Comments by "" (@DavidJ222) on "Face the Nation"
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Trump's failure as a president was inevitable. Trump was never equipped to do his job. He doesn't have the necessary tools or the wherewithal to do his job. Trump is grossly incapacitated intellectually, mentally, emotionally, temperamentally, socially, and psychologically. He couldn't properly do his job as president even if he wanted to. (Which he doesn't)Â
Trump was always going to fail, and he was always going to blame his failures on someone or something. Lying, cheating, and bullying are his only tools for survival. They are the tools of his trade, which is being an agent of chaos, misery, and destruction. It's all he knows. He is a sad and pathetic excuse for a human being. In fact, he is less of a human being, and more of a collection of every human flaw known to mankind, all rolled into one man.
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The true character of a person will always be revealed when they are faced with a crisis or adversity. And the eternal question will always be, when it truly mattered, did they do the right thing? So far, Trump has failed. And Trump has never failed to fail, because failing has always been the easiest thing for him to do..
âI think, importantly, what Obama did leave Trump is a global health infrastructure that we had set up informed by the lessons of the Ebola outbreak,â Ben Rhodes said before pointing to a National Security Council (NSC) pandemic directorate that was dismantled by the Trump administration in 2018.
And what we did is set up, in the White House, ... an office that was responsible for managing pandemics, managing global health threats that was shut down two years ago by President Trump.
And when you donât have an office like that, you donât have dedicated people inside the White House who are ensuring that information is acted upon. When you see an outbreak in a place like Wuhan, China, you want people in the White House who are thinking about what needs to be done right away so that you donât get behind the curve, which is what happened in this White House.
You need a president whoâs willing to hear bad news, willing to understand that theyâre going to have to focus on something that they may have not intended to focus on. President trump clearly did not want to hear that bad news when he heard about the outbreak in coronavirus,â
--Ben Rhodes, Former Deputy National Security Adviser under President Obama
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So nearly everyone in Trump's inner circle and campaign, were in some way, in contact with, or secretly meeting with the Russians, and they ALL lied about it. Enough said.
Former CIA Director Gen. Michael Hayden said the plan by chief White House adviser Jared Kushner who discussed plans with the Russan Ambassador, to establish a secret communication channel with the Kremlin â using Russian facilities â without any monitoring by the U.S. was âoff the mapâ and like nothing he has seen in his lifetime. âWhat manner of ignorance, chaos, hubris, suspicion, contempt would you have to have to think that doing this with the Russian ambassador was a good or an appropriate idea?â Hayden stated.Â
What Kushner tried to do is exactly what American traitors have done in the past when they've decided to start working for the Russian government. It's basically what Aldrich Ames did in 1985, when he walked into the Soviet Union Embassy in DC, and turned over highly classified information to the Russians.
Trump and his people were warned by Obama, Sally Yates, and the FBI, that Russia was actively trying to infiltrate Trump's inner circle. And what does Trump do? He fired Comey, and Sally Yates, the very people who had warned him about what the Russians were up to. Even after Trump had been warned, his people were still holding secret meetings with the Russians, and they all lied about it......every single person lied about their meetings with the Russians. And then on the day after Trump fired Comey, the guy who was in charge of the FBI, the agency charged with catching Russian spies, Trump invites the Russian foreign minister, and Russia's Ambassador to the Oval Office, and brags about firing the head of the FBI.  Let all of that sink in for a minute.
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Trump: "I'm not taking responsibility for any of this. People are acting like I'm a REAL president and a real leader. I'm the same guy who betrayed America in front of the entire world in Helsinki. I'm nothing more than a fraud, who with the help of Putin, managed to con my way into the Oval Office. Plus most people knew I was fundamentally unfit intellectually, morally, temperamentally, emotionally, and psychologically to be president. Someone as mentally unstable and divorced from reality as I clearly am, should have NEVER been allowed anywhere near the White House...
So again, don't blame me, blame the people who were dumb enough to vote for me. Blame republicans in Congress who aided, abetted, and pardoned my crimes. Blame people like Lindsey Graham and Moscow Mitch. They both know exactly who and what I am, but yet they continue to defend me. For crying out loud, Lindsey Graham even stated on fox, that I was in fact, a Krazy, race-baiting bigot. So you see, I'm the same person that I've always been, an irredeemable con-man and a sociopath, but you already knew that."
âI think heâs a kook, I think heâs crazy. I think heâs unfit for office."
--Lindsey Graham on Trump, Feb, 2016
"Hereâs what youâre buying: Heâs a race-baiting, xenophobic religious bigot. He doesnât represent my party. He doesnât represent the values that the men and women who wear the uniform are fighting for. And you know how you make America great again, by telling Donald Trump to go to he//."
--Lindsey Graham on Trump, Dec 8, 2015
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Deutsche Bank has launched an internal investigation into the longtime personal banker for Trump and Jared Kushner. The bank is looking into Rosemary Vrablic to determine if she had acted improperly when she and two colleagues bought an apartment for about $1.5 million in 2013 from Bergel 715 Associates.
In a financial disclosure report, Kushner and Ivanka said they had received $1 million to $5 million from Bergel 715 in 2019. The couple had not previously reported having an ownership stake in the company.
Kushner and Trump were clients of Vrablic at the time of the 2013 sale and had received about $190 million in loans from Deutsche Bank. Both were also granted hundreds of millions of dollars after that point, according to the Times. Banks usually prohibit employees from conducting personal business with clients out of concerns of conflicts of interest.Â
Even before Trump became president, his relationship with Deutsche Bank fell under scrutiny because of his TREMENDOUS debts to the bank, which at the time was being fined by US regulators over its provision of toxic mortgages that played a role in the 2008 housing crash. There were concerns that if elected, Trump could intervene in the Deutsche Bank case with a view to protecting his own companies.
One of the bankâs more troubling activities was laundering billions of Russian rubles (via sham transactions known as âmirror tradesâ) into U.S. dollars. Then there was client Trump. The smooth persuasions, the obsequious flatteries, the lying about his net worth to garner loans for office buildings, resorts, casinos. Just how disconnected and delusional the bank became can be seen in its ongoing relationship with Trump, whose multiple bankruptcies had made him a pariah in the banking world.
When Deutscheâs real estate team cut off Trump, private banking opened the spigot. When a loan came due, Trump had NO INTENTIONS of repaying, as if the rules for him were different. Deutscheâs brass was so in-thrall to Trumpâs fake celebrity, and so eager to expand in America, one division lent $48 million to cancel the debt on a Chicago skyscraper â a debt Trump had defaulted on with another wing of the same bank. But the private banking division, which catered to the rich and famous, arranged the loan anyway â and then, when Trump stopped making payments, arranged another loan for Trump. đ˛
Deutsche Bank bought Trump's con the same way American voters would. In what could serve as a requiem for the countryâs lost innocence, the general counsel at Deutsche said, âWhat the he// are we doing lending money to a guy like this?â đ
In the summer of 2016, Kushnerâs real estate company (which received lavish financing from Deutsche) was moving money to various Russians. A bank compliance officer filed a âsuspicious activity report,â but the report was quashed and she was fired. The suggestion is that maybe the money was payback for Russian campaign meddling. Management at Deutsche tended to look the other way when employees broke the rules, even when they did business with dictators like Putin and their friends.
Trump and Jared's relationship with the bank became a subject to the Mueller investigation. The special counsel specifically focused on a $285m loan that Deutsche Bank granted Kushnerâs company only a month before Trump was elected â and just as the bank was settling with state prosecutors over charges it had aided in a Russian money-laundering scheme.
The bank is fighting off subpoenas for Trumpâs financial records, in particular his tax returns. Trump sued to prevent his records from being turned over, but the Supreme Court ultimately ruled 7-2 that presidents are not immune from criminal investigation.
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Dr. Fiona Hill testimony before the House Intel committee.
"Based on questions and statements I have heard, some of you on this committee appear to believe that Russia and its security services did not conduct a campaign against our countryâand that perhaps, somehow, for some reason, Ukraine did. This is a fictional narrative that has been perpetrated and propagated by the Russian security services themselves.
The unfortunate truth is that Russia was the foreign power that systematically attacked our democratic institutions in 2016. This is the public conclusion of our intelligence agencies, confirmed in bipartisan Congressional reports. It is beyond dispute, even if some of the underlying details must remain classified.
The impact of the successful 2016 Russian campaign remains evident today. Our nation is being torn apart. Truth is questioned. Our highly professional and expert career foreign service is being undermined.
Right now, Russiaâs security services and their proxies have geared up to repeat their interference in the 2020 election. We are running out of time to stop them. In the course of this investigation, I would ask that you please not promote politically driven falsehoods that so clearly advance Russian interests.
Ukraine is a valued partner of the United States, and it plays an important role in our national security. And as I told this Committee last month, I refuse to be part of an effort to legitimize an alternate narrative that the Ukrainian government is a U.S. adversary, and that Ukraineânot Russiaâattacked us in 2016.
These fictions are harmful even if they are deployed for purely domestic political purposes. President Putin and the Russian security services operate like a Super PAC. They deploy millions of dollars to weaponize our own political opposition research and false narratives.Â
If the President, or anyone else, impedes or subverts the national security of the United States in order to further domestic political or personal interests, that is more than worthy of your attention. But we must not let domestic politics stop us from defending ourselves against the foreign powers who truly wish us harm."
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Trump despises working class everyday Americans, He has always looked down on them. And this comes as no surprise to anyone who has personally known Trump for years.
On his show on May 19, Howard Stern asked the same question I've been asking myself since the 2016 campaign. Howard Stern, who has personally known Trunp for decades, questioned why people would vote for Trump, when in reality, Trump is disgusted by his biggest supporters. According to Stern, like himself, Trump isnât cut out for running a government, and the Trump supporters are to blame for the countryâs troubles. Stern went on to say that Trump would be âdisgustedâ by the MAGA crew..
Howard Stern: âThe oddity in all of this is the people Trump despises most, love him the most,â Stern said. âThe people who are voting for Trump for the most part... he wouldnât even let them in a f---ing hotel. Heâd be disgusted by them. Go to Mar-a-Lago, see if thereâs any people who look like you. Iâm talking to you in the audience - the Trump voter who, you know, idolizes the guy. He despises you."
âI donât hate Donald,â he continued. âI hate you for voting for him, for not having intelligence. For not being able to see whatâs going on with the coronavirus, for not being able to see what the Justice Department is doing. I hate you, I donât want you here.â
Trump: âMaybe this Covid thing is a good thing. I donât have to shake hands with these disgusting people.â
In case any of you Trump supporters are confused, he's talking about YOU. đ
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July 16, 2018. That was the day Traitor Trump betrayed America. That was the day that every deceased American president, from Washington, Jefferson, Lincoln, T. Roosevelt, FDR, Truman, Eisenhower, Reagan, and Bush, sat straight up in their graves.
Trump: "My people came to me, Dan Coates 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. 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."
Putin was extremely strong and powerful by the way he resisted the urge to burst out laughing when Trump uttered those words.
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Recently President Obama held a virtual meeting with mayors and local leaders across America. In that meeting, Obama advised them on the BIGGEST MISTAKE any leader could make during a crisis such as the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic. Â
âThe biggest mistake any of us can make in these situations is to misinform, particularly when weâre requiring people to make sacrifices and take actions that might not be their natural inclination. leaders in a crisis have to give the people the truth. Speak the truth. Speak it clearly. Speak it with compassion. Speak it with empathy for what folks are going through. The more smart people you have around you, and the less embarrassed you are to ask questions, the better your response is going to be."
-- President Barack Obama
But that's not at all what we got at all during this national health crisis. What we got instead, was Trump, who makes it his mission, to go on TV and lie to the American people every single day. And that's exactly what he's been doing, since day one.
According to Trump, he doesn't have to be intellectually curious, or informed, he just has to be loud, boisterous, and assertive. It also helps if you can lie with confidence. You have to be able to overwhelm the masses with so many lies, that by the time they've debunked just one of your lies, you've already told 20 more new lies.
Meanwhile, Trump's is continuing his mission of gaslighting to oblivion, the feeble and atrophied minds of his cultists, with lies about how great of a job he's doing.
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Trump: "For the record, I was never a big fan of testing, because I like the numbers where they are right now. So when the number of infection cases goes up because of more testing, don't blame me. And I take no responsibility for any of these, and the reason why is because everyone knew that I was fundamentally unfit intellectually, morally, temperamentally, emotionally, and psychologically to be president. Someone as mentally unstable and divorced from reality as I clearly am, should have NEVER been allowed anywhere near the White House. So again, don't blame me, blame the people who voted for me. Blame the people like Lindsey Graham who continue to defend me."
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On Fox, Rudy said he's not worried about Trump throwing him under the bus, because he has "insurance." Well clearly that can only mean one thing, Rudy is admitting to having evidence of Trump's criminality.đ
And make no mistake, Trump's other longtime partner in crime, Roger Stone, will definitely try to cut a deal. Because there is absolutely no way a coward like him is going to go to prison if he can help it. His only chance of preventing that from happening is giving up Trump.
This is usually what happens with any criminal organization when the feds are closing in on them. Trump's den of thieves has quickly turned into Barter Town in Mad Max Beyond the Thunderdome. We are witnessing the treacherous behavior of criminals when they start hedging their bets. Nonstop chaos, upheaval, back-stabbing, unbridled buffoonery, cowardice, and betrayal is about to ensue.
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Trump: "But if you only count the votes that were for me, I won by a tremendous landslide." đ
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This is how he thinks.
Let's be clear, the only reason Trump won in 2016 was because millions of Americans didn't vote. The voter turnout in 2016 was only 54%. Voter turnout in 2020 was exceptionally high at 66.8%. If voter turnout had been 66% in 2016, Trump would have lost that election as well. And this is why Republicans are engaging in voter suppression.
DJT openly admitted on fox that making it easier for more Americans to vote would hurt the Republican party.
DJT: âThe things they had in there were krazy. They had things, levels of voting that if youâd ever agreed to it, youâd never have a Republican elected in this country again,â Trump said during an appearance on Fox.
âI donât want everybody to vote,â Paul Weyrich, an influential conservative activist, said in 1980. âAs a matter of fact, our leverage in the elections quite candidly goes up as the voting populace goes down.â
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Trump: "For the record, I was never a big fan of testing, because I like the numbers where they are right now. So when the number of infection cases goes up because of more testing, don't blame me. And I take no responsibility for any of this, and the reason why is because everyone knew that I was fundamentally unfit intellectually, morally, temperamentally, emotionally, and psychologically to be president. Someone as mentally unstable and divorced from reality as I clearly am, should have NEVER been allowed anywhere near the White House. So again, don't blame me, blame the people who voted for me. Blame the people like Lindsey Graham who continue to defend me."
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Trump tried to rewrite his father's will in 1990 to strengthen his position as the only person to inherit his father's estate. But Fred Trump foiled the attempt, as he feared his son could strip his estate and use it to rescue his own failing businesses, The Times reported, citing depositions and other documents it obtained.
Trump had sent his father a document that would make him the sole executor of the estate and protect his portion of his inheritance from creditors and his impending divorce settlement.
Despite his father's will having already been written by a top real estate lawyer, Trump had his own lawyers draft a new copy and sent it to his father in December 1990. Trump sent his father the 12-page document and asked him to sign it immediately. Fred Trump, then 85, and in the hospital, had not seen the document before, and saw the move as an attempt to go behind his back.
He showed the document to his daughter Maryanne Trump Barry, a federal judge at the time. She recalled in her deposition that he told her, "This doesn't pass the smell test," The Times reported.
Then Fred Trump had lawyers draft new documents stripping his son of sole control of the estate. Notes from those lawyers cited by The Times show that Fred Trump's instructions were to "protect assets from DJT, Donald's creditors."
Sworn depositions made by unnamed members of the Trump family during a dispute over Donald Trump's nieces' and nephews' inheritance were obtained by The Times. Those depositions showed that Fred Trump believed the document his son wanted him to sign would put his vast business empire at risk.
Had his father signed the document, which he did not, it also would have given Donald Trump sole control over his dying father's estate.
Fred Trump was, according to the sworn Trump family testimonies obtained by The Times, angered by his son's attempt to rewrite his own will without his prior knowledge or consent.
If Trump would do this to his own father and siblings, what do you think he would do to the country and the American people?
If Trump's own father and siblings couldn't trust him, why on earth should the American people trust him?
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