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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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