’s election interference.
Democrats did get him to confirm the most damaging elements of his findings. Under intense questioning, Mr. Mueller said the president had not been cleared of obstructing justice, nor had he been completely exonerated, as Mr. Trump has so often declared; he said that the president had been untruthful in some of his under-oath responses during the probe; and he called Mr. Trump’s encouragement of WikiLeaks “problematic,” to say the least.
Mueller says Trump was “generally” untruthful and incomplete in his written answers
Asked for his reaction to candidate Trump’s praise for WikiLeaks during the campaign, Mr. Mueller did not mince words.
“It’s problematic — is an understatement, in terms of what it displays in terms of giving some hope or some boost to what is and should be illegal activity,” Mr. Mueller responded.
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Matt's Horsemanship
So every major news outlet in America and the Western World got the news wrong and FAUX news got it right? The news agency that has a bromance with the president (that no longer goes by “Fair and Balanced”) is the only really independent news source. The FBI, CIA, NSA, NYT, WP, WSJ, New Yorker, CNN, MSNBC, CBS, BBC, Times, News Week, USA Today, and the Muller Report all are part of a Deep State and got everything wrong about Trump?
You must really fill picked on and alone.
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@bigtobacco1098
Eastman admitted to Jacob that Trump’s Electors Coup would lose on the merits in the Supreme Court: “When I pressed him on the point, I said ‘John, if the vice president did what you were asking him to do, we would lose 9-0 in the Supreme Court, wouldn’t we?’ And he initially started at, ‘Well, I think maybe you would lose only 7-2,' and after some further discussion, acknowledged, ‘Well, yeah, you’re right, we would lose 9-0.’ ... [He] ultimately acknowledged that, no, we would lose 9-0 — no judge would support his argument.”
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Marilee Carr
Trump does not respect the law, the law is something other people have to deal with. This is obvious with his past business transactions, how he treated Secessions Who right recused himself, by how Bill Barr Out right lied to America as to what the Mueller Report said. By how Treasonous Trump felt no shame in seeking help from and receiving help from (wittingly or unwittingly) from the Russian GRU, etc. He has no respect for our Democratic Institutions, such as attacking the FBI because he doesn’t like their solid findings, attacking the judicial because they are convicting his friends, putting unqualified loyalists into critical positions, clearing out our non political diplomats, state department employees, scientists, etc. because they frown on his games, incompetence, and criminality.
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@keymcdot8367
You see the ironic part of your statement is that Faux news is a valid opinion. When you compare all other Respected Media Sources whether in America, England, France, Germany, Danish, etc. such as The Respected NYT, WAPO, Politico, Reuters, AP, The New Yorker, USA Today, WSJ, Time, The Guardian, The Economist, Foreign Affairs, Die Welt, Die Zeit, etc. No other Respected Media Source Corroborates the crap that Faux is putting out. To make it worse, independent investigations, university research, scholarly research, historical research, Etc also do not support in anyway the crap that Faux is putting out. So there can only be one logical explanation, either the World of News is in cahoots or Faux is sheer propaganda. As Occam’s razor postulates, the simplest explanation is the one most likely to be true.
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@keymcdot8367
I don’t think you are understanding what I a saying. There are no more Conservatives, there are no more Republicans, these people and their ideology has been pushed aside by Trumpian GQP Neo Nazism supported by Faux news. If you were a True Conservative or what used to be a Republican we could nicely debate all day as to what Real Republicans have right and what do Democrats have right… but no more. With Trumpism & Faux such fine points can no longer be debated as even TRUTH has now become “Alternate Facts, Grand Omissions, outright Big Lies, and Stolen Election Myths”. For Example the following is the 1988 Republican Platform:
Jobs, Growth, and Opportunity for All
Family Income
Jobs
Opportunity for All
Entrepreneurship
Income Taxes Slashed for Typical Families
Regulatory Reform
Etc.
NOW COMPARE THAT TO REPUBLICAN 2020 Platform:
RESOLVED, That the Republican Party has and will continue to enthusiastically support the President’s America-first agenda;
RESOLVED, That the 2020 Republican National Convention will adjourn without adopting a new platform until the 2024 Republican National Convention;
RESOLVED, That the 2020 Republican National Convention calls on the media to engage in accurate and unbiased reporting, especially as it relates to the strong support of the RNC for President Trump and his Administration; and
RESOLVED, That any motion to amend the 2016 Platform or to adopt a new platform, including any motion to suspend the procedures that will allow doing so, will be ruled out of order
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Joey Yared
DEMOCRACY IS IN DECLINE AROUND THE WORLD - AND TRUMP IS PART OF THE PROBLEM.
The Freedom House Annual report on the health of global democracy warned of its decline. In its survey evaluating 195 countries and 15 territories, Freedom House, a nongovernmental, nonpartisan advocacy organization established in 1941, found that political freedoms and civil liberties across the world are backsliding more often than they are improving.
“Democracy is under assault,” read the opening sentence of its report, written by Sarah Repucci. “Dictators are toiling to stamp out the last vestiges of domestic dissent and spread their harmful influence to new corners of the world.”
The usual suspects remain among the worst offenders. Freedom House decried China for its “totalitarian offensive” in Xinjiang and other campaigns of repression, and it warned of Beijing’s “relentless campaign to replace existing international norms with its own authoritarian vision.” It pointed to Russia’s “stage-managed elections” in 2019, in which the genuine opposition was largely shut out. Iran’s leadership, even as it sowed “discord” in neighboring countries, deployed security forces that used live ammunition to crush demonstrations last fall, killing hundreds of people.
But perhaps more disquieting is the steady erosion seen in “established democracies,” more than two dozen of which have seen net losses in their democracy rankings.
“Many freely elected leaders are dramatically narrowing their concerns to a blinkered interpretation of the national interest,” wrote Repucci. “In fact, such leaders — including the chief executives of the United States and India, the world’s two largest democracies — are increasingly willing to break down institutional safeguards and disregard the rights of critics and minorities as they pursue their populist agendas.”
President Trump is a key part of this story. Freedom House’s report, titled “A Leaderless Struggle for Democracy,” highlighted the “pressure” Trump is exerting “on electoral integrity, judicial independence, and safeguards against corruption” in the United States.
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Fact: Kudlow has been grossly wrong about every single economic event in the last 3 decades.
“Homebuilders led the stock parade this week with a fantastic 11 percent gain. This is a group that hedge funds and bubbleheads love to hate. All the bond bears have been dead wrong in predicting sky-high mortgage rates. So have all the bubbleheads who expect housing-price crashes in Las Vegas or Naples, Fla., to bring down the consumer, the rest of the economy and the entire stock market.” — June, 2005
“What’s even more incredible is Team Obama’s stubborn refusal to have any faith in the free market. In some of the hardest hit areas of the country, markets are already solving the housing problem.
If the government really wants to help, instead of bailing out irresponsible mortgage holders, it should support new and younger families who want to buy starter homes and begin to climb the ladder of prosperity.
All this is free-market economics 101. And I say, let free-markets work.” — February, 2009
“At home in the U.S., there are still housing-slump worries and concerns about an inventory correction in autos and factories. Former Federal Reserve Chairman Alan Greenspan this week even predicted a recession, naming the budget deficit as the cause. Huh? The deficit is evaporating as record tax revenues are being generated by a solid economy, itself a function of the low marginal tax rates put in place by President Bush.” — March, 2007
“Recessions are therapeutic. They cleanse excess from the economy. Think about excessive risk speculation, leverage, and housing. Recessions are curative: They restore balance and create the foundation for the next recovery. Despite the housing and credit problem and the sub-prime virus, banks are still lending to businesses. So we don’t have a genuine credit crunch across the board. That is very good.” — April, 2008
“There's no question that President Clinton's across-the-board tax increases on labor, capital and energy will throw a wet blanket over the recovery and depress the economy's long-run potential to grow.” — March, 1993
“And let’s not forget: The stock market, which is a leading indicator of the future economy, is in a wee bit of a correction. Given the recent rise of presidential candidate Donald Trump, we should all be thankful that stocks haven’t plunged. Trump’s agenda of trade protectionism, dollar devaluation, and immigrant deportation is completely anti-growth. It’s like Fortress America in an economy that is completely globalized and where the U.S. must compete in the worldwide race for capital and labor. Trump’s policies don’t fit.” — August, 2015
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Consider two scenarios about how Washington works. In one, a local activist decides to run for Congress. A friend hosts a fund-raiser for her at his law firm, where 10 partners each give the maximum legal individual donation, $2,800. After she wins, the host asks her to meet with a client, a constituent whose business would be affected by legislation her committee will soon vote on. She agrees to hear the company’s case against the bill. She never hears from anyone on the other side, which has no lobbyists, and she votes for an amendment that weakens the bill.
In the second, a man elected to high office directs a meeting of foreign leaders to be held at a resort he owns. He ignores subpoenas, dangles pardons to staff members to encourage them to violate the law and to former employees to discourage them from cooperating with investigations. He appoints industry lobbyists to positions where they reverse regulations affecting their former employers. He passes tax bills that enrich him, his family, and allies. He rewards those who support him and punishes those who oppose him. He treats his office as a king dispensing favors to Oligarchs and collecting favors that enhance his personal wealth. The list could go on but the point is made - What is a Swamp and who gets to drain it?
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TRUMP ANNOUNCES THE FORMATION OF A NEW PATRIOTIC YOUTH GROUP
The GREATER GERMAN YOUTH MOVEMENT will have subunits:
The American Young People for boys aged 8 to 18
The League of American Girls 10 to 18
Doctrine
The Youth Organizations will be taught camping, hiking, shooting, and political ideology. It is hoped that over time these activities can evolve to greater emphasis on physical fitness, hardness and military training. Sacrifice for the Trumpian cause will be inculcated into their training. The driving ideology will be "America must live" even if the members of the Youth Organization must die for the greater good of Trump’s America. Naturally, the Trump Youth will will have a Purity Policy and Racial Policy.
Deployment of the Trump Youth:
The Trump Youth will be used to break up none conforming Church youth groups, spy on non conforming religious classes and non conforming Bible studies, and interfere with non conforming church attendance. Education and training programs for the Trump Youth will be designed to undermine the values of the traditional “elitist” structures of American society along with their privileges; their training will also be aimed at an obliteration of social and intellectual distinctions between the classes, so as to be replaced and dominated by the political goals of Trump’s totalitarian dictatorship. Besides promoting a doctrine of classlessness, additional training will be provided that linked state-identified enemies such as the MAIN STREAM MEDIA, LIBERALS, DEMOCRATS, HISTORIANS, TEACHERS, ACADEMICS, ETC, that are preventing America From Being Great Again.
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The Ultra Conservative New York Post gave Trump a blistering rebuke demanding that he grow up and accept his loss to President-elect Joe Biden and stop falsely claiming that mass voter fraud had marred the results — an effort the paper labeled a “dark charade.”
“We understand, Mr. President, that you’re angry that you lost,” the editorial board wrote. “But to continue down this road is treasonous.”
Under the headline “Stop the insanity,” the conservative tabloid took particular aim at Trump’s attempts to pressure Vice President Pence and congressional Republicans to somehow Throwout the result when they meet on Jan. 6 to certify Biden’s electoral college victory.
“You have tweeted that, as long as Republicans have ‘courage,’ they can overturn the results and give you four more years in office,” the Post wrote. “In other words, you’re cheering for an undemocratic coup.”
The article also reminded Trump that he had clearly failed in his attempts to prove voter fraud propelled Biden to victory.
“You had every right to investigate the election. But let’s be clear: Those efforts have found nothing,” the Post wrote, noting that Trump-backed recounts in Wisconsin and Georgia had turned up no evidence of malfeasance.
The editorial also lashed out at Sidney Powell, whose “Kraken” lawsuits seeking to overturn the election results have repeatedly been tossed out of court, and Michael Flynn, the former national security adviser who has floated the idea of declaring martial law to keep Trump in power.
“Michael Flynn suggesting martial law is tantamount to treason. It is shameful.”
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@MrSebear
Should I not be concerned for the soul of others who are swayed by false teachings and a Cult Leader?
2 Timothy 4:3-4, the Apostle Paul warns that a time will come when people will turn from the truth and instead entertain teachers who say what they want to hear, offering myths rather than God’s Word.
Should I not warn others that they have been led astray?
Matthew 7:15-20, They come to you in sheep’s clothing, but inwardly they are ferocious wolves. By their fruit you will recognize them. Do people pick grapes from thorn bushes, or figs from thistles? Likewise, every good tree bears good fruit, but a bad tree bears bad fruit. A good tree cannot bear bad fruit, and a bad tree cannot bear good fruit. Every tree that does not bear good fruit is cut down and thrown into the fire. Thus, by their fruit you will recognize them.
Should I not point out Peter's admonishment about false teachers among us?
2 Peter 2:1
But false prophets also arose among the people, just as there will be false teachers among you, who will secretly bring in destructive heresies, even denying the Master who bought them, bringing upon themselves swift destruction.
As Timothy above says: That, that is not of God/Jesus is thorn bushes and thistle - an appropriate description of Trumpian Neo Nazism.
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JARED KUSHNER HAS CREATED A SHELL COMPANY TO FUNNEL CAMPAIGN CASH TO FAMILY MEMBERS.
Donald Trump and his family have spent the last four years making the airtight case that they view the presidency as simply a means to enrich themselves and their associates. They probably don’t particularly like that reputation and, yet, it hasn’t stopped them from funneling taxpayer money to their private business, gouging the Secret Service, and raising legal defense funds that the fine print says could go directly to their pockets. Oh, and, according to a new report, setting up a shell company that spent hundreds of millions of campaign dollars to pay Trump family members along with other expenditures it seemingly wanted to keep under wraps.
According to Business Insider, first son-in-law Jared Kushner personally approved the creation of the company, incorporated as American Made Media Consultants Corp. and American Made Media Consultants LLC, in April 2018. From there, Eric Trump’s wife, Lara Trump, was named president, with Mike Pence’s nephew John Pence serving as vice president. If you’re wondering why the shell company, described as Business Insider as acting “almost like a campaign within a campaign” was necessary, well, it’s not entirely clear, but it sure sounds like the express purpose was the ability to shield “financial and operational details from public scrutiny,” as it allowed the campaign to avoid federally mandated disclosures concerning what it was spending considerable amounts of money on. And by considerable we mean nearly half of the $1.26 billion raised for Trump’s reelection.
Campaign-finance records showed Trump's reelection effort and its affiliated committee with the RNC spent more than $600 million through American Made Consultants since its formation. For months, some of Trump’s top advisers and campaign staff told Insider they had no idea how the shell company functioned, which cast an air of mystery around the operation…. Some of those same advisers said they didn’t learn about John Pence’s and Lara Trump’s involvement until Insider contacted them for this story.
Campaign-law experts have long accused the Trump team of using a corporate pass-through to hide payments. The nonpartisan Campaign Legal Center, led by former Republican Federal Election Commission Chairman Trevor Potter, filed a civil complaint with the FEC in July accusing the Trump campaign of “disguising” about $170 million worth of campaign spending in large part “by laundering the funds” through AMMC. Brendan Fischer, the Campaign Legal Center’s director of federal reform, said the payments to AMMC were a “scheme to evade telling voters even the basics on where its money is really going” and a “shield to disguise the ultimate recipients of its spending.”
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@georgeyarbrough88 Nice deflection… Typical. Trump committed Treason 3 times. 1. He and his campaign colluded with Russian Spies. Source: Muller Report Vol I, House Intel Report, and Senate Intel Report. 26 Indictments, 6 Convictions. 2. Trump incited a mob to attack the Capital & Coordinated the attack. Source: Missing WH Phone Records During Jan 6th, Record of Texts between WH, Congress Members, and Faux news hosts, and the#2 guy for the Oath Keepers testified under oath that they coordinated with the WH. Also, the Jan 6 Commission Records & Testimonies. 3. Trump Committed Treason the 3rd time when he organized the “Green Bay Sweep” Coup. Source: Campaign Emails from Trump Campaign, witness testimony, Mike Pence, Jan 6 Commission Documents.
GAME ON GEORGE. BRING ON YOU “facts” please source.
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TRUMP & HIS MURDEROUS LIES
Trump has reached the milestone of 18,000 lies during his presidency. On the same day he accused the WHO of “covering up the spread of the coronavirus” and failing to “share information in a timely fashion.” He declared he was cutting off funding for the world’s public health body in the middle of a pandemic.
He also called WHO a “tool of China” and floated the theory that WHO deliberately concealed the danger of the virus: “There’s something going on” at the WHO “that’s very bad,” and "I have a feeling they knew exactly what was going on.”
This is a murderous lie as 15 Trump appointed officials were embedded with WHO in Geneva, working full time, hand-in-glove with the organization on the virus from the very first day China disclosed the outbreak to the world, Dec. 31. These Trump officials U.S. officials dedicated 100% of their time to the virus. In the weeks that followed, they and other U.S. government scientists engaged in all major deliberations and decisions at the WHO on the novel coronavirus, had access to all information, and contributed significantly to the world body’s conclusions and recommendations. Everything that WHO knew, Trump knew — in real time. As congressional investigators are now learning, senior Trump administration officials — Health and Human Services Secretary Alex Azar; the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s Robert R. Redfield Jr., Anne Schuchat, Ray R. Arthur and Jeffrey McFarland; the National Institutes of Health’s Anthony S. Fauci and H. Clifford Lane, and many others — consulted with the WHO throughout the crisis.
Trump lied and Americans Died - 33,500+ & Counting.
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FAILURE IN AMERICA ON A TRUMPIAN SCALE:
Nearly every country has struggled to contain the coronavirus and made mistakes along the way.
China silenced doctors and allowed the virus to escape Wuhan, much of Europe went next, failing to avoid and contain enormous outbreaks. Today, many countries — Japan, Canada, France, Australia and more — are coping with new increases in cases after reopening parts of society.
But one country stands alone, as the only affluent nation to have suffered a severe, sustained outbreak for more than four months: the United States. In just the past month over 1.9 million Americans have tested positive for the virus. That’s more than five times as many as in all of Europe, Canada, Japan, South Korea and Australia, combined. The United States also has the highest number of Deaths 157,000 from the virus far out pacing all other countries. Brazil is the only country competing with the United States for complete failure in containing the virus.
What does the United States & Brazil have in common? Trumpian Politics.
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WHITE HOUSE MOVED TRANSCRIPT OF TRUMP CALL TO CLASSIFIED SERVER AFTER UKRAINE ADVISER RAISED ALARMS.
Moments after President Trump ended his phone call with Ukraine’s president on July 25, an unsettled national security aide rushed to the office of White House lawyer John Eisenberg.
Army Lt. Col. Alexander Vindman, the top Ukraine adviser at the White House, had been listening to the call and was disturbed by the pressure Trump had applied to Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky to investigate his political rivals, according to people familiar with Vindman’s testimony to lawmakers this week.
Vindman told Eisenberg, the White House’s legal adviser on national security issues, that what the president did was wrong, said the people, who spoke on the condition of anonymity because of the ongoing investigation.
Scribbling notes on a yellow legal pad, Eisenberg proposed a step that other officials have said is at odds with long-standing White House protocol: moving a transcript of the call to a highly classified server and restricting access to it, according to two people familiar with Vindman’s account.
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Trump touts Putin’s speaking out against his impeachment
A souvenir shop in Moscow displays Matryoshka dolls featuring President Trump and Russian President Vladimir Putin. (Misha Friedman/AFP/Getty Images)
By Colby Itkowitz and Isabelle Khurshudyan
December 21 at 10:31 AM MT
Late Friday night, minutes before deplaning in Florida for the holidays, President Trump retweeted a link to an article in which Russian President Vladimir Putin defended him against impeachment.
“A total Witch Hunt!” the president tweeted at 10:30 p.m., as he shared a 36-hour-old Associated Press tweet that read: “BREAKING: Russian President Vladimir Putin says U.S. President Donald Trump’s impeachment is far-fetched and predicts the U.S. Senate will reject it.”
Trump’s boasting of Putin’s support comes a day after The Washington Post reported that White House advisers feared Trump’s belief that Ukraine, not Russia, was responsible for interfering with the 2016 election was spurred by conversations Trump had with Putin.
[[Former White House officials say they feared Putin influenced the president’s views on Ukraine and 2016 campaign]]
Trump’s critics responded to the tweet, expressing exasperation more than incredulity.
“At the end of the day, it’s always Putin First,” wrote conservative commentator and “Never Trumper” Bill Kristol.
Russian President Vladimir Putin accused the U.S. House of Representatives Dec. 19 of having "invented" a story to "revise" history and impeach President Trump. (Reuters)
“Trump wants us to know that Putin has his back. We know,” tweeted Eric Columbus, a former Justice Department appointee in the Obama administration.
“Putin is a dictator who jails opponents, kills opponents, invades neighbors, interferes in democracies’ elections, etc. I don’t think an American president should be buddying with him. I wonder if Trump defenders are ever (secretly) embarrassed by this stuff. I hope so,” wrote Jay Nordlinger, a senior editor at the right-leaning National Review.
At his annual end-of-the-year news conference on Thursday, Putin was asked about Trump’s impeachment. He called the charges “completely fabricated reasons.”
That evening, Russian state media, which follows Putin’s lead, also threw its support behind Trump.
Donald Trump is the third president in U.S. history to face a Senate trial.
Popular Kremlin propagandist Vladimir Soloviev gave an impassioned defense of Trump on his evening show, raising his voice several times in a discussion with Atlantic Council expert Ariel Cohen.
“I can’t understand for what reason [Democrats] don’t like Trump,” Soloviev said.
Days earlier, on his two-hour Sunday night program, anchor Dmitry Kiselyov opined about how Hollywood has joined the Democrats in being against Trump, portraying him as “always on the dark side.”
And the state-sponsored Rossiya-1 news channel, which airs Soloviev’s show, recently broadcast segments of Rudolph W. Giuliani’s interview with right-wing channel One America News, in which the president’s personal attorney promoted debunked conspiracy theories about Ukrainian interference in the 2016 U.S. presidential election.
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Trump touts Putin’s speaking out against his impeachment
A souvenir shop in Moscow displays Matryoshka dolls featuring President Trump and Russian President Vladimir Putin. (Misha Friedman/AFP/Getty Images)
By Colby Itkowitz and Isabelle Khurshudyan
December 21 at 10:31 AM MT
Late Friday night, minutes before deplaning in Florida for the holidays, President Trump retweeted a link to an article in which Russian President Vladimir Putin defended him against impeachment.
“A total Witch Hunt!” the president tweeted at 10:30 p.m., as he shared a 36-hour-old Associated Press tweet that read: “BREAKING: Russian President Vladimir Putin says U.S. President Donald Trump’s impeachment is far-fetched and predicts the U.S. Senate will reject it.”
Trump’s boasting of Putin’s support comes a day after The Washington Post reported that White House advisers feared Trump’s belief that Ukraine, not Russia, was responsible for interfering with the 2016 election was spurred by conversations Trump had with Putin.
[[Former White House officials say they feared Putin influenced the president’s views on Ukraine and 2016 campaign]]
Trump’s critics responded to the tweet, expressing exasperation more than incredulity.
“At the end of the day, it’s always Putin First,” wrote conservative commentator and “Never Trumper” Bill Kristol.
Russian President Vladimir Putin accused the U.S. House of Representatives Dec. 19 of having "invented" a story to "revise" history and impeach President Trump. (Reuters)
“Trump wants us to know that Putin has his back. We know,” tweeted Eric Columbus, a former Justice Department appointee in the Obama administration.
“Putin is a dictator who jails opponents, kills opponents, invades neighbors, interferes in democracies’ elections, etc. I don’t think an American president should be buddying with him. I wonder if Trump defenders are ever (secretly) embarrassed by this stuff. I hope so,” wrote Jay Nordlinger, a senior editor at the right-leaning National Review.
At his annual end-of-the-year news conference on Thursday, Putin was asked about Trump’s impeachment. He called the charges “completely fabricated reasons.”
That evening, Russian state media, which follows Putin’s lead, also threw its support behind Trump.
Donald Trump is the third president in U.S. history to face a Senate trial.
Popular Kremlin propagandist Vladimir Soloviev gave an impassioned defense of Trump on his evening show, raising his voice several times in a discussion with Atlantic Council expert Ariel Cohen.
“I can’t understand for what reason [Democrats] don’t like Trump,” Soloviev said.
Days earlier, on his two-hour Sunday night program, anchor Dmitry Kiselyov opined about how Hollywood has joined the Democrats in being against Trump, portraying him as “always on the dark side.”
And the state-sponsored Rossiya-1 news channel, which airs Soloviev’s show, recently broadcast segments of Rudolph W. Giuliani’s interview with right-wing channel One America News, in which the president’s personal attorney promoted debunked conspiracy theories about Ukrainian interference in the 2016 U.S. presidential election.
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Trump alters weather chart to show that Alabama was threatened by Hurricane Dorian. 😂🤡🤣😂🤡🤣 What a baby we have for a president.
On Wednesday, the White House attempted to retroactively justify a tweet that President Trump issued over the weekend in which he warned, erroneously, that Alabama would be affected by Hurricane Dorian.
In a White House video released Wednesday, Trump displays a modified National Hurricane Center “cone of uncertainty” forecast, dated from 11 a.m. on Aug. 29, indicating Alabama would in fact be affected. The graphic appears to have been altered with a Sharpie to indicate a risk the storm would move into Alabama from Florida.
“We had, actually, our original chart was that it was going to be hit — hitting Florida directly,” Trump said as he displayed the graphic from Aug. 29, which now includes an added appendage extending the cone into Alabama. “That was the original chart,” Trump said. “It could’ve, uh, was going towards the Gulf,” Trump explained in the video.
Asked about the altered hurricane forecast chart at a White House event on opioids Wednesday afternoon, Trump said his briefings included a “95 percent chance probability” that Alabama would be hit. When asked whether the chart had been drawn on, Trump said: “I don’t know; I don’t know.”
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TrumpisAmazing And on the eighth day, God looked down on his planned paradise and said, "I need a man to test the will and goodness of a free people." So God made Trump.
God said, "I need a man who failed at everything but theft and grifting."
So God made Trump.
God said, "I need a narcissist & sociopath to lead the simple minded folk with hatred and fear."
So God made a Trump.
God said, "I need a corrupt & evil man who places himself above the law and makes a mockery of justice."
So God made Trump.
God said, "I need a man who will use violence and lies to seize power."
So God made Trump.
God said, "I need a man whose followers will call black white, call evil good and call criminals hostages."
So God made Trump.
God said, "I need his political party to obey without question and the press fear his wrath.”
So God made Trump.
God said, "I need a cruel man who uses his power and position to punish and harm his opposition."
So God made Trump.
God said, "I need a man who breaks the faith of even his most godly followers and leads them to idolatry, place himself above Me." So God made Trump.
And then God said, "I sent Trump to test you and until you cast him down you have failed."
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Michael Morales
The makings of a Fascist Dictatorship is there. The Cult of Person, the Rightwing Hate, the willingness to lie, cheat, twist, and break all norms. A violent group of followers - over 360 Americans have been killed by Rightwing Nuts in the last 10 years, 7 in the last 3 months.
Probably the only thing saving us is Trump’s Low IQ, his laziness, and his inability to give a rousing speech. He is however, closely tuned to his followers racism, xenophobia, ultranationalism, homophobia, etc.
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Zeducation
TRUMP & HIS MURDEROUS LIES
Trump has reached the milestone of 18,000 lies during his presidency. On the same day he accused the WHO of “covering up the spread of the coronavirus” and failing to “share information in a timely fashion.” He declared he was cutting off funding for the world’s public health body in the middle of a pandemic.
He also called WHO a “tool of China” and floated the theory that WHO deliberately concealed the danger of the virus: “There’s something going on” at the WHO “that’s very bad,” and "I have a feeling they knew exactly what was going on.”
This is a murderous lie as 15 Trump appointed officials were embedded with WHO in Geneva, working full time, hand-in-glove with the organization on the virus from the very first day China disclosed the outbreak to the world, Dec. 31. These Trump officials U.S. officials dedicated 100% of their time to the virus. In the weeks that followed, they and other U.S. government scientists engaged in all major deliberations and decisions at the WHO on the novel coronavirus, had access to all information, and contributed significantly to the world body’s conclusions and recommendations. Everything that WHO knew, Trump knew — in real time. As congressional investigators are now learning, senior Trump administration officials — Health and Human Services Secretary Alex Azar; the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s Robert R. Redfield Jr., Anne Schuchat, Ray R. Arthur and Jeffrey McFarland; the National Institutes of Health’s Anthony S. Fauci and H. Clifford Lane, and many others — consulted with the WHO throughout the crisis.
Trump lied and Americans Died - 33,500+ & Counting.
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Trump Aide Has Mental Melt Down On Facebook.
Michael R. Caputo told his audience that left-wing hit squads were being trained for insurrection and accused C.D.C. scientists of “sedition.” He complained that he was under siege by the news media, feeling paranoid, and that his “mental health was failing.” He accused the CDC of harboring a “secret resistance unit” determined to undermine President Trump.
Mr. Caputo, who lead efforts to warp C.D.C. weekly bulletins to fit Mr. Trump’s pandemic narrative, suggested that he personally could be in danger from opponents of the administration. “If you carry guns, buy ammunition, ladies and gentlemen, because it’s going to be hard to get,” he urged his followers. “I don’t like being alone in Washington,” Mr. Caputo said, describing “shadows on the ceiling in my apartment, there alone, shadows are so long.” He also said the mounting number of Covid-19 deaths was taking a toll on him, telling his viewers, “You are not waking up every morning and talking about dead Americans. But you should attend Trump rallies and wear a mask”.
SOUNDS LIKE TRUMP ONLY HIRES THE BEST PEOPLE 🤪🤪🤪🤪
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Delia Darling
In diminishing order Trump could have followed the the example of Germany, England, Ireland, France, Spain, or Italy. Instead he did nothing, no leadership, no pre planning, barely listened to his Science Advisors, no stocking up supplies, no federal coordinated effort, no federal coordination for acquiring supplies, no coordinated messaging on quarantine vs no quarantine. Trump’s messaging often and frequently contradicted the Scientific Advisors. Trump pushing HDQ even though scientists kept say “hold on let us verify it first”. Trump wasting 2 months, telling America it is nothing, it is a hoax, nothing to worry about, we have 1 case from China soon we will have none, we have 15 cases soon we will have none, etc.
Bottom line, Trump sucks at his job, putting a Moron in the WH has a devastating price for the American populous to pay.
American has roughly a third of all Covid19 Deaths.
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Delia Darling
If what I stated is “factually wrong” then a normal person would have pointed out each “error” and provided evidence to the contrary - but you didn’t, and you won’t, because you can’t, because all evidence supports my position. MAGA Maggots don’t do research, facts, evidence, sourcing, documentation, etc. If they did, the information disconnect, would blow their little Faux Bubble asunder.
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What the judge said: U.S. District Judge Matthew W. Brann, a Republican, dismissed the case Saturday, throwing it out before the Trump campaign said it had a chance to even get started. And he didn’t just close the door. He slammed it, with a 37-page ruling that at times amounted to accusing the campaign of undermining democracy.
Among the most notable portions of his writing:
• “[The Trump campaign asks] this Court to disenfranchise almost seven million voters. This Court has been unable to find any case in which a plaintiff has sought such a drastic remedy in the contest of an election, in terms of the sheer volume of votes asked to be invalidated. One might expect that when seeking such a startling outcome, a plaintiff would come formidably armed with compelling legal arguments and factual proof of rampant corruption, such that this Court would have no option but to regrettably grant the proposed injunctive relief despite the impact it would have on such a large group of citizens. That has not happened. Instead, this Court has been presented with strained legal arguments without merit and speculative accusations, unpled in the operative complaint and unsupported by evidence. In the United States of America, this cannot justify the disenfranchisement of a single voter, let alone all the voters of its sixth most populated state. Our people, laws, and institutions demand more.”
• “Plaintiffs’ only remaining claim alleges a violation of equal protection. This claim, like Frankenstein’s Monster, has been haphazardly stitched together from two distinct theories in an attempt to avoid controlling precedent.” (In other words, the judge alleges the Trump campaign tried to sew up baseless accusations in the hopes the judge wouldn’t notice they didn’t have a concrete one.)
• “[Two voters who say their ballots were thrown out] have entirely failed to establish any causal relationship between Secretary [of State Kathy] Boockvar and the cancellation of their votes.”
• “Granting Plaintiffs’ requested relief would necessarily require invalidating the ballots of every person who voted in Pennsylvania. Because this Court has no authority to take away the right to vote of even a single person, let alone millions of citizens, it cannot grant Plaintiffs’ requested relief.”
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Nevada Dan
dad bear
William H. McRaven, a retired Navy admiral, was commander of the U.S. Joint Special Operations Command from 2011 to 2014. He oversaw the 2011 Navy SEAL raid in Pakistan that killed al-Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden. He writes:
Dear Mr. President:
Former CIA director John Brennan, whose security clearance you revoked on Wednesday, is one of the finest public servants I have ever known. Few Americans have done more to protect this country than John. He is a man of unparalleled integrity, whose honesty and character have never been in question, except by those who don’t know him.
Therefore, I would consider it an honor if you would revoke my security clearance as well, so I can add my name to the list of men and women who have spoken up against your presidency.
Like most Americans, I had hoped that when you became president, you would rise to the occasion and become the leader this great nation needs.
A good leader tries to embody the best qualities of his or her organization. A good leader sets the example for others to follow. A good leader always puts the welfare of others before himself or herself.
Your leadership, however, has shown little of these qualities. Through your actions, you have embarrassed us in the eyes of our children, humiliated us on the world stage and, worst of all, divided us as a nation.
If you think for a moment that your McCarthy-era tactics will suppress the voices of criticism, you are sadly mistaken. The criticism will continue until you become the leader we prayed you would be.
NEED WE SAY MORE THAN THIS AMERICAN HERO? STAND UP AND BE COUNTED. VOTE THIS WOULD BE PETTY DICTATOR OUT OF OFFICE.
🇺🇸🗽🇺🇸
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What is happening is not a coup, or even an attempt at a coup but a ham-handed effort to discredit the election outcome by any crackpot method available to sooth Trump’s ego. Scholars of real coups in other countries say that Trump has few of the ingredients necessary to pull off a coup — the international community despises him, the nation’s main media is still independent, an the armed forces think Trump is a joke. However, Trump is set to successfully pursue a slow-motion “con game,” pleading for donations by playing his supporters. He’s also crafting a “Stab in the Back” myth in hopes of returning to the WH in 2024.There is a fundamental difference between between a coup and a con. A coup is an illegitimate power grab by force. A con is a mostly criminal, unethical, or manipulative act. A con can become a coup if the con is successful — if enough people buy into the con then a Coup has occurred.
Though Trump will fail in his coup - this time - the fact that his fellow Republicans tacitly approved of his methods, or looked the other way dramatically weakens our Democratic Institutions. As Trump continues to spew crazy conspiracies, half truths, and outright lies more and more Republican voters will drift into delusion and violence.
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Fact: Trump and Jeffrey Epstein shared “girls” at arranged party.
WASHINGTON — It was supposed to be an exclusive party at Mar-a-Lago, Donald J. Trump’s members-only club in Palm Beach, Fla. But other than the two dozen or so women flown in to provide the entertainment, the only guests were Mr. Trump and Jeffrey Epstein.
The year was 1992 and the event was a “calendar girl” competition, something that George Houraney, a Florida-based businessman who ran American Dream Enterprise, had organized at Mr. Trump’s request.
“I arranged to have some contestants fly in,” Mr. Houraney recalled in an interview on Monday. “At the very first party, I said, ‘Who’s coming tonight? I have 28 girls coming.’ It was him and Epstein.”
Mr. Houraney, who had just partnered with Mr. Trump to host events at his casinos, said he was surprised. “I said, ‘Donald, this is supposed to be a party with V.I.P.s. You’re telling me it’s you and Epstein?’”
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EVERYTHING TRUMP ALWAYS COMES UP RUSSIA:
Trump Is a Con Man, but He’s Also a Mark.Corrupt forces find it easy to manipulate this president.
Kenneth McCallion is a New York lawyer who once represented former Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko of Ukraine. A few years ago, he brought a civil racketeering lawsuit on her behalf against some now familiar figures like Paul Manafort and the Ukrainian oligarch Dmitry Firtash. He knows a lot about corruption in Ukraine, and he said that earlier this year F.B.I. counterintelligence investigators approached him for information about Rudy Giuliani’s Ukrainian activities.
By then, McCallion had already been hearing strange things about what Lev Parnas and Igor Fruman, whom we now know as Giuliani’s close associates, were doing in Ukraine.
Parnas and Fruman, both American citizens born in the former Soviet Union, aren’t ordinary political operatives. Parnas has long been a low-level grifter. Fruman owns an Odessa beach club called Mafia Rave, and a joint investigation by the Organized Crime and Corruption Reporting Project and BuzzFeed News found ties between him and an Odessa organized crime figure named Volodymyr Galanternik, known as “Light Bulb.”
The duo first appeared on the American political scene in 2015 as enthusiastic supporters of Donald Trump. They became big-dollar donors to a number of Republicans; their Instagram accounts would soon fill up with photos of party elites. Then, this year, McCallion learned they were poking around Ukrainian politics, where they were spreading conspiracy theories that Ukraine, not Russia, had interfered in America’s election in 2016.
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Trump Aide Has Mental Melt Down On Facebook.
Michael R. Caputo told his audience that left-wing hit squads were being trained for insurrection and accused C.D.C. scientists of “sedition.” He complained that he was under siege by the news media, feeling paranoid, and that his “mental health was failing.” He accused the CDC of harboring a “secret resistance unit” determined to undermine President Trump.
Mr. Caputo, who lead efforts to warp C.D.C. weekly bulletins to fit Mr. Trump’s pandemic narrative, suggested that he personally could be in danger from opponents of the administration. “If you carry guns, buy ammunition, ladies and gentlemen, because it’s going to be hard to get,” he urged his followers. “I don’t like being alone in Washington,” Mr. Caputo said, describing “shadows on the ceiling in my apartment, there alone, shadows are so long.” He also said the mounting number of Covid-19 deaths was taking a toll on him, telling his viewers, “You are not waking up every morning and talking about dead Americans. But you should attend Trump rallies and wear a mask”.
SOUNDS LIKE TRUMP ONLY HIRES THE BEST PEOPLE 🤪🤪🤪🤪
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TRUMP CANT READ AND WONT LISTEN
Reagan & Clinton preferred to read the written PDB, scribbling questions in the margins. Barack Obama read the daily brief on his iPad and sent it back with detailed queries. But Trump won’t read the PDB or Listen to Oral briefings, or much of anything else. Maybe part of the reason is that Trump is still mad that the Intelligence Community said that Russia had intervened in the 2016 election on his behalf. Given his hostility toward the intelligence community, and his Twitter-sized attention span, Trump is impossible to brief. Some briefers have even tried to do a show and tell using Pictures of New York City landmarks, agency briefers thought, might help Trump grasp threats. In an effort to explain the scale of North Korea’s nuclear program, the CIA built a model of the Hermit Kingdom’s underground weapons facility and put a miniature Statue of Liberty inside it.
But Trump preferred to get his news from Fox news, and other sources such as Putin. In July 2017, he refused to believe the CIA that N. Korea had developed an ICBM capable of reaching U.S. soil. How could the president be certain the agency was wrong? Because, he said, Vladimir Putin told him so.
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A day before rioters stormed Congress, an FBI office in Virginia issued an explicit internal warning that extremists were preparing to travel to Washington to commit violence and “war,” according to an FBI internal document. A situational information report approved for release the day before the U.S. Capitol riot painted a dire portrait of dangerous plans, including individuals sharing a map of the complex’s tunnels, and possible rally points for would-be conspirators to meet up. “As of 5 January 2021, FBI Norfolk received information indicating calls for violence in response to ‘unlawful lockdowns’ to begin on 6 January 2021 in Washington. D.C.,” the document says. “An online thread discussed specific calls for violence to include stating ‘Be ready to fight. Congress needs to hear glass breaking, doors being kicked in, and blood being spilled. Get violent. Stop calling this a march, or rally, or a protest. Go there ready for war. Our President wants us to do this. NOTHING else will achieve this goal.”
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@cooglerHere I take it you never studied Econ 101, as you have grossly oversimplified the problem of inflation. You forget pent-up demand, tax policy, war, supply chain issues, economic disruptions, world interconnectivity, energy, etc. and the list goes on. Your simplified explanation could account for American inflation but it does not explain Worldwide Inflation, therefore you are grossly wrong. As for Poli Sci 101 or any other government course at the Highschool or College Level, can you explain to me what part of the Constitution allows Treasonous Trump to attack the Capital or attempt a Coup using the VP and Fake Electors?
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Trump touts Putin’s speaking out against his impeachment
A souvenir shop in Moscow displays Matryoshka dolls featuring President Trump and Russian President Vladimir Putin. (Misha Friedman/AFP/Getty Images)
By Colby Itkowitz and Isabelle Khurshudyan
December 21 at 10:31 AM MT
Late Friday night, minutes before deplaning in Florida for the holidays, President Trump retweeted a link to an article in which Russian President Vladimir Putin defended him against impeachment.
“A total Witch Hunt!” the president tweeted at 10:30 p.m., as he shared a 36-hour-old Associated Press tweet that read: “BREAKING: Russian President Vladimir Putin says U.S. President Donald Trump’s impeachment is far-fetched and predicts the U.S. Senate will reject it.”
Trump’s boasting of Putin’s support comes a day after The Washington Post reported that White House advisers feared Trump’s belief that Ukraine, not Russia, was responsible for interfering with the 2016 election was spurred by conversations Trump had with Putin.
[[Former White House officials say they feared Putin influenced the president’s views on Ukraine and 2016 campaign]]
Trump’s critics responded to the tweet, expressing exasperation more than incredulity.
“At the end of the day, it’s always Putin First,” wrote conservative commentator and “Never Trumper” Bill Kristol.
Russian President Vladimir Putin accused the U.S. House of Representatives Dec. 19 of having "invented" a story to "revise" history and impeach President Trump. (Reuters)
“Trump wants us to know that Putin has his back. We know,” tweeted Eric Columbus, a former Justice Department appointee in the Obama administration.
“Putin is a dictator who jails opponents, kills opponents, invades neighbors, interferes in democracies’ elections, etc. I don’t think an American president should be buddying with him. I wonder if Trump defenders are ever (secretly) embarrassed by this stuff. I hope so,” wrote Jay Nordlinger, a senior editor at the right-leaning National Review.
At his annual end-of-the-year news conference on Thursday, Putin was asked about Trump’s impeachment. He called the charges “completely fabricated reasons.”
That evening, Russian state media, which follows Putin’s lead, also threw its support behind Trump.
Donald Trump is the third president in U.S. history to face a Senate trial.
Popular Kremlin propagandist Vladimir Soloviev gave an impassioned defense of Trump on his evening show, raising his voice several times in a discussion with Atlantic Council expert Ariel Cohen.
“I can’t understand for what reason [Democrats] don’t like Trump,” Soloviev said.
Days earlier, on his two-hour Sunday night program, anchor Dmitry Kiselyov opined about how Hollywood has joined the Democrats in being against Trump, portraying him as “always on the dark side.”
And the state-sponsored Rossiya-1 news channel, which airs Soloviev’s show, recently broadcast segments of Rudolph W. Giuliani’s interview with right-wing channel One America News, in which the president’s personal attorney promoted debunked conspiracy theories about Ukrainian interference in the 2016 U.S. presidential election.
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A day before rioters stormed Congress, an FBI office in Virginia issued an explicit internal warning that extremists were preparing to travel to Washington to commit violence and “war,” according to an FBI internal document. A situational information report approved for release the day before the U.S. Capitol riot painted a dire portrait of dangerous plans, including individuals sharing a map of the complex’s tunnels, and possible rally points for would-be conspirators to meet up. “As of 5 January 2021, FBI Norfolk received information indicating calls for violence in response to ‘unlawful lockdowns’ to begin on 6 January 2021 in Washington. D.C.,” the document says. “An online thread discussed specific calls for violence to include stating ‘Be ready to fight. Congress needs to hear glass breaking, doors being kicked in, and blood being spilled. Get violent. Stop calling this a march, or rally, or a protest. Go there ready for war. Our President wants us to do this. NOTHING else will achieve this goal.”
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Trump Aide Has Mental Melt Down On Facebook.
Michael R. Caputo told his audience that left-wing hit squads were being trained for insurrection and accused C.D.C. scientists of “sedition.” He complained that he was under siege by the news media, feeling paranoid, and that his “mental health was failing.” He accused the CDC of harboring a “secret resistance unit” determined to undermine President Trump.
Mr. Caputo, who lead efforts to warp C.D.C. weekly bulletins to fit Mr. Trump’s pandemic narrative, suggested that he personally could be in danger from opponents of the administration. “If you carry guns, buy ammunition, ladies and gentlemen, because it’s going to be hard to get,” he urged his followers. “I don’t like being alone in Washington,” Mr. Caputo said, describing “shadows on the ceiling in my apartment, there alone, shadows are so long.” He also said the mounting number of Covid-19 deaths was taking a toll on him, telling his viewers, “You are not waking up every morning and talking about dead Americans. But you should attend Trump rallies and wear a mask”.
SOUNDS LIKE TRUMP ONLY HIRES THE BEST PEOPLE 🤪🤪🤪🤪
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@seeburgm100a Trump typically wakes up before 6 a.m., sources tell Axios, and the first five hours of his mornings are devoted to “executive time.” According to Axios, that’s anything from watching or reading the news, making calls, checking in with members of Congress, friends, administration officials and informal advisers.
He also tweets — a lot. According to calculations from The Washington Post, about half of the president’s tweets over the days for which Axios obtained the schedule documents — from November 7, 2018 to February 1, 2019 — were sent before 11 a.m.
Trump “officially” starts his workday at around 11 a.m. It might consist of an intelligence briefing or a 30-minute meeting with the chief of staff. Lunch is around 12:45 p.m., followed by several meetings, media engagements, speech preps, more executive time and so on.
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@seeburgm100a Most of those have Trump watching a grotesque five hours of television per day, most of it involving cable networks like Fox News and CNN. In late April, The Washington Post described his daily television habit:
Trump turns on the television almost as soon as he wakes, then checks in periodically throughout the day in the small dining room off the Oval Office, and continues late into the evening when he's back in his private residence. "Once he goes upstairs, there's no managing him," said one adviser.
Sometimes, at night, he hate-watches cable shows critical of him, while chatting on the phone with friends…
In the morning, the president typically flips between "Fox & Friends," Maria Bartiromo's show on Fox Business and CNBC's "Squawk Box."
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@markbigornia8349 Trump betrayed his office by inciting and condoning the Violent Attack on the Capital. Trump betrayed his office when he Violated our Constitution with his Fake Electors Failed Coup. As for Trump, he embraces Authoritarianism, Racism, Xenophobia, Homophobia, Anti Semitism, The Big Lies, and damaged our American Democracy with his “Stolen Election” Lies. Trump so alarmed our Top Military Leaders with his AntiDemocratic attacks, that the Joint Chiefs of Staff had agreed to not allow Trump to use the Military to overthrow our government. Who steals TS/SCI Documents on missile systems for Russia, China, and Iran and stores them in an unsecured storage room along with 700 other pages of Top Secret Documents? Who seeks & condones election help from Russian Spy Agencies. Had I met, or suspected I had met, any Russian or Russian Spy, who in any way shape or form was offering assistance or sought assistance I would have immediately reported the incident. To not have reported such contact would and should have set me up for a court-martial.
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grospipo20
On Fox News, suddenly a very different tune about the coronavirus.
For weeks, some of Fox News’s hosts downplayed the threat of the coronavirus, characterizing it as a conspiracy by media organizations and Democrats to undermine President Trump.
Sean Hannity and Laura Ingraham accused the news media of whipping up “mass hysteria” and being “panic pushers.” Trish Regan called the Main Stream Media response “yet another attempt to impeach the president.”
But that was then.
When Trump’s declared a national emergency, the tone on Fox News has quickly shifted. Hannity, suddenly the lauded the president’s handling of what the host is now, belatedly, referring to as a “crisis.”
“Tonight, we are witnessing what will be a massive paradigm shift in the future of disease control and prevention,” he said. “A bold, new precedent is being set, the world will once again benefit greatly from America’s leadership. . . . The federal government, state governments, private businesses, top hospitals all coming together, under the president’s leadership, to stem the tide of the coronavirus.”
In a complicated dance to mirror the president, Trump’s allies on Fox News took the same stance as the president for several weeks — that this coronavirus that had sickened and killed thousands of people in China was no worse a threat than the seasonal flu.
Just a week ago, Hannity shrugged at the pandemic. “So far in the United States, there’s been around 30 deaths, most of which came from one nursing home in the state of Washington,” he said, “Healthy people, generally, 99 percent recover very fast, even if they contract it.”
By way of comparison, he added: “Twenty-six people were shot in Chicago alone over the weekend. I doubt you heard about it. You notice there’s no widespread hysteria about violence in Chicago. And this has gone on for years and years. By the way, Democratic-run cities, we see a lot of that.”
Ingraham, also had a fast-dawning recognition that the social and economic dislocation of the virus was more than just a Democratic talking point wielded against the president.
In late February, Ingraham called Democrats the “pandemic party” and displayed photos of House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) and Senate Minority Leader Charles E. Schumer (D-N.Y.) alongside enlarged images of coronavirus molecules. “How sick that these people seem almost happiest when Americans are hurting,” she said.
She kept at it through last Tuesday when, in front of a graphic reading “Trump confronts the panic pushers,” Ingraham said, “The public in some ways seems a lot more levelheaded than the so-called experts. . . . The facts are actually pretty reassuring, but you’d never know it watching all this stuff.”
On Friday, Ingraham tweeted that it was a “great time to fly if not in at-risk population!” The tweet was later deleted.
By Wednesday, after Trump announced a travel ban on people from the European Union, Ingraham had started calling the pandemic “this dangerous health crisis.” She characterized warnings issued by National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases head Anthony S. Fauci about the potential spread of the disease as “sobering and scary to hear.”
Regan’s on-air speculation at the start of last week that coronavirus was merely another impeachment gambit for Democrats drew widespread pushback. Clearly the mood was changing at Fox by the time the network announced late Friday that her discussion-and-commentary program on Fox Business would leave the air indefinitely.
Tucker Carlson too, blamed the “corrupt” media. But in a monologue that many took at an indirect scolding of the president, he also complained that “none of our leaders helped us to take it seriously. . . . People you trust, people you probably voted for, have spent weeks minimizing what is clearly a very serious problem. It’s just partisan politics, they say. ‘Calm down. In the end, this is just like the flu and people die from that every year. Coronavirus will pass, and when it does, we will feel foolish for worrying about it.’ That’s their position. . . . But they’re wrong.”
Days earlier, Carlson attended the birthday party of former Fox News host Kimberly Guilfoyle, who is dating Donald Trump Jr.
In comments downplaying the pandemic on March 7, Jeanine Pirro, offered “All the talk about coronavirus being so much more deadly [than the flu] doesn’t reflect reality.” She reiterated Trump’s comment that the infection rate will drop “as the weather warms.”
On the “Fox & Friends” program Friday, Liberty University President Jerry Falwell Jr. spun out a meandering tale advancing the baseless notion that the coronavirus was designed by North Korean and Chinese scientists to harm Americans.
The program’s three co-hosts offered no objections. Host Steve Doocy moved on to asking Falwell about Liberty’s plans to cancel classes.
Then on Sunday, Rep. Devin Nunes (R-Calif.) appeared on Fox News and urged Americans to “stop panicking” and for those who are healthy to “just go out.”
Said Nunes: “There’s a lot of concerns with the economy here because people are scared to go out. But I will just say one of the things you can do if you’re healthy, you and your family, it’s a great time to just go out, go to a local restaurant.”
Anchor Maria Bartiromo offered no response to Nunes’s comment. On Monday, a day later, Fox News contributor Nicole Saphier, a doctor, specifically called out the congressman on air to contradict his advice and told viewers to stay home.
This is a quick summation of how Faux news has become nothing more than a platform for Trumpian Propaganda.
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ChiefChirper34
But what if the Arms Carrying People were not White Militias but Black People? Would you still feel the same? Would you feel threatened, or call them Morons?
The Mulford Act was a 1967 California bill that repealed a law allowing public carrying of loaded firearms. Named after Republican assemblyman Don Mulford, and signed into law by then governor of California, Ronald Reagan, the bill was crafted in response to members of the Black Panther Party who were lawfully conducting armed patrols of Oakland neighborhoods, in what would later be termed copwatching.[1] They garnered national attention after Black Panthers members, bearing arms, marched upon the California State Capitol to protest the bill.[2][3][
AB-1591 was made an “urgency statute” under Article IV, §8(d) of the Constitution of California after “an organized band of men armed with loaded firearms [...] entered the Capitol” on May 2nd, 1967[6]; as such, it required a 2/3 majority in each house. It passed the Assembly (controlled by Democrats 42:38) at subsequent readings, passed the Senate (split 20:20) on July 26th by 29 votes to 7[7], and was signed by Governor Ronald Reagan on July 28th, 1967. The law banned the carrying of loaded weapons in public. [8
Both Republicans and Democrats in California supported increased gun control. Governor Ronald Reagan, who was coincidentally present on the capitol lawn when the protesters arrived, later commented that he saw "no reason why on the street today a citizen should be carrying loaded weapons" and that guns were a "ridiculous way to solve problems that have to be solved among people of good will." In a later press conference, Reagan added that the Mulford Act "would work no hardship on the honest citizen."[9]
Follow up article on how Republicans, Democrats, Klan Members, etc. have all worked together in the past to control guns.
https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2011/09/the-secret-history-of-guns/308608/
Now for my answer: I believe these people are Morons because they are not carrying a weapon for the purpose of protection but for the purpose of intimidation.
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ChiefChirper34
Republicans put it forward, the NRA sanctioned it, Ronald Reagan Supported it. It is not that I agree with the bill, but the bill shows how different people perceive a threat. For example, towns in the old West reached a point of civilization where they started to outlaw people carrying guns. It was a mark of civility and it was a prevention for gun play in anger or by accident.
When I was in the Army 3 enlisted, 10 as an officer, we were not allowed to carry loaded weapons on base. When I was enlisted 2 soldiers died from gun shot wounds, we were all law abiding citizens. One approached a guard and startled him, the other was cleaning a loaded weapon. Despite everyone’s best efforts bad shit happened. Civilians are worse than soldiers, but prone to the same mistakes of anger, carelessness, alcohol, pride, friendly fire, and machismo.
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@kscory8577 Got any proof of that? Didn’t think so, Maga Morons are allergic to facts, proof, and research. However, I can prove that Jared, Donny Jr, and Manafort met with a Russian Spy 3 times: I wonder what they talked about? And by Eric’s, Jr’s, and Don the Cons own words prove that they received over $350 million from Putin, Russian Oligarchs, Russian Mob, and Latin American Drug Lords in a money laundering scam.
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bighand69
I think you need to re read my post. Secondly, think you need to read some history on Iran, America, and the Shah.
Here is a small taste:
Mohammad Mosaddegh was the 35th prime minister, democratically elected, of Iran. He held office from 1951 until 1953, when his government was overthrown in the 1953 coup d'état orchestrated by the United States' Central Intelligence Agency. We, America, imposed a very brutal Monarch the Shah Reza Pahlavi.
Mohammad Mosaddegh's voice
Recorded in the National Consultative Assembly from the Library, Museum and Document Center of Iran Parliament
An author, administrator, lawyer and prominent parliamentarian, his administration introduced a range of social and political measures such as social security, land reforms and higher taxes including the introduction of taxation of the rent on land. His government's most significant policy, however, was the nationalization of the Iranian oil industry, which had been built by the British on Persian lands. Mosaddegh felt his country should get more than 10 cents a barrel for their oil - the British felt he should pound sand and be happy he got anything.
Many Iranians regard Mosaddegh as the leading champion of secular democracy and resistance to foreign domination in Iran's modern history. Notice secular Democracy. We tossed out democracy for a brutal Monarch. This is why we are still reaping the seeds we sowed and Iran is still screwed up.
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JARED KUSHNER HAS CREATED A SHELL COMPANY TO FUNNEL CAMPAIGN CASH TO FAMILY MEMBERS.
Donald Trump and his family have spent the last four years making the airtight case that they view the presidency as simply a means to enrich themselves and their associates. They probably don’t particularly like that reputation and, yet, it hasn’t stopped them from funneling taxpayer money to their private business, gouging the Secret Service, and raising legal defense funds that the fine print says could go directly to their pockets. Oh, and, according to a new report, setting up a shell company that spent hundreds of millions of campaign dollars to pay Trump family members along with other expenditures it seemingly wanted to keep under wraps.
According to Business Insider, first son-in-law Jared Kushner personally approved the creation of the company, incorporated as American Made Media Consultants Corp. and American Made Media Consultants LLC, in April 2018. From there, Eric Trump’s wife, Lara Trump, was named president, with Mike Pence’s nephew John Pence serving as vice president. If you’re wondering why the shell company, described as Business Insider as acting “almost like a campaign within a campaign” was necessary, well, it’s not entirely clear, but it sure sounds like the express purpose was the ability to shield “financial and operational details from public scrutiny,” as it allowed the campaign to avoid federally mandated disclosures concerning what it was spending considerable amounts of money on. And by considerable we mean nearly half of the $1.26 billion raised for Trump’s reelection.
Campaign-finance records showed Trump's reelection effort and its affiliated committee with the RNC spent more than $600 million through American Made Consultants since its formation. For months, some of Trump’s top advisers and campaign staff told Insider they had no idea how the shell company functioned, which cast an air of mystery around the operation…. Some of those same advisers said they didn’t learn about John Pence’s and Lara Trump’s involvement until Insider contacted them for this story.
Campaign-law experts have long accused the Trump team of using a corporate pass-through to hide payments. The nonpartisan Campaign Legal Center, led by former Republican Federal Election Commission Chairman Trevor Potter, filed a civil complaint with the FEC in July accusing the Trump campaign of “disguising” about $170 million worth of campaign spending in large part “by laundering the funds” through AMMC. Brendan Fischer, the Campaign Legal Center’s director of federal reform, said the payments to AMMC were a “scheme to evade telling voters even the basics on where its money is really going” and a “shield to disguise the ultimate recipients of its spending.”
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Father Gabriel Stokes
dad bear
William H. McRaven, a retired Navy admiral, was commander of the U.S. Joint Special Operations Command from 2011 to 2014. He oversaw the 2011 Navy SEAL raid in Pakistan that killed al-Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden. He writes:
Dear Mr. President:
Former CIA director John Brennan, whose security clearance you revoked on Wednesday, is one of the finest public servants I have ever known. Few Americans have done more to protect this country than John. He is a man of unparalleled integrity, whose honesty and character have never been in question, except by those who don’t know him.
Therefore, I would consider it an honor if you would revoke my security clearance as well, so I can add my name to the list of men and women who have spoken up against your presidency.
Like most Americans, I had hoped that when you became president, you would rise to the occasion and become the leader this great nation needs.
A good leader tries to embody the best qualities of his or her organization. A good leader sets the example for others to follow. A good leader always puts the welfare of others before himself or herself.
Your leadership, however, has shown little of these qualities. Through your actions, you have embarrassed us in the eyes of our children, humiliated us on the world stage and, worst of all, divided us as a nation.
If you think for a moment that your McCarthy-era tactics will suppress the voices of criticism, you are sadly mistaken. The criticism will continue until you become the leader we prayed you would be.
NEED WE SAY MORE THAN THIS AMERICAN HERO? STAND UP AND BE COUNTED. VOTE THIS WOULD BE PETTY DICTATOR OUT OF OFFICE.
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A day before rioters stormed Congress, an FBI office in Virginia issued an explicit internal warning that extremists were preparing to travel to Washington to commit violence and “war,” according to an FBI internal document. A situational information report approved for release the day before the U.S. Capitol riot painted a dire portrait of dangerous plans, including individuals sharing a map of the complex’s tunnels, and possible rally points for would-be conspirators to meet up. “As of 5 January 2021, FBI Norfolk received information indicating calls for violence in response to ‘unlawful lockdowns’ to begin on 6 January 2021 in Washington. D.C.,” the document says. “An online thread discussed specific calls for violence to include stating ‘Be ready to fight. Congress needs to hear glass breaking, doors being kicked in, and blood being spilled. Get violent. Stop calling this a march, or rally, or a protest. Go there ready for war. Our President wants us to do this. NOTHING else will achieve this goal.”
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“There’s Nothing Left, I no longer recognize my party”
Why Hundreds of Thousands of Republicans Are Leaving the Party
Voting registration data indicates a strong and unusual flight from the G.O.P. since the Capitol riot, with an intensely fluid period in American politics now underway.
In the days and weeks after the storming of the Capitol by Trump supporters on Jan. 6, hundreds of thousands of Republicans left the party. After the Jan. 6 attack on the Capitol, the phone lines and websites of local election officials across the country were jumping: Tens of thousands of Republicans were calling or logging on to switch their party affiliations.
In California, more than 33,000 registered Republicans left the party during the three weeks after the Washington riot. In Pennsylvania, more than 12,000 voters left the G.O.P. in the past month, and more than 10,000 Republicans changed their registration in Arizona.
An analysis of January voting records found that nearly 140,000 Republicans had quit the party in 25 states that had readily available data (19 states do not have registration by party). Voting experts say this is the start of a particularly damaging period for G.O.P. registrations as voters recoil from the Capitol violence and its fallout.
Among those who recently left the party are Juan Nunez, 56, an Army veteran in Mechanicsburg, Pa. He said he had long felt that the difference between the United States and many other countries was that campaign-season fighting ended on Election Day, when all sides would peacefully accept the result. The Jan. 6 riot changed that, he said.
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@kellyw8017 Name: Alexander Smirnov, Age 43
Supposed Occupation: FBI Informant
Back Story: As early as 2020, Smirnov’s claims about the Bidens were viewed as suspicious by FBI investigators, in part because they couldn’t corroborate them and because some suspected he wasn’t being truthful about all of them, a person briefed on the matter said. Smirnov’s new information also came at a time when the FBI and the US intelligence community was aware of Russian efforts to sow disinformation about the Bidens, some of which had become public through Rudy Giuliani.
In March 2017 – after the Obama-Biden administration had ended – Smirnov first reported contacts with Burisma executives, prosecutors say. The informant told his handler that there was a “brief, non-relevant” mention of Hunter Biden during a conversation he had with the owner of Burisma but that the conversation was focused other things.
Smirnov’s reports were memorialized in an FBI form called a 1023, which agents use to record unverified reporting from informants.
Years later, in May 2020, Smirnov allegedly texted his FBI handler that Joe Biden was “going to jail.” Smirnov allegedly told his handler that he would “get those recordings” of Hunter Biden telling Burisma that his father would “take care” of the prosecutor general – an allegation that was pushed at the time by top Trump allies and Russian operations.
For months, prosecutors say, Smirnov did not provide any information to back up his allegations.
In June 2020, the Pittsburgh-based US attorney at the time, Scott Brady, was tasked by Justice Department officials with helping to review information from the public “that may be relevant to matters relating to Ukraine.” As part of their review, FBI Pittsburgh opened an assessment into the document that memorialized Smirnov’s 2017 discussion with Burisma executives.
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@kellyw8017 It is at this point, prosecutors allege, that Smirnov first made the explosive allegations about the Bidens. Smirnov told the FBI that Burisma executives admitted to him in 2015 and 2016 that they hired Hunter Biden to “protect us, through his dad, from all kinds of problems,” and that they had paid $5 million to each Biden.
The FBI asked Smirnov to hand over documents to determine whether the information he provided was accurate. Prosecutors say that two months later, the FBI members and DOJ leadership concurred that their assessment of Smirnov’s claims be closed.
But, according to his own private testimony last year to the House Judiciary Committee, Scott Brady claimed he was “able to corroborate certain information that was represented by the CHS and is memorialized in this 1023,” including through some travel records that Smirnov had provided.
Prosecutors now say that Smirnov’s travel records are going to be used as evidence against him in his criminal case, proving that he lied about his meetings with Burisma executives.
Brady said he believed that there was a “sufficient indicia of credibility” into aspects of the 1023, and briefed Weiss on the document, according to the interview transcript. Brady said he asked the FBI to give the document to Weiss’ office.
Weiss apparently kept that investigation open through July 2023, when the FBI approached his team about “allegations related to” Smirnov’s claims. By then, Smirnov’s allegations, though not publicly attributed to him, were thrust into the political spotlight by Republicans who relentlessly promoted his Biden bribery story.
Smirnov reported more than a dozen meetings or discussions with Russian officials in 2023, according to court documents.
In September, six years after his original report, Smirnov was again interviewed by the FBI regarding his claims about the Bidens. Prosecutors said that he “repeated some false claims, changed his story as to other of his claims, and promoted a new false narrative after he said he met with Russian officials.”
Smirnov was arrested last week. He has not yet entered a formal plea, but his lawyers have stated he’s fighting the charges.
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Backlash1818 Mobile Gaming Channel
Could not help but notice you mentioned just 1 thing. Why because there are not any other actions by Trump. Do you know what day Trump imposed his so called Travel Ban? Didn’t think so. Let me help you - Feb 2. Do you know what the Travel Ban entailed? Let me help you, Main Land Chinese only, Taiwanese, Hong Kong, Macau were all exceptions. In fact there were 11 exceptions. The biggest one was Americans. Americans could fly back and forth to China without a problem. Over 40,000 such trips were made in the month of February alone. No quarantine, no temperature check, no follow up, and no monitoring.
So how do you feel about that one thing now? BTY, the racist thing was Faux, no one said that, they did say it won’t work though, and it didn’t.
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Joe Gharib
DEMOCRACY IS IN DECLINE AROUND THE WORLD - AND TRUMP IS PART OF THE PROBLEM.
The Freedom House Annual report on the health of global democracy warned of its decline. In its survey evaluating 195 countries and 15 territories, Freedom House, a nongovernmental, nonpartisan advocacy organization established in 1941, found that political freedoms and civil liberties across the world are backsliding more often than they are improving.
“Democracy is under assault,” read the opening sentence of its report, written by Sarah Repucci. “Dictators are toiling to stamp out the last vestiges of domestic dissent and spread their harmful influence to new corners of the world.”
The usual suspects remain among the worst offenders. Freedom House decried China for its “totalitarian offensive” in Xinjiang and other campaigns of repression, and it warned of Beijing’s “relentless campaign to replace existing international norms with its own authoritarian vision.” It pointed to Russia’s “stage-managed elections” in 2019, in which the genuine opposition was largely shut out. Iran’s leadership, even as it sowed “discord” in neighboring countries, deployed security forces that used live ammunition to crush demonstrations last fall, killing hundreds of people.
But perhaps more disquieting is the steady erosion seen in “established democracies,” more than two dozen of which have seen net losses in their democracy rankings.
“Many freely elected leaders are dramatically narrowing their concerns to a blinkered interpretation of the national interest,” wrote Repucci. “In fact, such leaders — including the chief executives of the United States and India, the world’s two largest democracies — are increasingly willing to break down institutional safeguards and disregard the rights of critics and minorities as they pursue their populist agendas.”
President Trump is a key part of this story. Freedom House’s report, titled “A Leaderless Struggle for Democracy,” highlighted the “pressure” Trump is exerting “on electoral integrity, judicial independence, and safeguards against corruption” in the United States.
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HOW WAS OUR REPUBLIC SAVED FROM TRUMP?
We are taught that the main function of the U.S. Constitution is the control of executive power: curtailing presidents who might seek to become tyrants. Other republics have lapsed into dictatorships (the Roman Republic, the Weimar Republic, the Republic of China and so on), but will our elaborate constitutional system of checks and balances protects us from despotism?
Trump severely tested our constitutional system with his aggressive autocratic impulses that were mostly thwarted but not by our system of checks and balances. Our three branches of government played a pitifully small role in stopping Trump from assuming the unlimited powers he wanted. What really saved the Republic from Trump was an informal and unofficial set of institutional norms upheld by federal prosecutors, military officers and state elections officials. You might call these values our “unwritten constitution”, Trump Cult Members call it the Deep State.
The courts did their job in providing a modest check on Trump’s tyrannical tendencies, such as with the dismissal of his despicable attacks on the election. But the bigger and more important failure was Congress. Madison intended Congress to be the primary check on the president. Unfortunately, that design has a key flaw (as Madison himself realized). The flaw reveals itself when party loyalty is placed before loyalty to country and its citizens. When this happens Congress will not function as a reliable check on a president of that same party. This was what happened with Trump and the Republican-controlled Senate.
When confronted with a president who ignores all rules, Senate Republicans enabled him or remained silent. They allowed acting appointees to run the federal government. They allowed him to claim a right to attack Iran without congressional approval. The impeachment process was reduced to nothing but a party-line vote. The Senate became a rubber stamp for executive overreach.
Instead, the president’s worst impulses were checked by the three pillars of the unwritten constitution. The first is the customary separation between the president and federal criminal prosecution. The second is the traditional political neutrality of the military. The third is the personal integrity of state elections officials.
If any of these informal “firewalls” had failed, Trump might be on his way to president for life. But they held firm, for which the Republic should be grateful.
The first firewall is prosecutorial independence. The prosecution function of the executive branch is not mentioned in the Constitution, and based on the text alone — “the executive Power shall be vested in a President of the United States” — Trump claimed in 2017 “I have absolute right to do what I want to do with the Justice Department.” But AG Barr danced a fine line between being Trump’s personal instrument of vengeance and running an unbiased Rule of Law DOJ.
The second firewall of the unwritten constitution was the U.S. military’s longstanding custom against getting involved in domestic politics. It was invaluable in checking Trump’s militaristic instincts and ability to conduct a successful coup. On June 1, as protests and counter-protests became violent and destructive of property, Trump appeared in the Rose Garden of the White House and railed against what he called “acts of domestic terror.” He said he would “deploy the United States military” if necessary to “defend the life and property” of U.S. citizens. In a subsequent photo op, he was flanked by Mr. Barr, Defense Secretary Mark Esper and Gen. Mark Milley, the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, who was clad in military fatigues. Soon, active duty forces from the 82nd Airborne Division were positioned outside of Washington.
It was an extraordinarily dangerous moment for the country. As the history of lapsed republics suggests, when the military becomes involved in domestic politics, it tends to stay involved. But two days after Trump’s rant, Mr. Esper publicly broke with the president, stressing that active duty forces should be used domestically only “as a matter of last resort, and only in the most urgent and dire of situations.” He concluded that “I do not support invoking the Insurrection Act.”
General Milley later issued a public apology for participating in Trump’s photo op. “My presence in that moment,” he said, “created a perception of the military involved in domestic politics.” He added, “I should not have been there.”
Trump’s plans ran afoul not of the law, but of an unwritten rule. In a few days, the active duty troops gathered around Washington were sent home. Though briefly tested, the norm had held.
The final firewall of the unwritten constitution has been the integrity of state elections officials. Corruption of the people and institutions that set election rules and count votes is an obvious threat to the democratic process. In Russia, for example, the neutrality of its Central Election Commission during President Vladimir Putin’s rule has been repeatedly questioned, especially given the tendency of that body to disqualify leading opposition figures and parties.
The story of Brad Raffensperger, the secretary of state in Georgia and its top elections official, testifies to the potential threats to an election’s integrity during a heated campaign. Mr. Raffensperger, a Republican, was loosely in charge of the vote in a state that went narrowly for Mr. Biden. In that capacity, Mr. Raffensperger was attacked and disparaged by higher-ranking members of his own party. This included such prominent political figures as Georgia’s two senators, David Perdue and Kelly Loeffler. Both demanded Mr. Raffensperger resign for no apparent reason other than his failure to prevent Mr. Biden from winning the state.
Despite the pressure, Mr. Raffensperger and the state’s governor, Brian Kemp, held steady, along with an overwhelming majority of state elections officials around the country. They have refused to “discover” voting fraud without good evidence of it. Party loyalty — at this point — seems not to have fatally corrupted the vote-counting process.
Might this welcome result be credited to constitutional design? Not really. What mattered most was the But what seems to have mattered most was the integrity of the state elections officials. Their professional commitment to a fair vote spared the Republic an existential crisis.
The last four years suggest that Structural checks can be overrated. The survival of our Republic depends as much, if not more, on the virtue of those in government, particularly the upholding of norms by civil servants, prosecutors and military officials. We have grown too jaded about things like professionalism and institutions, and the idea of men and women who take their moral duties seriously. But as every major moral tradition teaches, no external constraint can fully substitute for the personal compulsion to do what is morally right.
It is called civic virtue, and at the end of the day, it is this type of Patriotism that makes a Republic function.
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Donald J. Trump is corrupt: The Ukraine quid pro quo matters because it shows how Trump has reneged on his promise to fight for ordinary Americans and is using the power of the presidency to benefit himself. As Leah Greenberg, a co-founder of the progressive group Indivisible, says: “This man is not working for you. He is working to put his own interests first. And he is endangering the country to do it.”
Corruption is one of the public’s top worries, surveys show. In polls last year, people ranked the economy as the country’s most important issue, and No. 2 was “reducing the influence of special interests and corruption in Washington.” It’s a cross-partisan concern too, spanning Democrats, Republicans and independents.
Trump is a reprobate but most of his supporters don’t care that, He is a “pathological liar,” as Ted Cruz said during the 2016 Republican primaries, as well as a “con artist” (Marco Rubio’s description) and a “race-baiting, xenophobic, religious bigot” (Lindsey Graham’s). Mick Mulvaney, then a Republican congressman, had the simplest summary: “He’s a terrible human being.”
Trump signed a tax bill that benefits wealthy people like him, not ordinary workers. He has used the presidency to pad the profits of his hotels. And he has damaged American interests by contorting foreign policy, toward Russia and continues enriching himself at taxpayers’ expense.
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Trump has made more than $150 million dollars off of back stage “V.I.P. package” sold for more than $7,500, a $75 picture book, a multimillion-dollar advance by a new publishing company co-founded by his eldest son, Make America Great Again” hats for $50 each — a $20 markup from the price currently offered by his political action committee — with all proceeds going to a Trump-owned company.
Now wife, Melania, has gotten into the act, too, auctioning off online collectibles and scheduling her own big-ticket event in Naples this April, a “tulips and topiaries high tea,” with V.I.P. packages reaching $50,000 and an undisclosed portion going to charity. In addition to the above the Trump PAC has raised close to $300 million dollars with zero limitations as to how the money can be spent including personal use.
For Mr. Trump, the monetization of his post-presidency represents a return to his roots. He expertly leveraged his celebrity as the host of “The Apprentice” and his image as a decisive businessman to build credibility when he first entered politics. Now, he is executing the same playbook, only in reverse: converting a political following that provided hundreds of millions of dollars in small campaign contributions into a base of consumers for all things branded Trump.
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“There’s Nothing Left, I no longer recognize my party”
Why Hundreds of Thousands of Republicans Are Leaving the Party
Voting registration data indicates a strong and unusual flight from the G.O.P. since the Capitol riot, with an intensely fluid period in American politics now underway.
In the days and weeks after the storming of the Capitol by Trump supporters on Jan. 6, hundreds of thousands of Republicans left the party. After the Jan. 6 attack on the Capitol, the phone lines and websites of local election officials across the country were jumping: Tens of thousands of Republicans were calling or logging on to switch their party affiliations.
In California, more than 33,000 registered Republicans left the party during the three weeks after the Washington riot. In Pennsylvania, more than 12,000 voters left the G.O.P. in the past month, and more than 10,000 Republicans changed their registration in Arizona.
An analysis of January voting records found that nearly 140,000 Republicans had quit the party in 25 states that had readily available data (19 states do not have registration by party). Voting experts say this is the start of a particularly damaging period for G.O.P. registrations as voters recoil from the Capitol violence and its fallout.
Among those who recently left the party are Juan Nunez, 56, an Army veteran in Mechanicsburg, Pa. He said he had long felt that the difference between the United States and many other countries was that campaign-season fighting ended on Election Day, when all sides would peacefully accept the result. The Jan. 6 riot changed that, he said.
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Fact: Trump and Epstein shared “girls” at arranged party:
WASHINGTON — It was supposed to be an exclusive party at Mar-a-Lago, Donald J. Trump’s members-only club in Palm Beach, Fla. But other than the two dozen or so women flown in to provide the entertainment, the only guests were Mr. Trump and Jeffrey Epstein.
The year was 1992 and the event was a “calendar girl” competition, something that George Houraney, a Florida-based businessman who ran American Dream Enterprise, had organized at Mr. Trump’s request.
“I arranged to have some contestants fly in,” Mr. Houraney recalled in an interview on Monday. “At the very first party, I said, ‘Who’s coming tonight? I have 28 girls coming.’ It was him and Epstein.”
Mr. Houraney, who had just partnered with Mr. Trump to host events at his casinos, said he was surprised. “I said, ‘Donald, this is supposed to be a party with V.I.P.s. You’re telling me it’s you and Epstein?’”
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Trump: Campaign shifted money into indebted private business, Forbes
Trump has shifted money raised from campaign donors into the Trump Organization, according to documents from the Federal Election Committee (FEC) seen by Forbes.
He moved around $2.8 million into his private businesses throughout the duration of his presidency, Forbes's Dan Alexander reported.
Trump funneled an additional $81,000 into the Trump Organization after his election loss, the magazine said.
The payments were made public in the filings the campaign submitted to the FEC and were liest to cover costs including rent, airfare, lodging, and other expenses.
One of the campaign's joint-fundraising committees, associated with the Republican Party, also moved an estimated $4.3 million of donor money into his private business during his presidential term, according to Forbes.
Read more: 10 huge hits to Trump's business from the pandemic that may be permanent.
The joint-fundraising committee also paid around $300,000 towards Trump's hotel chain in the week following the former president's election loss, the Independent reported.
Around $40,000 was handed over from the campaign to Trump Tower Commercial LLC, a company which the former president owns a stake in, in December, the paper said.
This isn't the first time it has been reported that Trump transferred campaign money to his private businesses.
In July, The Washington Post's David Fahrenthold reported that Trump's campaign sent nearly $400,000 to the Trump Organization in just two days.
Documents showed that the campaign channeled $380,000 to the president's personal business in 43 transactions, Fahrenthold said.
This comes when the former president is said to be looking for ways to cash in on his post-presidency to address potentially huge debt.
The Trump Organization owes $400 million, according to Forbes.
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chris shook
dad bear
William H. McRaven, a retired Navy admiral, was commander of the U.S. Joint Special Operations Command from 2011 to 2014. He oversaw the 2011 Navy SEAL raid in Pakistan that killed al-Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden. He writes:
Dear Mr. President:
Former CIA director John Brennan, whose security clearance you revoked on Wednesday, is one of the finest public servants I have ever known. Few Americans have done more to protect this country than John. He is a man of unparalleled integrity, whose honesty and character have never been in question, except by those who don’t know him.
Therefore, I would consider it an honor if you would revoke my security clearance as well, so I can add my name to the list of men and women who have spoken up against your presidency.
Like most Americans, I had hoped that when you became president, you would rise to the occasion and become the leader this great nation needs.
A good leader tries to embody the best qualities of his or her organization. A good leader sets the example for others to follow. A good leader always puts the welfare of others before himself or herself.
Your leadership, however, has shown little of these qualities. Through your actions, you have embarrassed us in the eyes of our children, humiliated us on the world stage and, worst of all, divided us as a nation.
If you think for a moment that your McCarthy-era tactics will suppress the voices of criticism, you are sadly mistaken. The criticism will continue until you become the leader we prayed you would be.
NEED WE SAY MORE THAN THIS AMERICAN HERO? STAND UP AND BE COUNTED. VOTE THIS WOULD BE PETTY DICTATOR OUT OF OFFICE.
🇺🇸🗽🇺🇸
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Eastman admitted to Jacob that Trump’s Electors Coup would lose on the merits in the Supreme Court: “When I pressed him on the point, I said ‘John, if the vice president did what you were asking him to do, we would lose 9-0 in the Supreme Court, wouldn’t we?’ And he initially started at, ‘Well, I think maybe you would lose only 7-2,' and after some further discussion, acknowledged, ‘Well, yeah, you’re right, we would lose 9-0.’ ... [He] ultimately acknowledged that, no, we would lose 9-0 — no judge would support his argument.”
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Trump: Campaign shifted money into indebted private business, Forbes
Trump has shifted money raised from campaign donors into the Trump Organization, according to documents from the Federal Election Committee (FEC) seen by Forbes.
He moved around $2.8 million into his private businesses throughout the duration of his presidency, Forbes's Dan Alexander reported.
Trump funneled an additional $81,000 into the Trump Organization after his election loss, the magazine said.
The payments were made public in the filings the campaign submitted to the FEC and were liest to cover costs including rent, airfare, lodging, and other expenses.
One of the campaign's joint-fundraising committees, associated with the Republican Party, also moved an estimated $4.3 million of donor money into his private business during his presidential term, according to Forbes.
Read more: 10 huge hits to Trump's business from the pandemic that may be permanent.
The joint-fundraising committee also paid around $300,000 towards Trump's hotel chain in the week following the former president's election loss, the Independent reported.
Around $40,000 was handed over from the campaign to Trump Tower Commercial LLC, a company which the former president owns a stake in, in December, the paper said.
This isn't the first time it has been reported that Trump transferred campaign money to his private businesses.
In July, The Washington Post's David Fahrenthold reported that Trump's campaign sent nearly $400,000 to the Trump Organization in just two days.
Documents showed that the campaign channeled $380,000 to the president's personal business in 43 transactions, Fahrenthold said.
This comes when the former president is said to be looking for ways to cash in on his post-presidency to address potentially huge debt.
The Trump Organization owes $400 million, according to Forbes.
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Interesting Information
Giuliani has accused Yovanovitch and Kent, formerly the No. 2 ranking diplomat at the U.S. Embassy in Ukraine, of trying to protect the Bidens from an investigation by Ukrainian prosecutors. Internal documents turned over to Congress showed that Yovanovitch had become the target of a “classic disinformation operation”.
Connolly said Kent testified that Giuliani relied on now-former Ukrainian prosecutor general Yuriy Lutsenko for information damaging to Yovanovitch, which was also shared with John Solomon, a former columnist for the Hill newspaper. Lutsenko wanted to get Yovanovitch out of the way, Connolly recalled Kent as saying, and persuaded Giuliani with disinformation that she would also be a problem. Giuliani then persuaded Trump, Connolly said of Kent’s testimony.
“As he said, the consequence was to undermine 28 years of our efforts to promote the rule of law by actually doing something corrupt ourselves.”
Giuliani had alleged earlier this year that Yovanovitch provided a “do not prosecute list” to Ukrainian officials to protect the Bidens and other allies. But Kent, according to the documents, told his colleagues that the list was phony, pointing to incorrect name spellings that longtime officials like Yovanovitch and himself would never have gotten wrong, he said.
“One key sign of it being fake is that most of the names are misspelled in English.” Kent, who is fluent in Russian and Ukrainian, said in one email to colleagues. Kent, according to the documents, suggested the department could counter the attack on Yovanovitch by “circling in red all the misspellings and grammar mistakes and reposting ” the list as the U.S. Embassy in Moscow had done in similar counterpropaganda campaigns.
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Looking for Clinton’s “missing” emails
(VOLUME I, PP. 49, 62-63)
At a July 27, 2016, campaign rally, Mr. Trump said, “Russia, if you’re listening, I hope you’re able to find the 30,000 emails that are missing” — referring to Clinton emails reportedly stored on a personal server. “Within approximately five hours” of Mr. Trump’s remarks, according to the Mueller report, Russian military intelligence began a cyberattack against “Clinton’s personal office.”
After his July 27 comment, the report states, Mr. Trump “asked individuals affiliated with his campaign to find the deleted Clinton emails” — including Michael Flynn.
Mr. Flynn, in turn, reached out to a Republican Senate staffer and a party operative who worked separately to obtain the emails. The operative raised money to support the project, which he marketed as “coordinated with the Trump campaign,” and told others that he was in communication with Russian hackers who had access to emails he believed were Mrs. Clinton’s. But Mr. Mueller “did not establish” that the operative had actually made contact with any real Russian hackers. And while the staffer obtained emails, an effort funded by a businessman close to the campaign found that they were not really Mrs. Clinton’s either.
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WASHINGTON — Lt. Col. Alexander S. Vindman, the top Ukraine expert on the National Security Council, told House impeachment investigators on Tuesday that the White House transcript of a July call between President Trump and Ukraine’s president omitted crucial words and phrases, and that his attempts to include them failed, according to three people familiar with the testimony.
The omissions, Colonel Vindman said, included Mr. Trump’s assertion that there were recordings of former Vice President Joseph R. Biden Jr. discussing Ukraine corruption, and an explicit mention by Ukraine’s president, Volodymyr Zelensky, of Burisma Holdings, the energy company whose board employed Mr. Biden’s son Hunter.
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wrench 22
Proof:
1. Treasonous Trump sought help from, and received help from the Russian GRU (former KGB) on 32 occasions.
Source Mueller Report Vol I
2. TT has lied 15,413 + times, including very serious lies about topics such as Abuse of Power and Russian Collaboration.
3. Lyndsey Graham has gone from calling TT what he is to being his fetching dog - soul number one.
4. Moscow Mitch has gone from calling TT what he is to being his attack dog - soul number two.
5. Gym Jordan, Gaetz, Nunez, etc. had sold their souls long ago but TT - guides them.
6. TT is antagonistic to our friends and in love with our enemies - North Korea & Russia.
7. TT passed a Tax Bill that primarily benefited the rich 1% and corporations adding an additional 500,000,000,000 in annual debt to the already 500,000,000,000 in normal deficit. Resulting in an unprecedented $1 Trillion annual debt going forward.
8. TT has divided this county deeper than any president in history post Civil War.
9. TT has placed unqualified and grossly political, and many times corrupt, loyalists as the head of a multitude of government agencies.
10. TT has shown nothing but contempt for our Constitution, our Rule of Law, and our hollowed Institutions for his own political gain.
Do you need more? TT is the Antichrist and a pox upon America and all that is Holy.
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whoopyNL whoopy
You are full of 💩. Never try to BS a Historian. Read what follows:
National Socialism (German: Nationalsozialismus), more commonly known as Nazism (/ˈnɑːtsiɪzəm, ˈnæt-/),[1] is the ideology and practices associated with the Nazi Party—officially the National Socialist German Workers' Party (Nationalsozialistische Deutsche Arbeiterpartei or NSDAP)—in Nazi Germany, and of other far-right groups with similar ideas and aims.
Nazism is a form of fascism and showed that ideology's disdain for liberal democracy and the parliamentary system, but also incorporated fervent antisemitism, anti-communism, scientific racism, and eugenics into its creed. Its extreme nationalism came from Pan-Germanism and the ethno-nationalist völkisch movement prominent in the German nationalism of the time, and it was strongly influenced by the Freikorps paramilitary groups that emerged after Germany's defeat in World War I, from which came the party's "cult of violence" which was "at the heart of the movement."[2]
Notice FAR RIGHT GROUPS. Nazi may have the word Socialist in it but it has nothing in common with socialism.
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whoopyNL whoopy
Far-right politics are politics further on the right of the left-right spectrum than the standard political right, particularly in terms of extreme nationalism,[1][2] nativist ideologies, and authoritarian tendencies,[3] all sustained by an organicist vision of the world, part of broader philosophical holism, where all systems are viewed as wholes, not merely as a collection of parts, as they are in reductionism.[4]
Used to describe the historical experiences of fascism and Nazism,[5] it today includes neo-fascism, neo-Nazism, Third Position, the alt-right, white nationalism[6] and other ideologies or organizations that feature ultranationalist, chauvinist, xenophobic, racist, homophobic, anti-communist, or reactionary views.[7] These can lead to oppression, violence, forced assimilation, ethnic cleansing, and even genocide against groups of people based on their supposed inferiority, or their perceived threat to the native ethnic group,[8][9] nation, state,[10] national religion, dominant culture or ultraconservative traditional social institutions.[11]
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Ron
“Trump is Not a fascist” If Treasonous Trump is not a fascist why does he score 5 out of 6 major tenants for Neo Nazism? In addition, why do ALL Neo Nazis, Proud Boys, White Supremacy Groups, and Klan Members Support Trump?
“Democratic Party... criminal organization” Last time I checked 7 Close Treasonous Trump Administration Officials were in jail or indicted and zero Democrats.
“committing a coup against Trump” At least up to this point in America you still have to commit a crime to be prosecuted. But surely TT will try to change that if re elected - that is what fascists do.
“antifa... sponsored by the Chinese communist party” Total BS. But what isn’t BS is that Putin has been shoveling millions into the Trump Organization to keep it afloat in exchange for Trump’s service to Russia.
“Trump fix the Veterans Administration healthcare system” You do realize that all TT did was to sanction what Obama put in place. You heard me Obama started the program TT kept it - this is what happens to you when you get your news from unreliable propaganda outlets like Faux news.
“Trump did prison reform” Something Democrats have been advocating for some time.
“ he’s built a wall on the southern border” He has re built 50 miles of wall/barrier. Obama built 649 miles of wall barrier. There is nearly zero wall/barrier between Brownsville and El Paso - nothing has changed. Just to be clear, TT has re built/improved 50 miles of our boarder but barriers, fences, walls, etc. already existed he just improved them. By the way Mexico never payed for it. Don’t you think it would have been far easier to just start prosecuting Farmers, Ranchers, Dairies, and Meat Packing Plants that hire illegals? No jobs... no illegals come to America.
“Winston Churchill” Winston Churchill was a man of his Times, including the bigotry, racism, and Colonialism. But he was a leader against Fascism. Therefore, he would have recognized TT for what he is and repudiated him. Unlike TT, Winston had Convictions and Character.
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TRUMP CLAIMS HEALTH-CARE PLAN READY
But None of his advisors know what he is talking about.
The Plan is so secret that the people responsible for the plan don’t even know they’re involved. The GOP has promised (and failed) to repeal and replace Obamacare for more than a decade. Trump began claiming he had a replacement plan back in 2015. He announced his plan would swap out the Affordable Care Act for “something terrific,” details TBD.
Over subsequent months and years, Trump boasted about the benefits of his plan. It would be cheaper, more generous, and better than Obamacare. It would be “so easy,” even though “nobody knew health care could be so complicated.” It would “take care of everybody”. This plan was always only “two weeks” away — just like proof wiretapping, the “amazing infrastructure plan”, and Melania Trump’s immigration history.
Finally, five years later, an announcement came this week: it exists, its alive! “I have it all ready,” Trump said at a town hall Tuesday, “and it’s a much better plan for you, and it’s a much better plan.”
Alas, Trump remains unable to share this “much better plan” with the public and no one in his administration knows anything about the “plan”.
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@80srocker67
Speaking of Swamp Creatures...
TRUML RAISED $255.6 MILLION FOR HIS STOP THE STEAL CAMPAIGN HOW WAS IT SPENT?
Trump Raked In Cash by Denying His Loss, and Very Little Actuality Went to the Legal Fight. A picture of Graft/Con has emerged in new campaign finance reports filed by Trump. According to the FEC, Trump paid big bucks for a public relations effort to spread his lies & conspiracies but only a fraction actual legal challenges.
In Total, Trump’s “Stop the Steal” Campaign spent $50 million on advertising to raise money. And for every dollar raised online the RNC pocketed 25 cents. All told, Trump’s campaign spent only $10 million on legal costs. Other expenses included $237,000 on the purchase of books signed by Ted Cruz that the Trump campaign offered for people who contributed more than $75 to Senator Cruz - this explains Cruz’s sudden loyalty - $34,000 to the Trump Hotel Collection, $39,200 a Trump-owned LLC that operates a private plane, and $75,000 was paid in rent to the Trump Tower building in December.
But while Trump’s efforts to delegitimize the election did not keep him in power, they did spur millions in contributions from loyal supporters and an enormous infusion of cash. In the end the RNC hauled in $80 million and Trump $150 million. Most of the money came from smaller contributors.
One of the interesting things of note is that the “Stop the Steal” Campaign poured millions into a secretive LLC called AMMC , controlled by Jared Kushner. More than $700 million of Trump Campaign & “Stop the Steal” money have flowed through the LLC in 2020.
ESSENTIALLY THE MAJORITY OF THE “STOP THE STEAL” MONEY WENT TO TRUMP & HIS FAMILY
ONCE A CON MAM ALWAYS A CON MAN
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U.S. authorities have leveled the first conspiracy charge against a leader of an extremist group in the Jan. 6 storming of the U.S. Capitol, arresting an Oath Keeper who is accused of plotting to disrupt the electoral vote confirmation of President-elect Joe Biden’s victory and proposing further assaults on state capitols.
Thomas Edward Caldwell, 66, of Clarke County, Va., was taken into custody before 7 a.m. on four federal counts, including conspiracy to commit an offense against the United States in the attack on the Capitol. The conspiracy charge is reserved for offenses interfering with or obstructing the lawful operation of government.
A charging affidavit says he helped organize a group of eight to 10 individuals, including self-styled Ohio militia members apprehended Sunday, who wore helmets and military-style gear and were seen moving purposefully toward the top of the Capitol steps and leading the move against police lines.
Separately, charges were unsealed Wednesday accusing a Queens man who worked in the state court system of making threats to murder Democratic politicians, including suggesting another attack on the Capitol timed to President-elect Joe Biden’s inauguration Wednesday.
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@bobdavidsonm.d.7214 Forbes: President Biden is worth an estimated $10 million, up from $8 million when he took office. The increase has nothing to do with family business dealings in far-flung countries. Instead, he is getting richer by doing what a lot of 80-year-old Americans are doing: sitting on real estate. The president owns two homes in Delaware that are worth an estimated $7 million combined, $1.8 million more than they were when he took office.
His most valuable property is a 4,800-square-foot summer home in Rehoboth Beach, worth an estimated $4.5 million. Biden bought it in 2017, the year he left the vice presidency and earned $11.1 million, cashing in on speeches and books. He added a pool, which may have cost as much as $75,000, in November of that year. All of this seemed like a splurge at the time, but it proved to be a wise investment. During the pandemic, homebuyers flocked to bigger properties with outdoor amenities like Biden’s, seven minutes from the ocean and next to a state park loaded with biking trails. The home is now worth an estimated $4.5 million, $1.7 million more than it originally cost.
The president owns an even larger, though not-quite-as-valuable house in Wilmington’s picturesque Greenville neighborhood. It started as just a piece of land, which Biden bought for $350,000 in 1996, before adding a 6,850-square-foot, colonial-style home two years later, then a 1,900-square-foot cottage in 2005. For years it was Biden’s most-valuable asset, and he refinanced it repeatedly until receiving his 2017 windfall. Today the property is worth an estimated $2.5 million, $700,000 more than it was worth two years ago. Combined, Biden’s two homes make up about two-thirds of his personal fortune.
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@youcancallmemaster3243 Fact: Kudlow has been grossly wrong about every single economic event in the last 3 decades.
“Homebuilders led the stock parade this week with a fantastic 11 percent gain. This is a group that hedge funds and bubbleheads love to hate. All the bond bears have been dead wrong in predicting sky-high mortgage rates. So have all the bubbleheads who expect housing-price crashes in Las Vegas or Naples, Fla., to bring down the consumer, the rest of the economy and the entire stock market.” — June, 2005
“What’s even more incredible is Team Obama’s stubborn refusal to have any faith in the free market. In some of the hardest hit areas of the country, markets are already solving the housing problem.
If the government really wants to help, instead of bailing out irresponsible mortgage holders, it should support new and younger families who want to buy starter homes and begin to climb the ladder of prosperity.
All this is free-market economics 101. And I say, let free-markets work.” — February, 2009
“At home in the U.S., there are still housing-slump worries and concerns about an inventory correction in autos and factories. Former Federal Reserve Chairman Alan Greenspan this week even predicted a recession, naming the budget deficit as the cause. Huh? The deficit is evaporating as record tax revenues are being generated by a solid economy, itself a function of the low marginal tax rates put in place by President Bush.” — March, 2007
“Recessions are therapeutic. They cleanse excess from the economy. Think about excessive risk speculation, leverage, and housing. Recessions are curative: They restore balance and create the foundation for the next recovery. Despite the housing and credit problem and the sub-prime virus, banks are still lending to businesses. So we don’t have a genuine credit crunch across the board. That is very good.” — April, 2008
“There's no question that President Clinton's across-the-board tax increases on labor, capital and energy will throw a wet blanket over the recovery and depress the economy's long-run potential to grow.” — March, 1993
“And let’s not forget: The stock market, which is a leading indicator of the future economy, is in a wee bit of a correction. Given the recent rise of presidential candidate Donald Trump, we should all be thankful that stocks haven’t plunged. Trump’s agenda of trade protectionism, dollar devaluation, and immigrant deportation is completely anti-growth. It’s like Fortress America in an economy that is completely globalized and where the U.S. must compete in the worldwide race for capital and labor. Trump’s policies don’t fit.” — August, 2015
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jim blair
DEMOCRACY IS IN DECLINE AROUND THE WORLD - AND TRUMP IS PART OF THE PROBLEM.
The Freedom House Annual report on the health of global democracy warned of its decline. In its survey evaluating 195 countries and 15 territories, Freedom House, a nongovernmental, nonpartisan advocacy organization established in 1941, found that political freedoms and civil liberties across the world are backsliding more often than they are improving.
“Democracy is under assault,” read the opening sentence of its report, written by Sarah Repucci. “Dictators are toiling to stamp out the last vestiges of domestic dissent and spread their harmful influence to new corners of the world.”
The usual suspects remain among the worst offenders. Freedom House decried China for its “totalitarian offensive” in Xinjiang and other campaigns of repression, and it warned of Beijing’s “relentless campaign to replace existing international norms with its own authoritarian vision.” It pointed to Russia’s “stage-managed elections” in 2019, in which the genuine opposition was largely shut out. Iran’s leadership, even as it sowed “discord” in neighboring countries, deployed security forces that used live ammunition to crush demonstrations last fall, killing hundreds of people.
But perhaps more disquieting is the steady erosion seen in “established democracies,” more than two dozen of which have seen net losses in their democracy rankings.
“Many freely elected leaders are dramatically narrowing their concerns to a blinkered interpretation of the national interest,” wrote Repucci. “In fact, such leaders — including the chief executives of the United States and India, the world’s two largest democracies — are increasingly willing to break down institutional safeguards and disregard the rights of critics and minorities as they pursue their populist agendas.”
President Trump is a key part of this story. Freedom House’s report, titled “A Leaderless Struggle for Democracy,” highlighted the “pressure” Trump is exerting “on electoral integrity, judicial independence, and safeguards against corruption” in the United States.
Is Treasonous Trump the Antichrist as foretold?
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“I no longer recognize my party”
Why Hundreds of Thousands of Republicans Are Leaving the Crazed Party
Voting registration data indicates a strong and unusual flight from the G.O.P. since the Capitol riot, with an intensely fluid period in American politics now underway.
In the days and weeks after the storming of the Capitol by Trump supporters on Jan. 6, hundreds of thousands of Republicans left the party. After the Jan. 6 attack on the Capitol, the phone lines and websites of local election officials across the country were jumping: Tens of thousands of Republicans were calling or logging on to switch their party affiliations.
In California, more than 33,000 registered Republicans left the party during the three weeks after the Washington riot. In Pennsylvania, more than 12,000 voters left the G.O.P. in the past month, and more than 10,000 Republicans changed their registration in Arizona.
An analysis of January voting records found that nearly 140,000 Republicans had quit the party in 25 states that had readily available data (19 states do not have registration by party). Voting experts say this is the start of a particularly damaging period for G.O.P. registrations as voters recoil from the Capitol violence and its fallout.
Among those who recently left the party are Juan Nunez, 56, an Army veteran in Mechanicsburg, Pa. He said he had long felt that the difference between the United States and many other countries was that campaign-season fighting ended on Election Day, when all sides would peacefully accept the result. The Jan. 6 riot changed that, he said.
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How TV Cable Companies Cover the Impeachment - an exercise in Propaganda:
Note: See if you can spot which company engages in Propaganda.
• CNN: EX-WHITE HOUSE AIDE: HIGHLY UNUSUAL EFFORT TO “LOCK DOWN”. TRANSCRIPT OF JULY 25 CALL WAS AN “ADMINISTRATIVE ERROR”
• Fox News: DEMS PRAISE VINDMAN FOR WORKING AGAINST TRUMP
• MSNBC: CONCLUDES AFTER MORE THAN 9 HOURS
At 9:13 p.m. that day, here’s what viewers saw.
• CNN: KEY WITNESSES QUESTIONED IN PUBLIC HEARINGS
• Fox News: SCHIFF STEERS IMPEACHMENT SHAM OFF A CLIFF / DEMS’ UKRAINE HOAX UNRAVELS ON CAPITOL HILL
• MSNBC: VINDMAN REASSURES SOVIET IMMIGRANT FATHER: HE WILL BE FINE FOR TELLING THE TRUTH / HOUSE INTEL COMPLETES 3RD DAY OF PUBLIC IMPEACHMENT HEARINGS
At 10:15 p.m.:
• CNN: SONDLAND TESTIFIES TOMORROW
• Fox News: VOLKER TESTIMONY UNDERMINES DEMS’ NARRATIVE
• MSNBC: IMPEACHMENT HEARING WRAPS AFTER 4 WITNESSES, 9+ HOURS / LT. COL VINDMAN, TRUMP’S TOP UKRAINE ADVISOR, TESTIFIES. TRUMP ACTED “IMPROPERLY” WHEN HE “DEMANDED” A FAVOR
At 10:51 p.m.:
• CNN: REPUBLICANS USE IMPEACHMENT HEARINGS TO QUESTION LOYALTY OF DECORATED ARMY VETERAN SPEAKING OUT AGAINST TRUMP
• Fox News: CHICK-FIL-A CAVES TO LIBERAL MOB
• MSNBC: EU AMB. GORDON SONDLAND TESTIFIES TOMORROW MORNING / SONDLAND WILL FACE QUESTIONS ABOUT PREVIOUSLY. UNKNOWN CALL TO TRUMP FROM RESTAURANT IN UKRAINE
Following day 8:12 p.m.:
• CNN: SONDLAND TIES PRES. TRUMP, VP PENCE, SECY. OF STATE POMPEO. AND WH CHIEF OF STAFF MULVANEY TO PRESSURE CAMPAIGN / SONDLAND: “EVERYONE WAS IN THE LOOP” ON UKRAINE PRESSURE
• Fox News: “NO QUID PRO QUO”
Half an hour later, while CNN was still covering Sondland’s testimony, Fox News was discussing the Clinton Foundation.
At 10:54 p.m., here’s what the two networks were showing viewers.
• CNN: SONDLAND: ‘YES’ THERE WAS QUID PRO QUO. IN UKRAINE SCANDAL
• Fox News: SWALWELL CAUSES A STINK
That latter text referred to a viral video clip that appeared to have captured the sound of flatulence while Rep. Eric Swalwell (D-Calif.) was appearing on MSNBC the previous day.
On Thursday, similar divides were on display. At 9:53 p.m., here’s what each network showed — perhaps the most representative comparison of any.
• CNN: NO REPUBLICANS BUDGE AFTER ALL THE FACTS, EVIDENCE REVEALED IN 3O+ HOURS OF PUBLIC TESTIMONY / MEMBERS OF PRESIDENT’S PARTY CROSSED AISLE IN NIXON & CLINTON IMPEACHMENT PROCEEDINGS, BUT NOT NOW
• Fox News: FBI OFFICIAL UNDER INVESTIGATION FOR ALLEGEDLY ALTERING DOC RELATED TO PAGE SURVEILLANCE, CNN REPORTS
• MSNBC: NIXON PLEDGED TO FIGHT TO KEEP HIS PRESIDENCY / IMPEACHMENT HEARING WITNESSES WRAP UP WEEK OF EXPLOSIVE TESTIMONY
There’s a reason that Trump’s current press secretary has only given interviews to Fox News and not other broadcast or major cable networks. Why would Trump need a White House communications director when he has a generously friendly cable network that’s already popular with the people he wants to talk to anyway?
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Litmus test. How to know if your president is a potential Authoritarian Threat (Dictator) to Democracy:
1. Rejection of (or weak commitment to) democratic rules or norms.
Examples.
Q. Do they reject the Constitution or express a willingness to violate it?
Q. Do they suggest a need for anti democratic measures banning certain organizations, or restricting basic civil or political rights?
Q. Do they attempt to undermine the legitimacy of elections, for example, by claiming unverifiable mass voter fraud.
2. Denial of the legitimacy of political opponents.
Examples.
Q. Do they describe their rivals as subversive, or opposed to your presidential powers.
Q. Do they claim that their rivals constitute a threat, either to the country or the prevailing way of life. Such as calling opponents socialists or communists?
Q. Do they baselessly describe their partisan rivals as criminals, whose supposed violations disqualifies them from full participation in the political arena.
Q. Do they baselessly suggest that their rivals are secretly working in alliance against you?
3. Toleration or encouragement of violence.
Examples.
Q. Do they have any ties to armed militias, paramilitary forces, white supremacy groups, etc?
Q. Have they encouraged, or suggested, mob attacks on opponents?
Q. Have they tacitly endorsed violence by their supporters by refusing to unambiguously condemning it?
Q. Have they praised (or refused to condemn) politically violent state actors in the past or currently?
4. Readiness to curtail civil liberties or voting rights of opponents, including the media?
Q. Have they supported laws or policies that restrict civil liberties, such as expanding defamation laws, or laws restricting protests, criticism of the government, or certain civic or political organizations?
Q. Have they threatened to take legal or other punitive action against critics in rival parties, civil society, or the media?
Q. Have they praised repressive leaders or actions taken by repressive leaders?
If the answer is yes to even on of the above questions then you have a wanna be Dictator on your hands.
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Joseph Peeler
Fact Checking for the grossly misinformed John P.:
Here’s a guide to some of the more noteworthy reactions to the report.
“The IG report proves Obama officials abused their FISA power to trigger an investigation into @realDonaldTrump’s campaign.”
— House Minority Whip Steve Scalise (R-La.), in a tweet, Dec. 9, 2019
The report documents FISA abuse by the FBI, but Scalise twists this politically to claim it was at the hands of “Obama officials.” The report says many of the errors happened deep in the bureaucracy, though it faults senior officials for poor oversight. “So many basic and fundamental errors were made by three separate, hand-picked teams on one of the most sensitive FBI investigations that was briefed to the highest levels within the FBI,” the inspector general concluded, that there was a failure of “not only the operational team, but also of the managers and supervisors, including senior officials, in the chain of command.”
The report also does not say the FISA abuse triggered the investigation, or that Obama officials opened it. The report says the counterintelligence investigation, known internally as Crossfire Hurricane, was opened after receipt of information from a “Friendly Foreign Government” (Australia). A diplomat for that country was told by Trump campaign foreign policy adviser George Papadopoulos that “the Trump team had received some kind of suggestion from Russia that it could assist this process with the anonymous release of information during the campaign that would be damaging to Mrs. Clinton (and President Obama).”
The report said: “This information provided the FBI with an articulable factual basis that, if true, reasonably indicated activity constituting either a federal crime or a threat to national security, or both, may have occurred or may be occurring.” The report added that investigators found no “evidence that political bias or improper motivation” influenced the decision to open the probe.
Lauren Fine, communications director for Scalise, pointed to a statement by John Durham, a prosecutor appointed by Attorney General William P. Barr to further investigate the origins of the probe: “We do not agree with some of the report’s conclusions as to predication and how the FBI case was opened.”
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Joseph Peeler
Fact Checking for the grossly misinformed Joseph P.
“The mainstream media cannot dispute this fact: Comey’s FBI repeatedly misled the FISA court and omitted key facts about the phony Steele Dossier, which launched the 2-year, $35M Russia investigation.”
— Republican National Committee Chair Ronna McDaniel, in a tweet, Dec. 9
This is a tricky tweet. The use of “which” also suggests the dossier assembled by former British spy Christopher Steele triggered the investigation, rather than Papadopoulos’s loose lips. That would support the previous, now-debunked narrative.
But, as noted, the report did document how key facts about the dossier were not disclosed. “We identified multiple instances in which factual assertions relied upon in the first FISA application were inaccurate, incomplete, or unsupported by appropriate documentation, based upon information the FBI had in its possession at the time the application was filed,” the report said, adding that the omissions “made it appear that the information supporting probable cause was stronger than was actually the case.”
For instance, the FBI failed to disclose that Page had been approved as an “operational contact” with another agency (Page has said this is the CIA) and that he had disclosed his contacts with certain Russian intelligence officers. Moreover, the FBI appeared to use these contacts as evidence against him in seeking a court order to conduct surveillance.
McDaniel also pins the failure on “Comey’s FBI,” referring to FBI Director James B. Comey, who was fired by Trump on May 9, 2017. The FISA application to monitor Page was renewed at least once, in June 2017, after Comey was fired.
Steve Guest, an RNC spokesman, defended the tweet by pointing to this line in the report: “We found that the FBI did not have information corroborating the specific allegations against Carter Page in Steele’s reporting when it relied upon his reports in the first FISA application or subsequent renewal applications.”
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Trump: Campaign shifted money into indebted private business, Forbes
Trump has shifted money raised from campaign donors into the Trump Organization, according to documents from the Federal Election Committee (FEC) seen by Forbes.
He moved around $2.8 million into his private businesses throughout the duration of his presidency, Forbes's Dan Alexander reported.
Trump funneled an additional $81,000 into the Trump Organization after his election loss, the magazine said.
The payments were made public in the filings the campaign submitted to the FEC and were liest to cover costs including rent, airfare, lodging, and other expenses.
One of the campaign's joint-fundraising committees, associated with the Republican Party, also moved an estimated $4.3 million of donor money into his private business during his presidential term, according to Forbes.
Read more: 10 huge hits to Trump's business from the pandemic that may be permanent.
The joint-fundraising committee also paid around $300,000 towards Trump's hotel chain in the week following the former president's election loss, the Independent reported.
Around $40,000 was handed over from the campaign to Trump Tower Commercial LLC, a company which the former president owns a stake in, in December, the paper said.
This isn't the first time it has been reported that Trump transferred campaign money to his private businesses.
In July, The Washington Post's David Fahrenthold reported that Trump's campaign sent nearly $400,000 to the Trump Organization in just two days.
Documents showed that the campaign channeled $380,000 to the president's personal business in 43 transactions, Fahrenthold said.
This comes when the former president is said to be looking for ways to cash in on his post-presidency to address potentially huge debt.
The Trump Organization owes $400 million, according to Forbes.
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“There’s Nothing Left, I no longer recognize my party”
Why Hundreds of Thousands of Republicans Are Leaving the Party
Voting registration data indicates a strong and unusual flight from the G.O.P. since the Capitol riot, with an intensely fluid period in American politics now underway.
In the days and weeks after the storming of the Capitol by Trump supporters on Jan. 6, hundreds of thousands of Republicans left the party. After the Jan. 6 attack on the Capitol, the phone lines and websites of local election officials across the country were jumping: Tens of thousands of Republicans were calling or logging on to switch their party affiliations.
In California, more than 33,000 registered Republicans left the party during the three weeks after the Washington riot. In Pennsylvania, more than 12,000 voters left the G.O.P. in the past month, and more than 10,000 Republicans changed their registration in Arizona.
An analysis of January voting records found that nearly 140,000 Republicans had quit the party in 25 states that had readily available data (19 states do not have registration by party). Voting experts say this is the start of a particularly damaging period for G.O.P. registrations as voters recoil from the Capitol violence and its fallout.
Among those who recently left the party are Juan Nunez, 56, an Army veteran in Mechanicsburg, Pa. He said he had long felt that the difference between the United States and many other countries was that campaign-season fighting ended on Election Day, when all sides would peacefully accept the result. The Jan. 6 riot changed that, he said.
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WASHINGTON — John H. Durham, the Trump-era special counsel scrutinizing the investigation into Russia’s 2016 election interference, distanced himself on Thursday from false reports by right-wing news outlets that a motion he recently filed said Hillary Clinton’s campaign had paid to spy on Trump White House servers.
Citing a barrage of such reports on Fox News and elsewhere based on the prosecutor’s Feb. 11 filing, defense lawyers for a Democratic-linked cybersecurity lawyer, Michael Sussmann, have accused the special counsel of including unnecessary and misleading information in filings “plainly intended to politicize this case, inflame media coverage and taint the jury pool.”
In a filing on Thursday, Mr. Durham defended himself, saying those accusations about his intentions were “simply not true.” He said he had “valid and straightforward reasons” for including the information in the Feb. 11 filing that set off the firestorm, while disavowing responsibility for how certain news outlets had interpreted and portrayed it.
“If third parties or members of the media have overstated or otherwise misinterpreted facts contained in the government’s motion, that does not in any way undermine the valid reasons for the government’s inclusion of this information,” he wrote.
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@rfbedell347 Just Google anything the Republican Party, Treasonous Trump, Etc. has ever said about Fauci, COVID Science, Masking, Hydroxychloroquine, Ivermectin, Alien Demon Seeds, Injecting Bleach, Hoaxes, etc…………………………..
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A day before rioters stormed Congress, an FBI office in Virginia issued an explicit internal warning that extremists were preparing to travel to Washington to commit violence and “war,” according to an FBI internal document. A situational information report approved for release the day before the U.S. Capitol riot painted a dire portrait of dangerous plans, including individuals sharing a map of the complex’s tunnels, and possible rally points for would-be conspirators to meet up. “As of 5 January 2021, FBI Norfolk received information indicating calls for violence in response to ‘unlawful lockdowns’ to begin on 6 January 2021 in Washington. D.C.,” the document says. “An online thread discussed specific calls for violence to include stating ‘Be ready to fight. Congress needs to hear glass breaking, doors being kicked in, and blood being spilled. Get violent. Stop calling this a march, or rally, or a protest. Go there ready for war. Our President wants us to do this. NOTHING else will achieve this goal.”
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“There’s Nothing Left, I no longer recognize my party”
Why Hundreds of Thousands of Republicans Are Leaving the Party
Voting registration data indicates a strong and unusual flight from the G.O.P. since the Capitol riot, with an intensely fluid period in American politics now underway.
In the days and weeks after the storming of the Capitol by Trump supporters on Jan. 6, hundreds of thousands of Republicans left the party. After the Jan. 6 attack on the Capitol, the phone lines and websites of local election officials across the country were jumping: Tens of thousands of Republicans were calling or logging on to switch their party affiliations.
In California, more than 33,000 registered Republicans left the party during the three weeks after the Washington riot. In Pennsylvania, more than 12,000 voters left the G.O.P. in the past month, and more than 10,000 Republicans changed their registration in Arizona.
An analysis of January voting records found that nearly 140,000 Republicans had quit the party in 25 states that had readily available data (19 states do not have registration by party). Voting experts say this is the start of a particularly damaging period for G.O.P. registrations as voters recoil from the Capitol violence and its fallout.
Among those who recently left the party are Juan Nunez, 56, an Army veteran in Mechanicsburg, Pa. He said he had long felt that the difference between the United States and many other countries was that campaign-season fighting ended on Election Day, when all sides would peacefully accept the result. The Jan. 6 riot changed that, he said.
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CabinBills
Sorry you are wrong. Give me the owners of NYT, WAPO, POLITICO, MSNBC, CBS, DER SPIEGEL, THE HILL, OR THE GUARDIAN. That is 8 newspapers with no overlap, and their is much, much, more. Another RIGHTWING Conspiracy that does not stand up to even cursory review.
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Is Treasonous Trump is mentally ill?
Signs and symptoms of narcissistic personality disorder and the severity of symptoms vary. People with the disorder can:
Have an exaggerated sense of self-importance
Have a sense of entitlement and require constant, excessive admiration
Expect to be recognized as superior even without achievements that warrant it
Exaggerate achievements and talents
Be preoccupied with fantasies about success, power, brilliance, beauty or the perfect mate
Believe they are superior and can only associate with equally special people
Monopolize conversations and belittle or look down on people they perceive as inferior
Expect special favors and unquestioning compliance with their expectations
Take advantage of others to get what they want
Have an inability or unwillingness to recognize the needs and feelings of others
Be envious of others and believe others envy them
Behave in an arrogant or haughty manner, coming across as conceited, boastful and pretentious
Insist on having the best of everything — for instance, the best car or office
At the same time, people with narcissistic personality disorder have trouble handling anything they perceive as criticism, and they can:
Become impatient or angry when they don't receive special treatment
Have significant interpersonal problems and easily feel slighted
React with rage or contempt and try to belittle the other person to make themselves appear superior
Have difficulty regulating emotions and behavior
Experience major problems dealing with stress and adapting to change
Feel depressed and moody because they fall short of perfection
Have secret feelings of insecurity, shame, vulnerability and humiliation
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WASHINGTON — It was supposed to be an exclusive party at Mar-a-Lago, Donald J. Trump’s members-only club in Palm Beach, Fla. But other than the two dozen or so women flown in to provide the entertainment, the only guests were Mr. Trump and Jeffrey Epstein.
The year was 1992 and the event was a “calendar girl” competition, something that George Houraney, a Florida-based businessman who ran American Dream Enterprise, had organized at Mr. Trump’s request.
“I arranged to have some contestants fly in,” Mr. Houraney recalled in an interview on Monday. “At the very first party, I said, ‘Who’s coming tonight? I have 28 girls coming.’ It was him and Epstein.”
Mr. Houraney, who had just partnered with Mr. Trump to host events at his casinos, said he was surprised. “I said, ‘Donald, this is supposed to be a party with V.I.P.s. You’re telling me it’s you and Epstein?’”
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@waynebaker5720 ROME — Pope Francis said in sharp terms that American Conservatives are “fixated on social issues like abortion & sexuality to the exclusion of caring for the poor, love, and the environment.”
The pope lamented the “backwardness” of some American conservatives who he said insist on a narrow, outdated and unchanging vision. They refuse, he said, to accept the full breadth of the Church’s mission and the need for changes in doctrine over time.
“I would like to remind these people that backwardness is useless,” Francis, 86, told a group of fellow Jesuits early this month in a meeting at World Youth Day celebrations in Lisbon. “Doing this, you lose the true tradition and you turn to ideologies to have support. In other words, ideologies replace faith.”
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@smileysmultimedia
Treasonous Trump is the very Antithesis of a vessel of God, and has more in common with an Antichrist type figure. Treasonous Trump is nor more likely to be a vessel of God than Osama Bin Ladin was. In truth, Treasonous Trump is exactly the type of leader who have historically led Christians astray by appealing to their darker natures. Within every Christian their are two voices competing for attention. The first voice would have you engage in prejudice, judgement, and subjugation in a misguided service to God. These are the voices that brought us the torture of “heretics”, the burning of witches, the inquisition, and the European Religious Wars. The second voice is the one of Jesus who speaks of love, acceptance, inclusion, and enlightenment. Treasonous Trump is yet another dark force that we were forwarded about:
1 John 4:1-6
Beloved, do not believe every spirit, but test the spirits to see whether they are from God, for many false prophets have gone out into the world. By this you know the Spirit of God: every spirit that confesses that Jesus Christ has come in the flesh is from God, and every spirit that does not confess Jesus is not from God. This is the spirit of the antichrist, which you heard was coming and now is in the world already. Little children, you are from God and have overcome them, for he who is in you is greater than he who is in the world. They are from the world; therefore they speak from the world, and the world listens to them. ...
2 Corinthians 11:13-15
For such men are false apostles, deceitful workmen, disguising themselves as apostles of Christ. And no wonder, for even Satan disguises himself as an angel of light. So it is no surprise if his servants, also, disguise themselves as servants of righteousness. Their end will correspond to their deeds.
Jeremiah 23:16
Thus says the Lord of hosts: “Do not listen to the words of the prophets who prophesy to you, filling you with vain hopes. They speak visions of their own minds, not from the mouth of the Lord.
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@romancewiththepast7979
1. Everything Treasonous Trump did with his Russian “helpers” would have gotten any person in the military Courtmartialed and tossed in jail for life.
2. IV. CONCLUSION Because we determined not to make a traditional prosecutorial judgment, we did not draw ultimate conclusions about the President’s conduct. The evidence we obtained about the President’s actions and intent presents difficult issues that would need to be resolved if we were making a traditional prosecutorial judgment. At the same time, if we had confidence after a thorough investigation of the facts that the President clearly did not commit obstruction of justice, we would so state. Based on the facts and the applicable legal standards, we are unable to reach that judgment. Accordingly, while this report does not conclude that the President committed a crime, it also does not exonerate him.
3. (1887 Electoral Count Act) Article II, Section 1, Clauses 2 and 3 of the Constitution does not allow for a “Green Bay Sweep”, Fake Electors, or for the VP to refuse to Count the Dully Elected Electors appointed by Vote and Certified by each State. There are zero Constitutional Scholars who adhere to such BS.
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@starchild19743 Steve Doocy - Recorded June 15, 2018
Doocy: “Will Kim Jong Un Visit the White House?”
DJT: “It could happen. Hey he’s the head of his country, and I mean the strong head. When he speaks his people sit straight up at attention, I want my people to do the same. How many young guys [Kim Jong Un]… he was, like, 26 or 25 when his father died… take over these tough generals, and all of a sudden ... he goes in, he takes over, and he's the boss. It's incredible. He wiped out the uncle, he wiped out this one, that one. I mean, this guy is incredibly successful like me and doesn't play games.” ~ DJT
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A LIST OF COMPANIES OR INSTITUTIONS TRUMP HAS BANKRUPTED OR RUINED:
Trump Taj Mahal, the Trump Castle, the Trump Plaza Atlantic City, the Trump Plaza New York, Trump Hotels and Casino Resorts, Trump Entertainment Resorts, the Trump Tower Tampa, the Trump Shuttle, Trump: The Game, Trump magazine, Trump Mortgage, Trump Steaks, Trump mattresses, Trump pillows, Trump perfume, Trump shirts, Trump underwear, Trump shoes, Trump eyeglasses, Trump University, Trump Vodka, the Trump Foundation and the U.S. Treasury.
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Trump Aide Has Mental Melt Down On Facebook. 🤪🤪🤪🤪
Michael R. Caputo told his audience that left-wing hit squads were being trained for insurrection and accused C.D.C. scientists of “sedition.” He complained that he was under siege by the news media, feeling paranoid, and that his “mental health was failing.” He accused the CDC of harboring a “secret resistance unit” determined to undermine President Trump.
Mr. Caputo, who lead efforts to warp C.D.C. weekly bulletins to fit Mr. Trump’s pandemic narrative, suggested that he personally could be in danger from opponents of the administration. “If you carry guns, buy ammunition, ladies and gentlemen, because it’s going to be hard to get,” he urged his followers. “I don’t like being alone in Washington,” Mr. Caputo said, describing “shadows on the ceiling in my apartment, there alone, shadows are so long.” He also said the mounting number of Covid-19 deaths was taking a toll on him, telling his viewers, “You are not waking up every morning and talking about dead Americans. But you should attend Trump rallies and wear a mask”.
SOUNDS LIKE TRUMP ONLY HIRES THE BEST PEOPLE 🤪🤪🤪🤪
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How Treasonous Trump “Cares About America”:
Sometimes it’s worth stepping back to look at the full picture.
He has pressured a foreign leader to interfere in the 2020 American presidential election.
He urged a foreign country to intervene in the 2016 presidential election.
He divulged classified information to foreign officials.
He publicly undermined American intelligence agents while standing next to a hostile foreign autocrat.
He hired a national security adviser who he knew had secretly worked as a foreign lobbyist.
He encourages foreign leaders to enrich him and his family by staying at his hotels.
He genuflects to murderous dictators.
He has alienated America’s closest allies.
He lied to the American people about his company’s business dealings in Russia.
He tells new lies virtually every week — about the economy, voter fraud, even the weather.
He spends hours on end watching television and days on end staying at resorts.
He often declines to read briefing books or perform other basic functions of a president’s job.
He has aides, as well as members of his own party in Congress, who mock him behind his back as unfit for office.
He described a former first lady, not long after she died, as “nasty.”
He described white supremacists as “some very fine people.”
He told four women of color, all citizens and members of Congress, to “go back and help fix the totally broken and crime-infested places from which they came.”
He made a joke about Pocahontas during a ceremony honoring Native American World War II veterans.
He launched his political career by falsely claiming that the first black president was not really American.
He launched his presidential campaign by describing Mexicans as “rapists.”
He has described women, variously, as “a dog,” “a pig” and “horseface,” as well as “bleeding badly from a facelift” and having “blood coming out of her wherever.”
He has been accused of sexual assault or misconduct by multiple women.
He enthusiastically campaigned for a Senate candidate who was accused of molesting multiple teenage girls.
He waved around his arms, while giving a speech, to ridicule a physically disabled person.
He has encouraged his supporters to commit violence against his political opponents.
He has called for his opponents and critics to be investigated and jailed.
He uses a phrase popular with dictators — “the enemy of the people” — to describe journalists.
He attempts to undermine any independent source of information that he does not like, including judges, scientists, journalists, election officials, the F.B.I., the C.I.A., the Congressional Budget Office and the National Weather Service.
He has tried to harass the chairman of the Federal Reserve into lowering interest rates.
He said that a judge could not be objective because of his Mexican heritage.
He obstructed justice by trying to influence an investigation into his presidential campaign.
He violated federal law by directing his lawyer to pay $280,000 in hush money to cover up two apparent adulterous affairs.
He made his fortune partly through wide-scale financial fraud.
He has refused to release his tax returns.
He claimed that federal law-enforcement agents and prosecutors regularly fabricated evidence, thereby damaging the credibility of criminal investigations across the country.
He uses his office to enrich himself and his family
He said that America is no different from or better than Vladimir Putin’s Russia.
This is the president who “Cares About America”.
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A-score
On Fox News, suddenly a very different tune about the coronavirus.
For weeks, some of Fox News’s hosts downplayed the threat of the coronavirus, characterizing it as a conspiracy by media organizations and Democrats to undermine President Trump.
Sean Hannity and Laura Ingraham accused the news media of whipping up “mass hysteria” and being “panic pushers.” Trish Regan called the Main Stream Media response “yet another attempt to impeach the president.”
But that was then.
When Trump’s declared a national emergency, the tone on Fox News has quickly shifted. Hannity, suddenly the lauded the president’s handling of what the host is now, belatedly, referring to as a “crisis.”
“Tonight, we are witnessing what will be a massive paradigm shift in the future of disease control and prevention,” he said. “A bold, new precedent is being set, the world will once again benefit greatly from America’s leadership. . . . The federal government, state governments, private businesses, top hospitals all coming together, under the president’s leadership, to stem the tide of the coronavirus.”
In a complicated dance to mirror the president, Trump’s allies on Fox News took the same stance as the president for several weeks — that this coronavirus that had sickened and killed thousands of people in China was no worse a threat than the seasonal flu.
Just a week ago, Hannity shrugged at the pandemic. “So far in the United States, there’s been around 30 deaths, most of which came from one nursing home in the state of Washington,” he said, “Healthy people, generally, 99 percent recover very fast, even if they contract it.”
By way of comparison, he added: “Twenty-six people were shot in Chicago alone over the weekend. I doubt you heard about it. You notice there’s no widespread hysteria about violence in Chicago. And this has gone on for years and years. By the way, Democratic-run cities, we see a lot of that.”
Ingraham, also had a fast-dawning recognition that the social and economic dislocation of the virus was more than just a Democratic talking point wielded against the president.
In late February, Ingraham called Democrats the “pandemic party” and displayed photos of House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) and Senate Minority Leader Charles E. Schumer (D-N.Y.) alongside enlarged images of coronavirus molecules. “How sick that these people seem almost happiest when Americans are hurting,” she said.
She kept at it through last Tuesday when, in front of a graphic reading “Trump confronts the panic pushers,” Ingraham said, “The public in some ways seems a lot more levelheaded than the so-called experts. . . . The facts are actually pretty reassuring, but you’d never know it watching all this stuff.”
On Friday, Ingraham tweeted that it was a “great time to fly if not in at-risk population!” The tweet was later deleted.
By Wednesday, after Trump announced a travel ban on people from the European Union, Ingraham had started calling the pandemic “this dangerous health crisis.” She characterized warnings issued by National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases head Anthony S. Fauci about the potential spread of the disease as “sobering and scary to hear.”
Regan’s on-air speculation at the start of last week that coronavirus was merely another impeachment gambit for Democrats drew widespread pushback. Clearly the mood was changing at Fox by the time the network announced late Friday that her discussion-and-commentary program on Fox Business would leave the air indefinitely.
Tucker Carlson too, blamed the “corrupt” media. But in a monologue that many took at an indirect scolding of the president, he also complained that “none of our leaders helped us to take it seriously. . . . People you trust, people you probably voted for, have spent weeks minimizing what is clearly a very serious problem. It’s just partisan politics, they say. ‘Calm down. In the end, this is just like the flu and people die from that every year. Coronavirus will pass, and when it does, we will feel foolish for worrying about it.’ That’s their position. . . . But they’re wrong.”
Days earlier, Carlson attended the birthday party of former Fox News host Kimberly Guilfoyle, who is dating Donald Trump Jr.
In comments downplaying the pandemic on March 7, Jeanine Pirro, offered “All the talk about coronavirus being so much more deadly [than the flu] doesn’t reflect reality.” She reiterated Trump’s comment that the infection rate will drop “as the weather warms.”
On the “Fox & Friends” program Friday, Liberty University President Jerry Falwell Jr. spun out a meandering tale advancing the baseless notion that the coronavirus was designed by North Korean and Chinese scientists to harm Americans.
The program’s three co-hosts offered no objections. Host Steve Doocy moved on to asking Falwell about Liberty’s plans to cancel classes.
Then on Sunday, Rep. Devin Nunes (R-Calif.) appeared on Fox News and urged Americans to “stop panicking” and for those who are healthy to “just go out.”
Said Nunes: “There’s a lot of concerns with the economy here because people are scared to go out. But I will just say one of the things you can do if you’re healthy, you and your family, it’s a great time to just go out, go to a local restaurant.”
Anchor Maria Bartiromo offered no response to Nunes’s comment. On Monday, a day later, Fox News contributor Nicole Saphier, a doctor, specifically called out the congressman on air to contradict his advice and told viewers to stay home.
This is a quick summation of how Faux news has become nothing more than a platform for Trumpian Propaganda.
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“There’s Nothing Left, I no longer recognize my party”
Why Hundreds of Thousands of Republicans Are Leaving the Party
Voting registration data indicates a strong and unusual flight from the G.O.P. since the Capitol riot, with an intensely fluid period in American politics now underway.
In the days and weeks after the storming of the Capitol by Trump supporters on Jan. 6, hundreds of thousands of Republicans left the party. After the Jan. 6 attack on the Capitol, the phone lines and websites of local election officials across the country were jumping: Tens of thousands of Republicans were calling or logging on to switch their party affiliations.
In California, more than 33,000 registered Republicans left the party during the three weeks after the Washington riot. In Pennsylvania, more than 12,000 voters left the G.O.P. in the past month, and more than 10,000 Republicans changed their registration in Arizona.
An analysis of January voting records found that nearly 140,000 Republicans had quit the party in 25 states that had readily available data (19 states do not have registration by party). Voting experts say this is the start of a particularly damaging period for G.O.P. registrations as voters recoil from the Capitol violence and its fallout.
Among those who recently left the party are Juan Nunez, 56, an Army veteran in Mechanicsburg, Pa. He said he had long felt that the difference between the United States and many other countries was that campaign-season fighting ended on Election Day, when all sides would peacefully accept the result. The Jan. 6 riot changed that, he said.
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WHEN GOOD PEOPLE DON’T ACT, EVIL REIGNS:
How did the trans-Atlantic slave trade play out over hundreds of years?
How did slavery thrive in this country?
How was the Holocaust allowed to happen?
How did the genocides in Rwanda or Darfur come to be?
It turns out that our current era is providing the unsettling answer: It was easy. As Edmund Burke said: “The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.” If you don’t complain, you condone.
Gather the energy. Gather your neighbor. Fight, vote, email, post. Do all you can to stand up for the vulnerable, for the oppressed, for our Constitution, and for our Democratic Values. Don’t let history record this moment as it has recorded too many others: a time when good people did too little to confront the wickedness and disaster of Trumpian Neo Nazism. In November America has a clear choice, do nothing to confront Trumpian Evil, or vote to sweep the Evil out of office and began the long painful process of Restoring Our Democracy and Democratic Institutions.
As Edmund Burke wrote: “When bad men combine, the good must associate; else they will fall, one by one, an unpitied sacrifice in a contemptible struggle.”
But you may be more familiar with another quote often attributed to Burke: “The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.”
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Donald J. Trump is corrupt: The Ukraine quid pro quo matters because it shows how Trump has reneged on his promise to fight for ordinary Americans and is using the power of the presidency to benefit himself. As Leah Greenberg, a co-founder of the progressive group Indivisible, says: “This man is not working for you. He is working to put his own interests first. And he is endangering the country to do it.”
Corruption is one of the public’s top worries, surveys show. In polls last year, people ranked the economy as the country’s most important issue, and No. 2 was “reducing the influence of special interests and corruption in Washington.” It’s a cross-partisan concern too, spanning Democrats, Republicans and independents.
Trump is a reprobate but most of his supporters don’t care that, He is a “pathological liar,” as Ted Cruz said during the 2016 Republican primaries, as well as a “con artist” (Marco Rubio’s description) and a “race-baiting, xenophobic, religious bigot” (Lindsey Graham’s). Mick Mulvaney, then a Republican congressman, had the simplest summary: “He’s a terrible human being.”
Trump signed a tax bill that benefits wealthy people like him, not ordinary workers. He has used the presidency to pad the profits of his hotels. And he has damaged American interests by contorting foreign policy, toward Russia and continues enriching himself at taxpayers’ expense.
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Dennis Walker
1. Congratulations on even being aware of the Dunning - Kruger Syndrome , i hope you actually read the published paper.
2. You state significant changes in Trump’s NAFTA II it site not changes. Please be specific if you respond. You mention that N. Korea is an ongoing negotiation - there are no current negotiations. You mention “a victory because it’s more than any other president has accomplished” You do realize that nothing is zero and that zero is nothing so how is that better? If you choose to reply... Please site specifics.
You go on to say that “the only ones paying for the tariffs are those who insist on buying foreign products and good”. Once again congratulations you are smarter than our president on tariffs. But if our American businesses are paying more on imported goods who, in the end, pays the higher price? Isn’t a tariff a tax on your own people?
On Mexico stepping up... they already agreed to this and had already implemented this last year.
On Obama shat specific action did he take that was treasonous? I have cited very specifically the Muller Report Vol I pages 1 - 198. The report documents all contacts , 37, between the Russian GRU Spy Agency and the Trump Campaign.
As for “Deep State” do you really believe that the CIA, FBI, Judicial System, The Pentagon, NYT, WSJ, The Atlantic, The New Yorker, USA Today, Bob Muller, CNN, MSNBC, BBC, and essentially the whole world are in a conspiracy against Treasonous Trump? With only the Russia, FAUX news, and some White Supremacy papers willing to support Trump?
As for other collusion’s please be specific. As for pay outs please be specific. As for Treasonous Trump our elected president this is true- but that he was constitutionality elected does not mean that he can ignore the Constitution, The Rule Of Law, Our Courts, Morality, and seek help from Russian Spy’s.
I look forward to your very specific responses to my questions.
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Jesus Isback
Isn’t it amazing? Only 1 man and 1 news source is capable of Truth?
All Scholars, Scientists, Teachers, Historians, Journalists, Theologians, Main Stream Media, the FBI, CIA, NSA, European Media, etc. all tell lies about Donald “Jenius” Trump. It’s as if no one can comprehend his PERSONAL STRUGGLE - or in German Mein Kampf.
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The Ultra Conservative New York Post gave Trump a blistering rebuke demanding that he grow up and accept his loss to President-elect Joe Biden and stop falsely claiming that mass voter fraud had marred the results — an effort the paper labeled a “dark charade.”
“We understand, Mr. President, that you’re angry that you lost,” the editorial board wrote. “But to continue down this road is treasonous.”
Under the headline “Stop the insanity,” the conservative tabloid took particular aim at Trump’s attempts to pressure Vice President Pence and congressional Republicans to somehow Throwout the result when they meet on Jan. 6 to certify Biden’s electoral college victory.
“You have tweeted that, as long as Republicans have ‘courage,’ they can overturn the results and give you four more years in office,” the Post wrote. “In other words, you’re cheering for an undemocratic coup.”
The article also reminded Trump that he had clearly failed in his attempts to prove voter fraud propelled Biden to victory.
“You had every right to investigate the election. But let’s be clear: Those efforts have found nothing,” the Post wrote, noting that Trump-backed recounts in Wisconsin and Georgia had turned up no evidence of malfeasance.
The editorial also lashed out at Sidney Powell, whose “Kraken” lawsuits seeking to overturn the election results have repeatedly been tossed out of court, and Michael Flynn, the former national security adviser who has floated the idea of declaring martial law to keep Trump in power.
“Michael Flynn suggesting martial law is tantamount to treason. It is beyond shameful.”
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@maryreese3554 1. Russian Collusion. Proof: Muller Report Vol 1, House Intel Report, Bi-Partisan Senate Report, CIA, FBI, NSA, DIA Reports, 6 Multiple Felony Convictions, and 24 Indictments. 2. Treasonous Trump Organized and Ordered Attack on Capital. Proof: House J6 Report, FBI Report, DC Police Report, Interviews with Oath Keeper, Proud Boys, and 3% Militia. Over 800 charges with over 600 Convictions to date - more pending. 3. Treasonous Trump ordered and organized Failed Fake Electors Coup. Proof: House J6 Report, investigation ongoing multiple charges pending, 6 investigations into Treasonous Trump’s actions and in Actions. 4. Election interference Georgia, investigation on going, criminal charges pending. 5. Treasonous Trump Stole more than 700 pages of Classified Documents some rated TS/SCI the highest classification of Secret. One set of TS/SCI detailed what we know about Russian Nuclear Weapons and our TS plan on how to respond. FBI investigation for Espionage ongoing.
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Trump touts Putin’s speaking out against his impeachment
A souvenir shop in Moscow displays Matryoshka dolls featuring President Trump and Russian President Vladimir Putin. (Misha Friedman/AFP/Getty Images)
By Colby Itkowitz and Isabelle Khurshudyan
December 21 at 10:31 AM MT
Late Friday night, minutes before deplaning in Florida for the holidays, President Trump retweeted a link to an article in which Russian President Vladimir Putin defended him against impeachment.
“A total Witch Hunt!” the president tweeted at 10:30 p.m., as he shared a 36-hour-old Associated Press tweet that read: “BREAKING: Russian President Vladimir Putin says U.S. President Donald Trump’s impeachment is far-fetched and predicts the U.S. Senate will reject it.”
Trump’s boasting of Putin’s support comes a day after The Washington Post reported that White House advisers feared Trump’s belief that Ukraine, not Russia, was responsible for interfering with the 2016 election was spurred by conversations Trump had with Putin.
[[Former White House officials say they feared Putin influenced the president’s views on Ukraine and 2016 campaign]]
Trump’s critics responded to the tweet, expressing exasperation more than incredulity.
“At the end of the day, it’s always Putin First,” wrote conservative commentator and “Never Trumper” Bill Kristol.
Russian President Vladimir Putin accused the U.S. House of Representatives Dec. 19 of having "invented" a story to "revise" history and impeach President Trump. (Reuters)
“Trump wants us to know that Putin has his back. We know,” tweeted Eric Columbus, a former Justice Department appointee in the Obama administration.
“Putin is a dictator who jails opponents, kills opponents, invades neighbors, interferes in democracies’ elections, etc. I don’t think an American president should be buddying with him. I wonder if Trump defenders are ever (secretly) embarrassed by this stuff. I hope so,” wrote Jay Nordlinger, a senior editor at the right-leaning National Review.
At his annual end-of-the-year news conference on Thursday, Putin was asked about Trump’s impeachment. He called the charges “completely fabricated reasons.”
[[Putin stays in Trump’s corner on impeachment]]
That evening, Russian state media, which follows Putin’s lead, also threw its support behind Trump.
Donald Trump is the third president in U.S. history to face a Senate trial. (The Washington Post)
Popular Kremlin propagandist Vladimir Soloviev gave an impassioned defense of Trump on his evening show, raising his voice several times in a discussion with Atlantic Council expert Ariel Cohen.
“I can’t understand for what reason [Democrats] don’t like Trump,” Soloviev said.
Days earlier, on his two-hour Sunday night program, anchor Dmitry Kiselyov opined about how Hollywood has joined the Democrats in being against Trump, portraying him as “always on the dark side.”
And the state-sponsored Rossiya-1 news channel, which airs Soloviev’s show, recently broadcast segments of Rudolph W. Giuliani’s interview with right-wing channel One America News, in which the president’s personal attorney promoted debunked conspiracy theories about Ukrainian interference in the 2016 U.S. presidential election.
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Trump Aide Has Mental Melt Down On Facebook. 🤪🤪🤪🤪
Michael R. Caputo told his audience that left-wing hit squads were being trained for insurrection and accused C.D.C. scientists of “sedition.” He complained that he was under siege by the news media, feeling paranoid, and that his “mental health was failing.” He accused the CDC of harboring a “secret resistance unit” determined to undermine President Trump.
Mr. Caputo, who lead efforts to warp C.D.C. weekly bulletins to fit Mr. Trump’s pandemic narrative, suggested that he personally could be in danger from opponents of the administration. “If you carry guns, buy ammunition, ladies and gentlemen, because it’s going to be hard to get,” he urged his followers. “I don’t like being alone in Washington,” Mr. Caputo said, describing “shadows on the ceiling in my apartment, there alone, shadows are so long.” He also said the mounting number of Covid-19 deaths was taking a toll on him, telling his viewers, “You are not waking up every morning and talking about dead Americans. But you should attend Trump rallies and wear a mask”.
SOUNDS LIKE TRUMP ONLY HIRES THE BEST PEOPLE 🤪🤪🤪🤪
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A LIST OF COMPANIES OR INSTITUTIONS TRUMP HAS BANKRUPTED OR RUINED:
Trump Taj Mahal, the Trump Castle, the Trump Plaza Atlantic City, the Trump Plaza New York, Trump Hotels and Casino Resorts, Trump Entertainment Resorts, the Trump Tower Tampa, the Trump Shuttle, Trump: The Game, Trump magazine, Trump Mortgage, Trump Steaks, Trump mattresses, Trump pillows, Trump perfume, Trump shirts, Trump underwear, Trump shoes, Trump eyeglasses, Trump University, Trump Vodka, the Trump Foundation and the U.S. Treasury.
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How TV Cable Companies Cover the Impeachment - an exercise in Propaganda:
Note: See if you can spot which company engages in Propaganda.
• CNN: EX-WHITE HOUSE AIDE: HIGHLY UNUSUAL EFFORT TO “LOCK DOWN”. TRANSCRIPT OF JULY 25 CALL WAS AN “ADMINISTRATIVE ERROR”
• Fox News: DEMS PRAISE VINDMAN FOR WORKING AGAINST TRUMP
• MSNBC: CONCLUDES AFTER MORE THAN 9 HOURS
At 9:13 p.m. that day, here’s what viewers saw.
• CNN: KEY WITNESSES QUESTIONED IN PUBLIC HEARINGS
• Fox News: SCHIFF STEERS IMPEACHMENT SHAM OFF A CLIFF / DEMS’ UKRAINE HOAX UNRAVELS ON CAPITOL HILL
• MSNBC: VINDMAN REASSURES SOVIET IMMIGRANT FATHER: HE WILL BE FINE FOR TELLING THE TRUTH / HOUSE INTEL COMPLETES 3RD DAY OF PUBLIC IMPEACHMENT HEARINGS
At 10:15 p.m.:
• CNN: SONDLAND TESTIFIES TOMORROW
• Fox News: VOLKER TESTIMONY UNDERMINES DEMS’ NARRATIVE
• MSNBC: IMPEACHMENT HEARING WRAPS AFTER 4 WITNESSES, 9+ HOURS / LT. COL VINDMAN, TRUMP’S TOP UKRAINE ADVISOR, TESTIFIES. TRUMP ACTED “IMPROPERLY” WHEN HE “DEMANDED” A FAVOR
At 10:51 p.m.:
• CNN: REPUBLICANS USE IMPEACHMENT HEARINGS TO QUESTION LOYALTY OF DECORATED ARMY VETERAN SPEAKING OUT AGAINST TRUMP
• Fox News: CHICK-FIL-A CAVES TO LIBERAL MOB
• MSNBC: EU AMB. GORDON SONDLAND TESTIFIES TOMORROW MORNING / SONDLAND WILL FACE QUESTIONS ABOUT PREVIOUSLY. UNKNOWN CALL TO TRUMP FROM RESTAURANT IN UKRAINE
Following day 8:12 p.m.:
• CNN: SONDLAND TIES PRES. TRUMP, VP PENCE, SECY. OF STATE POMPEO. AND WH CHIEF OF STAFF MULVANEY TO PRESSURE CAMPAIGN / SONDLAND: “EVERYONE WAS IN THE LOOP” ON UKRAINE PRESSURE
• Fox News: “NO QUID PRO QUO”
Half an hour later, while CNN was still covering Sondland’s testimony, Fox News was discussing the Clinton Foundation.
At 10:54 p.m., here’s what the two networks were showing viewers.
• CNN: SONDLAND: ‘YES’ THERE WAS QUID PRO QUO. IN UKRAINE SCANDAL
• Fox News: SWALWELL CAUSES A STINK
That latter text referred to a viral video clip that appeared to have captured the sound of flatulence while Rep. Eric Swalwell (D-Calif.) was appearing on MSNBC the previous day.
On Thursday, similar divides were on display. At 9:53 p.m., here’s what each network showed — perhaps the most representative comparison of any.
• CNN: NO REPUBLICANS BUDGE AFTER ALL THE FACTS, EVIDENCE REVEALED IN 3O+ HOURS OF PUBLIC TESTIMONY / MEMBERS OF PRESIDENT’S PARTY CROSSED AISLE IN NIXON & CLINTON IMPEACHMENT PROCEEDINGS, BUT NOT NOW
• Fox News: FBI OFFICIAL UNDER INVESTIGATION FOR ALLEGEDLY ALTERING DOC RELATED TO PAGE SURVEILLANCE, CNN REPORTS
• MSNBC: NIXON PLEDGED TO FIGHT TO KEEP HIS PRESIDENCY / IMPEACHMENT HEARING WITNESSES WRAP UP WEEK OF EXPLOSIVE TESTIMONY
There’s a reason that Trump’s current press secretary has only given interviews to Fox News and not other broadcast or major cable networks. Why would Trump need a White House communications director when he has a generously friendly cable network that’s already popular with the people he wants to talk to anyway?
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What is happening is not a coup, or even an attempt at a coup but a ham-handed effort to discredit the election outcome by any crackpot method available to sooth Trump’s ego. Scholars of real coups in other countries say that Trump has few of the ingredients necessary to pull off a coup — the international community despises him, the nation’s main media is still independent, an the armed forces think Trump is a joke. However, Trump is set to successfully pursue a slow-motion “con game,” pleading for donations by playing his supporters. He’s also crafting a “Stab in the Back” myth in hopes of returning to the WH in 2024.There is a fundamental difference between between a coup and a con. A coup is an illegitimate power grab by force. A con is a mostly criminal, unethical, or manipulative act. A con can become a coup if the con is successful — if enough people buy into the con then a Coup has occurred.
Though Trump will fail in his coup - this time - the fact that his fellow Republicans tacitly approved of his methods, or looked the other way dramatically weakens our Democratic Institutions. As Trump continues to spew crazy conspiracies, half truths, and outright lies more and more Republican voters will drift into delusion and violence.
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Looking for Clinton’s “missing” emails
(VOLUME I, PP. 49, 62-63)
At a July 27, 2016, campaign rally, Mr. Trump said, “Russia, if you’re listening, I hope you’re able to find the 30,000 emails that are missing” — referring to Clinton emails reportedly stored on a personal server. “Within approximately five hours” of Mr. Trump’s remarks, according to the Mueller report, Russian military intelligence began a cyberattack against “Clinton’s personal office.”
After his July 27 comment, the report states, Mr. Trump “asked individuals affiliated with his campaign to find the deleted Clinton emails” — including Michael Flynn.
Mr. Flynn, in turn, reached out to a Republican Senate staffer and a party operative who worked separately to obtain the emails. The operative raised money to support the project, which he marketed as “coordinated with the Trump campaign,” and told others that he was in communication with Russian hackers who had access to emails he believed were Mrs. Clinton’s. But Mr. Mueller “did not establish” that the operative had actually made contact with any real Russian hackers. And while the staffer obtained emails, an effort funded by a businessman close to the campaign found that they were not really Mrs. Clinton’s either.
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Whoami Foo
DEMOCRACY IS IN DECLINE AROUND THE WORLD - AND TRUMP IS PART OF THE PROBLEM.
The Freedom House Annual report on the health of global democracy warned of its decline. In its survey evaluating 195 countries and 15 territories, Freedom House, a nongovernmental, nonpartisan advocacy organization established in 1941, found that political freedoms and civil liberties across the world are backsliding more often than they are improving.
“Democracy is under assault,” read the opening sentence of its report, written by Sarah Repucci. “Dictators are toiling to stamp out the last vestiges of domestic dissent and spread their harmful influence to new corners of the world.”
The usual suspects remain among the worst offenders. Freedom House decried China for its “totalitarian offensive” in Xinjiang and other campaigns of repression, and it warned of Beijing’s “relentless campaign to replace existing international norms with its own authoritarian vision.” It pointed to Russia’s “stage-managed elections” in 2019, in which the genuine opposition was largely shut out. Iran’s leadership, even as it sowed “discord” in neighboring countries, deployed security forces that used live ammunition to crush demonstrations last fall, killing hundreds of people.
But perhaps more disquieting is the steady erosion seen in “established democracies,” more than two dozen of which have seen net losses in their democracy rankings.
“Many freely elected leaders are dramatically narrowing their concerns to a blinkered interpretation of the national interest,” wrote Repucci. “In fact, such leaders — including the chief executives of the United States and India, the world’s two largest democracies — are increasingly willing to break down institutional safeguards and disregard the rights of critics and minorities as they pursue their populist agendas.”
President Trump is a key part of this story. Freedom House’s report, titled “A Leaderless Struggle for Democracy,” highlighted the “pressure” Trump is exerting “on electoral integrity, judicial independence, and safeguards against corruption” in the United States.
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Trump Aide Has Mental Melt Down On Facebook. 🤪🤪🤪🤪
Michael R. Caputo told his audience that left-wing hit squads were being trained for insurrection and accused C.D.C. scientists of “sedition.” He complained that he was under siege by the news media, feeling paranoid, and that his “mental health was failing.” He accused the CDC of harboring a “secret resistance unit” determined to undermine President Trump.
Mr. Caputo, who lead efforts to warp C.D.C. weekly bulletins to fit Mr. Trump’s pandemic narrative, suggested that he personally could be in danger from opponents of the administration. “If you carry guns, buy ammunition, ladies and gentlemen, because it’s going to be hard to get,” he urged his followers. “I don’t like being alone in Washington,” Mr. Caputo said, describing “shadows on the ceiling in my apartment, there alone, shadows are so long.” He also said the mounting number of Covid-19 deaths was taking a toll on him, telling his viewers, “You are not waking up every morning and talking about dead Americans. But you should attend Trump rallies and wear a mask”.
SOUNDS LIKE TRUMP ONLY HIRES THE BEST PEOPLE 🤪🤪🤪🤪
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It’s hard to give an Intelligence Briefing to a Moron when you are limited to 1 page, pictures, and a single crayon. During briefings the president constantly veers off on tangents. He has a short attention span and rarely, if ever, reads intelligence reports, relying instead on conservative media and his friends for information. He frequently interrupts Intell Officers and will riff based on tips or gossip he hears from the former casino magnate Steve Wynn, the retired golfer Gary Player or Christopher Ruddy, the conservative media executive.
Mr. Trump rarely absorbs information that he disagrees with or that runs counter to his worldview. Briefing him has been so great a challenge compared with his predecessors that the intelligence agencies have hired outside consultants to study how better to get his attention and keep it during briefings.
Working to keep Mr. Trump’s interest exhausted and burned out his first briefer, Ted Gistaro, two former officials said. Mr. Gistaro did not always know what to expect and would sometimes have to brief an erratic and angry president upset over news reports, the officials said
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This is the type of people who support Treasonous Trump:
Rep. Rodney Garcia, a state lawmaker in Montana, told a roomful of Republicans he believes the U.S. Constitution says socialists can be jailed or shot simply for being socialists. Garcia initially made the statement at an election event, then he reiterated it to a Billings Gazette reporter.
Garcia’s inflammatory assertion first came Friday night, after former interior secretary Ryan Zinke gave a speech at the party event in Helena. According to reporting from the Gazette, Garcia said he was concerned there were socialists “everywhere” in Billings, which he represents in House District 52.
Billings Gazette reporter Holly Michels later asked Garcia to clarify his remarks, and the lawmaker doubled down.
“So actually in the Constitution of the United States, [if you] are found guilty of being a socialist member you either go to prison or are shot,” Garcia told Michels.
Garcia was not able to say where he finds that in the Constitution, the Billings Gazette reported.
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How TV Cable Companies Cover the Impeachment - an exercise in Propaganda:
Note: See if you can spot which company engages in Propaganda.
• CNN: EX-WHITE HOUSE AIDE: HIGHLY UNUSUAL EFFORT TO “LOCK DOWN”. TRANSCRIPT OF JULY 25 CALL WAS AN “ADMINISTRATIVE ERROR”
• Fox News: DEMS PRAISE VINDMAN FOR WORKING AGAINST TRUMP
• MSNBC: CONCLUDES AFTER MORE THAN 9 HOURS
At 9:13 p.m. that day, here’s what viewers saw.
• CNN: KEY WITNESSES QUESTIONED IN PUBLIC HEARINGS
• Fox News: SCHIFF STEERS IMPEACHMENT SHAM OFF A CLIFF / DEMS’ UKRAINE HOAX UNRAVELS ON CAPITOL HILL
• MSNBC: VINDMAN REASSURES SOVIET IMMIGRANT FATHER: HE WILL BE FINE FOR TELLING THE TRUTH / HOUSE INTEL COMPLETES 3RD DAY OF PUBLIC IMPEACHMENT HEARINGS
At 10:15 p.m.:
• CNN: SONDLAND TESTIFIES TOMORROW
• Fox News: VOLKER TESTIMONY UNDERMINES DEMS’ NARRATIVE
• MSNBC: IMPEACHMENT HEARING WRAPS AFTER 4 WITNESSES, 9+ HOURS / LT. COL VINDMAN, TRUMP’S TOP UKRAINE ADVISOR, TESTIFIES. TRUMP ACTED “IMPROPERLY” WHEN HE “DEMANDED” A FAVOR
At 10:51 p.m.:
• CNN: REPUBLICANS USE IMPEACHMENT HEARINGS TO QUESTION LOYALTY OF DECORATED ARMY VETERAN SPEAKING OUT AGAINST TRUMP
• Fox News: CHICK-FIL-A CAVES TO LIBERAL MOB
• MSNBC: EU AMB. GORDON SONDLAND TESTIFIES TOMORROW MORNING / SONDLAND WILL FACE QUESTIONS ABOUT PREVIOUSLY. UNKNOWN CALL TO TRUMP FROM RESTAURANT IN UKRAINE
Following day 8:12 p.m.:
• CNN: SONDLAND TIES PRES. TRUMP, VP PENCE, SECY. OF STATE POMPEO. AND WH CHIEF OF STAFF MULVANEY TO PRESSURE CAMPAIGN / SONDLAND: “EVERYONE WAS IN THE LOOP” ON UKRAINE PRESSURE
• Fox News: “NO QUID PRO QUO”
Half an hour later, while CNN was still covering Sondland’s testimony, Fox News was discussing the Clinton Foundation.
At 10:54 p.m., here’s what the two networks were showing viewers.
• CNN: SONDLAND: ‘YES’ THERE WAS QUID PRO QUO. IN UKRAINE SCANDAL
• Fox News: SWALWELL CAUSES A STINK
That latter text referred to a viral video clip that appeared to have captured the sound of flatulence while Rep. Eric Swalwell (D-Calif.) was appearing on MSNBC the previous day.
On Thursday, similar divides were on display. At 9:53 p.m., here’s what each network showed — perhaps the most representative comparison of any.
• CNN: NO REPUBLICANS BUDGE AFTER ALL THE FACTS, EVIDENCE REVEALED IN 3O+ HOURS OF PUBLIC TESTIMONY / MEMBERS OF PRESIDENT’S PARTY CROSSED AISLE IN NIXON & CLINTON IMPEACHMENT PROCEEDINGS, BUT NOT NOW
• Fox News: FBI OFFICIAL UNDER INVESTIGATION FOR ALLEGEDLY ALTERING DOC RELATED TO PAGE SURVEILLANCE, CNN REPORTS
• MSNBC: NIXON PLEDGED TO FIGHT TO KEEP HIS PRESIDENCY / IMPEACHMENT HEARING WITNESSES WRAP UP WEEK OF EXPLOSIVE TESTIMONY
There’s a reason that Trump’s current press secretary has only given interviews to Fox News and not other broadcast or major cable networks. Why would Trump need a White House communications director when he has a generously friendly cable network that’s already popular with the people he wants to talk to anyway?
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WASHINGTON — It was supposed to be an exclusive party at Mar-a-Lago, Donald J. Trump’s members-only club in Palm Beach, Fla. But other than the two dozen or so women flown in to provide the entertainment, the only guests were Mr. Trump and Jeffrey Epstein.
“I arranged to have some contestants fly in,” Mr. Houraney recalled in an interview on Monday. “At the very first party, I said, ‘Who’s coming tonight? I have 28 girls coming.’ It was him and Epstein.”
Mr. Houraney, who had just partnered with Mr. Trump to host events at his casinos, said he was surprised. “I said, ‘Donald, this is supposed to be a party with V.I.P.s. You’re telling me it’s you and Epstein?’”
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WASHINGTON — It was supposed to be an exclusive party at Mar-a-Lago, Donald J. Trump’s members-only club in Palm Beach, Fla. But other than the two dozen or so women flown in to provide the entertainment, the only guests were Mr. Trump and Jeffrey Epstein.
“I arranged to have some contestants fly in,” Mr. Houraney recalled in an interview on Monday. “At the very first party, I said, ‘Who’s coming tonight? I have 28 girls coming.’ It was him and Epstein.”
Mr. Houraney, who had just partnered with Mr. Trump to host events at his casinos, said he was surprised. “I said, ‘Donald, this is supposed to be a party with V.I.P.s. You’re telling me it’s you and Epstein?’”
In fact, that was the case, an indication of a yearslong friendship between the president and Mr. Epstein that some say ended only after a failed business arrangement between them. The full nature of their eventual falling out is not clear.
But through a mutual appreciation of wealth and women, and years of occupying adjacent real estate in Palm Beach and on Page Six, the lives of the two men routinely intersected for decades — until the connection turned from a status symbol into a liability, and Mr. Trump made sure to publicize the fact that he had barred his onetime friend from his clubs.
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A LIST OF COMPANIES OR INSTITUTIONS TRUMP HAS BANKRUPTED OR RUINED:
Trump Taj Mahal, the Trump Castle, the Trump Plaza Atlantic City, the Trump Plaza New York, Trump Hotels and Casino Resorts, Trump Entertainment Resorts, the Trump Tower Tampa, the Trump Shuttle, Trump: The Game, Trump magazine, Trump Mortgage, Trump Steaks, Trump mattresses, Trump pillows, Trump perfume, Trump shirts, Trump underwear, Trump shoes, Trump eyeglasses, Trump University, Trump Vodka, the Trump Foundation and the U.S. Treasury.
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“There’s Nothing Left, I no longer recognize my party”
Why Hundreds of Thousands of Republicans Are Leaving the Party
Voting registration data indicates a strong and unusual flight from the G.O.P. since the Capitol riot, with an intensely fluid period in American politics now underway.
In the days and weeks after the storming of the Capitol by Trump supporters on Jan. 6, hundreds of thousands of Republicans left the party. After the Jan. 6 attack on the Capitol, the phone lines and websites of local election officials across the country were jumping: Tens of thousands of Republicans were calling or logging on to switch their party affiliations.
In California, more than 33,000 registered Republicans left the party during the three weeks after the Washington riot. In Pennsylvania, more than 12,000 voters left the G.O.P. in the past month, and more than 10,000 Republicans changed their registration in Arizona.
An analysis of January voting records found that nearly 140,000 Republicans had quit the party in 25 states that had readily available data (19 states do not have registration by party). Voting experts say this is the start of a particularly damaging period for G.O.P. registrations as voters recoil from the Capitol violence and its fallout.
Among those who recently left the party are Juan Nunez, 56, an Army veteran in Mechanicsburg, Pa. He said he had long felt that the difference between the United States and many other countries was that campaign-season fighting ended on Election Day, when all sides would peacefully accept the result. The Jan. 6 riot changed that, he said.
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For God And Country
So the CIA, FBI, NSA, DOJ, NYT, WP, The New Yorker, USA Today, 70% of Americans, CNN, MSNBC, BBC, essential the whole world are out to get Treasonous Trump except Russia, FAUX news, a few White Supremacy rags, and you? Oh, and I forgot to add God and Jesus are against Treasonous Trump as he may be the Antichrist.
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Jackie B
DRAIN THE SWAMP - WHAT COULD YOU DO WITH A BILLION DOLLARS?
Trump’s company has received at least $970,000 from U.S. taxpayers for room rentals.
The U.S. government has paid at least $970,000 to President Trump’s company since Trump took office — including payments for more than 1,600 nightly room rentals at Trump’s hotels and clubs, according to federal records obtained.
Since March, The Post has catalogued an additional $340,000 in such payments. They were all related to trips taken by Trump, his family and his top officials. The government is known to have paid full price for rooms for staffers and Secret Service agents to accompany the president.
The payments create an unprecedented business relationship between the president’s private company and his government — which began in the first month of Trump’s presidency records show.
The records show that taxpayers have now paid for the equivalent of more than four years’ worth of nightly rentals at Trump properties, including 950 nights at Trump’s golf club in Bedminster, N.J., and 530 nights at the president’s Mar-a-Lago Club in Florida, according to analysis.
Who needs a pay check when you can get nearly a Billion Dollars in guaranteed business from the government - DRAIN THE SWAMP!
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godoggo
Trump has made a lot of promises about actions to fight the coronavirus pandemic.Most of them have been half truths or embellishments.
For example:
Naval hospital ships
Trump announced Wed. that the Navy would dispatch its two hospital ships, the USNS Comfort and the USNS Mercy, to help treat patients and free up land-based hospitals for coronavirus patients.
"So those two ships are prepared to go, and they can be launched over the next week or so," Trump said, calling the ships in "tip-top shape."
Well, not so much.
The Navy said that the Comfort was actually undergoing repairs in Norfolk, Va., and it would be weeks before it could sail.
FDA drug approval
On Thur. Trump touted that the Food and Drug Administration had "approved" use of an anti-malaria drug called chloroquine to treat patients afflicted with the coronavirus. He had a “hunch” that this was the cure.
"We're going to be able to make that drug available almost immediately," Trump said, calling it "a tremendous breakthrough" and a potential "game-changer."
But FDA commissioner Stephen Hahn immediately tried to tamp down Trump's enthusiasm, saying that "a large, pragmatic clinical trial" would be needed first to determine the drug's usefulness before making it available to coronavirus patients.
Hahn said he couldn't "speculate about a timeline" for the drug's availability.
Trump's enthusiasm for hydroxychloroquine spilled into another press conference on Friday, when he again described it as a potential wonder drug.
And again, a public health official — this time, Dr. Anthony Fauci, a top immunologist on the White House's response team — tried to rein in the optimism by echoing the need for clinical proof that it would make a difference.
On Thursday, Trump said another drug, Remdesivir, had "also been approved, or very close to approved" by the FDA for treating patients coronavirus. In fact, that drug is undergoing a clinical trial and is months away from being ready for use.
The website
Last Friday, Trump said at a Rose Garden news conference that Google has 1,700 engineers developing a new website that would help Americans determine whether they should seek testing for the coronavirus.
The president sought to cast his own project as a triumph compared with the initial failure of President Barack Obama to roll out a website as part of the changes to the health care market enacted in 2009.
"Google is helping to develop a website," Trump said. "It's going to be very quickly done — unlike websites of the past — to determine whether a test is warranted and to facilitate testing at a nearby convenient location."
Within hours, Google attempted to clarify the president's comments. It said an affiliated company, Verily, was working on the project but on a limited scale only for people in the San Francisco area.
"Verily is in the early stages of development," Google said, "and planning to roll testing out in the Bay Area, with the hope of expanding more broadly over time."
Unfortunately, there are insufficient tests available to test anyone.
Medical supplies
On Wednesday, Trump met with a group of nurses at the White House, telling them that the administration had arranged for a major new supply of the type of respirator in high demand during the pandemic.
"We've ordered 500 million N95 masks to drive private production," Trump said. He also said that construction companies were being asked to donate unused masks. The next day at a briefing, Vice President Pence stated: "We've vastly increased the supply of medical masks."
But hospitals continue to report that they are running short of masks, as are pharmacists.
Loose-fitting surgical masks aren't appropriate for dealing with the pandemic authorities say; the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention released a graphic detailing the important differences between a surgical mask and an N95 respirator.
Testing
One of the most frequent exaggerations coming from Trump is the availability of coronavirus tests.
When he visited the CDC in Atlanta earlier this month, Trump claimed that "They have the tests. And the tests are beautiful. Anybody that needs a test gets a test."
Pence made a similar claim last week, saying that "a million tests are in the field" and that "by the end of this week, another 4 million tests will be distributed."
Americans who feel sick still can’t get tested. Fauci acknowledged that there clearly is a gap between the supply and the demand.
Trump and Pence say they don't want every American — particularly those who are feeling well — to be tested. Yet people who are not critically sick are being sent home without testing. They are told to “assume they have covid-19” and come back only if there condition worsens. Not knowing if you have the virus dose not help contain the virus.
In summary, Trump just needs to shut up and let the experts talk.
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godoggo
Trump has made a lot of promises about actions to fight the coronavirus pandemic.Most of them have been half truths or embellishments.
For example:
Naval hospital ships
Trump announced Wed. that the Navy would dispatch its two hospital ships, the USNS Comfort and the USNS Mercy, to help treat patients and free up land-based hospitals for coronavirus patients.
"So those two ships are prepared to go, and they can be launched over the next week or so," Trump said, calling the ships in "tip-top shape."
Well, not so much.
The Navy said that the Comfort was actually undergoing repairs in Norfolk, Va., and it would be weeks before it could sail.
FDA drug approval
On Thur. Trump touted that the Food and Drug Administration had "approved" use of an anti-malaria drug called chloroquine to treat patients afflicted with the coronavirus. He had a “hunch” that this was the cure.
"We're going to be able to make that drug available almost immediately," Trump said, calling it "a tremendous breakthrough" and a potential "game-changer."
But FDA commissioner Stephen Hahn immediately tried to tamp down Trump's enthusiasm, saying that "a large, pragmatic clinical trial" would be needed first to determine the drug's usefulness before making it available to coronavirus patients.
Hahn said he couldn't "speculate about a timeline" for the drug's availability.
Trump's enthusiasm for hydroxychloroquine spilled into another press conference on Friday, when he again described it as a potential wonder drug.
And again, a public health official — this time, Dr. Anthony Fauci, a top immunologist on the White House's response team — tried to rein in the optimism by echoing the need for clinical proof that it would make a difference.
On Thursday, Trump said another drug, Remdesivir, had "also been approved, or very close to approved" by the FDA for treating patients coronavirus. In fact, that drug is undergoing a clinical trial and is months away from being ready for use.
The website
Last Friday, Trump said at a Rose Garden news conference that Google has 1,700 engineers developing a new website that would help Americans determine whether they should seek testing for the coronavirus.
The president sought to cast his own project as a triumph compared with the initial failure of President Barack Obama to roll out a website as part of the changes to the health care market enacted in 2009.
"Google is helping to develop a website," Trump said. "It's going to be very quickly done — unlike websites of the past — to determine whether a test is warranted and to facilitate testing at a nearby convenient location."
Within hours, Google attempted to clarify the president's comments. It said an affiliated company, Verily, was working on the project but on a limited scale only for people in the San Francisco area.
"Verily is in the early stages of development," Google said, "and planning to roll testing out in the Bay Area, with the hope of expanding more broadly over time."
Unfortunately, there are insufficient tests available to test anyone.
Medical supplies
On Wednesday, Trump met with a group of nurses at the White House, telling them that the administration had arranged for a major new supply of the type of respirator in high demand during the pandemic.
"We've ordered 500 million N95 masks to drive private production," Trump said. He also said that construction companies were being asked to donate unused masks. The next day at a briefing, Vice President Pence stated: "We've vastly increased the supply of medical masks."
But hospitals continue to report that they are running short of masks, as are pharmacists.
Loose-fitting surgical masks aren't appropriate for dealing with the pandemic authorities say; the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention released a graphic detailing the important differences between a surgical mask and an N95 respirator.
Testing
One of the most frequent exaggerations coming from Trump is the availability of coronavirus tests.
When he visited the CDC in Atlanta earlier this month, Trump claimed that "They have the tests. And the tests are beautiful. Anybody that needs a test gets a test."
Pence made a similar claim last week, saying that "a million tests are in the field" and that "by the end of this week, another 4 million tests will be distributed."
Americans who feel sick still can’t get tested. Fauci acknowledged that there clearly is a gap between the supply and the demand.
Trump and Pence say they don't want every American — particularly those who are feeling well — to be tested. Yet people who are not critically sick are being sent home without testing. They are told to “assume they have covid-19” and come back only if there condition worsens. Not knowing if you have the virus dose not help contain the virus.
In summary, Trump just needs to shut up and let the experts talk.
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godoggo
Trump has made a lot of promises about actions to fight the coronavirus pandemic.Most of them have been half truths or embellishments.
For example:
Naval hospital ships
Trump announced Wed. that the Navy would dispatch its two hospital ships, the USNS Comfort and the USNS Mercy, to help treat patients and free up land-based hospitals for coronavirus patients.
"So those two ships are prepared to go, and they can be launched over the next week or so," Trump said, calling the ships in "tip-top shape."
Well, not so much.
The Navy said that the Comfort was actually undergoing repairs in Norfolk, Va., and it would be weeks before it could sail.
FDA drug approval
On Thur. Trump touted that the Food and Drug Administration had "approved" use of an anti-malaria drug called chloroquine to treat patients afflicted with the coronavirus. He had a “hunch” that this was the cure.
"We're going to be able to make that drug available almost immediately," Trump said, calling it "a tremendous breakthrough" and a potential "game-changer."
But FDA commissioner Stephen Hahn immediately tried to tamp down Trump's enthusiasm, saying that "a large, pragmatic clinical trial" would be needed first to determine the drug's usefulness before making it available to coronavirus patients.
Hahn said he couldn't "speculate about a timeline" for the drug's availability.
Trump's enthusiasm for hydroxychloroquine spilled into another press conference on Friday, when he again described it as a potential wonder drug.
And again, a public health official — this time, Dr. Anthony Fauci, a top immunologist on the White House's response team — tried to rein in the optimism by echoing the need for clinical proof that it would make a difference.
On Thursday, Trump said another drug, Remdesivir, had "also been approved, or very close to approved" by the FDA for treating patients coronavirus. In fact, that drug is undergoing a clinical trial and is months away from being ready for use.
The website
Last Friday, Trump said at a Rose Garden news conference that Google has 1,700 engineers developing a new website that would help Americans determine whether they should seek testing for the coronavirus.
The president sought to cast his own project as a triumph compared with the initial failure of President Barack Obama to roll out a website as part of the changes to the health care market enacted in 2009.
"Google is helping to develop a website," Trump said. "It's going to be very quickly done — unlike websites of the past — to determine whether a test is warranted and to facilitate testing at a nearby convenient location."
Within hours, Google attempted to clarify the president's comments. It said an affiliated company, Verily, was working on the project but on a limited scale only for people in the San Francisco area.
"Verily is in the early stages of development," Google said, "and planning to roll testing out in the Bay Area, with the hope of expanding more broadly over time."
Unfortunately, there are insufficient tests available to test anyone.
Medical supplies
On Wednesday, Trump met with a group of nurses at the White House, telling them that the administration had arranged for a major new supply of the type of respirator in high demand during the pandemic.
"We've ordered 500 million N95 masks to drive private production," Trump said. He also said that construction companies were being asked to donate unused masks. The next day at a briefing, Vice President Pence stated: "We've vastly increased the supply of medical masks."
But hospitals continue to report that they are running short of masks, as are pharmacists.
Loose-fitting surgical masks aren't appropriate for dealing with the pandemic authorities say; the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention released a graphic detailing the important differences between a surgical mask and an N95 respirator.
Testing
One of the most frequent exaggerations coming from Trump is the availability of coronavirus tests.
When he visited the CDC in Atlanta earlier this month, Trump claimed that "They have the tests. And the tests are beautiful. Anybody that needs a test gets a test."
Pence made a similar claim last week, saying that "a million tests are in the field" and that "by the end of this week, another 4 million tests will be distributed."
Americans who feel sick still can’t get tested. Fauci acknowledged that there clearly is a gap between the supply and the demand.
Trump and Pence say they don't want every American — particularly those who are feeling well — to be tested. Yet people who are not critically sick are being sent home without testing. They are told to “assume they have covid-19” and come back only if there condition worsens. Not knowing if you have the virus dose not help contain the virus.
In summary, Trump just needs to shut up and let the experts talk.
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Crimson Rose Auctions & MerchandiseSouthern Illinois Trading Post-Auctions
OUR MORON PRESIDENT SAID WHAT?
During Thursday's White House coronavirus task force briefing, an official presented the results of US government research that indicated coronavirus on an external surface appeared to weaken more quickly when exposed to sunlight, heat, and disinfectant.
Upon taking the podium Trump said:
"So, supposing we hit the body with a tremendous - whether it's ultraviolet or just very powerful light," the president said, turning to Dr Deborah Birx, the White House coronavirus response co-ordinator, "and I think you said that hasn't been checked but you're going to test it.
"And then I said, supposing you brought the light inside of the body, which you can do either through the skin or in some other way. And I think you said you're going to test that too. Sounds interesting," the president continued.
"And then I see the disinfectant where it knocks it out in a minute. One minute. And is there a way we can do something like that, by injection inside or almost a cleaning? So it'd be interesting to check that." Pointing to his head, Mr Trump went on: "I'm not a doctor. But I'm, like, a person that has a good you-know-what." He turned again to Dr Birx and asked if she had ever heard of using "the heat and the light" to treat coronavirus.
"Not as a treatment," Dr Birx said. "I mean, certainly, fever is a good thing. When you have a fever, it helps your body respond. But I've not seen heat or light."
"I think it's a great thing to look at," Mr Trump said.
You heard it here first folks, our president is a Mad Moron Would be “Scientist Jenius” (sic).
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A LIST OF COMPANIES OR INSTITUTIONS TRUMP HAS BANKRUPTED OR RUINED:
Trump Taj Mahal, the Trump Castle, the Trump Plaza Atlantic City, the Trump Plaza New York, Trump Hotels and Casino Resorts, Trump Entertainment Resorts, the Trump Tower Tampa, the Trump Shuttle, Trump: The Game, Trump magazine, Trump Mortgage, Trump Steaks, Trump mattresses, Trump pillows, Trump perfume, Trump shirts, Trump underwear, Trump shoes, Trump eyeglasses, Trump University, Trump Vodka, the Trump Foundation and the U.S. Treasury.
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Carol Kingsafer Mueller Vol II
June 9 Meeting
The following week, the President departed on an overseas trip for the G20 summit in Hamburg, Germany, accompanied by Hicks, Raffel, Kushner, and Ivanka Trump, among others.694 On July 7, 2017, while the President was overseas, Hicks and Raffel learned that the New York Times was working on a story about the June 9 meeting.695 The next day, Hicks told the President about the story and he directed her not to comment.696 Hicks thought the President’s reaction was odd because he usually considered not responding to the press to be the ultimate sin.697 Later that day,HicksandthePresidentagainspokeaboutthestory.698 HicksrecalledthatthePresidentaske
her what the meeting had been about, and she said that she had been told the meeting was about Russian adoption.699 The President responded, “then just say that.”700
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Carol Kingsafer Mueller Report Vol II
The statement did not mention the offer of derogatory information about Clinton or any discussion of the Magnitsky Act or U.S. sanctions, which were the principal subjects of the meeting, as described in Volume I, Section IV.A.5, supra.
A short while later, while still on Air Force One, Hicks learned that Priebus knew about the emails, which further convinced her that additional information about the June 9 meeting would leak and the White House should be proactive and get in front of the story.713 Hicks recalled again going to the President to urge him that they should be fully transparent about the June 9 meeting, but he again said no, telling Hicks, “You’ve given a statement. We’re done.”714
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Carol Kingsafer
On July 11, 2017, Trump Jr. posted redacted images of the emails setting up the June 9 meeting on Twitter; the New York Times reported that he did so “[a]fter being told that The Times was about to publish the content of the emails.”727 Later that day, the media reported that the President had been personally involved in preparing Trump Jr.’s initial statement to the New York Times that had claimed the meeting “primarily” concerned “a program about the adoption of Russian children.”728 Over the next several days, the President’s personal counsel repeatedly and
inaccurately denied that the President played any role in drafting Trump Jr.’s statement.729 After consulting with the President on the issue, White House Press Secretary Sarah Sanders told the media that the President “certainly didn’t dictate” the statement, but that “he weighed in, offered suggestions like any father would do.”730 Several months later, the President’s personal counsel stated in a private communication to the Special Counsel’s Office that “the President dictated a short but accurate response to the New York Times article on behalf of his son, Donald Trump, Jr.”731 The President later told the press that it was “irrelevant” whether he dictated the statement and said, “It’s a statement to the New York Times. . . . That’s not a statement to a high tribunal of judges.”732
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Carol Kingsafer
The President said, “I put in an Attorney General that never took control of the Justice Department,JeffSessions.”772 Thatday,Sessionsissuedapressstatementthatsaid,“Itookcontrol of the Department of Justice the day I was sworn in . . . . While I am Attorney General, the actions of the Department of Justice will not be improperly influenced by political considerations.”773 The next day, the President tweeted a response: “‘Department of Justice will not be improperly influenced by political considerations.’ Jeff, this is GREAT, what everyone wants, so look into all of the corruption on the ‘other side’ including deleted Emails, Comey lies & leaks, Mueller conflicts, McCabe, Strzok, Page, Ohr, FISA abuse, Christopher Steele & his phony and corrupt Dossier, the Clinton Foundation, illegal surveillance of Trump campaign, Russian collusion by Dems – and so much more.
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There is evidence that at least one purpose of the President’s conduct toward Sessions was to have Sessions assume control over the Russia investigation and supervise it in a way that would restrict its scope. And in the wake of the disclosures of emails about the June 9 meeting between Russians and senior members of the campaign, see Volume II, Section II.G, supra, it was evident that the investigation into the campaign now included the President’s son, son-in-law, and former campaign manager. The President had previously and unsuccessfully sought to have Sessions publicly announce that the Special Counsel investigation would be confined to future election interference. Yet Sessions remained recused. In December 2017, shortly after Flynn pleaded guilty, the President spoke to Sessions in the Oval Office with only Porter present and told Sessions that he would be a hero if he unrecused. Porter linked that request to the President’s desire that Sessions take back supervision of the Russia investigation and direct an investigation of Hillary Clinton. The President said in that meeting that he “just want[ed] to be treated fairly,” which could reflect his perception that it was unfair that he was being investigated while Hillary Clinton was not. But a principal effect of that act would be to restore supervision of the Russia investigation to the Attorney General—a position that the President frequently suggested should be occupied by someone like Eric Holder and Bobby Kennedy, who the President described as protecting their
presidents. A reasonable inference from those statements and the President’s actions is that the President believed that an unrecused Attorney General would play a protective role and could shield the President from the ongoing Russia investigation
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@stevem9766
If you watched or read something other than propaganda, you would know her name. I can’t remember any past presidents campaign managers name, not Nixon, Carter, Reagan, Bush Sr., Clinton, Bush Jr, Obama, or Treasonous Trump’s recent losing run. But I will always remember Paul Manafort’s name, as he, Trump, and others betrayed America.
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@stevem9766
A very simple article from Rupert Murdock’s New York Post:
Headline - STOP THE INSANITY
Dec 28, 2020
Excerpts from article -
“Give it up, Mr. President — for your sake and the nation’s.”
The Monday front page showed a downcast president and the all-caps headline “Stop the Insanity.” The publication’s website also featured the editorial, written by The Post’s editorial board, at the top of the home page.
“Mr. President, it’s time to end this dark charade,” began the editorial.
It blasted Mr. Trump’s suggestion that the House and Senate try to disrupt the tallying of Electoral College votes on Jan. 6. It also ridiculed Sidney Powell, a former lawyer for the Trump campaign who pushed conspiracy theories about a Venezuelan plot to rig voting machines in the United States. And it said a suggestion by Michael T. Flynn, the former lieutenant general who served as Mr. Trump’s first national security adviser, to impose martial law was “tantamount to treason.”
“You have tweeted that, as long as Republicans have ‘courage,’ they can overturn the results and give you four more years in office,” the Post editorial said.
“In other words,” it continued, “you’re cheering for an undemocratic coup.”
The WSJ had the Headline “Trump’s Bad Exit”
It concluded: “Mr. Trump doesn’t want to admit he lost, and he can duck the inauguration if he likes. But his sore loser routine is beginning to grate even on millions who voted for him.”
Fox News Television personalities in the Murdoch media empire have also changed their tune.
Maria Bartiromo and Lou Dobbs, of Fox Business, and Jeanine Pirro, of Fox News, seemed to back attempts by the president and his acolytes to undo the election results — until recently. This month, the programs hosted by the three anchors included three-minute segments intended to debunk on-air claims that the 2020 vote had been rigged.
In conclusion, it said: “Do not spend your final days in office threatening to burn it all down”
You should get a clue and realize it’s over.
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Under The Liberty Tree
dad bear
William H. McRaven, a retired Navy admiral, was commander of the U.S. Joint Special Operations Command from 2011 to 2014. He oversaw the 2011 Navy SEAL raid in Pakistan that killed al-Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden. He writes:
Dear Mr. President:
Former CIA director John Brennan, whose security clearance you revoked on Wednesday, is one of the finest public servants I have ever known. Few Americans have done more to protect this country than John. He is a man of unparalleled integrity, whose honesty and character have never been in question, except by those who don’t know him.
Therefore, I would consider it an honor if you would revoke my security clearance as well, so I can add my name to the list of men and women who have spoken up against your presidency.
Like most Americans, I had hoped that when you became president, you would rise to the occasion and become the leader this great nation needs.
A good leader tries to embody the best qualities of his or her organization. A good leader sets the example for others to follow. A good leader always puts the welfare of others before himself or herself.
Your leadership, however, has shown little of these qualities. Through your actions, you have embarrassed us in the eyes of our children, humiliated us on the world stage and, worst of all, divided us as a nation.
If you think for a moment that your McCarthy-era tactics will suppress the voices of criticism, you are sadly mistaken. The criticism will continue until you become the leader we prayed you would be.
NEED WE SAY MORE THAN THIS AMERICAN HERO? STAND UP AND BE COUNTED. VOTE THIS WOULD BE PETTY DICTATOR OUT OF OFFICE.
🇺🇸🗽🇺🇸
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A day before rioters stormed Congress, an FBI office in Virginia issued an explicit internal warning that extremists were preparing to travel to Washington to commit violence and “war,” according to an FBI internal document. A situational information report approved for release the day before the U.S. Capitol riot painted a dire portrait of dangerous plans, including individuals sharing a map of the complex’s tunnels, and possible rally points for would-be conspirators to meet up. “As of 5 January 2021, FBI Norfolk received information indicating calls for violence in response to ‘unlawful lockdowns’ to begin on 6 January 2021 in Washington. D.C.,” the document says. “An online thread discussed specific calls for violence to include stating ‘Be ready to fight. Congress needs to hear glass breaking, doors being kicked in, and blood being spilled. Get violent. Stop calling this a march, or rally, or a protest. Go there ready for war. Our President wants us to do this. NOTHING else will achieve this goal.”
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“There’s Nothing Left, I no longer recognize my party”
Why Hundreds of Thousands of Republicans Are Leaving the Party
Voting registration data indicates a strong and unusual flight from the G.O.P. since the Capitol riot, with an intensely fluid period in American politics now underway.
In the days and weeks after the storming of the Capitol by Trump supporters on Jan. 6, hundreds of thousands of Republicans left the party. After the Jan. 6 attack on the Capitol, the phone lines and websites of local election officials across the country were jumping: Tens of thousands of Republicans were calling or logging on to switch their party affiliations.
In California, more than 33,000 registered Republicans left the party during the three weeks after the Washington riot. In Pennsylvania, more than 12,000 voters left the G.O.P. in the past month, and more than 10,000 Republicans changed their registration in Arizona.
An analysis of January voting records found that nearly 140,000 Republicans had quit the party in 25 states that had readily available data (19 states do not have registration by party). Voting experts say this is the start of a particularly damaging period for G.O.P. registrations as voters recoil from the Capitol violence and its fallout.
Among those who recently left the party are Juan Nunez, 56, an Army veteran in Mechanicsburg, Pa. He said he had long felt that the difference between the United States and many other countries was that campaign-season fighting ended on Election Day, when all sides would peacefully accept the result. The Jan. 6 riot changed that, he said.
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Republicans are blaming renewable energy, when it’s the state’s powerful deregulated utilities that failed to prepare for the worst.Texans are also furious about how their state’s ruinous laissez-faire governance led to a cascade of human-caused disasters of epic. In general, there’s a natural gas storage problem in Texas. Utility companies didn’t bother to have gas reserves: It’s easier, cheaper and more profitable to tap the gas in the field with a pipeline.
After a cold snap in 2011, the power companies were supposed to better winterize their plants. Ten years later, they hadn’t done it. It’s hard to believe they couldn’t afford it: Oncor, the giant power utility serving Dallas, reported $651 million in net income in 2019.
As the cold froze Oklahoma and sent temperatures in Dallas to lows not seen in over a century, the natural gas industry were unable to deliver more gas even if it was purchased. Wellheads in the Permian Basin froze solid. Pipelines leaked water, which, in turn, turned metal and gas into useless, immovable ice.
The crisis dates back to the 1930s, when the Federal Power Commission gained the authority to regulate interstate transmission of electric power. But politicians in Texas didn’t want Washington regulating the electricity business and chipping away at those hefty profits.
So the business went entirely unregulated until the formation of the Electric Reliability Council of Texas (ERCOT) in the 1970s. But ERCOT has been anything but reliable. While it is technically overseen by the state, its board is really just an industry club. Several of its members don’t even live in Texas.
After taking a beating on Twitter, Mr. Abbott tried to blame the renewable energy industry, a talking point that caught fire among conservatives. Renewables like wind and solar can contribute up to 20 percent of the Texas power grid, but just 7 percent of the winter grid, with 80 percent coming from natural gas, coal and a bit of nuclear power. While some wind turbines in Texas froze, many of them kept turning.
Yet another example of Fakenews- media spewing Propaganda.
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slugger mjb
I don’t totally disagree with your statement - but it is far more complex the either of us posted. If the number of carriers in the population is small, easily identified, and quickly pulled out of the population, then a Pandemic is manageable. If on the other hand, an infected person is not identifiable, is left to freely roam amongst a population, then you have an exponential problem.
For example, early in this Pandemic, an average infected person infected 15 other people. So you projected line goes as follows if left unchecked: 1, 15, 225, 3,375, 50,625, 759,375, 11,390,625, 170,859,325, 2.56 billion - exceeding our population. If the average fatality rate is 2% that is over 7,000,000 fatalities in America. Granted, this is a grossly over simplistic and extremely example, but sometimes simplicity and extremes drive the point home.
So how do you balance economic devastation with massive deaths, sickness, medical chaos, etc? I Don’t have the answer, but it will take a fine balancing act between listing to our scientists, rallying our people to support a plan, and some sacrifice. Unfortunately, our current leader is grossly ill prepared, emotionally unsuited, and not up to the challenge.
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Caren Spanos
Ding, Ding, Ding, we have a winner. I now stand at 48 times out of 48 times I could not get a MAGA Maggot to not respond with any research, documentation, or reason - MAGA Maggots don’t read, don’t research, and don’t document. As for me, I got tired of researching, reading, and documenting first because you MAGA Maggots NEVER kept your end of the bargain. But then your Cult Leader never did either.
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Alexander Acosta President Donald Trump nominated Republican Acosta to be Labor Secretary on February 16, 2017, and he was confirmed by the U.S. Senate on April 27, 2017.
Attorney General William P. Barr recused himself from the case because Mr. Barr’s former law firm, Kirkland & Ellis, had represented Mr. Epstein. Also, Barr’s FATHER hired Epstein to be a math teacher at Dolphin school.
In 2002, Mr. Trump described Mr. Epstein as “a terrific guy,” telling New York Magazine, “It is even said that he likes beautiful women as much as I do, and many of them are on the younger side.”
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JJ Murphy
The WMD lies were promoted by Neo Conservatives (early Alt Conservatives) and Faux News. That was an early example of our Republican Government controlling information and making it say what they wanted it to - much like Trump’s government today. At that time I still believed in Republicans, freedom, fiscal responsibility, low taxes, strong defense etc. But it all turned out to be lies. Ronald Reagan, huge defense expenditures, cut taxes, and racked up huge deficits. Bush Sr. Same MO. Clinton balanced the budget but couldn’t keep his pants zipped. Bush W, lied about WMDs and racked up about 5 - 7 Trillion in deficits due to his never ending war in the Middle East. But enough about that let’s talk about you. You are against everything the Republicans, Alt Conservatives, Faux, Hannity, Tucker, Ingraham have ever supported but you support Trump who is a continuation of that far Rightwing slide. ???
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Trump’s budget is a tremendous fraud.
Remember when he said he would eliminate the federal debt, or at least halve it, during his presidency? His new budget adds another $3.4 trillion by 2024 to the debt on top of the $3 trillion Trump has already added.
Remember when he repeatedly promised not to “touch” Social Security and Medicare? His budget calls for removing $550 billion dollars of funding from the Medicare program, including $135 billion from Medicare prescription drugs, and tens of billions from the Social Security program.
Remember when he promised not to touch Medicaid? Now he wants to cut it by $920 billion.
Remember when he was going to give Americans health care “much better” than Obamacare. But he has proposed no such thing and now his budget calls for cutting spending on the program by $844 billion.
Remember when he vowed that his tax cuts would grow the economy by 4 percent, 5 percent or even 6 percent? Last year it grew at 2.3 percent, and his new budget, even with the rosiest of assumptions, projects 2.8 percent for this year - in other words little changed from Obama’s growth rates. Yet the budget would also devote another $1.4 trillion to extending those tax cuts, primarily for the rich.
Treasonous Trump, Con Man Extraordinaire.
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Fact: Trump shared girls with Jeffery Epstein his close friend of 15 years.
WASHINGTON — It was supposed to be an exclusive party at Mar-a-Lago, Donald J. Trump’s members-only club in Palm Beach, Fla. But other than the two dozen or so women flown in to provide the entertainment, the only guests were Mr. Trump and Jeffrey Epstein.
The year was 1992 and the event was a “calendar girl” competition, something that George Houraney, a Florida-based businessman who ran American Dream Enterprise, had organized at Mr. Trump’s request.
“I arranged to have some contestants fly in,” Mr. Houraney recalled in an interview on Monday. “At the very first party, I said, ‘Who’s coming tonight? I have 28 girls coming.’ It was him and Epstein.”
Mr. Houraney, who had just partnered with Mr. Trump to host events at his casinos, said he was surprised. “I said, ‘Donald, this is supposed to be a party with V.I.P.s. You’re telling me it’s you and Epstein?’”
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Stuart Stevens is a writer and GOP political consultant.
Here’s a question: What does the Trump Republican Party stands for?
One way to find out: Ask a Trump Republican friend. I’m betting the answer is going to involve a noun, a verb and either “socialism” or “Democrats.” Republicans now partly define their party simply as an alternative to that other party, as in, “I’m a Republican because I’m not a Democrat.”
In a long-forgotten era — say, four years ago — such a question would have elicited a very different answer: fiscal responsibility, free trade, strong on Russia, and that character and personal responsibility count. Today it’s not that the Republican Party has forgotten these issues and values; instead, it actively opposes all of them.
Republicans are now officially the character doesn’t count party, the personal responsibility just proves you have failed to blame the other guy party, the deficit doesn’t matter party, the Putin is “good guy” party, and the I’m-right-and-you-are-human-scum party. Yes, it’s President Trump’s party now, but it stands only for what he has just tweeted.
A party without a governing theory, a higher purpose or a clear moral direction is nothing more than a cartel, a syndicate that exists only to advance itself. There is no organized, coherent purpose other than the acquisition and maintenance of power.
Donald Trump, Destroying America One Republican Soul At a Time.
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“There’s Nothing Left, I no longer recognize my party”
Why Hundreds of Thousands of Republicans Are Leaving the Party
Voting registration data indicates a strong and unusual flight from the G.O.P. since the Capitol riot, with an intensely fluid period in American politics now underway.
In the days and weeks after the storming of the Capitol by Trump supporters on Jan. 6, hundreds of thousands of Republicans left the party. After the Jan. 6 attack on the Capitol, the phone lines and websites of local election officials across the country were jumping: Tens of thousands of Republicans were calling or logging on to switch their party affiliations.
In California, more than 33,000 registered Republicans left the party during the three weeks after the Washington riot. In Pennsylvania, more than 12,000 voters left the G.O.P. in the past month, and more than 10,000 Republicans changed their registration in Arizona.
An analysis of January voting records found that nearly 140,000 Republicans had quit the party in 25 states that had readily available data (19 states do not have registration by party). Voting experts say this is the start of a particularly damaging period for G.O.P. registrations as voters recoil from the Capitol violence and its fallout.
Among those who recently left the party are Juan Nunez, 56, an Army veteran in Mechanicsburg, Pa. He said he had long felt that the difference between the United States and many other countries was that campaign-season fighting ended on Election Day, when all sides would peacefully accept the result. The Jan. 6 riot changed that, he said.
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Another Traitor pleads guilty to Treason. Lucas Denney, 44, of Mansfield, Tex., created a militia in Texas he called “Patriot Boys of North Texas,” which he said was aligned with the Proud Boys, a far-right group with a history of violence, court records show. Denney was captured on multiple videos and photographs battling with police on the West Terrace of the Capitol, pushing with a mob inside the Capitol, and then as part of a large crowd that grabbed individual officers who were fighting the rioters, including D.C. police officer Michael Fanone.
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@Dawn737 Wow, you managed to get 100% of that paragraph wrong. Even the most basic of research from respected a have news source would you straight. But in your defense, you must suspend all facts to belong to the MAGAt Moron Cult. By the way, you may find the definition of Neo Nazism/Nazism interesting: A Far Right ideology that embraces Authoritarianism, Racism, Xenophobia, Homophobia, Anti Semitism, The Big Lies, and The Stab In The Back Myth. If you update the myth to the “Stolen Election” Myth you have Trumpism. You should read up on the rise of Nazism in 1930s Germany and you will recognize many parallel players such as Tucker, Trump, Cruz, Jordan, Hannity, Rupert Murdock, etc…
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The Alt GOP has turned, amongst other things, into the party of Victims.
They are the Victimized by the “Deep State”
They are Victimized by the Democrats
They are Victimized by the Main Stream Media
They are Victimized by Gays and Transexuals
They are Victimized by 60 - 65% of American voters
They are Victimized by the “Liberal” Courts
They are Victimized by the “Liberal” University Professors
They are Victimized by World Leaders
They are Victimized by decent people who are required to give testimony under oath.
They are Victimized by people who say “Happy Holidays”
They are Victimized by moderate Republicans called RINOs.
They are Victimized by people who oppose racism
They are Victimized by people who find Alt Fascism concerning
They are Victimized by the FBI, CIA, DOJ, DIA, EPA, CDC, NASA, NOAA, etc
They are Victimized by Colleges and College Professors
They are Victimized by Scholars and Historians
They are Victimized by the Pope
And the list could go on and on.
Alt Republicans are told daily that they are victims of everything above and much, much, more by Hannity, Tucker, Ingraham, Faux and Friends, and Faux in general. As much Victimization as the Alt Republicans are experience it is surprising they have the energy to get out of bed in the morning and attack those not like them.
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@_Pure.truth_ Neo Nazism/Nazism is defined as a far Right Ideology that embraces Authoritarianism, Cultism, Racism, Xenophobia, Homophobia, Anti Semitism, The Big Lies, and The Stab In The Back Myth or updated version The Stolen Election aka Trumpism. If you love your husband you might reconsider your poor choice of Party. Not all Trump supporters are Nazis, Klan Members, and White Supremacy Nuts, but ALL Nazis, Klan Members, and White Supremacy Nuts are Trump supporters.
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Trump and Epstein party with “girls”:
WASHINGTON — It was supposed to be an exclusive party at Mar-a-Lago, Donald J. Trump’s members-only club in Palm Beach, Fla. But other than the two dozen or so women flown in to provide the entertainment, the only guests were Mr. Trump and Jeffrey Epstein.
The year was 1992 and the event was a “calendar girl” competition, something that George Houraney, a Florida-based businessman who ran American Dream Enterprise, had organized at Mr. Trump’s request.
“I arranged to have some contestants fly in,” Mr. Houraney recalled in an interview on Monday. “At the very first party, I said, ‘Who’s coming tonight? I have 28 girls coming.’ It was him and Epstein.”
Mr. Houraney, who had just partnered with Mr. Trump to host events at his casinos, said he was surprised. “I said, ‘Donald, this is supposed to be a party with V.I.P.s. You’re telling me it’s you and Epstein?’”
“I’ve known Jeff for 15 years. Terrific guy,” Mr. Trump told New York magazine in 2002. “He’s a lot of fun to be with. It is even said that he likes beautiful women as much as I do, and many of them are on the younger side.”
He also dismissed Mr. Houraney’s warning about his friend’s conduct.
“I said, ‘Look, Donald, I know Jeff really well, I can’t have him going after younger girls,’” Mr. Houraney remembers. “He said, ‘Look I’m putting my name on this. I wouldn’t put my name on it and have a scandal.’”
Mr. Houraney said he “pretty much had to ban Jeff from my events — Trump didn’t care about that.”
Shortly before the 2016 presidential election, Mr. Houraney accused Mr. Trump himself of inappropriate behavior toward his girlfriend and business partner, Jill Harth, during their business dealings.
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More Trumpian Swamp
These days, the Milken Institute is a leading proponent of a new federal tax break that was intended to coax wealthy investors to plow money into distressed communities known as “opportunity zones.” The institute’s leaders have helped push senior officials in the Trump administration to make the tax incentive more generous, even though it is under fire for being slanted toward the wealthy.
Mr. Milken, it turns out, is in a position to personally gain from some of the changes that his institute has urged the Trump administration to enact. In one case, the Treasury secretary, Steven Mnuchin, directly intervened in a way that benefited Mr. Milken, his longtime friend.
It is a vivid illustration of the power that Mr. Milken, who was barred from the securities industry and fined $600 million as part of his 1990 felony conviction, has amassed in President Trump’s Washington. In addition to the favorable tax-policy changes, some of Mr. Trump’s closest advisers — including Mr. Mnuchin, Jared Kushner and Rudolph W. Giuliani — have lobbied the president to pardon Mr. Milken for his crimes, or supported that effort, according to people familiar with the effort.
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Republicans are blaming renewable energy, when it’s the state’s powerful deregulated utilities that failed to prepare for the worst.Texans are also furious about how their state’s ruinous laissez-faire governance led to a cascade of human-caused disasters of epic. In general, there’s a natural gas storage problem in Texas. Utility companies didn’t bother to have gas reserves: It’s easier, cheaper and more profitable to tap the gas in the field with a pipeline.
After a cold snap in 2011, the power companies were supposed to better winterize their plants. Ten years later, they hadn’t done it. It’s hard to believe they couldn’t afford it: Oncor, the giant power utility serving Dallas, reported $651 million in net income in 2019.
As the cold froze Oklahoma and sent temperatures in Dallas to lows not seen in over a century, the natural gas industry were unable to deliver more gas even if it was purchased. Wellheads in the Permian Basin froze solid. Pipelines leaked water, which, in turn, turned metal and gas into useless, immovable ice.
The crisis dates back to the 1930s, when the Federal Power Commission gained the authority to regulate interstate transmission of electric power. But politicians in Texas didn’t want Washington regulating the electricity business and chipping away at those hefty profits.
So the business went entirely unregulated until the formation of the Electric Reliability Council of Texas (ERCOT) in the 1970s. But ERCOT has been anything but reliable. While it is technically overseen by the state, its board is really just an industry club. Several of its members don’t even live in Texas.
After taking a beating on Twitter, Mr. Abbott tried to blame the renewable energy industry, a talking point that caught fire among conservatives. Renewables like wind and solar can contribute up to 20 percent of the Texas power grid, but just 7 percent of the winter grid, with 80 percent coming from natural gas, coal and a bit of nuclear power. While some wind turbines in Texas froze, many of them kept turning.
Yet another example of Fakenews- media spewing Propaganda.
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Trump Aide Has Mental Melt Down On Facebook.
Michael R. Caputo told his audience that left-wing hit squads were being trained for insurrection and accused C.D.C. scientists of “sedition.” He complained that he was under siege by the news media, feeling paranoid, and that his “mental health was failing.” He accused the CDC of harboring a “secret resistance unit” determined to undermine President Trump.
Mr. Caputo, who lead efforts to warp C.D.C. weekly bulletins to fit Mr. Trump’s pandemic narrative, suggested that he personally could be in danger from opponents of the administration. “If you carry guns, buy ammunition, ladies and gentlemen, because it’s going to be hard to get,” he urged his followers. “I don’t like being alone in Washington,” Mr. Caputo said, describing “shadows on the ceiling in my apartment, there alone, shadows are so long.” He also said the mounting number of Covid-19 deaths was taking a toll on him, telling his viewers, “You are not waking up every morning and talking about dead Americans. But you should attend Trump rallies and wear a mask”.
SOUNDS LIKE TRUMP ONLY HIRES THE BEST PEOPLE 🤪🤪🤪🤪
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@dontaskmeimjustagirl...5798
Summaries of Mueller Report Vol I & II contd:
2. So many lies. So many changed stories.
One of the unanswered questions of the past two years — which helped fuel the F.B.I. investigation, congressional inquiries and journalistic scrutiny — is why so many people lied, changed their stories and issued misleading statements to both the public and federal authorities
The report recaps one false statement after another. Just a few examples:
Mr. Trump was livid when journalists revealed that he had unsuccessfully ordered Mr. Mueller’s firing. The president tried to get Mr. McGahn to say publicly that was false, but Mr. McGahn refused, saying that the news reports were accurate. Mr. Mueller’s report notably declared that Mr. McGahn was “credible.”
Mr. Trump also pressed the deputy attorney general, Rod J. Rosenstein, to give a news conference about the firing of the F.B.I. director, James B. Comey. The White House press office wanted Mr. Rosenstein to say it was his idea. Mr. Rosenstein told the president that a news conference was a bad idea “because if the press asked him, he would tell the truth.”
The White House press secretary, Sarah Huckabee Sanders, admitted issuing a statement to the news media “in the heat of the moment that was not founded on anything.”
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@yourlord4096 Faux news has told Maga Morons that they are the victims of no less than 37 attacks. The War on Christmas, Christmas Trees, Fathers, Masculinity, Christians, White Men, White Women, Children, Genders, Heterosexuals, Conservatives, Guns, people with guns,….Etc… Etc…
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Summation of Treasonous Trump’s Speech: “Me, me, me, me, me, them, them, me, me, them, them, me, me, me me.
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HAVE SOME FUN, GUESS WHO GAVE THIS SPEECH:
“We have great agreements where when they used to bring killers out, they would say don’t bring them back to our country, we don’t want them. Well, we have to, we don’t want them. They wouldn’t take them. Now with us, they take them. Someday, I’ll tell you why. Someday, I’ll tell you why. But they take them and they take them very gladly. They used to bring them out and they wouldn’t even let the airplanes land if they brought them back by airplanes. They wouldn’t let the buses into their country. They said we don’t want them. Said no, but they entered our country illegally and they’re murderers, they’re killers in some cases.”
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Trump: Campaign shifted money into indebted private business, Forbes
Trump has shifted money raised from campaign donors into the Trump Organization, according to documents from the Federal Election Committee (FEC) seen by Forbes.
He moved around $2.8 million into his private businesses throughout the duration of his presidency, Forbes's Dan Alexander reported.
Trump funneled an additional $81,000 into the Trump Organization after his election loss, the magazine said.
The payments were made public in the filings the campaign submitted to the FEC and were liest to cover costs including rent, airfare, lodging, and other expenses.
One of the campaign's joint-fundraising committees, associated with the Republican Party, also moved an estimated $4.3 million of donor money into his private business during his presidential term, according to Forbes.
Read more: 10 huge hits to Trump's business from the pandemic that may be permanent.
The joint-fundraising committee also paid around $300,000 towards Trump's hotel chain in the week following the former president's election loss, the Independent reported.
Around $40,000 was handed over from the campaign to Trump Tower Commercial LLC, a company which the former president owns a stake in, in December, the paper said.
This isn't the first time it has been reported that Trump transferred campaign money to his private businesses.
In July, The Washington Post's David Fahrenthold reported that Trump's campaign sent nearly $400,000 to the Trump Organization in just two days.
Documents showed that the campaign channeled $380,000 to the president's personal business in 43 transactions, Fahrenthold said.
This comes when the former president is said to be looking for ways to cash in on his post-presidency to address potentially huge debt.
The Trump Organization owes $400 million, according to Forbes.
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Treasonous Trump and his toddy Barr’s Banana Republic
In 1988 to 1992, Argentina, Brazil and Peru were struggling to reestablish democratic norms after the long, dark night of military dictatorship. One of the biggest challenges was restoring public confidence that justice is blind and engages in an honest search for truth.
But thanks to President Trump and the inexcusable damage he is doing to our justice system, South America’s past has become America’s present.
There has been considerable evidence that Trump is causing irreparable harm to the Public’s faith in justice. Once squandered, it is incredibly hard to regain.
That’s the kind of damage Trump is threatening with his outrageous and un-American attacks on the Justice Department and the federal judiciary for finding his cronies — including longtime political adviser Roger Stone, former national security adviser Michael Flynn and 2016 campaign chairman Paul Manafort — guilty of crimes and deserving of punishment. We have seen this type of behavior before in the South American Countries of Venezuela, Argentina, Guatemala, Nicaragua, and many others.
In Argentina, Carlos Menem, was a populist norm-breaker who nepotistically involved his family in running the government and was widely viewed as corrupt. In 1991, Menem’s sister-in-law and appointments secretary, Amira Yoma, was indicted on money-laundering charges that involved suitcases full of cash allegedly being smuggled in and out of the country. Yoma’s ex-husband was head of the customs service at Ezeiza International Airport outside Buenos Aires, where he allegedly facilitated the cash-smuggling.
Menem was accused of secretly meeting with the prosecuting judge in charge of the Yoma case. The president initially denied having had such a meeting but ultimately admitted it, claiming it was about some unrelated matter. The judge’s secretary alleged that the judge had gone to the presidential residence, where she showed Menem secret prosecution documents about the Yoma case.
That judge was suddenly taken off the case, which was assigned to a different judge, and Yoma was eventually cleared of all charges. It is safe to say that few Argentines were surprised.
There simply was very little confidence in the ability of the justice system to discern truth from falsehood or to punish the powerful and well-connected. There was an understanding, moreover, that prosecutors and the court system could and sometimes would be used as political tools.
Years after leaving office, Menem was convicted on unrelated charges involving weapons smuggling and embezzlement. He maintained his innocence, claiming he was being persecuted by his political enemies.
In these fragile democracies justice was being warped by politics and it had a corrosive effect on the larger society. A lack of confidence that court proceedings could — or even were intended to — arrive at truth encouraged the propagation and spread of conspiracy theories. Argentina still struggles to escape the widespread belief that unseen forces control events from deep in the shadows.
This is not the sort of path I ever thought the United States could take. But it has not been naive, to believe that federal prosecutors and judges tried their very best not to let politics influence their decisions — and that they generally succeeded because they took their responsibilities seriously.
When four assistant U.S. attorneys asked to be taken off the Stone case, they were sounding an alarm. We must all pay attention.
Their recommendation that Stone serve seven to nine years in prison for his crimes was tough, but federal prosecutors tend to be tough. Stone was duly convicted in a court of law, and U.S. District Judge Amy Berman Jackson will decide his punishment. But when higher-ups in Attorney General William P. Barr’s Justice Department overrule the prosecutors who handled the case on Stone’s recommended sentence; when Trump tries to delegitimize those prosecutors as “Angry Democrats” because they worked for former special counsel Robert S. Mueller III; and when Trump goes so far as to try to intimidate Jackson, a highly respected veteran federal judge — when such things happen, you have to wonder whether Trump is leading us down that Banana Republic path.
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DrtyDan
Hitler was a Fascist, Fascist are far right politicly. Treasonous Trump is far right politically. You are far right politically. Therefore you and TT are Fascists. Therefore, YOU would have supported Hitler.
Fascism (/ˈfæʃɪzəm/) is a form of far-right, authoritarian ultranationalism characterized by dictatorial power, forcible suppression of opposition, and strong regimentation of society and of the economy which came to prominence in early 20th-century Europe.
Nazi Party
The National Socialist German Workers' Party, commonly referred to in English as the Nazi Party, was a far-right political party in Germany that was active between 1920 and 1945, that created and supported the ideology of National Socialism. Its precursor, the German Workers' Party, existed from 1919 to 1920.
Your welcome. Next time you need educated on anything, I do mean anything, just let me know. 🤣😂🤣😂
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The Trumpian 2020 Disinformation War:
Treasonous Trump's team is presiding over a sophisticated, multimillion-dollar digital operation, an operation that carries his propaganda across just about every digital platform available. This propaganda push results in the most extensive disinformation campaign in U.S. history.
COPPINS: That's exactly...
KELLY: ...Type of ads.
Trump Campaign Manager, Brad Pascal and the Republican National Committee and Trump campaign actually have 3,000 data points on almost every voter in America, and they use those data points to determine how exactly to pitch their message. So a message, for example, on defunding Planned Parenthood might not go over well in certain parts of the country, but if you microtarget it to 800 pro-life women in Dubuque, Iowa, it's going to get a positive result. And that's how they kind of have waged their campaign.
The Trump campaign micro targeted ads to black voters in Florida with an ad that said, Hillary thinks African Americans are super-predators. And the goal was not even really to win over black voters. It was to depress black turnout in Florida.
Another example was the impeachment battle. The Trump campaign was pumping out disinformation at an alarming rate. Of course you would always expect a certain amount of partisan spin but the Trump Campaign was taking spin to an alarming level. You could watch the impeachment proceedings on TV, and see what was pretty damning testimony about the president's conduct. And then later in the day the Trump Campaign would put out a Fox News and Facebook feed that would totally recast what had happened that day in completely different terms. In fact, even at times, the Trump campaign would create videos that were supercuts of the same testimony and make look like something completely different.
With this kind of daily propaganda fed to Trump supporters it very hard for them to grasp reality. In the end, it erodes their confidence in our democratic institutions. It erodes their ability to sort out fact from fiction. And it actually makes it harder for conservatives to compete in the marketplace of ideas because reality doesn't exist as a regulating force.
The Republicans, and especially the Trump campaign, are much more sophisticated, much more advanced and, so far, have been more - for lack of a better word - shameless.
Please for the sake of our Democracy please get out of your conservative propaganda Bubble Loop. Your children and mine will all suffer with what you do and believe from theses Propaganda Sources.
May God Bless and Spare America.
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@yatarookayama8329 I WOULD AGREE:
Average Unemployment
Biden Trump
3.6 7.8
Both enjoyed strong job markets, despite the pandemic recession. Each saw unemployment hit a 50-year low. Both also inherited unemployment rates that were falling when they took office — but it was higher 13% when Biden started than when Trump started 3.6
Wages and salaries have risen much faster under Biden than under Trump.
American Manufacturing Jobs Created
Biden Trump
791k * Negative Jobs Created
Factory jobs boomed under Biden, who targeted domestic MFG with tax breaks, infrastructure, Buy America rules, and other initiatives. Trump tried to do the same but tariffs & spiteful behavior got in the way. *Trump’s Recession Wiped out all gains.
Economic Growth
Biden Trump
3.4 2.7
Trump repeatedly promised in his first campaign for the White House that he would recharge America’s economic growth. But Biden’s record has beaten him, even after adjusting for inflation. Biden has seen the fastest first three years of growth in four decades.
Lowest Unemployment For Black People
Biden Trump
4.8% 5.3%
To appeal to Black voters, Trump and Biden have each boasted about the Black unemployment rate hitting record lows on his watch. Both are correct, in a way. Black unemployment set a record under Trump. Then, under Biden, it broke that record. (And Biden inherited higher Black unemployment than Trump did.)
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How TV Cable Companies Cover the Impeachment - an exercise in Propaganda:
Note: See if you can spot which company engages in Propaganda.
• CNN: EX-WHITE HOUSE AIDE: HIGHLY UNUSUAL EFFORT TO “LOCK DOWN”. TRANSCRIPT OF JULY 25 CALL WAS AN “ADMINISTRATIVE ERROR”
• Fox News: DEMS PRAISE VINDMAN FOR WORKING AGAINST TRUMP
• MSNBC: CONCLUDES AFTER MORE THAN 9 HOURS
At 9:13 p.m. that day, here’s what viewers saw.
• CNN: KEY WITNESSES QUESTIONED IN PUBLIC HEARINGS
• Fox News: SCHIFF STEERS IMPEACHMENT SHAM OFF A CLIFF / DEMS’ UKRAINE HOAX UNRAVELS ON CAPITOL HILL
• MSNBC: VINDMAN REASSURES SOVIET IMMIGRANT FATHER: HE WILL BE FINE FOR TELLING THE TRUTH / HOUSE INTEL COMPLETES 3RD DAY OF PUBLIC IMPEACHMENT HEARINGS
At 10:15 p.m.:
• CNN: SONDLAND TESTIFIES TOMORROW
• Fox News: VOLKER TESTIMONY UNDERMINES DEMS’ NARRATIVE
• MSNBC: IMPEACHMENT HEARING WRAPS AFTER 4 WITNESSES, 9+ HOURS / LT. COL VINDMAN, TRUMP’S TOP UKRAINE ADVISOR, TESTIFIES. TRUMP ACTED “IMPROPERLY” WHEN HE “DEMANDED” A FAVOR
At 10:51 p.m.:
• CNN: REPUBLICANS USE IMPEACHMENT HEARINGS TO QUESTION LOYALTY OF DECORATED ARMY VETERAN SPEAKING OUT AGAINST TRUMP
• Fox News: CHICK-FIL-A CAVES TO LIBERAL MOB
• MSNBC: EU AMB. GORDON SONDLAND TESTIFIES TOMORROW MORNING / SONDLAND WILL FACE QUESTIONS ABOUT PREVIOUSLY. UNKNOWN CALL TO TRUMP FROM RESTAURANT IN UKRAINE
Following day 8:12 p.m.:
• CNN: SONDLAND TIES PRES. TRUMP, VP PENCE, SECY. OF STATE POMPEO. AND WH CHIEF OF STAFF MULVANEY TO PRESSURE CAMPAIGN / SONDLAND: “EVERYONE WAS IN THE LOOP” ON UKRAINE PRESSURE
• Fox News: “NO QUID PRO QUO”
Half an hour later, while CNN was still covering Sondland’s testimony, Fox News was discussing the Clinton Foundation.
At 10:54 p.m., here’s what the two networks were showing viewers.
• CNN: SONDLAND: ‘YES’ THERE WAS QUID PRO QUO. IN UKRAINE SCANDAL
• Fox News: SWALWELL CAUSES A STINK
That latter text referred to a viral video clip that appeared to have captured the sound of flatulence while Rep. Eric Swalwell (D-Calif.) was appearing on MSNBC the previous day.
On Thursday, similar divides were on display. At 9:53 p.m., here’s what each network showed — perhaps the most representative comparison of any.
• CNN: NO REPUBLICANS BUDGE AFTER ALL THE FACTS, EVIDENCE REVEALED IN 3O+ HOURS OF PUBLIC TESTIMONY / MEMBERS OF PRESIDENT’S PARTY CROSSED AISLE IN NIXON & CLINTON IMPEACHMENT PROCEEDINGS, BUT NOT NOW
• Fox News: FBI OFFICIAL UNDER INVESTIGATION FOR ALLEGEDLY ALTERING DOC RELATED TO PAGE SURVEILLANCE, CNN REPORTS
• MSNBC: NIXON PLEDGED TO FIGHT TO KEEP HIS PRESIDENCY / IMPEACHMENT HEARING WITNESSES WRAP UP WEEK OF EXPLOSIVE TESTIMONY
There’s a reason that Trump’s current press secretary has only given interviews to Fox News and not other broadcast or major cable networks. Why would Trump need a White House communications director when he has a generously friendly cable network that’s already popular with the people he wants to talk to anyway?
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Treasonous Trump’s State of the Union Speech: “Me, Me, Me, Me, Me, Me, Them, Them, Me, Me, Me, Them, Me, Me, etc.”
Nailed it! 😂🤣😂🤣
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Colonel Reb
The cost of Trump’s Golf Trips tops $628,000 to U.S. Tax Payers.
President Trump’s company charged the Secret Service $157,000 more than was previously known — billing taxpayers for rooms at his clubs at rates far higher than his company has claimed, according to a new trove of receipts and billing documents released by the Secret Service. When added to dozens of charges already reported by The Washington Post, the new documents show that Trump’s company has charged the Secret Service more than $628,000 since he took office in 2017.
Yet another Trumpian Lie Exposed.
“If my father travels, they stay at our properties for free — meaning, like, cost for housekeeping,” said Eric Trump, the company’s executive vice president. Later in the interview, he said, “We charge them, like, 50 bucks.” Said Eric Trump.
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Chris Reed
JARED KUSHNER HAS CREATED A SHELL COMPANY TO FUNNEL CAMPAIGN CASH TO FAMILY MEMBERS.
Donald Trump and his family have spent the last four years making the airtight case that they view the presidency as simply a means to enrich themselves and their associates. They probably don’t particularly like that reputation and, yet, it hasn’t stopped them from funneling taxpayer money to their private business, gouging the Secret Service, and raising legal defense funds that the fine print says could go directly to their pockets. Oh, and, according to a new report, setting up a shell company that spent hundreds of millions of campaign dollars to pay Trump family members along with other expenditures it seemingly wanted to keep under wraps.
According to Business Insider, first son-in-law Jared Kushner personally approved the creation of the company, incorporated as American Made Media Consultants Corp. and American Made Media Consultants LLC, in April 2018. From there, Eric Trump’s wife, Lara Trump, was named president, with Mike Pence’s nephew John Pence serving as vice president. If you’re wondering why the shell company, described as Business Insider as acting “almost like a campaign within a campaign” was necessary, well, it’s not entirely clear, but it sure sounds like the express purpose was the ability to shield “financial and operational details from public scrutiny,” as it allowed the campaign to avoid federally mandated disclosures concerning what it was spending considerable amounts of money on. And by considerable we mean nearly half of the $1.26 billion raised for Trump’s reelection.
Campaign-finance records showed Trump's reelection effort and its affiliated committee with the RNC spent more than $600 million through American Made Consultants since its formation. For months, some of Trump’s top advisers and campaign staff told Insider they had no idea how the shell company functioned, which cast an air of mystery around the operation…. Some of those same advisers said they didn’t learn about John Pence’s and Lara Trump’s involvement until Insider contacted them for this story.
Campaign-law experts have long accused the Trump team of using a corporate pass-through to hide payments. The nonpartisan Campaign Legal Center, led by former Republican Federal Election Commission Chairman Trevor Potter, filed a civil complaint with the FEC in July accusing the Trump campaign of “disguising” about $170 million worth of campaign spending in large part “by laundering the funds” through AMMC. Brendan Fischer, the Campaign Legal Center’s director of federal reform, said the payments to AMMC were a “scheme to evade telling voters even the basics on where its money is really going” and a “shield to disguise the ultimate recipients of its spending.”
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David Reynolds
March 10, 2017
WASHINGTON — The candidate he was advising last fall was running on a platform of America First. The client he was working for last fall was paying him more than $500,000 to put Turkey first.
Michael T. Flynn, who went from the campaign trail to the White House as President Trump’s first national security adviser, filed papers this week acknowledging that he worked as a foreign agent last year representing the interests of the Turkish government in a dispute with the United States.
His surprising admission, coming more than four months after the election, raised further questions about the rise and fall of a presidential confidant who was forced to resign after 24 days in office for withholding the full story of his communications with Russia’s ambassador. Even now, out of government and out of favor, Mr. Flynn and his contact with foreign figures presented a new headache for a White House eager to move on.
Mr. Flynn, a retired Army lieutenant general, did not file papers with the Justice Department registering as a foreign agent, providing a fuller understanding of his role, until Tuesday.
Care to apologize?
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HOW WAS OUR REPUBLIC SAVED FROM TRUMP?
We are taught that the main function of the U.S. Constitution is the control of executive power: curtailing presidents who might seek to become tyrants. Other republics have lapsed into dictatorships (the Roman Republic, the Weimar Republic, the Republic of China and so on), but will our elaborate constitutional system of checks and balances protects us from despotism?
Trump severely tested our constitutional system with his aggressive autocratic impulses that were mostly thwarted but not by our system of checks and balances. Our three branches of government played a pitifully small role in stopping Trump from assuming the unlimited powers he wanted. What really saved the Republic from Trump was an informal and unofficial set of institutional norms upheld by federal prosecutors, military officers and state elections officials. You might call these values our “unwritten constitution”, Trump Cult Members call it the Deep State.
The courts did their job in providing a modest check on Trump’s tyrannical tendencies, such as with the dismissal of his despicable attacks on the election. But the bigger and more important failure was Congress. Madison intended Congress to be the primary check on the president. Unfortunately, that design has a key flaw (as Madison himself realized). The flaw reveals itself when party loyalty is placed before loyalty to country and its citizens. When this happens Congress will not function as a reliable check on a president of that same party. This was what happened with Trump and the Republican-controlled Senate.
When confronted with a president who ignores all rules, Senate Republicans enabled him or remained silent. They allowed acting appointees to run the federal government. They allowed him to claim a right to attack Iran without congressional approval. The impeachment process was reduced to nothing but a party-line vote. The Senate became a rubber stamp for executive overreach.
Instead, the president’s worst impulses were checked by the three pillars of the unwritten constitution. The first is the customary separation between the president and federal criminal prosecution. The second is the traditional political neutrality of the military. The third is the personal integrity of state elections officials.
If any of these informal “firewalls” had failed, Trump might be on his way to president for life. But they held firm, for which the Republic should be grateful.
The first firewall is prosecutorial independence. The prosecution function of the executive branch is not mentioned in the Constitution, and based on the text alone — “the executive Power shall be vested in a President of the United States” — Trump claimed in 2017 “I have absolute right to do what I want to do with the Justice Department.” But AG Barr danced a fine line between being Trump’s personal instrument of vengeance and running an unbiased Rule of Law DOJ.
The second firewall of the unwritten constitution was the U.S. military’s longstanding custom against getting involved in domestic politics. It was invaluable in checking Trump’s militaristic instincts and ability to conduct a successful coup. On June 1, as protests and counter-protests became violent and destructive of property, Trump appeared in the Rose Garden of the White House and railed against what he called “acts of domestic terror.” He said he would “deploy the United States military” if necessary to “defend the life and property” of U.S. citizens. In a subsequent photo op, he was flanked by Mr. Barr, Defense Secretary Mark Esper and Gen. Mark Milley, the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, who was clad in military fatigues. Soon, active duty forces from the 82nd Airborne Division were positioned outside of Washington.
It was an extraordinarily dangerous moment for the country. As the history of lapsed republics suggests, when the military becomes involved in domestic politics, it tends to stay involved. But two days after Trump’s rant, Mr. Esper publicly broke with the president, stressing that active duty forces should be used domestically only “as a matter of last resort, and only in the most urgent and dire of situations.” He concluded that “I do not support invoking the Insurrection Act.”
General Milley later issued a public apology for participating in Trump’s photo op. “My presence in that moment,” he said, “created a perception of the military involved in domestic politics.” He added, “I should not have been there.”
Trump’s plans ran afoul not of the law, but of an unwritten rule. In a few days, the active duty troops gathered around Washington were sent home. Though briefly tested, the norm had held.
The final firewall of the unwritten constitution has been the integrity of state elections officials. Corruption of the people and institutions that set election rules and count votes is an obvious threat to the democratic process. In Russia, for example, the neutrality of its Central Election Commission during President Vladimir Putin’s rule has been repeatedly questioned, especially given the tendency of that body to disqualify leading opposition figures and parties.
The story of Brad Raffensperger, the secretary of state in Georgia and its top elections official, testifies to the potential threats to an election’s integrity during a heated campaign. Mr. Raffensperger, a Republican, was loosely in charge of the vote in a state that went narrowly for Mr. Biden. In that capacity, Mr. Raffensperger was attacked and disparaged by higher-ranking members of his own party. This included such prominent political figures as Georgia’s two senators, David Perdue and Kelly Loeffler. Both demanded Mr. Raffensperger resign for no apparent reason other than his failure to prevent Mr. Biden from winning the state.
Despite the pressure, Mr. Raffensperger and the state’s governor, Brian Kemp, held steady, along with an overwhelming majority of state elections officials around the country. They have refused to “discover” voting fraud without good evidence of it. Party loyalty — at this point — seems not to have fatally corrupted the vote-counting process.
Might this welcome result be credited to constitutional design? Not really. What mattered most was the But what seems to have mattered most was the integrity of the state elections officials. Their professional commitment to a fair vote spared the Republic an existential crisis.
The last four years suggest that Structural checks can be overrated. The survival of our Republic depends as much, if not more, on the virtue of those in government, particularly the upholding of norms by civil servants, prosecutors and military officials. We have grown too jaded about things like professionalism and institutions, and the idea of men and women who take their moral duties seriously. But as every major moral tradition teaches, no external constraint can fully substitute for the personal compulsion to do what is morally right.
It is called civic virtue, and at the end of the day, it is this type of Patriotism that makes a Republic function.
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@tamlynn786 Grandpa: Draft Dodger, Whorehouse Owner
Father: Draft Dodger, Racist, Crooked Slumlord, Tax Cheat.
Son: Draft Dodger, Racist, Crooked Slumlord, Tax Cheat, Traitor, Grifter, Russian Money Launderer.
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Tamara King
saintbees
DRAIN THE SWAMP - HOW MUCH ICREAM CAN YOU BUY WITH A BILLION DOLLARS?
Trump’s company has received at least $970,000 from U.S. taxpayers for room rentals.
The U.S. government has paid at least $970,000 to President Trump’s company since Trump took office — including payments for more than 1,600 nightly room rentals at Trump’s hotels and clubs, according to federal records obtained.
Since March, The Post has catalogued an additional $340,000 in such payments. They were all related to trips taken by Trump, his family and his top officials. The government is known to have paid full price for rooms for staffers and Secret Service agents to accompany the president.
The payments create an unprecedented business relationship between the president’s private company and his government — which began in the first month of Trump’s presidency records show.
The records show that taxpayers have now paid for the equivalent of more than four years’ worth of nightly rentals at Trump properties, including 950 nights at Trump’s golf club in Bedminster, N.J., and 530 nights at the president’s Mar-a-Lago Club in Florida, according to analysis.
Who needs a pay check when you can get nearly a Billion Dollars in guaranteed business from the government - DRAIN THE SWAMP!
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skip 0464a
1. Multiple witnesses confirmed the existence of a distinct diplomatic channel directed by presidential lawyer Rudy Giuliani.
William Taylor, the top diplomat in Ukraine, testified that there was "an irregular, informal channel of U.S. policy-making with respect to Ukraine, one which included then-Special Envoy Kurt Volker, Ambassador (to the European Union Gordon) Sondland, Secretary of Energy Rick Perry, and as I subsequently learned, Mr. Giuliani."
Sondland — one of these so-called "Three Amigos" — testified that "in response to our persistent efforts to change his views, President Trump directed us to ‘talk with Rudy.’ We understood that ‘talk with Rudy’ meant talk with Mr. Rudolph W. Giuliani, the president’s personal lawyer."
Meanwhile, Marie Yovanovitch, the former U.S. Ambassador to Ukraine, testified that she was targeted by the Giuliani effort to "smear" her reputation, amid concerns that she was standing in the way of this irregular channel.
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2. Sondland testified that top officials were "in the loop" on this Giuliani-led channel.
Sondland testified that he was not operating in a vacuum — he said the leadership in the State Department, the National Security Council, and the White House were informed about Ukraine efforts between May and Sept. 11, when the stalled military aid to Ukraine was released.
Sondland specifically said that those who were kept "informed of our activities" included Secretary of State Mike Pompeo, then-National Security Adviser John Bolton, and then-National Security Council officials Fiona Hill and Tim Morrison. "They knew what we were doing and why," he said.
Sondland said that he and others who worked with Giuliani were doing so at the "express direction" of Trump.
According to Sondland, Giuliani wanted President Volodymyr Zelensky to publicly commit to an investigation, specifically mentioning a conspiracy theory that claims the cybersecurity firm Crowdstrike hid a server of Hillary Clinton’s emails, and Burisma, the company where Hunter Biden served as a board member.
"Everyone was in the loop. It was no secret," Sondland testified, citing WhatsApp messages and emails.
Sondland also testified — and was backed up by David Holmes, a U.S. diplomat stationed in Ukraine — that Trump called him while he was at a restaurant in Ukraine. In that overheard call, Sondland testified to having said that Zelensky was "very willing to work with the United States and was being very amicable."
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3. Several witnesses testified that they perceived a quid pro quo.
Witnesses testified that they interpreted two possible quid pro quos. Ukraine’s part of the deal would be to announce an investigation into the Bidens. In exchange, the United States would lift the hold on military aid, or hold a White House meeting with Zelensky, or both, depending on the testimony.
Sondland testified that, based on his communications with Pompeo, he told a senior aide to Zelensky that "resumption of U.S. aid would likely not occur until Ukraine took some kind of action on the public statement that we had been discussing for many weeks." (Upon questioning, Sondland acknowledged that Trump did not directly tell him about preconditions for the aid to be released.)
Sondland also portrayed Vice President Mike Pence as in the know, at least at a later point. Sondland testified that before a Sept. 1 meeting with Zelensky, he told Pence that he had concerns that the delay in aid had been tied to the investigations. (Pence told a Wisconsin TV station that he didn’t recall such a discussion with Sondland.)
Meanwhile, Holmes, testified that top Ukrainian officials were well aware of the hold on military funding and felt stiff-armed about a long-discussed White House meeting.
Hill testified similarly. "It became very clear that the White House meeting itself was being predicated on other issues, namely investigations and the questions about the election interference in 2016," she said.
Sondland added that he believed the deal was predicated on the announcement of investigations, rather than the actual undertaking of investigations. Zelensky "had to announce the investigations. He didn’t actually have to do them, as I understood it." This testimony undercuts the argument that the president cared about rooting out all corruption in Ukraine. Focusing on the announcement rather than the follow through would suggest an interest in a campaign talking point rather than full-fledged reform.
Example: Wells Fargo Employees never had Sr. Management say in the clearest possible words “Go cheat the customer as many times as you can possibly get away with or you will be fired” But there was absolutely No One who didn’t know what was expected of them.
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Yet even as Trump lied to his rallygoers’ faces, we learned that the White House counsel has ordered two top Trump advisers to defy subpoenas for testimony to the Judiciary Committee, which is considering articles of impeachment against Trump, while sharply limiting a third former adviser’s testimony to the panel.
Which raises a question: If the case against Trump’s corruption were so weak, then why would Trump and the White House have to go to such extraordinary lengths to stonewall Congress’ ability to exercise its most basic and fundamental oversight authority?
This juxtaposition will be on full display on Tuesday afternoon, when former Trump campaign manager Corey Lewandowski testifies to the Judiciary Committee. The White House has placed sharp limits on what Lewandowski can discuss, ordering him to discuss only what’s in the Mueller report, and not to discuss any private communications that go beyond this.
[Lewandowski ‘excited’ about defending Trump in congressional hearing Tuesday]
Liberals and conservatives share basic common values, but leaders like Donald Trump use fear to exploit their differences for political gain. Abigail Marsh, a psychology and neuroscience professor at Georgetown University, analyzes the slippery slope between protecting your in-group and attacking the out-group. (Joshua Carroll/The Washington Post; Danielle Kunitz/The Washington Post; Kate Woodsome/The Washington Post)
At the same time, the White House has also directed two others to refuse questioning: former White House secretary Rob Porter, and former Trump campaign adviser and White House deputy chief of staff Rick Dearborn.
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Dale Hansen
In these last days, Scripture warns that false prophets will arise and deceive many. Believers who are not well-grounded make easy targets for doctrines that may sound good but are filled with error.
Some doctrines are evil, we must sharpen our awareness and be alert — not just for ourselves but for our loved ones who might otherwise be drawn to a false prophet.
Five tests you can apply to any false prophet’s message: the Source, Savior, Subject, Salvation, and Sanctification tests. But even if the teacher’s message passes these tests, we still should examine his method, manner, and motive. It is method, manner, and motive that Trump fails and his parse knowledge of scripture.
Know them by their method.
They “…privily shall bring in damnable heresies…And through covetousness shall they with feigned words make merchandise of you: (2 Peter 2:1-3)
Peter is describing the way they operate. Privily means “secretly, clandestinely, in a way that’s hard to spot.” Give the devil credit for being clever. His helpers lay false teaching alongside good teaching in order to confuse.
Feigned Words. The word feigned in the Greek is plastos, from which we get our word “plastic.” Plastic is pliable, molding itself just simply to fit and to imitate…plastic preachers with plastic words. Trump uses all of these tricks.
Know them by their manner. And many shall follow their pernicious ways… (v. 2)
Pernicious is a word we don’t use much today. It literally means “unbridled lust.” The center, sum and substance of their message is themselves. Have you noticed that apostasy and immorality go hand in hand? Often you’ll hear about false teachers being caught in adultery. Or, within their belief system, they advocate immorality, multiple wives, or some sort of “free sex.” We see it over and over again (Note Trump’s Adultery and Howard Stern talk). We hear news reports of a cult under the spell of a leader who, it is revealed, has been engaging in shocking immorality with members of his flock. High-profile evangelists preaching easy-believe-ism or a health-and-wealth gospel have sometimes been exposed as leading double lives.
For there are certain men crept in unawares, who were before of old ordained to this condemnation, ungodly men, turning the grace of our God into lasciviousness, and denying the only Lord God, and our Lord Jesus Christ. Jude, verse 4
They call themselves The Chosen One, but they’re living in sin. Note their methods, manner, and way of life. Are they above reproach?
I have seen also in the prophets of Jerusalem an horrible thing: they commit adultery, and walk in lies: they strengthen also the hands of evildoers, that none of them doth return from his wickedness: they are all of them unto me as Sodom, and the inhabitants therefore as Gomorrah. Jeremiah 23:14
Success in ministry does not necessarily mean they’re doing God’s work. Statistics are no proof that something is of God, because “many will follow” (2 Peter 2:2). Some people love the sensual rather than the spiritual. Jesus said, “Not every one that saith unto Me, Lord, Lord, shall enter into the kingdom of heaven; but he that doeth the will of My Father, which is in heaven” (Matthew 7:21). Many people lead double lives. They are counterfeits.
Know them by their motive. And through covetousness shall they with feigned words make merchandise of you…. 2 Peter 2:3
What is the false teacher’s motive? They want to use and manipulate you. Why? Because they themselves are covetous.
For their own motivation and wicked heart, Peter says, they make merchandise of the Gospel. A very Trumpian description.
Trump is surrounded by Prosperity Preachers. These hucksters are on TV and merchandise the Gospel of Christ. The hottest part of hell is reserved for these plastic preachers who, for whatever reason, merchandise God’s people. With great swelling words they exploit the ignorant. They are prophets, spelled “P-R-O-F-I-T-S.”
Lastly, in verses 4-5 Peter gets very serious. He says God will surely judge and not spare them. God is saying: Here is My solemn warning to every counterfeiter. When the angels fell, I judged them. When civilization in Noah’s day became polluted, I judged them. When Sodom and Gomorrah became perverted, I judged them. And I’m going to judge these false prophets.
Don’t get caught up in counterfeit Christianity. God will not spare sin or the sinner, for He did not spare His only begotten Son, the Lord Jesus, so that you and I might have eternal life.
The world is full of counterfeits. Every counterfeit dollar is a tribute to the worth of the real — or men wouldn’t be printing counterfeits! And every counterfeit Christian is a tribute to the value of salvation. Jesus is real. Salvation is real. And you can make sure you have the real thing if you repent of your sin and trust Him.
Is it possible that Trump is the Antichrist?
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Trump Aide Has Mental Melt Down On Facebook.
Michael R. Caputo told his audience that left-wing hit squads were being trained for insurrection and accused C.D.C. scientists of “sedition.” He complained that he was under siege by the news media, feeling paranoid, and that his “mental health was failing.” He accused the CDC of harboring a “secret resistance unit” determined to undermine President Trump.
Mr. Caputo, who lead efforts to warp C.D.C. weekly bulletins to fit Mr. Trump’s pandemic narrative, suggested that he personally could be in danger from opponents of the administration. “If you carry guns, buy ammunition, ladies and gentlemen, because it’s going to be hard to get,” he urged his followers. “I don’t like being alone in Washington,” Mr. Caputo said, describing “shadows on the ceiling in my apartment, there alone, shadows are so long.” He also said the mounting number of Covid-19 deaths was taking a toll on him, telling his viewers, “You are not waking up every morning and talking about dead Americans. But you should attend Trump rallies and wear a mask”.
SOUNDS LIKE TRUMP ONLY HIRES THE BEST PEOPLE 🤪🤪🤪🤪
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@One.Disgruntled.American
June 3, 2016
“I’ve been treated very unfairly by this judge. Now, this judge is of Mexican heritage. I’m building a wall, OK? I’m building a wall. I am going to do very well with the Hispanics, the Mexicans,” Trump said in an interview with CNN on June 3, explaining his attacks on the judge presiding over the Trump University lawsuit.
“I think I’m going to do very well with Hispanics. But we’re building a wall. He’s a Mexican. We’re building a wall between here and Mexico,” Trump said later in the interview, speaking of U.S. District Judge Gonzalo Curiel, who was born in Indiana to Mexican immigrant parents. “This judge is giving us unfair rulings. Now I say why. Well, I want to — I’m building a wall, OK? And it’s a wall between Mexico, not another country.”
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Take note every time you are told you are a Victim of reverse discrimination, jobs, cancel culture, war on Christmas, censorship, war on religion, war on conservatives, liberal programing of kids at schools, Hollywood war on conservatives, war on guns, etc., etc., etc., the victimization perceived by the rightwing is a very long list. You all are literally professional victims.
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anonymous anonymous
I am not comfortable with abortion, but I am very comfortable with Birth Control. Why don’t we all band together and promote Birth Control and Sex Education? How many abortions would that prevent? I do not fault anyone who opposes abortion, but I find these friends of the unborn loose their concern the minute the baby is born, no medical care, no social assistance, no education, and no concern that the baby has a healthy prosperous life. Conservatives have similar values for our military, they will spend 100s of billions on weapons systems but begrudge any money spent on soldiers, soldiers housing, healthcare, and VA treatment for the long term care of those wounded. Back in the Reagan era, 100s of Billions were spent on new weapon system, but out of 16 shitters (8 on each end) only 4 in total could be flushed for 3 years.
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“There’s Nothing Left, I no longer recognize my party”
Why Hundreds of Thousands of Republicans Are Leaving the Party
Voting registration data indicates a strong and unusual flight from the G.O.P. since the Capitol riot, with an intensely fluid period in American politics now underway.
In the days and weeks after the storming of the Capitol by Trump supporters on Jan. 6, hundreds of thousands of Republicans left the party. After the Jan. 6 attack on the Capitol, the phone lines and websites of local election officials across the country were jumping: Tens of thousands of Republicans were calling or logging on to switch their party affiliations.
In California, more than 33,000 registered Republicans left the party during the three weeks after the Washington riot. In Pennsylvania, more than 12,000 voters left the G.O.P. in the past month, and more than 10,000 Republicans changed their registration in Arizona.
An analysis of January voting records found that nearly 140,000 Republicans had quit the party in 25 states that had readily available data (19 states do not have registration by party). Voting experts say this is the start of a particularly damaging period for G.O.P. registrations as voters recoil from the Capitol violence and its fallout.
Among those who recently left the party are Juan Nunez, 56, an Army veteran in Mechanicsburg, Pa. He said he had long felt that the difference between the United States and many other countries was that campaign-season fighting ended on Election Day, when all sides would peacefully accept the result. The Jan. 6 riot changed that, he said.
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How TV Cable Companies Cover the Impeachment - an exercise in Propaganda:
Note: See if you can spot which company engages in Propaganda.
• CNN: EX-WHITE HOUSE AIDE: HIGHLY UNUSUAL EFFORT TO “LOCK DOWN”. TRANSCRIPT OF JULY 25 CALL WAS AN “ADMINISTRATIVE ERROR”
• Fox News: DEMS PRAISE VINDMAN FOR WORKING AGAINST TRUMP
• MSNBC: CONCLUDES AFTER MORE THAN 9 HOURS
At 9:13 p.m. that day, here’s what viewers saw.
• CNN: KEY WITNESSES QUESTIONED IN PUBLIC HEARINGS
• Fox News: SCHIFF STEERS IMPEACHMENT SHAM OFF A CLIFF / DEMS’ UKRAINE HOAX UNRAVELS ON CAPITOL HILL
• MSNBC: VINDMAN REASSURES SOVIET IMMIGRANT FATHER: HE WILL BE FINE FOR TELLING THE TRUTH / HOUSE INTEL COMPLETES 3RD DAY OF PUBLIC IMPEACHMENT HEARINGS
At 10:15 p.m.:
• CNN: SONDLAND TESTIFIES TOMORROW
• Fox News: VOLKER TESTIMONY UNDERMINES DEMS’ NARRATIVE
• MSNBC: IMPEACHMENT HEARING WRAPS AFTER 4 WITNESSES, 9+ HOURS / LT. COL VINDMAN, TRUMP’S TOP UKRAINE ADVISOR, TESTIFIES. TRUMP ACTED “IMPROPERLY” WHEN HE “DEMANDED” A FAVOR
At 10:51 p.m.:
• CNN: REPUBLICANS USE IMPEACHMENT HEARINGS TO QUESTION LOYALTY OF DECORATED ARMY VETERAN SPEAKING OUT AGAINST TRUMP
• Fox News: CHICK-FIL-A CAVES TO LIBERAL MOB
• MSNBC: EU AMB. GORDON SONDLAND TESTIFIES TOMORROW MORNING / SONDLAND WILL FACE QUESTIONS ABOUT PREVIOUSLY. UNKNOWN CALL TO TRUMP FROM RESTAURANT IN UKRAINE
Following day 8:12 p.m.:
• CNN: SONDLAND TIES PRES. TRUMP, VP PENCE, SECY. OF STATE POMPEO. AND WH CHIEF OF STAFF MULVANEY TO PRESSURE CAMPAIGN / SONDLAND: “EVERYONE WAS IN THE LOOP” ON UKRAINE PRESSURE
• Fox News: “NO QUID PRO QUO”
Half an hour later, while CNN was still covering Sondland’s testimony, Fox News was discussing the Clinton Foundation.
At 10:54 p.m., here’s what the two networks were showing viewers.
• CNN: SONDLAND: ‘YES’ THERE WAS QUID PRO QUO. IN UKRAINE SCANDAL
• Fox News: SWALWELL CAUSES A STINK
That latter text referred to a viral video clip that appeared to have captured the sound of flatulence while Rep. Eric Swalwell (D-Calif.) was appearing on MSNBC the previous day.
On Thursday, similar divides were on display. At 9:53 p.m., here’s what each network showed — perhaps the most representative comparison of any.
• CNN: NO REPUBLICANS BUDGE AFTER ALL THE FACTS, EVIDENCE REVEALED IN 3O+ HOURS OF PUBLIC TESTIMONY / MEMBERS OF PRESIDENT’S PARTY CROSSED AISLE IN NIXON & CLINTON IMPEACHMENT PROCEEDINGS, BUT NOT NOW
• Fox News: FBI OFFICIAL UNDER INVESTIGATION FOR ALLEGEDLY ALTERING DOC RELATED TO PAGE SURVEILLANCE, CNN REPORTS
• MSNBC: NIXON PLEDGED TO FIGHT TO KEEP HIS PRESIDENCY / IMPEACHMENT HEARING WITNESSES WRAP UP WEEK OF EXPLOSIVE TESTIMONY
There’s a reason that Trump’s current press secretary has only given interviews to Fox News and not other broadcast or major cable networks. Why would Trump need a White House communications director when he has a generously friendly cable network that’s already popular with the people he wants to talk to anyway?
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“There’s Nothing Left, I no longer recognize my party”
Why Hundreds of Thousands of Republicans Are Leaving the Party
Voting registration data indicates a strong and unusual flight from the G.O.P. since the Capitol riot, with an intensely fluid period in American politics now underway.
In the days and weeks after the storming of the Capitol by Trump supporters on Jan. 6, hundreds of thousands of Republicans left the party. After the Jan. 6 attack on the Capitol, the phone lines and websites of local election officials across the country were jumping: Tens of thousands of Republicans were calling or logging on to switch their party affiliations.
In California, more than 33,000 registered Republicans left the party during the three weeks after the Washington riot. In Pennsylvania, more than 12,000 voters left the G.O.P. in the past month, and more than 10,000 Republicans changed their registration in Arizona.
An analysis of January voting records found that nearly 140,000 Republicans had quit the party in 25 states that had readily available data (19 states do not have registration by party). Voting experts say this is the start of a particularly damaging period for G.O.P. registrations as voters recoil from the Capitol violence and its fallout.
Among those who recently left the party are Juan Nunez, 56, an Army veteran in Mechanicsburg, Pa. He said he had long felt that the difference between the United States and many other countries was that campaign-season fighting ended on Election Day, when all sides would peacefully accept the result. The Jan. 6 riot changed that, he said.
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@Meatman419 Yet you have zero evidence. I can point to 62 Court Cases, a multitude of reports, a host of audits that Treasonous Trump and his fellow MAGA Morons, lied about the “Stolen Election”. I can point to 15,000 documented and verified Trump lies during his 4 years. I can point to Documented Evidence that Treasonous Trump was part of the planning for the Attack on the Capital. I can point to the Mueller Report, House & Senate Report, CIA, FBI, NSA, & DIA Reports that Treasonous Trump and close associates meet with Russian Spies 32 times. I can point to 6 Convictions and 24 indictments as a part of that investigation. I can point to 2 impeachments, and currently 6 ongoing investigations into TTs corruption & sedition. What can you point to?
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Sharing polling data
(VOLUME I, PP. 130-131, 140)
Throughout his time as the Trump campaign chairman, Paul Manafort stayed in touch with a Russian man named Konstantin Kilimnik, whom, according to the Mueller report, “the F.B.I. assesses to have ties to Russian intelligence.” Mr. Gates, Mr. Manafort’s deputy, believed Mr. Kilimnik to be a “spy.” — a view, the report says, that he shared with Mr. Manafort.
While managing the campaign, Mr. Manafort told Mr. Gates to share “internal polling data” private to the campaign with Mr. Kilimnik, so he could share it with Ukrainian oligarchs and a Russian oligarch. Mr. Gates sent Mr. Kilimnik the data regularly, deleting the WhatsApp messages after he did so. In an in-person meeting with Mr. Kilimnik, Mr. Manafort shared more information about the campaign’s election plans and polling, including information about “battleground states” that would be key to Mr. Trump’s election.
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TRUMP OWES HUNDREDS OF MILLION TO RUSSIA & CHINA.
IS HE KOMPROMISED?
Americans do not know how many hundreds of millions Donald Trump’s business owe Russia or China, but we need to know.
In 2008, Donald Trump Jr. told attendees at a real estate conference in New York City that “Russians make up a pretty disproportionate cross-section of a lot of our assets. We see a lot of money pouring in from Russia.” Sergei Millian, the president of the U.S. Russian Chamber of Commerce and friend of Trump, claims in 2016 the figure is in the hundreds of millions.
Russians are not the only American adversaries to support Trump’s business. The state-owned Central Bank of China has loaned Trump hundreds of millions of dollars. The New York Times has reported that American companies owned by Trump have at least $650 million in debt and the Bank of China is among the lenders. Jared Kushner received a $550 million loan from the state-owned CBC in 2017. This was one of the reasons the FBI would not give Kushner a Security Clearance, this and Jared & Ivanka’s “unusual” ties to CCP notables. We need to know how much Trump and his businesses owe Chinese banks as well as Russian oligarchs.
Trump has praised Russian President Vladimir Putin while hiring pro-Russian advisers to fill top campaign positions. Paul Manafort served as Trump’s campaign chairman until scrutiny over his consulting and lobbying work for Viktor Yanukovych, the Russian-backed former president of Ukraine, forced his resignation. Carter Page served as a foreign policy adviser for Trump until U.S. intelligence officials began looking into whether Mr. Page had opened a line of communication with senior Russian officials to discuss lifting economic sanctions on Russia should Trump win the presidency. These sanctions were imposed on Russia following Putin’s invasion of Crimea and Eastern Ukraine. Trump’s military advisor, retired Lt. Gen. Michael Flynn, unfortunately allowed himself to be used as a validator for Russian propaganda last year when he was seated near Putin at a Moscow gala celebrating Russia Today. Russia Today TV is Putin’s propaganda machine.
In summary you are telling me Hunter Biden is slimy but Trump, Don Jr., Eric, Ivanka, and Jared are Angles.
Your Hypocrisy STINKS all the way through the Internet.
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@rickwilsonjr5437 32 major contacts between Trump, the Trump Campaign, and Russian Spies, massive Russian Election Support in 2 elections, 6 major convictions, and 24 indictments, Fake Electors from 7 States, a violent attack on Congress, 800 charges - all that have to trial have needed up in convictions, 11 sedition charges 1 already convicted, and on it goes working up the leadership chain like a mob take down. Much more to come.
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Trump Aide Has Mental Melt Down On Facebook. 🤪🤪🤪🤪
Michael R. Caputo told his audience that left-wing hit squads were being trained for insurrection and accused C.D.C. scientists of “sedition.” He complained that he was under siege by the news media, feeling paranoid, and that his “mental health was failing.” He accused the CDC of harboring a “secret resistance unit” determined to undermine President Trump.
Mr. Caputo, who lead efforts to warp C.D.C. weekly bulletins to fit Mr. Trump’s pandemic narrative, suggested that he personally could be in danger from opponents of the administration. “If you carry guns, buy ammunition, ladies and gentlemen, because it’s going to be hard to get,” he urged his followers. “I don’t like being alone in Washington,” Mr. Caputo said, describing “shadows on the ceiling in my apartment, there alone, shadows are so long.” He also said the mounting number of Covid-19 deaths was taking a toll on him, telling his viewers, “You are not waking up every morning and talking about dead Americans. But you should attend Trump rallies and wear a mask”.
SOUNDS LIKE TRUMP ONLY HIRES THE BEST PEOPLE 🤪🤪🤪🤪
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Trump Aide Has Mental Melt Down On Facebook. 🤪🤪🤪🤪
Michael R. Caputo told his audience that left-wing hit squads were being trained for insurrection and accused C.D.C. scientists of “sedition.” He complained that he was under siege by the news media, feeling paranoid, and that his “mental health was failing.” He accused the CDC of harboring a “secret resistance unit” determined to undermine President Trump.
Mr. Caputo, who lead efforts to warp C.D.C. weekly bulletins to fit Mr. Trump’s pandemic narrative, suggested that he personally could be in danger from opponents of the administration. “If you carry guns, buy ammunition, ladies and gentlemen, because it’s going to be hard to get,” he urged his followers. “I don’t like being alone in Washington,” Mr. Caputo said, describing “shadows on the ceiling in my apartment, there alone, shadows are so long.” He also said the mounting number of Covid-19 deaths was taking a toll on him, telling his viewers, “You are not waking up every morning and talking about dead Americans. But you should attend Trump rallies and wear a mask”.
SOUNDS LIKE TRUMP ONLY HIRES THE BEST PEOPLE 🤪🤪🤪🤪
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How TV Cable Companies Cover the Impeachment - an exercise in Propaganda:
Note: See if you can spot which company engages in Propaganda.
• CNN: EX-WHITE HOUSE AIDE: HIGHLY UNUSUAL EFFORT TO “LOCK DOWN”. TRANSCRIPT OF JULY 25 CALL WAS AN “ADMINISTRATIVE ERROR”
• Fox News: DEMS PRAISE VINDMAN FOR WORKING AGAINST TRUMP
• MSNBC: CONCLUDES AFTER MORE THAN 9 HOURS
At 9:13 p.m. that day, here’s what viewers saw.
• CNN: KEY WITNESSES QUESTIONED IN PUBLIC HEARINGS
• Fox News: SCHIFF STEERS IMPEACHMENT SHAM OFF A CLIFF / DEMS’ UKRAINE HOAX UNRAVELS ON CAPITOL HILL
• MSNBC: VINDMAN REASSURES SOVIET IMMIGRANT FATHER: HE WILL BE FINE FOR TELLING THE TRUTH / HOUSE INTEL COMPLETES 3RD DAY OF PUBLIC IMPEACHMENT HEARINGS
At 10:15 p.m.:
• CNN: SONDLAND TESTIFIES TOMORROW
• Fox News: VOLKER TESTIMONY UNDERMINES DEMS’ NARRATIVE
• MSNBC: IMPEACHMENT HEARING WRAPS AFTER 4 WITNESSES, 9+ HOURS / LT. COL VINDMAN, TRUMP’S TOP UKRAINE ADVISOR, TESTIFIES. TRUMP ACTED “IMPROPERLY” WHEN HE “DEMANDED” A FAVOR
At 10:51 p.m.:
• CNN: REPUBLICANS USE IMPEACHMENT HEARINGS TO QUESTION LOYALTY OF DECORATED ARMY VETERAN SPEAKING OUT AGAINST TRUMP
• Fox News: CHICK-FIL-A CAVES TO LIBERAL MOB
• MSNBC: EU AMB. GORDON SONDLAND TESTIFIES TOMORROW MORNING / SONDLAND WILL FACE QUESTIONS ABOUT PREVIOUSLY. UNKNOWN CALL TO TRUMP FROM RESTAURANT IN UKRAINE
Following day 8:12 p.m.:
• CNN: SONDLAND TIES PRES. TRUMP, VP PENCE, SECY. OF STATE POMPEO. AND WH CHIEF OF STAFF MULVANEY TO PRESSURE CAMPAIGN / SONDLAND: “EVERYONE WAS IN THE LOOP” ON UKRAINE PRESSURE
• Fox News: “NO QUID PRO QUO”
Half an hour later, while CNN was still covering Sondland’s testimony, Fox News was discussing the Clinton Foundation.
At 10:54 p.m., here’s what the two networks were showing viewers.
• CNN: SONDLAND: ‘YES’ THERE WAS QUID PRO QUO. IN UKRAINE SCANDAL
• Fox News: SWALWELL CAUSES A STINK
That latter text referred to a viral video clip that appeared to have captured the sound of flatulence while Rep. Eric Swalwell (D-Calif.) was appearing on MSNBC the previous day.
On Thursday, similar divides were on display. At 9:53 p.m., here’s what each network showed — perhaps the most representative comparison of any.
• CNN: NO REPUBLICANS BUDGE AFTER ALL THE FACTS, EVIDENCE REVEALED IN 3O+ HOURS OF PUBLIC TESTIMONY / MEMBERS OF PRESIDENT’S PARTY CROSSED AISLE IN NIXON & CLINTON IMPEACHMENT PROCEEDINGS, BUT NOT NOW
• Fox News: FBI OFFICIAL UNDER INVESTIGATION FOR ALLEGEDLY ALTERING DOC RELATED TO PAGE SURVEILLANCE, CNN REPORTS
• MSNBC: NIXON PLEDGED TO FIGHT TO KEEP HIS PRESIDENCY / IMPEACHMENT HEARING WITNESSES WRAP UP WEEK OF EXPLOSIVE TESTIMONY
There’s a reason that Trump’s current press secretary has only given interviews to Fox News and not other broadcast or major cable networks. Why would Trump need a White House communications director when he has a generously friendly cable network that’s already popular with the people he wants to talk to anyway?
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Honkler The Clown
TRUMP’s BLAME-SHIFTING SCAM SPOTLIGHTS HIS FAILURES.
The timeline for Trump’s Failures:
Jan. 23, the WHO warned that coronavirus could “appear in any country,” and urged all countries to be “prepared for containment” and get ready to exercise “isolation” and “prevention” measures against its spread.
At the same time Trump was asked point-blank if worried about coronavirus’s spread, and he answered: “No, not at all, it was one person coming from China. We have it totally under control.”
On Jan. 24, Trump praised China’s “efforts” and its “transparency” and predicting that “it will all work out well.” Trump showed no concern about Covid45s spread outside China — even though WHO warned otherwise.
On Jan. 30, the WHO declared coronavirus a global public health emergency. While WHO was still too credulous toward China’s response, WHO also warned that all countries must review “preparedness plans” and take seriously what was coming.
By contrast, on Jan. 30 Trump was AGAIN directly warned by his HHS Sec. of the threat coronavirus posed. Trump dismissed this as “alarmist.”
On Feb. 2, Trump boasted to Sean Hannity: “We pretty much shut it down, coming in from China.” He hailed our “tremendous relationship” with that country. Trump continued praising China’s handling of coronavirus all through the entire month of February. Trump showed precisely the same credulity about China that WHO for showing, but without appreciating the urgency of the international threat coronavirus posed to the degree that the WHO did.
On travel restrictions:
Jan. 31, Trump announced restrictions on travel from China, WHO disagreed claiming it was too late. Ironically, Trump’s travel ban only excluded non Americans, not Americans, and set up no measures to screen or quarantine American Travelers returning from China.
For kicks and giggles google all the crazy quotes Trump made dismissing the coming deadly crisis right up to the last week of March. In the end Xi lied, WHO botched, & Trump did NOTHING DESPITE ALL THE WARNINGS.
26,212 American Deaths & rising and Trump still can’t pull it together.
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Silver Chopsticks
Maybe this will help you understand.
Trump Aide Has Mental Melt Down On Facebook. 🤪🤪🤪🤪
Michael R. Caputo told his audience that left-wing hit squads were being trained for insurrection and accused C.D.C. scientists of “sedition.” He complained that he was under siege by the news media, feeling paranoid, and that his “mental health was failing.” He accused the CDC of harboring a “secret resistance unit” determined to undermine President Trump.
Mr. Caputo, who lead efforts to warp C.D.C. weekly bulletins to fit Mr. Trump’s pandemic narrative, suggested that he personally could be in danger from opponents of the administration. “If you carry guns, buy ammunition, ladies and gentlemen, because it’s going to be hard to get,” he urged his followers. “I don’t like being alone in Washington,” Mr. Caputo said, describing “shadows on the ceiling in my apartment, there alone, shadows are so long.” He also said the mounting number of Covid-19 deaths was taking a toll on him, telling his viewers, “You are not waking up every morning and talking about dead Americans. But you should attend Trump rallies and wear a mask”.
SOUNDS LIKE TRUMP ONLY HIRES THE BEST PEOPLE 🤪🤪🤪🤪
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Eastman admitted to Jacob that Trump’s Electors Coup would lose on the merits in the Supreme Court: “When I pressed him on the point, I said ‘John, if the vice president did what you were asking him to do, we would lose 9-0 in the Supreme Court, wouldn’t we?’ And he initially started at, ‘Well, I think maybe you would lose only 7-2,' and after some further discussion, acknowledged, ‘Well, yeah, you’re right, we would lose 9-0.’ ... [He] ultimately acknowledged that, no, we would lose 9-0 — no judge would support his argument.”
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LIST OF 16 MEMBERS OF CONGRESS WHO COMMITTED TREASON:
Rep. Scott Perry, R-Pa.
Rep. Jim Jordan, R-Ohio
Rep. Mo Brooks, R-Ala.
Rep. Louie Gohmert, R-Texas
Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene, R-Ga.
Rep. Andy Biggs, R-Ariz.
Rep. Paul Gosar, R-Ariz.
Rep. Matt Gaetz, R-Fla.
Rep. Lauren Boebert, R-Colo.
Rep. Andy Harris, R-Md.
Rep. Madison Cawthorn, R-N.C.
Rep. Brian Babin, R-Texas
Sen. Lindsey Graham, R-S.C.
Sen. Ron Johnson, R-Wis.
Sen. Mike Lee, R-Utah
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Definitely Not CIA Bear
Before we examine your response let us establish some background information. The post was poking fun at the whole topic and was posted immediately after an equally ridiculous post.
Now let’s examine your post. I am very unclear as to how Alt Republicans having no soul relates to history books? Maybe you were thinking of past Republicans such as Lincoln, FDR, Eisenhower, maybe even Regan or Bush one. You know back before the Neocons and Alt Rights (AKA Neo Fascists) took over the GOP.
As for obviously not reading A history book - well you made me smile. By history I hope you mean scholarly history. It would very sad if you were calling books on how “Ancient Aliens” built the pyramids etc. So to answer your speculative snarky remark - Yes, I read history and am an avid reader. I am very proud of the depth of my historical knowledge in the areas of American History - Constitutional, Founding Fathers, Great Debates etc., Russian, French, German, Early Greek, Roman, Baltic, Religious, Ottoman Empire, Levantine, Crusaders, and of course all books about the Wars of the World. If you also share my passion... I salute you and encourage you to continue.
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How TV Cable Companies Cover the Impeachment - an exercise in Propaganda:
Note: See if you can spot which company engages in Propaganda.
• CNN: EX-WHITE HOUSE AIDE: HIGHLY UNUSUAL EFFORT TO “LOCK DOWN”. TRANSCRIPT OF JULY 25 CALL WAS AN “ADMINISTRATIVE ERROR”
• Fox News: DEMS PRAISE VINDMAN FOR WORKING AGAINST TRUMP
• MSNBC: CONCLUDES AFTER MORE THAN 9 HOURS
At 9:13 p.m. that day, here’s what viewers saw.
• CNN: KEY WITNESSES QUESTIONED IN PUBLIC HEARINGS
• Fox News: SCHIFF STEERS IMPEACHMENT SHAM OFF A CLIFF / DEMS’ UKRAINE HOAX UNRAVELS ON CAPITOL HILL
• MSNBC: VINDMAN REASSURES SOVIET IMMIGRANT FATHER: HE WILL BE FINE FOR TELLING THE TRUTH / HOUSE INTEL COMPLETES 3RD DAY OF PUBLIC IMPEACHMENT HEARINGS
At 10:15 p.m.:
• CNN: SONDLAND TESTIFIES TOMORROW
• Fox News: VOLKER TESTIMONY UNDERMINES DEMS’ NARRATIVE
• MSNBC: IMPEACHMENT HEARING WRAPS AFTER 4 WITNESSES, 9+ HOURS / LT. COL VINDMAN, TRUMP’S TOP UKRAINE ADVISOR, TESTIFIES. TRUMP ACTED “IMPROPERLY” WHEN HE “DEMANDED” A FAVOR
At 10:51 p.m.:
• CNN: REPUBLICANS USE IMPEACHMENT HEARINGS TO QUESTION LOYALTY OF DECORATED ARMY VETERAN SPEAKING OUT AGAINST TRUMP
• Fox News: CHICK-FIL-A CAVES TO LIBERAL MOB
• MSNBC: EU AMB. GORDON SONDLAND TESTIFIES TOMORROW MORNING / SONDLAND WILL FACE QUESTIONS ABOUT PREVIOUSLY. UNKNOWN CALL TO TRUMP FROM RESTAURANT IN UKRAINE
Following day 8:12 p.m.:
• CNN: SONDLAND TIES PRES. TRUMP, VP PENCE, SECY. OF STATE POMPEO. AND WH CHIEF OF STAFF MULVANEY TO PRESSURE CAMPAIGN / SONDLAND: “EVERYONE WAS IN THE LOOP” ON UKRAINE PRESSURE
• Fox News: “NO QUID PRO QUO”
Half an hour later, while CNN was still covering Sondland’s testimony, Fox News was discussing the Clinton Foundation.
At 10:54 p.m., here’s what the two networks were showing viewers.
• CNN: SONDLAND: ‘YES’ THERE WAS QUID PRO QUO. IN UKRAINE SCANDAL
• Fox News: SWALWELL CAUSES A STINK
That latter text referred to a viral video clip that appeared to have captured the sound of flatulence while Rep. Eric Swalwell (D-Calif.) was appearing on MSNBC the previous day.
On Thursday, similar divides were on display. At 9:53 p.m., here’s what each network showed — perhaps the most representative comparison of any.
• CNN: NO REPUBLICANS BUDGE AFTER ALL THE FACTS, EVIDENCE REVEALED IN 3O+ HOURS OF PUBLIC TESTIMONY / MEMBERS OF PRESIDENT’S PARTY CROSSED AISLE IN NIXON & CLINTON IMPEACHMENT PROCEEDINGS, BUT NOT NOW
• Fox News: FBI OFFICIAL UNDER INVESTIGATION FOR ALLEGEDLY ALTERING DOC RELATED TO PAGE SURVEILLANCE, CNN REPORTS
• MSNBC: NIXON PLEDGED TO FIGHT TO KEEP HIS PRESIDENCY / IMPEACHMENT HEARING WITNESSES WRAP UP WEEK OF EXPLOSIVE TESTIMONY
There’s a reason that Trump’s current press secretary has only given interviews to Fox News and not other broadcast or major cable networks. Why would Trump need a White House communications director when he has a generously friendly cable network that’s already popular with the people he wants to talk to anyway?
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@SpreadGuts Fact: Kudlow has been grossly wrong about every single economic event in the last 3 decades.
“Homebuilders led the stock parade this week with a fantastic 11 percent gain. This is a group that hedge funds and bubbleheads love to hate. All the bond bears have been dead wrong in predicting sky-high mortgage rates. So have all the bubbleheads who expect housing-price crashes in Las Vegas or Naples, Fla., to bring down the consumer, the rest of the economy and the entire stock market.” — June, 2005
“What’s even more incredible is Team Obama’s stubborn refusal to have any faith in the free market. In some of the hardest hit areas of the country, markets are already solving the housing problem.
If the government really wants to help, instead of bailing out irresponsible mortgage holders, it should support new and younger families who want to buy starter homes and begin to climb the ladder of prosperity.
All this is free-market economics 101. And I say, let free-markets work.” — February, 2009
“At home in the U.S., there are still housing-slump worries and concerns about an inventory correction in autos and factories. Former Federal Reserve Chairman Alan Greenspan this week even predicted a recession, naming the budget deficit as the cause. Huh? The deficit is evaporating as record tax revenues are being generated by a solid economy, itself a function of the low marginal tax rates put in place by President Bush.” — March, 2007
“Recessions are therapeutic. They cleanse excess from the economy. Think about excessive risk speculation, leverage, and housing. Recessions are curative: They restore balance and create the foundation for the next recovery. Despite the housing and credit problem and the sub-prime virus, banks are still lending to businesses. So we don’t have a genuine credit crunch across the board. That is very good.” — April, 2008
“There's no question that President Clinton's across-the-board tax increases on labor, capital and energy will throw a wet blanket over the recovery and depress the economy's long-run potential to grow.” — March, 1993
“And let’s not forget: The stock market, which is a leading indicator of the future economy, is in a wee bit of a correction. Given the recent rise of presidential candidate Donald Trump, we should all be thankful that stocks haven’t plunged. Trump’s agenda of trade protectionism, dollar devaluation, and immigrant deportation is completely anti-growth. It’s like Fortress America in an economy that is completely globalized and where the U.S. must compete in the worldwide race for capital and labor. Trump’s policies don’t fit.” — August, 2015
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@Jeff-kw8jj Mick Mulvaney
Acting White House chief of staff from Jan. 2, 2019, to Mar. 31, 2020, director of the Office of Management and Budget from Feb. 16, 2017, to Mar. 31, 2020, and a former congressman from South Carolina.
Jan. 7, 2021
“I will always be, ‘Oh, yeah, you worked for the guy who tried to overthrow the government.’”
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@TheKStone1
Please explain to me how making up conspiracy lies, refusing to concede, and bring bogus lawsuits - 53 out of 53 state lawsuits lost by Trump, and 2 out of 2 SCOTUS lawsuits - was considered desirable by our founding fathers? Biden trashed Treasonous Trump’s ass on Electoral Votes 306 - 232 and by 10,000,000 popular votes just for emphasis. If you combined 12 of our least populated states you would approach 10,000,000 voters. Just as Trump beat Hillary, Biden beat Trump. Man up, be a real patriotic American, put your guns away, and tell your local Walmart they are safe from you.
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Dan Alberto Raphael Akselrod
Silent Media:
For weeks, Fox News’s hosts downplayed the threat of the coronavirus, calling it a conspiracy by the Main Stream Media and Democrats to undermine President Trump.
Sean Hannity and Laura Ingraham accused the news media of whipping up “mass hysteria” and being “panic pushers.” Trish Regan called the Main Stream Media response “yet another attempt to impeach the president.”
But that was then.
Monday, Trump’s declared a national emergency, Faux News immediately has quickly shifted. Hannity, suddenly the lauded the president’s handling of the “crisis.”
“Tonight, we are witnessing what will be a massive paradigm shift in the future of disease control and prevention,” he said. “A bold, new precedent is being set, the world will once again benefit greatly from America’s leadership. . . . The federal government, state governments, private businesses, top hospitals all coming together, under the president’s leadership, to stem the tide of the coronavirus.”
In a complicated dance to mimic Trump, Faux news took the same stance as the president for several weeks — that this coronavirus was no worse a threat than the seasonal flu.
Just a week ago, Hannity shrugged at the pandemic. “So far in the United States, there’s been around 30 deaths, most of which came from one nursing home in the state of Washington,” he said, “Healthy people, generally, 99 percent recover very fast, even if they contract it.” He added: “Twenty-six people were shot in Chicago alone over the weekend. I doubt you heard about it. You notice there’s no widespread hysteria about violence in Chicago. And this has gone on for years and years. By the way, Democratic-run cities, we see a lot of that.”
Ingraham, also had to flip flop as social and economic dislocation of the virus took hold. This was more than just a Democratic talking point wielded against the president.
In February, Ingraham called Democrats the “pandemic party” and displayed photos of House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) and Senate Minority Leader Charles E. Schumer (D-N.Y.) alongside enlarged images of coronavirus molecules. “How sick that these people seem almost happiest when Americans are hurting,” she said.
She kept at it showing a graphic reading “Trump confronts the panic pushers,” Ingraham said, “The public in some ways seems a lot more levelheaded than the so-called experts. . . . The facts are actually pretty reassuring, but you’d never know it watching all this stuff.”
Ingraham even tweeted that it was a “great time to fly if not in at-risk population!” The tweet was later deleted.
After Trump announced a travel ban on people from the European Union, Ingraham started calling the pandemic “this dangerous health crisis.” She characterized warnings issued by National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases head Anthony S. Fauci about the potential spread of the disease as “sobering and scary to hear.”
Regan’s on-air speculation that coronavirus was merely another impeachment gambit for Democrats drew widespread pushback. Clearly Faux was starting to get the message. Faux announced that Trish Regan would leave the air indefinitely.
Tucker Carlson too, blamed the “corrupt” media. But in a monologue he indirectly scolded Trump, he also complained that “none of our leaders helped us to take it seriously. . . . People you trust, people you probably voted for, have spent weeks minimizing what is clearly a very serious problem. It’s just partisan politics, they say. ‘Calm down. In the end, this is just like the flu and people die from that every year. Coronavirus will pass, and when it does, we will feel foolish for worrying about it.’ That’s their position. . . . But they’re wrong.”
In comments downplaying the pandemic on March 7, Jeanine Pirro, offered “All the talk about coronavirus being so much more deadly [than the flu] doesn’t reflect reality.” She reiterated Trump’s comment that the infection rate will drop “as the weather warms.”
On the “Fox & Friends”, Liberty University President Jerry Falwell Jr. spun out a meandering tale advancing the baseless notion that the coronavirus was designed by North Korean and Chinese scientists to harm Americans. Nobody tried to correct him.
Then, Rep. Devin Nunes (R-Calif.) appeared on Fox News and urged Americans to “stop panicking” and for those who are healthy to “just go out.”
Said Nunes: “There’s a lot of concerns with the economy here because people are scared to go out. But I will just say one of the things you can do if you’re healthy, you and your family, it’s a great time to just go out, go to a local restaurant.”
Anchor Maria Bartiromo offered no response to Nunes’s comment. On Monday, a day later, Fox News contributor Nicole Saphier, a doctor, specifically called out the congressman on air to contradict his advice and told viewers to stay home.
This is a quick summation of how Faux news has become nothing more than a platform for Trumpian Propaganda.
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@dustinbarlow1623
The New York attorney general, Letitia James, said on Monday her investigation of Donald Trump’s business affairs would continue “undeterred”, despite Trump suing to stop it on grounds of political bias, “because no one is above the law, not even someone with the name Trump”.
Donald Trump<br>Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump drives himself to the golf course to watch the final round of the Cadillac Championship golf tournament, Sunday, March 6, 2016, in Doral, Fla. (AP Photo/Marta Lavandier)
How Trump’s $50m golf club became $1.4m when it came time to pay tax
Read more
The New York Times first reported Trump’s lawsuit, filed in federal court in Syracuse, New York. It alleges that James, a Democrat, “is guided solely by political animus and a desire to harass, intimidate and retaliate against a private citizen who she views as a political opponent”.
James is investigating whether the Trump Organization manipulated valuations of its real estate properties.
In one such instance, as Trump ran for president in 2016, the Guardian reported on differing valuations of a golf club outside New York City. The headline: How Trump’s $50m golf club became $1.4m when it came time to pay tax.
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Trump’s budget is a tremendous fraud.
Remember when he said he would eliminate the federal debt, or at least halve it, during his presidency? His new budget adds another $3.4 trillion by 2024 to the debt on top of the $3 trillion Trump has already added.
Remember when he repeatedly promised not to “touch” Social Security and Medicare? His budget calls for removing $550 billion dollars of funding from the Medicare program, including $135 billion from Medicare prescription drugs, and tens of billions from the Social Security program.
Remember when he promised not to touch Medicaid? Now he wants to cut it by $920 billion.
Remember when he was going to give Americans health care “much better” than Obamacare. But he has proposed no such thing and now his budget calls for cutting spending on the program by $844 billion.
Remember when he vowed that his tax cuts would grow the economy by 4 percent, 5 percent or even 6 percent? Last year it grew at 2.3 percent, and his new budget, even with the rosiest of assumptions, projects 2.8 percent for this year - in other words little changed from Obama’s growth rates. Yet the budget would also devote another $1.4 trillion to extending those tax cuts, primarily for the rich.
Treasonous Trump, Con Man Extraordinaire.
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DRAIN THE SWAMP
Trump’s company has received at least $970,000 from U.S. taxpayers for room rentals.
The U.S. government has paid at least $970,000 to President Trump’s company since Trump took office — including payments for more than 1,600 nightly room rentals at Trump’s hotels and clubs, according to federal records obtained.
Since March, The Post has catalogued an additional $340,000 in such payments. They were all related to trips taken by Trump, his family and his top officials. The government is known to have paid full price for rooms for staffers and Secret Service agents to accompany the president.
The payments create an unprecedented business relationship between the president’s private company and his government — which began in the first month of Trump’s presidency records show.
The records show that taxpayers have now paid for the equivalent of more than four years’ worth of nightly rentals at Trump properties, including 950 nights at Trump’s golf club in Bedminster, N.J., and 530 nights at the president’s Mar-a-Lago Club in Florida, according to analysis.
Who needs a pay check when you can get nearly a Billion Dollars in guaranteed business from the government - DRAIN THE SWAMP!
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@nonahomoerectus he Budapest Memorandum on Security Assurances comprises three substantially identical political agreements signed at the OSCE conference in Budapest, Hungary, on 5 December 1994, to provide security assurances by its signatories relating to the accession of Belarus, Kazakhstan and Ukraine to the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons (NPT). The three memoranda were originally signed by three nuclear powers: the Russian Federation, the United Kingdom and the United States.[1] China and France gave somewhat weaker individual assurances in separate documents.[2]
The memoranda, signed in Patria Hall at the Budapest Convention Center with US Ambassador Donald M. Blinken amongst others in attendance,[3] prohibited the Russian Federation, the United Kingdom and the United States from threatening or using military force or economic coercion against Ukraine, Belarus, and Kazakhstan, "except in self-defence or otherwise in accordance with the Charter of the United Nations." As a result of other agreements and the memorandum, between 1993 and 1996, Belarus, Kazakhstan and Ukraine gave up their nuclear weapons.[4][5]
RUSSIA CANT KEEP ITS WORD… BUT WE ALREADY KNEW THAT.
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WHEN GOOD PEOPLE DON’T ACT, EVIL REIGNS:
How did the trans-Atlantic slave trade play out over hundreds of years?
How did slavery thrive in this country?
How was the Holocaust allowed to happen?
How did the genocides in Rwanda or Darfur come to be?
It turns out that our current era is providing the unsettling answer: It was easy. As Edmund Burke said: “The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.” If you don’t complain, you condone.
Gather the energy. Gather your neighbor. Fight, vote, email, post. Do all you can to stand up for the vulnerable, for the oppressed, for our Constitution, and for our Democratic Values. Don’t let history record this moment as it has recorded too many others: a time when good people did too little to confront the wickedness and disaster of Trumpian Neo Nazism. In November America has a clear choice, do nothing to confront Trumpian Evil, or vote to sweep the Evil out of office and began the long painful process of Restoring Our Democracy and Democratic Institutions.
As Edmund Burke wrote: “When bad men combine, the good must associate; else they will fall, one by one, an unpitied sacrifice in a contemptible struggle.”
But you may be more familiar with another quote often attributed to Burke: “The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.”
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Litmus test. How to know if your president is a potential Authoritarian Threat (Dictator) to Democracy:
1. Rejection of (or weak commitment to) democratic rules or norms.
Examples.
Q. Do they reject the Constitution or express a willingness to violate it?
Q. Do they suggest a need for anti democratic measures banning certain organizations, or restricting basic civil or political rights?
Q. Do they attempt to undermine the legitimacy of elections, for example, by claiming unverifiable mass voter fraud.
2. Denial of the legitimacy of political opponents.
Examples.
Q. Do they describe their rivals as subversive, or opposed to your presidential powers.
Q. Do they claim that their rivals constitute a threat, either to the country or the prevailing way of life. Such as calling opponents socialists or communists?
Q. Do they baselessly describe their partisan rivals as criminals, whose supposed violations disqualifies them from full participation in the political arena.
Q. Do they baselessly suggest that their rivals are secretly working in alliance against you?
3. Toleration or encouragement of violence.
Examples.
Q. Do they have any ties to armed militias, paramilitary forces, white supremacy groups, etc?
Q. Have they encouraged, or suggested, mob attacks on opponents?
Q. Have they tacitly endorsed violence by their supporters by refusing to unambiguously condemning it?
Q. Have they praised (or refused to condemn) politically violent state actors in the past or currently?
4. Readiness to curtail civil liberties or voting rights of opponents, including the media?
Q. Have they supported laws or policies that restrict civil liberties, such as expanding defamation laws, or laws restricting protests, criticism of the government, or certain civic or political organizations?
Q. Have they threatened to take legal or other punitive action against critics in rival parties, civil society, or the media?
Q. Have they praised repressive leaders or actions taken by repressive leaders?
If the answer is yes to even on of the above questions then you have a wanna be Dictator on your hands.
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Like “everyone is saying” Treasonous Trump took the Art of Corruption and Perfected it. They said “Sir you are so perfect... the best... no one can do it better... you no longer have to hide your corruption”... “there right”... “I can do anything... just say Get Over It”. “I work with Russian Spies, help my BFF Putin, do Quid Pro Quo, Self Dealing, Emoluments - ah emoluments, Immorality - only the best, and Selling Out the Kurds... just say Get Over It”. “But I could not be me, only me, the best me, the perfect me, as long as Faux stays loyal.”
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Tom Perkins
We share age, education, and experience - Masters in Finance. I voted Republican all my life until Treasonous Trump came along - granted I by then I had serious concerns about trickle down economics and Bush’s War on WMDs. However, for me GOP was becoming too fanatical, driven by a touch of crazy, and a large dose of immorality for my taste. As for Treasonous (a synonym fo betrayal) no one seeks help from, receives help from, or try’s to justify any of the before from the Russian GRU and not fall from grace in my eyes. To add insult to injury he said in his own words that what he did with the Russians was perfect and he would do it again. As a military officer such associations would have rightly terminated my career with extreme prejudice - and rightly so. Source of Trump’s Collusion, Cooperation, Tango Dancing, Betrayal, or what ever word you care to call it. Vol I Mueller Report pages 1 - 198.
I have always had concerns about both parties but Treasonous Trump is a totally new animal, unrestrained by knowledge, ideology, norms, or morality. If you read history he demonstrates many the characteristics of a petty would be Dictator. As a Polly Sci major surely you studied Hitler’s rise to power in the 30s, or Francisco Franco, or Benito Mussolini. Not everything these dictators did was bad for the electorate but on the whole their rule was devastating.
Note: Yes I am aware that these Dictators showed a pension for violence and brute force early on in their careers but TT has hinted a time or two that he would love to unleash the faithful with their guns - puffery or wishful thinking?
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TRUMP CLAIMS HEALTH-CARE PLAN READY
But None of his advisors know what he is talking about.
The Plan is so secret that the people responsible for the plan don’t even know they’re involved. The GOP has promised (and failed) to repeal and replace Obamacare for more than a decade. Trump began claiming he had a replacement plan back in 2015. He announced his plan would swap out the Affordable Care Act for “something terrific,” details TBD.
Over subsequent months and years, Trump boasted about the benefits of his plan. It would be cheaper, more generous, and better than Obamacare. It would be “so easy,” even though “nobody knew health care could be so complicated.” It would “take care of everybody”. This plan was always only “two weeks” away — just like proof wiretapping, the “amazing infrastructure plan”, and Melania Trump’s immigration history.
Finally, five years later, an announcement came this week: it exists, its alive! “I have it all ready,” Trump said at a town hall Tuesday, “and it’s a much better plan for you, and it’s a much better plan.”
Alas, Trump remains unable to share this “much better plan” with the public and no one in his administration knows anything about the “plan”.
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“There’s Nothing Left, I no longer recognize my party”
Why Hundreds of Thousands of Republicans Are Leaving the Party
Voting registration data indicates a strong and unusual flight from the G.O.P. since the Capitol riot, with an intensely fluid period in American politics now underway.
In the days and weeks after the storming of the Capitol by Trump supporters on Jan. 6, hundreds of thousands of Republicans left the party. After the Jan. 6 attack on the Capitol, the phone lines and websites of local election officials across the country were jumping: Tens of thousands of Republicans were calling or logging on to switch their party affiliations.
In California, more than 33,000 registered Republicans left the party during the three weeks after the Washington riot. In Pennsylvania, more than 12,000 voters left the G.O.P. in the past month, and more than 10,000 Republicans changed their registration in Arizona.
An analysis of January voting records found that nearly 140,000 Republicans had quit the party in 25 states that had readily available data (19 states do not have registration by party). Voting experts say this is the start of a particularly damaging period for G.O.P. registrations as voters recoil from the Capitol violence and its fallout.
Among those who recently left the party are Juan Nunez, 56, an Army veteran in Mechanicsburg, Pa. He said he had long felt that the difference between the United States and many other countries was that campaign-season fighting ended on Election Day, when all sides would peacefully accept the result. The Jan. 6 riot changed that, he said.
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Jeffery Rightmire
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Trump has made a lot of promises about actions to fight the coronavirus pandemic.Most of them have been half truths or embellishments.
For example:
Naval hospital ships
Trump announced Wed. that the Navy would dispatch its two hospital ships, the USNS Comfort and the USNS Mercy, to help treat patients and free up land-based hospitals for coronavirus patients.
"So those two ships are prepared to go, and they can be launched over the next week or so," Trump said, calling the ships in "tip-top shape."
Well, not so much.
The Navy said that the Comfort was actually undergoing repairs in Norfolk, Va., and it would be weeks before it could sail.
FDA drug approval
On Thur. Trump touted that the Food and Drug Administration had "approved" use of an anti-malaria drug called chloroquine to treat patients afflicted with the coronavirus. He had a “hunch” that this was the cure.
"We're going to be able to make that drug available almost immediately," Trump said, calling it "a tremendous breakthrough" and a potential "game-changer."
But FDA commissioner Stephen Hahn immediately tried to tamp down Trump's enthusiasm, saying that "a large, pragmatic clinical trial" would be needed first to determine the drug's usefulness before making it available to coronavirus patients.
Hahn said he couldn't "speculate about a timeline" for the drug's availability.
Trump's enthusiasm for hydroxychloroquine spilled into another press conference on Friday, when he again described it as a potential wonder drug.
And again, a public health official — this time, Dr. Anthony Fauci, a top immunologist on the White House's response team — tried to rein in the optimism by echoing the need for clinical proof that it would make a difference.
On Thursday, Trump said another drug, Remdesivir, had "also been approved, or very close to approved" by the FDA for treating patients coronavirus. In fact, that drug is undergoing a clinical trial and is months away from being ready for use.
The website
Last Friday, Trump said at a Rose Garden news conference that Google has 1,700 engineers developing a new website that would help Americans determine whether they should seek testing for the coronavirus.
The president sought to cast his own project as a triumph compared with the initial failure of President Barack Obama to roll out a website as part of the changes to the health care market enacted in 2009.
"Google is helping to develop a website," Trump said. "It's going to be very quickly done — unlike websites of the past — to determine whether a test is warranted and to facilitate testing at a nearby convenient location."
Within hours, Google attempted to clarify the president's comments. It said an affiliated company, Verily, was working on the project but on a limited scale only for people in the San Francisco area.
"Verily is in the early stages of development," Google said, "and planning to roll testing out in the Bay Area, with the hope of expanding more broadly over time."
Unfortunately, there are insufficient tests available to test anyone.
Medical supplies
On Wednesday, Trump met with a group of nurses at the White House, telling them that the administration had arranged for a major new supply of the type of respirator in high demand during the pandemic.
"We've ordered 500 million N95 masks to drive private production," Trump said. He also said that construction companies were being asked to donate unused masks. The next day at a briefing, Vice President Pence stated: "We've vastly increased the supply of medical masks."
But hospitals continue to report that they are running short of masks, as are pharmacists.
Loose-fitting surgical masks aren't appropriate for dealing with the pandemic authorities say; the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention released a graphic detailing the important differences between a surgical mask and an N95 respirator.
Testing
One of the most frequent exaggerations coming from Trump is the availability of coronavirus tests.
When he visited the CDC in Atlanta earlier this month, Trump claimed that "They have the tests. And the tests are beautiful. Anybody that needs a test gets a test."
Pence made a similar claim last week, saying that "a million tests are in the field" and that "by the end of this week, another 4 million tests will be distributed."
Americans who feel sick still can’t get tested. Fauci acknowledged that there clearly is a gap between the supply and the demand.
Trump and Pence say they don't want every American — particularly those who are feeling well — to be tested. Yet people who are not critically sick are being sent home without testing. They are told to “assume they have covid-19” and come back only if there condition worsens. Not knowing if you have the virus dose not help contain the virus.
In summary, Trump just needs to shut up and let the experts talk.
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@gregmullins9278 NBC News: A professional referee says that disgraced doctor Richard Strauss masturbated in front of him in a shower after a wrestling match at Ohio State University, and that he reported the encounter directly to Rep. Jim Jordan, R-Ohio, who was then the assistant coach.
“Yeah, that’s Strauss,” Jordan and then-head coach Russ Hellickson replied, according to the lawsuit, when the referee, identified in court papers as John Doe 42, told them about the incident. The lawsuit, filed in federal court in Ohio, implies that Jordan's response to the incident, which the referee said happened in 1994, was essentially a shrug.
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natalie garavagno
I need to make a correction for the both of us, the name is Richard Spencer not Richardson.
With that said, please read the following about what Richard Spencer said:
White nationalist Richard Spencer reiterated his support for Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden Tuesday, days after a spokesman for the Biden campaign rejected Spencer's endorsement.
Replying to a tweet Tuesday morning, Spencer wrote that he recognized how "ineffective, useless, and traitorous the GOP is," reaffirming his decision to vote for Biden in the November election.
Spencer, one of they key figureheads of the alt-right movement, initially voiced his plan to vote for Biden Sunday, tweeting the following day that "Liberals are clearly more competent." The messaging appeared to be a stark change in thinking for Spencer, who voted for President Donald Trump in 2016.
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WHEN GOOD PEOPLE DON’T ACT, EVIL REIGNS:
How did the trans-Atlantic slave trade play out over hundreds of years?
How did slavery thrive in this country?
How was the Holocaust allowed to happen?
How did the genocides in Rwanda or Darfur come to be?
It turns out that our current era is providing the unsettling answer: It was easy. As Edmund Burke said: “The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.” If you don’t complain, you condone.
Gather the energy. Gather your neighbor. Fight, vote, email, post. Do all you can to stand up for the vulnerable, for the oppressed, for our Constitution, and for our Democratic Values. Don’t let history record this moment as it has recorded too many others: a time when good people did too little to confront the wickedness and disaster of Trumpian Neo Nazism. In November America has a clear choice, do nothing to confront Trumpian Evil, or vote to sweep the Evil out of office and began the long painful process of Restoring Our Democracy and Democratic Institutions.
As Edmund Burke wrote: “When bad men combine, the good must associate; else they will fall, one by one, an unpitied sacrifice in a contemptible struggle.”
But you may be more familiar with another quote often attributed to Burke: “The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.”
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Barbara Powell
Why I oppose TT and believe he is a danger to American Democracy:
He has pressured a foreign leader to interfere in the 2020 American presidential election.
He urged a foreign country to intervene in the 2016 presidential election.
He divulged classified information to foreign officials.
He publicly undermined American intelligence agents while standing next to a hostile foreign autocrat.
He hired a national security adviser who he knew had secretly worked as a foreign lobbyist.
He encourages foreign leaders to enrich him and his family by staying at his hotels.
He genuflects to murderous dictators.
He has alienated America’s closest allies.
He lied to the American people about his company’s business dealings in Russia.
He tells new lies virtually every week — about the economy, voter fraud, even the weather.
He spends hours on end watching television and days on end staying at resorts.
He often declines to read briefing books or perform other basic functions of a president’s job.
He has aides, as well as members of his own party in Congress, who mock him behind his back as unfit for office.
He has repeatedly denigrated a deceased United States senator who was a war hero.
He insulted a Gold Star family — the survivors of American troops killed in action.
He described a former first lady, not long after she died, as “nasty.”
He described white supremacists as “some very fine people.”
He told four women of color, all citizens and members of Congress, to “go back and help fix the totally broken and crime-infested places from which they came.”
He made a joke about Pocahontas during a ceremony honoring Native American World War II veterans.
He launched his political career by falsely claiming that the first black president was not really American.
He launched his presidential campaign by describing Mexicans as “rapists.”
He has described women, variously, as “a dog,” “a pig” and “horseface,” as well as “bleeding badly from a facelift” and having “blood coming out of her wherever.”
He has been accused of sexual assault or misconduct by multiple women.
He enthusiastically campaigned for a Senate candidate who was accused of molesting multiple teenage girls.
He waved around his arms, while giving a speech, to ridicule a physically disabled person.
He has encouraged his supporters to commit violence against his political opponents.
He has called for his opponents and critics to be investigated and jailed.
He uses a phrase popular with dictators — “the enemy of the people” — to describe journalists.
He attempts to undermine any independent source of information that he does not like, including judges, scientists, journalists, election officials, the F.B.I., the C.I.A., the Congressional Budget Office and the National Weather Service.
He has tried to harass the chairman of the Federal Reserve into lowering interest rates.
He said that a judge could not be objective because of his Mexican heritage.
He obstructed justice by trying to influence an investigation into his presidential campaign.
He violated federal law by directing his lawyer to pay $280,000 in hush money to cover up two apparent extramarital affairs.
He made his fortune partly through wide-scale financial fraud.
He has refused to release his tax returns.
He falsely accused his predecessor of wiretapping him.
He claimed that federal law-enforcement agents and prosecutors regularly fabricated evidence, thereby damaging the credibility of criminal investigations across the country.
He has ordered children to be physically separated from their parents.
He has suggested that America is no different from or better than Vladimir Putin’s Russia.
He is the president of the United States, and he is a threat to virtually everything that the United States should stand for.
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For Me To Poop On
WASHINGTON — It was supposed to be an exclusive party at Mar-a-Lago, Donald J. Trump’s members-only club in Palm Beach, Fla. But other than the two dozen or so women flown in to provide the entertainment, the only guests were Mr. Trump and Jeffrey Epstein.
The year was 1992 and the event was a “calendar girl” competition, something that George Houraney, a Florida-based businessman who ran American Dream Enterprise, had organized at Mr. Trump’s request.
“I arranged to have some contestants fly in,” Mr. Houraney recalled in an interview on Monday. “At the very first party, I said, ‘Who’s coming tonight? I have 28 girls coming.’ It was him and Epstein.”
Mr. Houraney, who had just partnered with Mr. Trump to host events at his casinos, said he was surprised. “I said, ‘Donald, this is supposed to be a party with V.I.P.s. You’re telling me it’s you and Epstein?’”
“I’ve known Jeff for 15 years. Terrific guy,” Mr. Trump told New York magazine in 2002. “He’s a lot of fun to be with. It is even said that he likes beautiful women as much as I do, and many of them are on the younger side.”
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@billjackling3422 The “Jenius” Of DJT ~ “So, supposing we hit the body with a tremendous — whether it’s ultraviolet or just very powerful light — and I think you said that that hasn’t been checked, but you’re going to test it. And then I said, supposing you brought the light inside the body, which you can do either through the skin or in some other way, and I think you said you’re going to test that, too. It sounds interesting. And then I see the disinfectant, where it knocks it out in a minute. One minute. And is there a way we can do something like that, by injection inside or almost a cleaning. Because you see it gets in the lungs, and it does a tremendous number on the lungs. So it would be interesting to check that, maybe check that out”. 😂😂😂
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TT: I’m the one - meaning it was me... others helped, including the Kurds... but it was me, me who did it. Everyone should thank me for defeating ISIS - no one could have done it better... people say it was perfect. Some people say Sir... you know they call me sir... I like sir... Sir thank you for single handedly defeating ISIS... most people don’t know this but it was me. We used bombs... big bombs... the best bombs... biggest in history... no one has used bombs like I used bombs. The Kurds, the Kurds... did you know the Kurds didn’t help us in WWII. Most people don’t know that... the Kurds didn’t help us in WWII. Didn’t help us... no planes, no tanks, zip, zero, nothing, nothing at all...people should be thanking me, it was me...that captured ISIS... Obama, Obama, made a mess of it... didn’t capture any ISIS... I did... but the fake news says nothing... I get nothing... ah who cares... I should get the Noble Peace Prize... but it isn’t. And I was told and you were told, and everybody told it would be years before you ever did what I did in about a month and a half after I started. I went over to Iraq, I met with our generals, and we figured out a plan, and it was done within a month and a half. I’m the one that did the capturing. I’m the one that knows more about it than you people or the — or the fake pundits.
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Eastman admitted to Jacob that Trump’s Electors Coup would lose on the merits in the Supreme Court: “When I pressed him on the point, I said ‘John, if the vice president did what you were asking him to do, we would lose 9-0 in the Supreme Court, wouldn’t we?’ And he initially started at, ‘Well, I think maybe you would lose only 7-2,' and after some further discussion, acknowledged, ‘Well, yeah, you’re right, we would lose 9-0.’ ... [He] ultimately acknowledged that, no, we would lose 9-0 — no judge would support his argument.”
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Republicans are blaming renewable energy, when it’s the state’s powerful deregulated utilities that failed to prepare for the worst.Texans are also furious about how their state’s ruinous laissez-faire governance led to a cascade of human-caused disasters of epic. In general, there’s a natural gas storage problem in Texas. Utility companies didn’t bother to have gas reserves: It’s easier, cheaper and more profitable to tap the gas in the field with a pipeline.
After a cold snap in 2011, the power companies were supposed to better winterize their plants. Ten years later, they hadn’t done it. It’s hard to believe they couldn’t afford it: Oncor, the giant power utility serving Dallas, reported $651 million in net income in 2019.
As the cold froze Oklahoma and sent temperatures in Dallas to lows not seen in over a century, the natural gas industry were unable to deliver more gas even if it was purchased. Wellheads in the Permian Basin froze solid. Pipelines leaked water, which, in turn, turned metal and gas into useless, immovable ice.
The crisis dates back to the 1930s, when the Federal Power Commission gained the authority to regulate interstate transmission of electric power. But politicians in Texas didn’t want Washington regulating the electricity business and chipping away at those hefty profits.
So the business went entirely unregulated until the formation of the Electric Reliability Council of Texas (ERCOT) in the 1970s. But ERCOT has been anything but reliable. While it is technically overseen by the state, its board is really just an industry club. Several of its members don’t even live in Texas.
After taking a beating on Twitter, Mr. Abbott tried to blame the renewable energy industry, a talking point that caught fire among conservatives. Renewables like wind and solar can contribute up to 20 percent of the Texas power grid, but just 7 percent of the winter grid, with 80 percent coming from natural gas, coal and a bit of nuclear power. While some wind turbines in Texas froze, many of them kept turning.
Yet another example of Fakenews- media spewing Propaganda.
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CalvinSomething
What you posted was partially truthful but mostly a lie. While right-wingers love to role that little factoid out, they omit the second half of that sentence. The full sentence is: While America has high corporate tax rate (Some countries in the Western World are lower such as Ireland), our EFFECTIVE Corporate tax rate is amount the lowest in the Western Industrialized Countries. How can both sentences have been true. Enter the good ole special interest tax breaks, tax loopholes, corporate shell companies, etc. The sad part about Trump’s Tax Cut is that it eliminated zero corporate deductions, loopholes, carried interest, etc. So now you have the phenomenon of very profitable corporations paying zero, zero, zero taxes. Think about that for awhile - was this an accidental oversight?
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@ioswd1
Donald Trump and Jeffrey Epstein partied together. Then an oceanfront Palm Beach mansion came between them.
For the better part of two decades starting in the late 1980s, Jeffrey Epstein and Donald Trump swam in the same social pool. They were neighbors in Florida. They jetted from LaGuardia to Palm Beach together. They partied at Trump’s Mar-a-Lago Club and dined at Epstein’s Manhattan mansion.
And then, in 2004, they were suddenly rivals, each angling to snag a choice Palm Beach property, an oceanfront manse called Maison de l’Amitie — the House of Friendship — that was being sold out of bankruptcy.
Before the auction, Epstein and Trump each tried to work the ref; the trustee in the case, Joseph Luzinski, recalls being lobbied by both camps.
“It was something like, Donald saying, ‘You don’t want to do a deal with him, he doesn’t have the money,’ while Epstein was saying: ‘Donald is all talk. He doesn’t have the money,’ ” Luzinski said. “They both really wanted it.”
Epstein got the property.
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Frankie Shaw
jared neel
I don’t understand why you like this man. He is totally corrupt, grossly immoral. He may have a few policies worth praising but on the whole he is devastating American Democracy and it’s Institutions - much like a petty Dictator. But sometimes our love or hate for people cloud our minds. If you think for one second Mitch McConnell, Lyndsey Graham, Jim Jordan, Matte Gaetz, Kennedy, or any other Republican is honest on anything, then America is without hope. Nancy Pelosi, like me, prays every night for Trump. I don’t know what her prayers say but mine go like this: “Please God help Trump find you and realize what it means to be a Christian. May he learn to be a leader for all and turn away from his darker instincts.” If you do stupid understand my prayer and concerns then you are past being able to have a logical conversation. If any past Democrat President or Republican President had conducted themselves like Trump they would have been impeached and tossed in jail. It makes me sick that Trump has so little regard for his Office, America’s Constitution, and Rule of Law. As I was told in the military “your rank provides you with initial respect because of those who have served before you, but your actions earn that respect going forward”. So on that , have a good day.
May God Preserve America
🇺🇸🗽🇺🇸
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Knightwolf FPV
You are on the wrong side of history. The wrong side of truth, and the wrong side of morality.
On another note Hillary was wrong, and perhaps criminal, with her server, but is a saint compared to Treasonous Trump taking help from Russian Spies, Money Laundering for Russian Oligarchs, lying over 16,214 times, etc, etc, etc. Treasonous Trump has had two Bengazies in Africa in 3 years.
I find it ironic your outrage with Hilary but your double standard with Treasonous Trump.
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B K
On Fox News, suddenly a very different tune about the coronavirus.
For weeks, some of Fox News’s hosts downplayed the threat of the coronavirus, characterizing it as a conspiracy by media organizations and Democrats to undermine President Trump.
Sean Hannity and Laura Ingraham accused the news media of whipping up “mass hysteria” and being “panic pushers.” Trish Regan called the Main Stream Media response “yet another attempt to impeach the president.”
But that was then.
When Trump’s declared a national emergency, the tone on Fox News has quickly shifted. Hannity, suddenly the lauded the president’s handling of what the host is now, belatedly, referring to as a “crisis.”
“Tonight, we are witnessing what will be a massive paradigm shift in the future of disease control and prevention,” he said. “A bold, new precedent is being set, the world will once again benefit greatly from America’s leadership. . . . The federal government, state governments, private businesses, top hospitals all coming together, under the president’s leadership, to stem the tide of the coronavirus.”
In a complicated dance to mirror the president, Trump’s allies on Fox News took the same stance as the president for several weeks — that this coronavirus that had sickened and killed thousands of people in China was no worse a threat than the seasonal flu.
Just a week ago, Hannity shrugged at the pandemic. “So far in the United States, there’s been around 30 deaths, most of which came from one nursing home in the state of Washington,” he said, “Healthy people, generally, 99 percent recover very fast, even if they contract it.”
By way of comparison, he added: “Twenty-six people were shot in Chicago alone over the weekend. I doubt you heard about it. You notice there’s no widespread hysteria about violence in Chicago. And this has gone on for years and years. By the way, Democratic-run cities, we see a lot of that.”
Ingraham, also had a fast-dawning recognition that the social and economic dislocation of the virus was more than just a Democratic talking point wielded against the president.
In late February, Ingraham called Democrats the “pandemic party” and displayed photos of House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) and Senate Minority Leader Charles E. Schumer (D-N.Y.) alongside enlarged images of coronavirus molecules. “How sick that these people seem almost happiest when Americans are hurting,” she said.
She kept at it through last Tuesday when, in front of a graphic reading “Trump confronts the panic pushers,” Ingraham said, “The public in some ways seems a lot more levelheaded than the so-called experts. . . . The facts are actually pretty reassuring, but you’d never know it watching all this stuff.”
On Friday, Ingraham tweeted that it was a “great time to fly if not in at-risk population!” The tweet was later deleted.
By Wednesday, after Trump announced a travel ban on people from the European Union, Ingraham had started calling the pandemic “this dangerous health crisis.” She characterized warnings issued by National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases head Anthony S. Fauci about the potential spread of the disease as “sobering and scary to hear.”
Regan’s on-air speculation at the start of last week that coronavirus was merely another impeachment gambit for Democrats drew widespread pushback. Clearly the mood was changing at Fox by the time the network announced late Friday that her discussion-and-commentary program on Fox Business would leave the air indefinitely.
Tucker Carlson too, blamed the “corrupt” media. But in a monologue that many took at an indirect scolding of the president, he also complained that “none of our leaders helped us to take it seriously. . . . People you trust, people you probably voted for, have spent weeks minimizing what is clearly a very serious problem. It’s just partisan politics, they say. ‘Calm down. In the end, this is just like the flu and people die from that every year. Coronavirus will pass, and when it does, we will feel foolish for worrying about it.’ That’s their position. . . . But they’re wrong.”
Days earlier, Carlson attended the birthday party of former Fox News host Kimberly Guilfoyle, who is dating Donald Trump Jr.
In comments downplaying the pandemic on March 7, Jeanine Pirro, offered “All the talk about coronavirus being so much more deadly [than the flu] doesn’t reflect reality.” She reiterated Trump’s comment that the infection rate will drop “as the weather warms.”
On the “Fox & Friends” program Friday, Liberty University President Jerry Falwell Jr. spun out a meandering tale advancing the baseless notion that the coronavirus was designed by North Korean and Chinese scientists to harm Americans.
The program’s three co-hosts offered no objections. Host Steve Doocy moved on to asking Falwell about Liberty’s plans to cancel classes.
Then on Sunday, Rep. Devin Nunes (R-Calif.) appeared on Fox News and urged Americans to “stop panicking” and for those who are healthy to “just go out.”
Said Nunes: “There’s a lot of concerns with the economy here because people are scared to go out. But I will just say one of the things you can do if you’re healthy, you and your family, it’s a great time to just go out, go to a local restaurant.”
Anchor Maria Bartiromo offered no response to Nunes’s comment. On Monday, a day later, Fox News contributor Nicole Saphier, a doctor, specifically called out the congressman on air to contradict his advice and told viewers to stay home.
This is a quick summation of how Faux news has become nothing more than a platform for Trumpian Propaganda.
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Bill Lombard
It’s hard to give an Intelligence Briefing to a Moron when you are limited to 1 page, pictures, and a single crayon. During briefings the president constantly veers off on tangents. He has a short attention span and rarely, if ever, reads intelligence reports, relying instead on conservative media and his friends for information. He frequently interrupts Intell Officers and will riff based on tips or gossip he hears from the former casino magnate Steve Wynn, the retired golfer Gary Player or Christopher Ruddy, the conservative media executive.
Mr. Trump rarely absorbs information that he disagrees with or that runs counter to his worldview. Briefing him has been so great a challenge compared with his predecessors that the intelligence agencies have hired outside consultants to study how better to get his attention and keep it during briefings.
Working to keep Mr. Trump’s interest exhausted and burned out his first briefer, Ted Gistaro, two former officials said. Mr. Gistaro did not always know what to expect and would sometimes have to brief an erratic and angry president upset over news reports, the officials said
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@ValsWorldRocks1 VP Harris pulled a Trumpian Bonner. DJT: “We’ve just fired 59 missiles, all of which hit by the way, unbelievable, from hundreds of miles away, it’s brilliant it’s genius, what we have in terms of technology no one can come close to competing. So I said, we’ve just launched 59 missiles, heading to Iraq.
“Heading to Syria?” The Faux host interjects, you mean Syria.
“Oh, oh ya, I mean Syria.” Trump said.
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holoholo haole no ka oi
dad bear
William H. McRaven, a retired Navy admiral, was commander of the U.S. Joint Special Operations Command from 2011 to 2014. He oversaw the 2011 Navy SEAL raid in Pakistan that killed al-Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden. He writes:
Dear Mr. President:
Former CIA director John Brennan, whose security clearance you revoked on Wednesday, is one of the finest public servants I have ever known. Few Americans have done more to protect this country than John. He is a man of unparalleled integrity, whose honesty and character have never been in question, except by those who don’t know him.
Therefore, I would consider it an honor if you would revoke my security clearance as well, so I can add my name to the list of men and women who have spoken up against your presidency.
Like most Americans, I had hoped that when you became president, you would rise to the occasion and become the leader this great nation needs.
A good leader tries to embody the best qualities of his or her organization. A good leader sets the example for others to follow. A good leader always puts the welfare of others before himself or herself.
Your leadership, however, has shown little of these qualities. Through your actions, you have embarrassed us in the eyes of our children, humiliated us on the world stage and, worst of all, divided us as a nation.
If you think for a moment that your McCarthy-era tactics will suppress the voices of criticism, you are sadly mistaken. The criticism will continue until you become the leader we prayed you would be.
NEED WE SAY MORE THAN THIS AMERICAN HERO? STAND UP AND BE COUNTED. VOTE THIS WOULD BE PETTY DICTATOR OUT OF OFFICE.
🇺🇸🗽🇺🇸
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@GunsDontKillSSRIDoes
Eastman admitted to Jacob that Trump’s Electors Coup would lose on the merits in the Supreme Court: “When I pressed him on the point, I said ‘John, if the vice president did what you were asking him to do, we would lose 9-0 in the Supreme Court, wouldn’t we?’ And he initially started at, ‘Well, I think maybe you would lose only 7-2,' and after some further discussion, acknowledged, ‘Well, yeah, you’re right, we would lose 9-0.’ ... [He] ultimately acknowledged that, no, we would lose 9-0 — no judge would support his argument.”
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Trump’s budget is a tremendous fraud.
Remember when he said he would eliminate the federal debt, or at least halve it, during his presidency? His new budget adds another $3.4 trillion by 2024 to the debt on top of the $3 trillion Trump has already added.
Remember when he repeatedly promised not to “touch” Social Security and Medicare? His budget calls for removing $550 billion dollars of funding from the Medicare program, including $135 billion from Medicare prescription drugs, and tens of billions from the Social Security program.
Remember when he promised not to touch Medicaid? Now he wants to cut it by $920 billion.
Remember when he was going to give Americans health care “much better” than Obamacare. But he has proposed no such thing and now his budget calls for cutting spending on the program by $844 billion.
Remember when he vowed that his tax cuts would grow the economy by 4 percent, 5 percent or even 6 percent? Last year it grew at 2.3 percent, and his new budget, even with the rosiest of assumptions, projects 2.8 percent for this year - in other words little changed from Obama’s growth rates. Yet the budget would also devote another $1.4 trillion to extending those tax cuts, primarily for the rich.
Treasonous Trump, Con Man Extraordinaire.
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Reagan Hutchins
Second Response
Despite all the information provided by our own CIA, FBI, NSA, DIA, and Pentagon saying that the Russian GRU conducted a massive Hacking and Disinformation Campaign against TT’s opponents and supportive of TT, TT said the following at Helsinki:
REPORTER (Jonathan Lemire from AP): Thank you. A question for each president. President Trump, you first. Just now President Putin denied having anything to do with the election interference in 2016. Every US intelligence agency has concluded that Russia did.
My first question for you, sir, is who do you believe? My second question is would you now with the whole world watching tell President Putin — would you denounce what happened in 2016 and would you warn him to never do it again?
TRUMP: So let me just say that we have two thoughts. You have groups that are wondering why the FBI never took the server. Why haven’t they taken the server? Why was the FBI told to leave the office of the democratic national committee? I’ve been wondering that. I’ve been asking that for months and months and I’ve been tweeting it out and calling it out on social media. Where is the server? I want to know, where is the server and what is the server saying? With that being said, all I can do is ask the question. My people came to me, Dan Coats came to me and some others and said they think it’s Russia.
I have President Putin. He just said it’s not Russia. I will say this. I don’t see any reason why it would be, but I really do want to see the server. But I have confidence in both parties. I really believe that this will probably go on for a while, but I don’t think it can go on without finding out what happened to the server. What happened to the servers of the Pakistani gentleman that worked on the DNC? Where are those servers? They’re missing. Where are they? What happened to Hillary Clinton’s emails? 33,000 emails gone — just gone. I think in Russia they wouldn’t be gone so easily. I think it’s a disgrace that we can’t get Hillary Clinton’s 33,000 emails. So I have great confidence in my intelligence people, but I will tell you that president Putin was extremely strong and powerful in his denial today. And what he did is an incredible offer. He offered to have the people working on the case come and work with their investigators, with respect to the 12 people. I think that’s an incredible offer. Okay thank you.
TT is once again repeating Russian GRU propaganda talking points and rejecting his owns agencies analysis in favor of Putin.
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@cynthiamatthews The text book definition of Neo Nazism/Nazism is: A Far Right ideology that embraces Authoritarianism, Cult of Personality, Xenophobia, Homophobia, Anti Semitism, The Big Lies, and The Stab In The Back Myth or up dated version The “Stolen Election”. Trumpism embraces each of these. As is provable, not all Trump Supporters are Neo Nazis, but ALL Nazis, Neo Nazis, White Supremacy Groups, Klan Members, Oath Keepers, Proud Boys, etc support Trump.
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Elusive Truth
On Fox News, suddenly a very different tune about the coronavirus.
For weeks, some of Fox News’s hosts downplayed the threat of the coronavirus, characterizing it as a conspiracy by media organizations and Democrats to undermine President Trump.
Sean Hannity and Laura Ingraham accused the news media of whipping up “mass hysteria” and being “panic pushers.” Trish Regan called the Main Stream Media response “yet another attempt to impeach the president.”
But that was then.
When Trump’s declared a national emergency, the tone on Fox News has quickly shifted. Hannity, suddenly the lauded the president’s handling of what the host is now, belatedly, referring to as a “crisis.”
“Tonight, we are witnessing what will be a massive paradigm shift in the future of disease control and prevention,” he said. “A bold, new precedent is being set, the world will once again benefit greatly from America’s leadership. . . . The federal government, state governments, private businesses, top hospitals all coming together, under the president’s leadership, to stem the tide of the coronavirus.”
In a complicated dance to mirror the president, Trump’s allies on Fox News took the same stance as the president for several weeks — that this coronavirus that had sickened and killed thousands of people in China was no worse a threat than the seasonal flu.
Just a week ago, Hannity shrugged at the pandemic. “So far in the United States, there’s been around 30 deaths, most of which came from one nursing home in the state of Washington,” he said, “Healthy people, generally, 99 percent recover very fast, even if they contract it.”
By way of comparison, he added: “Twenty-six people were shot in Chicago alone over the weekend. I doubt you heard about it. You notice there’s no widespread hysteria about violence in Chicago. And this has gone on for years and years. By the way, Democratic-run cities, we see a lot of that.”
Ingraham, also had a fast-dawning recognition that the social and economic dislocation of the virus was more than just a Democratic talking point wielded against the president.
In late February, Ingraham called Democrats the “pandemic party” and displayed photos of House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) and Senate Minority Leader Charles E. Schumer (D-N.Y.) alongside enlarged images of coronavirus molecules. “How sick that these people seem almost happiest when Americans are hurting,” she said.
She kept at it through last Tuesday when, in front of a graphic reading “Trump confronts the panic pushers,” Ingraham said, “The public in some ways seems a lot more levelheaded than the so-called experts. . . . The facts are actually pretty reassuring, but you’d never know it watching all this stuff.”
On Friday, Ingraham tweeted that it was a “great time to fly if not in at-risk population!” The tweet was later deleted.
By Wednesday, after Trump announced a travel ban on people from the European Union, Ingraham had started calling the pandemic “this dangerous health crisis.” She characterized warnings issued by National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases head Anthony S. Fauci about the potential spread of the disease as “sobering and scary to hear.”
Regan’s on-air speculation at the start of last week that coronavirus was merely another impeachment gambit for Democrats drew widespread pushback. Clearly the mood was changing at Fox by the time the network announced late Friday that her discussion-and-commentary program on Fox Business would leave the air indefinitely.
Tucker Carlson too, blamed the “corrupt” media. But in a monologue that many took at an indirect scolding of the president, he also complained that “none of our leaders helped us to take it seriously. . . . People you trust, people you probably voted for, have spent weeks minimizing what is clearly a very serious problem. It’s just partisan politics, they say. ‘Calm down. In the end, this is just like the flu and people die from that every year. Coronavirus will pass, and when it does, we will feel foolish for worrying about it.’ That’s their position. . . . But they’re wrong.”
Days earlier, Carlson attended the birthday party of former Fox News host Kimberly Guilfoyle, who is dating Donald Trump Jr.
In comments downplaying the pandemic on March 7, Jeanine Pirro, offered “All the talk about coronavirus being so much more deadly [than the flu] doesn’t reflect reality.” She reiterated Trump’s comment that the infection rate will drop “as the weather warms.”
On the “Fox & Friends” program Friday, Liberty University President Jerry Falwell Jr. spun out a meandering tale advancing the baseless notion that the coronavirus was designed by North Korean and Chinese scientists to harm Americans.
The program’s three co-hosts offered no objections. Host Steve Doocy moved on to asking Falwell about Liberty’s plans to cancel classes.
Then on Sunday, Rep. Devin Nunes (R-Calif.) appeared on Fox News and urged Americans to “stop panicking” and for those who are healthy to “just go out.”
Said Nunes: “There’s a lot of concerns with the economy here because people are scared to go out. But I will just say one of the things you can do if you’re healthy, you and your family, it’s a great time to just go out, go to a local restaurant.”
Anchor Maria Bartiromo offered no response to Nunes’s comment. On Monday, a day later, Fox News contributor Nicole Saphier, a doctor, specifically called out the congressman on air to contradict his advice and told viewers to stay home.
This is a quick summation of how Faux news has become nothing more than a platform for Trumpian Propaganda.
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Trump Aide Has Mental Melt Down On Facebook.
Michael R. Caputo told his audience that left-wing hit squads were being trained for insurrection and accused C.D.C. scientists of “sedition.” He complained that he was under siege by the news media, feeling paranoid, and that his “mental health was failing.” He accused the CDC of harboring a “secret resistance unit” determined to undermine President Trump.
Mr. Caputo, who lead efforts to warp C.D.C. weekly bulletins to fit Mr. Trump’s pandemic narrative, suggested that he personally could be in danger from opponents of the administration. “If you carry guns, buy ammunition, ladies and gentlemen, because it’s going to be hard to get,” he urged his followers. “I don’t like being alone in Washington,” Mr. Caputo said, describing “shadows on the ceiling in my apartment, there alone, shadows are so long.” He also said the mounting number of Covid-19 deaths was taking a toll on him, telling his viewers, “You are not waking up every morning and talking about dead Americans. But you should attend Trump rallies and wear a mask”.
SOUNDS LIKE TRUMP ONLY HIRES THE BEST PEOPLE 🤪🤪🤪🤪
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@dr.burtgummerfan439 Organizing, Coordinating, and Inciting an Attack on the Capital and Congress. Organizing, Coordinating, and Directing Fake Electors to prevent the Rightful Certification of the Duly Elected President, Interference with a Congressional Proceeding, Election Interference in Georgia, Arizona, and Wisconsin, Perjury, and of course the big one Sedition. There will be other charges as well. THANK YOU FOR WAITING.
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@odelldaniel7868 Trump’s own words, testimony by those close to him, testimony by Oath Keepers, phone records, texts, documents, Fake Electors Organized in 7 Stares, emails to/from Trump Campaign to Fake Electors, audio recordings of Trump election interference, audio of Steve Bannon laying out the plan for Fake Electors & the Stolen Election Myth, and 20 minutes of complete and total inaction despite EVERYONE AROUND HIM BEGGING HIM TO CALL THE CAPITAL ATTACK OFF, ETC… Like I said, Overwhelming Evidence.
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A day before rioters stormed Congress, an FBI office in Virginia issued an explicit internal warning that extremists were preparing to travel to Washington to commit violence and “war,” according to an FBI internal document. A situational information report approved for release the day before the U.S. Capitol riot painted a dire portrait of dangerous plans, including individuals sharing a map of the complex’s tunnels, and possible rally points for would-be conspirators to meet up. “As of 5 January 2021, FBI Norfolk received information indicating calls for violence in response to ‘unlawful lockdowns’ to begin on 6 January 2021 in Washington. D.C.,” the document says. “An online thread discussed specific calls for violence to include stating ‘Be ready to fight. Congress needs to hear glass breaking, doors being kicked in, and blood being spilled. Get violent. Stop calling this a march, or rally, or a protest. Go there ready for war. Our President wants us to do this. NOTHING else will achieve this goal.”
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WASHINGTON — It was supposed to be an exclusive party at Mar-a-Lago, Donald J. Trump’s members-only club in Palm Beach, Fla. But other than the two dozen or so women flown in to provide the entertainment, the only guests were Mr. Trump and Jeffrey Epstein.
The year was 1992 and the event was a “calendar girl” competition, something that George Houraney, a Florida-based businessman who ran American Dream Enterprise, had organized at Mr. Trump’s request.
“I arranged to have some contestants fly in,” Mr. Houraney recalled in an interview on Monday. “At the very first party, I said, ‘Who’s coming tonight? I have 28 girls coming.’ It was him and Epstein.”
Mr. Houraney, who had just partnered with Mr. Trump to host events at his casinos, said he was surprised. “I said, ‘Donald, this is supposed to be a party with V.I.P.s. You’re telling me it’s you and Epstein?’”
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@EastCoastBias Did you ever read the Mueller Report, the House Report, the Bi Partisan Senate Report, the FBI, CIA, DIA, & NSA Reports… Even The Durham Report? I did, and everything Schiff said is backed by these Reports, documented, annotated, footnoted, & quoted. 🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸
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@terrihilder8217
This is exactly what Ronna McCDaniel said: “White supremacy, neo-Nazism, hate speech and bigotry are disgusting and do not have a home in the Republican party.”
No mention of Marjory Tailor Greene or Paul Gosar. Then after the fact Marjory Trailer Green spoke at CPAC as a Welcomed Speaker. You can’t square everything I have documented because the Republican Party actively and tacitly endorses this kind of behavior and rhetoric? Why, because the majority of Republican voters support hare speech, Neo Nazis, and bigotry.
Neo Nazism: Is defined as a Far Right ideology that embraces Authoritarianism, Xenophobia, Homophobia, Ableism, Anti Semitism, The Big Lie(s), and The Stab In The Back Myth [its modern variation is the Stolen Election].
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Is Donal J Trump mentally ill? Take the test for yourself:
The DSM-5 nine questions for pathological narcissism (only 5 yes answers to qualify):
1. Has a grandiose sense of self-importance (e.g., exaggerates achievements and talents, expects to be recognized as superior without commensurate achievements). 👍
2. Is preoccupied with fantasies of unlimited success, power, brilliance, beauty, or ideal love. 👍
3. Believes that he or she is “special” and unique and can only be understood by, or should associate with, other special or high-status people (or institutions). 👍
4. Requires excessive admiration. 👍
5. Has a sense of entitlement (i.e., unreasonable expectations of especially favorable treatment or automatic compliance with his or her expectations). 👍
6. Is interpersonally exploitative (i.e., takes advantage of others to achieve his or her own ends) 👍
7. Lacks empathy: is unwilling to recognize or identify with the feelings or needs of others. 👍
8. Is often envious of others or believes that others are envious of him or her. 👍
9. Shows arrogant, haughty behaviors or attitudes. 👍
Treasonous Trump has a perfect score for the first time in his life.
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Treasonous Trump is such a victim. Always in trouble for things that he said, did, or caused but none are his fault. Fist off, he never said, did, or caused anything. Well maybe he did but not like it’s being told. We OK he said it, did it, or caused it but it is not wrong, and besides someone else did it also. Then finally, I did it so what you going to do about it?
Now Tucker and Hannity must be damm good at gymnastics, otherwise they would break their back flipping each time TT does.
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ssaye89
WASHINGTON — Early on, the Trump Administration gathered day after day in the White House Situation Room, consumed by crises. They grappled with how to evacuate the United States consulate in Wuhan, China, ban Chinese travelers and extract Americans from the Diamond Princess and other cruise ships.
The members of the coronavirus task force typically devoted only five or 10 minutes, often at the end of contentious meetings, to talk about testing. The CD, its leaders assured everyone had developed a diagnostic model that would be rolled out quickly.
But as the deadly virus spread across the United States large-scale testing did not happen — because of technical flaws, business-as-usual bureaucracies and lack of leadership at multiple levels, according to interviews with more than 50 current and former public health officials, administration officials, senior scientists.
The result was a lost month, when the world’s richest country — armed with some of the most highly trained scientists and infectious disease specialists — squandered its best chance of containing the virus’s spread. Instead, Americans were left largely blind to the scale of a looming public health catastrophe.
The absence of robust screening until it was “far too late” revealed failures across the government, said Dr. Thomas Frieden, the former C.D.C. director. Jennifer Nuzzo, an epidemiologist at Johns Hopkins, said the Trump administration had “incredibly limited” views of the pathogen’s potential impact. Dr. Margaret Hamburg, the former commissioner of the Food and Drug Administration, said the lapse enabled “exponential growth of cases.”
And Dr. Anthony S. Fauci, a top government scientist involved in the fight against the virus, told members of Congress that the early inability to test was “a failing” of the administration’s response to a deadly, global pandemic. “Why,” he asked later in a magazine interview, “were we not able to mobilize on a broader scale?”
Failed leadership resulted in our achieving #1 in the World for Coronavirus cases - 103, 321 and skyrocketing.
THANK YOU DONALD “Jenius” Trump you FN MORON.
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More Texts Faux news does not want you to see about the Jan 6th INSURRECTION:
Jan. 1 or 2, 2021
House Freedom Caucus member
If POTUS allows this to occur… we’re driving a stake in the heart of the federal republic.
Received by Mark Meadows
Jan. 5, 2021
Joseph Schmitz
On January 6, 2021, Vice President Mike Pence, as President of the Senate, should call out all electoral votes that he believes are unconstitutional as no electoral votes at all -- in accordance with guidance from founding father Alexander Hamilton and judicial precedence. “No legislative act,” wrote Alexander Hamilton in Federalist No. 78, “contrary to the Constitution, can be valid.” ...
Received by Jim Jordan
Jan. 6, 2021
Jake Sherman
Do something for us
We are under siege in the cpaitol
There’s an armed standoff at the house chamber door
We’re all helpless
Received by Mark Meadows
Received by Mark Meadows
Jan. 6, 2021
GOP member 1
New message
The president needs to stop this ASAP.
GOP member 2
New message
Fix this now.
Received by a White House staffer
Jan. 6, 2021
Person outside the White House
New message
Person outside the White House
POTUS has to come out firmly and tell protestors to dissipate. Someone is going to get killed.
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Fact check: Trump repeats false claim that Pelosi rejected request for National Guard ahead of Jan. 6
There is absolutely NO RECORD THAT ANYONE FROM THE TRUMP ORGANIZATION OR TRUMP REQUESTED MORE POLICE.
Fact Check on 10,000 National Guard alleged request:
The fact that Trump at one point mentioned 10,000 National Guard troops is not new. On Jan. 22, Vanity Fair published an inside look at what transpired at the Pentagon during the insurrection, with the reporter in effect embedded with acting defense secretary Christopher Miller and his top aides during this period.
Here’s the key section of that article:
On the evening of January 5 — the night before a white supremacist mob stormed Capitol Hill in a siege that would leave five dead — the acting secretary of defense, Christopher Miller, was at the White House with his chief of staff, Kash Patel. They were meeting with President Trump on “an Iran issue,” Miller told me. But then the conversation switched gears. The president, Miller recalled, asked how many troops the Pentagon planned to turn out the following day. “We’re like, ‘We’re going to provide any National Guard support that the District requests,’” Miller responded. “And [Trump] goes, ‘You’re going to need 10,000 people.’ No, I’m not talking bulls---. He said that. And we’re like, ‘Maybe. But you know, someone’s going to have to ask for it.’” At that point Miller remembered the president telling him, “‘You do what you need to do. You do what you need to do.’ He said, ‘You’re going to need 10,000.’ That’s what he said. Swear to God.”
The reporter, Adam Ciralsky, asked Miller why Trump threw out such a big number: “The president’s sometimes hyperbolic, as you’ve noticed. There were gonna be a million people in the street, I think was his expectation.” (It turned out that Trump’s rally attracted merely thousands of people, though even in his Fox interview with Hilton, Trump still claimed that the crowd numbered “hundreds of thousands of people.”)
So 10,000 appears to be a guesstimate based on the president’s own inflated belief in his ability to draw a crowd. The statement did not come as part of a meeting to discuss how to handle the event. Instead, it appears to have been an offhand remark. That’s not the same thing as a “request.” (Trump certainly knew how to order the deployment of National Guard troops in June 2020.)
Trump then maintains that the Defense Department “took that number” and gave it to the Capitol Police.
But that also did not happen, according to officials.
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SO MUCH FOR DRAINING THE SWAMP
A wealthy Venezuelan hosted Giuliani as he pursued Ukraine campaign. Then Giuliani lobbied the Justice Department on his behalf.
When Rudolph W. Giuliani went to Madrid in August to confer with a top aide to the Ukrainian president and press for political investigations sought by President Trump, he also met with a previously unidentified client with very different interests.
While in Spain, Giuliani stayed at a historic estate belonging to Venezuelan energy executive Alejandro Betancourt López, who had hired Trump’s personal attorney to help him contend with an investigation by the Justice Department into alleged money laundering and bribery, according to people familiar with the situation.
A month later, Giuliani was one of several lawyers representing Betancourt in Washington. The lawyers met with the chief of the Justice Department’s criminal division and other government attorneys to argue that the wealthy Venezuelan should not face criminal charges as part of a $1.2 billion money-laundering case filed in Florida last year, said the people, who, like others in this report, spoke on the condition of anonymity because of the ongoing investigation.
The criminal complaint alleges that top officials of the Venezuelan state-owned oil company, elite business leaders and bankers conspired to steal money from the company and then launder it through Miami real estate purchases and other investment schemes.
Giuliani’s representation of Betancourt — which has not been previously disclosed — is a striking example of how Trump’s lawyer has continued to offer his services to foreign clients with interests before the U.S. government while working on behalf of the president. And it shows how Giuliani — who says he was serving as Trump’s attorney pro bono — has used his work for paying clients to help underwrite his efforts to find political ammunition in Ukraine to benefit the president.
Giuliani, a former New York mayor and top federal prosecutor in Manhattan, is now under scrutiny by the U.S. attorney’s office he once led, which has filed campaign finance charges against two of his associates, Lev Parnas and Igor Fruman. Investigators are examining Giuliani’s consulting business as part of a broad probe in a raft of possible crimes, including wire fraud and foreign lobbying violations.
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TRUMP OWES HUNDREDS OF MILLION TO RUSSIA & CHINA.
IS HE KOMPROMISED?
Americans do not know how many hundreds of millions Donald Trump’s business owe Russia or China, but we need to know.
In 2008, Donald Trump Jr. told attendees at a real estate conference in New York City that “Russians make up a pretty disproportionate cross-section of a lot of our assets. We see a lot of money pouring in from Russia.” Sergei Millian, the president of the U.S. Russian Chamber of Commerce and friend of Trump, claims in 2016 the figure is in the hundreds of millions.
Russians are not the only American adversaries to support Trump’s business. The state-owned Central Bank of China has loaned Trump hundreds of millions of dollars. The New York Times has reported that American companies owned by Trump have at least $650 million in debt and the Bank of China is among the lenders. Jared Kushner received a $550 million loan from the state-owned CBC in 2017. This was one of the reasons the FBI would not give Kushner a Security Clearance, this and Jared & Ivanka’s “unusual” ties to CCP notables. We need to know how much Trump and his businesses owe Chinese banks as well as Russian oligarchs.
Trump has praised Russian President Vladimir Putin while hiring pro-Russian advisers to fill top campaign positions. Paul Manafort served as Trump’s campaign chairman until scrutiny over his consulting and lobbying work for Viktor Yanukovych, the Russian-backed former president of Ukraine, forced his resignation. Carter Page served as a foreign policy adviser for Trump until U.S. intelligence officials began looking into whether Mr. Page had opened a line of communication with senior Russian officials to discuss lifting economic sanctions on Russia should Trump win the presidency. These sanctions were imposed on Russia following Putin’s invasion of Crimea and Eastern Ukraine. Trump’s military advisor, retired Lt. Gen. Michael Flynn, unfortunately allowed himself to be used as a validator for Russian propaganda last year when he was seated near Putin at a Moscow gala celebrating Russia Today. Russia Today TV is Putin’s propaganda machine.
In summary you are telling me Hunter Biden is slimy but Trump, Don Jr., Eric, Ivanka, and Jared are Angles.
Your Hypocrisy STINKS all the way through the Internet.
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FAILURE IN AMERICA ON A TRUMPIAN SCALE:
Nearly every country has struggled to contain the coronavirus and made mistakes along the way.
China silenced doctors and allowed the virus to escape Wuhan, much of Europe went next, failing to avoid and contain enormous outbreaks. Today, many countries — Japan, Canada, France, Australia and more — are coping with new increases in cases after reopening parts of society.
But one country stands alone, as the only affluent nation to have suffered a severe, sustained outbreak for more than four months: the United States. In just the past month over 1.9 million Americans have tested positive for the virus. That’s more than five times as many as in all of Europe, Canada, Japan, South Korea and Australia, combined. The United States also has the highest number of Deaths 157,000 from the virus far out pacing all other countries. Brazil is the only country competing with the United States for complete failure in containing the virus.
What does the United States & Brazil have in common? Trumpian Politics.
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Trump Aide Has Mental Melt Down On Facebook.
Michael R. Caputo told his audience that left-wing hit squads were being trained for insurrection and accused C.D.C. scientists of “sedition.” He complained that he was under siege by the news media, feeling paranoid, and that his “mental health was failing.” He accused the CDC of harboring a “secret resistance unit” determined to undermine President Trump.
Mr. Caputo, who lead efforts to warp C.D.C. weekly bulletins to fit Mr. Trump’s pandemic narrative, suggested that he personally could be in danger from opponents of the administration. “If you carry guns, buy ammunition, ladies and gentlemen, because it’s going to be hard to get,” he urged his followers. “I don’t like being alone in Washington,” Mr. Caputo said, describing “shadows on the ceiling in my apartment, there alone, shadows are so long.” He also said the mounting number of Covid-19 deaths was taking a toll on him, telling his viewers, “You are not waking up every morning and talking about dead Americans. But you should attend Trump rallies and wear a mask”.
SOUNDS LIKE TRUMP ONLY HIRES THE BEST PEOPLE 🤪🤪🤪🤪
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Trump Aide Has Mental Melt Down On Facebook.
Michael R. Caputo told his audience that left-wing hit squads were being trained for insurrection and accused C.D.C. scientists of “sedition.” He complained that he was under siege by the news media, feeling paranoid, and that his “mental health was failing.” He accused the CDC of harboring a “secret resistance unit” determined to undermine President Trump.
Mr. Caputo, who lead efforts to warp C.D.C. weekly bulletins to fit Mr. Trump’s pandemic narrative, suggested that he personally could be in danger from opponents of the administration. “If you carry guns, buy ammunition, ladies and gentlemen, because it’s going to be hard to get,” he urged his followers. “I don’t like being alone in Washington,” Mr. Caputo said, describing “shadows on the ceiling in my apartment, there alone, shadows are so long.” He also said the mounting number of Covid-19 deaths was taking a toll on him, telling his viewers, “You are not waking up every morning and talking about dead Americans. But you should attend Trump rallies and wear a mask”.
SOUNDS LIKE TRUMP ONLY HIRES THE BEST PEOPLE 🤪🤪🤪🤪
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@mrtopcat2 Reading Comprehension is not your thing is it? I did not call for the break up of these United States. People like you resented and fought against a “woke” agenda before and 650,000 Americans Lost their lives and for what - racism and slavery. But you can’t stop moral awakening nor civil rights, you can only delay them.
Indeed People want to live free, so why do you fight to oppress others?
Authoritarian Push? Nazism is a Rightwing ideology that embraces Authoritarianism, Cult of Person, Racism, Xenophobia, Homophobia, Anti Semitism, The Big Lies, & The Stab In The Back Myth updated to the “Stolen Election” Myth aka Trumpism.
Trying to reach a balanced and fair utopia is exactly the goal our founding fathers dreamed of.
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Sharing polling data
(VOLUME I, PP. 130-131, 140)
Throughout his time as the Trump campaign chairman, Paul Manafort stayed in touch with a Russian man named Konstantin Kilimnik, whom, according to the Mueller report, “the F.B.I. assesses to have ties to Russian intelligence.” Mr. Gates, Mr. Manafort’s deputy, believed Mr. Kilimnik to be a “spy.” — a view, the report says, that he shared with Mr. Manafort.
While managing the campaign, Mr. Manafort told Mr. Gates to share “internal polling data” private to the campaign with Mr. Kilimnik, so he could share it with Ukrainian oligarchs and a Russian oligarch. Mr. Gates sent Mr. Kilimnik the data regularly, deleting the WhatsApp messages after he did so. In an in-person meeting with Mr. Kilimnik, Mr. Manafort shared more information about the campaign’s election plans and polling, including information about “battleground states” that would be key to Mr. Trump’s election.
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Trump’s budget is a tremendous fraud.
Remember when he said he would eliminate the federal debt, or at least halve it, during his presidency? His new budget adds another $3.4 trillion by 2024 to the debt on top of the $3 trillion Trump has already added.
Remember when he repeatedly promised not to “touch” Social Security and Medicare? His budget calls for removing $550 billion dollars of funding from the Medicare program, including $135 billion from Medicare prescription drugs, and tens of billions from the Social Security program.
Remember when he promised not to touch Medicaid? Now he wants to cut it by $920 billion.
Remember when he was going to give Americans health care “much better” than Obamacare. But he has proposed no such thing and now his budget calls for cutting spending on the program by $844 billion.
Remember when he vowed that his tax cuts would grow the economy by 4 percent, 5 percent or even 6 percent? Last year it grew at 2.3 percent, and his new budget, even with the rosiest of assumptions, projects 2.8 percent for this year - in other words little changed from Obama’s growth rates. Yet the budget would also devote another $1.4 trillion to extending those tax cuts, primarily for the rich.
Oh, and remember when he said Mexico would pay for the Wall - Treasonous Trump Con Man Extraordinaire.
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@KcityMikeThomas You Maga Morons waive the Constitution around like it was some cheap flag at a Treasonous Trump Rally. Treasonous Trump stole documents, he was asked for them back, he lied in a sworn deposition that he didn’t have them, and was served in accordance with a warrant. Also, I take it you never read the Muller Report. The report very clearly details 32 meetings between Trump, his close associates, and Russian Spies. Based on Muller’s work 7 Trump people were convicted of multiple felonies and 24 people were indicted. You can Argue that Treasonous Trump was not convicted but you can’t argue that he sought help from and relieved help from Russian Spies. Basically, I am calling you, your kind, and Trump, TRAITORS TO AMERICA 🇺🇸 🇺🇸🇺🇸
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Brian Crane
On Fox News, suddenly a very different tune about the coronavirus.
For weeks, some of Fox News’s hosts downplayed the threat of the coronavirus, characterizing it as a conspiracy by media organizations and Democrats to undermine President Trump.
Sean Hannity and Laura Ingraham accused the news media of whipping up “mass hysteria” and being “panic pushers.” Trish Regan called the Main Stream Media response “yet another attempt to impeach the president.”
But that was then.
When Trump’s declared a national emergency, the tone on Fox News has quickly shifted. Hannity, suddenly the lauded the president’s handling of what the host is now, belatedly, referring to as a “crisis.”
“Tonight, we are witnessing what will be a massive paradigm shift in the future of disease control and prevention,” he said. “A bold, new precedent is being set, the world will once again benefit greatly from America’s leadership. . . . The federal government, state governments, private businesses, top hospitals all coming together, under the president’s leadership, to stem the tide of the coronavirus.”
In a complicated dance to mirror the president, Trump’s allies on Fox News took the same stance as the president for several weeks — that this coronavirus that had sickened and killed thousands of people in China was no worse a threat than the seasonal flu.
Just a week ago, Hannity shrugged at the pandemic. “So far in the United States, there’s been around 30 deaths, most of which came from one nursing home in the state of Washington,” he said, “Healthy people, generally, 99 percent recover very fast, even if they contract it.”
By way of comparison, he added: “Twenty-six people were shot in Chicago alone over the weekend. I doubt you heard about it. You notice there’s no widespread hysteria about violence in Chicago. And this has gone on for years and years. By the way, Democratic-run cities, we see a lot of that.”
Ingraham, also had a fast-dawning recognition that the social and economic dislocation of the virus was more than just a Democratic talking point wielded against the president.
In late February, Ingraham called Democrats the “pandemic party” and displayed photos of House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) and Senate Minority Leader Charles E. Schumer (D-N.Y.) alongside enlarged images of coronavirus molecules. “How sick that these people seem almost happiest when Americans are hurting,” she said.
She kept at it through last Tuesday when, in front of a graphic reading “Trump confronts the panic pushers,” Ingraham said, “The public in some ways seems a lot more levelheaded than the so-called experts. . . . The facts are actually pretty reassuring, but you’d never know it watching all this stuff.”
On Friday, Ingraham tweeted that it was a “great time to fly if not in at-risk population!” The tweet was later deleted.
By Wednesday, after Trump announced a travel ban on people from the European Union, Ingraham had started calling the pandemic “this dangerous health crisis.” She characterized warnings issued by National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases head Anthony S. Fauci about the potential spread of the disease as “sobering and scary to hear.”
Regan’s on-air speculation at the start of last week that coronavirus was merely another impeachment gambit for Democrats drew widespread pushback. Clearly the mood was changing at Fox by the time the network announced late Friday that her discussion-and-commentary program on Fox Business would leave the air indefinitely.
Tucker Carlson too, blamed the “corrupt” media. But in a monologue that many took at an indirect scolding of the president, he also complained that “none of our leaders helped us to take it seriously. . . . People you trust, people you probably voted for, have spent weeks minimizing what is clearly a very serious problem. It’s just partisan politics, they say. ‘Calm down. In the end, this is just like the flu and people die from that every year. Coronavirus will pass, and when it does, we will feel foolish for worrying about it.’ That’s their position. . . . But they’re wrong.”
Days earlier, Carlson attended the birthday party of former Fox News host Kimberly Guilfoyle, who is dating Donald Trump Jr.
In comments downplaying the pandemic on March 7, Jeanine Pirro, offered “All the talk about coronavirus being so much more deadly [than the flu] doesn’t reflect reality.” She reiterated Trump’s comment that the infection rate will drop “as the weather warms.”
On the “Fox & Friends” program Friday, Liberty University President Jerry Falwell Jr. spun out a meandering tale advancing the baseless notion that the coronavirus was designed by North Korean and Chinese scientists to harm Americans.
The program’s three co-hosts offered no objections. Host Steve Doocy moved on to asking Falwell about Liberty’s plans to cancel classes.
Then on Sunday, Rep. Devin Nunes (R-Calif.) appeared on Fox News and urged Americans to “stop panicking” and for those who are healthy to “just go out.”
Said Nunes: “There’s a lot of concerns with the economy here because people are scared to go out. But I will just say one of the things you can do if you’re healthy, you and your family, it’s a great time to just go out, go to a local restaurant.”
Anchor Maria Bartiromo offered no response to Nunes’s comment. On Monday, a day later, Fox News contributor Nicole Saphier, a doctor, specifically called out the congressman on air to contradict his advice and told viewers to stay home.
This is a quick summation of how Faux news has become nothing more than a platform for Trumpian Propaganda.
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Blue Skies
DEMOCRACY IS IN DECLINE AROUND THE WORLD - AND TRUMP IS PART OF THE PROBLEM.
The Freedom House Annual report on the health of global democracy warned of its decline. In its survey evaluating 195 countries and 15 territories, Freedom House, a nongovernmental, nonpartisan advocacy organization established in 1941, found that political freedoms and civil liberties across the world are backsliding more often than they are improving.
“Democracy is under assault,” read the opening sentence of its report, written by Sarah Repucci. “Dictators are toiling to stamp out the last vestiges of domestic dissent and spread their harmful influence to new corners of the world.”
The usual suspects remain among the worst offenders. Freedom House decried China for its “totalitarian offensive” in Xinjiang and other campaigns of repression, and it warned of Beijing’s “relentless campaign to replace existing international norms with its own authoritarian vision.” It pointed to Russia’s “stage-managed elections” in 2019, in which the genuine opposition was largely shut out. Iran’s leadership, even as it sowed “discord” in neighboring countries, deployed security forces that used live ammunition to crush demonstrations last fall, killing hundreds of people.
But perhaps more disquieting is the steady erosion seen in “established democracies,” more than two dozen of which have seen net losses in their democracy rankings.
“Many freely elected leaders are dramatically narrowing their concerns to a blinkered interpretation of the national interest,” wrote Repucci. “In fact, such leaders — including the chief executives of the United States and India, the world’s two largest democracies — are increasingly willing to break down institutional safeguards and disregard the rights of critics and minorities as they pursue their populist agendas.”
President Trump is a key part of this story. Freedom House’s report, titled “A Leaderless Struggle for Democracy,” highlighted the “pressure” Trump is exerting “on electoral integrity, judicial independence, and safeguards against corruption” in the United States.
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U.S. authorities have leveled the first conspiracy charge against a leader of an extremist group in the Jan. 6 storming of the U.S. Capitol, arresting an Oath Keeper who is accused of plotting to disrupt the electoral vote confirmation of President-elect Joe Biden’s victory and proposing further assaults on state capitols.
Thomas Edward Caldwell, 66, of Clarke County, Va., was taken into custody before 7 a.m. on four federal counts, including conspiracy to commit an offense against the United States in the attack on the Capitol. The conspiracy charge is reserved for offenses interfering with or obstructing the lawful operation of government.
A charging affidavit says he helped organize a group of eight to 10 individuals, including self-styled Ohio militia members apprehended Sunday, who wore helmets and military-style gear and were seen moving purposefully toward the top of the Capitol steps and leading the move against police lines.
Separately, charges were unsealed Wednesday accusing a Queens man who worked in the state court system of making threats to murder Democratic politicians, including suggesting another attack on the Capitol timed to President-elect Joe Biden’s inauguration Wednesday.
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What is happening is not a coup, or even an attempt at a coup but a ham-handed effort to discredit the election outcome by any crackpot method available to sooth Trump’s ego. Scholars of real coups in other countries say that Trump has few of the ingredients necessary to pull off a coup — the international community despises him, the nation’s main media is still independent, an the armed forces think Trump is a joke. However, Trump is set to successfully pursue a slow-motion “con game,” pleading for donations by playing his supporters. He’s also crafting a “Stab in the Back” myth in hopes of returning to the WH in 2024.There is a fundamental difference between between a coup and a con. A coup is an illegitimate power grab by force. A con is a mostly criminal, unethical, or manipulative act. A con can become a coup if the con is successful — if enough people buy into the con then a Coup has occurred.
Though Trump will fail in his coup - this time - the fact that his fellow Republicans tacitly approved of his methods, or looked the other way dramatically weakens our Democratic Institutions. As Trump continues to spew crazy conspiracies, half truths, and outright lies more and more Republican voters will drift into delusion and violence.
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Treasonous Trump picks only the best people:
Mr. VanDyke’s accomplishments are offset by the assessments of interviewees that Mr. VanDyke is arrogant, lazy, an ideologue, and lacking in knowledge of the day-to- day practice including procedural rules. There was a theme that the nominee lacks humility, has an “entitlement” temperament, does not have an open mind, and does not always have a commitment to being candid and truthful.
When a majority of your colleges say you are arrogant, lazy, ideological, and lacking knowledge, you have a problem nominee.
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Trump alters weather chart with a Sharpie to justify his Alabama, Dorian tweet:
On Wednesday, the White House attempted to retroactively justify a tweet that President Trump issued over the weekend in which he warned, erroneously, that Alabama would be affected by Hurricane Dorian.
In a White House video released Wednesday, Trump displays a modified National Hurricane Center “cone of uncertainty” forecast, dated from 11 a.m. on Aug. 29, indicating Alabama would in fact be affected. The graphic appears to have been altered with a Sharpie to indicate a risk the storm would move into Alabama from Florida.
“We had, actually, our original chart was that it was going to be hit — hitting Florida directly,” Trump said as he displayed the graphic from Aug. 29, which now includes an added appendage extending the cone into Alabama.
When asked whether the chart had been drawn on, Trump said: “I don’t know; I don’t know.”
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Trump’s budget is a tremendous fraud.
Remember when he said he would eliminate the federal debt, or at least halve it, during his presidency? His new budget adds another $3.4 trillion by 2024 to the debt on top of the $3 trillion Trump has already added.
Remember when he repeatedly promised not to “touch” Social Security and Medicare? His budget calls for removing $550 billion dollars of funding from the Medicare program, including $135 billion from Medicare prescription drugs, and tens of billions from the Social Security program.
Remember when he promised not to touch Medicaid? Now he wants to cut it by $920 billion.
Remember when he was going to give Americans health care “much better” than Obamacare. But he has proposed no such thing and now his budget calls for cutting spending on the program by $844 billion.
Remember when he vowed that his tax cuts would grow the economy by 4 percent, 5 percent or even 6 percent? Last year it grew at 2.3 percent, and his new budget, even with the rosiest of assumptions, projects 2.8 percent for this year - in other words little changed from Obama’s growth rates. Yet the budget would also devote another $1.4 trillion to extending those tax cuts, primarily for the rich.
Treasonous Trump, Con Man Extraordinaire.
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@johnh6515 I AGREE THAT THE BORDER IS OUT OF CONTROL DURING BOTH TRUMP & BIDEN’s TERM - but it’s the current laws that are the problem.
8 U.S. Code § 1158 - Asylum
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(a) Authority to apply for asylum
(1) In general
Any alien who is physically present in the United States or who arrives in the United States (whether or not at a designated port of arrival and including an alien who is brought to the United States after having been interdicted in international or United States waters), irrespective of such alien’s status, may apply for asylum in accordance with this section or, where applicable, section 1225(b) of this title.
(2) Exceptions
(A) Safe third country
Paragraph (1) shall not apply to an alien if the Attorney General determines that the alien may be removed, pursuant to a bilateral or multilateral agreement, to a country (other than the country of the alien’s nationality or, in the case of an alien having no nationality, the country of the alien’s last habitual residence) in which the alien’s life or freedom would not be threatened on account of race, religion, nationality, membership in a particular social group, or political opinion, and where the alien would have access to a full and fair procedure for determining a claim to asylum or equivalent temporary protection, unless the Attorney General finds that it is in the public interest for the alien to receive asylum in the United States.
(B) Time limit
Subject to subparagraph (D), paragraph (1) shall not apply to an alien unless the alien demonstrates by clear and convincing evidence that the application has been filed within 1 year after the date of the alien’s arrival in the United States.
(C) Previous asylum applications
Subject to subparagraph (D), paragraph (1) shall not apply to an alien if the alien has previously applied for asylum and had such application denied.
(D) Changed circumstances
An application for asylum of an alien may be considered, notwithstanding subparagraphs (B) and (C), if the alien demonstrates to the satisfaction of the Attorney General either the existence of changed circumstances which materially affect the applicant’s eligibility for asylum or extraordinary circumstances relating to the delay in filing an application within the period specified in subparagraph (B).
(E) Applicability
Subparagraphs (A) and (B) shall not apply to an unaccompanied alien child (as defined in section 279(g) of title 6).
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“There’s Nothing Left, I no longer recognize my party”
Why Hundreds of Thousands of Republicans Are Leaving the Party
Voting registration data indicates a strong and unusual flight from the G.O.P. since the Capitol riot, with an intensely fluid period in American politics now underway.
In the days and weeks after the storming of the Capitol by Trump supporters on Jan. 6, hundreds of thousands of Republicans left the party. After the Jan. 6 attack on the Capitol, the phone lines and websites of local election officials across the country were jumping: Tens of thousands of Republicans were calling or logging on to switch their party affiliations.
In California, more than 33,000 registered Republicans left the party during the three weeks after the Washington riot. In Pennsylvania, more than 12,000 voters left the G.O.P. in the past month, and more than 10,000 Republicans changed their registration in Arizona.
An analysis of January voting records found that nearly 140,000 Republicans had quit the party in 25 states that had readily available data (19 states do not have registration by party). Voting experts say this is the start of a particularly damaging period for G.O.P. registrations as voters recoil from the Capitol violence and its fallout.
Among those who recently left the party are Juan Nunez, 56, an Army veteran in Mechanicsburg, Pa. He said he had long felt that the difference between the United States and many other countries was that campaign-season fighting ended on Election Day, when all sides would peacefully accept the result. The Jan. 6 riot changed that, he said.
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Zack
Even ramped up we are so far behind we’re South Korea Started. South Korea, and America, discovered their first Covid19 cases on the same day. Korea has tested 80% of its population, isolated the infected, provide masks and medical supplies to all parts of their nation, and flattened and reversed the curve.
Trump, he just staged to admit we have a Pandemic, tells states it’s not his job, refuses to establish order in the supply chain to stop FEMA, Hospitals, States, and other Agencies from competing against each other for supplies, and the best he can do is place Jared Kushner in charge of yet another failed job.
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TRUMP OWES HUNDREDS OF MILLION TO RUSSIA & CHINA.
IS HE KOMPROMISED?
Americans do not know how many hundreds of millions Donald Trump’s business owe Russia or China, but we need to know.
In 2008, Donald Trump Jr. told attendees at a real estate conference in New York City that “Russians make up a pretty disproportionate cross-section of a lot of our assets. We see a lot of money pouring in from Russia.” Sergei Millian, the president of the U.S. Russian Chamber of Commerce and friend of Trump, claims in 2016 the figure is in the hundreds of millions.
Russians are not the only American adversaries to support Trump’s business. The state-owned Central Bank of China has loaned Trump hundreds of millions of dollars. The New York Times has reported that American companies owned by Trump have at least $650 million in debt and the Bank of China is among the lenders. Jared Kushner received a $550 million loan from the state-owned CBC in 2017. This was one of the reasons the FBI would not give Kushner a Security Clearance, this and Jared & Ivanka’s “unusual” ties to CCP notables. We need to know how much Trump and his businesses owe Chinese banks as well as Russian oligarchs.
Trump has praised Russian President Vladimir Putin while hiring pro-Russian advisers to fill top campaign positions. Paul Manafort served as Trump’s campaign chairman until scrutiny over his consulting and lobbying work for Viktor Yanukovych, the Russian-backed former president of Ukraine, forced his resignation. Carter Page served as a foreign policy adviser for Trump until U.S. intelligence officials began looking into whether Mr. Page had opened a line of communication with senior Russian officials to discuss lifting economic sanctions on Russia should Trump win the presidency. These sanctions were imposed on Russia following Putin’s invasion of Crimea and Eastern Ukraine. Trump’s military advisor, retired Lt. Gen. Michael Flynn, unfortunately allowed himself to be used as a validator for Russian propaganda last year when he was seated near Putin at a Moscow gala celebrating Russia Today. Russia Today TV is Putin’s propaganda machine.
In summary you are telling me Hunter Biden is slimy but Trump, Don Jr., Eric, Ivanka, and Jared are Angles.
Your Hypocrisy STINKS all the way through the Internet.
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How TV Cable Companies Cover the Impeachment - an exercise in Propaganda:
Note: See if you can spot which company engages in Propaganda.
• CNN: EX-WHITE HOUSE AIDE: HIGHLY UNUSUAL EFFORT TO “LOCK DOWN”. TRANSCRIPT OF JULY 25 CALL WAS AN “ADMINISTRATIVE ERROR”
• Fox News: DEMS PRAISE VINDMAN FOR WORKING AGAINST TRUMP
• MSNBC: CONCLUDES AFTER MORE THAN 9 HOURS
At 9:13 p.m. that day, here’s what viewers saw.
• CNN: KEY WITNESSES QUESTIONED IN PUBLIC HEARINGS
• Fox News: SCHIFF STEERS IMPEACHMENT SHAM OFF A CLIFF / DEMS’ UKRAINE HOAX UNRAVELS ON CAPITOL HILL
• MSNBC: VINDMAN REASSURES SOVIET IMMIGRANT FATHER: HE WILL BE FINE FOR TELLING THE TRUTH / HOUSE INTEL COMPLETES 3RD DAY OF PUBLIC IMPEACHMENT HEARINGS
At 10:15 p.m.:
• CNN: SONDLAND TESTIFIES TOMORROW
• Fox News: VOLKER TESTIMONY UNDERMINES DEMS’ NARRATIVE
• MSNBC: IMPEACHMENT HEARING WRAPS AFTER 4 WITNESSES, 9+ HOURS / LT. COL VINDMAN, TRUMP’S TOP UKRAINE ADVISOR, TESTIFIES. TRUMP ACTED “IMPROPERLY” WHEN HE “DEMANDED” A FAVOR
At 10:51 p.m.:
• CNN: REPUBLICANS USE IMPEACHMENT HEARINGS TO QUESTION LOYALTY OF DECORATED ARMY VETERAN SPEAKING OUT AGAINST TRUMP
• Fox News: CHICK-FIL-A CAVES TO LIBERAL MOB
• MSNBC: EU AMB. GORDON SONDLAND TESTIFIES TOMORROW MORNING / SONDLAND WILL FACE QUESTIONS ABOUT PREVIOUSLY. UNKNOWN CALL TO TRUMP FROM RESTAURANT IN UKRAINE
Following day 8:12 p.m.:
• CNN: SONDLAND TIES PRES. TRUMP, VP PENCE, SECY. OF STATE POMPEO. AND WH CHIEF OF STAFF MULVANEY TO PRESSURE CAMPAIGN / SONDLAND: “EVERYONE WAS IN THE LOOP” ON UKRAINE PRESSURE
• Fox News: “NO QUID PRO QUO”
Half an hour later, while CNN was still covering Sondland’s testimony, Fox News was discussing the Clinton Foundation.
At 10:54 p.m., here’s what the two networks were showing viewers.
• CNN: SONDLAND: ‘YES’ THERE WAS QUID PRO QUO. IN UKRAINE SCANDAL
• Fox News: SWALWELL CAUSES A STINK
That latter text referred to a viral video clip that appeared to have captured the sound of flatulence while Rep. Eric Swalwell (D-Calif.) was appearing on MSNBC the previous day.
On Thursday, similar divides were on display. At 9:53 p.m., here’s what each network showed — perhaps the most representative comparison of any.
• CNN: NO REPUBLICANS BUDGE AFTER ALL THE FACTS, EVIDENCE REVEALED IN 3O+ HOURS OF PUBLIC TESTIMONY / MEMBERS OF PRESIDENT’S PARTY CROSSED AISLE IN NIXON & CLINTON IMPEACHMENT PROCEEDINGS, BUT NOT NOW
• Fox News: FBI OFFICIAL UNDER INVESTIGATION FOR ALLEGEDLY ALTERING DOC RELATED TO PAGE SURVEILLANCE, CNN REPORTS
• MSNBC: NIXON PLEDGED TO FIGHT TO KEEP HIS PRESIDENCY / IMPEACHMENT HEARING WITNESSES WRAP UP WEEK OF EXPLOSIVE TESTIMONY
There’s a reason that Trump’s current press secretary has only given interviews to Fox News and not other broadcast or major cable networks. Why would Trump need a White House communications director when he has a generously friendly cable network that’s already popular with the people he wants to talk to anyway?
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JARED KUSHNER HAS CREATED A SHELL COMPANY TO FUNNEL CAMPAIGN CASH TO FAMILY MEMBERS.
Donald Trump and his family have spent the last four years making the airtight case that they view the presidency as simply a means to enrich themselves and their associates. They probably don’t particularly like that reputation and, yet, it hasn’t stopped them from funneling taxpayer money to their private business, gouging the Secret Service, and raising legal defense funds that the fine print says could go directly to their pockets. Oh, and, according to a new report, setting up a shell company that spent hundreds of millions of campaign dollars to pay Trump family members along with other expenditures it seemingly wanted to keep under wraps.
According to Business Insider, first son-in-law Jared Kushner personally approved the creation of the company, incorporated as American Made Media Consultants Corp. and American Made Media Consultants LLC, in April 2018. From there, Eric Trump’s wife, Lara Trump, was named president, with Mike Pence’s nephew John Pence serving as vice president. If you’re wondering why the shell company, described as Business Insider as acting “almost like a campaign within a campaign” was necessary, well, it’s not entirely clear, but it sure sounds like the express purpose was the ability to shield “financial and operational details from public scrutiny,” as it allowed the campaign to avoid federally mandated disclosures concerning what it was spending considerable amounts of money on. And by considerable we mean nearly half of the $1.26 billion raised for Trump’s reelection.
Campaign-finance records showed Trump's reelection effort and its affiliated committee with the RNC spent more than $600 million through American Made Consultants since its formation. For months, some of Trump’s top advisers and campaign staff told Insider they had no idea how the shell company functioned, which cast an air of mystery around the operation…. Some of those same advisers said they didn’t learn about John Pence’s and Lara Trump’s involvement until Insider contacted them for this story.
Campaign-law experts have long accused the Trump team of using a corporate pass-through to hide payments. The nonpartisan Campaign Legal Center, led by former Republican Federal Election Commission Chairman Trevor Potter, filed a civil complaint with the FEC in July accusing the Trump campaign of “disguising” about $170 million worth of campaign spending in large part “by laundering the funds” through AMMC. Brendan Fischer, the Campaign Legal Center’s director of federal reform, said the payments to AMMC were a “scheme to evade telling voters even the basics on where its money is really going” and a “shield to disguise the ultimate recipients of its spending.”
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@YellowRose3332 Time Magazine: World News Tonight host David Muir’s repeatedly fact-checked ing kept the proceedings honest. Davis and Muir's fact-checks tamped down Trump's most egregious inventions. His repetition of a racist and xenophobic conspiracy theory about Haitian immigrants in Springfield, Ohio—“They’re eating the dogs, they’re eating the cats, they’re eating the pets of the people that live there”—got a quick correction. In apparent anticipation of this talking point, ABC News had contacted Springfield's city manager, who, Muir told viewers, had received “no credible reports of specific claims of pets being harmed, injured or abused by individuals within the immigrant community.” When Trump insisted he was being “sarcastic" in instances when he'd appeared to admit to having lost the 2020 election, Muir pushed back, noting that he'd reviewed tapes of some of those remarks and “didn't detect the sarcasm.” When Trump said, “Crime in this country is through the roof” due to an influx of migrants, Muir quickly corrected him, citing the FBI as his source.
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Federal prosecutors in New York on Thursday unsealed criminal charges against Stephen K. Bannon, President Trump’s former chief strategist, and three other men they alleged defrauded hundreds of thousands of donors using an online crowdfunding campaign that was advertised as raising money to build a wall on the U.S. border with Mexico.
In a news release, prosecutors said Bannon and another organizer of the campaign, Air Force veteran Brian Kolfage, claimed that they would not take any compensation as part of the campaign, called “We Build The Wall,” but that was a lie. Bannon, prosecutors alleged, received more than $1 million through a non-profit he controlled, and Kolfage received more than $350,000.
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Trying to change the subject Moscow Mitch? Yet more revelations:
WASHINGTON — Lt. Col. Alexander S. Vindman, the top Ukraine expert on the National Security Council, told House impeachment investigators on Tuesday that the White House transcript of a July call between President Trump and Ukraine’s president omitted crucial words and phrases, and that his attempts to include them failed, according to three people familiar with the testimony.
The omissions, Colonel Vindman said, included Mr. Trump’s assertion that there were recordings of former Vice President Joseph R. Biden Jr. discussing Ukraine corruption, and an explicit mention by Ukraine’s president, Volodymyr Zelensky, of Burisma Holdings, the energy company whose board employed Mr. Biden’s son Hunter.
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@lotsoffun4716 Treasonous Trump Let 3 Chinese Spy Ballons to cross America, tried to keep it secret, and did nothing… Nothing… NOTHING! Why because to upset China would upset his and his family’s business in China. Treasonous Trump also let Russia Hack a multitude of Government Agencies and did nothing… Nothing… NOTHING?
In 2020, a major cyberattack suspected to have been committed by a group backed by the Russian government penetrated thousands of organizations globally including multiple parts of the United States federal government, leading to a series of data breaches.[1][28][29] The cyberattack and data breach were reported to be among the worst cyber-espionage incidents ever suffered by the U.S., due to the sensitivity and high profile of the targets and the long duration (eight to nine months) in which the hackers had access.[35] Within days of its discovery, at least 200 organizations around the world had been reported to be affected by the attack, and some of these may also have suffered data breaches.[1][36][37] Affected organizations worldwide included NATO, the U.K. government, the European Parliament, Microsoft and others.[36]
The attack, which had gone undetected for months, was first publicly reported on December 13, 2020,[25][26] and was initially only known to have affected the U.S. Treasury Department and the National Telecommunications and Information Administration (NTIA), part of the U.S. Department of Commerce.[42] In the following days, more departments and private organizations reported breaches.[1][5][36]
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@dandsw9750
Eastman admitted to Jacob that Trump’s Electors Coup would lose on the merits in the Supreme Court: “When I pressed him on the point, I said ‘John, if the vice president did what you were asking him to do, we would lose 9-0 in the Supreme Court, wouldn’t we?’ And he initially started at, ‘Well, I think maybe you would lose only 7-2,' and after some further discussion, acknowledged, ‘Well, yeah, you’re right, we would lose 9-0.’ ... [He] ultimately acknowledged that, no, we would lose 9-0 — no judge would support his argument.”
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@aaronwilson8403 §2383. Rebellion or insurrection
Whoever incites, sets on foot, assists, or engages in any rebellion or insurrection against the authority of the United States or the laws thereof, or gives aid or comfort thereto, shall be fined under this title or imprisoned not more than ten years, or both; and shall be incapable of holding any office under the United States.
(June 25, 1948, ch. 645, 62 Stat. 808; Pub. L. 103–322, title XXXIII, §330016(1)(L), Sept. 13, 1994, 108 Stat. 2147.)
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“I no longer recognize my party”
Why Hundreds of Thousands of Republicans Are Leaving the Crazed Party
Voting registration data indicates a strong and unusual flight from the G.O.P. since the Capitol riot, with an intensely fluid period in American politics now underway.
In the days and weeks after the storming of the Capitol by Trump supporters on Jan. 6, hundreds of thousands of Republicans left the party. After the Jan. 6 attack on the Capitol, the phone lines and websites of local election officials across the country were jumping: Tens of thousands of Republicans were calling or logging on to switch their party affiliations.
In California, more than 33,000 registered Republicans left the party during the three weeks after the Washington riot. In Pennsylvania, more than 12,000 voters left the G.O.P. in the past month, and more than 10,000 Republicans changed their registration in Arizona.
An analysis of January voting records found that nearly 140,000 Republicans had quit the party in 25 states that had readily available data (19 states do not have registration by party). Voting experts say this is the start of a particularly damaging period for G.O.P. registrations as voters recoil from the Capitol violence and its fallout.
Among those who recently left the party are Juan Nunez, 56, an Army veteran in Mechanicsburg, Pa. He said he had long felt that the difference between the United States and many other countries was that campaign-season fighting ended on Election Day, when all sides would peacefully accept the result. The Jan. 6 riot changed that, he said.
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Trump: Campaign shifted money into indebted private business, Forbes
Trump has shifted money raised from campaign donors into the Trump Organization, according to documents from the Federal Election Committee (FEC) seen by Forbes.
He moved around $2.8 million into his private businesses throughout the duration of his presidency, Forbes's Dan Alexander reported.
Trump funneled an additional $81,000 into the Trump Organization after his election loss, the magazine said.
The payments were made public in the filings the campaign submitted to the FEC and were liest to cover costs including rent, airfare, lodging, and other expenses.
One of the campaign's joint-fundraising committees, associated with the Republican Party, also moved an estimated $4.3 million of donor money into his private business during his presidential term, according to Forbes.
Read more: 10 huge hits to Trump's business from the pandemic that may be permanent.
The joint-fundraising committee also paid around $300,000 towards Trump's hotel chain in the week following the former president's election loss, the Independent reported.
Around $40,000 was handed over from the campaign to Trump Tower Commercial LLC, a company which the former president owns a stake in, in December, the paper said.
This isn't the first time it has been reported that Trump transferred campaign money to his private businesses.
In July, The Washington Post's David Fahrenthold reported that Trump's campaign sent nearly $400,000 to the Trump Organization in just two days.
Documents showed that the campaign channeled $380,000 to the president's personal business in 43 transactions, Fahrenthold said.
This comes when the former president is said to be looking for ways to cash in on his post-presidency to address potentially huge debt.
The Trump Organization owes $400 million, according to Forbes.
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johnboylong40
On Fox News, suddenly a very different tune about the coronavirus.
For weeks, some of Fox News’s hosts downplayed the threat of the coronavirus, characterizing it as a conspiracy by media organizations and Democrats to undermine President Trump.
Sean Hannity and Laura Ingraham accused the news media of whipping up “mass hysteria” and being “panic pushers.” Trish Regan called the Main Stream Media response “yet another attempt to impeach the president.”
But that was then.
When Trump’s declared a national emergency, the tone on Fox News has quickly shifted. Hannity, suddenly the lauded the president’s handling of what the host is now, belatedly, referring to as a “crisis.”
“Tonight, we are witnessing what will be a massive paradigm shift in the future of disease control and prevention,” he said. “A bold, new precedent is being set, the world will once again benefit greatly from America’s leadership. . . . The federal government, state governments, private businesses, top hospitals all coming together, under the president’s leadership, to stem the tide of the coronavirus.”
In a complicated dance to mirror the president, Trump’s allies on Fox News took the same stance as the president for several weeks — that this coronavirus that had sickened and killed thousands of people in China was no worse a threat than the seasonal flu.
Just a week ago, Hannity shrugged at the pandemic. “So far in the United States, there’s been around 30 deaths, most of which came from one nursing home in the state of Washington,” he said, “Healthy people, generally, 99 percent recover very fast, even if they contract it.”
By way of comparison, he added: “Twenty-six people were shot in Chicago alone over the weekend. I doubt you heard about it. You notice there’s no widespread hysteria about violence in Chicago. And this has gone on for years and years. By the way, Democratic-run cities, we see a lot of that.”
Ingraham, also had a fast-dawning recognition that the social and economic dislocation of the virus was more than just a Democratic talking point wielded against the president.
In late February, Ingraham called Democrats the “pandemic party” and displayed photos of House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) and Senate Minority Leader Charles E. Schumer (D-N.Y.) alongside enlarged images of coronavirus molecules. “How sick that these people seem almost happiest when Americans are hurting,” she said.
She kept at it through last Tuesday when, in front of a graphic reading “Trump confronts the panic pushers,” Ingraham said, “The public in some ways seems a lot more levelheaded than the so-called experts. . . . The facts are actually pretty reassuring, but you’d never know it watching all this stuff.”
On Friday, Ingraham tweeted that it was a “great time to fly if not in at-risk population!” The tweet was later deleted.
By Wednesday, after Trump announced a travel ban on people from the European Union, Ingraham had started calling the pandemic “this dangerous health crisis.” She characterized warnings issued by National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases head Anthony S. Fauci about the potential spread of the disease as “sobering and scary to hear.”
Regan’s on-air speculation at the start of last week that coronavirus was merely another impeachment gambit for Democrats drew widespread pushback. Clearly the mood was changing at Fox by the time the network announced late Friday that her discussion-and-commentary program on Fox Business would leave the air indefinitely.
Tucker Carlson too, blamed the “corrupt” media. But in a monologue that many took at an indirect scolding of the president, he also complained that “none of our leaders helped us to take it seriously. . . . People you trust, people you probably voted for, have spent weeks minimizing what is clearly a very serious problem. It’s just partisan politics, they say. ‘Calm down. In the end, this is just like the flu and people die from that every year. Coronavirus will pass, and when it does, we will feel foolish for worrying about it.’ That’s their position. . . . But they’re wrong.”
Days earlier, Carlson attended the birthday party of former Fox News host Kimberly Guilfoyle, who is dating Donald Trump Jr.
In comments downplaying the pandemic on March 7, Jeanine Pirro, offered “All the talk about coronavirus being so much more deadly [than the flu] doesn’t reflect reality.” She reiterated Trump’s comment that the infection rate will drop “as the weather warms.”
On the “Fox & Friends” program Friday, Liberty University President Jerry Falwell Jr. spun out a meandering tale advancing the baseless notion that the coronavirus was designed by North Korean and Chinese scientists to harm Americans.
The program’s three co-hosts offered no objections. Host Steve Doocy moved on to asking Falwell about Liberty’s plans to cancel classes.
Then on Sunday, Rep. Devin Nunes (R-Calif.) appeared on Fox News and urged Americans to “stop panicking” and for those who are healthy to “just go out.”
Said Nunes: “There’s a lot of concerns with the economy here because people are scared to go out. But I will just say one of the things you can do if you’re healthy, you and your family, it’s a great time to just go out, go to a local restaurant.”
Anchor Maria Bartiromo offered no response to Nunes’s comment. On Monday, a day later, Fox News contributor Nicole Saphier, a doctor, specifically called out the congressman on air to contradict his advice and told viewers to stay home.
This is a quick summation of how Faux news has become nothing more than a platform for Trumpian Propaganda.
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Is Treasonous Trump is mentally ill?
Signs and symptoms of narcissistic personality disorder and the severity of symptoms vary. People with the disorder can:
Have an exaggerated sense of self-importance
Have a sense of entitlement and require constant, excessive admiration
Expect to be recognized as superior even without achievements that warrant it
Exaggerate achievements and talents
Be preoccupied with fantasies about success, power, brilliance, beauty or the perfect mate
Believe they are superior and can only associate with equally special people
Monopolize conversations and belittle or look down on people they perceive as inferior
Expect special favors and unquestioning compliance with their expectations
Take advantage of others to get what they want
Have an inability or unwillingness to recognize the needs and feelings of others
Be envious of others and believe others envy them
Behave in an arrogant or haughty manner, coming across as conceited, boastful and pretentious
Insist on having the best of everything — for instance, the best car or office
At the same time, people with narcissistic personality disorder have trouble handling anything they perceive as criticism, and they can:
Become impatient or angry when they don't receive special treatment
Have significant interpersonal problems and easily feel slighted
React with rage or contempt and try to belittle the other person to make themselves appear superior
Have difficulty regulating emotions and behavior
Experience major problems dealing with stress and adapting to change
Feel depressed and moody because they fall short of perfection
Have secret feelings of insecurity, shame, vulnerability and humiliation
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Trump touts Putin’s speaking out against his impeachment
A souvenir shop in Moscow displays Matryoshka dolls featuring President Trump and Russian President Vladimir Putin. (Misha Friedman/AFP/Getty Images)
By Colby Itkowitz and Isabelle Khurshudyan
December 21 at 10:31 AM MT
Late Friday night, minutes before deplaning in Florida for the holidays, President Trump retweeted a link to an article in which Russian President Vladimir Putin defended him against impeachment.
“A total Witch Hunt!” the president tweeted at 10:30 p.m., as he shared a 36-hour-old Associated Press tweet that read: “BREAKING: Russian President Vladimir Putin says U.S. President Donald Trump’s impeachment is far-fetched and predicts the U.S. Senate will reject it.”
Trump’s boasting of Putin’s support comes a day after The Washington Post reported that White House advisers feared Trump’s belief that Ukraine, not Russia, was responsible for interfering with the 2016 election was spurred by conversations Trump had with Putin.
[[Former White House officials say they feared Putin influenced the president’s views on Ukraine and 2016 campaign]]
Trump’s critics responded to the tweet, expressing exasperation more than incredulity.
“At the end of the day, it’s always Putin First,” wrote conservative commentator and “Never Trumper” Bill Kristol.
Russian President Vladimir Putin accused the U.S. House of Representatives Dec. 19 of having "invented" a story to "revise" history and impeach President Trump. (Reuters)
“Trump wants us to know that Putin has his back. We know,” tweeted Eric Columbus, a former Justice Department appointee in the Obama administration.
“Putin is a dictator who jails opponents, kills opponents, invades neighbors, interferes in democracies’ elections, etc. I don’t think an American president should be buddying with him. I wonder if Trump defenders are ever (secretly) embarrassed by this stuff. I hope so,” wrote Jay Nordlinger, a senior editor at the right-leaning National Review.
At his annual end-of-the-year news conference on Thursday, Putin was asked about Trump’s impeachment. He called the charges “completely fabricated reasons.”
[[Putin stays in Trump’s corner on impeachment]]
That evening, Russian state media, which follows Putin’s lead, also threw its support behind Trump.
Donald Trump is the third president in U.S. history to face a Senate trial. (The Washington Post)
Popular Kremlin propagandist Vladimir Soloviev gave an impassioned defense of Trump on his evening show, raising his voice several times in a discussion with Atlantic Council expert Ariel Cohen.
“I can’t understand for what reason [Democrats] don’t like Trump,” Soloviev said.
Days earlier, on his two-hour Sunday night program, anchor Dmitry Kiselyov opined about how Hollywood has joined the Democrats in being against Trump, portraying him as “always on the dark side.”
And the state-sponsored Rossiya-1 news channel, which airs Soloviev’s show, recently broadcast segments of Rudolph W. Giuliani’s interview with right-wing channel One America News, in which the president’s personal attorney promoted debunked conspiracy theories about Ukrainian interference in the 2016 U.S. presidential election.
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Republicans are blaming renewable energy, when it’s the state’s powerful deregulated utilities that failed to prepare for the worst.Texans are also furious about how their state’s ruinous laissez-faire governance led to a cascade of human-caused disasters of epic. In general, there’s a natural gas storage problem in Texas. Utility companies didn’t bother to have gas reserves: It’s easier, cheaper and more profitable to tap the gas in the field with a pipeline.
After a cold snap in 2011, the power companies were supposed to better winterize their plants. Ten years later, they hadn’t done it. It’s hard to believe they couldn’t afford it: Oncor, the giant power utility serving Dallas, reported $651 million in net income in 2019.
As the cold froze Oklahoma and sent temperatures in Dallas to lows not seen in over a century, the natural gas industry were unable to deliver more gas even if it was purchased. Wellheads in the Permian Basin froze solid. Pipelines leaked water, which, in turn, turned metal and gas into useless, immovable ice.
The crisis dates back to the 1930s, when the Federal Power Commission gained the authority to regulate interstate transmission of electric power. But politicians in Texas didn’t want Washington regulating the electricity business and chipping away at those hefty profits.
So the business went entirely unregulated until the formation of the Electric Reliability Council of Texas (ERCOT) in the 1970s. But ERCOT has been anything but reliable. While it is technically overseen by the state, its board is really just an industry club. Several of its members don’t even live in Texas.
After taking a beating on Twitter, Mr. Abbott tried to blame the renewable energy industry, a talking point that caught fire among conservatives. Renewables like wind and solar can contribute up to 20 percent of the Texas power grid, but just 7 percent of the winter grid, with 80 percent coming from natural gas, coal and a bit of nuclear power. While some wind turbines in Texas froze, many of them kept turning.
Yet another example of Fakenews- media spewing Propaganda.
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Vinyl Rebel
On Fox News, suddenly a very different tune about the coronavirus.
For weeks, some of Fox News’s hosts downplayed the threat of the coronavirus, characterizing it as a conspiracy by media organizations and Democrats to undermine President Trump.
Sean Hannity and Laura Ingraham accused the news media of whipping up “mass hysteria” and being “panic pushers.” Trish Regan called the Main Stream Media response “yet another attempt to impeach the president.”
But that was then.
When Trump’s declared a national emergency, the tone on Fox News has quickly shifted. Hannity, suddenly the lauded the president’s handling of what the host is now, belatedly, referring to as a “crisis.”
“Tonight, we are witnessing what will be a massive paradigm shift in the future of disease control and prevention,” he said. “A bold, new precedent is being set, the world will once again benefit greatly from America’s leadership. . . . The federal government, state governments, private businesses, top hospitals all coming together, under the president’s leadership, to stem the tide of the coronavirus.”
In a complicated dance to mirror the president, Trump’s allies on Fox News took the same stance as the president for several weeks — that this coronavirus that had sickened and killed thousands of people in China was no worse a threat than the seasonal flu.
Just a week ago, Hannity shrugged at the pandemic. “So far in the United States, there’s been around 30 deaths, most of which came from one nursing home in the state of Washington,” he said, “Healthy people, generally, 99 percent recover very fast, even if they contract it.”
By way of comparison, he added: “Twenty-six people were shot in Chicago alone over the weekend. I doubt you heard about it. You notice there’s no widespread hysteria about violence in Chicago. And this has gone on for years and years. By the way, Democratic-run cities, we see a lot of that.”
Ingraham, also had a fast-dawning recognition that the social and economic dislocation of the virus was more than just a Democratic talking point wielded against the president.
In late February, Ingraham called Democrats the “pandemic party” and displayed photos of House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) and Senate Minority Leader Charles E. Schumer (D-N.Y.) alongside enlarged images of coronavirus molecules. “How sick that these people seem almost happiest when Americans are hurting,” she said.
She kept at it through last Tuesday when, in front of a graphic reading “Trump confronts the panic pushers,” Ingraham said, “The public in some ways seems a lot more levelheaded than the so-called experts. . . . The facts are actually pretty reassuring, but you’d never know it watching all this stuff.”
On Friday, Ingraham tweeted that it was a “great time to fly if not in at-risk population!” The tweet was later deleted.
By Wednesday, after Trump announced a travel ban on people from the European Union, Ingraham had started calling the pandemic “this dangerous health crisis.” She characterized warnings issued by National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases head Anthony S. Fauci about the potential spread of the disease as “sobering and scary to hear.”
Regan’s on-air speculation at the start of last week that coronavirus was merely another impeachment gambit for Democrats drew widespread pushback. Clearly the mood was changing at Fox by the time the network announced late Friday that her discussion-and-commentary program on Fox Business would leave the air indefinitely.
Tucker Carlson too, blamed the “corrupt” media. But in a monologue that many took at an indirect scolding of the president, he also complained that “none of our leaders helped us to take it seriously. . . . People you trust, people you probably voted for, have spent weeks minimizing what is clearly a very serious problem. It’s just partisan politics, they say. ‘Calm down. In the end, this is just like the flu and people die from that every year. Coronavirus will pass, and when it does, we will feel foolish for worrying about it.’ That’s their position. . . . But they’re wrong.”
Days earlier, Carlson attended the birthday party of former Fox News host Kimberly Guilfoyle, who is dating Donald Trump Jr.
In comments downplaying the pandemic on March 7, Jeanine Pirro, offered “All the talk about coronavirus being so much more deadly [than the flu] doesn’t reflect reality.” She reiterated Trump’s comment that the infection rate will drop “as the weather warms.”
On the “Fox & Friends” program Friday, Liberty University President Jerry Falwell Jr. spun out a meandering tale advancing the baseless notion that the coronavirus was designed by North Korean and Chinese scientists to harm Americans.
The program’s three co-hosts offered no objections. Host Steve Doocy moved on to asking Falwell about Liberty’s plans to cancel classes.
Then on Sunday, Rep. Devin Nunes (R-Calif.) appeared on Fox News and urged Americans to “stop panicking” and for those who are healthy to “just go out.”
Said Nunes: “There’s a lot of concerns with the economy here because people are scared to go out. But I will just say one of the things you can do if you’re healthy, you and your family, it’s a great time to just go out, go to a local restaurant.”
Anchor Maria Bartiromo offered no response to Nunes’s comment. On Monday, a day later, Fox News contributor Nicole Saphier, a doctor, specifically called out the congressman on air to contradict his advice and told viewers to stay home.
This is a quick summation of how Faux news has become nothing more than a platform for Trumpian Propaganda.
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@reflectionsinthebible3579
2 Corinthians 11:13-15
“For such men are false apostles, deceitful workmen, disguising themselves as apostles of Christ. And no wonder, for even SATAN disguises himself as an angel of light. So it is no surprise if his servants, also, disguise themselves as servants of righteousness. Their end will correspond to their deeds.”
NEO NAZISM: A Ultra Rightwing ideology that embraces Authoritarianism, Xenophobia, Homophobia, Ableism, Anti Semitism, Cultism, The Big Lie(s), and The Stab In The Back Myth aka The “Stolen Election”.
HOW WILL YOU DEFEND YOURSELF BEFORE THE LORD ON JUDGMENT DAY?
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@ChristopherLeeHarper77 Useful Idiot: A Naive person who can be manipulated to advance a political agenda. e.g. Maga Mor Ons, Fox news, Donald Trump, James Comer, Marsha Blackburn, Marjorie Taylor Green, Jim Jordon, Matt Gaetz, Paul Gosar, Tucker Carlson, Sean Hannity, Laura Ingraham, Jesse Watters, etc…
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WASHINGTON — John H. Durham, the Trump-era special counsel scrutinizing the investigation into Russia’s 2016 election interference, distanced himself on Thursday from false reports by right-wing news outlets that a motion he recently filed said Hillary Clinton’s campaign had paid to spy on Trump White House servers.
Citing a barrage of such reports on Fox News and elsewhere based on the prosecutor’s Feb. 11 filing, defense lawyers for a Democratic-linked cybersecurity lawyer, Michael Sussmann, have accused the special counsel of including unnecessary and misleading information in filings “plainly intended to politicize this case, inflame media coverage and taint the jury pool.”
In a filing on Thursday, Mr. Durham defended himself, saying those accusations about his intentions were “simply not true.” He said he had “valid and straightforward reasons” for including the information in the Feb. 11 filing that set off the firestorm, while disavowing responsibility for how certain news outlets had interpreted and portrayed it.
“If third parties or members of the media have overstated or otherwise misinterpreted facts contained in the government’s motion, that does not in any way undermine the valid reasons for the government’s inclusion of this information,” he wrote.
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THE CRAZIES IN THE GOP
A clear indication that Marjorie Taylor Greene was more than a dabbler in QAnon was her 2018 endorsement of “Frazzledrip,” one of the most grotesque tendrils of the movement’s mythology. You “have to go down a number of rabbit holes to get that far,” said Mike Rothschild, whose book about QAnon.
The lurid fantasy of Frazzledrip refers to an imaginary video said to show Hillary Clinton and her former aide, Huma Abedin, assaulting a young girl, and drinking her blood. It holds that several cops saw the video, and Clinton had them killed.
Greene posted a picture of Donald Trump superimposed with the mother of the slain N.Y.P.D. officer Miosotis Familia on Facebook, one of her Frazzledrip fans wrote, “This was another Hillary hit.” Greene replied, “Yes it is, I post things sometimes to see who knows things. Most the time people don’t. I’m glad to see your comment.”
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TRUMP OWES HUNDREDS OF MILLION TO RUSSIA & CHINA.
IS HE KOMPROMISED?
Americans do not know how many hundreds of millions Donald Trump’s business owe Russia or China, but we need to know.
In 2008, Donald Trump Jr. told attendees at a real estate conference in New York City that “Russians make up a pretty disproportionate cross-section of a lot of our assets. We see a lot of money pouring in from Russia.” Sergei Millian, the president of the U.S. Russian Chamber of Commerce and friend of Trump, claims in 2016 the figure is in the hundreds of millions.
Russians are not the only American adversaries to support Trump’s business. The state-owned Central Bank of China has loaned Trump hundreds of millions of dollars. The New York Times has reported that American companies owned by Trump have at least $650 million in debt and the Bank of China is among the lenders. Jared Kushner received a $550 million loan from the state-owned CBC in 2017. This was one of the reasons the FBI would not give Kushner a Security Clearance, this and Jared & Ivanka’s “unusual” ties to CCP notables. We need to know how much Trump and his businesses owe Chinese banks as well as Russian oligarchs.
Trump has praised Russian President Vladimir Putin while hiring pro-Russian advisers to fill top campaign positions. Paul Manafort served as Trump’s campaign chairman until scrutiny over his consulting and lobbying work for Viktor Yanukovych, the Russian-backed former president of Ukraine, forced his resignation. Carter Page served as a foreign policy adviser for Trump until U.S. intelligence officials began looking into whether Mr. Page had opened a line of communication with senior Russian officials to discuss lifting economic sanctions on Russia should Trump win the presidency. These sanctions were imposed on Russia following Putin’s invasion of Crimea and Eastern Ukraine. Trump’s military advisor, retired Lt. Gen. Michael Flynn, unfortunately allowed himself to be used as a validator for Russian propaganda last year when he was seated near Putin at a Moscow gala celebrating Russia Today. Russia Today TV is Putin’s propaganda machine.
In summary you all are freaked out by Hunter Biden being slimy but Trump, Don Jr., Eric, Ivanka, and Jared make Hunter look like an armature. Your Hypocrisy STINKS all the way through the Internet.
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“I no longer recognize my party”
Why Hundreds of Thousands of Republicans Are Leaving the Crazed Party
Voting registration data indicates a strong and unusual flight from the G.O.P. since the Capitol riot, with an intensely fluid period in American politics now underway.
In the days and weeks after the storming of the Capitol by Trump supporters on Jan. 6, hundreds of thousands of Republicans left the party. After the Jan. 6 attack on the Capitol, the phone lines and websites of local election officials across the country were jumping: Tens of thousands of Republicans were calling or logging on to switch their party affiliations.
In California, more than 33,000 registered Republicans left the party during the three weeks after the Washington riot. In Pennsylvania, more than 12,000 voters left the G.O.P. in the past month, and more than 10,000 Republicans changed their registration in Arizona.
An analysis of January voting records found that nearly 140,000 Republicans had quit the party in 25 states that had readily available data (19 states do not have registration by party). Voting experts say this is the start of a particularly damaging period for G.O.P. registrations as voters recoil from the Capitol violence and its fallout.
Among those who recently left the party are Juan Nunez, 56, an Army veteran in Mechanicsburg, Pa. He said he had long felt that the difference between the United States and many other countries was that campaign-season fighting ended on Election Day, when all sides would peacefully accept the result. The Jan. 6 riot changed that, he said.
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The Ultra Conservative New York Post gave Trump a blistering rebuke demanding that he grow up and accept his loss to President-elect Joe Biden and stop falsely claiming that mass voter fraud had marred the results — an effort the paper labeled a “dark charade.”
“We understand, Mr. President, that you’re angry that you lost,” the editorial board wrote. “But to continue down this road is treasonous.”
Under the headline “Stop the insanity,” the conservative tabloid took particular aim at Trump’s attempts to pressure Vice President Pence and congressional Republicans to somehow Throwout the result when they meet on Jan. 6 to certify Biden’s electoral college victory.
“You have tweeted that, as long as Republicans have ‘courage,’ they can overturn the results and give you four more years in office,” the Post wrote. “In other words, you’re cheering for an undemocratic coup.”
The article also reminded Trump that he had clearly failed in his attempts to prove voter fraud propelled Biden to victory.
“You had every right to investigate the election. But let’s be clear: Those efforts have found nothing,” the Post wrote, noting that Trump-backed recounts in Wisconsin and Georgia had turned up no evidence of malfeasance.
The editorial also lashed out at Sidney Powell, whose “Kraken” lawsuits seeking to overturn the election results have repeatedly been tossed out of court, and Michael Flynn, the former national security adviser who has floated the idea of declaring martial law to keep Trump in power.
“Michael Flynn suggesting martial law is tantamount to treason. It is shameful.”
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Treasonous Trump Lies Again using over $400 million in tax payer money to prop up his failing properties.
President Trump’s company charges the Secret Service for the rooms agents use while protecting him at his luxury properties — billing U.S. taxpayers at $650 per night, according to federal records and people who have seen receipts.
New documents obtained under the Freedom of Information Act reveal the rates the Secret Service paid at President Trump's priorities. (Zach Purser Brown/The Washington Post)
And at the Trump National Golf Club Bedminster, the Secret Service was charged $17,000 a month to use a three-bedroom cottage on the property, an unusually high rent for homes in that area, according to receipts from 2017. Trump’s company billed the government even for days when Trump wasn’t there.
The full extent of the Secret Service’s payments to Trump’s company is not known as Steven Mnuchin, Secretary of The Treasury refuses to release information even though the Secret Service is required to report payments over $10,000.
The records show more than $471,000,00 in payments from taxpayers to Trump’s companies. But — because these records cover only a fraction of Trump’s travel during a fraction of his term — the actual total is likely to be higher. It appears that TT is using tax payer money to prop up his failing properties. “We provide the rooms at cost and could make far more money renting them to members or guests,” Trump Organization Executive Vice President Eric Trump said in a statement: “If he stays at one of his places, the government actually . . . saves a fortune because, if they were to go to a hotel across the street, they’d be charging them $500 a night, whereas, you know we charge them, like 50 bucks,” Eric Trump said. That statement appears to be a lie.
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WHEN GOOD PEOPLE DON’T ACT, EVIL REIGNS:
How did the trans-Atlantic slave trade play out over hundreds of years?
How did slavery thrive in this country?
How was the Holocaust allowed to happen?
How did the genocides in Rwanda or Darfur come to be?
It turns out that our current era is providing the unsettling answer: It was easy. As Edmund Burke said: “The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.” If you don’t complain, you condone.
Gather the energy. Gather your neighbor. Fight, vote, email, post. Do all you can to stand up for the vulnerable, for the oppressed, for our Constitution, and for our Democratic Values. Don’t let history record this moment as it has recorded too many others: a time when good people did too little to confront the wickedness and disaster of Trumpian Neo Nazism. In November America has a clear choice, do nothing to confront Trumpian Evil, or vote to sweep the Evil out of office and began the long painful process of Restoring Our Democracy and Democratic Institutions.
As Edmund Burke wrote: “When bad men combine, the good must associate; else they will fall, one by one, an unpitied sacrifice in a contemptible struggle.”
But you may be more familiar with another quote often attributed to Burke: “The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.”
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“I no longer recognize my party”
Why Hundreds of Thousands of Republicans Are Leaving the Crazed Party
Voting registration data indicates a strong and unusual flight from the G.O.P. since the Capitol riot, with an intensely fluid period in American politics now underway.
In the days and weeks after the storming of the Capitol by Trump supporters on Jan. 6, hundreds of thousands of Republicans left the party. After the Jan. 6 attack on the Capitol, the phone lines and websites of local election officials across the country were jumping: Tens of thousands of Republicans were calling or logging on to switch their party affiliations.
In California, more than 33,000 registered Republicans left the party during the three weeks after the Washington riot. In Pennsylvania, more than 12,000 voters left the G.O.P. in the past month, and more than 10,000 Republicans changed their registration in Arizona.
An analysis of January voting records found that nearly 140,000 Republicans had quit the party in 25 states that had readily available data (19 states do not have registration by party). Voting experts say this is the start of a particularly damaging period for G.O.P. registrations as voters recoil from the Capitol violence and its fallout.
Among those who recently left the party are Juan Nunez, 56, an Army veteran in Mechanicsburg, Pa. He said he had long felt that the difference between the United States and many other countries was that campaign-season fighting ended on Election Day, when all sides would peacefully accept the result. The Jan. 6 riot changed that, he said.
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So Trump partied with Epstein many times and at least one documented time, alone with Epstein and 28 “girls”:
WASHINGTON — It was supposed to be an exclusive party at Mar-a-Lago, Donald J. Trump’s members-only club in Palm Beach, Fla. But other than the two dozen or so women flown in to provide the entertainment, the only guests were Mr. Trump and Jeffrey Epstein.
“I arranged to have some girls to fly in,” Mr. Houraney recalled in an interview on Monday. “At the very first party, I said, ‘Who’s coming tonight? I have 28 girls coming.’ It was him and Epstein.”
Mr. Houraney, who had just partnered with Mr. Trump to host events at his casinos, said he was surprised. “I said, ‘Donald, this is supposed to be a party with V.I.P.s. You’re telling me it’s you and Epstein?’”
Before Mr. Epstein pleaded guilty to the charges, and was mainly known as a reclusive, sweat-shirt-sporting billionaire who liked the company of young women, Mr. Trump spoke enthusiastically about their relationship: “I’ve known Jeff for 15 years. Terrific guy,” Mr. Trump told New York magazine in 2002. “He’s a lot of fun to be with. It is even said that he likes beautiful women as much as I do, and many of them are on the younger side.”
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texascpa
Trump Pays $2 Million to 8 Charities for Misuse of Foundation
Under a settlement, the president admitted he had used his charity to bolster his campaign and settle business debts.
The payments were part of a settlement announced last month that capped a drawn-out legal battle. In the end, the president admitted in court documents that he had used the foundation to settle legal obligations of his businesses and even to purchase a portrait of himself.
As part of the settlement, Mr. Trump, who at first dismissed the suit as a political attack, made 19 detailed admissions, acknowledging, for example, that the foundation had purchased the $10,000 portrait of himself that was ultimately displayed at one of his Florida hotels.
He admitted to using the foundation’s money to settle obligations of some of his for-profit companies, including a golf club in Westchester County, N.Y., and Mar-a-Lago, his private club in Florida which he frequently visits.
And he admitted that the foundation had given his presidential campaign control over about $2.8 million that the foundation had raised at a veterans fund-raiser in Iowa in January 2016. Mr. Trump acknowledged the fund-raiser was in fact a campaign event.
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WHEN GOOD PEOPLE DON’T ACT, EVIL REIGNS:
How did the trans-Atlantic slave trade play out over hundreds of years?
How did slavery thrive in this country?
How was the Holocaust allowed to happen?
How did the genocides in Rwanda or Darfur come to be?
It turns out that our current era is providing the unsettling answer: It was easy. As Edmund Burke said: “The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.” If you don’t complain, you condone.
Gather the energy. Gather your neighbor. Fight, vote, email, post. Do all you can to stand up for the vulnerable, for the oppressed, for our Constitution, and for our Democratic Values. Don’t let history record this moment as it has recorded too many others: a time when good people did too little to confront the wickedness and disaster of Trumpian Neo Nazism. In November America has a clear choice, do nothing to confront Trumpian Evil, or vote to sweep the Evil out of office and began the long painful process of Restoring Our Democracy and Democratic Institutions.
As Edmund Burke wrote: “When bad men combine, the good must associate; else they will fall, one by one, an unpitied sacrifice in a contemptible struggle.”
But you may be more familiar with another quote often attributed to Burke: “The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.”
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TELLEMENT2000
“you have to know WHAT TO READ” You should read widely, deeply, and often. To read one book on a subject is like getting married after the first date. This is to say, that I have read 9 books on the topic and read virtually every article since that has come out in the WSJ, NYT, WAPO, NPR, and several documentaries by Frontline and other PBS programs.
The consensus I have garnered is that Cheney & Rumsfeld lied, they ignored all intelligence that did not fit their narrative. As the 23 July 2002 MI6 Downing Street Memo stated "[George W.] Bush wanted to remove Saddam Hussein, through military action, justified by the conjunction of terrorism and WMD. But the intelligence and facts were being fixed around the policy."
The fact that you have read ANY articles about the topic speaks volumes for you. Take that dive and love of reading, and go down the rabbit whole. Challenge your views with well researched and scholarly books and articles. You may not come out the other side in the same way I did but you will have a strong background in the complexity of the subject.
I wish you well.
Notice I always blame Cheney and Rumsfeld. I believe they were the true architects of the war - Bush was naive I followed their lead.
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TELLEMENT2000
I told you about my service to indicate that I am not automatically anti military nor anti military intervention.
I told you about voting twice for Bush to indicate I am not automatically anti Republican, but have voted Republican all my life until Trump came alone and turned the GOP into an unrecognizable far right Party.
It is unfortunate that you reject all scholarly works if they don’t come from within your world view Bubble. How can you discern the truth if you are not willing to listen to the reasonable facts presented by the defense and the prosecution? Some degree of bias is inherent in all scholarly works, as any scholar will admit, but it is the research & documentation that will always carry the day. The book club that I belong to is comprised of 9 Business Men, 2 Chemical Engineers, 1 Physicist, 2 Doctors, 1 Professor of Organic Chemistry, 1 Food Chemistry Eng., 1 Real Estate Pro, 1 Ret. Rancher, and 1 Ret. Green Beret. When we read a book we not only talk about the book, but we also talk about the scholarship and quality of research evident/or not evident in the book. The point being, that Fiasco is well worth reading on many levels.
As always I wish you well, I hope you will read good scholarly works always, read broadly, and read deeply down the rabbit hole. It is not that you have an opinion that makes you wise it is that you have a deep understanding of the subject.
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“There’s Nothing Left, I no longer recognize my party”
Why Hundreds of Thousands of Republicans Are Leaving the Party
Voting registration data indicates a strong and unusual flight from the G.O.P. since the Capitol riot, with an intensely fluid period in American politics now underway.
In the days and weeks after the storming of the Capitol by Trump supporters on Jan. 6, hundreds of thousands of Republicans left the party. After the Jan. 6 attack on the Capitol, the phone lines and websites of local election officials across the country were jumping: Tens of thousands of Republicans were calling or logging on to switch their party affiliations.
In California, more than 33,000 registered Republicans left the party during the three weeks after the Washington riot. In Pennsylvania, more than 12,000 voters left the G.O.P. in the past month, and more than 10,000 Republicans changed their registration in Arizona.
An analysis of January voting records found that nearly 140,000 Republicans had quit the party in 25 states that had readily available data (19 states do not have registration by party). Voting experts say this is the start of a particularly damaging period for G.O.P. registrations as voters recoil from the Capitol violence and its fallout.
Among those who recently left the party are Juan Nunez, 56, an Army veteran in Mechanicsburg, Pa. He said he had long felt that the difference between the United States and many other countries was that campaign-season fighting ended on Election Day, when all sides would peacefully accept the result. The Jan. 6 riot changed that, he said.
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Looking for Clinton’s “missing” emails
(VOLUME I, PP. 49, 62-63)
At a July 27, 2016, campaign rally, Mr. Trump said, “Russia, if you’re listening, I hope you’re able to find the 30,000 emails that are missing” — referring to Clinton emails reportedly stored on a personal server. “Within approximately five hours” of Mr. Trump’s remarks, according to the Mueller report, Russian military intelligence began a cyberattack against “Clinton’s personal office.”
After his July 27 comment, the report states, Mr. Trump “asked individuals affiliated with his campaign to find the deleted Clinton emails” — including Michael Flynn.
Mr. Flynn, in turn, reached out to a Republican Senate staffer and a party operative who worked separately to obtain the emails. The operative raised money to support the project, which he marketed as “coordinated with the Trump campaign,” and told others that he was in communication with Russian hackers who had access to emails he believed were Mrs. Clinton’s. But Mr. Mueller “did not establish” that the operative had actually made contact with any real Russian hackers. And while the staffer obtained emails, an effort funded by a businessman close to the campaign found that they were not really Mrs. Clinton’s either.
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Trump Lies, Again, and Again, and Again...
“Saudi Arabia is paying for 100 percent of the cost, including the cost of our soldiers. The negotiation took a very short time — like, maybe, about 35 seconds.”
The Truth:
What caught our attention is that the president claims that Saudi Arabia will pay all of the costs — “100 percent” — of the deployment, including “the cost of our soldiers.” Some critics have charged that Trump is turning U.S. troops into mercenaries, available to the highest bidder. Since the president has a long history of inflating what he has supposedly negotiated, we thought we would investigate.
Notice that Trump claims he negotiated this deal in a “very short time — like, maybe, about 35 seconds.” In previous White Houses we have covered, such a stunning act of negotiation would be accompanied by readouts by presidential aides, eager to explain how such a coup came about.
But, in this case, just crickets from the White House, except for the bragging by the president himself. White House officials would not explain what Trump meant.
So, we checked with the Pentagon for more details on the supposed payment arrangement. Officials at the Defense Department deflected our inquiry, telling us to contact the State Department.
Hmmm, experience has taught us that this is a sign that any such deal is still under negotiation. Otherwise, the Pentagon would have been happy to discuss it.
Sure enough, we ended up with a carefully crafted statement from State that certainly reinforced that impression.
The core of the statement, attributed to a State Department spokesman, said: “While we will not comment on specific bilateral defense agreements, more broadly the United States encourages burden-sharing among partners in support of shared security interests, to include defense of the Arabian Gulf.”
Notice the “encourages burden-sharing” language. That certainly sounds like an aspiration, not a negotiated outcome. And the State Department won’t comment on a “specific bilateral defense agreement” even though the president is talking about it? That doesn’t make much sense.
We checked with the relevant committees in the House and the Senate — Defense, Foreign Affairs and Appropriations — and none could report an understanding of the president’s claim. The Saudi Embassy did not respond with an explanation, either.
When NBC News reported in July that U.S. troops were being dispatched to Prince Sultan Air Base, it quoted unnamed U.S. officials as saying that “Saudi Arabia has already agreed to pay some of the costs associated with having U.S. personnel and assets there.”
“Some” is clearly much less than 100 percent.
Neither the Pentagon nor the State Department would comment on that language, each telling The Fact Checker to discuss it with the other agency.
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thebear5454
dad bear
William H. McRaven, a retired Navy admiral, was commander of the U.S. Joint Special Operations Command from 2011 to 2014. He oversaw the 2011 Navy SEAL raid in Pakistan that killed al-Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden. He writes:
Dear Mr. President:
Former CIA director John Brennan, whose security clearance you revoked on Wednesday, is one of the finest public servants I have ever known. Few Americans have done more to protect this country than John. He is a man of unparalleled integrity, whose honesty and character have never been in question, except by those who don’t know him.
Therefore, I would consider it an honor if you would revoke my security clearance as well, so I can add my name to the list of men and women who have spoken up against your presidency.
Like most Americans, I had hoped that when you became president, you would rise to the occasion and become the leader this great nation needs.
A good leader tries to embody the best qualities of his or her organization. A good leader sets the example for others to follow. A good leader always puts the welfare of others before himself or herself.
Your leadership, however, has shown little of these qualities. Through your actions, you have embarrassed us in the eyes of our children, humiliated us on the world stage and, worst of all, divided us as a nation.
If you think for a moment that your McCarthy-era tactics will suppress the voices of criticism, you are sadly mistaken. The criticism will continue until you become the leader we prayed you would be.
NEED WE SAY MORE THAN THIS AMERICAN HERO? STAND UP AND BE COUNTED. VOTE THIS WOULD BE PETTY DICTATOR OUT OF OFFICE.
🇺🇸🗽🇺🇸
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Trump touts Putin’s speaking out against his impeachment
A souvenir shop in Moscow displays Matryoshka dolls featuring President Trump and Russian President Vladimir Putin. (Misha Friedman/AFP/Getty Images)
By Colby Itkowitz and Isabelle Khurshudyan
December 21 at 10:31 AM MT
Late Friday night, minutes before deplaning in Florida for the holidays, President Trump retweeted a link to an article in which Russian President Vladimir Putin defended him against impeachment.
“A total Witch Hunt!” the president tweeted at 10:30 p.m., as he shared a 36-hour-old Associated Press tweet that read: “BREAKING: Russian President Vladimir Putin says U.S. President Donald Trump’s impeachment is far-fetched and predicts the U.S. Senate will reject it.”
Trump’s boasting of Putin’s support comes a day after The Washington Post reported that White House advisers feared Trump’s belief that Ukraine, not Russia, was responsible for interfering with the 2016 election was spurred by conversations Trump had with Putin.
[[Former White House officials say they feared Putin influenced the president’s views on Ukraine and 2016 campaign]]
Trump’s critics responded to the tweet, expressing exasperation more than incredulity.
“At the end of the day, it’s always Putin First,” wrote conservative commentator and “Never Trumper” Bill Kristol.
Russian President Vladimir Putin accused the U.S. House of Representatives Dec. 19 of having "invented" a story to "revise" history and impeach President Trump. (Reuters)
“Trump wants us to know that Putin has his back. We know,” tweeted Eric Columbus, a former Justice Department appointee in the Obama administration.
“Putin is a dictator who jails opponents, kills opponents, invades neighbors, interferes in democracies’ elections, etc. I don’t think an American president should be buddying with him. I wonder if Trump defenders are ever (secretly) embarrassed by this stuff. I hope so,” wrote Jay Nordlinger, a senior editor at the right-leaning National Review.
At his annual end-of-the-year news conference on Thursday, Putin was asked about Trump’s impeachment. He called the charges “completely fabricated reasons.”
That evening, Russian state media, which follows Putin’s lead, also threw its support behind Trump.
Donald Trump is the third president in U.S. history to face a Senate trial.
Popular Kremlin propagandist Vladimir Soloviev gave an impassioned defense of Trump on his evening show, raising his voice several times in a discussion with Atlantic Council expert Ariel Cohen.
“I can’t understand for what reason [Democrats] don’t like Trump,” Soloviev said.
Days earlier, on his two-hour Sunday night program, anchor Dmitry Kiselyov opined about how Hollywood has joined the Democrats in being against Trump, portraying him as “always on the dark side.”
And the state-sponsored Rossiya-1 news channel, which airs Soloviev’s show, recently broadcast segments of Rudolph W. Giuliani’s interview with right-wing channel One America News, in which the president’s personal attorney promoted debunked conspiracy theories about Ukrainian interference in the 2016 U.S. presidential election.
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Trump’s budget is a tremendous fraud.
Remember when he said he would eliminate the federal debt, or at least halve it, during his presidency? His new budget adds another $3.4 trillion by 2024 to the debt on top of the $3 trillion Trump has already added.
Remember when he repeatedly promised not to “touch” Social Security and Medicare? His budget calls for removing $550 billion dollars of funding from the Medicare program, including $135 billion from Medicare prescription drugs, and tens of billions from the Social Security program.
Remember when he promised not to touch Medicaid? Now he wants to cut it by $920 billion.
Remember when he was going to give Americans health care “much better” than Obamacare. But he has proposed no such thing and now his budget calls for cutting spending on the program by $844 billion.
Remember when he vowed that his tax cuts would grow the economy by 4 percent, 5 percent or even 6 percent? Last year it grew at 2.3 percent, and his new budget, even with the rosiest of assumptions, projects 2.8 percent for this year - in other words little changed from Obama’s growth rates. Yet the budget would also devote another $1.4 trillion to extending those tax cuts, primarily for the rich.
Treasonous Trump, Con Man Extraordinaire.
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2008: Russians laundered millions through apartment sales at the Trump SoHo.
2008: A Russian oligarch bought a Palm Beach estate from Trump in 2008 for $95m, more than double what Trump had paid for it.
2008: 63 Russians, with Kremlin connections, spent $100m buying property fromTrump.
2008: Russian money & Latin Drug Lords pour money into Trump Panama properties.
Donny Sr 2008: “We have access to $100 million Line of Credit”
Q: Who is it? No American Bank will lend to you.
A: “I would rather not say”
Donny Jr. 2008: “We have Russians willing to lend us money”
Donny Jr. 2008: “Russians make up a pretty disproportionate cross-section of a lot of our assets. We have a lot of money pouring in from Russia."
2010: Alex Shnaider Ukrainian KleptoBillionaire ponies up $100 million to save Trump Toronto.
Eric Trump 2014: "Well, we don’t rely on American banks. We have all the funding we need out of Russia.' I said, 'Really?' And he said, 'Oh, yeah. We’ve got some guys that are really, really invested in our programs. We just go there all the time.”
Forbes 2020: Trump’s Russian Business Partners Allegedly Involved In Human Trafficking, Mafia Matters, and Probable Money Laundering.
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Bubbles
Though I agreed, as did most people including Democrats, with stoping non Americans from flying to and from China, it was a half measure at best. Note the words I used very carefully, it was a Ban but not a Travel Ban. All Americans were free to travel back and forth between China and the U.S. Take careful note of that exception. This is a prime example of how Faux news lies, or omits.
Now as for your charge against Hillary. While I am no fan boy of Hillary, she is slimy, she is also smart and skilled. So in summary, we would still have our Pandemic (you can slow it but not stop it), we would have had tests, masks, med supplies, and strong government coordination between state and local government. Truth matters, intelligence matters, competence matters.
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What is happening is not a coup, or even an attempt at a coup but a ham-handed effort to discredit the election outcome by any crackpot method available to sooth Trump’s ego. Scholars of real coups in other countries say that Trump has few of the ingredients necessary to pull off a coup — the international community despises him, the nation’s main media is still independent, an the armed forces think Trump is a joke. However, Trump is set to successfully pursue a slow-motion “con game,” pleading for donations by playing his supporters. He’s also crafting a “Stab in the Back” myth in hopes of returning to the WH in 2024.There is a fundamental difference between between a coup and a con. A coup is an illegitimate power grab by force. A con is a mostly criminal, unethical, or manipulative act. A con can become a coup if the con is successful — if enough people buy into the con then a Coup has occurred.
Though Trump will fail in his coup - this time - the fact that his fellow Republicans tacitly approved of his methods, or looked the other way dramatically weakens our Democratic Institutions. As Trump continues to spew crazy conspiracies, half truths, and outright lies more and more Republican voters will drift into delusion and violence.
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MARK HARLOW
I learned something today. I did not know the extent of Bill Clinton’s Draft activities. See Below:
First Pardoned Federal Felon ever to serve as President of the U.S.
Bill Clinton’s Draft Records from the Freedom of Information Act files show he was a Pardoned Federal Felon
* Bill Clinton registers for the draft on September 08, 1964, accepting all contractual conditions of registering for the draft. Given Selective Service Number 3 26 46 228.
* Bill Clinton classified 2-S on November 17, 1964.
* Bill Clinton reclassified 1-A on March 20, 1968.
* Bill Clinton ordered to report for induction on July 28, 1969.
* Bill Clinton dishonors order to report and is not inducted into the military.
* Bill Clinton reclassified 1-D after enlisting in the United States Army Reserves on August 07, 1969 under authority of Col. E. Holmes. Clinton signs enlistment papers and takes oath of enlistment.
* Bill Clinton fails to report to his duty station at the University of Arkansas ROTC, September 1969.
* Bill Clinton reclassified 1-A on October 30, 1969, as enlistment with Army Reserves is revoked by Colonel E. Holmes and Clinton now AWOL and subject to arrest under Public Law 90-40 (2)(a) ‘registrant who has failed to report … remain liable for induction’.
* Bill Clinton’s birth date lottery number is 311, drawn December 1, 1969, but anyone who has already been ordered to report for induction, is INELIGIBLE!
* Bill Clinton runs for Congress (1974), while a fugitive from justice under Public Law 90-40.
* Bill Clinton runs for Arkansas Attorney General (1976), while a fugitive from justice.
* Bill Clinton receives pardon on January 21, 1977 from Carter.
* Bill Clinton FIRST PARDONED FEDERAL FELON ever to serve as President.
All these facts come from Freedom of Information requests, public laws, and various books that have been published, and have not been refuted by Clinton.
I will say that I disliked Bill’s character and found him slimy. His policies were decent, for the most part, but I never voted for him.
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Trump Aide Has Mental Melt Down On Facebook.
Michael R. Caputo told his audience that left-wing hit squads were being trained for insurrection and accused C.D.C. scientists of “sedition.” He complained that he was under siege by the news media, feeling paranoid, and that his “mental health was failing.” He accused the CDC of harboring a “secret resistance unit” determined to undermine President Trump.
Mr. Caputo, who lead efforts to warp C.D.C. weekly bulletins to fit Mr. Trump’s pandemic narrative, suggested that he personally could be in danger from opponents of the administration. “If you carry guns, buy ammunition, ladies and gentlemen, because it’s going to be hard to get,” he urged his followers. “I don’t like being alone in Washington,” Mr. Caputo said, describing “shadows on the ceiling in my apartment, there alone, shadows are so long.” He also said the mounting number of Covid-19 deaths was taking a toll on him, telling his viewers, “You are not waking up every morning and talking about dead Americans. But you should attend Trump rallies and wear a mask”.
SOUNDS LIKE TRUMP ONLY HIRES THE BEST PEOPLE 🤪🤪🤪🤪
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WHEN GOOD PEOPLE DON’T ACT, EVIL REIGNS:
How did the trans-Atlantic slave trade play out over hundreds of years?
How did slavery thrive in this country?
How was the Holocaust allowed to happen?
How did the genocides in Rwanda or Darfur come to be?
It turns out that our current era is providing the unsettling answer: It was easy. As Edmund Burke said: “The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.” If you don’t complain, you condone.
Gather the energy. Gather your neighbor. Fight, vote, email, post. Do all you can to stand up for the vulnerable, for the oppressed, for our Constitution, and for our Democratic Values. Don’t let history record this moment as it has recorded too many others: a time when good people did too little to confront the wickedness and disaster of Trumpian Neo Nazism. In November America has a clear choice, do nothing to confront Trumpian Evil, or vote to sweep the Evil out of office and began the long painful process of Restoring Our Democracy and Democratic Institutions.
As Edmund Burke wrote: “When bad men combine, the good must associate; else they will fall, one by one, an unpitied sacrifice in a contemptible struggle.”
But you may be more familiar with another quote often attributed to Burke: “The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.”
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How TV Cable Companies Cover the Impeachment - an exercise in Propaganda:
Note: See if you can spot which company engages in Propaganda.
• CNN: EX-WHITE HOUSE AIDE: HIGHLY UNUSUAL EFFORT TO “LOCK DOWN”. TRANSCRIPT OF JULY 25 CALL WAS AN “ADMINISTRATIVE ERROR”
• Fox News: DEMS PRAISE VINDMAN FOR WORKING AGAINST TRUMP
• MSNBC: CONCLUDES AFTER MORE THAN 9 HOURS
At 9:13 p.m. that day, here’s what viewers saw.
• CNN: KEY WITNESSES QUESTIONED IN PUBLIC HEARINGS
• Fox News: SCHIFF STEERS IMPEACHMENT SHAM OFF A CLIFF / DEMS’ UKRAINE HOAX UNRAVELS ON CAPITOL HILL
• MSNBC: VINDMAN REASSURES SOVIET IMMIGRANT FATHER: HE WILL BE FINE FOR TELLING THE TRUTH / HOUSE INTEL COMPLETES 3RD DAY OF PUBLIC IMPEACHMENT HEARINGS
At 10:15 p.m.:
• CNN: SONDLAND TESTIFIES TOMORROW
• Fox News: VOLKER TESTIMONY UNDERMINES DEMS’ NARRATIVE
• MSNBC: IMPEACHMENT HEARING WRAPS AFTER 4 WITNESSES, 9+ HOURS / LT. COL VINDMAN, TRUMP’S TOP UKRAINE ADVISOR, TESTIFIES. TRUMP ACTED “IMPROPERLY” WHEN HE “DEMANDED” A FAVOR
At 10:51 p.m.:
• CNN: REPUBLICANS USE IMPEACHMENT HEARINGS TO QUESTION LOYALTY OF DECORATED ARMY VETERAN SPEAKING OUT AGAINST TRUMP
• Fox News: CHICK-FIL-A CAVES TO LIBERAL MOB
• MSNBC: EU AMB. GORDON SONDLAND TESTIFIES TOMORROW MORNING / SONDLAND WILL FACE QUESTIONS ABOUT PREVIOUSLY. UNKNOWN CALL TO TRUMP FROM RESTAURANT IN UKRAINE
Following day 8:12 p.m.:
• CNN: SONDLAND TIES PRES. TRUMP, VP PENCE, SECY. OF STATE POMPEO. AND WH CHIEF OF STAFF MULVANEY TO PRESSURE CAMPAIGN / SONDLAND: “EVERYONE WAS IN THE LOOP” ON UKRAINE PRESSURE
• Fox News: “NO QUID PRO QUO”
Half an hour later, while CNN was still covering Sondland’s testimony, Fox News was discussing the Clinton Foundation.
At 10:54 p.m., here’s what the two networks were showing viewers.
• CNN: SONDLAND: ‘YES’ THERE WAS QUID PRO QUO. IN UKRAINE SCANDAL
• Fox News: SWALWELL CAUSES A STINK
That latter text referred to a viral video clip that appeared to have captured the sound of flatulence while Rep. Eric Swalwell (D-Calif.) was appearing on MSNBC the previous day.
On Thursday, similar divides were on display. At 9:53 p.m., here’s what each network showed — perhaps the most representative comparison of any.
• CNN: NO REPUBLICANS BUDGE AFTER ALL THE FACTS, EVIDENCE REVEALED IN 3O+ HOURS OF PUBLIC TESTIMONY / MEMBERS OF PRESIDENT’S PARTY CROSSED AISLE IN NIXON & CLINTON IMPEACHMENT PROCEEDINGS, BUT NOT NOW
• Fox News: FBI OFFICIAL UNDER INVESTIGATION FOR ALLEGEDLY ALTERING DOC RELATED TO PAGE SURVEILLANCE, CNN REPORTS
• MSNBC: NIXON PLEDGED TO FIGHT TO KEEP HIS PRESIDENCY / IMPEACHMENT HEARING WITNESSES WRAP UP WEEK OF EXPLOSIVE TESTIMONY
There’s a reason that Trump’s current press secretary has only given interviews to Fox News and not other broadcast or major cable networks. Why would Trump need a White House communications director when he has a generously friendly cable network that’s already popular with the people he wants to talk to anyway?
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TRUMP & HIS MURDEROUS LIES
Trump has reached the milestone of 18,000 lies during his presidency. On this same day he accused the WHO of “covering up the spread of the coronavirus” and failing to “share information in a timely fashion.” He declared he was cutting off funding for the world’s public health body in the middle of a pandemic.
He also called WHO a “tool of China” and floated the theory that WHO deliberately concealed the danger of the virus: “There’s something going on” at the WHO “that’s very bad,” and "I have a feeling they knew exactly what was going on.”
This is a damnable and murderous lie as 15 Trump appointed officials were embedded with WHO in Geneva, working full time, hand-in-glove with the organization on the virus from the very first day China disclosed the outbreak to the world, Dec. 31. At least six other U.S. officials at WHO headquarters dedicated most of their time to the virus, and two others worked remotely with the WHO on covid-19 full time. In the weeks that followed, they and other U.S. government scientists engaged in all major deliberations and decisions at the WHO on the novel coronavirus, had access to all information, and contributed significantly to the world body’s conclusions and recommendations.
Everything that the WHO knew, the Trump administration knew — in real time. As congressional investigators who requested WHO documents and communications are now learning, senior Trump administration officials — Health and Human Services Secretary Alex Azar; the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s Robert R. Redfield Jr., Anne Schuchat, Ray R. Arthur and Jeffrey McFarland; the National Institutes of Health’s Anthony S. Fauci and H. Clifford Lane, and many others — consulted with the WHO throughout the crisis.
Trump lied and Americans Died - 33,500+ & Counting.
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dimsum1033
“It’s a Hoax”
“it will disappear”
“We have 1 case from China, we have it contained, we have doe a beautiful job containing it”
“We have 15 cases soon we will have none... no one could do it better”
“We have it contained, not air tight, but I would say air tight”
“China has done a marvelous job containing the virus”
“I’m not worried, there is nothing to fear”
“it’s no worse than the seasonal flu”
“In a couple of weeks we will have a vaccine”
“If you want to get tested you can get tested” No tests available nation wide at time.
“So if, you know, we have thousands or hundreds of thousands of people that get better, just by, you know, sitting around and even going to work, some of them go to work, but they get better,"
I could go on but I am sure your attention span isn’t that great.
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alan triplett
I believe you just described Fascism. Fascism is a form of Capitalism but it favors only a few - you can call then Oligarchs, as in Russia, or you can call them the 1%, as in the USA. This is the system that Treasonous Trump supports in tax policy, regulation - or roll back of regulation, enforcement or lack of enforcement, while also supporting traditional fascist ideas about race, anti rule of law, and corruption. In the end, if Treasonous Trump gets another 4 years, everyone will suffer, even the faithful.
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American Woman
dad bear
William H. McRaven, a retired Navy admiral, was commander of the U.S. Joint Special Operations Command from 2011 to 2014. He oversaw the 2011 Navy SEAL raid in Pakistan that killed al-Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden. He writes:
Dear Mr. President:
Former CIA director John Brennan, whose security clearance you revoked on Wednesday, is one of the finest public servants I have ever known. Few Americans have done more to protect this country than John. He is a man of unparalleled integrity, whose honesty and character have never been in question, except by those who don’t know him.
Therefore, I would consider it an honor if you would revoke my security clearance as well, so I can add my name to the list of men and women who have spoken up against your presidency.
Like most Americans, I had hoped that when you became president, you would rise to the occasion and become the leader this great nation needs.
A good leader tries to embody the best qualities of his or her organization. A good leader sets the example for others to follow. A good leader always puts the welfare of others before himself or herself.
Your leadership, however, has shown little of these qualities. Through your actions, you have embarrassed us in the eyes of our children, humiliated us on the world stage and, worst of all, divided us as a nation.
If you think for a moment that your McCarthy-era tactics will suppress the voices of criticism, you are sadly mistaken. The criticism will continue until you become the leader we prayed you would be.
NEED WE SAY MORE THAN THIS AMERICAN HERO? STAND UP AND BE COUNTED. VOTE THIS WOULD BE PETTY DICTATOR OUT OF OFFICE.
🇺🇸🗽🇺🇸
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Lincoln D
President Trump castigated the leaders of NATO allies to their faces during his trip to Europe this week, suggesting that many of them “owe massive amounts of money” to the alliance. Mr. Trump has a point, but he mischaracterizes the way it works.
What is Mr. Trump’s complaint?
“NATO members must finally contribute their fair share and meet their financial obligations, for 23 of the 28 member nations are still not paying what they should be paying and what they’re supposed to be paying for their defense,” he said.
Yes and No. NATO has a budget to cover common civilian and military costs, and some NATO-owned assets are also commonly funded when they are used in operations. The United States pays 22 percent of those costs, according to a formula based on national income. None of the NATO allies are in arrears on these contributions.
Mr. Trump is referring imprecisely to a goal NATO has set for each member to spend at least 2 percent of its gross domestic product on its own defense each year. He is correct that only five of the 28 members currently meet that goal, and they are the United States, Greece, Britain, Estonia and Poland.
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Are NATO nations violating a rule?
No. The 2 percent standard is just a guideline, not a legally binding requirement. In 2006, even as the United States was increasing military spending because of the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq, European allies were shrinking their military spending. NATO defense ministers that year adopted a guideline suggesting that each spend the equivalent of 2 percent of its annual economic output on its military — but it was a target, not a rule, and not endorsed by heads of state.
Only in 2014, after Russia annexed Crimea and intervened militarily in eastern Ukraine, did NATO leaders meeting in Wales agree to the 2 percent standard, and even then they urged members to “move toward” that goal by 2024, still seven years away.
Gary J. Schmitt, a scholar at the conservative American Enterprise Institute, said Mr. Trump was putting it in layman’s terms and “doesn’t care whether it’s technically accurate.”
But Mr. Schmitt identified two problems: “One, because it’s not technically correct, it is too easily dismissed by the very folks he wants to put pressure on. Two, and more important, it tends to bury the point that we’re invested in European security for our own strategic reasons.”
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THE PLOT TO BETRAY AMERICA
How Russia saw Trump: ‘A potential asset and an exploitable victim’
‘Wow,” Michael McFaul, a former U.S. ambassador to Moscow, exclaimed on Twitter in late October. “We still need to understand why Trump remains so intent on appeasing Putin.”
What set off McFaul was testimony from a top State Department official that “senior officials in the White House” had blocked the department from condemning Moscow for attacking Ukrainian ships in the Azov Sea. And on that day it was telling that even McFaul, a Kremlin-watcher for nearly 40 years, was struggling to put his finger on exactly what had driven the president of the United States into the Russian strongman’s arms, tugging the Republican Party along with him.
Trump’s affinity for Vladimir Putin seemed to glow red during a now-notorious 2018 Helsinki news conference when he sided with the former KGB agent’s denials of election interference over U.S. intelligence agencies’ findings. But so much else has erupted before and since, from revelations that he was secretly pursuing a Moscow hotel deal during the 2016 campaign, to exposés of his business relations with Russian oligarchs, to his continuing criticism of the NATO alliance, to his acquiescence to Russian troops taking over abandoned U.S. bases in Syria, to his pressure on Ukraine’s president to say publicly that Kyiv, not Moscow, had hacked the computers of the Democratic National Committee.
Why do once-loyal men go bad? Mole hunters have an acronym for it: MICE, which stands for money, ideology, coercion/compromise and ego/excitement. Trump qualifies for three out of four, in the telling of Nance (and many others who’ve long followed Trump’s career), that explain his attachment to Moscow. Ideology’s not one of them, notwithstanding Trump’s crude nationalist populism that in many ways apes Putin’s kleptocratic rule. According to New York state records revealed by the Smoking Gun, he changed party registrations at least five times over the years.
His first wife, Ivana, a native of communist Czechoslovakia, whose Moscow-controlled spy service, the StB, had long counted her father as an informant. Her 1977 marriage to Trump had prompted the Czechs to open a dossier on him. “We knew that Trump was influential. He didn’t hide that he wanted to become president one day,” the StB’s then-chief said years later. “We were interested in learning more things about him.”
Especially his weaknesses. In Trump, they found two, a hunger for money and a raging ego, not to mention a lust for beautiful women. They began dangling opportunities — the Miss Universe contest, Trump Tower Moscow. They treated him like a potentate, affording him the bedroom suite reserved for princes and presidents at the Moscow Ritz-Carlton. Then, in the wake of Trump’s Atlantic City bankruptcies, Trump found new sources of cash from Russian sources, including the Kremlin-connected Deutsche Bank, Russian oligarchs who bought luxury condos in Trump Tower and “New York City allies from the former Soviet Union” who partnered with him in real estate deals from SoHo to Baku. One of them, Felix Sater, would eventually be accused of laundering hundreds of millions of dollars stolen from a Kazakhstan bank “to develop a Trump Tower in Moscow,” according to a lawsuit reported by the Associated Press.
That Trump wanted the details of his financial sources kept secret (along with his tax returns) was all the better, Nance notes: It gave Putin a better hold on him, a tool for coercion.
From the beginning, Russia had used “the MICE strategy to bring him under its sway, as his interest in Russia clearly blinded him,” Nance theorizes. “He was a potential asset and an exploitable victim worth keeping.”
Judging by his Russia-related decisions and pronouncements, the strategy has worked. Trump has dismissed Moscow’s subversion of American politics and pursued debunked conspiracy theories tying Ukraine to Hillary Clinton’s campaign. Equally important to Moscow’s strategic goals, he’s disparaged NATO and, by championing Brexit, undermined the European Union.
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IT IS TRULY INTERESTING HOW WHAT WAS ONCE IMORAL IS NOW “JUST DOING BUSINESS”
Sen. Grassley's closed-door impeachment statement
Released into Congressional Record, February 12, 1999
Excerpts From Sen. Charles Grassley (R-Iowa) 1999 Speech on Clinton Impeachment:
Some say that this impeachment effort is part of a right-wing conspiracy, it is a Republican plot to get a Democratic President. Let's look at how we got here and see if that argument holds up.
We are here because the President did wrongful acts. We are here because of the independent counsel law.
Opponents called it a tool of partisan attack against Republican Presidents and a waste of taxpayer funds. It was neither.
Also under the law, the Attorney General can initiate the dismissal of an independent counsel if he oversteps his bounds or acts improperly. Not only was this never done by the President's Attorney General but, in contrast, she even agreed several times to expand his jurisdiction, including to cover the Monica Lewinsky matter.
Also under the law, the independent counsel is obliged to send to the House any evidences of crimes that might be impeachable.
In short, this case came about through a legitimate, legal process. It is a process that historically was vigorously defended by this side of the aisle. There are various checks and balances built into the process. They are designed to prevent abuse by the independent counsel, but they were never triggered, even though the President's own Attorney General could move for dismissal.
No, this President is in this predicament because of his own private wrongdoing and because of public policy he pursued. There is no conspiracy.
The President's actions are having a profound impact, of course, upon our society. His misdeeds have caused many to mistrust elected officials. Cynicism is swelling among the grassroots. His breach of trust has eroded the public's faith in the office of the Presidency. The President's wrongdoing has painted all of us in Washington with a very broad brush.
The true tragedy in this case is the collapse of the President's moral authority. He undermined himself when he wagged his finger and lied to our people on national television, denying that relationship with Ms. Lewinsky. That did more damage to his credibility than any other single act.
There was no better reason than that for the resignation of the President. I did not personally call for his resignation in August. That is something the President should decide on his own. But once you lose your moral authority to lead, you are a failure.
The Presidency is not merely an administrative office. . ..It is preeminently a place of moral leadership.
Mr. Clinton should take note.
Next, there is the issue of the abuse of power and authority. The President used his position to enter into an improper relationship with a subordinate--not just a subordinate, a young intern. He later used his power to find her a job.
Another abuse of power: The full powers of the White House were on lease to stonewall the process and to attack the credibility of those who investigated him.
This White House has perfected the art of stonewalling around the truth. I fear that future White Houses will learn much from these experts and will refine and improve their own truth-fighting arsenals. Truth and openness will be casualties.
Last, there is the issue of the poor example the President's actions serve for the Nation, especially for our youth. Is it now OK to lie because the President does it?
These are all questions and issues that emerge from the broader contours of this case, outside the narrow charges in the articles.
With respect to the impeachment charges, many of the President's arguments are based on contorted interpretations of the facts. These interpretations aren't credible. They represent lawyering at its best or, as some would say, at its worst.
It is clear to me that the President committed serious crimes when he coached his secretary, Betty Currie, and when he misled his aides, Sidney Blumenthal and John Podesta. Each of these aides ended up being a witness in official court proceedings. I believe, based on the evidence before the Senate, that the President lied to these witnesses so they would repeat those lies before official court proceedings. That is obstruction of justice.
Mr. Chief Justice, these actions weren't just outrageous, and, more important, morally wrong, but they were also illegal. They were a direct assault on the integrity of the judicial process. The President is guilty of the offenses charged under article II.
The President was not forthright when he testified before the grand jury. Time and time again, he gave answers that were misleading and sometimes deliberately false. The American people have a right to expect their President to be completely truthful, as they can expect you and me to be completely truthful. And the American people have a right to expect their President to be truthful, especially when placed under oath. I will vote guilty on article I as well.
Mr. Chief Justice, these were not easy decisions. They are the product of soul-searching, as it is for all of you. So they leave me with a good conscience. I believe my votes reflect the truth of what happened in this case.
The Senate is about to close this chapter in American history. It may or may not be the final chapter in this story. Nonetheless, our decision in this impeachment trial will stand against the test of time. You only truly understand the present when it is past. In that respect, future generations will serve as our jury and, in the end, history will serve as the final judge. Thank you.
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Jim Ellis
What happens if there is a hung jury?
When there are insufficient jurors voting one way or the other to deliver either a guilty or not guilty verdict, the jury is known as a “hung jury” or it might be said that jurors are “deadlocked”.
The judge may direct them to deliberate further, usually no more than once or twice. This direction is most commonly known as an Allen charge.
If a verdict still cannot be delivered, at some point the judge will declare a mistrial due to the hung jury. So if the Senate were a real jury, and legally it was not and is not a jury, then the verdict of not guilty can not be delivered.
In the event of a mistrial, the defendant is not convicted, but neither is the defendant acquitted. An acquittal results from a not guilty verdict and cannot be appealed by the prosecution, overturned by the judge, or retried. When there is a mistrial, however, the case may be retried.
It was my pleasure to educate you Moron. As I stated, the Senate does not function as a jury. I will provide you with the legal standing of the Senate in an Impeachment.
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JARED KUSHNER HAS CREATED A SHELL COMPANY TO FUNNEL CAMPAIGN CASH TO FAMILY MEMBERS.
Donald Trump and his family have spent the last four years making the airtight case that they view the presidency as simply a means to enrich themselves and their associates. They probably don’t particularly like that reputation and, yet, it hasn’t stopped them from funneling taxpayer money to their private business, gouging the Secret Service, and raising legal defense funds that the fine print says could go directly to their pockets. Oh, and, according to a new report, setting up a shell company that spent hundreds of millions of campaign dollars to pay Trump family members along with other expenditures it seemingly wanted to keep under wraps.
According to Business Insider, first son-in-law Jared Kushner personally approved the creation of the company, incorporated as American Made Media Consultants Corp. and American Made Media Consultants LLC, in April 2018. From there, Eric Trump’s wife, Lara Trump, was named president, with Mike Pence’s nephew John Pence serving as vice president. If you’re wondering why the shell company, described as Business Insider as acting “almost like a campaign within a campaign” was necessary, well, it’s not entirely clear, but it sure sounds like the express purpose was the ability to shield “financial and operational details from public scrutiny,” as it allowed the campaign to avoid federally mandated disclosures concerning what it was spending considerable amounts of money on. And by considerable we mean nearly half of the $1.26 billion raised for Trump’s reelection.
Campaign-finance records showed Trump's reelection effort and its affiliated committee with the RNC spent more than $600 million through American Made Consultants since its formation. For months, some of Trump’s top advisers and campaign staff told Insider they had no idea how the shell company functioned, which cast an air of mystery around the operation…. Some of those same advisers said they didn’t learn about John Pence’s and Lara Trump’s involvement until Insider contacted them for this story.
Campaign-law experts have long accused the Trump team of using a corporate pass-through to hide payments. The nonpartisan Campaign Legal Center, led by former Republican Federal Election Commission Chairman Trevor Potter, filed a civil complaint with the FEC in July accusing the Trump campaign of “disguising” about $170 million worth of campaign spending in large part “by laundering the funds” through AMMC. Brendan Fischer, the Campaign Legal Center’s director of federal reform, said the payments to AMMC were a “scheme to evade telling voters even the basics on where its money is really going” and a “shield to disguise the ultimate recipients of its spending.”
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JARED KUSHNER HAS CREATED A SHELL COMPANY TO FUNNEL CAMPAIGN CASH TO FAMILY MEMBERS.
Donald Trump and his family have spent the last four years making the airtight case that they view the presidency as simply a means to enrich themselves and their associates. They probably don’t particularly like that reputation and, yet, it hasn’t stopped them from funneling taxpayer money to their private business, gouging the Secret Service, and raising legal defense funds that the fine print says could go directly to their pockets. Oh, and, according to a new report, setting up a shell company that spent hundreds of millions of campaign dollars to pay Trump family members along with other expenditures it seemingly wanted to keep under wraps.
According to Business Insider, first son-in-law Jared Kushner personally approved the creation of the company, incorporated as American Made Media Consultants Corp. and American Made Media Consultants LLC, in April 2018. From there, Eric Trump’s wife, Lara Trump, was named president, with Mike Pence’s nephew John Pence serving as vice president. If you’re wondering why the shell company, described as Business Insider as acting “almost like a campaign within a campaign” was necessary, well, it’s not entirely clear, but it sure sounds like the express purpose was the ability to shield “financial and operational details from public scrutiny,” as it allowed the campaign to avoid federally mandated disclosures concerning what it was spending considerable amounts of money on. And by considerable we mean nearly half of the $1.26 billion raised for Trump’s reelection.
Campaign-finance records showed Trump's reelection effort and its affiliated committee with the RNC spent more than $600 million through American Made Consultants since its formation. For months, some of Trump’s top advisers and campaign staff told Insider they had no idea how the shell company functioned, which cast an air of mystery around the operation…. Some of those same advisers said they didn’t learn about John Pence’s and Lara Trump’s involvement until Insider contacted them for this story.
Campaign-law experts have long accused the Trump team of using a corporate pass-through to hide payments. The nonpartisan Campaign Legal Center, led by former Republican Federal Election Commission Chairman Trevor Potter, filed a civil complaint with the FEC in July accusing the Trump campaign of “disguising” about $170 million worth of campaign spending in large part “by laundering the funds” through AMMC. Brendan Fischer, the Campaign Legal Center’s director of federal reform, said the payments to AMMC were a “scheme to evade telling voters even the basics on where its money is really going” and a “shield to disguise the ultimate recipients of its spending.”
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Eastman admitted to Jacob that Trump’s Electors Coup would lose on the merits in the Supreme Court: “When I pressed him on the point, I said ‘John, if the vice president did what you were asking him to do, we would lose 9-0 in the Supreme Court, wouldn’t we?’ And he initially started at, ‘Well, I think maybe you would lose only 7-2,' and after some further discussion, acknowledged, ‘Well, yeah, you’re right, we would lose 9-0.’ ... [He] ultimately acknowledged that, no, we would lose 9-0 — no judge would support his argument.”
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EVERYTHING TRUMP ALWAYS COMES UP RUSSIA:
Trump Is a Con Man, but He’s Also a Mark.Corrupt forces find it easy to manipulate this president.
Kenneth McCallion is a New York lawyer who once represented former Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko of Ukraine. A few years ago, he brought a civil racketeering lawsuit on her behalf against some now familiar figures like Paul Manafort and the Ukrainian oligarch Dmitry Firtash. He knows a lot about corruption in Ukraine, and he said that earlier this year F.B.I. counterintelligence investigators approached him for information about Rudy Giuliani’s Ukrainian activities.
By then, McCallion had already been hearing strange things about what Lev Parnas and Igor Fruman, whom we now know as Giuliani’s close associates, were doing in Ukraine.
Parnas and Fruman, both American citizens born in the former Soviet Union, aren’t ordinary political operatives. Parnas has long been a low-level grifter. Fruman owns an Odessa beach club called Mafia Rave, and a joint investigation by the Organized Crime and Corruption Reporting Project and BuzzFeed News found ties between him and an Odessa organized crime figure named Volodymyr Galanternik, known as “Light Bulb.”
The duo first appeared on the American political scene in 2015 as enthusiastic supporters of Donald Trump. They became big-dollar donors to a number of Republicans; their Instagram accounts would soon fill up with photos of party elites. Then, this year, McCallion learned they were poking around Ukrainian politics, where they were spreading conspiracy theories that Ukraine, not Russia, had interfered in America’s election in 2016.
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How TV Cable Companies Cover the Impeachment - an exercise in Propaganda:
Note: See if you can spot which company engages in Propaganda.
• CNN: EX-WHITE HOUSE AIDE: HIGHLY UNUSUAL EFFORT TO “LOCK DOWN”. TRANSCRIPT OF JULY 25 CALL WAS AN “ADMINISTRATIVE ERROR”
• Fox News: DEMS PRAISE VINDMAN FOR WORKING AGAINST TRUMP
• MSNBC: CONCLUDES AFTER MORE THAN 9 HOURS
At 9:13 p.m. that day, here’s what viewers saw.
• CNN: KEY WITNESSES QUESTIONED IN PUBLIC HEARINGS
• Fox News: SCHIFF STEERS IMPEACHMENT SHAM OFF A CLIFF / DEMS’ UKRAINE HOAX UNRAVELS ON CAPITOL HILL
• MSNBC: VINDMAN REASSURES SOVIET IMMIGRANT FATHER: HE WILL BE FINE FOR TELLING THE TRUTH / HOUSE INTEL COMPLETES 3RD DAY OF PUBLIC IMPEACHMENT HEARINGS
At 10:15 p.m.:
• CNN: SONDLAND TESTIFIES TOMORROW
• Fox News: VOLKER TESTIMONY UNDERMINES DEMS’ NARRATIVE
• MSNBC: IMPEACHMENT HEARING WRAPS AFTER 4 WITNESSES, 9+ HOURS / LT. COL VINDMAN, TRUMP’S TOP UKRAINE ADVISOR, TESTIFIES. TRUMP ACTED “IMPROPERLY” WHEN HE “DEMANDED” A FAVOR
At 10:51 p.m.:
• CNN: REPUBLICANS USE IMPEACHMENT HEARINGS TO QUESTION LOYALTY OF DECORATED ARMY VETERAN SPEAKING OUT AGAINST TRUMP
• Fox News: CHICK-FIL-A CAVES TO LIBERAL MOB
• MSNBC: EU AMB. GORDON SONDLAND TESTIFIES TOMORROW MORNING / SONDLAND WILL FACE QUESTIONS ABOUT PREVIOUSLY. UNKNOWN CALL TO TRUMP FROM RESTAURANT IN UKRAINE
Following day 8:12 p.m.:
• CNN: SONDLAND TIES PRES. TRUMP, VP PENCE, SECY. OF STATE POMPEO. AND WH CHIEF OF STAFF MULVANEY TO PRESSURE CAMPAIGN / SONDLAND: “EVERYONE WAS IN THE LOOP” ON UKRAINE PRESSURE
• Fox News: “NO QUID PRO QUO”
Half an hour later, while CNN was still covering Sondland’s testimony, Fox News was discussing the Clinton Foundation.
At 10:54 p.m., here’s what the two networks were showing viewers.
• CNN: SONDLAND: ‘YES’ THERE WAS QUID PRO QUO. IN UKRAINE SCANDAL
• Fox News: SWALWELL CAUSES A STINK
That latter text referred to a viral video clip that appeared to have captured the sound of flatulence while Rep. Eric Swalwell (D-Calif.) was appearing on MSNBC the previous day.
On Thursday, similar divides were on display. At 9:53 p.m., here’s what each network showed — perhaps the most representative comparison of any.
• CNN: NO REPUBLICANS BUDGE AFTER ALL THE FACTS, EVIDENCE REVEALED IN 3O+ HOURS OF PUBLIC TESTIMONY / MEMBERS OF PRESIDENT’S PARTY CROSSED AISLE IN NIXON & CLINTON IMPEACHMENT PROCEEDINGS, BUT NOT NOW
• Fox News: FBI OFFICIAL UNDER INVESTIGATION FOR ALLEGEDLY ALTERING DOC RELATED TO PAGE SURVEILLANCE, CNN REPORTS
• MSNBC: NIXON PLEDGED TO FIGHT TO KEEP HIS PRESIDENCY / IMPEACHMENT HEARING WITNESSES WRAP UP WEEK OF EXPLOSIVE TESTIMONY
There’s a reason that Trump’s current press secretary has only given interviews to Fox News and not other broadcast or major cable networks. Why would Trump need a White House communications director when he has a generously friendly cable network that’s already popular with the people he wants to talk to anyway?
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BUZZTROLL Inc.
Let us talk about the Lunatic Fringe. Granted Treasonous Trump is probably not the Antichrist (the Antichrist would be better looking, much smarter, charismatic, and able to speak). However, TT has all the instincts to make him a future dictator. These include narcissism, lack of of empathy, megalomania, willingness to manufacture “the truth” or out right lie, etc. The only thing TT has been a little light on is the willingness to use violence - it’s there but not fully developed.
How many rabid followers does it take to convert a country to Fascism with a Dictator. Looking at Germany 1936 - 1938, most Historians agree it takes about 30% with an additional 10% who think it is a good idea at the time. All a future Dictator needs, other than disciples, is a crisis - such as impeachment - to act.
As for evil, evil people walk amongst us. They could be 10% of the population maybe 15%. What keeps them in check is Societal Norms. Dictators Left or Right exploit this people to be enforcers. All these people need is for a leader to tell them that it’s OK, it is condoned, nothing will happen to you for this.
This is one of the reasons that TTs pardoning of the soldiers was a bad idea. The military protects its own but there are limits. These limits are imposed to draw a distinction between a soldier and killer/psychopath.
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@scottbutler2343
President Donald Trump on Friday wrote in a signing statement accompanying the $2 trillion stimulus bill that he believes the inspector general overseeing a $500 billion relief fund for businesses will not have as much regulatory power as Democrats had sought.
The bill includes a $500 billion fund that companies, such as the struggling airlines, can tap to support their business. The fund is overseen by Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin. In original drafts of the Republican Senate bill, Mnuchin had wide discretion in overseeing that money. After criticisms from Democrats, Republicans agreed to add on a congressional oversight committee and Inspector General as added control measures.
The language gives the Inspector General power to report back to Congress information including the nature of the loan and its recipients. It has the power to make informational requests from other agencies “to extent practicable and not in contravention of any existing law.” It is required to let Congress know if those requests are blocked.
Trump, though, said Friday he believes the Inspector General needs his permission in order to make such reports to Congress.
“I do not understand, and my Administration will not treat, this provision as permitting the [the Inspector General] to issue reports to the Congress without the presidential supervision,” he wrote in a signing statement. A signing statement indicates how the president intends to interpret a law. Trump has a record of seeking to withhold information from Congress, most notably during the recent House Intelligence Committee’s probe of his dealings with Ukraine. He likewise fought efforts by House committees to subpoena his financial records
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Doug Huey
TRUMP OWES HUNDREDS OF MILLION TO RUSSIA & CHINA.
IS HE KOMPROMISED?
Americans do not know how many hundreds of millions Donald Trump’s business owe Russia or China, but we do know he does.
In 2008, Donald Trump Jr. told attendees at a real estate conference in New York City that “Russians make up a pretty disproportionate cross-section of a lot of our assets. We see a lot of money pouring in from Russia.” Sergei Millian, the president of the U.S. Russian Chamber of Commerce and friend of Trump, claims in 2016 the figure is in the hundreds of millions.
Russians are not the only American adversaries to support Trump’s business. The state-owned Central Bank of China has loaned Trump hundreds of millions of dollars. The New York Times has reported that American companies owned by Trump have at least $650 million in debt and the Bank of China is among the lenders. Jared Kushner received a $550 million loan from the state-owned CBC in 2017. This was one of the reasons the FBI would not give Kushner a Security Clearance, this and Jared & Ivanka’s “unusual” ties to CCP notables. We need to know how much Trump and his businesses owe Chinese banks as well as Russian oligarchs.
Trump has praised Russian President Vladimir Putin while hiring pro-Russian advisers to fill top campaign positions. Paul Manafort served as Trump’s campaign chairman until scrutiny over his consulting and lobbying work for Viktor Yanukovych, the Russian-backed former president of Ukraine, forced his resignation. Carter Page served as a foreign policy adviser for Trump until U.S. intelligence officials began looking into whether Mr. Page had opened a line of communication with senior Russian officials to discuss lifting economic sanctions on Russia should Trump win the presidency. These sanctions were imposed on Russia following Putin’s invasion of Crimea and Eastern Ukraine. Trump’s military advisor, retired Lt. Gen. Michael Flynn, unfortunately allowed himself to be used as a validator for Russian propaganda last year when he was seated near Putin at a Moscow gala celebrating Russia Today. Russia Today TV is Putin’s propaganda machine.
In summary you are telling me Hunter Biden is slimy but Trump, Don Jr., Eric, Ivanka, and Jared are Angles.
Your Hypocrisy STINKS all the way through the Internet.
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@annieoakley694 1. Russian Collusion. Proof: Muller Report Vol 1, House Intel Report, Bi-Partisan Senate Report, CIA, FBI, NSA, DIA Reports, 6 Multiple Felony Convictions, and 24 Indictments. 2. Treasonous Trump Organized and Ordered Attack on Capital. Proof: House J6 Report, FBI Report, DC Police Report, Interviews with Oath Keeper, Proud Boys, and 3% Militia. Over 800 charges with over 600 Convictions to date - more pending. 3. Treasonous Trump ordered and organized Failed Fake Electors Coup. Proof: House J6 Report, investigation ongoing multiple charges pending, 6 investigations into Treasonous Trump’s actions and in Actions. 4. Election interference Georgia, investigation on going, criminal charges pending.
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“There’s Nothing Left, I no longer recognize my party”
Why Hundreds of Thousands of Republicans Are Leaving the Party
Voting registration data indicates a strong and unusual flight from the G.O.P. since the Capitol riot, with an intensely fluid period in American politics now underway.
In the days and weeks after the storming of the Capitol by Trump supporters on Jan. 6, hundreds of thousands of Republicans left the party. After the Jan. 6 attack on the Capitol, the phone lines and websites of local election officials across the country were jumping: Tens of thousands of Republicans were calling or logging on to switch their party affiliations.
In California, more than 33,000 registered Republicans left the party during the three weeks after the Washington riot. In Pennsylvania, more than 12,000 voters left the G.O.P. in the past month, and more than 10,000 Republicans changed their registration in Arizona.
An analysis of January voting records found that nearly 140,000 Republicans had quit the party in 25 states that had readily available data (19 states do not have registration by party). Voting experts say this is the start of a particularly damaging period for G.O.P. registrations as voters recoil from the Capitol violence and its fallout.
Among those who recently left the party are Juan Nunez, 56, an Army veteran in Mechanicsburg, Pa. He said he had long felt that the difference between the United States and many other countries was that campaign-season fighting ended on Election Day, when all sides would peacefully accept the result. The Jan. 6 riot changed that, he said.
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@bossfootbagstwo2078 It wasn’t Treasonous Trump’s only spy scandal, during his administration 7 Government Agencies were hacked by Russia, and he did nothing. He didn’t even talk about or order that anything be done… why? Because he works for Russia.
Please Read: In 2020, a major cyberattack suspected to have been committed by a group backed by the Russian government penetrated thousands of organizations globally including multiple parts of the United States federal government, leading to a series of data breaches.[1][28][29] The cyberattack and data breach were reported to be among the worst cyber-espionage incidents ever suffered by the U.S., due to the sensitivity and high profile of the targets and the long duration (eight to nine months) in which the hackers had access.[35] Within days of its discovery, at least 200 organizations around the world had been reported to be affected by the attack, and some of these may also have suffered data breaches.[1][36][37] Affected organizations worldwide included NATO, the U.K. government, the European Parliament, Microsoft and others.[36]
The attack, which had gone undetected for months, was first publicly reported on December 13, 2020,[25][26] and was initially only known to have affected the U.S. Treasury Department and the National Telecommunications and Information Administration (NTIA), part of the U.S. Department of Commerce.[42] In the following days, more departments and private organizations reported breaches.[1][5][36]
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How do you know if your president might turn into a Dictator? Take the Test.
1. Weak commitment to democratic rules or norms.
Q. A willingness to violate the Constitution.
Q. Use of anti democratic measures banning certain organizations, or restricting basic civil or political rights.
Q. Undermine the legitimacy of elections, for example, by claiming unverifiable mass voter fraud.
2. Denial of the legitimacy of political opponents.
Q. They describe rivals as subversives.
Q. They claim that their rivals constitute a threat, such as calling opponents socialists or communists.
Q. They baselessly call rivals criminals, traitors, witch hunters, etc.
Q. They baselessly say their rivals are secretly working in alliance against you.
3. Toleration or encouragement of violence.
Q. They have ties to armed militias, paramilitary forces, white supremacy groups, etc.
Q. They encourage, or suggested, mob attacks on opponents.
Q. They endorse violence by their supporters by refusing to unambiguously condemn it.
4. Readiness to curtail civil liberties or voting rights of opponents, including the media.
Q. They support the restriction civil liberties, freedom of the press, and punish those who speak out against them.
Q. They threaten legal or other punitive action against critics, or the media.
Q. They praise repressive leaders or actions taken by repressive leaders?
If the answer is yes to even on of the above questions then you have a wanna be Dictator on your hands.
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Trump’s budget is a tremendous fraud.
Remember when he said he would eliminate the federal debt, or at least halve it, during his presidency? His new budget adds another $3.4 trillion by 2024 to the debt on top of the $3 trillion Trump has already added.
Remember when he repeatedly promised not to “touch” Social Security and Medicare? His budget calls for removing $550 billion dollars of funding from the Medicare program, including $135 billion from Medicare prescription drugs, and tens of billions from the Social Security program.
Remember when he promised not to touch Medicaid? Now he wants to cut it by $920 billion.
Remember when he was going to give Americans health care “much better” than Obamacare. But he has proposed no such thing and now his budget calls for cutting spending on the program by $844 billion.
Remember when he vowed that his tax cuts would grow the economy by 4 percent, 5 percent or even 6 percent? Last year it grew at 2.3 percent, and his new budget, even with the rosiest of assumptions, projects 2.8 percent for this year - in other words little changed from Obama’s growth rates. Yet the budget would also devote another $1.4 trillion to extending those tax cuts, primarily for the rich.
Treasonous Trump, Con Man Extraordinaire.
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Republicans are blaming renewable energy, when it’s the state’s powerful deregulated utilities that failed to prepare for the worst.Texans are also furious about how their state’s ruinous laissez-faire governance led to a cascade of human-caused disasters of epic. In general, there’s a natural gas storage problem in Texas. Utility companies didn’t bother to have gas reserves: It’s easier, cheaper and more profitable to tap the gas in the field with a pipeline.
After a cold snap in 2011, the power companies were supposed to better winterize their plants. Ten years later, they hadn’t done it. It’s hard to believe they couldn’t afford it: Oncor, the giant power utility serving Dallas, reported $651 million in net income in 2019.
As the cold froze Oklahoma and sent temperatures in Dallas to lows not seen in over a century, the natural gas industry were unable to deliver more gas even if it was purchased. Wellheads in the Permian Basin froze solid. Pipelines leaked water, which, in turn, turned metal and gas into useless, immovable ice.
The crisis dates back to the 1930s, when the Federal Power Commission gained the authority to regulate interstate transmission of electric power. But politicians in Texas didn’t want Washington regulating the electricity business and chipping away at those hefty profits.
So the business went entirely unregulated until the formation of the Electric Reliability Council of Texas (ERCOT) in the 1970s. But ERCOT has been anything but reliable. While it is technically overseen by the state, its board is really just an industry club. Several of its members don’t even live in Texas.
After taking a beating on Twitter, Mr. Abbott tried to blame the renewable energy industry, a talking point that caught fire among conservatives. Renewables like wind and solar can contribute up to 20 percent of the Texas power grid, but just 7 percent of the winter grid, with 80 percent coming from natural gas, coal and a bit of nuclear power. While some wind turbines in Texas froze, many of them kept turning.
Yet another example of Fakenews- media spewing Propaganda.
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Fred Davis
“Infantroopen Badge, United Shooze, Oranges, you got to get to the oranges of the issue, Franklin Delarno Roosevefelt, Lawmarkers, Asst. Sec. Jerrarrr... Jerarhrr, Hurricane Ermer - Emer - Ermely, U-licious S Grant, Our Armed Forsiva, etc.
All Trumpian Words, The Best Words, No one does it better Worls.
Does Trump have problem with IQ or has he had a stroke?
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Fact: Trump and Jeffery Epstein shared “girls” at party for the two of them.
WASHINGTON — It was supposed to be an exclusive party at Mar-a-Lago, Donald J. Trump’s members-only club in Palm Beach, Fla. But other than the two dozen or so women flown in to provide the entertainment, the only guests were Mr. Trump and Jeffrey Epstein.
The year was 1992 and the event was a “calendar girl” competition, something that George Houraney, a Florida-based businessman who ran American Dream Enterprise, had organized at Mr. Trump’s request.
“I arranged to have some contestants fly in,” Mr. Houraney recalled in an interview on Monday. “At the very first party, I said, ‘Who’s coming tonight? I have 28 girls coming.’ It was him and Epstein.”
Mr. Houraney, who had just partnered with Mr. Trump to host events at his casinos, said he was surprised. “I said, ‘Donald, this is supposed to be a party with V.I.P.s. You’re telling me it’s you and Epstein?’”
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How TV Cable Companies Cover the Impeachment - an exercise in Propaganda:
Note: See if you can spot which company engages in Propaganda.
• CNN: EX-WHITE HOUSE AIDE: HIGHLY UNUSUAL EFFORT TO “LOCK DOWN”. TRANSCRIPT OF JULY 25 CALL WAS AN “ADMINISTRATIVE ERROR”
• Fox News: DEMS PRAISE VINDMAN FOR WORKING AGAINST TRUMP
• MSNBC: CONCLUDES AFTER MORE THAN 9 HOURS
At 9:13 p.m. that day, here’s what viewers saw.
• CNN: KEY WITNESSES QUESTIONED IN PUBLIC HEARINGS
• Fox News: SCHIFF STEERS IMPEACHMENT SHAM OFF A CLIFF / DEMS’ UKRAINE HOAX UNRAVELS ON CAPITOL HILL
• MSNBC: VINDMAN REASSURES SOVIET IMMIGRANT FATHER: HE WILL BE FINE FOR TELLING THE TRUTH / HOUSE INTEL COMPLETES 3RD DAY OF PUBLIC IMPEACHMENT HEARINGS
At 10:15 p.m.:
• CNN: SONDLAND TESTIFIES TOMORROW
• Fox News: VOLKER TESTIMONY UNDERMINES DEMS’ NARRATIVE
• MSNBC: IMPEACHMENT HEARING WRAPS AFTER 4 WITNESSES, 9+ HOURS / LT. COL VINDMAN, TRUMP’S TOP UKRAINE ADVISOR, TESTIFIES. TRUMP ACTED “IMPROPERLY” WHEN HE “DEMANDED” A FAVOR
At 10:51 p.m.:
• CNN: REPUBLICANS USE IMPEACHMENT HEARINGS TO QUESTION LOYALTY OF DECORATED ARMY VETERAN SPEAKING OUT AGAINST TRUMP
• Fox News: CHICK-FIL-A CAVES TO LIBERAL MOB
• MSNBC: EU AMB. GORDON SONDLAND TESTIFIES TOMORROW MORNING / SONDLAND WILL FACE QUESTIONS ABOUT PREVIOUSLY. UNKNOWN CALL TO TRUMP FROM RESTAURANT IN UKRAINE
Following day 8:12 p.m.:
• CNN: SONDLAND TIES PRES. TRUMP, VP PENCE, SECY. OF STATE POMPEO. AND WH CHIEF OF STAFF MULVANEY TO PRESSURE CAMPAIGN / SONDLAND: “EVERYONE WAS IN THE LOOP” ON UKRAINE PRESSURE
• Fox News: “NO QUID PRO QUO”
Half an hour later, while CNN was still covering Sondland’s testimony, Fox News was discussing the Clinton Foundation.
At 10:54 p.m., here’s what the two networks were showing viewers.
• CNN: SONDLAND: ‘YES’ THERE WAS QUID PRO QUO. IN UKRAINE SCANDAL
• Fox News: SWALWELL CAUSES A STINK
That latter text referred to a viral video clip that appeared to have captured the sound of flatulence while Rep. Eric Swalwell (D-Calif.) was appearing on MSNBC the previous day.
On Thursday, similar divides were on display. At 9:53 p.m., here’s what each network showed — perhaps the most representative comparison of any.
• CNN: NO REPUBLICANS BUDGE AFTER ALL THE FACTS, EVIDENCE REVEALED IN 3O+ HOURS OF PUBLIC TESTIMONY / MEMBERS OF PRESIDENT’S PARTY CROSSED AISLE IN NIXON & CLINTON IMPEACHMENT PROCEEDINGS, BUT NOT NOW
• Fox News: FBI OFFICIAL UNDER INVESTIGATION FOR ALLEGEDLY ALTERING DOC RELATED TO PAGE SURVEILLANCE, CNN REPORTS
• MSNBC: NIXON PLEDGED TO FIGHT TO KEEP HIS PRESIDENCY / IMPEACHMENT HEARING WITNESSES WRAP UP WEEK OF EXPLOSIVE TESTIMONY
There’s a reason that Trump’s current press secretary has only given interviews to Fox News and not other broadcast or major cable networks. Why would Trump need a White House communications director when he has a generously friendly cable network that’s already popular with the people he wants to talk to anyway?
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A day before rioters stormed Congress, an FBI office in Virginia issued an explicit internal warning that extremists were preparing to travel to Washington to commit violence and “war,” according to an FBI internal document. A situational information report approved for release the day before the U.S. Capitol riot painted a dire portrait of dangerous plans, including individuals sharing a map of the complex’s tunnels, and possible rally points for would-be conspirators to meet up. “As of 5 January 2021, FBI Norfolk received information indicating calls for violence in response to ‘unlawful lockdowns’ to begin on 6 January 2021 in Washington. D.C.,” the document says. “An online thread discussed specific calls for violence to include stating ‘Be ready to fight. Congress needs to hear glass breaking, doors being kicked in, and blood being spilled. Get violent. Stop calling this a march, or rally, or a protest. Go there ready for war. Our President wants us to do this. NOTHING else will achieve this goal.”
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@royce6861
I formerly was a Republican but Treasonous Trump was too immoral, too Treasonous, too corrupt, too Neo Nazi, and too Big of a Lier for me to stomach. I voted Reagan, Bush Sr, and Bush Jr (held my nose on Bush Jr), but my patriotism, respect for our American Democracy, and love of our Constitution prevented me for voting for Trump. I despised Hillary, but Treasonous Trump was the Antichrist and evil personified.
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WASHINGTON — It was supposed to be an exclusive party at Mar-a-Lago, Donald J. Trump’s members-only club in Palm Beach, Fla. But other than the two dozen or so women flown in to provide the entertainment, the only guests were Mr. Trump and Jeffrey Epstein.
The year was 1992 and the event was a “calendar girl” competition, something that George Houraney, a Florida-based businessman who ran American Dream Enterprise, had organized at Mr. Trump’s request.
“I arranged to have some contestants fly in,” Mr. Houraney recalled in an interview on Monday. “At the very first party, I said, ‘Who’s coming tonight? I have 28 girls coming.’ It was him and Epstein.”
Mr. Houraney, who had just partnered with Mr. Trump to host events at his casinos, said he was surprised. “I said, ‘Donald, this is supposed to be a party with V.I.P.s. You’re telling me it’s you and Epstein?’”
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Treasonous Trump Lies Again using over $400 million in tax payer money to prop up his failing properties.
President Trump’s company charges the Secret Service for the rooms agents use while protecting him at his luxury properties — billing U.S. taxpayers at $650 per night, according to federal records and people who have seen receipts.
New documents obtained under the Freedom of Information Act reveal the rates the Secret Service paid at President Trump's priorities. (Zach Purser Brown/The Washington Post)
And at the Trump National Golf Club Bedminster, the Secret Service was charged $17,000 a month to use a three-bedroom cottage on the property, an unusually high rent for homes in that area, according to receipts from 2017. Trump’s company billed the government even for days when Trump wasn’t there.
The full extent of the Secret Service’s payments to Trump’s company is not known as Steven Mnuchin, Secretary of The Treasury refuses to release information even though the Secret Service is required to report payments over $10,000.
The records show more than $471,000,00 in payments from taxpayers to Trump’s companies. But — because these records cover only a fraction of Trump’s travel during a fraction of his term — the actual total is likely to be higher. It appears that TT is using tax payer money to prop up his failing properties. “We provide the rooms at cost and could make far more money renting them to members or guests,” Trump Organization Executive Vice President Eric Trump said in a statement: “If he stays at one of his places, the government actually . . . saves a fortune because, if they were to go to a hotel across the street, they’d be charging them $500 a night, whereas, you know we charge them, like 50 bucks,” Eric Trump said. That statement appears to be a lie.
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James Allen
Your last post was filled with Ironic Messaging. It is unfortunate you find exception with Trumpers but that is the least of stupidity. So let us examine your last post in details.
John R Bolton: Former United States National Security Advisor, hand picked by Treasonous Trump from his favorite “news” channel Faux “news”.
Former United States Ambassador to the United Nations under George W. Bush. During his 10 year he assisted the Bush Administration in LIEING about Saddam Husain having WMDs to start a war for regime change. He also advocated regime change in the following countries: Iran, Syria, Libya, Venezuela, Cuba, Yemen and North Korea. He has also repeatedly called for the termination of the Iran nuclear deal. He was is a died in the wool Neocate which then led to the current Alt Righters who favor TT. In essence a person of Low Moral Character.
Which leads me to the point - it is incredibly ironic that John Bolton has limits as to how far he will go. No one, but no one would have picked John Bolton to have enough Moral Character to stand up to TT over using government resources to force another country to dig up dirt on your opponent. Truly Ironic.
As I read your post I could not help but notice all the incredibly corrupt roster of characters you called out (or could have called out) Cohen, Bolton, Pruitt, Flynn, Priebus, Price, Gorka, Rosillo, Hicks, Sanders, Perry, Price, Fitzgerald, Zinke, Hurwitz, Acosta, Volker, Shulkin, Higbie, and many more who have been fired or resigned due to corruption. These people all have one thing in common - TT. TT hand picked each of these people.
So let us look up the following words:
Hypocrite: a person who puts on a false appearance of virtue or religion or a person who acts in contradiction to his or her stated beliefs or feelings
Hypocrisy: the practice of claiming to have moral standards or beliefs to which one's own behavior does not conform; pretense.
Now let’s tie it all together. The majority of the people you rail against were picked and supported by TT. So no one is to blame but TT. Also, their moral character (or lack there of) is what made these people attractive to TT. Given this, for you to rail against Cohen (TTs) life long fixer and Bolton hand picked off of Faux “news” by TT (knowing full well his past) is the very definition of Hypocrisy.
Now let’s talk about Clinton - not a fan. She is slimy to TTs corrupt. How about Comey? Just an FBI careerist doing his job - be it Clinton or TT.
I hope the above “looked up” definitions set you on a path out of your dark world. My parting word is READ. Read scholarly books on politics, history, and the world. Read newspapers who are renowned for solid journalism like the NYT, WAPO, WSJ, etc. You can never go wrong with Reading.
Best wishes. 😀
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WHITE HOUSE MOVED TRANSCRIPT OF TRUMP CALL TO CLASSIFIED SERVER AFTER UKRAINE ADVISER RAISED ALARMS.
Moments after President Trump ended his phone call with Ukraine’s president on July 25, an unsettled national security aide rushed to the office of White House lawyer John Eisenberg.
Army Lt. Col. Alexander Vindman, the top Ukraine adviser at the White House, had been listening to the call and was disturbed by the pressure Trump had applied to Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky to investigate his political rivals, according to people familiar with Vindman’s testimony to lawmakers this week.
Vindman told Eisenberg, the White House’s legal adviser on national security issues, that what the president did was wrong, said the people, who spoke on the condition of anonymity because of the ongoing investigation.
Scribbling notes on a yellow legal pad, Eisenberg proposed a step that other officials have said is at odds with long-standing White House protocol: moving a transcript of the call to a highly classified server and restricting access to it, according to two people familiar with Vindman’s account.
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A day before rioters stormed Congress, an FBI office in Virginia issued an explicit internal warning that extremists were preparing to travel to Washington to commit violence and “war,” according to an FBI internal document. A situational information report approved for release the day before the U.S. Capitol riot painted a dire portrait of dangerous plans, including individuals sharing a map of the complex’s tunnels, and possible rally points for would-be conspirators to meet up. “As of 5 January 2021, FBI Norfolk received information indicating calls for violence in response to ‘unlawful lockdowns’ to begin on 6 January 2021 in Washington. D.C.,” the document says. “An online thread discussed specific calls for violence to include stating ‘Be ready to fight. Congress needs to hear glass breaking, doors being kicked in, and blood being spilled. Get violent. Stop calling this a march, or rally, or a protest. Go there ready for war. Our President wants us to do this. NOTHING else will achieve this goal.”
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Trump’s budget is a tremendous fraud.
Remember when he said he would eliminate the federal debt, or at least halve it, during his presidency? His new budget adds another $3.4 trillion by 2024 to the debt on top of the $3 trillion Trump has already added.
Remember when he repeatedly promised not to “touch” Social Security and Medicare? His budget calls for removing $550 billion dollars of funding from the Medicare program, including $135 billion from Medicare prescription drugs, and tens of billions from the Social Security program.
Remember when he promised not to touch Medicaid? Now he wants to cut it by $920 billion.
Remember when he was going to give Americans health care “much better” than Obamacare. But he has proposed no such thing and now his budget calls for cutting spending on the program by $844 billion.
Remember when he vowed that his tax cuts would grow the economy by 4 percent, 5 percent or even 6 percent? Last year it grew at 2.3 percent, and his new budget, even with the rosiest of assumptions, projects 2.8 percent for this year - in other words little changed from Obama’s growth rates. Yet the budget would also devote another $1.4 trillion to extending those tax cuts, primarily for the rich.
Treasonous Trump, Con Man Extraordinaire.
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brenda verzani
DEMOCRACY IS IN DECLINE AROUND THE WORLD - AND TRUMP IS PART OF THE PROBLEM.
The Freedom House Annual report on the health of global democracy warned of its decline. In its survey evaluating 195 countries and 15 territories, Freedom House, a nongovernmental, nonpartisan advocacy organization established in 1941, found that political freedoms and civil liberties across the world are backsliding more often than they are improving.
“Democracy is under assault,” read the opening sentence of its report, written by Sarah Repucci. “Dictators are toiling to stamp out the last vestiges of domestic dissent and spread their harmful influence to new corners of the world.”
The usual suspects remain among the worst offenders. Freedom House decried China for its “totalitarian offensive” in Xinjiang and other campaigns of repression, and it warned of Beijing’s “relentless campaign to replace existing international norms with its own authoritarian vision.” It pointed to Russia’s “stage-managed elections” in 2019, in which the genuine opposition was largely shut out. Iran’s leadership, even as it sowed “discord” in neighboring countries, deployed security forces that used live ammunition to crush demonstrations last fall, killing hundreds of people.
But perhaps more disquieting is the steady erosion seen in “established democracies,” more than two dozen of which have seen net losses in their democracy rankings.
“Many freely elected leaders are dramatically narrowing their concerns to a blinkered interpretation of the national interest,” wrote Repucci. “In fact, such leaders — including the chief executives of the United States and India, the world’s two largest democracies — are increasingly willing to break down institutional safeguards and disregard the rights of critics and minorities as they pursue their populist agendas.”
President Trump is a key part of this story. Freedom House’s report, titled “A Leaderless Struggle for Democracy,” highlighted the “pressure” Trump is exerting “on electoral integrity, judicial independence, and safeguards against corruption” in the United States.
Is Our Treasonous President the Antichrist?
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HeReigns
Fact: Trump shared girls with Jeffery Epstein his close friend of 15 years.
WASHINGTON — It was supposed to be an exclusive party at Mar-a-Lago, Donald J. Trump’s members-only club in Palm Beach, Fla. But other than the two dozen or so women flown in to provide the entertainment, the only guests were Mr. Trump and Jeffrey Epstein.
The year was 1992 and the event was a “calendar girl” competition, something that George Houraney, a Florida-based businessman who ran American Dream Enterprise, had organized at Mr. Trump’s request.
“I arranged to have some contestants fly in,” Mr. Houraney recalled in an interview on Monday. “At the very first party, I said, ‘Who’s coming tonight? I have 28 girls coming.’ It was him and Epstein.”
Mr. Houraney, who had just partnered with Mr. Trump to host events at his casinos, said he was surprised. “I said, ‘Donald, this is supposed to be a party with V.I.P.s. You’re telling me it’s you and Epstein?’”
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B K
Fact: Trump shared girls with Jeffery Epstein his close friend of 15 years.
WASHINGTON — It was supposed to be an exclusive party at Mar-a-Lago, Donald J. Trump’s members-only club in Palm Beach, Fla. But other than the two dozen or so women flown in to provide the entertainment, the only guests were Mr. Trump and Jeffrey Epstein.
The year was 1992 and the event was a “calendar girl” competition, something that George Houraney, a Florida-based businessman who ran American Dream Enterprise, had organized at Mr. Trump’s request.
“I arranged to have some contestants fly in,” Mr. Houraney recalled in an interview on Monday. “At the very first party, I said, ‘Who’s coming tonight? I have 28 girls coming.’ It was him and Epstein.”
Mr. Houraney, who had just partnered with Mr. Trump to host events at his casinos, said he was surprised. “I said, ‘Donald, this is supposed to be a party with V.I.P.s. You’re telling me it’s you and Epstein?’”
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Babbleplay
Fact: Trump shared girls with Jeffery Epstein his close friend of 15 years.
WASHINGTON — It was supposed to be an exclusive party at Mar-a-Lago, Donald J. Trump’s members-only club in Palm Beach, Fla. But other than the two dozen or so women flown in to provide the entertainment, the only guests were Mr. Trump and Jeffrey Epstein.
The year was 1992 and the event was a “calendar girl” competition, something that George Houraney, a Florida-based businessman who ran American Dream Enterprise, had organized at Mr. Trump’s request.
“I arranged to have some contestants fly in,” Mr. Houraney recalled in an interview on Monday. “At the very first party, I said, ‘Who’s coming tonight? I have 28 girls coming.’ It was him and Epstein.”
Mr. Houraney, who had just partnered with Mr. Trump to host events at his casinos, said he was surprised. “I said, ‘Donald, this is supposed to be a party with V.I.P.s. You’re telling me it’s you and Epstein?’”
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Hey I was only giving orders
Fact: Trump shared girls with Jeffery Epstein his close friend of 15 years.
WASHINGTON — It was supposed to be an exclusive party at Mar-a-Lago, Donald J. Trump’s members-only club in Palm Beach, Fla. But other than the two dozen or so women flown in to provide the entertainment, the only guests were Mr. Trump and Jeffrey Epstein.
The year was 1992 and the event was a “calendar girl” competition, something that George Houraney, a Florida-based businessman who ran American Dream Enterprise, had organized at Mr. Trump’s request.
“I arranged to have some contestants fly in,” Mr. Houraney recalled in an interview on Monday. “At the very first party, I said, ‘Who’s coming tonight? I have 28 girls coming.’ It was him and Epstein.”
Mr. Houraney, who had just partnered with Mr. Trump to host events at his casinos, said he was surprised. “I said, ‘Donald, this is supposed to be a party with V.I.P.s. You’re telling me it’s you and Epstein?’”
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Paul Bee
Fact: Trump shared girls with Jeffery Epstein his close friend of 15 years.
WASHINGTON — It was supposed to be an exclusive party at Mar-a-Lago, Donald J. Trump’s members-only club in Palm Beach, Fla. But other than the two dozen or so women flown in to provide the entertainment, the only guests were Mr. Trump and Jeffrey Epstein.
The year was 1992 and the event was a “calendar girl” competition, something that George Houraney, a Florida-based businessman who ran American Dream Enterprise, had organized at Mr. Trump’s request.
“I arranged to have some contestants fly in,” Mr. Houraney recalled in an interview on Monday. “At the very first party, I said, ‘Who’s coming tonight? I have 28 girls coming.’ It was him and Epstein.”
Mr. Houraney, who had just partnered with Mr. Trump to host events at his casinos, said he was surprised. “I said, ‘Donald, this is supposed to be a party with V.I.P.s. You’re telling me it’s you and Epstein?’”
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Fact: Trump shared girls with Jeffery Epstein his close friend of 15 years.
WASHINGTON — It was supposed to be an exclusive party at Mar-a-Lago, Donald J. Trump’s members-only club in Palm Beach, Fla. But other than the two dozen or so women flown in to provide the entertainment, the only guests were Mr. Trump and Jeffrey Epstein.
The year was 1992 and the event was a “calendar girl” competition, something that George Houraney, a Florida-based businessman who ran American Dream Enterprise, had organized at Mr. Trump’s request.
“I arranged to have some contestants fly in,” Mr. Houraney recalled in an interview on Monday. “At the very first party, I said, ‘Who’s coming tonight? I have 28 girls coming.’ It was him and Epstein.”
Mr. Houraney, who had just partnered with Mr. Trump to host events at his casinos, said he was surprised. “I said, ‘Donald, this is supposed to be a party with V.I.P.s. You’re telling me it’s you and Epstein?’”
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@MsMilagrita
Mueller Report Vol I, House Intel Report, Senate Intel Report, FBI, CIA, NSA, DIA Reports. You should read them, but you won’t, because MAGA Maggots don’t Read, Research, or Reason.
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WHITE HOUSE MOVED TRANSCRIPT OF TRUMP CALL TO CLASSIFIED SERVER AFTER UKRAINE ADVISER RAISED ALARMS.
Moments after President Trump ended his phone call with Ukraine’s president on July 25, an unsettled national security aide rushed to the office of White House lawyer John Eisenberg.
Army Lt. Col. Alexander Vindman, the top Ukraine adviser at the White House, had been listening to the call and was disturbed by the pressure Trump had applied to Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky to investigate his political rivals, according to people familiar with Vindman’s testimony to lawmakers this week.
Vindman told Eisenberg, the White House’s legal adviser on national security issues, that what the president did was wrong, said the people, who spoke on the condition of anonymity because of the ongoing investigation.
Scribbling notes on a yellow legal pad, Eisenberg proposed a step that other officials have said is at odds with long-standing White House protocol: moving a transcript of the call to a highly classified server and restricting access to it, according to two people familiar with Vindman’s account.
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How do you know if your president might turn into a Dictator? Take the Test.
1. Weak commitment to democratic rules or norms.
Q. A willingness to violate the Constitution.
Q. Use of anti democratic measures banning certain organizations, or restricting basic civil or political rights.
Q. Undermine the legitimacy of elections, for example, by claiming unverifiable mass voter fraud.
2. Denial of the legitimacy of political opponents.
Q. They describe rivals as subversives.
Q. They claim that their rivals constitute a threat, such as calling opponents socialists or communists.
Q. They baselessly call rivals criminals, traitors, witch hunters, etc.
Q. They baselessly say their rivals are secretly working in alliance against you.
3. Toleration or encouragement of violence.
Q. They have ties to armed militias, paramilitary forces, white supremacy groups, etc.
Q. They encourage, or suggested, mob attacks on opponents.
Q. They endorse violence by their supporters by refusing to unambiguously condemn it.
4. Readiness to curtail civil liberties or voting rights of opponents, including the media.
Q. They support the restriction civil liberties, freedom of the press, and punish those who speak out against them.
Q. They threaten legal or other punitive action against critics, or the media.
Q. They praise repressive leaders or actions taken by repressive leaders?
If the answer is yes to even on of the above questions then you have a wanna be Dictator on your hands.
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What is happening is not a coup, or even an attempt at a coup but a ham-handed effort to discredit the election outcome by any crackpot method available to sooth Trump’s ego. Scholars of real coups in other countries say that Trump has few of the ingredients necessary to pull off a coup — the international community despises him, the nation’s main media is still independent, an the armed forces think Trump is a joke. However, Trump is set to successfully pursue a slow-motion “con game,” pleading for donations by playing his supporters. He’s also crafting a “Stab in the Back” myth in hopes of returning to the WH in 2024.There is a fundamental difference between between a coup and a con. A coup is an illegitimate power grab by force. A con is a mostly criminal, unethical, or manipulative act. A con can become a coup if the con is successful — if enough people buy into the con then a Coup has occurred.
Though Trump will fail in his coup - this time - the fact that his fellow Republicans tacitly approved of his methods, or looked the other way dramatically weakens our Democratic Institutions. As Trump continues to spew crazy conspiracies, half truths, and outright lies more and more Republican voters will drift into delusion and violence.
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Patriot
dad bear
William H. McRaven, a retired Navy admiral, was commander of the U.S. Joint Special Operations Command from 2011 to 2014. He oversaw the 2011 Navy SEAL raid in Pakistan that killed al-Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden. He writes:
Dear Mr. President:
Former CIA director John Brennan, whose security clearance you revoked on Wednesday, is one of the finest public servants I have ever known. Few Americans have done more to protect this country than John. He is a man of unparalleled integrity, whose honesty and character have never been in question, except by those who don’t know him.
Therefore, I would consider it an honor if you would revoke my security clearance as well, so I can add my name to the list of men and women who have spoken up against your presidency.
Like most Americans, I had hoped that when you became president, you would rise to the occasion and become the leader this great nation needs.
A good leader tries to embody the best qualities of his or her organization. A good leader sets the example for others to follow. A good leader always puts the welfare of others before himself or herself.
Your leadership, however, has shown little of these qualities. Through your actions, you have embarrassed us in the eyes of our children, humiliated us on the world stage and, worst of all, divided us as a nation.
If you think for a moment that your McCarthy-era tactics will suppress the voices of criticism, you are sadly mistaken. The criticism will continue until you become the leader we prayed you would be.
NEED WE SAY MORE THAN THIS AMERICAN HERO? STAND UP AND BE COUNTED. VOTE THIS WOULD BE PETTY DICTATOR OUT OF OFFICE. REAL AMERICAN PATRIOTS SPEAKING UP FOR AMERICA.
🇺🇸🗽🇺🇸
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The Ultra Conservative New York Post gave Trump a blistering rebuke demanding that he grow up and accept his loss to President-elect Joe Biden and stop falsely claiming that mass voter fraud had marred the results — an effort the paper labeled a “dark charade.”
“We understand, Mr. President, that you’re angry that you lost,” the editorial board wrote. “But to continue down this road is treasonous.”
Under the headline “Stop the insanity,” the conservative tabloid took particular aim at Trump’s attempts to pressure Vice President Pence and congressional Republicans to somehow Throwout the result when they meet on Jan. 6 to certify Biden’s electoral college victory.
“You have tweeted that, as long as Republicans have ‘courage,’ they can overturn the results and give you four more years in office,” the Post wrote. “In other words, you’re cheering for an undemocratic coup.”
The article also reminded Trump that he had clearly failed in his attempts to prove voter fraud propelled Biden to victory.
“You had every right to investigate the election. But let’s be clear: Those efforts have found nothing,” the Post wrote, noting that Trump-backed recounts in Wisconsin and Georgia had turned up no evidence of malfeasance.
The editorial also lashed out at Sidney Powell, whose “Kraken” lawsuits seeking to overturn the election results have repeatedly been tossed out of court, and Michael Flynn, the former national security adviser who has floated the idea of declaring martial law to keep Trump in power.
“Michael Flynn suggesting martial law is tantamount to treason. It is shameful.”
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OUR MORON PRESIDENT SAID WHAT?
During Thursday's White House coronavirus task force briefing, an official presented the results of US government research that indicated coronavirus on an external surface appeared to weaken more quickly when exposed to sunlight, heat, and disinfectant.
Upon taking the podium Trump said:
"So, supposing we hit the body with a tremendous - whether it's ultraviolet or just very powerful light," the president said, turning to Dr Deborah Birx, the White House coronavirus response co-ordinator, "and I think you said that hasn't been checked but you're going to test it.
"And then I said, supposing you brought the light inside of the body, which you can do either through the skin or in some other way. And I think you said you're going to test that too. Sounds interesting," the president continued.
"And then I see the disinfectant where it knocks it out in a minute. One minute. And is there a way we can do something like that, by injection inside or almost a cleaning? So it'd be interesting to check that." Pointing to his head, Mr Trump went on: "I'm not a doctor. But I'm, like, a person that has a good you-know-what." He turned again to Dr Birx and asked if she had ever heard of using "the heat and the light" to treat coronavirus.
"Not as a treatment," Dr Birx said. "I mean, certainly, fever is a good thing. When you have a fever, it helps your body respond. But I've not seen heat or light."
"I think it's a great thing to look at," Mr Trump said.
You heard it here first folks, our president is a Mad Moron Would be “Scientist Jenius” (sic).
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Fact: Trump shared girls with Jeffery Epstein his close friend of 15 years.
WASHINGTON — It was supposed to be an exclusive party at Mar-a-Lago, Donald J. Trump’s members-only club in Palm Beach, Fla. But other than the two dozen or so women flown in to provide the entertainment, the only guests were Mr. Trump and Jeffrey Epstein.
The year was 1992 and the event was a “calendar girl” competition, something that George Houraney, a Florida-based businessman who ran American Dream Enterprise, had organized at Mr. Trump’s request.
“I arranged to have some contestants fly in,” Mr. Houraney recalled in an interview on Monday. “At the very first party, I said, ‘Who’s coming tonight? I have 28 girls coming.’ It was him and Epstein.”
Mr. Houraney, who had just partnered with Mr. Trump to host events at his casinos, said he was surprised. “I said, ‘Donald, this is supposed to be a party with V.I.P.s. You’re telling me it’s you and Epstein?’”
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Trump Aide Has Mental Melt Down On Facebook. 🤪🤪🤪🤪
Michael R. Caputo told his audience that left-wing hit squads were being trained for insurrection and accused C.D.C. scientists of “sedition.” He complained that he was under siege by the news media, feeling paranoid, and that his “mental health was failing.” He accused the CDC of harboring a “secret resistance unit” determined to undermine President Trump.
Mr. Caputo, who lead efforts to warp C.D.C. weekly bulletins to fit Mr. Trump’s pandemic narrative, suggested that he personally could be in danger from opponents of the administration. “If you carry guns, buy ammunition, ladies and gentlemen, because it’s going to be hard to get,” he urged his followers. “I don’t like being alone in Washington,” Mr. Caputo said, describing “shadows on the ceiling in my apartment, there alone, shadows are so long.” He also said the mounting number of Covid-19 deaths was taking a toll on him, telling his viewers, “You are not waking up every morning and talking about dead Americans. But you should attend Trump rallies and wear a mask”.
SOUNDS LIKE TRUMP ONLY HIRES THE BEST PEOPLE 🤪🤪🤪🤪
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Donald J. Trump is corrupt: The Ukraine quid pro quo matters because it shows how Trump has reneged on his promise to fight for ordinary Americans and is using the power of the presidency to benefit himself. As Leah Greenberg, a co-founder of the progressive group Indivisible, says: “This man is not working for you. He is working to put his own interests first. And he is endangering the country to do it.”
Corruption is one of the public’s top worries, surveys show. In polls last year, people ranked the economy as the country’s most important issue, and No. 2 was “reducing the influence of special interests and corruption in Washington.” It’s a cross-partisan concern too, spanning Democrats, Republicans and independents.
Trump is a reprobate but most of his supporters don’t care that, He is a “pathological liar,” as Ted Cruz said during the 2016 Republican primaries, as well as a “con artist” (Marco Rubio’s description) and a “race-baiting, xenophobic, religious bigot” (Lindsey Graham’s). Mick Mulvaney, then a Republican congressman, had the simplest summary: “He’s a terrible human being.”
Trump signed a tax bill that benefits wealthy people like him, not ordinary workers. He has used the presidency to pad the profits of his hotels. And he has damaged American interests by contorting foreign policy, toward Russia and continues enriching himself at taxpayers’ expense.
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How TV Cable Companies Cover the Impeachment - an exercise in Propaganda:
Note: See if you can spot which company engages in Propaganda.
• CNN: EX-WHITE HOUSE AIDE: HIGHLY UNUSUAL EFFORT TO “LOCK DOWN”. TRANSCRIPT OF JULY 25 CALL WAS AN “ADMINISTRATIVE ERROR”
• Fox News: DEMS PRAISE VINDMAN FOR WORKING AGAINST TRUMP
• MSNBC: CONCLUDES AFTER MORE THAN 9 HOURS
At 9:13 p.m. that day, here’s what viewers saw.
• CNN: KEY WITNESSES QUESTIONED IN PUBLIC HEARINGS
• Fox News: SCHIFF STEERS IMPEACHMENT SHAM OFF A CLIFF / DEMS’ UKRAINE HOAX UNRAVELS ON CAPITOL HILL
• MSNBC: VINDMAN REASSURES SOVIET IMMIGRANT FATHER: HE WILL BE FINE FOR TELLING THE TRUTH / HOUSE INTEL COMPLETES 3RD DAY OF PUBLIC IMPEACHMENT HEARINGS
At 10:15 p.m.:
• CNN: SONDLAND TESTIFIES TOMORROW
• Fox News: VOLKER TESTIMONY UNDERMINES DEMS’ NARRATIVE
• MSNBC: IMPEACHMENT HEARING WRAPS AFTER 4 WITNESSES, 9+ HOURS / LT. COL VINDMAN, TRUMP’S TOP UKRAINE ADVISOR, TESTIFIES. TRUMP ACTED “IMPROPERLY” WHEN HE “DEMANDED” A FAVOR
At 10:51 p.m.:
• CNN: REPUBLICANS USE IMPEACHMENT HEARINGS TO QUESTION LOYALTY OF DECORATED ARMY VETERAN SPEAKING OUT AGAINST TRUMP
• Fox News: CHICK-FIL-A CAVES TO LIBERAL MOB
• MSNBC: EU AMB. GORDON SONDLAND TESTIFIES TOMORROW MORNING / SONDLAND WILL FACE QUESTIONS ABOUT PREVIOUSLY. UNKNOWN CALL TO TRUMP FROM RESTAURANT IN UKRAINE
Following day 8:12 p.m.:
• CNN: SONDLAND TIES PRES. TRUMP, VP PENCE, SECY. OF STATE POMPEO. AND WH CHIEF OF STAFF MULVANEY TO PRESSURE CAMPAIGN / SONDLAND: “EVERYONE WAS IN THE LOOP” ON UKRAINE PRESSURE
• Fox News: “NO QUID PRO QUO”
Half an hour later, while CNN was still covering Sondland’s testimony, Fox News was discussing the Clinton Foundation.
At 10:54 p.m., here’s what the two networks were showing viewers.
• CNN: SONDLAND: ‘YES’ THERE WAS QUID PRO QUO. IN UKRAINE SCANDAL
• Fox News: SWALWELL CAUSES A STINK
That latter text referred to a viral video clip that appeared to have captured the sound of flatulence while Rep. Eric Swalwell (D-Calif.) was appearing on MSNBC the previous day.
On Thursday, similar divides were on display. At 9:53 p.m., here’s what each network showed — perhaps the most representative comparison of any.
• CNN: NO REPUBLICANS BUDGE AFTER ALL THE FACTS, EVIDENCE REVEALED IN 3O+ HOURS OF PUBLIC TESTIMONY / MEMBERS OF PRESIDENT’S PARTY CROSSED AISLE IN NIXON & CLINTON IMPEACHMENT PROCEEDINGS, BUT NOT NOW
• Fox News: FBI OFFICIAL UNDER INVESTIGATION FOR ALLEGEDLY ALTERING DOC RELATED TO PAGE SURVEILLANCE, CNN REPORTS
• MSNBC: NIXON PLEDGED TO FIGHT TO KEEP HIS PRESIDENCY / IMPEACHMENT HEARING WITNESSES WRAP UP WEEK OF EXPLOSIVE TESTIMONY
There’s a reason that Trump’s current press secretary has only given interviews to Fox News and not other broadcast or major cable networks. Why would Trump need a White House communications director when he has a generously friendly cable network that’s already popular with the people he wants to talk to anyway?
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How do you know if your president might turn into a Dictator? Take the Test.
1. Weak commitment to democratic rules or norms.
Q. A willingness to violate the Constitution.
Q. Use of anti democratic measures banning certain organizations, or restricting basic civil or political rights.
Q. Undermine the legitimacy of elections, for example, by claiming unverifiable mass voter fraud.
2. Denial of the legitimacy of political opponents.
Q. They describe rivals as subversives.
Q. They claim that their rivals constitute a threat, such as calling opponents socialists or communists.
Q. They baselessly call rivals criminals, traitors, witch hunters, etc.
Q. They baselessly say their rivals are secretly working in alliance against you.
3. Toleration or encouragement of violence.
Q. They have ties to armed militias, paramilitary forces, white supremacy groups, etc.
Q. They encourage, or suggested, mob attacks on opponents.
Q. They endorse violence by their supporters by refusing to unambiguously condemn it.
4. Readiness to curtail civil liberties or voting rights of opponents, including the media.
Q. They support the restriction civil liberties, freedom of the press, and punish those who speak out against them.
Q. They threaten legal or other punitive action against critics, or the media.
Q. They praise repressive leaders or actions taken by repressive leaders?
If the answer is yes to even on of the above questions then you have a wanna be Dictator on your hands.
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What the judge said: U.S. District Judge Matthew W. Brann, a Republican, dismissed the case Saturday, throwing it out before the Trump campaign said it had a chance to even get started. And he didn’t just close the door. He slammed it, with a 37-page ruling that at times amounted to accusing the campaign of undermining democracy.
Among the most notable portions of his writing:
• “[The Trump campaign asks] this Court to disenfranchise almost seven million voters. This Court has been unable to find any case in which a plaintiff has sought such a drastic remedy in the contest of an election, in terms of the sheer volume of votes asked to be invalidated. One might expect that when seeking such a startling outcome, a plaintiff would come formidably armed with compelling legal arguments and factual proof of rampant corruption, such that this Court would have no option but to regrettably grant the proposed injunctive relief despite the impact it would have on such a large group of citizens. That has not happened. Instead, this Court has been presented with strained legal arguments without merit and speculative accusations, unpled in the operative complaint and unsupported by evidence. In the United States of America, this cannot justify the disenfranchisement of a single voter, let alone all the voters of its sixth most populated state. Our people, laws, and institutions demand more.”
• “Plaintiffs’ only remaining claim alleges a violation of equal protection. This claim, like Frankenstein’s Monster, has been haphazardly stitched together from two distinct theories in an attempt to avoid controlling precedent.” (In other words, the judge alleges the Trump campaign tried to sew up baseless accusations in the hopes the judge wouldn’t notice they didn’t have a concrete one.)
• “[Two voters who say their ballots were thrown out] have entirely failed to establish any causal relationship between Secretary [of State Kathy] Boockvar and the cancellation of their votes.”
• “Granting Plaintiffs’ requested relief would necessarily require invalidating the ballots of every person who voted in Pennsylvania. Because this Court has no authority to take away the right to vote of even a single person, let alone millions of citizens, it cannot grant Plaintiffs’ requested relief.”
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Steve Zrofsky
Please read Treasonous Trumps own words below - full interview in text available online:
President Trump: --I mean not only wasn’t he charged, if you read it, with all of the horrible fake news, I mean, I was reading that my son was going to go to jail. This is a good young man. That he was going to go to jail and all of these horrible stories. And then the report comes out and they didn’t even say--they hardly even talked about him.
Stephanopoulos: But should he have gone to the FBI when he got that email?
President Trump: Okay, let’s put yourself in a position: you’re a congressman, somebody comes up and says, “Hey I have information on your opponent.” Do you call the FBI?
Stephanopoulos: If it’s coming from Russia you do.
President Trump: You don’t-- I’ll tell you what. I’ve seen a lot of things over my life. I don’t think in my whole life I’ve ever called the FBI. In my whole life. I don’t--you don’t call the FBI. You throw somebody out of your office, you do whatever you do—
Stephanopoulos: Al Gore got a stolen briefing book. He called the FBI.
President Trump: Well, that’s different. A stolen briefing book. This isn’t-- this is somebody who said, “We have information on your opponent.” Oh, let me call the FBI. Give me a break, life doesn’t work that way.
Stephanopoulos: The FBI Director says that’s what should happen.
President Trump: The FBI Director is wrong. Because, frankly, it doesn’t happen like that in life. Now, maybe it will start happening. Maybe today you think differently. But two or three years ago, if somebody comes into your office with oppo research-- they call it oppo research-with information that might be good or bad or something, but good for you, bad for your opponent, you don’t call the FBI. I would guarantee you that 90 percent, could be 100 percent, of the congressmen or the senators over there, have had meetings--if they didn’t they probably wouldn’t be elected- on negative information about their opponent. They don’t--
Stephanopoulos: From foreign countries?
President Trump: Possibly. Possibly. But they don’t call the FBI. You don’t call the FBI every time you hear something that maybe--now, you see the people. The meeting, it also sounds to me--I don’t know anything about that meeting--but it sounds to me like it was a big nothing. That meeting was a big nothing. But I heard about my son, who is a great young man, going to j
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Trump Aide Has Mental Melt Down On Facebook. 🤪🤪🤪🤪
Michael R. Caputo told his audience that left-wing hit squads were being trained for insurrection and accused C.D.C. scientists of “sedition.” He complained that he was under siege by the news media, feeling paranoid, and that his “mental health was failing.” He accused the CDC of harboring a “secret resistance unit” determined to undermine President Trump.
Mr. Caputo, who lead efforts to warp C.D.C. weekly bulletins to fit Mr. Trump’s pandemic narrative, suggested that he personally could be in danger from opponents of the administration. “If you carry guns, buy ammunition, ladies and gentlemen, because it’s going to be hard to get,” he urged his followers. “I don’t like being alone in Washington,” Mr. Caputo said, describing “shadows on the ceiling in my apartment, there alone, shadows are so long.” He also said the mounting number of Covid-19 deaths was taking a toll on him, telling his viewers, “You are not waking up every morning and talking about dead Americans. But you should attend Trump rallies and wear a mask”.
SOUNDS LIKE TRUMP ONLY HIRES THE BEST PEOPLE 🤪🤪🤪🤪
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The deputy assistant secretary of labor for public affairs, said on Monday that Mr. Acosta had no comment. Pelosi, said Monday night that Mr. Acosta should resign because of the “unconscionable agreement” that he made with Mr. Epstein in 2008.
Alexander Acosta President Donald Trump nominated Republican Acosta to be Labor Secretary on February 16, 2017, and he was confirmed by the U.S. Senate on April 27, 2017.
Attorney General William P. Barr said on Monday during a trip to South Carolina that he had recused himself from the case because Mr. Barr’s former law firm, Kirkland & Ellis, had represented Mr. Epstein.
In 2002, Mr. Trump described Mr. Epstein as “a terrific guy,” telling New York Magazine, “It is even said that he likes beautiful women as much as I do, and many of them are on the younger side.”
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TRUMP & HIS MURDEROUS LIES
Trump has reached the milestone of 18,000 lies during his presidency. On the same day he accused the WHO of “covering up the spread of the coronavirus” and failing to “share information in a timely fashion.” He declared he was cutting off funding for the world’s public health body in the middle of a pandemic.
He also called WHO a “tool of China” and floated the theory that WHO deliberately concealed the danger of the virus: “There’s something going on” at the WHO “that’s very bad,” and "I have a feeling they knew exactly what was going on.”
This is a murderous lie as 15 Trump appointed officials were embedded with WHO in Geneva, working full time, hand-in-glove with the organization on the virus from the very first day China disclosed the outbreak to the world, Dec. 31. These Trump officials U.S. officials dedicated 100% of their time to the virus. In the weeks that followed, they and other U.S. government scientists engaged in all major deliberations and decisions at the WHO on the novel coronavirus, had access to all information, and contributed significantly to the world body’s conclusions and recommendations. Everything that WHO knew, Trump knew — in real time. As congressional investigators are now learning, senior Trump administration officials — Health and Human Services Secretary Alex Azar; the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s Robert R. Redfield Jr., Anne Schuchat, Ray R. Arthur and Jeffrey McFarland; the National Institutes of Health’s Anthony S. Fauci and H. Clifford Lane, and many others — consulted with the WHO throughout the crisis.
Trump lied and Americans Died - 33,500+ & Counting.
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MakeSamNewcome CryAgain
On Fox News, suddenly a very different tune about the coronavirus.
For weeks, some of Fox News’s hosts downplayed the threat of the coronavirus, characterizing it as a conspiracy by media organizations and Democrats to undermine President Trump.
Sean Hannity and Laura Ingraham accused the news media of whipping up “mass hysteria” and being “panic pushers.” Trish Regan called the Main Stream Media response “yet another attempt to impeach the president.”
But that was then.
When Trump’s declared a national emergency, the tone on Fox News has quickly shifted. Hannity, suddenly the lauded the president’s handling of what the host is now, belatedly, referring to as a “crisis.”
“Tonight, we are witnessing what will be a massive paradigm shift in the future of disease control and prevention,” he said. “A bold, new precedent is being set, the world will once again benefit greatly from America’s leadership. . . . The federal government, state governments, private businesses, top hospitals all coming together, under the president’s leadership, to stem the tide of the coronavirus.”
In a complicated dance to mirror the president, Trump’s allies on Fox News took the same stance as the president for several weeks — that this coronavirus that had sickened and killed thousands of people in China was no worse a threat than the seasonal flu.
Just a week ago, Hannity shrugged at the pandemic. “So far in the United States, there’s been around 30 deaths, most of which came from one nursing home in the state of Washington,” he said, “Healthy people, generally, 99 percent recover very fast, even if they contract it.”
By way of comparison, he added: “Twenty-six people were shot in Chicago alone over the weekend. I doubt you heard about it. You notice there’s no widespread hysteria about violence in Chicago. And this has gone on for years and years. By the way, Democratic-run cities, we see a lot of that.”
Ingraham, also had a fast-dawning recognition that the social and economic dislocation of the virus was more than just a Democratic talking point wielded against the president.
In late February, Ingraham called Democrats the “pandemic party” and displayed photos of House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) and Senate Minority Leader Charles E. Schumer (D-N.Y.) alongside enlarged images of coronavirus molecules. “How sick that these people seem almost happiest when Americans are hurting,” she said.
She kept at it through last Tuesday when, in front of a graphic reading “Trump confronts the panic pushers,” Ingraham said, “The public in some ways seems a lot more levelheaded than the so-called experts. . . . The facts are actually pretty reassuring, but you’d never know it watching all this stuff.”
On Friday, Ingraham tweeted that it was a “great time to fly if not in at-risk population!” The tweet was later deleted.
By Wednesday, after Trump announced a travel ban on people from the European Union, Ingraham had started calling the pandemic “this dangerous health crisis.” She characterized warnings issued by National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases head Anthony S. Fauci about the potential spread of the disease as “sobering and scary to hear.”
Regan’s on-air speculation at the start of last week that coronavirus was merely another impeachment gambit for Democrats drew widespread pushback. Clearly the mood was changing at Fox by the time the network announced late Friday that her discussion-and-commentary program on Fox Business would leave the air indefinitely.
Tucker Carlson too, blamed the “corrupt” media. But in a monologue that many took at an indirect scolding of the president, he also complained that “none of our leaders helped us to take it seriously. . . . People you trust, people you probably voted for, have spent weeks minimizing what is clearly a very serious problem. It’s just partisan politics, they say. ‘Calm down. In the end, this is just like the flu and people die from that every year. Coronavirus will pass, and when it does, we will feel foolish for worrying about it.’ That’s their position. . . . But they’re wrong.”
Days earlier, Carlson attended the birthday party of former Fox News host Kimberly Guilfoyle, who is dating Donald Trump Jr.
In comments downplaying the pandemic on March 7, Jeanine Pirro, offered “All the talk about coronavirus being so much more deadly [than the flu] doesn’t reflect reality.” She reiterated Trump’s comment that the infection rate will drop “as the weather warms.”
On the “Fox & Friends” program Friday, Liberty University President Jerry Falwell Jr. spun out a meandering tale advancing the baseless notion that the coronavirus was designed by North Korean and Chinese scientists to harm Americans.
The program’s three co-hosts offered no objections. Host Steve Doocy moved on to asking Falwell about Liberty’s plans to cancel classes.
Then on Sunday, Rep. Devin Nunes (R-Calif.) appeared on Fox News and urged Americans to “stop panicking” and for those who are healthy to “just go out.”
Said Nunes: “There’s a lot of concerns with the economy here because people are scared to go out. But I will just say one of the things you can do if you’re healthy, you and your family, it’s a great time to just go out, go to a local restaurant.”
Anchor Maria Bartiromo offered no response to Nunes’s comment. On Monday, a day later, Fox News contributor Nicole Saphier, a doctor, specifically called out the congressman on air to contradict his advice and told viewers to stay home.
This is a quick summation of how Faux news has become nothing more than a platform for Trumpian Propaganda.
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Trump gets tough with G20:
Trump, arriving in Japan on Thursday, opened his latest foreign trip much as he did his last one, lashing out at America’s allies, including his hosts, just before sitting down with them to talk through differences on issues like security and trade.
By contrast, Mr. Trump said nothing critical about the fourth leader on his diplomatic schedule for Friday, President Vladimir V. Putin of Russia, whose government waged a systematic campaign to interfere in American elections in 2016 and has arrested two Americans on what critics consider false charges.
The one area Treasonous Trump is consistent. Never, Ever, say anything critical of his Boss Putin. “Russia, if you are listening...”
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FAILURE IN AMERICA ON A TRUMPIAN SCALE:
Nearly every country has struggled to contain the coronavirus and made mistakes along the way.
China silenced doctors and allowed the virus to escape Wuhan, much of Europe went next, failing to avoid and contain enormous outbreaks. Today, many countries — Japan, Canada, France, Australia and more — are coping with new increases in cases after reopening parts of society.
But one country stands alone, as the only affluent nation to have suffered a severe, sustained outbreak for more than four months: the United States. In just the past month over 1.9 million Americans have tested positive for the virus. That’s more than five times as many as in all of Europe, Canada, Japan, South Korea and Australia, combined. The United States also has the highest number of Deaths 157,000 from the virus far out pacing all other countries. Brazil is the only country competing with the United States for complete failure in containing the virus.
What does the United States & Brazil have in common? Trumpian Politics.
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MAGA MTADTA
On Fox News, suddenly a very different tune about the coronavirus.
For weeks, some of Fox News’s hosts downplayed the threat of the coronavirus, characterizing it as a conspiracy by media organizations and Democrats to undermine President Trump.
Sean Hannity and Laura Ingraham accused the news media of whipping up “mass hysteria” and being “panic pushers.” Trish Regan called the Main Stream Media response “yet another attempt to impeach the president.”
But that was then.
When Trump’s declared a national emergency, the tone on Fox News has quickly shifted. Hannity, suddenly the lauded the president’s handling of what the host is now, belatedly, referring to as a “crisis.”
“Tonight, we are witnessing what will be a massive paradigm shift in the future of disease control and prevention,” he said. “A bold, new precedent is being set, the world will once again benefit greatly from America’s leadership. . . . The federal government, state governments, private businesses, top hospitals all coming together, under the president’s leadership, to stem the tide of the coronavirus.”
In a complicated dance to mirror the president, Trump’s allies on Fox News took the same stance as the president for several weeks — that this coronavirus that had sickened and killed thousands of people in China was no worse a threat than the seasonal flu.
Just a week ago, Hannity shrugged at the pandemic. “So far in the United States, there’s been around 30 deaths, most of which came from one nursing home in the state of Washington,” he said, “Healthy people, generally, 99 percent recover very fast, even if they contract it.”
By way of comparison, he added: “Twenty-six people were shot in Chicago alone over the weekend. I doubt you heard about it. You notice there’s no widespread hysteria about violence in Chicago. And this has gone on for years and years. By the way, Democratic-run cities, we see a lot of that.”
Ingraham, also had a fast-dawning recognition that the social and economic dislocation of the virus was more than just a Democratic talking point wielded against the president.
In late February, Ingraham called Democrats the “pandemic party” and displayed photos of House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) and Senate Minority Leader Charles E. Schumer (D-N.Y.) alongside enlarged images of coronavirus molecules. “How sick that these people seem almost happiest when Americans are hurting,” she said.
She kept at it through last Tuesday when, in front of a graphic reading “Trump confronts the panic pushers,” Ingraham said, “The public in some ways seems a lot more levelheaded than the so-called experts. . . . The facts are actually pretty reassuring, but you’d never know it watching all this stuff.”
On Friday, Ingraham tweeted that it was a “great time to fly if not in at-risk population!” The tweet was later deleted.
By Wednesday, after Trump announced a travel ban on people from the European Union, Ingraham had started calling the pandemic “this dangerous health crisis.” She characterized warnings issued by National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases head Anthony S. Fauci about the potential spread of the disease as “sobering and scary to hear.”
Regan’s on-air speculation at the start of last week that coronavirus was merely another impeachment gambit for Democrats drew widespread pushback. Clearly the mood was changing at Fox by the time the network announced late Friday that her discussion-and-commentary program on Fox Business would leave the air indefinitely.
Tucker Carlson too, blamed the “corrupt” media. But in a monologue that many took at an indirect scolding of the president, he also complained that “none of our leaders helped us to take it seriously. . . . People you trust, people you probably voted for, have spent weeks minimizing what is clearly a very serious problem. It’s just partisan politics, they say. ‘Calm down. In the end, this is just like the flu and people die from that every year. Coronavirus will pass, and when it does, we will feel foolish for worrying about it.’ That’s their position. . . . But they’re wrong.”
Days earlier, Carlson attended the birthday party of former Fox News host Kimberly Guilfoyle, who is dating Donald Trump Jr.
In comments downplaying the pandemic on March 7, Jeanine Pirro, offered “All the talk about coronavirus being so much more deadly [than the flu] doesn’t reflect reality.” She reiterated Trump’s comment that the infection rate will drop “as the weather warms.”
On the “Fox & Friends” program Friday, Liberty University President Jerry Falwell Jr. spun out a meandering tale advancing the baseless notion that the coronavirus was designed by North Korean and Chinese scientists to harm Americans.
The program’s three co-hosts offered no objections. Host Steve Doocy moved on to asking Falwell about Liberty’s plans to cancel classes.
Then on Sunday, Rep. Devin Nunes (R-Calif.) appeared on Fox News and urged Americans to “stop panicking” and for those who are healthy to “just go out.”
Said Nunes: “There’s a lot of concerns with the economy here because people are scared to go out. But I will just say one of the things you can do if you’re healthy, you and your family, it’s a great time to just go out, go to a local restaurant.”
Anchor Maria Bartiromo offered no response to Nunes’s comment. On Monday, a day later, Fox News contributor Nicole Saphier, a doctor, specifically called out the congressman on air to contradict his advice and told viewers to stay home.
This is a quick summation of how Faux news has become nothing more than a platform for Trumpian Propaganda.
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Anthony Pinlo
godoggo
Trump has made a lot of promises about actions to fight the coronavirus pandemic.Most of them have been half truths or embellishments.
For example:
Naval hospital ships
Trump announced Wed. that the Navy would dispatch its two hospital ships, the USNS Comfort and the USNS Mercy, to help treat patients and free up land-based hospitals for coronavirus patients.
"So those two ships are prepared to go, and they can be launched over the next week or so," Trump said, calling the ships in "tip-top shape."
Well, not so much.
The Navy said that the Comfort was actually undergoing repairs in Norfolk, Va., and it would be weeks before it could sail.
FDA drug approval
On Thur. Trump touted that the Food and Drug Administration had "approved" use of an anti-malaria drug called chloroquine to treat patients afflicted with the coronavirus. He had a “hunch” that this was the cure.
"We're going to be able to make that drug available almost immediately," Trump said, calling it "a tremendous breakthrough" and a potential "game-changer."
But FDA commissioner Stephen Hahn immediately tried to tamp down Trump's enthusiasm, saying that "a large, pragmatic clinical trial" would be needed first to determine the drug's usefulness before making it available to coronavirus patients.
Hahn said he couldn't "speculate about a timeline" for the drug's availability.
Trump's enthusiasm for hydroxychloroquine spilled into another press conference on Friday, when he again described it as a potential wonder drug.
And again, a public health official — this time, Dr. Anthony Fauci, a top immunologist on the White House's response team — tried to rein in the optimism by echoing the need for clinical proof that it would make a difference.
On Thursday, Trump said another drug, Remdesivir, had "also been approved, or very close to approved" by the FDA for treating patients coronavirus. In fact, that drug is undergoing a clinical trial and is months away from being ready for use.
The website
Last Friday, Trump said at a Rose Garden news conference that Google has 1,700 engineers developing a new website that would help Americans determine whether they should seek testing for the coronavirus.
The president sought to cast his own project as a triumph compared with the initial failure of President Barack Obama to roll out a website as part of the changes to the health care market enacted in 2009.
"Google is helping to develop a website," Trump said. "It's going to be very quickly done — unlike websites of the past — to determine whether a test is warranted and to facilitate testing at a nearby convenient location."
Within hours, Google attempted to clarify the president's comments. It said an affiliated company, Verily, was working on the project but on a limited scale only for people in the San Francisco area.
"Verily is in the early stages of development," Google said, "and planning to roll testing out in the Bay Area, with the hope of expanding more broadly over time."
Unfortunately, there are insufficient tests available to test anyone.
Medical supplies
On Wednesday, Trump met with a group of nurses at the White House, telling them that the administration had arranged for a major new supply of the type of respirator in high demand during the pandemic.
"We've ordered 500 million N95 masks to drive private production," Trump said. He also said that construction companies were being asked to donate unused masks. The next day at a briefing, Vice President Pence stated: "We've vastly increased the supply of medical masks."
But hospitals continue to report that they are running short of masks, as are pharmacists.
Loose-fitting surgical masks aren't appropriate for dealing with the pandemic authorities say; the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention released a graphic detailing the important differences between a surgical mask and an N95 respirator.
Testing
One of the most frequent exaggerations coming from Trump is the availability of coronavirus tests.
When he visited the CDC in Atlanta earlier this month, Trump claimed that "They have the tests. And the tests are beautiful. Anybody that needs a test gets a test."
Pence made a similar claim last week, saying that "a million tests are in the field" and that "by the end of this week, another 4 million tests will be distributed."
Americans who feel sick still can’t get tested. Fauci acknowledged that there clearly is a gap between the supply and the demand.
Trump and Pence say they don't want every American — particularly those who are feeling well — to be tested. Yet people who are not critically sick are being sent home without testing. They are told to “assume they have covid-19” and come back only if there condition worsens. Not knowing if you have the virus dose not help contain the virus.
In summary, Trump just needs to shut up and let the experts talk.
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The American Bar Association had no shortage of criticism in its assessment of the Trump administration’s new judicial nominee.
Colleagues found Lawrence VanDyke to be “arrogant, lazy, an ideologue, and lacking in knowledge of the day-to-day practice,” the chair of an ABA committee wrote in the scathing letter, the result of 60 interviews with lawyers, judges and others who worked with the Justice Department attorney. Acquaintances also alleged a lack of humility, an “’entitlement’ temperament,” a closed mind and an inconsistent “commitment to being candid,” the letter said. It deemed VanDyke “not qualified” for a spot on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 9th Circuit.
The strongly worded review drew equally strong reactions at a Wednesday hearing of the Senate Judiciary Committee — from Democrats who called the ABA findings unusual and troubling as well as from Republicans who called it a low attack from a group they’ve long accused of bias against conservatives. But one charge was particularly upsetting to VanDyke himself: The ABA’s report that he “would not say affirmatively that he would be fair to any litigant before him, notably The American Bar Association had no shortage of criticism in its assessment of the Trump administration’s new judicial nominee.
Colleagues found Lawrence VanDyke to be “arrogant, lazy, an ideologue, and lacking in knowledge of the day-to-day practice,” the chair of an ABA committee wrote in the scathing letter, the result of 60 interviews with lawyers, judges and others who worked with the Justice Department attorney. Acquaintances also alleged a lack of humility, an “’entitlement’ temperament,” a closed mind and an inconsistent “commitment to being candid,” the letter said. It deemed VanDyke “not qualified” for a spot on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 9th Circuit.
The strongly worded review drew equally strong reactions at a Wednesday hearing of the Senate Judiciary Committee — from Democrats who called the ABA findings unusual and troubling as well as from Republicans who called it a low attack from a group they’ve long accused of bias against conservatives. But one charge was particularly upsetting to VanDyke himself: The ABA’s report that he “would not say affirmatively that he would be fair to any litigant before him, notably
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Trump Aide Has Mental Melt Down On Facebook.
Michael R. Caputo told his audience that left-wing hit squads were being trained for insurrection and accused C.D.C. scientists of “sedition.” He complained that he was under siege by the news media, feeling paranoid, and that his “mental health was failing.” He accused the CDC of harboring a “secret resistance unit” determined to undermine President Trump.
Mr. Caputo, who lead efforts to warp C.D.C. weekly bulletins to fit Mr. Trump’s pandemic narrative, suggested that he personally could be in danger from opponents of the administration. “If you carry guns, buy ammunition, ladies and gentlemen, because it’s going to be hard to get,” he urged his followers. “I don’t like being alone in Washington,” Mr. Caputo said, describing “shadows on the ceiling in my apartment, there alone, shadows are so long.” He also said the mounting number of Covid-19 deaths was taking a toll on him, telling his viewers, “You are not waking up every morning and talking about dead Americans. But you should attend Trump rallies and wear a mask”.
SOUNDS LIKE TRUMP ONLY HIRES THE BEST PEOPLE 🤪🤪🤪🤪
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@marclewis1199
Your comment ironic as you quote history but only a part of history. In the 50s & 60s a very unusual transformation took place, Republicans started embracing Racism and Democrats Started fighting for Civil Rights - thus the Deep South all became Republicans. The transformation of the Democratic Party was complete by the 70s with the exception of Thurmond from South Carolina. The slow creep of Racism in the Republican Party received additional traction under Nixon. However, though Republicans were resistant to Civil Rights, Racism had not fully taken hold of the party. This waffling on the part of the GOP continued until Newt Gingrich came along in 1995 and Racism and a substantial drift to the right occurred within the GOP. The next touch point for the GOP was 2009 and the formation of the Tea Party. From this point on the base GOP started to drift further towards Rightwing Extremism. Obama, a Black/White Man put Rightwing Extremism over the top, and the GOP Base voted accordingly - thus Trump and Trumpism, a mix of racism and Rightwing Extremism.
It is no fluke that 100% of Klan Members, Proud Boys, Neo Nazis, Militias, and White Supremacy Groups Support Trump.
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Treasonous Trump picks only the best people:
Mr. VanDyke’s accomplishments are offset by the assessments of interviewees that Mr. VanDyke is arrogant, lazy, an ideologue, and lacking in knowledge of the day-to- day practice including procedural rules. There was a theme that the nominee lacks humility, has an “entitlement” temperament, does not have an open mind, and does not always have a commitment to being candid and truthful.
When a majority of your colleges say you are arrogant, lazy, ideological, and lacking knowledge, you have a problem nominee.
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Trump Aide Has Mental Melt Down On Facebook.
Michael R. Caputo told his audience that left-wing hit squads were being trained for insurrection and accused C.D.C. scientists of “sedition.” He complained that he was under siege by the news media, feeling paranoid, and that his “mental health was failing.” He accused the CDC of harboring a “secret resistance unit” determined to undermine President Trump.
Mr. Caputo, who lead efforts to warp C.D.C. weekly bulletins to fit Mr. Trump’s pandemic narrative, suggested that he personally could be in danger from opponents of the administration. “If you carry guns, buy ammunition, ladies and gentlemen, because it’s going to be hard to get,” he urged his followers. “I don’t like being alone in Washington,” Mr. Caputo said, describing “shadows on the ceiling in my apartment, there alone, shadows are so long.” He also said the mounting number of Covid-19 deaths was taking a toll on him, telling his viewers, “You are not waking up every morning and talking about dead Americans. But you should attend Trump rallies and wear a mask”.
SOUNDS LIKE TRUMP ONLY HIRES THE BEST PEOPLE 🤪🤪🤪🤪
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@MetalDetroit
If you read the article, and I did, Treasonous Trump says the following:
Trump’s new rebuke of Vladimir Putin is unprecedented
By Aaron Blake
April 9, 2018 at 11:35 AM MT
Treasonous Trump’s Tweet “Many dead, including women and children, in mindless CHEMICAL attack in Syria. Area of atrocity is in lockdown and encircled by Syrian Army, making it completely inaccessible to outside world. President Putin, Russia and Iran are responsible for backing Animal Assad.”
The reason this is news is because this is the closest that Treasonous Trump has ever come to criticizing Putin, but even then it is one time and falls way short. However, Kudos to you for trying to find this article, I hope you learned how easy it is to find TT praising Putin and how nearly impossible it is to find one criticism. But why is that 🤔
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@dalejames8576 By the way, Faux news has now told you that you are the VICTIM of 36 different “Wars” on you. I have been keeping track. Some of my favorites is the war on Xmas trees, war on masculinity, war on white people, war on white men, war on feminism, war on rich white people, war on Xmas coffee cups, war on guns, war on idiots with guns, war on white privilege, war on children, war on sanitized history, etc….
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A H
On Fox News, suddenly a very different tune about the coronavirus.
For weeks, some of Fox News’s hosts downplayed the threat of the coronavirus, characterizing it as a conspiracy by media organizations and Democrats to undermine President Trump.
Sean Hannity and Laura Ingraham accused the news media of whipping up “mass hysteria” and being “panic pushers.” Trish Regan called the Main Stream Media response “yet another attempt to impeach the president.”
But that was then.
When Trump’s declared a national emergency, the tone on Fox News has quickly shifted. Hannity, suddenly the lauded the president’s handling of what the host is now, belatedly, referring to as a “crisis.”
“Tonight, we are witnessing what will be a massive paradigm shift in the future of disease control and prevention,” he said. “A bold, new precedent is being set, the world will once again benefit greatly from America’s leadership. . . . The federal government, state governments, private businesses, top hospitals all coming together, under the president’s leadership, to stem the tide of the coronavirus.”
In a complicated dance to mirror the president, Trump’s allies on Fox News took the same stance as the president for several weeks — that this coronavirus that had sickened and killed thousands of people in China was no worse a threat than the seasonal flu.
Just a week ago, Hannity shrugged at the pandemic. “So far in the United States, there’s been around 30 deaths, most of which came from one nursing home in the state of Washington,” he said, “Healthy people, generally, 99 percent recover very fast, even if they contract it.”
By way of comparison, he added: “Twenty-six people were shot in Chicago alone over the weekend. I doubt you heard about it. You notice there’s no widespread hysteria about violence in Chicago. And this has gone on for years and years. By the way, Democratic-run cities, we see a lot of that.”
Ingraham, also had a fast-dawning recognition that the social and economic dislocation of the virus was more than just a Democratic talking point wielded against the president.
In late February, Ingraham called Democrats the “pandemic party” and displayed photos of House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) and Senate Minority Leader Charles E. Schumer (D-N.Y.) alongside enlarged images of coronavirus molecules. “How sick that these people seem almost happiest when Americans are hurting,” she said.
She kept at it through last Tuesday when, in front of a graphic reading “Trump confronts the panic pushers,” Ingraham said, “The public in some ways seems a lot more levelheaded than the so-called experts. . . . The facts are actually pretty reassuring, but you’d never know it watching all this stuff.”
On Friday, Ingraham tweeted that it was a “great time to fly if not in at-risk population!” The tweet was later deleted.
By Wednesday, after Trump announced a travel ban on people from the European Union, Ingraham had started calling the pandemic “this dangerous health crisis.” She characterized warnings issued by National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases head Anthony S. Fauci about the potential spread of the disease as “sobering and scary to hear.”
Regan’s on-air speculation at the start of last week that coronavirus was merely another impeachment gambit for Democrats drew widespread pushback. Clearly the mood was changing at Fox by the time the network announced late Friday that her discussion-and-commentary program on Fox Business would leave the air indefinitely.
Tucker Carlson too, blamed the “corrupt” media. But in a monologue that many took at an indirect scolding of the president, he also complained that “none of our leaders helped us to take it seriously. . . . People you trust, people you probably voted for, have spent weeks minimizing what is clearly a very serious problem. It’s just partisan politics, they say. ‘Calm down. In the end, this is just like the flu and people die from that every year. Coronavirus will pass, and when it does, we will feel foolish for worrying about it.’ That’s their position. . . . But they’re wrong.”
Days earlier, Carlson attended the birthday party of former Fox News host Kimberly Guilfoyle, who is dating Donald Trump Jr.
In comments downplaying the pandemic on March 7, Jeanine Pirro, offered “All the talk about coronavirus being so much more deadly [than the flu] doesn’t reflect reality.” She reiterated Trump’s comment that the infection rate will drop “as the weather warms.”
On the “Fox & Friends” program Friday, Liberty University President Jerry Falwell Jr. spun out a meandering tale advancing the baseless notion that the coronavirus was designed by North Korean and Chinese scientists to harm Americans.
The program’s three co-hosts offered no objections. Host Steve Doocy moved on to asking Falwell about Liberty’s plans to cancel classes.
Then on Sunday, Rep. Devin Nunes (R-Calif.) appeared on Fox News and urged Americans to “stop panicking” and for those who are healthy to “just go out.”
Said Nunes: “There’s a lot of concerns with the economy here because people are scared to go out. But I will just say one of the things you can do if you’re healthy, you and your family, it’s a great time to just go out, go to a local restaurant.”
Anchor Maria Bartiromo offered no response to Nunes’s comment. On Monday, a day later, Fox News contributor Nicole Saphier, a doctor, specifically called out the congressman on air to contradict his advice and told viewers to stay home.
This is a quick summation of how Faux news has become nothing more than a platform for Trumpian Propaganda.
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Whicket Williams
DEMOCRACY IS IN DECLINE AROUND THE WORLD - AND TRUMP IS PART OF THE PROBLEM.
The Freedom House Annual report on the health of global democracy warned of its decline. In its survey evaluating 195 countries and 15 territories, Freedom House, a nongovernmental, nonpartisan advocacy organization established in 1941, found that political freedoms and civil liberties across the world are backsliding more often than they are improving.
“Democracy is under assault,” read the opening sentence of its report, written by Sarah Repucci. “Dictators are toiling to stamp out the last vestiges of domestic dissent and spread their harmful influence to new corners of the world.”
The usual suspects remain among the worst offenders. Freedom House decried China for its “totalitarian offensive” in Xinjiang and other campaigns of repression, and it warned of Beijing’s “relentless campaign to replace existing international norms with its own authoritarian vision.” It pointed to Russia’s “stage-managed elections” in 2019, in which the genuine opposition was largely shut out. Iran’s leadership, even as it sowed “discord” in neighboring countries, deployed security forces that used live ammunition to crush demonstrations last fall, killing hundreds of people.
But perhaps more disquieting is the steady erosion seen in “established democracies,” more than two dozen of which have seen net losses in their democracy rankings.
“Many freely elected leaders are dramatically narrowing their concerns to a blinkered interpretation of the national interest,” wrote Repucci. “In fact, such leaders — including the chief executives of the United States and India, the world’s two largest democracies — are increasingly willing to break down institutional safeguards and disregard the rights of critics and minorities as they pursue their populist agendas.”
President Trump is a key part of this story. Freedom House’s report, titled “A Leaderless Struggle for Democracy,” highlighted the “pressure” Trump is exerting “on electoral integrity, judicial independence, and safeguards against corruption” in the United States.
Is Our Treasonous President the Antichrist?
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What is happening is not a coup, or even an attempt at a coup but a ham-handed effort to discredit the election outcome by any crackpot method available to sooth Trump’s ego. Scholars of real coups in other countries say that Trump has few of the ingredients necessary to pull off a coup — the international community despises him, the nation’s main media is still independent, an the armed forces think Trump is a joke. However, Trump is set to successfully pursue a slow-motion “con game,” pleading for donations by playing his supporters. He’s also crafting a “Stab in the Back” myth in hopes of returning to the WH in 2024.There is a fundamental difference between between a coup and a con. A coup is an illegitimate power grab by force. A con is a mostly criminal, unethical, or manipulative act. A con can become a coup if the con is successful — if enough people buy into the con then a Coup has occurred.
Though Trump will fail in his coup - this time - the fact that his fellow Republicans tacitly approved of his methods, or looked the other way dramatically weakens our Democratic Institutions. As Trump continues to spew crazy conspiracies, half truths, and outright lies more and more Republican voters will drift into delusion and violence.
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DThom
TRUMP & HIS MURDEROUS LIES
Trump has reached the milestone of 18,000 lies during his presidency. On the same day he accused the WHO of “covering up the spread of the coronavirus” and failing to “share information in a timely fashion.” He declared he was cutting off funding for the world’s public health body in the middle of a pandemic.
He also called WHO a “tool of China” and floated the theory that WHO deliberately concealed the danger of the virus: “There’s something going on” at the WHO “that’s very bad,” and "I have a feeling they knew exactly what was going on.”
This is a murderous lie as 15 Trump appointed officials were embedded with WHO in Geneva, working full time, hand-in-glove with the organization on the virus from the very first day China disclosed the outbreak to the world, Dec. 31. These Trump officials U.S. officials dedicated 100% of their time to the virus. In the weeks that followed, they and other U.S. government scientists engaged in all major deliberations and decisions at the WHO on the novel coronavirus, had access to all information, and contributed significantly to the world body’s conclusions and recommendations. Everything that WHO knew, Trump knew — in real time. As congressional investigators are now learning, senior Trump administration officials — Health and Human Services Secretary Alex Azar; the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s Robert R. Redfield Jr., Anne Schuchat, Ray R. Arthur and Jeffrey McFarland; the National Institutes of Health’s Anthony S. Fauci and H. Clifford Lane, and many others — consulted with the WHO throughout the crisis.
Trump lied and Americans Died - 33,500+ & Counting.
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What is happening is not a coup, or even an attempt at a coup but a ham-handed effort to discredit the election outcome by any crackpot method available to sooth Trump’s ego. Scholars of real coups in other countries say that Trump has few of the ingredients necessary to pull off a coup — the international community despises him, the nation’s main media is still independent, an the armed forces think Trump is a joke. However, Trump is set to successfully pursue a slow-motion “con game,” pleading for donations by playing his supporters. He’s also crafting a “Stab in the Back” myth in hopes of returning to the WH in 2024.There is a fundamental difference between between a coup and a con. A coup is an illegitimate power grab by force. A con is a mostly criminal, unethical, or manipulative act. A con can become a coup if the con is successful — if enough people buy into the con then a Coup has occurred.
Though Trump will fail in his coup - this time - the fact that his fellow Republicans tacitly approved of his methods, or looked the other way dramatically weakens our Democratic Institutions. As Trump continues to spew crazy conspiracies, half truths, and outright lies more and more Republican voters will drift into delusion and violence.
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Joseph Kasten
Obama declared a National Emergency with 1 week of first H1N1 case. Over 1 1/2 years American fatalities were 12,464.
Trump waited 2 months, Tweeted & Lied, did nothing, other than banning Chinese Nationals from flying to America, but not Americans, Europeans, Taiwanese, Hong Kong, Macau, etc. In the month of February over 40,000 people flew between America and China. No screening, no quarantine, no questionnaire, no monitoring nothing. Since the “Travel Ban” Trump has done nothing, absolutely nothing.
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Larry Guess
An excellent question with an easy answer. Other countries, particularly European First World Countries, has leaders who took charge, listened to scientists, implemented aggressive testing, contact tracing, and beat back Covid19. Very unlike our Low IQ president who called Covid19 a Hoax, implemented nothing, gave conflicting messages, constantly contradicted his scientists, brow beat States to open before they were ready, and lambasted those states who made a solid effort to implement solid measures - Germany is a shinning example of how to do it right.
Of the 25 top most infected areas in THE WORLD, 15 of our states rank towards the top in NEW INFECTIONS.
In other words, AMERICA has become a 3rd world country under Trump with a 3rd world response to this pandemic.
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DRAIN THE SWAMP
Trump’s company has received at least $970,000 from U.S. taxpayers for room rentals.
The U.S. government has paid at least $970,000 to President Trump’s company since Trump took office — including payments for more than 1,600 nightly room rentals at Trump’s hotels and clubs, according to federal records obtained.
Since March, The Post has catalogued an additional $340,000 in such payments. They were all related to trips taken by Trump, his family and his top officials. The government is known to have paid full price for rooms for staffers and Secret Service agents to accompany the president.
The payments create an unprecedented business relationship between the president’s private company and his government — which began in the first month of Trump’s presidency records show.
The records show that taxpayers have now paid for the equivalent of more than four years’ worth of nightly rentals at Trump properties, including 950 nights at Trump’s golf club in Bedminster, N.J., and 530 nights at the president’s Mar-a-Lago Club in Florida, according to analysis.
Who needs a pay check when you can get nearly a Billion Dollars in guaranteed business from the government - DRAIN THE SWAMP!
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Yeah, Faux news has Identified its 39 War on Woke Hot Lines, to join the other 38 Wars Faux has invented. Previous notables have been the War on Xmas, The War on Xmas Trees, Xmas Paper Coffee Cups, Masculinity, Toxic Masculinity, Gender, Pronouns, School Children, Toxic Christians, Femininity, Conservatives, Conservative Media, and on and on and on. Keeping Track of all these Wars Must Be Exhausting. 😢😢😢
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@klaldailova4162
Hebrew Bible
In the Hebrew Bible, Sodom was a city destroyed by God because of the evil of its inhabitants. No specific sin is given as the reason for God's great wrath. The story of Sodom's destruction—and of Abraham's failed attempt to intercede with God and prevent that destruction—appears in Genesis 18–19. The connection between Sodom and homosexuality is derived from the described attempt by a mob of the city's people to rape Lot's male guests. Some suggest the sinfulness for which Sodom was destroyed might have consisted mainly in the violation of obligations of hospitality, which were important for the original writers of the Biblical account.[18] In Judges 19–21, there is an account, similar in many ways, where Gibeah, a city of the Benjamin tribe, is destroyed by the other tribes of Israel in revenge for a mob of its inhabitants raping and killing a woman. Neither view about why Sodom was destroyed takes into account the fact that its destruction was planned before the guests arrived in the city, Genesis 18:17.
Many times in the Pentateuch and Prophets, writers use God's destruction of Sodom to demonstrate His awesome power. This happens in Deuteronomy 29; Isaiah 1, 3, and 13; Jeremiah 49 and 50; Lamentations 4; Amos 4.11; and Zephaniah 2.9. Deuteronomy 32, Jeremiah 23.14, and Lamentations 4 reference the sinfulness of Sodom, but do not specify any particular sin.
Specific sins which Sodom is linked to by the prophets of the Old Testament are adultery and lying (Jeremiah 23:14).
In Ezekiel 16, a long comparison is made between Sodom and the kingdom of Judah. "Yet you have not merely walked in their ways or done according to their abominations; but, as if that were too little, you acted more corruptly in all your conduct than they." (v. 47, NASB) "Behold, this was the guilt of your sister Sodom: she and her daughters had arrogance, abundant food and careless ease, but she did not help the poor and needy. Thus they were haughty and committed abominations before Me. (vss. 49–50, NASB) (Note that the Hebrew for the word "thus" is the conjunction "ו" which is usually translated "and", thus KJV, NIV, and CEV omit the word entirely.)
There is no explicit mention of any sexual sin in Ezekiel's summation and "abomination" is used to describe many sins.
The Authorized King James Version translates Deuteronomy 23:17 as: "There shall be no whore of the daughters of Israel, nor a sodomite of the sons of Israel," but the word corresponding to "sodomite" in the Hebrew original, Qadesh (Hebrew:קדש), does not refer to Sodom, and has been translated in the New International Version as "shrine prostitute"; male shrine prostitutes may have served barren women in fertility rites rather than engaging in homosexual acts; this also applies to other instances of the word sodomite in the King James Version.[19][20]
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Trump’s budget is a tremendous fraud.
Remember when he said he would eliminate the federal debt, or at least halve it, during his presidency? His new budget adds another $3.4 trillion by 2024 to the debt on top of the $3 trillion Trump has already added.
Remember when he repeatedly promised not to “touch” Social Security and Medicare? His budget calls for removing $550 billion dollars of funding from the Medicare program, including $135 billion from Medicare prescription drugs, and tens of billions from the Social Security program.
Remember when he promised not to touch Medicaid? Now he wants to cut it by $920 billion.
Remember when he was going to give Americans health care “much better” than Obamacare. But he has proposed no such thing and now his budget calls for cutting spending on the program by $844 billion.
Remember when he vowed that his tax cuts would grow the economy by 4 percent, 5 percent or even 6 percent? Last year it grew at 2.3 percent, and his new budget, even with the rosiest of assumptions, projects 2.8 percent for this year - in other words little changed from Obama’s growth rates. Yet the budget would also devote another $1.4 trillion to extending those tax cuts, primarily for the rich.
Treasonous Trump, Con Man Extraordinaire.
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@MRGF78
As you may, or may not know, Trump’s #1 negotiator was Treasury Sec. Munchkin. Munchkin & McConnell clear let the House know what they would agree to, or not.
Negotiations require compromise, Democrats wanted money for Hospitals, Municipalities, Cities, and States needing COVID Relief, and direct funds to Joe Average, Republicans wanted Farmer Welfare, Corporate Tax Cuts/Giveaways, and Pork for the 1%. Both got what they wanted in exchange.
One of the things McConnell said Republicans would not agree to was $2,000 in stimulus money to Joe Average American. The most that Republicans were willing to negotiate was $600. Once again, let me remind you that Treasury Sec. Munchkin was the lead negotiator for Trump.
Now for kicks a giggles we get to see if McConnell will allow the House approved $2,000 stimulus to Joe Average. Democrats called McConnell’s and Trump’s Bluff and we will see if it becomes law.
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Trump: Campaign shifted money into indebted private business, Forbes
Trump has shifted money raised from campaign donors into the Trump Organization, according to documents from the Federal Election Committee (FEC) seen by Forbes.
He moved around $2.8 million into his private businesses throughout the duration of his presidency, Forbes's Dan Alexander reported.
Trump funneled an additional $81,000 into the Trump Organization after his election loss, the magazine said.
The payments were made public in the filings the campaign submitted to the FEC and were liest to cover costs including rent, airfare, lodging, and other expenses.
One of the campaign's joint-fundraising committees, associated with the Republican Party, also moved an estimated $4.3 million of donor money into his private business during his presidential term, according to Forbes.
Read more: 10 huge hits to Trump's business from the pandemic that may be permanent.
The joint-fundraising committee also paid around $300,000 towards Trump's hotel chain in the week following the former president's election loss, the Independent reported.
Around $40,000 was handed over from the campaign to Trump Tower Commercial LLC, a company which the former president owns a stake in, in December, the paper said.
This isn't the first time it has been reported that Trump transferred campaign money to his private businesses.
In July, The Washington Post's David Fahrenthold reported that Trump's campaign sent nearly $400,000 to the Trump Organization in just two days.
Documents showed that the campaign channeled $380,000 to the president's personal business in 43 transactions, Fahrenthold said.
This comes when the former president is said to be looking for ways to cash in on his post-presidency to address potentially huge debt.
The Trump Organization owes $400 million, according to Forbes.
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OUR MORON PRESIDENT SAID WHAT?
During Thursday's White House coronavirus task force briefing, an official presented the results of US government research that indicated coronavirus on an external surface appeared to weaken more quickly when exposed to sunlight, heat, and disinfectant.
Upon taking the podium Trump said:
"So, supposing we hit the body with a tremendous - whether it's ultraviolet or just very powerful light," the president said, turning to Dr Deborah Birx, the White House coronavirus response co-ordinator, "and I think you said that hasn't been checked but you're going to test it.
"And then I said, supposing you brought the light inside of the body, which you can do either through the skin or in some other way. And I think you said you're going to test that too. Sounds interesting," the president continued.
"And then I see the disinfectant where it knocks it out in a minute. One minute. And is there a way we can do something like that, by injection inside or almost a cleaning? So it'd be interesting to check that." Pointing to his head, Mr Trump went on: "I'm not a doctor. But I'm, like, a person that has a good you-know-what." He turned again to Dr Birx and asked if she had ever heard of using "the heat and the light" to treat coronavirus.
"Not as a treatment," Dr Birx said. "I mean, certainly, fever is a good thing. When you have a fever, it helps your body respond. But I've not seen heat or light."
"I think it's a great thing to look at," Mr Trump said.
You heard it here first folks, our president is a Mad Moron Would be “Scientist Jenius” (sic).
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Mønkey
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The cost of Trump’s Golf Trips tops $628,000 to U.S. Tax Payers.
President Trump’s company charged the Secret Service $157,000 more than was previously known — billing taxpayers for rooms at his clubs at rates far higher than his company has claimed, according to a new trove of receipts and billing documents released by the Secret Service. When added to dozens of charges already reported by The Washington Post, the new documents show that Trump’s company has charged the Secret Service more than $628,000 since he took office in 2017.
Yet another Trumpian Lie Exposed.
“If my father travels, they stay at our properties for free — meaning, like, cost for housekeeping,” said Eric Trump, the company’s executive vice president. Later in the interview, he said, “We charge them, like, 50 bucks.” Said Eric Trump.
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Charles Michaels
Why do you hate America, Science, The Rule of Law, Our Constitution, Common Decency, Morality, God, and American Values?
Why do you want to impose Fascism, Racism, Corruption, and a Petty Dictatorship on America?
Why do you claim to oppose communist dictators but applaud Trump when he acts like Xi, Putin, or Chavez?
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vequest
Your post is not without reason, you suggest a brutal and efficient way of solving the problem - let die those who will and the rest will recover. If you remember correctly, the original shut down was to slow/flatten the curve. The primary goal is to prevent the number of critical patients from overwhelming the hospitals. A secondary goal is to go from each infected person passing on Covid-19 to 15 other people to 3 or less people. If you can limit the number of new infections the disease will burn out. Take example the various Plagues of Europe. It was not Heard Immunity that that spared the survivors but isolation and fear.
Germany and New Zealand are two examples of solid government leadership, listening to the experts, and implementing appropriate strategies immediately. Because they took the threat seriously they suffered less infections, dramatically less deaths, and dramatically less economic disruption. Because Trump was 2 months slow in taking action, still has no plan, and seems to not care about Covid-19, America is doomed to do this the hard way. America 128,000 deaths, Germany 9,000.
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TRUMP HAS STILL GOT IT, A VIRTUAL “JENIUS”
Trump appeared on Fox News with Laura Ingraham on Wednesday night shortly after Russia announced that it would attack Ukraine.
Midway through the interview, Laura Ingraham said, “we are just got word from that U.S. officials are looking at a potential amphibious landing now in Odessa, Ukraine.”
“Well, I think the whole thing, again, would have never happened. It shouldn’t happen. And it’s a very sad thing,” Trump said. “But you know what is also very dangerous is, you told me about the amphibious attack by Americans, because you and everyone else shouldn’t know about it. They should do that secretly, not being doing that through the great Laura Ingraham. They should be doing that secretly. Nobody should know that, Laura.”
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Trump Aide Has Mental Melt Down On Facebook. 🤪🤪🤪🤪
Michael R. Caputo told his audience that left-wing hit squads were being trained for insurrection and accused C.D.C. scientists of “sedition.” He complained that he was under siege by the news media, feeling paranoid, and that his “mental health was failing.” He accused the CDC of harboring a “secret resistance unit” determined to undermine President Trump.
Mr. Caputo, who lead efforts to warp C.D.C. weekly bulletins to fit Mr. Trump’s pandemic narrative, suggested that he personally could be in danger from opponents of the administration. “If you carry guns, buy ammunition, ladies and gentlemen, because it’s going to be hard to get,” he urged his followers. “I don’t like being alone in Washington,” Mr. Caputo said, describing “shadows on the ceiling in my apartment, there alone, shadows are so long.” He also said the mounting number of Covid-19 deaths was taking a toll on him, telling his viewers, “You are not waking up every morning and talking about dead Americans. But you should attend Trump rallies and wear a mask”.
SOUNDS LIKE TRUMP ONLY HIRES THE BEST PEOPLE 🤪🤪🤪🤪
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Trump Aide Has Mental Melt Down On Facebook. 🤪🤪🤪🤪
Michael R. Caputo told his audience that left-wing hit squads were being trained for insurrection and accused C.D.C. scientists of “sedition.” He complained that he was under siege by the news media, feeling paranoid, and that his “mental health was failing.” He accused the CDC of harboring a “secret resistance unit” determined to undermine President Trump.
Mr. Caputo, who lead efforts to warp C.D.C. weekly bulletins to fit Mr. Trump’s pandemic narrative, suggested that he personally could be in danger from opponents of the administration. “If you carry guns, buy ammunition, ladies and gentlemen, because it’s going to be hard to get,” he urged his followers. “I don’t like being alone in Washington,” Mr. Caputo said, describing “shadows on the ceiling in my apartment, there alone, shadows are so long.” He also said the mounting number of Covid-19 deaths was taking a toll on him, telling his viewers, “You are not waking up every morning and talking about dead Americans. But you should attend Trump rallies and wear a mask”.
SOUNDS LIKE TRUMP ONLY HIRES THE BEST PEOPLE 🤪🤪🤪🤪
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Dan Alberto Raphael Akselrod
godoggo
Trump has made a lot of promises about actions to fight the coronavirus pandemic.Most of them have been half truths or embellishments.
For example:
Naval hospital ships
Trump announced Wed. that the Navy would dispatch its two hospital ships, the USNS Comfort and the USNS Mercy, to help treat patients and free up land-based hospitals for coronavirus patients.
"So those two ships are prepared to go, and they can be launched over the next week or so," Trump said, calling the ships in "tip-top shape."
Well, not so much.
The Navy said that the Comfort was actually undergoing repairs in Norfolk, Va., and it would be weeks before it could sail.
FDA drug approval
On Thur. Trump touted that the Food and Drug Administration had "approved" use of an anti-malaria drug called chloroquine to treat patients afflicted with the coronavirus. He had a “hunch” that this was the cure.
"We're going to be able to make that drug available almost immediately," Trump said, calling it "a tremendous breakthrough" and a potential "game-changer."
But FDA commissioner Stephen Hahn immediately tried to tamp down Trump's enthusiasm, saying that "a large, pragmatic clinical trial" would be needed first to determine the drug's usefulness before making it available to coronavirus patients.
Hahn said he couldn't "speculate about a timeline" for the drug's availability.
Trump's enthusiasm for hydroxychloroquine spilled into another press conference on Friday, when he again described it as a potential wonder drug.
And again, a public health official — this time, Dr. Anthony Fauci, a top immunologist on the White House's response team — tried to rein in the optimism by echoing the need for clinical proof that it would make a difference.
On Thursday, Trump said another drug, Remdesivir, had "also been approved, or very close to approved" by the FDA for treating patients coronavirus. In fact, that drug is undergoing a clinical trial and is months away from being ready for use.
The website
Last Friday, Trump said at a Rose Garden news conference that Google has 1,700 engineers developing a new website that would help Americans determine whether they should seek testing for the coronavirus.
The president sought to cast his own project as a triumph compared with the initial failure of President Barack Obama to roll out a website as part of the changes to the health care market enacted in 2009.
"Google is helping to develop a website," Trump said. "It's going to be very quickly done — unlike websites of the past — to determine whether a test is warranted and to facilitate testing at a nearby convenient location."
Within hours, Google attempted to clarify the president's comments. It said an affiliated company, Verily, was working on the project but on a limited scale only for people in the San Francisco area.
"Verily is in the early stages of development," Google said, "and planning to roll testing out in the Bay Area, with the hope of expanding more broadly over time."
Unfortunately, there are insufficient tests available to test anyone.
Medical supplies
On Wednesday, Trump met with a group of nurses at the White House, telling them that the administration had arranged for a major new supply of the type of respirator in high demand during the pandemic.
"We've ordered 500 million N95 masks to drive private production," Trump said. He also said that construction companies were being asked to donate unused masks. The next day at a briefing, Vice President Pence stated: "We've vastly increased the supply of medical masks."
But hospitals continue to report that they are running short of masks, as are pharmacists.
Loose-fitting surgical masks aren't appropriate for dealing with the pandemic authorities say; the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention released a graphic detailing the important differences between a surgical mask and an N95 respirator.
Testing
One of the most frequent exaggerations coming from Trump is the availability of coronavirus tests.
When he visited the CDC in Atlanta earlier this month, Trump claimed that "They have the tests. And the tests are beautiful. Anybody that needs a test gets a test."
Pence made a similar claim last week, saying that "a million tests are in the field" and that "by the end of this week, another 4 million tests will be distributed."
Americans who feel sick still can’t get tested. Fauci acknowledged that there clearly is a gap between the supply and the demand.
Trump and Pence say they don't want every American — particularly those who are feeling well — to be tested. Yet people who are not critically sick are being sent home without testing. They are told to “assume they have covid-19” and come back only if there condition worsens. Not knowing if you have the virus dose not help contain the virus.
In summary, Trump just needs to shut up and let the experts talk.
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Giuliani Associate Says He Gave Demand for Biden Inquiry to Ukrainians
The claim by the associate, Lev Parnas, is being vigorously disputed.
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Lev Parnas, second from left, has emerged as a central character in the impeachment inquiry into President Trump.
Lev Parnas, second from left, has emerged as a central character in the impeachment inquiry into President Trump. CreditEduardo Munoz/Reuters
By Ben Protess, Andrew E. Kramer, Michael Rothfeld and William K. Rashbaum
Nov. 10, 2019, 5:08 p.m. ET
Not long before the Ukrainian president was inaugurated in May, an associate of Rudolph W. Giuliani’s journeyed to Kiev to deliver a warning to the country’s new leadership, a lawyer for the associate said.
The associate, Lev Parnas, told a representative of the incoming government that it had to announce an investigation into Mr. Trump’s political rival, Joseph R. Biden Jr., and his son, or else Vice President Mike Pence would not attend the swearing-in of the new president, and the United States would freeze aid, the lawyer said.
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How TV Cable Companies Cover the Impeachment - an exercise in Propaganda:
Note: See if you can spot which company engages in Propaganda.
• CNN: EX-WHITE HOUSE AIDE: HIGHLY UNUSUAL EFFORT TO “LOCK DOWN”. TRANSCRIPT OF JULY 25 CALL WAS AN “ADMINISTRATIVE ERROR”
• Fox News: DEMS PRAISE VINDMAN FOR WORKING AGAINST TRUMP
• MSNBC: CONCLUDES AFTER MORE THAN 9 HOURS
At 9:13 p.m. that day, here’s what viewers saw.
• CNN: KEY WITNESSES QUESTIONED IN PUBLIC HEARINGS
• Fox News: SCHIFF STEERS IMPEACHMENT SHAM OFF A CLIFF / DEMS’ UKRAINE HOAX UNRAVELS ON CAPITOL HILL
• MSNBC: VINDMAN REASSURES SOVIET IMMIGRANT FATHER: HE WILL BE FINE FOR TELLING THE TRUTH / HOUSE INTEL COMPLETES 3RD DAY OF PUBLIC IMPEACHMENT HEARINGS
At 10:15 p.m.:
• CNN: SONDLAND TESTIFIES TOMORROW
• Fox News: VOLKER TESTIMONY UNDERMINES DEMS’ NARRATIVE
• MSNBC: IMPEACHMENT HEARING WRAPS AFTER 4 WITNESSES, 9+ HOURS / LT. COL VINDMAN, TRUMP’S TOP UKRAINE ADVISOR, TESTIFIES. TRUMP ACTED “IMPROPERLY” WHEN HE “DEMANDED” A FAVOR
At 10:51 p.m.:
• CNN: REPUBLICANS USE IMPEACHMENT HEARINGS TO QUESTION LOYALTY OF DECORATED ARMY VETERAN SPEAKING OUT AGAINST TRUMP
• Fox News: CHICK-FIL-A CAVES TO LIBERAL MOB
• MSNBC: EU AMB. GORDON SONDLAND TESTIFIES TOMORROW MORNING / SONDLAND WILL FACE QUESTIONS ABOUT PREVIOUSLY. UNKNOWN CALL TO TRUMP FROM RESTAURANT IN UKRAINE
Following day 8:12 p.m.:
• CNN: SONDLAND TIES PRES. TRUMP, VP PENCE, SECY. OF STATE POMPEO. AND WH CHIEF OF STAFF MULVANEY TO PRESSURE CAMPAIGN / SONDLAND: “EVERYONE WAS IN THE LOOP” ON UKRAINE PRESSURE
• Fox News: “NO QUID PRO QUO”
Half an hour later, while CNN was still covering Sondland’s testimony, Fox News was discussing the Clinton Foundation.
At 10:54 p.m., here’s what the two networks were showing viewers.
• CNN: SONDLAND: ‘YES’ THERE WAS QUID PRO QUO. IN UKRAINE SCANDAL
• Fox News: SWALWELL CAUSES A STINK
That latter text referred to a viral video clip that appeared to have captured the sound of flatulence while Rep. Eric Swalwell (D-Calif.) was appearing on MSNBC the previous day.
On Thursday, similar divides were on display. At 9:53 p.m., here’s what each network showed — perhaps the most representative comparison of any.
• CNN: NO REPUBLICANS BUDGE AFTER ALL THE FACTS, EVIDENCE REVEALED IN 3O+ HOURS OF PUBLIC TESTIMONY / MEMBERS OF PRESIDENT’S PARTY CROSSED AISLE IN NIXON & CLINTON IMPEACHMENT PROCEEDINGS, BUT NOT NOW
• Fox News: FBI OFFICIAL UNDER INVESTIGATION FOR ALLEGEDLY ALTERING DOC RELATED TO PAGE SURVEILLANCE, CNN REPORTS
• MSNBC: NIXON PLEDGED TO FIGHT TO KEEP HIS PRESIDENCY / IMPEACHMENT HEARING WITNESSES WRAP UP WEEK OF EXPLOSIVE TESTIMONY
There’s a reason that Trump’s current press secretary has only given interviews to Fox News and not other broadcast or major cable networks. Why would Trump need a White House communications director when he has a generously friendly cable network that’s already popular with the people he wants to talk to anyway?
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How do you know if your president might turn into a Dictator? Take the Test.
1. Weak commitment to democratic rules or norms.
Q. A willingness to violate the Constitution.
Q. Use of anti democratic measures banning certain organizations, or restricting basic civil or political rights.
Q. Undermine the legitimacy of elections, for example, by claiming unverifiable mass voter fraud.
2. Denial of the legitimacy of political opponents.
Q. They describe rivals as subversives.
Q. They claim that their rivals constitute a threat, such as calling opponents socialists or communists.
Q. They baselessly call rivals criminals, traitors, witch hunters, etc.
Q. They baselessly say their rivals are secretly working in alliance against you.
3. Toleration or encouragement of violence.
Q. They have ties to armed militias, paramilitary forces, white supremacy groups, etc.
Q. They encourage, or suggested, mob attacks on opponents.
Q. They endorse violence by their supporters by refusing to unambiguously condemn it.
4. Readiness to curtail civil liberties or voting rights of opponents, including the media.
Q. They support the restriction civil liberties, freedom of the press, and punish those who speak out against them.
Q. They threaten legal or other punitive action against critics, or the media.
Q. They praise repressive leaders or actions taken by repressive leaders?
If the answer is yes to even on of the above questions then you have a wanna be Dictator on your hands.
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In 2016, Grenell repeatedly defended the Moldovan governing coalition, including in a Washington Examiner op-ed in which he wrote that the allegations of corruption leveled against controversial political leader and businessman Vladimir Plahotniuc were exaggerated. Plahotniuc fled Moldova in mid-2019 after his party lost power.
In January, Secretary of State Mike Pompeo announced that Plahotniuc and his family were barred from entering the United States, citing the businessman’s “corrupt actions,” which “undermined the rule of law and severely compromised the independence of democratic institutions in Moldova.” [As always Treasonous Trump knows how to pick the "honest" ones.]
Grenell’s firm, Capitol Media Partners, worked for a range of clients including Kate del Castillo, an actress perhaps best known as the ex-girlfriend of Joaquín “El Chapo” Guzmán, the drug kingpin. Grenell also represented people based in countries such as Iran, Kazakhstan, Somalia and China. [Clients every American should be "proud" of.]
Grenell’s public relations firm was paid to do work for a U.S. nonprofit funded by the Hungarian government led by far-right fascist Prime Minister Viktor Orban.
Grenell’s public relations consulting and foreign policy commentary, as well as his reputation as a vocal loyalist of Trump’s, are part of an unusual résumé for an individual serving as the Director of Intelligence. Individuals who have served in that position typically have been nonpartisan national security professionals whose experience has included leading intelligence agencies or service in the military.
In February 2016, a research paper put out by a Pepperdine University scholar, concluded that under Orban — a leader who has often allied himself with the Kremlin’s positions, and who has cracked down on free speech and civil liberties — Hungary was becoming a “trendsetter in challenging the fundamentals of Western political correctness and promoting fascism.
[Russia, Russia, Russia, with Treasonous Trump it always ties back to Russia.]
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InCogNito
The Trump campaign also sought to temporarily stop counting some ballots in Detroit. It cited a GOP poll watcher who had said she had been told by an unidentified person that late mail ballots were being predated to before Election Day, so they would be considered valid.
The judge repeatedly asserted this was hearsay, but Trump campaign lawyer Thor Hearne sought to argue that it wasn’t — despite it having been someone who said they heard about something they weren’t personally involved in. He pointed to a vague note the poll watcher produced — which said “entered receive date as 11/2/20 on 11/4/20” — as evidence:
STEPHENS: So I want to make sure I understand you. The affiant is not the person who had knowledge of this. Is that correct?
HEARNE: The affiant had direct firsthand knowledge of the communication with the elections inspector and the document they provided them.
STEPHENS: Okay, which is generally known as hearsay, right?
HEARNE: I would not think that’s hearsay, Your Honor. That’s firsthand personal knowledge by the affiant of what she physically observed. And we included an exhibit which is a physical copy of the note that she was provided.
The two later returned to the point, after Stephens reviewed the note, and Stephens echoed Judge Diamond’s exasperation:
STEPHENS: I’m still trying to understand why this isn’t hearsay.
HEARNE: Well, it’s, it, I –
STEPHENS: I absolutely understand what the affiant says she heard someone say to her. But the truth of the matter … that you’re going for was that there was an illegal act occurring. Because other than that I don’t know what its relevancy is.
HEARNE: Right. I would say, Your Honor, in terms of the hearsay point, this is a firsthand factual statement made by Ms. Connarn, and she has made that statement based on her own firsthand physical evidence and knowledge --
STEPHENS: “I heard somebody else say something.” Tell me why that’s not hearsay. Come on, now.
HEARNE: Well it’s a firsthand statement of her physical –
STEPHENS: It’s an out-of-court statement offered where the truth of the matter is asserted, right?
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InCogNito
A major law firm withdrew overnight from a Trump campaign case in Pennsylvania seeking to have mail-in ballots thrown out, in the latest blow to the president’s efforts to challenge the 2020 election result in court.
The Ohio-based Porter Wright Morris & Arthur firm, which brought a suit on Monday alleging that the use of mail-in ballots had created “an illegal two-tiered voting system” in the state, abruptly withdrew from that case in a memo to the court.
“Plaintiffs and Porter Wright have reached a mutual agreement that plaintiffs will be best served if Porter Wright withdraws,” the memo said. The lead lawyer in the case, the Pittsburgh-based Ronald L Hicks Jr, did not immediately reply to a request for comment. The news was first reported by the New York Times.
Separately, lawyers for the Trump campaign withdrew a lawsuit in Arizona, conceding that the case would not move enough votes to change the election result in the state. “Since the close of yesterday’s hearing, the tabulation of votes statewide has rendered unnecessary a judicial ruling as to the presidential electors,” Trump lawyer Kory Langhofer told an Arizona state court, in news first reported by the Wall Street Journal.
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A day before rioters stormed Congress, an FBI office in Virginia issued an explicit internal warning that extremists were preparing to travel to Washington to commit violence and “war,” according to an FBI internal document. A situational information report approved for release the day before the U.S. Capitol riot painted a dire portrait of dangerous plans, including individuals sharing a map of the complex’s tunnels, and possible rally points for would-be conspirators to meet up. “As of 5 January 2021, FBI Norfolk received information indicating calls for violence in response to ‘unlawful lockdowns’ to begin on 6 January 2021 in Washington. D.C.,” the document says. “An online thread discussed specific calls for violence to include stating ‘Be ready to fight. Congress needs to hear glass breaking, doors being kicked in, and blood being spilled. Get violent. Stop calling this a march, or rally, or a protest. Go there ready for war. Our President wants us to do this. NOTHING else will achieve this goal.”
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In CogNito
It is truly an amazing feat that “Liberals” (a name applied to anyone,or any institution, that criticizes Treasonous Trump) can pull together all of America’s, and Worlds, Scholars, Historians, Economists, Main Stream Media, Allies, and 60 - 65% of Americans to make up lies about TT - we must never get any sleep orchestrating this “Deep State Cabal”. It is a good thing that TT can rely and “good” people like yourself, and such notable leaders such as Putin, Kim, and Erdogan to support him.
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TRUMP’s BLAME-SHIFTING SCAM SPOTLIGHTS HIS FAILURES.
The timeline for Trump’s Failures:
Jan. 23, the WHO warned that coronavirus could “appear in any country,” and urged all countries to be “prepared for containment” and get ready to exercise “isolation” and “prevention” measures against its spread.
At the same time Trump was asked point-blank if worried about coronavirus’s spread, and he answered: “No, not at all, it was one person coming from China. We have it totally under control.”
On Jan. 24, Trump praised China’s “efforts” and its “transparency” and predicting that “it will all work out well.” Trump showed no concern about Covid45s spread outside China — even though WHO warned otherwise.
On Jan. 30, the WHO declared coronavirus a global public health emergency. While WHO was still too credulous toward China’s response, WHO also warned that all countries must review “preparedness plans” and take seriously what was coming.
By contrast, on Jan. 30 Trump was AGAIN directly warned by his HHS Sec. of the threat coronavirus posed. Trump dismissed this as “alarmist.”
On Feb. 2, Trump boasted to Sean Hannity: “We pretty much shut it down, coming in from China.” He hailed our “tremendous relationship” with that country. Trump continued praising China’s handling of coronavirus all through the entire month of February. Trump showed precisely the same credulity about China that WHO for showing, but without appreciating the urgency of the international threat coronavirus posed to the degree that the WHO did.
On travel restrictions:
Jan. 31, Trump announced restrictions on travel from China, WHO disagreed claiming it was too late. Ironically, Trump’s travel ban only excluded non Americans, not Americans, and set up no measures to screen or quarantine American Travelers returning from China.
For kicks and giggles google all the crazy quotes Trump made dismissing the coming deadly crisis right up to the last week of March. In the end Xi lied, WHO botched, & Trump did NOTHING DESPITE ALL THE WARNINGS.
26,212 American Deaths & rising and Trump still can’t pull it together.
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“There’s Nothing Left, I no longer recognize my party”
Why Hundreds of Thousands of Republicans Are Leaving the Party
Voting registration data indicates a strong and unusual flight from the G.O.P. since the Capitol riot, with an intensely fluid period in American politics now underway.
In the days and weeks after the storming of the Capitol by Trump supporters on Jan. 6, hundreds of thousands of Republicans left the party. After the Jan. 6 attack on the Capitol, the phone lines and websites of local election officials across the country were jumping: Tens of thousands of Republicans were calling or logging on to switch their party affiliations.
In California, more than 33,000 registered Republicans left the party during the three weeks after the Washington riot. In Pennsylvania, more than 12,000 voters left the G.O.P. in the past month, and more than 10,000 Republicans changed their registration in Arizona.
An analysis of January voting records found that nearly 140,000 Republicans had quit the party in 25 states that had readily available data (19 states do not have registration by party). Voting experts say this is the start of a particularly damaging period for G.O.P. registrations as voters recoil from the Capitol violence and its fallout.
Among those who recently left the party are Juan Nunez, 56, an Army veteran in Mechanicsburg, Pa. He said he had long felt that the difference between the United States and many other countries was that campaign-season fighting ended on Election Day, when all sides would peacefully accept the result. The Jan. 6 riot changed that, he said.
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A day before rioters stormed Congress, an FBI office in Virginia issued an explicit internal warning that extremists were preparing to travel to Washington to commit violence and “war,” according to an FBI internal document. A situational information report approved for release the day before the U.S. Capitol riot painted a dire portrait of dangerous plans, including individuals sharing a map of the complex’s tunnels, and possible rally points for would-be conspirators to meet up. “As of 5 January 2021, FBI Norfolk received information indicating calls for violence in response to ‘unlawful lockdowns’ to begin on 6 January 2021 in Washington. D.C.,” the document says. “An online thread discussed specific calls for violence to include stating ‘Be ready to fight. Congress needs to hear glass breaking, doors being kicked in, and blood being spilled. Get violent. Stop calling this a march, or rally, or a protest. Go there ready for war. Our President wants us to do this. NOTHING else will achieve this goal.”
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Di Wang
Never believe the Chinese fake news, or Faux fake news.
Fox News, finally started calling coronavirus a crisis.
For weeks, Fox News’s hosts downplayed the threat of the coronavirus, calling it a conspiracy by the Main Stream Media and Democrats to undermine President Trump.
Sean Hannity and Laura Ingraham accused the news media of whipping up “mass hysteria” and being “panic pushers.” Trish Regan called the Main Stream Media response “yet another attempt to impeach the president.”
But that was then.
Monday, Trump’s declared a national emergency, Faux News immediately has quickly shifted. Hannity, suddenly the lauded the president’s handling of the “crisis.”
“Tonight, we are witnessing what will be a massive paradigm shift in the future of disease control and prevention,” he said. “A bold, new precedent is being set, the world will once again benefit greatly from America’s leadership. . . . The federal government, state governments, private businesses, top hospitals all coming together, under the president’s leadership, to stem the tide of the coronavirus.”
In a complicated dance to mimic Trump, Faux news took the same stance as the president for several weeks — that this coronavirus was no worse a threat than the seasonal flu.
Just a week ago, Hannity shrugged at the pandemic. “So far in the United States, there’s been around 30 deaths, most of which came from one nursing home in the state of Washington,” he said, “Healthy people, generally, 99 percent recover very fast, even if they contract it.” He added: “Twenty-six people were shot in Chicago alone over the weekend. I doubt you heard about it. You notice there’s no widespread hysteria about violence in Chicago. And this has gone on for years and years. By the way, Democratic-run cities, we see a lot of that.”
Ingraham, also had to flip flop as social and economic dislocation of the virus took hold. This was more than just a Democratic talking point wielded against the president.
In February, Ingraham called Democrats the “pandemic party” and displayed photos of House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) and Senate Minority Leader Charles E. Schumer (D-N.Y.) alongside enlarged images of coronavirus molecules. “How sick that these people seem almost happiest when Americans are hurting,” she said.
She kept at it showing a graphic reading “Trump confronts the panic pushers,” Ingraham said, “The public in some ways seems a lot more levelheaded than the so-called experts. . . . The facts are actually pretty reassuring, but you’d never know it watching all this stuff.”
Ingraham even tweeted that it was a “great time to fly if not in at-risk population!” The tweet was later deleted.
After Trump announced a travel ban on people from the European Union, Ingraham started calling the pandemic “this dangerous health crisis.” She characterized warnings issued by National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases head Anthony S. Fauci about the potential spread of the disease as “sobering and scary to hear.”
Regan’s on-air speculation that coronavirus was merely another impeachment gambit for Democrats drew widespread pushback. Clearly Faux was starting to get the message. Faux announced that Trish Regan would leave the air indefinitely.
Tucker Carlson too, blamed the “corrupt” media. But in a monologue he indirectly scolded Trump, he also complained that “none of our leaders helped us to take it seriously. . . . People you trust, people you probably voted for, have spent weeks minimizing what is clearly a very serious problem. It’s just partisan politics, they say. ‘Calm down. In the end, this is just like the flu and people die from that every year. Coronavirus will pass, and when it does, we will feel foolish for worrying about it.’ That’s their position. . . . But they’re wrong.”
In comments downplaying the pandemic on March 7, Jeanine Pirro, offered “All the talk about coronavirus being so much more deadly [than the flu] doesn’t reflect reality.” She reiterated Trump’s comment that the infection rate will drop “as the weather warms.”
On the “Fox & Friends”, Liberty University President Jerry Falwell Jr. spun out a meandering tale advancing the baseless notion that the coronavirus was designed by North Korean and Chinese scientists to harm Americans. Nobody tried to correct him.
Then, Rep. Devin Nunes (R-Calif.) appeared on Fox News and urged Americans to “stop panicking” and for those who are healthy to “just go out.”
Said Nunes: “There’s a lot of concerns with the economy here because people are scared to go out. But I will just say one of the things you can do if you’re healthy, you and your family, it’s a great time to just go out, go to a local restaurant.”
Anchor Maria Bartiromo offered no response to Nunes’s comment. On Monday, a day later, Fox News contributor Nicole Saphier, a doctor, specifically called out the congressman on air to contradict his advice and told viewers to stay home.
This is a quick summation of how Faux news has become nothing more than a platform for Trumpian Propaganda.
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@headscrewedonright9030 When President Donald Trump canceled a visit to the Aisne-Marne American Cemetery, near Paris, in 2018, he blamed rain for the last-minute decision, saying that “the helicopter couldn’t fly” and that the Secret Service wouldn’t drive him there. Neither claim was true.
Trump rejected the idea of the visit because he feared his hair would become disheveled in the rain, and because he did not believe it important to honor American war dead, according to four people with firsthand knowledge of the discussion that day. In a conversation with senior staff members on the morning of the scheduled visit, Trump said, “Why should I go to that cemetery? It’s filled with losers.” In a separate conversation on the same trip, Trump referred to the more than 1,800 marines who lost their lives at Belleau Wood as “suckers” for getting killed.
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@vitalsigns2679
And your thoughts on Treasonous Trump Nuclear disarming North Korea “We are in Love”, “He sent me a beautiful letter, a Love Letter.” "I'm going to tell you about the Nobel Peace Prize, I'll tell you about that. I made a deal, I saved a country, and I just heard that the head of that country is now getting the Nobel Peace Prize for saving the country. I said: 'What, did I have something to do with it?' Yeah, but you know, that's the way it is. As long as we know, that's all that matters... I saved a big war, I've saved a couple of them."
Remind me, did Kim disarm? Did he give up ICBMs or SLBMs? Did Kim give up anything?
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@adspie
“He wrote me beautiful letters, and they’re great letters,” Trump said at a September rally in West Virginia. “We fell in love.”
- Donald J Trump about Kim Jung Un
“you don’t have this problem in Russia”
- Donald J Trump speaking to Putin about negative press
“Well, first of all, let me say that I think that Kim Jong Un, or Chairman Kim, as some people say, is looking to create a nation that has great strength economically. I think he’s very much – I talk to him a lot about it, and he’s very much into the fact that – he believes, like I do, that North Korea has tremendous economic potential like perhaps few other developing nations anywhere in the world.”
- DJT
“President Erdogan. He’s tough, but I get along with him. It’s my honor to be with a friend of mine, somebody I’ve become very close to, in many respects, and he’s doing a very good job”
DJT
“And I like President Xi a lot. I consider him a friend, and – but I like him a lot. I’ve gotten to know him very well. He’s a strong gentleman, right? Anybody that – he’s a strong guy, tough guy.”
“President Xi, who is a strong man, I call him King, he said, ‘But I am not King, I am president.’ I said, ‘No, you’re president for life and therefore, you’re King.’ He said, ‘Huh. Huh.’ I said I would like to be president for life. He liked that.”
DJT
“I called President Putin of Russia to congratulate him on his election victory. The Fake News Media is crazed because they wanted me to excoriate him. They are wrong! Getting along with Russia is a good thing, not a bad thing…”
“The man has very strong control over a country. Now, it’s a very different system, but certainly in that system, he’s been a leader. Far more than our [former] president has been a leader.”
DJT (The J Stands for Jenius )
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spooderdoggy
spooderdoggy
The Stock Market grew 145% under Obama -Trump is at 55%.
Unemployment dropped from 10% when Obama took office to 4.7% a drop of 5.3% - Trump has taken it from 4.7% to 3.7% a drop of 1%.
Jobs
Obama created: 1,130,000 jobs. Note Obama inherited the the Great Recession and still pulled off these numbers.
Trump created: 567,000 jobs
GDP Economic Growth
Obama: - 2.5 (2009)*, 2.6 (2010), 1.6 (2011), 2.2 (2012), 1.8 (2013), 2.5 (2014), 2.9 (2015), and 1.6 (2016)
* Obama inherited the worst recession in American History. He turned it around in one year.
Trump: 2.4 (2017), 2.9 (2018), and 2.1 (2019) estimated.
US Manufacturing Output
Obama: grew from 90.6 to 104.3 a positive change of 13.7 ($in Trillions)
Trump: grew from 104.3 to 108 a positive change of 3.7
US Business Investment
Obama: +16 (2010), +18 (2011), +20 (2013), + 7.4 (2014), +7.6 (2015) +5.4 (2016) Note: $ In Trillions
Trump: +2.5 (2017), +7.2 (2018), - .06 (2019)
So as you can see Trump has nothing to really brag about other than not tanking the economy... yet. Source of data GAO and Fed.
It was my pleasure to educate you. 🙂
🇺🇸🗽🇺🇸
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FAILURE IN AMERICA ON A TRUMPIAN SCALE:
Nearly every country has struggled to contain the coronavirus and made mistakes along the way.
China silenced doctors and allowed the virus to escape Wuhan, much of Europe went next, failing to avoid and contain enormous outbreaks. Today, many countries — Japan, Canada, France, Australia and more — are coping with new increases in cases after reopening parts of society.
But one country stands alone, as the only affluent nation to have suffered a severe, sustained outbreak for more than four months: the United States. In just the past month over 1.9 million Americans have tested positive for the virus. That’s more than five times as many as in all of Europe, Canada, Japan, South Korea and Australia, combined. The United States also has the highest number of Deaths 157,000 from the virus far out pacing all other countries. Brazil is the only country competing with the United States for complete failure in containing the virus.
What does the United States & Brazil have in common? Trumpian Politics.
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The deputy assistant secretary of labor for public affairs, said on Monday that Mr. Acosta had no comment. Pelosi, said Monday night that Mr. Acosta should resign because of the “unconscionable agreement” that he made with Mr. Epstein in 2008.
Alexander Acosta President Donald Trump nominated Republican Acosta to be Labor Secretary on February 16, 2017, and he was confirmed by the U.S. Senate on April 27, 2017.
Attorney General William P. Barr said on Monday during a trip to South Carolina that he had recused himself from the case because Mr. Barr’s former law firm, Kirkland & Ellis, had represented Mr. Epstein.
In 2002, Mr. Trump described Mr. Epstein as “a terrific guy,” telling New York Magazine, “It is even said that he likes beautiful women as much as I do, and many of them are on the younger side.”
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WASHINGTON — Lt. Col. Alexander S. Vindman, the top Ukraine expert on the National Security Council, told House impeachment investigators on Tuesday that the White House transcript of a July call between President Trump and Ukraine’s president omitted crucial words and phrases, and that his attempts to include them failed, according to three people familiar with the testimony.
The omissions, Colonel Vindman said, included Mr. Trump’s assertion that there were recordings of former Vice President Joseph R. Biden Jr. discussing Ukraine corruption, and an explicit mention by Ukraine’s president, Volodymyr Zelensky, of Burisma Holdings, the energy company whose board employed Mr. Biden’s son Hunter.
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Luke Macys
OUR MORON PRESIDENT SAID WHAT?
During Thursday's White House coronavirus task force briefing, an official presented the results of US government research that indicated coronavirus on an external surface appeared to weaken more quickly when exposed to sunlight, heat, and disinfectant.
Upon taking the podium Trump said:
"So, supposing we hit the body with a tremendous - whether it's ultraviolet or just very powerful light," the president said, turning to Dr Deborah Birx, the White House coronavirus response co-ordinator, "and I think you said that hasn't been checked but you're going to test it.
"And then I said, supposing you brought the light inside of the body, which you can do either through the skin or in some other way. And I think you said you're going to test that too. Sounds interesting," the president continued.
"And then I see the disinfectant where it knocks it out in a minute. One minute. And is there a way we can do something like that, by injection inside or almost a cleaning? So it'd be interesting to check that." Pointing to his head, Mr Trump went on: "I'm not a doctor. But I'm, like, a person that has a good you-know-what." He turned again to Dr Birx and asked if she had ever heard of using "the heat and the light" to treat coronavirus.
"Not as a treatment," Dr Birx said. "I mean, certainly, fever is a good thing. When you have a fever, it helps your body respond. But I've not seen heat or light."
"I think it's a great thing to look at," Mr Trump said.
You heard it here first folks, our president is a Mad Moron Would be “Scientist Jenius” (sic).
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@naomiverdugo2180 But does Batman have God on his side? Seriously! The Bible is full of admonishments on following False Prophets and UnChristian like behavior such as Hate & Racism etc, that gave us trials for witches, the Catholic Inquisition, the burning of so called heretics. Here are 2 of my favorites for you to ponder:
2 Corinthians 11:13-15
For such men are false apostles, deceitful workmen, disguising themselves as apostles of Christ. And no wonder, for even Satan disguises himself as an angel of light. So it is no surprise if his servants, also, disguise themselves as servants of righteousness. Their end will correspond to their deeds.
2 Timothy 4:3
For the time is coming when people will not endure sound teaching, but having itching ears they will accumulate for themselves teachers to suit their own passions.
NAOMI, WHAT DO YOUR ITCHING EARS TELL YOU?
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Eastman admitted to Jacob that Trump’s Electors Coup would lose on the merits in the Supreme Court: “When I pressed him on the point, I said ‘John, if the vice president did what you were asking him to do, we would lose 9-0 in the Supreme Court, wouldn’t we?’ And he initially started at, ‘Well, I think maybe you would lose only 7-2,' and after some further discussion, acknowledged, ‘Well, yeah, you’re right, we would lose 9-0.’ ... [He] ultimately acknowledged that, no, we would lose 9-0 — no judge would support his argument.”
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PrisonKilljoy
Did you not read the stats? More than 86% of politically motivated gun murders are right wing nuts. And since Treasonous Trump the pace of deaths has increased 200%. By the way , are you former combat military? I am. Benghazi was a very unfortunate miss calculation on the part of the State Department Planners and the Military Planners. A similar situation happened under TT in Nigeria called the Tongo Ambush. Four American Special Forces soldiers died because they were sent out unsupported with no assets available to assist if needed. Poor planning by the State Department, Disregard for soldiers lives by the President TT, and poor Military Planning. Should TT have been investigated 6 different times for Nigeria? Or should he have been given a pass like he was because he is clueless. I vote for clueless.
I despised Hillary, though smart, she is a part of the Swamp - slimy. TT on the other hand is America’s worst nightmare. He is the 5th horse of the Apocalypse and the Swamp Combined. TT is the most corrupt, immoral, narcissistic, racist, fascist leaning, incompetent president America has ever witnessed. If given another four years he will destroy America, its economy, our Constitution, our rule of law, and he might even morph into the Antichrist. Personally I expected the Antichrist to be a lot smarter.
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Donald Trump’s ‘Very Special’ Victory in Syria
It’s certainly special for Erdogan, Putin and al-Assad.
President Trump announced a “permanent” cease-fire along the Turkish-Syrian border on Wednesday. In announcing a “permanent” cease-fire along the Turkish-Syrian border on Wednesday, President Trump smugly declared that “this was an outcome created by us, the United States, and nobody else.” The president, incapable of irony, was probably not referring to his own abrupt decision on Oct. 6 to stab Syrian Kurds in the back by giving Turkey a green light to attack them. Rather, he was giving credit to himself and to his vice president and secretary of state, who negotiated a partial cease-fire a week after President Recep Tayyip Erdogan of Turkey sent troops across the Syrian border to drive out Kurdish forces he considers a threat.
In Mr. Trump’s bizarre account, he claimed to have done Turkey and the Kurds a “great service” by creating a 20-mile-wide safe zone between them — “an interesting term, safe zone,” the president mused, as if he had just come up with a radically new concept. (The zone was in fact negotiated by Turkey and the Russians.) The president said he was lifting sanctions on Turkish products, and gushed that the commander of Kurdish forces “could not have been more thankful.”
Less than 24 hours later, that same Kurdish commander, Mazloum Abdi, was complaining on Twitter that Turkish forces were violating the “permanent” cease-fire brokered by Mr. Trump.
As is often the case with Trump pronouncements, it is hard to know where to begin. In effect, Mr. Trump was blithely taking full credit for ending a brutal battle he had a hand in starting and claiming a significant feat when in fact the betrayal of the Kurds and the brusque, thoughtless American withdrawal undermined American credibility and was a major victory for Presidents Vladimir Putin of Russia and Bashar al-Assad, the butcher of Syria.
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@firenze6478 For when Joshua and all Israel saw that the ambush had taken the city and that smoke was going up from the city, they turned around and attacked the men of Ai.
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The men of the ambush also came out of the city against them, so that they were caught in the middle, with Israelites on both sides. Israel cut them down, leaving them neither survivors nor fugitives.
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When Israel had finished killing all the men of Ai in the fields and in the desert where they had chased them, and when every one of them had been put to the sword, all the Israelites returned to Ai and killed those who were in it.
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RYNNY KITTY
TRUMP & HIS MURDEROUS LIES
Trump has reached the milestone of 18,000 lies during his presidency. On the same day he accused the WHO of “covering up the spread of the coronavirus” and failing to “share information in a timely fashion.” He declared he was cutting off funding for the world’s public health body in the middle of a pandemic.
He also called WHO a “tool of China” and floated the theory that WHO deliberately concealed the danger of the virus: “There’s something going on” at the WHO “that’s very bad,” and "I have a feeling they knew exactly what was going on.”
This is a murderous lie as 15 Trump appointed officials were embedded with WHO in Geneva, working full time, hand-in-glove with the organization on the virus from the very first day China disclosed the outbreak to the world, Dec. 31. These Trump officials U.S. officials dedicated 100% of their time to the virus. In the weeks that followed, they and other U.S. government scientists engaged in all major deliberations and decisions at the WHO on the novel coronavirus, had access to all information, and contributed significantly to the world body’s conclusions and recommendations. Everything that WHO knew, Trump knew — in real time. As congressional investigators are now learning, senior Trump administration officials — Health and Human Services Secretary Alex Azar; the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s Robert R. Redfield Jr., Anne Schuchat, Ray R. Arthur and Jeffrey McFarland; the National Institutes of Health’s Anthony S. Fauci and H. Clifford Lane, and many others — consulted with the WHO throughout the crisis.
Trump lied and Americans Died - 33,500+ & Counting.
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TRUMP & HIS MURDEROUS LIES
Trump has reached the milestone of 18,000 lies during his presidency. On the same day he accused the WHO of “covering up the spread of the coronavirus” and failing to “share information in a timely fashion.” He declared he was cutting off funding for the world’s public health body in the middle of a pandemic.
He also called WHO a “tool of China” and floated the theory that WHO deliberately concealed the danger of the virus: “There’s something going on” at the WHO “that’s very bad,” and "I have a feeling they knew exactly what was going on.”
This is a murderous lie as 15 Trump appointed officials were embedded with WHO in Geneva, working full time, hand-in-glove with the organization on the virus from the very first day China disclosed the outbreak to the world, Dec. 31. These Trump officials U.S. officials dedicated 100% of their time to the virus. In the weeks that followed, they and other U.S. government scientists engaged in all major deliberations and decisions at the WHO on the novel coronavirus, had access to all information, and contributed significantly to the world body’s conclusions and recommendations. Everything that WHO knew, Trump knew — in real time. As congressional investigators are now learning, senior Trump administration officials — Health and Human Services Secretary Alex Azar; the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s Robert R. Redfield Jr., Anne Schuchat, Ray R. Arthur and Jeffrey McFarland; the National Institutes of Health’s Anthony S. Fauci and H. Clifford Lane, and many others — consulted with the WHO throughout the crisis.
Trump lied and Americans Died - 33,500+ & Counting.
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“I no longer recognize my party”
Why Hundreds of Thousands of Republicans Are Leaving the Crazed Party
Voting registration data indicates a strong and unusual flight from the G.O.P. since the Capitol riot, with an intensely fluid period in American politics now underway.
In the days and weeks after the storming of the Capitol by Trump supporters on Jan. 6, hundreds of thousands of Republicans left the party. After the Jan. 6 attack on the Capitol, the phone lines and websites of local election officials across the country were jumping: Tens of thousands of Republicans were calling or logging on to switch their party affiliations.
In California, more than 33,000 registered Republicans left the party during the three weeks after the Washington riot. In Pennsylvania, more than 12,000 voters left the G.O.P. in the past month, and more than 10,000 Republicans changed their registration in Arizona.
An analysis of January voting records found that nearly 140,000 Republicans had quit the party in 25 states that had readily available data (19 states do not have registration by party). Voting experts say this is the start of a particularly damaging period for G.O.P. registrations as voters recoil from the Capitol violence and its fallout.
Among those who recently left the party are Juan Nunez, 56, an Army veteran in Mechanicsburg, Pa. He said he had long felt that the difference between the United States and many other countries was that campaign-season fighting ended on Election Day, when all sides would peacefully accept the result. The Jan. 6 riot changed that, he said.
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@TrollHunterProductionz Useful Idiot: A Naive person who can be manipulated to advance a political agenda. e.g. Maga Mor Ons, Fox news, Donald Trump, James Comer, Marsha Blackburn, Marjorie Taylor Green, Jim Jordon, Matt Gaetz, Paul Gosar, Tucker Carlson, Sean Hannity, Laura Ingraham, Jesse Watters, etc…
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Giulia Vende
dad bear
William H. McRaven, a retired Navy admiral, was commander of the U.S. Joint Special Operations Command from 2011 to 2014. He oversaw the 2011 Navy SEAL raid in Pakistan that killed al-Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden. He writes:
Dear Mr. President:
Former CIA director John Brennan, whose security clearance you revoked on Wednesday, is one of the finest public servants I have ever known. Few Americans have done more to protect this country than John. He is a man of unparalleled integrity, whose honesty and character have never been in question, except by those who don’t know him.
Therefore, I would consider it an honor if you would revoke my security clearance as well, so I can add my name to the list of men and women who have spoken up against your presidency.
Like most Americans, I had hoped that when you became president, you would rise to the occasion and become the leader this great nation needs.
A good leader tries to embody the best qualities of his or her organization. A good leader sets the example for others to follow. A good leader always puts the welfare of others before himself or herself.
Your leadership, however, has shown little of these qualities. Through your actions, you have embarrassed us in the eyes of our children, humiliated us on the world stage and, worst of all, divided us as a nation.
If you think for a moment that your McCarthy-era tactics will suppress the voices of criticism, you are sadly mistaken. The criticism will continue until you become the leader we prayed you would be.
NEED WE SAY MORE THAN THIS AMERICAN HERO? STAND UP AND BE COUNTED. VOTE THIS WOULD BE PETTY DICTATOR OUT OF OFFICE.
🇺🇸🗽🇺🇸
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Tokusatsu Keyblade
Then you didn’t check, typical for a MAGA Maggot. The Mueller Report Vol 1 showed Collusion, The House Investigation Showed Collusion, the CIA, FBI, DIA, NSA, showed Russian GRU Agents in Contact with Trump officials conducting an influence operation. Just because Trump did not get prosecuted for it does not make it any less real. You should read much, much, more.
Suggested Reading: Mueller Report Vol 1, House Intel Report on Trump Russian Collusion, Intel Report of Russian/Trump Operation.
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The Trumpian 2020 Disinformation War:
Treasonous Trump's team is presiding over a sophisticated, multimillion-dollar digital operation, an operation that carries his propaganda across just about every digital platform available. This propaganda push results in the most extensive disinformation campaign in U.S. history.
COPPINS: That's exactly...
KELLY: ...Type of ads.
Trump Campaign Manager, Brad Pascal and the Republican National Committee and Trump campaign actually have 3,000 data points on almost every voter in America, and they use those data points to determine how exactly to pitch their message. So a message, for example, on defunding Planned Parenthood might not go over well in certain parts of the country, but if you microtarget it to 800 pro-life women in Dubuque, Iowa, it's going to get a positive result. And that's how they kind of have waged their campaign.
The Trump campaign micro targeted ads to black voters in Florida with an ad that said, Hillary thinks African Americans are super-predators. And the goal was not even really to win over black voters. It was to depress black turnout in Florida.
Another example was the impeachment battle. The Trump campaign was pumping out disinformation at an alarming rate. Of course you would always expect a certain amount of partisan spin but the Trump Campaign was taking spin to an alarming level. You could watch the impeachment proceedings on TV, and see what was pretty damning testimony about the president's conduct. And then later in the day the Trump Campaign would put out a Fox News and Facebook feed that would totally recast what had happened that day in completely different terms. In fact, even at times, the Trump campaign would create videos that were supercuts of the same testimony and make look like something completely different.
With this kind of daily propaganda fed to Trump supporters it very hard for them to grasp reality. In the end, it erodes their confidence in our democratic institutions. It erodes their ability to sort out fact from fiction. And it actually makes it harder for conservatives to compete in the marketplace of ideas because reality doesn't exist as a regulating force.
The Republicans, and especially the Trump campaign, are much more sophisticated, much more advanced and, so far, have been more - for lack of a better word - shameless.
Please for the sake of our Democracy please get out of your conservative propaganda Bubble Loop. Your children and mine will all suffer with what you do and believe from theses Propaganda Sources.
May God Bless and Spare America.
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What is happening is not a coup, or even an attempt at a coup but a ham-handed effort to discredit the election outcome by any crackpot method available to sooth Trump’s ego. Scholars of real coups in other countries say that Trump has few of the ingredients necessary to pull off a coup — the international community despises him, the nation’s main media is still independent, an the armed forces think Trump is a joke. However, Trump is set to successfully pursue a slow-motion “con game,” pleading for donations by playing his supporters. He’s also crafting a “Stab in the Back” myth in hopes of returning to the WH in 2024.There is a fundamental difference between between a coup and a con. A coup is an illegitimate power grab by force. A con is a mostly criminal, unethical, or manipulative act. A con can become a coup if the con is successful — if enough people buy into the con then a Coup has occurred.
Though Trump will fail in his coup - this time - the fact that his fellow Republicans tacitly approved of his methods, or looked the other way dramatically weakens our Democratic Institutions. As Trump continues to spew crazy conspiracies, half truths, and outright lies more and more Republican voters will drift into delusion and violence.
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@brandi7580 As president, Donald Trump “made it very clear” that he thought Ukraine “must be part of Russia”, his former adviser Fiona Hill says in a new book about US national security under threat from Russia and China.
Vladimir Putin and Donald Trump shake hands during a bilateral meeting at the G20 leaders summit in Osaka, Japan, on 28 June 2019.
“Trump made it very clear that he thought, you know, that Ukraine, and certainly Crimea, must be part of Russia,” Hill, senior director for European and Russian affairs on the US national security council between 2017 and 2019, tells David Sanger, a New York Times reporter and author of New Cold Wars: China’s Rise, Russia’s Invasion, and America’s Struggle to Defend the West.
“He really could not get his head around the idea that Ukraine was an independent state.”
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@brandi7580 As president, Donald Trump “made it very clear” that he thought Ukraine “must be part of Russia”, his former adviser Fiona Hill says in a new book about US national security under threat from Russia and China.
Vladimir Putin and Donald Trump shake hands during a bilateral meeting at the G20 leaders summit in Osaka, Japan, on 28 June 2019.
“Trump made it very clear that he thought, you know, that Ukraine, and certainly Crimea, must be part of Russia,” Hill, senior director for European and Russian affairs on the US national security council between 2017 and 2019, tells David Sanger, a New York Times reporter and author of New Cold Wars: China’s Rise, Russia’s Invasion, and America’s Struggle to Defend the West.
“He really could not get his head around the idea that Ukraine was an independent state.”
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“There’s Nothing Left, I no longer recognize my party”
Why Hundreds of Thousands of Republicans Are Leaving the Party
Voting registration data indicates a strong and unusual flight from the G.O.P. since the Capitol riot, with an intensely fluid period in American politics now underway.
In the days and weeks after the storming of the Capitol by Trump supporters on Jan. 6, hundreds of thousands of Republicans left the party. After the Jan. 6 attack on the Capitol, the phone lines and websites of local election officials across the country were jumping: Tens of thousands of Republicans were calling or logging on to switch their party affiliations.
In California, more than 33,000 registered Republicans left the party during the three weeks after the Washington riot. In Pennsylvania, more than 12,000 voters left the G.O.P. in the past month, and more than 10,000 Republicans changed their registration in Arizona.
An analysis of January voting records found that nearly 140,000 Republicans had quit the party in 25 states that had readily available data (19 states do not have registration by party). Voting experts say this is the start of a particularly damaging period for G.O.P. registrations as voters recoil from the Capitol violence and its fallout.
Among those who recently left the party are Juan Nunez, 56, an Army veteran in Mechanicsburg, Pa. He said he had long felt that the difference between the United States and many other countries was that campaign-season fighting ended on Election Day, when all sides would peacefully accept the result. The Jan. 6 riot changed that, he said.
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The Ultra Conservative New York Post gave Trump a blistering rebuke demanding that he grow up and accept his loss to President-elect Joe Biden and stop falsely claiming that mass voter fraud had marred the results — an effort the paper labeled a “dark charade.”
“We understand, Mr. President, that you’re angry that you lost,” the editorial board wrote. “But to continue down this road is treasonous.”
Under the headline “Stop the insanity,” the conservative tabloid took particular aim at Trump’s attempts to pressure Vice President Pence and congressional Republicans to somehow Throwout the result when they meet on Jan. 6 to certify Biden’s electoral college victory.
“You have tweeted that, as long as Republicans have ‘courage,’ they can overturn the results and give you four more years in office,” the Post wrote. “In other words, you’re cheering for an undemocratic coup.”
The article also reminded Trump that he had clearly failed in his attempts to prove voter fraud propelled Biden to victory.
“You had every right to investigate the election. But let’s be clear: Those efforts have found nothing,” the Post wrote, noting that Trump-backed recounts in Wisconsin and Georgia had turned up no evidence of malfeasance.
The editorial also lashed out at Sidney Powell, whose “Kraken” lawsuits seeking to overturn the election results have repeatedly been tossed out of court, and Michael Flynn, the former national security adviser who has floated the idea of declaring martial law to keep Trump in power.
“Michael Flynn suggesting martial law is tantamount to treason. It is shameful.”
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Is Treasonous Trump is mentally ill?
Signs and symptoms of narcissistic personality disorder and the severity of symptoms vary. People with the disorder can:
Have an exaggerated sense of self-importance
Have a sense of entitlement and require constant, excessive admiration
Expect to be recognized as superior even without achievements that warrant it
Exaggerate achievements and talents
Be preoccupied with fantasies about success, power, brilliance, beauty or the perfect mate
Believe they are superior and can only associate with equally special people
Monopolize conversations and belittle or look down on people they perceive as inferior
Expect special favors and unquestioning compliance with their expectations
Take advantage of others to get what they want
Have an inability or unwillingness to recognize the needs and feelings of others
Be envious of others and believe others envy them
Behave in an arrogant or haughty manner, coming across as conceited, boastful and pretentious
Insist on having the best of everything — for instance, the best car or office
At the same time, people with narcissistic personality disorder have trouble handling anything they perceive as criticism, and they can:
Become impatient or angry when they don't receive special treatment
Have significant interpersonal problems and easily feel slighted
React with rage or contempt and try to belittle the other person to make themselves appear superior
Have difficulty regulating emotions and behavior
Experience major problems dealing with stress and adapting to change
Feel depressed and moody because they fall short of perfection
Have secret feelings of insecurity, shame, vulnerability and humiliation
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Chris Tamblyn
I think I know what you are talking about. Cuomo must have said something. Chris I don’t know what your hang up on the lethality of Covid is. Most experts toss out a number of 2%, but they almost always tell you it will be some time before a good number can be derived. Take America, one Web site say 1.06 cases currently and 61,342 deaths. IF (conditional word) those numbers are relatively correct then the fatality rate is roughly 5.7. Odds are the cases recorded are grossly undercounted due to grossly inadequate testing.
On another note, there have been several interesting articles on Covid Blood Clots, Covid Toe, Covid Rashes, Some children getting Covid, Covid Heart attacks, and Covid Damaging Organs. You might be interested.
Bottom line Cuomo is no more a Virologist/Contagious Disease Expert than Trump is a Scientist. Until I see sufficient credible evidence to the contrary, I am comfortable with the 2% estimate. Many good scientists/doctors like Fauci are not in this for politics but for science and public service.
If you come up with a good article, like the MIT one, I will gladly read it.
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Gavin Curtis
Yet more random Treasonous Trump lies 🤣😂🤣😂
10. JUL 31 2019 “I'm not sure Mueller knows what's going on, if you want to know the truth. But all I do know is he said, 'No collusion with us. No collusion,' and ultimately 'no obstruction,' because it led to no obstruction by a very smart group of people, including our Attorney General.”
Truth: AG William Barr's summary of the special counsel's report stated: "The Special Counsel’s report states that 'while this report does not conclude that the President committed a crime, it also does not exonerate him.'" The special counsel revealed significant criminal activity by some of Trump's campaign advisers and by Russian individuals and entities. The special counsel concluded Russian government actors successfully hacked into computers and obtained emails from persons associated with the Clinton campaign and Democratic Party organizations, and publicly disseminated those materials through various intermediaries, including WikiLeaks. The special counsel's report, released in April 2019, concluded the Trump campaign welcomed the assistance from Russia even if it did not coordinate with it: “Although the investigation established that the Russian government perceived it would benefit from a Trump presidency and worked to secure that outcome, and that the Campaign expected it would benefit electorally from information stolen and released through Russian efforts, the investigation did not establish that members of the Trump Campaign conspired or coordinated with the Russian government in its election interference activities.” The report also stated: “If we had confidence after a thorough investigation of the facts that the President clearly did not commit obstruction of justice, we would so state. Based on the facts and the applicable legal standards, however, we are unable to reach that judgment.
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Gavin Curtis
12. JUL 31 2019 “You ought to read the decision. This is a decision by a judge who is highly respected -- who was appointed by Bill Clinton when he was President -- and he came out and he said, 'It's a hoax.' And that's exactly what it is.”
Truth: Nowhere in the 81-page opinion does the judge call the lawsuit a hoax. U.S. District Judge John Koeltl rejected the central theory of the racketeering suit by the Democratic National Committee: that the Trump campaign, campaign aides and Trump allies abetted the theft of the emails from the DNC by encouraging WikiLeaks to publish the messages and by urging they be released when they would be of maximum political benefit to then-candidate Trump. Koelti said such actions were protected by the First Amendment when taken by people not involved in the actual hacking.
13. UL 31 2019 “Already they ship down 30 percent of your jobs to Mexico. Under the new USMCA, that's Mexico and Canada, we've got to get them to vote on that, because that's an incredible deal, but under the new … It's gonna be very hard for companies to leave you, to fire you, to go down, to make their product whatever it may be, to send it back into the United States with no tax, al we end up with this unemployment and taxes and empty buildings.”
Repeated 58 times
Truth: Tump keeps claiming that he significantly overhauled the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA). It’s not a total trade revolution, as Trump promised, but USMCA does make some small changes to modernize trade rules in effect from 1994 to 2020, and it gives some minor wins to U.S. farmers and blue-collar workers in the auto industry. Most elements of the deal were borrowed from the Trans Pacific Partnership, the trade deal Trump scrapped at the start of his term.
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Gavin Curtis
Treasonous Trump in his own words at Helsinki with his BFF and Benefactor Putin:
REPORTER (Jonathan Lemire from AP): Thank you. A question for each president. President Trump, you first. Just now President Putin denied having anything to do with the election interference in 2016. Every US intelligence agency has concluded that Russia did.
My first question for you, sir, is who do you believe? My second question is would you now with the whole world watching tell President Putin — would you denounce what happened in 2016 and would you warn him to never do it again?
TRUMP: So let me just say that we have two thoughts. You have groups that are wondering why the FBI never took the server. Why haven’t they taken the server? Why was the FBI told to leave the office of the democratic national committee? I’ve been wondering that. I’ve been asking that for months and months and I’ve been tweeting it out and calling it out on social media. Where is the server? I want to know, where is the server and what is the server saying? With that being said, all I can do is ask the question. My people came to me, Dan Coats came to me and some others and said they think it’s Russia.
I have President Putin. He just said it’s not Russia. I will say this. I don’t see any reason why it would be, but I really do want to see the server. But I have confidence in both parties. I really believe that this will probably go on for a while, but I don’t think it can go on without finding out what happened to the server. What happened to the servers of the Pakistani gentleman that worked on the DNC? Where are those servers? They’re missing. Where are they? What happened to Hillary Clinton’s emails? 33,000 emails gone — just gone. I think in Russia they wouldn’t be gone so easily. I think it’s a disgrace that we can’t get Hillary Clinton’s 33,000 emails. So I have great confidence in my intelligence people, but I will tell you that president Putin was extremely strong and powerful in his denial today. And what he did is an incredible offer. He offered to have the people working on the case come and work with their investigators, with respect to the 12 people. I think that’s an incredible offer. Okay thank you.
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WHEN GOOD PEOPLE DON’T ACT, EVIL REIGNS:
How did the trans-Atlantic slave trade play out over hundreds of years?
How did slavery thrive in this country?
How was the Holocaust allowed to happen?
How did the genocides in Rwanda or Darfur come to be?
It turns out that our current era is providing the unsettling answer: It was easy. As Edmund Burke said: “The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.” If you don’t complain, you condone.
Gather the energy. Gather your neighbor. Fight, vote, email, post. Do all you can to stand up for the vulnerable, for the oppressed, for our Constitution, and for our Democratic Values. Don’t let history record this moment as it has recorded too many others: a time when good people did too little to confront the wickedness and disaster of Trumpian Neo Nazism. In November America has a clear choice, do nothing to confront Trumpian Evil, or vote to sweep the Evil out of office and began the long painful process of Restoring Our Democracy and Democratic Institutions.
As Edmund Burke wrote: “When bad men combine, the good must associate; else they will fall, one by one, an unpitied sacrifice in a contemptible struggle.”
But you may be more familiar with another quote often attributed to Burke: “The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.”
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U.S. authorities have leveled the first conspiracy charge against a leader of an extremist group in the Jan. 6 storming of the U.S. Capitol, arresting an Oath Keeper who is accused of plotting to disrupt the electoral vote confirmation of President-elect Joe Biden’s victory and proposing further assaults on state capitols.
Thomas Edward Caldwell, 66, of Clarke County, Va., was taken into custody before 7 a.m. on four federal counts, including conspiracy to commit an offense against the United States in the attack on the Capitol. The conspiracy charge is reserved for offenses interfering with or obstructing the lawful operation of government.
A charging affidavit says he helped organize a group of eight to 10 individuals, including self-styled Ohio militia members apprehended Sunday, who wore helmets and military-style gear and were seen moving purposefully toward the top of the Capitol steps and leading the move against police lines.
Separately, charges were unsealed Wednesday accusing a Queens man who worked in the state court system of making threats to murder Democratic politicians, including suggesting another attack on the Capitol timed to President-elect Joe Biden’s inauguration Wednesday.
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@nickd3157
Eastman admitted to Jacob that Trump’s Electors Coup would lose on the merits in the Supreme Court: “When I pressed him on the point, I said ‘John, if the vice president did what you were asking him to do, we would lose 9-0 in the Supreme Court, wouldn’t we?’ And he initially started at, ‘Well, I think maybe you would lose only 7-2,' and after some further discussion, acknowledged, ‘Well, yeah, you’re right, we would lose 9-0.’ ... [He] ultimately acknowledged that, no, we would lose 9-0 — no judge would support his argument.”
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JARED KUSHNER HAS CREATED A SHELL COMPANY TO FUNNEL CAMPAIGN CASH TO FAMILY MEMBERS.
Donald Trump and his family have spent the last four years making the airtight case that they view the presidency as simply a means to enrich themselves and their associates. They probably don’t particularly like that reputation and, yet, it hasn’t stopped them from funneling taxpayer money to their private business, gouging the Secret Service, and raising legal defense funds that the fine print says could go directly to their pockets. Oh, and, according to a new report, setting up a shell company that spent hundreds of millions of campaign dollars to pay Trump family members along with other expenditures it seemingly wanted to keep under wraps.
According to Business Insider, first son-in-law Jared Kushner personally approved the creation of the company, incorporated as American Made Media Consultants Corp. and American Made Media Consultants LLC, in April 2018. From there, Eric Trump’s wife, Lara Trump, was named president, with Mike Pence’s nephew John Pence serving as vice president. If you’re wondering why the shell company, described as Business Insider as acting “almost like a campaign within a campaign” was necessary, well, it’s not entirely clear, but it sure sounds like the express purpose was the ability to shield “financial and operational details from public scrutiny,” as it allowed the campaign to avoid federally mandated disclosures concerning what it was spending considerable amounts of money on. And by considerable we mean nearly half of the $1.26 billion raised for Trump’s reelection.
Campaign-finance records showed Trump's reelection effort and its affiliated committee with the RNC spent more than $600 million through American Made Consultants since its formation. For months, some of Trump’s top advisers and campaign staff told Insider they had no idea how the shell company functioned, which cast an air of mystery around the operation…. Some of those same advisers said they didn’t learn about John Pence’s and Lara Trump’s involvement until Insider contacted them for this story.
Campaign-law experts have long accused the Trump team of using a corporate pass-through to hide payments. The nonpartisan Campaign Legal Center, led by former Republican Federal Election Commission Chairman Trevor Potter, filed a civil complaint with the FEC in July accusing the Trump campaign of “disguising” about $170 million worth of campaign spending in large part “by laundering the funds” through AMMC. Brendan Fischer, the Campaign Legal Center’s director of federal reform, said the payments to AMMC were a “scheme to evade telling voters even the basics on where its money is really going” and a “shield to disguise the ultimate recipients of its spending.”
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Michael DeSilvio
On Fox News, suddenly a very different tune about the coronavirus.
For weeks, some of Fox News’s hosts downplayed the threat of the coronavirus, characterizing it as a conspiracy by media organizations and Democrats to undermine President Trump.
Sean Hannity and Laura Ingraham accused the news media of whipping up “mass hysteria” and being “panic pushers.” Trish Regan called the Main Stream Media response “yet another attempt to impeach the president.”
But that was then.
When Trump’s declared a national emergency, the tone on Fox News has quickly shifted. Hannity, suddenly the lauded the president’s handling of what the host is now, belatedly, referring to as a “crisis.”
“Tonight, we are witnessing what will be a massive paradigm shift in the future of disease control and prevention,” he said. “A bold, new precedent is being set, the world will once again benefit greatly from America’s leadership. . . . The federal government, state governments, private businesses, top hospitals all coming together, under the president’s leadership, to stem the tide of the coronavirus.”
In a complicated dance to mirror the president, Trump’s allies on Fox News took the same stance as the president for several weeks — that this coronavirus that had sickened and killed thousands of people in China was no worse a threat than the seasonal flu.
Just a week ago, Hannity shrugged at the pandemic. “So far in the United States, there’s been around 30 deaths, most of which came from one nursing home in the state of Washington,” he said, “Healthy people, generally, 99 percent recover very fast, even if they contract it.”
By way of comparison, he added: “Twenty-six people were shot in Chicago alone over the weekend. I doubt you heard about it. You notice there’s no widespread hysteria about violence in Chicago. And this has gone on for years and years. By the way, Democratic-run cities, we see a lot of that.”
Ingraham, also had a fast-dawning recognition that the social and economic dislocation of the virus was more than just a Democratic talking point wielded against the president.
In late February, Ingraham called Democrats the “pandemic party” and displayed photos of House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) and Senate Minority Leader Charles E. Schumer (D-N.Y.) alongside enlarged images of coronavirus molecules. “How sick that these people seem almost happiest when Americans are hurting,” she said.
She kept at it through last Tuesday when, in front of a graphic reading “Trump confronts the panic pushers,” Ingraham said, “The public in some ways seems a lot more levelheaded than the so-called experts. . . . The facts are actually pretty reassuring, but you’d never know it watching all this stuff.”
On Friday, Ingraham tweeted that it was a “great time to fly if not in at-risk population!” The tweet was later deleted.
By Wednesday, after Trump announced a travel ban on people from the European Union, Ingraham had started calling the pandemic “this dangerous health crisis.” She characterized warnings issued by National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases head Anthony S. Fauci about the potential spread of the disease as “sobering and scary to hear.”
Regan’s on-air speculation at the start of last week that coronavirus was merely another impeachment gambit for Democrats drew widespread pushback. Clearly the mood was changing at Fox by the time the network announced late Friday that her discussion-and-commentary program on Fox Business would leave the air indefinitely.
Tucker Carlson too, blamed the “corrupt” media. But in a monologue that many took at an indirect scolding of the president, he also complained that “none of our leaders helped us to take it seriously. . . . People you trust, people you probably voted for, have spent weeks minimizing what is clearly a very serious problem. It’s just partisan politics, they say. ‘Calm down. In the end, this is just like the flu and people die from that every year. Coronavirus will pass, and when it does, we will feel foolish for worrying about it.’ That’s their position. . . . But they’re wrong.”
Days earlier, Carlson attended the birthday party of former Fox News host Kimberly Guilfoyle, who is dating Donald Trump Jr.
In comments downplaying the pandemic on March 7, Jeanine Pirro, offered “All the talk about coronavirus being so much more deadly [than the flu] doesn’t reflect reality.” She reiterated Trump’s comment that the infection rate will drop “as the weather warms.”
On the “Fox & Friends” program Friday, Liberty University President Jerry Falwell Jr. spun out a meandering tale advancing the baseless notion that the coronavirus was designed by North Korean and Chinese scientists to harm Americans.
The program’s three co-hosts offered no objections. Host Steve Doocy moved on to asking Falwell about Liberty’s plans to cancel classes.
Then on Sunday, Rep. Devin Nunes (R-Calif.) appeared on Fox News and urged Americans to “stop panicking” and for those who are healthy to “just go out.”
Said Nunes: “There’s a lot of concerns with the economy here because people are scared to go out. But I will just say one of the things you can do if you’re healthy, you and your family, it’s a great time to just go out, go to a local restaurant.”
Anchor Maria Bartiromo offered no response to Nunes’s comment. On Monday, a day later, Fox News contributor Nicole Saphier, a doctor, specifically called out the congressman on air to contradict his advice and told viewers to stay home.
This is a quick summation of how Faux news has become nothing more than a platform for Trumpian Propaganda.
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@hawk4813
1. Mueller Report and Media Coverage: I could find no retractions by the NYT or WAPO on Trump/Russia coverage. Both sites have a list for each year the number and type of mistakes they made. The majority are misspellings and minor corrections that do not alter the reporting in any fundamental way. If you have examples I would be more that happy to read them. But again, I would like to point out that all NYT and WAPO Reporting was substantiated by the Mueller Report, The House Intel Committee Report, CIA, FBI, and the Republican Controlled Senate Intel Report - excellent reading if you are inclined.
Note: As for whether the Republican Controlled Senate choosing to impeach or not impeach is strictly a political call. The Senate does not set as a Jury and is under zero obligation to find fault using fact. Even in our Courts of Law a Real Jury can go rouge as in the case of OJ Simpson. Very few people believe he was "Not Guilty" but yet the Jury refused to find him Guilty - Acquittal is the proper term.
2. CNN and The Scaramucci story: On June 26, 2017, CNN investigative journalists Thomas Frank, Eric Lichtblau, and Lex Haris voluntarily resigned after the network retracted an online article which incorrectly connected Trump aide Anthony Scaramucci to a $10 billion Russian investment fund. The network apologized to Scaramucci and admitted that the online story did not meet their editorial standards.
3. Nick Sandman, Seth Richie law suits, etc. Occasionally the news gets some things wrong and that is why we have liable laws. An interesting question here is one of intent. Was the reporting for the sole purpose of malice, feeding red meat to the audience, or just plain mistaken reporting.
The NYT Opinion Op Ed. Nothing expressed in the opinion article could not be supported by either the House Intel Report, FBI, CIA, and Senate Intel Report. Granted one must always keep in mind that these are Opinion pieces. To me a better question are the Talking Head Opinion People AKA Tucker, Hannity, Rush, Ingraham (I am sure you have some leftwing people in mind as well). Personally, I would not be opposed to higher journalistic requirements of Opinion Talking Heads.
I can find no examples of a flagging situation that occurred without reason - perhaps you could share one with me. No president, congressman, or public servant should ever be allowed to peddle outright lies. Any who do so should have a warning label slapped on them and a link to reliable evidence to the contrary. Suggesting the Chopping the heads off of public officials be it a former presidential advisor or a terribly un funny comedian is just plain wrong. Politicians have always told partial and half truths but very rarely did they ever outright lie and lie in a very obvious manner - Trump has changed the world in this regard.
In summary, this issue is a very difficult issue to regulate. If it helps you any, I voted for every Republican President or Candidate prior to Trump. I am currently opposed to the GOP because of what I see as crazy extreme rightwing politics, an abandonment of principles, and Tax Cut & Spend foolishness. To me the Democrats do not offer perfection but sanity.
On a side note, the other day Zoom chose to not host a former Palestinian woman who had hijacked two planes in the past and currently belongs to a Palestinian Organization that is on the U.S. Terrorist list. She and others had set up a 1,500 person streaming event that Zoom Canceled. Do you agree or disagree?
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Trump Gets Tough With G20:
Trump, arriving in Japan on Thursday, opened his latest foreign trip much as he did his last one, lashing out at America’s allies, including his hosts, just before sitting down with them to talk through differences on issues like security and trade.
By contrast, Mr. Trump said nothing critical about the fourth leader on his diplomatic schedule for Friday, President Vladimir V. Putin of Russia, whose government waged a systematic campaign to interfere in American elections in 2016 and has arrested two Americans on what critics consider false charges.
The one area Treasonous Trump is consistent. Never, Ever, say anything critical of his Boss Putin. “Russia, if you are listening...”
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OMG, now the Count is 34 Faux Declared Wars. Faux has added 2 Wars in 2 weeks. The count of Wars, Faux has manufactured is becoming endless. The War Xmas, War on Xmas Trees, War on Birther Mothers, War on Masculinity, War on Christians, War on White People, War on Men, War on Conservatives, War on Families, and on and on and on. It’s exhausting! 🙄
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What is happening is not a coup, or even an attempt at a coup but a ham-handed effort to discredit the election outcome by any crackpot method available to sooth Trump’s ego. Scholars of real coups in other countries say that Trump has few of the ingredients necessary to pull off a coup — the international community despises him, the nation’s main media is still independent, an the armed forces think Trump is a joke. However, Trump is set to successfully pursue a slow-motion “con game,” pleading for donations by playing his supporters. He’s also crafting a “Stab in the Back” myth in hopes of returning to the WH in 2024.There is a fundamental difference between between a coup and a con. A coup is an illegitimate power grab by force. A con is a mostly criminal, unethical, or manipulative act. A con can become a coup if the con is successful — if enough people buy into the con then a Coup has occurred.
Though Trump will fail in his coup - this time - the fact that his fellow Republicans tacitly approved of his methods, or looked the other way dramatically weakens our Democratic Institutions. As Trump continues to spew crazy conspiracies, half truths, and outright lies more and more Republican voters will drift into delusion and violence.
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@oldsrocket8841 Nineteen of the biggest companies in the U.S. paid very little in federal income tax last year, according to a new report provided exclusively to Axios by the progressive think tank Center for American Progress (CAP). Four companies paid less than zero in federal income tax, including AT&T, Charter Communications, American International Group and Dow Inc.
Why it matters: Corporate profits surged to record highs last year, thanks in part to copious amounts of government spending. The idea that companies that earned billions aren't paying any federal tax is sure to fuel simmering criticisms from Democratic lawmakers.
"These are huge profitable corporations, and they hardly pay any taxes," said Seth Hanlon, a senior fellow at CAP who coauthored the report. "It's a glaring sign that something is wrong with the tax system."
The backstory: Companies have been paying lower taxes since the 2017 passage of President Trump’s signature Tax Cuts and Jobs Act, which cut the official rate to 21% from 35%. The 19 companies on CAP’s list all paid an effective rate below 10% — or less than half the official rate.
Before the law passed, many companies were already paying about half the official tax rate — but it was higher number, around 17% on average, said Matthew Gardner, a senior fellow at the Institute on Taxation and Economic Policy (ITEP), which has been scrutinizing these numbers for decades.
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@oldsrocket8841 EISINGER: Yeah, sure. So for the billionaire class, what's really important is how much their wealth grows in a given year. The rest of us, we have income, and we need income to live. But for the billionaire class, they don't actually need income. They avoid income. If you avoid income, you avoid taxes. And so it turns out that the billionaire class pays much less in tax than average people. And what we found is that Jeff Bezos and Elon Musk and Michael Bloomberg and Carl Icahn, they literally, in recent years, paid zero in federal income tax. And what you do is you let your mountain of wealth grow over time. You let Amazon stock grow. Or if you're Warren Buffett, you let Berkshire Hathaway go up and up and up. And you never sell. And if you never sell, you don't take any income.
And how are these people living if they don't sell? Well, often, what they do is they borrow against their wealth. And if you're borrowing against your wealth, that's not taxed. So ultimately, what we found was that the ultrawealthy in this country, they had wealth growth of $400 billion from 2014 to 2018, and they paid about $14 billion in taxes. And so average people pay roughly 15% in federal income taxes effectively, and the ultrawealthy paid 3.4% when compared to their wealth growth.
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WHEN GOOD PEOPLE DON’T ACT, EVIL REIGNS:
How did the trans-Atlantic slave trade play out over hundreds of years?
How did slavery thrive in this country?
How was the Holocaust allowed to happen?
How did the genocides in Rwanda or Darfur come to be?
It turns out that our current era is providing the unsettling answer: It was easy. As Edmund Burke said: “The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.” If you don’t complain, you condone.
Gather the energy. Gather your neighbor. Fight, vote, email, post. Do all you can to stand up for the vulnerable, for the oppressed, for our Constitution, and for our Democratic Values. Don’t let history record this moment as it has recorded too many others: a time when good people did too little to confront the wickedness and disaster of Trumpian Neo Nazism. In November America has a clear choice, do nothing to confront Trumpian Evil, or vote to sweep the Evil out of office and began the long painful process of Restoring Our Democracy and Democratic Institutions.
As Edmund Burke wrote: “When bad men combine, the good must associate; else they will fall, one by one, an unpitied sacrifice in a contemptible struggle.”
But you may be more familiar with another quote often attributed to Burke: “The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.”
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Question: "What does the Bible say about a person who is a sociopath / psychopath?"
Answer: The terms sociopath and psychopath do not appear in the Bible. However, the Bible does mention behaviors that are characteristic of sociopathic and psychopathic.
A sociopath or psychopath is identified as one who is characterized by extreme self-centeredness and immaturity, shallow emotions, a lack of empathy and remorse, low tolerance for stress, cold-heartedness, superficial charm, irresponsibility, impulsivity, criminality, a parasitic lifestyle and a desire to manipulate others. A psychopath is one who compulsively performs criminally selfish acts with no apparent conscience or concern about the welfare of his victims.
The above is a perfect description of Trump and Newt. Return to the Lord, repent and turn away from sin and false prophets.
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@Scumbagballless THE GQP HAS ATTACKED: Our American Democracy, Democratic Institutions, Free Press, Rule of Law, Constitution, Military, Education, Teachers, Voting Rights, Truth, Common Decency…
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Charisma 101
Let us clear up a few issues before I respond. Yes, I have read the Bible and continue to do so. Yes, I attend church and a believer in God and our savior Jesus. Now to respond:
At fist, my inclination was to point out to you the many passages, primarily in the Old Testament - some in the New , that absolutely are appalling. My intent was to show you that the feeble mind of man was at work here. My next inclination was to go into the history of the Bible. How the Bible became what we know it as today. Who wrote what and probably when. What surviving manuscripts, and fragments, allowed us to form gospels. How the Bible was translated from Greek to Latin to English, etc. We could talk about the various early Bishops who championed various gospels and those who lost. Finally, we could have a rousing debate over Constantin and the Council(s) of Nicaea. But in the end I believe God wants me to tell you a more personal story.
I grew up in a very religious and conservative family. I, like you, was taught that Homosexuality was a major sin. As I progressed through life I stared to come in contact, and become friends with , these so called sinners. I listened to their stories of anguish trying to fight who they were born to be. I began to understand that God did not give them a choice to be Heterosexual. I began to understand that Homosexuality shows up in nature and is therefore a mistake of nature ( or a mistake of nature as we understand “normal”).
I truly wrestled with this conundrum. Many gays I have know are good Christian people. They do not want to be forsaken by God but also can not deny the nature God gave them. Homosexuality is not just about sex, it is more about who you love.
In the end I realized that sin is derived from freewill. We choose to harm others , or society, and therefore commit sin. Gay people are not given freewill on there sexual orientation any more than you were.
On another note, being a student of history and all of its tragedies, I fear for the Conservative Evangelicals. I believe they are on a path that allows the Devil to do/be evil (through Conservative Evangelical Preachers) in the name of God. History is full of so called heretics being burned at the stake, of wars of religion, persecutions, and inquisitions. Our evil nature’s drive us to judgement and an abuse of our powers overs others. I fear that Conservative Evangelicals have fallen for an Antichrist like figure (Trump) are being led astray. I fear that all of these Televangelists are milking the masses of their monies by appealing to their baser instincts. I fear that Conservative Evangelicals are destroying our democracy and are leading us into the hands of a would be dictator.
I wish you well, and May God’s love and Jesus’s Salvation guide you through out your life.
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Leona Leone
Look at the video for yourself. But I forget, the NYT, WP, WSJ, MSNBC, CNN, NEWSWEEK, TIME, MSNBC, CBS, BBC, etc. is fake news. BBC estimates 250K.
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JARED KUSHNER HAS CREATED A SHELL COMPANY TO FUNNEL CAMPAIGN CASH TO FAMILY MEMBERS.
Donald Trump and his family have spent the last four years making the airtight case that they view the presidency as simply a means to enrich themselves and their associates. They probably don’t particularly like that reputation and, yet, it hasn’t stopped them from funneling taxpayer money to their private business, gouging the Secret Service, and raising legal defense funds that the fine print says could go directly to their pockets. Oh, and, according to a new report, setting up a shell company that spent hundreds of millions of campaign dollars to pay Trump family members along with other expenditures it seemingly wanted to keep under wraps.
According to Business Insider, first son-in-law Jared Kushner personally approved the creation of the company, incorporated as American Made Media Consultants Corp. and American Made Media Consultants LLC, in April 2018. From there, Eric Trump’s wife, Lara Trump, was named president, with Mike Pence’s nephew John Pence serving as vice president. If you’re wondering why the shell company, described as Business Insider as acting “almost like a campaign within a campaign” was necessary, well, it’s not entirely clear, but it sure sounds like the express purpose was the ability to shield “financial and operational details from public scrutiny,” as it allowed the campaign to avoid federally mandated disclosures concerning what it was spending considerable amounts of money on. And by considerable we mean nearly half of the $1.26 billion raised for Trump’s reelection.
Campaign-finance records showed Trump's reelection effort and its affiliated committee with the RNC spent more than $600 million through American Made Consultants since its formation. For months, some of Trump’s top advisers and campaign staff told Insider they had no idea how the shell company functioned, which cast an air of mystery around the operation…. Some of those same advisers said they didn’t learn about John Pence’s and Lara Trump’s involvement until Insider contacted them for this story.
Campaign-law experts have long accused the Trump team of using a corporate pass-through to hide payments. The nonpartisan Campaign Legal Center, led by former Republican Federal Election Commission Chairman Trevor Potter, filed a civil complaint with the FEC in July accusing the Trump campaign of “disguising” about $170 million worth of campaign spending in large part “by laundering the funds” through AMMC. Brendan Fischer, the Campaign Legal Center’s director of federal reform, said the payments to AMMC were a “scheme to evade telling voters even the basics on where its money is really going” and a “shield to disguise the ultimate recipients of its spending.”
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The Ultra Conservative New York Post gave Trump a blistering rebuke demanding that he grow up and accept his loss to President-elect Joe Biden and stop falsely claiming that mass voter fraud had marred the results — an effort the paper labeled a “dark charade.”
“We understand, Mr. President, that you’re angry that you lost,” the editorial board wrote. “But to continue down this road is treasonous.”
Under the headline “Stop the insanity,” the conservative tabloid took particular aim at Trump’s attempts to pressure Vice President Pence and congressional Republicans to somehow Throwout the result when they meet on Jan. 6 to certify Biden’s electoral college victory.
“You have tweeted that, as long as Republicans have ‘courage,’ they can overturn the results and give you four more years in office,” the Post wrote. “In other words, you’re cheering for an undemocratic coup.”
The article also reminded Trump that he had clearly failed in his attempts to prove voter fraud propelled Biden to victory.
“You had every right to investigate the election. But let’s be clear: Those efforts have found nothing,” the Post wrote, noting that Trump-backed recounts in Wisconsin and Georgia had turned up no evidence of malfeasance.
The editorial also lashed out at Sidney Powell, whose “Kraken” lawsuits seeking to overturn the election results have repeatedly been tossed out of court, and Michael Flynn, the former national security adviser who has floated the idea of declaring martial law to keep Trump in power.
“Michael Flynn suggesting martial law is tantamount to treason. It is shameful.”
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@silverbullet1620 Again I ask you for what? List the specific evidence. But you can’t, and you won’t. Why? Because provide what doesn’t exist. If I wanted to tell you about Treasonous Trump’s Russian Collusion I would quote text, page, and footnotes of the Muller Report, the House or Senate Intel Report, or a CIA, DIA, NSA, or FBI Report. If J6 insurrection, I would quote Treasonous Trump himself, Oath Keeper Testimony, Texts of Faux news personalities, various quotes of Republican House Members, the J6 Committee Report etc. What do you have?
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Treasonous Trump’s State of the Union Speech: “Me, Me, Me, Me, Me, Me, Them, Them, Me, Me, Me, Them, Me, Me, etc.”
Nailed it! 😂🤣😂🤣
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Skashoon
whit
/(h)wit/
noun
a very small part or amount.
synonyms: scrap, bit, tiny amount, speck, iota, particle, ounce, jot, atom, crumb, shred, morsel, trifle, fragment, grain, drop, touch, trace, shadow, suggestion, whisper, suspicion, scintilla, spot, mite, tittle, jot or tittle, modicum.
Once again I ask you will Treasonous Trump ever take credit for any mistakes or failures? Case in point, TT took credit for the economy from the day he took office. Any person Familiar with economic cycles knows the economy has a two year lag or more between policy implementation and actual changes. Now that TT has been in office close to 3 years he can start rightfully taking some credit for the economy - unfortunately an economic down turn is on the horizon. Will he take credit or blame others? My bet is he blames others.
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Signs and symptoms of narcissistic personality disorder
Grandiose sense of self-importance
Grandiosity is the defining characteristic of narcissism. More than just arrogance or vanity, grandiosity is an unrealistic sense of superiority. Narcissists believe they are unique or “special” and can only be understood by other special people. What’s more, they are too good for anything average or ordinary. They only want to associate and be associated with other high-status people, places, and things.
Narcissists also believe that they’re better than everyone else and expect recognition as such—even when they’ve done nothing to earn it. They will often exaggerate or outright lie about their achievements and talents. And when they talk about work or relationships, all you’ll hear is how much they contribute, how great they are, and how lucky the people in their lives are to have them. They are the undisputed star and everyone else is at best a bit player.
Lives in a fantasy world that supports their delusions of grandeur
Since reality doesn’t support their grandiose view of themselves, narcissists live in a fantasy world propped up by distortion, self-deception, and magical thinking. They spin self-glorifying fantasies of unlimited success, power, brilliance, attractiveness, and ideal love that make them feel special and in control. These fantasies protect them from feelings of inner emptiness and shame, so facts and opinions that contradict them are ignored or rationalized away. Anything that threatens to burst the fantasy bubble is met with extreme defensiveness and even rage, so those around the narcissist learn to tread carefully around their denial of reality.
Needs constant praise and admiration
A narcissist’s sense of superiority is like a balloon that gradually loses air without a steady stream of applause and recognition to keep it inflated. The occasional compliment is not enough. Narcissists need constant food for their ego, so they surround themselves with people who are willing to cater to their obsessive craving for affirmation. These relationships are very one-sided. It’s all about what the admirer can do for the narcissist, never the other way around. And if there is ever an interruption or diminishment in the admirer’s attention and praise, the narcissist treats it as a betrayal.
Sense of entitlement
Because they consider themselves special, narcissists expect favorable treatment as their due. They truly believe that whatever they want, they should get. They also expect the people around them to automatically comply with their every wish and whim. That is their only value. If you don’t anticipate and meet their every need, then you’re useless. And if you have the nerve to defy their will or “selfishly” ask for something in return, prepare yourself for aggression, outrage, or the cold shoulder.
Exploits others without guilt or shame
Narcissists never develop the ability to identify with the feelings of others—to put themselves in other people’s shoes. In other words, they lack empathy. In many ways, they view the people in their lives as objects—there to serve their needs. As a consequence, they don’t think twice about taking advantage of others to achieve their own ends. Sometimes this interpersonal exploitation is malicious, but often it is simply oblivious. Narcissists simply don’t think about how their behavior affects others. And if you point it out, they still won’t truly get it. The only thing they understand is their own needs.
Frequently demeans, intimidates, bullies, or belittles others
Narcissists feel threatened whenever they encounter someone who appears to have something they lack—especially those who are confident and popular. They’re also threatened by people who don’t kowtow to them or who challenge them in any way. Their defense mechanism is contempt. The only way to neutralize the threat and prop up their own sagging ego is to put those people down. They may do it in a patronizing or dismissive way as if to demonstrate how little the other person means to them. Or they may go on the attack with insults, name-calling, bullying, and threats to force the other person back into line.
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DSM Sociopath:
Glibness and Superficial Charm
Manipulative and Conning
They never recognize the rights of others and see their self-serving behaviors as permissible. They appear to be charming, yet are covertly hostile and domineering, seeing their victim as merely an instrument to be used. They may dominate and humiliate their victims.
Grandiose Sense of Self
Feels entitled to certain things as "their right."
Pathological Lying
Has no problem lying coolly and easily and it is almost impossible for them to be truthful on a consistent basis. Can create, and get caught up in, a complex belief about their own powers and abilities. Extremely convincing and even able to pass lie detector tests.
Lack of Remorse, Shame or Guilt
A deep seated rage, which is split off and repressed, is at their core. Does not see others around them as people, but only as targets and opportunities. Instead of friends, they have victims and accomplices who end up as victims. The end always justifies the means and they let nothing stand in their way.
Shallow Emotions
When they show what seems to be warmth, joy, love and compassion it is more feigned than experienced and serves an ulterior motive. Outraged by insignificant matters, yet remaining unmoved and cold by what would upset a normal person. Since they are not genuine, neither are their promises.
Incapacity for Love
Need for Stimulation
Living on the edge. Verbal outbursts and physical punishments are normal.
Callousness/Lack of Empathy
Unable to empathize with the pain of their victims, having only contempt for others' feelings of distress and readily taking advantage of them.
Poor Behavioral Controls/Impulsive Nature
Rage and abuse, alternating with small expressions of love and approval produce an addictive cycle for abuser and abused, as well as creating hopelessness in the victim. Believe they are all-powerful, all-knowing, entitled to every wish, no sense of personal boundaries, no concern for their impact on others.
Early Behavior Problems/Juvenile Delinquency
Usually has a history of behavioral and academic difficulties, yet "gets by" by conning others. Problems in making and keeping friends; aberrant behaviors such as cruelty to people or animals, stealing, etc.
Irresponsibility/Unreliability
Not concerned about wrecking others' lives and dreams. Oblivious or indifferent to the devastation they cause. Does not accept blame themselves, but blames others, even for acts they obviously committed.
Promiscuous Sexual Behavior/Infidelity
Promiscuity, child sexual abuse, rape and sexual acting out of all sorts.
Lack of Realistic Life Plan/Parasitic Lifestyle
Tends to move around a lot or makes all encompassing promises for the future, poor work ethic but exploits others effectively.
Criminal or Entrepreneurial Versatility
Changes their image as needed to avoid prosecution. Changes life story readily.
Other Related Qualities:
Contemptuous of those who seek to understand them
Does not perceive that anything is wrong with them
Authoritarian
Secretive
Paranoid
Only rarely in difficulty with the law, but seeks out situations where their tyrannical behavior will be tolerated, condoned, or admired
Conventional appearance
Exercises despotic control
Has an emotional need to justify their crimes
Ultimate goal is the creation of a willing victim
Incapable of real human attachment to another
Unable to feel remorse or guilt
Extreme narcissism and grandiose
May state readily that their goal is to rule the world
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Yet even as Trump lied to his rallygoers’ faces, we learned that the White House counsel has ordered two top Trump advisers to defy subpoenas for testimony to the Judiciary Committee, which is considering articles of impeachment against Trump, while sharply limiting a third former adviser’s testimony to the panel.
Which raises a question: If the case against Trump’s corruption were so weak, then why would Trump and the White House have to go to such extraordinary lengths to stonewall Congress’ ability to exercise its most basic and fundamental oversight authority?
This juxtaposition will be on full display on Tuesday afternoon, when former Trump campaign manager Corey Lewandowski testifies to the Judiciary Committee. The White House has placed sharp limits on what Lewandowski can discuss, ordering him to discuss only what’s in the Mueller report, and not to discuss any private communications that go beyond this.
[Lewandowski ‘excited’ about defending Trump in congressional hearing Tuesday]
Liberals and conservatives share basic common values, but leaders like Donald Trump use fear to exploit their differences for political gain. Abigail Marsh, a psychology and neuroscience professor at Georgetown University, analyzes the slippery slope between protecting your in-group and attacking the out-group. (Joshua Carroll/The Washington Post; Danielle Kunitz/The Washington Post; Kate Woodsome/The Washington Post)
At the same time, the White House has also directed two others to refuse questioning: former White House secretary Rob Porter, and former Trump campaign adviser and White House deputy chief of staff Rick Dearborn.
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Trump: “Americans Who Died in War Are ‘Losers’ and ‘Suckers.’” Trump said of John McCain he is a “loser & a sucker”, Trump also said senator John McCain (R-Ariz.), wasn’t a war hero, because “I like people who weren’t captured.” Trump refused to go to an American Military Cemetery in the rain because he wasn’t going to get his hair wet to honor “losers & sucker” who died for their country. Trump also will not call out Putin for putting a Bounty Out on our Soldiers in Afghanistan.
“In a conversation with senior staff members on the morning of the scheduled visit, Trump said, ‘Why should I go to that cemetery? It’s filled with losers.” In a separate conversation on the same trip, Trump referred to the more than 1,800 marines who lost their lives at Belleau Wood as ‘suckers’ for getting killed.” Other news organizations, including The Washington Post and most notably Jennifer Griffin of Fox News, have confirmed elements of Goldberg’s report. Griffin reported that an unnamed administration official said that “when the President spoke about the Vietnam War, he said, ‘It was a stupid war. Anyone who went was a sucker.’” She also reported that Trump simply did not want to travel by motorcade to Aisne-Marne cemetery.
Strikingly, then White House Chief of Staff John F. Kelly and the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff at the time, Gen. Joseph F. Dunford Jr. — have not commented.
Trump said, ‘Why should I go to that cemetery? It’s filled with losers.’ In a separate conversation on the same trip, Trump referred to the more than 1,800 marines who lost their lives at Belleau Wood as ‘suckers’ for getting killed.”
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White House official corroborates diplomat’s account that Trump appeared to seek quid pro quo
Timothy Morrison, a deputy to John Bolton when he served as President Trump’s national security adviser, arrived for his closed-door deposition on Oct. 31. (Reuters)
By Carol D. Leonnig, John Hudson, Karoun Demirjian and Rachael Bade
October 31 at 4:01 PM MT
A White House adviser on Thursday corroborated key impeachment testimony from a senior U.S. diplomat who said last week he was alarmed by efforts to pressure the Ukrainian government to investigate President Trump’s political rivals in exchange for nearly $400 million in military aid.
Tim Morrison, the top Russia and Europe adviser on President Trump’s National Security Council, told House investigators over eight hours of closed-door testimony that the “substance” of his conversations recalled by William B. Taylor Jr., the acting ambassador to Ukraine, was “accurate,” according to his prepared remarks and people familiar with Morrison’s testimony.
In particular, Morrison verified that Trump’s envoy to the European Union, Gordon Sondland, conveyed to a Ukrainian official that the military aid would be released if the country investigated an energy firm linked to the son of former vice president Joe Biden. Morrison, who announced his resignation the night before his testimony, said he did not necessarily view the president’s demands as improper or illegal, but rather problematic for U.S. policy in supporting an ally in the region.
His testimony is significant given his proximity to decision-making in the White House and his status as a Trump political appointee rather than one of several career officials who in recent weeks have offered critical testimonies of Trump’s Ukraine policy. Democrats hope Morrison’s testimony will take away an often-cited Republican complaint that many of the accounts from U.S. officials describing a quid pro quo are secondhand.
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As F.B.I. director, I served two presidents, one a Democrat, Jimmy Carter, who selected me in part because I was a Republican, and one a Republican, Ronald Reagan, whom I revered. Both of these presidents so respected the bureau’s independence that they went out of their way not to interfere with or sway our activities. I never once felt political pressure.
I know firsthand the professionalism of the men and women of the F.B.I. The aspersions cast upon them by the president and my longtime friend, Attorney General William P. Barr, are troubling in the extreme. Calling F.B.I. professionals “scum,” as the president did, is a slur against people who risk their lives to keep us safe. Mr. Barr’s charges of bias within the F.B.I., made without providing any evidence and in direct dispute of the findings of the nonpartisan inspector general, risk inflicting enduring damage on this critically important institution.
The country can ill afford to have a chief law enforcement officer dispute the Justice Department’s own independent inspector general’s report and claim that an F.B.I. investigation was based on “a completely bogus narrative.” In fact, the report conclusively found that the evidence to initiate the Russia investigation was unassailable. There were more than 100 contacts between members of the Trump campaign and Russian agents during the 2016 campaign, and Russian efforts to undermine our democracy continue to this day. I’m glad the F.B.I. took the threat seriously. It is important, Mr. Wray said last week, that the inspector general found that “the investigation was opened with appropriate predication and authorization.”
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@Hello_11345 Nazism is a form of Fascism, all Scholarly Historians agree. The Text Book Definition of Nazism is: A far right cult ideology that embraces Authoritarianism, Racism, Xenophobia, Homophobia, Anti Semitism, the Big Lie(s) große Lüge, and a unifying myth such as the Stab In The Back Myth Dolchstoßlegende. If you up date the unifying myth to the “Stolen Election” you have Republican Trumpian Neo Nazism. All Colleges, Universities, and Historians agree with this Text Book Definition of Nazism, except maybe graduates of Trump University or Homeschooled Nazis. Knowing what you are Shada is half the battle, making a positive change is the hard part. ✌️🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸✌️
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Twinky UnOuWaNtMyCrEaMFiLlInG
Warren Campaign Contributions to Date:
Small Individual Contributions (< $200) $31,964,058
Large Individual Contributions. $17,824,259
Other. $10,253,978
Candidate self-financing. $5,778,000
PAC Contributions. $1,403,000
As always Trumpturds don’t read they just spew whatever Hannity tells them.
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@davidnealy6459 Seriously dude, either add to the conversation or move on. Just throwing your grievances at me adds zero value to the conversation. I told you why, I told you how, and I told who committed Treason/Sedition. I have the Courts Convictions to back me up on every one but Treasonous Trump, and for him I have the Mueller Report, House Report, Senate Bi Partisan Report, FBI, CIA, DIA, NEA, Durham Report, and the J6 Report. If you support the former president & his Maga Moron followers, who committed Sedition/Treason, then I consider you to be an accomplice/enabler. It’s really that simple.
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On Fox News, suddenly a very different tune about the coronavirus.
For weeks Fox News’s hosts downplayed the threat of the coronavirus, calling it a Main Stream Media conspiracy to undermine President Trump.
Sean Hannity and Laura Ingraham accused the Main Stream Media of whipping up “mass hysteria” and being “panic pushers.” Trish Regan called the Main Stream Media response “yet another attempt to impeach the president.”
But that was then. When Trump’s declared a national emergency, the tone on Fox quickly shifted. Hannity, suddenly the lauded the president’s handling of what the host now a “crisis.” “Tonight, we are witnessing what will be a massive paradigm shift in the future of disease control and prevention,” he said. “A bold, new precedent is being set, the world will once again benefit greatly from America’s leadership. . . . The federal government, state governments, private businesses, top hospitals all coming together, under the president’s leadership, to stem the tide of the coronavirus.” 🤮
In a complicated dance to mirror the president, Fox News took the same stance as the president for several weeks — that this coronavirus that had sickened and killed thousands of people in China was no worse a threat than the seasonal flu.
Just a week ago, Hannity shrugged at the pandemic. “So far in the United States, there’s been around 30 deaths, most of which came from one nursing home in the state of Washington,” he said, “Healthy people, generally, 99 percent recover very fast, even if they contract it.”
By way of comparison, he added: “Twenty-six people were shot in Chicago alone over the weekend. I doubt you heard about it. You notice there’s no widespread hysteria about violence in Chicago. And this has gone on for years and years. By the way, Democratic-run cities, we see a lot of that.”
Ingraham, also had a fast-dawning recognition that the social and economic dislocation of the virus was more than just a Main Stream Media weapon against the president.
In late February, Ingraham called Democrats the “pandemic party” and displayed photos of House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) and Senate Minority Leader Charles E. Schumer (D-N.Y.) alongside enlarged images of coronavirus molecules. “How sick that these people seem almost happiest when Americans are hurting,” she said.
She kept at it through last Tuesday when, in front of a graphic reading “Trump confronts the panic pushers,” Ingraham said, “The public in some ways seems a lot more levelheaded than the so-called experts. . . . The facts are actually pretty reassuring, but you’d never know it watching all this stuff.”
On Friday, Ingraham tweeted that it was a “great time to fly if not in at-risk population!” The tweet was later deleted.
When Trump announced a travel ban on people from the European Union, Ingraham suddenly started calling the pandemic “this dangerous health crisis.” She characterized warnings issued by National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases head Anthony S. Fauci about the potential spread of the disease as “sobering and scary to hear.”
Regan’s on-air speculation that coronavirus was merely another impeachment gambit for Democrats drew widespread pushback. Clearly the mood was changing at Fox by the time the network announced late Friday that her discussion-and-commentary program on Fox Business would leave the air indefinitely.
Tucker Carlson too, blamed the “corrupt” media. But in a monologue that indirectly scolded the president, he complained that “none of our leaders helped us to take it seriously. . . . People you trust, people you probably voted for, have spent weeks minimizing what is clearly a very serious problem. It’s just partisan politics, they say. ‘Calm down. In the end, this is just like the flu and people die from that every year. Coronavirus will pass, and when it does, we will feel foolish for worrying about it.’ That’s their position. . . . But they’re wrong.”
In comments on March 7, Jeanine Pirro, offered “All the talk about coronavirus being so much more deadly [than the flu] doesn’t reflect reality.” She reiterated Trump’s comment that the infection rate will drop “as the weather warms.”
On the “Fox & Friends” program Friday, Liberty University President Jerry Falwell Jr. spun out a Conspiracy Theory that the coronavirus was designed by North Korean and Chinese scientists to harm Americans. The 3 Co-Hosts offered no objections.
On Sunday, Rep. Devin Nunes (R-Calif.) appeared on Fox and urged Americans to “stop panicking” and for those who are healthy to “just go out.” Said Nunes: “There’s a lot of concerns with the economy here because people are scared to go out. But I will just say one of the things you can do if you’re healthy, you and your family, it’s a great time to just go out, go to a local restaurant.”
Maria Bartiromo did not correct Nunes. A day later, contributor Nicole Saphier, a doctor, specifically called out the congressman on air to contradict his advice and told viewers to stay home.
This is a quick summation of how Faux news has become nothing more than a platform for Trumpian Propaganda.
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jemi joyland
Is this the Gospel of Jesus foretelling of the coming of Treasonous Trump?
As he was sitting on the Mount of Olives,* the disciples approached him privately and said, “Tell us, when will this happen, and what sign will there be of your coming, and of the end of the age?”
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* Jesus said to them in reply, “See that no one deceives you.
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For many will come in my name, saying, ‘I am the Messiah,’ and they will deceive many. [Treasonous Trump?]
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b You will hear of wars* and reports of wars; see that you are not alarmed, for these things must happen, but it will not yet be the end.
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c Nation will rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom; there will be famines and earthquakes from place to place.
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* All these are the beginning of the labor pains.
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* d Then they will hand you over to persecution, and they will kill you. You will be hated by all nations because of my name.
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And then many will be led into sin; they will betray and hate one another. [Foretelling of Treasonous Trump?]
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Many false prophets will arise and deceive many; [TT?]
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and because of the increase of evildoing, the love of many will grow cold. [TT’s Politics?]
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e But the one who perseveres to the end will be saved.
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f And this gospel of the kingdom will be preached throughout the world as a witness to all nations,* and then the end will come.
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C Mac
I can prove everyone of my statements - Antichrist excluded - with facts. Unfortunately, I only listed a small number of items. Did you know Treasonous Trump shared “girls” with his good friend Jeffrey Epstein?
It was supposed to be an exclusive party at Mar-a-Lago, Donald J. Trump’s members-only club in Palm Beach, Fla. But other than the two dozen or so women flown in to provide the entertainment, the only guests were Mr. Trump and Jeffrey Epstein.
The year was 1992 and the event was a “calendar girl” competition, something that George Houraney, a Florida-based businessman who ran American Dream Enterprise, had organized at Mr. Trump’s request.
“I arranged to have some contestants fly in,” Mr. Houraney recalled in an interview on Monday. “At the very first party, I said, ‘Who’s coming tonight? I have 28 girls coming.’ It was him and Epstein.”
Mr. Houraney, who had just partnered with Mr. Trump to host events at his casinos, said he was surprised. “I said, ‘Donald, this is supposed to be a party with V.I.P.s. You’re telling me it’s you and Epstein?’”
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This is the type of people who support Treasonous Trump:
Rep. Rodney Garcia, a state lawmaker in Montana, told a roomful of Republicans he believes the U.S. Constitution says socialists can be jailed or shot simply for being socialists. Garcia initially made the statement at an election event, then he reiterated it to a Billings Gazette reporter.
Garcia’s inflammatory assertion first came Friday night, after former interior secretary Ryan Zinke gave a speech at the party event in Helena. According to reporting from the Gazette, Garcia said he was concerned there were socialists “everywhere” in Billings, which he represents in House District 52.
Billings Gazette reporter Holly Michels later asked Garcia to clarify his remarks, and the lawmaker doubled down.
“So actually in the Constitution of the United States, [if you] are found guilty of being a socialist member you either go to prison or are shot,” Garcia told Michels.
Garcia was not able to say where he finds that in the Constitution, the Billings Gazette reported.
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Mustang Dave
Well, well, well, Jar Head, (If you were a Jar Head and I have my doubts) the violent nature of a MAGA Maggot is strong in you. Let us, together, pick apart your last rant:
1. “Never Served” Not so my little friend, many more years than you (If in fact you ever served).
2. “NAZIS as Socialists” A grain of truth (the word shows up is the name) but far from Truth - which is a trade mark of MAGA Maggots. Let us look more closely at NAZI philosophy.
National Socialism (German: Nationalsozialismus), more commonly known as Nazism (/ˈnɑːtsiɪzəm, ˈnæt-/),[1] is the ideology and practices associated with the Nazi Party—officially the National Socialist German Workers' Party (Nationalsozialistische Deutsche Arbeiterpartei or NSDAP)—in Nazi Germany, and of other far-right groups with similar ideas and aims.
Nazism is a form of fascism and showed that ideology's disdain for liberal democracy and the parliamentary system, but also incorporated fervent antisemitism, anti-communism, anti-socialism, scientific racism, and eugenics into its creed. Its extreme nationalism came from Pan-Germanism and the ethno-nationalist völkisch movement prominent in the German nationalism of the time, and it was strongly influenced by the Freikorps paramilitary groups that emerged after Germany's defeat in World War I, from which came the party's "cult of violence" that was "at the heart of the movement."[2]
Nazism subscribed to pseudo-scientific theories of racial hierarchy[3] and Social Darwinism, identifying the Germans as a part of what the Nazis regarded as an Aryan or Nordic master race.[4] It aimed to overcome social divisions and create a German homogeneous society based on racial purity which represented a people's community (Volksgemeinschaft). The Nazis aimed to unite all Germans living in historically German territory, as well as gain additional lands for German expansion under the doctrine of Lebensraum and exclude those who they deemed either community aliens or "inferior" races.
The term "National Socialism" arose out of attempts to create a nationalist redefinition of "socialism", as an alternative to both Marxist international socialism and free market capitalism. Nazism rejected the Marxist concepts of class conflict and universal equality, opposed cosmopolitan internationalism, and sought to convince all parts of the new German society to subordinate their personal interests to the "common good", accepting political interests as the main priority of economic organization,[5] which tended to match the general outlook of collectivism or communitarianism rather than economic socialism.
Their are several important words you should pay attention too. Nationalism, Far Right or Alt Right, Violent, Racist, Cultish Leadership, Anti-Communism, Anti-Socialism, etc.
Essential Nazism is everything you stand for. Sorry to call you a Moron, but any non Moron would know that Nazism/Fascism is a disease of the Right.
So back to my original point: Why do you hate everything America Stands for?
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OMG Timmy do you think I can become informed by reading? What if I read really big books on economics, politics, world history, founding fathers, business, science, etc. Do you think I could ever be as smart as you? By the way, what was the last book, periodical, newspaper, or scientific study you read. Well Timmy... Enquiring Minds want to know.
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How Treasonous Trump “Cares About America”:
He has pressured a foreign leader to interfere in the 2020 American presidential election.
He urged a foreign country to intervene in the 2016 presidential election.
He divulged classified information to foreign officials.
He publicly undermined American intelligence agents while standing next to a hostile foreign autocrat.
He hired a national security adviser who he knew had secretly worked as a foreign lobbyist.
He encourages foreign leaders to enrich him and his family by staying at his hotels.
He genuflects to murderous dictators.
He has alienated America’s closest allies.
He lied to the American people about his company’s business dealings in Russia.
He tells new lies virtually every week — about the economy, voter fraud, even the weather.
He spends hours on end watching television and days on end staying at resorts.
He often declines to read briefing books or perform other basic functions of a president’s job.
He has aides, as well as members of his own party in Congress, who mock him behind his back as unfit for office.
He described a former first lady, not long after she died, as “nasty.”
He described white supremacists as “some very fine people.”
He told four women of color, all citizens and members of Congress, to “go back and help fix the totally broken and crime-infested places from which they came.”
He made a joke about Pocahontas during a ceremony honoring Native American World War II veterans.
He launched his political career by falsely claiming that the first black president was not really American.
He launched his presidential campaign by describing Mexicans as “rapists.”
He has described women, variously, as “a dog,” “a pig” and “horseface,” as well as “bleeding badly from a facelift” and having “blood coming out of her wherever.”
He has been accused of sexual assault or misconduct by multiple women.
He enthusiastically campaigned for a Senate candidate who was accused of molesting multiple teenage girls.
He waved around his arms, while giving a speech, to ridicule a physically disabled person.
He has encouraged his supporters to commit violence against his political opponents.
He has called for his opponents and critics to be investigated and jailed.
He uses a phrase popular with dictators — “the enemy of the people” — to describe journalists.
He attempts to undermine any independent source of information that he does not like, including judges, scientists, journalists, election officials, the F.B.I., the C.I.A., the Congressional Budget Office and the National Weather Service.
He has tried to harass the chairman of the Federal Reserve into lowering interest rates.
He said that a judge could not be objective because of his Mexican heritage.
He obstructed justice by trying to influence an investigation into his presidential campaign.
He violated federal law by directing his lawyer to pay $280,000 in hush money to cover up two apparent adulterous affairs.
He made his fortune partly through wide-scale financial fraud.
He has refused to release his tax returns.
He claimed that federal law-enforcement agents and prosecutors regularly fabricated evidence, thereby damaging the credibility of criminal investigations across the country.
He uses his office to enrich himself and his family
He said that America is no different from or better than Vladimir Putin’s Russia.
This is the president who “Cares About America”.
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More Texts Faux news does not want you to see about the Jan 6th INSURRECTION:
Jan. 1 or 2, 2021
House Freedom Caucus member
If POTUS allows this to occur… we’re driving a stake in the heart of the federal republic.
Received by Mark Meadows
Jan. 5, 2021
Joseph Schmitz
On January 6, 2021, Vice President Mike Pence, as President of the Senate, should call out all electoral votes that he believes are unconstitutional as no electoral votes at all -- in accordance with guidance from founding father Alexander Hamilton and judicial precedence. “No legislative act,” wrote Alexander Hamilton in Federalist No. 78, “contrary to the Constitution, can be valid.” ...
Received by Jim Jordan
Jan. 6, 2021
Jake Sherman
Do something for us
We are under siege in the cpaitol
There’s an armed standoff at the house chamber door
We’re all helpless
Received by Mark Meadows
Received by Mark Meadows
Jan. 6, 2021
GOP member 1
New message
The president needs to stop this ASAP.
GOP member 2
New message
Fix this now.
Received by a White House staffer
Jan. 6, 2021
Person outside the White House
New message
Person outside the White House
POTUS has to come out firmly and tell protestors to dissipate. Someone is going to get killed.
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BIARRITZ, France — President Trump asserted on Saturday that he has the authority to make good on his threat to force all American businesses to leave China, citing a national security law that has been used mainly to target terrorists, drug traffickers and pariah states like Iran, Syria and North Korea.
As he arrived in France for the annual meeting of the Group of 7 powers, Mr. Trump posted a message on Twitter citing the International Emergency Economic Powers Act of 1977, a law originally meant to enable a president to isolate criminal regimes not sever economic ties with a major trading partner over a tariff dispute.
“For all of the Fake News Reporters that don’t have a clue as to what the law is relative to Presidential powers, China, etc., try looking at the Emergency Economic Powers Act of 1977,” Mr. Trump wrote. “Case closed!”
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Lynn Anderson
Pelosi was elected not “selected”. So does she not have the same “moral authority” you claim for Trump? Speaking of morality check this out:
Karen Pence, “was livid” at Trump’s prurient comments in the “Access Hollywood” tape, but her husband concluded it was too late to drop off the ticket. On election night, 2016, Karen refused to kiss Pence. “You got what you wanted, Mike,” she told him. “Leave me alone.”
Or check this out:
When an evangelical pastor who once prayed with Pence in his congressional office ran into him (Mike Pence) at a ceremony last year, he told him: “You know, Mr. Vice President, more than anything, we need you to find your conscience, the country desperately needs you to find your conscience.” - a veiled reference to Trump.
“It’s always easier said than done,” Pence replied cryptically, and then walked away.
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Every thing Treasonous Trump always comes back to Russia.:
By then, McCallion had already been hearing strange things about what Lev Parnas and Igor Fruman, whom we now know as Giuliani’s close associates, were doing in Ukraine.
Parnas and Fruman, both American citizens born in the former Soviet Union, aren’t ordinary political operatives. Parnas has long been a low-level grifter. Fruman owns an Odessa beach club called Mafia Rave, and a joint investigation by the Organized Crime and Corruption Reporting Project and BuzzFeed News found ties between him and an Odessa organized crime figure named Volodymyr Galanternik, known as “Light Bulb.”
The duo first appeared on the American political scene in 2015 as enthusiastic supporters of Donald Trump. They became big-dollar donors to a number of Republicans; their Instagram accounts would soon fill up with photos of party elites. Then, this year, McCallion learned they were poking around Ukrainian politics, where they were spreading conspiracy theories that Ukraine, not Russia, had interfered in America’s election in 2016.
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Trump Aide Has Mental Melt Down On Facebook. 🤪🤪🤪🤪
Michael R. Caputo told his audience that left-wing hit squads were being trained for insurrection and accused C.D.C. scientists of “sedition.” He complained that he was under siege by the news media, feeling paranoid, and that his “mental health was failing.” He accused the CDC of harboring a “secret resistance unit” determined to undermine President Trump.
Mr. Caputo, who lead efforts to warp C.D.C. weekly bulletins to fit Mr. Trump’s pandemic narrative, suggested that he personally could be in danger from opponents of the administration. “If you carry guns, buy ammunition, ladies and gentlemen, because it’s going to be hard to get,” he urged his followers. “I don’t like being alone in Washington,” Mr. Caputo said, describing “shadows on the ceiling in my apartment, there alone, shadows are so long.” He also said the mounting number of Covid-19 deaths was taking a toll on him, telling his viewers, “You are not waking up every morning and talking about dead Americans. But you should attend Trump rallies and wear a mask”.
SOUNDS LIKE TRUMP ONLY HIRES THE BEST PEOPLE 🤪🤪🤪🤪
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U.S. authorities have leveled the first conspiracy charge against a leader of an extremist group in the Jan. 6 storming of the U.S. Capitol, arresting an Oath Keeper who is accused of plotting to disrupt the electoral vote confirmation of President-elect Joe Biden’s victory and proposing further assaults on state capitols.
Thomas Edward Caldwell, 66, of Clarke County, Va., was taken into custody before 7 a.m. on four federal counts, including conspiracy to commit an offense against the United States in the attack on the Capitol. The conspiracy charge is reserved for offenses interfering with or obstructing the lawful operation of government.
A charging affidavit says he helped organize a group of eight to 10 individuals, including self-styled Ohio militia members apprehended Sunday, who wore helmets and military-style gear and were seen moving purposefully toward the top of the Capitol steps and leading the move against police lines.
Separately, charges were unsealed Wednesday accusing a Queens man who worked in the state court system of making threats to murder Democratic politicians, including suggesting another attack on the Capitol timed to President-elect Joe Biden’s inauguration Wednesday.
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@whdbnrm3023 There is no market price as the company is privately held between Elon, The Chinese Government, and the Saudi Government. However, given the massive problems, failures in launches, and employee run off, it is very reasonable to assume (and the financial rags are assuming) that Twitter is currently worth $8 billion. Elon himself told his employees that Twitter was facing BK (Bankruptcy for you none Financial Types) if things didn’t turn around. Hyperbole? Possibly, but the failures, the lack of a cohesive strategy, employee run off, and advertiser run off, all dramatically discount Twitters value. Can Elon Turn Twitter around? We will wait and see. By the way, Truth Social is also flirting with BK.
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DRAIN THE SWAMP - BENEFICIARY OF THE NEW WORLD ORDER
Trump’s company has received at least $970,000 from U.S. taxpayers for room rentals.
The U.S. government has paid at least $970,000 to President Trump’s company since Trump took office — including payments for more than 1,600 nightly room rentals at Trump’s hotels and clubs, according to federal records obtained.
Since March, The Post has catalogued an additional $340,000 in such payments. They were all related to trips taken by Trump, his family and his top officials. The government is known to have paid full price for rooms for staffers and Secret Service agents to accompany the president.
The payments create an unprecedented business relationship between the president’s private company and his government — which began in the first month of Trump’s presidency records show.
The records show that taxpayers have now paid for the equivalent of more than four years’ worth of nightly rentals at Trump properties, including 950 nights at Trump’s golf club in Bedminster, N.J., and 530 nights at the president’s Mar-a-Lago Club in Florida, according to analysis.
Who needs a pay check when you can get nearly a Billion Dollars in guaranteed business from the government - DRAIN THE SWAMP!
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Trump: Campaign shifted money into indebted private business, Forbes
Trump has shifted money raised from campaign donors into the Trump Organization, according to documents from the Federal Election Committee (FEC) seen by Forbes.
He moved around $2.8 million into his private businesses throughout the duration of his presidency, Forbes's Dan Alexander reported.
Trump funneled an additional $81,000 into the Trump Organization after his election loss, the magazine said.
The payments were made public in the filings the campaign submitted to the FEC and were liest to cover costs including rent, airfare, lodging, and other expenses.
One of the campaign's joint-fundraising committees, associated with the Republican Party, also moved an estimated $4.3 million of donor money into his private business during his presidential term, according to Forbes.
Read more: 10 huge hits to Trump's business from the pandemic that may be permanent.
The joint-fundraising committee also paid around $300,000 towards Trump's hotel chain in the week following the former president's election loss, the Independent reported.
Around $40,000 was handed over from the campaign to Trump Tower Commercial LLC, a company which the former president owns a stake in, in December, the paper said.
This isn't the first time it has been reported that Trump transferred campaign money to his private businesses.
In July, The Washington Post's David Fahrenthold reported that Trump's campaign sent nearly $400,000 to the Trump Organization in just two days.
Documents showed that the campaign channeled $380,000 to the president's personal business in 43 transactions, Fahrenthold said.
This comes when the former president is said to be looking for ways to cash in on his post-presidency to address potentially huge debt.
The Trump Organization owes $400 million, according to Forbes.
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@fried-greentomatoes
That’s the short version, attributed to Burke. A longer version reads as follows:
Whilst men are linked together, they easily and speedily communicate the alarm of any evil design. They are enabled to fathom it with common counsel, and to oppose it with united strength. Whereas, when they lie dispersed, without concert, order, or discipline, communication is uncertain, counsel difficult, and resistance impracticable. Where men are not acquainted with each other’s principles, nor experienced in each other’s talents, nor at all practised in their mutual habitudes and dispositions by joint efforts in business; no personal confidence, no friendship, no common interest, subsisting among them; it is evidently impossible that they can act a public part with uniformity, perseverance, or efficacy. In a connection, the most inconsiderable man, by adding to the weight of the whole, has his value, and his use; out of it, the greatest talents are wholly unserviceable to the public. No man, who is not inflamed by vain-glory into enthusiasm, can flatter himself that his single, unsupported, desultory, unsystematic endeavours, are of power to defeat the subtle designs and united cabals of ambitious citizens. When bad men combine, the good must associate; else they will fall, one by one, an unpitied sacrifice in a contemptible struggle.
–Edmund Burke, Thoughts on the Cause of the Present Discontents 82-83 (1770)
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@julessoto137 You might also be interested in the text book definition of Nazism/Neo Nazism: A Far Right ideology that embraces Authoritarianism, Cultism, Xenophobia, Racism, Homophobia, Anti Semitism, The Big Lies, and The Stab In The Back Myth updated to The “Stolen Election”. This is Trumpism, his Cult follower all embrace these ideas to some degree or wholeheartedly. History has seen this movement before in Germany, Italy, and Spain… it doesn’t end well for anyone.
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Another Traitor pleads guilty to Treason. Lucas Denney, 44, of Mansfield, Tex., created a militia in Texas he called “Patriot Boys of North Texas,” which he said was aligned with the Proud Boys, a far-right group with a history of violence, court records show. Denney was captured on multiple videos and photographs battling with police on the West Terrace of the Capitol, pushing with a mob inside the Capitol, and then as part of a large crowd that grabbed individual officers who were fighting the rioters, including D.C. police officer Michael Fanone.
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TRUMP CANT READ AND WONT LISTEN
Reagan & Clinton preferred to read the written PDB, scribbling questions in the margins. Barack Obama read the daily brief on his iPad and sent it back with detailed queries. But Trump won’t read the PDB or Listen to Oral briefings, or much of anything else. Maybe part of the reason is that Trump is still mad that the Intelligence Community said that Russia had intervened in the 2016 election on his behalf. Given his hostility toward the intelligence community, and his Twitter-sized attention span, Trump is impossible to brief. Some briefers have even tried to do a show and tell using Pictures of New York City landmarks, agency briefers thought, might help Trump grasp threats. In an effort to explain the scale of North Korea’s nuclear program, the CIA built a model of the Hermit Kingdom’s underground weapons facility and put a miniature Statue of Liberty inside it.
But Trump preferred to get his news from Fox news, and other sources such as Putin. In July 2017, he refused to believe the CIA that N. Korea had developed an ICBM capable of reaching U.S. soil. How could the president be certain the agency was wrong? Because, he said, Vladimir Putin told him so.
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Trump gets tough with G20:
Trump, arriving in Japan on Thursday, opened his latest foreign trip much as he did his last one, lashing out at America’s allies, including his hosts, just before sitting down with them to talk through differences on issues like security and trade.
By contrast, Mr. Trump said nothing critical about the fourth leader on his diplomatic schedule for Friday, President Vladimir V. Putin of Russia, whose government waged a systematic campaign to interfere in American elections in 2016 and has arrested two Americans on what critics consider false charges.
The one area Treasonous Trump is consistent. Never, Ever, say anything critical of his Boss Putin. “Russia, if you are listening...”
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What the judge said: U.S. District Judge Matthew W. Brann, a Republican, dismissed the case Saturday, throwing it out before the Trump campaign said it had a chance to even get started. And he didn’t just close the door. He slammed it, with a 37-page ruling that at times amounted to accusing the campaign of undermining democracy.
Among the most notable portions of his writing:
• “[The Trump campaign asks] this Court to disenfranchise almost seven million voters. This Court has been unable to find any case in which a plaintiff has sought such a drastic remedy in the contest of an election, in terms of the sheer volume of votes asked to be invalidated. One might expect that when seeking such a startling outcome, a plaintiff would come formidably armed with compelling legal arguments and factual proof of rampant corruption, such that this Court would have no option but to regrettably grant the proposed injunctive relief despite the impact it would have on such a large group of citizens. That has not happened. Instead, this Court has been presented with strained legal arguments without merit and speculative accusations, unpled in the operative complaint and unsupported by evidence. In the United States of America, this cannot justify the disenfranchisement of a single voter, let alone all the voters of its sixth most populated state. Our people, laws, and institutions demand more.”
• “Plaintiffs’ only remaining claim alleges a violation of equal protection. This claim, like Frankenstein’s Monster, has been haphazardly stitched together from two distinct theories in an attempt to avoid controlling precedent.” (In other words, the judge alleges the Trump campaign tried to sew up baseless accusations in the hopes the judge wouldn’t notice they didn’t have a concrete one.)
• “[Two voters who say their ballots were thrown out] have entirely failed to establish any causal relationship between Secretary [of State Kathy] Boockvar and the cancellation of their votes.”
• “Granting Plaintiffs’ requested relief would necessarily require invalidating the ballots of every person who voted in Pennsylvania. Because this Court has no authority to take away the right to vote of even a single person, let alone millions of citizens, it cannot grant Plaintiffs’ requested relief.”
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T Ballstaedt
1. Mueller Report Vol 1: In this report Treasonous and his Campaign Officials (6 who have been convicted of serious crimes) worked with, sought help from, received help from, met with over 32 times, the GRU Russian Spy Agency (formerly known as the KGB). Did not rise to the level of criminal conspiracy but still a betrayal of America (Betrayal is a Synonym for Treason)
2. Treasonous Trump’s Helsinki speech with Vladimir Putin. Despite being told by the CIA, NSA, DIA, and FBI that Putin and his GRU was behind hacking of the DNC and providing material support to his Campaign, Trump still took Putin’s word that it want Russia. Very, Very, Odd. A Betrayal of our American Agencies and maybe treasonous in nature.
3. TT betrayed his oath of office by trying to extort Ukraine for personal gain. If Hunter Biden is guilty of a crime then the Justice Department is the proper Agency - at this point no one can say what the crime might be. That is not how American justice works.
4. TT betrayed the Kurds and American National interests. Why, because TT has a very, very, odd relationship with Putin. TT will do some really strange things to please Putin. Examples: Helsinki speech, TTs fawning praise of Putin, TT trying to overturn the Magnitski Act at the beginning of his presidency - that was more than likely the message that Flynn and Sessions carried to the Russians in their secret contacts.
So yes, Treason is an apt and very appropriate word. Far more scandalous than any “Re Set Button” could ever hope to be.
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Boy I wish the Main Stream Media had fact checked with you before they wrote this article - how embarrassing.
KHOST, Afghanistan — An American drone strike on a car carrying a woman who had just given birth in southeastern Afghanistan left five people dead, including the mother, three of her relatives and the driver, Afghan officials and family members said on Sunday.
The strike in the Alisher District of Khost Province occurred either late Friday night or early Saturday, they said. The woman, Malana, 25, had given birth to a son, her second child, at home. But her health had deteriorated soon after and relatives had been taking her to a clinic. On their way home, their vehicle was hit
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T Ballstaedt
Fascism is a RightWing phenomena that always leads to a dictator but with property rights for the Oligarchs and table scraps for the masses - examples Hitler, Mussolini, Franco etc. Far LeftWing Socialism, historically has lead to state owned Assets re directed for the personal enrichment of the Political Elite (AKA Oligarchs) - examples Chavez of Venezuela. Note: The use of the word Socialist is very murky as many countries exposing socialism are really just Dictators claiming to care about their populous. However, several Western European countries are Socialist Democracies and very successful. Communism I believe we both agree always leads to a Dictator.
In the end it is all about balancing incentives, property rights, taxes, healthcare, opportunities, regulations, welfare, military spending, research, and insuring no one group can game the system. There is a sweet spot in Capitalism and Socialism that works for the largest number of citizens - any divination outside of the Bell Curve leads to unrest. In my opinion America has deviated outside of the Bell Curve towards Crony Capitalism and needs a Rosevelt to bring us back in line. I see TT as a part of the problem - instead of Draining the Swamp he is setting himself up as Swamp King Maker. TTs actions speak even louder than his words. He is filling our Agencies with people who care little for science or facts, but are loyal to TT and are willing to swim against the tide of reason - global warming, fracking, pollution, cancer causing chemicals, etc.
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@TheAmerican326 Yes, I am. If you read History this is how it started and gained momentum in Germany. The atrocities came after the Nazis achieved 100% control and had eliminated ALL Democratic Institutions. Neo Nazism/Nazism is defined as a Far Right ideology that embraces Authoritarianism, Racism, Xenophobia, Homophobia, Anti Semitism, The Big Lies, Cult of Person, and The Stab In The Back Myth updated to the “Stolen Election” Myth. This is Trumpism, to what ever degree you care to admit or participate. Only about 25 - 30% were true Nazis willing to commit atrocities, the rest were on a continuum.
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Austonland Hero
Trump Aide Has Mental Melt Down On Facebook.
Michael R. Caputo told his audience that left-wing hit squads were being trained for insurrection and accused C.D.C. scientists of “sedition.” He complained that he was under siege by the news media, feeling paranoid, and that his “mental health was failing.” He accused the CDC of harboring a “secret resistance unit” determined to undermine President Trump.
Mr. Caputo, who lead efforts to warp C.D.C. weekly bulletins to fit Mr. Trump’s pandemic narrative, suggested that he personally could be in danger from opponents of the administration. “If you carry guns, buy ammunition, ladies and gentlemen, because it’s going to be hard to get,” he urged his followers. “I don’t like being alone in Washington,” Mr. Caputo said, describing “shadows on the ceiling in my apartment, there alone, shadows are so long.” He also said the mounting number of Covid-19 deaths was taking a toll on him, telling his viewers, “You are not waking up every morning and talking about dead Americans. But you should attend Trump rallies and wear a mask”.
SOUNDS LIKE TRUMP ONLY HIRES THE BEST PEOPLE 🤪🤪🤪🤪
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Cindee K
DRAIN THE SWAMP
Trump’s company has received at least $970,000 from U.S. taxpayers for room rentals.
The U.S. government has paid at least $970,000 to President Trump’s company since Trump took office — including payments for more than 1,600 nightly room rentals at Trump’s hotels and clubs, according to federal records obtained.
Since March, The Post has catalogued an additional $340,000 in such payments. They were all related to trips taken by Trump, his family and his top officials. The government is known to have paid full price for rooms for staffers and Secret Service agents to accompany the president.
The payments create an unprecedented business relationship between the president’s private company and his government — which began in the first month of Trump’s presidency records show.
The records show that taxpayers have now paid for the equivalent of more than four years’ worth of nightly rentals at Trump properties, including 950 nights at Trump’s golf club in Bedminster, N.J., and 530 nights at the president’s Mar-a-Lago Club in Florida, according to analysis.
Who needs a pay check when you can get nearly a Billion Dollars in guaranteed business from the government - DRAIN THE SWAMP!
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A day before rioters stormed Congress, an FBI office in Virginia issued an explicit internal warning that extremists were preparing to travel to Washington to commit violence and “war,” according to an FBI internal document. A situational information report approved for release the day before the U.S. Capitol riot painted a dire portrait of dangerous plans, including individuals sharing a map of the complex’s tunnels, and possible rally points for would-be conspirators to meet up. “As of 5 January 2021, FBI Norfolk received information indicating calls for violence in response to ‘unlawful lockdowns’ to begin on 6 January 2021 in Washington. D.C.,” the document says. “An online thread discussed specific calls for violence to include stating ‘Be ready to fight. Congress needs to hear glass breaking, doors being kicked in, and blood being spilled. Get violent. Stop calling this a march, or rally, or a protest. Go there ready for war. Our President wants us to do this. NOTHING else will achieve this goal.”
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godoggo
Trump has made a lot of promises about actions to fight the coronavirus pandemic.Most of them have been half truths or embellishments.
For example:
Naval hospital ships
Trump announced Wed. that the Navy would dispatch its two hospital ships, the USNS Comfort and the USNS Mercy, to help treat patients and free up land-based hospitals for coronavirus patients.
"So those two ships are prepared to go, and they can be launched over the next week or so," Trump said, calling the ships in "tip-top shape."
Well, not so much.
The Navy said that the Comfort was actually undergoing repairs in Norfolk, Va., and it would be weeks before it could sail.
FDA drug approval
On Thur. Trump touted that the Food and Drug Administration had "approved" use of an anti-malaria drug called chloroquine to treat patients afflicted with the coronavirus. He had a “hunch” that this was the cure.
"We're going to be able to make that drug available almost immediately," Trump said, calling it "a tremendous breakthrough" and a potential "game-changer."
But FDA commissioner Stephen Hahn immediately tried to tamp down Trump's enthusiasm, saying that "a large, pragmatic clinical trial" would be needed first to determine the drug's usefulness before making it available to coronavirus patients.
Hahn said he couldn't "speculate about a timeline" for the drug's availability.
Trump's enthusiasm for hydroxychloroquine spilled into another press conference on Friday, when he again described it as a potential wonder drug.
And again, a public health official — this time, Dr. Anthony Fauci, a top immunologist on the White House's response team — tried to rein in the optimism by echoing the need for clinical proof that it would make a difference.
On Thursday, Trump said another drug, Remdesivir, had "also been approved, or very close to approved" by the FDA for treating patients coronavirus. In fact, that drug is undergoing a clinical trial and is months away from being ready for use.
The website
Last Friday, Trump said at a Rose Garden news conference that Google has 1,700 engineers developing a new website that would help Americans determine whether they should seek testing for the coronavirus.
The president sought to cast his own project as a triumph compared with the initial failure of President Barack Obama to roll out a website as part of the changes to the health care market enacted in 2009.
"Google is helping to develop a website," Trump said. "It's going to be very quickly done — unlike websites of the past — to determine whether a test is warranted and to facilitate testing at a nearby convenient location."
Within hours, Google attempted to clarify the president's comments. It said an affiliated company, Verily, was working on the project but on a limited scale only for people in the San Francisco area.
"Verily is in the early stages of development," Google said, "and planning to roll testing out in the Bay Area, with the hope of expanding more broadly over time."
Unfortunately, there are insufficient tests available to test anyone.
Medical supplies
On Wednesday, Trump met with a group of nurses at the White House, telling them that the administration had arranged for a major new supply of the type of respirator in high demand during the pandemic.
"We've ordered 500 million N95 masks to drive private production," Trump said. He also said that construction companies were being asked to donate unused masks. The next day at a briefing, Vice President Pence stated: "We've vastly increased the supply of medical masks."
But hospitals continue to report that they are running short of masks, as are pharmacists.
Loose-fitting surgical masks aren't appropriate for dealing with the pandemic authorities say; the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention released a graphic detailing the important differences between a surgical mask and an N95 respirator.
Testing
One of the most frequent exaggerations coming from Trump is the availability of coronavirus tests.
When he visited the CDC in Atlanta earlier this month, Trump claimed that "They have the tests. And the tests are beautiful. Anybody that needs a test gets a test."
Pence made a similar claim last week, saying that "a million tests are in the field" and that "by the end of this week, another 4 million tests will be distributed."
Americans who feel sick still can’t get tested. Fauci acknowledged that there clearly is a gap between the supply and the demand.
Trump and Pence say they don't want every American — particularly those who are feeling well — to be tested. Yet people who are not critically sick are being sent home without testing. They are told to “assume they have covid-19” and come back only if there condition worsens. Not knowing if you have the virus dose not help contain the virus.
In summary, Trump just needs to shut up and let the experts talk.
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@MrMnmn911
1. THE FASCIST MEDIA AND FASCIST PARTY. Fascism aka Nazism: A Far Rightwing Ideology that embraces Authoritarianism, Cult Leadership, Racism, Xenophobia, Homophobia, Anti Semitism, The Big Lies große Lüge, and The Stab In The Back Myth Dolchstoßlegende, now updated to the “Stolen Election”
2. TRUMP/RUSSIA COLLUSION. A proven Fact as documented by the Mueller Report, the Senate Intel Report, witnesses, documents, intercepts, and testimony. Facts are Facts and Facts can be documented.
3. HILLARY/RUSSIA COLLUSION IN 2016 IS A HISTORICAL. Please provide citation as I have. I will gladly send you links to the Mueller Report or the Senate By Partisan Intel Report if for some bizarre reason you can’t find them.
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Research? Would you suggest I start with the Daily Stormer, then move on the the Epoch Times, perhaps an hour or two of Info Wars, and finish up with Tucker, Hannity, and Ingraham. Is this your form of research? May God spare us from the 40% of America is rabidly support Trumpian Neo Nazism and are Anti Education, Pro Moron, Anti Science, and refuses to Read, Research, or Reason.
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Yeah, Faux news has Identified its 39 War on Woke Hot Lines, to join the other 38 Wars Faux has invented. Previous notables have been the War on Xmas, The War on Xmas Trees, the War on Xmas Paper Coffee Cups, the War on Masculinity, the horrible War on Toxic Masculinity, the War on Gender, the War on Pronouns, the War on School Children, the War on Toxic Christians, the War on Femininity, the War on Conservatives, the War on Conservative Media, and on and on and on. Keeping Track of all these Wars Must Be Exhausting. 😢😢😢
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Fact: Trump shared girls with Jeffery Epstein his close friend of 15 years.
WASHINGTON — It was supposed to be an exclusive party at Mar-a-Lago, Donald J. Trump’s members-only club in Palm Beach, Fla. But other than the two dozen or so women flown in to provide the entertainment, the only guests were Mr. Trump and Jeffrey Epstein.
The year was 1992 and the event was a “calendar girl” competition, something that George Houraney, a Florida-based businessman who ran American Dream Enterprise, had organized at Mr. Trump’s request.
“I arranged to have some contestants fly in,” Mr. Houraney recalled in an interview on Monday. “At the very first party, I said, ‘Who’s coming tonight? I have 28 girls coming.’ It was him and Epstein.”
Mr. Houraney, who had just partnered with Mr. Trump to host events at his casinos, said he was surprised. “I said, ‘Donald, this is supposed to be a party with V.I.P.s. You’re telling me it’s you and Epstein?’”
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Trump touts Putin’s speaking out against his impeachment
Late Friday night, minutes before deplaning in Florida for the holidays, President Trump retweeted a link to an article in which Russian President Vladimir Putin defended him against impeachment.
“A total Witch Hunt!” the president tweeted at 10:30 p.m., as he shared a 36-hour-old Associated Press tweet that read: “BREAKING: Russian President Vladimir Putin says U.S. President Donald Trump’s impeachment is far-fetched and predicts the U.S. Senate will reject it.”
Trump’s boasting of Putin’s support comes a day after The Washington Post reported that White House advisers feared Trump’s belief that Ukraine, not Russia, was responsible for interfering with the 2016 election was spurred by conversations Trump had with Putin.
Trump’s critics responded to the tweet, expressing exasperation more than incredulity.
“At the end of the day, it’s always Putin First,” wrote conservative commentator and “Never Trumper” Bill Kristol.
Russian President Vladimir Putin accused the U.S. House of Representatives Dec. 19 of having "invented" a story to "revise" history and impeach President Trump. (Reuters)
“Trump wants us to know that Putin has his back. We know,” tweeted Eric Columbus, a former Justice Department appointee in the Obama administration.
“Putin is a dictator who jails opponents, kills opponents, invades neighbors, interferes in democracies’ elections, etc. I don’t think an American president should be buddying with him. I wonder if Trump defenders are ever (secretly) embarrassed by this stuff. I hope so,” wrote Jay Nordlinger, a senior editor at the right-leaning National Review.
At his annual end-of-the-year news conference on Thursday, Putin was asked about Trump’s impeachment. He called the charges “completely fabricated reasons.”
[[Putin stays in Trump’s corner on impeachment]]
That evening, Russian state media, which follows Putin’s lead, also threw its support behind Trump.
Donald Trump is the third president in U.S. history to face a Senate trial. (The Washington Post)
Popular Kremlin propagandist Vladimir Soloviev gave an impassioned defense of Trump on his evening show, raising his voice several times in a discussion with Atlantic Council expert Ariel Cohen.
“I can’t understand for what reason [Democrats] don’t like Trump,” Soloviev said.
Days earlier, on his two-hour Sunday night program, anchor Dmitry Kiselyov opined about how Hollywood has joined the Democrats in being against Trump, portraying him as “always on the dark side.”
And the state-sponsored Rossiya-1 news channel, which airs Soloviev’s show, recently broadcast segments of Rudolph W. Giuliani’s interview with right-wing channel One America News, in which the president’s personal attorney promoted debunked conspiracy theories about Ukrainian interference in the 2016 U.S. presidential election.
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TREASONOUS TRUMP PARDONS THE WHO’S WHO OF SWAMP CREATURES
Trump used his pardon power to help his supporters, fundraisers, and those that committed crimes for him.
The latest round of pardons and commutations — 143 in total — followed dozens last month, when Mr. Trump pardoned associates like Paul Manafort and Roger J. Stone Jr., and four Blackwater guards convicted in connection with the killing of Iraqi civilians.
* Stephen K. Bannon, his former chief strategist. Bannon was headed to jail for stealing $1 million dollars from a Build the Wall Charity promoted by Bannon and Don Jr.
* Elliott Broidy, Trump’s top fund-raisers in 2016. Mr. Broidy pleaded guilty last year to conspiring to violate foreign lobbying laws as part of a covert campaign to influence the Trump administration on behalf of the Chinese Government. Mr. Brody accepted $9 million from the Chinese to lobby Trump. After Mr. Trump’s victory, Mr. Broidy aggressively promoted his connections to the new administration to politicians, business executives and governments around the world. A defense company he owns won big contracts from the United Arab Emirates and Angola. And Mr. Broidy discussed the possibility of a visit to Mar-a-Lago, the president’s private resort in Florida, for an Angolan politician from whom he was seeking to collect additional payments. He also was involved along with several others — including the lawyer of Mr. Trump’s son-in-law, Jared Kushner — in what prosecutors described as a scheme to offer a bribe in exchange for clemency for a convicted tax criminal, according to court documents unsealed in December.
* Rick Renzi, Republican, was sentenced in 2013 to 3 years in jail for a bribery scheme involving an Arizona land swap deal.
* Robert Hayes, GOP Chairman NC, pleaded guilty in 2019 to lying to the F.B.I. about a bribery scandal involving a state insurance commissioner donating $2 million towards his reelection campaign — in exchange for the removal of another official involved in the regulation of GOP donor and co-defendant Greg Lindberg’s private-equity company.
* Randall “Duke” Cunningham, Republican, who pleaded guilty in 2005 to taking $2.4 million in bribes from military
* M. Kilpatrick, a former Detroit mayor who was convicted in 2013 for using his office to enrich himself and his family through shakedowns, kickbacks and bid-rigging schemes.
* William T. Walters, a wealthy sports gambler convicted on charges related to his role in an insider-trading scheme. Mr. Walters hired Mr. Trump’s former personal lawyer John M. Dowd in 2018. Mr. Dowd bragged to Mr. Walters and others that he could help them receive a pardon because of his close relationship with the president.
* Paul Erickson, Republican Influence Peddler and former boyfriend of the Russian operative Maria Butina. Mr. Erickson was convicted last July of wire fraud and money laundering and sentenced to 84 months in prison on charges that related to his work in 2017 on a business deal in the Bakken oil fields of North Dakota.
* Dr. Salomon E. Melgen, who ran a series of clinics in Florida that fraudulently told Medicare patients that they had eye diseases and then performed medically unnecessary tests and procedures, falsely billing the federal government at least $42 million, according to prosecutors.
* Ken Kurson, a friend and associate of Mr. Trump’s son-in-law, Jared Kushner, who was arrested late last year on cyberstalking.
* George Gilmore, Republican, who was convicted last January of failure to file payroll taxes for employees and bank fraud.
* Anthony Levandowski, the former Uber executive who pleaded guilty to stealing driverless-car plans when he left Google to form a company, which Uber then acquired.
* Sholam Weiss, who was sentenced to more than 800 years in prison in 2000 for racketeering, wire fraud and money laundering related to a huge insurance fraud scheme.
* Eliyahu Weinstein, who was sentenced to more than 20 years in prison in 2014 for a real estate Ponzi scheme that prosecutors said caused $200 million in losses.
* Robert Zangrillo, a Miami real estate developer who was charged with conspiring with a college consultant to bribe athletic officials at the University of Southern California to designate his daughter as a recruit to the crew team.
* Aviem Sella, a former Israeli Air Force officer who was indicted by the United States in 1987 on espionage charges that he recruited the convicted spy Jonathan Jay Pollard to collect U.S. military secrets for Israel.
Treasonous Trump loves criminals just like him.
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CB BC
In these last days, Scripture warns that false prophets will arise and deceive many. Believers who are not well-grounded make easy targets for doctrines that may sound good but are filled with error.
Some doctrines are deadly: those that alter the Deity of Christ, redefine the Trinity — or even deny the Trinity. Sometimes a charmer will lead the susceptible off into error that results in physical death — Jonestown and Waco come to mind. [The Cult of Trump]
We must sharpen our awareness and be alert — not just for ourselves but for our loved ones who might otherwise be drawn to a false prophet.
Last time, we looked at five tests you can apply to any teacher’s message: the Source, Savior, Subject, Salvation, and Sanctification tests. But even if the teacher’s message passes these tests, we still should examine his method, manner, and motive.
Know them by their method.
They “…privily shall bring in damnable heresies…And through covetousness shall they with feigned words make merchandise of you: (2 Peter 2:1-3) [Trump?]
Peter is describing the way they operate.
privily means “secretly, clandestinely, in a way that’s hard to spot.” Give the devil credit for being clever. His helpers lay false teaching alongside good teaching in order to confuse.
feigned words. The word feigned in the Greek is plastos, from which we get our word “plastic.” Plastic is pliable, molding itself just simply to fit and to imitate…plastic preachers with plastic words.
Know them by their manner.
And many shall follow their pernicious ways… (v. 2)
Pernicious is a word we don’t use much today. It literally means “unbridled lust.” The center, sum and substance of their message is themselves. [Trump?]
Have you noticed that apostasy and immorality go hand in hand? Often you’ll hear about false teachers being caught in adultery. Or, within their belief system, they advocate immorality, multiple wives, or some sort of “free sex.” We see it over and over again. We hear news reports of a cult under the spell of a leader who, it is revealed, has been engaging in shocking immorality with members of his flock. High-profile evangelists preaching easy-believe-ism or a health-and-wealth gospel have sometimes been exposed as leading double lives. [Trump?]
They call themselves prophets, but they’re living in sin. Note their methods, manner, and way of life. Are they above reproach?
I have seen also in the prophets of Jerusalem an horrible thing: they commit adultery, and walk in lies: they strengthen also the hands of evildoers, that none of them doth return from his wickedness: they are all of them unto me as Sodom, and the inhabitants therefore as Gomorrah. Jeremiah 23:14 [Trump?]
Success in ministry does not necessarily mean they’re doing God’s work. Statistics are no proof that something is of God, because “many will follow” (2 Peter 2:2). Some people love the sensual rather than the spiritual. Jesus said, “Not every one that saith unto Me, Lord, Lord, shall enter into the kingdom of heaven; but he that doeth the will of My Father, which is in heaven” (Matthew 7:21). Many people lead double lives. They are counterfeits.
Know them by their motive.
And through covetousness shall they with feigned words make merchandise of you…. 2 Peter 2:3
What is the false teacher’s motive? They want to use and manipulate you. Why? Because they themselves are covetous. [Trump?]
For their own motivation and wicked heart, Peter says, they make merchandise of the Gospel. You’ve perhaps seen some of these hucksters on TV who merchandise the Gospel of Christ. In my estimation, the hottest part of hell is reserved for these plastic preachers who, for whatever reason, merchandise God’s people. With great swelling words they exploit the ignorant. They are prophets, spelled “P-R-O-F-I-T-S.”
Lastly, in verses 4-5 Peter gets very serious. He says God will surely judge and not spare them.
Don’t get caught up in counterfeit Christianity. God will not spare sin or the sinner, for He did not spare His only begotten Son, the Lord Jesus, so that you and I might have eternal life.
The world is full of counterfeits. Every counterfeit dollar is a tribute to the worth of the real — or men wouldn’t be printing counterfeits! And every counterfeit Christian is a tribute to the value of salvation. Jesus is real. Salvation is real. And you can make sure you have the real thing if you repent of your sin and trust Him. [Spurn the Antichrist, Spurn Trump]
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Chris Dumont
CB BC
In these last days, Scripture warns that false prophets will arise and deceive many. Believers who are not well-grounded make easy targets for doctrines that may sound good but are filled with error.
Some doctrines are deadly: those that alter the Deity of Christ, redefine the Trinity — or even deny the Trinity. Sometimes a charmer will lead the susceptible off into error that results in physical death — Jonestown and Waco come to mind. [The Cult of Trump]
We must sharpen our awareness and be alert — not just for ourselves but for our loved ones who might otherwise be drawn to a false prophet.
Last time, we looked at five tests you can apply to any teacher’s message: the Source, Savior, Subject, Salvation, and Sanctification tests. But even if the teacher’s message passes these tests, we still should examine his method, manner, and motive.
Know them by their method.
They “…privily shall bring in damnable heresies…And through covetousness shall they with feigned words make merchandise of you: (2 Peter 2:1-3) [Trump?]
Peter is describing the way they operate.
privily means “secretly, clandestinely, in a way that’s hard to spot.” Give the devil credit for being clever. His helpers lay false teaching alongside good teaching in order to confuse.
feigned words. The word feigned in the Greek is plastos, from which we get our word “plastic.” Plastic is pliable, molding itself just simply to fit and to imitate…plastic preachers with plastic words.
Know them by their manner.
And many shall follow their pernicious ways… (v. 2)
Pernicious is a word we don’t use much today. It literally means “unbridled lust.” The center, sum and substance of their message is themselves. [Trump?]
Have you noticed that apostasy and immorality go hand in hand? Often you’ll hear about false teachers being caught in adultery. Or, within their belief system, they advocate immorality, multiple wives, or some sort of “free sex.” We see it over and over again. We hear news reports of a cult under the spell of a leader who, it is revealed, has been engaging in shocking immorality with members of his flock. High-profile evangelists preaching easy-believe-ism or a health-and-wealth gospel have sometimes been exposed as leading double lives. [Trump?]
They call themselves prophets, but they’re living in sin. Note their methods, manner, and way of life. Are they above reproach?
I have seen also in the prophets of Jerusalem an horrible thing: they commit adultery, and walk in lies: they strengthen also the hands of evildoers, that none of them doth return from his wickedness: they are all of them unto me as Sodom, and the inhabitants therefore as Gomorrah. Jeremiah 23:14 [Trump?]
Success in ministry does not necessarily mean they’re doing God’s work. Statistics are no proof that something is of God, because “many will follow” (2 Peter 2:2). Some people love the sensual rather than the spiritual. Jesus said, “Not every one that saith unto Me, Lord, Lord, shall enter into the kingdom of heaven; but he that doeth the will of My Father, which is in heaven” (Matthew 7:21). Many people lead double lives. They are counterfeits.
Know them by their motive.
And through covetousness shall they with feigned words make merchandise of you…. 2 Peter 2:3
What is the false teacher’s motive? They want to use and manipulate you. Why? Because they themselves are covetous. [Trump?]
For their own motivation and wicked heart, Peter says, they make merchandise of the Gospel. You’ve perhaps seen some of these hucksters on TV who merchandise the Gospel of Christ. In my estimation, the hottest part of hell is reserved for these plastic preachers who, for whatever reason, merchandise God’s people. With great swelling words they exploit the ignorant. They are prophets, spelled “P-R-O-F-I-T-S.”
Lastly, in verses 4-5 Peter gets very serious. He says God will surely judge and not spare them.
Don’t get caught up in counterfeit Christianity. God will not spare sin or the sinner, for He did not spare His only begotten Son, the Lord Jesus, so that you and I might have eternal life.
The world is full of counterfeits. Every counterfeit dollar is a tribute to the worth of the real — or men wouldn’t be printing counterfeits! And every counterfeit Christian is a tribute to the value of salvation. Jesus is real. Salvation is real. And you can make sure you have the real thing if you repent of your sin and trust Him. [Spurn the Antichrist, Spurn Trump]
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@francismarion6400 Donald Trump advocacy
In 2015, Duke endorsed then presidential nominee Donald Trump. Duke later clarified in an interview with The Daily Beast in August 2015 that while he viewed Trump as "perfect in almost all regards", he did not Trump's support for Israel. Duke claimed that "Trump has made it very clear that he's 1,000 percent dedicated to Israel, so how much is left over for America?" In December 2015, Duke said Donald Trump speaks more radically than he does, advising that Trump's radical speech is both a positive and a negative.
In February 2016, Duke urged his listeners to vote Trump, saying that voting for anyone besides Donald Trump "is really treason to your heritage". Trump, Duke believed, was "by far the best candidate".[102][103] When asked whether he renounced Duke's support, Trump responded "I don’t know anything about David Duke. Okay?...I know nothing about white supremacists. And so you’re asking me a question that I’m supposed to be talking about people that I know nothing about."[104]
For the 2020 presidential election, Duke again expressed his preference for Donald Trump over Joe Biden, which was widely interpreted as an endorsement. Duke urged President Trump to replace his vice president Mike Pence with talk show host Tucker Carlson claiming such a ticket was the only way to "stop the commie Bolsheviks".
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@davidslone9776 Dear David, let us deal with your questions/statements/rants one at a time:
1. How was it possible for Russian Agents to infiltrate the NRA and get so close to so many NRA Members?
Source: Just Google anything about Maria Valeryevna Butina
2. Why is the NRA so corrupt?
Source: Just Google NRA Corruption.
3. Vietnam Vet. Good for you. I served from 1975 forwards.However, I would pit my knowledge of anything Vietnam War, Russian, Laos, Cambodia, and pre Indochina knowledge against whatever you might have experienced.
4. What has Biden done? First off he restored our Constitutional Democracy from all the damage Treasonous Trump did. with his Failed Coup and Violent Attack. Then there is the infrastructure bill, the lowered drug costs, voting protections, restoring American Pride, resorting NATO, restoring World Faith in America, the CIPS Bill, standing up to Putin in Ukraine, pulling out of the Afghan endless War, etc.
What was Treasonous Trump’s accomplishments? A Trillion Dollar Tax Cut for the Super Rich and Mega Corporations (The Global Elite), a Failed Electors Coup, and an Attack on the Capital. Please let me know if I left anything out.
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Treasonous Trump Lies Again About Costs of Visiting Mara Logo. Secret Service Pays Millions to TT.
President Trump’s company charges the Secret Service for the rooms agents use while protecting him at his luxury properties — billing U.S. taxpayers at $650 per night, according to federal records and people who have seen receipts.
New documents obtained under the Freedom of Information Act reveal the rates the Secret Service paid at President Trump's priorities. (Zach Purser Brown/The Washington Post)
And at the Trump National Golf Club Bedminster, the Secret Service was charged $17,000 a month to use a three-bedroom cottage on the property, an unusually high rent for homes in that area, according to receipts from 2017. Trump’s company billed the government even for days when Trump wasn’t there.
The full extent of the Secret Service’s payments to Trump’s company is not known as Steven Mnuchin, Secretary of The Treasury refuses to release information even though the Secret Service is required to report payments over $10,000.
The records show more than $471,000,00 in payments from taxpayers to Trump’s companies. But — because these records cover only a fraction of Trump’s travel during a fraction of his term — the actual total is likely to be higher. It appears that TT is using tax payer money to prop up his failing properties. “We provide the rooms at cost and could make far more money renting them to members or guests,” Trump Organization Executive Vice President Eric Trump said in a statement: “If he stays at one of his places, the government actually . . . saves a fortune because, if they were to go to a hotel across the street, they’d be charging them $500 a night, whereas, you know we charge them, like 50 bucks,” Eric Trump said. That statement appears to be a lie.
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David Hamblin
Travel restrictions were included in the WHO interim protocol: rapid operations to contain the initial emergence of pandemic influenza that was published in 2007 by the World Health Organization (WHO).1 However, as they would hamper global travel and trade, such restrictions are not recommended by WHO once the global spread of pandemic influenza is established.2,3
Current reported infections and deaths in various countries:
CasesDeaths
USA 9,272 cases, 141 Deaths
China 81,155 cases, 3,249 deaths
Italy 35,713 cases, 2,978 deaths
Spain 15,0146 cases, 640 deaths
Germany 13,093 cases, 31 deaths
France 9,058 cases, 243 deaths
Britain 2,644 cases, 104 deaths.
So as you can see your post does not hold up to science. Once a pandemic is out of the box it will find victims world wide.
Let me share with you my personal experience. Last week I came down with a bad cold. Unfortunately, the symptoms of the coronavirus are the same as all other common seasonal afflictions. The sad part is that no tests were available - zero. So I manned up, self isolated, and 10 days later feel human again. How many people, just like me, may or may not have this Plague? Having read many books on Plagues and Pandemics I say that for every reported case there are 10 unreported cases.
By the way the disbandment of the Pandemic Team is true. Treasonous Trump won’t say why it was disbanded but I suspect it was disbanded because it was formed under Obama. Right or wrong TT feels the need to unwind anything Obama.
But in summary, your rant gave me a smile, and for that I thank you. Read often, read deep, and read broadly, and no one will ever mistake you for a fool.
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Question: "What does the Bible say about a person who is a sociopath / psychopath?"
Answer: The terms sociopath and psychopath do not appear in the Bible. However, the Bible does mention behaviors that are characteristic of sociopathic and psychopathic.
A sociopath/psychopath is identified as one who is characterized by extreme self-centeredness and immaturity, shallow emotions, a lack of empathy and remorse, low tolerance for stress, cold-heartedness, superficial charm, irresponsibility, impulsivity, criminality, a parasitic lifestyle and a desire to manipulate others. A psychopath is one who compulsively performs criminally selfish acts with no apparent conscience or concern about the welfare of his victims.
The above describes Trump to a T. Is Trump the Antichrist? Hard to say but I would not put my soul at risk by following him.
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TRUMP CLAIMS HEALTH-CARE PLAN READY
But None of his advisors know what he is talking about.
The Plan is so secret that the people responsible for the plan don’t even know they’re involved. The GOP has promised (and failed) to repeal and replace Obamacare for more than a decade. Trump began claiming he had a replacement plan back in 2015. He announced his plan would swap out the Affordable Care Act for “something terrific,” details TBD.
Over subsequent months and years, Trump boasted about the benefits of his plan. It would be cheaper, more generous, and better than Obamacare. It would be “so easy,” even though “nobody knew health care could be so complicated.” It would “take care of everybody”. This plan was always only “two weeks” away — just like proof wiretapping, the “amazing infrastructure plan”, and Melania Trump’s immigration history.
Finally, five years later, an announcement came this week: it exists, its alive! “I have it all ready,” Trump said at a town hall Tuesday, “and it’s a much better plan for you, and it’s a much better plan.”
Alas, Trump remains unable to share this “much better plan” with the public and no one in his administration knows anything about the “plan”.
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@g.p.b. RIGHTS RETAINED BY THE PEOPLE
The Federalists contended that a bill of rights was unnecessary. They responded to those opposing ratification of the Constitution because of the lack of a declaration of fundamental rights by arguing that, inasmuch as it would be impossible to list all rights, it would be dangerous to list some and thereby lend support to the argument that government was unrestrained as to those rights not listed.1 Madison adverted to this argument in presenting his proposed amendments to the House of Representatives. “It has been objected also against a bill of rights, that, by enumerating particular exceptions to the grant of power, it would disparage those rights which were not placed in that enumeration; and it might follow by implication, that those rights which were not singled out, were intended to be assigned into the hands of the General Government, and were consequently insecure. This is one of the most plausible arguments I have ever heard against the admission of a bill of rights into this system; but, I conceive, that it may be guarded against. I have attempted it, as gentlemen may see by turning to the last clause of the fourth resolution.”
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@AndrewPriester FULL QUOTE.
Steve Doocy - Hot Mic June 15, 2018
Doocy: Will Kim Jong Un Visit the White House
DJT: “It could happen. Hey he’s the head of his country, and I mean the strong head. When he speaks his people sit straight up at attention, I want my people to do the same.
How many young guys [Kim Jong Un] — he was, like, 26 or 25 when his father died — take over these tough generals, and all of a sudden ... he goes in, he takes over, and he's the boss. It's incredible. He wiped out the uncle, he wiped out this one, that one. I mean, this guy is incredibly successful like me and doesn't play games.” THE FULL QUOTE IS EVEN MORE DAMAGING THAN THE PARTIAL. ✌️
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@oldmanfromscenetwentyfour8164
“I've been involved in the two greatest scams in American history, the Russian hoax and now they are trying to steal an election from us.”
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President Trump frequently said the special counsel's investigation was a witch hunt or a hoax. But that's wrong. Special counsel Robert Mueller revealed significant criminal activity by some of Trump's campaign advisers and by Russian individuals and entities. Mueller concluded Russian government actors successfully hacked into computers and obtained emails from persons associated with the Clinton campaign and Democratic Party organizations, and then publicly disseminated those materials through various intermediaries, including WikiLeaks, to sow discord in the United States, hurt Clinton and help Trump. “Although the investigation established that the Russian government perceived it would benefit from a Trump presidency and worked to secure that outcome, and that the Campaign expected it would benefit electorally from information stolen and released through Russian efforts, the investigation did not establish that members of the Trump Campaign conspired or coordinated with the Russian government in its election interference activities," the special counsel's report says. Mueller declined to reach a decision on whether to bring charges against Trump for obstructing justice. The special counsel also did not make an explicit recommendation to Congress on impeachment. But Mueller spent nearly half of the report laying out a sustained effort by Trump to derail the investigation, including an effort by the president to have Mueller removed. “If we had confidence after a thorough investigation of the facts that the President clearly did not commit obstruction of justice, we would so state,” the report says. “Based on the facts and the applicable legal standards, however, we are unable to reach that judgment. The evidence we obtained about the President’s actions and intent presents difficult issues that prevent us from conclusively determining that no criminal conduct occurred. Accordingly, while this report does not conclude that the President committed a crime, it also does not exonerate him.” Moreover, a bipartisan Senate Intelligence report, issued in 2020 by the GOP-controlled Senate, called an associate of former Trump campaign chairman Paul Manafort a “Russian intelligence officer” and said the increasing contact between the two of them during the 2016 election constituted a "grave counterintelligence threat."
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@oldmanfromscenetwentyfour8164 JAN 01 2021
“You even see it by rally size, frankly. We'd be getting 25-30,000 people a rally, and the competition would get less than 100 people. And it never made sense.”
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Trump has long been obsessed over the size of the crowds at his rallies. In the final days of the election campaign, Trump repeatedly hyped the number of people at his rallies — he rarely attracted more than 25,000 people — and often remarked that his crowds were bigger than any previous American or even world figure. (Not so.) He also knocked Biden for having small crowds, even though the Biden campaign was purposely trying to model good behavior during the pandemic. In these comments, Trump echoes something he said often in his final rallies — that he could not possibly lose because of the crowds he attracted. He constantly inflated the size of the “tractor rallies” and “boat rallies” on his behalf. But it’s absurd to believe crowd sizes translate into votes. Many losing presidential campaigns — such as George McGovern’s in 1972 — attracted huge crowds in the last days of the campaign.“The crowds at campaign events were large and enthusiastic,” recalled McGovern in a 2012 article. “I didn't pay undue attention to the polls, and I wasn't overly concerned that there would be no face-to-face debates with Nixon. But when election night came and the early returns revealed one of the most lopsided victories in U.S. history, I was genuinely stunned.” (McGovern lost 49 states to Richard M. Nixon.)
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@oldmanfromscenetwentyfour8164 AN 01 2021
“People that went to vote and they were told they can't vote because they've already been voted for. And it’s a very sad thing. They walked out complaining. But the number’s large. … You also have a substantial numbers of people, thousands and thousands, who went to the voting place on November 3, were told they couldn't vote, were told they couldn't vote because a ballot had been put on their name. And you know that’s very, very, very, very sad.”
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This has been a persistent claim by the Trump campaign in various states — that Trump supporters went to vote, only to find their ballot had already been cast (presumably by Democratic operatives) and thus they were given a provisional ballot. But this is another fairy tale. No evidence has ever emerged to prove this. Trump’s chief lawyer, former New York mayor Rudolph W. Giuliani, for instance suggested that 17,000 provisional ballots were cast in Pittsburgh because Democrats had already cast fraudulent ballots on behalf of someone who unexpectedly turned up to vote. But there is no evidence that is the case; instead, there were a variety of issues, such as a missing signature on a form, that cause a provisional ballot to be used. And in Georgia, “there have no reports of anyone being turned away on Election Day,” Georgia secretary of state Brad Raffensperger told CBS Evening News, noting the situation described by Trump surely would have been reported. (Obviously, the problem can exist and appears to result from clerical errors. There is no evidence it occurs in great numbers, is intentional, or disadvantages one party more than then the other.)
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@oldmanfromscenetwentyfour8164 JAN 01 2021
“There were no Republican poll watchers. Actually, there were no Democrat poll watchers, I guess they were them. But there were no Democrats, either, and there was no law enforcement. Late in the morning, early in the morning, they went to the table with the black robe and the black shield, and they pulled out the votes. Those votes were put there a number of hours before — the table was put there — I think it was, Brad, you would know, it was probably eight hours or seven hours before, and then it was stuffed with votes. They weren't in an official voter box; they were in what looked to be suitcases or trunks, suitcases, but they weren't in voter boxes.”
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Trump is referring to a misleadingly-edited video promoted by the Trump campaign, which he called “proof” of Georgia poll workers illegally stuffing and counting ballots at the State Farm Arena on Election Day. (That’s where absentee and military ballots were counted in the state.) A Trump lawyer claimed the video shows poll workers actively stuffing ballots from “suitcases” hidden under a table covered by a black cloth. (Sometimes Trump references a supposed water main break used to clear the room of poll watchers, a key focus of right-wing conspiracy theory websites. Officials have explained that a urinal had created a “little slow leak” in the arena.) The Fact Checker investigated and the surveillance video, which comprises four security camera feeds — shows no irregularities, illegal behavior or evidence of malfeasance on behalf of poll workers. The supposed “suitcases” have been repeatedly identified by election officials as the standard boxes used in Fulton County to transport and store ballots. The video also fails to show any act of hiding or obscuring any ballots or election materials. Additionally, the video shown doesn’t prove the Trump campaign’s assertion that GOP monitors were told to leave the counting room in order for poll workers to engage in illegal ballot counting. Georgia voting official Gabriel Sterling said no formal announcement to clear the room was ever made. Sterling added that the full surveillance feed shows workers handling ballots that were stored and processed in full view of the news media and partisan monitors earlier in the evening. “This is what’s really frustrating: The president’s legal team had the entire tape,” Sterling said. “They watched the entire tape. They intentionally misled the State Senate, the voters and the people of the United States about this.” Sterling's office posted a fact check with excerpts from the entire tape.
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@oldmanfromscenetwentyfour8164 JAN 05 2021
“Remember, I used to say in the old days, don't go in Iraq, but if you go and keep the oil, we didn't keep the oil.”
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This is a signature Trump lie. We searched high and low — as did other reporters — and there is no evidence Trump was an opponent of the March 2003 invasion of Iraq, let alone a vocal one. In fact, he offered lukewarm support. When Howard Stern asked if he supported invading Iraq, Trump replied, “Yeah, I guess so. You know, I wish the first time it was done correctly.” In another interview on Fox News, two months before the invasion, he said Bush had to make a decision: “Either you attack or you don't attack.” Shortly after the invasion, he again told Fox News: “It looks like a tremendous success from a military standpoint.” Not until August 2004, in an interview with Esquire, did Trump publicly express opposition to the war. By then — 17 months after the invasion — many Americans had turned against the war, making Trump’s position not particularly unique. (We include this claim when Trump attacks Biden for supporting an invasion of Iraq since he never acknowledges his own support.)
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@PunkShockRock
Fox News is owned by the Murdoch family via a family trust with 39% interest; Rupert Murdoch is chairman, while his son Lachlan Murdoch is executive chairman and CEO. Fox Corp. deals primarily in the television broadcast, news, and sports broadcasting industries. They include the Fox Broadcasting Company, Fox Television Stations, Fox News, Fox Business, the national operations of Fox Sports, and others. Its sister company under Murdoch's control, the present-day News Corp, holds his print interests and other media assets.
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Trump and Epstein shared “girls” at parties. They were the best of friends until a business deal went south and Trump ran for president. See below:
It was supposed to be an exclusive party at Mar-a-Lago, Donald J. Trump’s members-only club in Palm Beach, Fla. But other than the two dozen or so women flown in to provide the entertainment, the only guests were Mr. Trump and Jeffrey Epstein.
“I arranged to have some contestants fly in,” Mr. Houraney recalled in an interview on Monday. “At the very first party, I said, ‘Who’s coming tonight? I have 28 girls coming.’ It was him and Epstein.”
Mr. Houraney, who had just partnered with Mr. Trump to host events at his casinos, said he was surprised. “I said, ‘Donald, this is supposed to be a party with V.I.P.s. You’re telling me it’s you and Epstein?’”
“I’ve known Jeff for 15 years. Terrific guy,” Mr. Trump told New York magazine in 2002. “He’s a lot of fun to be with. It is even said that he likes beautiful women as much as I do, and many of them are on the younger side.”
“I said, ‘Look, Donald, I know Jeff really well, I can’t have him going after younger girls,’” Mr. Houraney remembers. “He said, ‘Look I’m putting my name on this. I wouldn’t put my name on it and have a scandal.’”
Mr. Houraney said he “pretty much had to ban Jeff from my events — Trump didn’t care about that.”
Shortly before the 2016 presidential election, Mr. Houraney accused Mr. Trump himself of inappropriate behavior toward his girlfriend and business partner, Jill Harth, during their business dealings.
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Trump Lies, Again, and Again, and Again...
“Saudi Arabia is paying for 100 percent of the cost, including the cost of our soldiers. The negotiation took a very short time — like, maybe, about 35 seconds.”
The Truth:
What caught our attention is that the president claims that Saudi Arabia will pay all of the costs — “100 percent” — of the deployment, including “the cost of our soldiers.” Some critics have charged that Trump is turning U.S. troops into mercenaries, available to the highest bidder. Since the president has a long history of inflating what he has supposedly negotiated, we thought we would investigate.
Notice that Trump claims he negotiated this deal in a “very short time — like, maybe, about 35 seconds.” In previous White Houses we have covered, such a stunning act of negotiation would be accompanied by readouts by presidential aides, eager to explain how such a coup came about.
But, in this case, just crickets from the White House, except for the bragging by the president himself. White House officials would not explain what Trump meant.
So, we checked with the Pentagon for more details on the supposed payment arrangement. Officials at the Defense Department deflected our inquiry, telling us to contact the State Department.
Hmmm, experience has taught us that this is a sign that any such deal is still under negotiation. Otherwise, the Pentagon would have been happy to discuss it.
Sure enough, we ended up with a carefully crafted statement from State that certainly reinforced that impression.
The core of the statement, attributed to a State Department spokesman, said: “While we will not comment on specific bilateral defense agreements, more broadly the United States encourages burden-sharing among partners in support of shared security interests, to include defense of the Arabian Gulf.”
Notice the “encourages burden-sharing” language. That certainly sounds like an aspiration, not a negotiated outcome. And the State Department won’t comment on a “specific bilateral defense agreement” even though the president is talking about it? That doesn’t make much sense.
We checked with the relevant committees in the House and the Senate — Defense, Foreign Affairs and Appropriations — and none could report an understanding of the president’s claim. The Saudi Embassy did not respond with an explanation, either.
When NBC News reported in July that U.S. troops were being dispatched to Prince Sultan Air Base, it quoted unnamed U.S. officials as saying that “Saudi Arabia has already agreed to pay some of the costs associated with having U.S. personnel and assets there.”
“Some” is clearly much less than 100 percent.
Neither the Pentagon nor the State Department would comment on that language, each telling The Fact Checker to discuss it with the other agency.
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@ Between 2021 and 2023, hourly wage growth was strongest at the bottom of the wage distribution. The 10th-percentile real hourly wage grew 13.2% over the four-year period. To be clear, these are real (inflation-adjusted) wage changes. Overall inflation grew nearly 20%, or about 4.5% annually, between 2021 and 2023. Even with this historically fast inflation, particularly in the immediate aftermath of the pandemic recession, low-end wages grew substantially faster than price growth. Nominal wages (i.e., not inflation-adjusted) rose by roughly 34% cumulatively since 2021.
Across the wage distribution, we see the pace of wage growth declining for each successive wage group until the 90th percentile. Compared with the 13.2% wage growth at the bottom, growth was less than half as fast for lower-middle-wage workers (5.0%) and less than one-third as fast for middle-wage workers (3.0%) between 2019 and 2023. Upper-middle wages grew 2.0% over the four-year period, while the 90th-percentile wage grew 4.4%.
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@nicwelch Did you know that you are a medical moron? First off you have misused vector. A vector is a mathematical term or a bitting insect that transmits a disease. Second off, the amount of research showing that planes are a primary spreader of diseases is voluminous. Here is but 1 Abstract of several:
Air transportation is a major vehicle for the rapid spread and dissemination of communicable diseases, and there have been a number of reported outbreaks of serious airborne diseases aboard commercial flights including tuberculosis, severe acute respiratory syndrome, influenza, smallpox, and measles, to name a few. In 2014 alone, over 3.3 billion passengers (a number equivalent to 42% of the world population) and 50 million metric tons of cargo traveled by air from 41,000 airports and 50,000 routes worldwide, and significant growth is anticipated, with passenger numbers expected to reach 5.9 billion by 2030. Given the increasing numbers of travelers, the risk of infectious disease transmission during air travel is a significant concern, and this chapter focuses on the current knowledge about transmission of infectious diseases in the context of both transmissions within the aircraft passenger cabin and commercial aircraft serving as vehicles of worldwide infection spread.
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“No simple Form of Government, can possibly secure Men against the Violences of Power. Simple Monarchy will soon mould itself into Despotism, Aristocracy will soon commence an Oligarchy, and Democracy, will soon degenerate into an Anarchy, such an Anarchy that every Man will do what is right in his own Eyes, and no Mans life or Property or Reputation or Liberty will be secure and every one of these will soon mould itself into a system of subordination of all the moral Virtues, and Intellectual Abilities, all the Powers of Wealth, Beauty, Wit, and Science, to the wanton Pleasures, the capricious Will, and the execrable Cruelty of one or a very few.”
~ John Adams Cautions against Trumpian Neo Nazism.
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John Adams (October 30, 1735[a] – July 4, 1826) was an American statesman, attorney, diplomat, writer, and Founding Father who was the second president of the United States, serving from 1797 to 1801. Before his presidency, he was a leader of the American Revolution that achieved independence from Great Britain, and he served as the first vice president of the United States from 1789 to 1797. Adams was a dedicated diarist and regularly corresponded with many important figures in early American history, including his wife and adviser Abigail Adams and Thomas Jefferson.
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thebes1 (Now Lie to me and tell me Barr is not controlled by Treasonous Trump)
Continued from previous post.
“There was no evidence of Trump campaign collusion with the Russian government’s hacking,” Barr said, later adding, “There was, in fact, no collusion.”
But the very beginning of Mueller’s report makes it clear the special counsel did not evaluate whether there was collusion, because “collusion” is not a federal crime or a commonly used legal term.
Instead, the report evaluates whether there was “conspiracy” — a criminal act — or “coordination,” which it defined as an agreement between the Trump campaign and Russia on Russian interference in the elections. (The report did state that the investigation did not establish coordination.)
The passage reads:
In evaluating whether evidence about collective action of multiple individuals constituted a crime, we applied the framework of conspiracy law, not the concept of “collusion.” In so doing, the Office recognized that the word “collud[e]” was used in communications with the Acting Attorney General confirming certain aspects of the investigation’s scope and that the term has frequently been invoked in public reporting about the investigation. But collusion is not a specific offense or theory of liability found in the United States Code, nor is it a term of art in federal criminal law. For those reasons, the Office’s focus in analyzing questions of joint criminal liability was on conspiracy as defined in federal law.
In another instance, Barr’s language on obstruction doesn’t fully capture Mueller’s determination on the issue. Mueller wrote: “If we had confidence after a thorough investigation of the facts that the President clearly did not commit obstruction of justice, we would so state. Based on the facts and the applicable legal standards, however, we are unable to reach that judgment.”
Barr told the public that Mueller was neutral on the question: “The Special Counsel therefore did not draw a conclusion — one way or the other — as to whether the examined conduct constituted obstruction.”
Barr also shaded Trump’s cooperation in the investigation in a more favorable light than Mueller. “The White House fully cooperated with the special counsel’s investigation,” Barr said Thursday, “providing unfettered access to campaign and White House documents, directing senior aides to testify freely and asserting no privilege claims. At the same time the president took no act that, in fact, deprived the special counsel of the documents and witnesses necessary to complete his investigation.”
But Mueller points out that Trump himself did not cooperate. “We also sought a voluntary interview with the President. After more discussion, the President declined to be interviewed.”
And the report implicated Trump in pressuring a witness, Michael Flynn, Trump’s former national security adviser. “When Flynn’s counsel reiterated that Flynn could no longer share information pursuant to a joint defense agreement, the President’s personal counsel said he would make sure that the President knew that Flynn’s actions reflected ‘hostility’ towards the President.”
Barr’s summaries of Mueller’s findings, it turns out, didn’t just tighten up the findings. They misrepresented key points.
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Trump Aide Has Mental Melt Down On Facebook.
Michael R. Caputo told his audience that left-wing hit squads were being trained for insurrection and accused C.D.C. scientists of “sedition.” He complained that he was under siege by the news media, feeling paranoid, and that his “mental health was failing.” He accused the CDC of harboring a “secret resistance unit” determined to undermine President Trump.
Mr. Caputo, who lead efforts to warp C.D.C. weekly bulletins to fit Mr. Trump’s pandemic narrative, suggested that he personally could be in danger from opponents of the administration. “If you carry guns, buy ammunition, ladies and gentlemen, because it’s going to be hard to get,” he urged his followers. “I don’t like being alone in Washington,” Mr. Caputo said, describing “shadows on the ceiling in my apartment, there alone, shadows are so long.” He also said the mounting number of Covid-19 deaths was taking a toll on him, telling his viewers, “You are not waking up every morning and talking about dead Americans. But you should attend Trump rallies and wear a mask”.
SOUNDS LIKE TRUMP ONLY HIRES THE BEST PEOPLE 🤪🤪🤪🤪
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@georgehenderson7783
THE CRAZIES IN THE GOP
A clear indication that Marjorie Taylor Greene was more than a dabbler in QAnon was her 2018 endorsement of “Frazzledrip,” one of the most grotesque tendrils of the movement’s mythology. You “have to go down a number of rabbit holes to get that far,” said Mike Rothschild, whose book about QAnon.
The lurid fantasy of Frazzledrip refers to an imaginary video said to show Hillary Clinton and her former aide, Huma Abedin, assaulting a young girl, and drinking her blood. It holds that several cops saw the video, and Clinton had them killed.
Greene posted a picture of Donald Trump superimposed with the mother of the slain N.Y.P.D. officer Miosotis Familia on Facebook, one of her Frazzledrip fans wrote, “This was another Hillary hit.” Greene replied, “Yes it is, I post things sometimes to see who knows things. Most the time people don’t. I’m glad to see your comment.”
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@100percentSNAFU
THE CRAZIES IN THE GOP
A clear indication that Marjorie Taylor Greene was more than a dabbler in QAnon was her 2018 endorsement of “Frazzledrip,” one of the most grotesque tendrils of the movement’s mythology. You “have to go down a number of rabbit holes to get that far,” said Mike Rothschild, whose book about QAnon.
The lurid fantasy of Frazzledrip refers to an imaginary video said to show Hillary Clinton and her former aide, Huma Abedin, assaulting a young girl, and drinking her blood. It holds that several cops saw the video, and Clinton had them killed.
Greene posted a picture of Donald Trump superimposed with the mother of the slain N.Y.P.D. officer Miosotis Familia on Facebook, one of her Frazzledrip fans wrote, “This was another Hillary hit.” Greene replied, “Yes it is, I post things sometimes to see who knows things. Most the time people don’t. I’m glad to see your comment.”
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@myname9337 Thank you for unwittingly making a telling point. Fascism/Nazism is a Far Right Affliction, always has been and always will be. Even the most cursory of research on any reliable historical site, or knowledge of history, would have revealed this bit of Knowledge to you. Let me help you with the text book definition of Neo Nazism/Nazism: A Far Right ideology that embraces Authoritarianism, Racism, Xenophobia, Homophobia, Anti Semitism, The Big Lie(s) große Lüge, Cult of Person, and The Stab In The Back Myth Dolchstoßlegende. Replace the myth with the “Stolen Election” and you have Trumpism. But you will come back and say: but Socialism is in the name! And I will respond that North Korea’s Official Name is The Democratic Peoples Republic of Korea and many other examples of miss named groups, countries, and ideologies. The story of how the National Socialist German Workers' Party or Nationalsozialistische Deutsche Arbeiterpartei Name came about is a fascinating story. In summary knowing who and what you are is half the battle, making a change for the good is the hard part. ✌️
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Trump’s budget is a tremendous fraud.
Remember when he said he would eliminate the federal debt, or at least halve it, during his presidency? His new budget adds another $3.4 trillion by 2024 to the debt on top of the $3 trillion Trump has already added.
Remember when he repeatedly promised not to “touch” Social Security and Medicare? His budget calls for removing $550 billion dollars of funding from the Medicare program, including $135 billion from Medicare prescription drugs, and tens of billions from the Social Security program.
Remember when he promised not to touch Medicaid? Now he wants to cut it by $920 billion.
Remember when he was going to give Americans health care “much better” than Obamacare. But he has proposed no such thing and now his budget calls for cutting spending on the program by $844 billion.
Remember when he vowed that his tax cuts would grow the economy by 4 percent, 5 percent or even 6 percent? Last year it grew at 2.3 percent, and his new budget, even with the rosiest of assumptions, projects 2.8 percent for this year - in other words little changed from Obama’s growth rates. Yet the budget would also devote another $1.4 trillion to extending those tax cuts, primarily for the rich.
Treasonous Trump, Con Man Extraordinaire.
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Trump touts Putin’s speaking out against his impeachment
A souvenir shop in Moscow displays Matryoshka dolls featuring President Trump and Russian President Vladimir Putin. (Misha Friedman/AFP/Getty Images)
By Colby Itkowitz and Isabelle Khurshudyan
December 21 at 10:31 AM MT
Late Friday night, minutes before deplaning in Florida for the holidays, President Trump retweeted a link to an article in which Russian President Vladimir Putin defended him against impeachment.
“A total Witch Hunt!” the president tweeted at 10:30 p.m., as he shared a 36-hour-old Associated Press tweet that read: “BREAKING: Russian President Vladimir Putin says U.S. President Donald Trump’s impeachment is far-fetched and predicts the U.S. Senate will reject it.”
Trump’s boasting of Putin’s support comes a day after The Washington Post reported that White House advisers feared Trump’s belief that Ukraine, not Russia, was responsible for interfering with the 2016 election was spurred by conversations Trump had with Putin.
[[Former White House officials say they feared Putin influenced the president’s views on Ukraine and 2016 campaign]]
Trump’s critics responded to the tweet, expressing exasperation more than incredulity.
“At the end of the day, it’s always Putin First,” wrote conservative commentator and “Never Trumper” Bill Kristol.
Russian President Vladimir Putin accused the U.S. House of Representatives Dec. 19 of having "invented" a story to "revise" history and impeach President Trump. (Reuters)
“Trump wants us to know that Putin has his back. We know,” tweeted Eric Columbus, a former Justice Department appointee in the Obama administration.
“Putin is a dictator who jails opponents, kills opponents, invades neighbors, interferes in democracies’ elections, etc. I don’t think an American president should be buddying with him. I wonder if Trump defenders are ever (secretly) embarrassed by this stuff. I hope so,” wrote Jay Nordlinger, a senior editor at the right-leaning National Review.
At his annual end-of-the-year news conference on Thursday, Putin was asked about Trump’s impeachment. He called the charges “completely fabricated reasons.”
That evening, Russian state media, which follows Putin’s lead, also threw its support behind Trump.
Donald Trump is the third president in U.S. history to face a Senate trial.
Popular Kremlin propagandist Vladimir Soloviev gave an impassioned defense of Trump on his evening show, raising his voice several times in a discussion with Atlantic Council expert Ariel Cohen.
“I can’t understand for what reason [Democrats] don’t like Trump,” Soloviev said.
Days earlier, on his two-hour Sunday night program, anchor Dmitry Kiselyov opined about how Hollywood has joined the Democrats in being against Trump, portraying him as “always on the dark side.”
And the state-sponsored Rossiya-1 news channel, which airs Soloviev’s show, recently broadcast segments of Rudolph W. Giuliani’s interview with right-wing channel One America News, in which the president’s personal attorney promoted debunked conspiracy theories about Ukrainian interference in the 2016 U.S. presidential election.
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@gazac48
So, Treasonous Trump NEVER ATTENDED INTELLIGENCE MEETINGS, meaning he was grossly ignorant of what was going on in the World. “Putin told it wasn’t Russia, why would it be Russia?” OR
Treasonous Trump doesn’t even know who is invading Ukraine:
"Well, I think the whole thing, again, would have never happened. It shouldn't happen. And it's a very sad thing," Trump said. "But you know what is also very dangerous is, you told me about the amphibious attack by Americans, because you and everyone else shouldn't know about it. They should do that secretly, not being doing that through the great Laura Ingraham. They should be doing that secretly. Nobody should know that, Laura."
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Fact: Trump shared girls with Jeffery Epstein his close friend of 15 years.
WASHINGTON — It was supposed to be an exclusive party at Mar-a-Lago, Donald J. Trump’s members-only club in Palm Beach, Fla. But other than the two dozen or so women flown in to provide the entertainment, the only guests were Mr. Trump and Jeffrey Epstein.
The year was 1992 and the event was a “calendar girl” competition, something that George Houraney, a Florida-based businessman who ran American Dream Enterprise, had organized at Mr. Trump’s request.
“I arranged to have some contestants fly in,” Mr. Houraney recalled in an interview on Monday. “At the very first party, I said, ‘Who’s coming tonight? I have 28 girls coming.’ It was him and Epstein.”
Mr. Houraney, who had just partnered with Mr. Trump to host events at his casinos, said he was surprised. “I said, ‘Donald, this is supposed to be a party with V.I.P.s. You’re telling me it’s you and Epstein?’”
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FEDERAL JUDGES CALL EMERGENCY MEETING TO DEAL WITH BARR’s & TRUMP’s UNPRECEDENTED INTERVENTION IN STONE CASE.
The head of the Federal Judges Association is taking the extraordinary step of calling an emergency meeting to address the intervention in politically sensitive cases by President Trump and Attorney General William P. Barr.
U.S. District Judge Cynthia M. Rufe, the Philadelphia-based judge who heads the voluntary association of around 1,100 life-term federal judges, said the issue “could not wait.”
On Sunday, more than 1,100 former Justice Department employees released a public letter calling on Barr to resign over the Stone case. See Article “More than 1,100 ex-Justice Department officials call for Barr’s resignation”
The action follows a week of turmoil that included the president tweeting his outrage over the length of sentence recommended by career federal prosecutors for his friend Roger Stone and the decision by Barr to withdraw that recommendation. To make matters worse, Trump singled out the judge in the Stone case, Amy Berman Jackson of the U.S. District Court in Washington, for personal attacks, accusing her of bias and spreading a falsehood about her record.
“There are plenty of issues that we are concerned about,” Rufe said to USA Today. “We’ll talk all this through.”
Trump began disparaging federal judges who have ruled against his interests before he took office, starting with U.S. District Judge Gonzalo P. Curiel. After Curiel ruled against Trump in 2016 in a pair of lawsuits detailing predatory marketing practices at Trump University in San Diego, Trump described him as “a hater of Donald Trump,” adding that he believed the Indiana-born judge was “Mexican.”
President Trump has a history of denouncing judges over rulings that have negatively affected him personally as well as his administration's policies. Faced with more than 100 adverse rulings in the federal courts, Trump has continued verbal attacks on judges.
THIS IS TREASONOUS TRUMP’s IDEA OF MAGA, A BANANA REPUBLIC WITH HIM AS A PETTY DICTATOR LIKE CHAVEZ IN VENEZUELA.
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What is happening is not a coup, or even an attempt at a coup but a ham-handed effort to discredit the election outcome by any crackpot method available to sooth Trump’s ego. Scholars of real coups in other countries say that Trump has few of the ingredients necessary to pull off a coup — the international community despises him, the nation’s main media is still independent, an the armed forces think Trump is a joke. However, Trump is set to successfully pursue a slow-motion “con game,” pleading for donations by playing his supporters. He’s also crafting a “Stab in the Back” myth in hopes of returning to the WH in 2024.There is a fundamental difference between between a coup and a con. A coup is an illegitimate power grab by force. A con is a mostly criminal, unethical, or manipulative act. A con can become a coup if the con is successful — if enough people buy into the con then a Coup has occurred.
Though Trump will fail in his coup - this time - the fact that his fellow Republicans tacitly approved of his methods, or looked the other way dramatically weakens our Democratic Institutions. As Trump continues to spew crazy conspiracies, half truths, and outright lies more and more Republican voters will drift into delusion and violence.
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@improvingamericashomes6530 Trump Failure’s: U.S. Presidency, Trump Airlines, Trump Bottled Water, Trump Board Game, Trump Mortgage, Trump Travel, Trump Steaks, Trump Vodka, Trump Telephone, Trump Tower Tampa, Trump Tower Chicago,Trump University, Trump Fragrance, Trump Mattresses, Trump Casino, Trump Castle & Marina, Trump Plaza Hotel, Trump “Worlds Fair”, Trump Coachella 29 - removed for incompetence..
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@adonyisrael1724 Trump Failure’s: U.S. Presidency, Trump Airlines, Trump Bottled Water, Trump Board Game, Trump Mortgage, Trump Travel, Trump Steaks, Trump Vodka, Trump Telephone, Trump Tower Tampa, Trump Tower Chicago,Trump University, Trump Fragrance, Trump Mattresses, Trump Casino, Trump Castle & Marina, Trump Plaza Hotel, Trump “Worlds Fair”, Trump Coachella 29 - removed for incompetence..
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JARED KUSHNER HAS CREATED A SHELL COMPANY TO FUNNEL CAMPAIGN CASH TO FAMILY MEMBERS.
Donald Trump and his family have spent the last four years making the airtight case that they view the presidency as simply a means to enrich themselves and their associates. They probably don’t particularly like that reputation and, yet, it hasn’t stopped them from funneling taxpayer money to their private business, gouging the Secret Service, and raising legal defense funds that the fine print says could go directly to their pockets. Oh, and, according to a new report, setting up a shell company that spent hundreds of millions of campaign dollars to pay Trump family members along with other expenditures it seemingly wanted to keep under wraps.
According to Business Insider, first son-in-law Jared Kushner personally approved the creation of the company, incorporated as American Made Media Consultants Corp. and American Made Media Consultants LLC, in April 2018. From there, Eric Trump’s wife, Lara Trump, was named president, with Mike Pence’s nephew John Pence serving as vice president. If you’re wondering why the shell company, described as Business Insider as acting “almost like a campaign within a campaign” was necessary, well, it’s not entirely clear, but it sure sounds like the express purpose was the ability to shield “financial and operational details from public scrutiny,” as it allowed the campaign to avoid federally mandated disclosures concerning what it was spending considerable amounts of money on. And by considerable we mean nearly half of the $1.26 billion raised for Trump’s reelection.
Campaign-finance records showed Trump's reelection effort and its affiliated committee with the RNC spent more than $600 million through American Made Consultants since its formation. For months, some of Trump’s top advisers and campaign staff told Insider they had no idea how the shell company functioned, which cast an air of mystery around the operation…. Some of those same advisers said they didn’t learn about John Pence’s and Lara Trump’s involvement until Insider contacted them for this story.
Campaign-law experts have long accused the Trump team of using a corporate pass-through to hide payments. The nonpartisan Campaign Legal Center, led by former Republican Federal Election Commission Chairman Trevor Potter, filed a civil complaint with the FEC in July accusing the Trump campaign of “disguising” about $170 million worth of campaign spending in large part “by laundering the funds” through AMMC. Brendan Fischer, the Campaign Legal Center’s director of federal reform, said the payments to AMMC were a “scheme to evade telling voters even the basics on where its money is really going” and a “shield to disguise the ultimate recipients of its spending.”
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Kevin Burris
Critical thinking? That is rich combining from a Faux viewer. So let us critically analyze your post. First off what are the odds that all Main Stream Media’s are controlled by a single person dictating the narrative - well... virtually zero. What are the odds that a single entity, say Faux, is controlled by a single person dictating the narrative - well 100%... I believe his name is Rupert Murdock. But this is not enough. Perhaps this data alone is too thin.
So let us examine the news organizations journalistic depth - that would be people on staff whose sole job is to beat the streets and investigate stories. Well NYT, WAPO, POLITICO, WSJ, AND even CNN have large investigative staffs - Faux virtually zero staff. The bulk of their resources are dedicated to Talking Heads - AKA Opinion People such as Hannity, Tucker, Ingraham, etc.
How about accuracy. NYT, WSJ, WAPO, POLITICO, PBS, etc. all got what The Muller Report was going to find with near 100% accuracy - Faux news not so much, about zero accuracy. But what about reputations amongst Republicans, Independents, and Democrats. Once again Faux rates in the bottom of the pac for trustworthiness.
But surely Faux rates high somewhere, somehow. Why yes it does. It has the highest satisfaction rating - meaning it gives the viewer what they want. What do Faux viewers want? A bubble that never challenges their world view.
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Daniel Sherwood
What was the last book on history you read? What was the last book on Science you read? What was the last book on Sociology, Politics, or Religion you read? You and I both know the answer, you don’t read. Ignorance has a cure, read often, read widely, and read intelligently from scholars who are TRULY experts in their field. In other words, not the Daily Stormer, Info Wars, Faux news, or the Epoch Times, or Witch Doctors that Trump loves so much.
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Trump’s budget is a tremendous fraud.
Remember when he said he would eliminate the federal debt, or at least halve it, during his presidency? His new budget adds another $3.4 trillion by 2024 to the debt on top of the $3 trillion Trump has already added.
Remember when he repeatedly promised not to “touch” Social Security and Medicare? His budget calls for removing $550 billion dollars of funding from the Medicare program, including $135 billion from Medicare prescription drugs, and tens of billions from the Social Security program.
Remember when he promised not to touch Medicaid? Now he wants to cut it by $920 billion.
Remember when he was going to give Americans health care “much better” than Obamacare. But he has proposed no such thing and now his budget calls for cutting spending on the program by $844 billion.
Remember when he vowed that his tax cuts would grow the economy by 4 percent, 5 percent or even 6 percent? Last year it grew at 2.3 percent, and his new budget, even with the rosiest of assumptions, projects 2.8 percent for this year - in other words little changed from Obama’s growth rates. Yet the budget would also devote another $1.4 trillion to extending those tax cuts, primarily for the rich.
Oh, and remember when he said Mexico would pay for the Wall - Treasonous Trump Con Man Extraordinaire.
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Dearly Diane I am not so sure Hillary can’t be bought but not to this level. This is Democrat problem but a Republican cardinal sin. The free market does not work in our current Health Care System. All the Aces in the deck are held by Drug Companies, Hospitals, Health Care Providers, and Insurance Companies.
I had a bad reaction to a new drug I was to start and we called 911. My wife could not get me to the car and thus hospital. After receiving a shot that countered my reaction everything was good. Went home within an hour of the shot. In summary, $1,500 for ambulance, $2.000 for the 5 minutes it to the doctor to give me a shot, and $5,000 for the 2 hour hospital stay. I say Bullshit on the outrageous cost of care. Next time, God forbid, I think I will just take my chances.
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Trump: Campaign shifted money into indebted private business, Forbes
Trump has shifted money raised from campaign donors into the Trump Organization, according to documents from the Federal Election Committee (FEC) seen by Forbes.
He moved around $2.8 million into his private businesses throughout the duration of his presidency, Forbes's Dan Alexander reported.
Trump funneled an additional $81,000 into the Trump Organization after his election loss, the magazine said.
The payments were made public in the filings the campaign submitted to the FEC and were liest to cover costs including rent, airfare, lodging, and other expenses.
One of the campaign's joint-fundraising committees, associated with the Republican Party, also moved an estimated $4.3 million of donor money into his private business during his presidential term, according to Forbes.
Read more: 10 huge hits to Trump's business from the pandemic that may be permanent.
The joint-fundraising committee also paid around $300,000 towards Trump's hotel chain in the week following the former president's election loss, the Independent reported.
Around $40,000 was handed over from the campaign to Trump Tower Commercial LLC, a company which the former president owns a stake in, in December, the paper said.
This isn't the first time it has been reported that Trump transferred campaign money to his private businesses.
In July, The Washington Post's David Fahrenthold reported that Trump's campaign sent nearly $400,000 to the Trump Organization in just two days.
Documents showed that the campaign channeled $380,000 to the president's personal business in 43 transactions, Fahrenthold said.
This comes when the former president is said to be looking for ways to cash in on his post-presidency to address potentially huge debt.
The Trump Organization owes $400 million, according to Forbes.
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JARED KUSHNER HAS CREATED A SHELL COMPANY TO FUNNEL CAMPAIGN CASH TO FAMILY MEMBERS.
Donald Trump and his family have spent the last four years making the airtight case that they view the presidency as simply a means to enrich themselves and their associates. They probably don’t particularly like that reputation and, yet, it hasn’t stopped them from funneling taxpayer money to their private business, gouging the Secret Service, and raising legal defense funds that the fine print says could go directly to their pockets. Oh, and, according to a new report, setting up a shell company that spent hundreds of millions of campaign dollars to pay Trump family members along with other expenditures it seemingly wanted to keep under wraps.
According to Business Insider, first son-in-law Jared Kushner personally approved the creation of the company, incorporated as American Made Media Consultants Corp. and American Made Media Consultants LLC, in April 2018. From there, Eric Trump’s wife, Lara Trump, was named president, with Mike Pence’s nephew John Pence serving as vice president. If you’re wondering why the shell company, described as Business Insider as acting “almost like a campaign within a campaign” was necessary, well, it’s not entirely clear, but it sure sounds like the express purpose was the ability to shield “financial and operational details from public scrutiny,” as it allowed the campaign to avoid federally mandated disclosures concerning what it was spending considerable amounts of money on. And by considerable we mean nearly half of the $1.26 billion raised for Trump’s reelection.
Campaign-finance records showed Trump's reelection effort and its affiliated committee with the RNC spent more than $600 million through American Made Consultants since its formation. For months, some of Trump’s top advisers and campaign staff told Insider they had no idea how the shell company functioned, which cast an air of mystery around the operation…. Some of those same advisers said they didn’t learn about John Pence’s and Lara Trump’s involvement until Insider contacted them for this story.
Campaign-law experts have long accused the Trump team of using a corporate pass-through to hide payments. The nonpartisan Campaign Legal Center, led by former Republican Federal Election Commission Chairman Trevor Potter, filed a civil complaint with the FEC in July accusing the Trump campaign of “disguising” about $170 million worth of campaign spending in large part “by laundering the funds” through AMMC. Brendan Fischer, the Campaign Legal Center’s director of federal reform, said the payments to AMMC were a “scheme to evade telling voters even the basics on where its money is really going” and a “shield to disguise the ultimate recipients of its spending.”
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TREASONOUS TRUMP’s STRANGE RELATIONSHIP WITH PUTIN
Trump touts Putin’s speaking out against his impeachment
Late Friday night, minutes before deplaning in Florida for the holidays, President Trump retweeted a link to an article in which Russian President Vladimir Putin defended him against impeachment.
“A total Witch Hunt!” the president tweeted at 10:30 p.m., as he shared a 36-hour-old Associated Press tweet that read: “BREAKING: Russian President Vladimir Putin says U.S. President Donald Trump’s impeachment is far-fetched and predicts the U.S. Senate will reject it.”
Trump’s boasting of Putin’s support comes a day after The Washington Post reported that White House advisers feared Trump’s belief that Ukraine, not Russia, was responsible for interfering with the 2016 election was spurred by conversations Trump had with Putin.
[[Former White House officials say they feared Putin influenced the president’s views on Ukraine and 2016 campaign]]
Trump’s critics responded to the tweet, expressing exasperation more than incredulity.
“At the end of the day, it’s always Putin First,” wrote conservative commentator and “Never Trumper” Bill Kristol.
Russian President Vladimir Putin accused the U.S. House of Representatives Dec. 19 of having "invented" a story to "revise" history and impeach President Trump. (Reuters)
“Trump wants us to know that Putin has his back. We know,” tweeted Eric Columbus, a former Justice Department appointee in the Obama administration.
“Putin is a dictator who jails opponents, kills opponents, invades neighbors, interferes in democracies’ elections, etc. I don’t think an American president should be buddying with him. I wonder if Trump defenders are ever (secretly) embarrassed by this stuff. I hope so,” wrote Jay Nordlinger, a senior editor at the right-leaning National Review.
At his annual end-of-the-year news conference on Thursday, Putin was asked about Trump’s impeachment. He called the charges “completely fabricated reasons.”
[[Putin stays in Trump’s corner on impeachment]]
That evening, Russian state media, which follows Putin’s lead, also threw its support behind Trump.
Donald Trump is the third president in U.S. history to face a Senate trial. (The Washington Post)
Popular Kremlin propagandist Vladimir Soloviev gave an impassioned defense of Trump on his evening show, raising his voice several times in a discussion with Atlantic Council expert Ariel Cohen.
“I can’t understand for what reason [Democrats] don’t like Trump,” Soloviev said.
Days earlier, on his two-hour Sunday night program, anchor Dmitry Kiselyov opined about how Hollywood has joined the Democrats in being against Trump, portraying him as “always on the dark side.”
And the state-sponsored Rossiya-1 news channel, which airs Soloviev’s show, recently broadcast segments of Rudolph W. Giuliani’s interview with right-wing channel One America News, in which the president’s personal attorney promoted debunked conspiracy theories about Ukrainian interference in the 2016 U.S. presidential election.
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Sue Craft
So I should seek truth from what? The Daily Stormer, Breitbart, Info Wars, The Blaze, etc. My daily reading of WSJ, NYT, Washington Post, and occasional reading of Politico, The Atlantic, The New Yorker, etc. Or perhaps my passion for a wide range of history, reading about three books a month, is in adequate. Finally, my book club, who reads primarily books on politics, sociology, political corruption, RightWing Militias, etc. makes me unprepared to think for myself.
Perhaps your Political truth is a form of cult like faith - you question nothing and except everything your told no matter what.
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@elaineowens2787 Trump: Hello, everybody. (Applause.) Thank you. Thank you very much, everybody. Please. That’s a nice crowd on a nice, cool day. (Laughter.) It’s beautiful, though. Might be hot, but it’s beautiful.
We’re here today to celebrate and expand our historic campaign to rescue American workers from job-killing regulations. Before I came into office, American workers were smothered by a merciless avalanche of wasteful and expensive and intrusive federal regulation. These oppressive, burdensome mandates were a stealth tax on our people — slashing take-home pay, suppressing innovation, surging the cost of goods, and shipping millions of American jobs overseas — millions and millions and millions. It never ended.
Nearly four years ago, we ended this regulatory assault on the American worker, and we launched the most dramatic regulatory relief campaign in American history by far. No other administration has done anywhere near. (Applause.) Thank you.
At the heart of this effort was a revolutionary promise: For every one new regulation issued, we pledged that two federal regulations would be permanently removed. We not only met that ambitious goal — which, at the time, people said was impossible — we vastly exceeded it. For every one new regulation added, nearly eight federal regulations have been terminated. (Applause.) Been an incredible achievement.
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“I no longer recognize my party”
Why Hundreds of Thousands of Republicans Are Leaving the Crazed Party
Voting registration data indicates a strong and unusual flight from the G.O.P. since the Capitol riot, with an intensely fluid period in American politics now underway.
In the days and weeks after the storming of the Capitol by Trump supporters on Jan. 6, hundreds of thousands of Republicans left the party. After the Jan. 6 attack on the Capitol, the phone lines and websites of local election officials across the country were jumping: Tens of thousands of Republicans were calling or logging on to switch their party affiliations.
In California, more than 33,000 registered Republicans left the party during the three weeks after the Washington riot. In Pennsylvania, more than 12,000 voters left the G.O.P. in the past month, and more than 10,000 Republicans changed their registration in Arizona.
An analysis of January voting records found that nearly 140,000 Republicans had quit the party in 25 states that had readily available data (19 states do not have registration by party). Voting experts say this is the start of a particularly damaging period for G.O.P. registrations as voters recoil from the Capitol violence and its fallout.
Among those who recently left the party are Juan Nunez, 56, an Army veteran in Mechanicsburg, Pa. He said he had long felt that the difference between the United States and many other countries was that campaign-season fighting ended on Election Day, when all sides would peacefully accept the result. The Jan. 6 riot changed that, he said.
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“I no longer recognize my party”
Why Hundreds of Thousands of Republicans Are Leaving the Crazed Party
Voting registration data indicates a strong and unusual flight from the G.O.P. since the Capitol riot, with an intensely fluid period in American politics now underway.
In the days and weeks after the storming of the Capitol by Trump supporters on Jan. 6, hundreds of thousands of Republicans left the party. After the Jan. 6 attack on the Capitol, the phone lines and websites of local election officials across the country were jumping: Tens of thousands of Republicans were calling or logging on to switch their party affiliations.
In California, more than 33,000 registered Republicans left the party during the three weeks after the Washington riot. In Pennsylvania, more than 12,000 voters left the G.O.P. in the past month, and more than 10,000 Republicans changed their registration in Arizona.
An analysis of January voting records found that nearly 140,000 Republicans had quit the party in 25 states that had readily available data (19 states do not have registration by party). Voting experts say this is the start of a particularly damaging period for G.O.P. registrations as voters recoil from the Capitol violence and its fallout.
Among those who recently left the party are Juan Nunez, 56, an Army veteran in Mechanicsburg, Pa. He said he had long felt that the difference between the United States and many other countries was that campaign-season fighting ended on Election Day, when all sides would peacefully accept the result. The Jan. 6 riot changed that, he said.
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Treasonous Trump and his toddy Barr’s Banana Republic
In 1988 to 1992, Argentina, Brazil and Peru were struggling to reestablish democratic norms after the long, dark night of military dictatorship. One of the biggest challenges was restoring public confidence that justice is blind and engages in an honest search for truth.
But thanks to President Trump and the inexcusable damage he is doing to our justice system, South America’s past has become America’s present.
There has been considerable evidence that Trump is causing irreparable harm to the Public’s faith in justice. Once squandered, it is incredibly hard to regain.
That’s the kind of damage Trump is threatening with his outrageous and un-American attacks on the Justice Department and the federal judiciary for finding his cronies — including longtime political adviser Roger Stone, former national security adviser Michael Flynn and 2016 campaign chairman Paul Manafort — guilty of crimes and deserving of punishment. We have seen this type of behavior before in the South American Countries of Venezuela, Argentina, Guatemala, Nicaragua, and many others.
In Argentina, Carlos Menem, was a populist norm-breaker who nepotistically involved his family in running the government and was widely viewed as corrupt. In 1991, Menem’s sister-in-law and appointments secretary, Amira Yoma, was indicted on money-laundering charges that involved suitcases full of cash allegedly being smuggled in and out of the country. Yoma’s ex-husband was head of the customs service at Ezeiza International Airport outside Buenos Aires, where he allegedly facilitated the cash-smuggling.
Menem was accused of secretly meeting with the prosecuting judge in charge of the Yoma case. The president initially denied having had such a meeting but ultimately admitted it, claiming it was about some unrelated matter. The judge’s secretary alleged that the judge had gone to the presidential residence, where she showed Menem secret prosecution documents about the Yoma case.
That judge was suddenly taken off the case, which was assigned to a different judge, and Yoma was eventually cleared of all charges. It is safe to say that few Argentines were surprised.
There simply was very little confidence in the ability of the justice system to discern truth from falsehood or to punish the powerful and well-connected. There was an understanding, moreover, that prosecutors and the court system could and sometimes would be used as political tools.
Years after leaving office, Menem was convicted on unrelated charges involving weapons smuggling and embezzlement. He maintained his innocence, claiming he was being persecuted by his political enemies.
In these fragile democracies justice was being warped by politics and it had a corrosive effect on the larger society. A lack of confidence that court proceedings could — or even were intended to — arrive at truth encouraged the propagation and spread of conspiracy theories. Argentina still struggles to escape the widespread belief that unseen forces control events from deep in the shadows.
This is not the sort of path I ever thought the United States could take. But it has not been naive, to believe that federal prosecutors and judges tried their very best not to let politics influence their decisions — and that they generally succeeded because they took their responsibilities seriously.
When four assistant U.S. attorneys asked to be taken off the Stone case, they were sounding an alarm. We must all pay attention.
Their recommendation that Stone serve seven to nine years in prison for his crimes was tough, but federal prosecutors tend to be tough. Stone was duly convicted in a court of law, and U.S. District Judge Amy Berman Jackson will decide his punishment. But when higher-ups in Attorney General William P. Barr’s Justice Department overrule the prosecutors who handled the case on Stone’s recommended sentence; when Trump tries to delegitimize those prosecutors as “Angry Democrats” because they worked for former special counsel Robert S. Mueller III; and when Trump goes so far as to try to intimidate Jackson, a highly respected veteran federal judge — when such things happen, you have to wonder whether Trump is leading us down that Banana Republic path.
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@KaseNash59
Don't take my word for watch for yourself. Take note every time you are told you are a Victim of reverse discrimination, jobs, cancel culture, war on Christmas, censorship, war on religion, war on conservatives, liberal programing of kids at schools, Hollywood war on conservatives, war on guns, etc., etc., etc., the victimization perceived by the rightwing is a very long list. You all are literally professional victims.
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Good Iam Glad
Don't take my word for watch for yourself. Take note every time you are told you are a Victim of reverse discrimination, jobs, cancel culture, war on Christmas, censorship, war on religion, war on conservatives, liberal programing of kids at schools, Hollywood war on conservatives, war on guns, etc., etc., etc., the victimization perceived by the rightwing is a very long list. You all are literally professional victims.
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2008: Russians laundered millions through apartment sales at the Trump SoHo.
2008: A Russian oligarch bought a Palm Beach estate from Trump in 2008 for $95m, more than double what Trump had paid for it.
2008: 63 Russians, with Kremlin connections, spent $100m buying property fromTrump.
2008: Russian money & Latin Drug Lords pour money into Trump Panama properties.
Donny Sr 2008: “We have access to $100 million Line of Credit”
Q: Who is it? No American Bank will lend to you.
A: “I would rather not say”
Donny Jr. 2008: “We have Russians willing to lend us money”
Donny Jr. 2008: “Russians make up a pretty disproportionate cross-section of a lot of our assets. We have a lot of money pouring in from Russia."
2010: Alex Shnaider Ukrainian KleptoBillionaire ponies up $100 million to save Trump Toronto.
Eric Trump 2014: "Well, we don’t rely on American banks. We have all the funding we need out of Russia.' I said, 'Really?' And he said, 'Oh, yeah. We’ve got some guys that are really, really invested in our programs. We just go there all the time.”
Forbes 2020: Trump’s Russian Business Partners Allegedly Involved In Human Trafficking, Mafia Matters, and Probable Money Laundering.
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@opinionsarelikebuttholes4458
The claim from the 2 is that the Precincts have inconsistencies or are out of balance. This is always the case, and can be due to a bubble not fully being filed in, a ballot not recording for what ever reason, a double feed, etc. It's called a margin of error, you live with this margin of error daily and are surrounded by it. The real question is how large is the margin of error? Over 10s of thousands of votes, and you are only out of balance by 2 - your team did a damm good job. Now if your vote tally is within 500 votes, like it was in Bush v Gore in Florida, then you want to go over everything with a fine tooth comb. If you have a overwhelming lead like Biden in Michigan 2020 or Trump Michigan 2016 then it is a waste of time to get down in the weeds.
As for the character of the two Republican Canvassers there are issues. Mrs. Palmer Claimed her only concern was the 1 or 2 vote out of balance precincts, she certified the vote with a promise for an audit of those precincts that were out of balance, but only in minor insignificant ways. Within 24, hours of Trump calling Mrs. Palmer she tried to rescind her vote - how do you explain this.
Now Mr. Hartman, the other Republican Canvasser, has a massive character issue:
"Mr. Hartmann had filled his Facebook page with false allegations and conspiracy theories that the vote was manipulated against the president. One post included allegations about malfeasance in Detroit that a judge has called “not credible,” and another featured a video promoting a cornucopia of fraud allegations — including against Detroit — that have unraveled in court or been debunked by election officials. Mr. Hartmann also promoted a video from the right-wing cable network One America News that Facebook flagged as having “false information” about the coronavirus death rate.
Tuesday’s inflammatory meeting also drew attention to Mr. Hartmann’s social media feeds, where old posts showed racist depictions of President Barack Obama, whom Mr. Hartmann once referred to as a “Muslim President” (Mr. Obama is Christian)."
Bottom Line, Trump always has been Corrupt and a Serial Liar and now he is taking extraordinary actions to further attack our Democratic Institutions. Which raises the question I present to you: When push comes to shove, do you value our American Democracy than you value your Cult Membership to Trump?
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@daveruckert7926 “TRUMP UNFIT FOR ANY PUBLIC OFFICE” - In another published open letter, 100 former Advisors to Presidents Reagan, Bush Sr, Clinton, Bush Jr, Obama, and Trump endorsed Kamala Harris.
“TRUMP UNFIT TO SERVE AS PRESIDENT .” List of Republicans who signed a letter saying Trump is a Threat To Our American Democracy 🇺🇸:
Admiral Steve Abbot
USN (Ret.), Deputy Homeland Security Advisor, George W. Bush
Kenneth Adelman Director, Arms Control and Disarmament Agency, Reagan
Dr. Carol C. Adelman Asst. Admin., U.S. Agency for International Development, Reagan
Major General John Barry USAF (Ret.), Military Assistant to the Secretary of Defense
Richard C. Barth Asst. Secretary, Department of Homeland Security, W. Bush
Christopher Barton Director, National Security Council Staff
John Bellinger Legal Adviser, National Security Council, W. Bush
Admiral Kenneth Bernard Special Asst. to W. Bush
Mark E. Bitterman Special Asst. to the Secretary of Defense, H.W. Bush
Robert D. Blackwill Deputy National Security Advisor, W. Bush
William Bodie Asst. to the Secretary of the Air Force, W. Bush
Christian M.L. Bonat Deputy General Counsel, DOD, W. Bush & Obama
Richard Boucher Assistant Secretary of State, W. Bush
Charles W. Boustany, Jr. Former Member of Congress, Louisiana
Charles R. Bowers Ambassador to Bolivia, H.W. Bush
Greg Brower Asst. Director, FBI, Obama & Trump
Christopher Buckley Chief Speechwriter, Office of VP H.W. Bush
James R. Bullington U.S. Ambassador to Burundi, Reagan
Richard Burt U.S. Ambassador to Germany, Reagan
Gahl Hodges Burt Asst. to the Secretary of State, Reagan
Rear Admiral Fred Byus U.S. Navy (Ret.)
Jack C. Chow Deputy Asst. Secretary of State, W. Bush
James W. Cicconi Asst. to the President & Deputy to the Chief of Staff, H. W. Bush
Peggy Cifrino Deputy Chief of Staff to Secretary of State Colin Powell, W. Bush
Eliot A. Cohen Counselor of the Dept. of State, W. Bush
Benedict S. Cohen General Counsel, Dept. of the Army, W. Bush
William Cohen Secretary of Defense, Clinton, & U.S. Senator, Maine
Joseph J. Collins Deputy Asst. Secretary of Defense, W. Bush
Barbara Comstock Former Member of Congress, Virginia
Cindy Courville National Security Affairs for Africa, W. Bush
Chester A. Crocker Assistant Secretary of State, Reagan
Patrick M. Cronin Admin. U.S. Agency for International Development, W. Bush
Stephen W. DeVine Deputy Legal Advisor, National Security Council, W. Bush
Charles Djou Former Member of Congress, Hawaii
Michael Donley Secretary of the Air Force, George W. Bush & Obama
Raymond F. DuBois Secretary of the Army, George W. Bush
Martha E. Duncan Sr Executive Service, DOD, George W. Bush & Obama
Lewis A. Dunn Director, Arms Control and Disarmament Agency, Reagan
Eric S. Edelman Under Secretary of Defense, George W. Bush
Mickey Edwards Member of Congress, Oklahoma
Richard A. Falkenrath Deputy Assistant to the President, George W. Bush
Jendayi E. Frazer Ambassador to South Africa George W. Bush Administration
Aaron L. Friedber Deputy Assistant to George W. Bush
William Gaches Director of Counterterrorism, NSA, George W. Bush
Janice Gardner Assistant Secretary of the Treasury, George W. Bush
Stuart M. Gerson Attorney General of the United States, George W. Bush
James K. Glassman Under Secretary of State, George W. Bush
Jon D. Glassman Deputy National Security Advisor to George H.W. Bush
David Gordon Director, State Dept, Policy Planning, George W. Bush
Sen. Chuck Hagel Secretary of Defense, Obama, and former U.S. Senator, Nebraska
Christopher Hank Deputy Assistant Secretary of State; Reagan,Bush, & Clinton
Mark Harvey Special Assistant to the President, Trump
General Michael V. Hayden Director of the CIA & NSA, Bush & Obama
Carla Hills U.S. Trade Representative, George H.W Bush
Seth Hurwitz Counsel, President's Intelligence Oversight Board, George H.W. Bush
Peter Keisler Attorney General of the U.S., George W. Bush
James A. Kelly Secretary of State, George W. Bush
Adam Kinzinger Former Member of Congress, Illinois
Sofia Kinzinger Deputy Assistant Secretary, Dept. of Homeland Security, Trump
Kenneth J. Krieg Under Secretary of Defense, George W. Bush
James R. Kunder Deputy Administrator, U.S. Agency for International Development, Bush
Brigadier General George Landis, USA, Ret. U.S. Personnel Info Systems Command
Frank Lavin Ambassador to Singapore & Under Secretary of Commerce, George W. Bush
Peter Lichtenbaum
Former Assistant Secretary of Commerce, George W. Bush Administration
Rear Admiral David M. Lichtman, MD, USN (Ret.)
Former Commander, National Naval Medical Center, Bethesda, George H.W. Bush and Clinton Administrations
Winston Lord
Former U.S. Ambassador to China, Reagan and George H.W. Bush Administration
Steven R. Mann
Former Ambassador to Turkmenistan and Former Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary in the State Dept., Clinton and George W. Bush Administrations
Colonel John W. McDonald
Former Deputy Under Secretary of the Army
P. Michael McKinley
Former Ambassador to Peru and Acting Ambassador to the European Union and Mozambique, George W. Bush Administration; Former Ambassador to Peru, Colombia, Afghanistan, and Brazil, Obama Administration
Dan Miller
Former Member of Congress, Florida
John M. Mitnick
Former General Counsel, Dept. of Homeland Security, Trump
Allen Moore
Former Under Secretary of Commerce, Reagan
Alberto Mora
Former General Counsel, U.S. Information Agency, George H.W. Bush; Former General Counsel, Dept. of the Navy, George W. Bush
Kenneth Mortensen
Former Associate Deputy Attorney General, George W. Bush
Vice Admiral Charles L. Munns
U.S. Navy (Ret.), George W. Bush
John D. Negroponte Deputy Secretary of State, George W. Bush
Elizabeth Neumann Assistant Secretary of Homeland Security, Trump
Sean O'Keefe Secretary of the Navy, George H.W. Bush
Bill Paxon Former Member of Congress, New York
William R Piekney CIA Chief of Station, Reagan
Daniel M. Price Deputy NSA Advisor, George W. Bush
Alan Charles Raul Vice Chairman, Civil Liberties Oversight Board, George W. Bush
Victor Reis Director, DARPA, George H.W. Bush
Robert Annan Riley Ambassador to Micronesia, Trump
Paul Rosenzweig Deputy Assistant Secretary of Homeland Security, George W. Bush
Charles Rossotti Deputy Asst. Secretary of Defense; Commissioner of IRS, Clinton & Bush
Nicholas Rostow National Security Council Legal Adviser, Reagan & H.W. Bush
Kori Schake Deputy Director of Policy Planning, State Dept., W. Bush
Wayne A. Schroeder Deputy Under Secretary of Defense, W. Bush
Gregory L. Schulte Sr Director, National Security Council & Atomic Energy Agency, W. Bush
Robert Shanks Deputy Assistant AG, Reagan
Rep. Christopher Shays Former Member of Congress, Connecticut
John Simon Senior Director, National Security Council Staff, W. Bush
Stephen Slick Sr. Director, National Security Council Staff, W. Bush
Mark C. Storella U.S. Ambassador to Zambia, Obama
William H. Taft IV Deputy Secretary of Defense and Ambassador to NATO, W. Bush
Miles Taylor Chief of Staff, Dept. of Homeland Security, Trump
Larry D. Thompson Former Deputy AG, W. Bush
Jack Tomarchio Deputy Under Secretary of Homeland Security, W. Bush
Olivia Troye Special Advisor to VP Pence, Trump
Robert Tuttle U.S. Ambassador to the UK, W. Bush
John K. Veroneau Deputy U.S. Trade Rep. & Assistant Secretary of Defense, W. Bush & Clinton
Colonel Terry Virts, USAF (Ret.)
Former NASA Astronaut, Former Commander of the International Space Station
Dr. Thomas G. Ward, Jr. Director of Threats, Ballistic Missile Defense Org., Reagan & Clinton
Matthew C. Waxman Principal Deputy Director, State Dept Policy Planning, W. Bush
William H. Webster Director of the CIA & FBI, Reagan & H.W. Bush
William F. Weld Assistant Attorney General, Criminal Division, Reagan
J. Robinson West Assistant Secretary of Interior, Reagan
Wendell L. Willkie II General Counsel, Dept. of Commerce, H.W. Bush
Philip Zelikow Counselor of the Dept. of State, W. Bush
Robert B. Zoellick White House Deputy Chief of Staff, George H.W. Bush
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@kelperdude “TRUMP UNFIT FOR ANY PUBLIC OFFICE” - In another published open letter, 100 former Advisors to Presidents Reagan, Bush Sr, Clinton, Bush Jr, Obama, and Trump endorsed Kamala Harris.
“TRUMP UNFIT TO SERVE AS PRESIDENT .” List of Republicans who signed a letter saying Trump is a Threat To Our American Democracy 🇺🇸:
Admiral Steve Abbot
USN (Ret.), Deputy Homeland Security Advisor, George W. Bush
Kenneth Adelman Director, Arms Control and Disarmament Agency, Reagan
Dr. Carol C. Adelman Asst. Admin., U.S. Agency for International Development, Reagan
Major General John Barry USAF (Ret.), Military Assistant to the Secretary of Defense
Richard C. Barth Asst. Secretary, Department of Homeland Security, W. Bush
Christopher Barton Director, National Security Council Staff
John Bellinger Legal Adviser, National Security Council, W. Bush
Admiral Kenneth Bernard Special Asst. to W. Bush
Mark E. Bitterman Special Asst. to the Secretary of Defense, H.W. Bush
Robert D. Blackwill Deputy National Security Advisor, W. Bush
William Bodie Asst. to the Secretary of the Air Force, W. Bush
Christian M.L. Bonat Deputy General Counsel, DOD, W. Bush & Obama
Richard Boucher Assistant Secretary of State, W. Bush
Charles W. Boustany, Jr. Former Member of Congress, Louisiana
Charles R. Bowers Ambassador to Bolivia, H.W. Bush
Greg Brower Asst. Director, FBI, Obama & Trump
Christopher Buckley Chief Speechwriter, Office of VP H.W. Bush
James R. Bullington U.S. Ambassador to Burundi, Reagan
Richard Burt U.S. Ambassador to Germany, Reagan
Gahl Hodges Burt Asst. to the Secretary of State, Reagan
Rear Admiral Fred Byus U.S. Navy (Ret.)
Jack C. Chow Deputy Asst. Secretary of State, W. Bush
James W. Cicconi Asst. to the President & Deputy to the Chief of Staff, H. W. Bush
Peggy Cifrino Deputy Chief of Staff to Secretary of State Colin Powell, W. Bush
Eliot A. Cohen Counselor of the Dept. of State, W. Bush
Benedict S. Cohen General Counsel, Dept. of the Army, W. Bush
William Cohen Secretary of Defense, Clinton, & U.S. Senator, Maine
Joseph J. Collins Deputy Asst. Secretary of Defense, W. Bush
Barbara Comstock Former Member of Congress, Virginia
Cindy Courville National Security Affairs for Africa, W. Bush
Chester A. Crocker Assistant Secretary of State, Reagan
Patrick M. Cronin Admin. U.S. Agency for International Development, W. Bush
Stephen W. DeVine Deputy Legal Advisor, National Security Council, W. Bush
Charles Djou Former Member of Congress, Hawaii
Michael Donley Secretary of the Air Force, George W. Bush & Obama
Raymond F. DuBois Secretary of the Army, George W. Bush
Martha E. Duncan Sr Executive Service, DOD, George W. Bush & Obama
Lewis A. Dunn Director, Arms Control and Disarmament Agency, Reagan
Eric S. Edelman Under Secretary of Defense, George W. Bush
Mickey Edwards Member of Congress, Oklahoma
Richard A. Falkenrath Deputy Assistant to the President, George W. Bush
Jendayi E. Frazer Ambassador to South Africa George W. Bush Administration
Aaron L. Friedber Deputy Assistant to George W. Bush
William Gaches Director of Counterterrorism, NSA, George W. Bush
Janice Gardner Assistant Secretary of the Treasury, George W. Bush
Stuart M. Gerson Attorney General of the United States, George W. Bush
James K. Glassman Under Secretary of State, George W. Bush
Jon D. Glassman Deputy National Security Advisor to George H.W. Bush
David Gordon Director, State Dept, Policy Planning, George W. Bush
Sen. Chuck Hagel Secretary of Defense, Obama, and former U.S. Senator, Nebraska
Christopher Hank Deputy Assistant Secretary of State; Reagan,Bush, & Clinton
Mark Harvey Special Assistant to the President, Trump
General Michael V. Hayden Director of the CIA & NSA, Bush & Obama
Carla Hills U.S. Trade Representative, George H.W Bush
Seth Hurwitz Counsel, President's Intelligence Oversight Board, George H.W. Bush
Peter Keisler Attorney General of the U.S., George W. Bush
James A. Kelly Secretary of State, George W. Bush
Adam Kinzinger Former Member of Congress, Illinois
Sofia Kinzinger Deputy Assistant Secretary, Dept. of Homeland Security, Trump
Kenneth J. Krieg Under Secretary of Defense, George W. Bush
James R. Kunder Deputy Administrator, U.S. Agency for International Development, Bush
Brigadier General George Landis, USA, Ret. U.S. Personnel Info Systems Command
Frank Lavin Ambassador to Singapore & Under Secretary of Commerce, George W. Bush
Peter Lichtenbaum
Former Assistant Secretary of Commerce, George W. Bush Administration
Rear Admiral David M. Lichtman, MD, USN (Ret.)
Former Commander, National Naval Medical Center, Bethesda, George H.W. Bush and Clinton Administrations
Winston Lord
Former U.S. Ambassador to China, Reagan and George H.W. Bush Administration
Steven R. Mann
Former Ambassador to Turkmenistan and Former Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary in the State Dept., Clinton and George W. Bush Administrations
Colonel John W. McDonald
Former Deputy Under Secretary of the Army
P. Michael McKinley
Former Ambassador to Peru and Acting Ambassador to the European Union and Mozambique, George W. Bush Administration; Former Ambassador to Peru, Colombia, Afghanistan, and Brazil, Obama Administration
Dan Miller
Former Member of Congress, Florida
John M. Mitnick
Former General Counsel, Dept. of Homeland Security, Trump
Allen Moore
Former Under Secretary of Commerce, Reagan
Alberto Mora
Former General Counsel, U.S. Information Agency, George H.W. Bush; Former General Counsel, Dept. of the Navy, George W. Bush
Kenneth Mortensen
Former Associate Deputy Attorney General, George W. Bush
Vice Admiral Charles L. Munns
U.S. Navy (Ret.), George W. Bush
John D. Negroponte Deputy Secretary of State, George W. Bush
Elizabeth Neumann Assistant Secretary of Homeland Security, Trump
Sean O'Keefe Secretary of the Navy, George H.W. Bush
Bill Paxon Former Member of Congress, New York
William R Piekney CIA Chief of Station, Reagan
Daniel M. Price Deputy NSA Advisor, George W. Bush
Alan Charles Raul Vice Chairman, Civil Liberties Oversight Board, George W. Bush
Victor Reis Director, DARPA, George H.W. Bush
Robert Annan Riley Ambassador to Micronesia, Trump
Paul Rosenzweig Deputy Assistant Secretary of Homeland Security, George W. Bush
Charles Rossotti Deputy Asst. Secretary of Defense; Commissioner of IRS, Clinton & Bush
Nicholas Rostow National Security Council Legal Adviser, Reagan & H.W. Bush
Kori Schake Deputy Director of Policy Planning, State Dept., W. Bush
Wayne A. Schroeder Deputy Under Secretary of Defense, W. Bush
Gregory L. Schulte Sr Director, National Security Council & Atomic Energy Agency, W. Bush
Robert Shanks Deputy Assistant AG, Reagan
Rep. Christopher Shays Former Member of Congress, Connecticut
John Simon Senior Director, National Security Council Staff, W. Bush
Stephen Slick Sr. Director, National Security Council Staff, W. Bush
Mark C. Storella U.S. Ambassador to Zambia, Obama
William H. Taft IV Deputy Secretary of Defense and Ambassador to NATO, W. Bush
Miles Taylor Chief of Staff, Dept. of Homeland Security, Trump
Larry D. Thompson Former Deputy AG, W. Bush
Jack Tomarchio Deputy Under Secretary of Homeland Security, W. Bush
Olivia Troye Special Advisor to VP Pence, Trump
Robert Tuttle U.S. Ambassador to the UK, W. Bush
John K. Veroneau Deputy U.S. Trade Rep. & Assistant Secretary of Defense, W. Bush & Clinton
Colonel Terry Virts, USAF (Ret.)
Former NASA Astronaut, Former Commander of the International Space Station
Dr. Thomas G. Ward, Jr. Director of Threats, Ballistic Missile Defense Org., Reagan & Clinton
Matthew C. Waxman Principal Deputy Director, State Dept Policy Planning, W. Bush
William H. Webster Director of the CIA & FBI, Reagan & H.W. Bush
William F. Weld Assistant Attorney General, Criminal Division, Reagan
J. Robinson West Assistant Secretary of Interior, Reagan
Wendell L. Willkie II General Counsel, Dept. of Commerce, H.W. Bush
Philip Zelikow Counselor of the Dept. of State, W. Bush
Robert B. Zoellick White House Deputy Chief of Staff, George H.W. Bush
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Republicans are blaming renewable energy, when it’s the state’s powerful deregulated utilities that failed to prepare for the worst.Texans are also furious about how their state’s ruinous laissez-faire governance led to a cascade of human-caused disasters of epic. In general, there’s a natural gas storage problem in Texas. Utility companies didn’t bother to have gas reserves: It’s easier, cheaper and more profitable to tap the gas in the field with a pipeline.
After a cold snap in 2011, the power companies were supposed to better winterize their plants. Ten years later, they hadn’t done it. It’s hard to believe they couldn’t afford it: Oncor, the giant power utility serving Dallas, reported $651 million in net income in 2019.
As the cold froze Oklahoma and sent temperatures in Dallas to lows not seen in over a century, the natural gas industry were unable to deliver more gas even if it was purchased. Wellheads in the Permian Basin froze solid. Pipelines leaked water, which, in turn, turned metal and gas into useless, immovable ice.
The crisis dates back to the 1930s, when the Federal Power Commission gained the authority to regulate interstate transmission of electric power. But politicians in Texas didn’t want Washington regulating the electricity business and chipping away at those hefty profits.
So the business went entirely unregulated until the formation of the Electric Reliability Council of Texas (ERCOT) in the 1970s. But ERCOT has been anything but reliable. While it is technically overseen by the state, its board is really just an industry club. Several of its members don’t even live in Texas.
After taking a beating on Twitter, Mr. Abbott tried to blame the renewable energy industry, a talking point that caught fire among conservatives. Renewables like wind and solar can contribute up to 20 percent of the Texas power grid, but just 7 percent of the winter grid, with 80 percent coming from natural gas, coal and a bit of nuclear power. While some wind turbines in Texas froze, many of them kept turning.
Yet another example of Fakenews- media spewing Propaganda.
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dan patterson
Yet more Trump Racism/Fascism:
Later, using a front organization called the New York Institute for Law and Society, Trump and his associate Roger Stone placed advertisements in upstate–New York newspapers in an attempt to block the Saint Regis Mohawk Tribe’s planned Sullivan County casino. On a page proof of one ad, featuring hypodermic needles and lines of cocaine, Trump wrote: “Roger, this could be good!” Trump, Stone, and the institute would later pay $250,000 in fines for violating disclosure rules governing political advertising.
[Notice Convicted Felon Roger Stone]
“Our current president came out of nowhere, came out of nowhere … The people who went to school with him—they never saw him; they don’t know who he is.” That statement, made at the February 2011 Conservative Political Action Conference, marked the launch of Donald Trump’s public efforts to sow doubt about whether President Barack Obama had been born in the United States. “Birtherism” had been festering for several years before Trump embraced it—supplanting other proponents and becoming its most prominent advocate. In March, on The View, Trump called on Obama to show his birth certificate. In April, he said that he had dispatched a team of investigators to Hawaii to search for Obama’s birth records.
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Treasonous Trump picks only the best people:
Mr. VanDyke’s accomplishments are offset by the assessments of interviewees that Mr. VanDyke is arrogant, lazy, an ideologue, and lacking in knowledge of the day-to- day practice including procedural rules. There was a theme that the nominee lacks humility, has an “entitlement” temperament, does not have an open mind, and does not always have a commitment to being candid and truthful.
When a majority of your colleges say you are arrogant, lazy, ideological, and lacking knowledge, you have a problem nominee.
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FAILURE IN AMERICA ON A TRUMPIAN SCALE:
Nearly every country has struggled to contain the coronavirus and made mistakes along the way.
China silenced doctors and allowed the virus to escape Wuhan, much of Europe went next, failing to avoid and contain enormous outbreaks. Today, many countries — Japan, Canada, France, Australia and more — are coping with new increases in cases after reopening parts of society.
But one country stands alone, as the only affluent nation to have suffered a severe, sustained outbreak for more than four months: the United States. In just the past month over 1.9 million Americans have tested positive for the virus. That’s more than five times as many as in all of Europe, Canada, Japan, South Korea and Australia, combined. The United States also has the highest number of Deaths 157,000 from the virus far out pacing all other countries. Brazil is the only country competing with the United States for complete failure in containing the virus.
What does the United States & Brazil have in common? Trumpian Politics.
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Trump alters weather chart with a Sharpie to justify his Alabama, Dorian tweet:
On Wednesday, the White House attempted to retroactively justify a tweet that President Trump issued over the weekend in which he warned, erroneously, that Alabama would be affected by Hurricane Dorian.
In a White House video released Wednesday, Trump displays a modified National Hurricane Center “cone of uncertainty” forecast, dated from 11 a.m. on Aug. 29, indicating Alabama would in fact be affected. The graphic appears to have been altered with a Sharpie to indicate a risk the storm would move into Alabama from Florida.
“We had, actually, our original chart was that it was going to be hit — hitting Florida directly,” Trump said as he displayed the graphic from Aug. 29, which now includes an added appendage extending the cone into Alabama.
When asked whether the chart had been drawn on, Trump said: “I don’t know; I don’t know.”
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Trump Aide Has Mental Melt Down On Facebook. 🤪🤪🤪🤪
Michael R. Caputo told his audience that left-wing hit squads were being trained for insurrection and accused C.D.C. scientists of “sedition.” He complained that he was under siege by the news media, feeling paranoid, and that his “mental health was failing.” He accused the CDC of harboring a “secret resistance unit” determined to undermine President Trump.
Mr. Caputo, who lead efforts to warp C.D.C. weekly bulletins to fit Mr. Trump’s pandemic narrative, suggested that he personally could be in danger from opponents of the administration. “If you carry guns, buy ammunition, ladies and gentlemen, because it’s going to be hard to get,” he urged his followers. “I don’t like being alone in Washington,” Mr. Caputo said, describing “shadows on the ceiling in my apartment, there alone, shadows are so long.” He also said the mounting number of Covid-19 deaths was taking a toll on him, telling his viewers, “You are not waking up every morning and talking about dead Americans. But you should attend Trump rallies and wear a mask”.
SOUNDS LIKE TRUMP ONLY HIRES THE BEST PEOPLE 🤪🤪🤪🤪
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U.S. authorities have leveled the first conspiracy charge against a leader of an extremist group in the Jan. 6 storming of the U.S. Capitol, arresting an Oath Keeper who is accused of plotting to disrupt the electoral vote confirmation of President-elect Joe Biden’s victory and proposing further assaults on state capitols.
Thomas Edward Caldwell, 66, of Clarke County, Va., was taken into custody before 7 a.m. on four federal counts, including conspiracy to commit an offense against the United States in the attack on the Capitol. The conspiracy charge is reserved for offenses interfering with or obstructing the lawful operation of government.
A charging affidavit says he helped organize a group of eight to 10 individuals, including self-styled Ohio militia members apprehended Sunday, who wore helmets and military-style gear and were seen moving purposefully toward the top of the Capitol steps and leading the move against police lines.
Separately, charges were unsealed Wednesday accusing a Queens man who worked in the state court system of making threats to murder Democratic politicians, including suggesting another attack on the Capitol timed to President-elect Joe Biden’s inauguration Wednesday.
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the bish
Trumpian Quotes:
On February 28, Trump was asked by CNN's Jake Tapper if he would "unequivocally condemn" Duke and reject votes from him and other white supremacists. Trump responded: "I know nothing about David Duke. I know nothing about white supremacists." Tapper asked again if Trump would condemn white supremacists and reject their support; Trump refused to do that immediately, saying: "I have to look at the group ... You wouldn't want me to condemn a group that I know nothing about ... I would disavow if I thought there was something wrong." Tapper then specifically asked Trump about the Ku Klux Klan twice, with Trump replying: "But you may have groups in there that are totally fine, and it would be very unfair. So, give me a list of the groups, and I will let you know ... I don't know any — honestly, I don't know David Duke."[66] PolitiFact gave Trump's February 28 claim that he knew nothing about Duke their worst rating, "Pants on Fire!" false, pointing to his statements two days earlier, and in previous years 1991, 2000 and 2015.
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the bish
In 2011, Trump revived the already discredited Barack Obama citizenship conspiracy theories that had been in circulation since Obama's 2008 presidential campaign, and, for the following five years, he played a leading role in the so-called "birther movement".In Trump's first speech at CPAC in February 2011 he claimed that Obama "came out of nowhere. In fact, I'll take it even further: The people who went to school with him, they never saw him. They don't know who he is. It's crazy." After Obama released his long-form birth certificate in 2011, Trump claimed the certificate was a fraud. In September 2016, after Trump campaign surrogates falsely claimed that Trump had accepted Obama's citizenship in 2011, Trump acknowledged that Obama was born in the US, while falsely claiming that it was Hillary Clinton who originally raised questions about Obama's place of birth. In November 2017, The New York Times reported that Trump was "still privately asserting that Obama's birth certificate may have been fraudulent."
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the bish
The U.S. Department of Justice concluded that Arizona sheriff Joe Arpaio oversaw the worst pattern of racial profiling in U.S. history. The illegal tactics that he was using included "extreme racial profiling and sadistic punishments that involved the torture, humiliation, and degradation of Latino inmates". The DoJ filed suit against him for unlawful discriminatory police conduct. He ignored their orders and was subsequently convicted of contempt of court for continuing to racially profile Hispanics. Calling him "a great American patriot", President Trump pardoned him soon afterwards, even before sentencing took place. House speaker Paul Ryan, and both Arizona senators, John McCain and Jeff Flake, were critical of Trump's decision. Constitutional scholars also opposed the decision to grant the pardon, which according to Harvard Law School professor Noah Feldman was "an assault on the federal judiciary, the constitution and the rule of law itself". The American Civil Liberties Union, which was involved in the case resulting in Arpaio's conviction, tweeted: "By pardoning Joe Arpaio, Donald Trump has sent another disturbing signal to an emboldened white nationalist movement that this White House supports racism and bigotry." According to ACLU deputy legal director Cecilia Wang, the pardon was "a presidential endorsement of racism".
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@RA10H56
Than Jan 6th insurrection was the side show, what Trump was trying to do behind the riots was the true insurrection. You may know that Trump demanded that Pence “Do the Right Thing” what you Amy not know is what all was involved in doing the right thing. You should research Navarro & The Green Bay Sweep, Pre, During, and Post Text message to Mark Meadows from Rick Perry, Jim Jordan, Sean Hannity, Laura Ingraham, Brian Kilmeade, and several Congressmen, also the November 8th, 2021 Planing Document for the overthrow of the election. It is better that you find these on your own so that the information has meaning to you. If you struggle to find these items I will gladly provide you links. Research the issues is what I do.
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@keithm9337 In a second instance, AMI paid $150,000 to a woman who alleged she had a sexual relationship with TRUMP. When TRUMP explicitly directed a lawyer who then worked for the Trump Organization as TRUMP’s Special Counsel (“Special Counsel”) to reimburse AMI in cash, the Special Counsel indicated to TRUMP that the payment should be made via a shell company and not by cash. AMI ultimately declined to accept reimbursement after consulting their counsel. AMI, which later admitted its conduct was unlawful in an agreement with federal prosecutors, made false entries in its business records concerning the true purpose of the $150,000 payment.
In a third instance – 12 days before the presidential general election – the Special Counsel wired $130,000 to an attorney for an adult film actress. The Special Counsel, who has since pleaded guilty and served time in prison for making the illegal campaign contribution, made the payment through a shell corporation funded through a bank in Manhattan.
After winning the election, TRUMP reimbursed the Special Counsel through a series of monthly checks, first from the Donald J. Trump Revocable Trust – created in New York to hold the Trump Organization’s assets during TRUMP’s presidency – and later from TRUMP’s bank account. In total, 11 checks were issued for a phony purpose. Nine of those checks were signed by TRUMP. Each check was processed by the Trump Organization and illegally disguised as a payment for legal services rendered pursuant to a non-existent retainer agreement. In total, 34 false entries were made in New York business records to conceal the initial covert $130,000 payment. Further, participants in the scheme took steps that mischaracterized, for tax purposes, the true nature of the reimbursements.
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The deputy assistant secretary of labor for public affairs, said on Monday that Mr. Acosta had no comment. Pelosi, said Monday night that Mr. Acosta should resign because of the “unconscionable agreement” that he made with Mr. Epstein in 2008.
Alexander Acosta President Donald Trump nominated Republican Acosta to be Labor Secretary on February 16, 2017, and he was confirmed by the U.S. Senate on April 27, 2017.
Attorney General William P. Barr said on Monday during a trip to South Carolina that he had recused himself from the case because Mr. Barr’s former law firm, Kirkland & Ellis, had represented Mr. Epstein.
In 2002, Mr. Trump described Mr. Epstein as “a terrific guy,” telling New York Magazine, “It is even said that he likes beautiful women as much as I do, and many of them are on the younger side.”
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THE PLOT TO BETRAY AMERICA
How Russia saw Trump: ‘A potential asset and an exploitable victim’
‘Wow,” Michael McFaul, a former U.S. ambassador to Moscow, exclaimed on Twitter in late October. “We still need to understand why Trump remains so intent on appeasing Putin.”
What set off McFaul was testimony from a top State Department official that “senior officials in the White House” had blocked the department from condemning Moscow for attacking Ukrainian ships in the Azov Sea. And on that day it was telling that even McFaul, a Kremlin-watcher for nearly 40 years, was struggling to put his finger on exactly what had driven the president of the United States into the Russian strongman’s arms, tugging the Republican Party along with him.
Trump’s affinity for Vladimir Putin seemed to glow red during a now-notorious 2018 Helsinki news conference when he sided with the former KGB agent’s denials of election interference over U.S. intelligence agencies’ findings. But so much else has erupted before and since, from revelations that he was secretly pursuing a Moscow hotel deal during the 2016 campaign, to exposés of his business relations with Russian oligarchs, to his continuing criticism of the NATO alliance, to his acquiescence to Russian troops taking over abandoned U.S. bases in Syria, to his pressure on Ukraine’s president to say publicly that Kyiv, not Moscow, had hacked the computers of the Democratic National Committee.
Why do once-loyal men go bad? Mole hunters have an acronym for it: MICE, which stands for money, ideology, coercion/compromise and ego/excitement. Trump qualifies for three out of four, in the telling of Nance (and many others who’ve long followed Trump’s career), that explain his attachment to Moscow. Ideology’s not one of them, notwithstanding Trump’s crude nationalist populism that in many ways apes Putin’s kleptocratic rule. According to New York state records revealed by the Smoking Gun, he changed party registrations at least five times over the years.
His first wife, Ivana, a native of communist Czechoslovakia, whose Moscow-controlled spy service, the StB, had long counted her father as an informant. Her 1977 marriage to Trump had prompted the Czechs to open a dossier on him. “We knew that Trump was influential. He didn’t hide that he wanted to become president one day,” the StB’s then-chief said years later. “We were interested in learning more things about him.”
Especially his weaknesses. In Trump, they found two, a hunger for money and a raging ego, not to mention a lust for beautiful women. They began dangling opportunities — the Miss Universe contest, Trump Tower Moscow. They treated him like a potentate, affording him the bedroom suite reserved for princes and presidents at the Moscow Ritz-Carlton. Then, in the wake of Trump’s Atlantic City bankruptcies, Trump found new sources of cash from Russian sources, including the Kremlin-connected Deutsche Bank, Russian oligarchs who bought luxury condos in Trump Tower and “New York City allies from the former Soviet Union” who partnered with him in real estate deals from SoHo to Baku. One of them, Felix Sater, would eventually be accused of laundering hundreds of millions of dollars stolen from a Kazakhstan bank “to develop a Trump Tower in Moscow,” according to a lawsuit reported by the Associated Press.
That Trump wanted the details of his financial sources kept secret (along with his tax returns) was all the better, Nance notes: It gave Putin a better hold on him, a tool for coercion.
From the beginning, Russia had used “the MICE strategy to bring him under its sway, as his interest in Russia clearly blinded him,” Nance theorizes. “He was a potential asset and an exploitable victim worth keeping.”
Judging by his Russia-related decisions and pronouncements, the strategy has worked. Trump has dismissed Moscow’s subversion of American politics and pursued debunked conspiracy theories tying Ukraine to Hillary Clinton’s campaign. Equally important to Moscow’s strategic goals, he’s disparaged NATO and, by championing Brexit, undermined the European Union.
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JARED KUSHNER HAS CREATED A SHELL COMPANY TO FUNNEL CAMPAIGN CASH TO FAMILY MEMBERS.
Donald Trump and his family have spent the last four years making the airtight case that they view the presidency as simply a means to enrich themselves and their associates. They probably don’t particularly like that reputation and, yet, it hasn’t stopped them from funneling taxpayer money to their private business, gouging the Secret Service, and raising legal defense funds that the fine print says could go directly to their pockets. Oh, and, according to a new report, setting up a shell company that spent hundreds of millions of campaign dollars to pay Trump family members along with other expenditures it seemingly wanted to keep under wraps.
According to Business Insider, first son-in-law Jared Kushner personally approved the creation of the company, incorporated as American Made Media Consultants Corp. and American Made Media Consultants LLC, in April 2018. From there, Eric Trump’s wife, Lara Trump, was named president, with Mike Pence’s nephew John Pence serving as vice president. If you’re wondering why the shell company, described as Business Insider as acting “almost like a campaign within a campaign” was necessary, well, it’s not entirely clear, but it sure sounds like the express purpose was the ability to shield “financial and operational details from public scrutiny,” as it allowed the campaign to avoid federally mandated disclosures concerning what it was spending considerable amounts of money on. And by considerable we mean nearly half of the $1.26 billion raised for Trump’s reelection.
Campaign-finance records showed Trump's reelection effort and its affiliated committee with the RNC spent more than $600 million through American Made Consultants since its formation. For months, some of Trump’s top advisers and campaign staff told Insider they had no idea how the shell company functioned, which cast an air of mystery around the operation…. Some of those same advisers said they didn’t learn about John Pence’s and Lara Trump’s involvement until Insider contacted them for this story.
Campaign-law experts have long accused the Trump team of using a corporate pass-through to hide payments. The nonpartisan Campaign Legal Center, led by former Republican Federal Election Commission Chairman Trevor Potter, filed a civil complaint with the FEC in July accusing the Trump campaign of “disguising” about $170 million worth of campaign spending in large part “by laundering the funds” through AMMC. Brendan Fischer, the Campaign Legal Center’s director of federal reform, said the payments to AMMC were a “scheme to evade telling voters even the basics on where its money is really going” and a “shield to disguise the ultimate recipients of its spending.”
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Fredd smith
Why no charges Vol I of the Mueller Report. Because Criminal Conspiracy is incredibly hard to prove.
The Element of "Intent"
As with other specific intent crimes, a person's intention is key. But the court will also care about the mental states of the alleged partners in crime. Other individuals in the conspiracy must intend to agree, and all must intend to achieve the outcome.
Merely associating with people known to be involved in crime doesn't make you a co-conspirator. For instance, just because your friend tells you he is going to burglarize a house doesn't mean you are part of the conspiracy. Not unless you also agree to participate by acting as a getaway driver or helping him scope out the property ahead of time. [Seeking help from or receiving help from the Russians is not itself a crime. It is despicable, it is UnAmerican, but not criminal unless you commit a Overt Act, and the prosecution can demonstrate your intent]
The "Overt Act" Requirement
In most jurisdictions, at least one co-conspirator must take some concrete step in furtherance of the plan. In the bank robbery example, this could be rental of a car to use in the crime. The requirement of an overt act prevents people from being thrown in jail for merely talking about a crime. [Seeking help from or receiving help from Russian Spies is not a crime, it is despicable, it is Un American, it is a betrayal, but it is not a crime]
However, Obstruction of Justice is a crime and Volume II of the Mueller Report very clearly lays out 10 fine examples of Obstruction of Justice. Why did the House not choose to prosecute for Obstruction? Because they thought they had a sure thing with the Abuse of Power Charge. Remember the House Prosecutes and the Senate Deliberates. When the Senate is stacked against you, much like the OJ trial, Justice is not served. The Alt Republicans have lost their way and no longer have a Moral Compass.
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How TV Cable Companies Cover the Impeachment - an exercise in Propaganda:
Note: See if you can spot which company engages in Propaganda.
• CNN: EX-WHITE HOUSE AIDE: HIGHLY UNUSUAL EFFORT TO “LOCK DOWN”. TRANSCRIPT OF JULY 25 CALL WAS AN “ADMINISTRATIVE ERROR”
• Fox News: DEMS PRAISE VINDMAN FOR WORKING AGAINST TRUMP
• MSNBC: CONCLUDES AFTER MORE THAN 9 HOURS
At 9:13 p.m. that day, here’s what viewers saw.
• CNN: KEY WITNESSES QUESTIONED IN PUBLIC HEARINGS
• Fox News: SCHIFF STEERS IMPEACHMENT SHAM OFF A CLIFF / DEMS’ UKRAINE HOAX UNRAVELS ON CAPITOL HILL
• MSNBC: VINDMAN REASSURES SOVIET IMMIGRANT FATHER: HE WILL BE FINE FOR TELLING THE TRUTH / HOUSE INTEL COMPLETES 3RD DAY OF PUBLIC IMPEACHMENT HEARINGS
At 10:15 p.m.:
• CNN: SONDLAND TESTIFIES TOMORROW
• Fox News: VOLKER TESTIMONY UNDERMINES DEMS’ NARRATIVE
• MSNBC: IMPEACHMENT HEARING WRAPS AFTER 4 WITNESSES, 9+ HOURS / LT. COL VINDMAN, TRUMP’S TOP UKRAINE ADVISOR, TESTIFIES. TRUMP ACTED “IMPROPERLY” WHEN HE “DEMANDED” A FAVOR
At 10:51 p.m.:
• CNN: REPUBLICANS USE IMPEACHMENT HEARINGS TO QUESTION LOYALTY OF DECORATED ARMY VETERAN SPEAKING OUT AGAINST TRUMP
• Fox News: CHICK-FIL-A CAVES TO LIBERAL MOB
• MSNBC: EU AMB. GORDON SONDLAND TESTIFIES TOMORROW MORNING / SONDLAND WILL FACE QUESTIONS ABOUT PREVIOUSLY. UNKNOWN CALL TO TRUMP FROM RESTAURANT IN UKRAINE
Following day 8:12 p.m.:
• CNN: SONDLAND TIES PRES. TRUMP, VP PENCE, SECY. OF STATE POMPEO. AND WH CHIEF OF STAFF MULVANEY TO PRESSURE CAMPAIGN / SONDLAND: “EVERYONE WAS IN THE LOOP” ON UKRAINE PRESSURE
• Fox News: “NO QUID PRO QUO”
Half an hour later, while CNN was still covering Sondland’s testimony, Fox News was discussing the Clinton Foundation.
At 10:54 p.m., here’s what the two networks were showing viewers.
• CNN: SONDLAND: ‘YES’ THERE WAS QUID PRO QUO. IN UKRAINE SCANDAL
• Fox News: SWALWELL CAUSES A STINK
That latter text referred to a viral video clip that appeared to have captured the sound of flatulence while Rep. Eric Swalwell (D-Calif.) was appearing on MSNBC the previous day.
On Thursday, similar divides were on display. At 9:53 p.m., here’s what each network showed — perhaps the most representative comparison of any.
• CNN: NO REPUBLICANS BUDGE AFTER ALL THE FACTS, EVIDENCE REVEALED IN 3O+ HOURS OF PUBLIC TESTIMONY / MEMBERS OF PRESIDENT’S PARTY CROSSED AISLE IN NIXON & CLINTON IMPEACHMENT PROCEEDINGS, BUT NOT NOW
• Fox News: FBI OFFICIAL UNDER INVESTIGATION FOR ALLEGEDLY ALTERING DOC RELATED TO PAGE SURVEILLANCE, CNN REPORTS
• MSNBC: NIXON PLEDGED TO FIGHT TO KEEP HIS PRESIDENCY / IMPEACHMENT HEARING WITNESSES WRAP UP WEEK OF EXPLOSIVE TESTIMONY
There’s a reason that Trump’s current press secretary has only given interviews to Fox News and not other broadcast or major cable networks. Why would Trump need a White House communications director when he has a generously friendly cable network that’s already popular with the people he wants to talk to anyway?
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