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Instead of fighting the virus during this pandemic, Trump has been busy fighting Governors, Mayors, first responders, scientists, doctors, nurses, facts, science, common sense, and the constitution.
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As a Marine veteran, it warms my heart to know that there are still some true American patriots out there who are still willing to resist, still willing to stand-up and speak truth to power. Patriots who still believe in putting country first. Patriots who still believe in serving a cause greater than themselves. Patriots like Dr. Fiona Hill, Ambassador Bill Taylor, Ambassador Yovanovitch, Lt.Col. Vindman, David Holmes, Jennifer Williams, and others. To all of these patriots, and others out there like them, I salute you.
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This is a perfect example of why fox is the definition of fake news, and why it constitutes a national security threat to the country.
"I'm right on this, the coronavirus is the common cold folks. The hype of this thing as a pandemic, as the Andromeda strain, as OMG if you get it you're dead."
-- Rush Limbaugh, February 24
"The more I learn about coronavirus, the less concerned I am."
-- Pete Hegseth, Fox News, March 8
"The national left wing media, playing up fears of the coronavirus."
-- Lou Dobbs, Fox News, March 9
"The sky is falling because we have a few dozen cases of coronavirus on a cruise ship. I am far more concerned with stepping on a used heroin needle than I am of getting the coronavirus, but maybe that's just me."
-- Tomi Lahren, Fox News, March 10
"It's a virus, like the flu. All the talk about coronavirus being so much more deadly, doesnât reflect reality."
-- Jeanine Pirro, Fox News, March 7
"This virus should be compared to the flu, because at worst, at WORST, worst case scenario, it could be the flu."
Dr. Marc Siegel, Fox News, March 6
" You wanna know how I really feel about the coronavirus? If I get it, I'll beat it. I'm not afraid of the coronavirus!!! And no one else should be that afraid either."
-- Jesse Watters, Fox News, March 3
"It's milder than we thought, and the fatality rate is going to drop."
-- Dr. Drew Pinsky, Fox News, March 2
"It very very difficult to contract this virus."
-- Matt Schlapp, Fox News, March 11
"Its actually the safest time to fly."
-- Ainsley Earnhardt, Fox News, March 13
"One of things that you can do is if you're healthy, you and your family, it's a great time to just go out, go to a local restaurant, likely you can get in easily."
-- Devin Nunes, Fox News, March 15
"I felt it was a pandemic long before it was called a pandemic. I took it very seriously."
-- Trump, March 17
"By the way, this program has always taken the coronavirus seriously."
-- Hannity, Fox News, March 18
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A "Trump opportunity zone?!?!"
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 terminally ill, was 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 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 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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Trump: "When I said, 'Go to the church,' I didn't know protesters or not. Nobody tells me that. No one tells me anything around here. Like during that solar eclipse, no one told me not to stare directly at it. So they say, 'Yes my Lord, we'll go to the church.'"
"When I went, I didn't say, 'Oh, move them out'âI didn't know who was there. I simply told them to dominate the streets. I figured I was just going to take a leisurely stroll over to the church, very nearby, and in the spirt of Caligula, casually dominate everything along the way."
"So we walked over to the church - It was a very fast walk, but not too fast, but kinda fast. It could've been faster, but Bill "lunchbox" Barr kept slowing me down. I think it was very symbolic. Yes, I did hold up a Bible, but not for too long, because that Bible got really really hot. It started to burn my hands. It must have been one of those deep state Bibles or something.
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Trump: "When I was a child, I spoke like a child. I thought like a child. I reasoned like a child. When I became a full grown baby, I spoke like a man-baby, I thought like a man-baby, I reasoned like a man-baby."
Republicans like Joni Ernst and Susan Collins are trying to convince us that by some miracle, Trump has finally seen the light, and that he has now learned his lesson. Really?!?!
Republicans are treating Trump the exact same way that his parents treated him as a child, by rewarding him for his bad behavior. They have basically told Trump that there will be no consequences for anything that he does, and not only will they not punish him, they will protect him from being punished by anyone else. This is how Trump's parents created a monster without boundaries. A sociopath who is oblivious or indifferent to the devastation he causes to everything around him. A sociopath who will never accept blame himself, but instead blames others, even for acts he obviously committed.
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The unredacted emails between Defense Department and Office of Management and Budget officials revealed that between June and September â when the Ukrainian aid was ultimately released following the whistleblower's complaint â the Defense Department repeatedly asked the OMB why the military aid was being held up.
The unredacted emails were secured through a lawsuit under the Freedom of Information Act launched by the Center for Public Integrity. The DoD warned several times that continuing to withhold the aid violated the Impoundment Control Act, which stipulates that if the federal funds are not spent on their designated purpose within a certain period, they will be taken, or impounded, by the Treasury Department.
The timeline of Trump's impeachable acts, and the DoJ sloppy attempt at a cover-up:
â June 19, OMB aide, Robert Blair, learned that Trump was questioning the delivery of the aid package, at which point Blair told Russell Vought, the acting head of the office, that "we need to hold it up."
â That day, another OMB official, Michael Duffey, emailed the acting Defense Department comptroller, Elaine McCusker, and copied Mark Sandy, an OMB official on national-security programs, to ask if she had "insight on this funding."
â After McCusker explained on June 25 which companies were producing the military equipment and said that only $7 million of the Pentagon's $250 million part of the package had been spent, Blair told Mick Mulvaney on June 27 that they should "expect Congress to become unhinged" by withholding the aid.
â July 25, Sandy officially froze the Ukraine aid. This was also the day Trump spoke with President Zelensky on the phone and asked him to launch a bogus investigation on Joe Biden and his son. Shortly after Trump's call, Duffey emailed several Pentagon officials and asked them to "please hold off on any additional DOD obligations of these funds." He requested that the recipients keep the directive "closely held to those who need to know" because of "the sensitive nature of the request."
â McCusker replied that same day and asked whether the OMB had cleared the hold with the Defense Department's lawyers. This was the first sign of the Pentagon's concerns about the legality of withholding the aid.
â July 26, John Rood, the head of policy at the Pentagon, emailed Defense Secretary Mark Esper a readout of a meeting in which top national-security officials voiced their "unanimous support" for sending the security assistance. On August 9, McCusker warned Sandy, Duffey, and other senior OMB officials that if the aid was not released soon, it might affect the "timely execution" of the program. "We hope it won't and will do all we can to execute once the policy decision is made, but can no longer make that declarative statement," she wrote. The DOJ redacted this warning from McCusker, which, notably, contradicted the OMB's talking points.
â August 12, when it became clear that Trump would continue the aid freeze, McCusker emailed Duffey and asked him to include language in a footnote in a budgeting document to reflect the growing risk of withholding funding. The language was not included, and the request was redacted in the initial document release.The DOJ also redacted several emails from McCusker near the end of August raising additional legal questions about withholding the aid and the possibility that Trump's actions violated the Impoundment Control Act..
â August 28, after Politico publicly revealed the aid freeze, the OMB's general counsel, Mark Paoletta, sent around talking points including that "no action has been taken by OMB that would preclude the obligation of these funds before the end of the fiscal year."
â McCusker pushed back, writing: "I don't agree to the revised TPs â the last one is just not accurate from a financial execution standpoint, something we have been consistently conveying for a few weeks." Her response was initially redacted.
â As September came around, McCusker raised concerns about whether the Defense Department would be "adequately protected from what may happen as a result of the Ukraine obligation pause." She added, "I realize we need to continue to give the WH as much decision space as possible, but am concerned we have not officially documented the fact that we can not promise full execution at this point in the fiscal year."
â September 9, Duffey sent McCusker a misleading email suggesting that if the president greenlighted the aid but the Pentagon was not able to obligate the funding, it would be on the Pentagon and not the OMB..
â McCusker responded: "You can't be serious. I am speechless."
â September 11, after Congress became aware of a whistleblower's complaint accusing Trump of "using the power of his office to solicit interference from a foreign country" in the 2020 election, Duffey emailed McCusker and said the president had lifted the hold on Ukraine's military aid.
â "Glad to have this behind us," he wrote.
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If we added up the anti-democracy maneuvers of the prior 10 presidents over the past 60 years, they wouldnât equal Trump alone in under four yearsâindeed, if you compare the eight close associates of Trump convicted or indicted in his almost-one term of office, that would again exceed those of all presidents combined (excepting Watergate felons) from Kennedy to Obama.
On Aug. 7, 1974, Sen. Barry Goldwater, R-Ariz., House Minority Leader John Rhodes, R-Ariz., and Senate Minority Leader Hugh Scott, R-Pa., made it clear to Nixon that he faced all-but-certain impeachment, conviction, and removal from office in connection with the Watergate scandal...
Nixon announced his resignation the next day, effective at noon on Aug 9, 1974.
In his 2006 book "Conservatives Without Conscience," former Nixon White House Counsel John Dean wrote that the Capitol Hill trio "traveled to the White House to tell Nixon it was time to resign."
In his 1988 autobiography, Goldwater wrote that after hearing their grim assessment, Nixon "knew beyond any doubt that one way or another his presidency was finished."
This was back when the Republican party still had at least a modicum of dignity, decency, integrity, and a sense of right and wrong. Today, thanks to Trump, Moscow Mitch, Graham, Nunes, Jordan, Barr, Meadows, and others, the wholesale corruption of the GOP is now complete.
The Republican Party is now led by a kleptocratic crime boss who rules over the most scandal-ridden administration in history. Many of his closest advisers and associates have either been imprisoned or are facing prison time. Trump himself is trying to cheat in this election in order to stay in office and avoid prosecution. Nixonâs administration may have been riddled with criminalityâbut in 1973, the Republican Party was still a somewhat normal party, that still played by the rules, so Nixon was forced to resign. But not anymore. Those days are long gone.
The corruption we see in the Republican party today can be defined as institutional depravity. It isnât an occasional failure to uphold norms, but a consistent repudiation of them. It isnât about dirty money so much as the pursuit and abuse of powerâpower as an end in itself, justifying almost any means.
Todayâs Republican Party has cornered itself in with a base of ever older, more male, more rural, more radical conservative voters. They could have tried to expand; instead, theyâve hardened and walled themselves off. This is why the Republican Party lies about the risks of voter fraud, so that it can pass laws to suppress voter turnout.
Taking away democratic rightsâextreme gerrymandering; blocking an elected president from nominating a Supreme Court justice; selectively paring voting rolls and polling places; creating spurious anti-fraud commissions; misusing the census to undercount the opposition; calling lame-duck legislative sessions to pass laws against the will of the votersâis the Republican Partyâs main political strategy.
Republicans have chosen suppression and authoritarianism, because unlike the Dems, their party isnât a coalition of interests in search of a majority. The Republican party isn't interested in what the majority of Americans want.
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It's very important that we all remember the unwarranted outrage and criticism Republicans leveled on President Obama and his response to the Ebola virus outbreak. And Trump of all people, even tweeted that Obama should apologize to the American people, and resign. And this was after only 11 reported Ebola cases and 2 deaths in America.
Republican Darrell Issa, said the response had been inept, characterized by over-confidence and ill-considered procedures to protect U.S. healthcare workers at home.
âAny further fumbles, bumbles or missteps ... can no longer be tolerated,â Issa told a hearing of the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee.
Then-Rep. Tom Cotton (R-Ark.) said Obama was ânot protecting our country and our families from Ebola,â suggesting the administration was not doing enough to combat the disease.
Ted Cruz called Obamaâs Ebola response âfundamentally unserious."
Ultimately, the ebola outbreak resulted in 11 confirmed cases and only two deaths in the U.S. Obamaâs quick response to the virus included deploying nearly 3,000 service members to West Africa to help contain the outbreak there..
Because of Obama's leadership, the Ebola virus did not spread in the US. There were only two deaths from the disease in the country, and both of them were people who contracted it in Africa. History has proven that the Obama administrationâs response to the Ebola virus was competent and effective.
Trump tweet, 10/23/14
"If this doctor, who is reckless flew into New York from West Africa has Ebola, then Obama should apologize to the American people & resign."
Today there have been more than 6.42 million confirmed coronavirus cases in the US, and 195K deaths.
So after 195k coronavirus deaths, what should Trump do?Â
Well lets see, not only should he resign, he should first drop to his knees and apologize to America for the needless loss of so many American lives. He should then get on his knees, and apologize to Obama, and beg him for forgiveness. He should then turn himself into authorities and admit to his criminal negligence, dereliction duty, and to violating his oath of office.
"What President Obama did leave Trump, was a global health infrastructure that we had set up, informed by the lessons of the Ebola outbreak,â Ben Rhodes, Former Deputy National Security Adviser under Obama said, referring to the NSC pandemic directorate that was dismantled by Trump in 2018.
Trump has defended his record, arguing, âIâm a "businessperson." I donât like having thousands of people around when you donât need them. When we need them, we can get them back very quickly.â
But experts argue thatâs not how pandemic preparedness works, and that's definitely not how a virus works. âYou build a fire department ahead of time,â Tom Inglesby, director of the Johns Hopkins Center for Health Security stated. âYou donât wait for a fire.â
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I am a firm believer in the people. If given the truth, they can be depended upon to meet any national crisis. The great point is to bring them the real facts.
--Abraham Lincoln
Make no mistake, this is far from over. Between, Parnas and Bolton, the truth about Trump's crimes will inevitably be revealed. Every week will bring a new revelation of the criminal activities of this illegitimate president, along with the names of all the Republicans who were complicit in aiding and abetting his criminal activity.
Lev Parnas" lawyer sent a letter to Moscow Mitch stating that he is ready to give testimony, as well as provide documents, that will prove that GOP Super PAC America One, Rudy, Pompeo, Rick Perry, Mulvaney, Bill Barr, Nunes, Pence, and Desperate Housewife of Capitol Hill đLindsey Graham, were all part of Trump's scheme to bribe Ukraine.
Is it any wonder why Republicans were so vehemently against introducing witnesses and evidence into the Senate trial. They were covering up their own crimes. But it will all come to the light eventually. It's only a matter of time.
Trumpâs corruption and criminal nature is like a highly infectious and deadly pathogen. He will contaminate and destroy anyone and anything he comes into contact with. His corrosive and insidious nature is a full blown epidemic.
"The truth is incontrovertible. Malice may attack it, ignorance may deride it, but in the end, there it is."
--Winston Churchill
"Three things cannot be long hidden: the sun, the moon, and the truth."
--Buddha
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Trump's white house has been operating the same as Barter Town in Mad Max Beyond the Thunderdome.. It's nonstop chaos, pandemonium, betrayal, back-stabbing, thievery, treason, upheaval, nepotism, cronyism, bedlam, and sanctioned lawlessness.
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What do Putin, Kim Jong Un, Saudi Royal MBS, and Xi Jinping all have in common? They are all brutal strongmen and dictators who demand respect, obedience, loyalty, and want their followers to willingly believe and do anything they tell them. This is exactly why Trump has a sick and demented admiration for these tyrants. He sees himself as one of them.
Trump: â Kim Jong Un speaks and his people sit up at attention. I want my people to do the same.â Trump later said anyone who doesnât cheer for anything he says is a traitor committing treason.
It doesnât matter to Trump cultists that he chooses to side with Russia, Turkey, and Saudi Arabia over America, because all Trump has to do is hold a rally, hug the American flag, while telling the crowd to shout, âU-S-A!â And then all of a sudden, that warm and fuzzy feeling of counterfeit patriotism washes over them.
At a rally held by Steve Bannon this past March, an angry and hostile woman took the mic and said, âNever in my life did I think I would like to see a dictator, but if thereâs gonna be one, I want it to be Trump!â which was met with loud cheers and applause from Bannon and the crowd of cultists. It goes without saying that any American who would cheer for that, doesn't believe in liberty, freedom, or the Constitution. Anyone American that cheers for that clearly supports fascism and dictatorships. Trump's cultists don't want an elected official to govern on behalf of the people, they want an authoritarian dictator who will force his will on the nation, and punish anyone who doesn't submit to dogmatic obedience.
Trump cultists like to talk about how much theylove and support our troops and veterans, then continue to worship a man who steps on the military every chance he gets. Trump promised he would donate to military charities, then didnât, then lied about it. He attacked John McCain during the campaign for no reason, attacked him throughout his term, and continues to attack McCain after his passing. He even made the Navy cover-up the name of the USS John McCain during his trip to Pearl Harbor. That was pretty low even for Trump.
When Republican Congressman and war veteran Dan Crenshaw, who lost his eye in combat serving this country, tweeted to Trump, âSeriously stop talking about Senator John McCain,â Trump supporters turned on veteran Crenshaw and harassed, threatened and insulted him on twitter. They defended a known coward and draft dodger, and attacked Crenshaw, a wounded war veteran who served this country honorably. Let that sink in for a moment.
At a rally in August 2016, a war veteran presented his Purple Heart medal to Trump, and he took it and said, âI always wanted one of these, this way is much easier.â Utterly disgusting.
No other politician, Republican or Democrat, would have EVER accepted that from a veteran.
Semper Fi..
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This goes much deeper than Trump's ego. According to Trump, every life lost will be worth it if he can win reelection. The thing we must all remember, is that Trump is a narcissist, and a sociopath.
A sociopathic narcissist like Trump is a person on a quest for power and control, who uses the love and admiration of others as a tool to dominate and manipulate, and who goes about all of this thinking that it is his right and that he is justified. There will be no guilt, no apologies, and no remorse coming from the narcissistic sociopath.
Trump pretty much checks every box for the diagnostic criterion of a sociopathic narcissist.
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 seek out situations where their tyrannical behavior will be tolerated, condoned, or admired.
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 usually upset a normal person. Since they are not genuine, neither are their promises.Â
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, he has victims, and accomplices, who will also end up as victims. ( Cohen, Manafort, Stone, Flynn) The end always justifies the means and they let nothing stand in their way.Â
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.Â
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.
Poor Behavioral Controls/Impulsive Nature:
Believe they are all-powerful, all-knowing, entitled to every wish, no sense of personal boundaries, no concern for their impact on others.Â
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.
Some of the problems a sociopathic narcissist like Trump will face include: Trouble handling criticism, easily becoming impatient or angry if they don't think they are being treated correctly. They feel easily slighted. They try to belittle others or react with rage to make themselves seem superior. They have trouble adapting to change and dealing with stress. They secretly feel insecure, vulnerable, and humiliated, and have a very fragile self-esteem.
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Rand Paul isn't even qualified to speak to Dr. Fauci without permission. Especially when you realize that Rand Paul isn't even a real doctor himself.
Dr. Anthony Fauci was appointed Director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID) in1984. He oversees an extensive research portfolio of basic and applied research to prevent, diagnose, and treat established infectious diseases such as HIV/AIDS, respiratory infections, diarrheal diseases, tuberculosis and malaria as well as emerging diseases such as Ebola and Zika.
Dr. Fauci has advised six Presidents on HIV/AIDS and many other domestic and global health issues. He was one of the principal architects of the Presidentâs Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief (PEPFAR), a program that has saved millions of lives throughout the developing world.
Dr. Fauci also is the longtime chief of the Laboratory of Immunoregulation. He has made many contributions to basic and clinical research on the pathogenesis and treatment of immune-mediated and infectious diseases. He helped pioneer the field of human immunoregulation by making important basic scientific observations that underpin the current understanding of the regulation of the human immune response.
Dr. Fauci is a member of the US National Academy of Sciences and has received numerous awards, including the National Medal of Science, the Mary Woodard Lasker Award for Public Service, and the Presidential Medal of Freedom. He has been awarded 38 honorary doctoral degrees and is the author, coauthor, or editor of more than 1,200 scientific publications, including several major textbooks.
In a 2019 analysis of Google Scholar citations, Dr. Fauci ranked as the 41st most highly cited researcher of ALL TIME. According to the Web of Science, he ranked 8th out of more than 2.2 million authors in the field of immunology by total citation count between 1980 and January 2019. Today, countless people around the world owe their very lives to Dr. Fauci, and the work he has done..
Now, who is this Randy Paul again?
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Trump said that COVID-19 âcame out of nowhereâ and âblindsided the world.â His comments left scientists, doctors, and national security experts in a state of disbelief. Experts had been warning about the next pandemic for years and criticized Trumpâs decision in 2018 to dismantle a National Security Council directorate at the White House, charged with preparing for WHEN, NOT if, another pandemic would hit the nation.
Trumpâs elimination of the office suggested, along with his proposed budget cuts for the CDC, that he did not see or comprehend the threat of pandemics.
âOne year later I was mystified when the White House dissolved the office, leaving the country less prepared for pandemics like COVID-19,â Beth Cameron, the first director of the unit, wrote in an op-ed. She said the directorate was set up to be the âsmoke alarmâ and get ahead of emergencies and sound a warning at the earliest sign of fire â âall with the goal of avoiding a six-alarm fire.â
Public-health experts have stated that Trump's early efforts to downplay the threat of the virus robbed the US of valuable time needed to prepare for what is now a pandemic â potentially costing thousands of lives.
Trump spent "two months of completely ignoring every bit of scientific advice," Dr. Ashish Jha, the director of the Harvard Global Health Institute stated in mid-March. "We've wasted two months. And this is not a disease where you're allowed to waste two months."
Jha, who received his doctorate in medicine from Harvard Medical school, criticized Trump for telling Americans that everything was "under control" when it was very clear to anybody paying attention that it was not under control."
"I don't use these words lightly, and it's incredibly painful for me to say it," he said, adding: "The cost of all of this is that tens of thousands of Americans are going to die unnecessarily." He went on to say: "It was wholly preventable, and not just preventable in hindsight â it was preventable in foresight. Everybody said this is how it was going to play out if they didn't act."
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Trump will be remembered as the greatest most "tremendous" American traitor that ever lived. Move over Benedict Arnold.
Lets face it, when Trump has to choose between America and Russia, America doesn't stand a chance. His track record has proven that he will choose Russia everytime. Trump proved this to be true in Helsinki.
So Putin invades the sovereign country of Ukraine, engages in nerve agent attacks against our ally in England, shoots down a commercial airliner over Ukraine, killing all 298 passengers, including 80 children, he interferes in our presidential elections, and now we've learned that he has placed a bounty on the heads of our troops in Afghanistan. In 2019, John Bolton told colleagues that he briefed Trump on the matter in March 2019.
Trump had access to the information earlier, in February. It appeared in the presidentâs daily brief on Feb. 27. The investigation has homed in on a car bombing in April 2019 that k!lled three Marines. That attack occurred the month after Bolton reportedly briefed Trump about the bounties..
Felicia Arculeo, whose son Cpl. Robert Hendriks, 25, died in the attack, told CNBC that she wanted an investigation into the claims that the victims were targeted by Taliban fighters who were offered bounties by Russian military intelligence agents. Sgt. Benjamin Hines, 31, and Staff Sgt. Christopher Slutman, 43, were the other Marines k!lled in the attack, which came days before they were due to return home from Afghanistan.
And now after all of that, Trump wants to reward Putin's tyrannical and hostile behavior, by lifting sanctions on Russia, and bringing it back into the G-7. And since Trump received the first briefing about the Russain bounties in Feb, he has been laughing it up with Putin in multiple phone calls on Mar 30, April 9, 10, 12, 25, May 7, and June 1. And even NOW, Trump has never uttered one word of condemnation towards Putin. Not......one.
Let all of that sink in for a minute. Take your time.
Semper Fi...
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The seeds for corruption, incompetence, and the failure of Trump's presidency were planted before Trump was even sworn in, and he planted them himself. With his own hands, Trump sowed the seeds of ineptitude, indifference, and criminal incompetence, that have now defined his presidency...
From The Guardian:
Chris Christie volunteered himself for the job of running Trump's presidential transition team. But when he went to see Trump about it, Trump said he didnât want a presidential transition team. Why did anyone need to plan anything before he actually became president? Itâs legally required, said Christie. Trump asked where the money was going to come from to pay for the transition team. Christie explained that Trump could either pay for it himself or take it out of campaign funds. Trump didnât want to pay for it himself. He didnât want to take it out of campaign funds, either, but he agreed, grudgingly, that Christie should go ahead and raise a separate fund to pay for his transition team. âBut not too much!â he said.
The transition team now moved into an office in downtown Washington DC, and went looking for people to occupy the top 500 jobs in the federal government. They needed to fill all the cabinet positions, of course, but also a whole bunch of others that no one in the Trump campaign even knew existed.
The first time Trump paid attention to any of this was when he read about it in the newspaper. The story revealed that Trumpâs very own transition team had raised several million dollars to pay the staff. The moment he saw it, Trump called Steve Bannon from his office on the 26th floor of Trump Tower, and told him to come immediately to his residence, many floors above. Bannon stepped off the elevator to find Christie seated on a sofa, being hollered at. Trump was apoplectic, yelling:Â Youâre stealing my money! Youâre stealing my phucking money! What the phuck is this?
Seeing Bannon, Trump turned on him and screamed: Why are you letting him steal my phucking money? Bannon and Christie together set out to explain federal law to man-baby. Months before the election, the law said, the nominees of the two major parties were expected to prepare to take control of the government. The government supplied them with office space in downtown DC, along with computers and rubbish bins and so on, but the campaigns paid their people. To which Trump, the now "law & order president " replied: "phuck the law. I donât give a phuck about the law. I want my phucking money!!" Bannon and Christie tried to explain that Trump couldnât have both his money and a transition.
Shut it down, said Trump. Shut down the transition. Bannon was finally able to convince man-baby why he needed a transition team. So Christie went back to preparing for a Trump administration. He tried to stay out of the news, but that proved difficult. From time to time, Trump would see something in the paper about Christieâs fundraising and become upset all over again. The money that people donated to his campaign Trump considered, effectively, his own money.
Christie would eventually be fired by Jared Kushner. Kushnerâs role in his sacking was confirmed to him by Steve Bannon. But it wasnât just Christie who would be fired. It was the entire transition team â although no one ever told them so directly. As Nancy Cook reported in Politico, Bannon visited the transition headquarters a few days after he had given Christie the news, and made a show of tossing the work the people there had done for Trump into the bin. Trump was going to handle the transition more or less by himself. Not even Bannon thought this was a good idea. âI was phucking nervous as sh*t,â Bannon later told friends. âI go, âHoly phuck, this guy Trump doesnât know anything. And he doesnât give a sh*t.ââ
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Twitter has shut down multiple accounts that it says were operated by a white supremacist group posing as liberal groups encouraging violence.
A white supremacist group created a fake Twitter account, posed as the Antifa movement and called for violence during the ongoing protests sweeping the nation, Twitter said.
âTonightâs the night comrades," the group tweeted on Sunday. âTonight we say âf--k the cityâ and we move into residential areas... the white hoods... and we take whatâs ours.â
Twitter said the white supremacist group Identity Evropa used one fake account, @Antifa_US, to call for violence in majority white suburbs, in the name of the Black Lives Matter movement.
"This account violated our platform manipulation and spam policy, specifically the creation of fake accounts. We took action after the account sent a Tweet inciting violence and broke the Twitter Rules" the company said.
Twitter said it has also targeted other fake accounts run by Identity Evropa. The company said the accounts posted hateful tweets targeting race, religion and sexual orientation.
Twitter has seen a wave of fake accounts spreading false information about the ongoing protests in recent days.
Trump and his supporters have claimed, without evidence, that Antifa is behind the violence seen in some of the protests nationwide.
In an internal FBI situation report, the FBIâs Washington Field Office found no intel evidence indicating Antifa involvement or presence in the violence that occurred on May 31 during the D.C.-area protests. That same day, Trump announced on Twitter that he would designate âAntifaâ a terrorist organization, even though antifa is not an organized group.
But not surprisingly, the report did warn that individuals from a far-right social media group had called for far-right provocateurs to attack federal agents, and use automatic weapons against protesters. A Department of Homeland Security intelligence note warned law-enforcement officials that a white supremacist channel on the encrypted messaging app Telegram encouraged its followers to incite violence to start a race war during the protests.
Antifa, short for anti-facist, poses a threat to a devout fascist like Trump, so it only makes sense that Trump would want to go after them. Adolf did the same thing to opponents of his fascist regime. It's only natural that a fascist would view any anti-facist group has his enemy.
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âTHESE are the times that try men's souls. The summer soldier and the sunshine patriot will, in this crisis, shrink from the service of their country; but he that stands by it now, deserves the love and thanks of man and woman.
â Thomas Paine, The Crisis
At the close of the Constitutional Convention of 1787, Benjamin Franklin was asked a question as he left Independence Hall on the final day of deliberation. In the notes of Dr. James McHenry, one of Marylandâs delegates to the Convention, a lady asked Dr. Franklin: âWell Doctor, what have we got, a republic or a monarchy?"
Benjamin Franklin replied:Â âA republic....if you can keep it.â
Trump and the Republican party are telling us that we can no longer keep it. They are telling us that the "idea" that is America, is over.
This election will determine whether or not we keep our 244 year old democratic republic, or see it replaced with a tyrant and his despotic monarchy. Make no mistake, America is in a fight for it's very survival, because Trump and his henchmen have made it abundantly clear that this country isn't big enough for him and our democratic republic, so therefore one of them MUST GO!!!
So you see, the choices are simple. On Nov 3rd, make a decision. America vs Trump. Democracy vs tyranny. Who's side are you on?
âIf there is one fact we really can prove, from the history that we really do know, it is that despotism can be a development, often a late development and very often indeed the end of societies that have been highly democratic. A despotism may almost be defined as a tired democracy. As fatigue falls on a community, the citizens are less inclined for that eternal vigilance which has truly been called the price of liberty; and they prefer to arm only one single sentinel to watch the city while they sleep.âÂ
â G.K. Chesterton, The Everlasting Man
âThe actions of government, we are told, bear down only on imprudent souls who provoke them. The man who resigns himself and keeps silent is always safe. Reassured by this worthless and specious argument, we do not protest against the oppressors. Instead we find fault with the victims. Nobody knows how to be brave even prudentially. Everyone stays silent, keeping his head low in the self-deceiving hope of disarming the powers that be by his silence. People give despotism free access, flattering themselves they will be treated with consideration. Eyes to the ground, each person walks in silence the narrow path leading him safely to the tomb.âÂ
â Benjamin Constant, Principles of Politics Applicable to All Government
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Adam Schiff has been the MVP of the trial so far. Trump's defense team has no answer or real defense for anything that Schiff has laid out before the American people. And this isn't Adam Schiff's first rodeo. He has a history of prosecuting traitors to this country. In the late 80s and early 90s as a District Attorney in Cali, Adam Schiff successfully prosecuted the case of a Russian spy named Svetlana Ogorodonikov, and an FBI agent named Richard W. Miller, who was seduced by Svetlana Ogorodnikov, and agreed to sell classified information to the Soviet government. Eventually, this manâRichard W. Miller, a 47-year-old Los Angeles-based counterintelligence agent on the Bureauâs Soviet squadâwould become the first FBI agent ever convicted of espionage.
Agent Miller would eventually agree to turnover highly classified information to the Russians for large sums of money. It took Schiff 3 trails, and 6 years, but he eventually won the conviction against Agent Miller and the Russian spy, and they were both sent to prison.
During those years, Schiff stated that he learned a lot about Russian tradecraft, and how the Russians operate, who they target, and the vulnerabilities they look for. During his work on the case, Schiff was also in frequent contact with FBI agents investigating Millerâgiving the future congressman an intimate look at, and respect for, the Bureauâs counterintelligence mission against threats from from Russia, and it's mission of protecting the national security of this nation from all enemies, foreign and domestic.
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In the newly released audio, Trumpâs sister Maryanne Trump Barry is critical about Donald, saying she did his homework for him and that he is, among other things, unprepared, a brat, and cruel.Â
âItâs the phoniness of it all. Itâs the phoniness and this cruelty. Donald is cruel,â Barry told her niece.
âAll he wants to do is appeal to his base,â Barry said. âHe has no principles. None. None. And his base, I mean my God, if you were a religious person, you want to help people. Not do this.âÂ
Trump's sister was aghast at how he operated as president. âHis gawd@mned tweet and lying, oh my God,â she said. âIâm talking too freely, but you know. The change of stories. The lack of preparation. The lying. Holy s*t. What theyâre doing with kids at the border."
Trump's sister also explained how she tried to help Trump academically, noting that âhe was a brat,â and that, âI did his homework for himâ and âdrove him around NYC to try to get him into college.â She said she didnât know of anything Donald had ever accomplished on his own, but noted that âhe has five bankruptciesâ which he achieved all by himself." đ âYou CAN'T trust him,â she added.
She also made it clear that she was still upset by how Trump chose to celebrate himself at their fatherâs funeral in 1999.
"During that ceremony, Donald spoke more about his own accomplishments than his fatherâs life," Maryanne said.
âDonald was the only one who didnât speak about Dad,â she said. She told Mary that âI donât want any of my siblings to speak at my funeral. And thatâs all about Donald and what he did at Dadâs funeral. I donât know. It was all about him.â
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The notion that Trump was actually concerned about corruption in Ukraine, or corruption in general, is laughable. He even had the audacity to call himself the "law & order" president.
Trump is not only the most corrupt president in American history, he's the most corrupt president imaginable. If someone had told me years ago that we would ever have a president this immoral, unethical, deceitful, and sociopathic, I would have laughed. Well....I'm not laughing now. đ Nixon's ghost can finally rest in peace, because Nixon is no longer the most corrupt president in American history.
November of last year, Trump was ordered by a judge to pay $2 m in damages for illegally using funds intended for charity to boost his 2016 presidential election campaign.
Trump had to admit to personally misusing the money, according to the New Yorkâs attorney general office, despite having previously denied any wrongdoing. The fine adds to several other investigations into allegations that he is using public office for self-enrichment.
The lawsuit last year states that Trump, and his three money grubbing useless children - Don Jr, Ivanka and Eric - broke campaign finance laws in 2016 by using Trump Foundationâs tax-exempt status âas little more than a checkbook to serve Trumpâs business and political interests.
Trump and his talentless children, had violated their fiduciary duties as officers and directors of the now-shuttered Trump Foundation. As a result of that failure, charitable dollars â consistently and over many years â often benefited Trump rather than the causes he repeatedly claimed he supports.
There was âa shocking pattern of illegality involving the Trump Foundation â including unlawful coordination with the Trump presidential campaign, repeated and willful self-dealing, and much more,â the suit claimed.
In the agreements, Trump admitted to misusing funds from the foundation, which he dissolved last year, including to pay for a portrait himself that cost $10,000. He also agreed to pay back $11,525 he spent on sports memorabilia and champagne at a charity gala.
Trump also directed the foundation to use money for charity to buy a Tim Tebow helmet for himself, and to settle a couple of lawsuits.
Trump also admitted in the agreements to directing that $100,000 in foundation money be used to settle legal claims over an 80-foot flagpole he had built at his Mar-a-Lago resort, instead of paying the expense out of his own pocket..
In addition, the charity foundation paid $158,000 to resolve a lawsuit over a prize for a hole-in-one contest at a Trump-owned golf course, and $5,000 for ads promoting Trumpâs hotels in the programs for charitable events. Trump admitted these transactions were also improper.
But let's be honest, what Trump did wasn't just improper, it was downright criminal and reprehensible..
Jan, 2016
Trump: "My whole life Iâve been greedy, greedy, greedy. Iâve grabbed all the money I could get. Iâm so greedy."
Jan 9, 2016
"Now, Iâll tell you, Iâm good at that â so, you know, Iâve always taken in money,â he said at a rally in Iowa. âI like money. Iâm very greedy. Iâm a greedy person. I shouldnât tell you that, Iâm a greedy â Iâve always been greedy. I love money, right?
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Trump: "So here's the good news: The virus is a hoax, this will all disappear like magic, this virus is no different than the flu, I'm doing a great job, my uncle went to MIT, and we're not going to let the cure be worse than the problem. I'm going to open up the country soon. My authority is total."
COVID-19: "So here's the bad news. I am immune to Trump's lies and gaslighting, I can't read a calendar, so I don't know when May 1 is, I can't be defeated with magic, because I am real, and magic is not. I can only be defeated with science, facts, and common sense, and your so called president is a criminally incompetent sociopath who doesn't believe in science, facts, or common sense. I am not religious, but that won't stop me from going to places of worship.
I'm nothing like the flu, but the flu is a fan of mine, and it wants to be like me when it grows up. There is no cure for me, and that's the problem. I singlehandedly shutdown MIT. No one wants Trump to prematurely open up the country, and end social distancing more than me. I don't recognize anyone's authority."
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A narcissistic sociopath like Trump is a person that only cares about power, control, and self-adulation. There will be no guilt, no apologies, and no sense of remorse coming from a narcissistic sociopath.
Trump pretty much checks every box for the diagnostic criterion of a sociopathic narcissist.
~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 seek out situations where their tyrannical behavior will be tolerated, condoned, or admired.
~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 usually upset a normal person. Since they are not genuine, neither are their promises..
~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, he has victims, and accomplices, who will also end up as victims. ( Cohen, Manafort, Stone, Flynn) The end always justifies the means and they let nothing stand in their way...
~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.Â
~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..
~Poor Behavioral Controls/Impulsive Nature:
Believe they are all-powerful, all-knowing, entitled to every wish, no sense of personal boundaries, no concern for their impact on others.Â
~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.
Some of the problems a sociopathic narcissist like Trump will face include: Trouble handling criticism, easily becoming impatient or angry if they don't think they are being treated correctly. They feel easily slighted. They try to belittle others or react with rage to make themselves seem superior. They have trouble adapting to change and dealing with stress. They secretly feel insecure, vulnerable, and humiliated, and have a very fragile self-esteem.
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Romney stayed true to his oath of office, and for that, he should be applauded. No Senator or Congressman swears an oath to the president. They swear an oath to the Constitution, and to the people of this country. However Trump, being the megalomaniac that he is, believes that everyone should swear an oath to him. And anyone who doesn't, should be called a "never Trumper." As if being a never Trumper comes with some sort of negative connotation. Being called a never Trumper is like having a badge honor bestowed upon you. It simply means that you put your country, and the Constitution before an undeserving and illegitimate con-man.
Being a never Trumper is something we should all aspire to be. For there is nothing more righteous, than being a never Trumper. I salute Romney, Schiff, and all of his colleagues, for having the courage and the integrity to remain true to their oaths, and for standing up for our Constitution, the country, and the American people.
 "The subtle and deadly change of heart that might occur in you, would be involved with the realization that a civilization is not destroyed by wicked people; it is not necessary that people be wicked, but only that they be spineless.âÂ
â James Baldwin, The Fire Next Time
âIn a word, I was too cowardly to do what I knew to be right, as I had been too cowardly to avoid doing what I knew to be wrong.âÂ
â Charles Dickens, Great Expectations
This pretty much sums up the loathsome state of the Republican party today
We are currently facing a Constitution crisis, and our democracy as we know it, is on the line.
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 he do the right thing? So far, republicans have failed..
âTHESE are the times that try men's souls. The summer soldier and the sunshine patriot will, in this crisis, shrink from the service of their country; but he that stands by it now, deserves the love and thanks of man and woman.
â Thomas Paine, The Crisis
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It's almost as if the Founders were clairvoyant when they placed articles of impeachment into the Constitution. They clearly had envisioned someone like Trump in America's future. Someone who would say that as president, he can do whatever he wants. The articles of impeachment were tailor made for a wannabe dictator like Trump..
âWe the people are the rightful masters of both Congress and the courts, not to overthrow the Constitution but to overthrow the men who pervert the Constitution.âÂ
â Abraham Lincoln
âWhatever government is not a government of laws, is a despotism, let it be called what it mayâÂ
â Daniel Webste
âTo announce that there must be no criticism of the President, or that we are to stand by the President, right or wrong, is not only unpatriotic and servile, but is morally treasonable to the American public.â
â Theodore Roosevelt
If what Trump has done isn't wrong, then that means that nothing is wrong. if Trump isn't impeachable, then that means that no president will ever be impeachable, no matter what they do. And that will spell the end of our democracy, our Constitution, and our republic. We will be back to where we were before the Declaration of Independence was signed. It will be as if we never fought and won a war of independence against a King..
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Today,, our constitution, and our democracy won, and an insecure, thin skinned wannabe dictator lost. Congratulations America!!!đ
And as for Trump, take this "L" and wear it around your neck. It looks good on you.
June 15 2018, Trump praises Kim Jung Un's control over his people.
"He's the head of the country," Trump said of Kim Friday during a Fox interview.
"And I mean he's the strong head. Don't let anyone think anything different."
"He speaks and his people sit up at attention,"Â Trump added. "I want my people to do the same."
Sept 30 2018, Trump confesses the love he has for his muse, Kim Jung Un, during a rally.
"I like him, he likes me. I guess thatâs okay. Am I allowed to say that?â Trump said.
 âAnd then we fell in love, okayâ he said. âNo really. He wrote me beautiful letters, and theyâre great letters. We fell in love.â
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Trump's presidency will be remembered as "The Great Oppression."Â And he will be remembered as "The Great Pretender." Trump is, and has always been, a fraud. Therefore his failure as a leader and as a president was inevitable.
Trump was always going to fail, and he was always going to blame his failures on someone else, or something else.
In her new book, Trump's niece says Trump was scarred by his father and developed habits of lying and self-deception that shadowed him into the White House.
"This is far beyond garden-variety narcissism," Mary Trump writes in her book. "Donald is not simply weak, his ego is a fragile thing that must be bolstered every moment because he knows deep down that he is nothing of what he claims to be."
"In Donald's mind, even acknowledging an inevitable threat would indicate weakness. Taking responsibility would open him up to blame. Being a hero â being good â is impossible for him," she writes in the book.
"The people with access to him are weaker than Donald is, more craven, but just as desperate. Their futures are directly dependent on his success and favor," she said. "Although more powerful people put Donald into the institutions that have shielded him since the very beginning, it's people weaker than he is who are keeping him there."
"His pathologies have rendered him so simple-minded that it takes nothing more than repeating to him the things he says to and about himself dozens of times a day â he's the smartest, the greatest, the best â to get him to do whatever they want, whether it's imprisoning children in concentration camps, betraying allies, implementing economy-crushing tax cuts, or degrading every institution that's contributed to the United States' rise and the flourishing of liberal democracy."
Trump's initial response to the coronavirus "underscores his need to minimize negativity at all costs," Mary Trump writes.
She points to Gov. Cuomo's response to his state's outbreak of COVID-19 cases as an example of "real leadership," further revealing the president as a "petty, pathetic little man â ignorant, incapable, out of his depth, and lost to his own delusional spin."
At the end, Mary Trump writes "Donald isn't really the problem after all" â it is his enablers, from his father to the celebrity media to the congressional Republicans who acquitted him of impeachment.
"This is the end result of Donald's having continually been given a pass and rewarded not just for his failures but for his transgressions â against tradition, against decency, against the law, and against fellow human beings," she writes.
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Ryan Zinke, another one of Trump's " very best people" who is facing an ethics probe over land dealings, insisted a month ago that he still has Trumpâs full support.
While Zinke was in CA touring the deadly Camp Fire damage in Paradise with Gov. Brown, He told The Sacramento Bee he has no recollection of meeting in 2017 with wealthy Sacramento land baron Angelo Tsakopoulos, as first reported by the Washington Post.
Zinke is being investigated on multiple fronts. In what is considered the most serious matter, the Interior Departmentâs acting inspector general has referred to the DoJ, an investigation into whether Zinke acted improperly in connection with a land deal in Whitefish, Mont., with the head of oil-services conglomerate HALLIBURTON. As secretary, Zinke oversees oil and gas drilling operations on federal lands.
In the interview with The Sacramento Bee, Zinke said: "I talk to the president, he understands. These are vicious attacks.â Zinke said the president backs him â100 percent.â
The main probe, centers on Zinkeâs involvement with a Montana land deal backed by David Lesar, the chair of Halliburton, an oil field services company. A foundation established by Zinke and run by his wife, Lolita Zinke, owns land in Zinkeâs hometown of Whitefish, Montana. Lesarâs developer is planning to build on some of the land, Politico reported this summer. The proposed hotel and retail stores that the developer wants to build in Whitefish also stand to boost property values in a nearby parcel of land owned by the Zinkes.
As an oil field service firm, Halliburton has direct and indirect business involving the Interior Department, which manages mining and drilling rights on federal lands.
Zinke remained involved with his foundation even after he took office as secretary of the interior, violating an ethics pledge he signed in Jan 2017. Emails showed that he was still coordinating the land deal as late as August 2017. The investigation, now in the hands of the DoJ, could result in criminal charges.
BUT WAIT...THERE'S MORE!!! The IG is also investigating whether Zinke improperly used agency funds to pay for travel for his wife. There are several other probes into Zinkeâs conduct by other government oversight groups, including the US Office of Special Counsel and the House Oversight Committee. In total, Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington tallied 17 federal investigations around Zinke. It puts him on par with Scott Pruitt, who was forced to resign after a tsunami of scandals caught up with him.
Even Zinkeâs aboveboard actions are just as alarming. Zinke has presided over the largest rollback of federal land protections in US history, approved new development in wilderness areas, and opened up NEARLY ALL, US coastal waters to offshore drilling.
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Trump: "I am the chaos and disorder president. I am the purveyor of fear & loathing, of pandemics & death. I am the provocateur of mayhem and upheaval. And I am creating an America in my own image: vile, dark, hopeless, backwards,
grotesque, insecure, selfish, indecent, malevolent, paranoid, indifferent, sociopathic, inept, and deceitful."
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Trump never misses an opportunity to display the utter contempt he has for America and the American people. In a tweet today, Trump claimed that the 75-year-old protester in Buffalo NY, who was pushed down by police officers, may have just been acting.
Trump: âBuffalo protester shoved by Police could be an ANTIFA provocateur,â Trump wrote. â75 year old Martin Gugino was pushed away after appearing to scan police communications in order to black out the equipment. @OANN I watched, he fell harder than was pushed. Was aiming scanner. Could be a set up?â
Guginoâs attorney, Kelly Zarcone, told The Associated Press that âNo one from law enforcement has even suggested anything otherwise, so we are at a loss to understand why the president of the United States would make such dark, dangerous, and untrue accusations about him. We can confirm that those accusations are utterly baseless and ridiculous,â she said.
Trump was parroting lies and propaganda from One America, a far-right network that's actually more craven than Fox. One of the on-air reporters at the 24-hour network is a Russian national on the payroll of the Kremlinâs official propaganda outlet, Sputnik.
Kristian Brunovich Rouz, originally from the Siberian city of Novosibirsk, has been living in San Diego, where OAN is based, since August 2017, reporting on U.S. politics for the 24-hour news channel. For all of that time, heâs been simultaneously writing for Sputnik, a Kremlin-owned news wire that played a role in Russiaâs 2016 election-interference operation, according to an assessment by the U.S. intelligence community.
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In his interview with Lester Holt, Trump literally admitted to obstructing justice when he said he fired Comey because he wouldn't stop the Russia investigation.
Trump and his people were warned by Obama, Sally Yates, Comey, 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. And they all got a big laugh out of it, at America's expense. Let that sink in for a moment.
On July 16, 2018 in Helsinki, Trump threw America and the men and women in our intelligence agencies under the bus once again when he sided with Putin.
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It's becoming abundantly clear, that Trump and republicans are now owned by Russians. They receive their funding for Russians, and then they receive their marching orders from Russians. That's how it works whenever you've been fully bought, and fully compromised.
Lev Parnas, the indicted associate of Rudy, received a $1 million payment from Russia and tried to hide it from investigators, prosecutors have now stated. Trump denies knowing Lev Parnas and Igor Fruman, even though they have attended events at his properties, and they have posed in multiple photos with Trump.
Parnas, who was charged with illegally funneling foreign cash to Republican politicians, including a pro-Trump super PAC, received $1 million from a mysterious account in Russia in September, which he conveniently forgot disclose to the government.
Lev Parnas paid Rudy $500,000. The mysterious payment from Russia should not be a surprise considering that all roads lead to Putin and Russia when it comes to Trump.
Prosecutors say Lev Parnas and Igor Fruman donated larger sums of money to Republicans in an effort to enlist them in their effort to oust then-Ukraine Ambassador Marie Yovanovitch, who testified that she was recalled after a smear campaign by Rudy. Along with their work with Rudy, Parnas and Fruman are accused of meeting at Trumpâs Washington hotel to discuss a Ukraine gas deal linked to Yovanovitchâs removal.
Parnas was throwing Russian money at Republicans like beads at Mardi Gras to any republican that was willing to expose themselves to him.
In October, Repub. McCarthy said he plans to donate the $111,000 that was given to the House Republicans' main fundraising committee by Igor Fruman and Lev Parnas.
A handful of Republican campaign committees received nearly $500,000 from Parnas and Fruman..
Prosecutors say that they âconspired to circumvent the federal laws against foreign influence by engaging in a scheme to funnel foreign money to candidates for federal and state office so that the defendants could buy potential influence with candidates, campaigns and the candidatesâ governments.â
In 2018, Parnas and Fruman donated directly to Texas GOP Rep. Pete Sessions. Fruman also gave to SC. GOP Rep. Joe Wilson and to a joint fundraising committee tied to Florida Gov. Rick Scott in his successful bid for Senate. Both Sessions and Wilson have acknowledged meeting with both men.Â
Fruman and Parnas also gave to other joint fundraising committees, which drew more GOP lawmakers. FEC records show that 22 other Republicans who were lawmakers at the time received contributions from Fruman, who misspelled his last name as âFurmanâ in filings in âa further effort to hide the source of the funds and to evade federal reporting requirements,â according to the indictment.
Moscow Mitch knew from receiving intelligence briefings in 2016 that our electoral process was under attack by the Russians. Two weeks after the Dept of Homeland Security and the Office of the Director of National Intelligence issued a joint statement in October 2016 that the Russian government had directed the effort to interfere in our electoral process, Moscow Mitch's PAC accepted a $1 million donation from Blavatnik's AI-Altep Holdings. The PAC took another $1 million from Blavatnik's AI-Altep Holdings on March 30, 2017, just 10 days after Comey publicly testified before the House Intelligence Committee about Russia's interference in the election.
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"I have a chapter in the book on malignant narcissism as a characteristic of destructive cult leaders. These are people who have a deep need for grandiosity, to be the center of attention, who need to control others, and who lack empathy and lie without hesitation. These are psychological traits perfectly attuned to manipulation and projection.
But the malignant part is about sociopathic tendencies. Almost every cult leader thinks heâs above the law, which is why heâs allowed to persecute and harass or harm anyone he wants. When someone really believes this, they can rationalize all kinds of destructive behavior.
I began this book with the assumption that Trump is a malignant narcissist. Actually, watching him and listening to him reminded me of Sun Myung Moon, the leader of the cult I joined in college, in that both have a kind of God complex where theyâre the only one with the answers, the only one who can fix things. Moon was going to create a theocracy and Trump was going to âdrain the swamp.â But the way they carry themselves is similar.
But what really made me think of Trump as a cult was the way the groups who supported him were behaving, especially religious groups who believed that God had chosen Trump or was using Trump. There are actual pro-Trump religious groups, like the New Apostolic Reformation, whose leaders were saying, âWeâre of God. The rest of the world is of Satan, and we need to follow our chosen leaders who are connected to God.â
There was this blind-faith aspect to the whole thing and an unwillingness to look at any inconvenient facts. Thatâs all very cult-like.
The bottom line is that I see very sophisticated mind-control techniques being used through the media, through religious broadcasters and radio talk-show hosts. Itâs a black-and-white, all-or-nothing, good-versus-evil, authoritarian view of reality that is mostly fear-based. And thereâs a deliberate focus on denying facts in order to protect the image of the leader."
--Steven Hassan, The Cult of Trump
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President Obama visited our Troops overseas 7 times. That's not even counting the multiple times he visited our troops at military bases here during the holidays. Obama visited our troops in Iraq just 3 months after taking office. Traitor Trump waited two whole years before he visited our troops for the first time in Iraq. And that was only because he was pushed to do so. And even then, he turned that visit into a rally for himself, and used our troops as political props.
As a compromised President and traitor, Trump serves at the pleasure of Putin. He's not interested in protecting our troops, he's only interested in slavishly serving and protecting Putin. And if that means selling out our troops, then so be it. As far as Trump is concerned, their lives are a small price to pay, just as long as he gets what he wants.
Since the 80s the Russians have been financially supporting Trump and bailing him out from bankruptcy after American banks stopped loaning Trump money. He is still indebted to them today. And just like any loyal dog, Trump knows better than to bite the hand that feeds him..
And now, In order to garner favor with Putin, Trump is allowing him to place bounties on the lives of our troops serving in Afghanistan. This is what happens when you have a disloyal treasonous cretin like Trump as our President. He has spent the last four years on his knees at the feet of dictators like Putin, sniveling and groveling for their approval, all the while selling America out, and hanging our troops out to dry.
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Jan. 22: âWe have it totally under control. Itâs one person coming in from China. We have it under control. Itâs going to be just fine.â âCNBC interview...
Jan. 30: âWe think we have it very well under control. We have very little problem in this country at this momentâ 5 â and those people are all recuperating successfully. But weâre working very closely with China and other countries, and we think itâs going to have a very good ending for us, that I can assure you.â âTrump speech in Michigan.
Feb. 26: âSo weâre at the low level. As they get better, we take them off the list, so that weâre going to be pretty soon at only five people. And we could be at just one or two people over the next short period of time. So weâve had very good luck.â â Trump White House briefing.
Feb. 26:Â âAnd again, when you have 15 people, and the 15 within a couple of days is going to be down to close to zero, thatâs a pretty good job weâve done.â â Trump press conference.
Feb. 27: âItâs going to disappear. One day â itâs like a miracle â it will disappear.â â Trump at a White House meeting.
March 4:Â âWe have a very small number of people in this country infected. We have a big country. The biggest impact we had was when we took the 40-plus people from a cruise ship. We brought them back. We immediately quarantined them. But you add that to the numbers. But if you donât add that to the numbers, weâre talking about very small numbers in the United States.â â Trump White House meeting.
March 24: "But we've never closed down the country for the flu. So you say to yourself, 'What is this all about? " -- Trump fox interview
March 27: âYou call it germ, you can call it a flu. You can call it a virus. You can call it many different names. Iâm not sure anybody knows what it is.â -- Trump interview
Trump today:Â "The World Health Organization got it wrong. In many many ways they were wrong. They minimized the threat of the coronavirus very strongly...not good. I on the other hand, was tremendously strong in my warnings about the coronavirus.
I knew this was a pandemic from the very beginning, but no one believed me. No one even knew what a pandemic was until I used the word. Meanwhile, you had some people calling it a hoax. Some people even said it would just disappear like magic, and we should end social distancing by Easter. I think it was Obama who said that. Then we had some people comparing COVID-19 to the flu, which is like comparing apples to origins. The oranges of the coronavirus virus are totally different from the flu. Even I know that.
Now many people are saying that I was the first person to warn the world about the seriousness of the coronavirus. I correctly predicted everything that has happened so far. In many ways, I'm sort of like a modern day Nachodamus."
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"Lying is second nature to him. More than anyone else I have ever met, Trump has the ability to convince himself that whatever he is saying at any given moment is true, or sort of true, or at least ought to be true."
--Tony Schwartz, the ghost writer for Trump's book "The Art of the Deal":
This had the feel of speeches given by one the world's most despotic dictators in history.
Trump criticized Dems who did not applaud during his first State of the Union address. âThey were like death and un-American,â he said. âUn-American. Somebody said treasonous. I mean, yeah, I guess, why not? Can we call that treason? Why not?â
Trump is very reminiscent of Stalin in this way. You can see it in him during this SOTU address. He literally pauses for the applause, and he even applauds himself.
During Stalin's reign of terror, he demanded a long and enthusiastic applause, and standing ovations whenever he gave a speech. As a result, the applause and ovations he received became largely panic-driven. People feared that the first person to stop clapping would be the first to be called an enemy of the state, and be hauled off to a gulag. The clapping and ovations would last up to 10 minutes. Failure to applaud could certainly be considered treason. So the sheeple went on and on, clapping and shouting âLong live Comrade Stalin,â âGlory to our beloved Comrade Stalin," clapping to the point of exhaustion, and until the palms of their hands bled.
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn described what the surreal scene looked like in his book, The Gulag Archipelago:
âThe applause went onâsix, seven, eight minutes! They were done for! Their goose was cooked! They couldnât stop now till they collapsed with heart attacks! At the rear of the hall, which was crowded, they could of course cheat a bit, clap less frequently, less vigorously, not so eagerlyâŚNine minutes! Ten!âŚInsanity! To the last man! With make-believe enthusiasm on their faces, looking at each other with faint hope, the district leaders were just going to go on and on applauding till they fell where they stood, till they were carried out of the hall on stretchers.â
At last, after eleven minutes of non-stop clapping, the director of a paper factory finally decided enough was enough. He stopped clapping and sat downâa miracle!
âTo a man, everyone else stopped dead and sat down,â Solzhenitsyn says.
That same night, the director of the paper factory was arrested and sent to prison for ten years. Authorities came up with some official reason for his sentence, but during his interrogation, he was told: âDonât ever be the first to stop applauding!â
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Psychiatrist Robert Jay Lifton, who once taught at Harvard Medical School, wrote a paper titled Cult Formation in the early 1980s. He delineated primary characteristics, which are the most common features shared by destructive cults, destructive cults like Trumpism.
1. A charismatic leader, who increasingly becomes an object of worship as the general principles that may have originally sustained the group lose power. That is a living leader, who has no meaningful accountability and becomes the single most defining element of the group and its source of power and authority.
2. A process of indoctrination or education is in use that can be seen as coercive persuasion or thought reform commonly called "brainwashing".
The culmination of this process can be seen by members of the group often doing things that are not in their own best interest, but consistently in the best interest of its leader.
3. The exploitation of group members by the leader and the ruling members.
Here are 10 warning signs of a potentially unsafe group or leader.
â˘Â Absolute authoritarianism without meaningful accountability.
â˘Â No tolerance for questions or critical inquiry.
â˘Â No meaningful financial disclosure regarding budget or expenses, such as an independently audited financial statement.
â˘Â Unreasonable fear about the outside world, such as impending catastrophe, evil conspiracies and persecutions.
â˘Â There is no legitimate reason to leave, former followers are always wrong in leaving, negative or even evil.
â˘Â Former members often relate the same stories of abuse and reflect a similar pattern of grievances.
â˘Â There are records, books, news articles, or broadcast reports that document the abuses of the group/leader.
â˘Â Followers feel they can never be "good enough".
â˘Â The group/leader is always right.
â˘Â The group/leader is the exclusive means of knowing "truth" or receiving validation, no other process of discovery is really acceptable or credible.
As we've all seen, when it comes to the warning signs and characteristics of a cult, Trump and his followers check most of the boxes.
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I'll stop calling Trump a Russian asset when he finally stands-up for America, and condemns Putin for engaging in cyber-espionage against America during the election. In other words, I'll be calling Trump a Russian asset for the rest of my life.
Trump, Kushner, Don Jr, and his other cohorts are Russian assets, willingly or unwillingly. They are all compromised. And they became compromised the moment they starting having secret meetings with Russian officials/agents, and not reporting it. They then lied about those meetings when asked, which only confirmed to the Russians that Trump and his cohorts were willing to protect them by lying to FBI and to the American people. To any Russian spy, that's a victory. The Russians were able to infiltrate and compromise Trump and his inner circle, by exploiting their hubris, their insatiable greed, naivety, lack of patriotism, and by exploiting Trump's malignant narcissism. Trump and his people presented themselves as easy targets
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âIf there is one fact we really can prove, from the history that we really do know, it is that despotism can be a development, often a late development and very often indeed the end of societies that have been highly democratic. A despotism may almost be defined as a tired democracy. As fatigue falls on a community, the citizens are less inclined for that eternal vigilance which has truly been called the price of liberty; and they prefer to arm only one single sentinel to watch the city while they sleep.âÂ
â G.K. Chesterton, The Everlasting Man
âWhen the Rule of Law disappears, we are ruled by the whims of men.âÂ
â Tiffany Madison
âWhatever government is not a government of laws, is a despotism, let it be called what it mayâÂ
â Daniel Webste
âThereâs no English equivalent for silovik. It doesnât translate succinctly because to create something as Machiavellian as a silovik requires both the KGB and the GRU, and then a shift from communism to capitalism, followed by a gear-grinding reverse into despotism.âÂ
â Tanya Thompson, Red Russia
âThe actions of government, we are told, bear down only on imprudent souls who provoke them. The man who resigns himself and keeps silent is always safe. Reassured by this worthless and specious argument, we do not protest against the oppressors. Instead we find fault with the victims. Nobody knows how to be brave even prudentially. Everyone stays silent, keeping his head low in the self-deceiving hope of disarming the powers that be by his silence. People give despotism free access, flattering themselves they will be treated with consideration. Eyes to the ground, each person walks in silence the narrow path leading him safely to the tomb..âÂ
â Benjamin Constant, Principles of Politics Applicable to All Governments
âTo announce that there must be no criticism of the President, or that we are to stand by the President, right or wrong, is not only unpatriotic and servile, but is morally treasonable to the American public.â
â Theodore Roosevelt
The Founding Fathers understanding of bribery was derived from English law, under which bribery was understood as an officeholderâs abuse of the power of an office to obtain a private benefit rather than for the public interest. This definition not only encompasses Trumpâs conductâit practically defines it.
Trump took 400 million in taxpayer dollars, which had been appropriated by Congress, and used it to bribe a foreign country into taking specific actions that would only benefit him personally.
The Founders placed articles of impeachment in the Constitution for the purpose of protecting our democracy. A democracy that Trump clearly has no respect for, and is trying to tear apart.
Article II, Section 4, says the president âshall be removed from Office on Impeachment for, and Conviction of, Treason, Bribery, or other high Crimes and Misdemeanors."
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The sad reality is that Trump and republicans don't believe in democracy, our Constitution, or your right to vote, and they are terrified of American voters. Your right to vote is the biggest threat to them.
In March, Trump openly admitted that an increase in voting numbers would hurt his party, saying proposed reforms would result in âlevels of voting, that if you ever agreed to it, youâd never have a Republican elected in this country again.â
Trump and the GOP are obssessed with greed and absolute power. And the three biggest threats to them achieving those goals, are the Constitution, the free press, and the American voters. If Trump and the Republican party had their way, there would be no earlier voting or mail-in ballots. There would be only one day to vote, at one location per state, with only a 2 hour window to cast your vote.
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Republican campaign finance reports, which are, available to the public, show connections between a group of wealthy donors with ties to Russia and their political contributions to Trump and a number of top Republican leaders. And thanks to changes in campaign finance laws, the political contributions are legal. Bottom line, our campaign finance laws are now a threat to our country.
Len Blavatnik, is a dual U.S.-U.K. citizen and one of the largest donors to GOP political action committees in the 2015-16 election cycle. Blavatnik's family emigrated to the U.S. in the late '70s from the the Soviet Union and he returned to Russia when the Soviet Union began to collapse in the late '80s.
In 2015-16, Blavatnik's political contributions soared as he pumped $6.35 million into GOP political action committees, with millions of dollars going to top Republican leaders including Moscow Mitch, Rubio and Lindsey "Two-faced" Graham..
Oleg Deripaska is said to be one of Putin's favorite oligarchs, and he is founder and majority shareholder of Russia's Rusal, the second-largest aluminum company in the world. Blavatnik holds a stake in Rusal with a business partner.
Nearly 4% of Deripaska's stake in Rusal is owned by Putin's state-controlled bank, VTB, which is currently under U.S. sanctions. VTB was exposed in the Panama Papers in 2016 for facilitating the flow of billions of dollars to offshore companies linked to Putin.
We already know that Manafort, Trump's former campaign manager, began collecting $10 million a year in 2006 from Deripaska to advance Putin's interests with Western governments. Deripaska's name turned up again in an email handed over to Mueller's team by Manafort's attorneys. In the email dated July 7, 2016, just two weeks before Trump accepted the Republican nomination, Manafort asked an overseas intermediary to pass a message on to Deripaska: "If he Deripaska needs private briefings, tell him we can accommodate."
Viktor Vekselberg is one of the 10 richest men in Russia. He and long-time business partner Blavatnik hold a 20.5 percent stake in Rusal. Vekselberg has connections to at least two Americans who made significant GOP campaign contributions during the last cycle.Â
Andrew Intrater, is Vekselberg's cousin. He is also chief executive of Columbus Nova, Renova's U.S. investment arm located in NY. in January 2017 he contributed $250,000 to Trump's Inaugural Committee. His six-figure gift bought him special access to a dinner billed as "an intimate policy discussion with select cabinet appointees,"Â
Simon Kukes is an oil magnate who has something in common with Intrater. From 1998 to 2003, he worked for Vekselberg and Blavatnik as chief executive of TNK. In 2016, Kukes contributed a total of $283,000, much of it to the Trump Victory Fund.Â
In total, Blavatnik, Intrater, and Kukes made $10.4 million in political contributions from the start of the 2015-16 election cycle through September 2017, and 99 percent of their contributions went to Republicans. The common denominator that connects the men is their association with Vekselberg.
Moscow Mitch knew from receiving intelligence briefings in 2016 that our electoral process was under attack by the Russians. Two weeks after the Dept of Homeland Security and the Office of the Director of National Intelligence issued a joint statement in October 2016 that the Russian government had directed the effort to interfere in our electoral process, Moscow Mitch's PAC accepted a $1 million donation from Blavatnik's AI-Altep Holdings. The PAC took another $1 million from Blavatnik's AI-Altep Holdings on March 30, 2017, just 10 days after Comey publicly testified before the House Intelligence Committee about Russia's interference in the election.
It's safe to say that Trump and the GOP have been bought and paid for with Russian money.
It's why repubicans are fighting so hard to defend him instead of the Constitution. It's also why Republicans have been repeating the exact same lies and propaganda of the Russian government and Russian security services like the GRU.
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What's so mind-boggling to me, is the fact that we have a sitting President, who isn't even trusted by his own people to testify under oath, because they know that he's incapable of telling the truth....about anything....EVER.
Trump isn't even trusted by his lawyers and the people closest to him, but yet the want the American people to trust him. Let that sink in for a moment.
This is the 3rd time that Trump has asked another foreign country to interfere in our elections. And if he gets away with it this time, he will absolutely do it AGAIN!!! Because a sociopath like Trump, with no impulse control, who doesn't know right from wrong, and believes he's impervious to consequences, is 100% incorrigible, and completely incapable of being corrected.
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U.S. intelligence officials with the National Center for Medical Intelligence issued a report in late November warning that a virus was taking root in China. Analysts concluded it could be a "cataclysmic event,â and the report was shared with the White House, the Pentagonâs Joint Staff and the Defense Intelligence Agency. There were multiple briefings about the report throughout Dec, Jan, and Feb for the National Security Council, and the White House..
On Dec. 31, China publicly confirmed that dozens of people in Wuhan were being treated for pneumonia-like symptoms. Three days later, on Jan. 3, Health and Human Services Secretary Alex Azar said he first learned of the spread of the virus in China at a White House briefing attended by CDC and Prevention director Robert Redfield. Trump fired Alex Azar shortly there after because he knew too much.
Public-health experts have stated that Trump's early efforts to downplay the threat of the virus robbed the US of valuable time needed to prepare for what is now a pandemic â potentially costing thousands of lives...
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..
Trump spent "two months of completely ignoring every bit of scientific advice," Dr. Ashish Jha, the director of the Harvard Global Health Institute stated in mid-March. "We've wasted two months. And this is not a disease where you're allowed to waste two months."
Jha, who received his doctorate in medicine from Harvard Medical school, criticized Trump for telling Americans that everything was "under control" when it was very clear to anybody paying attention that it was not under control."
"I don't use these words lightly, and it's incredibly painful for me to say it," he said, adding: "The cost of all of this is that tens of thousands of Americans are going to die unnecessarily." He went on to say: "It was wholly preventable, and not just preventable in hindsight â it was preventable in foresight. Everybody said this is how it was going to play out if they didn't act."
Trump said that COVID-19 âcame out of nowhereâ and âblindsided the world.â His comments left scientists, doctors, and national security experts in a state of disbelief. Experts had been warning about the next pandemic for years and criticized the Trumpâs decision in 2018 to dismantle a National Security Council directorate at the White House, charged with preparing for WHEN, NOT if, another pandemic would hit the nation.
Trumpâs elimination of the office suggested, along with his proposed budget cuts for the CDC, that he did not see or comprehend the threat of pandemics. Trump has defended his record, arguing, âIâm a "businessperson." I donât like having thousands of people around when you donât need them. When we need them, we can get them back very quickly.â
But experts argue thatâs not how pandemic preparedness works, and that's definitely not how a virus works. âYou build a fire department ahead of time,â Tom Inglesby, director of the Johns Hopkins Center for Health Security stated. âYou donât wait for a fire.â
âOne year later I was mystified when the White House dissolved the office, leaving the country less prepared for pandemics like COVID-19,â Beth Cameron, the first director of the unit, wrote in an op-ed. She said the directorate was set up to be the âsmoke alarmâ and get ahead of emergencies and sound a warning at the earliest sign of fire â âall with the goal of avoiding a six-alarm fire.â
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"Saudi Arabia, I get along with all of them. They buy apartments from me. They spend $40 million, $50 million,â Trump told a crowd at an Alabama rally on Aug. 21, 2015. âAm I supposed to dislike them? I like them very much.â
In 1991, as Trump was teetering on bankruptcy yet AGAIN, and scrambling to raise cash, he sold his 282-foot Trump yacht âPrincessâ to Saudi billionaire Prince Alwaleed bin-Talal for $20 million.
Four years later, the prince came to his rescue again, joining other investors in a $325 million deal for Trumpâs money-losing Plaza Hotel....Which eventually went under anyway.
In 2001, Trump sold the entire 45th floor of the Trump World Tower across from the UN for $12 million, the biggest purchase in that building to that point, according to the brokerage site Streeteasy. The buyer: The Kingdom of Saudi Arabia.
Since Trump took the oath of office, the Saudi government and lobbying groups for it have been lucrative customers for Trumpâs hotels.
A public relations firm working for the kingdom spent nearly $270,000 on lodging at his Washington hotel through March of last year, according to filings to the Justice Department. A spokesman for the firm told The Wall Street Journal that the Trump hotel payments came as part of a Saudi-backed lobbying campaign against a bill that allowed Americans to sue foreign governments for responsibility in the Sept. 11 terror attacks.
Attorneys general for Maryland and the District of Columbia cited the payments by the Saudi lobbying firm as an example of foreign gifts to Trump that could violate the Constitutionâs ban on such âemolumentsâ from foreign interests.
Congress is furious over Trumpâs secret efforts to secure a nuclear energy deal with Saudi Arabia. Congress is rightfully furious when they discovered that the Saudis refused to accept limits preventing them from developing a nuclear weapon.
It was revealed that the Trump gave approval for companies to share certain nuclear energy technology with the kingdom without a broader nuclear deal in place.
House Democrats began investigating the administrationâs nuclear talks with Saudi after the Oversight and Reform Committee announced in February it was launching a probe to âdetermine whether the actions being pursued by the Trump administration are in the national security interests of the United States or, rather, serve those who stand to gain financially as a result of this potential change in U.S. foreign policy.â
Energy Secretary Rick Perry approved seven authorizations that let U.S. companies share certain nuclear energy technology with Saudi Arabia.Â
lawmakers were outraged when they found out they were not told about the approvals, saying the secrecy violates the Atomic Energy Act, which requires that Congress be kept âfully and currently informedâ of 123 agreement negotiations.
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A review of the public record reveals a clear and disturbing pattern: Trump owes much of his business success, and by extension his presidency, to a flow of highly suspicious money from Russia. Over the past three decades, at least 13 people with known or alleged links to Russian mobsters or oligarchs have owned, lived in, and even run criminal activities out of Trump Tower and other Trump properties...
Many used his apartments and casinos to launder untold millions in dirty money. Some ran a worldwide high-stakes gambling ring out of Trump Towerâin a unit directly below one owned by Trump. Others provided Trump with lucrative branding deals that required no investment on his part...
Taken together, the flow of money from Russia provided Trump with a crucial infusion of financing that helped rescue his empire from ruin, burnish his image, and launch his career in television and politics. Trump was 4 billion dollars in debt, and American banks had stopped loaning him money after multiple bankruptcies. Trump was financially ruined until the Russians bailed him out. "They saved his bacon,â says Kenneth McCallion, a former assistant U.S. attorney in the Reagan administration who investigated ties between organized crime and Trumpâs developments in the 1980s....
For two years, ending in 2013, the FBI had a court-approved warrant to eavesdrop on a sophisticated Russian organized crime money-laundering network that operated out of Trump Tower. In April 2013, a little more than two years before Trump rode the escalator to the ground floor of Trump Tower to kick off his presidential campaign, police burst into Unit 63A of the high-rise and rounded up 29 suspects in two gambling rings. The operation, which prosecutors called âthe worldâs largest sports book,â was run out of condos in Trump Towerâincluding the entire fifty-first floor of the building. In addition, unit 63Aâa condo directly below one owned by Trumpâserved as the headquarters for a âsophisticated money-laundering schemeâ that moved an estimated $100 million out of the former Soviet Union, through shell companies in Cyprus, and into investments in the United States.
The FBI investigation led to a federal grand jury indictment and arrest of at least 29 people, including one of the worldâs most notorious Russian mafia bosses, Alimzhan Tokhtakhounov. Known as the âLittle Taiwanese,â he was the only target to slip away. Tokhtakhounov, who had been indicted a decade earlier for conspiring to fix the ice-skating competition at the 2002 Winter Olympics, was the only suspect to elude arrest during the FBI raid on Trump Tower. Today, he remains a fugitive from American justice.
Tokhtakhounov's whereabouts remained unknown for the next seven months after the raid on Trump Tower. The Russian crime boss fell off the radar of Interpol, which had issued a red alert. Then, in November 2013, he suddenly appeared live on international televisionâsitting in the audience at the Miss Universe pageant in Moscow. Tokhtakhounov was in the VIP section, just a few seats away from the pageant owner, Donald Trump.
âHe is a major player,â said Mike Gaeta, the agent who led the 2013 FBI investigation of Tokhtakhounov and his alleged mafia money-laundering and gambling ring, in a 2014 interview with ABC News.
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Only an illiterate imbecilic like Trump would believe that going back to having NO inspectors, cameras, check marks, and inspections, is better than the Iran deal. Pulling out of the Iran deal put us back to where we were before, which is exactly where we are today, which is totally blind to what's going on in Iran and NK.
Obama was able to bring 5 countries together, and secure a deal with Iran. It was something we had never had before, and the deal was working.
In July 2015, Iran had almost 20,000 centrifuges. Under the Iran deal--JCPOA, it was limited to installing no more than 5,060 of the oldest and least efficient centrifuges at Natanz until 2026. Iran's uranium stockpile was reduced by 98% to 300kg (660lbs), a figure that must not be exceeded until 2031. It must also keep the stockpile's level of enrichment at 3.67%.
By January 2016, Iran had drastically reduced the number of centrifuges installed at Natanz and Fordo. Inspectors from the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), the global nuclear watchdog, continuously monitored Iran's declared nuclear sites and also verified that no fissile material is moved covertly to a secret location to build a bomb. Iran also agreed to implement the Additional Protocol to their IAEA Safeguards Agreement, which allowed inspectors to access any site anywhere in the country they deem suspicious.
But the best part about it is that Obama didn't have to praise the Ayatollahs or the Iranian leadership. He didnât demean himself, or the office of the presidency, by meeting with them, which would have only given them the perception of being on the same footing as a US President. Trump on the other hand, disgraced himself, and the office of the presidency, by meeting with the most despotic, and maniacal dictator on the planet....not once, but twice. He then proceeded to compliment him, and wax poetically about how he and Kim Jung Un fell in love after exchanging letters. And what does Trump have to show for disgracing himself and his presidency? Nothing....other than heightened tensions with Iran and NK. Trump doesn't solve problems, he creates them..
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Trump: "I will nevet take responsibility for anything. People are acting as if 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. 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."
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In 2015, Western European intelligence agencies began picking up evidence of communications between the Russian government and people in Donald Trumpâs orbit. In April 2016, one of the Baltic states shared with thenâCIA director John Brennan an audio recording of Russians discussing funneling money to the Trump campaign. In the summer of 2016, Robert Hannigan, head of the U.K. intelligence agency GCHQ, flew to Washington to brief Brennan on intercepted communications between the Trump campaign and Russia..
The contents of these communications have not been disclosed, but what Brennan learned obviously unsettled him profoundly. In congressional testimony on Russian election interference, Brennan hinted that some Americans might have betrayed their country. âIndividuals who go along a treasonous path,â he warned, âdo not even realize theyâre along that path until it gets to be a bit too late.â In a 2017 interview, he put it more bluntly: âI think Trump is afraid of the president of Russia. The Russians may have something on him personally that they could always roll out and make his life more difficult.â
In July 2016, a loose-knit community of computer scientists and cybersecurity experts discovered a strange pattern of online traffic between two computer servers. One of those servers belonged to Alfa Bank in Moscow and the other to the Trump Organization. Alfa Bankâs owners had âassumed an unforeseen level of prominence and influence in the economic and political affairs of their nation,â as a federal court once put it.
The analysts noted that the traffic between the two servers occurred during office hours in New York and Moscow and spiked in correspondence with major campaign events, suggesting it entailed human communication rather than bots. More suspiciously, after NYT reporter Eric Lichtblau asked Alfa Bank about it but BEFORE he brought it up with the Trump campaign, the server in Trump Tower shut down. The timing strongly implied Alfa Bank was communicating with Trump.
Trump knows, that Brennan knows, that he's a compromised Russian asset.
One big unanswered question is why were Trump and his people having so many interactions with Russian officials and Russian operatives during the campaign? They were having more interactions with Russians than Americans.
On April 18, 2019, a redacted copy of Muellerâs report was released to the public. The Mueller report builds on the U.S. intelligence conclusion that there were two campaigns to elect Trumpâ one run by Trump and one run by the Russian government. The Mueller report clearly identified connections between the Trump campaign and Russia...
A total of 272 contacts between Trumpâs team and Russia-linked operatives were identified, including at least 38 meetings. We now know that at least 33 high-ranking campaign officials and Trump advisers had or were at least aware of contacts with Russia-linked operatives during the campaign and transition, including Trump himself, Don Jr, Manafort, Flynn, Jared, Papadopoulos, Rick Gates, and Roger Stone, just to name a few. But what's worse, is the fact that they all lied about these contacts. None of these contacts were ever reported to the proper authorities. Instead, the Trump team tried to cover them up, every single one of them..
The question every American should be asking is why were there so many contacts(272) between Trumpâs people and Russian officials and operatives, and why did Trump and his people lie about those contacts?
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"Timid men prefer the calm of despotism to the tempestuous sea of Liberty.âÂ
âThomas Jefferson
At the close of the Constitutional Convention of 1787, Benjamin Franklin was asked as he left Independence Hall on the final day of deliberation. In the notes of Dr. James McHenry, one of Marylandâs delegates to the Convention,  a lady asked Dr. Franklin: âWell Doctor what have we got, a republic or a monarchy?"
Benjamin Franklin replied:Â âA republic....if you can keep it.â
Today, Trump and Republicans are telling the American people that we can no longer keep it.
I am a firm believer in the people. If given the truth, they can be depended upon to meet any national crisis. The great point is to bring them the real facts.
--Abraham Lincoln
Make no mistake, this is far from over. Between, Parnas and Bolton, the truth about Trump's crimes will inevitably be revealed. Every week will bring a new revelation of the criminal activities of this illegitimate president, along with the names of all the Republicans who were complicit in aiding and abetting his criminal activity.
Lev Parnas" lawyer sent a letter to Moscow Mitch stating that he is ready to give testimony, as well as provide documents, that will prove that GOP Super PAC America One, Rudy, Pompeo, Rick Perry, Mulvaney, Bill Barr, Nunes, Pence, and Desperate Housewife of Capitol Hill đLindsey Graham, were all part of Trump's scheme to bribe Ukraine...
Is it any wonder why Republicans were so vehemently against introducing witnesses and evidence into the Senate trial. They were covering up their own crimes. But it will all come to the light eventually. It's only a matter of time.
"The truth is incontrovertible. Malice may attack it, ignorance may deride it, but in the end, there it is."
--Winston Churchill
"Three things cannot be long hidden: the sun, the moon, and the truth."
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The lawyer for Lev Parnas, the indicted associate of Rudy said his client is prepared to testify under oath that aides to Devin Nunes, scrapped a trip to Ukraine this year when they realized it would mean notifying Dem Chairman Adam Schiff.
Lev Parnas would tell Congress that the purpose of the planned trip was to interview two Ukrainian prosecutors who claim to have evidence that could help Trumpâs reelection campaign, said Parnasâ attorney, Joseph Bondy.
When Nunesâ staff realized that going to Ukraine themselves would mean alerting Schiff to their treachery, they instead asked Parnas to set up the meetings for them over phone and Skype, which he did, according to Bondy.
The Nunes teamâs scrapped trip to Ukraine has not been previously reported, nor have the meetings that Bondy said his client arranged in place of the overseas trip. The meetings took place in late March, and Derek Harvey, a senior investigator for Nunes, represented the congressman, according to Bondy.Â
Parnas says he began working with Harvey after Nunes and his staff traveled to Vienna in late November to meet with another potential source of political dirt on Dems: former Ukrainian prosecutor Viktor Shokin.
Parnas wanted to testify before the House Intel Committee about the Vienna trip. Since then, Nunes has threatened to sue both CNN and The Daily Beast, which also reported on Parnasâ story.
The revelations about the planned trip to Ukraine this spring, suggest that Nunesâ efforts to dig up dirt on Biden and Dems did not end with the Vienna trip. They also implicate Nunes and his staff in the very same events the committee is currently investigating. Specifically, the monthslong effort by Trump, Rudy and others to get Ukrainian officials to help them dig up dirt on Biden, and to validate debunked far-right conspiracies, about Ukraine and the 2016 election.
During the public hearings of the impeachment inquiry, Nunes used all of his allotted time to attack Dems, the media, churlish cows,đ and to repeat the same unfounded claims about Dems and Biden. At no point did Nunes EVER mention that he or his staffers met with the three Ukrainian officials, some of whom were mentioned by name during testimony.
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I think it's crucial that every American is fully aware of the type of pathological liar, malignant narcissist, and sociopath we're dealing with when it comes to Trump..
"Lying is second nature to him. More than anyone else I have ever met, Trump has the ability to convince himself that whatever he is saying at any given moment is true, or sort of true, or at least ought to be true."
"Trumpâs temperament and his habits have hardened with age." Schwartz said. "He was always cartoonish, but compared with the man for whom I wrote The Art of the Deal 30 years ago, he is significantly angrier today: more reactive, deceitful, distracted, vindictive, impulsive and, above all, self-absorbed Every American ought to be concerned about his character." Schwartz said.
--Tony Schwartz, the ghost writer for Trump's book "The Art of the Deal":
In 1989, Trump raised $365 million to purchase the Eastern Shuttle, which provided business travelers with quick flights between NY, Boston, and DC. Within 18 months, the airline lost over $125 million.
In August 1989, just two months after Trump launched his Trump Shuttle Airline, one of his Boeing 727s made a crash landing at Bostonâs Airport. The passenger jet had malfunctioning nose gear that failed to deploy. The nose and underbelly of the plane scraped and dragged along the entire length of the runaway upon landing with sparks flying. The pilots had to perform an emergency dumping of fuel to avoid a greater catastrophe. It's all on video.
One of the passengers on that flight â who recalls sliding out the aircraft and into a pile of foam â was Mike Murphy, a veteran Republican strategist who worked for Jeb Bush and his super PAC to try to defeat Trump.
âAfterward,â Murphy said, âall I got was a form letter and a drink coupon.â
And when Trump was asked by reporters about the crash landing in Boston, he said, and I quote: âIt was the most beautiful landing youâve ever seen." đ˛
This is the type of dangerously irresponsible sociopath America is dealing with.
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Trump is the most prolific pathological liar in American history.
A pathological liar like Trump, is someone who lies compulsively. While there appears to be many possible causes for pathological lying, itâs not yet entirely understood why someone would lie this way.
Some lies seem to be told in order to make the pathological liar appear the hero, or to gain acceptance or sympathy, while thereâs seemingly nothing to be gained from other lies. Trump does this constantly at his rallies. He tries to play the victim and the hero at the same time.
Pathological liars are great storytellers. Their lies tend to be very detailed and colorful.
Even though obviously over-the-top, the pathological liar may be very convincing.
Along with being made the hero or victim in their stories, pathological liars tend to tell lies that seem to be geared at gaining admiration, sympathy, or acceptance by others.
During a July ceremony in the Rose Garden to formally sign a bill that will extend the 9/11 Victim Compensation Fund through 2092, Trump told a group of more than 60 first responders an outrageous lie when he said "Many of those affected were firefighters, police officers, and other first responders. I was down there also, but Iâm not considering myself a first responder. But I was down thereâI spent a lot of time down there with you.â
There is no evidence that Trump participated in recovery efforts, thereâs also no evidence he spent any time near ground zero in the week following the attack.
Trump also claimed that he lost 100 friends on 9/11. To this day, he has not been able to name one friend that he lost on 9/11.
A pathological liar tells lies and stories that fall somewhere between conscious lying and delusion. They sometimes believe their own lies. Itâs difficult to know how to deal with a pathological liar who may not always be conscious of their lying. Some do it so often that experts believe they may not know the difference between fact and fiction after some time.
Like when Trump said that his father was born in Germany.đ Everyone knows that his father was born in NY. When asked questions, they may speak a lot without ever being specific or answering the question.
Most people lie at one time or another. Previous research has suggested that we tell an average of 1.65 lies every day. Most of these lies are what are considered âwhite lies.â
Pathological lies, on the other hand, are told consistently and habitually. They tend to appear pointless and often continuous. It's been reported that Trump tells at least 12 lies per day.đ˛
Identifying a pathological liar isnât always easy, unless his name is DonaldTrump. The following are some signs to help identify a pathological liar:
They often talk about experiences and accomplishments in which they appear heroic, they're also the victim in many of their stories, often looking for sympathy, their stories tend to be elaborate and very detailed, they respond elaborately and quickly to questions, but the responses are usually vague and donât provide an answer to the question, they may have different versions of the same story, which stems from forgetting previous details, or previous lies..
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In May of 2018, when Xi Jinping, leader of the COMMUNIST PARTY of China, changed the countryâs constitution to allow him to stay in power indefinitely. Trump, who admires dictators, and has ambitions of being a dictator himself, said it was a good idea, and dreams of doing the same thing.
During remarks at Mar-a-Lago, delivered inside the ballroom during a lunch and fundraiser, Trump praised the Chinese presidentâs power grab, and said he wouldnât mind trying it himself.
Trump: âHeâs now president for life. President for life. No, heâs great,â Trump said. âAnd look, he was able to do that. I think itâs great. Maybe weâll have to give that a shot someday.â
NEVER FORGET.....
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Since day one, Trump has been moving the goal posts on the pandemic, and on Sunday, "stable genius" said that keeping the U.S. death toll between 100,000 and 200,000 would be âa very good job.â
âWe can hold that down, as weâre saying, to 100,000, thatâs a horrible number, maybe even less, but to 100,000 â so we have between 100- and 200,000 â we all, together, have done a very good job,â Trump said during a task force press briefing.
Feb. 26: âSo weâre at the low level. As they get better, we take them off the list, so that weâre going to be pretty soon at only five people. And we could be at just one or two people over the next short period of time. So weâve had very good luck.â â Trump White House briefing.
Feb. 26:Â âAnd again, when you have 15 people, and the 15 within a couple of days is going to be down to close to zero, thatâs a pretty good job weâve done.â â Trump press conference.
Feb. 27: âItâs going to disappear. One day â itâs like a miracle â it will disappear.â â Trump at a White House meeting.
Trump is clearly mentally impaired, and his psychosis infects everything and everyone around him. He has turned his white house into an asylum for the criminally insane, and criminally incompetent. Trump's White House is a vortex of lies, pandemonium, betrayal, treason, thievery, nepotism, upheaval, moral turpitude, skulduggery, and sanctioned lawlessness.
There's enough chaos going on in Trump's white house, than even Nurse Ratched herself would be reduced to tears and a complete nervous breakdown.
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Back in 1984, Trump had started laundering money for the Russian mafia. In â92, the Russian mafia had people like Vyacheslav Kirillovich Ivankov, who was one of the key figures under the mob boss Mogilevich. The FBI was looking all over for him, and then they discovered that he was actually living in Trump Tower. A lot of the Russian mobsters were going to Trump Tower to launder money as well. Trump was completely overextended in Atlantic City. He ended up $4 billion in debt. He had no future at all until the Russians came to his aid...
Itâs well known that Trump likes doing business with gangsters, in part because they pay top dollar and loan money when American banks stopped loaning Trump money. It was a win-win for both sides. The Russian mafia is totally different than the American mafia. In Russia, the mafia is essentially a state actor. In an interviewed, Gen. Oleg Kalugin, who is a former head of counterintelligence in the KGB and had been Putinâs boss at one point, was asked about the Russain mafia. He said, âOh, itâs part of the KGB. Itâs part of the Russian government.â
In 2005, Manafort started working for Russian billionaire Oleg Deripaska. Manafort, a had hired himself out to a variety of global villains, promised he would âinfluence politics, business dealings, and news coverage inside the US, Europe, and former Soviet Republics to benefit Putinâs government..
Russiaâs oligarchs put their wealth and power at Putinâs disposal, or they donât remain oligarchs for long. This requirement is not lost on Deripaska. âI donât separate myself from the state,â Deripaska told the Financial Times in 2007. âI have no other interests.â A 2006 U.S. diplomatic cable described him as âamong the 2-3 oligarchs Putin turns to on a regular basis.â Working for Deripaska, meant Manafort was working for Putin. Deripaska hired Manafort for $10 million a year, and Manafort worked to advance Russian interests in Ukraine, Georgia, and Montenegro.
Trump was working with the Russian mafia for more than 30 years. He was profiting from them. They rescued him. They bailed him out. They took him from being $4 billion in debt to becoming a multibillionaire again, and they fueled his political ambitions, starting more than 30 years ago. This means Trump was in bed with the Kremlin as well, whether he knew it or not...
On November 9, 2016, just a few minutes after Trump was elected president, a man named Vyacheslav Nikonov approached a microphone in the Russian State Duma (their equivalent of the US House of Representatives) and made a very unusual statement.
âDear friends, respected colleagues!â Nikonov said. âThree minutes ago, Hillary Clinton admitted her defeat in US presidential elections, and a second ago Trump started his speech as an elected president of the United States of America, and I congratulate you on this.â
Nikonov is a leader in the pro-Putin United Russia Party and, incidentally, the grandson of Vyacheslav Molotov â after whom the âMolotov cocktailâ was named. His announcement that day was a clear signal that Trumpâs victory was, in fact, a victory for Putinâs Russia..
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The Founding Fathers understanding of bribery was derived from English law, under which bribery was understood as an officeholderâs abuse of the power of an office to obtain a private benefit rather than for the public interest. This definition not only encompasses Trumpâs conductâit practically defines it.
The Founders placed articles of impeachment in the Constitution for the purpose of protecting our democracy. A democracy that Trump clearly has no respect for, and is trying to tear apart.
Article II, Section 4, says the president âshall be removed from Office on Impeachment for, and Conviction of, Treason, Bribery, or other high Crimes and Misdemeanors.
âYou donât even have to be convicted of a crime to lose your job in this constitutional republic. Because if this body [Congress] determines that your conduct as a public official is clearly out of bounds in your role . . . because impeachment is not about punishment. Impeachment is about cleansing the office. Impeachment is about restoring honor and integrity to the office.â
-- Lindsey "Two Faced" Graham Jan 23, 1999
âI think heâs a kook, I think heâs crazy. I think heâs unfit for office."
--Lindsey "Two Faced" 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 "Two Faced" Graham on Trump, Dec 8, 2015
âWe the people are the rightful masters of both Congress and the courts, not to overthrow the Constitution but to overthrow the men who pervert the Constitution.âÂ
â Abraham Lincoln
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Trumpâs lies are not the problem. Itâs the millions who swallow them who really matter.
--Nick Cohen
Truer words were never spoken.
Rudy's associate, Lev Parnas should have really listened to Michael Cohen's warning about getting close to Trump. Just imagine that you're a loyal MAGA hat wearing Trump cultist like Parnas. And for more than a year, you worked for Trump by partnering with Rudy to help carry out Trump's bribery scheme in Ukraine. You even put yourself in legal jeopardy for Trump by illegally funneling tons of Russian money into his super-PAC, and republican campaigns.
Parnas received a $1 million from Russia and tried to hide it from investigators, prosecutors have now stated. Parnas, who was charged with illegally funneling foreign cash to Republican politicians, including a pro-Trump super PAC, received $1 million from a mysterious account in Russia in September, which he conveniently forgot to disclose to the government.
So then you get caught, arrested, and indicted. Then you turn on the TV one day, to see your cult leader, the man you loved and admired, the man that you risked everything for, announce to the world, that he's never met you, and has no idea who you are. 𲠠How would you feel right now if you were Lev Parnas? đ
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Trump has repeatedly lied when he claims that nobody could have predicted something like the spread of the coronavirus pandemic. But as usual, Trump's lies are basic, and easily debunked. Government records shows that repeated warnings were issued to the White House and went unheeded.
U.S. intelligence officials with the National Center for Medical Intelligence issued a report in late November warning that a virus was taking root in China. Analysts concluded it could be a "cataclysmic event,â and the report was shared with the White House, the Pentagonâs Joint Staff and the Defense Intelligence Agency. There were multiple briefings about the report throughout December for policymakers, National Security Council, and the White House.
On Dec. 31, China publicly confirmed that dozens of people in Wuhan were being treated for pneumonia-like symptoms. Three days later, on Jan. 3, Health and Human Services Secretary Alex Azar said he first learned of the spread of the virus in China at a White House briefing attended by CDC and Prevention director Robert Redfield.
Days after the Jan. 3 briefing in the White House, U.S. intelligence warnings about the threat posed by the virus began appearing in Trump's daily brief. Whether Trump read those is anyone's guess. Either way, his indifference and inaction constitutes a criminal dereliction of duty, and a violation of his oath, to protect and defend this country. Amercan lives have been needlessly lost as a direct consequence of his moral ineptitude and sociopathic behavior, and for that, he must be held accountable.
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. While in the real world, America now has more than 400k confirmed cases of COVID-19 infections, and more than 15k deaths. Because of Trump, America has the absolute WORST failed national response to the coronavirus in the world. I sh¥t thee nay.
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Trump says that Cohen isn't a smart person. Yet he made Cohen his personal lawyer for years. Who's the dummy now?đđ Trump is such a terrible liar. You'd think he would be good at it by now.
A letter of intent forwarded by Russian-born businessman Felix Sater to the Trump's lawyer Michael Cohen, outlines the terms of a licensing agreement to purchase property to build a "Trump World Tower Moscow."
 Sater sent the letter of intent - dated October 13, 2015, and signed by a Russian investor named Andrey Rozov - to Cohen for then-candidate Donald Trump's signature.
 Emails exchanged between Cohen and Sater - who have known each other since they were teenagers - weeks later indicated that they were preparing to celebrate not only Trump's election victory, but also the potential Russia deal.
 Sater boasted of his ties to Russian President Vladimir Putin in the emails, which were obtained by The New York Times, telling Cohen that he would "get all of Putins team to buy in" on the Moscow deal.
 Slater email to Cohen: "Our boy can become president of the USA and we can engineer it," Sater wrote, . "I will get Putin on this program and we will get Donald elected."
 Two months later, Cohen emailed Putin's spokesman, Dmitry Peskov, asking for his "assistance" in pushing the deal through, according to emails submitted to congressional investigators
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The articles of impeachment against Traitor Trump..
ARTICLE I: ABUSE OF POWER
Using the powers of his high office, President Trump solicited the interference of a foreign government, Ukraine, in the 2020 United States Presidential election. He did so through a scheme or course of conduct that included soliciting the Government of Ukraine to publicly announce investigations that would benefit his reelection, harm the election prospects of a political opponent, and influence the 2020 United States Presidential election to his advantage. President Trump also sought to pressure the Government of Ukraine to take these steps by conditioning official United States Government acts of significant value to Ukraine on its public announcement of the investigations. President Trump engaged in this scheme or course of conduct for corrupt purposes in pursuit of personal political benefit. In so doing, President Trump used the powers of the Presidency in a manner that compromised the national security of the United States and undermined the integrity of the United States democratic process. He thus ignored and injured the interests of the Nation.
ARTICLE II: OBSTRUCTION OF CONGRESS
In his conduct of the office of President of the United States, and in violation of his constitutional oath faithfully to execute the office of President of the United States and, to the best of his ability, preserve, protect, and defend the Constitution of the United States, and in violation of his constitutional duty to take care that the laws be faithfully executedâDonald J. Trump has directed the unprecedented, categorical, and indiscriminate defiance of subpoenas issued by the House of Representatives pursuant to its "sole Power of Impeachment". President Trump has abused the powers of the Presidency in a manner offensive to, and subversive of, the Constitution.
In the history of the Republic, no President has ever ordered the complete defiance of an impeachment inquiry or sought to obstruct and impede so comprehensively the ability of the House of Representatives to investigate "high Crimes and Misdemeanors". This abuse of office served to cover up the President's own repeated misconduct and to seize and control the power of impeachmentâand thus to nullify a vital constitutional safeguard vested solely in the House of Representatives.
In all of this, President Trump has acted in a manner contrary to his trust as President and subversive of constitutional government, to the great prejudice of the cause of law and justice, and to the manifest injury of the people of the United States.
Wherefore, President Trump, by such conduct, has demonstrated that he will remain a threat to the Constitution if allowed to remain in office, and has acted in a manner grossly incompatible with self-governance and the rule of law. President Trump thus warrants impeachment and trial, removal from office, and disqualification to hold and enjoy any office of honor, trust, or profit under the United States.
Article II, Section 4, says the president âshall be removed from Office on Impeachment for, and Conviction of, Treason, Bribery, or other high Crimes and Misdemeanors."
So shall it be written, so shall it be done..
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The Founding Fathers understanding of bribery was derived from English law, under which bribery was understood as an officeholderâs abuse of the power of an office to obtain a private benefit rather than for the public interest. This definition not only encompasses Trumpâs conductâit practically defines it.
Trump took 400 million in taxpayer dollars, which had been appropriated by Congress, and used it to bribe a foreign country into taking specific actions that would only benefit him personally.
The Founders placed articles of impeachment in the Constitution for the purpose of protecting our democracy. A democracy that Trump clearly has no respect for, and is trying to tear apart.
Article II, Section 4, says the president âshall be removed from Office on Impeachment for, and Conviction of, Treason, Bribery, or other high Crimes and Misdemeanors."
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Trump told Stormy that she reminded him of his daughter. That's right. Trump told the woman he had an affair with, that she reminds him of his daughter. Evangelicals love this stuff!!! đđ¤Ł
In September 1994, a little less than a year after Tiffany was born to Trump and his second wife, Marla, the couple appeared on an episode of Lifestyles of the Rich and Famous. âDonald, what does Tiffany have of yours and what does Tiffany have of Marlaâs?â asked host Robin Leach.
âSheâs a very beautiful baby,â Trump replied. âSheâs got Marlaâs legs. We donât know whether or notââhe put his hands to his chest to indicate her bra sizeââsheâs got this part yet, but time will tell.â
While Trump was on The View in March 2006, he was asked what he would do if Ivanka was on the cover of P-boy magazine, Trump said it depended on what was inside the magazine and added, âAlthough she does have a very nice figure. Iâve said that if Ivanka werenât my daughter, perhaps, I would be dating her.â
In a February 2013 appearance on The Wendy Williams Show, during a question and answer game, Williams asked Trump and Ivanka, "What's the favorite thing you have in common with your father?" Ivanka answered, "Either real estate or golf" while Trump added, "Well, I was going to say 5ex."
All true stories.
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Here's just a few examples of Trump's so called "values."
Trumpâs history of creepy comments about the looks of his daughter Ivanka are well known. But his younger daughter, Tiffany, has largely stayed out of the spotlightâmuch like her fatherâs equally creepy comments about her anatomy..
In September 1994, a little less than a year after Tiffany was born to Trump and his second wife, Marla, the couple appeared on an episode of Lifestyles of the Rich and Famous. âDonald, what does Tiffany have of yours and what does Tiffany have of Marlaâs?â asked host Robin Leach.
âSheâs a very beautiful baby,â Trump replied. âSheâs got Marlaâs legs. We donât know whether or notââhe put his hands to his chest to indicate her bra sizeââsheâs got this part yet, but time will tell.â
While Trump was on The View in March 2006, he was asked what he would do if Ivanka was on the cover of P-boy magazine, Trump said it depended on what was inside the magazine and added, âAlthough she does have a very nice figure. Iâve said that if Ivanka werenât my daughter, perhaps, I would be dating her.â
In a February 2013 appearance on The Wendy Williams Show, during a question and answer game, Williams asked Trump and Ivanka, "What's the favorite thing you have in common with your father?" Ivanka answered, "Either real estate or golf" while Trump added, "Well, I was going to say 5ex."
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Rand Paul earned his medical degree from Duke University School of Medicine in Durham, N.C.. After that, he completed his general surgery internship at Atlanta-based Georgia Baptist Medical Center, followed by a residency in ophthalmology at Duke University Medical Center. Despite his medical training, Paul does not hold a bachelor's degree. He attended Waco, Texas-based Baylor University to study biology and English, but left a few courses short of a diploma after he was accepted into medical school.
Rand Paul is not even a board-certified ophthalmologist, as he reportedly claimed. Paul's certification comes from a board that he created himself. đ but he hasn't been certified by an organization recognized by the American Board of Medical Specialties for years.Â
The now-defunct board was not recognized by the Kentucky Board of Medical Licensure, so Paul was not board certified by a board recognized by the state since 2005, and since Paul's board dissolved in 2011, he has had no certification from an active body.
Basically, Dr. Dre is more of a doctor than Rand Paul.đ
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Thereâs much speculation as to how Rudy Giuliani âAmericaâs Mayor,â the widely admired civic leader who presided over NYC during 9/11, could have been siphoned into Trumpâs underworld. We got a Trump thanks to a compliant, sensationalist media apparatus that breathed life into his phony self-made billionaire myth, just as we owe them for Rudy, who they cast as a post-9/11 American hero.
By the time that the planes crashed into the Towers on Sept. 11, 2001 Giuliani was a master surfer of the wave of public opinion. In the attacks that played out in lower Manhattan, at the Pentagon, and in Shanksville, PA, close to 3,000 people were killed â 343 of them uniformed New York City firemen.
Overnight, the media turned Giuliani into a larger than life heroic figure. But the people that were most intimately familiar with the cityâs pre-9/11 counter-terrorism preparations knew that it was Giulianiâs failures as Mayor which contributed directly to the horrific body count for the FDNY that day.
On Feb. 26, 1993, the World Trade Center was attacked with a 1,200-pound bomb concealed in a rental truck that exploded in the basement. The blast killed six, injured 1,000 people, and forced 50,000 to evacuate.
In a detailed after-action report published in 1994 by the FDNY, the inability of firefighters and their officers to communicate over their analog radios that day was flagged as a vital issue that needed to be addressed with urgency. In 2008 â when Giuliani was running for president â FDNY Lt. James Wood recounted his experiences during the 1993 World Trade Center bombing in an informational video produced by the International Association of Firefighters (IAFF).
While the bombing had taken place during Mayor Dinkins tenure as Mayor, Giuliani was sworn in on Jan. 2 1994. As the IAFF recalls it, the critical report about the defective fire radios gathered dust for several years.
It took until March of 2001 for new digital radios to be deployed, but they were withdrawn weeks later after they were deemed responsible for a near life-ending miscue when a firefighter isolated in a basement fire in Queens radioed a âMay Dayâ call for assistance that none of his co-workers heard over their radios. It was only picked up by another fire company miles away. The new radios were shelved, and the old dysfunctional analogs were put back in service.
The contract for the new radios was a no bid, non-competitive contract that was, as it turned out, just an extension of an existing contract with Motorola, which has a near-monopoly on emergency communications.
According to a report issued by the NYC Comptroller the next month, Giuliani had âwillfullyâ violated âcity contracting rulesâŚ. endangering firefighters in a reckless bid to buy a new type of hand-held radio that it later had to pull from service,â The Times reported that âthe new digital radios were never properly tested before being distributed to firefighters.â As City Comptroller Alan Hevesi documented, âthey were purchased through what he described as an improper process that did not allow competing companies to bid for the contract.â At the time, Michael Wolf, who represented Com-Net Ericsson, a Motorola competitor, told the Times he was stymied in his efforts to even get the city to consider his companyâs products.
Just six months later, FDNYâs bravest faced the doomsday scenario as they sized up the rescue operation in the Twin Towers on 9/11 that would take so many of their lives. They were equipped with the same analog radios that had failed them so badly when the WTC was bombed back in 1993. As the IAFF video documents and as the 9/11 timeline confirms, at 9:32 am. on 9/11, an FDNY Chief ordered all members in the North Tower down to the lobby. Even though he repeated the order, not a single company responded.
At 9:59 the WTC South Tower collapsed; and at 10 am the order to abandon the North Tower was repeated. Inside the North Tower were 121 firefighters who never heard that order. They perished when the North Tower collapsed at 10:28 am.
âOn 9/11 firefighters went into the North Tower and started ascending the tower, yet they were being called back and they kept going,â said Richard Salem, an attorney who has been representing several of the firefightersâ families who lost loved ones when the North Tower collapsed. âNot one other uniformed officer from any other department, who had functioning radios, perished in that tower other than the FDNY.â
Despicably, Giuliani tried to cover up his own malfeasance by telling the 9/11 Commission that the North Tower firefighters had ignored the radio orders because of âtheir willingness, the way I describe it to stand their ground.â
Retired FDNY Deputy Chief Jim Riches, who lost his son Jimmy in the North Tower, will tell this tragic story to anyone who will listen. He and other surviving family members shadowed Giuliani during the 2008 primary and carried on a media campaign that was picked up by outlets like the Guardian.
âThese radios did not work in the WTC in 1993 and they did not work in 2001." Jim Riches stated. "We got the story out there but when the media christened him âAmericaâs Mayor,â it all went away.â
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June 3, 2016, Don Jr receives this email at 10:36 AM, from Rob Goldstone.
"Emin just called and asked me to contact you with something very interesting."
"The Crown prosecutor of Russia met with his father Aras this morning and in their meeting offered to provide the Trump campaign with some official documents and information that would incriminate Hillary and her dealings with Russia and would be very useful to your father."
"This is obviously very high level and sensitive information but is part of Russia and its government's support for Mr. Trump - helped along by Aras and Emin" Goldstone wrote.
Don Jr. agrees to hold the meeting at Trump Tower, and sets the date for June 9.
On June 7, 2016, just days before the Trump Tower meeting, Trump announced a âmajor speechâ he claimed would reveal damaging information about Hillary. "I am going to give a major speech on probably Monday of next week and weâre going to be discussing all of the things that have taken place with the Clintons,â Trump said. âI think youâre going to find it very informative and very, very interesting."
On June 9, 2016, a meeting was held in Trump Tower between three senior members of the Donald Trump presidential campaign â Don Jr., Kushner, and Manafort â and at least five other people, including Russian Russian agents.
On July 27 2016, on national tv, Trump invites Russia to meddle in our elections.
âRussia, if youâre listening, I hope youâre able to find the 30,000 emails that are missing,â Mr. Trump said during a news conference here in an apparent reference to Mrs. Clintonâs deleted emails. âI think you will probably be rewarded mightily by our press.â
Later that same day, the 12 Russian operatives indicted in the special counsel investigation, launched the 1st cyber attack against the DNC.
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In order for America to survive, Trump must be defeated.
"Timid men prefer the calm of despotism to the tempestuous sea of Liberty.âÂ
âThomas Jefferson
At the close of the Constitutional Convention of 1787, Benjamin Franklin was asked as he left Independence Hall on the final day of deliberation. In the notes of Dr. James McHenry, one of Marylandâs delegates to the Convention,  a lady asked Dr. Franklin: âWell Doctor what have we got, a republic or a monarchy?"
Benjamin Franklin replied:Â âA republic....if you can keep it.â
Today, Trump and Republicans are telling the American people that we can no longer keep it.
America's democracy and Constitutional republic, has never been in more peril than it is right now. Trump and republicans, are attempting to reverse our victory in our War of Independence, that began 1775 and ended in 1783. They are attempting to throw it all away, like it never happened, and install a new King, a new monarch, a new tyrant, to rule over the American people.
âIf there is one fact we really can prove, from the history that we really do know, it is that despotism can be a development, often a late development and very often indeed the end of societies that have been highly democratic. A despotism may almost be defined as a tired democracy. As fatigue falls on a community, the citizens are less inclined for that eternal vigilance which has truly been called the price of liberty; and they prefer to arm only one single sentinel to watch the city while they sleep.âÂ
â G.K. Chesterton, The Everlasting Man
âWhatever government is not a government of laws, is a despotism, let it be called what it mayâÂ
â Daniel Webste
âThereâs no English equivalent for silovik. It doesnât translate succinctly because to create something as Machiavellian as a silovik requires both the KGB and the GRU, and then a shift from communism to capitalism, followed by a gear-grinding reverse into despotism.âÂ
â Tanya Thompson, Red Russia
âThe actions of government, we are told, bear down only on imprudent souls who provoke them. The man who resigns himself and keeps silent is always safe. Reassured by this worthless and specious argument, we do not protest against the oppressors. Instead we find fault with the victims. Nobody knows how to be brave even prudentially. Everyone stays silent, keeping his head low in the self-deceiving hope of disarming the powers that be by his silence. People give despotism free access, flattering themselves they will be treated with consideration. Eyes to the ground, each person walks in silence the narrow path leading him safely to the tomb.âÂ
â Benjamin Constant, Principles of Politics Applicable to All Governments
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So while Cruz was in Cancun, and fox, the governor of Texas, McCarthy, and other republicans were busy trying to blame AOC for the crisis in Texas, she was actually busy being productive, being a leader, and being a public servant of the people.
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.) helped raise more than $2 million in less than 24 hours to help bring relief to the state of Texas.
On Thursday evening, Ocasio-Cortez announced she was partnering with several Texas charities and encouraged her millions of Twitter followers to donate money to help residents in Texas.
"Team AOC is launching relief efforts for Texas starting today,â the New York Democrat tweeted Thursday evening. âOur first effort is a partnership w/5 Texas orgs getting on-the-ground relief to Texans ASAP. If youâre able, please donate here - itâll split your contribution to all 5.âÂ
By Thursday night, more than $1 million had been raised, and by Friday morning, the charities raked in more than $2 million. The funds are being split between The Bridge Homeless Recovery Center, Ending Community Homeless Coalition, Family Eldercare, Houston Food Bank, Feeding Texas and several other charities.
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This had the feel of speeches given by one the world's most despotic dictators in history.
Trump criticized Dems who did not applaud during his first State of the Union address. âThey were like death and un-American,â he said. âUn-American. Somebody said treasonous. I mean, yeah, I guess, why not? Can we call that treason? Why not?â
Trump is very reminiscent of Stalin in this way. You can see it in him during this SOTU address. He literally pauses for the applause, and he even applauds himself.
During Stalin's reign of terror, he demanded a long and enthusiastic applause, and standing ovations whenever he gave a speech. As a result, the applause and ovations he received became largely panic-driven. People feared that the first person to stop clapping would be the first to be called an enemy of the state, and be hauled off to a gulag. The clapping and ovations would last up to 10 minutes. Failure to applaud could certainly be considered treason. So the sheeple went on and on, clapping and shouting âLong live Comrade Stalin,â âGlory to our beloved Comrade Stalin," clapping to the point of exhaustion, and until the palms of their hands bled.
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn described what the surreal scene looked like in his book, The Gulag Archipelago:
âThe applause went onâsix, seven, eight minutes! They were done for! Their goose was cooked! They couldnât stop now till they collapsed with heart attacks! At the rear of the hall, which was crowded, they could of course cheat a bit, clap less frequently, less vigorously, not so eagerlyâŚNine minutes! Ten!âŚInsanity! To the last man! With make-believe enthusiasm on their faces, looking at each other with faint hope, the district leaders were just going to go on and on applauding till they fell where they stood, till they were carried out of the hall on stretchers.â
At last, after eleven minutes of non-stop clapping, the director of a paper factory finally decided enough was enough. He stopped clapping and sat downâa miracle!
âTo a man, everyone else stopped dead and sat down,â Solzhenitsyn says.
That same night, the director of the paper factory was arrested and sent to prison for ten years. Authorities came up with some official reason for his sentence, but during his interrogation, he was told: âDonât ever be the first to stop applauding!â
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Let's face it, THE REPUBLICAN PARTY IS THE PROBLEM....and it's okay to admit it.
"We have been studying Washington politics and Congress for more than 40 years, and never have we seen them this dysfunctional. In our past writings, we have criticized both parties when we believed it was warranted. Today, however, we have no choice but to acknowledge that the core of the problem lies with the Republican Party.
The GOP has become an insurgent outlier in American politics. It is ideologically extreme; scornful of compromise; unmoved by conventional understanding of facts, evidence and science; and dismissive of the legitimacy of its political opposition.
Many self-styled bipartisan groups, in their search for common ground, propose solutions that move both sides to the center, a strategy that is simply untenable when one side is so far out of reach. While the Democrats may have moved from their 40-yard line to their 25, the Republicans have gone from their 40 to somewhere behind their goal post.
When one party moves this far from the mainstream, it makes it nearly impossible for the political system to deal constructively with the countryâs challenges.
The GOPâs evolution has become too much for some longtime Republicans. Former senator Chuck Hagel of Nebraska called his party âirresponsibleâ in an interview with the Financial Times, at the height of the debt-ceiling battle. âI think the Republican Party is captive to political movements that are very ideological, that are very narrow,â he said. âIâve never seen so much intolerance as I see today in American politics.â
Mike Lofgren, a veteran Republican congressional staffer, wrote an anguished diatribe about why he was ending his career on the Hill after nearly three decades. âThe Republican Party is becoming less and less like a traditional political party in a representative democracy and becoming more like an apocalyptic cult, or one of the intensely ideological authoritarian parties of 20th century Europe,â he wrote on the Truthout Web site."
By Thomas E. Mann and Norman J. Ornstein
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Trump was caught bribing Ukraine into opening up a bogus investigation into Biden and his son, while he and his own family members are engaged in real crimes in the White House.
There needs to be a special counsel investigation into Ivanka and Jared's business dealings (GRIFTING) while being members of Trump's administration.
In 2017, Joshua Harris, a private equity billionaire started paying regular visits to the White House. Harris, a founder of Apollo Global Management, met on multiple occasions with Jared to discuss a possible White House job for Harris.
The job never materialized, but later that year, Apollo lent $184 million to Kushnerâs family real estate firm, Kushner Companies. The loan was to refinance the mortgage on a Chicago skyscraper. It was one of the largest loans Kushner Companies received that year.
An even larger loan came from Citigroup, which lent Kushnerâs firm and one of its partners $325 million to help finance a group of office buildings in Brooklyn. That loan was made in the spring of 2017, shortly after Kushner met in the White House with Citigroupâs chief executive, Michael Corbat.
Apollo executives, including Harris, had tens of millions of dollars personally at stake in Trump's massive tax cut for corporations and the most wealthy that was making its way through Washington that year. Citigroup, one of the countryâs largest banks, was trying to get the government to relax its oversight of the industry.
Kushner also had multiple interactions with potential investors from overseas. Kushnerâs firm has sought investments from the Chinese insurer Anbang and from the former prime minister of Qatar. One of the largest investors in Apolloâs real estate trust is the Qatari governmentâs investment fund, the Qatar Investment Authority.
Kushnerâs firm previously sought a $500 million investment from the former head of that Qatari fund for its headquarters at 666 Fifth Ave. That year, Jared's father, Charles Kushner, pressed a Qatari official for the $500 million loan from a government-controlled investment fund. Weeks after Charles Kusherâs request was denied, Jared backed a punishing blockade of Qatar, which was enacted by Saudi Arabia. Kushnerâs family, which had struggled to get the financing to save their underwater skyscraper at 666 Fifth Ave, were suddenly bailed out by Apollo, which had business ties to the government of Qatar, one of it's largest investors. Two weeks later, Sec of State Pompeo told Saudi Arabia that enough was enough, and the blockade was lifted.
Shortly after Kushner Companies received the loan from Apollo, the private equity firm emerged as a beneficiary of the tax cut package that Trump championed. Trump backed down from his earlier pledge to close a loophole that permits private equity managers to pay taxes on the bulk of their income at rates that are roughly half of ordinary income tax rates. The tax law left the loophole largely intact.
China approved several Ivanka trademarks at the same time that Trump was agreeing to drop sanctions against Chinese telecom company ZTE. Days before Trumpâs decision, China agreed to invest half a billion dollars in an Indonesia theme park resort linked to the Trump Organization through a licensing deal. A major Israeli insurer loaned Kushner Cos. $30 million just days before Kushner visited Israel to work on a peace plan.
In June 2018, Charles Kushner attacked ethics officials for questioning Jared and Ivanka's shameless and egregious grifting, by calling them âjâŹRksâ who canât get a âreal job.â He also talked about the âsacrificesâ his son and daughter-in-law had made. đ˛đđ˛đ
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Trump has been encouraging violence in this country since he was on the campaign trail in 2016. There is proof of him giving a full throated green light for his cult followers to engage in violent acts.
MARCH 2016:
" Part of the problem is no one wants to hurt anyone anymore." Trump said this during a rally in St. Louis as protesters were being escorted out by security. Trump became frustrated that it was taking so long to escort the protesters out. He then said " You know, part of the reason it takes so long is nobody wants to hurt each other anymore."
FEBRUARY 2016:
" Knock the krap out of him. would you? I promise you, I will pay your legal fees." Trump said this at a rally in Cedar Rapids, Iowa.
This is the same man that used brute force against peaceful protesting American citizens in Lafayette Square, just so he could stage a 5 minute photo-op. He treats Putin like he's a fellow comrade, and treats American citizens like we're the enemy. Let that sink in for a moment...
Has anyone ever heard of a president behaving in such a manner? Has anyone ever heard of a president inciting Americans to engage in violence against other Americans?
In Trumpâs second book, Surviving at the Top (released as Trumpâs empire was crumbling under massive debt in 1990), he described his temperament in ways that wouldnât seem to bode well for America.
âI get bored too easily,â he wrote. âMy attention span is short and probably my least favorite thing to do is to maintain the status quo. Instead of being content when everything is going fine, I start getting impatient and irritable.â
This is Trump openly admitting to being an agent of chaos and destruction. Placing an extreme narcissistic sociopath like Trump into any position of leadership, where his actions will have a direct affect on people's lives, constitutes a criminal act. Nothing good has ever resulted from anything that Trump has ever touched or been involved with. He is void of any and all goodwill or human decency. He is a purely toxic, insidious and malevolent being, who constitutes a malignant affliction on this country.
The safety and national security of America should have never been placed into the hands of a mentally impaired, and emotionally unstable demagogue, who will take a wrecking ball to anything, simply because he was bored.
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Trump's phone call with a survivor of the Parkland mass shooting back in Feb of 2018, actually angered the student, who said her conversation with the president "didn't make me feel better in the slightest."
Samantha Fuentes, a High School student who was shot in both legs during the attack, recounted her call in an interview:
"He said he heard I was a big fan of his, (she wasn't)Â and then he said, 'I'm a big fan of yours, too,' " Fuentes told the Times.
"I'm pretty sure he made that up," she continued. "Talking to the president, I've never been so unimpressed by a person in all my life.đ He didn't make me feel better in the slightest."
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The Founding Fathers understanding of bribery was derived from English law, under which bribery was understood as an officeholderâs abuse of the power of an office to obtain a private benefit rather than for the public interest. This definition not only encompasses Trumpâs conductâit practically defines it.
Trump took 400 million in taxpayer dollars, which had been appropriated by Congress, and used it to bribe a foreign country into taking specific actions that would only benefit him personally.
The Founders placed articles of impeachment in the Constitution for the purpose of protecting our democracy. A democracy that Trump clearly has no respect for, and is trying to tear apart.
Article II, Section 4, says the president âshall be removed from Office on Impeachment for, and Conviction of, Treason, Bribery, or other high Crimes and Misdemeanors."
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Roger Stone, Trumpâs longtime adviser and partner in crime was convicted of obstructing a congressional investigation into Russian meddling in the 2016 election.
The verdict makes Stone only the latest among a growing list of people once in Trump's inner circle of goons who have been convicted on federal charges. Here is a list of others in Trumpâs inner swamp circle convicted of federal crimes.
Michael Cohen
Trump's former lawyer and fixer, Cohen pleaded guilty to bank fraud, tax fraud, and campaign violations involving hush-money payouts (for Trump) to two women â the adult film star Stormy Daniels, and former Playboy model Karen McDougal. Cohen was sentenced to 36 months in federal prison.
Paul Manafort
The lobbyist who worked as Trumpâs campaign chairman was convicted in August 2018 of bank fraud, tax fraud and failing to disclose foreign bank accounts. The next month, Manafort admitted to conspiracy, such as money laundering and unregistered lobbying, as well as a second conspiracy count involving witness tampering. Manafort, who will spend about seven and a half years in prison for the federal cases, also faces state criminal charges in NY for fraud and conspiracy.
While working as Trump's campaign chairman, Manafort shared polling data on the 2016 election with a Russian man linked to Moscowâs intelligence agencies, according to special counsel Mueller.
Michael Flynn
Trumpâs former national security adviser pleaded guilty to lying to the FBI over his communication with Russia amid the presidential transition in 2016. Flynn lied about his contact with Russiaâs ambassador, such as urging Russia not to react to sanctions placed by Barack Obama.
Rick Gates
Manafortâs business partner pleaded guilty in February 2018 to conspiring to defraud the US and lying to the FBI. He also admitted to helping Manafort manipulate financial documents, conceal foreign income, cheat tax authorities and mislead banks for credit. Gates, who was also a Trump campaign official, cut a deal with Mueller â serving as a star witness against Manafort and Stone.
George Papadopoulos
In 2017, Papadopoulos pleaded guilty to lying to the FBI about the schedules of meetings with purported Russian intermediaries. Papadopoulos in March 2016 met with a Maltese professor in London, who claimed that the Russians had incriminating information on Trumpâs then rival, Clinton â âthousands of emailsâ. Papadopoulos was sentenced to 14 days in prison.
Alex van der Zwaan
A Dutch lawyer who worked with Manafort, Van der Zwaan pleaded guilty to lying to the FBI about his communications with Gates and a person potentially linked to Russian intelligence. Van der Zwaan worked on a Manafort-commissioned report to defend ex-Ukrainian president Viktor Yanukovych from international scrutiny. He was incarcerated for 12 days.
Richard Pinedo
The online fraudster pleaded guilty after it was revealed that his business setting up US bank accounts, and then illegally peddling them over the internet, had enabled a Russian operation that utilized social media to meddle with the election. His cooperation enabled Muellerâs pursuit of Russian troll farms.
Konstantin Kilimnik
The Russian political operative and Manafort associate is charged with obstructing justice. He was swept up in Manafortâs plan to leverage his relationship with Trump to settle multimillion-dollar debts to an oligarch. Kilimnik, 48, trained at a university connected to Russiaâs military intelligence agency, formerly known as the GRU, which spearheaded the Kremlinâs effort to disrupt the 2016 election. In the Mueller report, Kilimnik is described as âa former Russian intelligence officer with the GRUâ by Rick Gates, Manafortâs deputy on the Trump campaign.
Sam Patten
Lobbyist Patten had ties to Kilimnik. He admitted to diverting $50,000 from a Ukrainian oligarch to Trumpâs presidential inauguration committee. He pleaded guilty and agreed to cooperate with Mueller.
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This is the 3rd time that Trump has asked another foreign country to interfere in our elections. And if he gets away with it this time, he will absolutely do it AGAIN!!! Because a sociopath like Trump, with no impulse control, who doesn't know right from wrong, and believes he's impervious to consequences, is 100% incorrigible, and completely incapable of being corrected.
If and when Traitor Trump is acquitted of his crimes by republicans, he will be on the phone the very next day trying to get another foreign country to interfere in our elections again for a 4th time. Trump is like a child who has never been told no, and has never been told that what he is doing is wrong. He doesnât know right from wrong because he's never been punished for his wrong doings, instead, he is like a child who is rewarded for his bad behavior. This child will inevitably grow up to be an incorrigible monster, and republicans are continuing to feed this monster..
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The Saudis have invested a lot of money into Trump's criminal organization, and they expect a return on their investment..... protection being one of the things the Saudis expect in return.
Trump has sent thousands of our troops to Saudi Arabia to protect their oil and HIS own personal business interests.
"Saudi Arabia, I get along with all of them. They buy apartments from me. They spend $40 million, $50 million,â Trump told a crowd at an Alabama rally on Aug. 21, 2015. âAm I supposed to dislike them? I like them very much.â
Congress was furious over Trumpâs secret efforts to secure a nuclear energy deal with Saudi Arabia. Congress was rightfully furious when they discovered that the Saudis refused to accept limits preventing them from developing a nuclear weapon.
It was revealed that Trump gave approval for companies to share certain nuclear energy technology with the kingdom without a broader nuclear deal in place.
House Dems began investigating Trump's nuclear talks with Saudi after the Oversight and Reform Committee announced in February it was launching a probe to âdetermine whether the actions being pursued by the Trump administration are in the national security interests of the US or, rather, serve those who stand to gain financially as a result of this potential change in U.S. foreign policy.â
Energy Secretary Rick Perry approved seven authorizations that let U.S. companies share certain nuclear energy technology with Saudi Arabia.Â
lawmakers were outraged when they found out they were not told about the approvals, saying the secrecy violates the Atomic Energy Act, which requires that Congress be kept âfully and currently informedâ of 123 agreement negotiations.
"Saudi Arabia, I get along with all of them. They buy apartments from me. They spend $40 million, $50 million,â Trump told a crowd at an Alabama rally on Aug. 21, 2015. âAm I supposed to dislike them? I like them very much.â
In 1991, as Trump was teetering on bankruptcy yet AGAIN, and scrambling to raise cash, he sold his 282-foot Trump yacht âPrincessâ to Saudi billionaire Prince Alwaleed bin-Talal for $20 million.
Four years later, the prince came to his rescue again, joining other investors in a $325 million deal for Trumpâs money-losing Plaza Hotel....Which eventually went under anyway.
In 2001, Trump sold the entire 45th floor of the Trump World Tower across from the UN for $12 million, the biggest purchase in that building to that point, according to the brokerage site Streeteasy. The buyer: The Kingdom of Saudi Arabia.
Since Trump took the oath of office, the Saudi government and lobbying groups for it have been lucrative customers for Trumpâs hotels.
A public relations firm working for the kingdom spent nearly $270,000 on lodging at his Washington hotel through March of last year, according to filings to the Justice Department. A spokesman for the firm told The Wall Street Journal that the Trump hotel payments came as part of a Saudi-backed lobbying campaign against a bill that allowed Americans to sue foreign governments for responsibility in the Sept. 11 terror attacks.
Attorneys general for Maryland and the District of Columbia cited the payments by the Saudi lobbying firm as an example of foreign gifts to Trump that could violate the Constitutionâs ban on such âemolumentsâ from foreign interests.
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Terrorism is defined as the unlawful use of violence and intimidation, especially against civilians, in the pursuit of political goals.
Domestic terrorism: Violent, criminal acts committed by individuals and/or groups to further ideological goals stemming from domestic influences, such as those of a political, religious, social, racial, or environmental nature.
It's being reported that Trump wants to start his own political party to challenge anyone who refused to destroy our Constitution and democracy, and insert him as an American dictator. If he does create his own party, it should immediately be labeled as a terrorist organization. Because that's exactly what it will be.
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The unredacted emails between Defense Department and Office of Management and Budget officials revealed that between June and September â when the Ukrainian aid was ultimately released following the whistleblower's complaint â the Defense Department repeatedly asked the OMB why the military aid was being held up.
The unredacted emails were secured through a lawsuit under the Freedom of Information Act launched by the Center for Public Integrity. The DoD warned several times that continuing to withhold the aid violated the Impoundment Control Act, which stipulates that if the federal funds are not spent on their designated purpose within a certain period, they will be taken, or impounded, by the Treasury Department.
The timeline of Trump's impeachable acts, and the DoJ sloppy attempt at a cover-up:
â June 19, OMB aide, Robert Blair, learned that Trump was questioning the delivery of the aid package, at which point Blair told Russell Vought, the acting head of the office, that "we need to hold it up."
â That day, another OMB official, Michael Duffey, emailed the acting Defense Department comptroller, Elaine McCusker, and copied Mark Sandy, an OMB official on national-security programs, to ask if she had "insight on this funding."
â After McCusker explained on June 25 which companies were producing the military equipment and said that only $7 million of the Pentagon's $250 million part of the package had been spent, Blair told Mick Mulvaney on June 27 that they should "expect Congress to become unhinged" by withholding the aid.
â July 25, Sandy officially froze the Ukraine aid. This was also the day Trump spoke with President Zelensky on the phone and asked him to launch a bogus investigation on Joe Biden and his son. Shortly after Trump's call, Duffey emailed several Pentagon officials and asked them to "please hold off on any additional DOD obligations of these funds." He requested that the recipients keep the directive "closely held to those who need to know" because of "the sensitive nature of the request."
â McCusker replied that same day and asked whether the OMB had cleared the hold with the Defense Department's lawyers. This was the first sign of the Pentagon's concerns about the legality of withholding the aid.
â July 26, John Rood, the head of policy at the Pentagon, emailed Defense Secretary Mark Esper a readout of a meeting in which top national-security officials voiced their "unanimous support" for sending the security assistance. On August 9, McCusker warned Sandy, Duffey, and other senior OMB officials that if the aid was not released soon, it might affect the "timely execution" of the program. "We hope it won't and will do all we can to execute once the policy decision is made, but can no longer make that declarative statement," she wrote. The DOJ redacted this warning from McCusker, which, notably, contradicted the OMB's talking points.
â August 12, when it became clear that Trump would continue the aid freeze, McCusker emailed Duffey and asked him to include language in a footnote in a budgeting document to reflect the growing risk of withholding funding. The language was not included, and the request was redacted in the initial document release.The DOJ also redacted several emails from McCusker near the end of August raising additional legal questions about withholding the aid and the possibility that Trump's actions violated the Impoundment Control Act.
â August 28, after Politico publicly revealed the aid freeze, the OMB's general counsel, Mark Paoletta, sent around talking points including that "no action has been taken by OMB that would preclude the obligation of these funds before the end of the fiscal year."
â McCusker pushed back, writing: "I don't agree to the revised TPs â the last one is just not accurate from a financial execution standpoint, something we have been consistently conveying for a few weeks." Her response was initially redacted.
â As September came around, McCusker raised concerns about whether the Defense Department would be "adequately protected from what may happen as a result of the Ukraine obligation pause." She added, "I realize we need to continue to give the WH as much decision space as possible, but am concerned we have not officially documented the fact that we can not promise full execution at this point in the fiscal year."
â September 9, Duffey sent McCusker a misleading email suggesting that if the president greenlighted the aid but the Pentagon was not able to obligate the funding, it would be on the Pentagon and not the OMB.
â McCusker responded: "You can't be serious. I am speechless."
â September 11, after Congress became aware of a whistleblower's complaint accusing Trump of "using the power of his office to solicit interference from a foreign country" in the 2020 election, Duffey emailed McCusker and said the president had lifted the hold on Ukraine's military aid.
â "Glad to have this behind us," he wrote.
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Putin's plot against America, which was to help his puppet Trump get elected began in 2014. Thousands of miles away, in a drab office building in St Petersburg, Russia, a fake newsroom was under construction with its own graphics, data analysis, search engine optimisation, IT and finance departments. Its mission: âinformation warfare against the US.
We now know from the Mueller report, that what followed was a successful attack on the most powerful democracy in the world. It involved stolen identities, fake social media accounts, rallies organised from afar, US citizens (Trump cultists) duped into doing Moscowâs bidding..
In his first criminal charges related to election meddling, Mueller indicted 13 Russians and 3 Russian companies of an elaborate effort to disrupt the 2016 elections with a covert trolling campaign, aimed at helping Trump get elected.
The Russian offensive began in 2014 with an aim to âsow discordâ and evolved into a concerted attempt to help Trump. Some of it relied on old-fashioned boots on the ground. Two operatives, Aleksandra Krylova and Anna Bogacheva, travelled as tourists through at least nine states over about two weeks in June 2014 to collect intelligence for their operations. They prepared âevacuation scenariosâ in case their cover was blown.
This was combined with exploiting the anonymous, borderless world of social media, where agents of chaos thrive. Â The Internet Research Agency, a âtroll farmâ based in nondescript offices at 55 Savushkina Street St Petersburg, was operating through Russian shell companies, the agency employed hundreds of people, ranging from creators of fictitious personae to technical and administrative support.
Its specialists were divided into day shifts and night shifts to fit with the appropriate US time zones. The agency also circulated lists of US holidays so that specialists could be active accordingly.
Russians posed as political and social active Americans. They created social media pages and groups, and bought political adverts such as ââDonald wants to defeat terrorism ... Hillary wants to sponsor itâ. They relied on identity theft, using the social security numbers, home addresses and birth dates of Americans without their knowledge. They set up fake bank accounts linked to PayPal accounts.
They engaged in operations primarily intended to communicate derogatory information about Clinton, and to denigrate other candidates such as Cruz and Rubio. In June 2016, after Trump clinched the Republican nomination, the Russians began to organise pro-Trump rallies, recruiting and paying unwitting (Trump cultists) Americans. At a time when Trump supporters were chanting âLock her up!â, one was asked to wear a costume portraying Clinton in a prison uniform at a rally in Florida, while another was asked to build a cage on a flatbed truck. On 22 September, Russians created and bought Facebook ads for a series of âMiners for Trump" rallies in Pennsylvania.
Today Trump still refuses to criticize Putin, or even acknowledge that Moscow meddled in our elections. His refusal to do so is either motivated by fear, or a conscientious and wilful betrayal of his oath of office, and the betrayal of America.
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On July 23, 2019, Trump said this: "I have an Article 2, where I have the right to do whatever I want as President."đ˛
This is clearly a man who sees himself as a dictator. Since his campaign, Trump has been trying to tell us that he doesn't believe in democracy or our Constitution. He said it when he bragged about shooting someone on 5th Ave. He said it when he bragged about falling in love with the most despotic dictator in modern history.
June 15 2018
Trump praises Kim Jung Un ' control over his people.
"He's the head of the country," Trump said of Kim during a Fox interview.
"And I mean he's the strong head. Don't let anyone think anything different."
"He speaks and his people sit up at attention,"Â Trump added. "I want my people to do the same."
Sept 30 2018
Trump confesses the love he has for his muse, Kim Jung Un, during a rally.
"I like him, he likes me. I guess thatâs okay. Am I allowed to say that?â Trump said.
 âAnd then we fell in love, okayâ he said. âNo really. He wrote me beautiful letters, and theyâre great letters. We fell in love.â
âIf there is one fact we really can prove, from the history that we really do know, it is that despotism can be a development, often a late development and very often indeed the end of societies that have been highly democratic.. A despotism may almost be defined as a tired democracy. As fatigue falls on a community, the citizens are less inclined for that eternal vigilance which has truly been called the price of liberty; and they prefer to arm only one single sentinel to watch the city while they sleep.âÂ
â G.K. Chesterton, The Everlasting Man
âThereâs no English equivalent for silovik. It doesnât translate succinctly because to create something as Machiavellian as a silovik requires both the KGB and the GRU, and then a shift from communism to capitalism, followed by a gear-grinding reverse into despotism.âÂ
â Tanya Thompson, Red Russia
âThe actions of government, we are told, bear down only on imprudent souls who provoke them. The man who resigns himself and keeps silent is always safe. Reassured by this worthless and specious argument, we do not protest against the oppressors. Instead we find fault with the victims. Nobody knows how to be brave even prudentially. Everyone stays silent, keeping his head low in the self-deceiving hope of disarming the powers that be by his silence. People give despotism free access, flattering themselves they will be treated with consideration. Eyes to the ground, each person walks in silence the narrow path leading him safely to the tomb.âÂ
â Benjamin Constant, Principles of Politics Applicable to All Governments
âThe liberty of a democracy is not safe if the people tolerate the growth of private power to a point where it becomes stronger than the democratic state itself. That in its essence is fascism: ownership of government by an individual, by a group, or any controlling private power.âÂ
â Franklin D. Roosevelt.
The Founders placed articles of impeachment in the Constitution for the purpose of protecting our democracy. A democracy that Trump clearly has no respect for, and is trying to tear apart.
Article II, Section 4, says the president âshall be removed from Office on Impeachment for, and Conviction of, Treason, Bribery, or other high Crimes and Misdemeanors."
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Lt.Col Vindman twice told a superior of his concerns about Trumpâs efforts to force Ukraine for the investigation in exchange for military aid, the White House lawyer John Eisenberg had the full transcript of Trump's phone call moved to the highly classified White House server, which is usually reserved for code-word level intelligence but not transcripts of diplomatic discussions. Why would the full transcript of Trump's so called "perfect" phone call be hidden? If he did nothing wrong, releasing the full transcript should exonerate him of any wrong doing.
The only logical conclusion is that Trump is guilty, and he knows that releasing the full transcript, and allowing Mulvaney, Bolton and others to testify under oath would be his undoing. Trump knows that after seeing what happened to Manafort, Cohen and Stone, that no one else is going to risk going to prison for his crimes.
Trump's own National Security Adviser, John Bolton quit over Trump's scheme to bribe Ukraine.
JULY 10
At the Trump International Hotel in Washington, Andriy Yermak, a top adviser to Mr. Zelensky, asks Mr. Volker to connect him to Giuliani. The two men later meet in Madrid.
At a White House meeting later that day in Boltonâs office, two Ukrainian officials press for an Oval Office meeting between Trump and Mr. Zelensky. Sondland blurts out that Mick Mulvaney, the acting White House chief of staff, promised that Mr. Zelensky would be invited if Ukraine announces âinvestigations.â
Bolton immediately halts the meeting. At a follow-up meeting, Sondland again presses the Ukrainians to announce investigations, this time specifying Burisma and the 2016 election as targets. Fiona Hill, one of Boltonâs top deputies, calls that session to a halt.
She and Lt. Col. Alexander Vindman, her subordinate, report the meetings to John Eisenberg, the chief legal adviser to the National Security Council. Bolton tells Ms. Hill to deliver a message from him: âI am not part of whatever drug deal Sondland and Mulvaney are cooking up.â
90 minutes after Trumpâs phone call, the call he used to bribe the President of Ukraine into opening up a fabricated investigation on the Bidens, Michael Duffey, a Trump-appointed senior official with the Office of Management and Budget (OMB), sent this July 25 email to Pentagon Comptroller Elaine McCusker and other Trump administration officials.
"Based on guidance I have received and in light of the Administration's plan to review assistance to Ukraine, including the Ukraine Security Assistance Initiative, please hold off on any additional [Department of Defense] obligations of these funds, pending direction from that process."
"Given the sensitive nature of the request, I appreciate your keeping that information closely held to those who need to know to execute the direction."
Sept 9,
The whistleblower's complaint is delivered to the House intel committee. Trump now realizes that he's been busted, and the JIG IS UP!!!đ˛
SEPT. 11
Two days after the House intel committee is notified of the whistle-blower complaint and opens an investigation, Trump reverses course and releases the hold on the military aid after withholding it for 55 days.
Michael Duffey's email to OMB Pentagon Comptroller Elaine McCusker on Sept 11, informing her that Ukrainian funds will finally be released.
Duffey: "I will be issuing an apportionment this evening to immediately release all USAI funds for obligation. I will alert you as soon as I have signed the apportionment. Thank you."
McCusker: "Copy...what happened? Thanks
Duffey: "Still waiting on my staff to send me apportionment. Hoping to sign tonight yet. Glad to have this behind us."
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It's almost as if the Founders were clairvoyant when they placed articles of impeachment into the Constitution. They clearly had envisioned someone like Trump in America's future. Someone who would say that as president, he can do whatever he wants. The articles of impeachment were tailor made for a wannabe dictator like Trump..
âWe the people are the rightful masters of both Congress and the courts, not to overthrow the Constitution but to overthrow the men who pervert the Constitution.âÂ
â Abraham Lincoln
âWhatever government is not a government of laws, is a despotism, let it be called what it mayâÂ
â Daniel Webste
âTo announce that there must be no criticism of the President, or that we are to stand by the President, right or wrong, is not only unpatriotic and servile, but is morally treasonable to the American public.â
â Theodore Roosevelt
If what Trump has done isn't wrong, then that means that nothing is wrong. if Trump isn't impeachable, then that means that no president will ever be impeachable, no matter what they do. And that will spell the end of our democracy, our Constitution, and our republic. We will be back to where we were before the Declaration of Independence was signed. It will be as if we never fought and won a war of independence against a King..
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Timeline of how Trump and his allies incited an insurrection on our nation's Capitol, and against our democracy..
September 23, 2020: In response to a direct question, Trump refuses to say he will ensure a peaceful transfer of power if he loses the election.
 âWell,weâre going to have to see what happens.â He further raises alarms about a potential transition of power: âGet rid of the ballots and youâll have a very peaceful â there wonât be a transfer, frankly. There will be a continuation.âÂ
September 29, 2020:Â First Presidential Debate.
when asked to condemn white suprema.cist mili.tias like the Proud Boys, Trump tells them to âStand back and stand by,â
November 13, 2020:
In the aftermath of the 2020 presidential election, Trumpâs allies spearhead a media campaign and a call to action of Trump supporters.
âThis is as serious a constitutional crisis as our nation has ever faced. We will only be the beacon of hope for the world if we are willing to stand with courage and integrity & defend our republic,â Mike Flynn tweets.
Sidney Powell echos the statements, saying in an interview that âThis is essentially a new American revolution. And anyone who wants this country to remain free needs to step up right now.âÂ
December 2, 2020: Viol.ent rhetoric by Trumpâs allies continues as the Georgia Senate runoff race nears.Â
âWeâre going to sla.y Goliath, the comm.unists, the liberals, the phonies. Joe Biden will never set foot in the Oval Office of this country. It will not happen on our watch. Never gonna happen,â Lin Wood claims at the Stop the Steal Rally in Alpharetta, Georgia.
December 8, 2020: The official Twitter account of the Arizona GOP asks supporters whether they are willing to "d.l.e" for Trump.
In response to a Stop the Steal tweet saying âI am willing to give my life for this fight,â the Arizona GOP tweets, âHe is. Are you?â The GOP account also tweets a clip of the 2008 movie âRambo,â as the character proclaims, âThis is what we do, who we are. Live for nothing, or d.l.e for something.âÂ
19 December 2020 â Be there, will be wild:
At 1.42am in the early hours of 19 December Trump tweeted the lie that it was âstatistically impossibleâ for him to have lost the presidential election. He gave his first notice of a âbig protest in DCâ on 6 January. âBe there, will be wild!â he said.
19 December â The cavalry is coming:
Within hours, fervent Trump supporters began to heed Trumpâs rallying cry. Kylie Jane Kremer, founder of a Stop the Steal group banned by FB, picked up the notice about the march and ran with it. âThe calvary is coming, Mr President!â she said.
Trump retweeted Kremerâs post, saying: âA great honor!â
1 January 2021 â You got to go to the streets and be vio.lent:
Louie Gohmert responded in inflammatory terms to news that his federal lawsuit seeking to force Mike Pence to block certification of Bidenâs victory had been dismissed.
"The bottom line is, the court is saying, âWeâre not going to touch this. You have no remedyâ,â he told News.max. âBasically, in effect, the ruling would be that you got to go to the streets and be as vio.lent as An.tifa.â
3 Januaryâ We will not go quietly into the night:
Ted Cruz addressed a rally in Georgia. âWe will not go quietly into the night. We will defend liberty. And we are going to win."
6 January â Weâre coming for you:
Don Jr, appeared as the warm-up carney act at the âSave America Rallyâ on the National Mall. He threatened the Republicans who, as he spoke, were preparing to vote on certifying the election result.
âThe people who did nothing to stop the steal. This gathering should send a message to them: This isnât their Republican party any more. This is Donald Trumpâs.â
Then Don jr. said: âIf youâre gonna be the zero and not the hero, weâre coming for you and weâre going to have a good time doing it!â
6 January â Trial by combat:
Rudy Giuliani, who has been a leading proponent of the falsehood that the election was fraudulently rigged, addressed the rally.
âIf weâre wrong, we will be made fo.ols of,â he said. âBut if weâre right, a lot of them will go to jail. So letâs have trial by combat!!!!â
6 January â We will not take it any more:
Trump then addressed the crowd just outside the White House for more than an hour, urging them to march on the Capitol building. âWe will not take it any more,â he said.
âYouâll never take back our country with weakness. You have to show strength, and you have to be strong ⌠I know everyone here will soon be marching over to the Capitol building."
The crowd followed his instructions and began marching on the Capitol.
A USA Today analysis discovered that After Trump used the word "MARCH" one Parlor user wrote: "Time to fight. The civil war is upon us." And another Parlor user said: "We are going to have a civil war. Get ready!!"
The analysis by USA Today also found that the use of the phrase "civil war" increased nearly four times during Trumpâs speech, as it was used on 156 separate occasions while he spoke.
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The truth of the matter is, if Trump had not filled his followers heads with lies for months, and if he had not held that rally, where he instructed his followers to march to the Capitol and fight like he// in order to "stop the steal" the insurrection never would have happened. Because without the use of vio.lence, how else were they going to stop the so called steal?
The problem with Trump's lawyer's argument, is that there was literally nothing left to fight for, because the election was over. The only thing that remained was for Pence to count and certify the electoral votes. So the only thing they could've been fighting for, was to bring a stop to the counting of the electoral votes, which would officially certify Biden as the next democratically elected president.
And vio.lence was the only option they had left. Trump had already exhausted every other legal and illegal option. So on January 6, the vio.lence card was the only card Trump had left, and he played it.
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Trump told Stormy that she reminded him of his daughter. That's right. Trump told the woman he had an affair with, that she reminds him of his daughter. Evangelicals love this stuff!!! đđ¤Ł
In September 1994, a little less than a year after Tiffany was born to Trump and his second wife, Marla, the couple appeared on an episode of Lifestyles of the Rich and Famous. âDonald, what does Tiffany have of yours and what does Tiffany have of Marlaâs?â asked host Robin Leach.
âSheâs a very beautiful baby,â Trump replied. âSheâs got Marlaâs legs. We donât know whether or notââhe put his hands to his chest to indicate her bra sizeââsheâs got this part yet, but time will tell.â
While Trump was on The View in March 2006, he was asked what he would do if Ivanka was on the cover of P-boy magazine, Trump said it depended on what was inside the magazine and added, âAlthough she does have a very nice figure. Iâve said that if Ivanka werenât my daughter, perhaps, I would be dating her.â
In a February 2013 appearance on The Wendy Williams Show, during a question and answer game, Williams asked Trump and Ivanka, "What's the favorite thing you have in common with your father?" Ivanka answered, "Either real estate or golf" while Trump added, "Well, I was going to say 5ex."
All true stories.
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If Trump did nothing wrong as he claims, then why is he blocking people from testifying in the Senate trial, like Mulvaney, Bolton, and his White House counsel John Eisenberg? If he did nothing wrong, then surely these people should be able to testify and prove that he did nothing wrong.
When Lt.Col Vindman twice told a superior of his concerns about Trumpâs efforts to force Ukraine for the investigation in exchange for military aid, the White House lawyer John Eisenberg had the full transcript of Trump's phone call moved to the highly classified White House server, which is usually reserved for code-word level intelligence but not transcripts of diplomatic discussions. Why would the full transcript of Trump's so called "perfect" phone call be hidden? If he did nothing wrong, releasing the full transcript should exonerate him of any wrong doing.
The only logical conclusion is that Trump is guilty, and he knows that releasing the full transcript, and allowing Mulvaney, Bolton and others to testify under oath would be his undoing. Trump knows that after seeing what happened to Manafort, Cohen and Stone, that no one else is going to risk going to prison for his crimes.
Trump's own National Security Adviser, John Bolton quit over Trump's scheme to bribe Ukraine.
JULY 10
At the Trump International Hotel in Washington, Andriy Yermak, a top adviser to Mr. Zelensky, asks Mr. Volker to connect him to Giuliani. The two men later meet in Madrid.
At a White House meeting later that day in Boltonâs office, two Ukrainian officials press for an Oval Office meeting between Trump and Mr. Zelensky. Sondland blurts out that Mick Mulvaney, the acting White House chief of staff, promised that Mr. Zelensky would be invited if Ukraine announces âinvestigations.â
Bolton immediately halts the meeting. At a follow-up meeting, Sondland again presses the Ukrainians to announce investigations, this time specifying Burisma and the 2016 election as targets. Fiona Hill, one of Boltonâs top deputies, calls that session to a halt.
She and Lt. Col. Alexander Vindman, her subordinate, report the meetings to John Eisenberg, the chief legal adviser to the National Security Council. Bolton tells Ms. Hill to deliver a message from him: âI am not part of whatever drug deal Sondland and Mulvaney are cooking up.â
The fact that Trump refuses to allow these people to testify is an admission of guilt.
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